Sacramento County General Plan Update Powerpoint Text
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Sacramento County General Plan Update PowerPoint Text Note: All slides have illustrative visuals. Visuals’ captions are noted in parentheses, as well as descriptions of visuals for slides with no text, or notations.
Slide 1 Planning For The Future
Slide 2 Welcome citizen planners!
Slide 3 What you will do at this workshop? . Hear about our General Plan update . Learn about growth issues facing the County . Participate in enjoyable exercises . Tell us what you think about new growth strategies . Complete survey in the “Resident’s Guide to G.P. Process”
Slide 4 What is a county general plan? . Long-range horizon: 2030 . Sets a vision . Policy level . Unincorporated Sacramento County only . Zoning and future projects must be consistent with the General Plan It does not….. . Specify land uses for new growth areas . Act as a community-level plan . Specify land uses for commercial corridor planning
Slide 5 Sacramento County: challenges & opportunities . What will Sacramento County look like in 2030? . County has changed since 1980 . It will change again with new jobs & residents
Slide 6 . Encourage continued reinvestment in & revitalization of our communities . Respond to job growth… with needed housing Slide 7 SACOG blueprint growth forecast for 2050 . 1 million new jobs . 1.7 million new people . 840,000 new housing units . Six-county region
Slide 8 Projected growth for unincorporated Sacramento County Year 2030* . Over 100,000 new jobs . Just under 100,000 new homes with up to 260,000 more residents
Year 2050 . 154,600 new jobs . 149,500 new homes
* Assuming two-thirds of the 2050 growth allocation.
Slide 9 Quality of life in the county . How and where will we, our children, and our grandchildren live?
. How can we maintain our mobility?
. Where will jobs, businesses, and services be located to serve our needs?
Slide 10 – 15 (Photographs of corridor types)
Slide 16 Arden Arcade
Slide 17 – 19 (Photographs of Arden Arcade)
Slide 20 General Plan concepts that affect Arden Arcade (To be written)
Slide 21 How does the plan direct growth? . Sets countywide goals and policies . Serves as a road map to shape future growth . Determines land use designations countywide . Establishes “ground rules” for growth
Slide 22 General Plan process timeline Draft due December 2006 Environmental Review January 2007 to late 2007 Public hearings early 2008 Adopted General Plan mid-2008
Slide 23 The approach . Four growth management strategies were proposed during the General Plan Board Workshops . Board directed staff to get public input before endorsing the plan
Slide 24 The approach: retain existing strategies . Planned Communities . Build per current assumptions but recognize the potential for some market-driven increases . Infill . Assume buildout over time at average of existing zoned densities
Slide 25 The approach: proactive strategies New Strategies . Commercial corridor reinvestment . Corridor planning will occur
. Expand urban area . Future specific or comprehensive plan must occur Board direction to focus on design and quality— Board has not set quotas or targets
Slide 26 Smart growth objectives
Slide 27 Provide a variety of transportation options
Slide 28 Offer housing choices and opportunities (Pictures labeled single family homes, granny unit, apartments condos and townhomes, and senior housing)
Slide 29 Take advantage of compact development
Slide 30 Use existing assets
Slide 31 Mix land uses
Slide 32 Preserve open space, farmland & natural beauty
Slide 33 Encourage attractive and high quality design
Slide 34 It’s your turn now…
Slide 35 Policy exercise . Decide individually: Which policy directions would you like to see the County take?
. Duration: 30 minutes
Slide 35 Policy exercise process . Each participant receives a deck of cards color coded with different policy questions.
. Each question has four possible answers marked with a suit icon. . Choose the card with your preferred policy direction or write your own policy direction on a “wild card.” . Play the card by holding it up when done.
. Facilitators will read questions aloud, staff will answer questions, cards will be collected and posted on the wall. Like answers will be grouped.