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OF A SPECIAL MEETING
OF THE
CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY
COUNCIL CHAMBERS
CIVIC CENTER
1243 NATIONAL CITY BOULEVARD
TUESDAY — JULY 17, 2001
2:30 P.M.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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COMMENCEMENT OF THE MEETING AND SUBMIT IT TO
THE CITY CLERK
ROLL CALL
1. Discussion of the REGION 2020 Growth Management Strategy
PUBLIC ORAL COMMUNICATIONS (Five -Minute Time Limit)
NOTE: Pursuant to State Law, items requiring Council action must be brought
back on a subsequent Council agenda unless they are of a demonstrated
emergency or urgent nature.
ADJOURNMENT
Next Regular City Council Meeting July 17, 2001 at 6:00 p.m. - Council
Chambers, Civic Center
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IN THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE
July 5, 2001
Mr. Tom McCabe
City Manager
City of National City
1243 National City Boulevard
National City, CA 91950
Dear Mr. McCabe.
San Diego
ASSOCIATION OF
GOVERNMENTS
401 B Street, Suite 800
San Diego, CA 92101-4231
(619) 595-5300 • Fax (619) 595-5305
www.sandag.org
Thank you for scheduling a workshop with your Council to allow us the opportunity to discuss
REGION2020. As you know, the workshop has been scheduled for Tuesday, July 17, 2001 at 2:30 p.m. in
the Council Chambers.
The objectives of the workshop are to: (1) initiate a dialogue with your policymakers about the
REGION2020 Growth Management Strategy, and (2) discuss how your city and other local jurisdictions
can contribute to more smart growth in the San Diego region.
Enclosed are a number of agenda folders for the workshop for distribution to your council members
and senior management. As you can see from the agenda, we are devoting most of the workshop's time
to a discussion by the Council on these issues.
The day of the workshop, we will bring a PowerPoint presentation, as well as a number of hard copies.
If you have any questions, please contact me at (619) 595-5330 or gga@sandag.org, or contact either
Mike McLaughlin, Director of Planning and Land Use at SANDAG, at (619) 595-5373/
mmc@sandag.org, or Carolina Gregor, REGION2020 Project Manager at (619) 595-5399/
cgr@sandag.org.
We look forward to hearing your Council's thoughts on REGION2020 at the upcoming workshop.
Sincerely,
C
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Executive Director
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cc: Councilmember Ron Morrison, SANDAG Vice Chair
Roger Post, Planning Director
MEMBER AGENCIES: Cities of Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Coronado, Del Mar, El Cajon, Encinitas, Escondido, Imperial Beach, La Mesa, Lemon Grove,
National City, Oceanside, Poway, San Diego, San Marcos, Santee, Solana Beach, Vista, and County of San Diego.
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Creating a sustainable,
prosperous region
The San Diego region faces pressing challenges over the next several decades.
Our region is projected to grow substantially between 2000 and 2020, we face
a serious housing shortage and skyrocketing home prices, our roadways are more
congested, and our open space is threatened by continued sprawl in rural areas.
We can meet these challenges head-on by taking bold steps to reverse the negative
effects of sprawl and create livable, sustainable communities.
As the planning agency for the San Diego region, SANDAG is addressing these
quality of life issues through its regional growth management strategy. This
planning effort, called REGION2020, currently is underway. REGION2020 is based
on principles of smart growth, which simply means limiting urban sprawl and
improving our existing neighborhoods, or in the case of new development, using
smart growth principles to create livable, walkable communities. The strategy
proposes several important actions, including:
• Provide more transportation choices to reduce our dependency on the car
• Promote more compact, mixed -use development in existing cities
and communities
• Increase the housing supply, and locate new homes in existing urban areas,
closer to jobs, services, and transportation systems
• Protect our environment
A Regional Approach
REGION2020 emphasizes five interrelated and interdependent regional issues:
economic prosperity, transportation, housing, environment, and fiscal reform.
The strategy promotes the following principles in each of these areas.
Economic Prosperity
• Promote economic
prosperity that results in a
rising standard of living for
all of our region's
residents.
• Attract high value jobs,
link education and training
to the local job market,
and provide access to
world markets.
Housing
• Increase supply and provide
a variety of housing types
for residents of all incomes.
• Locate new homes closer to
our transportation systems, services, and jobs.
Little Italy is a dynamic community in the City of San Diego
with mixed -use developments near jobs and transit.
Transportation
• Design transit systems to connect employment centers, commercial and residential
areas, airports, universities, hospitals, and recreation.
• Locate higher densities and mixed use development in areas with frequent
transit service.
• Provide convenient bike and pedestrian access to activity centers and
transit stations.
(Over)
Region2020 - March 2001
Location of New Housing Units
by 2020
Sprawl vs. Smart Growth
Existing Policies
Consume 600,000 Acres
Smart Growth Policies
Consume 200,000 Acres
Environment
• Protect open space and habitat areas.
• Promote environmentally sensitive development that conserves water and energy,
protects water quality, and enables the use of alternative energy sources.
Fiscal Reform
• Pursue state -local tax reform to increase local governments' budgetary control,
without increasing taxes, which will strengthen growth management incentives
and help increase the supply and affordability of housing.
Smart growth planning
The region benefits in a number of ways by implementing smart growth and
REGION2020. We save more than 400,000 acres of land by concentrating
development in existing urban areas. This is equivalent to the size of 15 Oceansides,
16 Poways, 68 National Cities, or 2 Cities of San Diego. To reduce urban sprawl
and successfully implement the smart growth principles outlined in REGION2020,
many of our local governments will need to modify their local plans. Our residents
and local elected officials will face tough choices as they attempt to make these
changes.
SANDAG is working with the staffs and elected officials of our local jurisdictions
to address issues related to smart growth implementation. The first step is for our
local governments to make specific commitments to support REGION2020 and
implement smart growth principles.
Call to Action
The REGION2020 strategy has been developed to deal with the region's current
sprawl -inducing development patterns, traffic congestion challenges, lack of
adequate infrastructure, and the shortage of housing capacity in general and
community plans. Changing the region's current development patterns will require
a great deal of effort and public support.
SANDAG's REGION2020 efforts focus on these areas:
1) Coordinating with local jurisdictions to make changes in their plans to implement
REGION2020;
2) Building public support and securing endorsements for REGION2020 from
business, housing, education, and environmental leaders, and other local civic
and community groups;
3) Identifying and providing incentives for local agencies that are willing to
implement the REGION2020 strategy; and
4) Publicizing and increasing awareness for REGION2020 and smart growth in as
many media forums as possible.
To show your support for REGION2020 and smart growth, or to schedule a
presentation to your organization, please visit the REGION2020 Web site at
www.sandag.org/region2020, or call (619) 595-5300. A variety of publications,
including the REGI0N2020 quarterly newsletter, are available online or by request.
R E G I O N 2 0 2 0
SMART GROWTH DEFINITION, PRINCIPLES, AND DESIGNATIONS
Summer 2000
DEFINITION OF SMART GROWTH IN THE SAN DIEGO REGION
Smart growth is a compact, efficient, and environmentally
sensitive pattern of development that provides people with
additional travel, housing, and employment choices by
focusing future growth away from rural areas and closer to
existing and planned job centers and public facilities.
PRINCIPLES FOR SMART GROWTH IMPLEMENTATION
Local Level
Land Use and Urban Design. Reduce sprawl by focusing
future growth in the cities and in the appropriate
unincorporated suburban communities and village centers
through new development, redevelopment, and infill,
emphasizing pedestrian -friendly design and mixed use"
development.
Travel Choices. Provide people with additional travel
choices (walking, biking, rail, bus, and automobile). Some
ways of accomplishing this include:
• Designing transit systems to serve the highest residential
and employment densities and to connect key activity
centers, including major employment centers,
commercial and residential areas, airports, universities,
hospitals, zoos, and others;
+ Locating higher densities and mixed use development in
areas with frequent transit service; and
• Providing safe and convenient pedestrian and bike access
to activity centers and transit stations.
Jobs/Housing Balance. Locate housing near or within major
employment areas and provide employment opportunities
near major housing areas.
Housing Choices. Provide, in each community, a variety of
housing types for residents of all incomes.
