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Item Nos. 3, 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d Additional Materials Received
From:
Zdeba, Benjamin
To:
Lee. Amanda
Cc:
Ramirez, Brittany
Subject:
FW: Written comments on GPU Steering Committee agenda items (4/3/2019)
Date:
Tuesday, April 02, 2019 4:05:57 PM
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2019ADr03 GPU Steerina Committee Aaenda Comments JimMosher.Ddf
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Hi Amanda,
Please see attached comments received on Item Nos. III, IV.a, IV.b, IV.c, and IV.d for the GPUSC
meeting tomorrow evening.
Thanks,
Ben Z.
BENJAMIN M. ZDEBA, AICP
Community Development Department
Associate Planner
bzdeba(a)newoortbeachca. aov
949-644-3253
From: Jim Mosher <jimmosher@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2019 3:40 PM
To: Campbell, Jim <JCampbell@newportbeachca.gov>; Zdeba, Benjamin
<bzdeba@new portbeachca.gov>
Subject: Written comments on GPU Steering Committee agenda items (4/3/2019)
Please find attached some comments I have BCC'd to the Newport Beach General
Plan Update Steering Committee members for their consideration at their April 3,
2019, meeting.
Yours sincerely,
Jim Mosher
General Plan Update Steering Committee - April 3, 2019
Item Nos. 3, 4a, 4b, 4c and 4d Additional Materials Received
April 3, 2019, GPU Steering Committee Comments
These comments on Newport Beach General Plan Update Steering Committee agenda items are
submitted by: Jim Mosher ( limmosher(o-)yahoo.com ), 2210 Private Road, Newport Beach 92660
Item Ill. Public Comments (non -agenda items)
I continue to think it would be helpful for Committee members to review Item 14 from the March
26, 2019, City Council meeting. It reports on the current status of the General Plan's
Implementation Program and Housing Element. At that meeting, I incorrectly stated the report
failed to address the extent to which our GP is out of alignment with the current State Guidelines,
but in fact it does — under Imp. 1.3. In that connection, it seems interesting to note that
Implementation Program 29 of the current GP (page 13-31) is entitled "Community Involvement."
It is also interesting to note that under that heading the then -existing General Plan Advisory
Committee seems to be regarded as something of continuing relevance after adoption.
Among the City activities under Imp 29.1 ("Educate the Community") of special relevance to the
present committee might be the Planning Commission's aborted February 8, 2018, discussion
regarding residential development standards in the Cliff Haven community (Item 4) — a kind of
early "listen and learn" effort cancelled hours before it was scheduled to begin due to an excess
of interest by people from other parts of the city, with a promise (see cancellation notice) that it
(like many other things) would be wrapped into the GP Update process.
Under Imp 29.2 ("Support of the Arts, Culture, and Historic Resources"), it is unclear if the
promise to define procedures to review requests to modify or demolish historic resources was
ever followed through on. The status report linked to above is uninformative on that, as well as
on the status of many other promises made in the Implementation Program.
One good thing is that with the City's posting of the all -in -one -PDF version of the General Plan, it
is easier than ever to determine where these various implementation programs are cited in the
body of the GP to support its policies and strategies. Curiously, Adobe's search function is
unable to find any citations to Imp 29.3 ("Support Community Environmental and Recreation
Initiatives") — even in places where its application seems obvious, as in LU 6.3.2 ("Acquisition for
Open Space").
Item IVA Review Minutes of the March 20, 2019 Meeting
The following corrections are suggested:
Page 1, Item II (WELCOME AND ROLL CALL), paragraph 1: "All Committee Members
present."
(It is important that the names of the persons present be listed, as was done in the Feb. 20
and Mar. 6 minutes. People come and go on committees. It would be extremely difficult for
someone reading this at a future time to determine with any certainty who were and were not
members of the Steering Committee on March 20. It is also customary to list the participating
staff members present at City meetings, as was done in the earlier minutes.)