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Home My WebLink About07/12/1999 B A K'E R S F I E L D Randy Rowles, Chair David Couch Mike Maggard Staff: John W. Stinson AGENDA URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE of the City Council - City of Bakersfield Monday, July 12, 1999 1:15 p.m. City Manager's Conference Room Second Floor- City Hall, Suite 201 1501 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 1. ROLL CALL 2. ADOPT MAY 10, 1999 AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT 3. PRESENTATIONS 4. PUBLIC STATEMENTS 5. DEFERRED BUSINESS A. Update on current status of Bakersfield area freeway projects - Rojas B. Review of proposed amendment to the sign ordinance regarding off-premises directional signs - Hardisty C. Update on current status of alternatives for beautification of entrances to the City - Stinson D. Discussion of possible incentives to encourage planting of trees in the downtown area - Stinson E. Discussion of Transportation Sales Tax Measure - Rojas 6. NEW BUSINESS A. Discussion of improvements to downtown parking including possible cooperative efforts to provide additional bus services for area parking lots - Stinson B. Review of list of sites qualified for Transportation Development Funds - Rojas C. Joint meeting with Planning Commission Committee to review draft ordinance regarding Planning Commission appointments - Stinson 7. COMMITTEE COMMENTS 8. ADJOURNMENT JS~/v~Js°"jhpn\UrbanDev~99ju112agen FiLE ~'-~-..~ ~' ~ ,(~,.!~ :i~ BAKERSFIELD Alan/'~an~2t, City I~ar)a~ Randy Rowles, Chair Staff: John W. Sti~or~ ~ David Couch Mike Maggard AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Monday, May 10, 1999 1:15 p.m. City Manager's Conference Room 1. ROLL CALL Call to Order at 1:25 p.m. Present: Councilmembers Randy Rowles, Chair; David Couch; and Mike Maggard 2. ADOPT APRIL 5, 1999 AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT Adopted as submitted. 3. PRESENTATIONS None 4. PUBLIC STATEMENTS None 5. DEFERRED BUSINESS A. FREEWAY UPDATE Raul Rojas and Jack LaRochelle gave the Committee a brief report on freeways..They discussed the concems expressed by the public and local water agencies regarding the Kern River freeway and what staff was doing to address them. URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT Monday, May 10, 1999 Page -2- 6. NEW BUSINESS A. JAY ROSENLIEB LETTER OF REQUEST REGARDING THE SIGN ORDINANCE Jack Hardisty gave a brief presentation of the issue regarding the Good Nite Inn sign located on Rosedale Highway and changes to the City's sign ordinance proposed by Mr. Rosenlieb, their representative. There was discussion about offsite signage and the need for an address change to properly reflect the location of the business for the public and for public safety responders. The Committee recommended that staff work with Mr. Rosenlieb and his client to try and work out a solution regarding the unique need for directional signage due to the type and location of the business. Also discussed was the potential for a directional sign program to assist visitOrs to the City to find services (such as food, lodging and fuel) when they exit the freeways. Staff was to bring this item back at the next meeting. B. BEAUTIFICATION OF ENTRANCES TO THE CITY Public Works staff presented various concepts of entry signs to the City for discussion. It was discussed that the scope of the request needed to be more clearly defined. Issues such as the size and type of signs, their location and possible addition of. landscaping were discussed. The committee requested that staff explore the number of locations where such signs could be located at freeway exits and that staff look at establishing a committee with representatives from different community groups such as the Convention and Visitors Bureau to work on this issue. Staff will continue to research locations and potential costs and funding sources for such a program and report back at the next Committee meeting. C. TREE PLANTING INCENTIVES FOR DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES Councilmember Rowles explained that there was a need to provide incentives rather than barriers for property owners in the downtown to plant trees. He explained that the cost to plant street trees including the installation of automated irrigation systems and the required tree grates were a deterrent to businesses. There was discussion about expanding the current limited hand-watering program; however, staff