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<br />/,d-/ <br /> <br />REPORT <br /> <br />To the Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />From the City Manager <br /> <br />September 12, 2005 <br /> <br />Subject <br />General Plan - Issues Relating to Undeveloped Bayfront Land Zoned Tidal Plain (TP) <br /> <br />Recommendation <br />Attached to this cover report is a copy of the staff report prepared on this same issue and <br />presented to Council on July 11, 2005. Councilmember Foust requested that this issue be <br />brought back to Council for discussion. No action is contemplated at this meeting. <br /> <br />Background <br />The following are some issues in question and answer format that may assist the Council <br />discussion: <br /> <br />1. When was the designation 'urban reserve' first used in Redwood City? The <br />first formal use was in the 1975 General Plan. It appears on the land use map but <br />there is no reference to it in the text of the plan. It was applied to the tip of <br />Redwood Shores and the area now part of the Don Edwards Reserve. <br /> <br />2. Where was 'urban reserve' used in the 1990 General Plan? It continued to be <br />applied to the tip of Redwood Shores and to part of the area that is now the Don <br />Edwards Reserve; and it was newly applied to about one-third of the land area of <br />the salt ponds east of Seaport Boulevard. <br /> <br />3. Was 'urban reserve' applied as an overlay on another underlying land use in <br />the General Plan? No. There is no reference either in the plan or on the map to <br />another land use underlying urban reserve. <br /> <br />4. If 'urban reserve' was removed from the General Plan, what would be the <br />process? Staff indicated in the July 11, 2005 report that we are looking into such a <br />recommendation. If done as part of the overall General Plan, the recommendation <br />would be made as part of the overall document that would be evaluated in an <br />Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The Planning Commission would hold hearings <br />on both the Plan and its EIR and would forward recommendations on the General <br />Plan to the City Council for adoption. If a recommendation to eliminate 'urban <br />reserve' were acted on separate from the General Plan, such an action mayor may <br />not require an EIR depending on the specific land use designation being <br />considered. A land use designation that would allow substantial development would <br />probably require an EIR. <br /> <br />1 <br />