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HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 4.13 Initiate Gen Plan Amend~ ~ ~- ~~ -~~ 1 CITY OF DUBLIN AGENDA STATEMENT CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: AUGUST 13, 1990 SUBJECT: REPORT PREPARED BY: Initiation of General Plan Amendment Dennis Carrington, Senior Planner ~~ RECOMMENllATION: 1. Receive the Staff Report. 2. Review description of proposed changes to the Dublin General Plan. 3. Initiate General Plan Amendment. FINANCIAL STATEMENT: The General Plan Amendment will have minor financial impacts involving staff costs and graphic costs. DESCRIPTION: In order to process an amendment to the General Plan it is first necessary for the City Council to initiate the amendment to the General Plan. Review of the General Plan by the City Attorney has revealed several areas where changes are necessary to add clarity, conform to the requirements of current law and to add text and maps to reflect updates to the General Plan since its adoption in 1985. The amendments to the Dublin General Plan map and text are summarized as follows: 1. Adopt Volume 2, Technical Supplement as part of the General Plan and make appropriate text changes to the Background section of the General Plan. 2. Correct typographical/editorial errors in the Background section of the General Plan; the Parks and Recreation and Circulation and Scenic Highways Elements of the General Plan and the Technical Supplement to the General Plan. ~ 3. Add statutory discussion and references to the introductions of the Land Use; Parks and Open Space; Schools, Public Lands and Utilities; Circulation and Scenic Highways; Conservation; Seismic Safety and Safety; and Noise Elements of the General Plan. Add notation where statutory requirements do not apply to Dublin. 4. Add implementation policies reflecting existing city programs in the Parks and Open Space Element, Circulation and Scenic Highways Element and the Seismic Safety and Safety Element of the General Plan. 5. Add text to the Schools, Public Lands and Utilities Element to reflect recent statutory changes. 6. Amend maps and/or text of the Background section of the General Plan and the Land Use Element to make General Plan internally consistent.l~ - 7. Add text ar~cl rr~aps to refle~t general plan amendments adopted since _1985. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ~`~ ~ ITEM No. ~'~, ~ . COPIES TO: Agenda File `~ Project Planner PA90-062 [GPAINITJ .~-~ " ~~ ~ ~~