Infrastructure Capacity and Location. Provide adequate
infrastructure (as referenced in local planning documents) in
designated smart growth focus areas.
Environment. Protect open space and habitat areas. When
constructing residential, commercial, or industrial areas, or
building transportation systems, promote environmentally
sensitive development that conserves water and energy,
protects water quality, and promotes the use of alternative
energy sources.
Consistency between Local Plans and Regional Forecast.
Reconcile local plans with the regional forecast agreed upon
by SANDAG.
Commitments. Incorporate smart growth principles into
local general and community plans, zoning ordinances,
project review criteria, street design standards, and other
development processes.
RegionallState Level
Economy. Promote economic prosperity that results in a
rising standard of living for our region's residents by
attracting high value jobs, supporting a highly educated
work force, and taking advantage of the region's economic
generators.
Incentives and Resources. Provide regional funding and
other incentives to local jurisdictions that plan for and
implement smart growth within designated smart growth
focus areas, and identify other federal, state, regional, and
local smart growth resources.
State -Local Fiscal Reform. Pursue state -local tax reform to
provide local jurisdictions greater fiscal stability and to
encourage a better balance between building housing and
retail centers.
Indicators. Establish indicators and regularly measure
progress toward achieving smart growth goals and
improving our residents' quality of life.
DESIGNATION OF SMART GROWTH FOCUS AREAS
Smart growth focuses future growth away from rural areas
and closer to existing and planned job centers and public
facilities. Therefore, most growth in the region should occur
primarily in these locations in this order of priority: in the
cities, in unincorporated suburban communities adjacent to
cities, and in unincorporated village centers, as opposed to
rural or agricultural areas.
Smart growth focus areas should (1) accommodate or have
the potential to accommodate higher residential and/or
employment densities, and (2) be located in one of the
following areas:
• Key activity centers that are or could be connected to
other activity centers by transit.
+ Areas within walking distance (approximately 1/4-mile)
of the region's existing or planned light rail stations,
commuter rail stations, or major bus corridors with
frequent service.
• Pedestrian -friendly town and village centers.
Through the REGION2020 process, SANDAG will ask local
jurisdictions to identify smart growth focus areas within
their jurisdictions. SANDAG will provide funding incentives
for projects within focus areas. Allocation of the funding
incentives will be based on criteria reflecting the smart
growth principles developed through the REGION2020
process.
Mixed use refers to the mixing, or combining, of land uses in an attempt to reduce dependency on the automobile and increase sense of
community. Mixed use is achieved by placing housing, jobs, services, and recreational land uses closer together or on different stories of
the same building, and is often within walking distance of public transit.
REGION2020
WORKING ',,• P TO SHARK OUR FUTURE
Resolution Supporting Smart Growth
in the San Diego Region
WHEREAS, the current population of the San Diego region is almost 3 million people, and the
region's population, jobs, and housing units are steadily growing; and
WHEREAS, collectively, current local plans will not meet the housing and employment needs for our
new residents and our future economic prosperity; and
WHEREAS, without changes to current plans, the San Diego region will face a growing crisis in
affordable housing, transportation, habitat and open space preservation, economic prosperity,
and energy and water needs; and
WHEREAS, REGION2020 is the region's growth management strategy which espouses planning
principles that reduce sprawl and address the challenges that come with future growth; and
WHEREAS, the San Diego region has defined smart growth as a compact, efficient, and
environmentally -sensitive pattern of development that provides people with additional travel,
housing, and employment choices by focusing future growth closer to existing and planned job
centers and public facilities, and away from rural areas; now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED THAT we support the REGION2020 strategy, and the following smart growth
principles that it promotes:
1. New development to be focused closer to urban jobs and activity centers and away from rural
areas.
2. Additional travel choices among activity centers, and more mixed use development and
pedestrian -friendly urban designs.
3. Location of new jobs near existing housing, and new housing near existing jobs.
4. A variety of housing types in each community that meet the housing needs of all income levels.
5. Adequate investment for existing and future infrastructure needs in smart growth areas.
6. Environmentally -sensitive development that conserves energy and water; ensures the protection
of resources that preserve the biodiversity of the region; and preserves open space, community
parks, agricultural lands, watersheds, wetlands, scenic values, and wildlife.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT local plans and regulations should ensure that future growth
improves the quality of life throughout the region. We urge our local elected officials to plan now for
the future by incorporating smart growth principles into local general plans, zoning ordinances,
project review criteria, street design standards, and other implementation processes, and to make
decisions consistent with the above -stated smart growth principles.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this
day of of 2001
President/Chairperson Organization
REGION2020
WORKING TOGETHER TO SHAPE OUR FUTURE
SIKL4YiI'IN u.s
MEETING AGENDA
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REGION2020 WORKSHOP WITH THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY
Tuesday, July 17, 2001
2:30 p.m.
City of National City
1243 National City Blvd.
National City, CA 91950
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES:
a. Initiate a dialogue with the Council about SANDAG's REGION2020 Growth Management Strategy.
b. Discuss how National City and other local jurisdictions can contribute to more smart growth in the San
Diego region.
ITEM #
1. Introductions, Background, and Context (5 minutes)
2. REGION2020 Presentation and Requested Actions (10 minutes)
SANDAG staff will make a PowerPoint presentation on REGION2020. The presentation will
provide information on the goals of the Strategy and will illustrate local examples of smart growth.
SANDAG requests that the City place REGION2020 on a future agenda to consider:
• Adoption of a Resolution supporting the REGION2020 program, and
• Identification of specific commitments that the Council might make to implement REGION2020
in the City of National City.
Response by City Staff as Needed
3. Roundtable Discussion (45 minutes)
A general discussion by the Council is encouraged in order to obtain feedback on the Strategy and
on alternative ways to implement REGION2020 in the City of National City.
Attachments:
• REGION2020 Fact Sheet
• Overview of Work Plan and Timeline of Events
• Resolution of Support
• List of Endorsers of REGION2020
• Smart Growth Definition, Principles, and Designations
• Overview of Resources and Incentives
• List of Sample Commitments
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WORKING TOGETHER TO SHAPE OUR FUTURE
REGION2020 GROWTH MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
Overview of Work Plan and Timeline of Events
The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) is working to implement its
REGION2020 growth management strategy. The foundation of the strategy is smart growth,
which means limiting sprawl and focusing future growth in urban areas, and in the case of new
development, using smart growth principles to create livable, walkable communities. SANDAG
is currently focused on working with local jurisdictions and building public support for smart
growth implementation in the San Diego region.
REGION2020 Program Activities
Strengthening Coordination with Local Jurisdictions
SANDAG is holding a series of subregional workshops with elected officials and city/county
staff in the region's 18 cities and county government. The goals of the workshops are to address
issues related to implementing smart growth and to encourage jurisdictions to identify specific
commitments they can make to support the REGION2020 growth management strategy.
Building Public Support
In addition to strengthening coordination with the local jurisdictions, a strategy has been
developed to build public support for the REGION2020 principles. This strategy focuses on:
• Securing endorsements of REGION2020 from a variety of groups and individuals from
throughout the region, and
• Building partnerships with the business, environmental, educational, and housing
communities to better involve them in smart growth efforts .
Reaching out to the Media
SANDAG also has been working with the media on REGION2020 and smart growth in an effort
to reach as many individuals as possible on these issues.
REGION2020 Timeline
The following summarizes major REGION2020 program milestones achieved and planned.
• September 2000: Release of 2000 State of the Region Report: Measuring the San Diego
Region's Livability and Report Card of the San Diego Region's Livability.
• September/ October 2000: First round of workshops with senior management of 18 cities
and county government.
• November 2000: SANDAG Board accepted for distribution a resolution of support for
REGION2020 and smart growth.
■ December 2000: Initiated dialogue with the business, environmental, and educational
communities.
■ January — Fall 2001: Smart growth presentations to local community and civic groups.
Secure and compile endorsements.
• January/ February 2001: Second round of workshops with the senior management of 18
cities and county government.
• January/ February 2001: Initiated dialogue with housing community. Recommendations
by Regional Housing Task Force released.
• April 2001: Board of Directors workshop on the growth policies' analysis.
• June/ July 2001: First round of REGION2020 workshops with elected officials.
