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HomeMy WebLinkAbout07/20/2010, B4 - INITIATIVE MEASURE TO ENACT REVISIONS TO THE MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN council 7/20/10 AQen Vd REPORt - Item numlmr C I T Y O F SAN L U IS O B I S P O FROM: John Mandeville, Community Development Direc� Jay Walter, Public Works Directo/ Prepared By: Kim Murry, Long Range Planning Division Tim Bochum, Public Works, Development Review SUBJECT: INITIATIVE MEASURE TO ENACT REVISIONS TO THE MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN RECOMMENDATION Receive a report on the potential impacts of the proposed Initiative Amending the Margarita Area Specific Plan to Eliminate a Portion of the Prado Road.Extension(Initiative). REPORT IN BRIEF Proponents filed the Initiative to amend various City documents to eliminate a portion of the planned Prado Road extension (Attachment 1). The City Clerk has determined that the proponents have obtained the required number of valid signatures necessary to qualify the Initiative for the November ballot. The City Council is now required either to place the measure on the November ballot or to adopt the ordinance proposed by the measure, without changes, within ten days after its presentation. The Elections Code provisions governing initiative measures provide that the City Council "...may refer the proposed initiative measure to any city agency or agencies for a report on any or all impacts." On June 15, 2010, the City Council directed staff to prepare such a report. If adopted by Council or approved by City voters, the Initiative would result in amendments to the Margarita Area Specific Plan (MASP), as well as specified provisions of the Airport Area Specific Plan (AASP),'the General Plan Housing Element, Circulation Element, Bicycle Master Plan and numerous maps in the MASP; RASP, Land Use and Circulation Elements. This report discusses some of the potential impacts of the proposed amendments and provides the history of the development of the current Prado Road location. As discussed further, below, the Initiative potentially creates the following significant adverse impacts: 1. Severe long term traffic congestion effects due to elimination of a significant traffic mitigation on which multiple City plans and development projects rely and the creation of a dead end of a critical street contained in the City's primary East-West circulation plan; 2. Negative impacts to the city's ability to attract and retain businesses that create head of household jobs due to delays in planned development of business parks and housing in the Margarita, Airport, and Orcutt areas; MASP Initiative-Council Report Page 2 3. Possible inability of the City to achieve its state-required regional housing allocation, potentially resulting in the de-certification of the City's Housing Element and loss of eligibility for State and Federal housing funds; and 4. Need to undertake new planning and environmental review of multiple City planning documents and infrastructure financing plans, which will represent a significant unplanned cost to the City,perhaps in the range of several hundred thousand dollars. BACKGROUND The Initiative Process Under the California Constitution, the voters have the power to propose ordinances for direct adoption by the voters of the City and that power has been held to extend to the enactment of General Plan, Specific Plan and zoning provisions.. Proponents filed with the City Clerk the Initiative to amend the Margarita Area Specific Plan (adopted in October 2004) for the primary purpose of eliminating a short portion of the planned Prado Road Extension (See Attachment 1 for the official Initiative Title and Summary). The City Clerk has determined that the signatures in support of the measure are valid and will present the petition to Council for certification following its receipt of this report. Council is required either to place the measure on the November ballot or to adopt the amendments proposed by the measure within ten days after its presentation. What the Initiative Does The stated purpose of the Initiative is to: ".. remove the planned Prado Road northern alignment so that it does not encroach into the Damon-Garcia Sports Field site and to prohibit the encroachment of any street, roadway or highway into the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site and into the adjacent South Hills open space." The stated goal of the Initiative measure is twofold: " 1) That additional area will become available at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields to be used for recreational uses 2) that the adjacent South Hills open space area will be preserved in an open, park-like ...setting..." The Initiative proposes to accomplish its stated goals by deleting a 1200-foot segment of the planned Prado Road alignment from the various planning documents, resulting in a "dead end" that terminates at the property line of the City-owned Damon-Garcia Sports Complex. It does not propose any alternative alignment for Prado Road, nor does it address any solutions to the resultant traffic impacts. The Initiative does not identify environmental or fiscal impacts associated with the proposed truncation of the planned East-West circulation route. Figure 1 provides an example from the Initiative that illustrates the proposed dead end of Prado Road at the property line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Complex. i3 y 2 C MASP Initiative—Council Report Page 3 SO i. e "a i m L yJV IIF , r Figure 1—Example of Roadway deletion/proposed specific plan amendment Source:Excerpts from MASP Initiative;Attachment B,Page 14, 15 Elections Code This report is prepared in accordance with the California Elections Code, Section 9212, which provides that the City Council "...may refer the proposed Initiative measure to any city agency or agencies for a report on any or all of the following: (1) Its fiscal impact. (2) Its effect on the internal consistency of the city's general and specific plans, including the housing element, the consistency between planning and zoning, and the limitations on city actions under Section 65008 of the Government Code and Chapters 4.2 (commencing with Section 65913) and 4.3 (commencing with Section 65915) of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code. (3) Its effect on the use of land, the impact on the availability and location of housing, and the ability of the city to meet its regional housing needs. (4) Its impact on funding for infrastructure of all types, including, but not limited to, transportation, schools, parks, and open space. The report may also discuss whether the measure would be likely to result in increased infrastructure costs or savings, including the costs of infrastructure maintenance, to current residents and businesses. (5) Its impact on the community's ability to attract and retain business and employment. (6) Its impact on the uses of vacant parcels of land. (7) Its impact on agricultural lands, open space, traffic congestion, existing business districts, and developed areas designated for revitalization. (8)Any other matters the legislative body requests to be in the report." On June 15, 2010, the City Council directed staff to compile a report that is consistent with this provision of the Elections Code. The following provides information as directed by the City Council. 46 Z/,3 MASP Initiative—Council Report Page 4 DISCUSSION Report on Impacts of the Initiative Although the Initiative may seem straight-forward in its stated purpose of deleting a portion of Prado Road from City planning documents, the impacts of that action are potentially far-reaching and are not fully known at this time. This circulation connection has been incorporated into the City's planning documents since (1962), and has been a factor in all environmental reviews of Specific Plans, subdivisions, and individual development proposals for the last ten years. Traffic models used to identify future problem traffic areas, the infrastructure improvements needed to solve these problems, and associated fees to pay for the improvements have all assumed that Prado Road would serve as one of the City's primary East-West traffic connections. The Initiative, if passed, would result in two very significant results. First, by removing this critical roadway without providing an alternative solution and associated funding, the Initiative calls into question projects that have environmental approvals based on the assumption that Prado Road would serve its intended function and mitigate the impact of increased traffic on the City's existing street network. These project approvals include important housing projects such as the Creekston Mixed-Use Project and the Orcutt Area Specific Plan (OASP). Second, there is a potential cost to the City, on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars, that would be required to amend City planning documents if the Initiative passed. This effort would be necessary to attempt to remedy problems that are already solved by the planned Prado Road extension, which provides a critical East-West connection between Broad Street and South Higuera Street. This costly effort would be necessary because without this additional East-West connection traffic and circulation impacts on existing arterials streets, such as Tank Farm Road - and in existing City neighborhoods - will be greatly exacerbated. In addition, the City's safety depends on good streets and routes of travel to meet emergency response goals. The police, fire, and ambulance will not be able to serve the area well without good streets and access. While a grid pattern of streets provides the greatest mobility, absent that (due to terrain or other physical barriers) the City's circulation system needs to have a high degree of connectivity in order to get emergency responders on site quickly. The following discussion provides more specific details about the impacts across a range of issue areas that would occur if the Initiative is approved, and has been structured under five main headings, as follows: 1. Traffic Impacts 2. Impacts to Existing Plans and Approved Development Projects 3. City Housing and Land Use Impacts 4. Fiscal Impacts 5. Impacts to Parks, Recreation and Air Quality 1. Traffic Impacts Traffic and circulation impacts on arterial streets The extension of Prado Road between South Higuera and Broad Street has been planned for almost fifty years. Attachment 5 shows the history of the Prado Road alignment decisions and review. The purpose of this connection is to provide an East-West connection to assist in spreading the traffic in 8y-y MASP Initiative—Council Report Page 5 the southern section of the city. Prado Road would relieve traffic on Tank Farm Road and South Street by"drawing" traffic from the city's center. The connection also serves a primary multi-modal (transit, bicycle, pedestrian) transportation route to serve new development (both residential and commercial) in the Margarita Area, Airport Area and Orcutt Area. Because the Initiative proposes to delete a segment of the Prado Road connection without proposing any alternative, the Initiative eliminates a major circulation connection integral to the long term traffic circulation management strategy of the City. In essence, the Initiative would create a "dead end" arterial street that terminates at the boundary of the Sports Fields site. If this occurs, impacts to other arterial streets would be substantial, as illustrated by Figure 2. Figure 2: Preliminary Traffic Impact Projections: Prado Road Initiative 6 A s v 'c -a Roadway Traffic `� c Volume Increases Intersection Congestlon increases i As illustrated, deleting the Prado Road connection to Broad requires many other intersections and roadway segments to carry higher future traffic loads than currently planned. It is important to note that even a small change in future traffic percentages may have an unforeseen impact if that intersection was planned to be at or near capacity with the existing General Plan circulation system. Many of these locations would need further analysis to determine if additional improvements would be necessary to maintain the Level of Service (LOS) standards required in the Circulation Element. Of particular note would be the intersections along Broad Street at Tank Farm Road and South �3y s MASP Initiative—Council Report Page 6 Street, and the intersections along Los Osos Valley Road (LOVR) between Higuera and Froom Ranch Way. Table 1 summarizes preliminary information regarding traffic increases. Table 1 —Traffic Volume Forecast Comparisons Segment %Change Significance Tank Farm Road -west of Broad Street $0.24% Very High South Street-Higuera to Broad 29.92% Very High Tank Farm Road - immediately east of S. Hi uera 24.49% Very High Madonna -west of Higuera 10.52% Very High S.Higuera -Tank Farm to LOVR 9.72% High LOVR-US 101 to Higuera 9.03% High Broad Street-South to Orcutt 7.33% High Johnson -San Luis Dr to Laurel 3.42% moderate Tank Farm Road -east of Broad Street 0.80% Low Broad Street-south of Tank Farm O."%l Low Santa Barbara- north of South Street -0.96%1 Low Broad Street-Orcutt to Tank Farm -12.39%1 Very High Based upon this information, staff concludes that if the Initiative passes impacts to arterial streets would be substantial and a significant planning effort would need to be undertaken to fully identify potential fixes. While some roadways may be able to accommodate a portion of the shifted traffic, major segments (such as Broad Street between South and Orcutt, and LOVR between US 101 and Higuera) would need to be re-planned because current forecasts already identify those roadways as being at capacity in the future. The short timeframe between the June 15`h Council meeting and this report did not allow sufficient time to do a full reassessment of the future traffic forecasts for the circulation system. However, staff has used its traffic model to do a qualitative assessment of potential traffic shifts that may occur if the Prado Road connection is deleted from its current alignment. The traffic model is currently in the midst of a significant upgrade to better model various modal elements of the circulation system and the forecast shows volume changes that are useful for drawing the general conclusions illustrated in Figure I and Table 1. This information is intended to reflect the magnitude of traffic shift that would occur, rather than the exact volumes that would be needed for project specific analysis. Potential Neighborhood Traffic Impacts It is more difficult to accurately assess potential impacts to neighborhoods since the City's traffic model does not assign traffic through the neighborhood areas. In 2001, when the final alignment of Prado Road was determined, some homeowners associations opposed the Tank Farm Road alternative alignment for Prado Road because they did not want to see more traffic on Tank Farm Road east of Broad. Based upon the traffic shifts that are likely should the Initiative pass and the Prado Road connection is prohibited, it seems reasonable to project that additional neighborhood traffic concerns would arise. As part of the South Broad Street Corridor planning process, analysis indicates that volumes along Broad Street may cause diversion into the Woodbridge and Lawrence neighborhoods. If volumes were to increase on this section of Broad due to the elimination of the Prado Road connection, this neighborhood diversion may be greater than identified in that document. Additionally, potential �3y—ep MASP Initiative—Council Report Page 7 volume increases along LOVR and Higuera may affect the neighborhoods of Los Verdes, Las Praderas and Creekside Mobile Home Park beyond what has been identified in the various specific plans or as part of the Los Osos Valley Road Interchange project. Finally, as part of the Buchon-Pismo neighborhood traffic management project, the effect of the Prado Road connection was shown to reduce the cut through traffic volumes in this neighborhood. The modeled forecasts shown above confirm that Johnson Avenue near this area would likely experience higher volumes and the neighborhood cut through traffic may be exacerbated by removal of the roadway connection. Revision of Circulation Plans Would be Required If the Initiative were successful, the City would need to revisit the roadway connection issue to make up for the lost street network capacity, or reduce land uses in order to reduce the need for street capacity. A new planning effort would be needed to address the impacts to arterial streets and neighborhoods discussed above. In both a February 2000 and January 2001 Council Agenda Report, quantitative and qualitative information on the pros and cons of the various Prado Road extension alternatives was presented. While numerous alternative road alignments have been considered by Council in the past, each of these alternatives has constraints and potential opposition that make them potentially infeasible. A significant new study would be required to identify an alternative alignment; one that would take significant time and money. In essence, almost a half century of planning decisions that have relied on this major infrastructure element would need to be redone and a new alternative developed that would establish a balance between circulation and land uses — something that is already in place with the current alignment. 2. Impacts to Existing Plans and Approved Development Projects The Circulation Element of the General Plan provides for a street network that is designed to accommodate vehicle, transit, pedestrian and bicycle trips that are generated by the development envisioned in the City's Land Use Element. The City's Land Use Element and specific plans were accompanied by Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs) that assumed the approved Prado Road extension would carry future traffic. If the Initiative passes, additional environmental assessment and mitigation will be required to allow development in these areas to move forward (Attachment 3). Otherwise, the major traffic impacts discussed in the above section will occur. While this process is undertaken, some projects may be delayed while others may be stopped if adequate solutions cannot be found. If the alternatives to the current Prado Road alignment do not function as well, existing plans and approved development projects may require reductions in land use intensity, leading to less efficient land uses. It will take substantial traffic modeling and analysis to identify new traffic mitigation options that would provide the same level of service as the Prado Road extension alignment. Increasing traffic capacity at existing streets and intersections, such as Tank Farm Road and Broad Street, which feed existing neighborhoods and business, has been very contentious in the past. Thus, it should not be taken for granted that an alternative with sufficient capacity is readily available to take the place of Prado Road. Without an area-wide traffic mitigation strategy in place, significant additional environmental review will be necessary for individual projects in the southern part of the 13y-//7 MASP Initiative--Council Report Page 8 City to be developed, and there is no guarantee that an acceptable mitigation plan is available for each project to fully build out as envisioned. Attachment 2 contains a discussion regarding Specific Plan areas as well as other development projects, such as The Garden Street Terraces, Homeless Services Campus, and Housing Authority single room occupancy projects that would be subject to additional environmental review requirements in the Initiative is approved. This list is not exhaustive because all of the impacts of the Initiative will not be known until it is studied further. 3. City Housing and Land Use Impacts Expansion Areas The Margarita Area (MASP) and Orcutt Area (OASP) have been identified as City residential expansion areas for over 20 years. The Airport Area has been identified as a commercial and industrial expansion area for even longer. The MASP and OASP areas were identified with adoption of the 1994 Land Use Element as key areas to accommodate housing in the implementation of the City's Land Use Element. And, while residential density had to be reduced in the MASP to address airport concerns, an increase in the number of residential units was accommodated in the OASP. The Prado Road extension is a major component of ensuring that circulation networks can support development of these three specific plan areas. Regional Housing Needs Allocation Impacts The City's recently updated Housing Element shows how capacity in existing lots and in the Margarita Area and Orcutt Area are planned to accommodate the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) of 1,589 units during the Housing Element cycle 2010-2014. If housing capacity in these areas is reduced, the City may lose the certification of the Housing Element, unless alternative areas are identified to accommodate additional housing, potentially leading to expansion of the urban reserve and sprawl. Decreasing the densities in the specific plan areas in order to address potential traffic impacts could reduce the affordability of new housing built, which would further reduce the City's ability to comply with affordability requirements that are an explicit part of the RHNA. The residential capacity identified in the City's Housing Element included the subdivisions already approved in the Margarita area, and also assumed that some development would be started within the Orcutt Area prior to 2014. If successful, the Initiative will invalidate these underlying assumptions and impact the City's Housing Element certification, thus endangering eligibility for certain grants and funding opportunities, not only for the City but also for non-profit affordable housing developers. If successful, the Initiative would likely require amendments to the Land Use Element, Housing Element and other General Plan elements to create capacity for housing to meet the RHNA, which could involve rezoning requirements in existing neighborhoods to increase density, or an expansion of the Urban Reserve boundary to provide more land for residential development. The State Housing and Community Development Department staff audit and verify residential capacity. If the Initiative passes updates to the Housing Element would require the City to demonstrate capacity for accommodating 1,5 89 units, 629 of which would have to be at densities of 20 dwelling units/acre or greater. The Prado Road extension, as currently planned, allows the City to 3141- r MASP Initiative—Council Report Page 9 meet this requirement and has made the City(and non-profit affordable housing developers) eligible for hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding for affordable housing. Business and Employment The recently annexed areas of the City have been slated for expansion for business as well as housing. Business' ability to expand or locate in the City is challenged by the high cost of housing and the ability to get from the eastern side of the City to the west. Regularly, businesses report being unable to attract employees due to the high cost of housing. Construction of housing has lagged in the expansion areas, in part due to the existing requirements of infrastructure development. Already a very expensive area within which to develop, the additional time and costs associated with the necessity to plan and approve a new alignment for Prado Road would be a set back for businesses looking to expand within the City. Along Tank Farm Road, businesses are already voicing concern about the ability to access their businesses due to the high traffic volumes on that road. Further congestion caused by potential re- routing of Prado Road traffic onto Tank Farm Road will further dampen the development of new commercial spaces within which businesses can expand in order to create new jobs and opportunities for the City's residents. 4. Fiscal Impacts If the Initiative is approved, the cost of new mitigation strategies (needed to replace Prado Road) is not known. Preparation costs for the Margarita Area, Orcutt Area and Airport Area Specific Plans combined exceeded $1 million. Each of these plans includes fee schedules that allow the City to recover its costs for preparing these specific plans. The specific plans also establish fees that development in these areas pay for the infrastructure needed to serve the new development. If the Initiative is approved, at a minimum the fee structures will have to be revised to reflect any new traffic mitigations that are approved There are costs to the City to make new plans and explore alternatives; there are costs to home builders as impact fees rise to cover the expense of costlier alternatives and there are costs to the community in increased travel time, lack of community amenities, difficulty in :attracting and retaining head of household jobs, and a decrease in the number of families able to afford to live in San Luis Obispo. Cost of follow-up actions—revisions to Specific Plans and General Plan If the Initiative is approved, revisions will be needed to the Land Use Element, the Circulation Element, the Housing Element, the Margarita Area Specific Plan, the Airport Area Specific Plan, the Orcutt Area Specific Plan, the Bicycle Master Plan, and the Land Use Element and Zoning Map. While the revisions can be accomplished by staff, it will take approximately six to 12 months to process the basic revisions required to comply with the Initiative. This would mean that staff resources will not be available to complete other priority projects. Attachment 4 includes a list of changes needed to other General Plan and implementation documents in addition to those listed in the Initiative that would be required if the Initiative passes to ensure internal consistency of all of the City's documents. Also, these document changes would not resolve the problems created by truncating Prado Road—they would merely ensure that our City's planning documents are internally consistent with the Initiative. �,/ �1 MASP Initiative-Council Report Page 10 If the Initiative is approved, updates to the General Plan will need to consider different ways to provide for the vehicle, transit, bicycle, and pedestrian circulation demanded by development of land within the City. Whether feasible alternatives to Prado Road exist is not known. However, prior to the decision on the current Prado Road alignment, other alternatives were considered and determined to be more expensive, they required dedication of developed property, and/or most had greater environmental effects. Cost of additional land acquisition jor alternative alignments of Prado Road Because the current configuration of the sports complex (and other development in the area, such as Broad Street Mixed-Use) proceeded in consideration of the currently planned Prado Road alignment, further study will be necessary to determine if any of the previously considered alternatives are still viable. While no actual alignment has been identified as a feasible alternative, nor are any alternatives proposed by the Initiative itself, several alignments were evaluated in the past. If either the Industrial Way alignment or the Tank Farm Road alignment is determined to have continuing feasibility, either alternative will likely require additional right-of-way that will need to be acquired through dedication or purchase. More specifically, the Industrial Way alignment would require additional right-of-way across four separate, privately-owned parcels and a wetland area that would need mitigation. The Tank Farm Road alignment would likely require additional right-of-way along parts of the roadway between Santa Fe Road and Broad Street and could require additional right-of- way on the Marigold corner of the Tank Farm/Broad Street intersection, if additional turn lanes are required. The costs associated with new right-of-way acquisition have not been factored into the various specific plans and would need to be addressed in each of the various financial plans. The cost of this right-of-way would be significant and based on previous purchases for the purpose of right-of-way could be hundreds of thousands of dollars. Depending on the willingness of the property owner to sell the needed land, it is possible that the only way to affect a feasible alternative would be for the City to use its powers of eminent domain to acquire right-of-way. Impacts on infrastructure financing assumptions and jeasibility The City must address area-wide circulation needs if the Initiative passes. Financing of circulation improvements through city-wide traffic impact fees and area-specific impact fees will have to be reconsidered as part of developing a solution to address east-west traffic movement and mitigations for approved and envisioned development. Since it is unknown whether feasible alternatives exist, what impacts those alternatives may have and how much they may cost, it is difficult to predict what the cost to any particular development might be. This generates a great deal of uncertainty as developers will not be able to proceed with plans to provide housing or business parks without knowing the magnitude of the costs they will face. As an example, if the Initiative passes and future traffic volumes dictate a wider Tank Fane Road or unplanned for additional intersection configurations, these would be new costs that are not currently anticipated in the AASP and OASP. In addition, undeveloped properties on the north side of Tank 135/-iD MASP Initiative—Council Report Page 11 Fane Road may need to provide land needed for additional lanes, which is not currently anticipated by the specific plans. These improvements and land requirements would come at a substantial cost. 5. Impacts to Parks, Recreation and Air Quality Parks and Recreation The Initiative states its purpose as, "to remove the planned Prado Road northern alignment so that it does not encroach into the Damon-Garcia Sports Field site and to prohibit the encroachment of any street, roadway or highway into the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site and into the adjacent South Hills open space." Analysis of the facts indicate that the road as currently planned does not encroach into the sports fields or open space, and has never been planned to do so. The road alignment reflected in all existing City plans does not touch any portion of any playing field and is separate from the adjacent South Hills open space parcel already owned by the City. The current roadway alignment provides separation between the open space and the fields and was specifically planned for and incorporated in to the sports complex design. The current alignment of the Prado Road Extension was approved by the City Council after an extensive planning and public review process and consideration of alternate alignments. The current alignment was adopted by Council in 2000, reaffirmed in 2001, has been part of the Margarita Area Specific Plan since its adoption in 2004 and part of the Airport Area Specific Plan since its adoption in 2005. The current alignment has been studied and planned for in numerous environmental and traffic studies over the past ten years. It does not cross any portion of the South Hills open space, nor does it cross any portion of the sports fields, parking areas, or landscaped areas, which were designed and constructed with the currently planned extension of Prado Road in mind. When the Council considered purchasing the Damon-Garcia Sports Complex site, the additional 3.5 acres along the northern site boundary was explicitly included for the purpose of building Prado Road and this use was considered in the land value appraisal that informed negotiations for the property with the Damon and Garcia families. At its closest point, the roadway edge of pavement is planned to come within 70 feet of an existing sports field. This distance is slightly less than the 76 foot separation of the sports fields from the roadway along their entire Broad Street frontage. The grassy area beyond the end of the sports fields has been extended towards Prado Road as part of its design and, in this area, the grass extends towards the future road for the purpose of providing a buffer. This was a conscious design choice and, even at this location, the separation between the landscaped area and the planned road alignment is 39 feet, not the 20 foot separation that has been asserted by the Initiative's proponents. Additionally, the future grade difference between the field area at this location and the road alignment is significant. In fact it is similar to that of the fields at Laguna Middle School adjacent to Los Osos Valley Road, or to the other side of the Damon-Garcia site that is adjacent to Broad Street. All of these issues have been considered in the design of these two facilities (Prado Road and the Damon-Garcia Sports Complex) with appropriate buffer, for safety purposes, between the City- owned Damon-Garcia facility and the planned road location. Figure 3 is a graphic depicting the Prado Road extension and the field location. This graphic was developed with GIS mapping tools in 2004, prior to adoption of the Margarita Area Specific Plan, to provide the public and the City Council with an accurate representation of the planned Prado/Broad Street intersection. BY MASP Initiative—Council Report Page 12 Imo`' _�-•�'�. • y J- - Figure 3—Planned Prado Road at Broad Street and Fields Separation Potential for Additional Recreation Opportunities The Initiative also states as its intent that "additional area will become available at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields to be used for recreational uses and that the adjacent South Hills open space area will be preserved in an open, park-like ...setting..." The Initiative does not provide for an expansion of the sports fields or include provisions to preserve additional open space areas. In fact, the environmental document for the original sports fields development was based on a project description that limits the project to four regulation-sized playing fields. To accommodate this level of development, a creek was realigned and substantial improvements were made to the riparian corridors within the park complex. Past Parks and Recreation Directors have reviewed the area currently planned for road use and have concluded based on field requirements, slope, planning documents, and current configuration of developed area that developing additional sports fields would be extremely challenging in this location. Moreover, the Initiative itself does not propose any such use or demonstrate what, if any, alternate use might be feasible. Finally, if development of the approved specific plan areas is delayed due to the need to identify additional mitigations or to develop alternative alignments to address circulation impacts, it will have a negative impact on parks. The parks and open space areas internal to each specific plan will not be dedicated or developed until development of the residential and commercial land uses envisioned by the plans can occur. The fees collected with development and the dedications associated with map recordation are the activities that make the envisioned park spaces available. Until traffic mitigations and solutions to circulation impacts can be studied and agreed upon, these developments will not go forward. Air Quality The Prado Road extension was evaluated under the California Environmental Quality Act and incorporates measures to address the adjacency of the sports field and road uses. Most of the public parks in the City are bordered by roads. In this case, extensive landscaping and trees are proposed /3y-/a MASP Initiative-Council Report Page 13 to be planted along the roadway in order to address both aesthetic and air quality concerns. Air quality improvements are being sought at both regional and local levels by more stringent standards through the Air Pollution Control District as well as the City's commitment to undertake development of a Climate Action Plan and to adopt practices for energy efficiency, and alternative fuel vehicle purchases when replacement City fleet vehicles are needed. The negative impacts on the City's road network by removing a key circulation piece will not help improve air quality and may actually result in greater impacts due to increased traffic congestion and idling time. SUMMARY OF IMPACTS It took a huge investment of public and private resources to make an alignment decision and finalize related plans (such as the Orcutt Area, Airport Area, and Margarita Specific Plans). Costs were driven by studies, land acquisition, staff time, environmental work, design, and the public process (including numerous advisory body and City Council hearings). Truncation of the Prado Road extension to Broad Street will create significant and far-reaching impacts to City-wide circulation. If the Initiative is approved, development - both approved and planned for - will need to be re- evaluated for traffic and circulation impacts. If development envisioned in the MASP and OASP areas must be reduced in order to address traffic impacts, the City could be unable to meet its assigned regional housing allocation and the Housing Element could be de-certified. Losing certification of the Housing Element could jeopardize the City's and non-profit affordable housing developers' eligibility for housing grant funds. If approved, the Initiative will not address or propose solutions to this major component of the City's circulation network. The City will be required to undertake major General Plan revisions to address the traffic impacts created by dead- ending this planned-for east-west connection of Prado Road. In the interim, all development proposals that had environmental review that relied on the existence of Prado Road will be impacted. The full extent and consequences of those impacts cannot be completely understood in the short time frame currently available for study. ALTERNATIVES 1. The Council could opt to immediately adopt the proposed general plan amendments. This alternative is not recommended because, as described in the report, these changes will have significant impacts to City-wide vehicle, transit, bicycle and pedestrian circulation, resulting in far ranging effects. 