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ORDINANCE NO. 3404 OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA AMENDING CHAPTER 19.14 OF THE CHULA VISTA MUNICIPAL CODE (CVMC) BY ADDING A NEW SECTION CREATING AN INITIATION PROCESS FOR AMENDMENTS TO THE GENERAL PLAN, SECTIONAL PLANNING AREA PLANS, GENERAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS, SPECIFIC PLANS, PRECISE PLANS (LAND USE PLANS) AND FOR REZONING (SECOND READING AND ADOPTION)
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RECOMMENDED ACTION
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Council adopt the ordinance.
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SUMMARY
Under the City Municipal Code, applicants can submit land use plan amendment and rezoning requests to the City. Currently these legislative action requests are processed as part of proposed development projects and consolidated with all other discretionary actions necessary for City consideration of the applicant's project. As part of some recent development projects, concerns were raised on the part of staff about the merits of the plan amendment being proposed and applicants were advised that staff could not support the overall project proposal as a result. In these instances, the applicant has been placed in a position of deciding to forgo their project, or to spend money and significant time to develop their proposal, conduct appropriate environmental impact analysis, and to process it through the City with no early mechanism to gauge the potential interest of the Planning Commission or City Council in the plan amendment or rezoning being requested.
As a means to address this situation, staff is proposing the attached amendments to the Municipal Code. The amendments provide a process for City Council to communicate its willingness to consider a proposed plan amendment or rezoning by its willingness to accept an application and allocate staff resources to its processing. The City Council would retain full discretion to approve or disapprove the proposal once it was fully analyzed. The proposed initiation process would also address another community concern by allowing for early public knowledge and involvemen...
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