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General Plans, Specific Plans, Zoning Ordinances, Form-based Codes, and implementing ordinances.
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Compliance with California Environmental Quality Act (CEPA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Environmental Technical Studies, Air Quality, Noise, Biology, Archaeology.
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Management of interdisciplinary consulting teams in the Civil Engineering, Environmental Planning, and Urban Planning fields.
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General Plan and Environmental Impact Report (EIR), City of Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, California
Project Director. Mr. Mooney managed the revision and update of all elements of the City’s General Plan. In addition to the mandatory General Plan elements, the project included optional Economic Development and Lake Elements. The project required an extensive citywide public participation and visioning program to maximize citizen involvement in the update process. A master environmental document for the update was prepared and processed. This update included an entire rethinking of the presentation of the General Plan into a user-friendly format.
General Plan and Environmental Impact Report (EIR), County of Imperial, California
Project Director. Mr. Mooney managed a comprehensive update of the County of Imperial General Plan. Special emphasis was placed on land use planning for landfills, prisons, and other intensive or impactive land uses, which are not always desirable in local communities. He proposed a new land use category, Special Purpose Facility, and siting guidelines to assist the county in locating new local and regional facilities. He also prepared a Master EIR.
General Plan Stakeholder Involvement Program, City of Citrus Heights, Sacramento County, California
Project Director. Working with project manager Carey Fernandes, Mr. Mooney managed an extensive public participation and community outreach program for the City’s first General Plan. He designed a community outreach program that included three neighborhood charrettes for identification of community issues, goal setting, land use programming, and plan development. These programs were expanded upon with a community questionnaire to assist in reaching the broadest range of stakeholders. One successful concept that resulted from the outreach program was the identification and planning of the use of historic canals as key pedestrian pathways.
General Plan and Zoning Ordinance, City of Brawley, Imperial County, California
Project Director managed the revision and update of all elements of the City’s General Plan and the Zoning Ordinance. In addition to the mandatory General Plan elements, the project included optional Community Design and Economic Development elements. The project involved an extensive, citywide public participation program to maximize citizen involvement in the update process. A master environmental document for the update was prepared and processed.
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.