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Council Memorandum Memo ID# 2025064
November 6, 2025
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Implementation of the Growth Management Citizens Committee Recommendations
(District -All)
This memorandum provides a status update on the implementation of the Carlsbad Tomorrow:
Growth Management Citizens Committee recommendations, as directed by the City Council on
July 18, 2023.
Background
In March 2022, the City Council formed a resident-led advisory committee to initiate work on the
City Council's goal to develop an updated approach to manage growth in a way that maintains an
excellent quality of life and ensures compliance with state law. The committee held 15 meetings
between March 2022 and April 2023. The committee's recommendations were presented to the
City Council on July 18, 2023 (Attachment A). Based on City Council direction at its July 18, 2023,
meeting, a program to implement the committee recommendations was approved by City Council
on November 19, 2024 (Attachment B).
Discussion
This memorandum provides a status on the implementation of the tasks approved by City Council.
Task Task Description Status
1
Obtain consulting services for Task 3
(update public facility development impact
fee) and Task 4 (update local facility
management plans)
Community Services Branch
Community Development Department
• Requests for proposals (RFPs) were issued on
March 28, 2025, for Task 3 & 4
• Deadline for proposals was June 20, 2025
• RFP and contract for Task 3
o One qualifying bid was received
o Contract amount is less than $100,000;
therefore, the City Manager is authorized to
award the contract (Carlsbad Municipal Code
Section 3.28.040)
o Contract is anticipated to be awarded by the
City Manager in early November
• RFP for Task 4
o No bids were received
o See status of Task 4
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November 6, 2025
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Task Task Description Status
Update Citywide Facilities and
Improvements Program, General Plan, • Staff are preparing the updates
2 Carlsbad Municipal Code, and City Council • Anticipate presenting to City Council for Policy 43 to implement the committee's
recommendations for changes to the public adoption by summer 2026
facility performance standards
• Consultant contract to be awarded in
November 2025 (see status of Task 1)
Evaluate public facility development impact • Evaluation anticipated to be complete by end of 3 fees and update as necessary calendar year 2026
• Any recommended fee updates would be
presented to City Council in 2027
• No bids received in response to the RFP
• This task is on hold pending the completion of
Update the Local Facility Management Task 3 and the updates to Public Facility Master
Plans, which will better inform the scope of
4 Plans (LFMPs) for the 2024 Housing updates to the LFMPs Element rezone sites, which are within
LFMZs 1, 3, 5, 15, 17, 18, 22 and 23 • Review of LFMPs will be added to the Advance
Planning Work Program starting in fiscal year
2026-2027 by existing staff resources; one to
two LFMPs a year
2029 Housing Element Update -any
necessary changes to the Growth • The city will be required to adopt the 7th cycle Management Program based on: the city's update to the Housing Element within 18 regional housing needs allocation and 5 resulting changes needed to the General months of the San Diego Association of
Plan, changed conditions in the city's Governments adoption of its update to the
growth, and required updates to facility Regional Transportation Plan by the end of 2029
plans or nexus studies to update fees
Next Steps
Staff will continue to work on completing the tasks of the implementation program and anticipate
returning to City Council as follows:
• Spring/Summer 2026: staff recommendation of approval of updates to the Citywide
Facilities and Improvements Program, General Plan, Carlsbad Municipal Code, and City
Council Policy 43 to implement the committee's recommendations for changes to the
public facility performance standards (Task 2}.
• Spring/Summer 2027: staff recommendation on updates to public facility development
impact fees, if determined appropriate because of consultant evaluation (Task 3}.
• Late 2027 or early 2028: update on schedule and scope of work for seventh cycle Housing
Element update.
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November 6, 2025
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Attachment:
A. City Council staff report dated July 18, 2023, on file with the City Clerk's Office
B. City Council staff report dated November 19, 2024, on file with the City Clerk's Office
cc: Geoff Patnoe, City Manager
Cindie McMahon, City Attorney
Dalton Sorich, Assistant City Attorney
Mike Strong, Assistant Community Development Director
Eric Lardy, City Planner
Robert Efird, Principal Planner
Jennifer Jesser, Senior Planner