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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Report - March 2, 1988 PH (6)ME CITY COUNCIL MEETING MARCH 2, 1988 PUBLIC HEAPING Notice thereof having been published according to law, an affidavit of which publication is on file in the office of the City Clerk, Mayor Olson called for the Public Hearing to consider the Planning Commission's recommendation that the City establish a Growth Management Plan with a two percent growth rate along the lines recommended by the Mayor's Task Force on Measure A and whether or not to place the matter before the electorate at the June 7, 1988 General Election as an advisory measure. PUBLIC F EARM TO CONSIDER PLANKING _ CON&IISSION'S RECOMMENDATION THAT } THE CITY ESTABLISH A GROWTH EIANAGEMENT PLAN WIIIH A TWO 1 PERCENT GROWTH RATE The Planning Commission at its meeting of February 8, 1988 recommended that the City Council establish a Growth CC -18 Management Plan with a two percent growth rate along the cc -27(a) lines recommended by the Mayor's Task Force on Measure A. CC 35 CC -46 In a related matter, the majority of the Planning CC -53(a) Commission felt that placing this matter on the June 7, 1988 General Election as an advisory measure was strictly a City Council decision and not a planning matter. In the legal notice for this Public Hearing, the City staff J. indicated that the Council would consider placing this item before the electorate. Council was reminded that in April, 1986, then Mayor David Hinchman convened a task force comprised of 10 citizens who represented a wide spectrum of viewpoints on Measure "A", the Greenbelt initiative. The charge to the Task Force was: "To study and recommend to the Lodi City Council, unanimously if possible, a solution or solutions that would guide and control growth with the intent to preserve and enhance the aesthetic and economic qualities of the City of Lodi ." To advise the task force in its work the City retained the services of the planning firm of Jones & Stokes Associates of Sacramento. The task force has met monthly between W 1986 and July 1987 and, with advice from Jones & Stokes Associates, developed the growth management systems contained in the Element. The Task Force's final recommendations were presented for Council's review. It should be emphasized that the growth limitation is aimed at standard single-family and multiple -family development with senior citizens housing projects specifically exempted. Commercial and industrial projects do not fall within the parameters of the Growth Management Plan. .... __ r:.