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Item Nos. W, IV(a), and IV(b) Additional Materials Received
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RN: Comments on May 1, 2019, GPU Steering Committee agenda items
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Tuesday, April 30, 2019 5:24:51 PM
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Hi Amanda,
Please see additional materials attached for tomorrow's GPUSC meeting.
Thanks!
MOW
BENJAMIN M. ZDEBA, AICP
Community Development Department
Associate Planner
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From: Jim Mosher <jimmosher@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2019 5:21 PM
To: Campbell, Jim <JCampbell@newportbeachca.gov>; Zdeba, Benjamin
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Subject: Comments on May 1, 2019, GPU Steering Committee agenda items
Jim & Ben,
Please find attached some quick comments on the items listed on the May 1, 2019,
GPU Steering Committee agenda.
I have BCC'd this to the committee members as listed on the City website.
Yours sincerely,
Jim Mosher
General Plan Update Steering Committee - May 1, 2019
Item Nos. III; IV(a), and IV(b) Additional Materials Received
May 1, 2019, GPU Steering Committee Comments
These comments on Newport Beach General Plan Update Steering Committee agenda items are
submitted by: Jim Mosher ( limmosher(aa)yahoo.com ), 2210 Private Road, Newport Beach 92660
Item Ill. Public Comments (non -agenda items)
As indicated at the April 3 Steering Committee meeting, I continue to think the process and
results of the "Listen & Learn" conducted by the City in 2002 — including more than just the end
product report submitted by the consultant to the City Council as Study Session Item 2 at its
January 28, 2003, meeting — remain relevant.
To that end, I have uploaded to a publicly -viewable "Dropbox" folder the files provided to me in
response to a 2014 Public Records Act request. They include the agenda and minutes (but not
the agenda packets) from all the meetings of the General Plan Update Committee, whose role
was similar to the present Steering Committee, and which met starting on October 9, 2000, a
month before the citizens General Plan Greenlight Initiative went to the ballot. They also include
the agendas, minutes and agenda packets of all the meetings of the larger General Plan Advisory
Committee (which first convened on March 11, 2002, early in the Listen & Learn process) — but,
unfortunately in an unsearchable PDF "image" format.
The 2000 through 2006 GPU files can be viewed here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/15vhrdg8h5mti86/AAC-C7K6-d Vx8BVvZn4i NZdNa?dl=0
or in shortened form:
https://urlzs.com/drlw
Taken in their totality, they inform both where the present General Plan came from and the state
of public opinion 17 years ago, which likely has not changed a great deal. Those views may or
may not be adequately reflected in the present GP.
The Vision Statement, which features prominently in the present RFP, was initially crafted by the
outside consultant (MIG — see contract C-3410) based on input received at their January 12,
2002, "Visioning Festival' which began the 2002 Listen & Learn, and then refined by a seven -
member subcommittee of the GPAC (consisting of Chairman David Janes, Jackie Sukasian,
Florence Felton, Phillip Bettencourt, Roger Alford, Nancy Gardner, Tom Hyans and GPAC Chair
Bob Shelton), with input from the committee as a whole. It was completed before and not
changed as result of the November 16, 2002, Community Visioning Summit which concluded the
Listen & Learn. The City Council approved the Vision Statement as Item 13 at its March 25, 2003,
meeting.
Of similar importance, in my view, is the General Plan and Zoning that preceded the 2006 update.
Useful inks to the above, and more, can be found under the General Plan "Watch List' page on
the SPON website: http://SponNB.org .