The Santa Cruz Department of Planning and Community Development oversees current and future planning. The department administers a variety of City regulations relating to physical development. It also deals with the development of city-wide and neighborhood plans and programs, which involves adoption and maintenance of the General Plan and General Plan Map, its elements, area plans and the Local Coastal Program. Important to this division is liaison with other jurisdictions, neighborhood, business and civic groups.
Internship Description
The proposed internship will require working with the City Climate Change Coordinator and University Researchers to create an evaluation of potential and a conceptual design for a future Ocean Energy Research Facility on the City of Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf. Activities will include identifying current opportunities for wind, solar and wave apparatus platforms and roof apparatus, and work with UCSC engineering faculty to identify possible design elements required to support a research station. A potential analysis of future experimental activities that such a facility could support as well as establishing initial dialog with regional regulatory agencies and marine researchers on potential environmental impacts of the facility may be a component of this project.