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JANUAR ' 17 195 6,
� Regular mee:t�tn of
g the
;Planning Comm;i ss on he l;d on Tuesday, January 17, ;
1956 - ,at 7 - .30 ;p , m,.., in
the Counc =i 1 Chamb:er,s ,, City Ha'l l , Petaluma, Ca lif.
PresRn.t: Comm�i done r s
E'i e, Rb`bfog Sa aes., Ta lamantes, Tayl•o'r and
,mo r
�4 D Cc , e,rso:n.
Ab s=ent ;'J. Commdi s s i,one =r
8:1 g e,l ow.
City Off.icials,e� City Mana;gier £d. ,Frank acrd C1.ty- E Jne.e, Russell W. Ingram..
Guests Leonard, K=nitte.l, Jr., Redden . Pianner,o
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
;Leonard Knittel shou be i.nc:l:ud- i.n the roil call
under " Gue s ts'" as he' was p r e s en.t, at the meeting. of
'Janu'ary 4th, 1956. As. there Were no other Komis
s;iors or additi.on's, the minutes of January 4, 1956
were approved` as subm tt _ed,o
RE FOSTER CH ILDREN
iea_eyported that a committee
Comm ing
o.f the
-Planning Comm`i,ss -ion was informally
head on Fr'i d -ay, , J=anua_ry 1,3ah,, with rep4resentat awes
of the County Socia,l Servi'ce,, Countty We 1fa -re Ser-
vice, St,at e: Department off Ment;a 1 Hygiene:,, 't`h,e
Ca•tholi Social 'Se•rv' ce an;d M'rse Govaerts to a= rr
at a so lti on, and'. `discuss the p.r.ob.lem of p lac i -ng
foster .c;hi ldren in 'homes in an R -1 d,istr.ict, wh,ic,h,
ajs ou.tl-i.ned in the City Attorney opiniori •of Decem-
beir, 16:, 19 -55, i s a 1 lowab ie only i -n an R-3 z•one ,
It Wa.s unanimously decided, at the me „eting that. tli'e
-Planr-ing Commission pr'opo'se an amendment to, Zoning
Ordin -anc;e , 340 .NCS al Towing 'fo�s,ter chi ld in
homes i:n an .R -.l distric subject Ao securing a;
”`
e Permit, and watvi;ng the2Q fee` After offm
c "al a.dt on of the amendment has b`,e,en t,aken th:e
ab -ove D'e:pa would then be notified so th t
the anfo.rmation can be i,.ncluded in their manua'lso
Mr ., Kni t t e l was d -i r e c t.e d -t;o prepare, a .r e s o lu t i o n
in line :witY the ;propos.ed change .and submit same
fo ',r; c,onsid.e_ratibn at' the _next meet_ n.go
TRAILER COURT .m ELY° ROAD; Sonoma `Co:unt;y Pl.a,nni;ng C,ommisso.n. requeat for
AND._E.WA- SH'INGTON _STREET'.
recommendation on application for :Use Permit to,
estab,l.is °h a trai :e,r court at Ely Road and East
1 1
Wash°ingt�on., Street. was next con• ldered A field
ch!ec_k had been- conducted by several of the
memberrs prior to t °lie meet Ing, and fol howing a,
.
di sc,us s i.on the =re,on a
° e , po1,,1 of the Commission
o re:®
vea led a unanimous di l by' a1 l members
present of the application insofar as ,t'h:e - location
of the gropas trai l,er court, :is approxi.,mately
lone- quarter °qf ,a and le. from the present City Limits
line, in 'wh area an R -1' distri now exstsa
•It was noted that the City of. Peta,.1 -uma s ,expandin'g
^
eastward and it is anticipated that fu•t "ure annexa-
t,l wi 11 inc 1ud ;e th:e area of� the app Iic at i on,
which undoubt..ed ly wi 1 i , be zoned resident i a 1 ly. I't
b 1j th a i a res =ident
r court . ial
d.etriment the Burro- unding,
community and, shou,l;d be p_rope.r,ly .located closer to
a, freeway ox a main hi "ghway, The inat;ter ,of sewer,
January` 1.7, 1956,
f ac 11 t Le,s I wa-s§ br'otig up in connection with the
'a I i c,at 1 on, The City Engineer expd,ained the
pp I - 9 - -
C t 'b a I la ion of
oun y pro. Ably wou,14 not dllow the
a septi;c tank� in c:a�s�e it would be nece's
fo �tb!e� applicant to connect the court to the Cltyls
,s"ew,6-r system, and iIt - would , be doubtful whethet,thet
Cfty would. peirmit '§uQb a Q.6nnection -without annex&
ti_On, of' the area.
