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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04d_General Plan Online Resources_Additional Materials_MosherGeneral Plan Update Steering Committee - March 20, 2019 Item Nos. 3, 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d Additional Materials Received From: Zdeba, Benjamin To: Lee, Amanda Cc: Ramirez, Brittany Subject: FW: Comments on GPU Steering Committee agenda items Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 7:55:35 AM Attachments: 2019Mar20 GPU Steerina Committee Aaenda Comments JimMosher.rdf Hi Amanda, Please find attached additional materials received related to Items III, IV.a, IV.b, IV.c and IV.d on the Steering Committee's agenda for tomorrow evening. Thanks, Ben Z. BENJAMIN M. ZDEBA, AICP Community Development Department Associate Planner bzdebaOnewoortbeachca.aov 949-644-3253 From: Jim Mosher <jimmosher@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 8:11 PM To: CDD <CDD@newportbeachca.gov> Subject: Comments on GPU Steering Committee agenda items To whom it may concern, Please find attached some written comments on the items announced on the Newport Beach General Plan Update Steering Committee's March 20, 2019, agenda. I have BCC'd this message to the eight committee member email addresses listed on the Steering Committee web page. Yours sincerely, Jim Mosher General Plan Update Steering Committee - March 20, 2019 Item Nos. 3, 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d Additional Materials Received March 20, 2019, GPU SC agenda comments from Jim Mosher Page 5 of 5 to conduct their own listen and learn exercises, as the Harbor Commission is doing, in their areas of specialty? I cannot answer the last two questions, but as to the first, the process is described in the Harbor Commission minutes from December 12. The process consisted of three 10 -minute segments in which participants were asked to write their thoughts on cards and post them on the walls identifying: (1) areas of the Harbor that are working well, (2) areas of concern, and (3) potential solutions or improvements. Participants were then given three blue dots to place on their "favorite" cards (of all those posted), and one red dot to place on the card of most concern to them (there being some uncertainty what this last instruction meant). That exercise was certainly of value. And it certainly produced a result. But as someone who thinks it's best to sleep on a decision before making it, and that our best and most creative ideas come to us at odd and unexpected moments, I'm not sure it produced the most thoughtful result. Or even the best result that could be obtained from people who felt a few minutes of their time was the most they wanted to spend on the matter. It may be only me, but I felt pressured into making snap judgments about matters I wasn't fully informed about. I think I would have been more comfortable providing more reasoned written responses to a survey not requiring immediate answers. I would be disappointed if the GPU consultant limited their public engagement to exercises of the type described. Item IVA General Plan Online Resources Presentation The City's General Plan Update page is useful, however it is obviously difficult to keep it up-to- date (example: the message that "Residents were encouraged to apply to serve on the [Steering] committee" is not currently relevant, since all the slots have been filled). The complete, bookmarked copy of the current General Plan, including figures, is similarly useful, although the Table of Contents (copied from the 2006 printed edition) doesn't correspond accurately to the current page numbering (example: the Housing Element is totally different from the one described in the online TOC). The "Schedule" page could provide a tentative list of Steering Committee meeting dates, as well as the tentative RFP timeline from the document about to be approved. It would be useful for the "Steering Committee" page to provide a single email address that would go to both the Committee members and staff, without making all the email addresses visible. This has been done for the City Council(citycouncil(aD-newportbeachca.gov), the Planning Commission(plan ningcommissioners(a-),newportbeachca.gov) and other City bodies. The link currently provided sends a message to all the Committee members, but not to staff (so the message won't automatically be included in the agenda packet), and it makes all the members' emails visible in the "to" line, encouraging "Reply All" violations of the Brown Act.