2. The Council may opt to direct staff to prepare a moratorium on all development until the: outcome of the Initiative is known. This alternative is not recommended because a limited amount of development may occur in the western portion of the Margarita Area without the need for an East-West connection to Broad Street. ATTACHMENTS 1. Initiative 2. Impact to Projects in Process 3. New Environmental Review Requirements 4. Additional changes required 5. Prado Road History �y� MASP Initiative—Council Report Page 14 COUNCIL READING FILE Updated 2004 Prado Road Binder �y-�y Attachment 1 Letter to City Clerk,City of San Luis Obispo dated Feb. 9,2010 P. 1 of 2 February 9,2010 To: RECEIVED Elaina Cano City Clerk FEB 181010 City of San Luis Obispo SLO CITY CLERK 990 Palm St. San Luis Obispo,CA 93401 Dear Mrs. Cano: Pursuant to California Elections Code,please find enclosed our"Notice of Intent to Circulate Petition"and our proposed Initiative. We ask that the City Attorney prepare a "TITLE" for our initiative and a"SUMMARY" of its provisions so we can affix them to our Initiative Petition prior to circulating it for voter signatures. We have prepared our proposed "TITLE" and "SUMMARY" which are stated below. It is our understanding that the City of San Luis Obispo charges a fee of$200 (not to exceed $200)relating to the filing of the "Notice of Intent to Circulate Petition." Enclosed,please find a check in the amount of$200 made payable to the City of San Luis Obispo. It is our understanding that said payment is refundable to the undersigned if,within one year,the elections official certifies the petition as being sufficient. We request that the TITLE and SUMMARY of the Initiative shall be as follows: TITLE of initiative(Proposed): INITIATIVE MEASURE TO ENACT AMENDMENTS TO THE MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN REGARDING ALLOWED LAND USES WITHIN THE DAMON-GARCIA SPORTS FIELDS SITE AND WITHIN THE ADJACENT SOUTH HILLS OPEN SPACE AREA SUMMARY of initiative(Proposed): i This initiative measure proposes legislation to enact amendments within the chapter of the Margarita Area Specific Plan titled "l. OPEN SPACE AND PARKS. These "Primary Amendments" amend the Specific Plan policy statement sections "1.1 Hills" and "1.6.4 Sports Fields" and the map titled"Margarita Area Specific Plan." The stated PURPOSE of the initiative measure is to prohibit the encroachment of any street, roadway or highway into the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site and into the adjacent South Hills open space area. The stated INTENTS of the initiative measure is that 1)additional area will become available at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields to be used for recreational uses,2)and that the adjacent South Hills open space area will be preserved in an open,park-like,scenic,peaceful,and safe setting which will enhance the public enjoyment and use of each of these two adjacent recreational areas and will have environmental benefits. j This initiative measure also includes additional "Conforming Amendments" to bring the "Primary Amendments"into conformity with all parts of the City of San Luis General Plan including but not limited to the Margarita Area Specific Plan. 13�s Attachment1 Letter to City Clerk,City of San Luis Obispo dated Feb. 9,2010 P. 2 of 2 Thank you for your assistance. Sincerely, Date �e6. 9 2 o't c-,; TNEchael C. Sullivan 1127 Seaward Street San Luis Obispo,CA 93405 1 i �J ' r Date � � 4 QLIC'� 11 Vujov' h-La Barre 650 Skyline Drive San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 Date Z '7c2-010 Bill Wilson 1690 Southwood Dr. San Luis Obispo,CA 93401 Enclosures 1. Notice of Intent to Circulate Petition 3. Text(and maps)of the Initiative, including Attachments i i 1 i i i i i i RECEIVED Attachment1 Notice of Intent to Circulate Petition FEB 18 2010 P. 1 of 2 Notice of Intent to Circulate Petition� orkAgtlons Code 9202) Notice is hereby given by the persons whose names appear hereon of their intention to circulate a petition within the City of San Luis Obispo to amend the Margarita Area Specific Plan,for the purpose of prohibiting the encroachment of any street,roadway or highway into the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site and into the adjacent South Hills open space area. The stated intent of the Initiative is that additional area will become available at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields to be used for recreational uses; and that the adjacent South Hills open space area will be preserved in an open,park-like, scenic,peaceful,and safe setting which will enhance the public enjoyment and use of each of these two adjacent recreational areas and will have environmental benefits. "Conforming" amendments are presented as part of the Initiative,to bring the primary amendments into conformity with other parts of the Margarita Area Specific Plan,the Airport Area Specific Plan, the General Plan Land Use Element,the General Plan Circulation Element, and the Zoning Map. A statement of the reasons for the proposed action as contemplated in the petition is as follows: Reasons for the petition When the City proposed putting a major highway(Prado Road northern alignment)through the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields,many people opposed it,because the City had identified various other feasible road alignments which avoided this intrusion into the Sports Fields. People were upset because part of the 23.5 acre Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site would be used for an elevated truck- route highway(with up to 4 lanes),rather than for recreational uses. The Prado Road northern . alignment(February 2000)replaced the earlier"Industrial Way" alignment for Prado Road. The City had also considered various other Prado Road alignments,such as a connection to Tank Farm Road. By this Initiative,the portion of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields presently designated for roadway use shall be changed to recreational use, and also to open space use at Acacia Creek. This initiative also ensures that the South Hills Open Space area adjacent to the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site will remain protected in a natural state without development or streets or roads or highways. This initiative provides significant benefits to the City. It will provide: (A) MORE AREA AVAILABLE FOR RECREATIONAL USES AT DAMON-GARCIA SPORTS FIELDS SITE More space(about 4 acres total)would be available for additional smaller athletic fields, and/or for similar recreational uses such as sports courts or other appropriate recreational uses. This goal is consistent with General Plan Parks and Recreation Element part 3.12, "Unmet needs," which notes that the number one unmet need for parks and recreation is athletic fields. This goal is also consistent with General Plan Parks and Recreation Element Policy 3.14.2 Sports Fields,which states, "The demand for additional athletic fields will be met FIRST by developing facilities on land owned by,or dedicated to the City;and second,by developing facilities on land to be acquired by the City, or on privately-owned land." (Emphasis added) i 13z1-1 7 Attachment 1 Notice of Intent to Circulate Petition P. 2 of 2 (B) PRESERVATION OF THE OPEN,TRANQUIL,PARK-LIKE SETTING AT THE SPORTS FIELDS AND AT THE ADJACENT SOUTH HILLS OPEN SPACE AREA. The City's plan for this area calls for a truck-route highway(up to 4 lanes wide)right through the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. This initiative will prohibit that. This will protect the existing open, tranquil,park-like setting of the area. The natural transition from Sports Fields to South Hills Open Space area will be preserved,without the large "wall" which would be created by the proposed elevated highway running through the Sports Fields area. (C) AN IMPROVED DESIGN OF THE DAMON-GARCIA SPORTS FIELDS SITE WHICH PROTECTS HEALTH,SAFETY,AND ENJOYMENT OF USERS OF THE SPORTS FIELDS AND THE ADJACENT OPEN SPACE AREA Without a busy truck-route highway running through the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site, recreational users in the Sports Fields area and in the adjacent South Hills Open Space area will avoid the visual blight, loud traffic noise, and harmful vehicle fumes from the highway. Without the need for pedestrian underpasses beneath the highway,public safety---especially for children--will be improved. Signed by: �' ��—yL� Date: I11='dE!Z . 9 _ ��/67 Michael C. Sullivan 1127 Seaward Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 9q, uv r c!'1 Date of 9 k116 Vujo " h-La Barre 650 Skyline Drive San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 Date Z ° 9, 20/0 Bill Wilson 1690 Southwood Dr. San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 I BALANCE OF THE TEXT AND MAPS OF THE INITIATIVE IS INCLUDED HERE j { • I I Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page I of 27 INITIATIVE MEASURE TO ENACT AMENDMENTS TO THE MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN REGARDING ALLOWED LAND USES WITHIN THE DAMON-GARCIA SPORTS FIELDS SITE AND WITHIN THE ADJACENT SOUTH HILLS OPEN SPACE AREA The people of the City of San Luis Obispo ordain as follows: TABLE OF CONTENTS Section 1 - INTRODUCTION Section 2- PURPOSE AND INTENT Section 3 - PRIMARY AMENDMENTS OF MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Section 4- GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS INITIATIVE MEASURE Section 5 - CONFORMING AMENDMENTS OF MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Section 6- CONFORMING AMENDMENTS OF AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Section 7- CONFORMING AMENDMENTS OF GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT Section 8 - CONFORMING AMENDMENTS OF GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT Section 9- CONFORMING AMENDMENTS OF THE ZONING MAP Attachment A- INFORMATIONAL MAPS Attachment B - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Attachment C - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Attachment D- AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATE_ D TO GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT Attachment E- AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT Attachment F- ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING MAP SECTION 1 -INTRODUCTION This initiative measure proposes legislation to enact amendments within the chapter of the Margarita Area Specific Plan titled "1. OPEN SPACE AND PARKS." These "Primary Amendments" amend the Specific Plan policy statement sections "1.1 Hills" and "1.6.4 Sports Fields." A third 'Primary Amendment"pertains to amendment of the map titled "Margarita Area Specific Plan." The stated PURPOSE of the initiative measure is to prohibit the encroachment of any street, roadway or highway into the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site and into the adjacent South Hills open space area The stated INTENT of the initiative measure is that 1)additional area will become available at Damon- Garcia Sports Fields to be used for recreational uses, 2) and that the adjacent South Hills open space area will be preserved in an open, park-like, scenic, peaceful, and safe setting which will enhance the i public enjoyment and use of each of these two adjacent recreational areas and will have environmental j benefits. i i 7 Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 2 of 27 This initiative measure also includes additional "Conforming Amendments" to bring the "Primary Amendments" into conformity with all parts of the City of San Luis General Plan including but not limited to the Margarita Area Specific Plan. The below information pertains to Primary Amendments of text and maps and to the Conforming Amendments of text and maps. Definitions 1. "Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site" is the City-owned property known as Assessor's Parcel Number 053-231-038 of San Luis Obispo County, California,as shown in Attachment A. 2. "Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site" may also be referred to as Sports Fields(capitalized). 3. "western boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Field site" is the western-most boundary line (running in a generally north-south direction)of Assessor's Parcel Number 053-231-038,of San Luis Obispo County. 4. "South Hills Open Space area"or"South Hills open space area "refers to the"South Hills" area on the map titled "Margarita Area Specific Plan" at page 89 (which is the inside back cover of the Margarita Area Specific Plan of Oct. 2004). This is the area which has a designated land use of"Open Space-Hills" as shown on that map. 5. The term "sports fields" in the context of this initiative measure is meant to be synonymous with"athletic fields." 6. 'Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan" is this initiative measure herein. 7. "Prado Road interim eastem-most terminus" or"interim eastern-most terminus of Prado Road" or "interim eastem-most terminus of Prado Road established by the Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan" refers to the western boundary of Damon- Garcia Sports Fields site(Assessor's Parcel Number 053-231-038 of San Luis Obispo County). 8. The phrase "or an alternate Prado Road eastem-most terminus consistent with Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan" means some other eastem-most terminus of Prado Road other than the location at the western boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site, provided that such an alternate eastem-most Prado Road terminus is consistent with the Purpose and Intent and the Primary Amendments (i.e. those amending Margarita Area Specific Plan sections 1.1 Hills and 1.6.4 Sports Fields and amending the Margarita Area Specific Plan map) of the Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan in City of San Luis Obispo. Abbreviations or acronyms commonly used in this Initiative measure AASP means Airport Area Specific Plan MASP means Margarita Area Specific Plan Months of the year may be abbreviated by their first 3 letters,e.g.Jan=January SLO means San Luis Obispo I Attachment =OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 3 of 27 Format of the amending language The formatting generally is as follows: Underlined text (Underlined text) or quoted text ("quoted text") is new text added by this initiative. Strikeout (s#Hwe4) is text deleted by this initiative. Notes in Italics (Italics) are generally for information or clarification or explanation or direction related to the amending language only and are not verbatim parts of the actual amendment language. The term etc. in italics (etc.) indicates that the additional directly following text within that paragraph or section is not amended. In some instances, for example for certain object images (exhibits, tables, maps, etc.) found in the original documents (Specific Plan, etc.), the original depiction of the part to be amended may be represented in this Initiative by a description of, or reference to, the original object image, or by a facsimile of the original object image, or by showing only a portion of the original object image (such as a Map) to show just the specific parts (of the map, for example) which are to be amended. It shall be understood that the reference to the original object image is equivalent to presentation of the actual original object image on the pages within this Initiative. Map Amendments Map amendments are presented within this initiative measure as shown in Exhibit 01 -List of map amendments. Exhibit 01-List of map amendments Document name Type of map Place in this Initiative measure where map amendments are amendments given- Margarita Area Primary Attachment -AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Specific Plan MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. (Map B-08-a and Map B-08-b relating to map titled"Margarita Area Specific Plan"at page 89 of Margarita Area Specific Plan. Margarita Area Conforming Attachment B-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Specific Plan MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Various maps) Airport Area Specific Conforming Attachment C-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Plan AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN, (Various maps) General Plan Land Conforming Attachment D-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Use Element GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT. (Land Use Element ma General Plan Conforming Attachment E-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Circulation Element GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT (Various maps) Zoning Map Conforming Attachment F-ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING MAP (Zoning M I I I I i i Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 4 of 27 SECTION 2-PURPOSE AND INTENT OF THE INITIATIVE MEASURE Purpose The PURPOSE of the initiative measure is to remove the planned Prado Road northern alignment so that it does not encroach into the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site and to prohibit the encroachment of any street, roadway or highway into the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site and into the adjacent South Hills open space area For reference,Exhibit 02 below shows the City's concept of the Prado Road northern alignment passing through the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. The ordinance adopting this concept as an official part of the General Plan was adopted by the City on 01 Feb 2000. Intent The"primary amendments" of this initiative measure will allow two main goals to be achieved,and these will both be significant public benefits: 1) Additional area will become available at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields to be used for recreational uses. The initiative measure ensures that the entire 23.5 acre Sports Fields site is used for recreational purposes and not for a roadway or street or highway,'thereby making available about 4 additional acres for recreational use at the Sports Fields site. (See Exhibit 03 below.) 2) The adjacent South Hills open space area will be preserved in an open, park-like, scenic, peaceful, and safe setting which will enhance the public enjoyment and use of each of these two adjacent recreational areas and will have environmental benefits. Public Benefits Protection of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields and the South Hills Open Space Area will provide important public benefits including the following: i i 1) Pedestrian and bicyclist access between the Sports Fields and the South Hills open space will not require passageways beneath the proposed roadway,which could be unsafe—especially for children. i 2) The scenic beauty and tranquil,"non-urban" setting will be preserved. 3) The natural transition between the two recreation areas will be preserved to allow wildlife corridors, scenic rock outcrops, known archaeological sites, and creeks to remain undisturbed within that area. i 4) Users of the two adjacent recreation areas will avoid the loud traffic noise and the harmful vehicle exhaust fumes of the proposed busy truck-route highway. Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 5 of 27 5) This initiative measure helps fulfill the City's General Plan Parks and Recreation goals and policies by making available about 4 acres of space for recreational uses to replace the proposed roadway at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields. The General Plan Parks and Recreation Element, part 3.12, "Unmet needs," states that the munber one unmet need for parks and recreation is athletic fields. This goal is also consistent with General Plan Parks and Recreation Element Policy 3.14.2 Sports Fields, which states, "The demand for additional athletic fields will be met FIRST by developing facilities on land owned by, or dedicated to the City; and second, by developing facilities on land to be acquired by the City, or on privately-owned land."(emphasis added) I i I I i I Attachment TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 6 of 27 wg rj ~ •,\.`��' y` ff,7''- ,.1 r •f ` north Iz - '�- Proposed •`• �* highway ---\ (Prado Road)Pedtw T ' 't""B1 within Damon- 1 Garcia Sports Fields area •v—•— , r PARKING _;1\ :�,�'aN/ 1 1 -- fined Ile t Local ACce'99/ On>y . Garcia Sb Cn,al:setaricZone.•-•/ 't -.•�' � 3 1 1 . Pmdo Rcmd•Nor.F,ern Alt9mnan! , \ sc::3:t'-zq PW46RfaVCIip44lci+tl caro 1$.tYtl6 • firma Figure 5 Prado Road Proposed Alignment Image source: Council agenda report of 01 Feb 2000-Prado Road alignment i ( I Exhibit 02 - Proposed highway (Prado Road) within the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. i I r I i i �y � Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 7 of 27 Some&Council egm&mpmt-2001-01-16-Prada Raw&ligament DAMON-GARCIA SPORTS PARK ' a Prado Road northern am w S oe,sao,cAUFOWA s , alignment(proposed —�T South Hills _ future Highway 227 .open s 't truck route) Residential ' 1 ,. �. Figure A - 02 -a r� Existing '•,� ----; : Site plan at Damon- Garcia Sports Fields. Image source: Council agenda report.16 Jan 2001. Prado Road alignment •• Aarla,mD Fh.•.e•m•an• Somea: Council agenda mpan-2001-0I-16-Prado Road alipmmt About 4 acres available for recreation uses(Rae)and operApace(OS) DAMON-GARCIA SPORTS PARK SAM LUIS 08MM.WIFORATA t South Hills ® open spare Residential = �. Figure A - 02 - b ''� ---- Potential new plan T- Potential revised site plan, , with about 4 additional acres for recreation (Rec)and 4 _ �• - open space(OS) AWL '• A�een N-r Tb'•O•• Exhibit 03 - Site plan - Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. ABOVE: Existing plan. BELOW: Potential new plan showing about 4 acres of additional land for recreational uses. 13 �S Attachment TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 8 of 27 SECTION 3-PRIMARY AMENDMENTS TO THE MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. 1. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,find and declare that it is a public benefit to amend the Margarita Area Specific Plan previously adopted by the City on 12 October 2004 by City Council Resolution Number 9615,in order to prolubit the encroachment of any street,roadway,or highway into the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site(Sports Fields)or into the adjacent South Hills open space area north and northwest of the Sports Fields. 2- We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,find and declare that the existing Prado Road northern alignment(i.e.through Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site)is not necessary or advisable because: (a) Various alternative Prado Road alignments are feasible(e.g.via Industrial Way alignment, or via a southern alignment(Prado Road connecting to Tank Farm Road),or other alignments as discussed by City Council(e.g.in hearings of 01 Feb 2000, 16 Jan 2001, etc.). (b) The Prado Road northern alignment adds a new signalized intersection at the junction of Broad Street and Prado Road,very close to the existing signalized intersection at Broad Street and Tank Farm Road,thereby potentially creating traffic jams along Broad Street due to the close signal spacing and also due to left turns from Broad Street onto Prado Road. (c) Alternative truck routes are planned. (Airport Area Specific Plan of Aug.2005,page 6- 9,part 6.2.5,Truck Transportation.) 3. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,,hereby amend the City's Margarita Area Specific Plan as follows: Primary Amendment # 1 -for Marearita Area Specific Plan,Chanter 1.OPEN SPACE AND PARKS,section 1.1 Hills We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,hereby amend Margarita Area,Specific Plan section 1.1 entitled"Hills"under the heading"Open Space and Parks"on page 8 of the City of San Luis Obispo Margarita Area Specific Plan of October 2004 to add the following sentence after the final paragraph in section 1.1: The portion of the South Hills open space area designated as C/OS-40-SP on the City of San Luis Obispo Zoning Map of May 2009,also shown in the south-east section of the"South Hills" area depicted in the Margarita Area Specific Plan(Oct.2004)on the map titled "Margarita Area.Specific Plan,"adjacent to the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site,shall be protected from encroachment by development and no public streets or roadways or highways or any other development shall encroach into this area. Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 9 of 27 Primary Amendment #2-for Margarita Area Specific Plan,Chanter 1,OPEN SPACE AND PARKS,section 1.6.4 Sports Fields We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,hereby amend section 1.6.4 entitled"Sports Fields"under the heading`-`Open Space and Parks"on page 10 of the City of San Luis Obispo Margarita Area Specific Plan of October 2004 to add the following sentence in section 1.6.4: The entire 23.5 acre area known as the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site,purchased by the City in 1999 for the purpose of developing the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields complex for public recreation, shall be wholly dedicated to recreational uses and associated infrastructure and no public streets or roadways or highways or any other development or use other than recreation shall encroach into this area. Amendments to Mans of the Marearita Area Specific.Plan 1. The "primary map amendment" of this initiative measure relates to changes in land use and circulation at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site,in other words,relating to text amendments to Margarita Area Specific Plan section 1.6.4 Sports Fields. Thus,the primary map amendment is that relating to the map titled "Margarita Area Specific Plan"at page 89 of the Margarita Area Specific Plan,which includes the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. The "conforming map amendments" of this initiative measure are those map amendments which make other documents consistent with the primary map amendment. Please refer to Exhibit 01 -List of map amendments in the INTRODUCTION section above and again presented below. Exhibit 01 -List of map amendments Document name Type of map Place in this Initiative measure where map amendments are amendmentsgiven: Margarita Area Primary Attachment B-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Specific Plan MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. (Map 13-08-a and Map B-08-b relating to map titled"Margarita Area Specific Plan"at page 89 of Margarita Area Specific Plan. Margarita Area Conforming Attachment B-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Specific Plan MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN_ (Various maps) Airport Area Specific Conforming Attachment C-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Plan AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. Various maps) I General Plan Land Conforming Attachment D-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Use Element GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT. (Land Use Element m General Plan Conforming Attachment E-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Circulation Element GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT (Various maps) Zoning Map Conforming Attachment F-ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING MAP (Zoning Ma �y-z� I Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 10 of 27 2. Primary Amendment #3-for the Margarita Area Specific Plan Map We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,hereby amend the Margarita Area Specific Plan map titled "Margarita Area Specific Plan" on page 89 of the Margarita Area Specific Plan(previously adopted 12 Oct 2004 by City Council Resolution 9615)as set forth in Attachment B- AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN at FIGURE B-08 -b which is titled "AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE. Margarita Area Specific Plan. Page 89. Un-numbered Figure: Margarita Area Specific Plan(a portion)." i SECTION 4-GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS INITIATIVE MEASURE Severability. If any part of this Initiative measure or any of its Exhibits or Attachments,or its application to any situation, is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction,then that part is severed,and the remaining pig of the Initiative measure,or the application of the Initiative measure to other situations, shall continue in full force and effect. Cure and approval. If any part of this Initiative measure(including,without limitation,any part of the Primary Amendments to the Margarita Area Specific Plan,or any Conforming Amendments to other parts of Margarita Area specific Plan, Airport Area Specific Plan,General Plan Land Use Element,General Plan Circulation Element,or Zoning Regulations/Zoning Map,or their maps,exhibits or attachments) is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,we the people of the City of San Luis Obispo indicate our strong desire that: (1) the City Council shall use its best efforts to sustain and re-enact that part; and(2) the Council shall implement this Initiative measure by taking all steps possible to cure any inadequacies or deficiencies identified by the court in a manner consistent with the express and implied intent of this Initiative measure,and then adopting or re-enacting such part as necessary or desirable to permit the proposed amendments of Margarita Area Specific Plan and the related Conforming Amendments. i No repeal or amendment. This Initiative measure shall not be further amended or repealed except by a vote of the people;or as otherwise provided by law. I Effective date. This Initiative measure shall become effective at the earliest date permitted by law. i i Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 1 I of 27 Incorporation of Attachments. All attachments are incorporated by reference and comprise part of this initiative measure. These attachments'are listed below for ease of reference: Attachment A-INFORMATIONAL MAPS Attachment B-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITI'AAREA SPECIFIC PLAN Attachment C- AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Attachment D- AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT Attachment E-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT Attachment F- ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING MAP SECTION 5-CONFORMING AMENDMENTS OF MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN What follows are conforming amendments to text and tables within the Margarita Area Specific Plan. Amendments to maps including descriptions of map amendments are shown in Attachment B- AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. I. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,intend to make the Margarita Area Specific Plan"primary amendments"(i.e.,those amendments relating to Chapter 1,OPEN SPACE AND PARKS,in section 1.1 Hills and section 1.6.4 Sports Fields)consistent with the remainder of the Margarita Area Specific Plan,and therefore the Margarita Area Specific Plan is amended as presented herein in this section. 2. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,hereby amend the City's Margarita Area Specific Plan as follows: Conforming Amendments to Teat of Margarita Area Specific Plan Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 6 Table 1: Land Use Summary i Amend as follows Insert the following footnote at bottom of Table 1: "Note 1. Areas listed are approximate." ,Note 2. Note that according to the Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan, under the Circulation category,the net area of streets changed from about 47.0 acres to about 45 I i i 1 � Attachment 1 TEXT OF 11,11TIATIVE MEASURE Page 12 of 27 acres and net area of Greenways changed from about 13.5 acres to about 12.5 acres; under the Parks category, net area of Sports Fields changed from about 16.0 acres to about 19 acres." Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 46 5.2 Pedestrian and Bicycle Facilities page 46, column 1, near top Amend as follows: A separate path is proposed along the west side of the Acacia Creek corridor. In addition,there should be a continuous walkway,installed as part of the Plan,along Broad Street,from Rockview Place to the Pade Read inteFseefiei3;and eB to the Industrial Way intersection. etc. Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 46 5.2 Pedestrian and Bicycle Facilities page 46, column 2, at top Amend as follows: Pedestrian and bicycle access to the sports fields will be by an enhanced crossings•ffider- or-ever- emssia& which must provide visibility for safety and an open feeling that will promote a sense of place. Portal features should be incorporated on both sides of the crossing to denote access to the Margarita Area and Damon-Garcia Park. Margarita.Area Specific Plan,pages 46 and 47 5.2 Pedestrian and Bicycle Facilities pages 46 and 47 Amend as follows: Reference to Figure 14 on page 46 and Figure 14 on page 47 are struck i Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 47 53 Neighborhood Traffic Management Amend as follows: Street and land-uses have several features meant to foster traffic volumes and speeds that will be j compatible with the neighborhood: A. Prado Road avoids residential frontages etc Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 49 5.7 Highway/Regional Routes of Significance Amend as follows: Highways/Regional routes of significance are facilities are intended to i t� carry higher volumes of traffic, access the regional transportation system such as Highway 101,as well as serve as the primary freight routes. Regional highways connect different parts of the region and accommodate through traffic. There are two regional routes in the planning area--Broad Street(S.R. 227)and certain parts of Prado I Road, as provided in the Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan. i i 43V-3d Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 13 of 27 Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 50 5.7.2 Prado Road Amend as follows: Prado Road-provides the main vehicle connections between the Margarita Area and the rest of the community. It also links the southeastern and southwestern parts of the city. The Circulation Element= as amended by the Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan,designates it certain parts of Prado Road as a"highway/regional route-."with an interim eastern-most terminus of Prado Road located at the western boundary of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan. Prado Road will be an access controlled facility and will not have direct driveway access unless approved by the Public Works Department. From the eastern Principal Collector intersection westward to west edge of the specific plan area,the median will not contain trees that would be a substantial obstacle to aircraft making emergency landings,though medium-height shrubs should be planted. The bridge ever Aeaeia Greek vA4 be leng and high eneugh W allew biryeles and pedestrians te pass under-,passage of fleedwatezrs during 100 year .a ._. i# " * «_ , Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 51 Prado Road Phasing and Construction At second paragraph Amend as follows: At a minimum,Prado Road will be built concurrently with development of the Margarita Area, potentially as far eastward as the interim eastern-most terminus of Prado Road established by the Nov 2010 initiative measure amending Marcarita Area Specific Plan or an alternate Prado Road eastern- most terminus consistent with Nov.2010 initiative measure amending_Margarita Area Specific Plan The respective properties would dedicate all right-of-way for the road in fee and also dedicate access control at the time of development. etc. Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 57 7.2.Sewer i Amend as follows: I The City's sewer collection system will be extended into the area. The basic elements of this system are shown in Figure 22(as amended by Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan-) As the Margarita Area and other areas of the city develop,sewage treatment(water reclamation)capacity will need to be increased. Adding equipment modules at the existing Water i Reclamation Facility will provide the increased capacity. i I Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 68 9.4.6 Transportation Facilities page 68, column 2,fourth paragraph Amend as follows: Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 14 of 27 Future development in the Margarita Area will benefit from the improvements to Prado Road and the intersection at South Higuera Street. etc. Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 71-72 9.6. Recommended Project Financing Strategy 9.6.1 Overview Margarita Area beginning at page 71, column 1, bottom Amend as follows: The City expects that construction of certain parts of Prado Road(i.e.,the parts from the western boundary of the Margarita Area Specific Plan area to the interim eastern-most terminus of Prado Road established by the Nov..2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan)will beset as a condition of development in the Margarita Area Initial development will be required to construct the roadway and will then receive fee credits,which can be used against the Margarita area-specific transportation impact fees. etc. Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 73 Table 10 Public Facilities financing Matrix Amend as follows: At bottom of Table 10, insert Note (3)as follows: "(3) Estimated cost for Prado Road improvements may varysomewhatfrom the estimated value of $9,832.229 because of various factors,such as subsequent amendments made in the Circulation Plan of the Margarita Area Specific Plan,e.g. the Nov 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan." Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 76 Margarita Area: Park Fees page 76,column 2 Amend as follows: 3. Overall,the plan calls for 25 roughly 29 acres of parkland in this area: 9.9 acres in neighborhood park and 4-54 about 19.1 acres in sports fields. etc. Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 84 Table 13: Development and Facilities Links Phasing Area 4 i Amend as follows: Dedication and improvement of Neighborhood Park(area"D") Before or concurrent with recording subdivision map: dedication of area"B: 1 Dedication of full right-of-way and constriction of Prado Road as a two-lane roadway#hreugh the i MaEga&a Area.from the western edge of the Specific Plan area potentially to the interim eastern-most terminus of Prado Road established by the Nov.2010 initiative measure amending_Margarita Area Specific Plan or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov.2010 initiative /3�1 Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page I5 of 27 measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan. Completion of the principal collector through the Margarita area Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 84 Table 13: Development and Facilities Links Phasing Area 5 Amend as follows: Before or concurrent with recording subdivision map: dedication of areas B,and E. Dedication and improvement of Neighborhood Park(area"D"). Completion of the principal collector through the Margarita Area Dedication of full right-of-way width and construction of Prado Road as a two-lane roadway thmugh the Margwka-Am& from the western edge of the Specific Plan areapotentially to the interim eastern- most terminus of Prado Road established by Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan. Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 84 Table 13: Development and Facilities Links Phasing Area 6 Amend as follows: Before or concurrent with recording subdivision map: dedication of areas B&E. Dedication of full right-of-way width and construction of Prado Road as a two-lane roadway tbmu& the-A4ar-ga4a Area:from the western edge of the Specific Plan area votentially to the interim eastern- most terminus of Prado Road established by Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita.Area Specific Plan or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most.terminus consistent with Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area.Specific Plan. Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 84 Table 13: Development and Facilities Links Phasing Area 10 Amend as follows: j Before or concurrent with recording subdivision map: dedication of area E. i Dedication of full right-of-way width and construction of Prado Road as a two-lane roadway thm the from the western edge of the Specific Plan area potentially to the interim eastern- most temunus of Prado Road established by Nov.2010 initiative measure amending;Margarita Area Specific Plan or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Snecific Plan. Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 84 Table 13: Development and Facilities Links Phasing Area 12 Amend as follows: By=�3 Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 16 of 27 Dedication of full right-of--way width and construction of Prado Road as a two-lane roadway thmugh the 114ergwila Ae& from the western edge of the Specific Plan area potentially to the interim eastern- most terminus of Prado Road established by Nov. 2010. initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan or an alternate Prado Road eastem-most terminus consistent with Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan. Constriction of the"Unocal Collector"between Prado Road and the southerly boundary of the Margarita Area. Margarita Area Specific Plan,page 84 Table 13: Development and Facilities Links Phasing Area 13 Amend as follows: Dedication of full right-of-way width and construction of Prado Road as a two-lane roadway tlMeUSIX the from the western edge of the Spggific Plan area potentially to the interim eastern- most terminus of Prado Road established by Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan. Construction of the"Unocal Collector"between Prado Road and the southerly boundary of the Margarita Area Conforming Amendments to Mans of the Margarita Area.Syecific Plan 1. The"primary map amendment" of this initiative measure relates to changes in land use and circulation at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site,in other words,relating to text amendments to Margarita Area Specific Plan section 1.6.4 Sports Fields. Thus,the primary map amendment is that. relating to the map titled "Margarita Area Specific Plan" at page 89 of the Margarita Area Specific Plan,which includes the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. i The"conforming map amendments" of this initiative measure are those map amendments which make other documents consistent with the primary map amendment. Please refer to Exhibit 01 -List of map amendments in the INTRODUCTION section above and again presented here below. i Exhibit 01 -List of map amendments Document name Type of map Place in this Initiative measure where map amendments are amendments en: Margarita Area Primary Attachment B-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Specific Plan MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. (Map B-08-a and Map B-08-b relating to map titled"Margarita Area Specific Plan"at page 89 of Margarita Area Specific Plan. Margarita Area Conforming Attachment B-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Specific Plan MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN (Variousmaps) Airport Area Specific Conforming Attachment C-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Plan AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. (Variousmaps) I By-3� Attachment TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 17 of 27 Document name Type of map Place in this Initiative measure where map amendments are amendmentsgiven: General Plan Land Conforming Attachment D-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Use Element GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT. (Land Use Element ma General Plan Conforming Attachment E-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO Circulation Element GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT (Various maps) Zoning Map Conforming Attachment F-ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING MAP (Zonis ) 2. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,hereby amend various maps of the Margarita Area Specific Plan (previously adopted 12 Oct 2004 by City Council Resolution 9615)as set forth in Attachment B AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. SECTION 6-CONFORN ING AMENDMENTS OF AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN What follows are conforming amendments to text and tables within the Airport Area Specific Plan(as previously adopted on 23 Aug 2005 by City Council Resolution Number 9726). Amendments to maps including descriptions of map amendments are shown in Attachment C- AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. 1. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo, intend to make the Margarita Area Specific Plan"primary amendments" (i.e.,those amendments relating to Chapter 1,OPEN SPACE AND PARKS, in section 1.1 Hills and section 1.6.4 Sports Fields)consistent with the Airport Area Specific Plan, and therefore the Airport Area Specific Plan is amended as presented herein in this section. 2. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,hereby amend the City`s Airport Area Specific Plan as follows: Conformine Amendments to Test of the Airport Area Specific Plan Airport Area Specific Plan,page 6-3 6.2.1 Circulation System Classifications Amend as follows: The primary circulation system within the Airport Area consists of the major streets that pass through and connect the Airport Area to the Surrounding city and countys. The primary circulation system is interconnected with a system of secondary access streets and a network of bicycle and pedestrian paths. The primary circulation system in the Airport Area consists of highways,parkway arterials; and collector streets as shown in Figure 6-1 and in Table 6.1 (as amended by Nov.2010 initiative measure ' amending Margarita Area Specific Plan). i Attachment 1 TEXT OF IMTIATIVE MEASURE Page 18 of 27 While serving the Specific Plan land uses, some of these streets are also regionally significant throroughways serving citywide and countywide travel demand. As shown in Figure 6-1,(as amended by Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan),only portions of these streets are located within or adjacent to the planning area's boundaries. Streets outside of the Airport Area, while not subject to the Specific Plan Design standards,are also a critical element of the primary circulation system. For example,the circulation system in the Margarita Area to the north of the Airport Area includes proposed street improvements, such as the Prado Road extension between Bread ;StFeet South Higuera Street and the new interim eastern-most terminus of Prado Road located at the western boundary of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields(as enacted Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan)or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan that serve as important components of the Airport Arra circulation system. The Airport Area is linked to the Prado Road extension,for example,via the Commercial Collector route from Prado Road to the Tank Farm Road/ Santa Fe Road intersection. Airport Area Specific Plan,page 6-3 Table 6.1 Amend the text as shown below (in facsimile of Table 61) Table 6.1 (facsimile) San Luis Airport Area Specific Plan PRIMARY CIRCULATION SYSTEM&FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS Street Extent Functional Classification Tank Farm Rd. Broad St.to South Hi era St. Parkway Arterial Santa Fe Rd Realigned and extended from Commercial Collector Buckley Rd.to the Prado Rd. extension. Unocal Local Tank Farm Rd.to Hind Local Commercial Buckley Rd. Broad St.to Vachell Lane with Arterial extension to South Higuera St. South Higuem St. Prado Rd.to Buckley Rd. extension Arterial Broad St.(SR 227) Tank Farm Rd. Highway/Regional Route i to Buckley Rd i i 13y 3� Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 19 of 27 Street Extent Functional Classification Prado Rd. Bread St.to US Highway/Regional Route. US 101 to Prado Road interim eastern-most terminus, located at western boundary line of Damon- Garcia Sports amonGarcia.Sports Fields site(as adopted by Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan)or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan Prado Rd. Madonna Rd.to US 101 Parkway Arterial END OF FACSIMILE OF Table 6.1 Airport Area Specific Plan,page 6-6 Table 6.2 San Luis Airport Area Specific Plan CIRCULATION SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS Intersections Amend the text as shown below(in facsimile of Table 6.2): Table 6.2 (facsimile) San Luis Airport Area Specific Plan Primary Circulation System&Functional Classifications i Location Improvements Tank Farm/South Higuera intersection Add lanes as shown in MASP Tank Farm Road/Broad Street Add lanes per EIR,to the approval of the Public Works intersection Director. i Los Osos Valley Road/US 101 SB& Widen LOVR bridge and improve ramps as shown in NBRamp Project Study Report Aero Drive/Broad Street intersection Signalize and add lanes as shown in EIR to the approval of the Public Works Director. Tank Farm/Santa Fe Road intersection Signalize and add lanes as shown in the EIR to the approval of the Public Works Director. t �y3� Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 20 of 27 Location Improvements (Prado Road/Broad Street intersection Not.Wplicable. (Prado Road/Broad Street is deleted due to the Nov. 2010 initiative intersection is deleted due to the Nov.2010 initiative measure amending the Margarita Area measure amending the Margarita Area Specific Plan.) S ific Plan. Prado Road/Santa Fe Road intersection. Signalize and add lanes as shown in MASP. Buckley Road/South Higuera Street Add lanes per Ell?,to the approval of the Public Works intersection. Director. END OF FACSIMILE OF Table 6.2 Table 6.2(cont/d) San Luis Airport Area.Specific Plan CIRCULATION SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS Roadways Amend the text as shown below in Table 6.2 (cont'o (facsimile): Table 6.2(cont'd) (facsimile) San Luis Airport Area Specific Plan CIRCULATION SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS Roadways Location Improvements Prado Road between existing terminus Extend new roadway to Regional Highway standards, (located about 0.5 miles east of South including medians and landscaped parlaows. (Refer to Higuera St.)and the interim eastern-most Margarita Specific Plan for typical cross section.) terminus of Prado Road at western boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site as adopted in Nov.2010 initiative I measure amending Margarita Area i Specific Plan or an alternate Prado Road eastem-most terminus consistent with Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan. i Prado Road between existing terminus Modify street within existing right-of-way to Regional and So.Higuera St. Highway Standards. (Refer to Margarita Specific Plan for typical cross section.) i i 13y 3S Attachment 1 TEXT OF 1NITIATTVE MEASURE Page 21 of 27 Location Improvements Santa Fe Road from south of Tank Farm Extend new roadway to Commercial Collector to Prado Rd. standards(see Figure 6-10) Western Unocal property between Tank Extend new roadway to Commercial Collector Farm and Hind. standards(see Figure 6-10) Hind Road between existing terminus Extend new roadway to local standards(see Figure 6- and Prado Road. 11) Prado Road from So. Higuera to US 101 Widen to Regional Highway.standards-4lanes-with interchange medians and sufficient right-of-way reserved for 6 lanes (Refer to Margarita Specific Plan for typical cross section) Broad Street from Buckley Rd. to Tank Widen to Arterial standards with medians(see Figure 6- Farm Rd. 5) Tank Farm from So. Higuera to Unocal Widen to Parkway Arterial standards(see Figures 6-6) Collector,and from Santa Fe to Broad St. Tank Farm from Santa Fe to Unocal Widen to Parkway Arterial standards(see Figure 6-7) Collector Buckley Rd.from Vachell Lane to So. Extend new roadway to Arterial standards for fliguera.St undeveloped areas see figure 6-9 Note: Reference Figure 6-2 for the type of bikeways that must be included in the street's design END OF FACSIMILE OF Table 6.2 (cont'd) Airport Area Specific Plan,page 6-8 Class H Bicycle Lanes 1 In the first paragraph Amend as follows: Bicycle Ianes are required on arterial and collector streets within the Airport Area. As shown in Figure 6-2(as amended by Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan) Class H j bicycle lanes are located on all of the major streets within and connecting to the Airport Area including i Tank Farm Road,Buckley Road,Santa Fe Road,Prado Road,Unocal Local,Vachell Lane,Broad Street,and South Higuera Street.etc. I I ! r Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 22 of 27 Airport Area Specific Plan,page 6-9 6.2.5 TRUCK TRANSPOR'T'ATION Amend as follows: Third sentence in paragraph 1: ...The Circulation element of the General Plan establishes truck routes on South Higuera Street,Tank Farm Road,Broad Street and Prado Road . and its extensions between Madonna Road and South Higuera Street and between.South Hieuera.Street and the interim eastern-most terminus of Prado Road as established by Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan as the western boundary line of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov..2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan.. Trucks along Los Osos Valley Road between Highway 101 and South Higuera are discouraged due to the potential conflict with the single driveway locations for the Los Verdes Townhomes project. Airport Area Specific Plan,page 6-11 6.2.8 PROPOSED TRANSIT ROUTES. at p. 6-11, column 1, bottom paragraph 3: Amend as follows: While creating a new east-west route appears to be the best future transit route to serve the area,actual route implementation and location will be determined by the City of San Luis Obispo as the airport and Margarita areas develop. to mzvw vvm:z vaszavcava vvzaz zcumazam tl acids vmc Etn32�n(�cac ' City. Figure 6-3(as amended by Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan) illustrates the proposed transit plan and its relation to existing SLO-Transit routes and bus stops. East-west circulation is divided into two loop routes serving the west and east sides of the Specific Plan area,with a route overlap within the Margarita Area,and the downtown transit hub. A timed transfer point between the routes would be located within the Margarita Area. rt Area Specific pecific Plan,page 6-10 6.2.8 PROPOSED TRANSIT ROUTES. at p. 6-11, column 2, last paragraph (NOTE. These amendments are in line with the elimination of Prado Road northern alignment from Broad Street to the western property boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site.) Amend as follows: The east side loop serves: j -The Prado Road corridor from the Margarita Area main street to Santa Fe road(this route may need to be modified/relocated if existing residential General Plan amendment projects along Broad Street and Orcutt Road are adopted); -Santa Fe Road from Prado Road to Buckley Road; -Buckley Road from Santa Fe Road to Broad Street; -Broad Street from Buckley Road to Tank Farm Road,including service to the airport; -Tank Farm Road from Broad Street to Santa Fe Road(via Tank Farm Road); and -Broad Street to the downtown transit hub. i i i i Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 23 of 27 Airport Area Specific Plan,page 7=4 7.2 WATER at page 74, column 2, bottom paragraph, Amend as follows: Water will be delivered to the Airport Area through a grid of 12-inch diameter mains: three traversing east-west,which are generally connected at the Los Osos Valley Road,Tank Farm Road,and Prado Road alignments,three north-south mains connecting to the existing 16-and 20-inch transmission mains to the north. The exact locations of these mains will likely change somewhat to follow future planned roadways,but their general configuration should remain.similar to that shown if Figure 7-1 amended by Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending the Margarita Area Specific Plan.) etc. Airport Area Specific Plan,page 8-7 8.3.6 TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES Amend as follows: Road and bikeway improvements required for the Airport and Margarita areas are estimated to cost $27.7 million. This amount reflects the costs associated with improvements for Prado Road,Tank Farm Road,the Unocal Collector,Santa Fe Road Extension and Buckley Road Extension. However this amount may not accurately reflect changes made for Prado Road by the Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan. etc. Airport Area Specific Plan,page 8-8 83.6 TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES top ofpage 8-8, column 2,paragraph 2 Amend as follows: Future development in the Margarita Area will benefit from the improvements to Prado Road (iae4uding the Prade Read reek e ng)- including the intersection as South Higuera Street. Therefore, costs associated with these improvements,about$10.1 million(the estimate,in the previously adopted Airport Area Specific Plan of Aug.2g 005) have been allocated only to future development in the Margarita.Area. etc. Airport Area Specific Plan,page 8-13 MARGARITA AREA page 8-13, column 1,paragraph 1 -MARGARITA AREA Amend as follows: The City expects that construction of Wade-Fand Prado Road,potentially as far east as the interim Prado Road terminus established by the 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan as the western boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan,will be set as a condition of development in the Margarita Area. etc. i l3y-�l Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 24 of 27 Conforming Amendments to Mans of the Airport Area Specific Plan 1. The "primary map amendment" of this initiative measure relates to changes in land use and circulation at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site,in other words,relating to text amendments to Margarita Area Specific Plan section 1.6.4 Sports Fields. Thus,the primary map amendment is that relating to the map titled"Margarita Area Specific Plan"at page 89 of the Margarita Area Specific Plan,which includes the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. The"conforming map amendments"of this initiative measure are those map amendments which make other documents consistent with the primary map amendment. Please refer to Exhibit 01 -List of map amendments in the INTRODUCTION section above. 2. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,hereby amend various maps of the Airport Area Specific Plan (previously adopted 23 Aug 2005 by City Council Resolution 9726)as set forth in Attachment C -AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. SECTION 7-CONFORMING AMENDMENTS OF GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT What follows are conforming amendments to text and tables within the General Plan Land Use Element(as previously adopted on 23 Aug 1994 and last revised 04 Apr 2006 by City Council Resolution Number 9785,2006 Series). Amendments to maps including descriptions of map amendments are shown in Attachment D-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT. 1. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,intend to make the Margarita Area Specific Plan"primary amendments" (i.e.,those amendments relating to Chapter 1, OPEN SPACE AND PARKS, in section 1.1 Hills and section 1.6.4 Sports Fields)consistent with the General Plan Land Use Element,and therefore the General Plan Land Use Element is amended as presented herein in this section. 2. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,hereby amend the City's General Plan Land Use Element as follows: I Conforming Amendments to Text of the General Plan Land Use Element. (None) i Conforming Amendments to Maps of the General Plan Land Use Element 1. The"primary map amendment" of this initiative measure relates to changes in land use and circulation at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site,in other words,relating to text amendments to Margarita Area Specific Plan section 1.6.4 Sports Fields. Thus,the primary map amendment is that 1 i i Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 25 of 27 relating to the map titled "Margarita Area Specific Plan" at page 89 of the Margarita Area Specific Plan, which includes the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. The "conforming map amendments" of this initiative measure are those map amendments which make other documents consistent with the primary map amendment. Please refer to Exhibit 01 -List of map amendments in the INTRODUCTION section above. 2. We, the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,hereby amend the Land Use Element Map of the General Plan Land Use Element(as previously first adopted 23 Aug 1994, previously amended 04 Apr 2006 by Council Resolution 9785),as set forth in Attachment D-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT. SECTION 8 - CONFORMING AMENDMENTS OF GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT What follows are conforming amendments to text and tables within the General Plan Circulation Element(as previously adopted on 29 Nov 1994 and last revised 04 Apr 2006 by City Council Resolution Number 9785,2006 Series). Amendments to maps including descriptions of map amendments are shown in Attachment E- AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT. 1. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo, intend to make the Margarita Area Specific Plan "primary,amendments" (i.e.,those amendments relating to Chapter 1, OPEN SPACE AND PARKS, in section LI Hills and section 1.6.4 Sports Fields)consistent with the General Plan Circulation Element, and therefore the General Plan Circulation Element is amended as presented herein in this section. 2. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,hereby amend the City's General Plan Circulation Element as follows: Abbreviations used in this section: Circulation element=Circulation element(of General Plan) i Conforming Amendments to Text of the General Plan Circulation Element j i Circulation element,page 2-25 I Program 9.1.2 as related to Programs for Street Network Changes 9.1.2 Highway 227 Relocation The City will ask the California Department of Transportation to designate Prado Road between RreeA Street Highway 101 and BreadSeeE the Prado Road interim eastern-most terminus established by Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan,or between Highway 101 and an i3y-y3 Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 26 of 27 alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan,as State Highway 227. Circulation element,page 2-26. Program 9.13 Prado Road Improvements The City will ensure that changes to Prado Road(projects A.1,A.2,B.4 and C.I as amended by Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan and other related system improvements(including any that have been modified by Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan)are implemented in a sequence that satisfies circulation demands caused by area development. Circulation element,page 2-28 Figure 4: Transportation Capital Projects Amend the table as follows: H. Potential Major Street Network Changes Projects New Roads A.1 Prado Road Build to I-lighway/Regional Route standards w/Class I bike paths&bridges for wildlife corridors(City Limits to Broad Stfee�interim eastern-most terminus of Prado Road which is Iocated at western-most pmnerty boundary line of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site ner Nov 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan.) Circulation element,page 2-32 Program 10.13 Track Route Plan Amend as follows: As part of this element,the City adopts the truck route plan as shown on Figure#5 as amended by the Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan requiring an interim eastern-most terminus of Prado Road located at the western boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site or an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov 2010 initiative measure amendin Margarita Area Specific Plan. Circulation element,page 2.46 Appendix C Summary of Circulation Element Projects and Programs Amend the Street Network Changes(part 8.8)as follaws: Prado Road(A.1) x (establish as part of Margarita Area Specific Plan as amended by Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan. I Circulation element,page 247 Appendix C Summary of Circulation Element Projects and Programs I Amend.the Street Network Changes (part 8.9)as follows: t Prado Road as far eastward as its interim eastern-most terminus i.e.,the western boundary of Damon- Garcia Snorts Fields site,in accordance with Nov. 2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area i i �3 y qy I Attachment 1 TEXT OF INITIATIVE MEASURE Page 27 of 27 Specific Plan,or as far eastward as an alternate Prado Road eastern-most terminus consistent with Nov.2010 initiative measure amending Margarita Area Specific Plan as Highway 227 X (New Program) Conforming Amendments to Mans of the General Plan Circulation Element 1. The"primary map amendment" of this initiative measure relates to changes in land use and circulation at Damon-Garcia.Sports Fields site,in other words,relating to text amendments to Margarita Area Specific Plan section 1.6.4 Sports Fields. Thus,the primary map amendment is that relating to the map titled"Margarita Area Specific Plan"at page 89 of the Margarita Area Specific Plan,which includes the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. The"conforming map amendments"of this initiative measure are those map amendments which make other documents consistent with the primary map amendment. Please refer to Exhibit 01 -List of map amendments in the INTRODUCTION section above. 2. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,hereby amend various maps of the General Plan Circulation.Element(as previously first adopted 29 Nov 1994,last revised 04 Apr 2006 by Council Resolution 9785,2006 Series),as set forth in Attachment E-AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT SECTION 9-CONFORMING AMENDMENTS OF THE ZONING MAP i. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,have determined that in order to establish consistency of the Zoning Map with the primary and conforming amendments of this initiative measure,the Zoning Map must be amended. 2. We,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo,hereby adopt the ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING MAP as set forth in Attachment F-ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING MAP. I i i �y-ys Attachment 1 Attachment A - INFORMATIONAL MAPS Page 1 of 3 n in efsreetlon v Norih 7 Proposed highway Conceptual�ocason (Prado Road) 'W Pedestriat Tunnel L within Damon- e Garcia Sports Fields area -0k PARKJNq 0 A Sjqo%kked %19a ACCM\ �7r 7T Y Gar -a S; Prado Reed-Northern Altcjnnw $to-Fam*tUy Afl*42 Z617=912 vslw� -t-40 rzrma Figure 5 — Prado Road Proposed Alignment lmagesource. Council ag=da report of 01 Feb 2000-Prado Road alignment FIGURE A - 01 Proposed Prado Road northern alignment(future truck-route Highway 221)within the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. Image.source: SLO C4 Council agenda report of 01 Feb 2000-Prado Road alignment-General Plan Amendment B q—qep Attachment 1 Attachment A - INFORMATIONAL MAPS Page 2 of 3 Se=r.Cmmdl agenda rep=-x001-01.16-Prm&Roo"ipmmt DAMON.GARCIA SPORTS PARK y 1 a Prado Road northern SAN tuts o>usPO.CAUFORNM i .. alignment(proposed ==' South Hills Highway 227 .open 9 s truck route) Residenial - 1' �. Figure A - 02 - a - Existing •., ---— f Site plan for Damon-Garcia 1 ------ Sports Fields site. image source: Council agenda report, 16 i. Jan 2001. Prado Road alignment. •• Aftdi L New M1 m9D . Source: Couodlagwdampo:t-2001-01-16-Pia&Roadatigmatt - About 4 acres available for recreation uses(Rec)and ope apace(as) DAMON-GARCIA SPORTS PARK + '. sm to s 061SM CAUFMMA ,•Rod —� south Hills open space Jim.' Residential::, ' — I• Figure A - 02 - b Potential new plan w Potential revised site plan, with about 4 additional acres lipr for recreation (Rec) and _ open space (OS) I I i ay 7 Attachment 1 Attachment A - INFORMATIONAL MAPS Page 3 of 3 ED iN 222 053-231 I 377 Damon-Garcia �U1 zu Sports Fields [ site \ . C3J ° ♦ °y zA . `J . a. COY OF SAN 405 OBISPO r M x.v a eevmu rw .�g�� C.ppry 6 ' SAN 105 W6➢ SION&AN 7RAC1;.7S. Bk. 1, P¢ 92 z n¢(bi Figure A - 03 Assessor's Parcel Map -County of San Luis Obispo, CA. Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site (Assessor's Parcel Number 053-231-038) I i i i 1 � � Attachment 1 Attachment B -AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 1 of 15 Amendments to Maps related to Margarita Area Specific Plan We the people of City of San Luis Obispo hereby amend certain maps of the MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN(adopted on 12 Oct 2004 by City Council Resolution Number 9615)as described in TABLE 1 below and as shown in the amended maps which follow TABLE 1. TABLE 1 -AMENDMENTS OF MAPS OF THE MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figure(s)in this document title, original document of the map Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the this initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY IN17I ATNE Margarita Area Draft Margarita Area -Area west of Acacia Creek B-01-a Specific Plan, Specific Plan. Figure 2: corridor: EXISTING page 7 Open Space and Parks. Amended map shows the absence of the previously adopted Prado Road B-01-b northern alignment segment within AS AMENDED the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site BY INITIATIVE (i.e.the segment from Broad Street to the westem,property boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site)and absence of the small portion within Prado Road designated,apparently,as "neighborhood park,"and the absence of the previous"Greenway" area. In place of those uses,the amended map shows"Sports Fields" use as far north as the north property boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. i -Area east of Acacia Creek corridor. Amended map shows the absence of the previously adopted Prado Road northern alignment segment within the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site (i.e.the segment from Broad Street to the western property boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). In place of the Prado Road northern alignment,the amended map shows"sports fields" use as far north as the north property i i t �y y9 Attachment 1 Attachment B - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 2 of 15 Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figure(s)in this document title, original document of the map Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the this initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. -Area in the Acacia Creek corridor: Amended map shows the absence of the previously adopted Prado Road northern alignment segment within the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site (i.e.the segment from Broad Street to the western property boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). In place of the Prado Road northern alignment,the amended map shows "Creeks and wetlands"use as far north as the north property boundary of Damon- Garcia.Sports Fields site. Margarita Area Margarita Area -Amended map shows the absence B-02-a Specific Plan,page Specific Plan. Figure 5: of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 12 Residential Road northern alignment segment Development Areas. within the Damon-Garcia Sports B-02-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Broad Street to the western properly BY INITIATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia i Sports Fields site). I Margarita Area Margarita Area -Amended map shows the absence B-03-a Specific Plan,page Specific Plan. Figure of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 42 10: Airport Road northern alignment segment Relationship. within the Damon-Garcia Sports B-03-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED j Broad Street to the western property BY INITIATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). f i �3y�o Attachment 1 Attachment B -AMENDMENTS TO (MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 3 of 15 Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figure(s)in this document title, original document of the map Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the this initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE Margarita Area Margarita Area -Amended map shows the absence B-04-a Specific Plan,page Specific Plan. Figure of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 43 11: Airport Road northern alignment segment Compatibility Features. within the Damon-Garcia Sports B-04-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Broad Street to the western property BY INITIATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). I -Area west of Acacia Creek corridor: Amended map shows amended land use types within the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields: "Streets and roads" j use area,and the"Open space and park designations"areas within the Sports Fields site west of Acacia Creek,and the"Streets and roads" part east of Acacia Creek,are changed to Sports Fields type uses as far north as the northern property boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. The legend of Figure 11 does not include a"Sports Fields" type of designation. -Area east of Acacia Creek corridor: Amended map shows the absence of the previously adopted Prado Road northern alignment segment within the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site (i.e.the segment from Broad Street to the western property boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). In place of the Prado Road northern alignment,the ' amended'map shows"Sports Fields" use as far north as the north property boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports I Fields site. I Bye/ Attachment 1 Attachment B -AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 4 of 15 Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figure(s)in this document title, original document of the map Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the this initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE -Area in the Acacia Creek corridor: Amended map shows the absence of the previously adopted Prado Road norther alignment segment within the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site (i.e.the segment from Broad Street to the western property boundary j line of the Damon-Garcia Sports ' Fields site). In place of the Prado Road northern alignment,the amended map shows"Open space j and park designations"use as far north as the north property boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. Margarita Area Margarita Area -Amended map shows the absence B-05-a Specific Plan,page Specific Plan. Figure of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 44 12: Circulation Plan. Road northern alignment segment within the Damon-Garcia Sports B-05-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Broad Street to the western property BY INITIATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). Amended map shows the absence of paths as had been proposed under I Prado Road. -Amended map shows the amended bicycle path routes which are essentially the same as in the existing plan except that the previously planned bike path at the j southern edge of proposed Prado I Road route is absent in the amended plan. Margarita Area Margarita Area -Amended map shows the absence B-06-a Specific Plan,page Specific Plan. Figure of the previously adopted.Prado EXISTING 60 22: Utilities Road northern alignment segment i within the Damon-Garcia Sports B-06-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Broad Street to the western property BY U-TMATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia [3q- Attachment 1 Attachment B - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED_ TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 5 of 15 Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figure(s) in this document title, original document of the map Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the this initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE Sports Fields site). -Amended map shows the absence of new backbone water main within the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. Margarita Area Margarita Area -Amended map shows the absence B-07-a Specific Plan,page Specific Plan. Figure of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 85 23: Development and Road northern alignment segment Facilities Links within the Damon-Garcia Sports B-07-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Broad Street to the western property BY INITIATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). -Amended map shows Acacia Creek corridor as far north as the north property boundary of Damon Garcia Sports Fields site. Margarita Area Margarita Area -Area west of Acacia Creek B-08-a Specific Plan,page Specific Plan. corridor: EXISTING 89(the inside of the Unnumbered Figure: Amended map shows the absence of back cover) Margarita Area the previously adopted Prado Road B-08-b Specific Plan. northern alignment segment within AS AMENDED the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site BY INITIATIVE I (i.e.the:segment from Broad Street to the western property boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site)and absence of "Greenway"area south of Prado Road northern alignment. In place of those uses,the amended map j shows"Sports Fields"use as far north as the north property boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. I -Area east of Acacia Creek corridor: Amended map shows the absence of the previously adopted Prado Road northern alignment segment within the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site i Attachment 1 Attachment B -AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 6 of 15 Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figure(s)in this document title, original document of the map Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the this initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE (i.e.the segment from Broad Street to the western property boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). In place of the Prado Road northern alignment,the amended map shows"Sports Fields" use as far north as the north property boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. -Area in the Acacia Creek corridor: Amended map shows the absence of the previously adopted Prado Road northern alignment segment within the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site (i.e.the segment from Broad Street to the western property boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). In place of the Prado Road northern alignment,the amended map,shows"Open Space- Riparian"use as far north as the north property boundary of Damon- Garcia Sports Fields site. -Amended map shows that the "trails"remain essentially the same as in the existing map,except that (a) a portion of the trail that existed along the south side of the previous Prado Road alignment(along the north side of the previous "Greenway"area)is absent in the i amended map; (b) in the amended map the trail on the west side of the Acacia Creek corridor is extended northward to join the trail in the South Hills open 1 space area. I I i Attachment 1 Attachment B - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 7 of 15 ka�• n Sp cf w. ow.swwuw Pmxi i Drag Marpprpa Area Spedlic Plan flpure 2:Open Span and Pana r �il mWnp..NpeeYaYtsY.eM.A i rl.�-.atl®aei ®o...errm jjjjjj i PabaCepn.m .y 'L^DeW— OAr.Ms � - t..w-.JYrW YVa.wYe..r� i 13a.-.a..eewopnu.rw.- : i 1 FIGURE B - 01 - a L_. EXISTING •aaaaseea�._—T,` Margarita Area Specific Plan. Figure 2: Open Space and �V Parks ,.a®�•:.,;_,�,,..; _ Image source: City of San Luis - WasYpY iM��hR: ... Obispo. Margarita Area Specific Plan(Oct 2004)at page 7, Figure 2 % z s mEaa Aaa Spewk PID CPO Sao=aw Perks i : +. Dran Marpadta Aron Speelnc Pian Rpuro2:Open Spew and Parke • 11 oowrea-rrrn.ara.a.wme.. 7. � B Oa.n9wYbpplapn � ' ' • n.rp�rew i �nrpsmgM mi p.aim � ®eras.. Oavr•a.m Rb-wp-r.awwMndNW VnMYppn i u i 'eIaJYMO-Ap.LFs4-pY ' w. FIGURE B - 01 - b AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE I Margarita Mar Area Specific �-- --�Y-)� .. . � •. g Plan. Figure 2: Open Space and r b i .b.•e• Parks Image source: City of San Luis Obispo. Margarita Area Specific ~a Plan(Oct.2004)at page 7, Figure 2 I ay-� Attachment 1 Attachment B - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 8 of 15 r V,vw .Stn wua rvw Pmn Napm WAm8Wft P1 - Flpbo9:geaMaPllal DevaleDmRit llR6s � �_ w may..-.,...- - _ FIGURE B - 02 - a C EXISTING Margarita Area Specific Plan. Figure 5: Residential S•�L Development Areas. h image source: City of San Luis Obispo. Margarita Area Specific Plan (Oct. 4 2004)at page 12, Figure 5 13 J 1 Rv6b0.a+sca+m 1.brpanm ArtaL-aT Ph, Marpemla Aro BpadEC Plmr = . Flgum7:pC9E41tla1 DevelaP��iArcm � FIGURE B 02 - b AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE Margarita Area Specific Plan. t u ` Figure 5: Residential Development Areas. Image source: City of San Luis Obispo_ i a = Margarita Area Specific Plan(Oct \� 2004)at page 12, Figure 5 II J J i 3y Sty l _ Attachment 1 Attachment B -AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 9 of 15 ' ,_ IIYJ14W111• .rid_ •\, iy ' ..j ♦ ,� YdU`� r FIGURE B - 03 - a • •• + EXISTING SRrn = •.��,• '••Z " 16Margarita Area Specific Plan. TM*Fm R4. . �, ' Figure 10: Airport - ter, '•i Relationship (a portion). Sq • • ,t'� Image source: City of San Luis �' + • •. Obispo. Margarita Area Specific Plan �i .• •'• (Oct.2004)at page 42, Figure 10 s ' tllrmsn 'i ufyDstlme1M �° i 42 f - tri- •\, ♦y r. ny • ow" FIGURE B - 03 - b s o �• s AS AMENDED BY • ms's �•. "• INITIATIVE a Margarita Area Specific Plan. •.� Saw A •T• Figure 10: Airport •' .#P1 M • • Relationship (a portion) :ola i `�, •.• Image source: City of San Luis ■ `• Obispo. Margarita Area Specific Plan E ` (Oct.2004)at page 42, Figure 10 myOST -� rtsfd} GDR�+^ h13O9Wi i 42 i 13y-5- 7 Attachment 1 Attachment B - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 10 of 15 ISPAa�a,A2e spr�caen nvonr.wubwr - Draft Maryarlta Ana 4..Ma Plan Rave 11:AIMM CoMpOWIM Fa.nnaa t _ - cm.amaw+ar® - �qw-swM1+M.1� QaOsrbgYe Ibar-a1a�d-. - .dOY{YaY1Yl - FIGURE B - 04 - a EXISTING Margarita Area Specific Plan. YabMbM,aM � Figure 11: Airport Compatibility Features. a saam bmwa �.�, Image source: City of San Luis Obispo. Margarita Area Specific Plan (Oct 2004)at page 43, Figure 11 A) i - 1Ln�fbPm.^IptuN Plm AWm C.mamM.ly — a MYI a1a,99M Am egatft Plan RWnfl:AlMart Can1P411,91 F.aWn. – Elmaama-+w Eqa— rryr �� . FIGURE B - 04 - b AS AMENDED BY IMTIATIVE Margarita Area Specific Plan. Figure 11: Airport Compatibility Features. Image source: City of San Luis Obispo. W Margarita Area Specific Plan (Oct.2004)at - - page 43, Figure 11 ; 0 I 1 i I I I y-ST Attachment 1 Attachment B - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 11 of 15 Rmaa::an ManpNa aAa 3vac�e Manzllea nl..SPaeMr Plan ' '\ Fmntt ChcaMim Plan .r-..ww 1 OCw.r..r.en...wvn� O Ratl.N " FIGURE B - 05 - a � O<a a.N.WwYwYs..fw-'.a EXISTING Margarita Area Speck Plan. --_ ` Figure 12: Circulation Plan. - Image source: City of San Luis Obispo. Margarita Area Specific Plan (Oct 2004)at page 44, Figure 12 , flmGbn Maainb Nb^aetlAi I, l M rpMaAroo 3; eMt Plan RPM 42 elmla nPlan Fa.a..e..s.wr.•^w..v FIGURE B - 05 - b AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE Margarita Area Specific Plan. Figure 12: Circulation Plan. Image source: City of San Luis Obispo. Margarita Area Specific Plan(Oct. 2004)at page 44, Figure _ y 12 i i Attachment B - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 12 of 15 n , Utl Mrwla am.9a.rat Plan Waft Marge AM IP"Mc Plus Flgum=NMAo .�Yaasr•Mtuisa^a "'� ��--�- FIGURE B - 06 - a , r EXISTING S45 r Margarita Area Specific Plan. Figure 22: Utilities. Image source: City of San Luis a Obispo. Margarita Area Specific Plan (Oct 2004)at page 60, Figure ® = 22 w w oe "� y,Waw- m r i MI �' R u.Lt. Me�gmMa Aree 30anY I9on `� F1W =Ud1a Ane BP.eNe Phn �. FlPuea?T UtlIMW r 41 al l'—WO-I�YY�t,YI �9�mi-nwrmsua �qup FIGURE B - 06 - b AS AMENDED BY a. INITIATIVE Margarita Area Specific .. Plan. Figure 22: Utilities. e Image source: City of San Luis o Obispo. Margarita Area Specific Plan (Oct.2004)at page 60, Figure r n w r Attachment B - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 13 of 15 a baa Speak Pl Puauc Fsdrb Fh-nf1nD IM!MppNlaAIeASPadllc PIM1 IDun 28:Oeve(DDmert ane Faaudaa UmM A Orr.Nr wart �. FIGURE B - 07 - a EXISTING ' Margarita Area Specific Plan. a Figure 23: Development and 3 Facilities Links. « 6 ` Image source: City of San Luis Obispo. Margarita Area Specific Plan (Oct 2004)at 11 page 60, Figure 23 T3 u 1D aJ, I-6y�-aawy roam a Aron Spaclk Ply, Paaae Fac00e6 WmWna OvaR MWORM Am Sp"Mc Plan Flgum 73:awmIOPmale ane FatlmMa WWW rrrnm�r-. -,t/ a„ra FIGURE B - 07 - b AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE Margarita Area Specific Plan. 6 Figure 23: Development and Facilities Links. " 6 Image source: City of San Luis Obispo. Margarita Area Specific Plan (Oct 2004)at page 85, Figure 23 ® E 8 P u m i Z3 access court,med density Neighborhood Commercial M]Business Park Neighborhood Commercial SF fl.NZ11lD Open Space ••• RiparianOpen Space- eY"A /N�y business use only Neighborhood Park N Greenway ^Cl..lSports ti�, High DensityResidential Special• street medians S Low Density Residential tralls Medium DensityResidential ®MediumDensityResidential Medium High • Commercial0, . .�� .S�J�K+{��=7�x�1 ��(„1 j • • r�'� ?its*' � .Jtx,�, N •H-N�' a �F9L7. ; f�^zS,.IKywf.'',L�s1{Y. S.Yi� Rd F"A° un�r1'- -5 "r?�`,Ra'+�' < rF �•Rf �71 .moi ° t�t"�i� -'C¢3,��+^�.�.-fix r C�'t�'^ � r..s,. .4�• fc pr+Y.`��w K�i14v�T.t°t �1T�tgl�:`� ,j . �\��� �•'� 1 < .���'�.1r'_.Y`y. J�b2 Nay,•5.� y.r *`r` ��ff�A!yJ CCS��.,�,y ,I„r1”' h 'k tpt x>•t� ��a'� xea�tyi„-aft L�JY 'x p Ip qty {'?Xk •H4 t�.. t n ,n.7. �l ■ ,r��R'_� ani 1 �'.' \r X,1>E ftl '� i? I"' All �! �'Y(' wln )✓J it �`\�it`Y ✓4y/�� y 1 S� access couM med density Neighborhood Business Neighborhood _ • .'• iL O1 ISM' Business nry Open Space-HIlls; Y. .'• en Space-Riparian N 1 busintess park-outdoor use only Neighborhood Park SL6:iGreenspaceStreets I pt@j GreenwayN'61SortsI Fields I. �, RFS . •1 Special I nsity Residential #�Low Density Residential street—medians Medium Density Residential trails IR ®Medium Density Residential SFw, Medium . Commercial •• V ` n 1^ JI T`'.• v MTI 7 n 1YN�x�'.}..'�f'N',''�, az'xSP • .t ,+�4�i+'4 ,is,k",y' ,�'+\� �� rl"�yL"!'�)Y` 1 c 4K �^a� F� � i'72 _ v-�2 [� '$E .k `"SSS' ���'� �C�� T+'� t, "b ..r✓•vv �J,•t�� B�\: .��} nTl'c +�,i4i n�'1 Sr��vr r<� r G..s.� � '\ t , .F`♦� ®� . y v1 S rd SSv �h t v�dcr� �,�C.� v♦ WWI ,y{ ♦K� i� ^�i't1� h y, pp .Yy1 Y Pa♦ Y^ w i.+11�i♦Ji ty S f i .�i rt'" '` Y^W A..t+� 1 ♦w�'�<E < '�`�' R� x�`+t L,c+f4, 5 �,a�"'.��+"�'Sni 1.�' .+�1'S<��P��Zti ref ♦v<> "w.J. I e"4 `i�rtp�`''may,-,��."Wr�c'�'r'�� `r"g{yrl xy'r.'lr�.'i'37 av-uj r{s� '#Y �3 .t �yiit +f��L �"r;., '�{Fia`F/ fit'i 'i��hl I " s'i Vti[ �' ����ir•'Ii �,. hlt `i�Yn-� S^- '�t't tri 9 Attachment C - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 1 of 12 Amendments to Maps related to Airport Area.Specific Plan We the people of City of San Luis Obispo hereby amend certain maps of the AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN(adopted on 23 Aug 2005 by City Council Resolution Number 9726) as described in TABLE 2 below and as shown in the amended maps which follow TABLE 2. TABLE 2 -AMENDMENTS OF MAPS.OF THE AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figure(s) in this document title, original document of the map Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the this initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE Airport Area Airport Area Specific -Amended map shows the absence C-01-a Specific Plan,page Plan. Figure 41: Land of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 4-4 Use Designations Road northern alignment segment within the Damon-Garcia Sports C-01-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Broad Street to the western property BY INITIATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). Airport Area Airport Area Specific -Amended map shows the absence C-02-a Specific Plan,page Plan. Figure 4-0: of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 4-10 Planning Area Zoning Road northern alignment segment within the Damon-Garcia Sports C-02-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Broad Street to the western property BY INITIATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). Airport Area Airport Area Specific -Amended map shows the absence C-03-a Specific Pian,page Plan. Figure 5-1: of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 5-4 Creek and Open Space Road northern alignment segment Framework within the Damon-Garcia Sports C-03-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Broad Street to the western property BY INITIATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia. Sports Fields site). r Attachment C - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 2 of 12 Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figure(s) in this document title, original document of the map Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the this initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE Airport.Area Airport Area Specific -Amended map shows the absence C-04-a Specific Plan,page Plan. Figure 5-4: of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 5-24 Gateways and Distant Road northern alignment segment Scenic Resources within the Damon-Garcia Sports C-04-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Broad Street to the western property BY INITIATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). Airport Area Airport Area Specific -Amended map shows the absence C-05-a Specific Plan,page Plan. Figure 6-1: of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 6-4 Primary Circulation Road northern alignment segment System and Functional within the Damon-Garcia Sports C-05-b Classifications Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Within Specific Plan Broad Street to the western property BY INITIATIVE Area and boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Surrounding Sports Fields site). Community Airport Area Airport Area Specific -Amended map shows the absence C-06-a Specific Plan,page Plan. Figure 6-2: of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 6-7 Bicycle Plan Road northern alignment segment within the Damon-Garcia Sports C-06-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Broad Street to the western property BY INITIATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). -Amended map shows the absence of grade separated crossings at north end of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. -Amended map shows the absence of bike path at south side of former Prado Road alignment within Danson-Garcia Sports Fields site. Airport Area Airport Area Specific -Amended map shows the absence C-07-a Specific Plan,page Plan. Figure 6-3: of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 6-14 Proposed Airport Area Road northern alignment segment Transit Plan. within the Damon-Garcia Sports C-07-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Broad Street to the western property BY INITIATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). 94 -J /• 6 Attachment C - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 3 of 12 Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figare(s) in this document title, original document of the map Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the this initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE -Amended map shows the absence of transit route along the former Prado Road northern alignment at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site (i.e.the segment from Broad Street to the western property boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). Airport Area Airport Area Specific -Amended map shows the C-08-a Specific Plan, Plan. Figure 64: absence of the previously EXISTING page 6-15 Key to Roadway adopted Prado Road northern Cross-Sections, alignment segment within the C-08-b Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site AS AMENDED (i.e.the segment from Broad Street BY INITIATIVE to the western property boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). Airport Area Airport Area Specific -Amended map shows the absence C-09-a Specific Plan,page Plan. Figure 7-1: of the previously adopted Prado EXISTING 7-8 Backbone Sewer and Road northern alignment segment Water Improvements. within the Damon-Garcia Sports C-09-b Fields site(i.e.the segment from AS AMENDED Broad Street to the western property BY INITIATIVE boundary line of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site). -Amended map shows the absence of utilities(sewer main)along the deleted Prado Road segment(from Broad Street to the western property boundary lime of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site.) Attachment C - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 4 of 12 L"Md y, L,WC �W:M�PuI _ Q ®LnYYW11aNNq - FIGURE C - 01 - a - - EXISTING -_- Airport Area Specific Plan. Figure 4-1: Land Use Designations. a Image source: Airport Area Specific ,0.414 Z.WW N Plan of Aug. 2005 P Legmd .--ueeamw-uw + LA EON r m as-ao— ®nm = FIGURE C - 01 - b AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE Airport Area Specific Plan. Figure 4-1: Land Use Designations. Image source: Airport Area Specific « h4wa:roA..—.N.S:emcP- Plan of Aug.2005 Attachment C - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 5 of 12 FIGURE C - 02 - a -..... ®�-� � g EXISTING ME a Airport Area Specific Plan. R Figure 4-4: Planning Area fi Zoning - - Image source: Airport Area Specific Plan of Aug. 2005 xp.sr rr-.rs.wr� � -.-PWP�R, o°�°°°��� FIGURE C - 02 - b 19 AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE I Airport Area Specific Plan. 0 Figure 4-4: Planning Area r Zoning Image source: Airport Area Specific ' Plan of Aug. 2005 1 5ii • RR JJ{•� 0 US - t1Yt P �. LIO AaPmbwMevnw Aaaenr - r_ yr.:..-.,'app;-,•-,..:::: N ME s. lama �Gle�wB 1�L Y L so r � 4 s i Attachment C - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 7 of 12 FIGURE C - 04 - a EXISTING Airport Area Specific Plan. Figure 5-4: Gateways and Distant Scenic Resources (a portion) Image source: Airport Area Specific Plan of Y- o iv , A", Aug. 2005 Tank Farm Rd V Ix Airport Area 1! ........... . ......... "P; MAI 1.1i FIGURE C - 04 - b AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE Airport Area Specific Plan. Figure 5-4: Gateways and Distant Scenic Resources (a portion) As Image source: Airport Area Specific Plan of Au 2005 Tank Farm Rd AlrporrArea 9 4 Attachment C - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 8 of 12 FIGURE C - 05 - a ` EXISTING Airport Area Specific Plan. Figure 6-1: Primary Circulation System and ® Functional Classifications Within Specific Plan Area and Surrounding Community _ Image source: Airport Area Specific © Plan of Aug. 2005 Rywbl 1Nmjo..fdisb}v.-llw.6+.IC.oduv1�WWs�eA6..d..-dSowrd6a�I N Sn YmO.mMn.Nr Sec M1w ,- Logo" FIGURE C . 05 - b a'=" AS AMENDED BY + � INITIATIVE Airport Area Specific Plan. —�. Figure 6-1: Primary Circulation System and ° - Functional Classifications Within Specific Plan Area and Surrounding - Community i - Image source: Airport Area Specific �.. Plan of Aug. 2005 i Attachment C - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 9 of 12 Legend FIGURE C - 06 - a Airport Area ftundary OUSTING Creeks Railroad Tracks Airport Area Specific Plan. Bicycle Routes Figure 6-2: Bicycle Plan. 0----G Class I Class 11 Image source: Airport Area .......... Class III Specific Plan of Aug. 2005 OGrade separated crossing 1. rk. Legend FIGURE C - 06 - b I Airport Area ftmdwy AS AMENDED BY c4eeks P-Wroad Tracks INITIATIVE cycle B Routes le Airport Area Specific Plan. 0----a Class I Figure 6-2: Bicycle Plan. Class 11 Class III Image source: Airport Area 0 cwwe separated crassing Specific Plan of Aug. 2005 R J Attachment C - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 10 of 12 FIGURE C - 07 - a Legend EXISTING Airport Area Boundary Airport Area Specific Plan. `'r' Figure 6-3: Proposed ? Transit Features Airport Area Transit Plan. EW c0culator#1 ENVC4rculator#2 _ — Route 2(6dsting). Image source: Airport Area a Route 3 o- — Route 3(Basting Y Specific Pian of Aug. 2005 —Route 7(E)dsting) Q Fi> Bus Stops(ExiSti'g) . Potential Transfer Point Tared Transfer Point on ARa Streets ` ��t �`6` L 7.•�'a^.-'c}„fir' ' I FIGURE C - 07 - b Legend AS AMENDED BY Airport Area Boundary INITIATIVE -4 -;r- Airport Area Specific Plan. L i Transit Features = Y ® FJWClrwlator#1 Figure 6-3: Proposed '• :R j %�;. �:';� -- ENV clrm< Airport Area Transit Plan. Route 2 inr Route 3 +- d" ' — Route 3(Existing Image source: Airport Area - : —Route 7(Existing) Specific Plan of Aug. 2005 Bus Stops(E)dsting) i � 'tr ' • Potential Transfer Poila '"3 Timed Transfer Point a� r -" .x .K•^i ski. C4 N✓��k� '��1 r 011 Area �� Attachment C - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 11 of 12 FIGURE C - 08 - a �^ EXISTING Airport Area Specific Plan. ° Figure 6-4: Key to Roadway Cross-Sections. Image source: Airport Area Specific Plan of Aug. 2005 Fys.6� [gslbs�g Gm.LmLv . acwro.eT+a�-v0+ Gs �ft-ft FIGURE C - 08 - b AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE ® - ....- Airport Area Specific Plan. Figure 6-4: Key to <. Roadway Cross-Sections. Image source: Airport Area r Specific Plan of Aug. 2005 ,. 1 �fT 0 66 ,lAb lIYw 6! X7-AdwlOwRabv ._. C,-.00.IIT..o-aam 6f> Attachment C - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Page 12 of 12 FIGURE C - 09 - a EXISTING Legend Airport Area Specific Plan. a �aea6«m�ry Figure 7-1: Backbone Sewer me =` ut( y and Water Improvements. water Main (a portion) _.�.� sewer Main V / G -IV FVe Diameter Image source: Airport Area Specific Pumping mior, Plan of Aug. 2005 tr to ® Engineering Studies Required r '�• ' r FIGURE C - 09 - b AS AMENDED BY Legend MTIATIVE Airport Area Boundary Airport Area Specific Plan. Figure 7-1: Backbone Sewer utmaes �water Main and Wafter Improvements. I > m Sewer Main (a portion) Pipe Diameter Image source: Airport Area Specific ,> station of Aug. 2005 A Pumping 1T Engineering Studies Required _717 r N 1Y" TANKFARrwr �i M ?�t., ._�a '. rr �Y.f of'�-•-•i�a .f � T�a t y/ 16 i Attachment D - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT Page 1 of 3 Amendments to Maps of the General Plan Land Use Element We,the people of City of San Luis Obispo,hereby amend certain maps of the General Plan Land Use Element(as adopted on 04 Apr 2006 by City Council Resolution Number 9786)as described in TABLE 3 below and as shown in the amended maps which follow TABLE 3. TABLE 3 -AMENDMENTS OF MAPS OF THE AIRPORT AREA SPECIFIC PLAN. Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figure(s) in this document title, original document of the map Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the Us initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE City of San Luis City of San Luis Obispo D-01-a Obispo General Plan -Area west of Acacia Creek EXISTING General Plan Land Use Element Map corridor. Land Use Element The land previously designated for D-01-b Map Open Space use and containing the AS AMENDED Prado Road northern alignment BY INITIATIVE (Edition of 04 Apr within that area is amended to show 2006, Council the land area west of Acacia Creek Resolution 9786) corridor as Recreation use as far north as the north property boundary of Damon Garcia Sports Fields site. -Area east of Acacia Creek corridor- The land previously designated for Neighborhood Commercial use, between the centerline of Prado Road northern alignment and the north property boundary of Damon- Garcia Sports Fields site, is replaced with Recreation use. -Area in the Acacia Creek corridor: The Acacia Creek corridor shall have Open Space land use designation along the length of the Acacia Creek corridor from the south property boundary of Damon- Garcia Sports Fields site to the north property boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. Margarita Area Specific Plan section"1.2 Creek Attachment D - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT Page 2 of 3 Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figure(s)'in this document title, original document of the trap Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the this initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE Corridors"sets standards for the Acacia Creek corridors within the Margarita Area planning area including within the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. 94 - S� tg Attachment D - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT Page 3 of 3 o r 1 Yp: Y �� Jy�aN • ,A y .,+4 µ FIGURE D - 01 a 1 EXISTING �l General Plan. Land Use = Element Map of 04 Apr 2006. °r (a portion) Image source: General Plan Land ra�d :$• r: Use Element map of 04 Aug 2006. 4 F Resolution No. 9786 Lj ILY iR T f, r SrL � FIGURE D - 01 - h ` AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE General Plan. Land Use Element Map of 04 Apr 2006. (a portion) Image source: General Plan Land = W, Use Element map of 04 Aug 2006. Resolution No. 9786 Attachment E - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT Page 1 of 4 Amendments to Maps related to General Plan Circulation Element We the people of City of San Luis Obispo hereby amend certain maps of the General Plan Circulation Element(as adopted on 29 Nov 1994 and last revised 04 Apr 2006 by City Council Resolution Number 9785, 2006 Series)as described in TABLE 4 below and as shown in the amended maps which follow TABLE 4. TABLE 4 - AMENDMENTS OF MAPS OF THE GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figure(s) in this document title, original document of the map Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the this initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE City of San Luis Figure 2-Circulation -The segment of Prado Road E-01-a Obispo Element Street northern alignment which is located EXISTING General Plan Classification Map within Damon-Garcia Sports Field Circulation site(i.e.,the segment from Broad E-01-b Element,page 2-20 Street to the western property AS AMENDED boundary line of Damon-Garcia BY DUMTIVE (Edition of 04 Apr Sports Fields site)is deleted. 2006, Council Resolution No. -The new interim eastern-most 9785, 2006 Series) terminus of Prado Road is at the property line running approximately in a north-south direction and defining the western property boundary of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site(Assessor's Parcel Number 053-231-038,San Luis Obispo County). City of San Luis Figure 5 -Truck Route -Within the Damon-Garcia Sports E-02-a Obispo Map Field site(Assessor's Parcel Number EXISTING General Plan 053-231-038, San Luis Obispo Circulation County)the segment of the "Prado E-02-b Element,page 2-33 Road northern alignment," AS AMENDED designated as Truck Route, from BY INITIATIVE (Edition of 04 Apr Broad Street(Route 227)to the line 2006, Council running approximately in a north- Resolution No. south direction and defining the 9785, 2006 Series) western property boundary of Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site, is deleted. Attachment E - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT Page 2 of 4 Original Title of the map in the Description of the amendment Figure(s)in this document title, original document of the map Attachment which page number which is amended by depict the this initiative EXISTING map and the map AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE -The new interim eastern-most terminus of Prado Road Truck Route is at the property fine running approximately in a north-south direction and defming the western property boundary of the Damon- Garcia Sports Fields site(Assessor's Parcel Number 053-231-038,San Luis Obispo County). Attachment E - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT Page 3 of 4 FIGURE E - 01 - a EXISTING s j General Plan. Circulation R i Element of 04 Aug 2006. Figure 2. Street ! yyti•.vN• ti Classification Map. _ (a portion) .► TAN FARM .•y� Image source: General Plan Circulation Element of 04 Apr 2006. - Council Resolution No. 9785, 2006 Series. is a is ; t t_ r° 9 1 FIGURE E - 01 - b AS AMENDED BY INITIATIVE I General Plan. Circulation Element of 04 Aug 2006. Figure 2. Street _J 4y,• Classification Map. (a portion) t TAftlK FAR ��� Image source: General Plan Circulation Element of 04 Apr 2006. r Council Resolution No. 9785, 2006 r— Series. r. ! 1911 • 22 Attachment E - AMENDMENTS TO MAPS RELATED TO GENERAL PLAN CIRCULATION ELEMENT Page 4 of 4 Figum 6:buck Rout bhp FIGURE E - 02 - a EXISTING General Plan. Circulation Element of 04 Apr 2006. Figure 5. N Truck Route Map. - ' Image source: Genera( Plan Circulation y, ... •'' 'A Element of 04 Apr 2005. Council Resolution No. 9785,2006 Series. T. ^ . L•aw w Figure 5-Truck Route Map —msnkcTmkaaourz . +�iVMRTRVGIfCY1F � a •s r : @re Gloom Y.Tmuk Rout Nep lr .F..