Strategic Deployment Plan - sacog

STUDY
AGENCY
County of Sacramento General Plan
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County of Sacramento
DATE December 15, 1993
PURPOSE
SUMMARY
The General Plan strategy which supports new approaches and new
directions is based upon the beliefs that:
The environmental impacts of growth are inadequately mitigated at the
project scale, and, because they are inadequately mitigated,
accumulate at the regional scale. Among them are the impacts which
fall on infrastructure, air quality, and the fiscal base of the respective
jurisdictions.
Inadequate mitigation works as an incentive to growth on the urban
periphery and as a disincentive to regional planning that seeks to
mitigate these impacts.
Intra-regional competition for employment, tax revenues and growth in
general compromises the achievement of regional coordination
necessary to address transportation and air quality issues.
These issues can best be addressed by land use plans in all communities
in the region that seek to balance housing, support services, and
employment at small rather than large geographic scales, and that
create major centers of employment and public interest linked by
balanced rather than specialized transportation systems.
Specific land use, circulation, open space, safety, noise, air quality,
conservation and housing “elements” are part of the general plan.
RECOMMENDATIONS FROM DOCUMENT
An orderly pattern of land use that concentrates urban development, enhances community
character and identity through the creation and maintenance of neighborhoods, is functionally
linked with transit, and protects the County's natural, environmental and agricultural resources.
Accommodate projected population and employment growth in areas where the appropriate level
of public infrastructure and services are or will be available during the planning period.
Additional population and employment growth accommodated in areas having the potential for
redevelopment. One percent of projected housing demand (1,000 new residential units) located in
unincorporated redevelopment areas.
Sixty-six percent of projected population growth accommodated through the development of
urban uses on vacant urban and underutilized Agricultural-Residential lands: 21,900 units (23%) in
established urban and Agricultural-Residential communities, 35,100 units (37%) in planned
communities, and 5,300 units (6%) on excess industrial office park acreage.
Thirty percent of projected population growth (28,300 units) accommodated through efficient
transit-oriented development in new urban growth areas at the urban fringe.
Neighborhoods with a balanced mix of employment, neighborhood service and different housing
types.
Communities, neighborhoods, and single projects that promote pedestrian circulation and safety
through amenities, good design, and a mix of different land uses in close proximity.
A community wide pattern of development with the most intensive land uses in close proximity to
transit stops.
097860000 SACOG ITS Strategic Deployment Plan
Existing Conditions Summary Report 050105 40 Task 1.1 – ITS Existing Conditions Report
03/15/05