• July/ August 2001: Third round of workshops with senior management of 18 cities and
county government.
• September/ October 2001: Transportation Summit between SANDAG and the region's
transit agencies to release draft Transit Element update, and second round of
REGION2020 workshops with elected officials.
• November 2001: REGION2020 Summit bringing together efforts of local jurisdictions;
civic, business and community groups; and endorsements obtained throughout the
process. Second annual State of the Region Report Card issued.
• Winter 2002: Revised REGION2020 Strategy released, based on input collected
throughout the process.
Get the Latest Information
Join SANDAG's REGION2020 listsery to receive monthly e-mail updates and the REGION2020
quarterly newsletter. To join the list, send an e-mail to Carolina Gregor at cgr@sandag.org. Visit
the REGION2020 Web site for additional information at www.sandag.org/region2020.
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June/ July 2001
SMART GROWTH INCENTIVES AND RESOURCES
June/July 2001
SANDAG has received a number of comments regarding the need to provide financial
incentives for the implementation of smart growth. Adequate financing is a critical aspect of the
success of smart growth. In conjunction with the region's planning and community
development directors, SANDAG has begun to identify a "menu" of incentives and resources at
the local, regional, state, and federal government levels that could be available to jurisdictions
who implement smart growth. Many of these resources currently are available, while others
will require policy changes to institute them. Additionally, some of the listed resources are
substantial, while others are minimal.
While the attached menu of resources is a good start, SANDAG acknowledges that smart
growth implementation will require a significant infusion of capital for infrastructure
improvements in existing urban areas. Because of the magnitude of infrastructure needs, the
region will need to consider developing ambitious and creative regional funding strategies, in
addition to the resources that are listed in this report.
The attached menu of resources and incentives identifies a variety of resources available for
smart growth. Although SANDAG has considerable influence over the allocation of
transportation -related resources in the San Diego region, local jurisdictions can also look to state
and federal housing, environmental, and economic development programs. Finally, even
though substantial monetary resources are necessary to implement smart growth, actions other
than funding are necessary. In many cases, changes to local plans, policies, and ordinances will
be needed to facilitate development that meets smart growth principles, and in some instances,
local jurisdictions will be able to provide other incentives at the local level to encourage smart
growth development.
This report groups government -related resources into three basic categories — (1) those over
which local jurisdictions have direct control in the individual cities and the County, (2) those
over which local governments have control in the regional context (e.g. SANDAG), and
(3) those over which state and federal agencies have direct control. The following chart
summarizes the roles and responsibilities for resource allocation at the various levels of
government.
Government Level Local and Regional Roles and Responsibilities
Local
Regional
Local jurisdictions are the level of government most responsible for
development patterns. Local jurisdictions individually could offer
local incentives to encourage smart growth projects.
SANDAG: Local governments acting as SANDAG allocate significant
transportation revenues. It is in this area where regional resources can
have the largest potential for influencing smart growth. If the
allocation of transportation resources emphasizes smart growth
Government Level Local and Regional Roles and Responsibilities
principles and criteria, SANDAG could have substantial ability to
assist jurisdictions to better manage growth toward smart growth
focus areas and leverage additional resources for development in
those areas.
State and Federal
Other Regional Governments: Local jurisdictions and SANDAG work
in collaboration with other regional governments, which often
influence development patterns. These entities include the transit
boards, the San Diego County Water Authority, the Port District, the
Air Pollution Control District, the County Office of Education, Local
Agency Formation Commission, and others.
The state and federal governments institute policies and programs that
also affect local and regional development patterns. Local
governments and SANDAG do not have direct authority over the
resources that the state and federal governments allocate across the
nation, but by commitment to smart growth through REGION2020,
local governments and SANDAG can be positioned to benefit from
state and federal resources that emphasize smart growth.
Summary of Resources
The following bullet points summarize the resources and/or incentives provided in this report.
Details about each program or resource, including contacts, are provided in Attachment A.
Local Resources
• Locally -initiated density bonuses
• Streamlined processing, tailored development standards and zoning code requirements
• Local discretion over use of federal funds
• Policies that place community services in smart growth locations
• Zoning codes that allow mixed use development and mixed housing types
• Redevelopment programs and policies
Regional Resources
• Federal TEA-21 (includes Surface Transportation Program (STP), Congestion Mitigation
and Air Quality Program (CMAQ), Federal Enhancement Program, and Transit -
Oriented Development Planning Funds)
• State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP)
• TransNet (includes Walkable Communities Program)
• Assistance on Grant Proposals
• Proposal for State -Local Fiscal Reform
• Assistance on the Financing of Smart Growth Projects and Programs that Promote
Location Efficient Mortgages
• Air Pollution Control District Vehicle Registration Fund
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State Resources
• The Double Bottom Line — Investing in California's Emerging Markets
• Infrastructure State Revolving Fund Program
• Department of Housing and Community Development (administers Jobs -Housing
Balance Improvement Program, Downtown Rebound Program, Inter -Regional
Partnership Grants For Jobs -Housing Balance)
• Smart Growth/ Growth Management Bills Proposed in the State Legislature
Federal Resources
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (administers Community
Development Block Grants (CDBG), HOME Funds, Brownfields Economic Development
Initiative, Energy Efficient Mortgage Program)
■ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (administers Brownfields Assessment
Demonstration Pilots, Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Funds)
• Economic Development Administration (administers Public Works and Economic
Development Program)
■ Fannie Mae Foundation Building Blocks
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Attachment A
INCENTIVES AND RESOURCES
FOR SMART GROWTH PROJECTS
LOCAL LEVEL
Local jurisdictions can proactively encourage smart growth in specific areas by providing
incentives or resources in those areas, such as:
■ Locally initiated density bonuses for development in smart growth focus areas.
■ Streamlined processing and tailored development standards or zoning code
requirements for projects located in smart growth areas, or other forms of regulatory
relief that would result in cost avoidance and reductions in areas with transit and
community services.
■ Local discretion over use of federal funds (CDBG, etc.).
■ Policies that place community services in smart growth locations (e.g. childcare in
neighborhoods and at job centers; social services and hospitals in transit -served
locations; and civic buildings downtown).
■ Zoning codes that allow mixed use development and mixed housing types.
■ Local redevelopment programs and policies.
REGIONAL LEVEL
SANDAG
A. Transportation Discretionary Funds. SANDAG has some flexibility in allocating state and
federal transportation funds. The following is a summary of flexibility level by program.
■ Federal TEA-21 - Staff contact: Craig Scott, (619) 595-5326
1. Surface Transportation Program (STP) — While restricted primarily to capital
projects such as highways, transit, local roads, pedestrian/bike projects, and
enhancements, SIT funds are quite flexible and could be focused on specific
priority issues. SANDAG has programmed all of the STP funds currently
estimated to be available through the year 2004 ($28 million per year). SANDAG
could reallocate these funds to other purposes or develop new emphasis areas to
be applied if additional funds become available or in future funding cycles.
2. Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program (CMAQ) — CMAQ funds are
restricted primarily to capital projects, with limited exceptions for new transit
operations. The use of the funds must show air quality benefits. No single -
occupancy capacity -enhancing projects are allowed. SANDAG has programmed
all of the CMAQ funds currently estimated to be available through the year 2004
($26 million per year), but has flexibility to use these funds for specific priorities.
3. Federal Enhancement Program — SANDAG has allocated $22.6 million of federal
Enhancement Program funds for this cycle (1998-2004) focusing on transit -oriented
development, regional corridor and feeder bikeways, scenic viewshed or wildlife
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corridor acquisition, and corridor/gateway enhancements. SANDAG developed
its own guidelines for spending these funds, demonstrating flexibility in
channeling TEA-21 funding to implement high priority regional programs.
Additional funding is expected to become available in 2004.
4. Transit -Oriented Development Planning Funds - Staff contact: Rob Rundle, (619)
595-5649 - In June 2000, the SANDAG Board allocated $100,000 of TEA-21
planning funds for Transit -Oriented Development Planning. This action was the
second year that the Board allocated funds for this program. The Board has
indicated a willingness to make additional funds available in subsequent fiscal
years.
