General Plan Update - What's New?
City of San Carlos
San Carlos General Plan Update General Plan Advisory Committee
Housing Stakeholder Meeting The purpose of this meeting is to receive input on housing issues in San Carlos from City residents and businesses, elected and appointed City officials, other stakeholders and individuals with interests in housing issues. Information will be presented on the State Housing Element requirements and how the Housing Element Update will fit into the larger General Plan Update process. We hope to receive input regarding a wide range of housing issues, such as housing needs for different population groups, constraints on the development of affordable housing, preferred locations for new housing, the new housing, the effectiveness of existing City and County housing programs and other housing related issues. Existing Conditions Briefing Book The Existing Conditions Briefing Book for the General Plan Update is now available. This document identifies existing conditions information relevant to the General Plan Update. Topics covered include land use, transportation, parks and recreation and natural resources among others. This document will be used as a reference throughout the General Plan Update process. Highlights from the Briefing Book will be presented at the Visioning Workshop on January 8, 2008. Existing Conditions Briefing Book Visioning and Youth Workshops On January 8, 2008 The City of San Carlos held its first public workshops for the General Plan Update. Approximately 60 youth attended the Youth Workshop and 67 citizens attended the Visioning Workshop. Individuals attending both workshops were asked to describe San Carlos as they would like it to be in the year 2030. The workshops helped begin establishing a vision for the future of San Carlos that will guide the preparation of the General Plan Update and were used to formulate a Preliminary Vision Statement that will be presented for public review and comment at Planning Commission and City Council public meetings in February 2008. Draft Vision Statement Based upon input received at the San Carlos Together public forum, the GPAC, the Visioning and Youth Workshops and the Planning Commission, the City Council modified and endorsed a final draft Vision Statement on February 11, 2008. The Vision Statement is intended to describe the future of San Carlos as the community would like it to be in 2030. The Vision Statement should be a succinct expression of shared community values and should relate to most elements in the General Plan. Further, the Vision Statement will assist to guide preparation of General Plan goals and policies during this process, as well as the development and selection of a preferred land use alternative. The draft Vision Statement as modified and endorsed by the City Council could be revisited during the course of the General Plan Update process. Presentation and Discussion made by DC&E and ERA for GPAC Meeting #6 on April 16, 2008: Part 1: The City's consultants for the General Plan Update, DC&E (Design, Community & Environment) made a presentation showing the draft alternatives, modified based on the discussion at GPAC Meeting #5 (March 19 and March 26, 2008). It then shows a map of Potential New Parks and Open Space, with the intent of identifying potential future parks without assigning a land use designation to them. This portion also includes a presentation on the Buildout Methodology and Buildout Analysis Results. Part 2: William (Bill) Lee, from ERA (Economic Research Associates), has been involved in market research work in San Carlos since 1988. This presentation is based on the Real Estate Market Study that ERA did for the City in Sep 2006, on the Retail, Office/R&D, and Hotel markets in San Carlos. In this powerpoint, Bill also points out four strategies that he recommends the City to undertake for economic development. Part 3: DC&E continued a facilitated discussion of the modified draft alternatives for each study area, based on the discussion at GPAC Meeting #5. This part of the presentation shows the modified alternatives at the level of each Study Area.
Please note that the General Plan Advisory Committee meeting is scheduled for May 21, 2008 at 6:45 p.m. in the San Carlos Library, Conference Rooms A & B, Second Floor.
All the General Plan Advisory Committee meetings will be open to the public and input is welcome as this is intended to be a community process every step of the way.
If you have any questions please contact the Planning Department at (650) 802 -4263, Al Savay, Community Development Director at asavay@cityofsancarlos.org or Karen Hong, Consultant Planner at khong@cityofsancarlos.org ,fax at (650) 595-6763 or generalplan@cityofsancarlos.org |
