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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the Comprehensive Planning Division 2003-08 Five Year Work Program, as follows: (EST. TIME: 45 MIN.)
a) Continue work on completion of in-progress and nearly-complete multi-year projects including the 2003 Housing Element Update, the Santa Ynez Valley Community Plan, the Isla Vista Master Plan and Redevelopment Plan amendment, the Williamson Act Agricultural Preserve Uniform Rules Update, and amendments to the County's Grading Ordinance and Guidelines related to the Rural Resources Protection Program, including the environmental analysis and legislative process of those Plans and Programs;
b) Defer new work items that were to begin in Fiscal Year (FY) 2003-2004 to the following FY year or later, due to budget constraints on General Fund contributions. Those projects are: The completion of a Development Impact Fee study and legislation to update those fees (see "D" below); research and publication of the Jobs/Housing Balance Newsletter and the Endangered Species Newsletter; initiation of a multi-year Lompoc Community Planning effort; review of the Summerland Community Plan and continued implementation efforts; update of the Conservation Element; a Beneficial Projects Impact Fee Reduction Study; an update of the Circulation Element (to begin FY '05-'06); and continued upgrades to the Department GIS system;
c) Maintain the Division's level of staffing and resources allocated to Transportation and Regional Planning;
d) Approve inclusion in the Work Program for FY 2003-04 a Development Impact Fee study to update those fees ($158,815) if a budget enhancement is approved by the Board during Budget deliberations.
COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR'S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY
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