■ State Transportation Improvement Program (Sill') - Staff contact: Craig Scott, (619)
595-5326 - Although restricted to capital projects (highways, transit, local roads,
pedestrian/bike projects), these funds are otherwise quite flexible. Historically,
SANDAG has used STIP funds for major highway and transit projects. This program
is an area, however, where SANDAG has additional discretionary flexibility to direct
funds to particular focus areas. STIP funds total $50 million per year, and have been
programmed through the year 2004, subject to amendments.
■ TransNet - Staff contact: Craig Scott, (619) 595-5326 - The TransNet program is by far
the largest local funding source with substantial flexibility, particularly within the
local street and road portion of the program. Although the basic one-third split for
highway, transit, and local streets and roads would require a vote of the electorate to
change, the Board can change the projects in the expenditure plan and other rules and
specifics of the ordinance with a two-thirds vote of the Board. Raised through a 1/2%
local sales tax, the amount of available TransNet funds for FY2001 totals $180 million,
including $59 million each for specified highway projects, rail transit projects and
transit operations/pass subsidies, and the local streets and roads program. $1 million
per year has been programmed for bicycle projects. These funds have been
programmed for specific projects in the TransNet Program of Projects through 2004,
subject to amendments.
The TransNet ordinance will expire in 2008. Implementing the Regional
Transportation Plan relies in large part on the extension of local sales tax. A new
expenditure plan for the extension of the tax could provide a significant opportunity to
establish new programs or create additional incentives to implement REGION2020
and other regional plans and programs. Incentive programs could be created to help
fund the capital improvements needed to support smart growth strategies, such as
focusing higher density developments around transit stations and along major bus
corridors. Rather than a formula -driven program, perhaps those jurisdictions willing
to implement smart growth strategies and accept more affordable housing should be
rewarded or provided with an incentive through additional TransNet funding. Other
options include the creation of an environmental component of the program to fund
habitat acquisition or stormwater infrastructure. Our regions elected officials will face
policy decisions about these issues in the near future.
■ Walkable Communities Projects - Staff contact: Rob Rundle, (619) 595-5649 - In April
2000, the SANDAG Board approved an amendment to the TransNet Ordinance to
allocate $1 million in FY 2001 from the Local Street and Road Funds portion of the
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Program for the Walkable Communities Demonstration Program. On June 23, 2000,
the SANDAG Board approved criteria for the program. Pilot projects were approved
by the Board at its January 2001 meeting. Depending upon the success of the pilot
projects, the Board may consider allocating additional funds for walkable communities
projects.
B. Assistance on Grant Proposals — Staff contact: Carolina Gregor, (619) 595-5399 - SANDAG
could agree to provide member agencies with assistance on grant applications for
resources that promote the implementation of smart growth projects, reinforcing local and
regional connections to REGION2020.
C. Proposal for State -Local Fiscal Reform — Staff contact: Marney Cox, (619) 595-5335 -
SANDAG has developed a proposal on state -local fiscal reform. Although no bills were
passed by the state legislature on this item during previous legislative sessions, a
successful state -local tax reform effort would increase local governments' budgetary
control and flexibility, and strengthen growth management incentives.
D. Assistance on the Financing of Smart Growth Projects and Programs That Promote
Location Efficient Mortgages — Staff contact: Carolina Gregor, (619) 595-5399 - In several
important ways, financing for smart growth projects is different than the financing
mechanisms for conventional suburban projects. SANDAG could collaborate with local
jurisdictions' finance directors, local lenders, developers, foundations, and other groups to
develop specific proposals, and to work with financial institutions to develop programs
that promote location -efficient mortgages in smart growth focus areas.
OTHER REGIONAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
Air Pollution Control District (APCD) (AB 2766) — Staff contact: Andy Hamilton, APCD,
(858) 650-4671- The APCD Vehicle Registration Fund is collected and distributed by the
Air Pollution Control Board (County Board of Supervisors) on a biennial basis ($2 per
vehicle registration). Approximately $4 million is available at each allocation to public or
private -sponsored projects designed to reduce mobile source emissions within the region.
Eligibility criteria include planning, design, and construction of products to enhance
pedestrian, bicycle, and transit travel.
STATE LEVEL
A. The Double Bottom Line — Investing in California's Emerging Markets — Staff contact:
Lynn Rohs, State Treasurer's Office, (916) 653-2995 - The California State Treasurer's
Office has proposed massive new investment in urban communities to direct State
infrastructure investment policy to ensure California's long-term economic prosperity.
The model initiatives contained in The Double Bottom Line direct over $8 billion in
investment capital through State programs and the State's pension and investment funds
to spur economic growth and development in California communities. The programs are
committed to the "double bottom line" — the financially prudent management of capital
and the creation of hope and opportunity in California's struggling communities. The
programs are varied and many are intended to leverage substantial additional private
investment in communities in need of capital for economic expansion.
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For example, California's public retirement systems, CalPERS and CalSTRS, have
allocated $1 billion in new investment for urban infill real estate development, targeting
urban cores and underserved communities of California.
B. Infrastructure State Revolving Fund Program - Staff contact: Diane Brady, (916) 322-0632
The Infrastructure State Revolving Fund (ISRF) Program provides low-cost financing to
public agencies. The ISRF Program funding is available in amounts ranging from $250,000
to $20,000,000, with a term of up to 30 years. Eligible applicants for the ISRF Program
include any subdivision of a local government, including cities, counties, redevelopment
agencies, special districts, assessment districts, joint powers authorities, and non-profit
corporations formed on the behalf of a local government. Eligible categories of projects
indude city streets, county highways, drainage and flood control, educational facilities,
environmental mitigation measures, parks and recreation facilities, port facilities, public
transit, sewage collection and treatment, solid waste collection and disposal, water
treatment and distribution, defense conversion, public safety facilities, state highways,
and power and communication facilities.
C. Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) —
■ Jobs -Housing Balance Improvement Program ($110 million) — Staff contact: Linda
Nichols, (916) 323-3175 - This program provides financial incentives to cities and
counties to improve the jobs -housing balance by attracting new businesses and jobs to
"housing rich" areas that lack adequate employment and for capital outlay projects
designed to encourage housing construction in urbanized areas.
1. Rental Housing Construction Fund ($5 million) - Loans will be transferred to cities
and counties to be used for urban redevelopment that encourage housing built
close to transit stations. Projects need to be located within one-half mile of an
existing or planned transit station. HCD may establish interests rates between 3
and 7 percent based on analysis of project needs. Funds may be used for EIRs or
other environmental documents. Awards require a 50% match from the local
agency.
2. $5 Million in Grants - Will be appropriated to cities and counties to attract new
jobs to "housing rich" communities that lack an adequate employment base to
match the amount and cost of housing in those communities. A local agency that
has completed an economic development strategic plan may apply for a grant to
create an economic development strike team to assist the local agency in better
targeting and coordinating outreach to employers who may choose to locate in
those communities.
3. $100 Million in Grants - Will be available to cities and counties for a broad range of
capital purposes that can address community impact concerns, such as parks,
environmental mitigation, transit stations, etc. Grants will be provided to local
governments in proportion to the number of building permits issued for housing.
Additional funds will be provided to reward communities that issue permits that
place less demand on state infrastructure resources, such as in -fill projects, and
reuse of commercial or industrial sites for mixed uses, including housing, housing
served by transit, housing in high job growth areas, and housing for low- and
moderate -income families. To receive funds, local jurisdictions must have a
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housing element in their general plan that complies with state law to assure that
adequate land is available for housing construction.
• Downtown Rebound Program ($25 million) - Staff contact: Sharon Sarno, (916) 327-
8255 — This program provides financing in urban areas for infill projects and
conversion of under -used commercial and industrial property to mixed use or
housing.
• Inter -Regional Partnership Grants For Jobs -Housing Balance - Staff contact: Paul
Dirksen Jr., (916) 445-5307 —This one-time grant will fund inter -regional partnerships
among regional agencies to develop and implement plans and models using
geographic mapping, targeted policies and incentives, and integrated planning
approaches to encourage economic investment and job creation near available
housing, and increase housing near major employment centers. Eligible applicants
include two or more Council's of Government (COG's), two or more sub -regional
agencies within a multi -county Council of Government, or a county collaborating with
state and federal governments in an inter -regional context. SANDAG and the Western
Riverside Council of Governments have jointly applied for an Interregional
Partnership Grant to develop strategies to address the jobs -housing mix and
associated transportation issues between San Diego and Riverside.
