HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-15-2015 Item 02 - Guiding Principles for the Cal Poly Master Plan
Meeting Date: 9/15/2015
FROM: Derek Johnson, Community Development Director
Prepared By: Kim Murry, Deputy Director, Long Range Planning
SUBJECT: GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR THE CAL POLY MASTER PLAN UPDATE
PROCESS
RECOMMENDATION
Provide comments on and endorse a set of Guiding Principles for the City’s participation in the
Cal Poly Master Plan Update process.
DISCUSSION
Background
In the Fall of 2014, Cal Poly announced its intent to update the Master Plan to address projected
growth over the next 20 years to meet student educational needs. Since that time, the University
requested City staff participation in several technical sub-committees and the project manager,
Dr. Linda Dalton, has provided updates to the Council on several occasions, including the
meeting of September 15, 2015. The Cal Poly update team has worked over the summer to
synthesize input on the preliminary land use concepts to develop the description of the master
plan to be evaluated through the Environmental Impact Report. This includes generalized
location and types of facilities and activity nodes.
At the meeting of August 18, 2015, the City Council identified Mayor Marx to join Council
member John Ashbaugh to serve on a Cal Poly Master Plan City Sub-Committee. The Council
tasked this sub-committee with drafting Guiding Principles to provide direction to the Committee
and City staff as it works with the University in the Master Plan update process and to return to
the full Council for endorsement of the principles. The sub-committee has completed its draft
principles and is seeking Council endorsement of the language.
Guiding Principles
The purpose of guiding principles is to ensure the input provided by Council Member Ashbaugh
and the staff appointee to the Master Plan committee are reflecting the policy direction of the
entire City Council.
The sub-committee met on August 31st and drafted a set of Guiding Principles (Attachment A)
for Council consideration and endorsement. The sub-committee attempted to strike a balance
between a prioritized laundry list of existing policies, and a short list that could be too brief and
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high level. The sub-committee’s deliberations were also informed by the recommendations from
the 1999 Cal Poly Master Plan Neighborhood Relations Task Force (Attachment B). It is
anticipated that Cal Poly will have updated the Guiding Principles used in the last Master Plan
update effort and if those are available prior to the meeting, they will be distributed via agenda
correspondence.
Master Plan Update and Environmental Review Process
There will be formal avenues in which to participate – for example technical comments
regarding the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) during the public comment period which
staff will craft and submit– as well as discussions that involve topics related to the Master Plan
that may not be specific to the EIR. The guiding principles will be helpful in directing the focus
of City representatives in those discussions.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
Updating the Cal Poly Master Plan will require preparation of an Environmental Impact Report
(EIR). The City will have an opportunity to comment on the technical information, conclusions,
and proposed mitigations included in the EIR. No environmental review is needed to adopt
guiding principles.
FISCAL IMPACT
There is no direct funding for this effort identified in the approved 2015-2017 Financial Plan.
The appropriate City staff will provide technical review and evaluation as part of assigned staff
duties.
ALTERNATIVES
1. Council may modify the guiding principles at the meeting; or request additional input
prior to endorsing the guiding principles. Specific direction should be provided if the
Council opts for this alternative.
Attachments:
a - Draft Guiding Principles for Campus Master Plan update
b - 1999 Neighborhood Relations Task Force
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CITY’S GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR CAL POLY MASTER PLAN UPDATE
The following principles are not prioritized, and are each supported by a few, exemplary goals or
policy statements from the City’s General Plan (see Appendix that follows).
1. Neighborhood Wellness – The Master Plan should support efforts to provide a safe and
positive living environment for all residents in City neighborhoods. The
recommendations found in the Neighborhood Wellness/Community Civility report
should be implemented wherever possible. The Master Plan should include buffers
between areas of campus activities and adjoining residential neighborhoods; protect
neighborhoods from light, noise, and glare from campus development; pull more
intensive uses to the interior of campus; and provide suitable locations for parties and
Greek life housing and activities on campus.
