2015 General Plan Clean-Up

Board of Supervisors Hearing

The 2015 General Plan Clean-Up General Plan Amendment and Rezone (GPA 14-001; REZ 14-001) was scheduled for a Board of Supervisors hearing on November 18, 2015, 9:00 am, at the County Administration Center (CAC), Room 310, 1600 Pacific Highway in San Diego. A link to the hearing agenda is provided below.

The General Plan Clean-Up was intended to provide a regular mechanism for making changes to the General Plan to allow for corrections discovered during the General Plan's implementation or to reflect changing circumstances.

This was the second General Plan Clean-Up processed since the adoption of the General Plan in 2011. The types of changes included in the project fall into the following categories:

Land Use Map & zoning
General Plan text revisions
Implementation Plan
Mobility Element Network
community/subregional plans.

View the Board of Supervisors Hearing Agenda for November 18, 2015

Board of Supervisors Staff Report

Planning Commission Staff Report

Background

A comprehensive update of the County General Plan was adopted in 2011. The General Plan provides a framework for land use and development decisions consistent with an established community vision and is based on a set of guiding principles designed to protect the County’s unique and diverse natural resources and maintain the character of its rural and semi-rural communities.

The General Plan Update was a comprehensive, complex, and large update in both scope and scale. As such, staff and the Board of Supervisors anticipated that unforeseen inconsistencies and mapping errors, along with changed circumstances, would emerge during plan implementation that would require changes. Efficiencies can be achieved by grouping the changes and processing them in a batch. By adopting a formal approach to such a review, certainties and assurances can also be achieved in the process. Therefore, at the time of the adoption of the General Plan Update, the Board of Supervisors directed staff to bring forward a General Plan ‘clean-up’ every two years in the form of a General Plan Amendment.

The Draft Plan for the 2015 General Plan Clean-Up was circulated for a 45-day public and agency review and comment period from April 15 through June 1, 2015.

See the link to Attachment B above for the Staff Recommendation document, which provides a description of each of the proposed changes in the project.

See the links below for countywide and community-level maps of the proposed Land Use Map/zoning changes, in addition to analysis worksheets for each of the proposed Land Use Map/zoning items in the project.

View the General Plan Table LU-1 (Information on Land Use designations and compatible Regional Categories)

View the 2013 General Plan Clean-Up

Countywide and Community-Level Map Links for the 2015 General Plan Clean-Up

Existing Maps and Proposed Changes

Existing and Proposed GP Designations – Community Level Maps

(Note: No Land Use Map or zoning Clean-Up changes are proposed in communities that are not included in the table below)

Alpine	Alpine Existing	Alpine Proposed
Crest-Dehesa	Crest-Dehesa Existing	Crest-Dehesa Proposed
Julian	Julian Existing	Julian Proposed
Lakeside	Lakeside Existing	Lakeside Proposed
North County Metro	North County Metro Existing	North County Metro Proposed
San Dieguito	San Dieguito Existing	San Dieguito Proposed
Spring Valley	Spring Valley Existing	Spring Valley Proposed
Sweetwater	Sweetwater Existing	Sweetwater Proposed
Valley Center	Valley Center Existing	Valley Center Proposed

Analysis Worksheets – Proposed Land Use Map and Zoning Changes

Alpine	Alpine AL201
Crest-Dehesa	Existing Crest-Dehesa CD201	Proposed Crest-Dehesa CD202
Julian	Existing Julian JL201	Proposed Julian JL202
Lakeside	Existing Lakeside LS201 Existing Lakeside LS202	Proposed Lakeside LS203 Proposed Lakeside LS204
NC Metro	NC Metro NC201
San Dieguito	Existing San Dieguito SD201	Proposed San Dieguito SD202
Spring Valley	Existing Spring Valley SV201	Proposed Spring Valley SV202
Sweetwater	Sweetwater SW201
Valley Center	Existing Valley Center VC201	Proposed Valley Center VC202