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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes 11/02/1992November 2, 1992 4 5 PRESENT: 6 7 ABSENT: MINiJTES OF A REGULAR MEETING PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1992 Vol. 27, Page -195 3:00 p. m. ROLL CALL Read, Davis, Woolsey, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, Mayor Hilligoss, Sobel, Nelson None s PUBLIC .COMMENT 9 Colin McKenzie, 335 Vallejo Street - He introduced his remarks saying that he is a to retired Highway Patrolman, son of a police officer, and close relative to other police ~ ~ officers. He has had some difficulty in dealing with the Police Department in Petaluma. 12 Specifically, he thinks the City's traffic control could be enhanced to a great degree. He 13 has reported difficulty in crossing the streets, using crosswalks, and people just do not 14 stop for pedestrians. He has "almost gotten clipped by speeders" while he was crossing is at Vallejo and D Street. Also parking on the sidewalks in town leaves no clear way for a 16 person, such as he, utilizing a wheelchair. He would like to have the City Council get 17 together with the Police Chief to get something done on this. The City Manager said a is report will be prepared for both Mr. McKenzie and the Councilmembers. 19 Councilman Cavanagh noted that the new crosswalks are v r slippery in the rain. 20 MINUTES 21 The October 19, 1992, minutes were approved as amended. 22 Page 190, Line 35 - ".....the County where the homeless men and women could be 23 sheltered during the Winter. 24 Page 192, Line 5 - "..with with the neighbors on a five year agreement for payment of 25 the sewer connection and community facility and park facility fees. " 26 Page 193, Line 18 -Add "#3 A Set-Aside fund should be established for Open Space 2~ opportunities. " 2s CONSEN'T' CALENDAR 29 The following items which are noncontroversial and have been reviewed by the City 3o Council and staff were enacted by one motion which was introduced by Michael Davis, 31 and seconded by Brian Sobel. 32 AYES: Read, Davis,. Sobel, Nelson, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, Mayor Hilligoss 33 NOES: None 34 ABSENT: Woolsey 3s ~ RES®. 92-280 NCS 36 CLAIlVIS AND BILLS 37 Resolution 92-280 NCS approving Claims and Bills #23316 through #23627. 3s RESO. 92-281 NCS 39 ACCEPTING COMPLETION OF MC NEAR TENNIS COURTS 4o Resolution 92-281 NCS accepting completion of the resurfacing of the McNear Park 41 Tennis Courts. The work was done by Sequoia Surfacing and Engineering of Santa Rosa. 42 The contract had been awarded under Resolution 92-277 NCS of September 8, 1992. Page 196, Vol. 27 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 November'2, 1992 Resolution 92-282 NCS transferring maintenance responsibility to the Sonoma County Water Agency for Washington Creek from Garfield to the Airport. * * * * * End Consent Calendar * * * RESO. 92-283 NCS BUDGET ADOPTED Resolution 92-283 NCS adopting the 1992-93 Fiscal Year Budget. Introduced by Brian Sobel, .seconded by Nancy Read. AYES: Read, Davis,. Sobel, Nelson, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, Mayor Hilligoss NOES: None ABSENT: Woolsey 14 ORD. 1906 NCS 15 APPROPRIATIONS - 1'992=93 FISCAL YEAR 16 Introduce and adopt Ord. 1906 NCS appropriating funds- for the fiscal year :1992-93. 17 This replaces ordinances appropriating for .July-August- and for July-October, O'rd. 1..890 18 NCS and Ord. 1901 NCS. Introduced by Naricy Read, seconded by Vice Mayor 19 Cavanagh. 20 AYES: Read, Davis, Sobel, Nelson, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, 21 Mayor Hilligoss 22 NOES: None 23 ABSENT: Woolsey 24 RESO. 92-284 NCS 25 APPROPRIATIONS LIlVIIT 25 Resolution 92-284 NCS approving the Appropriations Limit for .1992-93 Fiscal Year at 27 $23,288,486. Introduced by Bonnie Nelson, seconded by Brian Sobel. 28 AYES: React, Davis, Sobel, Nelson, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, 29 Mayor Hilligoss 30 NOES: None 31 ABSENT: Woolsey 32 ORD. 1907 NCS 33 APPROPRIATIONS - 1991-92 FISCAL YEAR 34 Introduce and adopt Ord. 1907 NCS repealing Ord. 1890 NCS adopted on June 29, 1992, 35 and revising the appropriations for the 1:991-92 fiscal year. Introduced by Vice Mayor 36 Cavanagh and seconded by Michael Davis. 