2. Economic Health – The Master Plan should support the economic health of the City, and
negative fiscal impacts created by Plan implementation should be mitigated by the
University. The Master Plan should support consideration of a hotel/conference facility
within the City limits.
3. Housing – The Master Plan should continue to push to house all Freshmen and
Sophomores on campus in addition to 50% of upper class students. In the interim, future
increase in enrollment should be linked to prior provision of on-campus housing.
Programs should be included to encourage housing for faculty and staff within existing
neighborhoods (not on campus) to both stabilize neighborhoods close to campus and
encourage residents to rely on active transportation and transit to get to and from campus.
4. Multi-Modal Transportation – The Master Plan should support City goals for modal-
split, encourage walking, cycling, and the use of transit by students and employees, and
discourage single-occupant vehicle trips from the University into the City. Programs
should support continued contribution to City transit; provision of an internal campus
shuttle system; improved hub for a transit center; and restriction of parking passes for
residents living within ½ mile of campus.
5. Protection of Open Space and Agricultural Resources – Land planning for future
growth should take into account impacts on natural resources, preserve agricultural land
to the greatest extent feasible, and identify opportunities preserve important open space
resources while making important connections to other public open space lands adjacent
to the University. The Master Plan should include provisions for conservation easements
on open space lands.
6. Diversity – The Master Plan should support a diverse population and contribute
positively to a larger community that welcomes and respects all people.
7. Public Services – The Master Plan and EIR should fully explore the impact of growth on
City services: recycled water, wastewater, police, fire, and code enforcement and should
include a fiscal impact analysis for City services to ensure that future growth of the
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University contributes its fair share to support city services, so that existing levels of
service to the community are not eroded as the University enrollment continues to grow.
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POLICY SUPPORT FOR GUIDING PRINCIPLES
NEIGHBORHOOD WELLNESS
Land Use Element (LUE) LUE 2.1. Neighborhood Focus. The City shall preserve, protect and
enhance the City’s neighborhoods and strive to preserve and enhance their identity and promote
a higher quality of life within each neighborhood.
LUE 2.3.11. Residential Project Objectives. Residential projects should provide:
A. Privacy, for occupants and neighbors of the project;
B. Adequate usable outdoor area, sheltered from noise and prevailing winds, and
oriented to receive light and sunshine
C. Use of natural ventilation, sunlight, and shade to make indoor and outdoor spaces
comfortable with minimum mechanical support.
D. Pleasant views from and toward the project;
E. Security and safety.
F. Bicycle facilities consistent with the City’s Bicycle Plan;
G. Adequate parking and storage space;
H. Noise and visual separation from adjacent roads and commercial uses. (Barrier walls,
isolating a project, are not desirable. Noise mitigation walls may be used only when there
is no practicable alternative. Where walls are used, they should help create an attractive
pedestrian, residential setting through features such as setbacks, changes in alignment,
detail and texture, places for people to walk through them at regular intervals, and
planting.)
I. Design elements that facilitate neighborhood interaction, such as front porches, front
yards along streets, and entryways facing public walkways.
J. Buffers from hazardous materials transport routes, as recommended by the City Fire
Department.
LU 2.2.6 Neighborhood Characteristics
The City shall promote livability, quiet enjoyment, and safety for all residents.
Characteristics of quality neighborhoods vary from neighborhood to neighborhood, but
often include one or more of the following characteristics:
A mix of housing type styles, density, and affordability.
Design and circulation features that create and maintain a pedestrian scale.
Nearby services and facilities including schools, parks, retail (e.g., grocery store, drug
store), restaurants and cafes, and community centers or other public facilities.
A tree canopy and well-maintained landscaping.
A sense of personal safety (e.g., low crime rate, short police and emergency response
times).
Convenient access to public transportation.
Well-maintained housing and public facilities.
LU 2.6.5 Fraternities & Sororities
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The City shall work with Cal Poly to develop a proposal to locate fraternities and
sororities on campus for consideration by the CSU Board. If locations on campus cannot
be provided, fraternities and sororities should be limited to medium-high and high-
density residential areas near the campus.
