Land use decisions in California are guided by a planning framework established in state laws and local regulations. A developer first submits an application to the local planning department, which reviews the project and performs an environmental analysis. The developer then presents the project to the local planning commission, which takes public input into account. The commission ultimately decides to approve the project, require changes, or deny it. Key elements of the planning framework include the California Environmental Quality Act, climate change laws, general plans consisting of mandatory elements, zoning ordinances, and regulations governing subdivisions and other land use issues.
Meeting at the North American Wildlife & Natural Resources Conference in Denver, CO Thursday, March 13, the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative (NBCI) Management Board, comprised of the wildlife agency directors or their surrogates from 25 states, voted to approve the first significant addition to the 2011 national restoration plan for bobwhite quail.
The board put its stamp on the NBCI Coordinated Implementation Plan (CIP), a specific methodology for coordinated, state-level implementation of the national strategy for landscape-scale restoration of bobwhites. And the plan’s benefits will extend well beyond bobwhites, to include grassland birds, pollinators, soil health, and water quality.
This powerpoint, authored by Allan Cain, Beat Weber and Moises Festo, was presented by Development Workshop's director Allan Cain at the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty which took place from April 8 to 11, 2013 in Washington DC.
Despite a rather challenging environment, land readjustment in Angola has the potential to become an important tool for urban planning. The presentation shows that, while there is still no legal framework for land readjustment and a very limited culture of participation in urban planning processes, growing land markets and strong private sector partners can make land readjustment a viable option for local governments.
Meeting at the North American Wildlife & Natural Resources Conference in Denver, CO Thursday, March 13, the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative (NBCI) Management Board, comprised of the wildlife agency directors or their surrogates from 25 states, voted to approve the first significant addition to the 2011 national restoration plan for bobwhite quail.
The board put its stamp on the NBCI Coordinated Implementation Plan (CIP), a specific methodology for coordinated, state-level implementation of the national strategy for landscape-scale restoration of bobwhites. And the plan’s benefits will extend well beyond bobwhites, to include grassland birds, pollinators, soil health, and water quality.
This powerpoint, authored by Allan Cain, Beat Weber and Moises Festo, was presented by Development Workshop's director Allan Cain at the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty which took place from April 8 to 11, 2013 in Washington DC.
Despite a rather challenging environment, land readjustment in Angola has the potential to become an important tool for urban planning. The presentation shows that, while there is still no legal framework for land readjustment and a very limited culture of participation in urban planning processes, growing land markets and strong private sector partners can make land readjustment a viable option for local governments.
Overview of the Resource Management Act 1991Raewyn Peart
This is a presentation by Environmental Defence Society Lawyer Nicola de Wit given at an EDS community workshop held in Gisborne on 13 April 2013. It provides a description of the purpose and principles of the RMA, responsibilities of different management agencies, policies and plans and resource consenting.
On April 26, David Rouse and Rob Kerns of WRT and Shawn McLaughlin, Union County, PA Planning Director, presented "The Sustainable Comprehensive Plan" at the American Planning Association's National Conference in Minneapolis. WRT's planners are developing an overall approach and specific techniques designed to integrate sustainability into plans and implementing regulations at scales ranging from cities and regions to downtowns and neighborhoods. The Union County Comprehensive Plan, which was featured in the presentation, represents an application of WRT's sustainable planning and zoning initiative. It includes sustainability principles and keys as an organizing framework, supported by specific actions and indicators to measure progress in achieving sustainability targets.
Union County is a rural county in central Pennsylvania that is rich in agricultural, natural, historic, and small town resources. The comprehensive plan, which is expected to be adopted by the county commissioners this summer, was prepared with extensive public participation using the "values-driven" planning process pioneered by WRT. Through this process county residents expressed a strong interest in energy conservation and other sustainability issues.
