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Overview

What is the Port Master Plan?

The Port Master Plan (PMP) provides a planning tool to guide future Port development and to ensure that projects and developments within the Port are consistent with the California Coastal Act.   The PMP contains the official planning policies, consistent with a general statewide purpose, and land and water use designations that guide physical development of the tidelands and submerged lands conveyed and granted in trust to the San Diego Unified Port District.

Why is the Port Master Plan being amended?

Periodic amendments to the PMP are necessary to modify development goals and objectives in light of current conditions, needs and forecasts.

In 2009, the Port began the process of amending Planning District 3, Centre City Embarcadero, of the Port Master Plan (PMP). The purpose of the Port Master Plan amendment (PMPA) is to incorporate the former Navy Pier into the PMP boundary, to clarify intended development and uses within Planning District 3 and to improve internal consistency of the PMP. The proposed North Embarcadero PMPA will result in a clearer, simple, and consistent PMP for the North Embarcadero portions of the Centre City Embarcadero Planning District (Planning District 3) through modifications to the text, tables, and graphics.

The anticipated components of the PMPA include the following:

• Adjust the PMP boundary to incorporate Navy Pier.
• Assign land use designation(s) and future projects to the Navy Pier, including a park.
• Remove references and graphic providing a new curvilinear pier at Grape Street.
• Change Commercial Recreation use on B Street Pier to Marine Terminal use.
• Incorporate the constraints of homeland security requirements on maritime facilities and public access.
• Incorporate a bayfront shuttle.
• Incorporate "youth hostel" as a permitted use.
• Specify excursion facility locations.
• Recognize the G Street Mole Park as a "memorial park".
• Assign development parameters and standards to 1220 Pacific Highway.
• Incorporate other PMP modifications (i.e., text, land use and graphic modifications) to Planning District 3, as needed or identified through the public participation process.

After public hearings at the California Coastal Commission on the proposed North Embarcadero Visionary Plan Phase 1 Project in February and April 2010, and four public workshops held by the Port regarding the North Embarcadero, the Port proposes an revised NOP to include the following additional PMPA components:

• Clarify the North Embarcadero planning limits within the larger Planning District 3, Centre City Embarcadero.
• Develop policies to provide low-cost visitor serving facilities consistent with the Coastal Act.
• Evaluate potential new multi-use/parking facility at Grape and Pacific Highway.
• Identify and analyze a minimum of 2.5 acres of additional open space and public access opportunities that will include, but not be limited to the following options:
  • An open space set back in line with the center of the west wall of the County Administration Building, (approximately 205 feet), along the east side of Harbor Drive from West Broadway to Hawthorne Street. This may include Lane Field, (at approximately 150 feet), US Navy, Holiday Inn and Solar Turbines. The County Administration Center property is excluded from this setback.
  • Narrowing Harbor Drive between Grape and West Broadway and providing additional open space on the west (bayfront) side of Harbor Drive.
  • Closing portions of Harbor Drive.
  • Closing West Broadway from Pacific to Harbor Drive Narrowing portions of Harbor Drive by making it one-way for vehicular traffic.
• Incorporate a comprehensive evaluation of parks, plazas or other public open space in the North Embarcadero area, including an evaluation of the size and functionality of existing and planned spaces.
• Identify opportunities to enhance pedestrian-oriented circulation and program events to activate open spaces along the North Embarcadero waterfront.
• Evaluate potential new multi-use/parking facility at Grape and Pacific Highway.
• Evaluate potential new parking facilities to support North Embarcadero uses.
• Identify existing transit stations.
• Identify and delineate the California Coastal Trail along the Embarcadero waterfront.
• Incorporate by reference the NEVP Parking Management Plan.
• Reconfigure the land use designations at the foot of Broadway to recognize current property ownership and permitting jurisdictions.

Both land use changes and descriptions for potential facilities would be part of the PMPA. Changes to the components listed above or the addition of new components may occur as a result of public comments and/or through internal processes.