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GPAC forwards draft Land Use Element after detailed debate over capacity limits, parking and coastal coordination
Summary
The General Plan Advisory Committee reviewed a streamlined draft Land Use Element prepared with consultant Dudek, debated administrative updates to development-capacity tables, housing focus areas, parking management and coastal coordination, and voted to forward the draft to the steering committee with staff tasked to track and address GPAC comments.
The General Plan Advisory Committee met Sept. 16 and voted to forward a draft Land Use Element to the steering committee and then to the planning commission for further review and public outreach.
The draft, prepared with consultant Dudek, trims the existing land use element roughly in half, restructures policies and adds targeted new provisions, consultant Janet Rodriguez said: "We really worked to streamline the new land use element ... the adopted element is about 70 pages of text and we've cut it down to approximately 35 pages." The element bundles policy topics and adds a clearer framework for development capacity limits, Rodriguez said.
Staff presenter Ben described a key procedural change that drew sustained attention: a policy to allow administrative updates to three land‑use tables so staff can track transfers of development rights within statistical areas in real time. "This is really under the premise of transparency, real‑time data," he said, adding that the change…
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