"Union County is remarkable in that it is a small community with limited fiscal and staff resources that has made a commitment to sustainability in its draft comprehensive plan," said David Rouse, WRT's principal-in-charge of the project. "We expect major cities such as Seattle, Portland, and New York City to lead the way in addressing issues such as climate change and peak oil. However, we need many more places like Union County to take on this challenge if we are to find our way to a sustainable future."
Each of the eight Priority Program teams associated with Imagine Austin presents a brief description of the program and the members of the team, as well as work already taking place and items on the horizon.
Overview of the Resource Management Act 1991Raewyn Peart
This is a presentation by Environmental Defence Society Lawyer Nicola de Wit given at an EDS community workshop held in Gisborne on 13 April 2013. It provides a description of the purpose and principles of the RMA, responsibilities of different management agencies, policies and plans and resource consenting.
On April 26, David Rouse and Rob Kerns of WRT and Shawn McLaughlin, Union County, PA Planning Director, presented "The Sustainable Comprehensive Plan" at the American Planning Association's National Conference in Minneapolis. WRT's planners are developing an overall approach and specific techniques designed to integrate sustainability into plans and implementing regulations at scales ranging from cities and regions to downtowns and neighborhoods. The Union County Comprehensive Plan, which was featured in the presentation, represents an application of WRT's sustainable planning and zoning initiative. It includes sustainability principles and keys as an organizing framework, supported by specific actions and indicators to measure progress in achieving sustainability targets.
Union County is a rural county in central Pennsylvania that is rich in agricultural, natural, historic, and small town resources. The comprehensive plan, which is expected to be adopted by the county commissioners this summer, was prepared with extensive public participation using the "values-driven" planning process pioneered by WRT. Through this process county residents expressed a strong interest in energy conservation and other sustainability issues.
"Union County is remarkable in that it is a small community with limited fiscal and staff resources that has made a commitment to sustainability in its draft comprehensive plan," said David Rouse, WRT's principal-in-charge of the project. "We expect major cities such as Seattle, Portland, and New York City to lead the way in addressing issues such as climate change and peak oil. However, we need many more places like Union County to take on this challenge if we are to find our way to a sustainable future."
Each of the eight Priority Program teams associated with Imagine Austin presents a brief description of the program and the members of the team, as well as work already taking place and items on the horizon.
Fostering Innovation in Postal Service Environmentally Preferable Shipping Su...Michael R. Barr
Fostering Innovation in Postal Service Environmentally Preferable Shipping Supplies
Sustainability Metrics Project
Michael R. Barr, Alicia M. Case & Kim Werdeman
December 2012
M.Sc. in Sustainability Management | SUS 602 - Enterprise Excellence
National University
The United States Postal Service (USPS) seeks to improve on revenue and brand identity on its retail shipping packaging and product lines that generated $11 billion in sales in FY 2011. Shipping supplies that are not considered environmentally preferable are candidates for improvement. Improvements will consist of integration of sustainable aspects such as economic and social value, efficient use of energy and materials, recycled content, compostability or biodegradability, and non-toxicity into identified shipping packaging and products. Identified packaging and product lines will be certified by a third party eco–labeling program, and measured as environmentally preferable retail products for profitability, volume, weight, and greenhouse gas measurements.
It is being proposed that a product innovation team be formed for the purpose of using Six Sigma methodologies to determine importance, problems or opportunities, improvements, and sustainable gains necessary to foster gains and improvements in shipping supplies not considered environmentally preferable.
Few global trends have been as controversial as climate change and the Earth’s warming. The Earth has gone through many shifts in cooling and warming driven by natural factors like the sun’s energy or variations in its orbit, but the trend scientists have seen over the past 50 years is unmistakable.
Index and whitepaper discussing performance and initiatives of 16 Scandinavian cities at implementing sustainability practices in meetings industry.
Part of a bigger project to create the world's first sustainable meetings region.
