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Home My WebLink About06/18/99 BAKERSFIELD CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE MEMORANDUM · June 18, 1999 TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FROM: ALAN TANDY, CITY MANAGER SUBJECT: GENERAL INFORMATION 1. In last Sunday's newspaper, there was an article regarding a new 536 acre development for the northwest that has been proposed by Kyle Carter Homes. Carter has submitted a formal request to the City for the property to be annexed. The article is enclosed, along with a memo that outlines a general time frame for the annexation process. 2. Chief Fraze has indicated that we have 100% compliance on all underground gasoline tanks in the City. Not all the tanks are operational at this time, but they are in compliance with the law. 3. Staff met with representatives from KernCOG and CalTrans today to review the futur~ alignment of the bike path from the Stockdale Highway bridge westerly to Enos Lane. Information is enclosed from the Water Resources Manager. 4. A memo is enclosed from Recreation and Parks about the relocation of the summer playground program at Stella Hills School to Jastro Park. 5. Upcoming summer events sponsored by the Recreation and Parks Department include the Bakersfield Regatta on June 19th and the Pacific Yo-Yo Championships on July 10th. Details are attached. 6. The soccer field at Beach Park that was closed for re-sodding is now open. cc: Department Heads Pamela McCarthy, City Clerk Trudy Slater, Administrative Analyst B A K E R S F I E L D CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE MEMORANDUM June 15, 1999 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Co/~]n~ nembers FROM: Alan Tandy, City Manager SUBJECT: Kyle Carter Development You may have noticed an article in the Californian on Sunday regarding a 536-acre development proposed by Kyle Carter Homes. Even though the article quoted City staff as saying that the development should help improve transportation in that area by extending Hageman Road east toward Highway 99, it failed mention that Kyle Carter, who now owns the property, has submitted a formal request to the City to be annexed. The Resolution of Application which begins the annexation process is scheduled to be considered by the City Council at the June 30th meeting, but the application is really the first step in a rather lengthy process. Because the property is so large and has many environmental issues that need to be resolved, an EIR is required for the General Plan Amendment/Zone Change. We will be simultaneously processing two items: the annexation to LAFCO for approval, and the General Plan Amendment - Pre-zoning process will begin with the EIR. The EIR should be complete and before the Planning Commission by March 2000, then by June 2000 before the City Council. If approved, the property could be annexed prior to the completion of the EIR which is by summer of 2000. The news article is attached. P:\Gen. Info\kyle carter annexation.wpd Sunday, June 13, 1999t B1 i- FUNERALS B2 Farmers' markets ~ EDITORIALS B8 locations around ~,- WEATHER B19 county listed. B7 New homes planned at old sewer site ~ The property got a clean escrow on 536 acres of open land to Lhere will be a lot of confusion and the north, east and south of Massa's intxusion.' bill of health; some like idea, home. Massa protested the development others will miss open space, rre~o~y owned by the North of before the county planning commis- the River Sanitary District, the land is sion, but there were few other voices By JAMES BURGER dotted with agriculture and a few oil raised in opposition to the project. ca~fomia, mg~r wells. "I was one against a bunch of ~ma,:lhurger@bak~d.com During the next eight to 10 years, them," she said. "I felt like David Mary M,qs~ lives in a quiet two- company owner Kyle Carter plans to against Goliath.' story ranch house on the south side of replace those fields .m~d pumps with Other area residents also express what will one day bg a major family homes, a park and commercial regret at seeing the country nature Of Bakersfield transit corridor, and industrial space, their neighborhood disappear, but You wouldn't know it from looking After living in her home for 20 those in the planning community see at her 2~ acre country ranchette with years, Mary Massa isn't happy about a m~jor positives to the proje~ a wtfite picket fence out front and new crop of homes growing up City and county officials are paying homes, sheep and cows outback, around her. attention to the plan because it will But the dirt lane that runs along her She and her late husband, Elvin, extend two major arterial streets north property line will become the were looking for the peace of the toward m~jortransitconnecfions. newest section of Hageman Road country life when they bought their The most notable example is within a year, and.the fields of green- home on Mohawk Street. Hageman Road. ery on the other side of that lane will "We expected to have quiet Hageman, one of northwest become tractsofnewhomes, acreage," she said, standing on her Bakersfield's m~jor surface streets, On Monday, local developer and front porch with three affectionate dead ends west of Massa's proper~y. MaryMa$$a'~$mallranch$it$]uetbe¥ondtheaaetendo~Hageman builder Kyle Carter Homes closed dogs weaving around her legs. "Now PleaS~BIoCARTERIll4 Fload nextto Ky~e Carter Home$' new ean Lauren development. her friend Mary fa llto funeral of her rowe husband on Saturday. Milton Bakersfield'sMillerwas°ne°fmost Fliahland · ' LOCal CARIER: Large development will bring major road closer to freewa: C011tlll~JI t111111 B1 worried about. o, New Northwest- ' -.,,,.,,.,,r....,,..