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RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER PLANNED DEVELOPMENTS AND TO THE SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY GENERAL PLAN The Pro.iect Supports County Planning Strategies The proposed Rancho San Joaquin project anticipates County strategies in the forthcoming new General Plan to balance jobs with housing, distribute and regulate development and mitigate the fiscal consequences of growth. The proposed Rancho San Joaquin project will support these County planning strategies in the following ways. Jobs and Housing. San Joaquin County is experiencing unprecedented population growth which is leading the County and city governments to formulate strategies and policies to address new planning needs. The County's future "quality of life" undoubtedly will be an underlying central goal of the new General Plan. As an example, policies which will distribute and regulate growth to locations that are integrated with planned road network improvements could serve to minimize cost to the County quality of life. This "balanced growth" strategy also needs to anticipate increased County economic and employment growth to match the population growth,reduce commuting and pay for new capital facilities. The plan for Rancho San Joaquin can be considered an integral part of local economic development planning to bring about needed employment growth in southern San Joaquin County. Corporate executives now consider "quality of life" issues as important as cost when deciding where to locate a new factory or office. Rancho San Joaquin's country-club environment, upscale executive housing and recreational amenities will attract and hold the key managers who will make decisions on site selection for employment generating uses in the Tracy-Manteca area. Easy Access to Required Highways. The new General Plan will need to anticipate continuing high levels of out-commuting well into the early part of the next century, even while implementing economic and planning strategies to improve the local jobs-housing balance. Another balancing scenario in the new General Plan is likely to require the County to identify development areas with easy access to Interstate Route 5 and other high-volume highways to accommodate new commuter households. The location of the New Jerusalem community and its proposed Rancho San Joaquin neighborhood offers the County a new development area with hard-to-match access to the regional highway system, as can be seen on Figures 1 and 2. The Rancho San Joaquin neighborhood can help to absorb a share of new commuting households with minimum impact on the County's road system. Fiscal Consequences of Growth. The emerging population and employment trends for San Joaquin County have profound cost implications for new capital facilities and services to serve the increases. In general, Rancho San Joaquin would be expected to have a low capital facility-service cost impact. The ability to plan an entire neighborhood of 2,500-3,000 population to minimize police, fire,road, water supply and other service problems is an explicit fiscal benefit of Rancho San Joaquin. A fiscal impact analysis was performed for the proposed Rancho San Joaquin development.' This study found that Rancho San Joaquin would increase annual County costs at buildout by ' Zion, William, Fiscal Impacts of the Proposed Rancho San Joaquin Project, March 14, 1989 30