Ecological Footprint assessment helps to identify what activities are having the biggest impact on nature and opens up possibilities to reduce our impact and live within the means of One Planet. It provides measurement of collective consumption of the population whether they are exceeding the Earth’s ecological limits or not. It is compared with Biocapacity which measures the amount of available bioproductive resources in ecosystem. The introduction of Ecological Footprint has been very necessary for the context of Bangladesh especially in Dhaka as the endless demand and the unplanned consumption pattern of the population here have been producing a very unsustainable situation.
Introductory Slides for presentation with Tim Cremin, Esq. and Eric Davis, Esq. for National Business Institute in Sacramento on December 14, 2008. Profiles major developments for local governments to respond to climate change and California's major legislation AB 32, SB 97 and SB 375
(Keynote Talk held on the 29th of October 2015 at the Joint International Geoinformation Conference JIGC 2015 in Kuala Lumpur)
Abstract:
In Smart City projects huge amounts of different datasets have to be linked or even integrated. A multitude of sensors provide information about the current operation status of the many urban systems like energy and water supplies, transportation, and security situations for monitoring, controlling, and planning. Semantic 3D city models can be used in such contexts to spatially and semantically structure the many data items by relating them with the respective objects of the 3D city model. However, such models have been mostly static representations of the environment in the past, and their inclusion of the urban sensor landscape was not addressed in detail. Also the computation of urban (key performance) indicator values like building energy demands has not been supported by a dedicated conceptual model yet.
The presentation will present new frameworks based on semantic 3D city models and Model Driven Engineering (MDE). These frameworks complement the ISO 19109 standard on modeling geographic features. They provide concepts for the modeling of indicators for different application domains like mobility, energy, and security as well as for the semantic modeling of planned changes as transactions on 3D city models. It will be shown how these concepts are employed in Smart City use cases and how they relate to the CityGML standard. Furthermore, it will be shown how CityGML can be extended for representing dynamic object properties including sensor observations and time-dependent patterns for values.
My presentation illustrates an on-going study in the field of Smart cities’ evaluation. The analysis starts from a revised notion of triple helix considering that Civil society plays a prominent role toward the realization of sustainable development in cities (Etzkowitz and Zhou, 2006).
In order to assess the connections between Smart city development and this institutionalization of the Triple Helix, an Analytic Network Process model has been developed. This interrelated model is used for investigating the relations between smart cities components (smart governance; smart economy; smart people; smart living; smart environment), actors (Universities, Government, Industry and Civil Society ) and policy visions derived from the “Urban Europe” Joint Programme Initiatives, i.e. strategies to which the smart cities are moving to (Connected City, Entrepreneurial City, Liveable City and Pioneer City).
This was submitted on October 5th 2009 to the Joint Agency Review Team reviewing the Mount Nemo Quarry. I also provided the experts minutes from OMB case PL071044 to illustrate how a certain firm signed off on the fact their own data was insufficient. I have been monitoring the practices of this agency over years in different locations and have found consistencies in testing methods that result in undermined hydrogeological risks.
Submission made during the public process regarding the Nelson Quarry Project. Risks to natural features, endangered species, economy and ecology as well as geological risks of the project. (Project was successfully cancelled)
Current Issues Wetland Mitigation_Irow 2009 jlarndt_51
Presents history and current status of wetland mitigation along utility rights-of-way. Presented at the INternational Conference on environmental Concerns in Rights-of-Way Management, 2009, Portland OR.
A session on lighting and planning, delivered by two planning policy officers from nationally protected landscapes. Paul Fellows is Head of Strategic Planning at North York Moors National Park Authority, which along with the Yorkshire Dales National Park was granted International Dark Skies status in December 2020. Natalie Beal is a policy planner at the Broads Authority. Both are Members of the Royal Town Planning Institute. Natalie and Paul will deliver an hour long session that will be in three parts. Firstly, an introduction to how the planning system works. They will then focus on how lighting can be influenced through the planning system. Finally, they will give a planner’s view on the 10 policy proposals from the Dark Skies APPG.
