Core Area Infill: Includes: • Affordable • Podesta PUD • Mixed Use • Multifamily • ADUs
Incentivize: • Potential Categorical Exclusion Designation • Align with Measure D 1.5% • Focus for TDR receiving sites • Priority Water for deed restricted affordable units • Revise use regulations for residential • No Measure D Certs for ADUs • Specific Plan with Design Guidelines
Benefits: • Council Priority • Infrastructure Present • Lowest Water Demand • Lowest VMT • Downtown Vibrancy • Supports Alt Transportation Risks: • Community Character
Neighborhoods
Facilitate: • Potential Categorical Exclusion Designation • Priority Water for deed restricted affordable units, including ADUs • Consider No Cost Measure D Certs for ADUs
Require Comprehensive Planning: • Specific Plans for CCC Certification • Reduce build-out appropriate to carrying capacity • Address poor platting • Mergers • Lot retirements • TDR as sending sites to Core Area receiving sites • Provide for SLR and habitat retreat
Benefits: • Dedicated Open Space • SLR and Habitat Retreat Risks: • Infrastructure Capacity • Coastal Access • ESHA • Hazards
Commercial – 1 of 2 Where
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Core Area Includes: • Podesta PUD • LC Smith Estate PUD
Incentivize: • Potential Categorical Exclusion Designation • Priority Water for visitor serving commercial • Support compatible light industrial, small-scale R&D, cottage and artisan industries, live-work • Specific Plan with Design Guidelines
Benefits: • Infrastructure Present • Infill Employment • Lowest Water Demand • Lowest VMT • Downtown Vibrancy • Supports alt. transp. modes Risks: • Community Character
Facilitate: • Potential Categorical Exclusion Designation • Consider hosted short-term rentals • Consider child and elder care options
HWY 1 and 92 Infill/Redevelop Facilitate: Corridors Sites: • Support low-cost visitor serving options • Retail • Support green-options – e.g. EV charging • Lodging stations • Light Ind. • Support light industrial, small-scale R&D, cottage and artisan industries, live-work maybe compatible in some locations
Benefits: • Visitor Serving • Neighborhood Serving • Infill Employment • Lower VMT and GHG • Community Character Risks: • Visual Resources
PUDs
Benefits: • Dedicated Open Space Risks: • Coastal Access • ESHA • Hazards • Infrastructure Capacity • Visual Resources
Minimally Developed Sites: • Retail • Lodging
Require Comprehensive Planning: • Specific Plans for CCC Certification • Require build-out appropriate to carrying capacity
Agriculture – 1 of 2 Where
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Horticulture Business Land Use Designations
Greenhouses
Incentivize: • Per City Council direction, consider limited cannabis cultivation • Support recycled water projects
Benefits: • Infrastructure Present • Priority Use Risks: • Water and Energy Demand • Community Character??
Urban Reserve
Field Ag
Incentivize: • May be appropriate for an Agriculture designation • Expand upon and simplify permit process for ancillary uses to support economic viability; e.g. B&Bs, farm stands, employee housing, farm-to-table commercial, equestrian facilities, clinics, etc. • Address legal nonconforming development in consideration of site conditions
Benefits: • Community Character • Priority Uses Risks: • Neighborhood Compatibility
Agriculture – 2 of 2 Where
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Open Space Reserve
Field Ag
Incentivize: • May be appropriate for an Agriculture designation • May be appropriate for Open Space Conservation/Hazard Avoidance designation • Expand upon and simplify permit process for ancillary uses to support economic viability; e.g. B&Bs, farm stands, employee housing, farm-to-table commercial, equestrian facilities, clinics, etc. • Address legal nonconforming development in consideration of site conditions
Benefits: • Community Character • Priority Uses Risks: • Hazards