Housing Element (HE) HE 8.18 Jointly develop and implement a student housing plan and
continue to support "good neighbor programs" with Cal Poly State University, Cuesta
College and City residents. The programs should continue to improve communication
and cooperation between the City and the schools, set on- campus student housing
objectives and establish clear, effective standards for student housing in residential
neighborhoods.
ECONOMIC HEALTH
LUE San Luis Obispo should:
14. Retain existing businesses and agencies, and accommodate expansion of existing businesses,
consistent with other goals.
15. Emphasize more productive use of existing commercial buildings and land areas already
committed to urban development.
16. Provide an adequate revenue base for local government and public schools.
17. Provide high quality public services, ensuring that demands do not exceed resources and that
adequate facilities and services can be provided in pace with development.
18. Cooperate with other agencies in the county to assure that increases in the numbers of
workers and college and university students in the San Luis Obispo area do not outpace housing
availability.
24. Provide a resilient economic base, able to tolerate changes in its parts without causing
overall harm to the community.
25. Have developments bear the costs of resources and services needed to serve them, except
where the community deliberately chooses to help pay in order to achieve other community
goals.
27. Serve as the county's hub for: county and state government; education; transportation;
visitor information; entertainment; cultural, professional, medical, and social services;
community organizations; retail trade.
HOUSING
LUE Goal 18. Cooperate with other agencies in the county to assure that increases in the
numbers of workers and college and university students in the San Luis Obispo area do not
outpace housing availability.
LUE 2.6.1 Cal Poly
The City shall encourage Cal Poly to build housing on campus for all of its students, to the
extent feasible. On-campus housing should be expanded at least as fast as enrollment increases.
Consideration shall be given for housing for faculty and staff as student enrollment increases.
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LUE 2.6.4 Location
The City shall encourage the development of housing likely to attract faculty, staff, and students
to locate close to Cal Poly. The City shall work with Cal Poly to facilitate faculty and staff
owning or renting housing in adjacent neighborhoods.
HE 8.4 Encourage Cal Poly University to continue to develop on-campus student housing to
meet existing and future needs and to lessen pressure on City housing supply and transportation
systems.
HE 8.5 Strengthen the role of on-campus housing by encouraging Cal Poly University to
require freshmen and sophomore students to live on campus.
HE 8.6 Locate fraternities and sororities on the Cal Poly University campus. Until that is
possible, they should be located in Medium-High and High Density residential zones near the
campus.
HE 8.7 Encourage Cal Poly University to develop and maintain faculty and staff housing,
consistent with the General Plan.
MULTI MODAL
Circulation Element (CE) CE 1.6.1. Transportation Goals
1. Maintain accessibility and protect the environment throughout San Luis Obispo while
reducing dependence on single-occupant use of motor vehicles, with the goal of achieving
State and Federal health standards for air quality.
2. Reduce people's use of their cars by supporting and promoting alter natives such as
walking, riding buses and bicycles, and using car pools.
3. Provide a system of streets that are well-maintained and safe for all forms of
transportation.
4. Widen and extend streets only when there is a demonstrated need and when the projects
will cause no significant, long-term environmental problems.
5. (Omitted)
6. Promote the safe operation of all modes of transportation.
7. Coordinate the planning of transportation with other affected agencies such as San Luis
Obispo County, Cal Trans, and Cal Poly.
8. Reduce the need for travel by private vehicle through land use strategies, telecommuting,
creative transportation demand management, and compact work weeks.
9. Support the development and maintenance of a circulation system that balances the needs
of all circulation modes.
CE 1.7.1. Encourage Better Transportation Habits
Increase the use of alternative forms of transportation (as shown on Table 1) and depend less
on the single-occupant use of vehicles.
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LUE 2.2.3 Neighborhood Traffic
Neighborhoods should be protected from intrusive traffic. All neighborhood street and
circulation improvements should favor pedestrians, bicyclists, and local traffic. Vehicle
traffic on residential streets should be slow. To foster suitable traffic speed, street design
should include measures such as narrow lanes, landscaped parkways, traffic circles, textured
crosswalks, and, if necessary, stop signs, speed humps, bollards, and on-street parking and
sidewalks.