Speakers: Natalie Beal MRTPI, Broads Authority and Paul Fellows MRTPI from North York Moors.
2015 Hawaii Congress of Planning Officials -- AICP LawJesse Souki
Presentation for American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) law credits at the 2015 Hawaii Congress of Planning Officials (HCPO). Pleasentation includes a overview of Hawaii's State Planning Act, implementing regulations, and recent case law.
By Jesse K. Souki, Esq.
Connecting health to our natural resourcesgbeltalliance
Presentation by Matt Freeman from the Santa Clara County Open Space Authority at "Wildlands, Food and Your Health." Event hosted by Greenbelt Alliance on June 16, 2012.
Presentation by Susan Stuart from Santa Clara County Public Health Department at "Wildlands, Food and Your Health." Event hosted by Greenbelt Alliance on June 16, 2012.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: Passkeys and the Road Ahead.pdf
How Decisions Are Made in the Planning Framework By David Roemer
1. HOW DECISIONS ARE
MADE IN THE PLANNING
FRAMEWORK
David Roemer, MURP , Lecturer,
San Jose State
University, Department of
Urban and Regional Planning
2. Land use decisions in theory
• Brings an Application
to a planning
department which
Developer
examines the project
and does an
environmental review
• The Developer
Planning presents the
Commission project before the
with planning
Public Input
Commission
• Congrats or
back to the
drawing
A Decision is Made board
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3. The Planning
Framework • State Law and Local Planning
• The California Environmental Quality Act
• AB 32
• SB 375
• The General Plan
• Zoning
• Subdivisions
• Other Ordinances and Regulations
• Annexation and Incorporation
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4. Local planning in
California is THE PLANNING AND ZONING LAW
established in state
(California Government Code)
laws
TITLE 7. PLANNING AND LAND USE
DIVISION 1. PLANNING AND ZONING
Chapter 1. General Provisions
(Sections 65000 et seq.)
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5. A California statute
passed in 1970 • CEQA requires local and state
The California governments to consider the
Environmental potential environmental effects
Quality Act (CEQA) of a project before deciding
whether to approve it or not.
5
6. Assembly Bill 32:
Global Warming
Solutions Act (2006)
Reduce statewide levels of
greenhouse gas emissions
to
1990 levels by 2020
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7. Senate Bill B
375, The Sustainable “In order to reach
Communities and California’s greenhouse
Climate Protection
Act of 2008 gas goals we must
rethink how we design
our communities”
(From Governor Schwarzenegger’s Office
Fact Sheet on SB 375)
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8. The General Plan A shared vision of the
community’s distant future
with policies and program ideas
to make that vision a reality
State law requires that each
city and each county adopt a
general plan containing the
following seven components or
"elements": land
use, circulation, housing, conse
rvation, open-space, noise, and
safety
8
9. Seven Mandatory
Elements
• The land use element
Land use designates the general
Circulation
Housing
location and intensity of
Conservation housing, business, industry, o
Open-space pen space, education, public
Noise
Safety
buildings and grounds, waste
disposal facilities, and other
land uses.
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10. Seven Mandatory
Elements
• The circulation element
Land use identifies the general location
Circulation
Housing
and extent of existing and
Conservation proposed roads, public
Open-space utilities and facilities. It must
Noise
Safety
be correlated with the land
use element.
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11. Seven Mandatory
Elements
• The housing element is a
Land use comprehensive assessment of
Circulation
Housing
current and projected housing
Conservation needs for all economic
Open-space segments of the community
Noise
Safety
and region.
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12. Seven Mandatory
Elements
• The conservation element
Land use addresses the
Circulation
Housing
conservation, development, a
Conservation nd use of natural resources
Open-space including
Noise
Safety
water, forests, soils, rivers, an
d mineral deposits.
12
13. Seven Mandatory
Elements
• The open-space element
Land use details plans and measures for
Circulation
Housing
preserving open-space for
Conservation natural resources, and the
Open-space identification of agricultural
Noise
Safety
land.
