Goals

We have continued to meet and work on the open space legacy and general plan for our DCP area. A set of land use goals has been developed for the DCP focus area for inclusion in the general plan. We would like have your comments and feedback. Please use the link to the DCP website to review the table and comment. Thanks again for you involvement, input and support for our neighborhood.

Land Use Questionnaire Results

During December, 2009 the Dry Creek Preserve Neighborhood Steering Committee sent out to all area landowners of record a questionnaire survey to assess the interests and preferences of area landowners and residents regarding DCP land uses. The questionnaire process allowed the option for owners to respond anonymously. Of the approximately 227 questionnaires sent out, 41 (18%) were returned. The following table summarizes the questionnaire responses received.

It is important to note that only a small number of respondents described their property acreage. Therefore the numbers and percentages included in the summary below are numbers and percentages of owners responding, and not numbers or percentages of acres or area.

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What We Heard From Neighborhood Landowners

LAND USE:

  • Continue to allow agricultural uses: particularly horses/livestock
  • Do not allow commercial industrial uses (not fully agreed)
  • Retain 2-acre minimum parcel size and Rural Residential uses
  • Allow no commercial uses or development (not fully agreed)
  • If churches are allowed require them to be “single-level”
  • If churches are allowed, limit congregation size
  • If churches are allowed, limit acreage of church facilities
  • Allow charter schools; particularly emphasizing ag or environment
  • Allow nurseries
  • Allow vet clinics (existing)
  • Allow commercial uses consistent with RR zoning
  • Limit number of animals [number per acre ?] (not fully agreed)
  • Continue open space and rural appearance of entire area
  • Set up an Architectural Oversight Committee (not fully agreed)
  • Personal RVs should be allowed to be stored visibly
  • Owners’ personal vehicle and implements may be stored visibly
  • No rental parking of commercial 18 wheeler
  • Allow personal truck and equipment parking by owners (not fully agreed)
  • No commercial parking or permanent on-street parking
  • Preserve Clovis rural character
  • Plan should place growth and density near commercial areas
  • ? do we have to balance housing density – allow smaller lots?
  • Allow horse boarding facilities
  • Allow wineries and/or B&Bs
  • Allow quiet retirement developments with higher density than 1 per 2-ac
  • No chicken ranches or dairies that are incompatible with residences
  • Place buffer zones around commercial business
  • Provide an “Agriculture sustainability” preserve and demo.
  • Continue all FID and other irrigation and well usage

TRAFFIC AND CIRCULATION

  • Maintain roads in rural style, as per County standards
  • No curbs, gutters, sidewalks, street lights
  • Street lights adversely affect wildlife
  • Lower speed limits (especially Sunnyside)
  • Designate streets as rural parkways
  • Design roads as “parkway” style
  • Include a bridle pathway
  • Include bike trails throughout area
  • Slow down traffic to =< 35 mph
  • Rural roads should have only 18’ Right of Way
  • Provide bike paths along roadside or along canals
  • Provide horse paths

OPEN SPACE AND RECREATION

  • Prohibit sports complexes
  • Parks day use only
  • Include trails for bikes, horses, running walking and provide benches
  • Include a dog park (not fully agreed)
  • No dog parks (owners feel dogs have too much free-roaming) (not fully agreed)
  • Do not landscape streets or paths with oleander or other toxic plants
  • Provide for passive recreation – no particular facilities, but welcome users
  • Parks need adjacent parking, time limits
  • No commercial uses in or around parks (food, etc.) (not fully agreed)
  • Plan should emphasize that parks provide quality living and bring in businesses
  • No sports complexes
  • Promote voluntary retention of open space by owners to provide rural character
  • Preserve rural character and open space appearance
  • Provide entry and exit signs for DCP to promote rural open-space buy-in
  • Consider providing a fishing lake

AIR, WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES

  • Incorporate water taps in water mains to enable later owner hook-ups
  • Calculate all costs of water and infrastructure in the Plan
  • Allow continuing use and maintenance of existing and new wells
  • Provide recharge basins using FID (not street drainage) water
  • Owners to keep all surface irrigation rights and contracts
  • Limit depth of new ag wells
  • Private well ownership promotes care of water quality
  • Flood irrigation is critically needed for recharge of GW
  • Provide options for obtaining water where water is scarce
  • Provide option for city water
  • Allow continuing well use even if hooked up to city water

HOUSING

  • Limit sq. footage of guest or mother-in-law houses
  • Prohibit rental of guest or mother-in-law houses
  • Mobile homes: no consensus – some are OK with concept if clean / neat
  • No apartments or multi-family dwellings
  • Provide pockets of higher density with open space surrounds (density averaging)
  • Restrict occult lighting – require shouding

ECONOMICS AND EMPLOYMENT

  • Allow low-impact businesses (low traffic, noise, etc.)
  • No strip malls (or strip joints)
  • No convenience stores
  • Allow artisans to work at home or have shops on own property
  • Allow equestrian focused business (Heritage): tack, feed, etc.
  • Allow alternate energy – solar, wind, etc. Encourage solar farms as a business
  • Protect ag food production from encroaching residential
  • Provide a research ag facility – trees, nursery, lab, etc – possibly with UC or CSUF

GOVERNMENT SERVICES AND UTILITIES

  • Connection to water and sewer must be voluntary
  • Save circulation cost to afford septic and water service
  • Allow continuing use and maintenance of existing and new wells
  • Provide recharge ponding basins using FID (not street drainage) water
  • Owners to keep all surface irrigation rights and contracts
  • Limit depth of ag wells
  • Make solid waste service voluntary
  • Provide options on solid waste management
  • Private well ownership promotes care of water quality
  • Provide options for obtaining water where water is scarce
  • Provide option for city water
  • Flood irrigation is critically needed for recharge of GW
  • Not pay for City infrastructure that owners are not using
  • Allow continuing well use even if hooked up to city water
  • Do not provide natural gas to DCP area – allow propane and wood/fuel heating
  • Burning of orchard waste for heating is efficient – more so than burning in field
  • Allow residents to keep and use fireplaces and wood stoves, etc.

PUBLIC SAFETY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES

  • No street lighting
  • No night use of parks or of trails located away from streets/roads

FINANCIAL AND FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY

No input received