Locally focused planning
El Dorado Hills needs locally focused planning. We
are too large, too complex, and too different from the rural areas of
El Dorado County to easily share identically the same guidance in the
County General Plan.
Two examples of how to incorporate locality-specific planning into a
county general plan are provided by the counties of Maui and Hawaii.
Maui defines a structured plan organized as this set of documents:
This chart is extracted from page 2 of the Introduction section of the 2/1/07 Draft Countywide Policy Plan:
http://www.mauicounty.gov/departments/Planning/pdf/polsec1.pdf
The nearby island of Hawaii also includes material specific to
each of its 9 districts. Instead of assembling one plan from a set of
documents for differently scoped localities it inserts
district-specific subsections in each major section of a single
document. Web references to Hawaii General Plan documents are:
Size reminder: Following annexation of Marble Valley to the EDH
CSD and the EDH County Water District, the land area of El Dorado Hills
probably is about 45 square miles. For perspective, this is about half
of the area incorporated as the City of Seattle. At approximately this
time (early 2007) the population of EDH is growing past that of Amador
County.
These population estimates for Monday,
February 26, 2007 compare EDH with two cities that each have their own
General Plan:
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El Dorado Hills
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| South Lake Tahoe |
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| Cameron Park
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| Placerville |
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