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Public Hearing to Review and Comment on 2024 Annual Reports. Review and Comment on the Annual Reports on the General Plan, Transportation Choices Plan, and Vision Zero Action Plan. CEQA Determination: Endorsement of the annual reports is statutorily exempt from environmental review pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15061(b)(3).
Exhibit 1 General Plan / Housing Element Annual Report
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To: Honorable President and Members of the Planning Board
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report addresses the annual reports on the General Plan / Housing Element (2022), Active Transportation Plan (2022), Vision Zero Action Plan (2021), and Transportation Choices Plan (2018). The annual report for the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan (CARP) and Climate Adaptation and Hazard Mitigation Plan is provided under separate cover.
These documents show City progress towards its goals as well as priority actions for the coming year. The plans all require the preparation and presentation of annual reports to the Planning Board and City Council each year. These documents serve as the annual report for all of these plans.
Staff provides these annual reports early in the spring of each year so that the community and City Council is able to use the annual reports to inform citywide budget and Capital Improvement Program ("CIP") decisions.
Planning Board comments on these annual reports and associated priorities for the upcoming years will be transmitted to the City Council in March, in time for the City Council's June public hearings and adoption of budget decisions.
BACKGROUND
Every city and county in the State of California is required to adopt and maintain an up-to-date General Plan, which establishes the local development and conservation policies necessary to guide physical development and protect the general health, safety and welfare of the community. The General Plan should be an "integrated, internally consistent and compatible statement of policies for the adopti...
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