LUE 2.2.4 Neighborhood Connections
The City shall provide all areas with a pattern of streets, pedestrian network, and bicycle
facilities that promote neighborhood and community cohesiveness. There should be
continuous sidewalks or paths of adequate width, connecting neighborhoods with each
other and with public and commercial services and public open space to provide
continuous pedestrian paths throughout the city. Connectivity to nearby community
facilities (such as parks and schools), open space, and supporting commercial areas shall
also be enhanced, but shall not be done in a method that would increase cut-through
traffic. (See also the Circulation Element.)
PROTECTION OF OPEN SPACE AND AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES
LUE Goal 4. Protect, sustain, and where it has been degraded, enhance wildlife habitat on
land surrounding the city, at Laguna Lake, along creeks and other wetlands, and on open
hills and ridges within the city, so that diverse, native plants, fish, and animals can continue
to live within the area.
LUE Goal 6. Recognize the importance of farming to the economy of the planning area and
the county, protect agriculture from development and from incompatible uses, and protect
remaining undeveloped prime agricultural soils.
Conservation and Open Space Element (COSE) COSE 8.1 Greenbelt. Open space outside
the urban area
Secure and maintain a healthy and attractive Greenbelt around the urban area, comprised of
diverse and connected natural habitats, and productive agricultural land that reflects the
City’s watershed and topographic boundaries.
COSE 8.2.1 Open space preserved.
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The City will preserve as open space or agriculture the undeveloped and agricultural land
outside the urban reserve line, including the designated Greenbelt as shown in Figure 5, and
will encourage individuals, organizations and other agencies to do likewise.
DIVERSITY
HE Goal 4. Preserve and accommodate existing and new mixed -income neighborhoods and seek
to prevent neighborhoods or housing types that are segregated by economic status.
LUE Goal Society and Economy. San Luis Obispo should be a well balanced community.
Environmental, social, and economic factors must be taken into account in important decisions
about San Luis Obispo’s future. A healthy economy depends on a healthy environment. The
social fabric of the community for both residents and visitors must also be part of that balance.
LUE Goal San Luis Obispo should:
23. Enrich community cultural and social life by accommodating people with various
backgrounds, talents, occupations, and interests.
PUBLIC SERVICES
LUE Goal 17. Provide high quality public services, ensuring that demands do not exceed
resources and that adequate facilities and services can be provided in pace with development.
LUE Goal 25. Have developments bear the costs of resources and services needed to serve them,
except where the community deliberately chooses to help pay in order to achieve other
community goals.
LUE Goal 42. San Luis Obispo should: Be a safe place to live.
Water and Wastewater Element (WWE) WWE B2.2.3 Wastewater Service for New
Development
New development shall pay its proportionate or “fair share” of expanded treatment and
collection system capacity and upgrades. New development will only be permitted if adequate
capacity is available within the wastewater collection system and/or Water Reclamation Facility.
Safety Element (SE) SE 3.0 Adequate Fire Service
Development shall be approved only when adequate fire suppression services and facilities are
available or will be made available concurrent with development, considering the setting, type,
intensity, and form of the proposed development.
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From: rcholc [rcholc@gateway.net]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 11:52 AM
To: epjustesen@rrm-design.com
Subject: Final
NEIGHBORHOOD RELATIONS TASK FORCE
RECOMMENDATIONS
In recognition that Cal Poly is an "ongoing" entity in San Luis Obispo: new
development, changes, and other activities of the University should
address community concerns using the following principles as they relate to
Neighborhood Relations.
1.
FOR PLANNING NEW DEVELOPMENT ON CAMPUS
GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
Because there are established residential neighborhoods in the City of San
Luis Obispo, and because new developments on campus may negatively
impact these established, residential neighborhoods:
It shall be a guiding principle that negative impacts of new
development, and/or re-development such as: noise, glare,
traffic and parking shall not be borne by residents of the
established residential neighborhoods of San Luis Obispo.