37 AYES: Read, Davis, Sobel, Nelson, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, 38 Mayor Hilligoss 39 NOES: None 40 ABSENT: Woolsey November 2, 1992 Vol. 27, Page 197 1 5-i'EAR CAPITAL IMPR®VEMENT PR®GRAM - CIItCUI,AT><®N 2 The City Council discussed the proposed 5-year Capital Improvement Program for 3 Circulation and discussed proposed traffic signal upgrades and installations. The City 4 Council concurred with the proposed circulation projects in the 5-year Capital 5 Improvement Program. 6 7 RES®. 92-285 NCS 1992 TAX & REVENUE ANTICIPATI®N NOTES s Resolution 92 285 NCS providing for the borrowing of funds for fiscal year 1992-93 and 9 the issuance and sale of 1992 Tax and Revenue Anticipation Notes. The Finance to Director estimates the borrowed amount will be $3,100,000 and the interest rate to be 11 around 3.5%. The resolution also provides for the following: 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 - Total borrowing shall not exceed $5,000,000 - Maturity shall be 364 days from date of delivery - Notes shall be registered, without coupons - Proceeds shall be in a segregated General Fund account and shall be paid by the General Fund from a Tax and Revenue Anticipation Note Repayment Account - Payment is to be -made in March and in June of 1993 - City is to assure that notes maintain their tax exemption - Interest rate shall not exceed 5% and discount shall not exceed 1% - Jones, Hall, Hill & White of San Francisco are named as Bond Counsel; their fee shall not exceed $5,000 - Sutro & Company shall be the underwriter of the Certificates Introduced by Nancy Read, seconded by Vice Mayor Cavanagh. AYES: Read, Davis, Sobel, Nelson, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, Mayor Hilligoss NOES: None ABSENT: Woolsey RESO. 92-286 NCS C®RONA RANCH -EDEN >E-I®><JSING AGREEMENT Resolution 92-286 NCS amends the action taken by Resolution 92-46 NCS which approved the transfer of title of property (Parcel D of Sonoma Glen Unit I-A) in the Corona-Ely area to Eden Housing for Low and Moderate income housing. Now certain amendments are required and the option is again before the Council. Introduced by Michael Davis, seconded by Brian Sobel. AYES: Read, Davis, Sobel, Nelson, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, Mayor Hilligoss NOES: None ABSENT: Woolsey '.n ~:~t:~~'; t~. Page 198, Vol. 27 November 2, 1992 1 ORD. 1908 NCS 2 EDEN IIOUSING TO ACQUIRE AFFORDABLE IIOUSING SITE 3 Introduce Ord. 1908 NCS authorizing Eden Housing, to exercise its option to acquire the 4 Corona Ranch Affordable Housing Site which was formerly Parcel D of .Sonoma Glen 5 Unit I-A. Introduced by Vice Mayor Cavanagh, seconded by Bonnie Nelson. 6 AYES: Read, Davis, Sobel, Nelson, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, 7 Mayor Hilligoss 8 NOES: None 9 ABSENT: Woolsey to AD.TOURN 11 The Council adjourned the meeting at 4:15 p.m. 12 RECONVENE 7:00 p.m. and ROLL CALL 13 PRESENT: Read,,Davis, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, Mayor Hilligoss, Sobel, 14 Nelson 15 ABSENT: Woolsey 16 INVOCATION Father Dave Holloway from the Coast Guard Station led the invocation. 17 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE City Engineer Tom Hargis led the Pledge to the Flag. is PUBLIC COMMENT 19 Patricia Hayes, 1712 East Madison Street -told the City Council abouf the allergic 20 reaction she `had with a drug which nearly caused her demise. She said the paramedics 21 were absolutely wonderful, and she thanked the City for all their good work. 22 Vern Smith, 1318 Canyon Drive -was critical of the noticing process regarding Country 23 Club Estates. He .had been active and spoke at the. Planning: Commission on several 24 occasions. However, .recent notices were mailed to his address with the previous .owner's 25 name as addressee. He said he had been told that there was City land behind- his lot on 26 Canyon Drive, but he "found out there was housing g®ing in above him". (After staff 27 had time to research the matter during the evening, Planning. Director Pamela Tu, ft 2s advised the Council that his name .had been inadvertently dropped from the. mailing list. 29 She- noted the property owned by the City is to the east of Mr. Smith's property, and the 30 land behind his home is planned for Open Space. ) 31 COUNCIL COMMENT 32 Mayor Hilligoss noted that $200,000 has come back from the in lieu housing money. 