Rural Heritage & Watershed Initiative
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To the Honorable Registrar of Voters of the County of San Diego: We,
the undersigned, registered and qualified voters of the County of San Diego
hereby propose an initiative measure to amend the County of San Diego General
Plan. We petition you to submit this measure to the Board of Supervisors
of the County of San Diego for adoption without change, or for submission
of the measure to the voters of the County of San Diego at a general or
special election. The measure provides as follows:
Rural Heritage & Watershed Initiative
The people of the County of San Diego hereby ordain as follows:
Section 1.  Purpose and Findings. |
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Purpose. The purpose of this initiative is to protect San Diego County's
rural heritage, including its watershed, agricultural, wilderness, and scenic
resources. The initiative amends the County's General Plan to restrict urban
development in sensitive areas within the rural backcountry of the County.
Specifically, the initiative protects valuable backcountry resources from
fragmentation and inconsistent land uses, by limiting the creation of new
parcels that are too small to allow effective utilization or preservation
of important resources. |
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San Diego County's Rural Heritage. The backcountry of San Diego County
enjoys a rich history emphasizing ranching, agriculture, and a rural way
of life rooted in our mountains, foothills, valleys, and deserts. The wilderness
of oak woodlands, pine-covered slopes, alpine meadows, and sweeping savannah
is an integral part of that heritage. Yet this heritage -- and this way
of life -- are presently vulnerable to harm as a result of uncontrolled
urban encroachment. In fact, such urban encroachment, or "leapfrog"
development, is proceeding with abandon and remains unimpeded throughout
the County's backcountry. |
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Threat of Sprawling Development. The current pattern of piecemeal
planning in the County's backcountry poses an immediate and long-term threat
to the County's future. Sprawling urban development, with its associated
increases in traffic congestion, air pollution, and other impacts, will
lead to the following serious consequences:
- Impairment of water resources
- Division of or damage to scenic wilderness lands, including lands with
important habitat value
- Undercutting the viability of agriculture
- Unnecessary and costly extension of public services and facilities
to remote areas
- Conflicts between urban land uses and rural land uses such as ranching
Existing General Plan policies allowing for parcels as small as 2 acres
in sensitive backcountry areas are inadequate to protect against the harmful
effects of urban sprawl set forth above. |
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Protecting Watershed Lands. As the San Diego Association of Governments
has recognized in its Regional Growth Management Strategy, maintaining the
ion's water quality and protecting and enhancing ground water supplies are
critical to our quality of life. Unchecked development in the County's rural
backcountry undermines both of these goals, causing potentially serious
water problems, including pollution, depletion, and sedimentation of available
water resources. |
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Promoting San Diego County's Tourist Economy. Unchecked urban development
will not only result in the loss of irreplaceable natural resources, but
also impair the County's tourist industry, whose long-term health is vital
to our regional economy. People from around the world are drawn to our mountains,
deserts, and rural wilderness, just as they flock to our beach communities.
Rather than enhancing tourism, current piecemeal planning for the region
threatens to damage the scenic open space resources so critical to the prolonged
vitality of the tourism industry in San Diego. The ultimate costs of this
short-sighted approach are staggering. |
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Accommodating Population Growth. It is undisputed that San Diego
County's population will continue to grow steadily, with the resulting demand
for residential construction. This initiative allows the County to continue
to meet its housing needs for all economic segments of the population, by
directing residential development away from remote backcountry lands and
into areas where services and infrastructure are more efficiently available.
Favoring city-centered development, the initiative does not preclude the
Board of Supervisors from increasing densities in appropriate urban and
suburban areas without a vote of the people. |
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Protecting Endangered Species. The County is working with state and
federal regulatory agencies to develop special programs, such as the Multiple
Species Conservation Program ("MSCP"), to protect endangered species.
