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Patterson general plan up for review |
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Written by John Saiz and Jonathan Partridge / Patterson Irrigator /
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Saturday, 27 October 2007 |
City officials are set to tackle revisions to Patterson’s general plan Monday.
This will be the second time the City Council and planning commission have met to address the general plan — the state-mandated document that guides city growth. The goal is to address land-use designations they did not have time to discuss at their previous meeting.
Specifically, the council and commission will look at what type of development should occur around the business park in west Patterson. Consulting firm Crawford, Multari & Clark Associates, which the city hired to guide the general plan revisions, recommended designating land north and west of the business park as industrial. The company estimates that industrial growth in these areas, in addition to advances in the city’s currently undeveloped industrial regions, would achieve the City Council’s goal of one job in Patterson for every home.
The General Plan Advisory Committee, however, wants housing development to happen near the business park. The GPAC was created by the City Council to help with the revision process. There are 11 voting members made up of city officials and community members.
The GPAC recommended adding much less industrial land than consultants said would be needed for the 1-to-1 jobs-to-housing ratio.
The Council and commission will also discuss requests made by property owners and issues that attendees raised at their previous meeting. They will consider allowing more types of businesses and housing in commercial service areas near Interstate 5. They’ll also review changing the land designation in the business park along Sperry Avenue from industrial to commercial.
At their Oct. 4 meeting, the commission and Council established that the city’s population growth over 40 years should take the city from 20,875 people to about 100,000 people. That was a significant decrease from the 154,000 the GPAC recommended.
They also decided that on average there should be six homes per acre of residential land. The average is now about four homes per acre. Other decisions included allowing commercial and residential development west of Interstate 5, designating the land between the city’s southern border and the Delta-Mendota Canal as residential and designating the land south of the canal and north of Marshall Road for agriculture.
Following this meeting, the consultants will take the commission’s and council’s decisions and research them more thoroughly. Then, they will present their findings to the GPAC, which will again review the revisions. Ultimately, the City Council will have final say in the matter. They hope to finish the plan by November 2008.
To reach John Saiz at the Irrigator, call 892-6187 or e-mail him at
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