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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08/13/2019  Committee Members Staff: Jacqui Kitchen Councilmember, Bruce Freeman Chair Assistant City Manager Councilmember, Willie Rivera Councilmember, Bob Smith REGULAR MEETING OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Tuesday, August 13, 2019 12:00 p.m. City Hall North – Conference Room A 1600 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 93301 AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT The meeting was called to order at 12:00 p.m. 1. ROLL CALL Committee members present: Councilmember, Bruce Freeman, Chair Councilmember, Willie Rivera Committee members absent: Councilmember, Bob Smith City Staff: Alan Tandy, City Manager Jacqui Kitchen, Assistant City Manager Brianna Carrier, Administrative Analyst III Nathan Gutierrez, Management Assistant Ginny Gennaro, City Attorney Richard Iger, Deputy City Attorney II Phil Burns, Interim Development Services Director Kevin Coyle, Development Services Planning Director Paul Johnson, Development Services Principal Planner Dianne Hoover, Recreation and Parks Director Fidel Gonzalez, Park Construction & Facilities Planner Nick Fidler, Public Works Director Stuart Patteson, Assistant Public Works Director Additional Attendees: Members of the Public /S/ Jacqui Kitchen   S:\Council Committees\2019\Planning and Development\08_August Page 2 JK:pa:mc   2. ADOPT JULY 9, 2019 AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT The report was adopted as submitted. 3. PUBLIC STATEMENTS None 4. NEW BUSINESS A. Committee Discussion and Recommendation Regarding Naming of a Park – Tandy/Kitchen City Manager Tandy provided a summarization of the referral made by Councilmember Parlier at the April 10, 2019, City Council meeting regarding the opportunity of naming a new park site Jaswant Singh Khalra “JSK Park” and referenced the memorandum included in the agenda packet regarding naming of a park. The following City residents provided comments in support of naming a future park site location JSK Park: Danie Guhr, Deep Singh, Manpreet Kaur, Auneet Kaur, and Ajaib Gill. The following City residents provided comments in opposition of naming a future park site location JSK Park: Eric, Jennifer Bloomquist, and Jane Doe. Committee member Rivera stated he supported the idea of naming a new park location “JSK Park” or “Unity Park”. He also requested staff contact the family of former Mayor Harvey L. Hall for their support on the “Unity Park” option. Committee Chair Freeman stated he concurred with Committee member Rivera. He made a motion to present staff recommendation option 1 to name the new site “JSK Park” and option 2 to name the new site “Unity Park” to the full City Council for consideration. The motion was approved with Committee member Smith absent. Chair Freeman requested staff research and prepare a policy for naming of parks for Committee discussion at a future meeting. B. Committee Discussion and Recommendations Regarding Conditional Use Permits (CUP) – Kitchen/Burns Planning Director Coyle provided a PowerPoint presentation summarizing the referral made by Councilmember Freeman at the April 10, 2019 City Council meeting regarding Conditional Use Permits (CUP) and the proposed amendments to the zoning ordinances found in the municipal code. Planning Commissioner Koman asked if the amendments would require all CUP requests to come before the Planning Commission and the City Council. Interim Development Services Director Burns stated that the proposed changes to the ordinances would not change the requirement that CUPs be presented to the Board of   S:\Council Committees\2019\Planning and Development\08_August Page 3 JK:pa:mc   Zoning Adjustments, it will require that requests regarding uses permitted by CUPs be presented to the Planning Commission and then City Council for approval. Planning Commissioner Barbara Lomas stated she is supportive of the proposed changes to amend the municipal code and that she would like to see inclusion of a notification requirement to inform affected surrounding neighborhood. Assistant City Manager Kitchen stated the inclusion of a notification requirement will increase the cost of a CUP to the development and increase the time to process them. Committee Chair Freeman requested staff to include the notification requirement as part of the changes and made a motion to present the proposed amendments to the zoning ordinances to the full City Council for approval. The motion was approved with Committee member Smith absent. 5. COMMITTEE COMMENTS None 6. ADJOURNMENT The meeting adjourned at 1:11 p.m.