ATTACHMENT J
General Plan Policies Applicable to Project, 1980 and 2040 General Plans The Project is consistent with the following General Plan policies:
1980 General Plan
• Promote orderly growth in land uses and circulation (Circulation Element #15); • Land use and development shall protect and enhance the individual character of each neighborhood (Land Use Element #8);
• Prioritize in-fill residential development (Housing Element #4.D.i and 8.A); 2040 General Plan[1]
• ES-G-2: Maintain Fiscal Sustainability Foster a fiscally healthy City government and enlarge the City’s revenue base as necessary to sustain and support the community.
• ES-G-5: Attract New Businesses and Jobs. Seek out new businesses that will employ and serve Pacifica residents, improving the City’s jobs/housing ratio.
• ES-G-6: Ensure Environmental Protection. Ensure that economic development in Pacifica proceeds synergistically with environmental protection.
• ES-I-7: Mixed Land Uses. Promote development of a broader mix of revenue-generating land uses, including hotels, to increase the City’s fiscal benefits.
• ES-I-11: Development Pays its Fair Share. Continue to require new development to pay its fair share of needed community improvements. • ES-I-18 Public Realm Improvements. Invest in streetscape and public space improvements to attract visitor-oriented development and improve Pacifica’s image and the quality of life for residents. • ES-I-32: Investment in Infrastructure. Continue to invest in public infrastructure improvements, including landscaping, signage, lighting, undergrounding overhead utility lines, and roadways.
• ES-I-35: Preserve the Experience of the Natural Environment. Ensure that new development projects do not disrupt view corridors from prominent points or otherwise interfere with residents’ and visitors’ experience of Pacifica’s natural areas and amenities.
• ES-I-36: Appropriate Site Design. Ensure that development projects adjacent to protected natural areas are designed to minimize impacts on those areas by employing low impact development techniques for stormwater management, using native/non-invasive landscaping, and minimizing nighttime lighting and glare.
• CD-G-2: Distinct Activity Centers. Create primary activity centers, each distinguished through land use, built form, public realm enhancements, and signage.
• CD-G-4: Enhanced Mixed Use Areas. Create distinctive mixed-use areas by ensuring good building form and building-sidewalk interface, and providing pedestrian-oriented streets and public spaces.
• CD-I-1 Primary Activity Centers: Create primary activity centers at West Sharp Park, Rockaway Beach, and Linda Mar, and neighborhood centers in Pacific Manor and Park Pacifica (at and around the Park Mall site). • CD-I-4: Support Infill and Redevelopment. Support compatible residential infill on designated vacant lots as shown in Figure 4-3, and redevelopment of underutilized commercial properties, and continue to use the City’s Design Guidelines in evaluation of proposals that don’t meet all development standards in residential districts.
• CD-I-5: High-Quality Multi-Family and Senior Housing for All Income Levels. Support attached, multi-family, and senior housing that relates positively to the street and surrounding areas, is accessible on foot to community amenities including transit, shopping and services, and offers residents a range of amenities, and provide updated, illustrated Design Guidelines that reflect the unique qualities of Pacifica’s neighborhoods.
Larger buildings should vary in form, setback, height, color, and materials.
Land scaping plays a role in defining spaces, creating interplay with building forms, and screening parking and utilities. Access and parking should be designed to minimize traffic impacts on residential streets. Buildings and open spaces should be oriented to maximize sunlight.
• CD-I-7: Commercial and Mixed Use Building Form. Seek to ensure that new commercial and mixed use development creates an attractive and human-scaled built environment. Update the Zoning Ordinance and Design Guidelines to address mixed use access, building form, the building sidewalk relationship.
Buildings should be varied to provide visual interest, while having a unified theme within each project.
Building form should be responsive to context, including stepping down to adjacent, lower-scale uses, and establishing a fine-grained scale at street level.
Commercial buildings and ground-floor commercial uses in mixed-use areas should have active frontages characterized by building windows and entrances supporting activity on the sidewalk. Illustrated Design Guidelines should show how a fine grain of development offers more opportunities for public spaces, greater visual interest at the street level, a feeling of safety, and a diverse character reflective of Pacifica’s unique and historic neighborhoods. Chapter 4: Land Use discusses the need to update the Zoning Ordinance to create new zoning districts and provide development standards
• LU-G-2: Concentrated Development. Focus new development in or directly adjacent to already-developed areas, where it can be served by existing public services and where it will not have significant impacts on coastal or other resources.
• LU-G-3: Future Residential Development. Limit development to sites that are not critical for open space connections or habitat preservation, and which will be in harmony with the surrounding natural setting. • LU-G-4: Higher-Density Housing. Locate higher-density housing outside of Coastal Vulnerability Zones and in accessible places close to community shopping areas and transportation.
• LU-G-6: Compact Mixed Use Development. Facilitate compact mixed-use development on sites with good access to transit consistent with the Land Use Diagram. Mixed use development may include housing or office space with retail, restaurants, or personal service businesses. • LU-G-7: Open Space Conservation and Habitat Protection. Protect beaches, oceanfront bluffs, ridgelines, hillside areas adjacent to existing open space, and areas that support critical wildlife habitat and special status species.
• LU-I-38 Lower Crespi Drive. Establish zoning provisions to facilitate compact, mixed-use redevelopment of older commercial and residential properties along lower Crespi Drive, consistent with the Mixed Use Center and Mixed Use Neighborhood designations as shown in the Land Use Diagram.
• OC-I-21 Development Strategies to Preserve Open Space: Continue to promote density-open space trade-offs, such as clustering development, transferring development rights from sensitive to less sensitive land, and dedication or protection of open space through covenants or consecutive easements;
• CO-I-4: Wetlands Preservation. Prohibit new development in existing wetlands except as allowed under the federal Clean Water Act and the California Coastal Act. Continue to require formal delineations wetlands subject to State or federal regulations prior to any proposed development project in an area where potential wetlands have been identified. If impacts on wetlands are unavoidable, compensation measure should be in line with the State’s no-net-loss goal regarding wetlands.
• CO-I-14: Minimize Site Disturbance. Require use of best practices during development design and construction to preserve natural resources, such as soil, trees, native plants, and permeable surfaces.
• HE-G-1. Maintain, Improve, and Develop Housing: Encourage the development and retention of housing in a variety of types for all income levels with priority given to low-income households and projects that foster sustainable urban development.
• HE-P-7 Expand affordable rental and homeownership housing choices in areas of opportunity and higher homeownership among resources and promote communities that are opportunities for disproportionately underrepresented in homeownership to foster intergenerational wealth. [1] Economic Sustainability Element (ES); Community Design (CD) Element; Land Use Element (LU); Circulation Element CI); Open Space and Community Uses Element (OC); Conservation Element (CO); 2023-2031 Housing Element (HE)