2017 General Plan Clean-Up

Board of Supervisors Hearing

The 2017 General Plan Clean-Up General Plan Amendment and Rezone (GPA 16-001; REZ 16-001) was scheduled for a Board of Supervisors hearing on November 15, 2017, 9:00am, 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 is 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.

Planning Commission Hearing

The 2017 General Plan Clean-Up General Plan Amendment and Rezone (16-001; REZ 16-001) was scheduled for a Planning Commission hearing on October 6^th, 2017, 9:00 a.m. at the COC Campus Center Chambers, 5520 Overland Avenue, San Diego, CA 92123.

The General Plan Clean-Up is a County initiated General Plan Amendment and is 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 is third General Plan Clean-Up processed since the adoption of the General Plan in 2011. The 2017 General Plan Clean-Up includes changes in the following categories: Land Use Map & Zoning, Implementation Plan, and Mobility Element Network. An electronic copy of the Planning Commission Report is below:

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.