New development on campus shall be designed to eliminate
impacts on established neighborhoods, rather than to create
designs that generate ongoing conflicts between the University
and residential neighborhoods.
SUPPORTING PLANNING AND POLICY PRINCIPLES: *
1. There shall be a new, ongoing process by which representatives of
residential neighborhoods, neighborhood associations, and the
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University regularly discuss issues which may impact
University/neighborhood relations. Existing University, City and Public
Advisory Committees should be continued. (Rationale: Direct, regular
communication between representatives of residential
neighborhoods, neighborhood associations, and the University is the
basis for positive University/neighborhood relations.)
2. Early in the process of conceptualizing and proposing new
development on campus, any possible impacts on the established
residential neighborhoods shall be identified through a cooperative
effort between the University and those neighborhoods possibly
impacted. (Rationale: Historically, neighborhoods have been key in
identifying possible impacts to
neighborhoods. The earlier that the neighborhoods are involved in the
process the more possibilities there will be for positive, successful
solutions.)
3. The University’s Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for new
developments shall focus on the possible negative impacts on the
existing residential neighborhoods.
4. The University and the affected neighbors shall work together to
reach agreements on specific ways that potential impacts can be
avoided. Agreements should list and memorialize specific design
aspects, operational conditions, and meaningful enforcement
methods.
5. Design aspects and agreements with neighborhoods, which are for
the purpose of eliminating or mitigating impacts of campus
developments, shall be rigorously enforced by the University. To
eliminate ongoing conflicts between the University and established
residential neighborhoods, the University shall be proactive in
enforcing its agreements, rather than reactive and complaint-driven.
6. The University should coordinate its neighborhood relations efforts
among its various departments so that responsibility for operational
issues, agreement enforcement, communications with
neighborhoods, and other issues affecting neighborhoods are
coordinated.
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7. It should be recognized that large, new developments on campus
which are dependant on both the student population and a large
commercial draw from non-student populations, may have
significantly larger impacts on residential neighborhoods than those
developments which depend upon the student population alone.
Developments with a commercial component may also require
proportionately larger efforts and costs to eliminate negative impacts
on established residential neighborhoods.
8. The University should develop or maintain adequate natural or
physical buffers between established residential neighborhoods and
existing and future developments on the campus to avoid negative
impacts.
2.
FOR CONSIDERING INCREASED ENROLLMENT
GUIDING PRINCIPLES:
Because Cal Poly is a residential campus of more than 6000 acres
adjacent to one relatively small city of approximately 45,000 people:
It shall be a guiding principle that negative impacts resulting
from increased enrollment such as: traffic, parking problems,
overcrowding, noise, deterioration of residential properties and
increased rental housing costs for all, shall not be borne by the
residents of the established residential neighborhoods of San
Luis Obispo.
SUPPORTING PLANNING AND POLICY PRINCIPLES: *
1. There is an existing shortage of affordable, desirable housing on the
campus. This should be corrected. When the University further
increases enrollment, there must be a corresponding increase of
affordable, desirable housing on the campus to accommodate that
increase. (The university’s goal of having only 25% of its
students living on campus, as stated in the DEPAC "more" enrollment
on campus scenario, is very inadequate).
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2. The University should provide the location for a Greek Row on
campus where Greek activities can take place.
3. The University should research the local feasibility of programs which
have been successful at other universities, such as; multi-generation
housing on campus, on-campus living for first time freshmen, and the
development of a transitional living plan.
4. The University should strive to develop a social and physical
environment on campus that is attractive to students and faculty that
promotes on campus living and a sense of community.
5. To reduce traffic problems on and near the campus, the University
shall continue to contribute to the City's transit services and
encourage increased use of these services. Circulation systems on
the campus should be improved with particular focus on alternative
forms of transportation, campus transit systems, bicycling and
walking.
6. New parking on the campus shall not impact established residential
neighborhoods.
7. The University should work proactively with the City and residential
neighborhood associations to review existing "good neighbor"
guidelines, develop additional guidelines where necessary, educate
students about these guidelines, and enforce and implement these
guidelines on an ongoing basis.
8. The University should make existing campus educational activities
more accessible to the residents of San Luis Obispo.
9. The University should provide funding to help the City communicate
with landlords and absentee owners regarding property upkeep,
tenant relations, and identify and correct violations of overcrowding,
noise, and other neighborhood enhancement ordinances.
10. The University shall better integrate neighborhood issues
throughout the Master Plan and related documents, including the
enrollment scenarios.
As this is "the primary conduit for participation" by neighborhoods, and
there is no neighborhood representative on the Master Plan Committee
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(see background materials), we appreciate this opportunity to offer a more
complete task force recommendation. We would also appreciate the
opportunity for a neighborhood representative from this committee, to
attend at least one meeting of the University's Master Plan Committee for
the purpose of providing background and answering questions about these
recommendations.
Dated: May 24, 1999
*Task Force Charge: "To suggest broad policy or planning principles
regarding the assigned topics to help guide the development of the
administrative draft of the Master Plan". (Cal Poly Master Plan.)
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Cal Poly Master Plan Update –
Guiding Principles
City Council Meeting
September 15, 2015
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Recommendation
Provide comments on and endorse a
set of Guiding Principles for the City’s
participation in the Master Plan Update
process
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Council Subcommittee
City Council appointed Jan Marx to join John
Ashbaugh and the Community Development Director
to serve on a City sub-committee to develop Guiding
Principles
Sub-committee met and developed the draft set of
Guiding Principles provided in agenda
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Draft Principles
1.Neighborhood Wellness – The Master Plan should support efforts to
provide a safe and positive living environment for all residents in City
neighborhoods. The recommendations found in the Neighborhood
Wellness/Community Civility report should be implemented wherever
possible. The Master Plan should include buffers between areas of campus
activities and adjoining residential neighborhoods; protect neighborhoods
from light, noise, and glare from campus development; pull more intensive
uses to the interior of campus; and provide suitable locations for parties and
Greek life housing and activities on campus.
2.Economic Health – The Master Plan should support the economic health of
the City, and negative fiscal impacts created by Plan implementation should
be mitigated by the University. The Master Plan should support
consideration of a hotel/conference facility within the City limits.
3.Housing – The Master Plan should continue to push to house all Freshmen
and Sophomores on campus in addition to 50% of upper class students. In
the interim, future increase in enrollment should be linked to prior provision of
on-campus housing. Programs should be included to encourage housing for
faculty and staff within existing neighborhoods (not on campus) to both
stabilize neighborhoods close to campus and encourage residents to rely on
active transportation and transit to get to and from campus.
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Draft Principles
4.Multi-Modal Transportation – The Master Plan should
support City goals for modal-split, encourage walking, cycling,
and the use of transit by students and employees, and
discourage single-occupant vehicle trips from the University
into the City. Programs should support continued contribution
to City transit; provision of an internal campus shuttle system;
improved hub for a transit center; and restriction of parking
passes for residents living within ½ mile of campus.
5.Protection of Open Space and Agricultural Resources –
Land planning for future growth should take into account
impacts on natural resources, preserve agricultural land to the
greatest extent feasible, and identify opportunities preserve
important open space resources while making important
connections to other public open space lands adjacent to the
University. The Master Plan should include provisions for
conservation easements on open space lands.
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Draft Principles
6.Diversity – The Master Plan should support a diverse
population and contribute positively to a larger
community that welcomes and respects all people.
7.Public Services – The Master Plan and EIR should
fully explore the impact of growth on City services:
recycled water, wastewater, police, fire, and code
enforcement and should include a fiscal impact
analysis for City services to ensure that future growth
of the University contributes its fair share to support
city services, so that existing levels of service to the
community are not eroded as the University
enrollment continues to grow.
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Recommendation
Provide comments on and endorse a
set of Guiding Principles for the City’s
participation in the Master Plan Update
process
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