In addition, if this measure is approved, the City Council will have limited flexibility to address future amendments to the Town Center Plan and related parking provisions as changes to any such matters amended by this measure will require a vote of the people at a City-wide election, and subsequent certification by the California Coastal Commission. If approved, this measure will restrict the City Council’s discretion with regard to height and parking requirements. When making this conclusion, the analysis made the caveat that these figures are only estimates. The analysis also concluded that the City could potentially lose approximately $673,000 in General Fund revenues per year if this measure is approved, and incur a one-time loss of $4.2 to $4.7 million.
The analysis concluded this measure, if approved, would effectively make mixed use development in the Town Center Plan area financially infeasible. The City Council commissioned a fiscal analysis of this measure, which was presented at the City Council’s Decemmeeting. Thus it will modify the Town Center Plan as approved by the City Council in December 2006 (and certified by the California Coastal Commission in 2008), as well as the amendments thereto approved by the City Council in September 2015. If approved, this measure will result in several amendments to the Town Center Plan and associated provisions of the City’s Municipal Code. Measure H, is known as the 2015 Town Center Initiative. The following impartial analysis of the measure was prepared by the office of the Dana Point City Attorney: Shall the 2015 Town Center Initiative, which changes the Town Center Plan previously approved by the City Council and the California Coastal Commission, as well as the amendments thereto approved by the City Council in 2015, be adopted? The following question appeared on the ballot: “ Measure H was approved, and Measure I was defeated. Measure H and Measure I were competing measures, which means that if both had received majority approval, the one with the most "yes" votes would have been enacted and the other would have been rejected. Measure I was designed to allow the city council flexibility with regard to zoning, height restrictions, and development project plans in the Town Center Plan.
It was approved.Ī yes vote was a vote in favor of enacting a citizen initiative to regulate development of the town center area, including a strict building height limit of 40 feet and other building restrictions, restrictions designed to ensure certain levels of available parking, and the requirement that voters approve any changes to the Town Center Plan.Ī no vote was a vote against enacting a citizen initiative to regulate development of the town center area, including a strict building height limit of 40 feet and other building restrictions, restrictions designed to ensure certain levels of available parking, and the requirement that voters approve any changes to the Town Center Plan.Ī competing measure, Measure I, was also put on the June 2016 ballot by a vote of the city council. Orange County, California ballot measuresĪ citizen initiative concerning the Dana Point Town Center Plan was on the ballot for Dana Point voters in Orange County, California, on June 7, 2016.
Local zoning, land use and development on the ballot See also: Dana Point, California, Town Center and Public Parking City Council Referral, Measure I (June 2016) Measure H: Dana Point Town Center Plan and Parking Citizen Initiative
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