MARTIS VALLEY COMMUNITY PLAN Adopted by the Board of Supervisors December 16, 2003 MARTIS VALLEY COMMUNITY PLAN Prepared by: PLACER COUNTY WITH ASSISTANCE FROM: Pacific Municipal Consultants LSC Associates Placer County Water Agency Adopted by the Board of Supervisors December 16, 2003 i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Board of Supervisors Bill Santucci ............................................................................................................................... District 1 Robert Weygandt ........................................................................................................................ District 2 Harriet White .............................................................................................................................. District 3 Ted Gaines ................................................................................................................................. District 4 Rex Bloomfield .......................................................................................................................... District 5 Contact: 175 Fulweiler Avenue, Auburn, CA 95603 (530) 889-4010 Fax (530) 889-4009 www.placer.ca.gov/bos ________________________________________________________________________________ Planning Commission Noe Fierros ................................................................................................................................. District 1 Ken Denio .................................................................................................................................. District 2 Jim Forman ................................................................................................................................ District 3 Mike Stafford ............................................................................................................................. District 4 Judy Creek .................................................................................................................................. District 5 Larry Sevison ................................................................................................................. Member at Large Gerry Brentnall ............................................................................................................... Member at Large Contact: 11414 B Avenue, Auburn, CA. 95603 (530) 886-3000 Fax (530) 886-3080 www.placer.ca.gov/planning ________________________________________________________________________________ Placer County Staff Jan Christofferson ......................................................................................................... County Executive Fred Yeager ................................................. Planning Director, Overall project direction & coordination Bill Combs .................................... Principal Planner, Coordination of various components & staff work Larry Clevenger .............................................................. Senior G.I.S. Technician, Planning Department Tim Hackworth ............................................................................. Director, Department of Public Works Rick Dondro .......................................................... Senior Civil Engineer, DPW Transportation Planning Richard Moorehead .......................................... Associate Civil Engineer, DPW Transportation Planning Wes Zicker .............................................................. Deputy Director, DPW Land Development Division Mike Foster ............................................... Associate Civil Engineer, DPW Land Development Division Allison Carlos ......... Supervising Environmental Health Specialist, Department of Environmental Health Dave Vintz ...................................................................................................Air Pollution Control District Vance Kimbrell ................................. Principal Planner, Department of Facility Services, Parks Division _________________________________________________________________________________ Placer County Water Agency Mal Toy.......................................................................................................Director of Planning Services ________________________________________________________________________________ Consultant Teams PMC, Pacific Municipal Consultants LSC Consultants Patrick Angell, Project Manager Gordon Shaw, Project Manager Beth Thompson Asst to Project Manager Rebecca Bucar - Asst to Project Mgr 10461 Old Placerville Rd, Ste 110 P. O. Box 5875 Sacramento, CA 95827 Tahoe City, CA 96145 (916) 361-8384 (530) 583-4059 email: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] ii MARTIS VALLEY COMMUNITY PLAN TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION I: PREFACE .................................................................................................................... 1 A. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................... 1 1. Purpose of Community Plan ............................................................................................................... 1 2. Vision Statement ................................................................................................................................ 1 B. DESCRIPTION OF THE PLAN AREA ................................................................................................... 3 C. THE PLANNING PROCESS .................................................................................................................... 5 1. Previous Planning Efforts in the Martis Valley .................................................................................. 5 2. Relevant Land Use Planning Activities in the Surrounding Region ................................................... 7 3. Current Planning Process ................................................................................................................... 8 D. THE RELATIONSHIP TO THE PLACER COUNTY GENERAL PLAN .............................................. 10 E. MAJOR PLAN AREA FINDINGS ........................................................................................................... 11 SECTION II: LAND USE ............................................................................................................... 14 A: PURPOSE .................................................................................................................................................. 14 B: GOALS, POLICIES AND IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM................................................................. 14 General Land Use ............................................................................................................................... 14 Residential Land Use ......................................................................................................................... 15 Commercial Land Use ........................................................................................................................ 16 General Commercial Areas Policies ................................................................................................... 17 Village Center Policies ....................................................................................................................... 17 Public and Quasi-Public Facilities, Infrastructure .............................................................................. 18 Recreation Land Use .......................................................................................................................... 18 Forestry Land Use .............................................................................................................................. 19 Open Space, Habitat, and Wildlife Resources .................................................................................... 19 Economic Development ..................................................................................................................... 21 C: DISCUSSION ............................................................................................................................................ 25 Land Use Designations ....................................................................................................................... 25 Holding Capacity................................................................................................................................ 29 Economic Development ..................................................................................................................... 30 Truckee-Tahoe Airport ....................................................................................................................... 31 SECTION III: POPULATION AND HOUSING ............................................................... 32 A. PURPOSE .................................................................................................................................................. 32 B. GOALS, POLICIES, AND IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAMS ............................................................. 32 C. DISCUSSION ............................................................................................................................................ 35 MARTIS VALLEY COMMUNITY PLAN Table of Contents iii SECTION IV: COMMUNITY DESIGN ................................................................................. 37 A. PURPOSE ................................................................................................................................................