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Home My WebLink About01/31/2000 BAKERSFIELD Randy Rowles, Chair David Couch Mike Maggard Staff: John W. Stinson AGENDA URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE of the City Council - City of Bakersfield Monday, January 31, 2000 4:00 p.m. City Manager's Conference Room Second Floor - City Hall, Suite 201 1501 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 1. ROLL CALL 2. ADOPT DECEMBER 6, 1999 AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT 3. PRESENTATIONS 4. PUBLIC STATEMENTS 5. DEFERRED BUSINESS A. Discussion and Committee recommendation regarding Downtown Business and Property Owners' Vision effort--Downtown Parking - Wager 6. NEW BUSINESS A. Review and Committee recommendation regarding the Borba Dairy Development and a proposed resolution in opposition - Hardisty B. Review and Committee recommendation regarding Shellabarger Road access - Rojas C. Review and Committee recommendation regarding right-turn channelization at signalized intersections- Rojas .7. COMMITTEE COMMENTS 8. ADJOURNMENT S:L]ohn\UrbanDev\00jan31agen.wpd JWS:jp DRAFT BAKERSFIELD ~--~ ~ Randy Rowles, Chair Alan Tandy, City Manager David Couch Staff: John W. Stinson Mike Maggard AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Monday, December 6, 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; Mike Maggard; and David Couch arriving at 2:00 p.m. for Items 5A., 6C., and 6D. 2. ADOPT NOVEMBER 8 AND 22, 1999 AGENDA SUMMARY REPORTS Adopted as submitted. 3. PRESENTATIONS None 4. PUBLIC STATEMENTS None 5. DEFERRED BUSINESS A. Metropolitan Bakersfield freeway status report Madon Shaw and Raul Rojas gave a brief freeway status report. They discussed the review of the Kern River Freeway EIR by Fish and Wildlife and indicated it would be 30-60 days before they would complete their review. Also discussed was the completion of the project study report for the Fairfax/Highway 178 project. Staff indicated that purchase of right-of-way could possibly begin next fiscal year. Councilmember Rowles requested information regarding funding of road projects by Kern COG and asked Public Works to provide that information at the Committee's next meeting. DRAFT URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT Monday, December 6, 1999 Page -2- 6. NEW BUSINESS A. Review and Committee recommendation regarding allowing churches in a Commercial zone Jack Hardisty gave a brief report and distributed a draft ordinance which added churches as a permitted use in the C-O zone. He indicated that staff had no problem with the proposed change and that the proposal would eliminate the need and expense of a CUP for any church wanting to locate in a C-O zone. He also noted that the site plan review process would address any concerns regarding parking or hours of use. The Committee (Maggard and Rowles) approved sending the draft ordinance back to the City Council for referral to the Planning Commission to conduct the required hearing process. B. Review and Committee recommendation regarding regulation of.leaf blowers Trudy Slater gave a brief presentation on the current status of leaf blowers including previous actions taken by the Legislative and Litigation Committee and the City Council in 1995. She also explained that the State Senate recently passed a resolution requesting that local governments refrain from adopting new ordinances relating to leaf blowers as they are conducting a comprehensive review on this issue as it relates to potential health and environmental impacts. The study is to be presented eady next year to the legislature. Therefore, staff is recommending taking no action until this report has been made available and depending on actions taken by the State to regulate leaf blowers. Public comments were received from Jack Rademacher regarding concerns about noise and residential upkeep. He presented written materials to the Committee. Mr. Rademacher and Mr. and Mrs. Scheloski made comments regarding a property maintenance problem at 115 Westem Ddve in their neighborhood. Staff from the Code Enforcement Division met with them and are to follow up on the problem. Staff explained some of the difficulties of enforcing the noise ordinance and the need to have evidence in order to cite an offender. Staff will bring this issue back to the Committee when more information is available from the State. C. Review and Committee recommendation regarding parking of vehicles for purposes of sale and parking vehicles on unpaved surfaces Jack Hardisty distributed and discussed a draft ordinance modifying the Municipal Code regarding parking of vehicles for purposes of sale and parking vehicles on unpaved