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Access Pismo Beach - Citizen Request
City of Pismo Beach
760 Mattie Road
Pismo Beach, CA 93449
Ph: (805) 773-4657
What’s Ahead for 2013 and Beyond?

 

 Our Vision for Pismo Beach
 
Provide a safe place; maintain its small beach town character; manage growth effectively; and enhance a vibrant tourist-based economy, while becoming a world-renowned tourist destination. 

Short-Term Goals

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 Complete Price Historic Park Master Plan and begin implementation
 • Repair Price Canyon Road slope failure
 • Complete and approve the Updated Land Use Element to the General Plan
 • Army Corps to build Shoreline Protection Seawall at St. Andrews Sewage Lift Station
 • Acquire and install 21st century technology in the Police Department
 • Complete a comprehensive Downtown Plan – definition of scope, analysis of existing infrastructure, public vision and objectives, policy actions needed to support, and available near-term actions
 • Consider ballot measure for public decision whether to renew/extend ½ cent sales tax

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 Resolve status of Chapman House regarding inclusion in the City and, if accepted, how to manage it

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 Demolish Old City Hall (retaining identified historic features, where feasible) and begin planning for future uses with public involvement

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 Move to paperless agendas incorporating best practices from elsewhere
    •    Design and construct new Five Cities Sewage Lift Station
    •    Approve the Complete Streets Design Master Plan and Construct Complete Streets Phase I (Shell Beach Area)
    •    Complete Design of the New Bello Street Bridge
    •    Repair Pier Plaza Seawall (steel retaining wall and concrete abutment)

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 Examine level of safety and security in Downtown area and identify potential improvements

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 Facilitate cooperation with LAFCO and neighboring communities to pursue opportunities for an inland arterial

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 Complete design work and identify funds to accelerate shoreline protection of Price Street


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Mid-Range Goals  

    •    Sustain City Street Paving Program and repair storm drains
  • Complete and approve Circulation Element to General Plan (Including options to connect northern and southern sections of the City)
  • Maintain excellent Ocean water quality
  • Implement Public Art Program—(a) consider recommendation from PRBC on voluntary initiatives and (b) review recommendation from Planning Commission and dedicated funding from new public and private projects
  • Continue attention to energy efficiency and explore renewable energy with a strategy for additional City actions
    •    Develop educational workshop to discuss privately funded options to underground utilities
    •    Relocate Pier restrooms
    •    Develop and begin implementation of a comprehensive inspection program for the Bluffs with attention to the City’s infrastructure
    •    Approve plan and seek funding sources for preferred use of Old City Hall site
    •    Develop strategies to satisfy Downtown parking needs
    •    Construct Phase II (Price Street) of Shoreline Protection Plan
    •    Advocate for ways to reduce congestion on Hwy 101
    •    Build new Bello Street Bridge
    •    Complete construction documents for new Corporation Yard Operations Building
    •   Acquire and install 21st century financial management software


Long-Range Goals

    •   Continue to work with PG&E to underground utilities
 • Improve Pedestrian and Bike Trail Systems within the City and connecting regionally through the Complete Streets Plan
    •   Update Parks and Recreation Element of the General Plan (including feasibility of a dog park)
    •   Pursue a Historic Preservation process
    •   Explore alternatives for streets to connect both sides of the City without using Highway 101
    •   Acquire funding to complete a new fire station at Ventana (with accumulation of funds during upcoming budgets, as available)
    •   Acquire funding to complete Corporation Yard Operations Building.
    •   Establish a focused economic development plan
 • Explore opportunities to collaborate with outside partners to assess feasibility and strategies to increase the population and concentration of Pismo Clams.
 • Construct reclaimed water upgrades to the Waste Water Treatment Plant