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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes 05/31/1988ca,o ~/Zo~g P Vol.. 24 Page 88 MINUTES OF A REGULAR ADJOURNED MEETING OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL MONDAY, MAY 31, 1988 ROLL: 7:00 p.m. PRESENT: Sobel, Balshaw, Cavanagh, Davis, Vice Mayor Woolsey, Mayor Hilligoss ABSENT: *Tencer PUBLIC COMMENT° Homer Hobi a new resident of Petaluma spoke regarding Bond Subdivision. He presented a petition with approximately 80 signatures opposed to the selling of Bond Subdivision. He would like to see the property reserved for non residential, a public grade school or a recreation facility. Mr. Hobi was advised that 4.22 acres of that land belongs to the Old Adobe Union School District. John Clithero, 1627 Shenendoah Ct., also spoke. with regards to the Bond Subdivision. He is concerned with more residential development placing an even greater impact on the already overcrowded schools. It was suggested. that Mr. Clithero go to the Old Adobe School District and voice his concerns and see if they can shed some light as to what will be done in the future with regards to overcrowding in the district. CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS Michael Davis - this years budget is the most legible and clearly the most user friendly I've seen. Thanks to David Spilman and John Scharer for the excellent job. Brian Sobel introduced Council and Staff to Ben J. Rosenberg, Director of Finance with the City of Wharton, Texas. Councilman Sobel and Mayor Hilaigoss met.Ben Rosenberg when they were in Washington D.C. the. latter part of .March. He was welcomed to the City of Petaluma. Lynn Woolsey.woul'd like t%me:set aside during the June 6th meeting to go 'over each of~'the•~ssues that will be on the Primary Ballot of the June 7th election that will effect the cities. CONSENT CALENDAR The following items were approved by the adoption of a ~' single motion which was introduced by Councilman Cavanagh, . seconded by Vice Mayor Woolsey. AYES: Sobel, Balshaw, Cavanagh, Davis, Vice Mayor Woolsey, Mayor Hilligoss NOES: None ABSENT"• Tencer minutes 5/31/88 Vol. 24 Page 89 i I j: t RESO. 88-156 NCS DREDGING DIKE REPAIR f Reso. 88-1.56 awarding contract to Maggiora & Ghilotti, 555 ' DuBois Street, San Rafael, CA., in the amount of ~; $130,000.00. Seven bids were received ranging from a low of $130,000.00 to a high of $185,000.00. The Engineer's ~; estimate was $141,450.00. The normal contract turn around time has been reduced from ten (10) days to three (3) days, j the normal notice to proceed has been ,reduced from (~ ffteen(15) days to .five (5) days. The contractor will have until July 15, 1988, to complete the Dike Repair. The Corp. of Engineers is now out to bid for their project and it is anticipated they will give their contractor a notice to proceed July 15, 1988, to coincide with the City's finish date. There will be no imported material used for the dike .repair. Only on site materials will be used. Moved by Michael Davis, seconded by Vice Mayor Woolsey AYES: Sobel, Balshaw, Cavanagh, Davis, Vice Mayor Woolsey, Mayor Hilligoss NOES: None ABSENT: Tencer *Councilman Tencer arrived at 7:40 p.m. RESO. 88-157 NCS DECLARE BOND & LIBERTY SUBDIVISION SURPLUS CITY LAND AND_AUTHORIZE SALE This has been a culmination of a process that was begun several years ago when the City acquired the property next to Bond Park in lieu of park fees for some of the development that has taken place in the Park Place Subdivision. Council direction has been followed and a subdivision map was prepared for the project which would yield 17 lots of a size somewhat larger than the typical lots in the neighborhood. The program calls for placing those lots, map and land for sale. After declaring the land surplus and authorizing the City Manager to dispose of thee. land in a method that would be the most beneficial; to the _ ~ city, a Planning and Development Zoning Hearing would be set to discuss the specific nature of the development that will take place on those lots. Likewise with the. .Liberty Street ~~ Subdivision, which. is a 3 lot subdivision in the old Liberty ~: Street right-of-way. minutes 5/31/88 I' f~ Vol. 24 Page 90. A Parcel map has been prepared. After the properties are declared surplus and. authorization given~to dispose of same, agencies who specialize in provision of low and moderate income housing will be notified of the availability of the `~~ land. The land will then be put up for sale for what the city feels to be the market rate. The land has been. appraised between.$:4.O0,00 and $500,000. Raw land per lot will be determir-ed somewhat on the cost of the improvements that will be necessary to develop the lot. Diana Kramer of 549 Acadia, wanted to know what In Lieu Housing Fees meant. Warren Salmons, Director of Planning explai=ned that they are part of the developers commitment to help provide affordable housing. Each developer of market rate housing makes a~contribution or they build low and moderate income housing. These fees have been used for the Second Mortgage Program to help 20 households buy homes, direct assistance to the Owner Builder Home Project. Renters Assistance, Burbank Housing, and Petaluma Ecumenical Projects for senior housing. In Lieu Housing Fees are directed toward providing low and moderate housing. Reso. 88-157 NCS declaring Liberty Street and Bond Subdivisions surplus city land and authorizing the disposition of sale. Motion made by Councilman Balshaw and seconded by Councilman Tencer. AYES: 5obe1, Balshaw, Cavanagh, Davis, Tencer, Vice Mayor Woolsey, Mayor Hilligoss NOES: None ABSENT: None Recess to Studv Sessi The Council discussed. concerns with regards to the Planning Commission and the Site Plan Architectural Review Conunittee. Councilman Balshaw - feels that when there is a joint meeting with the Planning Commission and/or $PARC nothing is accomplished because there is such a diversity of opinions and no structure to the meetings. Councilman Balshaw would also like to see the Planning Commission start working on implementing those policies that are in the General Plan that pertain to them, and use them in making decisions. minutes 5/31/88 Vol. 24 Page 91 Councilman Tencer - concurs with Councilman Balshaw with regard to the Planning