surfaces. The proposed ordinance provides for a warning and then a citation. The Committee recommended the proposed ordinance with a slight modification to clarify Section 10.32.150.B be sent to the City Council for approval. D. Set meeting dates for 2000 The Committee adopted a schedule of meeting dates for calendar year 2000. · DRAFT URBAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE AGENDA SUMMARY REPORT Monday, December 6, 1999 Page -3- 7. COMMITTEE COMMENTS None 8. ADJOURNMENT Adjourned at 3:10 p.m. cc: Honorable Mayor and City Council Attendance: Staff: Assistant City Manager John Stinson, Chief Assistant City Attorney Bob Sherry, Assistant City Attorney Carl Hemandez, Development Services Director Jack Hardisty, Public Works Director Raul Rojas, Public Works Civil Engineer Marian Shaw, Assistant Recreation and Parks Director Allen Abe, Administrative Analyst Trudy Slater, Chief Code Enforcement Officer Randy Fidler, and Police Officer Roger Ott Public: Arthur Unger, Sierra Club; Robert and Lorraine Scheloski, and Jack M. Rademacher s:John\UrbanDev\U D99Dec 06Summary.wpd JAN 13 2000 L B A KE RS F I E L Economic and Community DeVelopment Department MEMORANDUM Janua~ 12,2000 TO: Alan Tandy, City Manager o~ FROM: Jake Wager, Economic Development Direct SUBJECT: Downtown Parking At a recent DBA Vision Committee meeting a number of speakers spoke about the need for additional public parking in the area east of Chester Avenue. Based on some of the comments made at this meeting, I was asked to prepare a brief memo discussing the City's expressed interest in working with property owners towards the creation of additional public parking. The desire for more public parking goes back a number of years. In fact as a result of comments similar to those made on Friday, January 7, 2000, the City of Bakersfield invited all property owners between 21st, 17th, "O", and Chester to attend a meeting on February 2, 1994 (see attached). The purpose of the meeting was to establish the interest of property owners towards the possible establishment of a parking assessment district. Only a small number of property owners attended the meeting (see attached) and the general reaction can only be described as anemic. Following this effort, City staff then met over a course of several years with property owners, business operators, and DBA representatives to discuss modifications to the on- street parking standards in order to address the perceived need for adequate parking for downtown business patrons. After numerous meetings the effort was abandoned because of the inability to reach consensus on a comprehensive approach to the use and limits for on-street parking (including employee parking). In order to help meet the continuing request for additional off-street parking, the City .undertook the demolition of the old ANB building and constructed an 88 space surface parking lot. At its peak only 66 of the 88 spaces were leased to surrounding businesses. Eventually this lot was .sold to the Lee Development Group for it's inclusion into the District Attorney's project. As a condition of the sale, the City required the developer to include in the project the same number of leased parking spaces and that the terms for those leases be honored until 2005. dlk:P:LJWS\downtov~n parking memo. WPD Recognizing that the subject of additional off-street parking continues to be discussed, Councilmember DeMond asked that the Bakersfield Redevelopment Agency consider setting aside a percentage of the tax increment generated by the Lee Development Group for the development of off-street parking. On May 11, 1998, the Bakersfield RDA agreed to reserve 25% of this project's tax increment for a period of five years as seed monies for future off-street parking. The five year period started last year and it is estimated that this will generate $45,000.00 per year for a total of $225,000.00. More recently I have spoken with Ray Watson and Roy Weygand on separate occasions regarding DBA's interest for more off-street parking as well as having participated in a brief conversation at the October 15, 1999 Vision Committee meeting. At the initial meeting with Ray Watson and Roy Weygand I was presented with some preliminary information on various options available by law to help fund off-street parking. During the second conversation we discussed the various options including my recommendation that we all look at a Parking and Business Improvement District. Mr Weygand indicated he would do some additional research and then call to discuss his findings further. As of the DBA Vision Committee of January 7, 2000 this is where the matter stood. dlk:P:~JWS\downtown parking memo.WPD