33 She asked the Council if they were interested in looking into. the type of :project where "at 34 risk" young adults could be trained for painting and helping in some upkeep that is 3s needed on some of the sweat equity housing in town. It was noted that there would' be 36 well-trained people who would assist in teaching these "at risk" young adults how to do 37 the work. There was Council consensus to the proposal. November 2, 1992 ~ Vol. 27, Page 199 RESO. 92-287 NCS COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES 2Aa & 3A Nl<ITIGATED NEG DEC 3 Planning Staff reviewed the proposal from its 1978 beginning, the direction of the City 4 on the changes to the project design and the recent Planning Commission approvals on the 5 project. The current City direction to. the developer was to cluster the housing and to 6 leave the remainder in open space. The Planning Commission found the environmental 7 documentation could be taken care of through a very detailed mitigated negative s declaration. The traffic analysis was discussed. 9 Speakers on the project included: to A. J. Weddle, 1319 Canyon Drive - He complimented staff on all their 11 work, but he cannot support the mitigated negative declaration because it t2 does not comply with hillside regulations. He express concern over fire 13 trucks being able to get up the hill. and about soil erosion. He also 14 disagrees with the transfer of density for the project. Engineers say to fix 15 things is "no problem"; well, "no problem" can be very expensive. t6 Randy Figueiredo, 1641 Del Oro Circle - is an architect who owns i~ property in the earlier phase. He agrees with the Planning Commission is and the homeowners' association. The lot size should be increased. They 19 have put all the clustered development on the top of the .hills. Although he 20 is in favor of cluster housing, they usually put it on hillsides not hill tops. 2t He would also like to see the lots increased on the easterly portion of the 22 subdivision. The width of the lots is narrow. He thinks this looks like 23 Vallejo. Also the locations of the houses make the houses look very high. 24 He said there is insufficient off street parking. 25 Bob Oliker, attorney for the existing Country Club homeowners 26 association. He displayed how close the houses will be in the new 27 subdivision. He noted that he just received the Planning Department 2s response to his letter today. He talked about the Planning Commission 29 action and his interpretation that there is evidence that some 3o Commissioners wished to further mitigate the project. The current 3 ~ homeowners' association wishes to ascertain that there be only one 32 homeowners' association, which he finds has been referred to in the 33 original unit's CC&R's. City Attorney Rudnansky has stated the 34 homeowner's association is a private affair. The density of 43 houses is 35 good as is the 8,500 square foot lots. He asked what the involvement of 36 SPARC will be in the review of the individual houses. Regarding open 37 space, the homeowners' association would prefer a General Plan 3s .amendment rather than the open space easement that is recommended. He 39 said they support the development with the minor .changes they 4o recommend. He said they are not at the meeting to kill the development, 4t they just wished to make some changes. 