City of
Marysville
General Plan
Update +
Specific Plan
April 2022
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Overview
• Purpose and focus
• Overview of the process
• Public engagement
• Key Issues
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Purpose and Focus for the
General Plan Update
• Economic and fiscal
sustainability
• Expanding options for
transportation
• Expand housing opportunities
• State law compliance
• Streamline future development
• 2040 planning horizon
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Purpose and Focus
for the Specific Plan
• SACOG grant
• Facilitate housing production
• Promote infill
• Encourage transit, bicycling, and walking
• Enhance community assets
• Inclusive engagement
• Address the SACOG Green Zone
Marysville Green Zone
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General Plan
1. Project initiation
2. Intelligence gathering
3. Vision, guiding principles, and
alternatives
4. Plan development and
environmental review
5. Certification and adoption
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Specific Plan
1. Project initiation
2. Specific Plan Area Profile
3. Key Strengths, Opportunities,
Challenges, + Trends
4. Key Destinations + Multi-Modal
Pathways
5. Development Standards
6. Infrastructure + Financing
7. Plan Development + CEQA
Review
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Discussion
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Discussion
What are the most important planning issues for this planning process? Related to:
– Land use
– Transportation
– Community design
– Open space
– Public facilities and infrastructure
– The natural environment
– Economic development and fiscal sustainability
– Housing
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Planning Commission Discussion
• A place where people can walk and bike to
destinations
• Through traffic
• Vacant and underutilized buildings and
properties
• Economic development and fiscal sustainability
• Improving Ellis Lake and maintaining parks
• Develop the Medical Arts District
• Apathetic and absentee property owners
• Need for housing and other qualities to draw
young people
• Increase activity at Riverfront Park
• “Ride the Loop”
• Better walking and biking connections between
East Marysville and Downtown
• Low incomes
• Benefits and challenges of historic buildings
• Develop infill properties
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Discussion
1. What are some critical barriers to development and opportunities we must seize?
2. What are the most valuable community assets?
3. Who should we engage in particular?
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Next
Matthew Gerken
AECOM, Project Manager
[email protected]
Thank you!
• Vision + Guiding Principles
• Alternatives
• Draft Plans