D. Smart Growth/ Growth Management Bills Proposed in the State Legislature (SANDAG
supports these bills)
Bill Provisions
AB 271 (Canciamilla)
AB 291 (Corbett)
Would exempt from CEQA review any proposed infill
developments of up to 5 acres within an urbanized
unincorporated area
Would provide grants of up to $250,000 for jurisdictions to
incorporate smart growth principles into local general plans and
policies
AB 310 (Goldberg) Would allow the developer of a subdivision to pay a fee in lieu
of a dedication of land for park or recreational purposes, and
would authorize the local public agency to use the funds for an
area outside the subdivision if specified requirements are met
AB 381 (Papan) Would provide an unspecified amount of money to
governmental entities to site and construct transit -oriented
development within 1/3 mile of an existing or planned transit
station
AB 545 (Steinberg) Would require the state to consider sites within mixed use or
certain commercial districts when leasing, purchasing, or
constructing buildings for state purposes
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Bill Provisions
AB 716 (Firebaugh) Would set aside $100 million for the acquisition and
development of parks in cities and counties, and the expansion,
rehabilitation, and renovation of existing facilities at local urban
parks
AB 924 (Wayne) Would establish a $1 million pilot project encouraging
jurisdictions to adopt consolidated general plans or mandatory
elements of consolidated general plans, if those plans or
elements are consistent with smart growth
AB 1020 (Leach) Would establish the California Twenty -First Century
Infrastructure Investment Fund to provide revenues from the
State's General Fund to local jurisdictions for capital
infrastructure needs
AB 1086 (Calderon) Would require a lead agency to adopt a negative declaration or
mitigated negative declaration for infill residential projects in an
urbanized area of an incorporated city with a population of at
least 100,000 persons, provided the project meets certain
requirements
SB 423 (Torlakson) Would return ERAF dollars to jurisdictions that have valid
housing elements, have livable communities principles in their
general plans, increase building permits over the previous year,
and do not provide incentives to retailers
SB 600 (Torlakson) Would expand a transit village development district from the
existing'/ mile to a' mile from a rail transit station, and would
expand the definition of "blight" for purposes of redevelopment
to include the area within a half mile of a transit station, where
the community has adopted a transit plan
SB 660 (Haynes) Would require the designation of 25 California Renewal
Communities to be linked with available federal funding, public
or private resources, and specified state resources
SB 1087 (Alarcon) Would allow jurisdictions to consider regional environmental
benefits in environmental impact analyses in order to facilitate
infill development
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FEDERAL LEVEL
A. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) — Local jurisdictions can
prioritize CDBG/HOME and other locally administered funding for projects located in
smart growth areas. The following are some of the resources available through HUD.
■ Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) - Staff contact: Charles Wilson, (619)
557-5310 - $4.8 billion — The CDBG program is the federal government's largest and
most flexible tool for assisting cities, towns, and states to meet local community
development priorities and objectives. The program is routinely used to rehabilitate
housing, improve infrastructure, finance the creation of parks and other open space
improvements, remove blighted buildings, provide job training, and finance revolving
loan funds and other community -determined priorities. In FY 2001, the San Diego
region will see nearly $38 million in CDBG funding.
■ HOME — Staff contact: Charles Wilson, (619) 557-5310 - Roughly $1.6 billion in HOME
funds are provided annually to local and state governments and community housing
development organizations to produce affordable and livable housing for low and
moderate income families. Most of these funds are used to improve existing urban
neighborhoods. In FY 2001, the San Diego region will see $16.5 million in HOME
funding.
• Brownfields Economic Development Initiative - Staff contact: Charles Wilson, (619)
557-5310 - $25 million — While brownfields are not contaminated enough to be on the
EPA Superfund list of highly contaminated sites, they are not clean enough to be
redeveloped without environmental assessment or remediation. Fear of liability, lack
of financing for clean up, and the availability of undeveloped greenfields impedes
brownfields redevelopment. HUD's brownfields funding, combined with loan
guarantees, provides assistance for local efforts.
• Energy Efficient Mortgage - Staff contact: Charles Wilson, (619) 557-5310 - This is a
single family FHA insurance program that enables homebuyers to finance the cost of
adding energy efficient features to housing as part of a FHA insured home purchase or
refinancing.
B. United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Brownfields Assessment Demonstration Pilots ($200,000/ grant) — Staff contact Bobbi
Kahan, (415) 744-2191 - These pilots identify the extent of brownfield contamination,
estimate cleanup costs, and develop cleanup plans. In FY 2000, the EPA funded 50
new site assessment grants. EPA has requested funding to support additional
assessment pilots.
• Brownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund Pilots — Staff contact: Bobbi Kahan, (415)
744-2191) - Funded up to $1 million over five years, these pilot programs provide the
EPA, states, tribes, municipalities, and communities with useful information and
strategies as they continue to seek new methods to promote a unified approach to site
assessment, environmental cleanup, and redevelopment.
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C. Economic Development Administration
• Public Works and Economic Development Program ($204.5 Million) — Staff contact:
Wilfred Marshall, (310) 348-5836 - This program provides communities in economic
decline funds to revitalize and enhance their physical infrastructure to attract new
industry, expand business, diversify economies and generate or retain long-term,
private sector jobs and investment. The program seeks to redevelop existing facilities
and industrial locations to promote sustainable economic development.
D. Fannie Mae Foundation
• Building Blocks: A Practitioner's Guide to Planning and Financing Community
Revitalization - Staff Contact: Carol Bell, (202) 274-8075 - This quarterly publication
explores ways to connect capital markets to emerging communities, and addresses
fundamental operational issues for community -based organizations. Each issue is
devoted to a single topic on various aspects of community revitalization and strives to
put innovative, useful strategies for distressed -neighborhood redevelopment directly
in the hands of practitioners. Do they appropriate funding to local jurisdictions for any
purposes, or just to individuals.
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REGION2020
WORKING TOGETHER TO SHAPE OUR FUTURE
POTENTIAL COMMITMENTS TO REGION2020
WORKING DRAFT
June/July 2001
As part of SANDAG's REGION2020 process, local jurisdictions are being asked to identify
potential commitments that they could make to implement REGION2020/smart growth policies,
including but not limited to, specific changes to general and community plans, zoning ordinances,
project review criteria, and street design standards. Attached is a menu of sample actions that
jurisdictions are/could be considering as commitments.
In order to successfully implement REGION2020, a variety of groups and individuals, in addition
to local jurisdictions, will need to make commitments to smart growth. For example, SANDAG
will need to consider certain commitments, such as the allocation of discretionary transportation
funds toward transportation facilities that induce smart growth, preparation of issue papers on
regional topics that could be used by local jurisdictions in environmental analyses associated with
general plan amendments, and work on defining and addressing regionally significant projects.
Others, such as the business community, housing advocates, environmental leaders, educational
institutions, and even individual residents, also will be asked to make commitments. SANDAG is
working with representatives from each of these areas to identify actions to which they could
commit. Commitments will be made public at the REGION2020 Summit, anticipated for
November 2001.
Many local jurisdictions are taking a number of the actions found on the attached list, but the
actions need to be more extensive. Local leaders are being asked to determine what combinations
of actions are appropriate for their jurisdiction. The intent of this report is to identify a range of
actions that local jurisdictions can consider as they evaluate potential commitments to implement
REGION2020 and smart growth in the region. As SANDAG visits each local City Council and the
Board of Supervisors to discuss REGION2020, these sample actions will be available in the context
of local commitments to smart growth.
The sample actions are based on the following:
• SANDAG's 2020 Regional Transportation Plan and the Land Use Distribution Element of
the Regional Growth Management Strategy;
• A publication by the Local Government Commission, entitled "Building Livable
Communities — A Policymaker's Guide to Infill Development;"
• The REGION2020 Smart Growth Definition, Principles, and Designations; and
• Comments by SANDAG's Regional Growth Management Technical Committee -(the
region's planning and community development directors), members of the Land Use &
Transportation Subcommittee of SANDAG's Citizens Advisory Committee for
Transportation, and staff from local transportation and transit agencies.
