(California Government Code)
TITLE 7. PLANNING AND LAND USE
DIVISION 1. PLANNING AND ZONING
Chapter 1.9. Rural Economic Development
65055. On or before December 31, 1994, the Director
of Planning and Research, in consultation with the
Governor's Interagency
Council on Growth Management and an advisory committee
composed of rural landowners and citizens, shall adopt
a rural
economic growth strategy. The purposes of the strategy
shall include, but are not limited to, encouraging
all of the following:
(a) A healthy, self-sustaining rural economy and society,
including resource-based uses such as agriculture,
and their related
employment.
(b) A wide variety of land uses and income streams consistent
with rural densities,
resource-based uses, appropriate siting and design,
and economic opportunities.
(c) A balance of equities, opportunities, and responsibilities
between urban and rural areas.
(d) (1) Members of the advisory committee shall serve
without compensation and shall not be reimbursed for
any expenses
in connection with their duties.
(2) Any costs incurred in implementing this chapter
shall be met within the existing budget of the office.
(e) The advisory committee shall terminate upon adoption
of the rural economic growth strategy pursuant to this
section.
(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 1019.)
65055.5. (a) The rural economic growth strategy shall
include, but is not limited to, the following components:
(1) Rural economic development.
(2) Rural quality of life.
(3) Rural resources and land use.
(4) Rural infrastructure.
(5) Rural self-governance.
(6) Rural regulatory streamlining.
(7) Rural publicly-owned land.
(b) The rural economic growth strategy shall establish
a positive strategy, recognizing rural residents, businesses,
employees, and landowners as equal partners in growth,
outside urbanized areas, including, but not limited
to, all of the
following:
(1) Capital information and financing opportunities.
(2) New market, product, and services development.
(3) Augmentation and allocation of public fiscal resources.
(c) The rural economic growth strategy shall develop
one or more practical methods of distinguishing between
rural and
urban areas for the purposes of this chapter. It shall
also evaluate the economic interaction between rural
and urban areas,
including, but not limited to, the consequences of the
urbanization of rural lands, increases in rural population,
and the benefits
to urban areas provided by rural areas.
(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 1019.)