An overload of hundreds of programs approved in Marin’s 2007 Countywide Plan has proven to be too much to handle for the Community Development Agency, which told supervisors last week in a staff report that they should consider an amendment to the plan to “realign the lofty aspirations” with the realities of staff and financial constraints. “We are not keeping pace with the schedule that was envisioned in 2007,” said Tom Lai, the agency’s assistant director. The recession limited funds soon after the plan’s approval, he said, adding, “We’re looking at a team of five staff. Right now, just looking at work that they’re doing”—which includes updates to the Local Coastal Program and assessing impacts of sea-level rise in bayfront communities in East Marin—“they have their hands full.” The agency is responsible for creating 281 of the plan’s 741 programs. (In comparison, the 1994 plan had just 328 programs.) So far, the agency has completed or at least kicked off work on 161 of them, including standards for agricultural sales and processing facilities and limiting development near sensitive resources. But that leaves 120 incomplete programs, 40 of which are designated as high priorities. Those priority programs include improving wetland protection and the creation of a special district to inspect and monitor septic systems. Supervisor Steve Kinsey told the Light that, in retrospect, the plan was overzealous. “I think that in the ambition to create a comprehensive plan for sustainability, we were too specific with the general plan, which should set broad policies. So the plan itself reads like a zoning code with very specific details.” The C.D.A. recommended that, during budget hearings later this month, when supervisors set the agency’s priorities for the coming year, the board should consider when and how to change the plan. Mr. Lai said that could either mean simply shifting the timeline for implementation or beginning work on a new amendment. Mr. Kinsey said that a new amendment, whenever it is undertaken, should “build on the 2007 plan and simply edit it to make it more functional” as opposed to “a big exhaustive reconsideration” of the general plan, which, last time, took about seven years. He added that the C.D.A.’s problems made the supervisors wonder whether other county agencies are struggling to keep up with all the programs they are supposed to undertake. “So we asked the [C.D.A.] to inventory departments and come back to us with those issues,” he said.