Sec. 26-5. Specific plans.
a. Authority for and scope of specific plans.
1.The Planning Commission may prepare specific plans based on the General Plan and recommend such plans to the City Council for adoption.
2.Specific plans shall include such regulations and programs as may be required for the systematic execution of the General Plan.
3.The City Council or the Planning Commission may designate areas within the City for which the development of a specific plan will be necessary or convenient to the implementation of the General Plan.
4.Such specific plans shall include all detailed regulations, conditions and programs including but not limited to the following:
i.The location of housing, business, industry, open space, agriculture, recreation facilities, educational facilities, churches and related religious facilities, public buildings and grounds, solid and liquid waste disposal facilities, together with regulations establishing height, bulk and setback limits for such buildings and facilities, including the location of areas, such as flood plains or excessively steep or unstable terrain, where no building will be permitted in the absence of adequate precautionary measures being taken to reduce the level of risk to that comparable with adjoining and surrounding areas.
ii.The location and extent of existing or proposed streets and roads, their names or numbers, the tentative proposed widths with reference to prospective standards for their construction and maintenance, and the location and standards of construction, maintenance and use of all other transportation facilities, whether public or private.
iii.Standards for population density and building density, including lot size, permissible types of construction, and provisions for water supply, sewage disposal, storm water drainage and the disposal of solid waste.
iv.Standards for the conservation, development, and utilization of natural resources, including underground and surface water, forests, vegetation and soils, rivers, creeks and streams, and fish and wildlife resources. Such standards shall include, where applicable, procedures for flood control, for prevention and control of pollution of rivers, streams, creeks, and other waters, regulations of land use in stream channels and other areas which may have a significant effect on fish, wildlife and other natural resources of the area, the prevention, control and correction of soil erosion caused by subdivision roads or any other sources, and the protection of watershed areas.
v.The implementation of all applicable provisions of the open space element.
vi.Such other measures as may be necessary or convenient to insure the execution of the General Plan.
5.When a application for approval of a specific plan is submitted to the City by a private property owner, the City shall estimate the costs to be incurred in reviewing and processing the plan. Before the application is accepted as complete, the property owner shall pay to the City this estimated amount. The City staff shall keep a complete record of costs incurred in the review and processing of the plan. After the City Council takes final action on the plan, the property owner shall either pay or be refunded any difference between the costs actually incurred by the City and the estimated amount paid when the application was submitted.
6.No environmental impact report or negative declaration need be filed for any residential project, including any land subdivision or zoning change, which is undertaken pursuant to and in conformity with a specific plan of which an environmental impact report has been certified.
b. Procedure for adoption of specific plans and regulations.Specific plans shall be adopted according to the same procedures used in the adoption of General Plan elements specified in Section 26-2 of this Chapter.
c. Administration of specific plans and regulations.
1.The City Council may determine and establish administrative rules and procedures for the application and enforcement of specific plans.
The City Council may delegate such functions, powers, and duties to the Planning Commission as may be necessary or desirable.
2.No public works, including public works of other agencies and special districts, shall be constructed within any territory for which the City Council has adopted a specific plan until the matter has been referred to the Planning Commission for a report as to conformity with such plan unless one of the following conditions applies:
i.A street has been accepted, opened, or has otherwise received the legal status of a public street prior to the adoption of the plan
ii.A street corresponds with streets shown on a subdivision map or record of survey approved by the City Council.
iii.A street corresponds with streets shown on a subdivision map or record of survey approved by the City Council.
Such report shall be submitted to the City Council within 40 days after the matter was referred to the Planning Commission. (Ord. 3599 § 17, 2019. Formerly 26-15)