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Date: June 27, 2005
To: Council Colleagues
From: Dave Romero, Mayor Z,,V
Subject: June 23, 2005, meeting on "Community 2050"
On Thursday, June 23`d, I met with Supervisors Jerry Lenthall and Jim Patterson and staff members of
LAFCo, APCD, the County and SLOCOG on the program called "Community 2050". This is a
Planning effort spearheaded by SLOCOG with the intent of developing tools to help the Cities and
County better deal with long term growth. The effort builds on the foundation established beginning in
the early 1990's with a number of public workshops called"Designing the Future",Foundation for
Community Design, a group forming out of that, and an effort called Action for Healthy Communities.
The common thread with all these is the understanding that the local citizens and decision makers can
and must shape what our communities become;provided we understand the forces that create change
and effectively communicate our desires for the future:
Because transportation is a primary focus of SLOCOG, the tools being developed with this effort
emphasize the impacts upon the transportation systems of various growth patterns that could develop.
At this time the tools are designed to work at the regional level and not to replace traffic studies the
City presently use to determine localized impacts such as level-of-service for intersections.
At the meeting the discussions ranged from how to keep these efforts moving to the need to include
people from both the South and North County in these meetings and the question of what the
SLOCOG staff envisioned as an end product. The three elected officials stated that affordable
housing, adequate water supplies, and viable transportation systems are, and will likely continue to be
critical issues for this County. They also made it very clear that they see land use decisions as
remaining with each local jurisdiction.
At the end of the meeting, Steve Devencenzi of SLOCOG staff asked that the elected officials help
identify stakeholders who will be willing to work with SLOCOG in a series of workshops this fall and
winter, with dates and locations to be firmed up this summer. The workshops are intended to help
develop a consensus on where we can go with these concepts and how effective tools can be developed
to reach the goals identified.
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