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GROWTH MANAGEMENT PLAN - THE THREE TIERS OF FACILITES PLANNING What is the three-tiered facility planning approach? The program is divided into three distinct, but coordinated, planning phases, designed to assure that all facilities needed to support new development are provided with the need.
Citywide Facilities and Improvements Plan - Adopted by the City Council on September 16, 1986, the plan established the eleven public facility performance standards, inventoried existing public facilities, projected the ultimate public facility needs for the city-as-a-whole based upon the general plan densities revised in 1986, defined the boundaries of twenty-five local facility management ones, established the content for local facility plans for these zones, and discussed facility financing options and policies. Local Facilities Management Plans (LFMPs) - LFMPs are prepared in each of the twenty-five Local Facility Management Zones and implement the provisions of the Growth Management Plan, including the dwelling unit limitations in each quadrant of the city. Property owners within each zone prepare the required plan in advance of any development proposal. These plans refine the land uses within the plan area, identify and phase all development and public facilities needs in accordance with the adopted performance standards, and provide a detailed financing mechanism to ensure public facilities can be properly funded and phased. City staff reviews the draft of each plan for accuracy, and the City Council approves it at a public hearing. To date LFMPs have been prepared for all but one of the twenty-five Local Facility Management Zones. The LFMP financing plans provide a basis for adopting customized development impact fees that are charged to developers within each facility zone when they request building permits. A special innovation of the Growth Management Plan is the creation of a "vacant land tax" under which developers are required to pay each year a portion of the impact fees they will eventually have to pay when they develop. The benefit of this mechanism is that the city obtains positive cash flow in advance of some development so as to build facilities concurrent with other development in a zone. It is not necessary to wait until all the development has occurred within a one to amass the funds needed to build critical facilities. Facilities can be built when demand occurs. Individual Projects - Each development proposal must comply with the provisions of the appropriate LFMP (including zany special conditions or phasing requirements), as well as implement provisions of the citywide plan. To assure this compliance, the review process for each project involves detailed, interdepartmental and, for facilities provided by outside agencies, interagency coordination.
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