This initiative is designed to complement these special programs by providing
further protections for mportant habitat areas while at the same time allowing
development to proceed in a manner that does not threaten the County's sensitive
backcountry resources. |
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Effect of Initiative. This initiative would amend the San Diego County
General Plan to establish a Rural Resource special area overlay ("Overlay")
protecting backcountry lands with essential watershed, agricultural, wilderness,
and scenic values. The Overlay would limit the creation of new parcels that
are too small to support effective management and protection of the resources
found on those backcountry lands. The Overlay would be applied to lands
that are currently designated in the County's General Plan as either "Multiple
Rural Use (18)," "Intensive Agriculture (19)," or 'Agricultural
Preserve (20)" and which are also designated as being in the Environmentally
Constrained Area or Rural Development Area regional categories or within
the Estate Development Area regional category in the Ramona, Pendelton-DeLuz,
Fallbrook, Rainbow, or Pala-Pauma Community Plan plan areas. Exhibit A to
this initiative is a map showing the general location of lands that would
be included within the Overlay; the specific location of lands subject to
the Overlay can be determined by reference to existing maps in the San Diego
County General Plan. |
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| Section 2.. General Plan Amendment. |
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Fundamental County Goals and Policies. The Overall Goal of the Regional
Land Use Element, Section 1, Part 11, of the San Diego County General Plan
adopted January 3, 1979 as amended through December 1, 1997 is reaffirmed,
readopted, and amended as set forth below. Text to be inserted into the
General Plan is indicated in bold italic type while text to
be stricken is presented in -/strikethrough/- type; text in standard type
currently appears in the General Plan and is reaffirmed and readopted by
this initiative. |
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| IT IS THE GOAL OF THE REGIONAL LAND USE ELEMENT THAT; |
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THE AGRICULTURAL, WILDERNESS, WATERSHED, AND SCENIC VALUES OF THE
COUNTY'S RURAL AREAS BE PROTECTED FROM DAMAGING RURAL AND SUBURBAN SPRAWL
B Y PROMOTING RESOURCE-BASED LAND USE PATTERNS AND BY MAINTAINING PARCELS
OF A SUFFICIENT SIZE TO ENSURE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION
OF THE COUNTY'S NATURAL RESOURCES. |
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URBAN GROWTH BE DIRECTED TO AREAS WITHIN OR ADJACENT TO EXISTING URBAN
AREAS, AND THAT THE RURAL SETTING AND LIFESTYLE OF THE REMAINING AREAS
OF THE COUNTY BE RETAINED. |
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GROWTH BE PHASED WITH FACILITIES. |
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GROWTH BE MANAGED IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND BALANCED
COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE UNINCORPORATED AREA. |
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URBAN PORTIONS OF THE UNINCORPORATED AREA BE ENCOURAGED TO EITHER ANNEX
TO AN ADJACENT CITY OR INCORPORATE AND THAT URBAN LEVELS OF SERVICE BE
PROVIDED IN AN EFFICIENT MANNER AND BE FINANCED USING EQUITABLE FINANCING
MECHANISMS. |
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Rural Resource Overlay Designation. The Regional Land Use Element,
Section I, Part II, of the San Diego County General Plan adopted January
3, 1979 as amended through December 1. 1997 is amended to insert the following
text on page 11-30 in Section 2.7, "SPECIAL AREA OVERLAYS", immediately
preceding the discussion of the "Coastal (C)" special area overlay:
Rural Resource (RR)
This overlay applies to lands with particular agricultural, wilderness,
watershed, or scenic values as described below. The purpose of the overlay
is to protect those resource values by maintaining parcels of a sufficient
size to ensure sustainable agriculture and effective conservation of the
County's natural resources. The following standards apply to lands within
the Rural Resource overlay: |
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Location. The overlay applies to the following lands: |
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All lands that as of December 1, 1997 (1) were within the Rural Development
Area or Environmentally Constrained Area Regional Categories and (2) had
a land use designation of Multiple Rural Use (18), Intensive Agriculture
(19), or Agricultural Preserve (20); and |
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All lands that as of December 1, 1997 (1) were within the Ramona, Pendelton-DeLuz,
Fallbrook, Rainbow, or Pala-Pauma Subregional and Community Plan Areas,
and (2) were within the Estate Development Area regional land use category,
and (3) had a land use designation of Multiple Rural Use (1 8), Intensive
Agriculture (19), or Agricultural Preserve (20). |
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Where it deems it in the public interest, the Board of Supervisors may apply
the overlay in other areas as well. |
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Creation of New Parcels. Within the Rural Resource overlay, the following
minimum parcel sizes shall apply to the creation of new parcels unless the
Board of Supervisors determines, in accordance with the standards set forth
in paragraph 3, below, that a minimum parcel size less than that specified
below and permitted by the underlying land use designation and other County
policies is consistent with the purposes of the Rural Resource Overlay to
protect agricultural, wilderness, watershed, or scenic values:
| Regional Land Use Category as of December 1. 1997 |
Min. Parcel Size |
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40 acres |
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80 acres |
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Exceptions to Rural Resource Overlay Minimum Parcel Size Requirements. The
County may allow creation of parcels smaller than those specified in paragraph
2, above, consistent with the minimum size authorized by the underlying
land use designation and other County policies such as the San Diego County
Groundwater Ordinance, ii, based on substantial evidence in the record,
the Board of Supervisors makes the determinations specified in subparagraphs
a. through f., below, for each parcel to be created. The County shall comply
with the California Environmental Quality Act in making these determinations.
