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RESOLUTION NO. 7872
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
POLICIES DURING THE GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT CARLSE~AD, CALIFORNIA ESTABLISHING INTERIM PLANNING
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WHERERS, the City Council has determined a need to
review the Land1 Use Element of the City's General Plan to ensure
that the elemen~t establishes the general distribution, location,
and extent of lland uses; and the desired standards of population
density and bui,lding intensity necessary to ensure that Carlsbad
develops as a hligh quality community which provides superior
economic, social, aesthetic and environmental benefits and
opportunities to present and future residents and businesses; and
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WHEREAb, a comprehensive review of the Land Use Element l
is necessary to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all
present and future residents of the City; and
WHEREAS, a comprehensive review of the Land Use Element
will give the residents, developers and business people
confidence that the City of Carlsbad will develop according to a
well established, carefully considered plan; and
WHEREAS, a comprehensive review of the Land Use Element
is necessary to ensure that the City is developing in a manner
which is consisLent with the desires of the community, giving
consideration to the mandates of law; and I
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WHEREAS, the Council desires maximum community input
and has therefore established a Citizen's Committee to review
the Land Use Element of the General Plan; and
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WHEREAF, the Council desires that the review be I
accomplished as quickly as possible; and
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WHEREAS, the Council desires that the professional
planning staff lof the City devote a significant amount of its
time to the review of the Land Use Element; and
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WHEREQS, the Council finds that it is necessary to
establish inter'im planning policies to expedite the review of
the Land Use Element,
NOW, YJiIEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of Carllsbad, California as follows:
1. Thlat a Citizen's Committee to review the Land Use
Element is established. The Committee shall be composed of a
sufficient number of persons to represent various viewpoints
throughout the community as the Council in its discretion
determines.
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2. The Citizen's Committee shall review the Land Use
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Element as directed by the City Council and shall make a written
report to the City Council by July 2, 1985.
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3. The City Manager, Director of Building and Planning
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and the Land Us4 Planning Manager are directed to give the Land
Use Element rev$ew top priority in the scheduling of the work
program of the Land Use Planning Office.
Manager is authqrized and directed to establish priorities for
the review of applications for development projects in the City
according to the following guidelines:
The Land Use Planning
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a. I Review of the Land Use Element shall be given
top priority.
b. Applications for projects in the redevelopment
zone which do n?t require any amendments to the General Plan
shall receive second priority.
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c. Applications for commercial, industrial, and
residential projects less than 50 units which do not require any
changes to any land use regulations and do not involve
significant plapning or environmental issues as determined by tht
Land Use Planning Manager shall receive third priority.
d. Applications for residential projects over 50
units, or commercial, industrial or residential projects which
require changes to any land use regulation or involve significant
planning or environmental issues, as determined by the Land Use
Planning Manager, shall receive last priority.
4. The following planning policies shall apply during
the review period:
a. No residential development projects shall be
approved above the mean density of the General Plan range if
there are traffic or circulation impacts which cannot be
mitigated.
b., No General Plan amendments will be processed
unless the Land Use Planning Manager first determines that the
amendment will mot have an impact on the General Plan review.
c. No zone change which would increase residential
density shall be approved, even if the change would be consistent
with the density designation of the adopted General Plan.
changes to increase residential density are deemed premature
pending the Land Use Element review.
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d. No applications for new annexations shall be
processed.
e. Projects which require a master plan under Title
21 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code and for which a General Plan
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amendment is prgposed, or projects for a major quasi-public
facility to accommodate a public service use traditionally
provided by a city, may be processed concurrently with a General
Plan amendment, notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph b.
The Land Use Planning Manager shall determine the processing
priority for these projects.
5. In order to ensure that the Land Use Element is
completed by the scheduled deadline applicants for all
development projects shall be requested to agree to extend the
time limits for review and action on a project. The agreement
shall be in the form shown on Exhibit A to this resolution and
shall be submitted with the application for the project.
6. This resolution shall be binding on all decision
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making bodies wHich exercise decision making authority on land
use projects. 1
7. This resolution shall be effective as of January 1,
1985 and shall expire on July 2, 1985 unless extended by the City
Council or or bdfore July 2, 1985.
I 8. A qopy of this resolution shall be given to each
applicant for a,development project.
9. Because the following projects were scheduled for
Planning Commission or City Council hearing prior to the adoption
of this resolutlon the projects shall be exempt from this
resolution. HoQever, the Planning Commission or Council may
apply the policies established herein to any of these projects
after reviewing khe merits of this project: CUP-255 (Villas de
Carlsbad); PCD-$5 (Ardelco Apartments); PCD-75 (Hall); ZC-308/CT
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84-11/CP-283 (Ocean Vista); ZC-318/CT 84-35 (Falcon Hills);
PCD-61 (Weber).
10. Because the following general plan amendments were
previsouly authorized for processing by Council the proposals
may continue to' be processed for hearing, however, the impacts of
the amendments on the land use element review shall be
considered: GPA/LU 84-4 (First Darthon); GPA/LU 84-10 (Snug
Harbor); GPA/LU 84-7 (Kirgis).
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the
Carlsbad City Council held on the 8th day of January 198E
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Council Members Casler, Lewis, Kulchin, Chick and Pettine
NOES : None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST :
MARY H. ySLER, Mayor
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AGR EMENT TO EXTEND TIME LIMITS
ELEMENT OF THE GENERAL PLAN
TO t ,LLOW REVIEW OF THE LAND USE
In a desire to assist the City of Carlsbad to
expeditiously review the Land Use Element of the General Plan and
to ensure full and adequate review of the application for this
development project the undersigned agrees that the time limits
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imposed by law to approve or disapprove this application shall be
extended, If a negative declaration is adopted for this project
the undersigned agrees that the time period for approval or
disapproval is extended for 90 days. If the project requires an
environmental impact ' report the undersigned agrees that the time
limit imposed by Sec$ion 21151.5 of the Public Resources Code is ~
extended for six montLhs and that the project shall be approved or
disapproved within 9d days after the certification of the
environmental impact ~ report , The undersigned understands that the
City will process this application according to City Council
Resolution No, 7872~ and consents to processing the application
according to that resolution.
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Signature of Applicant or Date Authorized Agent I
I Name (print) 1 Title (Applicant, Authorized Agent, etc. )
APPROVED: I
Michael J. Holzmil1el;i Land Use Planning Manager