Seeking more feedback through October 21
The latest Land Use Designation Map for the General Plan is ready for the community’s input. After reviewing hundreds of comments, the city is seeking more feedback. Your insights will help shape Ventura’s future development, housing, transportation, and environmental sustainability.
The feedback form provides an opportunity for the public to provide comments and feedback on revised land use designations and a land use designation map for the City of Ventura General Plan. The land use designations are critically important part of the General Plan since they identify the allowed uses, building height and density/intensity on each parcel of land in the city.
As background, in the fall of 2023, the City Council endorsed a draft land use designation map, which was the culmination of over 2 years of work by the General Plan Advisory Committee and the public. In the spring of 2024, the City released a draft land use designation map for public review. The public was able to submit feedback on the proposed land use designations of specific parcels. The City received and reviewed almost 200 public comments, and this process revealed that some members of the community had concerns with the designations in the map.
Over the past 4 months, the General Plan Team reviewed all the community’s comments and developed a revised approach to better align the existing regulations with the proposed land use map. This resulted in a significant number of changes to the land uses designations and the application of those designations to the land use designation map. The City is now returning to the public to receive additional feedback on the updated land use designations and land use map.
The map-based portion of the survey divides the city into eight (8) different areas: Westside; North Avenue; Downtown; Midtown; Pierpont/Harbor; Ventura College; Arundell/Johnson; and Eastside. You can share your input on any or all of the areas.
To provide a comment on the land use map, simply click on the desired parcel or area on the map and write your comment in the feedback box. You can record multiple comments on each map. Each time you move to the next page, your feedback will be saved. Make sure to complete and submit the entire survey to ensure your comments are received.
www.planventura.com/updated-land-use-map. For assistance or more details email [email protected].