•.o r v4 - 1:,:,. FIGURE E - 02 - a AS AMENDED BY MTIATIVE General Plan. Circulation Element --;.:•. of 04 Apr 2006. Figure 5. �`✓� _ _> Truck Route Map. Image source: General Plan Circulation Element of 04 Apr 2006. Council Resolution No. 9785, 2006 Series. I Tw*Rcu L.fi w Figure 5-Truck Route Map —uankcmuamurs ---tonna rwawur[ s— •• > —Oq Uv,Xs I� rw•w+r,wa,. �sw.. Attachment F - ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING MAP Page 1 of 4 AN ORDINANCE BY THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO AMENDING THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO ZONING MAP OF MAY 2009 AS REQUIRED FOR CONFORMITY WITH THE NOVEMBER 2010 VOTER INITIATIVE IN THE CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO AMENDING THE MARGARITA AREA SPECIFIC PLAN Whereas, We the people of the City of San Luis Obispo support amendments of the Margarita Area Specific Plan as set forth.in the initiative measure to which this ordinance is attached addressing the allowed land uses in the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields(Assessor's Parcel Number 053-231-038)and the adjacent South Hills open space area,as well as other "conforming amendments"related to the Margarita Area Specific Plan,Airport Area Specific Plan,General Plan Land Use Element,and General Plan Circulation Element; and Whereas,one of said amendments of the Margarita Area Specific Plan related to the section entitled"1.6.4 Sports Fields"requires certain changes in the allowed land uses at the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site(Assessor's Parcel Number 053-231-038); and Whereas, said certain changes in allowed land uses at the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site require for the sake of consistency among and within General Plan documents according to law certain amendments of the City of San Luis Obispo Zoning Map of May 2009 also known as the "official zone map"mentioned in Zoning Regulations section 17.06.020. BE IT ORDAINED by the people of the City of San Luis Obispo as follows: SECTION 1. Environmental Determination. The November 2010 Voter Initiative amending the Margarita Area Specific Plan,etc. in the City of San Luis Obispo, to which these Zoning amendments apply,is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act. SECTION 2. Findings. Based upon all the evidence,the people of the City of San Luis Obispo make the following findings: 1. The proposed amendments will not significantly alter the character of the City or cause significant health, safety or welfare concerns, since the amendments are consistent with the General Plan and directly implement City goals and policies. 2. The proposed amendments to the City of San Luis Obispo Zoning Map of May 2009 will bring the land uses described on said map into consistencywith all parts of the San Luis Obispo General Plan including but not limited to the Specific Plans and General Plan Elements as amended by the initiative measure to which this ordinance is attached. r , Attachment.F - ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING MAP Page 2 of 4 SECTION 3. Action. In accordance with the amendments to the City of San Luis Obispo Margarita Area Specific Plan, General Plan Land Use Element, and the General Plan Circulation Element,as described within the Nov. 2010 Voter Initiative amending the Margarita Area Specific Plan etc.,to which this ordinance is attached, the people of the City of San Luis Obispo hereby amend the City of San Luis Obispo Zoning Map of May 2009 to remove the planned Prado Road alignment from the property known as the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site described as Assessor's Parcel Number 053-231-038 in the City of San Luis Obispo, as set forth in Exhibit A-2 of this ordinance. 1 Attachment F - ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING MAP Page 3 of 4 �C 1���•T'1K C,�a�, T �.� ,Y � y. g� B -SR � P ��� 1 Zs R-2. PSP - P r , t Exhibit A - 1 Zoning Map of May 2009 (a portion) $�— 5 Attachment F - ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING MAP Page 4 of 4 �:`1 �� �w++r x,41 h &s\ i•� 5\) f N (• \ - �,��� 1. • y c EPSP a .>ff�.. `� � •r -Z-S PSP r R2 R-2-SP _ P SP-SP " - w R 1. A... Exhibit A - 2 Zoning Map of May 2009 (a portion) as amended by the Nov. 2010 Voter Initiative amending Margarita Area Specific Plan etc.. 131V - ��. 7 � n A I'TACHMENT 2 INITIATIVE IMPACTS ON EXISTING PLANS AND PENDING AND APPROVED PROJECTS Overall, existing plans that were accompanied by an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) would not necessarily be stopped however, significant additional environmental review may be necessary at the project specific level until such time as the issue of Prado Road connections is resolved by the City. The bulk of the information in the associated EIRs evaluating development in the specific plans (i:e. biological or archaeological) would still be valid. Subsequent development would need to be evaluated in light of whether the traffic impacts associated with an individual development would trigger additional environmental review. Because the southern area of the city has been identified in the General Plan as the primary new growth area of the city for residential and employment purposes, the circulation system needed to provide adequate infrastructure is a critical component that has been planned for in the various specific plans adopted (or in progress) by the City. The Initiative would require a re-planning of the areas circulation features and would necessitate significant changes to some roadway and intersections not currently envisioned in the various adopted documents. The following table illustrates the potential development in the various specific plan areas that may be affected by the Initiative: Table 1 —Development Potential in Specific Plan Areas Planning Residential Business Park Industrial Service Retail Area Commercial Margarita Area 870 960,000 10,000 Airport Area 2,115,000 686,000 2,600,000 Orcutt Area 980 8,500 8,000 South Broad 415 641,000 Street Corridor in rocess) Subtotal: 2265 3,083,500 686,000 1 3,241.000 18,000 MASP The Margarita Area Specific Plan was developed with the assumption that development in the MASP would plan for and construct Prado Road between its current eastern terminus and Broad Street. Conditions to the tentative map approvals in the area specify thresholds of performance: 1. At the time of final map submittal Construction drawings for the full width improvement of the section of Prado from. its current eastern terminus to the proposed M Street is required. Bonding for completion of plans and specifications for the section between M Street and Broad Street is required. Pagel of 8 Ll— ATTACHMENT 2 2. Construction of the first section shall be accomplished prior to occupancy of the 50`h unit. 3. Initiate construction of the second section by occupancy of the 2001h unit 4. Complete construction of the northern half of the second section by occupancy of the 300`h unit. Development could continue up to the 200°i unit if no discretionary reviews were involved. However, construction of more than five units typically requires discretionary review in the form of an Architectural Review Commission process. This subsequent discretionary approval would trigger review under CEQA to determine if the circumstances under which environmental review was conducted had changed. With the elimination of Prado Road as a through road, it is likely that the determination would be made that circumstances had changed and additional environmental review would be required. Discretionary approvals could include tentative map time extensions or architectural review of more than four dwellings. In addition, since the Financing Plan of the MASP identifies the costs associated with the construction of Prado Road as being entirely funded by MASP development, increased costs associated with any alternative alignment of Prado Road are unknown and distribution of those costs is also unknown. If the costs of the road are increased, additional costs will be bome by residential units being built within this specific plan area and potentially in other areas as well. South Broad Street Corridor Plan (SBSC) The SBSC plan area is roughly bounded by South/Santa Barbara, Orcutt Road, the Railroad Tracks and Broad Street and is still under development. Council has yet to take final action on the SBSC however the plan has received approval from the Planning Commission. The plan envisions redevelopment of this area that has transitioned from residential and commercial uses related to the railroad around the turn of the century, to a mix of residential and commercial service uses. The environmental review associated with plan development included traffic analyses to evaluate the potential circulation impacts related to redevelopment of the area as well as impacts to the Meadow Park neighborhood from potential "cut through" traffic. Impacts of a successful initiative could undermine traffic assumptions made in the initial study for the SBSC. Since Broad Street is a regional route, traffic is anticipated to grow not only with the City's general plan build out but also with growth in the county area. The traffic impact studies conducted for the SBSC planning area have identified that Broad Street from Orcutt Road to South Street will ultimately be a congested corridor due to the development of the southern portion of the City and SLO County. Significant potential impacts are already identified in the neighborhoods near the project area and along Broad Street. Removing the connection of Prado Road will exacerbate these conditions and will require further environmental analysis. Intensification of development envisioned as part of the SBSC plan will likely be restricted if impacts to traffic on Broad result in a finding of"significant impact" as part of the initial study for the SBSC plan. Page 2 of 8 ATTACHMENT 2 OASP The Orcutt Area Specific Plan Environmental Impact Report (EIR) discusses the circulation impacts resulting from the Orcutt area in particular as well as cumulative impacts associated with development of the Orcutt Area and the remainder of the General Plan build-out. The EIR expands the description of"baseline conditions" to include any improvements that are expected to occur before the Orcutt Area Specific Plan is built and occupied—including the assumption that Prado Road would be extended from its existing eastern terminus (east of South Higuera Street) to Broad Street. This connection was anticipated to shift traffic from Tank Farm Road and South Street to Prado Road. Without the Prado Road connection much of the OASP traffic will be diverted to South Street and Tank Farm Road as the only available east-west connections in the City. Additional mitigation for this change may be necessary as proposals to develop the Specific Plan are evaluated for how their development impacts intersections and roadways. The OASP EIR identified that traffic generated by development in the OASP area will be partially responsible for a cumulative impact to the future intersection of Prado and Broad. The EIR assigned a mitigation measure to the Orcutt Area to help pay for this improvement. This is one of the many projects that would be paid for by the OASP. In addition, OASP is responsible for 50% of the costs associated with ,improving the intersection of Tank Farm Road/Broad Street and 25% of the costs associated with South Street/Broad Street improvements. If these intersections require additional mitigation due to removal of the Prado Road extension, some or all of these costs will be borne by the GASP development. If Prado Road is not constructed in the proposed location, the Orcutt Area Specific Plan could still be developed. Additional environmental review may be required to determine if the proposed development would result in significant project specific impacts particularly at Tank Farm Road and South Street. If a new alignment to Prado Road is developed at the time development in the OASP is proposed, the cost of improvements associated with a relocated east-west connector road will be apportioned and the impact fees associated with development in the OASP area will be adjusted to reflect the new "fair share" of improvements to address any cumulative traffic impacts. AASP Since the construction of Prado Road between the eastern terminus and Broad Street was set as a condition of development in the Margarita Area, no portion of the financing was assigned to the Airport Area Specific Plan. Costs associated with the development of Tank Farm Road were assigned to the AASP. Therefore, if successful the Initiative may result in additional infrastructure along Tank Farm Road resulting in additional costs that will be passed on to development in this area. The AASP development will be required to participate in traffic impact fee payment to help off-set any cumulative contributions to impacts at'intersections (Tank Farm and Page 3 of 8 2)IL/ —(e� ATTACHMENT 2 Broad; Higuera and Prado). The EIR that addressed MASP and AASP development identified Prado Road as an improvement specified in the Circulation Element that was anticipated to occur with development in the MASP. If the initiative is successful, a new east-west road alignment will need to be identified to address traffic associated with General Plan build-out particularly that of the AASP. In the interim, if Prado Road is not constructed in the proposed location, the Airport Area Specific Plan could still be developed. Additional environmental review .may be required to determine if any proposed development would result in significant traffic impacts. This may affect the processing of the Chevron redevelopment proposal currently being processed by the City and County. If a new alignment to Prado Road is developed at the time development in the AASP is proposed, the cost of improvements associated with a relocated east-west connector road will be apportioned and the impact fees associated with development in the AASP area will be adjusted to reflect the new "fair share" of improvements to address any cumulative traffic impacts. The City is currently updating the AASP to address changes in the development concept proposed by Chevron. As part of that update, the EIR will need to evaluate the potential impacts associated with the initiative should it be successful. Impacts on pending development applications For projects that require any subsequent discretionary review (i.e. ARC review), additional analysis of traffic impacts may be required to evaluate whether the project without the assumed improvements associated with Prado Road will have an impact and whether any mitigation measures are required. Projects currently in process that have remaining discretionary reviews include the following: A. CURRENT PROJECTS (Currently in the development review process): 667 Monterev(Leitcher House site): Mixed-use project including a hotel and rehabilitation of the historic house. Proiect Status: The site has been enlarged to include the adjacent parcel and the project is currently being revised by the applicant. Housing Authority SRO aroiect- 858 Humbert Ave. Mixed-use project including 19 single-room occupancy residential units. Project Status: Project scheduled for Planning Commission Use Permit this summer. ICON aroiect (1340 Taft) Mixed-use project containing commercial space and affordable housing units located at the intersection of Taft and Kentucky at the California Blvd. southbound exit off of 101. Project Status: The Planning Commission continued the project review at its March IOth meeting and directed the applicant to address massing, parking, and neighborhood compatibility issues. Page 4 of S 3y- I ATTACHMENT 2 Garden Street Terrace SLO Partners, LP; 1119 Garden: Mixed-use project including 95-room hotel, 34 residential condominium units, and 25,000 sq. ft. of retail building bordered by Garden, Broad, Marsh & Garden Alley. Protect Status: The Final EIR has been completed and the Advisory Body hearing process started at the beginning of the year. The revised project was introduced to the Planning Commission and public on January 27`h. The Planning Commission acted on February 24`h to recommend the City Council approve the Final EIR, Use Permit, and Tract Map. The Planning Commission recommendation is the Reduced Development and No Public Parking Alternatives. The CHC reviewed the Plannin� Commission recommendation and supported the adequacy of the EIR on March 22" . The ARC did likewise at a similar hearing on April 19`h. The City Council was introduced to the revised project and recommended alternatives on April 20`h. The Council certified the EIR with the recommended alternative on June 1". The project will now be redesigned consistent with the EIR and go before the CHC, ARC, and Council for final design review. Homeless Shelter Campus (3433 S.Higuera) Homeless shelter with bed capacity of approximately 200 persons. The proposed facility is a two-story building approximately 20,000-25,000 sq. ft. with multi- purpose rooms, offices, and kitchen/dining area. Proiect Status: The Planning Commission approved the Use Permit on June 23rd. Architectural Review Commission review will follow once site and building plans have been finalized. Naman Proiect(1029 Chorro) A new project has been submitted for this property supplanting the project reviewed in 2006. Project includes `relocation" of historic structures and demolition of buildings, and a new two-story commercial building. A defining feature of the project is a proposed paseo connecting Chorro St. to San Luis Obispo Creek. Project Status: Project was submitted in early April and is now undergoing initial environmental review. 313 South Street Apartments (ROEM Corporation) Affordable housing project of 68 units on the McCarthy's Steel site. Proposed project is 3-stories in height, approximately 140,000 sq. ft, with subterranean parking Project.Status: Project is undergoing initial project review. Village at Broad St..- 2238 Broad St. (Halfertv Development) Mixed-use project, including a Fresh & Easy neighborhood market on the Broad St. parcel between Rabobank and Fire Station#1. Project Status: Project is undergoing initial review. San Luis Obispo Coastal School District Proiect: 1642 Johnson General Plan Amendment and Planned Development Rezoning to R-4 for a proposed 88-unit residential project. Project Status: Project is undergoing initial review. Page 5 of 8 ATTACHMENT 2 Irish Hills Plaza East LLC 11980 Los Osos Valley Road Change the Land Use designation on the "Gap' property on Los Osos Valley Road between the Pacific Beach School and auto dealers from Interim Open Space to Commercial Retail to allow a large retail project. Proposed project is made up of multiple commercial buildings totaling approximately 180,000 sq. ft., including a Target store. Project Status: The Final EIR and project entitlements were approved by the City Council on September 15`. Final design review for the proposed Target store was granted by the ARC on December 14`h. LAFCO approved the annexation on January 2151. The City has issued the site grading permits and public improvement plans. Construction of site improvements is underway. Future ARC approvals are required for subsequent buildings on site. B. ON-GOING PROJECTS (Approved land use entitlements - preparing for building permits, in plan check, or under construction): Chinatown Project (most of block bounded by Palm, Morro, Monterey and Chorro) A mixed use project consisting of commercial space (retail/restaurant/office), hotel, and residential condominiums. Project Status: The project was reviewed by the ARC on October 19`h and approved by the City Council on November 17th. The project has now received its land use entitlements and the applicants are preparing the seismic retrofit/remodel plans for the first phase of the project. 2959 Broad St. Proposed new mixed-use project on the corner of Broad and Sweeney where the Enterprise car rental and Luna Rustica are currently located. Project Status: Use Permit approved by the Planning Commission on December 17`h and final design approval by the ARC on March 2, 2009. 4180 Vachell Lane Two commercial office buildings in the Manufacturing zone. Project Status: Project was approved by the ARC on September 8th. Humbert Street Housing Authority project: A market rate and affordable project consisting of 80 condominium units. Proiect Status: Conceptual design review was conducted by the ARC on January 215`. Project was recommended for approval by the Planning Commission on February-ll`h and approved by the City Council on March 17`h. Project final design was approved by the ARC review on July 20, 2009. Building permits have been reviewed and are close to issuance. 774 Caudill: Mixed-use project in the South Broad Street Planning Area containing approximately 6,000 square feet of commercial space and 4 residences. Project Status: The Use Permit was approved by the Planning Commission on Page 6 of 8 A IACHMENT 2 August 12 and the design by the ARC on September 8, 2009. 180.4/1814 Osos St. (Alano Building): Renovation of the existing building and a new mixed-use project on the adjacent site. Project Status: Revised project was recommended for approval by the ARC on January 21, 2009 and the Planning Commission on February 25'h. The City Council approved the project on April 21". The applicant is currently working on recording the final parcel map. Pacific Courtyards (321/1327 Osos St).: Mixed-Use project on the parking lot adjacent to the Seventh Day Adventist Church across Pacific St. from Mission Medical. Project proposes approximately 10,000 sq. f). of office and 12 residential units. Project Status: The Rezone and Tract Map applications were approved by the Planning Commission on July 91h and the City Council on August 19, 2008. Project received its final approval from the ARC on April 6, 2009. The Mix at Monterey (1308 Monterey): Mixed-use project consisting of 9,000 sq. ft. of commercial space and 5 residential units located at the comer of Monterey and Johnson. Project Status: Approved by the ARC on August 4, 2008 and the Hearing Officer on September 19, 2008. Building permits were issued on July 2, 2010. 1120 Morro St. (Old Granada Theater) A proposed four-story mixed use project with commercial on the ground floor and 3 floors(12 units) of residential. Project Status: Project has been approved by the CHC and the ARC. 590 Marsh (Foster's Freeze site) Mixed use project at the corner of Marsh and Nipomo containing 7,000 sq. ft. of commercial area and 13 residential units. Project Status: Project has been approved by the ARC. 956 Monterev St. Proposed 3-story mixed-use building on the comer of Monterey and Morro St. Project Status: Approved by the CHC and ARC in summer/fall, 2007. El Vaquero - 221 Nivomo (formerly Bermant Homes): A mixed use project of 5,000 square feet commercial space and 33 residential units located at the corner of Marsh and Nipomo Streets. Project Status: Approved in 2006 by the Planning Commission and City Council. Building permits are ready to issue. Four Creeks (Creekston and Laurel Creek): These two adjacent projects are made up of several parcels on Orcutt Road near Broad Street. The Creekston project proposes 86 dwelling units ranging one-bedroom units, courtyard homes, lofts, and single- family residences, including 3 affordable units. Also proposed is Commercial Service space and a day care facility. Laurel Creek proposes 180 dwellings including Page 7 of 8 By-& to - j ATTACHMENT 2 cottages, "mansions" and "manors". Laurel Creek will provide 2 Inclusionary affordable units and 10 additional affordable units under the State's BEGIN program. Project Status: Laurel Creek is currently under construction. 1292 Foothill Proposed new fraternity house (to replace existing one) and zone change of property from R-3 to R-4. Zone change includes the other R-3 property on the block west of Crandall. The Fraternity House is designed for high energy efficiency (LEED certified). Project Status: The City Council approved the project on April 15, 2008 and the ARC gave final approval on May 19`h. Village at Broad St. (formerly Maymont) 2238 Broad St, next to Fire Station #1 Revised mixed use project with approximately 35,000 square feet of commercial space and 70 residential units. Project Status: Mixed-use Overlay zone and mixed-use project approved by the Planning Commission on August 27`h and approved by the Council on October 7d'. Final ARC review was held on November 3, 2008. The approval for Parcel 3 at the rear of the site was modified this year to an affordable family housing project. These project revisions were approved by the ARC on August 3, 2009. A minor subdivision was approved by the Hearing Officer on February 5, 2010. Prado Road Business Park (400 Prado) Proposed business park/office development of 160,000 sq. ft. on a 20-acre site in the Margarita Area. Project Status: The tract map was reviewed by the Planning Commission on September 23`d and approved by the City Council on November 3rd. Final design was approved by the ARC on March 1, 2010. Long-Bonetti Ranch (3897 S. Higuera) Proposed new commercial development encompassing the historic ranch buildings, including amending the Higuera Commerce Park Specific Plan. Project status: The Specific Plan amendments have been approved by the Planning Commission the City Council. The CHC reviewed the design plans in August, 2009 and the ARC granted final approval on February 171h. 1101 Monterey A new service station and car wash on the Shell gas station site fronting on Santa Rosa, Monterey, and Higuera. Project Status: On September 23`d, the Planning Commission denied the Use Permit for the car wash. The City Council upheld the applicant's appeal and approved the project on November 3`d. The ARC granted final design review on February 17`h Page 8 of 8 ATTACHMENT 3 INITIATIVE IMPACTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND VESTED DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS CEOA REQUIREMENTS Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), "[t]he submittal of proposals to a vote of the people of the state or of a particular community that does not involve a public agency sponsored initiative" is not a "project' subject to environmental review under the Act. (Stein v. City of Santa Monica, 110 Cal. App. 3d 458 (1980) Friends of Sierra Madre v. City of Sierra Madre 25 CalAth 165(2001));14 C.C.R. 15378(b)(4). Likewise, because cities have a mandatory duty to place a qualifying voter initiative on the ballot or to adopt the initiative by ordinance, both actions are considered ministerial and, therefore, are not subject to review under the CEQA. (Native American Sacred Site and Environmental Protection Association v. City of San Juan Capistrano, 120 Cal.App.4°i 961 (2004)). However, any subsequent actions by the City to revise plans to address the impacts of the initiative measure will be subject to CEQA review. Similarly, subsequent development applicants will be required to address the elimination of the Prado Road extension through to Broad Street via environmental review of their project applications. What is less clear is the potential impacts of initiative approval on approved development and projects that are currently in process, such as the Chevron Tank Farm development proposal. If the initiative passes, the City will have to revaluate on a case by case basis whether pending projects for which an EIR has been certified or a negative declaration adopted, would require further environmental review in light of the elimination of Prado Road as an east west connection. Under CEQA, an agency must conduct further environmental review when one of the following occurs: "(a) substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revisions of the EIR [or negative declaration], (b) substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances under which the project is being undertaken which will require major revisions in the environmental impact report [or negative declaration], [or] (c) new information, which was not known and could not have been known at the time the environmental impact report was certified as complete, becomes available." (Cal. Pub. Resources Code, sec. 21166; 14 C.C.R. 15162). For projects that constitute the fust phase of development in the Margarita Area Specific Plan, it is likely that these projects would be subject to further environmental review under CEQA. However, there are significant uncertainties created by such a conclusion when CEQA requirements are evaluated in the context of vested rights under the Subdivision Map Act. Vested Rights Once a developer has a vested right to develop, which is achieved through the approval and recordation of a vesting tentative map, the City is largely precluded from taking subsequent actions that would preclude the approved development, even in the face of changed circumstances. (Avco Community Developers, Inc. v. South Coast Regional Commission, 17 Ca1.3d 785, 792 (1981)). Because the voters can do through initiative Pagel of3 Bq_/ j ATTACHMENT 3 what the City Council could only do via legislative action, an initiative also cannot interfere with a vested right to develop. (ArnelDevelopment Co. v. City of Costa Mesa, 126 Ca1.3d 330 (1981)). Because the City imposes various conditions of map approval based on conclusions and required mitigations identified through the environmental review process, this principle creates an obvious tension between the City's environmental obligations and developers' vested rights. The City conditioned the approval of the first phase of development in the MASP area on the project applicants' design and construction of the Prado Road extension to mitigate the traffic impacts associated with specific pending projects, as well as the cumulative traffic impacts associated with the build out of the MASP area. Thus, under CEQA, these projects could require further environmental review because, if the initiative is approved by the voters 1) the circumstances under which the projects were proposed will be substantially changed, and 2) the project conditions regarding the requirement to plan and construct a portion of the Prado Road could be rendered moot or infeasible by the initiative approval, which could constitute a substantial change in the specific project. For projects that are outside of the MASP, staff also anticipates a need to review pending projects to determine whether the elimination of Prado Road constitutes a substantial change in the circumstances under which the project was reviewed. If those case by case reviews reveal that the elimination of the alignment does constitute a substantial change in circumstances for a given project, further environmental review will be warranted. Once staff makes the determination that further environmental review is warranted under CEQA, the next step will be to determine whether a negative declaration, a subsequent EIR or a supplemental EIR or an addendum needs to be prepared. A supplemental EIR may be prepared when only minor additions or changes are necessary to make the previous EIR adequate, and thus, contains only the information necessary to make the previous EIR adequate. (14 C.C.R. 15163) If the initiative passes, and project applications cannot fulfill conditions of approval attached to a recorded vesting map because of the new law, the Government Code and Municipal Code provide a process by which a final map can be modified (Gov. Code sec. 66471.1; SLO Municipal Code sec. 16.14.110). The Municipal Code, which mirrors the language of the Government Code, provides as follows: Section 16.14.120 F "...the recorded parcel or final map may also be modified by a certificate of correction or amending map if: 1. There are changes in circumstances which make any or all of the conditions of the parcel or final map no longer appropriate or necessary; and 2. The modifications do not impose any additional burden on the present fee owners of the property; and 3. The modifications do not alter any right, title, or interest in the real property reflected on the recorded map; and Page 2 of 3 �7 � 1 ATTACHMENT 3 4. The city public works director and the community development director find that the map, as modified, conforms to the provisions of these regulations, the general plan and the Subdivision Map Act. So, while there is a mechanism to modify approved maps, the City is precluded from doing so in a manner that would alter vested rights or impose additional burdens on property owners. This would present significant uncertainty where subsequent environmental review suggests that additional mitigations are necessary to address traffic impacts arising from the elimination of the Prado Road alignment, but vested rights law arguably precludes a modification of a map to condition alternatives that would constitute an additional burden. The interplay and potential for tension between environmental and vested rights requirements is clearly an area of potential adverse impacts arising from the initiative. However, the full extent of the repercussions of those tensions will not be known until staff has the opportunity to review individual and area plan environmental documents and conditions of approval in more detail. Page 3 of 3 ATTACHMENT 4 OTHER CHANGES REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH INITIATIVE There are other areas where changes will be needed in addition to those identified by initiative proponents if the initiative is successful. These changes would be needed to ensure the General Plan and all associated specific plans and implementation documents are internally-consistent as required by Government Code Section 65583(c). HASP Pae Section Comment 4 Open Space and Sensitive Resource Paragraph contains acreage of parks— Protection this would need to be updated to reflect initiative pro osal 10 Parks, Greens, and Trails Updated acreage to reflect initiative 57 7.1.1 Potable Water Paragraph refers to Figure 22. Initiative would need to include similar language in 7.2 Sewer 57 7.1.2 Reclaimed Water Paragraph refers to Figure 22. Initiative would need to include similar language in 7.2 Sewer 76 3. Overall the plan calls for 25 acres Initiative changes acreage at beginning of parkland.... of paragraph but fails to address end of paragraph where acres is also listed.. Initiative fails to address cost assignment of extraparkland? 78-79 Tables 12a and 12b Assigns parkland costs based on acreage assumptions in plan. Initiative did not ro ose edits to assign additional costs. 87 'Table 14 Other parks and Funding source for additional 4 acres of greenways I park has not been identified. AASP Pae Section Comment 6-8 1" line on page Initiative failed to update this sentence The Acacia Creek path extends to be consistent with intent. south ...and crosses the Prado Road extension via an under-crossing. 6-17 6.4.1.2 Standard refers to section of Broad Street between Prado and Tank Farm. Initiative failed to update this sentence to be consistent with intent. 8-9 2ndline, first column Verbiage refers to section of Broad Street south of Prado Road. Needs to be clarified if Prado no longer connects to Broad. 8-11 Table 8.6 Transportation Facilities: Needs to be clarified if Prado no longer Page I of 2 ATTACHMENT 4 Broad Street Median Improv. South connects to Broad. and North of Prado Other Pae Section Comment n/a Zoning Map Prado road extension to Broad is shown on Zoning map. Amendment to zoning map will be required. Bicycle Master Plan Pae Section Comment Fig IB Needs to be clarified if Prado no longer connects to Broad. Fig 2B Needs to be clarified if Prado no longer connects to Broad. Fig 2C Needs to be clarified if Prado no longer connects to Broad. 