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AMENDMENT TO THE CIRCULATluN
ELEMENT OF THE GENERAL PLAN
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
The Planning Commission is recommending that the City Council
direct the City Attorney's Office to prepare documents APPROVING
GPA/C 84-1 per Planning Commission Resolution No. 2306.
ITEM EXPLANATION
This item is a major amendment to the City's Circulation Element
of the General Plan. This amendment considers the location and
classification of all secondary, major and prime arterials within
the City's sphere of influence. To ensure citizen participation
and to help in the analysis of this element, the City Council
appointed a citizen's advisory committee in early 1983. This
Committee has met weekly since that time to consider the major
circulation issues and has made recommendation to the Planning
Commission. Since the Planning Commission hearing, however, the
Committee has met once again and has modified some of its _
original recommendations. Also, the City's Land Use Planning and
Engineering staffs have made recommendations to the Planning
Commission.
A detailed summary sheet has been attached to this report which
gives the staff recommendation, the Committee's recommendation to
the Planning Commission, the Committee's revisions to its
original recommendations (in bold type) and the Planning
Commission's recommendation. Only five recommendations are still
at issue. These are (1) Rancho del Oro, (2) Melrose/Rancho
Santa Fe, (3) Tamarack Avenue, (4) Lagoon Lane, and (5) Avenida
Encinas, south of Poinsettia Avenue. A supplemental staff report·
is attached discussing these issues in detail.
A minor issue relates to the definition of a collector street.
The existing definition of a collector is a street that serves
500 -5000 ADT (Average Daily Trips). The Circulation Committee,
based on the recommendation of the former City Engineer, -"
recommended a new collector street standard of 500 -10,000 ADT.
This recommendation was adopted by the Planning Commission.
Since that time, the existing City Engineer has reconsidered the
definition of a collector street and has recommended that the
existing standards (500 -5000 ADT) be retained (see memo, dated
July 5, 1984). Also, the City Engineer, Land Use Planning Office
-and the Research and Analysis Manager jointly recommend a new
"controlled" collector category (5000 -10,000 ADT) (see memo,
dated July ·23, 1984). This street would have the same width as a
collector street but would be more restrictive in regards to
driveway access points •