42 Larry Tencer spoke on behalf of the Petaluma Golf Club - he thanked staff 43 and the Planning Commission for including as a requirement, a "stray 44 ball" easement. He also asked the developer be asked to notify each new 45 lot purchaser that they are adjacent to an existing 9-hole golf course that 46 currently the City has approved a 2-units per .acre land use designation and 47 there is potential for the folf courst to acquire additional property to add a 4s second 9 holes. Insofar as the current use at the golf course, they generate 49 at the most approximately 200 people to some weekend events. This so would generate 133 vehicles. Page 200, Vol. 27 November 2, 1992 John Siragusa, 14 Bear.Creek Court - a member of Country Club Estates Unit I Board of Directors -the homeowners try to have a consistent look. We understand the CC&R's for our unit to say that subsequent units should merge into ours especially for CC&R purposes. That would .give us cohesiveness. The City Attorney noted the 'City does not try to enforce private CC&R's He mentioned the storm drain system is private and. the new units' storm drain system will drain through the existing private storm drains. The homeowners are concerned about potential homeowner disagreements if the groups are separate. io Mary Beth Pope, 1032 Country Club Drive -what the homeowners are ~~ asking is for a compromise and all the concerns they have described are 12 taken into consideration. 13 Leonard Jay -developer of Country Club Estates -thanked staff for all 14 their work on this development.. He noted there have been five variations is of the project. He said he would be willing to increase the width and size 16 of the lots on Country Club Drive. There was some discussion about a t7 park on the site. Staff advised that most of the open space land is very is steep. There is a small portion at the bottom of the hill which may be 19 finished as a very passive park with a place to be seated. It was noted 20 there are design guidelines in the proposed units that are different from the 21 existing ones. He felt it would be difficult to merge. the CC&R's. 22 The Council asked for a picture of the revised lot size. and more thought given to 23 combining the CC&R's into a single association and the requests of the Golf Club. 24 Reso. 92-287 NCS adopting a mitigated negative declaration for Country Club Estates 25 Units 2a and 2b. Introduced by Nancy Read, ,seconded by Vice Mayor Cavanagh. 26 AYES: Read, Davis,. Sobel, Nelson, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, 27 Mayor Hilligoss 28 NOES: None 29 ABSENT: Woolsey 3o ORD. 1909 NCS 31 REZONE COUNTRY CLUB. ESTATES 2A & 2B TO PUD 32 Introduce Ord. 1909 NCS rezoning Country Club Estates 2A & 2B to Planned Unit 33 Development. Introduced by Vice Mayor Cavanagh, seconded by Michael Davis. 34 AYES: head, Davis, Sobel, Nelson, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, 35 Mayor Hilligoss 36 NOES: None 37 ABSENT: Woolsey 3s COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES UNIT DEVELOPMENT PLAN_ 39 AND TENTATIVE MAP 4o The City Council discussed the Country Club. Estates Unit Development Plan and 41 Tentative Map. These will come before the Council for adoption at the next meeting. 42 RECESS 10:00 to 10:15 November 2, 1992 Vol. 27, Page 201 1 OIL. 1910 NCS 2 SONOMA GLEN ESTATES REZONE TO PUD 3 Introduce Ordinance 1910 NCS amending the Zoning Ordinance 1072 NCS by rezoning 4 Sonoma Glen Estates from Planned Community District to Planned Unit District. This s represents 4 lots with a private road off of Ely Blvd. for major access, although there will 6 be limited access from Corona Road for vehicles such as horse trailers. Introduced by 7 Michael Davis, seconded by Nancy Read. 8 AYES: Read, Davis, Sobel, Nelson, Vice Mayor Cavanagh, 9 Mayor Hilligoss 10 NOES: None 11 ABSENT: Woolsey 12 LIASON ANI) STAFF I2EPOI~TS 13 Council Liaison Brian Sobel noted the Library is very pleased with the City Police 14 Department response to recent problems they have had. 15 Bonnie Nelson commented on the night when a number of Officials such as Council and 16 Department Heads stayed at the COTS shelter overnight. She said the experience is 17 dehumanizing. She noted that State Senator Marks had also stayed overnight. 18 AD.IOURN 19 At 10:15 p.m., the meeting was adjourned. '~ 20 21 22 . , . , `M. Patricia Hilligoss, Mayor ATTEST: Patricia E. Bernard, City Clerk ;.r ~ !~ ~ F'`l'~"iLt _ I , ' . V '~ i~ y •'-'S ~} Y~: r i..: `why Page 202, Vol. 27 November 2, 1992 This page was left blank intentionally.