13
14. Seven Mandatory
Elements
• The noise element identifies
Land use and appraises noise problems
Circulation
Housing
within the community and
Conservation forms the basis for
Open-space distributing new noise-
Noise
Safety
sensitive land uses.
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15. Seven Mandatory
Elements
• The safety element
Land use establishes policies and
Circulation
Housing
programs to protect the
Conservation community from risks
Open-space associated with
Noise
Safety
seismic, geologic, flood, and
wildfire hazards.
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16. Santa Clara County
General Plan Update
• Santa Clara will be one of the
New Health Element
first counties in California to
integrate a Health Element
into their General Plan.
• The Health Element will
address a number health and
wellness topics affecting
County residents.
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18. The State
Subdivision Map Act • In general, land cannot be
(commencing with divided in California without
Government Code
local government approval.
Section 66410)
Subdivisions
• The local general
plan, zoning, subdivision, and
other ordinances govern the
design of the subdivision, the
size of its lots, and the types
of improvements (street
construction, sewer
lines, drainage facilities, etc.). 18
19. Other Ordinances
and Regulations
• Common types include: flood
protection, historic
preservation, design
review, hillside development
control, growth
management, impact
fees, traffic management, and
sign control.
19
20. • A zoning ordinance is the local
Zoning law that spells out the
immediate, allowable uses for
each piece of property within
the community.
• Zoning is adopted by
ordinance and carries the
weight of local law.
• If a landowner proposes a use
that is not allowed in the
zone, the city or county must
approve a rezoning (change in
zone) before development of
that use can begin. 20
21. Annexation and
Incorporation • Annexation (the addition of
territory to an existing city)
and incorporation (creation of
a new city) are controlled by
the Local Agency Formation
Commission (LAFCO)
established in each county by
the state's Cortese-Knox Act
(commencing with
Government Code Section
56000).
21
22. Another look at the land use decisions
Environmental
Review
Planning
Significant Environmental
Dept.
Impact Report
Project (Versions)
Law suits
Design and
Review Hearings
Planning
Public
Review Commission
Public
Review
Next Hurdle
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23. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Alternative Techniques for Controlling Land Use: A Guide to Small Cities and Rural Areas in California, by Irving Schiffman (University Center for Economic
Development and Planning, California State University, Chico) 1982, revised1989. This book discusses, in detail, concepts suc h as hillside development
standards, planned unit development, and specific plans.
• California Environmental Quality Act: Statutes and Guidelines (Governor's Office of Planning and Research, Sacramento, Califo rnia) 1996, 301 pp. The CEQA
Guidelines describe the requirements for evaluating environmental impacts. Out of Print, check in the government documents se ction of your local library.
• California Land Use and Planning Law, by Daniel J. Curtin Jr., (Solano Press, Pt. Arena, California) revised annually. A look at the
planning, zoning, subdivision, and environmental quality laws that is illustrated by references to numerous court cases.
• The General Plan Guidelines (Governor's Office of Planning and Research, Sacramento, California) 1987, 368 pp. The Guidelines discuss local planning activities
and how to write or revise a general plan.
• Guide to California Government, (League of Women Voters of California, Sacramento, California) 13th Edition, 1986, 167 pp. An excellent summary of the
processes of local and state government.
• Guide to the Cortese/Knox Local Government Reorganization Act of 1985, by the Assembly Local Government Committee (Joint Publications
Office, Sacramento, California),1985, 228 pp. A compilation of the law that authorizes annexations and other local government reorganizations. It contains a
flowchart illustrating the annexation process.
• Planning Commission Handbook (League of California Cities, Sacramento, California) 1984. A well -written overview of the role of the planning commission and
California planning law.
• Subdivision Map Act Manual, by Daniel J. Curtin, Jr., (Solano Press, Pt. Arena, California), revised annually. A practitioner 's guide to the Map Act, including
pertinent legal precedents.