-npuplnnmp-n'r. 1~ new property, Carter will extend the sanita~on district had been pro- HageMan Road east to within striking ceasing sewage aL its planc for nearly | distance of Highway 99 and Highway 50 years. ~ ..--~~ .... 204, tlie Golden State Highway. "We wanted to make sure there was Olive Dr. c~ . M~Jm~ Shaw, a civil engineer with no contamination on the property," · the city of Bakemfield's Department of Carter said. = Public Works, said there has always Don Glover, n~.qager of the treat- been-:a plan to connect Hageman with ment plant, said no biosolids have one og.~ those two highways, been deposited on the land for at least ~i : .... "t~ ~ ' ' ".(~tat plan) was pretty important ten yea.rs. , . . ,,~{.,~ ~ ~. to begin with, but now that Kyle is fill- Biosolids produced at the plant are ,~, : Residential . '~ I ~-- : 151.1Acres :~9..\ ',~!j~ ! . , ing tip. the area with homes it's even transferred to another district pla~t , .~e -e~- ',~ ' ' ....... ~-~,~ ,.~,z= ~ mor~important," she said. located south of Shafter, he said.'R.,~i G0~09 C..u/rently, Shaw said, the city's plan Treated waste water from the plant '~i~* ~' ~ ' ~ ~ ~ is toZconnect Hageman to Golden has been used to irrigate crops on sur- ,, . , Stat&Highway and thereby to central rounding fields, 61over said. · i .;~.,i"' '~i;'.~,,. l_rr~iddition to extending Hageman, the treaUnent process, is cleaner than Hageman lid. ~ ~ ~, ~ ~. I ~ II Cart~ would also build a section of most agricultural feztilizers. . ~ § ~, ~ ~-: ~ ~ :: · ~ ~'~:,'~ '~ ,,~ :~ Mol~w. k Street from Hageman south. Carter documented the history of ~ ~ ~1..,, ~ , ~, · Ii ', : ' to t]~ Mohawk puzzle, bringing a chase. Then he had to satisfy county . ] t_~]~,-'., : ~ ] potential connection between building requirements and state envi- : ....................... '-'~..2",~ ...-'~"I. ?~ ~ ' · I er tc~ality, build on the land. . ', lOS.'bAcres -~ '~ ' M.~the population of northwest Before Carter's plans could be : .......... .; -~) . Bake~field grows, good transit con- approved by the Kern County ', ·, ~ '. ~ ::~ ~ , .. r~ "I~eloping the transporta~on net- a green light from the Kern County : ' i ,~~ :' relie~g pressure on some of these Department. ' ', .'" . ~ .... ' I .......... Planned road extensions road~f' Shaw said. Steve McCalley, director of the '- ....... / ' Sh~ characterized the Kyle Carter Health Services Department, said the so,~c~: ~o~w. ~o~,~o, T~E CAU~OR,~Ar. Itom~. development as a major step property passed all the tests. towgrd solving that growing trans- '"Iltere were five or six (soils)tests Residents in existing residential opment and will become the nortl' portaiion problem, on the 500-plus-acre general plan tracts north of the San Lauren project west entrance to San Lauren. C~r, Bakerslield's second largest amendment," McCalley said. "None of are glad Carter is building on large lots "We're a bit nervous about havin~ hoxne::builder, sees the project as the these showed any problems." but worried about the increase of traf- cars going through here," said Ntmez £utu~e_ bf his business. In. addition, more concentrated tic through their neighborhoods, who has small children. "Onb nice thing it provides us as a tests done oxt the land where Carter lAnda Nunez and her family have Kelly Ballard, another Rockwel. buil~ is a nice piece of land out in will build his first homes also came lived on Rockwell Drive, a quiet cul- Drive resident, said she tins no prob ~ront-6fus,' Carter said. back clean, de-sac, for fiveyears, leto with the project as long as th( H~:llas been watching the propert7 "No hazardous concentratiozi of She is happy to see northwest homes builtthereare of highquality. for 133*~5/ears, waiting for the fight time metals itt soils were detected,' Bakersfield developing around her Site was happy to hear there would [o in.~eSt McCalley said. neighborhood and is looking forward be someone developing the land "._.W~.nIwasalddwe-usedtoride Each new phase of the project will to spec~c parts of the KyIe Carter beyond the dead end sign at the end oi horse~<)ut there," he said. be tested again before further con- project. Rockwell. ~hey should do something C~r's chance to buy the land sla'uclion is brought before the plan- "We're really excited that there is with that field," she said. "I'm tired camE,~as North of the River Sanitary' ning commission, going to be a park and a school," she looking a~ it.' Dist:0'~. geared up to abandon its No. 1 The first phase of the project, an L- said. Mary Massa, however, would much Trea~a~ent Plant located on the prop- shaped strip of 133 homes running But she does have some worries rather keep her view of open~elds. erty::5 north from Mary Massa's property about traffic, since Rockwell Drive "It should have been lel~ for agricul- "1~' timing worked out for us and then east along existing residential will be extended into the new devel- tm'e," she said.: ~J~e ~litation district,' he said. tracts, was approved on May 27 by the :. ~: ~ ~ ,~ ~ ~ ~ I ,,l~e l..a~,dhe has bought that Carterwas With the testing, review and plan- ning approval process behind him, REESE H. McCLENNYJR., D.D.S. south of Lake opting Isabella"' bums 60 acres his first model homeS.once the project is up and running, ?