Uh hearing none, we will now take up the discussion agenda for today.

Uh and item number one is the Barrio Logan Community Plan Update.

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All right, staff presenting this item.

Please introduce yourselves to the record and please proceed.

Good afternoon, Council members.

My name is Lisa Lind.

I'm a senior planner in the planning department with the Barrio Logan Community Plan Update for your consideration.

We'll begin with our planning director, Mike Hansen.

Thank you, Lisa.

And uh good afternoon, Honorable Chair Whitburn and members of the committee.

We're pleased to present to you today the Barrio Logan Community Plan Update.

This plan represents many years of public engagement and input into the shape into shaping the community vision for one of the city's most culturally significant areas.

Especially noteworthy here is that this plan is a story of different perspectives and people coming together and through support of the city, achieving a meeting of minds to solve issues that once seemed intractable.

The Barrio Logan community has a diverse mix of land uses in close proximity, which has created a unique set of challenges to be resolved in the community plan.

We are happy to share with you today that through a community-driven planning process, we now have a plan that resolves these long-lasting land use conflicts and has broad public support.

The plan protects residents, which is key to meeting our environmental justice and public health goals, and it also allows the maritime industry to operate in a way that is compatible with these goals in the community vision.

Before we move to the presentation, I first like to thank several people and organizations for their many hours of hard work and effort that went into the creation of this plan.

In particular, I'd like to recognize and thank the Barrio Logan Community Planning Group, its chair Mark Steele, as well as Diane Tacborien and Julia Julie Corralis from the Environmental Health Coalition, and Dennis Dubard and Dari Pence from the shipbuilding industry.

Thank you also to the members of the community who participated in this process and made the plan better through your comments.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mike.

The community planning area is entirely within the coastal zone.

Retaining the waterfront's employment rule, and establishing a village area with housing opportunities.

As discussed in the staff report, after the 2013 community plan was adopted, the plan was repealed in 2014.

However, the repeal did not include the certified environmental impact report.

In recent years, stakeholders met to discuss resolving the issues that led to the referendum through a memorandum of understanding or MOU.

The MOU land uses and additional revisions we heard from the outreach process were then addressed through an addendum to the 2013 environmental impact report.

The draft plan involved a significant outreach effort, including five years of work by a steering committee and community members.

Then for the 2021 plan, the recommendations from the Barrio Logan Community Planning Group were supplemented with input from a survey and online workshop, and materials about the plan update were circulated within the community in English and Spanish.

The community plan is a comprehensive plan that sets out to identify land uses consistent with the general plan, address mobility and access to public space, and provide design guidance for the five neighborhood areas that are coordinated with the plan's landscape districts.

They are community village, historic core, transition area, Boston and Main Street, and Prime Industrial.

Unique to this plan is the incorporation of an arts and culture chapter that celebrates Barrio Logan's culture and creativity.

The draft plan policies were also updated based on input received, specifically the environmental justice discussion, the mobility network, planned parks, and the conservation element.

While there are new policies and content on environmental justice, it is important to note that community members have been working on environmental justice issues for many years, and there was already a strong foundation in the 2013 plan.

The proposed improvements in the draft land use plan, along with the city's general plan, help address environmental justice in multiple areas, such as active transportation options within the community, mobility connections to jobs and services, new facilities and access to public space, amenities, parks, and healthy foods.

The primary changes are focused on the MOU area, a 65-acre area where the land uses are planned to serve as a transition or buffer between heavy industrial uses and the residential neighborhoods.

In this area, new industrial uses or establishments that generate pollutants and result in negative air quality impacts are prohibited.

Therefore, a new community plan implementation overlay zone or CPAS is proposed to help implement the tailored MOU land uses limitations and other requirements.

Because the 1978 plan allowed co-location of industrial and residential uses, the 2013 plans land use approach added a transition area to further reduce conflicts.

This approach is strengthened in the 2021 plan with the restrictions and use limitations.

And along with the transition area, the draft plan promotes a range of residential densities and commercial intensities, and it proposes areas to serve to preserve prime industrial lands.

There is capacity for approximately 4,000 total housing units and support for an increase in job opportunities since Barrio Logan is an important employment area as well.

This is an increase over both the 1978 plan and the 2013 plan, and a notable increase of both housing and employment within transit priority areas.

The mobility network has been reviewed and updated to bring the policies in line with the climate action plan and other citywide strategies that promote an increase in the use of transit, walking, and commuter bicycling opportunities.