The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Wednesday to approve the General Plan Update, the first sweeping upgrade in 30 years of the County’s growth and development plans.
The Board also voted 3-2 to direct County staff to hold a Board workshop Nov. 9 to provide a comprehensive review of property specific requests submitted during the General Plan Update hearings.
General plans guide community development. Generally, they set the philosophy and policies that determine what gets built where.
The General Plan Update accomplishes that in part by shifting an estimated 20 percent of the development expected to occur in the future to western unincorporated communities with established infrastructure such as roads, fire protection and sewer services.
Benefits of the plan when compared to the previous plan include:
The General Plan Update was developed with broad public input from developers, business owners, environmentalists, farmers, homeowners, landowners and renters.