City of Barstow General Plan Update & Barstow International Gateway (BIG) Specific Plan

City of Barstow General Plan Update & Barstow International Gateway (BIG) Specific Plan

The General Plan Update (GPU) will provide the long-term planning blueprint for the improvements needed to accommodate the City’s growing population over a 25-year planning horizon (2023 to 2048). The GPU includes a proposed annexation of unincorporated County lands immediately west of the City. The Project also includes the Barstow International Gateway (BIG) Specific Plan, and the various offsite improvements needed for its implementation. The BIG Specific Plan proposes an integrated rail facility and onsite transload warehouse center at the City’s western extent. BIG would allow for direct transfer of containers from ships at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to trains for transport through the Alameda Corridor onto the BNSF mainline to BIG. BIG proposes a transload warehouse center where the vast majority of the containers would be processed within an onsite “closed loop” operation between BNSF rail operations and transload warehouse users. The BIG Specific Plan would also establish site-specific zoning regulations and development standards for the Specific Plan area. The Project includes an update to the City of Barstow’s adopted 2015-2020 General Plan, as well as analysis of the BIG Specific Plan project.

Barstow, Sphere of Influence

San Bernardino

Citywide, Unincorporated

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 8 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 6, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (DOT), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Inland Deserts Region 6 (CDFW), California Air Resources Board (ARB)

California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (DOT), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Inland Deserts Region 6 (CDFW), California Air Resources Board (ARB)

Residential (Units 6920, Acres 43908), Other (Non-Residential (14,054,400 sq ft))

General Plan Update, Specific Plan, Rezone, Land Division (Subdivision, etc.), Annexation

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Economics/Jobs, Energy, 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, Septic System, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire