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GPAC endorses implementation 'crosswalk' and readies general plan for council review
Summary
The Newport Beach General Plan Advisory Committee reviewed and largely approved an implementation 'crosswalk' tying policies to tools, departments and timeframes, asked staff to tighten funding and timelines, and agreed to return mid-January with revisions for a council submittal in spring.
The General Plan Advisory Committee and steering committee on Monday endorsed a renewed approach to implementing the draft general plan, backing a crosswalk-style implementation program that links individual policies to tools, responsible city departments and time frames.
The crosswalk, presented by implementation lead Elizabeth and staff member Ben, is intended to improve accountability by enabling annual progress reports to track actions policy-by-policy rather than by broad program, the presenters said. Ben told the committee the crosswalk is already available to members as an Excel workbook and will be published as an interactive, city-hosted GIS and project-tracking tool.
"What this does is it connects the policy to the implementation program, so to those tools and the associated implementation actions," Elizabeth said during her presentation, framing the crosswalk as a way to make implementation measurable.
Committee members applauded the concept but urged more specificity. Several members asked the crosswalk to identify likely funding sources and to break out multiple implementation time frames where a single policy requires short-, mid- and long-term actions. "Many other cities include a funding column," said former-chair member Jim Mosher, urging Dudek and staff to indicate how the work will be financed and to allocate actions where policies list multiple implementation items.
Staff committed to: incorporate committee feedback, add clearer funding-source options where feasible, correct editorial issues, and return with updated materials in mid-January. Ben said the outreach summary and comment log (69 unique comments; online draft pages attracted about 3,700 unique visitors and outreach reached an estimated 35,000 residents) would accompany the GPAC recommendation to the council.
The committee held a hands-up straw vote endorsing the crosswalk approach and asked staff to continue refining the implementation program; a majority indicated they were comfortable moving the package toward council review in January, with the implementation details to be finalized thereafter.
Next steps: staff will produce a revised crosswalk and implementation program reflecting this meeting’s edits, post corrected interactive maps, circulate the Excel crosswalk to GPAC for review before the January meeting, and prepare the package for boards, commissions and council consideration in spring.
