RES-9213 General Plan Amendment Master Plan for Park FacilitiesRESOLUTION NO. 9213
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ORANGE UPHOLDING THE RECOMMENDATION OF
THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND AMENDING THE
OPEN SPACE AND CONSERVATION ELEMENT OF THE
GENERAL PLAN BY DELETING THE PARKS AND
RECREATION PLAN AND ADOPTING AND
INCORPORATING BY REFERENCE THE MASTER PLAN
FOR PARK FACILITIES, RECREATION AND
COMMUNITY SERVICES.
General Plan Amendment No. 2-
99 Applicant: City of
Orange
RECITALS:After report thereon by the Planning Commission and after due public hearing
as required by law, the City Council ofthe City of Orange considered a recommendation of
the Planning Commission, recommending by Resolution No. PC 67-99 that the Open
Space and Conservation Element of the General Plan be amended to delete the Parks
and Recreation Plan and adopting and incorporating by reference the Master Plan for
Park Facilities,Recreation and
Community Services.After finding and determining the hereinafter described facts, the
City Council determined that the project could not have a significant effect on the environment,
a Negative Declaration should be adopted, the Master Plan for Park Facilities,
Recreation and Community Services should be adopted, and General Plan Amendment 2-
99 should be approved, as recommended by
the Planning Commission.During its public hearing, the City Council found the facts more
particularly set
forth as follows:1. The City has an existing
park land deficiency.2. The proposed Master Plan provides policy direction to help remedy the
City's existing park land deficiency; serves as a long range plan identifying open space,
park and facility needs; and provides standards, policies and guidelines for
funding, acquisition and development
of park land.3. The proposed Master Plan also provides a sound basis for adoption
of a Quimby Ordinance to update City requirements for dedication of land for
park and recreational facilities and payment of in-lieu fees, in order to implement policies
4. The proposed General Plan Amendment could not have a significant effect on the
environment and a Negative Declaration should be adopted.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Orange as follows:
1. The foregoing recitals are true and correct.
2. Negative Declaration 1609-99 is
adopted.3. The amendment to the Open Space and Conservation Element of the
General Plan is in the public
interest.4. The amendment is consistent with other elements of the City's General
Plan.5. The recommendation of the Planning Commission is upheld and the
Open Space and Conservation Element of the General Plan is amended to delete the Parks
and Recreation Plan and incorporate by reference the Master Plan for Park Facilities,
Recreation and Community
Services.6. This General Plan Amendment shall become effective thirty (30) days
from and after the date of adoption of this
Resolution.7. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to (a) make copies of
this Resolution available to the general public within one (1) working day following the date
of adoption, and (b) furnish to any person making a request for a copy of the adopted
documents amending the General Plan within two (2) working days after receipt of a request
therefor accompanied by payment for the reasonable cost of
copying.ADOPTED this 25th day of January,
2000.of
Orange
ATTEST:
J Cassandra J.
Cath Reso No. 9213
I hereby certifY that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly adopted by the
City Council of the City of Orange at a regular meeting thereof held on the 25th day of
January, 2000, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: MURPHY, SLATER, COONTZ, SPURGEON, ALVAREZ
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: NONE
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: NONE
AmA-tACrA/Af/A'
Z Cassandra J. Cathc , City Clerk of the City of
Orange Reso No. 9213