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File #: TMP-2229    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 2/20/2025 In control: City Council
On agenda: 3/11/2025 Final action:
Title: RESOLUTION NO. 2025-9411 - ADOPTING A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE GENERAL PLAN ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT
Attachments: 1. Resolution 2025-9411, 2. FINAL_San Marcos_Annual Progress Report_2024

MEETING DATE:                                          

MARCH 11, 2025

 

SUBJECT:                                            

Title

RESOLUTION NO. 2025-9411 - ADOPTING A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE GENERAL PLAN ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORT  

Body

 

Recommendation
Recommendation

ADOPT a resolution approving the General Plan Annual Progress Report.

 

Body

Board or Commission Action

Not Applicable

 

Relevant Council Strategic Theme

Planning for the Future

 

Executive Summary

The City of San Marcos has created an Annual Progress Report (APR) to meet the requirements of State Government Code Sections 65400 and 65700 as to the 2024 calendar year. These Sections mandate that all cities within California submit an annual report to the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI) each year (formerly the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, or OPR) summarizing the city’s progress towards implementing its General Plan. Charter cities were exempt from this requirement until January 1, 2019; however, as Section 501 of the City’s Charter requires the City to comply with land use, planning, and zoning requirements applicable to general law cities, the City has previously submitted information relating to 2012 - 2021, 2022, and 2023.

 

Discussion

The APR is a public document that provides local legislative bodies, as well as the public, with updates and information regarding the implementation status of a city’s General Plan. The APR should provide substantial enough information for decision makers to adequately assess how effectively the General Plan programs have been implemented over the annual 12-month reporting period (2024 calendar year). The APR can also be used as a tool to identify necessary "course adjustments" or modifications to the General Plan in order to improve implementation.

 

APRs provide an opportunity for LCI to identify statewide trends in land use decision-making and how local planning and development activities relate to statewide planning goals and policies. The 2012 General Plan includes an Implementation Plan to ensure the overall direction provided in the General Plan is translated from general terms to specific actions. It identifies specific programs that can implement one or more policies in one or more General Plan Element areas.

 

Each implementation program is a measure, procedure, or task that requires additional City action. It is primarily the responsibility of City staff to carry out the programs identified in the Implementation Plan. Departments within the City may enact, implement, or maintain these programs individually, in collaboration with other departments, outside agencies, and/or private developers, as appropriate. Implementation tools include, but are not limited to the City’s Municipal Code, Zoning Ordinance, Subdivision Ordinance, development agreements, and specific plans.

 

The Implementation Plan may be updated with the budgeting process and whenever the City’s General Plan is amended or updated to ensure continued consistency and usefulness. The City’s General Fund is the primary source of funding for the implementation of the General Plan. Several other fees and funding sources are used to implement the General Plan. These funding sources are listed as applicable in each implementation program. Implementation of the specific programs is subject to funding constraints.

 

The Implementation Plan was used as a basis to prepare the APR for San Marcos. The approximate overall implementation status of all programs in the Implementation Plan are as follows:

 

                     Ongoing (80%): programs that are intended to be ongoing efforts

                     Completed (5.5%): programs that are considered complete

                     Partially Completed (4.5%): programs that have been started and are partially complete

                     Scheduled (1%): programs that have not yet been started but are scheduled

                     Not Implemented (9%): programs that have neither been started nor scheduled

 

City staff also included information regarding major milestones or projects the City has made progress on over the past year in the APR.

 

Environmental Review

Section 15378(a) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines (California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3) defines an activity as a “project” if it has the potential to result in either a direct, or reasonably foreseeable indirect, physical change to the environment. The proposed adoption of a Resolution approving the Annual Progress Report is not a project within the meaning of CEQA because there is no potential for it to result in a physical change in the environment, either directly or indirectly.

 

Fiscal Impact 

There is no fiscal impact associated with the APR approval process.

 

 

Attachment(s)
Resolution 2025-9411

Annual Progress Report

 

 

Prepared by:   Chris Garcia, Senior Planner

Submitted by: Joseph Farace, Planning Division Director                     

Reviewed by:   Isaac Etchamendy, Development Services Director/City Engineer

Approved by:   Michelle Bender, City Manager