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~/~ ~ ~-'~ 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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.