~ As of~un¢ 22, 1999, Dr, McClenny is retiring from the 2~: ~he~er~C~om~ it will represent around 25 percent of ;::; practice of dentistry. I thank all my patients, colleagues I~ghters remained at the scene the company's assets and capital ~.: and friends for many memorable years of practice in of a24vildfire Saturday night that investment, Cagersai& i:~ Bakersfield. bura~ about 60 acres south of Lake Model homes for the flint tract, Isabel~ llallled San Lma'en, should be open in ~ Reese H. McCl~ny]r., D.D.S. T14~:fire started at 4:30 p.rm whena October, Carter said. Lot sizes will man;~.-15urning tumbleweeds with a start at a minimum l0,000 square feet. ' I I I I proluD~e torch lost control of the fire. S.o.~e 124 personnel from'the ~ } .B. ur.~:a~' of Lan_d Mana_gemen~, From: Gene Bogart To: Rhonda Smiley Date: 6/18/99 11:19AM Subject: Future Bike Path Extension City Water and Public Works staff met with representatives from KernCOG and CalTrans on Friday, June 18th to review the future alignment of the Bike Path from Stockdale Hwy. bridge westerly to Enos Lane. The preliminary layout shows that the Bike Path would be constructed on top of the new levee located on the south side of the Kern River channel for the first mile, then it would follow the river using existing levees located in the City's 2800 Acre Recharge Facility to Enos Lane. The project looks very promising because all the necessary right-of-way is located on public property and would not have to be purchased. Kern COG has already completed the preliminary application for funding the construction portion of the project. We'll keep you posted as this project progresses. DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AND PARKS DATE: June 16, 1999 TO: Alan Tandy, City Manager FROM: Stan Ford, Director of Recreation and Parks SUBJECT: Summer Playground Program The summer playground program that has traditionally been held at Stella Hills school has been relocated to Jastro Park. This action was primarily due to a request from the principal of the school. We were informed that the dates for the program we had agreed upon were no longer available. Also, that the cafeteria would not be available throughout the program due to some maintenance. As a result of the relocation, staff does anticipate increased participation over last year's daily average 10 -15 children. In 1997, when the program was held at Jastro, attendance averaged 25 - 40 daily. Although the outdoor setting will change the program components somewhat, it does provide the opportunity for other activities such as swimming. Ongoing information about the program will be included in the department's monthly report. '!i~ JUN I 7 199.9 From: Jeannette Triscuit To: Rhonda Smiley Date: 6/t8/99 9:27AM Subject: Bakersfield Regatta & Pacific Yo-Yo Championship Here is some general information regarding the Bakersfield Regatta & Pacific Yo-Yo Championship: Bakersfield Regatta: Saturday, June 19, 1999 Starts 11:00 a.m. at Beach Park with boat building and registration of boats 1:00 p.m. Boats Launched at Beach Park 1:00-4:00 Entertainment & games booths open at Yokuts Park This is a model boat contest down the Kern River. There is no cost to enter a boat. Trophies will be awarded for the best boats. Free games and entertainment are available at Yokuts Park. Demonstration booths by Police, Fire, U.S. Navy, Hall Ambulance, Sheriff's Search & Rescue with a boat show by Galey's Marine. Gene Bogart and the Water Department have done a outstanding job providing the water and making the river bed look so wonderful. Without them, this event would not have happened. Leslie Devitt and the Swift Water Rescue Team also have been helpful by offering to launch the boats. This helps keep the public from entering the Kern River. Janet Riley has worked to get the Police Dept. Explorers out to help with traffic control and provide safety on the parkway. Pacific Yo-Yo Championship: Saturday, July 10, 1999 Silver Creek Community Center 9:00 Registration starts 10:00-4:00 Event time This is a free event for everyone, young and old to enter or watch. There are trophies, yo-yo's and other prizes will be awarded in 8 different catagories, including a special catagory for Bakersfield City Champion. Bill deBoisblanc, one of only four Yo-Yo Grand Masters and John Stangle a World Champion will be judging as well as serving as M.C. John will also be doing demonstrations at Silver Creek Day Camp and Camp King at the Martin Luther King Center on Friday, July 9th. We have received notice that contestants will be coming from as far away as Phoenix, AZ and Reno, NV. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at the Martin Luther King Community Center 322-9874. CC: Stan Ford