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Recommendation to Review and Accept the Annual Reports on the General Plan, Climate Action and Resiliency Plan (CARP), and the Transportation Choices Plan. (Planning, Building and Transportation 481001)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This report includes three annual reports for City Council. The three reports reflect a multi-departmental effort by the Office of the City Manager, the Public Works Department, and the Planning, Building and Transportation Department. The three reports include:
1. General Plan Annual Report (Exhibit 1),
2. Climate Action and Resiliency Annual Report (Exhibit 2), and
3. Transportation Choices Annual Report (Exhibit 3)
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, which are typically made in May and June of each year.
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 adopting agency." (Government Code section 65300.5.) Government Code section 65400 et seq. requires that the City of Alameda (City) annually review the adequacy of the General Plan and progress made toward meeting the City's regional housing needs allocation (the "RHNA").
In 2019, the City Council adopted the Climate Action and Resiliency Plan (CARP), and in 2018, the City Council adopted the Transportation Choices Plan (TCP). Both of these plans require the preparation and presentation of an annual report to assess progress and set priorities for the following year.
The Gene...
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