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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-21-2014 PH2 SettleCouncil Meeting: 10/21/14 Item No. Ph2 Goodwin, Heather From: Mejia, Anthony Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 5:42 PM RECEIVED To: Goodwin, Heather Subject: FW: City overrule of ALUC OCT 17 2014 Attachments: ALUC & City Overrule.docx Si..O CITY CLERK Agenda Correspondence for 10/21/2014 Item PH2. Anthony J. Mejia, MMC I City Clerk City of San Luis Obispo 990 Palm Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 tel 1 805.781.7102 From: Allen K. Settle [asettle @calpoly.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 5:08 PM To: Marx, Jan; Christianson, Carlyn; John Ashbaugh; Kathy Smith; Dan Carpenter; Lichtig, Katie; Dietrick, Christine; Johnson, Derek Subject: City overrule of ALUC To mayor, council and city staff. I have attached my comments on the recommendation by the City to overrule the Airport Land Use Commission. I wanted to get this to you before the council meeting on the 21st. Thanks for all your comments on this matter. It is my goal to achieve consistency between the LUCE and ALUC in the near future. Allen Settle Member, Airport Land Use Commission To Mayor, City Council Members and Staff Should the Council Overrule the Airport Land Use Commission and the approach to the Airport Overlay Zone in the process of approving LUCE at its meeting of October 21st? I have previously recommended the council delay taking an overrule action because of objections received from the ALUC and California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics. The city has recently taken positive steps in revising its approach with respect to accepting the existing ALUP boundaries. Derek Johnson was helpful in clarifying the City intends to refer the larger projects, such as Avila Ranch and San Luis Ranch, to the ALUC for consistency findings that is also required by the Aeronautics Act for general and specific plan and zoning actions. Therefore, I recommend the Council should move to define its land use objectives by approving the LUCE but continue to work with the ALUC in its update to achieve consistency between the ALUC and LUCE. I recognize the elected city council must be able to control land uses within its jurisdiction and areas to be annexed within the urban reserve line. However, the Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics points out in its correspondence that the City cannot replace the ALUC land use standards for its own within PUC Section 21676.5(a), et.al. CalTrans’ notes as outlined in the Aeronautic Act, the Commission can require projects included in LUCE to come before the Commission notwithstanding an overrule. The next meeting of the ÅLUC will be November 19, when Derek Johnson has offered to clarify at that meeting the types of land uses anticipated in the airport area such as the Avila Ranch project. It is expected this will be a point of departure to achieve consistency between the ALUC and LUCE. Further, the full commission and not a subcommittee will to work with county and city staff to achieve consistency as soon as possible. I appreciate the efforts by city staff in our recent meetings to achieve this goal. Thus I support the council moving forward to define its land use objectives through the LUCE process while working with the ALUC in the commission update process .