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Needles Planning Commission recommends updated General Plan and mitigated negative declaration to council

Needles City Planning Commission · February 14, 2023
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Summary

The Planning Commission voted unanimously to forward an updated General Plan (land-use and transportation elements) and a mitigated negative declaration to City Council, with three staff-directed edits addressing speed-limit wording, record custodianship and an implementation action on off-highway vehicles.

The Needles City Planning Commission voted unanimously on Feb. 15 to recommend that the City Council adopt an updated General Plan '1 including revised land-use and transportation elements '1 and approve a mitigated negative declaration (MND), forwarding the package with three amendments.

Consultant Colin Drucker of PlaceWorks presented the three-year update, saying it was largely grant-funded and aimed to provide CEQA efficiency and infrastructure planning for expected growth. "This is gonna be a truncated version of what folks may have seen," Drucker said, explaining changes to downtown mixed-use designations, a revised light-manufacturing category, and targeted map edits…

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