City Council
MEETING DATE: 9/26/2018
TITLE:
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General Plan Update
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FROM:
Pat Milos, Community Development Director
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends that the City Council and the Planning Commission receive a report on the General Plan Up-date related to the land use map, discuss, and provide direction to City Staff.
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BACKGROUND:
The City adopted our current General Plan on July 31, 2002. Although the entire document was reviewed and amended in 2009 and there have been several Amendments and Updates to the plan since its inception nearly 15 years ago it is the City Staff's determination that a comprehensive update of the entire plan is in order.
During the City Council's Strategic Planning Session held on January 28, 2017, Council discussed the importance and timeliness of updating the General Plan and directed Staff to adopt it as a goal for 2017.
During the biennial budgeting process for fiscal year 2017/18 and 2018/19 the General Plan Update was assigned as a Capital Improvement Program Project with total expected funding of $450,000 over a three-year period including Fiscal years 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20. The biennial budget was adopted by the City Council on May 5, 2017.
On September 14, 2017 Staff issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Professional Planning Services for a General Plan Update and an associated EIR. The RFP was publicly noticed in the Desert Sun newspaper, circulated among the local American Planning Association periodicals and e-mailed directly to 18 local planning consultant firms as well as placed on the City web-site.
Proposals in response to the RFP were accepted at City Hall on October 16, 2017. The City received a total of 2 responses. The respondents were Terra Nova Planning and Research, Inc., Palm Desert, California and Rincon Consultants, Inc., Redlands, California. Both proposals were reviewed by staff, both were deemed as responsive, thus both proposing firms were interviewed. ...
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