City of Willits Land Use Element & Sphere of Influence Updates
4 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2023030321
Lead Agency
City of Willits
Document Title
City of Willits Land Use Element & Sphere of Influence Updates
Document Type
FIN - Final Document
Received
Present Land Use
Citywide Land Use Element and Land Use Map
Document Description
The proposed Project is an amendment to the City of Willits Land Use Element, Land Use Diagram, Zoning Map and Regulations, and an application to amend the City’s SOI. The Project includes:
(1) the identification of a Planning Area that includes the City as well as surrounding land that bears relation to City planning;
(2) changes to existing and new Land Use Element policy intended to expand the land supply for housing of all types, provide for focused planning for Willits’ commercial centers, provide for land use flexibility and compatibility, ensure community health and vitality and environmental health and sustainability, and to expand and improve land use designations and general plan maintenance;
(3) changes to Land Use Designations within the City to support residential and commercial development, as well as for open space purposes, and changes to apply Land Use Designations that best reflect the use and character of existing development within the City where the current Land Use Designation is not appropriate;
(4) proposed expansions to the City’s SOI, with the application of appropriate City Land Use Designations, to support a potential SOI Amendment application to the Mendocino Local Agency Formation Commission;
(5) amendments to the Zoning Map and Zoning Regulations to ensure consistency with the Land Use Element and Land Use Map, which may occur simultaneously with or closely following Land Element adoption, and that may include the application of consistent Zoning Classifications and edits to the Zoning Regulations to ensure consistency.
Adoption of the Plan requires certification of the EIR, a General Plan Amendment, Zoning Map and Text Amendments by the Willits City Council and an application to the Mendocino Local Agency Formation Commission to amend the City SOI.
Contact Information
Name
Dusty Duley
Agency Name
City of Willits, Community Development Department
Job Title
Community Development Director
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Willits
Counties
Mendocino
Regions
Northern California
Cross Streets
Highway 101 State Route 20
Zip
95490
Parcel #
various
State Highways
U.S. 101 and State Route 20
Railways
Skunk Train / Mendocino Railway
Airports
Willits Municipal Airport (Ells
Schools
Willits Unified School District
Waterways
Baechtel Creek, Outlet Creek
Township
Willit
Range
13W
Section
18
Base
Diablo
Notice of Completion
State Reviewing Agencies
California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Northern and Eureka Region 1 (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 Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 1 (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, North Coast Region 1 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 1, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 3, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality
Development Types
Other (Land Use Element Update, not a specific project)
Local Actions
General Plan Element
Project Issues
Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Economics/Jobs, Energy, Fiscal Impacts, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mandatory Findings of Significance, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire
Attachments
Final Document(s) [Approved_Certified draft environmental documents]
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