• Your Guide to Open Meetings, The Ralph M. Brown Act, by the Senate Local Government Committee (Joint Publications Office, Sac ramento, California), 1989.
An easy to read explanation of the state's open meeting laws and the responsibilities of local government with regard to publ ic meetings.
• Source for most of this presentation taken from the web site: http://ceres.ca.gov/ceqa/more/tas/Planning_Guide.html#intro
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Good morning I’m David Roemer, an instructor at San Jose State in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning where we offer an advanced degree in planning, Masters in Urban and Regional Planning or MURP. I am also a regional Planner. I worked for many years at AMBAG, the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments and last but not least I am your neighbor and pass through commuter. I live in Hollister.This morning I am going to take you through an overview of land use planning before the rest of the folks get specific.
This is how land use decisions normally seem to be made. Developer gets and idea for a project goes to the planning department who takes a look and then forwards it to the planning commission for a decision.
And much of the time that is how it works but that is only because it is following a larger framework already established by state laws such as these.
Planning law is founded on laws for health and safety. These provisions contain many of the laws pertaining to the regulation of land uses by local governments including: the general plan requirement, specific plans, subdivisions, and zoning.
CEQA's purpose is to disclose the potential impacts of a project, suggest methods to minimize those impacts, and discuss alternatives to the project so that decision makers will have full information upon which to base their decision.CEQA is a complex law with a great deal of subtlety and local variation.
Assembly Bill 32 sets California on the road that the rest of the United States have yet to walk. Not only does the bill aim to stop the rise of greenhouse gases but to turn down the gases to 1990 levels.
SB 375 enhances California's ability to reach its AB 32 goals by promoting good planning with the goal of more sustainable communities. It also forms a hard linkage between Transportation planning and land use planning at the city, county, and regional level.
It is the official city or county policy regarding the location of housing, business, industry, roads, parks, and other land uses, protection of the public from noise and other environmental hazards, and for the conservation of natural resources.General plans must hold seven mandatory elements but may have others as the community sees fit. These seven contain the bulk of needed information to direct land use decisions in a general way.
The Land use element is the what where and how much now and what will be needed later
The Circulation Element tells how you can get from one place to another and more importantly how you are going to continue to get there in the future
Housing is what you have and what you will need
Conservation how to best use the natural resources you have,
I think of conservation and open space as a pair, not competitors with conservation making use of the resources and open space preserving and protecting those resources.
Noise tries to minimize impacts around airports, recreation venues and loud industry,
and the Safety element plans for responses to natural hazards.All these elements should be consistent both internally and with each other.The state allows a lot of variation in the elements to allow the general plan to have local relevance.
Beyond the seven mandatory elementseach jurisdiction is free to adopt a wide variety of additional elements covering subjects of particular interest to that jurisdiction such as recreation, urban design, or public facilities. Santa Clara County will be including a new innovative Health Element into their General Plan. We will hear more about this element a little later today.
General plans are living documents. As communities change in population and complexity the general plan is updated. In fact all the elements are continuously being reassessed. The latest large changes coming in response to AB32 and SB 375.
The general plan does not stand on its own it is supported by documents that give it day to day power.In general, land cannot be divided in California without local government approval. In addition, the city or county may impose a variety of fees upon the subdivision, depending upon local and regional needs, such as school impact fees, park dedications, etc.
Cities and counties often adopt other ordinances besides zoning and subdivision to protect the general health, safety, and welfare of their inhabitants.
The purpose of zoning is to implement the policies of the general plan.
Over time cities grow and want to add land, smaller settlements grow in size and complexity and want to become cities. LAFCOs make these changes orderly.
This is another look at land use decision making but I don’t want you bogged down by the seeming complexity but rather marvel in the amount of possible public involvement. At nearly every step the process is open and waiting … for you.
I wouldn’t be an instructor if I didn’t give you a reading list so here is a bibliography.
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