City of Morgan Hill SE Quadrant General Plan Amendments and Agricultural Mitigation & Preservation Program

City of Morgan Hill SE Quadrant General Plan Amendments and Agricultural Mitigation & Preservation Program

The proposed Southeast Quadrant project has the following objectives: Identify lands within the Southeast Quadrant viable for long-term agriculture; Establish an Agricultural land use designation and implementation Open Space and Agricultural Zoning Districts over a portion of the Southeast Quadrant; Develop a program that fosters long-term agriculture within the Southeast Quadrant through land use planning, agricultural preservation policies/programs, and agricultural mitigation; Evaluate the proposed Morgan Hill Agricultural & Open Space General Plan Policies with respect to citywide impacts and mitigation measures; Establish a new Sports-Recreation-Leisure General Plan land use designation and implement a Sports-Recreation-Leisure Zoning District over a portion of the Southeast Quadrant; Establish an Urban Limit Line within the Southeast Quadrant and extend the Urban Growth Boundary and Urban Service Area over a portion of the Southeast Quadrant; Annex a portion of the Southeast Quadrant into the Morgan Hill City limits; Conduct programmatic- and project-level analyses relative to private and City applications for proposed projects within the Southeast Quadrant.

Morgan Hill

Santa Clara

California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), Caltrans, Division of Aeronautics, Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT)

California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT)

Residential (Acres ~215), Commercial (Sq. Ft. 43,000, Acres 4), Educational (40 acres), Recreational (~397 acres), Agriculture (open space: ~387 acres)

General Plan Amendment, Planned Unit Development, Site Plan, Rezone, Prezone, Use Permit, Annexation

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire, greenhouse gases