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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/28/2006 B A K E R S F I E L D ~/~ ~ ~-'~ Sue Benham, Chair Staff: John W. Stinson David Couch For: Alan Tandy, City Manager Mike Maggard AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - 1:00 p.m. City Manager's Conference Room - Suite 201 1501 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield CA 1. ROLL CALL The meeting was called to order at 1:08 p.m. Present: Councilmembers Sue Benham,,Chair; David Couch; and Mike Maggard 2. PUBLIC STATEMENTS (REGARDING CLOSED SESSION) None. 3. CLOSED SESSION A. Conference with Legal CounselmPotential Litigation Closed session pursuant to subdivision (b)(1)(3)(A) of Government Code section 54956.9 (one case) The meeting adjourned to Closed Session at 1:15 p.m. The Closed Session was adjourned and the regular meeting was called back to order at 2:42 p.m. 4. CLOSED SESSION ACTION' committee Chair Benham announced there was no reportable action. 5. ADOPT JANUARY 31, 2006 AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT Adopted as submitted, 6. PUBLIC STATEMENTS None. AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT Page 2 PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7. DEFERRED BUSINESS A. Discussion and Committee recommendation regarding status of the hillside ordinance Planning Director Movius reported staff is work on refining wording regarding identification of primary and secondary ridgelines and viewsheds. As staff explained at the last Committee meeting, instead of focusing on sloPes and setbacks to protect the view, staff is looking at slope protection areas and areas with steeper slopes that will remain open space under the hillside ordinance. Staff is also waiting to hear from the City's consultants regarding criteria for maximum cut and fill and whether or not that needs to be put into the ordinance. As soon as the draft wording is completed to address those particular issues, staff will be conducting informational meetings with interested groups and the public. After the meetings are held, it will go to the Planning Commission for perhaps a workshop' and then a hearing. The Planning Commission will then make its recommendation to the City Council. Committee Chair Benham wanted to make sure the community is made aware that the public is welcome to attend the meetings just for information and does not need to have a position. The Committee took no further action. B. Report and Committee recommendation regarding park standards (This item heard before the Closed Session) Recreation and Parks Director Hoover reported on the meeting of the Volunteer Park Standards Committee. Copies of various planning documents currently being use to make decisions on parks, park sizes and park elements were distributed for the volunteers to review. The Volunteer Committee will be meeting again. In order to facilitate their review, it was decided staff would create a list of standards that would need to be changed, which could then be included in the Volunteer Committee's recommendation to the Planning and Development Committee' to address the following: · Regional park fees · Changes to the standard park size · Ratio of park size per population; currently it is 2.5 acres per 1,000; there have been suggestions from the community to make it 5 acres per 1,000 population · Maintenance requirements of various sized parks · What amenities should be included in pocket parks AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT Page 3 PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Committee Member Couch is also serving on the Volunteer Park Standards Committee. He suggested since pocket parks are going to be built in gated communities, the Volunteer Committee should review the percentage of park credits and amenities/elements, while reviewing pocket parks for subdivisions. Nick Grontkowski, a new resident in the northwest, spoke regarding expanding the number of parks in the northwest. The nearest park is over two miles away. His family just moved from the southwest where there are parks within walking distance. Mr. Grontkowski expressed he has small children and would be willing to help facilitate getting more parks in' the northwest. City Manager Tandy responded that the parks in the northwest are governed by' the North of the River Recreation and Park District. Assistant City Manager Stinson will provide contact information to Mr. Grontkowski. The Volunteer Park Standards Committee will continue to meet and will report back to the Planning and Development Committee. 8. COMMITTEE COMMENTS 9. ADJOURNMENT The meeting adjourned at 2:50 p.m. Attendance-staff: City Manager Alan Tandy; City Attorney Ginny Gennaro; Assistant City Manager John Stinson; Assistant Public Works Director Jack LaRochelle; Planning Director Jim Movius; Recreation and Parks Director Dianne Hoover; and Park Construction and Facility Planner Ken Trone Attendance-others: Dana Karcher, Tree Foundation; Dave Dmohowski, Project Design Consultants; Kevin Burton, Young Wooldridge, LLP; Bruce Freeman, Castle and Cooke; Donna Carpenter, Sikand Engineering; Bill Cooper, Kern River Parkway Committee; Brian Todd, Building Industry Association of Kern County; Harry Love, Sierra Club; Colon Bywater, North of the River Recreation and Park District; Roger Mclntosh, Mclntosh and Associates; James Nickel, Nickel Family, LLC; Cai Rossi, McMillan Homes; and Nick Grontkowski, northwest resident cc: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers S:~JOHN\Council Committees\06Planning&Development\p&d 06 feb 28 summary.doc PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Partial Transcript 7. DEFERRED BUSINESS A. Discussion and Committee recommendation regarding status of the hillside ordinance Prior to adjourning to the Closed Session: Benham: According to the agenda, the next item is a Closed Session Maggard: Can we clarify something? I was asked a question when I was walking out of the room saying "Hi" to people. A question was asked if we were going to take any action on the Hillside thing. So, if it is just going to be recommended on to the Planning Commission, it would relieve some people from having to sit around and wait if there is not going to be any action taken on it. Gennaro: It is my understanding and'Mr. Movius can correct me if l am wrong. This