Growth Management Element
From the 2002 General Plan:
Growth Management is a concept that allows for a rate of growth that can be supported by the City's infrastructure and does not diminish the community's quality of life and identity. . The function of the Growth Management Element is to define the geographical extent of urban growth and manage the impacts of that growth by virtue of the Urban Limit Line. This element of the General Plan establishes policies and standards for traffic levels of service and performance standards for fire, police, parks, sanitary facilities, water and flood control that provides a long-range method of matching the demand for public facilities generated by new development with plans, capital improvements and development mitigation programs.
The goals, policies and programs in this section are consistent with the requirements of Contra Costa’s Transportation Sales Tax Expenditure Plan (“Measure J”) approved by Contra Costa County Voters in 2004 and with Government Code §65303.