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General Plan
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The General Plan serves as the foundational planning document for San Clemente, providing policies regarding the management of new development, economic development , and conservation of natural resources, as well as many other issues affecting the City. It defines the framework by which the City will change and grow, detailing how physical and economic resources are to be managed and utilized over time.
Approximately every ten years, the City of San Clemente comprehensively updates it General Plan. San Clemente’s 1992 General Plan, the most recent update, was prepared through an extensive public participation process, with over 25 public workshops, meetings, and hearings. Accordingly, the General Plan represents the vision the community has for itself and its future.
The General Plan contains four chapters: 1) Community Development; 2) Infrastructure and Community Services; 3) Environmental Resources; and 4)Hazards. Each of these chapters has several "elements," which summarize constraints and opportunities and establishes goals, objectives, policies, and implementation programs for future development in San Clemente.
A complete copy of the General Plan is presented in the chapters listed below. Each section is a downloadable in
Adobe® Acrobat® Reader®. format
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Introduction
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Table of Contents (23KB) - This section, along
with providing the table of contents for the General Plan, summarizes
participants in its development.
San Clemente Vision and Introduction (1.3 MB)
- This brief section provides an overview of the General Plan’s key policies
forming the vision for San Clemente’s future. It also contains a description of
the General Plan, including its purpose, organization and content
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Chapter 1 - Community Development
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Land Use Element (3.2 MB) - The Land Use Element
has the broadest scope of the General Plan elements required by the State. It
regulates how land is to be utilized. Many of the issues and policies contained
in all other plan elements are impacted and/or impact this element.
Urban Design Element (4.8 MB) - The focus of the
Urban Design Element is the physical and design characteristics of San Clemente,
components which link and unify the community. Among the topics discussed in
this element are its streetscape, signs, and architecture. The urban design
goals, objectives, policies, and programs are inextricably lined to those
contained in the Land Use Element.
Economic Design Element (110KB) - The Economic
Development Element provides demographic and economic statistics for the City of
San Clemente. It also establishes goals, objectives, policies, and
implementation programs that will guide the manner in which the economic needs
for the community will be met.
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Chapter 2 - Infrastructure and Community Services:
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This chapter contains sections related to traffic circulation, scenic highways, utilities,
public facilities and services, parks and recreation, and growth management.
The Circulation Element (1.4 MB) - The
Circulation Element guides the development and maintenance of the community’s
circulation systems and provides for the accommodation of vehicular trips, or
how people, goods and services circulate through the community. This element is
largely dependent upon, and related to, the issues and policies contained within
the Land Use Element.
The Scenic Highways Element (206 KB) - This
element guides the development, maintenance and protection of scenic highways
and corridors in the community. The policies in this section address presenting
and creating visual corridors, integrating scenic highways with open spaces and
recreational corridors, and siting and designing future development of scenic
highways to protect visual corridors and open space/landscape areas.
The Utilities Element (137KB) - This element guides the manner in which utility services will
be provided for in the City, including water, sanitation treatment and sewerage,
storm drainage, and solid waste. The element also provides goals for water
quality, supply and distribution.
Public Facilities and Services
Element (135KB) - This element guides the manner in
which public facilities and institutions serve the community, including police,
fire, marine safety, educational facilities, and cultural facilities.
Parks and Recreation
Element (528KB) - This element provides the goals,
objectives, and policies for the parks and recreation in the City, including
recreational programming, acquisition of park land, park development, park
planning and design, renovation and upgrading of existing parks, open space and
environmental quality, beach access, joint use of park and recreation
facilities, park operation and maintenance, and park economics and financing.
It includes policies for neighborhood and community parks, beaches, and trail
systems.
Growth Management
Element (653KB) - This element represents the City
of San Clemente’s growth management program. Beyond goals, policies and
objectives, this element provides standards (levels of service) and
implementation, mitigation, and funding programs for 12 public facility/service
categories: civic center facilities and services, drainage and flood control
facilities, fire/emergency medical services, library facilities and services,
open space, parking standards, parks facilities and services, police facilities
and services, school facilities, sewer facilities, circulation, and water
facilities and services.
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Chapter 3 - Environmental Resources:
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This chapter contains sections related to natural and historic/cultural resources and energy conservation.
Natural and Historic/Cultural Resources
Element (1.4 MB) - This element guides the
preservation and enhancement of natural and historic/cultural resources in the
City, including protecting and preserving significant plants and wildlife and
other biological resources, air quality, aesthetic resources such as public
views of the Pacific, coastal bluffs, ridgelines, canyons and significant public
views, and historical and archaeological resources.
Energy Conservation
Element (73KB) - This element guides the manner in
which energy is consumed within the community. Policies address minimizing
transportation-related energy consumption, reducing energy consumption in
buildings, increasing public awareness and encouraging feasible energy
conservation methods, and increasing the energy efficiency of City
operations.
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Chapter 4 - Hazards:
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This chapter contains sections
related to protecting human life and property from natural and man-made
hazards.
Geologic, Seismic, and Soils Hazards
Element (724KB) - This element provides for the
protection of human life and property, including policies which address the
reduction of damage from fault rupture, slope instability, landslides and soils,
preparing and maintaining an effective response system to seismic events,
implementing effective seismic design standards, reducing damage resulting from
liquefaction, minimizing major social and economic disruption created by severe
community damage, and ensuring that the community is adequately prepared for
emergencies.
Natural Hazards
Element (560KB) - This element provides for the
protection of human life and property from natural hazards. Policies are
included which address maintaining flood control systems, restricting
development in flood hazard zones, establishing and maintaining emergency
response operations for flooding, obtaining available information on tsunami and
tidal/marine hazard susceptibility, and minimizing the potential for damage and
injury to the community from tsunami’s and tidal/marine hazards.
Noise Element
(1.2 MB) - This element guides the evaluation of existing and future noise
conditions and minimization of the impacts of noise on the community. Policies
address noise regulations and guidelines, excessive noise exposure,
traffic-generated noise, non-residential noise impacts upon residential areas,
construction noise, minimizing noise impacts from entertainment, noise impacts
of rail transit, and the proper acoustical analysis of potential significant
noise generators.
Hazardous Materials and Uses
Element (89KB) - This element is intended to provide
for the safety of the community in the presence of hazardous materials and
uses. Policies address protecting surface and groundwater quality, land, air,
and environmental resources; the safe transportation, handling, storage and
disposal of hazardous wastes; and preventing loss of life, serious injuries, and
major economic disruption caused by accidents related to hazardous
uses/materials.
Nuclear Element (69KB) - This element guides the City’s response and reaction to a
nuclear emergency, including planning for the protection of public health,
safety, welfare and the environment in the event of an
emergency.
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Housing Element
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The Housing Element of
General Plan is a
component of the General Plan which identifies the housing needs of all economic
segments of the community and recommends ways to meet these needs while
balancing community objectives and resources. State law requires that all
cities adopt a Housing Element and requires that the Element be revised as
appropriate but not less than every five years, unless extended by the
State.
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Coastal Element
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The Coastal Element is an element of the General Plan and it is the adopted policy statement for growth, development, and preservation of the Coastal Zone. As such, the Coastal Element is the primary planning document for reviewing coastal related issues and development within the Coastal Zone.
To view the Coastal Element, please choose the appropriate section from the section below. All of the files below open as PDF.
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