Prior to making any such determination, the Board of Supervisors shall hold
at least one noticed public hearing for the purpose of receiving testimony
and evidence from the applicant and the public on the proposed determinations.
The hearing shall (1) be held within the boundaries of the Community Plan
Area in which the parcel would be created, (2) be held on a business day,
and (3) commence no earlier than 6:00 p.m. |
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At least 80% of the land of the proposed parcel does not exceed 25% slope;
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Creation of the parcel will not have direct, indirect, or cumulative adverse
significant impacts to the region's agricultural viability, habitat, scenic
resources, or watershed value; and |
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Creation of the parcel will not adversely affect the stability of land use
patterns in the area (i.e., the parcel will not introduce or facilitate
a use that is incompatible with adjoining or nearby uses or that would tend
to promote creation of additional parcels in the Rural Resource overlay
smaller than the sizes specified in paragraph 2, above); and |
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The proposed parcel will have access to an existing publicly maintained
road without the necessity of significant grading; and |
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Land uses on the proposed parcel will be limited to those uses permitted
on the parcel as of December 1, 1997; and |
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The parcel satisfies the criteria set forth in either subparagraph (1),
(2), or (3) below:
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The parcel to be created will be used for agricultural uses and will be
viable for long-term agricultural production as demonstrated by: |
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Evidence that the parcel is planted, and has been planted for at least five
years, in one or more commercial crops that remain viable on the size of
the parcel to be created; and |
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Evidence that the parcel is served by a continuing and sufficient supply
of irrigation water; and |
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An agricultural conservation easement dedicating not less than 90% of the
parcel to permanent agricultural use. |
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The parcel to be created will be used for uses other than agriculture in
a manner that is consistent with the resource values of the land and will
not contribute to "leapfrog" development, or urban, suburban,
or rural sprawl, as demonstrated by: |
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Evidence that the agencies and districts responsible for providing fire
protection, police protection, public works, water, and other public services
have adequate existing capacity to provide the proposed development with
adequate public services with no reduction in existing levels of service;
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Evidence that the parcel is served by a continuing and sufficient supply
of water to allow operation of the proposed use; and |
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Incorporation or annexation to a city is not appropriate or possible within
the next five years, based on factors including, but not limited to, nearby
cities' designated sphere of influence boundaries, city general plan limits
and projections, and comprehensive annexation plans; and |
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The approval will not constitute part of, or encourage, a piece-meal conversion
of a regional agricultural, watershed, scenic, or wilderness resource such
as the Cleveland National Forest area to urban, suburban, or other uses
that are inconsistent with maintaining those resources; and |
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The land included within the parcel to be created has not been used for
irrigated agriculture in the past 2 years and is unusable for irrigated
agriculture due to its topography, drainage, flooding, adverse soil conditions,
or other physical reasons. |
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The parcel to be created would be created pursuant to an incidental take
permit or management authorization issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service ("USFWS") and/or the California Department of Fish and
Game ("CDFG") and, as a condition of its creation, would contribute
to the preservation of undeveloped land in furtherance of a conservation
plan approved by USFWS and/or CDFG. |
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Exception for Environmental Subdivisions. The Rural Resource overlay minimum
parcel sizes shall not apply to environmental subdivisions that (a) are
created in conformance with Government Code section 66418.2 as that section
existed on December 1, 1997 and (2) are established on the condition that
no new non-agricultural improvements may be developed on the parcel. |
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Amendments to the Rural Resources Overlay. Until December 31, 2028, the
standards governing the purpose, location, minimum parcel size, exceptions,
and amendments to the Rural Resource overlay and goals 1.1 through 1.5 of
the Regional Land Use Element may be amended only by a vote of the people
or pursuant to the procedures set forth in subparagraphs a. through c.,
below: |
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The Board of Supervisors may amend the location of the Rural Resource
overlay to comply with state law regarding the provision of housing for
all economic segments of the community. Such amendment may be adopted only
