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HomeMy WebLinkAbout91-51* By Council ~ .nute order, 6/16/93, this ~solution was suspended until 5:00 p.m. 8/31/93. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 19 14 115 16 17 18 10 97 28 RESOLUTION NO. 91-51 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF UKIAH DECLARING THAT THE CITY OF UKIAH WILL NOT CONSIDER INDIVIDUAL APPLICATIONS FOR AMENDMENT OF ITS GENERAL PLAN UNTIL COMPLETION OF THE GROWTH MANAGEMENT/ GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT PROCESS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY WHEREAS: 1. Under Government Code Section 65350, cities are required to amend their General Plans and elements thereof as provided in Article 6, of Chapter 3, Division 1, Title 7 of the Government Code; and 2. Government Code Section 65351 requires the City to provide opportunities for the involvement of citizens, public agencies, and other community groups, through public hearings and other means, in the process of considering changes to the City's General Plan; and 3. Government Code Section 65358 authorizes the City Council to decide when it is in the public interest to amend all or part of an adopted General Plan; and 4. Section 65358 further authorizes the City Council to determine the manner by which amendments to the City's General Plan may be initiated; and 5. In Ukiah City Code ("UCC") Section 9260, the City Council has authorized the amendment of the City's General Plan, whenever the public necessity and convenience and the general welfare require such amendment; and 6. UCC Section 9261 provides that an amendment to the General Plan may be initiated by a verified petition of one or more property owners affected by a proposed amendment; and 7. In November 1990, the City formed the Growth Management Steering Committee, composed of representatives of divers interests within the City and the Ukiah Valley, to oversee the development of a comprehensive Growth Management Plan for the City and the Ukiah Valley and comprehensive revisions of all elements of the City of Ukiah General Plan; and 8. The City contemplates that the process of developing these plans will take 18 months and involve the formation of separate citizen advisory groups to address each element of the General Plan and the solicitation of input from all economic, ethnic, institutional, and political groups in the community; and 9. The Growth Management Plan/General Plan Revision process currently underway furthers the letter and the spirit of Government Code Section 65351 and should result in a comprehensive and integrated General Plan that reflects the planning goals of all interests within the City of Ukiah; and 6 ? $ 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 25 10. Piecemeal amendments to the General Plan, pending completion of this process, could undermine or frustrate the goal of developing and implementing a comprehensive planning document for the City of Ukiah; and 11. Land use issues for individual properties may be addressed during the land use considerations of the comprehensive planning process; and 12. For the reasons stated above, the City Council finds and declares that during the time that the Growth Management Plan/General Plan Revision Project as described herein is underway, piecemeal amendments to the General Plan initiated by individual property owners are not in the public interest and are contrary to the public convenience and necessity and the general welfare of the City of Ukiah; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that: 1. The City Council will not consider petitions under UCC Section 9261 by individual property owners to amend the General Plan of the City of Ukiah until after the City Council adopts revisions to the General Plan of the City of Ukiah which develop out of the Growth Management Plan/General Plan Revision process currently underway; and 2. The Department of Community Development is directed to list any land use change proposal for a specific property and include it for consideration in the Growth Management Plan/General Plan Revision land use evaluation process; and 3. The Department of Community Development is directed not to accept applications under UCC Section 9261 to amend the General Plan of the City of Ukiah until after the City Council adopts revisions to said General Plan that develop out of the process currently underway or until further instruction of the City Council. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Ukiah on April 3, , 1991, by the following roll call vote: AYES: Councilmembers McMichael, Wattenburger, Shoemaker, Schneiter and Mayor Henderson NOES: None ABSENT: None -2 -