Menu of Sample Actions for Local Jurisdictions' Consideration (Working Draft)
A. Assure Public Participation and Community Awareness
❑ 1. Community Education: Educate citizens, in their own neighborhood and
languages, about the public benefits of infill and redevelopment, and the tradeoffs
involved between smart growth and sprawl. Explain how traditional suburban
development patterns can lead to sprawl and its associated challenges of increased
auto trips and congestion, and how mixed uses, compactness, and walkability can
promote more travel choices and livability.
❑ 2. Housing Choices: Show that increased density can mean better designed and
better -functioning neighborhoods, and can provide a wider range of housing choices
for residents with different needs and incomes, especially affordable housing. Also,
show that compact communities with good urban design and transit connections can
result in a more defined sense of place.
❑ 3. Travel Choices: Educate the community on the benefits of a more balanced
transportation system that provides more opportunities for walking, biking, transit,
carpooling, and vanpooling. These opportunities could enhance mobility for many
residents, as well as traditionally underserved groups, such as children,
handicapped, low-income, and elderly residents.
❑ 4. Public Facilities: Work with local residents to emphasize community benefits of
smart growth, including opportunities for improved public facilities such as parks,
schools, libraries, recreation centers, shops, and other services, along with better
pedestrian and transit access to the facilities.
B. Plan Proactively for Inf ill and Redevelopment Areas
❑ 1. Smart Growth Focus Areas: Identify specific infill sites or redevelopment areas
where growth could be directed, densities or mixed use opportunities could be
increased, and/or transit service could be added or improved. Work with property
owners and community members to develop concept plans for these sites that
developers will be able to build upon. Include these concept plans in General,
Community, and/or Specific Plans.
❑ 2. Infrastructure: Replace or repair the aging infrastructure in infill and
redevelopment areas.
❑ 3. "Greyfield Redevelopment": Encourage the redevelopment of aging, semi -
vacant, and/or underutilized shopping centers and their associated parking lots.
Encourage new designs which eliminate large "seas" of parking, bring store
frontages loser to the street, encourage mixed uses, and promote walkability and
the use of transit. Encourage or require that residential uses be mixed into new
commercial redevelopment projects. Encourage _ or require shared parking and
reduced parking in transit -accessible areas.
❑ 4. Inter -Agency Collaboration: Collaborate with other agencies whose activities are
affected by infill or redevelopment, including transportation and transit agencies,
school districts, and service providers.
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C. Encourage Smart Growth in Newly -Developing Areas
❑ 1. Comprehensive Planning/ Smart Growth Focus Areas: In newly -developing
areas with vacant residential, commercial, and industrially -planned land uses,
identify specific sites where growth should be directed, and apply smart growth
principles to those sites to promote walkability, mixed uses, transit, housing for a
wide range of incomes, and protection of open spaces and habitats. This can be done
by master planning model villages around transit and public facilities.
❑ 2. Infrastructure: Discourage extension of infrastructure beyond designated service
boundaries.
❑ 3. Inter -Agency Collaboration: Collaborate with other agencies whose activities are
affected by the new development, including transportation and transit agencies,
school districts, and service providers.
D. Use Planning Tools to Promote Mixed Use
❑ 1. General and Community Plans: Evaluate general and community plans to ensure
that they encourage mixed use and walkability in newly urbanizing areas; in town,
community, and village centers; along rail and bus corridors; and in other
appropriate activity centers.
❑ 2. Specific Plans: Work with neighborhood leaders to prepare specific plans or
precise plans to promote mixed uses, walkability, and transit -oriented developments
in those areas. (Caltrans is in the process of finalizing a Statewide Transit Oriented
Development Study which will provide examples in California and the rest of the
United States of the benefits of TOD, funding opportunities, market factors,
implementation issues and strategies, and recommendations for public policy
changes.)
❑ 3. Zoning Ordinances: Adjust zoning to accomplish D-1. Include minimum
residential densities, minimum commercial coverage, and maximum parking ratios
on key sites. Adopt zoning that allows developers to add housing units near transit
stations, or add extra stories and floor space to office buildings if the developments
are close to public transit or include amenities. Amenities could include
improvements to nearby transit stations, parks, public spaces, multifamily housing,
underground parking, fountains, landscaped terraces, wider sidewalks, or others.
(These types of density bonuses are being offered in Chicago and in the Hollywood
District and Sandy Boulevard corridor in central northeast Portland.)
❑ 4. Urban Design Guidelines: Develop, adopt, and implement design guidelines that
encourage pedestrian- and transit- friendly communities. For example, encourage
attractive building fronts that promote windows, awnings, landscaping, and sitting
areas, and avoid blank walls on buildings that face streets with transit service.
Provide opportunities for traffic calming. Design streets and structures at a human
scale to encourage walkability.
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❑ 5. Street Design Standards: Design streets for pedestrians and bikes, as well as
automobiles and public transit.
■ Incorporate standards that enhance walkability (such as non-contiguous
sidewalks, on -street parking, crosswalks, traffic calming, landscaping, and
good building facade design) into street design manuals, ensuring that the
manuals give priority to pedestrians, especially in residential and mixed use
areas. (SANDAG's Walkable Communities Advisory Committee is developing
pedestrian design guidelines that could be incorporated into local street design
standards. The pedestrian design guidelines should be available this fall.)
■ Work with local fire departments to find creative ways to address fire access
without destroying the character of a community due to the need for wider
roads.
• Reduce design speeds on local roads, since higher speed motor vehicle travel
discourages walking, biking, and access to public transit if pedestrians do not
feel safe.
• Provide appropriate accommodation for bicyclists on all local streets and
roads.
❑ 6. Parking: Reduce parking requirements and provide preferential carpool parking
in areas with good transit access. Promote shared parking between compatible uses.
Provide on -street parking (versus parking lots) in mixed use core areas, whenever
possible. (Angled parking in mixed use areas provides a traffic calming technique.)
When parking garages are necessary, consider integrating mixed uses on the ground
floor street level as an attractive alternative to traditional single -purpose parking
garages. Provide high quality short- and long-term bicycle parking.
E. Maximize Transit Investments
❑ 1. Transit Priority Measures: Work with Caltrans and local transit agencies (MTDB
and NCTD) to develop transit priority measures (such as signal priority, designated
bus lanes, and other techniques) that allow transit vehicles to by-pass congested
areas.
❑ 2. Funding: Support transit agencies in their efforts to give higher funding priority to
corridors where land use plans support high-level transit services. (These land use
patterns indude moderate residential and employment densities within walking
distances of transit stations or streets with major transit service, direct pedestrian
circulation patterns, connections to other urban services, and a safe and pleasant
walking environment).
❑ 3. Public Facilities: Encourage development of more intensively used public
facilities (such as schools, colleges, universities, libraries, urban parks, hospitals,
churches, and civic buildings) near existing and planned transit stations and major
activity centers, and within walking or biking distance of the communities they
serve.
❑ 4. Senior Facilities: Site senior housing and senior -related facilities near activity
centers, services, and transit.
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❑ 5. Employment Lands: In urbanized areas, intensify underutilized employment
lands that are served by transit. In newly -developing areas, where employment
lands are planned, promote higher intensities (and mixed uses where possible), and
set aside right-of-way for transit corridors and stations.
F. Use Public Facilities and Development Fees to Attract Investment
❑ 1. Public Facilities: Locate new and improved public facilities and services in areas
where infill or redevelopment is desired, and where people are able to walk, bike, or
take transit to the facility.
❑ 2. Development Fees: Where possible, craft flexible development fees that encourage
infill, mixed use, and redevelopment and discourage sprawl by charging less for
infill/ redevelopment projects.
O 3. Protection: Protect infill and redevelopment areas (e.g. improve public safety; use
code enforcement and other measures to keep vacant properties and streets clean
and unblighted.)
❑ 4. TDRs / TDCs: Where possible, use Transfer of Development Rights or Transfer of
Development Credits to encourage increased densities in selected areas while
decreasing density in other areas.
G. Provide Incentives for Smart Growth Development
O 1. Financing: Assist in financing residential projects in major activity centers or dose
to transit areas using city/county funds, tax increment financing, bond revenues, or
other sources. Assist developers in obtaining financing through tax-exempt bonds,
loan guarantees, or letters of credit.
