Calaveras Draft General Plan Update

PC UPDATE for 9-8-16 and 5-week Summary

Land Use Designation Change Requests Completed; Land Use Map Almost Done

Last Thursday, the change request list was completed (plus additional people that sent in letters or came to meetings to make requests). At least 108 total land use change requests were heard over the past 5 weeks and “tentatively” decided by the PC.

Thursday was not bad. Some important parcels were saved from change, and others had changes that weren’t as bad as they could have been:

 Summary for Thursday Sept. 8:

Lost open space/ increased density: – 864 acres

Retained open space/ kept recommended density: + 568 acres

The “lost open space/ increased density” category was not nearly as bad as requested. For example, Morrissy’s 357 acres in Copper, requested to be changed from Resource Production (40 a. min.) to Community Center (20 units/acre) and Residential (5-37 acre parcels), was only increased to Working Lands (20 a. min. parcels).

A few things still need to be wrapped up for the map, including revising/ adding a couple LUD descriptions (Future Specific Plan designation and caps for certain parcels; other revisions). Then the PC will finalize their changes to the new draft land use map. There is no PC meeting Sept. 15, so the PC hopes to finish the map changes (and move to recommend to the BOS) on September 22, at the end of the day, after nine other agenda items (2 parcel maps and 7 cannabis appeals).

*** Land Use Map Summary ***

Over the last 5 weeks, the PC retained staff-recommended land use densities in Draft #4 Land Use Map over twice as often as it allowed density increase requests:

Total lost open space/ increased density: 5,033 acres

Total open space retained/ change requests denied: 13,181 acres

All PC meeting videos are posted, including last Thursday’s: https://calaverascap.com/video/