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- City of Santa Cruz 2030 General Plan
- City of Santa Cruz Area Plans, Planning Documents & Projects
- "General Plan 2030 is a comprehensive revision of Santa Cruz’s 1990– 2005 General Plan, first adopted in October 1992. General Plan 2030:
- Expresses the desires of the Santa Cruz community about the city’s future physical, social, economic, cultural, and environmental character.
- Builds on the efforts and visions of the past to define a realistic vision of what the city can be in 20–25 years.
- Establishes what the community wants to reinforce or change, and provides guidelines for change while preserving environmental resources, generating economic stability, and maintaining public services and facilities at adequate levels.
- Serves as a comprehensive and everyday guide for making decisions about the nature and location of economic and urban development and transportation improvements.
- Protects natural resources and the public health and safety. Ensures consistency of City actions, while providing the flexibility to respond to changing needs and times.
- Serves as the City’s “constitution” for conservation, land use, and community development, providing the legal foundation for all zoning and subdivision ordinances, decisions, and projects—all of which must be consistent with the general plan" (General Plan 2030, page 1).
- "A general plan is a comprehensive, long-range, and internally consistent statement of a city’s development and preservation policies. It sums up the City’s philosophy of growth and preservation, highlights what is important to the community, and prescribes where different kinds of development should go. It is a city’s primary tool for directing and managing growth and conservation.
- A general plan is comprehensive—it addresses all geographic areas within the City’s planning area and all issues relating to the physical development of the city.
- The plan is long-range—it looks 20 or more years into the future and focuses on the broad trends that will shape tomorrow’s city.
- The plan is internally consistent—each goal, policy, and action is checked against and integrated with every other goal, policy, and action in the plan" (General Plan 2030, page 4).
- Read General Plan 2030 here.
- Related pages and documents associated with this plan are here.
- This webpage contains numerous planning documents and plans for the City of Santa Cruz, including information about zoning, land use, plans for different areas of the city, the climate action plan, coastal permits, and more.
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