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General Plan Update and Local Coastal Program UpdatePlanning Commission Review of the General Plan and Gateway Area Plan. The City of Arcata Planning Commission is continuing to work through various chapters of the draft Gateway Area Plan and General Plan at its regularly scheduled planning commission meetings, which take place the second and fourth Tuesday of every month at 6 PM. These meetings can be attended in person or via Zoom at this time. The Planning Commission will also continue to review the Local Coastal Program through 2023. Agendas for upcoming meetings can be reviewed here.Committee Review of the General Plan and Gateway Area Plan.The City of Arcata's nine City Committees continue to work through various chapters of the draft General Plan Updates at their regularly scheduled meetings. These meetings can be attended via Zoom at this time. Agendas for upcoming meetings can be reviewed here. Form-Based Code Public Workshops. Staff is in the process of scheduling more public engagement opportunities with the City's design consultant, Ben Noble, on the draft Form-Based Code for the Arcata Gateway Area. These sessions cover design standards proposed to regulate building scale and massing, building heights by zone, parking, open space, community benefits, and more. Two presentations in this series are now complete and can be viewed on the City's YouTube channel, here. Three form-based code session will be taking place in early 2023. The first session on architectural and open space regulations utilizing a form-based code was held January 19th and a recording of the video can be found here. If you were unable to attend the session but would like to provide feedback you can do so by completing the survey associated with the session which can be found here. The survey will be available through January 31st. Please refer to the Look Book when completing the survey. There will be two more form-based code sessions in February and the dates are as follows: Saturday, February 11th, 8:30am-12:30pm- Planning Commission Work Session (in-person at City Hall) Thursday, February 23rd, 6:00pm-8:00pm- Form-based code virtual workshop (via zoom) Environmental Review. The City is currently working to prepare an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to support updates to the General Plan, the Gateway Area Plan, and associated zoning changes needed in order to implement the General Plan. Director David Loya presented information regarding the City's assumptions for the environmental analysis, which can be can be viewed on the City’s SIRP YouTube channel, here. Below is a calendar of engagement opportunities undertaken since the August 23rd joint study session of the Planning Commission and City Council. Additional past Planning Commission and Committee Meetings where Gateway Plan topics have been reviewed, as well as agendas for upcoming meetings, can be watched on the City's website, here. Future hearing dates listed in the table below are subject to change.
What comes next? |
Review the Draft Community Engagement Report
The City has been working on General Plan updates in earnest for the last three years, starting with the Housing Element adopted in 2019, the Infill Market Study adopted in early 2020, and the release of various elements of the General Plan, beginning with the Gateway Area Plan in 2021. The Housing Element and Infill Market Study each included a summary of engagement. The current phase of General Plan updates will also include an engagement report. This draft Community Engagement Report includes a review of the engagement and decision-making process through June 2022. Additional engagement data that has not yet been incorporated into the final engagement report is provided below for review.
The General Plan update process has involved several different engagement strategies to ensure broad participation. The engagement is ongoing. This is the initial draft report and a final report will be completed at the end of the process. This working draft collates engagement efforts and input to-date. The final report, along with a report of the recommendations, will inform the decision makers before adopting the General Plan updates.
REVIEW THE WORKING DRAFT OF THE ENGAGEMENT REPORT HERE.
Engagement Report Attachments
• Visioning Meetings - Notes by Group
• Walking Tour Polling - Raw Export
• Visioning Survey Results
Additional Engagement Data
- Poll Results: August 16th Form-Based Code Workshop
- Poll Results: August 23 Planning Commission/City Coucnil Study Session (decision makers)
- Poll Results: August 23 Planning Commission/City Council Study Session (public)
- Poll Results: October 11 Planning Commisison Meeting (Gateway Height Concerns)
- Poll Results: October 25 Planning Commisison Meeting (Gateway Solutions)
- October 25 Planning Commission Concern/Solution Set (DRAFT)
Open House Poster photos:
Poster 1 | Poster 2 | Poster 3 | Poster 4 | Poster 5 |
Poster 6 | Poster 7 | Poster 8 | Poster 9 | Poster 10 |
Poster 11 | Poster 12 | Poster 13 | Poster 14 | Poster 15 |
Poster 16 | Poster 17 | Poster 18 | Poster 19 | Poster 20 |
Public comment recvied on the Infill Program has been saved internally as part of the administrative record for this program. Base don community interest, comments recieved will be uploaded to this website in batches. Generally comments will be uploaded in chronological, monthly batches.
Comments Received
2021 | JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2022 | MARCH-MAY 2022 | JUNE-JULY 2022 |
AUGUST 1-30 2022 | SEPTEMBER 1-30 2022 | OCTOBER 1-21 |