if the Board of Supervisors makes each of the following findings based on
substantial evidence in the record:
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There is no suitable land available (including lands with non-residential
designations) outside the Rural Resource overlay to accommodate the proposed
development; and |
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The land that would be removed from the Rural Resource overlay is immediately
adjacent to existing comparably developed areas or, if no suitable land
is available that satisfies this criterion, the land is the suitable land
closest to existing comparably developed areas; and |
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The applicant for the removal of the Rural Resource overlay has provided
evidence that the agencies and districts responsible for providing fire
protection, police protection, public works, water, and other public services
have adequate capacity to provide the proposed development with adequate
public services with no reduction in existing levels of service; and |
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The development that would be authorized in connection with removal of the
Rural Resource overlay is necessary to comply with state law requirements
for provision of low and very low income housing; and |
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The land withdrawn from the Rural Resource overlay does not exceed 40 acres
for any one landowner in any calendar year. One landowner may not withdraw
lands from the overlay more often than once every year. Landowners with
any unity of interest are considered one landowner for purposes of this
limitation. |
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The Board of Supervisors may amend the location of the Rural Resource overlay
if, upon request of an affected landowner, and after considering all relevant
facts and applicable legislative and judicial authority, the Board finds
that, based on substantial evidence in the record, denial of an overlay
amendment would constitute an unconstitutional taking of the landowner's
property for which compensation would be required or would deprive the landowner
of a vested right. Such an amendment may be granted only to the minimum
extent necessary to avoid said unconstitutional taking or deprivation of
vested right. |
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The General Plan may be reorganized, and individual provisions may be renumbered
or reordered in the course of ongoing updates of the General Plan in accordance
with the requirements of state law. |
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Prior to amending the location of the Rural Resource overlay pursuant to
subparagraphs a. or b., above, the Board of Supervisors shall hold at least
one noticed public hearing for the purpose of receiving testimony and evidence
from the applicant and the public on the proposed amendment and any findings
proposed in connection with such amendment. This hearing shall be in addition
to any other public hearings regularly required for a General Plan amendment.
The hearing shall (1) be held within the boundaries of the Community Plan
Area in which the overlay boundary would be revised, (2) be held on a business
day, and (3) commence no earlier than 6:00 p.m. |
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Wherever the Rural Resource overlay standards require demonstration of a
sufficient water supply, such demonstration shall, to the fullest extent
consistent with state and federal law, show that the amount of water required
to serve the land use or uses that would be authorized by the proposed action
will not, in conjunction with all other existing and approved land uses,
cause any of the following: (a) the total water consumption from an affected
groundwater basin to exceed the amount that can be safely withdrawn from
the basin in the long term without causing damage to the groundwater basin's
capacity to store water; (b) depletion of existing wells, surface water,
or subsurface water in a manner that would have a significant adverse effect
on wildlife or established habitat configurations; or (c) other undesirable
effects such as accelerated migration of underground pollutants. |
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The County and its departments, boards, commissions, officers and employees,
shall not grant any general plan amendment, rezoning, specific plan, tentative
or final subdivision map, conditional use permit, major use permit, or any
other discretionary entitlement, which is inconsistent with the standards
of the Rural Resource overlay. Nothing in the Rural Resource overlay shall
be construed to prohibit the County from providing density bonuses authorized
by the General Plan in effect on December 1, 1997 or from complying with
State laws requiring density bonuses and/or other incentives for projects
including housing for seniors or for low or very low income households. |
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Conforming Amendments.]In light of the General Plan amendments
set forth above, the County of San Diego General Plan adopted January 3,1979
as amended through December 1, 1997 is hereby further amended as set forth
below in order to promote internal consistency among the various elements
of the General Plan. Text to be inserted into the General Plan is indicated
in bold italic type while text to be stricken is presented in strikethrough
type; text in standard type currently appears in the General Plan and remains
unchanged by this initiative. The language adopted in the following amendments
may be further amended as appropriate without a vote of the people in the
course of future updates and revisions to the General Plan.
