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City of Calipatria, Service Area Plan
Project Director for update of the City Service Area Plan as a result of new requirements at LAFCO the City of Calipatria was required to prepare a SAP. Brian Mooney acted as the Project Director and designed all developed all the analysis strategies to allow the City to comply with the LAFCO requirement.
Southeastern Economic Development Corporation Mixed-Use Zoning Program, City of San Diego, California
Project Director. Mr. Mooney directed the Southeastern Economic Development Corporation, a redevelopment agency within the City of San Diego, to prepare a Mixed-Use Zoning Program for a linear 2-mile corridor along Imperial Avenue and the Metropolitan Transit District’s eastern trolley line. He managed the program design to work within the City of San Diego’s Zoning Ordinance for the implementation of a revitalization plan for the corridor that included transit-oriented development around the trolley station and inclusion of new mixed-use residential opportunities. The Mixed-Use Zoning Program needed to incorporate both architectural and urban design concepts while responding to the cultural diversity of the area.
Cedros Crossing Transit Oriented Development Master Plan and Environmental Impact Report (EIR), City of Solana Beach, San Diego County, California
Project Director. Mr. Mooney managed the development of a Master EIR for a mixed-use transit-oriented development project in the City of Solana Beach. The project included the development of a specific plan on an existing surface parking lot adjacent to the Solana Beach train station and included 200,000 square feet of retail space, 125 residential dwelling units, a community theater, and a parking garage for 450 automobiles. He addressed key issues including land use, traffic circulation, parking, aesthetics, water quality, and cumulative impacts.
General Plan Stakeholder Involvement Program, City of Calexico, Imperial County, California
Project Director. As part of a team, Mr. Mooney managed a general plan stakeholder involvement program to utilize a multicultural approach to community charrettes, with the events being presented in both English and Spanish. The involvement program also included the inclusion of the local high school civics class to develop a youth-oriented plan.
About Us
The Mooney Planning Collaborative (MPC) provides public agencies, tribal governments and developers with innovative, cost effective, city and town planning programs in association with exhaustive environmental studies required under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
MPC brings together experienced planning and environmental professionals who offer clients a broad suite of services to meet the needs of individual projects or visionary long range General Plans or Master Plans. Our team of professionals has extensive experience in working with local agencies and Tribes as extension of staff or with community developers focusing on unique properties with complicated environmental issues.
MPC team members have lead planning and the associated CEQA and NEPA documents in many of California” most unique settings. These include all of the communities of San Diego County, foothills of Caliveras County, the Central Valley, Imperial Valley, Pasadena and greater Sacramento. Work for Tribal Governments has spanned the entire western United States.