Workshops

The City of Vista will be hosting three (3) Workshop Series for the General Plan Update (GPU) – one series for each key phase of the project - listed below:

1. Workshop Series #1 - Establishing the Vision
2. Workshop Series #2 - Land Use Alternatives
3. Workshop Series #3 - Draft General Plan

Each Workshop Series will include four (4) public workshops held over a one-week period. The four workshops will be held in different locations throughout the City which generally coincide with the City Council districts. Three of the four workshops will be predominantly catered towards English speaking participates, while one workshop will be presented fully in Spanish. The material presented will be the same for each meeting in the series.

In March of 2023, the City of Vista hosted the first of three outreach events to educate and engage citizens about the City of Vista General Plan Update, it was called - Establishing the Vision!

The workshop series provided an overview of the project, existing conditions research, and participant-based exercises for residents to develop concepts that would create a long-term vision for the City of Vista. City Staff and RICK Consulting Staff have since developed a set of land use maps that implement the ideas we heard most frequently from the community, ideas like retaining the scale and character of existing residential communities and focusing growth into targeted areas.

The land use maps will be used in Workshop Series #2 - Land Use Alternatives. The maps will implement the themes heard during the visioning process at the land use level.

In late January and early February 2024, the City of Vista conducted the second series of workshops for the City of Vista General Plan Update - Land Use Alternatives!

The material discussed at these workshops were developed using the feedback received from the first workshop series, Establishing the Vision. Participants had the opportunity to review and discuss Vista's proposed Land Use Plan and two possible Land Use Alternatives.

As with the Workshop Series #1, there were four in-person meetings. The dates, times, locations (including district) and languages of each meeting are outlined in the table below. Note that each workshop covered the exact same material.

The project team is now preparing a detailed summary of the feedback received at these workshops. Once completed, the summary document will be posted on the Project Documents page.