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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Report - August 18, 2010 D-1610 AGENDA ITEM D 401 CITY OF LODI COUNCIL COMMUNICATION Im AGENDA TITLE: Adopt Resolution Approving Participation With the San Joaquin Valley Partner Cities in the Smart Valley Places Compact MEETING DATE: August 18,2010 PREPARED BY: Community Development Department RECOMMENDEDACTION: Adopt resolution approving participation with the San Joaquin Valley partner cities in the Smart Valley Places Compact. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The California Partnershipfor the San Joaquin Valley was established by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger through an Executive Order in 2005 to focus attention on the unique challenges and needs of the eight -county San Joaquin Valley region. The Partnership has established a Smart Valley Places Compact, a draft of which is attached as Exhibit A, as a direct partnership among cities and other local and regional partners with the purpose to locally define and implement a regional plan for sustainable development for the San Joaquin Valley. The initial eligible partner cities for voting membership in the Smart Valley Places network are the 16 federally defined and recognized Urbanized Areas (50,000 population and over) in the eight counties cf San Joaquin Valley region, represented as follows: • Cities of Stockton, Tracy, Manteca, and Lodi in San Joaquin County • Cities of Modesto and Turlock in Stanislaus County • City of Merced in Merced County • City of Madera in Madera County • Cities of Fresno and Clovis in Fresno County • City of Hanford in Kings County • Cities of Visalia, Porterville and Tulare in Tulare County • Cities of Bakersfield and Delano in Kern County This Smart Valley Places network is also being created in response to a Federal Notice cf Funding Availability (NOFA) from the Sustainable Communities Partnership, made up of the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Transportation (DOT), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This NOFA for the Sustainable Communities Planning Grant Program will support regional planning efforts that integrate housing, land use, economic and workforce development, transportation, and infrastructure investments in a mannerthat empowers jurisdictions to consider the interdependent challenges of economic competitiveness and revitalization; social equity, inclusion, and access to opportunity; energy use and climate APPROVED: 'Jk�! ��� Ko r t artlam, Interim City Manager change; as well as public health and environmental impacts. The Sustainable Communities Planning Grant Program places a priority on partnerships such as the Smart Valley Places Compact between San Joaquin Valley agencies and organizations. Funding through this NOFA could be used for a number of planning projects under consideration, such as a Climate Action Plan and an Economic Development Strategic Plan. FISCAL IMPACT: NotApplicable FUNDING AVAILABLE: Not Applicable Konradt Bartlam Community Development Director KB/jw Attachment: EXHIBIT A SMART VALLEY PLACES 'A Region of Partner Cities' COMPACT for a Sustainable San Joaquin Valley 1. Shared Planning Principles for a Regional Plan for Sustainable Development The San Joaquin Valley is recognized as a critical geography and resource area for the continued growth and sustainability of California and for the West Coast of the United States. But the Valley, and especially its cities which will be the focus for successfully accommodating future growth and implementing sustainability, face significant and daunting economic, revitalization, affordable housing, social, environmental, public health, natural and fiscal resource, and other challenges. The parties to this Smart Valley Places COMPACT affirm that much collaborative work has been accomplished as a region to assess our shared challenges and to identify shared planning principles for continued economic growth and urban development, preservation of the rich agricultural land base and water resources, improved education and health, broader prosperity, and to enable implementation of the essential elements of long-term success, and that these parties commit to each other to share planning principles and incorporate them into their respective local policies and codes through a process that engages all stakeholders and residents in order to comprise and facilitate the implementation of a comprehensive regional plan for sustainable development. The shared principles acknowledged here include: The Smart Growth Principles adopted and established as the benchmark for achieving a San Joaquin Valley Blueprint: • Create a range of housing opportunities and choices • Create walkable neighborhoods • Encourage community and stakeholder collaboration • Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a strong sense of place • Make development decisions predictable, fair, and cost-effective • Mix land uses • Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty, and critical environmental areas • Provide a variety of transportation choices • Strengthen and direct development towards existing communities • Take advantage of compact building design • Enhance the economic vitality of the region • Support actions that encourage environmental resource management Draft—July 19, 2010 1 EXHIBIT A The six major initiatives of the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley Strategic Action Proposal developed by the ten regional work groups for economic development, higher education and workforce development, K-12 education, transportation, land use, agriculture and housing, air quality, water, energy, health and human services, and advanced communications services and information technology – to build on the existing strengths and address the current challenges to achieve a Prosperous Economy, Quality Environment, and Social Equity—the "3Es" of sustainable growth for the San Joaquin Valley: • Grow a Diversified, Globally -Competitive Economy Supported by a Highly -Skilled Workforce • Create a Model K-12 Public Education System • Implement an Integrated Framework for Sustainable Growth • Build a 21st Century Transportation Mobility System • Attain Clean Air Standards • Develop High -Quality Health and Human Services The HUD -EPA -DOT Livability Principles: • Provide more transportation choices. Develop safe, reliable, and economical transportation choices to decrease household transportation costs, reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil, improve air quality, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and promote public health. • Promote equitable, affordable housing. Expand location- and energy-efficient housing choices for people of all ages, incomes, races, and ethnicities to increase mobility and lower the combined cost of housing and transportation. • Enhance economic competitiveness. Improve economic competitiveness through reliable and timely access to employment centers, educational opportunities, services and other basic needs by workers, as well as expanded business access to markets. • Support existing communities. Target funding toward existing communities—through strategies like transit oriented, mixed-use development, and land recycling—to increase community revitalization and the efficiency of public works investments and safeguard rural landscapes. • Coordinate and leverage policies and investment. Align policies and funding to remove barriers to collaboration, leverage funding, and increase the accountability and effectiveness of all levels of government to plan for future growth, including making smart energy choices such as locally generated renewable energy. • Value communities and neighborhoods. Enhance the unique characteristics of all communities by investing in healthy, safe, and walkable neighborhoods—rural, urban, or suburban. Draft—July 19, 2010 2 EXHIBIT A 2. Smart Valley Places Network and Purpose Smart Valley Places is a formal network of partner cities, other jurisdictional partners, public agencies and institutions, private, nongovernmental and community-based organizations with the united purpose to locally define and mutually implement a regional plan for sustainable development for the San Joaquin Valley. Smart Valley Places asserts that a direct partnership among Valley cities is the best and most effective way to create and coordinate a pool of resources, templates, models, technical expertise, and utilize the local land use and zoning authority required that will lead to the practical and measurable implementation of long-term San Joaquin Valley sustainability. Smart Valley Places builds upon the regional analyses and recommendations of the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley, the eight county Blueprint planning efforts, smart planning in individual member cities and counties, and the technical expertise of and partnership with councils of governments, research universities, institutes, and more advanced cities and regional associations in California and the U.S. Smart Valley Places partner cities are committed to jointly developing, locally applying, mutually evaluating, broadly sharing, and individually mentoring other Valley cities and rural community partners in the implementation of an array of proven and best practice smart land use planning tools, model plans and development codes, climate action strategies, sustainability policies and programs, and related public education, engagement, and leadership development initiatives — that connect and combine the Smart Growth Principles adopted and established as the benchmark for achieving a San Joaquin Valley Blueprint, the six major initiatives of the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley Strategic Action Proposal, and the HUD -EPA -DOT Livability Principles. 