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The first paragraph of Policy 1.3 of the Regional Land Use Element, Section
I, Part II, of the San Diego County General Plan adopted January 3, 1979
as amended through December 1, 1997 describing the Estate Development Area
(EDA) Regional Category, is amended as follows: |
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The Estate Development Area combines agricultural and low density residential
uses (parcel sizes of two to twenty acres will generally apply;
larger minimum parcel sizes may be required to protect significant
resource values). Included in the category are those areas outside
the Urban Limit Line but within the boundaries of the County Water Authority. |
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The first paragraph of Policy 1.4 of the Regional Land Use Element, Section
I, Part II, of the San Diego County General Plan adopted January 3, 1979
as amended through December 1, 1997 describing the Rural Development Area
(RDA) Regional Category, is amended as follows: |
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The Rural Development Area includes much of the privately owned properties
outside of the County Water Authority. This area is primarily made up of
agricultural or unimproved lands and remote pockets of residential development.
Parcel sizes will generally be dictated by the availability of groundwater
and other environmental and resource constraints in addition to any
applicable minimum parcel sizes specified by this General Plan. |
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The first paragraph of Policy 1.6 of the Regional Land Use Element, Section
I, Part II, of the San Diego County General Plan adopted January 3, 1979
as amended through December 1, 1997 describing the Environmentally Constrained
Areas (ECA) Regional Category, is amended as follows: |
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Environmentally Constrained Areas include floodplains, lagoons, areas with
construction quality sand deposits, rock quarries, agricultural preserves
areas containing rare and endangered plant and animal species, and all private
land-holdings as defined in subsection (b) of designation (23) as amended
by the Forest Conservation Initiative (FCI) within the Cleveland National
Forest outside Country Towns. Development in these areas, while guided by
the County General Plan, should be preceded by thorough environmental review
and implementation of appropriate measures to mitigate adverse impacts.
Parcel sizes will generally be dictated by environmental and resource
constraints in addition to any applicable minimum parcel sizes specified
by this General Plan. |
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The second sub-paragraph of Policy 2 of the Regional Land Use Element, Section
I, Part II, of the San Diego County General Plan adopted January 3, 1979
as amended through December 1, 1997 describing the purpose of land use designations
and use regulations in the San Diego County General Plan, is amended as
follows: |
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These land use designations shall include the maximum density (and in certain
cases, a minimum density) allowed in that designation and shall also include
density figures applicable under the "density bonus option" of
the Inclusionary Housing Policy. As explained in Policy 2.7, the permitted
use and or permitted density (including parcel size) authorized by these
land use designations may be modified by one or more Special Area overlays
in order to protect the unique characteristics of the lands to which the
overlays apply. |
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The first paragraph of Policy 2.7 of the Regional Land Use Element, Section
I, Part II, of the San Diego County General Plan adopted January 3, 1979
as amended through December 1, 1997 describing special area overlays, is
amended as follows: |
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Where some unique physical, legal or resource situation exists, a Special
Area Overlay shall be used on the appropriate land use map. This overlay
designation shall: (1) indicate that the underlying designation is modified
in some limiting way as to permitted use and/or to permitted density; (2)
define conditions in addition to those normally used in order to attain
the underlying use and density. Depending on their characteristics,
some lands within the County may be subject to multiple overlays. |
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Policy 3.4 of the Regional Land Use Element, Section 1, Part II, of the
San Diego County General Plan adopted January 3, 1979 as amended through
December 1, 1997 regarding the relationship of existing private development
plans and specific plans is amended as follows: |
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Existing private development plans, specific plans and applications to
expand the boundaries of existing private development plans and specific
plans may conflict with the categories of the Regional Land Use Element.
