The General Plan, which will govern the next few decades of Arcata’s infrastructural policies – in many ways it determines what the city physically is – will now be discussed by the Arcata City Council, which will include several aspects they have yet to decide, such as inclusionary zoning and parking standards.
The final reviews of both documents – the general plan will shape city zoning policy until 2040 and the Gateway Area Plan aims to rezone the 138-acre Creamery District to facilitate denser housing construction – are expected in the coming months and finish by March. Unsurprisingly, discussions on the general plan – which will become the city’s guiding document for development and local land uses – have been dense, informationally voluminous and occasionally combative.