HomeMy WebLinkAboutPC Reso 08-21 General Plan Amendment Chaptr 10 PA07-038RESOLUTION NO. 08 - 21
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN
RECOMMENDING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPT A RESOLUTION APPROVING A
GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT ADDING A COMMUNITY DESIGN AND SUSTAINABILITY
ELEMENT TO THE GENERAL PLAN AS CHAPTER 10
PA 07-038
WHEREAS, the Fiscal Year 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 City Council Goals and Objectives
included as a high priority goal, the preparation of a General Plan Community Design Element; and
WHEREAS, on June 19, 2007, the City Council adopted a Resolution (Resolution 105-07)
approving a Consulting Services Agreement with RBF/UDS Consulting to prepare the Community
Design Element with sustainability measures and authorizing the City Manager to sign the Agreement on
behalf of the City; and
WHEREAS, each city and county in California must adopt a General Plan containing seven
required "elements"; and
WHEREAS, jurisdictions may adopt additional elements as they see fit; and
WHEREAS, the Dublin General Plan was originally adopted on February 11, 1985, and has been
amended a number of times since that date; and
WHEREAS, the Community Design and Sustainability Element is an optional element and would
be added to the Dublin General Plan as Chapter 10; and
WHEREAS, the Community Design and Sustainability Element provides a guiding vision for the
character of future public and private improvements throughout the City while preserving energy, water
and other natural features; and
WHEREAS, the Community Design and Sustainability Element includes five unifying principles
of community design, including Positive Regional Identity, Sense of Arrival, Design of the Built Form,
Connections and Linkages, and Sustainability, that provide the framework for the goals, policies and
implementation measures contained in Community Design and Susta7 nability Element; and
WHEREAS, the Community Design and Sustainability Element is exempt from the
environmental review requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to
CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3), because the activity is covi.red by the general rule that CEQA
applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment, and
where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a
significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject to CEQA; and
WHEREAS, the City of Dublin Planning Commission ("Planning Commission") held a public
hearing on the adoption of the Community Design and Sustainability Element on August 26, 2008; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission did hear and consider all said reports, recommendations
and testimony describe herein, and used its independent judgment to evaluate the Project.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the foregoing recitals are true and correct and
made a part of this Resolution.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Planning Commission, based on the findings in the
attached draft City Council Resolution, recommends that the City Council adopt the Resolution
attached as Exhibit A, which approves a General Plan Amendment adding a Community Design and
Sustainability Element as Chapter 10 to the General Plan.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 26t1i day of August 2008 by the following vote:
AYES: Schaub, Tomlinson, Wehrenberg, Biddle and King
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
Chair ill Schau :)
ATTEST:
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Jeff B r, ting Planning Manager
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