In these cases, for the purpose of consistency with the Regional Land Use
Element, a private development plan or specific plan or expansion thereof
will be deemed consistent with the General Plan if one of the following
findings is made:
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The project will not adversely affect or promote premature growth to
adjacent properties; and
The project has sufficient facility capacity to accommodate both the
present and future population if built out to capacity; and
A substantial private investment in public facilities has been made on
the basis of past approvals of development phases, and the proposed development
does not exceed the maximum density as granted on the original private development
plan/specific plan or the proposed development does not exceed the maximum
density as shown on the community/subregional plan maps which resulted from
previous approvals of private development/specific plans; or |
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The density and character of development is substantially in conformance
with the Regional Land Use Element goals. |
The foregoing findings shall not be made for any project within
the Rural Resource overlay unless (1)failure to make the findings would
violate a vested right held by the project sponsor pursuant to state or
local law, or (2) the project is consistent with the policies and standards
of the Rural Resource overlay. |
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| Section 3. Implementation |
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Effective Date. Upon the effective date of this initiative, the provisions
of Section 2 of the initiative are hereby inserted into the County of San
Diego General Plan as an amendment thereof, except that if the four amendments
of the mandatory elements of the general plan permitted by state law for
any given calendar year have already been utilized in the calendar year
in which the initiative becomes effective, this general plan amendment shall
be the first amendment inserted in the County's General Plan on January
1 of the next year. At such time as this general plan amendment is inserted
in the County of San Diego General Plan, any provisions of the County of
San Diego Zoning Ordinance, as reflected in the ordinance itself or the
County of San Diego Zoning Map, inconsistent with this general plan amendment
shall not be enforced. |
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Interim Amendments. The County of San Diego General Plan in effect
at the time the Notice of Intention to circulate this initiative measure
was submitted to the County of San Diego Registrar of Voters (December 1,
1997, "submittal date"), and that General Plan as amended by this
initiative measure, comprise an integrated, internally consistent and compatible
statement of policies for the County. In order to ensure that the County
of San Diego General Plan remains an integrated, internally consistent and
compatible statement of policies for the County as required by state law
and to ensure that the actions of the voters in enacting this initiative
are given effect, any provision of the General Plan that is adopted between
the submittal date and the date that the General Plan is amended by this
measure shall, to the extent that such interim-enacted provision is inconsistent
with the General Plan provisions adopted by section 2 of this initiative
measure, be amended as soon as possible and in the manner and time required
by State law to ensure consistency between the provisions adopted by this
initiative and other elements of the County's General Plan. |
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Other County Ordinances and Policies. The County of San Diego is
hereby authorized and directed to amend the General Plan, sub-regional plans,
community plans, zoning ordinance, and other ordinances and policies affected
by this initiative as soon as possible and in the manner and time required
by any applicable state law to ensure consistency between the policies adopted
in section 2 of this initiative and other elements of the County's General
Plan, sub-regional and community plans, zoning ordinance, and other County
ordinances and policies. |
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Section 4. Exemptions for Certain Projccts.
This initiative shall not apply to any development
project that has obtained as of the effective date of the initiative a vested
right pursuant to state or local law.
Section 5. Severability and Interpretation.
This measure shall be interpreted so as to be
consistent with all federal and state laws, rules, and regulations. If any
section, sub-section, sentence, clause, phrase, part, or portion of this
measure is held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a final judgment of
a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity
of the remaining portions of this measure. The voters hereby declare that
this measure, and each section, sub-section, sentence, clause, phrase, part,
or portion thereof would have been adopted or passed even if one or more
sections, sub-sections, sentences, clauses, phrases, parts, or portions
are declared invalid or unconstitutional. If any provision of this measure
is held invalid as applied to any person or circumstance, such invalidity
shall not affect any application of this measure that can be given effect
without the invalid application. This initiative shall be broadly construed
in order to achieve the purposes stated in this initiative. It is the intent
of the voters that the provisions of this measure shall be interpreted by
the County in a manner that facilitates the protection of backcountry resources
within the Rural Resource overlay.
Section 6. Amendment or Repeal.
Except as otherwise provided herein, this initiative may be amended or
repealed only by the voters of the County of San Diego at a County election.
Section 7. Competing Measures.
In the event there are competing measures on the
same ballot with this measure that purport to address the same subject matter
of this measure, the following rules shall apply: If more than one such
measure passes, then both measures shall go into effect except to the extent
that particular provisions of one initiative are in direct, irreconcilable
conflict with particular provisions of another initiative. In that event,
as to those conflicting provisions only, the provisions of the initiative
which received the most votes shall prevail.]
Exhibit List
Exhibit A -- County of San Diego General Plan Land Use Map Illustrating
the Rural Resource overlay. |
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