http://water.lgc.org The "Inventory" provides a database of existing information relevant to the project and assists in developing local watershed-based policy recommendations. It contains information from reports, local planning documents, policies from other locales, and other sources of information. daily 1 2007-05-26T20:51:20Z http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/Amador_Local_Economy_GP_update.pdf May 2007 - This Working Paper takes a look at some of the available data concerning the Amador County economy. The analysis focuses on trends in employment, labor force characteristics, average wages, population, educational attainment, and other economic factors to provide background information that will assist the County in addressing these issues through the General Plan Update. This section provides a summary of the key issues and conclusions from the data analysis. A more detailed discussion of the data analysis may be found in the Data Analysis section of this report. Throughout the Data Analysis section, topics for consideration and discussion by the GPAC and County decision-makers are identified using a box and the oak leaf symbol. No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-06-26T16:49:27Z File http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/Amador_Biological_Resources_GP_update.pdf This working paper serves as a foundation for updating the goals, policies, and programs in the Open Space and Conservation Elements of the Amador County General Plan (General Plan) as related to biological resources. Amador County has a wealth of biological resources that are an integral part of the rural character that county residents treasure. A thorough understanding of the locations and extent of these resources in the county, of their local and regional importance, and of potential threats to these biological resources is essential to the development of land use planning practices that protect those resources for future generations. No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-06-26T00:00:17Z File http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/Amador_Infrastructure_Facilities_GP_update.pdf March 2007 - This working paper creates a foundation for preparing the goals, policies, and programs in the Amador County General Plan related to infrastructure, public facilities, and services. No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-06-26T16:46:32Z File http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/Amador_Demographics_and_Housing.pdf This working paper serves as a foundation for updating the goals, policies, and programs in various elements of the Amador County General Plan related to the people of Amador County—who they are, how they live, where they work, and the services they may need in the future. A review of demographics and housing data is essential to understanding the County’s people and their needs. Demographic changes will affect the County’s goals and policies for development, housing, and services and assist in the County in achieving the General Plan vision of a livable community with an adequate supply of affordable housing, a diversity of jobs, and public facilities and services that meet the needs of Amador County’s residents. No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-06-26T00:04:13Z File http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/Amador_Agriculture_GP_update.pdf December 2006 - This working paper serves as a foundation for updating the goals, policies, and programs in various elements of the Amador County General Plan related to agriculture. No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-06-26T18:26:55Z File http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/Foothills_Inventory_list.doc This document has a list of papers, documents, and plans of background information that are relevant to the project. Links to the documents are included. No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-07-10T16:54:39Z File http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/policy%20inventory1%20copy.xls This xls. spreadsheet contains a list of Amador and Calaveras policy documents with links to the resource if it is available online. No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-07-10T18:14:33Z File http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/Calaveras_Housing_element.pdf Adopted May 9, 2005 - The Atypical Calaveras County resident has a median age of 44.6 years old, is female, lives with one (and often two) other related individuals in a household which earns a median household income of $41,022 (for a 4-member household) or a $47,379 median family income (for a family of four). The “typical” resident occupies a home with a mortgage in a single-family residential stick-built structure constructed in 1981, and is one of 37,550 individuals residing within the unincorporated area of the county in the year 2000 (one of 40,554 individuals living in the unincorporated and incorporated county). To meet the needs of this “typical” Calaveras County resident and all other residents of the unincorporated county, now and in the future, the county has prepared this 2001-2009 Housing Element. No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-06-26T20:42:24Z File http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/Calaveras_County_rivers_map.pdf Calaveras County GIS - July 2004 - Topographic map of Calaveras County rivers with highways, major roads, and cities labeled. No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-06-26T17:09:48Z File http://water.lgc.org/resource-tools/Farmland%20Protection%20Action%20Guide.pdf There is a growing recognition among farmers, conservationists and business leaders that a new pattern of growth is necessary to protect the agricultural economy. Local government will be a key player in implementing programs to manage and redirect growth and protect the state’s most productive agricultural areas. This guide has been written to help local officials tailor such a program to fit their community’s needs. No publisher clark calaveras ventura amador inventory 2007-06-20T15:47:31Z File http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/Foothills_CA_Water_Plan_update.pdf Contents: Mountain Counties Area, Setting, Climate, Population, Land Use, Water Supply and Use, State of the Region, Challenges, Accomplishments, Relationship to Other Regions, Looking to the Future, Regional Planning, Water Portfolios for Water Years 1998, 2000, and 2001, and Selected References No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-06-26T17:22:12Z File http://water.lgc.org/library/Econ_Conseq_Growth_Water_Sewer.pdf University of Louisville - Summer 2006 - This practice guide considers the economic costs of poorly planned growth on the provision of linear utilities (including electricity, natural gas, telephone, cable and drainage), but focuses on water and sewer service because they are most likely to be key to project approval. No publisher nancy articles ventura amador inventory calaveras 2008-04-10T21:01:04Z File http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/Ione_Zoning_Code.pdf Passed May, 2003 - General purpose. An official land use zoning ordinance for the city is adopted and established to serve the public health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare and to provide the economic and social advantages resulting from an orderly planned use of land resources, and to encourage, guide and provide a definite plan for the future growth and development of the city. No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-06-26T22:07:53Z File http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/Sierra_LU_Index.pdf Sierra Nevada Alliance - June 2005 - Table of contents: 1. Introduction, 2. Change in the Sierra Nevada—the 1990s, 3. Growth and Development: The Fragile Reality of “Open Space," 4. Communities Can Protect Natural Areas and Manage Rural Sprawl, 5. Landowners and Local Land Trusts Taking Action to Preserve Agricultural Land and Open Space, 6. Nevada: Three Counties’ Impacts on the Sierra, 7. Conclusion & Recommendations No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-06-26T17:45:01Z File http://water.lgc.org/amador-calaveras/resources/State_of_Sierra_Watersheds_index.pdf Sierra Nevada Alliance - 2006 - Table of Contents: 1) Sierra Water at a Glance, 2) Sierra Watershed Indicators, 3) Impacted Sierra Watersheds by Indicator, 4) Centralize Data and Fill Gaps, 5) Recommendations and Conclusion No publisher nancy calaveras amador inventory 2007-06-26T18:02:03Z File