LAND USE INCONSISTENCY EFFORT:
SERIES 3 MAP UPDATES
and
PHASE 3 CODE TEXT AMENDMENTS
Stockton City Council
Agenda Item 16.3
April 5, 2022
Background
To Implement the General Plan, Zoning…
2007
General Plan 2035 -
Zoning Map Update
Not Performed
2018
Envision Stockton
2040 General
Plan Update
2019
SB 1333 State Law
must now be consistent
What is “Consistency”?
First Series
Series of Amendments
Additional Analysis
& Outreach
Straightforward
Changes
Additional Analysis & Outreach
Paired with Title 16
Development Code Updates
Third Series
City Council Approved
3/9/2021
Spring 2020 Spring 2022Fall 2021
City Council Approved
11/16/2021
Second Series
Current Series
Planning Commission
Recommended Approval*
1/27/22
*with modification
Series 3:
By-the-Numbers
General Plan
Land Use Map
Amendment
295
Zoning Map
Amendment
511
Both
1,338
2,144 total properties
• Multiple Mailers sent to all recorded owners
• Two (2) Citywide virtual workshops
• Dedicated webpage, email, and phone line
• Press releases, social media/email blasts
• Online Citywide and neighborhood search tools
• Direct conversations with property owners
• Presentations to stakeholders
• Seven (7) Pop-up workshops
• Public Hearings + Study Sessions
Overall Outreach
Map Amendments
• Implementation of various General Plan Policies
("Guiding Principals")
• Aligning land uses with surrounding urban
environment/compatibility.
• Transitioning noxious uses; reduce potential for
conflicting uses (e.g. industrial near residential).
• Ensuring housing capacity and Property Rights.
• Overlays and allowable uses are proposed
for updates in the Code Amendment to
better implement the vision of the General Plan.
Series 3 – Examples
Transition centrally-located
industrial to commercial, with
an overlay to allow “extra-light”
industrial
Liberty Square shifted to
medium density residential
Transition to Commercial,
Downtown (CD) at edges
of Downtown Core
Envision Stockton 2040
General Plan Policies
Map Changes
(Zoning, General Plan)
Development Code
Updates
How Does It All Tie Together?
Map-Related Code Updates
• Clarifications/expansion of zoning designations.
• Amend Table 2-2 uses for flexibility.
• Modify definitions and standards for land uses.
• Expand housing typology definitions and standards.
• Allow limited multifamily development in CL zone.
• Modified Channel-Area Overlay.
• New Commercial-Industrial Overlay.
• Implement State housing law updates.
• Precursor to Development Code Overhaul (estimated 2023 completion).
Summary
• Series 3 Map changes would make General Plan &
Zoning consistent throughout the City.
• Phase 3 Code changes will improve permitting
processes and streamline development while the
Overhaul is underway.
• January 27, 2022: Planning Commission
recommended approval, with modification to
include one 14-acre parcel.
– Property owner has since rescinded request for this
parcel to be included in Series 3.
Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council adopt:
• A Resolution certifying an Addendum to the
Envision Stockton 2040 General Plan EIR; and
• A Resolution approving General Plan Land Use
Map Amendments; and
• An Ordinance approving Stockton Citywide Zoning
Map Amendments; and
• An Ordinance approving Title 16 of the Stockton
Development Code.