A , ; l et ,e r vas d'i re"CLt eed to be forwarded' to the Sonoma
County Planni-ng� C_o�mnl,ssdo . n in the above
recommend
Sonoma County' P rannj.,ng CoMMLi s s i on request f o.r -re'-
Commendation on Us Permit apiAltat. of George
Juvs,tman to e,rac�t a, di ' Xe , ctional. 51,gn of'justman
Fiyirig S'el'vlce, . 10.� I I x 20 at szuth'eastarly corner
of Lane and J- freeway, a,ppr oxi . mate.ly
20 south Of "Lind-b'er.,g Lane and 10 east of frre�e
way's, ,east fen' was the next item uncler cons!A,e'
t 1 bn_ Tolllowing :a brief discus,slori,.'a polL of the
Comm4s�sj"bn ind-ica:t,ed a-unrap-i,mo,ws di.sapp,noval of the'.
'appal itati.,oft ;a.s It Was b:e1i,eved that the ,.Iocatton oT
the s i.q
,n would be ift close proximity t-o, the Cityls
Pfe4sent' dl and' if or Vvhen anmexatdoft
occurs of the area. Wh ' the sign is p1rroP'o,sed
it - woul,d, he unde situat:ed near homes-, Refer
-
encq wa..s also made to Zpjning Ord inanc - e #34 , NCS
w;i t r'L-g&'d t-o s i g ris in an R-1 disfrict. The City
qiqe pointed but that" the application. indldat
advatt an the pnop sl,gn, and- suggested that
th County che'c'k with the Engin'eer of the State
Di. o Highways t:o determine the standards
of di,rec,tional sign
,s , as 1t appears that the use
requested is incorrect for thi,s� type of sign. It
was a felt that. if such a, use wer permitted,,
qu:
I, t. wou set. a pre,qed�ent for si r mila re e:sts and
the Tne;eway. w o u l d ' t hen; -be cluttered with t•ao
Y si,oner Ta:yTor thought the; s*
man, s4g.r a., Co'mm sign
U r , d s al,so t,ob large for th e u 8 e b e I rig c ons i d e�r e d'.
, Cha1 rman Dickerson direct:ed that a lett.ev' of ne -
co mmenda t io n. he, forwarded to the Sonoma Cqunty,
Planning Commis5ion containing the Commissdonl
disapproval o, f the applic•ation as outlined;.
Mr''. Tran-k also suggested that a plan cou be
obtal.ned from the St Divisibri af H i.g f or
,in f o v m a t i on, p 4,r,D &s e s indica:tinng the, typ.e, and
number of �sl,gn.s to be p•1.ac e d on. the f ne ewayl,
In d1scus the'ma:tter of ne"z;on.!,no the C-2 area
sh ln,gt�oO St reet f rom .Hoppe -r, (��'t t
,along Easy Vlai �t� tee _ p Stre .
Vad.tej o St aet, th e C ity E 1 ne er - explained that in
the 'future: s met,ho'A of widening East Wa s hing to n-
Street will be necessary and by eli"minating on-
sttee,t p, through a. C- l: z I one, en.6ucih s,-Dace"
J;anta.ry 17; 1956
space could 'be ava.11a"b;le four lanes of traffic,,
He also "felt that C ®2 °zoning is not ap,pjic;able to
the. present use:. of the ,area. In line w ith pro. -
posing a zone change of sa asrea, the Commission
considered , b - ot -h C ®2P. and C_® I zonels in order to
establish off street parking regu1at Ion's o However,
du °e to .the fact that use are, more res'tri.eted- and
the front yard set) ack provi sd on 'is more favo:rabJe
for ,future widening, if ne:eded,, it was unanimously
decd th-rou a prol conducted by Commissioner
Tayl that. 'a & -1 'z.oi e woul be more• desirable.
Mr." George Kephardt.', of 94 Wi lm'i,ngtan D`ri.ve, J joihed
in t, : gent -era l d,i sous -sign .which took p la:c.e;. , whereupon
Chairman Dickerson. ;d'Arec<t:ed' that nec:.essary le :gis I a -.
taoh be prepared to propose aln - amendment to 2onin
Ordinance #141 NCS to - °ezon East Wa:shangton Street
from Hopp °er Street to 1/all'eo Street from C -2 to
A
C ®l zone.
WIDENING EAST WASHINGTON
At the <suggesxti,on of 10ro Frank,` a 1 was dirrected
STREET FROM McDOWELL ROAD
to be :sent, to the .Sonoma County Planning Commis$ on
° TO OLD ADOBE F.,OAD
requ,es'tin,g a. study anal survey, be, made of widening
-
East Washington St;r:ee.t from McDowell Road t!o Ohd'
Adobe. Road as in the n,e.av fut.u,re the Planning Com -,,
imis;si.on wijl •have bef it an ap.plicat;ion for
construction, of a regional type shopping center on
either the :northeasterly o:r S.outhwesterly corner
of the 'int,e:rsection of McDowell Road and East
Washington St;reeto Also, the following sug'ge'stions
of the, City .Engineer were requested to be included
in the same, le��tter�r that it be i�mpractica,l'
"woul.d
rthwsterly y side of East Wa•shi_ng-
to widen on the no e
t"on' Street due to the ditch; that said street should
b,e ,de for fou "r lanes of traffic; and, that
the' J ag at the inte:rsect,ion of Ely Road and 'East
Washington Street be considered in the - a�ligrment
d,esi gn of they street o
ADJOURNMENT
come the
"befo,re
me etinge jourred,