❑ 2. Fee Waivers: Provide fee waivers for smart growth development.
❑ 3. Streamline: Without reducing standards, streamline the permit review and
issuance process, especially in infill and redevelopment areas and for non-profit
housing developers.
❑ 4. Flexibility: Provide flexibility to building codes for smart growth projects with
appropriate urban design (e.g. smaller commercial spaces, separate commercial and
residential structures on the same lot (mixed use), and higher ceilings for commercial
uses). As appropriate, revise related codes and standards used in the development
process, induding the subdivision ordinance, street drainage and landscaping
standards, and fire and building codes.
O 5. Housing Incentives: Offer density bonus-s, allow accessory units, or allow higher
densities by right in areas within walking distance of activity centers, transit stations,
and in transit corridors to provide a mix of housing types and prices.
❑ 6. Parking: Reduce parking requirements for projects where it is dear that people
can walk or take transit to where they are going (for example, within smart growth
focus areas). Encourage zero setbacks and alley parking, or parking behind buildings
instead of in front of buildings. Encourage shared parking between adjacent or
nearby compatible uses. Consider parking maximums.
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❑ 7. Level of Service Standards: Relax local level of service standards for streets where
walkability and access to transit already exist and where infill or redevelopment
projects are desired, and provide incentives to promote additional walking, biking,
and transit use.
❑ 8. State -Local Fiscal Reform: Support state -local fiscal reform efforts that will
provide local jurisdictions greater fiscal stability and encourage a better balance
between building housing and retail centers.
H. Protect Environmental Resources
❑ 1. Environment: Promote environmentally -sensitive development; conserve water
and energy; promote environmentally -sensitive energy production and other
measures called for by the San Diego Regional Energy Strategy; ensure the
protection of resources that protect the biodiversity of the region; and preserve open
space, parks, agricultural lands, watersheds, wetlands, scenic values, and wildlife.
❑ 2. Clustering: Cluster development away from environmentally -sensitive areas and
resources, as a way to protect the natural landscape.
❑ 3. Funding: Develop dedicated funding sources to pay for land acquisition, land
management, biological monitoring, park development, habitat restoration, trail
improvements, and watershed protection.
Sources:
• Land Use Distribution Element, SANDAG, 1995
• 2020 Regional Transportation Plan, SANDAG, 2000
• Building Livable Communities — A Policymaker's Guide to Infill Development, The Center for Livable Communities — A'Ara1
Government Commission Initiative, August 1995. Chapter: `What Local Governments Can Do to Encourage Infill
Development"
• REGION2020 Smart Growth Definition, Principles, and Designations, SANDAG, 2000
• San Diego Regional Energy Strategy, SANDAG, 2001 [http://www.sdenergy.org].
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REGION2020
RESOLUTIONS OF SUPPORT FOR SMART GROWTH AND REGION2020
■ Association of Environmental Professionals,
San Diego Chapter
• California State University San Marcos
• City of San Marcos
• Council of Design Professionals
• Downtown San Diego Partnership
■ Endangered Habitats League
■ Healthcare Association of San Diego and
Imperial Counties
• La Jolla Pharmaceutical
• League of Women Voters of San Diego
County
• National Wildlife Federation
• North County Economic Development
Corporation
• North Park Main Street
■ Preserve Calavera
• SANDAG's Regional Housing Task Force
• San Diego County Bicycle Coalition
• San Diego Employers Association, Inc.
■ San Diego Housing Commission
• San Diego Police Officers' Association
■ San Diego Regional Economic Development
Corporation
• San Diego Regional Partners In
Homeownership
• San Diego State University
• San Diego Workforce Partnership, Inc.
• Southwestern College
• University of San Diego Real Estate Institute
• Urban Housing Corporation of the San Diego
Urban League
• Walk San Diego
ENDORSEMENT CARDS SIGNED BY INDIVIDUALS IN THE
SAN DIEGO REGION SUPPORTING SMART GROWTH AND REGION2020
A: Michelle Abare; Victor Acevedo; Bert Acosta, Amputees In Motion, President; Raff Ahlgren,
Fox/6, Communication Affairs Director; R. Scott Aishter, Carrier Johnson, Director; Paul Akins,
UCSD; Thomas M. Anglewicz, MW Steele Group, Vice President; Dr. Janet A. Anderson; Ralph
Anderson; Simon Andrews, American Institute of Graphic Artists, Board Member; Simon
Andrews, Graphic Solutions, Principal; Jorge Apaldilli; Jacob Armstrong, Caltrans, Transportation
Planner; Robert Ashley, San Diego; Jessie Audette; Sterling Austeri
B: Heather M. Baker; Bandz Baldwin; Alexandria Bash; Rosina Baur, Coldwell Banker; Keith
Benner, Rancho Santa Fe Association, Planning Director; Manny Beltran; Dave Bittner, Wildlife
Reservation Institute Inc., Director; Mary Blankinship; Susan Bohlander; Mariellen Bonnar,
Caldwell Banker; Carol J. Bonomo, CSU San Marcos, Associate V.P. External Affairs; Dennis
Bostad, Sweetwater Authority, Operations Manager; Trevor Bourget, San Diego County Bicycle
Coalition, Vice Chair; John Bouton; Richard C. Brasher, C-3, Former President; Leif Brekke; Nathan
Briner; Connie Brock; Andrea Brooder; Alicia M. Brown; A.L. Brown, Santee; Chris Brussat; Gene
Burton; K.C. Butler, San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, President; Steve Byers; Kathleen Byrnes
Last updated on June 4, 2001
C: David Calkins, Environment Consultant; Richard J. Calton, MAI, Calton Realty Advisors; Joan
S. Campbell, Retired, NCPA; Bob Canepa, County of San Diego, GIS Manager; Carol Carr, San
Diego Bicycle Coalition, Representative; James Carr; Daryl H. Caster, City of Escondido, Planning
Commissioner; Susana Cearcia; Lawson L. Chadwick; Larry Chaidez, Guide Dogs of the Desert;
Christine Chan; Jim Chase, Golden Eagle Insurance, Territory Manager; Tammy Christian; Erin
Churko; Rudolph Coarzs, San Diego Housing Federation, Executive Director; Tom Conrady and
Irene J. Lawrence-Conrady, San Diego Economic Conversion Council, Board Members; Van
Collinsworth, Santee; Mark Corbelt; Ardyth Courtney -Marston, Prudential California Realty; Ernie
Cowan, North County Association of Realtors; Diane Cox, First America Title; Leighanna Crandall;
Sharon Crockett, City of Santee, Associate Planner; Teri Crum; Teddy Cruz, Woodbury School of
Architecture; Joan Dainez, El Cajon; Michael Dainez, El Cajon
D: Ilona Danike; David Davenport, The Transit Times, Writer/Editor/Publisher; Jim Davis; Ken
Decker; Tawni Despot -Aaron, Woodbury School of Architecture; Colleen Dietzel; Vi Douglas;
Daniel Duenez; April Durrett; Serenity Dylan
E: Artie Edwards; Paul Elder; Philip J. Erdelsky, ACM; Jorge Escalante; Juan Estrada; Steve
Estrada, American Society of Landscape Architects, Trustee San Diego Chapter; Bill Evans, Teacher
and Environmental Educator;
F: Phyllis Faber, San Francisco; Debra Faxon; Danah Fayman, Partners for Livable Communities;
Teri Fenner, KEA Environmental, Senior Project Manager; John C. Ferber, USD Real Estate
Institute, Associate Director; Chris Flescher; Tara Fisher, Pacific Beach; Jamie Foley; Steven Foley;
Richard Ford; Barbara Fronczkowski
G: Murray L. Galinson; Dan Gallagher, Caltrans, Bicycle Coordinator; Louis A. Galuppo, Esq., SD
Real Estate Institute, Associate Director; Mariano Garduno, Woodbury School of Architecture;
Ralph Gavangue; Susan Gawlak; Steve Geckler; Pat Getzel, Pat Getzel and Associates; Stephan
Giesing; Jim Gilbert, Fairmont Baptist Church, Senior Pastor; Nancy Gilbert, Encinitas; Robert
Gillenskie; Jack N. Goad, San Ysidro School District, Assistant Superintendent; Ted Godshalk;
Michele Goff; Lori Gowrie; Marie Grady; Lee Graham; Rosanna Gram; Joe Greenbelt, Sunrise
Management, Executive Vice President; Mitch Green; George Greer; Charles Griswold; Kevin Guy
H: Terry Hache; Carol Hagen; Diana Hamby; Andy Hamilton, Air Pollution Control District, Air
Quality Specialist -Indirect Sources; Gail Hanna, Pacific Beach; Kristen Harrison; Tanya Haskovec;
Mike Hastings, Cardiff; Christopher Hatfield; Jacob Haupen; Anneliese Heldt, North San Diego
County Association of Realtors; Cynthia Hernandez; Ernie Hernandez, Ernie Hernandez Inc.,
CEO/President; Susan M. Herre, American Institute of Architects, Urban Design Committee Co -
Chair; Patricia Herron; Greg Hill, El Cajon; Jamie Hill; Cecilia Russell Hillcrest Vu Hoang; Steve
Hoffmann, NRG Energy, General Manager; Mike Hogan; Lauren Howard, San Diego County
Bicycle Coalition; Nee Howard, San Diego County Bicycle Coalition; Sid Howard, San Diego
County Bicycle Coalition; Julie Howe, Coldwell Banker; Cris Medrano Huffer; Troy Hug; Nancy J.