36 1 Appendix I MASP—refers to Prado 45 List of Bikeway projects Lists Prado east to Broad. Needs to be clarified if Prado no longer connects to Broad. ? List of bike project priorities— Needs to be clarified if Prado no longer Broad/Sacto Link references Prado connects to Broad. connection to Broad List of bike project priorities—Prado Needs to be clarified if Prado no longer East extension to Broad connects to Broad. Parks and Recreation Master Plan Page 36 Implementation: Figure under Program 5.10.1 shows Prado connection to Broad. Needs to be updated if Prado no longer connects to Broad Street. Airport Land Use Plan Figure I 1 shows Prado Road alignment and connection to Broad Street. Needs to be updated if Prado no longer connects to Broad Street. Page 2 of 2 13y--7 a _ATTACHMENT 5 HISTORY OF PRADO ROAD ALIGNMENT The extension of Prado Road frone Higuera Street to Broad has been planned for almost a half century....even before this area was annexed to the City. The alignment of Prado Road has been before the Planning Commission and the City Council numerous times and even though key decisions have been made, it continues to be an issue for some members of the community. Although shown in General Plans as early as 1962, statements have been made that resolution of the road and its alignment have been somehow hidden from the public and segmented so as to preclude public input and circumvent the CEQA process. That is not the case. Exhibit A contains detailed matrices of planning efforts to date on the Prado Road alignment issue. The list of projects, planning documents, environmental review and modifications to the Prado Road extension is long and historic. 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R O n > V• � p R r O O C �- OO G O > .� Cfl ■ 0 o, 0 0 N C' O 'j. b p 7 R w ca R a 0 V > N s U BY-7 8' RECEIVED 1°����i��iu�rllllllll�"' iIIIIIII Co un c omn ou JUL 2 0 2010 ` SLO CITY CLERK July 6, 2010 RED FILE MEETING AGENDA TO: City Council DATE I 20 io ITEM #_ T-If L VIA: Katie Lichtig, City Manager COUNCIL CDD DA CAO FIN DIP ACAO FIRE CHIEF FROM: Jay Walter, Public Works Director ATTORNEY ?PW DIP Tim Bochum, Deputy Public Works Director ¢f CLERK/ORIG ;Z POLICE CHF CLEPI HEADS REC DIR UTIL DIP SUBJECT: Item B-4: Margarita Area Specific Plan Initiative / T 4 HR DIP tJ ?1rtES -abu ut- we K There have been several questions and comments raised by Mr. Sullivan in regards to the preliminary traffic analysis referred to in the staff report. The purpose of this Council Memo is to address these questions and comments related to traffic. 1. "The author admits that this traffic model needs to be upgraded to a better model and that potential neighborhood traffic impacts remain uncertain." The traffic model used in the preliminary traffic analysis of the initiative is a City-wide multimodal travel demand model that has been developed over the last 2 years by LSA Associates, which included development assumptions for all areas of the City and county. The model has been developed using updated demographics and was used in the recently approved Highway 1 Major Investment Study (MIS). The staff report states that the model is being upgraded to better model various modal elements; meaning the transit, pedestrian, and bicycle elements of the model are being refined for all areas of the City. The traffic model is substantially complete and has been reviewed by other agencies (SLOCOG, Caltrans) as part of the Hwy 1 MIS project in terms of vehicular traffic. These forecasts reflect the most up to date information we have regarding traffic volumes and future land use. As for the information in the agenda report, the percentages reported reflect the roadway system modification that would result from approval of the Initiative and deletion of the segment of Prado Road adjacent to the Damon-Garcia property. The model was run with and without this road segment, and a comparison of redistributed volumes has been reported for consideration. 2. "Figure 2 shows no change in traffic volume along the Santa Fe Road extension connecting Prado Road to Tank Farm." The table reports on existing segments of roadway that have been previously identified as areas of concern. Future forecasts for future Santa Fe and Prado were not included. 3. "Before one can mare sense of the traffic analysis in 6._ .'.ouncil Agenda Report, one must know what assumptions were made. Which, if any, of the following mitigating factors were or were not incorporated in the traffic analysis model used for the Council Agenda Report of 20 July 2010, Item B- 4:" "(a) Alternate design of U.S. 101/Los Osos Valley Road(LOVR) intersection to 4 lanes?" Yes, a four lane overpass at the LOVR/101 interchange pursuant the Council's adopted "preferred" project was assumed in both scenarios(2 lanes East Bound and 2 Lanes West Bound). "(b) Connection of U.S. 101/LOVR intersection directly to Buckley Road? (Note: In early 2010 I, Michael Sullivan, received a letter from Tim Bochum of City of SLO, in response to my earlier concerns about the plan for the U.S. 101 / LOVR intersection. I had recommended that the intersection should connect to Buckley Road directly, a concept that had been proposed earlier." No. This connection has not been adopted by the City Council as a component of the Circulation Element. "(c) Elimination of planned signal at Broad Street and Prado Road?" Yes, signalization of this intersection is not assumed in the second model since this section of Prado Road and the intersection itself is deleted at Broad Street. "(d) Elimination of planned signal at Broad Street and Capitolio?" No, signalization of this intersection is not assumed in either scenario for modeling purposes. "(e) Improvement of Tank Farm Road to 4 lanes along its entire length?" Yes, pursuant to the AASP, widening of Tank Farm road to 4 lanes between South Higuera and Broad Street is assumed in both scenarios. "(t) Inclusion of planned U.S. 101/Prado Road full intersection, with connection to Madonna Road and also with connection from Dalidio Drive to LOVR as planned in the General Plan?" Yes, pursuant to the General Plan Circulation Element, the planned 101/Prado Interchange with connection to Madonna Road is assumed in both scenarios. "(g) Potential improvement of Buckley Road to 4 lanes?" No. This connection has not been adopted by the City Council as a component of the Circulation Element "(h) Also, concerning the several junctions along Prado ►._ad within the Margarita Area, and the junction of Tank Farm Road and Santa Fe Road: Would it make a difference if these junctions were roundabouts rather than signals? Why or why not? " Staff is not able to respond factually to these questions without substantial additional analysis. A mixture of roundabouts and signals are discussed within the Margarita Area Specific Plan and Airport Area Specific Plan. See these documents for discussion and comparison of these types of traffic control. t%mt l agenda reports49ry aIhx,"®Nnasp initiative sling toMAtem to-margarita initative.doc From: Ken Hampian [mailto:kchampian@charter.net] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 2:49 PM To: John Ashbaugh; Marx, Jan; Settle, Allen; Carter, Andrew; Romero, Dave Cc: Dietrick, Christine; Lichtig, Katie; Cano, Elaina Subject: Prado Road Measure Mayor and City Council Members: As you know, I have not written or expressed an opinion about a City issue since my departure from City service in January. My goal has been to step back and in no way interfere as our City moves forward during this period of new leadership and change. However, I so strongly oppose the Prado Road Ballot Measure that I must express myself now, prior to when this topic will be discussed by Council on July 20. Attached are my reasons for opposing the measure and my observations about the emotional arguments and misinformation upon which the "case" for the measure primarily rests. I would appreciate it if the attached document could either be included in the agenda packet for the July 20, 2010 meeting or distributed as a formal Red File shortly after the public distribution of the meeting agenda on July 13. I am glad that the Council will engage in a factual discussion of the issues on the 20th. But more importantly, I hope that Council members, given your many opportunities to interface with the public, will work hard in the coming months to get the correct information out to our fellow residents. A lot is at stake. Thank you very much. Ken Hampian RECEIVED JUL 15 1010 SLO CITY CLERK D CoP �prt L COUNCIL 2-006 DIR " RED FILE ®' 49 Giry " � L�'FIN DIR CAG ' q�&M"FiRE CHIEF M ING AGENDA �TTCRNEY 3-PW DIR DA aOI ITEM # !3 CLERKtOR10 i;OLICa OMl❑ DEPT HEADS EC DIRP(aOUTIL CIA RR CIR t � Ncw�nz�s ��Net� '0_4 TY 62 WE SHOULD OPPOSE THE PRADO ROAD MEASURE BECAUSE... 1. H.L. Mencken was right! As essayist H.L. Mencken said, "For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat ... and wrong." If the Prado Road measure passes, years of rigorous study, public input, and thoughtful decision making will be replaced by a series of"just say no" rewrites to our Land Use and Circulation Elements, Margarita and Airport Area Specific Plans, and Zoning Map. It is wrong to treat such complex, high-stakes planning and traffic engineering policies in such a simplistic, cavalier manner. 2. The case for the measure relies on emotional and false arguments. SLO is a great community for a lot of reasons. One big reason is that even when we feel passionately about issues, we almost always make our decisions in thoughtful and informed ways. The case against the northerly alignment relies on emotional arguments and misleading information. But the emotional case is weak, and as exposed in a 2003 Tribune editorial, with just a little fact-finding and critical thinking, the case quickly falls apart (see "Observations about the Emotional Arguments'. 3. The measure offers no alternatives to improve east-west travel in SLO. While initiative proponents may verbally toss around alternatives, there is absolutely nothing in the measure itself that provides a solution to our cross-town travel problem. Instead, it simply leads to a dead end — literally. 4. The adopted alignment is way better than the ugly alternatives. The two other road alignment options that have been extensively discussed and studied are to re-route Prado Road to Industrial Way or to Tank Farm Road. As Mayor Romero recently said, these options are "both terrible!" Anyone concerned about safety should hate the Industrial Way option. It would run the traffic right through a much safer dedicated park entrance, bi-sect parking lots, and route traffic right next to the restrooms and a snack bar. Tank Farm Road, offered up by measure proponents as the. simple fix, isn't so simple! For example, 10 years ago the Santa Lucia Homeowners Association, representing thousands of residents in the Edna-Islay neighborhoods, went on record in opposition to this option because of neighborhood traffic and safety concerns. Others along Tank Farm Road, such as businessman Doug Hoffman of San Luis Paper, also strongly oppose this alternative because of existing traffic and safety issues at Tank Farm and Santa Fe Roads (see June 27, 2010 Tribune Viewpoint). S. It will be so hard to agree upon another alignment that we are more apt to implement half measures or—worse yet-do nothing. Half-measures have been tried before with poor results. For example, LOVR dead-ends into South Higuera (instead of connecting to Vachell Lane and Buckley Road) because a few people who opposed the extension carried the day back in the 1970's. If we.take half-measures or do nothing, at a minimum traffic will get worse on LOVR, Tank Farm Road and South Street (the modifications to South Street to make it safer for children was deemed viable only because the Prado Road extension was assumed in our future). And traffic will get worse and compromise safety in many other neighborhoods as we all pursue our favorite short-cuts and meanderings in order to get across town. 6. The measure, if successful, will flush a gigantic investment of public and private resources, and it will cost millions more in pursuit of a mythical "win-win"alternative promised by measure advocates. Millions in public and private resources were invested in making an alignment decision and finalizing related plans (such as the Orcutt Road, Airport Area, and Margarita Specific Plans). Costs were driven by studies, land acquisition, staff time, environmental work, design, and the public process (including numerous advisory body and council hearings). It will also cost tax payers millions more to do it all over again — and it will be even harder next time. And what about the area property owners? Many are long-time local residents who worked in good faith through our complex and expensive processes over the course of a decade or more. If the measure passes, there will be many costly changes for them, too (e.g. a map prepared by measure proponents shows Prado Road re-routed through an approved Margarita subdivision). 7. There will be other hidden public costs, like the price of housing. While staying within our growth limits, the City's Housing Element says that we need more housing if we are to have any hope of impacting our affordability problem. The the Margarita and Orcutt areas are where most of this new housing will be built. But if the measure passes, this housing will be delayed for a very long time as we try to figure out and pay for a new circulation system. This delay will drive housing prices higher. 8. It represents ballot box planning and governance at its worst. Our state government is dysfunctional in large part because ballot box governance has elevated single interests above the greater good. The Prado Road measure is about achieving a single interest that a handful of people could not achieve through the appropriate governance process. If their single-minded quest succeeds, a community- wide goal that has been affirmed by City leaders since 1962 — improving east-west travel in SLO by extending Prado Road — will be set back for years or killed entirely. i Observations about the EMOnONAL AI GUMENM Regarding child safety, as said in a 2003 Tribune editorial, 'Although concems about a four lane road that 'bisects the playing fields and open space park'sounds worth fiohtwa for, closer inspection shows that it is not.n Virtually every SLO park, playing field and school ground is bordered by a road (or roads) — and often by huge roads. For example, Highway 1 runs past Santa Rosa Park, LOVR runs past Laguna Junior High, Tank Farm runs past Islay Hill Park, and Highway 227 runs past Meadow Park and the Damon-Garcia fields. Prado Road will be designed to safely separate field users and cars. Only at one small point will it get slightly closer to the playing fields (701 than 227 is right now along the entire park frontage (761 — and this will only happen if and when the road is widened from two to four lanes many years (or decades) from now. Regarding fostering "a city that resembles...Los Angeles," if you don't like big city traffic congestion, you should hate this measure! If this ballot measure stops us from completing a desperately needed road extension, we will have growing and severe traffic problems on many streets in SLO into the distant future. We won't be like Los Angeles (an absurd and overused comparison), but it will be bad enough. Regarding the integrity of the northerly alignment decision, few City issues have been more thoroughly, openly and repeatedly discussed than the Prado Road alignment. Every question and false assertion has been addressed — over and over. One big false assertion is that the property was bought solely for playing fields and only later was land "switched" and "cordoned off" for a road. Here's the truth: the land was appraised and bought with the explicit understanding that 3-4 acres would be for the road alignment. And here's the proof! See page 1 of the June 15, 1999 land purchase Council agenda report. Initiative sponsors were given this document years ago. Regarding the environment, the City completed the Damon-Garcia field project in a way that turned an environmental sow's ear into a silk purse; the road will be built with great sensitivity, too. Things take longer to get done in SLO because we are rigorous when it comes to following — and typically exceeding — environmental requirements. The Prado Road project is no exception. The adopted alignment was studied extensively and publically; the process met or exceeded all CEQA requirements; and the project includes numerous mitigation measures (such as the protection of cultural resources). Regarding childhood asthma, it is simply not right to use this illness to bolster the proponents' emotional case! As we parents of asthmatics know, the causes of asthma are complex and varied, as are the methods for prevention and treatment. But if we are concerned about community air quality (and we should be), we know that improving air quality requires regional strategies. We can do our part by completing our General Plan road network, rather than perpetuating more traffic congestion by falling prey to a fear based ballot measure. From: Christine Mulholland[SMTP:CDEV@THEGRID.NET] RECEIVED Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 1:43 :37 PM JUL 15 1010 To: Council, S1oCity Subject: Prado Road Initiative SLO CITY CLERK Auto forwarded by a Rule Dear Mayor and Council Members, It is clear to me that the Prado Road Initiative will strengthen the long term circulation of the southern area of town. The council left room for four lanes for Santa Fe Road to join the eastern end of Prado Road with Tank Farm when approving the Margarita and Airport Area annexations. Santa Fe will be realigned down to Buckley Road, which will be the southern circulator route, and Tank Farm, which is the industrial and commercial road, will become four lanes from Broad Street to South Higuera. I believe it is time to recognize the importance of the resource we have with the South Street Hills Open Space adjacent to the Damon- Garcia Sports Field. Now is the time to support the option to utilize the entire area as a recreational jewel, including the important archeological grinding holes. Pedestrian and bicycle pathways should join the two parcels, which should not be separated by a four lane truck route. It makes no sense to have a new four lane intersection at Broad Street, between Capitolio, which will be signalized, and the signal at Industrial Way. The circulation element is woefully out of date, but you have the opportunity now to support better long term planning. I urge you to adopt the Initiative outright and direct staff to fully utilize the then abandoned right of way for enhanced recreation. The city's long term circulation plan will be improved and the language of the original purchase of the Damon-Garcia property for recreation with be honored. Sincerely, Christine Mulholland 544-6618 lira copy Q'COUNCIL p'CDD DIR RED FILE G*�ark/46e 0-FIN DIR — MEETING AGENDA A TORNEY FIRE CHIEF DA a4 l') ITEM # 2'W DIR �LEpK'dRIQ . CfiP0610E CHF 0 OPT HIM �"A6A DIFF UTIL 61R _ rJA�eD Ce�Y �jq�� F j G/COUNCIL B'CDD DIR RED FILE ' l3'eA�u� 2 I�-FIN DIR IRE CHIEF - MEETING AGENDA �rrORNEY caw DIR July 15, 2010 DAT �� /O ITEM :& C�CL�gf�lbgld �61�ICE CHF C CI DEPT HIIAba U-q�C D!A M'UTIL NA Dear Mavor Romero and San Luis Obispo City Council Members, ;_ --mac � b'Hq DIA r. i Nin. �GciulecL There are four major reasons to support the Prado Road Initiative and to prevent this small 94 41 portion of road from being built on the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields property,adjacent to the South Hills Open Space. The initiative will facilitate a logical alternative route that would actually improve current traffic circulation problems, provide for health and safety, boost tourism and business and help to leave a positive legacy for the next generation. This initiative process came about as a last resort. Members of our group have worked for over ten years with various Council members and City officials in different capacities,and still feel that our vision has been ignored. As evidence, I have attached past correspondence,letters and e—mails to illustrate this point. (Attachment A: Pages 1-9) Our group has many more on file. Some people find one of the most interesting pieces of information on Page 3—a portion of an EIR where you, Mayor Romero encouraged then-City Council members to align this extension of Prado Road to Tank Farm Road and to not go through the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields and South Hills Open Space in May 2002. There is also an e-mail(Attachment A: Page 7) to constituent Alan Thomas in 2006, where you,Mayor Romero, responded that you were"unaware"that a road was ever going to go through the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields. In brief,and with all due respect, it is this lack of clear communication,years of frustration and a better vision that have caused this initiative. After hours of research and also guidance from an environmental attorney, this initiative was created by Mike Sullivan, Bill Wilson and me. We were able to successfully get this initiative before City voters thanks to dozens of enthusiastic individuals who circulated the petitions and over 3,700 people who signed our petitions.. On July 20,2010,you will have the option to adopt this initiative into law,rather than have it proceed to the November 2010 election. It is my sincere hope that that is your choice. If you as a City Council choose to have the initiative go onto the ballot in November 2010, citizens will decide whether they want to support a future San Luis Obispo that resembles a sprawling Los Angeles or a San Luis Obispo that has a healthy, small-town ambiance,an improved circulation plan, soccer fields and adjacent open space for recreation. Although the importance of the Prado Road extension has been highlighted in the report that City staff prepared, I ask that you reexamine the data with an educated ear and eye. I also RECEIVED JUL 15 2010 1 SLO CITY CLERK l think it is critical that this road be staked out even in the simplest form,to demonstrate the impacts to the playing fields,the serenity of the open space and the reality that this extension will actually impede traffic in the area. I also ask that you review information from the expert traffic engineer and instructor Eugene Jud sent under separate cover and on Attachment A : Page 1 prior to the July 20, 2010 City Council meeting and for you to ask him questions at the meeting,when he will present his findings. As elected officials, I also encourage you to direct Mr. Bochum to answer some of the questions that he was unable to do for me in a recent e-mail. (Attachment A: Page 10) You could ask him to answer these questions and to help stake this project out for the public to view as soon as possible. Our City's woefully outdated circulation plan does not take into consideration the tremendous amount of construction that has been given the green light during the past decade west of Highway 101,including Target, Costco,and Home Depot. Many wonder why we not have an improved Los Osos Valley Road interchange now given all of this approved development. As for the eastern part of our City, we need a circulation element that includes a widened Tank Farm Road for our industrial and commercial route, Buckley Road as our enhanced circulator route, and Santa Fe Road realigned to connect the two. These changes, along with alternative public transportation,walking and Class-1 bike paths will all work to support new environmental mandates. These improvements alone will boost property values and tourism and protect the environment. The small portion of Prado Road from the future Margarita Development can be directed south and connect to Tank Farm at the Santa Fe intersection,instead of bisecting the Damon- Garcia Sports Fields and adjacent South Hills Open Space. Traffic will flow more efficiently and the fields and open space will be saved. This recommendation is highlighted in the basic maps Attachment A: Pages I 1-14. On Tuesday evening when this matter officially comes before the City Council, I hope to have time to show you the enhanced maps of the extension of Prado Road going down to Tank Farm and a map that shows how this area will look when we reclaim the 4.5 acres originally purchased for recreation adjacent to the South Hills Open Space. The Prado Road Initiative staff report states that there have been many Environmental Impact Reports (EIR) completed on parts of Prado Road. However, the major concern I still have about the way Prado Road is being dealt with is that as a whole project - it is being illegally segmented according to CEQA. Portions of Prado Road appear tangent to the Dalidio property, the Margarita Plan, the Airport Plan and the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields. What has bothered me for years is that, according to CEQA, if a City knows it has a project, like Prado Road from Madonna to Broad Street, it is supposed to present that project in its entirety and study the cumulative effects of the entire project in a comprehensive EIR. 2 Although I have brought this up more than once over the years, no one on the City Council has responded to this illegality. Please call for an EIR that studies Prado Road as it is currently proposed in City documents. More than one myth will be exposed'as to the need for this extension of Prado Road on Damon-Garcia Sports Fields property. A comprehensive EIR will also help to safely redirect traffic to Tank Farm Road at an improved Santa Fe Road. It would be prudent to know what can and cannot be mitigated before additional commercial or residential construction is approved and/or built along the proposed four- lane truck route. An EIR of this nature would adequately reveal the flaws in proposing a four- lane truck route through a new residential neighborhood, like in the Margarita Plan, it would also expose the risks of putting a four-lane elevated truck route adjacent to soccer fields with young children and soccer balls. The EIR would expose the health risks of emissions from cars and diesel trucks while they idle at the proposed intersection and new signal at Broad Street and Prado Road since traffic will be backed up on Prado Road, waiting to turn left or right and traffic will back up on Broad, waiting to turn onto Prado Road. The other fact that would be exposed is that currently on paper, this four-lane truck highway would go west, across the foothills, through a neighborhood with roundabouts and end up at Highway 101 where currently there exists a one-lane on-ramp onto the highway near the classic Sunset Drive-In and the soon to be expanded Prado Day Center. Again, a comprehensive EIR has never been completed and although Prado Road is referred to in multiple area specific plans there is not a comprehensive EIR of Prado Road from Madonna to Broad Street. Also, as a taxpayer, I would like a complete explanation of who exactly is going to pay for this four-lane truck highway. In regard to protecting the health and safety of citizens, local soccer parents and players have applauded our efforts. They feel that the outcome of this initiative will best provide for a healthy, safe environment for young and old alike. Constituents do not want the noise, fumes and visual blight of another four-lane truck highway running perpendicular to four-lane Broad Street, which already borders the fields on one side. The staff report states that several sports fields have a major highway adjacent to them, but they do not highlight that the Prado Road extension would actually sandwich athletes between four- lane Broad Street and four-lane Prado Road. That configuration is simply a recipe for disaster. Also, parents in particular do not want their children to use the proposed pedestrian tunnel underneath the four-lane truck route to go from the fields to the open space and Margarita development. Constituents also want to reclaim the 4.5 acres of land for sports fields that is currently cordoned off from public use, land that was originally part of the 23.5 acres that were purchased for$2 million from the Damon-Garcia family . In Attachment A: Page 8, Bill Wilson in October of 2004 shows that the action item approved by the City Council was specifically for a Purchase and Sales agreement to acquire 23.5 acre portion of the Damon-Garcia Ranch at a cost of$2,000,000 for the purpose of constructing sports fields. The motion was carred 5:0. As a reminder, the original bond for the purchase of the property was so exact that the Army Corp of Engineers held the construction of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields up for nearly 14 months. The staff there wanted to be sure that no portion of the Prado Road was built. Once the Army Corps was satisfied, construction on the fields was started, and finished in record time. The entire community was ecstatic to have this park- like setting to recreate, adjacent to the South Hills Open space. Later, when some citizens began to wonder why part of the sports field's acreage was not developed, they questioned City officials, including Mayor Romero. Many people were told "not to worry", that it was just a"paper road" and that it would not be built on. Again, this is the frustration that eventually fueled this initiative. The current staff report also states that the area we want to reclaim will have no clear use for recreation. I completely disagree with that statement and would be happy to have a design team meet with you as early as September 30, 2010 with drawings for potential recreational uses and a budget for the construction. Additionally, I would volunteer to help to fundraise for this public, emerald gem!. The staff report also states that Prado Road will simply dead end at the on the west back side of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields. That area will most certainly become an area for increased parking and provide access to the fields from the west side of the turf. As a teacher for three decades, I am also concerned in the days of a struggling economy, childhood obesity and asthma,that we protect our soccer fields so that people young and old, with varying degrees of fitness, can have a park-like setting to actually safely play soccer or simply enjoy the outdoors. As the recent World Cup fever and drama attested, soccer is embraced by many as it allows individuals from a wide variety of socio-economic backgrounds and different body types, genders, religions, ethnicities and athletic abilities to play together. Most business professionals will support this initiative as tourism will increase and businesses will net the profits.Not only will people come here for soccer tournaments, but the resulting open space,walking, running and bike trails will thrill tri-athletes, dog walkers and nature lovers of all levels of fitness. The other magnet for tourism will be the preservation of the visible 5,000-year-old Chumash archaeological site that borders the sports fields and open space. This site is actually in the path of the proposed four-lane truck route. 4 �1 -1 Our group is not about"i no growth"; we are for"smart growth." Itis absurd to put a four- lane highway adjacent to the fields on land that was originally purchased for recreation and to ask children to use a pedestrian walkway beneath that same elevated. four-lane truck highway for ingress and egress. We also believe it is not"smart growth"to put a four-lane truck route with its planned roundabouts through a new neighborhood of 1,000 homes and a fourth traffic light on Broad Street in a zone that is less than a mile in length. Additionally, our initiative dovetails perfectly with the widely publicized 2010 Chamber of Commerce core values and goals. As the Chamber aims to"keep San Luis Obispo one of the world's greatest places to live and work,protect air quality, scenic beauty, open space ,unique character and sense of community and to help businesses understand and embrace diversity and have San Luis Obispo grow in a manner consistent with protecting community character and quality of life." Our initiative also perfectly reflects City goals and attributes. From the City website it states under our City's economic health that, a vibrant economy depends on the health of its community,including its social and physical environment. San Luis Obispo enjoys a superior quality of life by investing heavily in its economic, social,and environmental health." The City website also states that,"With the charm of small town, clean air, low crime rates, excellent.schools, and no major traffic problems, San Luis Obispo is an inviting city that promotes a healthy lifestyle"and that"San Luis Obispo's air quality is at or below the California standard for acceptable ozone levels every day of the year." The website also asserts that residents of San Luis Obispo can find many ways to enjoy the outdoors: walking,running,tennis, golf, surfing,horseback riding, hiking, cycling, and even birding. By supporting this initiative you can acknowledge that we can take pause and provide an improved infrastructure that is safe, healthy and logical for our award-winning City. As one of the proponents of this initiative I know that this is a"grass roots"movement that is going to change the course of our City and I am asking you to be unafraid to support the logical alternative route now. The passage of this initiative will be a"win-win" solution for the growing pains of San Luis Obispo and will terminate the Prado Road extension,now commonly referred to as "the road to nowhere"by many residents. Although this initiative simply extracts a small portion of Prado Road from bisecting the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields and South Hills Open Space it will improve a woefully outdated circulation plan, boost tourism and local business, support health and safety and protect the integrity of and enhance the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields and South Hills Open Space. 5 1 Please feel free to contact me anytime to discuss my concerns and/or to meet me at the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields for an onsite look at my concerns and to view the viable alternatives. Sincerely,, / p I J� V4I- c -�11�./'r� Mil Vu. h-La Barre 650 Skyline Drive San Luis Obispo, California 93405 Cell: 805-441-5818 6 Attachment A From: Mila Vujovich-La Barre 14 pages total 7 I _ 1 Initiative would alter only a small part of �-- --- planned route ' --- In your Editor's Note(June 17)you said 1010 fifarsh Street the initiative proposed for the November seen rLds cbMM CA saaat --- - ballot to prevent Prado Road from 8051646-8208 t being extended adjacent to the DamonFox 805/646 - - Garcia sports fields in San Luis Obispo I—-- might scuttle the city's Prado Road Plan July 1 - July 89 2010 ----- altogether and housing development along with it.Sounds dramatic! VOWME 24f NUMBER 48 In reality,only the eastern fifth of the - - road on your map would be realigned, --- turned to a southerly direction to lead directly into Tank Farm Road.This was - — — --- one of the alternatives studied before. • Prado Road initletive -- - According to the Environmental Impact - - would Improve �'aftic Report of 2003,a resident wrote: "An alternative...would be to extend circulatlon -- - -- Prado Rd in a SE direction from the - The story about the SLO city Frady Margarita Area to connect to Tank Farm Road initiative("Not in my sports field,. R&...and thereafter use Tank Farm Road June 17)•lacked accurate information.It -- as the arterial access.This alternative stated Prado,Road would extend"through ---- would eliminate the need to construct a portion of the South Frills Open Space a ri4 mile of the Prado Rd and alongside the Damon-Garcia Sports approximately mat Broad St.mile would create less Fes."