Draft General Plan document - Comment and Responses
Community and Subregional Plans - Implementation Plan - Overview
The County of San Diego has completed a critical step in the General Plan Update. The Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the General Plan Update has been released for a 60-day public review and Comment period, beginning July 1, 2009 through 4:00 pm, Augusts 31, 2009. Also released for public review are the revised draft General Plan Regional Elements, draft Community/Subregional Plan revisions, the draft Implementation Plan and responses to the comments received on the draft General Plan released on November 14, 2008.
This draft EIR and draft General Plan can also be reviewed at the Department of Planning and Land Use (DPLU), Project Processing Counter, 5201 Ruffin Road, Suite B, San Diego, California 92123 (8:00 am to 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday) and at any County library in the unincorporated areas of San Diego County.
Also out for Public Review is the Draft Conservation Subdivision Program, revised July 1, 2009.
Notice of Availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Report and Draft General Plan
Draft General Plan Document
Compact Disks of the Draft General Plan are available upon request from the Department of Planning and Land Use and hard copies are available for purchase. If you would like to request a CD or purchase a hard copy please send us an e-mail us a gpupdate.dplu@sdcounty.ca.gov of call our hotline at 619-615-8289.
Compiled Draft General Plan (56 mb)
Cover and Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Vision and Guiding Principles
Chapter 3 - Land Use Element
Chapter 4 - Mobility Element
Chapter 5 - Conservation/Open Space Element
Chapter 6 - Housing Element
Chapter 7 - Safety Element (6 mb)
Chapter 8 - Noise Element
Chapter 9 & 10 - Implementation and Glossary
Appendices (37 mb) -
Land Use Maps Appendix (8 mb)
Mobility Element Network Appendix (28 mb)
Forest Conservation Initiative Appendix
Housing Element Background Report Appendix (113 mb)
Note: The Land Use Map and Mobility Element Network appendices contain the Referral Map Alternative and Mobility Element Road Network endorsed by the Board of Supervisors. They will be updated to reflect what is adopted as the General Plan Land Use Map and Mobility Element by the Board of Supervisors. Additional Information on the General Plan Update Alternatives is available in our Maps page.
Comments on the Draft General Plan
DPLU has prepared responses to the comments received on the Draft General Plan that was released in November 2008, these responses are available below, in alphabetical order by group:
Additionally the original comments, without responses, and are still available in the following two forms, a List of Persons, Organizations and Public Agencies that commented on the General Plan with imbedded links to each comment (pdf), or that same list with all comments following in one document (44 mb). Both versions are below:
Community and Subregional Plans
As part of the General Plan, the Community Plans have been reviewed and revised by the Community Planning & Sponsor Groups and Staff. Some of the Community and Subregional Plans are in Strikeout and Underline format from the Existing Community Plan, while others are comprehensively updated with new text. Comments can be submitted along with the comments on the Draft EIR, Draft General Plan and Draft Implementation Plan.
Implementation Plan
The Implementation Plan for the General Plan Update has been developed and is in public review along with the Draft EIR, Draft General Plan Document and Community and Subregional Plans. Comments on the Draft Implementation Plan (Updated 10-29-09) can be submitted along with the Draft EIR, Draft General Plan Documents.
Overview
General Plans are the supreme document, the “constitutions,” that guide the future development of the communities they represent. They provide a vision of the community’s future. They set the philosophy and policies that decide, in general, what gets built where ---- how communities will accommodate growth while preserving character and protecting what the community values.
The importance of the County’s General Plan within our region cannot be understated. While the unincorporated county houses just 15 percent of the region’s population, its size is immense. Its 800,000 acres of privately-owned land is more than three times the size of the City of San Diego, and nearly twice the combined size of the region’s 18 cities. It is home to a significant agricultural economy and contains open space that is critical to countless rare species and provides valuable recreational space for everyone.
This update is the first comprehensive overhaul of the County’s General Plan in 30 years. It is guided by the County’s three strategic initiatives: to improve opportunities for our children; to protect the environment; and to promote safe and livable communities.
The General Plan Update would improve the current plan by balancing the need to accommodate growth with the needs to control traffic congestion, protect environmental habitat, and ease the strain on essential services such as water supplies and fire protection. That will be accomplished in part by shifting 20 percent of future growth to western unincorporated communities with established infrastructure such as roads.
The General Plan Update would reduce the growth that the current general plan would allow by 15 percent. But it would still allow 168,000 to 198,000 more people to live in the unincorporated communities that now house roughly 491,800 people.
The update contains numerous goals and policies aimed at respecting community character, climate change, infrastructure planning and environmental preservation.
The General Plan Update’s chapters are set around the seven elements required by State law. They set the foundation to create innovative Land Use policy; increase Mobility for drivers, riders, bicyclists and others; provide Housing choices that would benefit all residents; manage natural resources through Conservation and by preserving Open Space; provide protection from wildfires and other natural hazards to ensure public Safety; and protect communities from intrusive Noise.
This General Plan was developed with broad public input ---- from builders, business owners, environmentalists, farmers, homeowners, landowners and renters ---- in a process that seeks to balance competing interests and reach consensus.
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