Commission.. Tencer believes that the body should be in a position to recommend changes or improvements to existing policies or proposed new policies. As the process develops there are times when improvements can be made and they should naturally either be implemented or recommended to the Council if it takes a formal action. With regard to SPARC I think that they should concentrate more on Commercial/Industrial projects rather than residential projects with. the exception of reviewing new subdivisions. What we were interested in .initially with SPARC was making what could be seen from the street more attractive. What I do want to do is let SPARC know that if the council feels strongly about something, appeal it back to us as opposed to continuing to do it. Vice Mayor Woolsey inquired as to whether the Council has put together minimum standards we would expect from a developer and if not then Council should proceed with developing minimum standards as soon as possible. Councilman Balshaw stated-that at one time the Planning Commission was responsible for the visual esthetics of the City. This seems to have been taken out of both the Charter and of SPARC regulations. Balshaw would like to see this put back in the Charter. He also agrees that SPARC should focus on Commercial/Industrial. Because we do not have any standards for residential, especially single residential we end up having an Architectural Review Committee without any guidelines to follow. Mayor Hilligoss - advised that most of the work SPARC does is Commercial/Industrial and large residential developments. She stated that SPARC does have regulations, and it was suggested that the Council ask SPARC to bring their regulations to the Council so it can be known what their requirements are. Councilman Sobel - concurs that SPARC should work with Commercial/Industrial and large residential developments. Brian would like some minimum standards to measure homes by to avoid any conflict with designs. minutes 5/31/88 Vol. 24 Page 92 Councilman Sober also feels that because of the pressures that are on the Planning Commission, your saddled `week after week with new business and cleaning up old business. The Planning Commission. does not have a lot of time to go out and search .for ~' work nor at this time due to staffing levels does the Planning Department heave the manpower to chase after 7 more people's request for information and background and such. My biggest concern is that we provide the Planning Commission either with the support necessary to.do the work that were asking them to do, or somehow have that brought to the Councils attention so that we can be the focal point for that sort of thing. Councilman Balshaw - believes part of the work load of the Planning Commission appears to be that they focus on a lot of detail and they should-have resources available to them when they need information and there are no city personnel available to them, The Charter of the Planning Commission is to see that zoning is done properly and is utilized in accordance with the zoning. There are a lot of General Plan items that need~to be addressed as soon as possible. The Planning Commission should be working on the Councils 10 selected programs from the General Plan that relates directly to them. These. i-terns should not be subject to time available, but the Commison should budget time for them. Vice Mayor Woolsey - there are a lot of General Plan programs budgeted; for this fscal~year. It seems it would make sense to' take those 10 General-Plan programs that we want to~see accomplished and. let the Planning Commission deal with the ones that pertain 'to them. Councilman Balshaw feels-that the Planning Coaunssion hould take the four (4) or five (5) items that relate to them, 'that are scheduled to be completed, but not completed as time is available, but as scheduled within the next .fiscal year to be discussed, reviewed and completed. Councilman Sobel agrees somewhat with Councilman Balshaw's comments. He believes the Planning Commission should be very aware of those 10 items or 5 items;t~at pertain to them-:and to convey to the Commission that the Council is concerned: and want these policies/programs watched all the time. minutes 5/31/88 Vol. 24 Page 93 Councilman Sobel does not believe the Planning Commission would have a problem with that at all. Councilman Davis - agrees with Councilman Sobel, but does not want to get into a situation where Council asks the Planning Commission to do something that ultimately has to go through the Council anyway. Councilman Tencer - one of the things I would like the Planning Commission and SPARC to do would be at one (1) or two (2) of our Council meetings throughout the year is to have some discussion items that have been concerns of theirs that may not have gotten to us, that they feel are important enough to discuss and get some communication going. Let them bring an agenda to us. Then as a group we could discuss certain policy and planning principals. Councilman Davis -'I think it is important that the Planning Commission also have the latitude to be able to respond to the .concerns of the people and neighbors regarding developments. It was suggested that the Planning Commission sit in on next years goal setting meeting. Warren Salmons, Planning Director, believes setting the standards ~. is a task that the Planning Department would like to do as a package and bring to the Council. This has been programmed for this year. Vice Mayor Woolsey feels that there should be a committee made up of 2 SPARC Members and 2 Planning Commission Members to work with - staff on creating minimum standards. Councilman Sobel feels there should be clear communication between the three different bodies. • It was the consensus of the Council to have SPARC work on Commercial/Industrial areas and large residential development and to have the Planning Commission make time to_work on the General. Plan programs, that relate to them out of the Council's chosen ten .. (10) programs. minutes 5/31/88 Vol. 24 Page 94 MANAGERS REPORT John .Scharer would like. input from the Mayor and Council as to how they would like the Budget Hearing meetings .structured. Meeting-was adjourned at 8:45 p.m. to a Closed Session `~~~%C Mayor M. Patricia Hl igoss ATTEST: Paulette Lyon, Dept City Clerk minutes