REPORT TO CITY COUNCIL
SUBJECT
Title
Action on the Water Supply Assessment Related to Preparation of a Specific Plan for the El Camino Real Focus Area
Report
COUNCIL PILLAR
Promote and Enhance Economic, Housing and Transportation Development
BACKGROUND
The City's 2010 General Plan establishes a Land Use goal and policy for redefining El Camino Real as a vital, pedestrian-oriented corridor, with a greater diversity of uses. The El Camino Real Specific Plan carries out the General Plan to establish fine-grained land use designations and a more detailed land use policy than what is currently in the General Plan, as well as provide objective design standards to regulate new development projects in the Plan Area. After a series of meetings in 2021 and 2022 that considered a higher density proposal, on March 7, 2023, the City Council directed staff to prepare a new version of the El Camino Real Specific Plan with a reduced density. Adoption of the Specific Plan that is currently under preparation would allow up to 4,392 residential units, 524,467 square feet of retail space, and 162,891 square feet of irrigable landscape along the corridor.
In June 2025, staff conducted a study session with Council to provide an update and obtain feedback on the draft Specific Plan. As a part of the next steps for the development of a Specific Plan for the El Camino Real Focus Area, the City conducted a Water Supply Assessment for inclusion in the environmental review process. Senate Bill 610 (2001), codified at Water Code Section 10910 et seq, requires detailed information on water supply availability for certain projects, for which the El Camino Real Specific Plan is one. This item requests Council approval of this assessment. Staff will bring the Specific Plan itself back to Council in the near future for Council consideration and action.
DISCUSSION
The City Council is being asked to take action on the Water Supply Assessment related to preparation of a Specific Plan for the ...
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