CC 3-3-20 #13 General Plan Annual Report PresentationsCity Council
March 3, 2020
General Plan Annual Review
Presentation
General Plan Annual Report
•Required by State Law to monitor
progress in implementation of action
items
•Housing Element Report –Reqd. on
forms published by HCD (coming on 3-17-
2020)
Background
●2019 Report –April 2, 2019 CC meeting
●Directed to PC review for 2020 report
●Some councilmembers expressed desire
to see comments on each policy and
strategy
PC Review
●Five meetings:
●Sept. 10, Oct. 28, Dec. 10, 2019 and Jan. 14
& Feb. 11, 2020
●Add comment column and suggested
refinements to comments
●Note: Comments do not amend the
General Plan
●Add status and timeframe indicators
PC Suggestions incorporated (see Att. A)
●Actions taken as a matter of course –Grey
●Action items that have deliverables:
●Completed -Green
●In-Progress but not completed -Yellow
●Pending (no action yet) –Orange
PC Suggestions incorporated (see Att. A)
●Timeframe indicated:
●2019-2022 –Immediate (IM)
●2022-2040 –Long Range (LR)
●Continual (Con.)
City-wide Non-residential
Development Allocation
Development Type 2019 2020
Commercial No change No change
anticipated
Office -2M sq. ft.No change
anticipated
Hotel +185 rooms
Verbal update
pending
Council action
Changes in City-wide Residential
Allocation
●Adequate allocation for 5th cycle RHNA
(2014-2022)
●Increase likely needed for 6th cycle RHNA
Objective Standards Review
●Att. B -individual commissioner comments
regarding amendments to existing policies or
creating new policies
●No formal action or concurrence from PC
●Recommendation: Incorporate into prior list of
suggested GPAs for future Council review
●Comments/Suggestions?
PC Study Session Direction
Update comment re: development
allocations (Strategy LU-1.2.2)
Update comment in Policy LU-12.1
and strategies
Vallco Shopping District Special Area
–add current allocation balances
PC Study Session Direction
Add note re: lack of landscape
easements and building setbacks/
transition and/or landscape buffers on:
East side of N. De Anza Special Area
Homestead Square Shopping Center
and Homestead Lanes sites in
Homestead Special Area
PC Study Session Direction
Bubb Road Special Area –add note
re: EDSP and possible Innovation
District designation.
Other Non-Residential/Mixed-Use
Special Areas –add note re: possible
development at Bateh Brothers site.
Update number of building permits
issued –74 ADU permits since 2014.
City-wide Development Allocation balances (as of 12/31/19)
Development Type
Commercial Office Hotel Residential
Special Areas
Heart of the City 814,670 s.f.17,113 s.f.330
Vallco Shopping District 191 389
Homestead 1,093 s.f.150
N. De Anza 97
N. Vallco
S. De Anza
Bubb
Monta Vista 4,657 s.f.13,595 s.f.49
All Other Areas
Other 99
Major Employer 523,118 s.f.
Total citywide Available 823,420 s.f.553,826 s.f.191 rooms 1,114 units
Changes in City-wide Residential
Allocation
●Adequate allocation for 5th cycle RHNA
(2014-2022)
●Increase likely needed for 6th cycle RHNA
●Draft regional RHNA –Spring 2020
●Draft local RHNA –March 2021
●Housing Element update completed –
December 2022
Elements of General Plan
Mandatory Elements Optional Elements
Land Use (Chapter 3)Infrastructure (Chapter 8)
Circulation (Chapter 5)
Housing (Chapter 4)
Conservation (Chapter 6)
Open-space (Chapter 9)
Health and Safety (Chapter 7)
•Noise
•Safety
Environmental Justice (new)
•“Disadvantaged Communities”
•May need policies in future
Implementation Plans -General
●Many have general time frames identified
●Some cities use this as an opportunity to
identify Work Program items
●Some also identify $$ to help prioritize
Work Program items
Implementation Plan -Cupertino
●Has general time frames identified
●Most policies implemented on continuous
basis during development review through:
●Municipal Code
●Other Land use plans and/or
●Adopted manuals etc.
Implementation Plan -Cupertino
●Policies that have specific action items
have timeline identified. Brought up to
City Council as Work Program items in that
time frame.
●E.g. development of an ordinance
amendment, program or policy
●$$ determined in conjunction with Work
Program review
CC Direction
●Include updates on items
●Present to Planning Commission
prior to City Council
Other suggestions
●Other miscellaneous comments from
individual commissioners summarized in
Att. C
●No formal consensus or formal action by
PC