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Adopt a resolution approving an Addendum to the 2006 Greater Salinas Area Memorandum of Understanding between the City of Salinas and the County of Monterey.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors adopt a resolution approving an Addendum to the Greater Salinas Area Memorandum of Understanding (Addendum) between the City of Salinas and the County of Monterey.
SUMMARY:
In 2006, the City and the County entered into the Greater Salinas Area Memorandum of Understanding (GSA-MOU, Attachment 2) to establish a broad policy framework to govern City-County growth in the "Greater Salinas Area", replacing the Amended Boronda Memorandum of Understanding and in part completing a condition in the settlement of litigation between the City and the County. Since the City and the County's approval of the GSA-MOU, the City has adopted an Economic Development Element (EDE, 2017) to its General Plan (2002) and the County has adopted an updated General Plan (2010). For the past couple of years, City and County staff have regularly discussed updating the GSA-MOU to reflect current land use development plans, current planned or contemplated development projects, and to provide for the protection of certain agricultural lands and much-needed resources, including low-income and farmworker housing, employment development opportunities, and associated services and facilities.
Meanwhile, a couple of projects recently applied for development on unincorporated lands north of the City within areas identified for future City growth, and in the South Boronda area that is part of the City's Sphere of Influence (SOI). In the spirit of the GSA-MOU, City and County desire to work together for orderly growth relative to sewer, roads, etc. This Addendum is an interim bridge that outlines the parameters and principles for processing certain projects in specific areas to the north and to the west of the city limit until a comprehensive update to the Greater Sa...
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