2. LAND USE, PUBLIC FACILITIES and COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE City of Atwater General Plan
2. LAND USE, PUBLIC FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE City of Atwater General Plan PLANNING BOUNDARIES LAND USE, PUBLIC ACILITIES AND OMMUNITY Approximately 5.25 square miles of land are F C currently within the Atwater City limits. INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENT However, in planning for growth and development, the state's General Plan Guidelines allow a city to include lands outside its city limits which in the planning INTRODUCTION agency’s judgement “bears relation to its planning” (§65300). Figure 2-1 depicts The Land Use Element Atwater’s existing City limits, the City’s current establishes the framework of (1984) Sphere of Influence, the City’s objectives, policies, and Proposed (2000) Sphere of Influence, and implementation programs that Atwater’s 44.6 square mile Planning Area. will guide the community's physical form and growth. In order to plan appropriately for the LAND USE SETTING community's future population growth and needs, the Land Use Element identifies the Figure 2-2 depicts actual land uses as of distribution of land uses and intensities, 1990 within the central portion of the General population densities, and building intensities Plan Study area. Most of the land located for the next 20-year period. outside of Atwater’s existing City limits, and (1984) Sphere of Influence, is devoted to California Government Code Section agricultural uses. However, significant urban 65302(a) requires that a land use element be development is located within the community included in a General Plan, and more of Winton, just north of the Planning Area. specifically mandates that the element Considerable residential development has address the following: also occurred in the McSwain area, located directly south of the City, and the Franklin- "...the proposed general distribution and Beachwood area to the southeast.
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