Hughes, Census Organizing Institute, Program Manager; Stuart Hurlbert, SDSU (supports
population stabilization)
I: Mel Ingalls
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J: Thomas Jacobi; Kris Jacobsen; Casey Jaworski, City of Oceanside, Water Treatment Supervisor;
Rick Johnson; Marty Jones, San Diego Bicycle Coalition, Board Member; Megan Jones, BD
PharMingen; Petra Juarez; James Justus, Inner City Business Association
K: Jill Kato; Valerie Kaye; John P. Keating, LLG Engineers, Principal; Brian Kelly; Kathy Keehan,
San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, Executive Director; Bill Keller, Gaslamp Quarter; Association,
Chairman; Allan Kent; Robert Kent; Edward R. Kennedy, PE; William Kennedy
Stefan Khudic, Common Wealth Partners; Randy Kiefer, San Diego Bicycle Coalition, Member;
Roonggan Klaisri; Mary Scott Knoll, Executive Director, The Fair Housing Council of San Diego,
Inc; Sachiko Kohatsu, San Diego; Michael Kroger; Michael Kulon; Victor Kups; Kerry Kuwsman,
San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, Member
L: Robert C. Ladwig, Ladwig Design Group, President; Nola E. Lamken, San Diego Audubon;
John Lancaster; Janet Lawless, Farris Mortgage; Ronald N. Lawson; Andrea Lemaitre; Em Leppard;
Betsy A. Lenard, Mira Mesa; Sara Lewis; Lincoln Lighthill; Wayne Lindquist, Airport Solutions,
Principal; Diana Long, Coldwell Banker; Carissa Lopez; Clair Lopez; Jason Lopez, San Diego
Resident; Raymond Lutz
M: Peter James MacCracken, Strategic Communications, Principal; David Mackey; Melinda
Magdalene; Payam Mahboubi; Ray Maracle; S. Mardet, Windows User News, Editor; Gary Martin,
Realty Executives Carlsbad, Realtor; Penny Mason; Rhonda Mason; Bill Matella, San Diego County
Bicycle Club, Board Member; Mark Matson; Mike McCain; Maria McClellan; Clarence McCoy,
Neighborhood Housing Association, Assistant Developer and Public Administration Officer;
Melissa McDonald; Jack McGrory, Price Charities, Director; Margaret McIntosh, Prudential
California Realty; Dorothy McKenney, Jamul/Dulzura Planning Group Member; Robert McLain;
Jerry McLees, Pacific Beach; Gina Medeiros, San Diego; Mona Melanson; Eric S. Meyer; Suzanne
Michael, Santee; Chris Michaels; Richard Miller; Drew Mills; Mandy Mills; Chad Mitcham; Trudy
S. Molin; Dana Monroe; Lisa Mooney; Terry Moore, ACI Commercial, Director; Helen C. Morey,
League of Women Voters; Khatara Morgan; James J. Morrison; Mia Mortellaro; Cha Moua; Mike
Moulton; MTDB - Accessible Services Advisory Committee; Walter C. Mulderis; Robert Murphy;
Nancy Myrek
N: Steve Nagle, East-West, Director of Planning; Priscella Nava; Jennifer Nelson; Robert Nelson;
Sharon Nelson; Maria Nevarez; Ed Nisbet; Mark Niskanen, SDSU Student; Cindy Nutter
0: Alexei Ochola, La Maestra, Director; Brittany Odermann, Metropolitan Transit Development
Board, Civil Engineer; Lori Offiar; Edward M. Olives; Rose M. Ordaz; Larry Osen
P: Cecilia Padres, GeoTek Insite, Inc; Frank Paiano; Kai Palenscar; Don Parcher; Jennie Park, Chula
Vista; Gary Patton, Land Watch; Doug Paul, Project Design Consultants, President; Ray Paulson;
Tom B. Pearson, Dyson & Dyson Real Estate; Grant Pecoff; Ed Peterson; Mark Piepenbrink, Del
Mar; Gary Piro, Piro Engineering, President; Cheryl Piver; Robert Pletcher, McMillin Companies,
Project Manager; Pam Polcyn; Carolyn Pole; Wendy Pope
Q: Ken Quigley, Fallbrook
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R: David Rafsky; Gerry Ramsey; Igsal Rashid; John Restivo; Sue Reynolds, Community Housing,
Executive Director; Theresa Rice; Diana Gauss Richardson, Geography Department, SDSU,
Lecturer; Tara Richmond; David Ricker, Community Housing, Project Manager; Royce B. Riggan
Jr., RB Riggan and Associates, Principal; Anders Rindell, Coastal Consultants, Inc., President;
Anthony Rippo; Ashley Roberts, Prudential California Realty, Audrey Rohde, Prudential
California Realty; Don Rudlsill; John V. Ruggieri, Project Design Consultant, Senior V.P. -
Planning; Lynette Ruhi
S: Alex Sachs, Uptown Planners; Esther Sanchez; Joann Saravia; Suzen Sarko, Realty Connex;
Tracy Saunders; Shane M. Schmidt, San Diego Resident; Cathy Schweikhard; Walter Schwitt, San
Diego County Bicycle Club, Director; Joe Sczempka, San Diego Employers Association, President;
Leah Seki; Mitch Shapiro; Aaron Shaw; Laurie Shaw; Elise Sheldon; Sherry Shriver, North County
Association of Realtors; Heidi Sickler; Jason Sigh; Robin Silverstein, San Diego; Donald J. Skalitzky;
Bruce Smitham; Christina Smith; CT Smith; Geri Smith, Del Mar; Lisa Snyder; Cathy Sotelo;
Christina St. Amont; Maureen Starbright; Peter H. St. Clair, Resident; David Stear; Pamela Stear;
Michael Stepner, New School of Architecture, Dean; Autumn Stinson; Shauna Stokes, City of
Chula Vista, Administrator Services Manager; William G. Straith; Christa Stutz; W.L. Sward; Joy
Swink; William Sylvester, McMillin Realty, Agent
T: Kaarin Tae, Ecology Research Group, Research Specialist; Nancy Taylor, San Diego Resident;
Beverly Tesch; Jason Thacker; Linda Thompson, The Willis Allen Company; Amanda Thurston;
Dick Tibbetts;, Willis Allen Company; John Todd; Rebecca Tolin; Christina Triff; Weldon Trott;
Anita Turner
V: Luis Valdivia, Medicis Communications, Vice President; Jill Varney; Thomas M. Vencito; Dan
Vera; Carmen Villanveuc; Auan Vitums;
W: Chanthy Walsh, Coldwell Banker; Gerald Walson, Bonsall; Hal Wanzo; Wynelle L. Waters;
Alfred Weber; Doug Weihe; Meredith Wietzke; Mary Wilkinson; Bruce Willbrant, Community
Interface, Housing Coordinators; Brian Williams; Selena Wilson, San Diego; Joe Wolf, Private
Citizen; Amanda Wolfe
Y: Patricia Yepiz
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