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Development Policies
Here you will find development-related policies from the Planning Commission and City Council. We have provided these documents in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format. You can download a free Acrobat viewer here. Click on the links below to access the information you want.
Airport Land Use Commission
The State of California regulates land use surrounding airports through local Airport Land Use Commissions (ALUC). In Santa Clara County, the ALUC prepares the land use plans surrounding each of the airports in the County, reviews certain development applications and …. There are two airports in San Jose, Mineta San Jose International Airport and Reid Hillview Airport. Each of the airports has its own adopted land use plan that should be reviewed in preparing development plans. The Reid Hillview plan was adopted by the ALUC on October 24, 2007 and can be accessed from the County web site here.
Employment Lands Preservation
The City Council adopted the Framework for Preservation of Employment Lands on October 23, 2007 to preserve remaining industrial and commercial lands in the City of San José. This policy, together with the Joint Mayor-Council Memo, both available at the links above, provide the criteria to maintain no net loss of employment capacity on lands designated in the San José 2020 General Plan for commercial or industrial uses. Proposals for changes in land uses on designated employment lands in the City of San José are subject to the criteria in the Framework and the associated Joint Mayor-Council Memo.The PowerPoint presentation on the Framework and the staff memo to the City Council as well as the Key Employment Lands Map are accessible from the links above.
With the economic downturn, the pressure to convert employment lands to housing, civic, or retail uses has grown tremendously in recent years. A surge in conversion proposals prompted the City, in June 2003, to hire a consultant team to analyze the potential fiscal impacts of large-scale conversions. The consultant’s report, entitled "Towards the Future: Jobs, Land Use, and Fiscal Issues in San Jose's Key Employment Areas: 2000-2020," along with the map, are accessible from the links above. The PowerPoint presentation and the staff memo to the City Council on Employment Lands on March 29, 2007 are also accessible from the links above.
Planning staff has prepared a map and data table identifying all General Plan amendments affecting the City's industrial land supply over the 1990-2007 time period. To access this information, please use the links above.
An earlier report may also be of interest:
"Maintaining a Strong Economic Base: Analysis of High Tech Trends, Projections, Primary industries and Supplier Linkages in San Jose" April 21, 2000.
On December 3, 2007 Michael Krasny on KQED Radio hosted a panel discussion on Industrial Land Conversion. This discussion, which featured the cities of San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco, is accessible from the following link:
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R712031000
For more information on this topic, please contact Andrew Crabtree, Principal Planner at andrew.crabtree@sanjoseca.gov |
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