LAND USE INCONSISTENCY EFFORT:
SERIES 3 MAP UPDATES
and
PHASE 3 CODE TEXT AMENDMENTS
Stockton City Council
Agenda Item 16.3
April 5, 2022
All reports related Item 16.3 from the April 5, 2022, City Council Meeting can be downloaded at:
https://stockton.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5538222&GUID=3BA1C719- FF1A-4C62-9DCF-28FF8A1B12F4
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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
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What is “Consistency”?
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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
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Series 3:
By-the-Numbers
General Plan
Land Use Map
Amendment
295
Zoning Map
Amendment
511
Both
1,338
2,144 total properties
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• 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
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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.
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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
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Envision Stockton 2040
General Plan Policies
Map Changes
(Zoning, General Plan)
Development Code
Updates
How Does It All Tie Together?
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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).
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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.
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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.
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