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ATTACHMENT 2 THE CITY OF rIrAATd0 CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT March 20, 2012 Community Development City Manager TITLE: REVIEW OF FRAMEWORK FOR AMENDED GROWTH MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE SUMMARY With the 2009 Urban Habitat Settlement Agreement concerning the City's housing cap, the City Council determined it appropriate to review the City's Growth Management Ordinance (GMO) (PMC 17.36). As a result, the recently adopted Housing Element anticipates this review to assure that the rate of residential development is consistent with the City's current and new infrastructure capacities, including roadways, water, sewer and facilities. Further, the overall objective of an amended GMO would be to assure that growth management policies are consistent with State law and that a process is established determine that there is available infrastructure to serve the future residential development. To facilitate this review, the City Council appointed councilmembers McGovern and Thorne to participate in a Subcommittee with City staff, including the City Manager and the Director of Community Development. The subcommittee has held a number of meetings to educate it regarding existing City GMO measures, state regulations and growth management programs in other communities and to develop an overall range of growth management issues and concepts. As an outcome to that process, the attached memorandum provides an overview of opportunities/issues and presents a number of growth management objectives for consideration. The subcommittee intends to present this information at the March 20, 2012 meeting with the understanding that comment and feedback will be used to begin drafting potential amendments to the ordinance. RECOMMENDATION Provide comment on the recommended growth management objectives as detailed in the attached memorandum (Attachment 1) and on other issues related to adopting an amended City Growth Management Ordinance. FINANCIAL STATEMENT There is no financial impact as a result of this action.