Santa Rosa General Plan 2050

Santa Rosa General Plan 2050

The City of Santa Rosa is preparing a comprehensive update to its existing General Plan. The update is expected to be completed in 2024 and will guide the City’s development and conservation through 2050. State law requires that the General Plan contain eight elements: Land Use, Circulation, Housing, Open Space, Noise, Safety, Conservation, and Environmental Justice. The content of these elements is outlined in State law. The proposed General Plan 2050 will include revisions to the policies and land use map of the existing General Plan. The proposed General Plan 2050 will include all State-required elements and optional elements including climate action planning, organized in the following sections (the required elements are denoted in bold): Land Use and Economic Development Housing (currently being updated through a separate process) Community Character (covering the topics of Urban Design, Historic Preservation, Art and Culture, and Hillside Policies) Efficient and Sustainable Development (covering the topics of Mobility [Circulation], Open Space, and Conservation) Climate Resilience and Safety (covering the topics of Climate Resilience, Safety, Noise, and Public Services and Facilities) Health, Equity, and Environmental Justice (covering the topics of Community Health, Equity, Environmental Justice, Parks, and Youth and Family) The overall purpose of the proposed General Plan 2050 is to create a policy framework that articulates a vision for the longterm physical form and development of Santa Rosa, while preserving and enhancing the quality of life for Santa Rosa residents. The key components of the proposed project will include broad community goals for the future of Santa Rosa and specific policies and implementing actions that will help meet the goals. The proposed General Plan 2050 will add new and expanded policy topics to address the current requirements of State law, modernize the City’s policy framework, and address land use mapping issues and inconsistencies. To achieve the proposed General Plan 2050 vision, the City has analyzed three future land use and circulation alternatives and a subsequently refined preferred alternative that were developed through an extensive City of Santa Rosa Santa Rosa General Plan 2050 (Santa Rosa Forward) February 7, 2023 Page 3 of 6 Notice of Preparation public process. Details of the public process and preferred alternative are available on the website for the proposed General Plan 2050 at https://www.santarosaforward.com. The final preferred alternative will serve as the foundation of the proposed General Plan 2050. Figure 3, Final Preferred Alternative, shows the final preferred alternative which identifies 21 areas of change where the City will focus efforts on addressing housing, services, connectivity, and/or infrastructure needs to make these complete neighborhoods. Zoning and/or land use changes supporting additional development capacity will be concentrated in select areas only. Changes to the city's transportation infrastructure will include new pedestrian and bicycle connections across Highways 101 and 12, road diets, and roadway widenings.

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California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, North Central Region 2 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Energy Commission, California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, North Coast Region 1 (RWQCB), Department of Toxic Substances Control, Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 18, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 21, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 25 (SWRCB), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Department of Conservation (DOC)

California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Department of Conservation (DOC)

Other (Policy Document and No Construction)

General Plan Update

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Coastal Zone, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mandatory Findings of Significance, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire