General Plan Amendments

As part of the first phase of the Comprehensive Advanced Planning Initiative, the Town of Moraga amended its 2002 General Plan. These amendments occurred in January 2023. They are provided here for archival purposes only. They were superseded in November 2024 when the Town adopted General Plan 2040.

State law requires that the General Plan is internally consistent, meaning each of its chapters (or "elements") should support each other. Adopting the new Housing Element required amendments to several other elements to ensure that the Town was promoting a diverse range of housing types. The amendments ensured that there were no conflicts between the elements and that all elements were using common assumptions, maps, and data.

Additional amendments to the General Plan were required to comply with new State laws. This included amendments to the Circulation and Growth Management Elements to reflect the use of "Vehicle Miles Traveled" (VMT) as a standard for evaluating a project's transportation impacts under the California Environmental Quality Act. It also included amendments to the Safety Element, which are required to address evacuation, wildfire, and issues associated with climate change and resilience.

The links below are to a "tracked change" version of the 2002 General Plan Showing the proposed amendments, and a "Clean" copy is which the edits were accepted. As noted above, the documents below were superseded by the new General Plan adopted in November 2024.

General Plan Consistency Amendments Tracked Changes (PDF)

General Plan Consistency Amendments Clean (PDF)