HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/22/1999 BAKERSFIELD
~f~ (v~ ~'~,---- Randy Rowles, Chair
Alan Tandy, City Manager David Couch
Staff: John W. Stinson Mike Maggard
AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT
SPECIAL MEETING
URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Monday, November 22, 1999
4:30 p.m.
City Manager's Conference Room
1. ROLL CALL
Call to Order at 4:42 p.m.
Present: Councilmembers Randy Rowles, Chair; Mike Maggard and David Couch
2. PUBLIC STATEMENTS
None
3. NEW BUSINESS
A. Request from the Downtown Business and Property Owners Association's Vision
Committee to meet with the Urban Development Committee
a. Presentation and discussion regarding Downtown Vision effort
Ray Watson, Chairman of the Downtown Business and Property Owners Association
gave a brief overview of their efforts and distributed a draft copy of the Vision Committee
planning report.
He indicated the Vision Committee was interested in working with the City to improve the
downtown, and was supportive of city efforts in that regard. Herman Ruddell the
Chairman of the Vision Committee gave an overview of their report and discussed items
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included in the report such as transportation planning, possible formation of a Parking
Authority and other issues. There was discussion by Councilmembersand staff regarding
various downtown planning issues. Councilmember Couch asked if staff could identify
properties in the downtown that were too costly to relocate.
The Urban Development Committee thanked the Vision Committee for the report and
indicated that they and staff would review it and that the Committee would schedule time
after the first of the year of about a half-hour each meeting to review the topics identified
in the plan in more detail. The Committee also asked that the DBA prioritize the list of
topics and provide them to staff in order to schedule them for upcoming meetings.
b. Discussion regarding High Speed Rail resolutions and Mag-Lev video
presentation
There was no discussion or presentation made.
c. Committee comments and/or possible recommendations
None.
4. ADJOURNMENT
Adjourned at 6:15 p.m.
cc: Honorable Mayor and City Council
Attendance: Staff: Assistant City Manager John Stinson, City Attorney Bart Thiltgen, Public Works
Director Raul Rojas, Economic Development Director Jake Wager; Planning Director
Stanley Grady; and Public Works Engineering Services Manager Jack LaRochelle.
Ray Watson, Chair, Downtown Business and Property Owners; Cathy Butler, President,
Downtown Business and Property Owners; Herman Ruddell, Co-Director of the
Downtown Business and Property Owners and Chair of the Vision Committee, and
Michael Green, reporter, The Bakersfield Califomian.
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