is just an update, and so from here we will proceed out to the neighborhood groups, and the environmental groups that Jim had identified. I am not recommending any action today. Maggard: So, if people were thinking something was going to change or happen with that, it was not described very well, and I think several people are here, Dave Dmohowski asked me about that. Public? So, that will relieve us of waiting around if this is moving on to Planning Commission. Benham: You are welcome to stay for the discussion, but it is an update. PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING Page 2 Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Partial Transcript of Deferred Business, Item 7.A. PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7. DEFERRED BUSINESS A. Discussion and Committee recommendation regarding status of the hillside ordinance , Movius: So, staff will be drafting wording to address those particular issues. We will be distributing to the public, hopefully, within the next three weeks or so if we can complete that wording. And, then we will be conducting meetings with interest groups and with the public. And 'then I will take it to Council, I mean to the Planning Commission. Benham: Run that by me again. After the community groups, you will take it to? Movius: Planning Commission and then if they can get it in one hearing, they will make recommendations, but it may take more than one hearing. Or we may stick in a workshop and then a hearing. Benham: So, it would not come back to'this Committee? Movius: No, it would be a recommendation to the Council. Benham: Okay. Gennaro: Correct. Benham: I would just like to stress that when staff, I know there are certain interested groups who have followed this and we have already identified the BIA, trails people, and so forth. But, I would like to have staff make it clear to the community at-large that these meetings will be informational in nature and that if they are just interested citizens, they don't have to advocate one particular position that they are in--they are welcome. We are all about getting the information out. PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING Page 3 Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Partial Transcript of Deferred Business, Item 7.A. Movius: Okay. Benham: I would like anybody to join in the meetings. Couch: How many groups? Are you going to try to meet with all the groups before you go get this on the.Planning Commission's agenda? Movius: Yes. We will invite probably, maybe three different interest groups, maybe just two. And all the Council will get notified Couch: Who are those groups? Movius: BIA. and developers, and then separately from that the environmental groups and interested parties and I may split that into three meetings instead of two. Couch: How many groups? Do you have names or do you, are you going to have meetings with the Sierra Club and the trails, or is it just sort of the environment. Movius: No, I probably will have that, invite all those to one. Couch: Okay. You talked about the building community, one meeting? Movius: Depends on how it goes, and if we have to make changes to the ordinance. Couch: Environmental groups, one meeting? Or, I guess maybe it depends. And, then what Sue was talking about was more of a general public-type meeting? Gennaro: And, really as many meetings as staff feels necessary, as soon as the community understands the ordi'nance. Pretty much similar, I think, to what we did when we were adopting the northeast parks and trails plan. Couch: You still have some time constraints with when maps are filed or whatever, so you have to have something on a... PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING Page 4 Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Partial Transcript of Deferred Business, Item 7.A. Gennaro: Well, we obviously would like to do it as expeditiously as we possibly can, but to answer your question directly, I think we are already protected there. We have already advertised that this is coming forward and so we don't believe any of the maps coming in that aren't currently vested are going to be able to escape this new hillside ordinance. Couch: It-sounds like getting on t'he Planning Commission agenda, you might have some time frames from when a map is filed or a General Plan is requested, or whatever. If you are not done with all your meetings, does that pose any problem at all? Movius: You couldn't apply it to a map. It has to be adopted before a map is heard. Couch: I see. Okay, I know that, but I mean that doesn't answer my question. I'll think about it and get back to you. Maggard: So, if you have a meeting with developer types, a meeting with user types, and a meeting with neighbors and interested folks like that, do we have another meeting where all those people are in one place before it goes to Planning Commission or after it goes separate and is conducted, it goes to Planning Commission and Movius: I am not sure yet. It kind of depends on how it goes. And, what I am really anticipating and possibly instead of taking it actually to a hearing at Planning Commission, first I want to do more like a workshop atmosphere to explain it to the Planning Commission. Well, it could also be a hearing and you could let people talk and respond, but not actually have an action item that night for comments and, kind of like you do with an EIR. And, the purpose. of this, I don't want to mislead anybody in the room, the purpose of this process, we are not really going to be building a consensus on this. Because we have such divergent views in some cases, we are not going to be able to do that. But, we want everybody to be very informed as to exactly what the City is doing, so when they get up there, everybody will be able to talk on this subject. PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING Page 5 Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Partial Transcript of Deferred Business, Item 7.A. Maggard: So that's why I don't think it is necessary to have one that has all those groups. In essence, you are conducting a general public hearing without the Planning Commission being in front of it. It seems to me you can do that at the Planning Commission. Benham: Okay, anything else? All right, sounds good. Thanks for the report. All right, that leaves us only with Committee Comments.