<p>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.</p><p>Slide 1 Planning For The Future</p><p>Slide 2 Welcome citizen planners!</p><p>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”</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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 </p><p>Year 2050 . 154,600 new jobs . 149,500 new homes</p><p>* Assuming two-thirds of the 2050 growth allocation.</p><p>Slide 9 Quality of life in the county . How and where will we, our children, and our grandchildren live?</p><p>. How can we maintain our mobility?</p><p>. Where will jobs, businesses, and services be located to serve our needs?</p><p>Slide 10 – 15 (Photographs of corridor types)</p><p>Slide 16 Arden Arcade</p><p>Slide 17 – 19 (Photographs of Arden Arcade)</p><p>Slide 20 General Plan concepts that affect Arden Arcade (To be written)</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>Slide 25 The approach: proactive strategies New Strategies . Commercial corridor reinvestment . Corridor planning will occur</p><p>. 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 </p><p>Slide 26 Smart growth objectives</p><p>Slide 27 Provide a variety of transportation options</p><p>Slide 28 Offer housing choices and opportunities (Pictures labeled single family homes, granny unit, apartments condos and townhomes, and senior housing)</p><p>Slide 29 Take advantage of compact development</p><p>Slide 30 Use existing assets</p><p>Slide 31 Mix land uses</p><p>Slide 32 Preserve open space, farmland & natural beauty</p><p>Slide 33 Encourage attractive and high quality design</p><p>Slide 34 It’s your turn now…</p><p>Slide 35 Policy exercise . Decide individually: Which policy directions would you like to see the County take?</p><p>. Duration: 30 minutes</p><p>Slide 35 Policy exercise process . Each participant receives a deck of cards color coded with different policy questions. </p><p>. 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.</p><p>. Facilitators will read questions aloud, staff will answer questions, cards will be collected and posted on the wall. Like answers will be grouped.</p>