3. Smart Valley Places Cities COMPACT A. Initial Partner City Membership The initial eligible partner cities for voting membership in the Smart Valley Places network are the 16 federally defined and recognized Urbanized Areas (50,000 population and over) in the eight counties of San Joaquin Valley region, represented as follows: • Cities of Stockton, Tracy, Manteca, and Lodi in San Joaquin County • Cities of Modesto and Turlock in Stanislaus County • City of Merced in Merced County • City of Madera in Madera County Draft—July 19, 2010 3 EXHIBIT A • Cities of Fresno and Clovis in Fresno County • City of Hanford in Kings County • Cities of Visalia, Porterville and Tulare in Tulare County • Cities of Bakersfield and Delano in Kern County The expansion of voting membership in the Smart Valley Places COMPACT network through the addition of cities and other partners is anticipated as network organization and member performance capabilities increase over time to have the ability to accommodate member expansion. B. Governance Smart Valley Places - Executive Committee City Councils of participating city COMPACT partners authorize their City Managers to be their voting representatives on the Executive Committee of Smart Valley Places, with one vote for each partner city. The Executive Committee will meet as often as necessary to provide policy guidance and administrative oversight for Smart Valley Places network related contracts, agreements, grant applications and awards, resource allocations, performance evaluation of projects and programs, and any other network business or communications, and to review, evaluate, and direct the work of the Planners Steering Committee, but will meet no less than two times per calendar year. Smart Valley Places — Planners Steering Committee The Planners Steering Committee of participating city COMPACT partners is formed by the appointment from each City Manager of the Planning Director and/or Assistant Planning Director from each participating city partner. The Planners Steering Committee will meet as frequently as it prescribes for itself — in order to monitor and encourage achievement of Smart Valley Places COMPACT goals for implementation of a regional plan for sustainable development, and to coordinate and prepare information for the Executive Committee related to Smart Valley Places network related contracts, agreements, grant applications and awards, resource allocations, performance evaluation of projects and programs, and any other network business or communications. Smart Valley Places — Initial Regional Lead and Fiscal Agents The California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley and the CSU Fresno Foundation will act as the initial regional lead and fiscal agents for the Smart Valley Places Cities COMPACT — acting as an umbrella organization, grant applicant, and fiscal fiduciary under terms defined in a contractual agreement approved by the Executive Committee for Smart Valley Places grant proposals and other funding applications and resources until Smart Valley Places either has the legal status be its own applicant and fiduciary or chooses other agents. Draft—July 19, 2010 4 RESOLUTION NO. 2010-148 A RESOLUTION GF THE LODI CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGERTO PARTICIPATE WITH THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY PARTNER CITIES IN THE SMART VALLEY PLACES COMPACT WHEREAS, the San Joaquin Valley (Valley) is recognized as integral to the continued growth and sustainability of California, and the Valley's cities which will be the focus for successfully accommodating future growth and implementing sustainability face significant and daunting economic, revitalization, affordable housing, social, environmental, public health, natural and fiscal resource, and other challenges; and WHEREAS, the Valley region has assessed shared challenges and identified shared planning principles for continued economic growth and urban development, preservation of the rich agricultural land base and water resources, improved education and health, broader prosperity, and to enable implementation of the essential elements of long-term success; and WHEREAS, the Valley's shared planning principles are appropriately represented by the Smart Growth Principles adopted and established as the benchmark for achieving a San Joaquin Valley Blueprint, the six major initiatives of the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley Strategic Action Proposal, and the HUD -EPA - DOT Livability Principles; and WHEREAS, a direct partnership among Valley cities is the best and most effective way to create and coordinate a pool of resources, templates, and best practices, and use the local land use and zoning authority required that will lead to the practical and measurable implementation of shared planning principles for long-term San Joaquin Valley viability; and WHEREAS, Smart Valley Places is being established as a direct partnership among cities and other local and regional partners with the purpose to locally define and implement a regional plan for sustainable developmentfor the San Joaquin Valley; and WHEREAS, it is desirable that partner cities of Smart Valley Places enter into a COMPACT and commit to each other to share planning principles and incorporate them into their respective local policies and codes through a process that engages all stakeholders and residents in order to comprise and facilitate the implementation of a comprehensive regional plan for sustainable development; and WHEREAS, the initial eligible partner cities for voting membership in the Smart Valley Places COMPACT are the 16 federally defined and recognized Urbanized Areas (50,000 population and