Ordinance 18-47 Adopting the 2018 Comprehensive Plan

CITY OF HOMER
HOMER, ALASKA

City Manager

ORDINANCE 18-47

AN ORDINANCE OF THE HOMER CITY COUNCIL ADOPTING THE 2018 HOMER COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND RECOMMENDING ADOPTION BY THE KENAI PENINSULA BOROUGH.     

WHEREAS, The Kenai Peninsula Borough as a Second Class Borough shall provide for planning on an areawide basis in accordance with AS 29.40; and

 WHEREAS, As provided in Kenai Peninsula Borough Code 21.01.025, cities in the Borough requesting extensive comprehensive plan amendments may recommend to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission a change to the city comprehensive plan; and

WHEREAS, The City of Homer has prepared a extensive comprehensive plan amendments in the form of the 2018 Homer Comprehensive Plan; and

WHEREAS, A comprehensive plan is a public declaration of policy statements, goals, standards and maps for guiding the physical, social and economic development, both private and public, of the City; and

 WHEREAS, The 2018 Homer Comprehensive Plan will guide the development of the City of Homer; and

 WHEREAS, The Homer Advisory Planning Commission and other City commissions and bodies have reviewed said plan and/or conducted public hearings; and

 WHEREAS, The Homer City Council, based upon the recommendation of the Homer Advisory Planning Commission, recommends that the Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission and Assembly adopt the 2018 Homer Comprehensive Plan.

NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF HOMER ORDAINS:

 Section 1.  The 2018 Homer Comprehensive Plan is hereby adopted as the City of Homer Comprehensive Plan, superseding the 2008 Comprehensive Plan.  

Section 2.  The previously adopted Homer Master Roads and Streets Plan (1986), Homer Non-Motorized Transportation and Trail Plan (2004), Homer Area Transportation Plan (2005) and the Homer Town Center Development Plan (2006), Homer Spit Plan (2010) remain part of the Homer Comprehensive Plan.

 Section 3.  Subsection (b) of Homer City Code 21.02.010, Comprehensive Plan—Adoption, is amended to read as follows:

 b.           The following documents, as initially approved and subsequently amended, are adopted by reference as comprising the Homer Comprehensive Plan.

1.          Homer Comprehensive Plan (2018)
2.          Homer Master Roads and Streets Plan (1986)
3.          Homer Non-Motorized Transportation and Trail Plan (2004)
4.          Homer Area Transportation Plan (2005)
5.          Homer Town Center Development Plan (2006)
6.          Homer Spit Plan (2010)

 Section 4.  The City hereby recommends that the Kenai Peninsula Borough Planning Commission and Assembly adopt the 2018 Homer Comprehensive Plan as extensive comprehensive plan amendments under Kenai Peninsula Borough Code 21.01.025, and as an element of the Official Borough Comprehensive Plan within the City of Homer planning area of the Borough.

 Section 5.  Sections 1 through 3 of this ordinance shall take effect upon the adoption of the 2018 Homer Comprehensive Plan by the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly.  The remainder of this ordinance shall take effect upon its adoption by the Homer City Council.

 Section 6.  Section 3 of this ordinance is of a permanent and general character and shall be included in the city code.  The remainder of this ordinance is not of a permanent nature and is a non-code ordinance.

                ENACTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF HOMER, ALASKA, this ___ day of _______, 2018.

CITY OF HOMER

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KEN CASTNER, MAYOR

ATTEST:

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MELISSA JACOBSEN, MMC, CITY CLERK

YES:
NO:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:

First Reading:
Public Hearing:
Second Reading:
Effective Date: 

Reviewed and approved as to form:

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Katie Koester, City Manager                                                  Holly Wells, City Attorney

Date: __________________­_                                                Date: _______________________