expressed concerns regarding its long-term cost effectiveness vs. automated irrigation. There was discussion about possibly using CDDA funds to offset the cost of installing irrigation systems and the cost of grates. Also discussed was the need to include any additional areas 'to be maintained within the existing maintenance district. The committee requested that the URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT Monday, May 10, 1999 Page -3- item be continued to next month, that staff identify typical costs to plant trees and that representatives from the Tree Foundation and the Downtown Business and Property Owners Association .be invited to the meeting. 7. ADJOURNMENT Adjourned at 3:02 p.m. cc: Honorable Mayor and City Council JWS:jp Attendance: Staff: City Manager Alan Tandy, Assistant City Manager John Stinson, City Attorney Bart Thiltgen, Public Works Director Raul Rojas, Development Services Director Jack Hardisty, Economic Development Director Jake Wager; Planning Director Stanley Grady, Assistant City Attorney Carl Hemandez, Public Works Park and Landscape Designer Don Hoggatt, and Engineering Services Manager Jack LaRochelle. Public: Pauline Larwood, Smart Growth Coalition; Brian Todd, Building Industry Association; Carl Moreland, Telstar Engineering; Fred Porter; Porter - Robertson Engineering; Renee Nelson; Jay Rosenlieb on behalf of Good Nite Inns; Ron Brummett, Kern COG; and Cassie Daniel, Bakersfield Association of Realtors. s:\john\UrbanDev\UD99rnay10summary.wpd BAKERSFIELD Economic and Community Development Department MEMORANDUM June 4, 1999 TO: Jake Wager, Economic Development Director FROM: Donna Barnes, Development Associate~5~> SUBJECT: Master Street Tree Plan Cost Estimate As you requested, I have obtained cost estimates for a typical tree planting as specified in the Central City Master Street Tree Plan. The master plan was adopted by the City Council on October 21, 1992 by resolution. The following cost estimates were calculated by Don Hoggatt, Park and Landscape Designer, Public Works: 24" Box Tree $500 5' x 5' Tree Grate 525 Automatic irrigation 725 $1,850 (round up to $2,000) The cost estimate is based on planting seven trees per block face. Please realize that' each street tree planting location is unique and could included a variety of circumstances. P:\STREETSCkMSTP Pla~ting Cost Estimates June 99.wpd BAKERSFIELD PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM DATE: JUNE 29, 1999 TO: ALAN TANDY, CITY MANAGER FROM: RAUL M. ROJAS, PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR ~ ,.SUBJECT: TRANSPORTATION SALES TAX MEASURE The Kern County Transportation Foundation has completed the first of two polls to determine support levels for a proposed transportation sales tax measure. The overall results indicate a sales tax measure to fund new major transportation projects will likely be defeated. However, it was noted that wide range support was evident for maintenance of existing facilities. In addition, support for senior transit facilities was also evident. The subsequent poll will be conducted in the near future. This poll will focus on specific items gleaned from the first poll results. Based on the first poll results, the Kern Transportation Foundation has proposed a three pronged approach to a sales tax measure as follows: 1. Structure the ballot measure to focus on maintenance issues by providing for a "return to source" approach whereby revenues generated by the tax would come directly back to each city/region on a population basis. 2. Outline provisions for improved senior transit facilities. 3. Identify two or three major project such as widening Hwy 46 to the coast or Route 14 in the eastern part of the County that received much support in the first poll. In addition, consider a very short sunset period (3-5 years) as well as a quarter cent sales tax rather than a half cent taxi The Foundation is seeking input from the various parties. Plea_se let me know your thoughts on the matter or whether to refer the matter to the Urban Development Committee for their imput.-' ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2.28.030 OF THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO CREATION AND APPOINTMENT OF PLANNING COMMISSION BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield as follows: SECTION 1. Section 2.28.030 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 2.28.030 Planning commission--creation---members. A. There is created a planning commission of the city which shall consist of seven members who shall be appointed by the city council. B. Within 30 days of the effective date of this ordinance, the council shall, by draw, determine the sequential order by which members of the council shall be entitled to submit a nomination for appointment of a member to the commission. C. [The order of right to nominate shall be designated by ward and shall be established by resolution of the council based on the results of the draw required in subsection B. above.] or [ Subsequent to the draw, and at the next available regular meeting of the council, the city attorney shall provide to the council a proposed ordinance amending this section to set forth the order of right to nominate. The order of right to nominate shall be designated by ward based on the results of the draw required in subsection B. above.] D. A commissioner need not be a resident of the ward represented by the nominating council member, but shall be a resident of the city at the time of nomination. A majority vote of the full council shall be required for appointment of the nominee as a member of the commission. If any nomination for appointment of a member of the commission fails to secure a majority vote, then the council member making the nomination shall be entitled to make further nominations until an appointment is made. For purposes of filling vacancies as set forth in subsection F. below, each commission appointment shall be designated by number to correspond to the ward of the council member making the nomination. E. Commission members shall be aPpointed for a term of four years commencing on the expiration date of the expired term being filled. All commission members shall be residents of the city during the entire term of appointment. Members may be reappointed for an unrestricted number of terms. Members shall serve at the pleasure of the council and may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of five members of the council. F. Any vacancy on the commission, other than by expiration of term, created by a member appointed after the effective date of this section, shall be filled as provided in this subsection. The council member of the ward which corresponds with the commission vacancy, as provided for in subsection D. above, shall nominate a replacement member who, upon approval of a majority of the full council, shall be appointed for the unexpired portion of the term. SECTION 2. This Ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the Bakersfield Municipal Code and shall become effective thirty (30) days from and after the date of its passage. ........ o0o ........ I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting thereof held on , by the following vote: AYES: COUNClLMEMBER CARSON, DEMOND, MAGGARD, COUCH, ROWLES, SULLIVAN, SALVAGGIO NOES: COUNClLMEMBER ABSTAIN: COUNClLMEMBER ABSENT: COUNClLMEMBER CITY CLERK and EX OFFICIO of the Council of the City of Bakersfield APPROVED: BOB PRICE, Mayor CITY OF BAKERSFIELD APPROVED AS TO FORM: BART J. THILTGEN City Attorney By:. BART J. THILTGEN City Attorney BJT:CH:laa:lsc S:\COUNClL\Ords~lanCommCreate-Amd3.wpd Announcing the 1999 .Air Quality Symposium The Race for Prosperity: Strategies for Success Noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday, September 15 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, September 16 DoubleTree Hotel, Modesto Keynote Speaker: California Treasurer Phil Angelides Special Presentation by Carl Guardino, President & CEO, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group Who should attend: ~' LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIALS ~- COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS LEADERS ~' CITY MANAGERS, CAOs, AND PLANNING STAFF . m~- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS ~- FLEET MANAGERS ~' ENVIRONMENTAL AND PLANNING EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS Presented by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District in association with the Local Government Commission. Sponsored by California State Association of Counties and the Great Valley Center. Registration materials forthcoming. For more information, call (559) 230-5800. MEMORANDUM June 2, 1999 TO: JOHN STINSON, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER _ _ ~~)~ FROM: JACK HARDISTY, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DI~ SUBJECT: URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE - HOTEL