over) in the eight counties of San Joaquin Valley region; and WHEREAS, the expansion of voting membership in the Smart Valley Places COMPACT network through the addition of cities and other partners is anticipated as network organization and member performance capabilities increase over time to have the ability to accommodate member expansion; and WHEREAS, the Smart Valley Places COMPACT provides for governance by an Executive Committee of City Managers appointed and empowered by their respective City Councils to provide policy guidance and administrative oversight for Smart Valley Places network related contracts, agreements, grant applications and awards, resource allocations, evaluation of projects and programs, a multi -city Planners Steering Committee, and any other network business; and WHEREAS, the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley and the CSU Fresno Foundation are designated to act as the initial regional lead and fiscal agents for grant applications from and funding awards to the Smart Valley Places COMPACT cities under terms defined in a contractual agreement approved by the Smart Valley Places COMPACT Executive Committee; and WHEREAS, the City cf Lodi intends to locally incorporate the shared planning principles of the Valley region and to work collaboratively with other Valley cities to locally define and mutually implement a regional plan for sustainable development for the San Joaquin Valley as outlined in the Smart Valley Places COMPACT; and WHEREAS, a public meeting was held on August 18, 2010, at which time participation in the Smart Valley Places COMPACT was considered by the Lodi City Council. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Lodi City Council does hereby agree and affirm that Lodi's participation in the Smart Valley Places COMPACT, in conjunction with the other Smart Valley Places COMPACT partner cities referenced herein, is both desirable and necessary to provide for continued economic growth and urban development, preservation of the rich agricultural land base and water resources, improved education and health, broader prosperity, and to enable implementation of the essential elements of long-term sustainability in both Lodi and the greater San Joaquin Valley; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Manager, or designee, is hereby authorized to participate as a voting member of the Smart Valley Places COMPACT Executive Committee and to execute all necessary grant documents, agreements, MOUs and other documentation needed to carry out the business of Smart Valley Places on behalf of the City of Lodi. Dated: August 18, 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- hereby certify that Resolution NO. 2010-148 was passed and adopted by the Lodi City Council in a regular meeting held August 18,2010, by the following vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN COUNCIL MEMBERS —Hansen, Hitchcock, Mounce, and Mayor Katzakian COUNCIL MEMBERS — None COUNCIL MEMBERS—Johnson COUNCIL MEMBERS — None 2010-148 California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley Smart Valley Places Compact Presentation by Community Development Department August 18, 2010 California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley v Established by Governor by Executive Order in 2005 ■ A public-private partnership focused on achieving a prosperous economy, quality environment, and social equity throughout California's great San Joaquin Valley. ■ Based out of the Office of Community and Economic Development - California State University, Fresno California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley v Smart Valley Places Compact ■ Partnership among cities, local and regional agencies and organizations. o Define and implement a regional plan for sustainable development for San Joaquin Valley. o The "3Es" of sustainable growth for the San Joaquin Valley ■ Prosperous Economy ■ Quality Environment ■ Social Equity Smart Valley Places Network v Funding Opportunities ■ Sustainable Communities Partnership o Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) o Department of Transportation (DOT) o Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ■ Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program o $98,000,000 available for competitive grants. o $5,000,000 maximum grant award. Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program ■ Intended to support metropolitan and multi - jurisdictional planning efforts that integrate housing, land use, economic and workforce development, transportation, and infrastructure investments. ■ Six Livability Principles - Central to Grant Outcomes o Provide More Transportation Choices o Promote Equitable, Affordable Housing o Enhance Economic Competitiveness o Support Existing Communities o Coordinate Policies and Leverage Investment o Value Communities and Neighborhoods Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grant Program v California Partnership's application. ■ Each participating city would be eligible to receive approximately $250,000. ■ Funding could be used for a number of activities: o Climate Action Plan o Development Code o Lower Mokelumne River Watershed Stewardship Plan