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PlanningBoard | 2007-03-12 | 9 | Member McNamara inquired what would happen after a consultant is hired for State- mandated items. Ms. Woodbury noted that they would come to the Planning Board for their recommendation to City Council. She added that there would be a number of workshops and other opportunities for the Planning Board to become involved before they were asked to make a recommendation to Council. Member Cunningham noted that the many members of the public had requested a comprehensive island traffic study, which would involve an understanding of trip generation and traffic flows within the Island. Mr. Thomas noted that the Transportation Commission has spent considerable time working through a set of Citywide policies, which would be packaged into a Transportation Element update. As part of that, an environmental consultant and traffic consultant will be hired to do an EIR for that process. The policies would come through the Planning Board for recommendation to the Council. One task was to examine the transportation policies in conjunction with the City's land use plans, and to provide information with respect to how the transportation network would work with the Citywide development plan, including the major ones on the West End. He noted that the Transportation Commission has finished a global set of policies for the General Plan, and that they have begun to tackle more specific policies. The pedestrian policy is completed, and they have moved to the transportation demand management policies. They have set up a series of routes throughout the City based on their understanding of transportation needs and flows throughout the City, and where it was needed to enhance transportation effectiveness to accommodate those flows. He added that they would test those assumptions as part of the Transportation Element Update. Member Kohlstrand noted that she had participated in some of the early workshops, and added that the Transportation Commission had put a lot of effort into the activity, which they also initiated. She noted that the Public Works Department had taken over from there, and she would like to see information following that transition. She believed it was important to ensure that State-mandated compliance items were met, and noticed that staff had not mentioned the Land Use Element, as well as compliance with the Subdivision Map Act. She inquired when those two items would be brought to the Planning Board. Ms. Woodbury noted that the Subdivision Map Act should have been listed, because that addressed housing as well. She noted that it was not at the level of the Density Bonus Ordinance and the Secondary Unit Ordinance, and that staff would need to bring it up to speed with the State law. She understood that was in the works. She endeavored to put related projects together to streamline the information flow. Member McNamara believed that it would be very beneficial to have a flow chart of the pending permit process, for residents who wished to do a remodel or other modification to their home. Ms. Woodbury noted that the kind of flow chart would depend on the kind of process, which was not as simple as it seemed. Planning Board Minutes Page 9 March 12, 2007 | PlanningBoard/2007-03-12.pdf |