City Council

Item 333: Community Planning Group Recognitions, Extension of a Community Planning\nGroup Recognition Application Deadline, Allowing Certain Community Planning\nGroups to Have More Than Twenty Voting Members, and Amendments to Council\nPolicy 600-24 Relating to Community Planning Groups.\nThis item will be considered in the afternoon session which is scheduled to begin at\n2:00 p.m.\nTotal Estimated Cost of Proposed Action and Funding Source:\nThere are no expenditures being authorized with these actions.\nCouncil District(s) Affected: Citywide.\nProposed Actions:\nSubitem-A: (R-2024-523)\nResolution adopting amendments to Council Policy 600-24 “Standard Operating\nProcedures and Responsibilities for Recognized Community Planning Groups.”\nSubitem-B: (R-2024-524 Cor. Copy) (Rev. 5/16/24)\nResolution waiving the December 31, 2023 deadline for community planning group\nrecognition applications and allowing an extension until January 31, 2024, recognizing\nindependent community planning groups pursuant to Council Policy 600-24, and allowing\nthe University Community Planning Group, the Scripps Ranch Planning Group, the City\nHeights Area Community Planning Committee, and the Linda Vista Planning Group to\nhave more than 20 voting members in their respective groups.\nCommittee Actions Taken:\nThis item was heard at the Land Use and Housing Committee meeting on March 21,\n2024.\nACTION: Motion by Council President Pro Tem LaCava, second by Committee Member\nWhitburn, to recommend Council approval of staff’s proposed actions.\n1. Adopt a resolution to adopt clarifying and procedural amendments to Council Policy\n600-24.\n2. Adopt a resolution to waive the Dec. 31, 2023 submittal deadline for planning group\napplications and allow an extension to Jan. 31, 2024.\n3. Adopt a resolution:\na. Recognizing that the following planning groups have met all requirements of\nCouncil Policy 600-24, have agreed to all requirements of the Terms and\nConditions, and are recognized as the official planning group for their respective\ncommunities: Barrio Logan Community Planning Group, Carmel Mountain\nRanch/Sabre Springs Community Council, Carmel Valley Community Planning\nBoard, Chollas Valley Community Planning Group, City Heights Area\nCommunity Planning Committee, Clairemont Community Planning Group,\nCollege Community Planning Board, Del Mar Mesa Community Planning Group,\nDowntown Community Planning Council, Eastern Area Community Planning\nCommittee, Greater Golden Hill Planning Committee, Kearny Mesa Planning\nGroup, Kensington-Talmadge Planning Group, Linda Vista Planning Group,\nMidway-Pacific Highway Community Planning Group, Mira Mesa Community\nPlanning Group, Mission Beach Precise Planning Board, Mission Valley Planning\nGroup, Navajo Community Planners, Inc., Normal Heights Community Planning\nGroup, North Park Community Planning Committee, Ocean Beach Planning\nBoard, Old San Diego Community Planning Group, Otay Mesa Planning Group,\nOtay Mesa-Nestor Community Planning Group, Pacific Beach Planning Group,\nPeninsula Community Planning Board, Rancho Bernardo Community Planning\nBoard, Rancho de los Penasquitos Planning Board, San Pasqual-Lake Hodges\nCommunity Planning Group, San Ysidro Community Planning Group, Scripps\nRanch Planning Group, Serra Mesa Planning Group, Skyline-Paradise Hills\nCommunity Planning Committee, Southeastern San Diego Community Planning\nGroup, Tierrasanta Community Council and Planning Group, Torrey Hills\nCommunity Planning Board, Torrey Pines Community Planning Board, and\nUniversity Community Planning Group.\nb. Allowing the University Community Planning Group and Scripps Ranch\nPlanning Group to have more than 20 voting members on their respective\nplanning groups.\nMotion by Council President Pro Tem LaCava, second by Committee Member Whitburn\nto:\n4a. recommend Council recognize La Jolla Community Planning Association as the\nofficial planning group of the La Jolla community.\nMotion by Committee Member Whitburn, second by Council President Pro Tem LaCava\nto:\n4b. recommend Council recognize Vibrant Uptown and the Uptown Community Planning\nGroup.\nVOTE: 4-0; LaCava-yea, Whitburn-yea, Lee-yea, Moreno-yea.\nPlanning: Marlon I. Pangilinan, (619) 235-5293\nCity Attorney Contact: Noah Brazier