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To the Honorable REPORT January 24,,2000 Subject General Plan Update Process Recommendation 1) Prepare a downtown area plan plus any other plans the City Council may want to include in the General Plan update 2) Select the combination steering and advisory committee approach for the public input process Background On September 28, 1999, the City Council and Planning Commission held a joint study session to discuss the General Plan update. At that meeting, the City Council requested that a new survey be undertaken to determine what areas of the City should be studied as part of an area plan 1. The Council also asked staff to investigate the pros and cons of various public review processes for the update. 1) Survey Results Staff sent out a survey to both the Planning Commission and City Council, asking them to rank certain locations for area plans. Presented below are the results of the survey. The projects are ranked from 1 - 11, with 1 being the highest priority2, -,~' Ranking Area Plan 1 Downtown (around proposed theatre site) 2 Expanded Downtown (bordered by Whipple, Highway 101, EI Camino, and Woodside Road) 3 Expanded EI Camino Real (from the southern city limits to Broadway 4 EI Camino Real (between Broadway and Brewster) 5 South of Woodside (West of Highway 101, East of Bay Road, North of 2nd Avenue) 6 Rolison Road 1 An area plan specifies policies and development guidelines to a small geographic area and is implemented by ordinances and other subsequent discretionary actions, such as zoning. An example of such a document was the Franklin Street Area Plan prepared in 1993, which served as the genesis for the Franklin Street redevelopment. 2 Weighted and average scores are in the appendix '~"."., -,. 'r'"