��'�dosed four-lane' environmental damage,would sate less ---- - - - truck-routs highway and a major new --the roamconflito with the Damon-Garcia . bridge would be within the boundaries of fields and eliminate the need for Damon-Garcia Sports Fields park,taking sports - away about four and a half acres that an additional signalized intersection on were on'gnially purchased for sports and _ - Broad St.Traffic movements"(particularlyrecreation ° — trucks)can be better accommodated_In The story claim ,"City grvwth depends my view this alternative is clearly superior m _ on whether Prado Road becomes the ajor - - to any alternatives-Dave Romero,Former link between the east and west sections Council MemberA of the municipality."That's opinion,not These wise words by Romero,who is now --- fact.The current circulation plan would the mayor,are the basis of the initiative. actually be enhanced by eliminating the The road project as currently planned would proposed short 0.4-mile branch of Prado - lead to higher construction costs due to the - -- --- - tunnel(think of - - }toad��the sports fields and open much-�p�Pedestrian I space.Traffic would flow easily through - - _ the potential for crime).The official project -_ -- the southern alignment of Prado Road has to cross a creek leading to a complicated connecting to Tank Farm Road at Santa• procedure with the Corps of Engineers.TheI _ _ Fe.Esteemed civil engineer Eugene Jud initiative avoids the above issues,but allows maculates that if the initiative passes, - full building development—practically future east west traffic-carrying capacity identical to existing plans.City development —— in southern SLO would be more than and business would not suffer from the adequate initiative.On the contrary,livability and — Circa 1960,the city had plans for a land prices in the Margarita Area would - - - highway connecting Foothill Boulevard to go up because most trucks would be moved Madonna Road,passing through land now - to four-lane Tank Farm Road and to -- - known as Laguna Lake Park.The road - Buckley Road. was later denied by a forward-thinking The initiative offers the same east-west " city council that wanted to preserve the average daily traffic capacity in vehicles valuabk parkland and open space.The city (ADT)as the current plan,namely a total grew and flourished,and a park was saved. _-- of 64,000 vehicles,if Prado,Tank Farm - The Prado Road initiative will improve -and Buckley Roads are added together current traffic circulation problems, (eight lanes).This is three times more than provide for citizens'health and safety, today's traffic.There will be no unsolvable preserve accessibility to the South Pradofic llama by realigning a small part of Hills Open Space,and boost tourism and business. Eugene Judi P.E. moo vgjnvlob-La Bans Fellow Institute of San Luis Obispo Transportation Engineers San Luis Obispo L Dave Romero himself wrote in May 2002 that the Prado Road to Tank Farm Road alternative"is clearly superior to any of the other alternatives."Romero stated that this alternative was ideal and kept Prado Road out of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields. This is what our initiative now proposeL I � 1 = ' This is the document and comment that Eugene Jud referred to in his New Times Letter to the Editor 6/2010 VOLUME l.- Responses to Comments Final Program Environmental Impact Report for the Airport Area and Margarita Area. Specific Plans and Related Facilities.,Master Plans State.Clearinghouse #2000051062 Prepared for: City of San Luis Obispo Community Development Department 990 Palm Street San Luis Obispo,CA 93401 Contact: Mike Draze .805/781-7274 Prepared by: Jones &Stokes 2600 V Street Sacramento,CA 95818-1914 Contact:Maggie Townley 916/737-3000 Septemhcr 2003 RFD 0000 fit IL Im, Mel � gg gg oil[ Q 8g& S � � � as :,�•�� ,� �� �• ��. IF tilla Rif I[g is!! s a $ g" rg $ 8 �g [e IK O 6 • 8 0 do m m rr IV D �ay�6 ,� 6 c�6� �06w � G lua L'.IS 8�� � ��R _ - a F ga � U.4 4�^ Z ° C. _ $$ EEf f W ACS N S Cp n M i �I Responses to Comments by Dave Romero _ I� it Response to Comment 17-1: The comment is noted. The City will consider revisions to its URL as part of the sphere of influence study being conducted by LAFCO and the City. Although the AASP could include land outside the URL, and does include part of this area in l Alternative 3, the City would not include this much development potential within the AASP until L the issue of the URL is resolved. Response to Comment 17-2: The comment is noted. The alternative road alignments were discussed early during the public scoping process for the project and its alternatives. As a result of that process, the three project alternatives described in the draft EIR were chosen as the most appropriate. The elimination of a signal on Broad Street is part of Alternative 1, whereas the ' southeast direction and connection of Prado Road to Tank Farm Road is somewhat mirrored by Alternative 2. i Response to Comment 17-3: The comment is noted. The project involves connecting Buckley Road to South Higuera Street. However, traffic modeling predicts that the traffic generated-by development in the Airport or Margarita Areas will not be sufficient to warrant classifying and building the road as an urban arterial. Therefore, there is no need to require right-of-way dedication or acquisition at this time. Response to Comment 174: A two-lane Tank Farm Road has carrying capacity sufficient to accommodate traffic needs in the area shown for open space. The lack of turning movements and side friction allows the roadway to function at acceptable levels of service. The roadwayJill also is located along wetland and critical habitat areas, and should be designed to minimize the effects of additional right-of-way acquisitions and other effects on those areas. The two-lane I(j configuration with bike lanes is considered the widest practicable solution in this area. Buckley Road is no longer considered an arterial road. Given the low volumes of traffic that would be generated by the AASP and MASP, the City now proposes that Buckley Road remain in its current configuration—only the extension (from Vachel to Higuera Street) is proposed as a new road requiring a new configuration. This segment of Buckley Road is proposed to have two travel lanes and two bicycle lanes only. See revised Figure 3D-1 in Volume H for the correct depiction of Buckley Road. Response to Comment 17-5: The comment is noted. Caltrans has expressed no interest in Price Canyon Road as a new segment of Highway 227. Caltrans is in the process of developing a Major Investment Study for the highway from its intersection with Broad and South Streets to its intersection with Price Canyon Road. This study will determine what improvements.will be needed in the long term. However, the study will not analyze alternative alignments for the highway inside the city limits. i� i' i it Final Program Environments!Impact Report for the Z-55 Volmne 1: Responses to Comments on the Drafr E/R Airport Area and Margarita Area.Specif:c Plans and Chapter 1.Responses to Written Comments on the Draft E/R Related Facilities Master Plans 09� September 1003 [ i� J 1Z CA a �py8 @ g go bc" 8^Qg�7 o S O -0 i a •nu �•,,.r u 7 W tie n� �i!s out 0 C O � n �g r h ss 0. O � • O � u s M A O A �c E3 o, $ s I I n a Windows Live Hotmail Print,D"�ssage Pagel of 3 Re: Re: Dont split Damon Garcia �•.LC �� ®n r ®P� From: rosemary wilvert (rwilvert@sbcglobal.net) J e Sent: Fri 7/02/10 10:25 PM �,. /s To: Alan Thomas (ajt2002@pacbell.net); Mila Vujovich (milavu@hotmail.com) Wanted to mention too that your points are right on! Rosemary —Original Message From: Alan Thomas To: Rosemary Wilvert ; Mila Vujovich Sent: Friday, July 02,.2010 6:56 PM Subject: Fw: Re: Don't split Damon Garcia Hi Rosemary and Mila, I found an email exchange I had with Dave Romero back in 2006. Thought you might be interested. Not sure if my line of reasoning at the time is part of the current counter-argument strategy. In any case, they can't really say there weren't.objections on the record. Have a safe holiday, Alan --- On Fri, 6/16/06,Alan Thomas <ojt2002@pacbe11.net> wrote: From:Alan Thomas <ajt2002@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: Don't split Damon Garcia To: "Dave Romero" <dromero@slocity.org> Date: Friday,June 16, 2006, 3:21 PM Mayor Romero, Thank you for your response. I went to City Hall yesterday to review the latest planning maps regarding the location of the Prado Road extension. It does appear that Prado Road is planned to be routed through a land parcel originally designated as recreation/open space in the Damon Garcia master plan. The road would gojust north of the fields, but definitely through the complex as originally drawn up. I think this area should be left as part of the recreation complex. For one thing, this area could be used for more parking,which is deparately needed on that side of the fields. I also walked around the fields yesterday and noticed that the proposed Prado Road extension would be perilously close to the actual fields because the South Hills begin to rise up right there. Again, parking on that side of the fields would be much more beneficial. In addition, putting Prado Road just north of Damon Garcia would create a new t-intersection and stop light at Broad Street just a few hundred yards north of the Industrial Way stoplight, which is less than a quarter mile from the Tank Farm stoplight. So there will be three stoplights in quick succession on Broad street in that area. Not good for traffic flow. http://b1145w.blu l45.mail.live.com/mail/PrintShell.aspx?type--message&cpids=71 fa92ff-86... 7/3/2010 ` Windows Live Hotmail Print-!,`essage Page 2 of 3 Not being one just to complain,I offer a few ideas: 1. Re-route Prado Road to meet with Santa Fe at Tank Farm. A stop light and new intersection are desparately needed at that location. This would provide the outlet road necessary for the new Margarita development without negatively impacting Damon Garcia and the Broad street traffic flow. You could also extend a 2 lane access road/bike path from the Margarita development to the new Damon Garcia parking area just for the purpose of getting to the fields from that side of town. 2. Ask city staff to review this issue one more time. I'm sure the Public Works people at the city and county could work together to find a better alternative to what's currently planned. I would be glad to talk or meet with you if you think it would be helpful. I am not part of any "group", just a concerned SLO citizen who wants to keep SLO one the best towns on earth. Thanks, Alan Thomas 1680 Encino Ct MAIPW e0ftAX494S P&VA"Le 544-2427 t n 300& Ore rnaj G 011sfaud,& 41an AMMAS Dave Romero <dromero@slocity.org> wrote: At no time has the city ever considered extending Prado Road through the Damon-Garcia fields. Mayor Dave >>> Alan Thomas 06/12/06 09:17PM >>> Dear Mayor Romero, I can't believe that extending Prado Road through the Damon Garcia fields is even being considerd! What are you thinking? There are better alternatives proposed by the transportation experts at Cal Poly that you should really consider. It looks to me that SLO city planning is being hijacked by some people who don't have the best interests of SLO citizens and its children at heart. But that's yourjob, isn't it? This is an issue that is going to get the people energized.So stop thinking with your pocketbook and do the right thing. Respectfully, Alan Thomas 544-2427 http://b1145w.blul45.mail.live.com/mail/PrintShell.aspx?type--message&cpids=71 fa92ff-86... 7/3/2010 October 11, 2004 Mayor Romero and City Council Members 990 Palm Street San Luis Obispo, Calif. 93401 Regarding: Margarita Specific Plan, EIR, and Damon Garcia Sports Complex. Dear Council Members, All I have experienced with the Damon-Garcia Sports Complex project is alot of broken promises, wasted money, and poor planning. Allen Settle and John Ewan were on the Bond Board when the first series of bonds for the Damon-Garcia sports fields purchase were written. The original bond description for the sports fields included 25 acres, 4 baseball fields, 4 soccer fields, and no mention of a road Staff and council always say everyone knew about the road, then how come it wasn't disclosed in the original 1999 revenue bond description? How come we didn't get 4 baseball fields and 4 soccer fields? Years ago; I came to the City Council with 1500 signatures in support of purchasing all turf fields. Allen Settle you were running for mayor at the time. You even promised that you would take Prado Rd to Tank Farm Rd. You didn't keep your promise. Think twice now because you and John Ewan will both up for re-election next round and your going to be faced with the realities of a poorly planned sports complex. A project both of you helped deliver. A project that sports undersized playing fields wedged between mosquito infested creeks, and 8 lanes of highway road. Through the years, I've had Mike McCluskey tell me how the staff studied Prado Rd for years and to be quiet and to trust them because the northern alignment was the best. Staff wanted the northern alignment and planned how to get it. They planned even before they selected a site selection committee. Staff failed in their trust and responsibility to inform the site selection committee about their hidden agenda. Prado Road, was a 4 lane state highway not a "meandering little road". At every planning meeting I was told not to worry about that little road. They never talked about State Hwy 227, a truck route, with anticipated 30,000 trips per day, some transporting jet fuel. AC IWe-Moved by-Romero/Evvan to 1) adopt Resolution No. 8941 approving a.Purchase and Sales Agreement to acquire a_23.5 acre portion of the Damon-Garda Ranch at a cost of$2,000,000 for the purpose of constructing sports fields. 2) Authorize the Mayor to sign the Purchase and Sales Agreement; motion carried 5:0. pg 2 I listened to Ken Hampian tell the council that they couldn't stake out the road for the public to visivalize because the fields would be damaged. I walked the fields with head ground keepers for other sports complex fields and they say that the fields are ready to use. Staff just doesn't want me or anyone else out there to see their 8 million dollar mistake. I am still requesting from Council, the direction to have staff stake out the road and lay out the fields. Let the people see what they got for their money. Recently, I have watched staff and council move the alignment of Prado Rd around and around. Now they are slashing out a majority of the open space park that was planned near the sports complex. I have watched in disbelief as staff moves the neighborhood park out and moved in high density housing. In his recent undated letter, Paul LeSage states "we can only squeeze in three 70x110 fields." I want to seethe fields staked out justto see how that is going to work. Paul LaSage says there is not enough room on the west side of the field for another 70 x 110 field. If that is true, then the city didn't buy enough land for the 4th field. Talk about poor planning. You bought enough for Prado Rd and not enough for the kids. I always said it was the road first and kids second. For years now I have watched the city tie Prado Rd to emotionally charged projects. Prado Rd is part of the sports complex project, who would say no to the kids? Prado Rd is part of the Margarita project, who would say no to housing? Prado Rd is part of the Marketplace project, who would say no to Macy's or Target? Prado Rd was a part of the Orcutt project, who would say no to housing? Prado Rd was part of some Industrial Way/Sacramento Dr projects, thank goodness the latter two were violently rejected by the community. I am still against segmenting Prado Rd into all these projects because it has never been studied on it's own merit. The 6 lane interchange and the northerly alignment impacts were not studied in the 1994 Environmental Impact Report. The northerly alignment was only adopted in 2000. The interchange still has not been adopted. The cumulative city wide effects of Prado Rd, from beginning to end, have never been studied as a single project. There is no EIR with that title (Prado Rd) and no EIR that is exclusive to Prado Road (from a 4-15-04 I tter writtn to me by John uandeville). I would like for the city to produce those 25 acres, 4 baseball fields, and 4 soccer fields, with no road. In the beginning staff sold me on the project and someone sold the bonds on the same project, so produce it. I amoot.-against growth and development and I want more housing just like everyone else. But I am strongly against the poor planning that produced;aFAaierior sports complex wedged between mosquito infested creeks, and 8 lanes of highway road. Bill Wilson, 1690 Southwood Dr. SLO, Ca. 93401 -319 4 From: Mila Vujovich-LaBarre [mailto:milavu@hotmaii.com] Sent:Tuesday, July 06, 2010 6:42 PM To: Bochum,Tim Subject: FW: Questions to Tim Bochum Hi Tim - If possible, before Thursday morning please address the items/questions below. Please provide information about the following and please have this information available for the SLO Chamber audience on Thursday morning: 1) Development of traffic volumes in representative streets of the city in the last 5 years, including your conclusions. 2) A comparison of development of public transit passengers would be helpful too. 3) What future solutions were studied for the intersection of Broad Street and Tank Farm Road? For example dual-lane roundabout, widening, solutions with a road underpass, etc. 4) The area around this intersection, including the airport, is extremely underdeveloped when it comes to public transportation. Cal Poly students studied bus rapid transit and light rail from Cal Poly to downtown, to the airport, and farther, all the way to Santa Maria in 2007. Note that the mass transit committee to my knowledge asked that such studies be incorporated by the consultant in the upcoming North Area Regional Facility (NARF) planning. Generally, what influence would consistent transportation demand management (TDM) have on the future traffic volumes? Is this reflected in your traffic model? 5) Is a description of your new traffic model and the assumptions that support it available? 6) Are there exact figures about the relief that Prado Road through the sports fields provides to the intersection of Tank Farm and Broad Street? 7) According to the model, what percentage of the Prado Road traffic turns left and what percentage turns right when arriving at Broad St? 8) I noted the new illustration of the Prado Road intersection on your website. Could you please enhance this illustration with cars and trucks on both Prado Road and Broad Street, the traffic light masts and the children on the sports fields? 9) Would you be available to give interested parties an on site tour of Prado Road and the proposed intersection at Broad Street, including the cultural heritage in the open space? 10) Are you able to stake the road out in the near future to give constituents a clear picture of the Prado Road extention through the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields and South Hills Open Space? 11) May we park four semi trucks at the site of the proposed four-lane truck route for one week at the beginning of soccer season or mark the road with dark plastic from now until November 2, 2010 so that constituents can get a visual image of the proposed road? We would supply an information board to explain the purpose of the plastic and the initiative. Thanks for your prompt consideration and written response. 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Box 1145 -,COUNCIL V CDD DIM RED FILE San Luis Obispo,CA ii ©'CA-aCi"m(-xC L FIN Dip - MEETING AGENDA (805) 545-5919 I ffAeAo`�Cff 16'2 FIRE CHIEF O-A-TTORNEY 0� pw Dip DA to ITEM # (805) 756-1729 `RLERKr®RIG 0'00LICE ONF www.judcons.com 9EPTif�4a9 �"R�d till http://ceenve3.calpoly.edu/jud ITUTIl.biN CrHM bin July, 15,2010 NC J nates Ca aLv'l avRt elLeae. BALANCED TRANSPORTATION IN SLG-isOUTH Making Buckley Road a Regional Highway leading directly to Highway 101 relieves Tank Farm and Prado Road from traffic. Attractive public transportation such as:Bus Rapid Transit, bicycles, pedestrian facilities,car-sharing,etc. further reduce traffic jams in and near Broad Street. These two measures bring more relief to the critical intersection.of Tank Farm and Broad Street than a Prado Road adjacent to the sports fields. 1. Introduction The Prado Realignment Initiative(no road through the sports fields area)leads to the general question: E a highly car oriented SLO-South or a more sensitive and aesthetic solution based on a kley Road and attractive public transportation including Bus Rapid Transit, bicycles, ilities, car-sharing,etc T' Voters should see it that way. This report humbly sketches out a few thoughts and possibilities hopefully leading to discussions in informal or formal groups before November 2010 and to a revised Circulation and Land Use Element in the year 2012. Discussions about Prado Road started with the General Plan Map of 1962. In contradiction to today's interpretation,Prado Road is shown on the Map only as a"Major Street"without any freeway interchange and without extensions to Madonna Road or to east of Broad Street. The main (regional)"Thoroughfares"were Tank.Farm Road and Buckley Road with x full freeway interchange and leading out to the hinterland east of Broad Street Today's custom of calling Prado Road a regional route is misleading. It is an intracity arterial and some people call it the"road from nowhere to nowhere." Caltrans has made it clear that they do not consider Prado Road a regional route at all and will not contribute financially to a possible freeway interchange or a traffic light on Broad Street In addition,the feasibility of the freeway interchange at Prado Road is questionable. The interchange would be too close to the one at Madonna Road and might cost$80 million with no funding in sight It appears that Caltrans would rather consider Buckley Road a regional route from Arroyo Grande(Hwy 227)to Los Osos through the improved Los Osos Valley/Flwy 101 interchange. A traffic model was built based on data of 1996 and 1997 by Jones&Stokes,and is used until today. As so many changes have occurred in the last 40 years, a new way'of looking at traffic forecasts is needed Instead of using one growth curve alone,minimal and maximal projections employing a scenarios technique should be used Such a technique has been used,for example, in planning for Paso Robles and for air pollution control districts. Given the current economy, where traffic volumes are actually declining in some.places(while public transit is growing),the results of the traffic model should be taken"with a grain of salt." We must be very clear and transparent with the assumptions that go into"the black box." Otherwise we may use a"garbage in,garbage out" procedure,as traffic modelers call it The doom,and-gloom prophecies about the traffic collapse in the southern part of the town, should be viewed with some skepticism. We have had dozens of these prophecies in the last 40 years. Just to mention a few,all of which turned out to be unsubstantiated: 2 BALANCED TRANSPORTATION IN SLO-a0UTH a. In the 1960s,merchants wanted the area south of the Mission,including the creek,paved over with a parking lot because they feared the collapse of downtown businesses. Today, we have a pedestrian zone there(Mission Plaza),and the downtown is faring well. b. At one time,a"bypass road"between Laguna Lake and Serro San Luis was considered essential for the city. Today we have a park there and the city is still alive. c. A few years ago,the four-lane South Street was transformed through a"road diet," into a two-lane street. Many people expected"the worst,"and today the street fimctions better than ever. 2. What Has Changed Since 19%? The official Prado Road concept dates back to approximately 1996. Since then,conditions have changed dramatically.Not only has the economy"tanked,"but people,especially the younger generations,are very aware of climate change. When surveyed,95%of Cal Poly students believe in climate change,and 80%believe that it is manmade. Governor Schwarzenegger is implementing his mandates(AB32 and SB375)through Climate Action Plans(CAPS), which require considerable reductions in vehicle miles traveled by cars and trucks. In addition,the"end of cheap oil," is already happening in some countries, and much higher gas prices and more drastic measures are probable. This,and the"greening"of society, must be taken into account when discussing the transportation system of SLO-South. 3. Two Road Alternatives Compete with Each Other On the following Figure A,a less car-oriented alternative is sketched out. It shows a realigned Buckley Road leading from the east directly into the freeway interchange of Los Osos Valley Road and bypassing Vachell Lane and the two Los Verdes neighborhoods. Such an alternative is also favored by Mayor Dave Romero,although we may differ about technicalities and timing. . This alternative would reduce possible traffic jams on Tank Farm Road and Broad Street. Along the Margarita Area,Prado Road would be a two-lane residential collector, and Tank Farm Road would become a four-lane arterial,leading all the way eastward out of town. In 2003,then-citizen Dave Romero wrote a letter favoring this configuration: "An alternative...would be to extend Prado Rd in a SE direction from the Margarita Area to connect to Tank Farm Rd ....and thereafter use Tank Farm Road as the arterial access. This alternative would eliminate the need to construct approximately '/s mile of the Prado Rd. extension to Broad St., would create less environmental damage,would eliminate the conflicts with the Damon-Garcia sports fields and eliminate the need for an additional signalized intersection on Broad St. Traffic movements(particularly trucks)can be better accommodated...In my view this alternative is clearly superior to any alternatives..."(Airport Area and Margarita Area EIR, Volume 1,page 255) The official road concept,according to the Circulation Element of the City, is illustrated in Figure B. Prado Road is a four-lane"Regional Route,"going through the sports fields area. Tank Farm Road, so far, is a two-lane arterial. Buckley Road is unimportant in this concept. Appendix AI shows the estimated daily traffic volumes in the less car-oriented alternative and Appendix A2 depicts the traffic volumes of the official road concept. There is ample east-west traffic capacity when Prado,Tank Farm,and Buckley Roads are added together. Today the system carries 20,000 vehicles per day and could carry 64,000 vehicles if running at full capacity, which BALANCED TRANSPORTATION IN SLOB-SOUTH means a generous safety factor of more than three. However, in the le_cs car-oriented alternative, the intersection of Tank Farm and Broad Street could become more critical than in the ojf1cial road concept. 4. Dramatic Lack of Public Transportation . The Broad Street corridor south of Orcutt Road is hardly served with public transportation. Bus route 3 arrives only every 40 minutes and travels in only one direction. There is no bus connection at all to the airport area with hundreds of employment places around The less car-oriented alternative proposes considerable improvements through bus rapid transit(BRT),car-sharing,and possibly even light rail transit(IRT)using Broad Street or the existing railroad tracks from Cal Poly to downtown,to the airport,and further south to Santa Maria. See the visions in Appendix A3. Also generous bicycle facilities are planned, including a bike-pedestrian path without cars, from the Orcutt area all across the valley to Los Osos Valley and Madonna Roads. Also better pedestrian facilities are planned in our concept. Such measures can reduce vehicular traffic by up to 30%. 5. Improving the Intersection of Tank Farm Road and Broad Street After the above measures have been initiated,the intersection of Tank Farm Road and Broad Street should be improved. As a minimum,the intersection should be widened into the empty land northwest of it,with two more tum lanes as described in Appendix A4. Three additional lanes can be discussed,but this may mean widening the roads to a degree that the crossing of pedestrians becomes very uncomfortable. After intersection widening,the concept of a quasi-roundabout could be discussed. As shown in Appendix A5,this concept would simplify the traffic movements,be pedestrian friendly, and would even allow a little park and lake with a fountain. A bigger roundabout is shown in Appendix A6. In the long-term,as shown in Appendix A7,a two-level intersection with Broad Street going under Tank Farm Road can be imagined. This intersection would be relatively pedestrian friendly and allow the hurried air-passenger coming from San Luis Obispo,to zip smoothly toward the airport and vice versa. Therefore,the initiative appears to be supported by a modem concept of transportation and city planning. 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Alternative transportation and transportation demand management can be successfully applied in this corridor. The system plan was separated into phases in order to build up to the end goal of a countywide Light Rail Transit system in attainable intermediate steps. The first step was to introduce a conventional bus line that would provide short term access to San Luis Obispo Regional Airport from downtown San Luis Obispo.By 2015,conventional buses would be replaced by a Bus Rapid Transit system which would serve the corridor from the Airport to Cal Poly. The final phase would be to implement a Light Rail Transit serving the same corridor by the year 2030. w BRT in Eugene,Oregon. BRT Station at Broad and Sarna Barbara Streets. The Visionary Consultants propose a phased scheme. Initially, extend SLO Transit Route 3 further south on Broad Street to provide access to the airport,using public transportation. By 2020, implement Phase I, which includes the following: a bus rapid transit(BRT)line extending from the airport to Cal Poly, additional SLO Transit bus loops that cross Broad Street and have preferential treatment, and six activity centers along this main corridor. Additionally, the BRT will run in a counterclockwise rotation through the airport providing direct access to the airport terminal. By 2050, implement Phase Il, which includes replacing the BRT system with a light rail transit(LRT)along the same right-of-way as the BRT and relocating the San Luis Obispo heavy rail station. At Cal Poly and south of the airport the LRT will use the same alignment as the Pacific Coast Heavy Rail Line and extend from Santa Maria to Paso Robles. i� Marigold Transit Center and Marigold Transit Oriented Development looldng west. �=1 L A / "'.`•iii fC 4•,<At r f i r LRT Station at Airport looking west. - - t •� - y ., t° �` r,� may.,, .Jr y., •" ,r�,.,r.,•y' ..•. 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J i.S ' fit.' 4 t - 1•.✓M J - - .i Cal Poly President Baker and Eugene Jud at a Bicycle Event Rksumk Eugene Jud Resume See also www.'udcons.com Contents of Main Courses CE 221 Fundamentals of Transportation En ineenng CE 424 Public Transportation CE 527 Sustainable Mobility Results of Main Courses CE 527 Spring 10: Bicycle Path from Cal Poly to Morro Bay 2025-2040 CE 424 Fall 08: Enhancement of Regional Bus Transit to Ouesta College 2010-2050 CE 424 Fall 07: Plans for Public Transportation from Cal Poly to Airport in 2050 CE 424 Fall 05: Plans for "San Luis Obispo South 2050" CE 527 Spring 05: Plans for "San Luis Obispo Downtown + 2050" Results of Individual Students' Work 2007: Plans for Bus Rapid Transit or Rail in San Luis Obispo County 2007: Well Designed Streets for Livable Communities on the U.S. West Coast(200 pages) Main Consulting done by Eugene Jud 2010: Bicycle/Pedestrian Integration into Urban Communities, Ongoing MTI Research Project, Co-author with Professor C. Nuworsoo 2009: Providing Senior Citizen Mobility at Minimum Public Cost Research for Leonard Transportation Center CA Co-author with Professor C Nuworsoo H28 pages) 2003: Cal Poly Circulation Element' Suguestions for Implementation (200 pages) _1 For City of San Luis Obispo-Louncil meeting of 20 July 2010- Item B-4 - Voter initiative regarding Prado Road. Comments from Michael Sullivan. RECEIVED PAGE 1 of 7 ' 17 Jul 2010 A *441 I L ' — July JUL 19 2010C CDD DR 1° ❑ FIN DIR TO SLO CITY CLERK ZAnp N FIRE CM City of San Luis Obispo - City Council CLERWO Y � PW DIR Through: Cit Clerk Elaina Cano ❑ POLICE CHF City ( ) RED FILE 12 D T HEADS ❑ REO 01P NG AGENDA �' '�+�+Aum d urll <�IR From: —^---�� n Hp Dip Michael Sullivan DATE-7ho REM # ME:5 . t3 Cu j3gL 1127 Seaward Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 Tel. 805-647-4101 (temporary message) or 805-441-6981 (cell) RE: Council agenda report for 7/20/2010, item B4. Initiative Measure to enact revisions to the Margarita Area Specific Plan The city staff were required to prepare a report concerning the impacts of the voter initiative measure amending the Margarita Area Specific Plan and the Prado Road alignment, which recently qualified for the November 2010 election. Unfortunately, the report presented to Council is filled with information which is misleading, or incorrect, or highly speculative. Therefore the report has little value and little credibility. Council should take this into consideration before deciding on the voter initiative issue. Some examples follow. 1. Council Agenda Report at page 2 states, "It(the voter initiative) does not propose any alternative alignment for Prado Road, nor does it address any solutions to the resultant traffic impacts. The Initiative does not identify environmental or fiscal impacts associated with the proposed truncation of the planned East-West circulation route." This is misleading for two reasons: First,by law, such an initiative may not deal with more than one subject. This is the so-called single subject rule. The single subject which the initiative deals with is the prohibition of the so-called Northern Alignment of Prado Road, which is designed to pass through the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site. Any further expansion of the initiative to propose alternate routes for Prado Road, or to propose funding plans, or to propose new sports uses at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields, etc., would likely violate the single subject rule. Second, it is in the best interest of the City and the people of the City that after this initiative passes in November 2010, any planning and environmental review for a revised Prado Road alignment, or any review for additional sports and recreation uses at Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site, should follow the regular public review process of the City, such as Planning Commission, Parks and Recreation Commission, etc.. This would also allow full environmental review, which is not required under the voter initiative process. For City of San Luis Obispo-uouncil meeting of 20 July 2010-Item B4- Joter initiative regarding Prado Road. Comments from Michael Sullivan. PAGE 2 of 7 2. Council Agenda Report at page 4 states, "This circulation connection (meaning Prado Road) has been incorporated into the City's planning documents since (1962)....." This is misleading because the proposal in question, called the Northern Alignment of Prado Road, only came into being when Council approved it 01 Feb 2000, while the earlier proposed alignment of Prado Road, via Industrial Way, was not so controversial. 3. Council Agenda Report at page 4 claims that the voter initiative would mean that police, fire and ambulance will not be able to serve the Margarita Area well. This claim is very likely false. The Margarita Area would still be connected to the west to South Higuera Street, and to the east to Tank Farm Road and Broad Street via the Santa Fe Road extension to Prado Road, which is not altered by the initiative. 