DIRE,~T4ONAL SIGN Staffhas met with J. Rosenlieb regarding the hotel directional sign located at the corner of Rosedale Highway and Camino Del Rio Court for the Parkway Inn (formally Ramada Hotel). After discussing the problem and reviewing the city's regulations, we are recommending the following: 1. Change the hotel's address to be off'Camino Del Rio Court. Presently the hotel's address is off' Rosedale Highway even though it does not have frontage on ttlis road. The Double Tree Hotel to the north is already addressed off Camino Del Rio Court. This new address would lessen any confusion of what 'street it is located for both customers and emergency response personnel. The new address is recommended to be 2400 Camino Del RiO Court. 2. Amend the sign ordinance. The ordinance amendment could occur to the Freeway Oriented section of the sign ordinance to add a section regarding directional signs. These signs would be noted as directional signs specifically for places of lodging and not intended to compete with a business' normal advertising signs. The signs would be regulated as follows: , · The sign would be an off.site directional sign and may only identify places of lodging. The.hotel(s) being identified must also be within the freeway area. · The sign must be within our freeway area as defined in the code, (these freeway areas are only found along State Highway 99). · The sign must contain a direction arrow or directional text (eg. one block south). · The sign would be limited to a monument style with a maximum area of 64 square feet and a maximum height of 15 feet consistent with other monument signs allowed in the city (an example as to size and height would be the Best Center sign on the northwest corner of Ming Avenue and Stine Road). · The sign would be subject to all other setbacks and separation distances from other signs identified in the ordinance. · The sign would be limited to being on only one comer of an intersection and must not obstruct vehicular visibility or traffic signs/signals. · A hotel is limited to being identified on only one offsite directional sign. · Since it is an offsite sign, permission from the property owner must be obtained (such sign would not be permitted in the street right-of-way). We have forwarded these recommendations to Mr. Rosenlieb for his review; however, we have not heard back from him. He has been invited to the next Urban Development meeting. KLEIN, Ds, NATALE, GOLDNER, C'OOPER, ROSENLIEB & KIMBALL, Anthony 1. Klein LAWYERS T. Sco~t Bcldm 'l~om~ V. D~N~Ie, Sr. C~thcflne E, BarO' L. Goldner 4550 CALIFORNIA AVENLrE David D. Blatne ;. L. Rosenlleb SECOND FLOOR Nancy L. 'Oehler Davka ,1. Coope~ BAKERSFIELD, CA 93309 Timothy G. Scanlon Claude P, Kimball Andre~ $¢lvl~dge William A, Brace MAILING ADDRF~$: I.~'vzml4 K. W;l~h P.O, BOX Christoph~ P. Bursar BAKI~RSI:IELD. CA 93389-1172 M~I ~hrfleh FAX (661) 3264)4 !~ 01' Kevin C. Findley E-MAIL kleinlnw@kleinlaw,com B~c¢ P, Bunker K~y~tyna L. Samieson Thomas C. F~llgacter Barry E. Rosenber~ Cr~;z D. ~r~un July 9, 1999 Via Facsimile 852-2135 Jamc~ Eggor~ 1715 Chester Avenue Bakersfield, California 93301 Re: Amendment to Signage Ordinance Dear Mr. Eggert: i am in receipt of your summary of the proposed changes to the sign ordinance relative to the signs for the Park Way. Inn on Rosedale Highway. We are in agreement on the proposed amendments with the exception of the size. Our client will agree to reduce th~ of its sign by. approximately 20% to 96 square feet. The 64'~ square feet proposed is substantially smaller than the size'which our client presently maintains. Further, th~ small~z' ~lz~ would not allow for sufficient notice to be useful given the speed of traffic on Rosed~le Highway. Finally, as I noted in my voice mail to you, I want to make sure that the Dr~ence of the Marriot Courtyard ~i~n on the opposite corner'wi].l not prohibit our client from erecting its sign. (The courtyard sign is, as I understand it, a nonconformin~ si~n.) KLEIN, D£NATALE, GOLDNER, COOPER, ROSENLIEB & KIMBALL, James Eggert July 9, 1999 Page 2 Please call if you have any questions. ~ .... _..:----.-~ ~ ,/'~ ........ ~-~~ ~~ / ~, ~ ..~ .j/_.~......-' / .../ 1 Councilman D~vid Couch ~ia F~~') 323-3780 ........... Councilman 5~ik~ Maggard Via ~ac~imilo) 323-3780 John StinsoD, Assistant City Manager (Via Facsimile) 324-18.50 Jack Hardlsty, Director of Development Sez-vices Department, (Via Facsimile) 325-0266 Stan Grady, Planning Director (Via Facsimile) 327-0646