DATE: October 6, 2020
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PRESENTATION ON THE PORT MASTER PLAN UPDATE (PMPU), INCLUDING UPDATES REFLECTING CURRENT STATUS PRIOR TO THE UPCOMING FOUR-WEEK PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD FOR THE REVISED DRAFT PMPU
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Since 2013, the District has been evolving and improving a process, which we have come to know as Integrated Planning. In short, Integrated Planning is a multi-faceted and comprehensive approach for managing and planning the uses of the District in a balanced way. Although Integrated Planning is an approach and philosophy that will permeate numerous plans and processes at the District, one critical and current focus area is an update to the District's certified Port Master Plan. The first comprehensive revision in the District's history, the Port Master Plan Update (PMPU) is a comprehensive, integrated, baywide approach that will modernize our method for water and land planning and serve as a guide for future uses and development of District tidelands. The PMPU will connect the tidelands through a series of networks and Planning Districts. It will control the allowable water and land uses, as well as the type and characteristics of development, recreation, and environmental conservation throughout the District's jurisdiction.
Development of the PMPU has followed a phased approach, first starting with a visioning process and followed by establishing a framework that would inform drafting of the PMPU. Beginning in 2017 and continuing into 2020, the Board of Port Commissioners (Board) conducted a series of workshops focusing on goals, policy concepts and draft water and land use maps for the baywide elements and planning districts. These discussions were intended to continue the District's effort to front load development of Draft PMPU by proactively soliciting Board and public input to better inform completion of a Draft PMPU. In turn, development of a publicly informed Draft PMPU would serve as the project description for ...
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