Scotts Valley Municipal Code Ch. 2.68 Resource Management Policy

The city declares its scarce resources to be significant to the well-being of the city and valuable to manage wisely. To fulfill this aim, the council adopts this policy to assure all actions taken by the council will be made with a full and complete understanding of the consequences a decision will have on the city's scarce resources.

(Ord. 155 § 1, 1992)

The planning director shall prepare an inventory of valuable environmental resources upon which the city relies, and the council shall review the availability of these resources at least once every year. The planning director shall update this inventory as appropriate.

(Ord. 155 § 2, 1992)

Following the presentation of the report prepared by the community development director as provided in this section, the city council shall hold a public hearing on the availability of resources within the city. These resources which are reviewed shall include, but not be limited to:

A. Infrastructure:

1. Traffic carrying capacity for roads and intersections within the city,

2. Average daily trips or roads within the city,

3. Capacity of the city's wastewater treatment plant, and

4. Capacity of the city's recycled water facility;

B. Economy:

1. Number of businesses and employees within the city,

2. Number of businesses and employees with a city business license,

3. Tax revenues for the fiscal year, and

4. Vacant land inventory by type of use within the city;

C. Housing:

1. Market rate housing type and sales price for the year,

2. Rental housing type and rental rate for the year,

3. Affordable housing type and sales price for the year,

4. Affordable rental housing type and rental rate for the year, and

5. Compare jobs to housing balance;

D. Community:

1. Number of city schools (public and private), school capacity, enrollment figures and average class sizes,

2. Number and type of existing public and private parks and recreation facilities within the city, and

3. Number of sites with historic or cultural value within the city;

E. Natural Environment:

1. Water supply and demand capacity in each water purveyors district supplying water within the city, and

2. Air quality within the city.

(Ord. 155 § 3, 1992; Ord. 155.1 § 1, 1995; Ord. 155.2 § 1, 1996; Ord. 155.3 § 1, 1999)

A. The community development director shall prepare a written report which shall be made available to the council and the public at the first regular council meeting in March. The report shall be prepared with the input from all agencies serving the city, as well as other city departments. The report shall include an analysis of city resources formatted in the following fashion:

1. Present availability of each resource;

2. Projected demand for the coming year, for five years and for ten years into the future; and

3. Recommended limitations, restrictions or allocations, if any, upon the use or reuse of each resource for purposes of short-term and long-term planning for the growth of the city in an orderly, efficient and environmentally sound use of resources.

B. The report shall contain information outlined in a "method of reporting" which shall be adopted by the council by resolution.

(Ord. 155 § 4, 1992; Ord. 155.1 § 2, 1995; Ord. 155.2 § 2, 1996)

Following review of the planning director's report and any oral or written testimony provided at the public hearing, the council shall evaluate the information and determine which resource supply, if any, is or soon will be, threatened by over-consumption or use. To effectively manage the available resources, the council may establish criteria for consumption of the resources. Based on the council's criteria, and upon the council's sole discretion, certain threatened resources may be preserved by methods such as allocation of land use permits, limitations in growth, or other land use planning tools which will prevent premature, unnecessary or unsustainable over-consumption of resources within the city.

(Ord. 155 § 5, 1992)