4. The traffic analysis (Council Agenda Report, p.4) is murky and uncertain. Its assumptions are not clearly stated in the Council Agenda Report. The authors admit that this traffic model needs to be upgraded to a better model and that potential neighborhood traffic impacts remain uncertain. (Council Agenda Report, at p. 6) One thing which stands out is that on Figure 2 at Council Agenda Report page 5, the map shows no change in traffic volume along the Santa Fe Road extension connecting Prado Road to Tank Farm Road. Table 1 on p. 6 also shows no significant traffic volume change for this segment. Logically, one would assume that if the Prado Road Northern Alignment is removed, traffic volume on the Santa Fe Road extension would increase significantly. The fact that such change is not included seems to indicate that this important segment volume from Prado Road to Tank Farm Road was either ignored or is considered insignificant. That seems illogical. Before one can make sense of the traffic analysis in the Council Agenda Report, one must know what assumptions were made. Which, if any, of the following mitigating factors were or were not incorporated: (a) Alternate design of U.S. 101 / Los Osos Valley Road (LOVR) intersection to 4 lanes? (b) Connection of U.S. 101 / LOVR intersection directly to Buckley Road? (Note: In early 2010 I, Michael Sullivan, received a letter from Tim Bochum of City of SLO, in response to my earlier concerns about the plan for the U.S. 101 / LOVR intersection. I had recommended that the intersection should connect to Buckley Road directly, a concept that had been proposed earlier. Mr. Bochum assured me that such a scheme could still be possible if Council should choose to pursue it.) (c) Elimination of planned signal at Broad Street and Prado Road? (d) Elimination of planned signal at Broad Street and Capitolio? (e) Improvement of Tank Farm Road to 4 lanes along its entire length? (f) Inclusion of planned U.S. 101 /Prado Road full intersection, with connection to Madonna Road and also with connection from Dalidio Drive to LOVR as planned in the General Plan? (g) Potential improvement of Buckley Road to 4 lanes? (h) Also, concerning the several junctions along Prado Road within the Margarita Area, and the junction of Tank Farm Road and Santa Fe Road: Would it make a difference if these junctions were roundabouts rather than signals? Why or why not? For City of San Luis Obispo-Louncil meeting of 20 July 2010-Item B4 - Voter initiative regarding Prado Road. Comments from Michael Sullivan. PAGE 3 of 7 Council Agenda Report at p. 7 (bottom) claims that it should not be taken for granted that an alternative(Prado Road alignment)with sufficient capacity is readily available to take the place of Prado Road. However, various feasible alternatives are possible. One possibility is explained below, in a comment made by a civil engineer in regard to the City of SLO's Final Program Environmental Impact Report, Airport Area and Margarita Area Specific Plans and Related Facilities Master Plans, Volumes 1 and 2, of September 2003. "ROADS A. Prado Rd. Consider an additional alternative to the Prado Rd. extension to Broad St. An alternative not shown would be to extend Prado Rd. in a SE direction from the Margarita Area to connect to Tank Farm Rd. near the junction of the proposed Public Facilities zoning with the Open Space Zoning(see newsletter map) and thereafter use Tank Farm Rd. as the arterial access to Broad St. This would create a wye intersection at the junction with only one conflicting traffic movement. This alternative would eliminate the need to construct approximately 1/2 mile of the Prado Rd. extension to Broad St., would create less environmental damage, would eliminate the conflicts with the Damon-Garcia sports fields and eliminate the need for an additional signalized intersection on Broad St. Traffic movement (particularly trucks) can be better accommodated at the Tank Farm Rd. intersection with Broad than at the proposed new intersection shown on the plan. In my view this alternative is clearly superior to any of the other alternatives shown on the plan." The above are comments of Dave Romero,in: City of San Luis Obispo. Final Program Environmental Impact Report. Airport Area and Margarita Area Specific Plans and Related Facilities Master Plans.Volumes 1 and 2. September 2003. Page 98. Mr. Romero continued with suggestions for(1) including the southern frontage of Buckley Road within the Airport Area Specific Plan(2)to plan Buckley Road as an Urban Arterial Highway from Broad to a connection with Los Osos Valley Rd.,at Higuera. For City of San Luis Obispo-council meeting of 20 July 2010 -Item B-4- Voter initiative regarding Prado Road. Comments from Michael Sullivan. PAGE 4 of 7 ® C Atddd e.d ymmlda Ctak¢mraab AURW P'md Mona,aa. 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Source: City of San Luis Obispo. Final Program Environmental Impact Report. Airport Area and Margarita Area Specific Plans and Related Facilities Master Plans. Volumes 1 and 2. September 2001. Page 98. 5. Council Agenda Report at p. 8- City Housing and Land Use Impacts The Council Agenda Report assumes that the removal of the Prado Road northern alignment would automatically cause a limitation of housing development. This is highly speculative,because the traffic analysis in the Council Agenda Report is preliminary and does not include various potential mitigation measures as mentioned previously herein. 6. Council Agenda Report at p. 9 - Fiscal Impacts The introductory statements on page 9 are highly speculative. For example, the report states (p.9) that "there are costs to the community in increased travel time, lack of community amenities, difficulty in attracting and retaining head of household jobs, and decrease in the number of families able to afford to live in San Luis Obispo." - Without Prado Road northern alignment, travel time in the east west direction would be negligible in the easterly direction, such as from South Higuera to the Airport, since the travel distance by the altemative route from Prado Road to Tank Farm Road to Broad Street is just about the same as by way of the Prado northern alignment. Travel times west bound would only be slightly longer, about a minute or so, in certain routes, for example from Broad St.junction at Orcutt Road to South Higuera, but about the same for other routes, for example from the airport to South Higuera. 1 For City of San Luis Obispo-Council meeting of 20 July 2010- Item B-4 Voter initiative regarding Prado Road. Comments from Michael Sullivan. PAGE 5 of 7 - Community amenities will not be significantly affected. The public park within the Margarita Area Specific Plan can still be built. Damon-Garcia Sports Fields will be greatly enhanced and will potentially be able to be expanded to include other recreational uses in the approximately 4 acres which would otherwise be used for a highway through the Sports Fields area. - The claim of"difficulty in attracting and retaining head of household jobs" is a great exaggeration. The city has always had this problem, since competition for jobs in the city is high, and the manufacturing base is limited. A realignment of Prado Road will not affect these factors significantly. -The biggest exaggeration of all is that the voter initiative would decrease the number of families able to afford to live in San Luis Obispo. The main constraints to affordability in SLO are (a) a naturally high market value of land and housing because of desirable location; (b) constraints on density of housing due to public opposition to infill. The voter initiative does not affect these factors. 7. Council Agenda Report at p. 11 -Impacts to Parks,Recreation and Air Quality The voter initiative does not state that the northern alignment of Prado Road presently encroaches into the South Hills open space, nor does it claim that existing sports fields would be impacted directly by encroachment of Prado Road into such sports fields. The initiative does state, correctly, that the proposed Prado Road northern alignment would take up about 4 acres, or roughly 15 %, of the existing Damon-Garcia Sports Fields site area, which could potentially otherwise be used for recreational purposes at the Sports Fields site if the northern alignment were not implemented. The initiative includes prohibition of a public roadway (similar to Prado Road northern alignment) through a specific portion of the South Hills Open Space Area which lies directly adjacent to the Sports Fields area. The following statement (p. 11 of Council Agenda Report) is somewhat misleading: "When the Council considered purchasing the Damon-Garcia Sports Complex site, the additional 3.5 acres along the northern site boundary was explicitly included for the purpose of building Prado Road and this use was considered in the land value appraisal that informed negotiations for the property with the Damon and Garcia families." Even if this statement is true, the fact remains that very few people of San Luis Obispo ever knew of these details, and even today, before this voter initiative came forward, very few people of San Luis Obispo knew of the Prado Road northern alignment. It seems rather improper that apparently the City negotiated a land purchase deal which included a planned road through the Sports Fields site, in 1999, a year before the General Plan was amended (01 Feb. 2000)to allow such a change. Alternative sports and recreation uses possible at the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields can be determined through the standard planning processes of the City. As mentioned above, the purpose of the initiative was not to include recommendations for specific plans for such uses, because that would probably violate the single-subject rule for voter initiatives. It remains uncertain and highly speculative to assert that the voter initiative would significantly delay development of the Margarita Area and Airport Area. The City of SLO Final Program Environmental Impact Report (EIR), Airport Area and Margarita Area Specific Plans and Related For City of San Luis Obispo Council meeting of 20 July 2010 -Item B-4-Voter initiative regarding Prado Road. Comments from Michael Sullivan. PAGE 6 of 7 Facilities Master Plans, Volumes 1 and 2, September 2003,points out that the transportation and land use plans for these areas are analyzed as a Program EIR. A "Program EIR" states the general policies and mitigations for a large development which will be done in phases. In many cases, actual development of these plans will involve subsequent CEQA review, whether the voter initiative passes or not. If the voter initiative passes, the change in Prado Road alignment may require a focused EIR to look mainly at traffic issues. A focused EIR can be developed and processed more quickly than a traditional full-scope EIR. 8. Environmental benefits of the Voter Initiative The subsequent environmental review undertaken by the City will hopefully finally enable Prado Road to be seen in its whole regional context, rather than in segments. The planning for Prado Road has been done incrementally, in piecemeal fashion, which violates the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). For example, the Prado Road northern alignment was apparently approved tacitly(in 1999) as part of the purchase agreement for Damon-Garcia Sports Fields,before there was any General Plan amendment to authorize such a change(which did not occur until Feb. 2000). General Plan amendments generally require full environmental review. A second example of segmented environmental review: The General Plan amendment of Feb. 2000 which changed Prado Road from Industrial Way alignment to the northern alignment was done with a mitigated negative declaration. (It is interesting to note that the city Planning Commission had recommended in Oct. and Dec. 1999 that the City should use a full EIR review of the Prado Northern Alignment before going forward with the proposed general plan amendment.) It wasn't until 2003 that the broader environmental impact of Prado Road northern alignment in relation to the Airport Area and beyond was studied in detail in the Final EIR for the Airport Area and Margarita Area Specific Plans and Related Facilities Master Plans (Sep. 2003), AFTER the Prado Road northern alignment had already been approved in Feb. 2000. Further segmentation of environmental review of Prado road includes the separate review of Prado Road in relation to the Orcutt Area and the separate review of the U.S. 101 / Prado Road interchange with connection to Madonna Road. 9. Certain stated "facts" of the Council Agenda Report are incorrect The proposed voter initiative has not been presented in its entirety in the Council Agenda Report. It ends at Figure B-05-5 of the initiative, which is on page 24 of 52 of the initiative as it was circulated in the petition signature gathering process of Spring 2010. Thus, 28 pages of the circulated initiative are not presented. For City of San Luis Obispo Council meeting of 20 July 2010 -Item B-4 - Voter initiative regarding Prado Road. Comments from Michael Sullivan. PAGE 7 of 7 False statement in Council Agenda Report Reality Report at p. B4-72 Zoning map amendment is included in Other: Zoning Map. Comment: Prado Road Attachment F of the Voter Initiative(seen a extension to Broad is shown on Zoning Map. pages 45-47 of initiative as circulated) Amendment to zoning map will be required. MASP p. 87. Table 14. Other parks and Voter initiative does not specifically require greenways. Comment: Funding source for that 4 acres of park should be developed and additional 4 acres of park has not been financed, it simply states (p. 1 and 2 of identified. circulated petition, "Reasons for the petition"). that more area would be available(at Damon- Garcia sports fields site) for recreational use. If such park use is decided by later City Council actions, funding proposal would probably come at that time. CONCLUSIONS: The recommendations and logic of the Council Agenda Report reply largely on a flawed, quickly- done traffic analysis, whose methodology and assumptions remain murky and questionable. Therefore, the major conclusions of the report are probably not credible. Council should approve the voter initiative. But, even if it does not, we are confident that the voters will do so in November 2010. Michael Sullivan 1127 Seaward St. San Luis Obispo 93405 RECEIVED RED FILE w p1C0UNCIL�gILtZFIN DI IR ��� � IC�. FIN DIR �AGAG 7FIRE CHIEF JUL 191010 M ETING AGENDA ATTORNEY PW DIR DATE] QTEM #, O DCLERHEA S POLICE SLO CITY CLERK I-, UTIL DIR Received. 11:29 AM PDT, 07/17/2010 li� _ N ja'HR DIR From: Alan Thomas <ajt2002@pacbel1.net> )a rvcol To: Jan Marc <janmarx@stanfordalumni.org>, 'John B." C-*1 VL <jbashbaugh@charter.net>, Dave Romero <dromero@slocity.org>, Allen Settle <asettle@calpoly.edu>, Andrew Carter <acarter@slocity.org> Subject: Hazardous materials along Tank Farm Road City Council Members, I was shocked to learn recently that large areas of land owned by Chevron along Tank Fane Road are contaminated with crude oil and other hazardous materials which leaked from storage tanks once located there(see diagram attached). This is not only a potential health hazard,but also prevents the City from widening Tank Farm Road and making other planned improvements, such as extending Prado Road to Tank Farm at Santa Fe Road. To deal with the increasing traffic, I understand that the City wants to cut a new four-lane road through 4.5 acres of open space just north of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields. But that eliminates future recreational uses and desperately needed parking on that side of the field. Why not insist that Chevron clean up the contamination on their property along Tank Farm Road so it can be improved? That should be the main east-west corridor for truck traffic. That's why I support the initiative to stop the northern alignment of Prado Road to Broad Street. Better alternatives are available. The city should re-focus its efforts on widening Tank Farm Road, extending Prado to Santa Fe, and making sure Chevron cleans up its hazardous waste sites. But a new truck route right next to the soccer fields? No. I strongly believe this initiative will pass as the public learns more about this situation, including the presence of hazardous materials along Tank Farm Road, which I believe are hindering planned traffic improvements in the area. I urge you to pass the initiative into law immediately instead of wasting a lot of time and taxpayer money trying to defeat it. This will also allow city planners to focus on the need to clean up the hazardous waste sites, widen TFR and develop alternative routes for extending Prado Road. Alan Thomas 1680 Encino Ct. S LO, CA 544-2427 > --------------------------------------------- > Attachment: Oil > MIME Type: image/pjpeg > --------------------------------------------- +Tse, i e !all MEN tints '� \=c=�1'►t o bad Alu NEW J 'tet:%- IIUIIIIIIIIIIIII�������lil�q��l�� council MCMORAnaum Date: July 20, 2010 RECEIVE® TO: City Council RECEIVED V C JUL'2 0 2010 VIA: Katie Lichtig, City Manager ; i SLO CITY CLERK FROM: Jay Walter, Public Works Director SUBJECT: Red File Item B-4: Initiative Measure to Enact Revisions to the Margarita Area Specific Plan- Council Meeting July 20, 2010 Several members of the public have raised questions that have been addressed in a previous correspondence from the former City Manager. Attached is a copy of a letter from sent in 2004 to Mila Vujovich-La Bane, which provides background information about this issue. This is provided for information purposes. RED FILE - M G AGENDA Attachments: DA b 1bITEM # 1. January 16, 2004 Letter to Mila Vujovich-La Barre COUNCIL CDD DIR 0-,.- C.-" FIN DIR ZZAG4A-kCrt FIRE CHIEF ¢(ATTORNEY zPW DIR 21 CLERK/ORId POLICE CHF ❑ DEPT HEADSLREC DIR 'Dig LITIL DIR -JPIb Him_ HR 61A rd 91511 17MIFS coup"- city of sAn tuffs owspo 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo,CA 93401-3249 January 16, 2004 Mila Vujovich-La Barre 650 Skyline Drive San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 Subject: Reply to your January 3, 2004 Letter Dear Mila: This letter responds to the correspondence you submitted to the Council on January 6a', 2004 during the Dalidio-Marketplace public hearing and later to.the.Planning Commission. In your letter, you requested a response to your suggestion that an environmental impact report(EIR)be completed for Prado-Road and you expressed several other concerns. I hope this letter clears things up and puts a few persistent rumors to rest. The short story is: (1) The City has fully complied with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) every step of the way with respect to both the Prado Road extension and the Prado Road interchange; (2)There is absolutely no "mountain blasting", "dark tunnels" or "tunneling" associated with currently adopted alignment, nor has there ever been; (3) The site was purchased with the need to set aside 3.5 acres for an eventual road fully disclosed, discussed, understood and agreed upon by the City Council; and (4) Mitigation measures have been adopted for protecting biological and cultural resources when a road is actually built. Now for the longer story... Starting at the beginning, an east-west connection between South I-Eguera and Highway 227 has been formal City policy since the early 1960's when it was included in the City's fust General Plan. In this pian, the extension met Highway 227 at Hopkins Lane (roughly halfway between industrial Way and the currently approved alignment). Attached is a copy of that plan. Subsequent general plans (both Land Use and Circulation Elements) have also contained a Prado Road extension and the Prado Road Interchange at US 101, and traffic models involving the Prado Road extension haveassumed the interchange since the late 1980's. You have suggested that a comprehensive environmental study needs to be completed for the "new"Prado Road. In fact, several environmental studies have been completed for a Prado Road extension and interchange, including studies done for the 1994 Land Use and Circulation Elements (which included the "old" Industrial Way alignment), the 2000 amendment to the Circulation Element that adopted the current "northerly" alignment, and the EIR for the Airport Area and Margarita Area Specific Plans. Information from the adopted mitigated negative i I 1 1 QThe City of San Luis Obispo is committed to include the disabled in all of its services,programs and activities; 1 �., Telecommunications Device for the Deaf(805)781-7410. declaration for the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields and the EIR for the San Luis Marketplace have also been considered in these future roadway plans, as discussed below. The Master EIR that was certified for the 1994 Land Use and Circulation Element update analyzed three potential alignments for the extended roadway, with the Council settling on an Industrial Way alignment. After further considering problems associated with this alignment (along with a Tank Farm Road alternative), in February 2000 the City Council adopted a new northerly alignment. In completing the Circulation Element amendment needed to implement this change, an environmental study for the northerly alignment and interchange was completed and accepted by the Planning Commission and City Council. As you know, there are several types of environmental actions allowed under CEQA, including EIRs, mitigated negative declarations (TOND's) and negative declarations, depending upon the circumstances. An EIR is required when the lead agency determines that there is sufficient evidence in the public record that a project may have a significant impact on the environment. An MND may be used as the environmental document when the project can be modified to avoid these impacts. In adopting the northerly alignment, based on the evidence resulting from environmental study, a MND was approved by the City Council. The MND contained seventeen (17) mitigation measures, including mitigation measures to protect biological and cultural resources(e.g. the archeological site)in order to fully address anticipated impacts. CEQA requires additional environmental review if a project substantially changes or information that is more detailed becomes available before construction. Thus far, the project description for the Prado Road alignment and the interchange has not changed significantly since 2000. Studies completed with the Margarita Area Specific Plan and the San Luis Marketplace projects confirm this, and these projects (now receiving further public study and review) incorporate the data and mitigation measures from the 2000 MND, as well as data and mitigation measures that were prepared with the environmental work associated with the Damon/Garcia fields Although the interchange location and capacity are not changing from previous assumptions, supplemental analysis of design impacts is underway with the Marketplace EIR. Considering such supplemental information for the interchange is not "segmenting" the review of the whole because the whole has already been considered and approved. Similarly, the Prado Road extension could receive added environmental study when it reaches a detailed engineering design stage; however, if necessary, it would also be considered supplemental study that builds off earlier work, and not "segmented" study. Thus far, information available for both the Prado extension and the interchange, considered cumulatively, does not provide any new evidence of significant impact that has not been considered during earlier environmental approvals. To summarize this issue, the interchange and Prado extension have been considered together consistent with CEQA and environmental work, past and present, has not been segmented or "piecemealed." (Once appropriate environmental review has been completed, construction may behp ased, but that is an entirely different—and fully legal—option.) With regard to various other misunderstandings, the construction of Prado Road will involve neither`mountain blasting"nor the relocation of Acacia Creek in order to span the creek system. In addition, the construction will not involve "tunneling" or result in a "dark tunnel." Bridges i 2 I i i that span Acacia Creek and the pedestrian pathway will create the proposed pedestrian underpasses. There will be no deck between the travel lanes on the bridge, which will therefore allow in much light for pedestrians and the•wildlife corridor. Illustrations have been provided many times which show a very open, airy underpass (e.g. like the Highway 101 underpass at. Chorro Street), and I will be happy to send you another copy upon request. In your letter you state that the entire 23:5 acres of.the Damon Garcia sports complex "was purchased for recreation" and should not be used for roadway purposes. Hoy✓ever, as we have pointed out many times, this just isn't true. I have attached the cover sheet for the June 15, 1999 City Council agenda item for the purchase of the property. You will see that that 3.5 acres of the property was clearly identified as needed for the road, regardless of whether it were ultimately aligned north or south of the fields. In fact, the cost per acre was significantly discounted.for 3.5 acres in the overall purchase because it was for roadway—and not recreation—purposes. In closing, like most public decisions, there have always been advantages and disadvantages associated with the.alignment options for the Prado Road and it is reasonable for citizens to advocate.a different choice and to express strong feelings. It is unhelpful, however, when such strong feelings spawn rumors that,with repetition,can promote misinformation and create a dark impression of actions taken openly and legally, and only after substantial public input and careful thought. I hope this letter at.least sheds a healthier and more accurate light on some of the concerns that you have continued to expressed. Very truly yours, Ken ian,CAO p.s. I continue to look forward to my opportunity to speak to your government class(as long as we don't have to discuss Prado Road!). Please provide me with your preferred date and time when you get a chance. Attachments 1. 1962 General Plan 2. Excerpt City Council Report—Field Purchase cc: City Council,Planning Commission, staff distribution I 1 3 Attachment No. 1 1962 General Plan l 11 1 1 � I' 1 •\ \ ;•�:; .a:�� ,I�' din \'. 'Sn YA''�'i' \. W°,;�� 1 ;S4n qn - " Pi Prado Road '' �n ',:no7Ar I NIP', � 41# law Future Aighway 101 Hopkins Lane Alignment Interchange i I council j acenaa Repot CITT OF SAN LUIS OBISPO FROM: /Paul LeSage,Parks&Recreation Director SUBJECT: Sports Fields Site Acquisition CAO RECOMMENDATION 1. By resolution, approve a Purchase and Sales Agreement to acquire a 23.5 acre portion of the Damon-Garcia Ranch at a cost of$2,000,000 for the purpose of constructing sports fields. 2. Authorize the Mayor to sip the Purchase and Sales Agreement .DISCUSSION Background In May of 1998,the City Council authorized staff to begin negotiations with the Damon and Garcia families for the purpose of acquiring a portion of their ranch property on which to constrict sports fields for community use. The parcel proposed for acquisition [Exhibit A-2 of the Purchase and Sales Agreement] includes 16.5 acres for the'sports fields, a 3.5 acre riparian creek corridor and 3.5 acres for the extension of Prado Road. Because an alignment for the road ns oat�een` it was the land acquisition Include-the amount of land needed for the road. Once the mad ah t is approved by the City Councfl,the sports field site can be designed accordingly. The Acacia Creek npanian com orisects the property and has been Included In theproposed acquisition. The Damon and Garcia Ranch site was previously selected by the City Council as the best available location in the City on which to build sports fields. This site can accommodate four multi-use sports fields and their supporting amenities. The Draft Margarita Area Specific Plan calls for a neighborhood park and elementary school to be built adjacent to the sports fields. This gives the area the potential for seven or eight fields,malting it a true sports complex. Additionally,there is land adjacent to these fields that could be acquired and'developed in the future. 1 009 3 City OSAn luis OBISPO _ 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3249 January 5,2004 Mila Vujovich-LaBarre 650 Skyline Drive San Luis Obispo, Ca 93405 Dear Mils Your letter to the City Council regarding the Prado Road extension alignment has been received and has been referred to staff. A response to some of the questions and issues you raise in your letter will be sent to you in the next few days, and copied to council members. Because you also provided the same letter to-each member of the Planning Commission,our response will be copied'to the Planning Commission as well. As far as the Commission's review of the alignment is concerned, at their January 14x`meeting staff will further discuss scheduling related to the Commission's review of various Margarita Area Specific Plan issues. If the Commission shares your interest in the alignment issue, we will recommend that time be set aside at specific future meeting date (probably in February). By scheduling the issue in this fashion,you and other interested citizens can be better notified as to when the Commission will discuss the alignment, and this somewhat complex matter can also be given the ample time it will need. If you do not wish to attend the Commission meeting on the 14x,I would suggest you contact Community Development Department afterward to find out about the future scheduling of alignment issue. Deputy Director Mike Draze is.the best contact for this matter. He can be reached at 781-7274. Sincerely yours, Ken pian,CAO Cc: City Council Planning Commission Staff distribution i y a C,IDOCUME—ftfouseALOCALS-1\Temp1VWOVI-1.DOC a The My of San Luis Obispo Is committed to Include the disabled In all of its services,programs and activities. Tetecommumications Device for the Deal(805)781-7410. ............ . ADMINISTRATION TODAY'$DATE; THEATTACHED IS REFERRED TO: C PIES TO: RESPOND FOR�SIIGGNATURE BY: El Mayor !'I CAO ❑ Dept. Head ❑ Other. Emaii or deliver draft to Administration 0 u n c, &Z/ Lflno/ At-e /V tla� DUE DATE: / 1J' .Q FRO . i 1 To: Mayor Romero and the San Luis Obispo City Council San-Luis Obispo Planning Commission From: .Mila Vujovich-La Barre Date: January 3,2004 Re: Prado Road and the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields As the development of Prado Road continues to be addressed in both City Council and Planning Commission meetings,I would appreciate a response to the suggestion that a comprehensive environmental impact report(HR)be completed for the new"Prado Road". In my studies,it is clear that this highway with its proposed six-lane overpass, four lane state highway,elevated road,mountain blasting,tunnel and potential realignment of Acacia Creek warrants due consideration. From my conversations with experts in urban development,it appears to me that Prado Road is being"piecemealed"or"illegally segmented"which is in violation of CEQA policy. The public deserves a report of the cumulative impacts that Prado Road will have upon the entire city and population.It should demonstrate not only how the environment is being protected but how the location,design and financing of the proposed road is in the best interest of the city's residents. Although I am not completely against the overpass at Prado Road and Highway 101,I remain vehemently opposed to the small section of the extension of Prado Road that bisects our open space and the Damon-Garcia sports fields.The 23.5 acres of sports field land was purchased for recreation and should be used as such It is unconscionable and dangerous to sandwich children and adults between Broad Street and another four-lane highway.Although impacting a 5,000 year old archaeological site may be acceptable to some developers,it should not be a preference when there is a viable alternative. Attached are two highlighted maps."Map A"is the proposed project for the Margarita Area Specific Plan.The only major objection to this plan is shown on"Map A"in red. "Map B"is an enlarged version that illustrates the segment of Prado Road that needs to be removed from the sports field and open space: Prado Road should not bisect the sports fields and open space.It should be taken south to a widened,-improved Tank Farm Road at Santa Fe Road. 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VIEWPOINT disadvantages when compared to Industrial Way or to a Btard .,: ,:j option connecting at Tank .. :: Farm Road.After these dea- ,After two•,ve 1 4 :�' suns were made,for various lengthy P.. - j reasons,the Industrial align. debates, `�' detellY11i1e ment has been dropped in the the-Council-d, minds oflust about However;some peoplee that the norther alient o$er tune to sac• gym chosen ugly object to the instead the most advantages and the fewest �Farm Road option:Ueir objections disadvantages when.co. are on -., tag mP.".—r,tQs safer'coned theme pate& tW Industrial Way;or to a third' 'oil v �fields,¢I ` Farm._vp�th regard to these'' . connecting at Tank Farm Rodd: ' rom -rj ;.fon s7.:.�:Y:',3 pain :.., -rtry CA Debate �q.�r •. virtue- ro>id. nuL.�7a � 1 ` emotionaDy= butt` TheJact i That `. •. extenQe��. �1� �, ay allyev iszori: o i,,:h and sch�opl playing flet ?ai his cRy is bar:.. <; u�S `.T:_cx}�#•?. :' : dered by a road(oy roads)-t; BY Krlv'Iiaaarrata : 4: and k.someuses by huge. ven with the n roada,y6r.ei:•ample,High ':' way;': stWspersis• In 1962,the-city called for, fAVRRrunst Laguna ftr ' `v: <, . tent effort to: this new road to meet Mgbway rmdermine. 227 roughly between Industrial local grvern- + _ Way and the current"northerly meat,deuroaacy is :t:: Keo f; aTrgnment"just south of Orcutt alive and weII iII.San :'a"cltY 4 ;:M , Road.The Circulation Element Luis Obispo.`that is.'1_,: ad > adopted in 1994 changed the .:•. why myriad opinions-; .atflcar�:.;'r. :: alignment to eat at Industrial are expressed regard,' Way ing most issues,and the pro-:` ` When the aVs long search posed aligmn�t of fhg Prado for a suitable athletic field site Road extension i9 po ended in 1999 with the pur• chase of the Damon•Garcia . But lets start with something property,it was uncertain that most of us can agree om.:, whether the Industrial Way There isn't a sbaiglrfforward alignment was shill preferred way df getting from one side'af ' to a new"northerly'°optiom town to the other,if one is irav- . However,the city was not eEW in an east-west directiom ready to decide that issue at Most of us,therefore,fDUuw the time,and the 23.5-acre our favorite circuitous path,• Property was Purchased with often cutting through the down., sufficient area to include the ( e town.or someone else's neigh Prado Road extension, boyhood.That is why-•since. whether its ultimate alignment the adoption of the city's very; turned out to be north or first General Plan more-than 41 south of the fields.Thus,while Years ago—it has been pts• the majority of the site was policy to extend Prado Road bought for park uses,about \ from South'Higuera to four acres was also set aside way 227(Broad Streetj.The '^ for the extension. )Cent debate has been about vhere Prado Road should meet 227.: i i unioriigh,add: yearold goal of improving east- 2 ast e 2 y west travel(and reducing borders ttie l?am ti>}' cukhrougb trAc elsewhere) Garcia and •w•to substantially delay two Park fields other major city goak the Mar- to say,the road will. �.' ghousing expansion area be desighed t- sem and the airport area annexa separate field ugets 4 tion.This is Because many q -;---• r and Cam,-: ;:;- .' months of expensive trafk •Oppoaents-liave', environmental and financial argued that adark,`. studies will be required before �! dangerous tunnel".rilla a new alignment decision can �. be bur7t to aIlowa connection: be made. �d between the fields•a�,i tlui:;�.; lhhere is almost no way to ip _ Maz88irta esideiiU establish•a road alignment airy is In s a�� o without nth Ike q at least some '0 b1ele der The question for that wrIl include both bicycle '• _ CO leaders is:Which align- and pedestrian paths•A draw- mem offers the greatest bene' ing of this underpass is avail- fit to the greatest number of i able,if readers are interested• people over the ' •While the amount of land Hopefully this add buck 11 - needed for the toad has �,pround offers improved infor. shy increased since.the ;:.oration for citizens interested property was.pprch sed,:fdne atm this topic. to the need to avoid ad'aiicbae �„ ological site),the,argrmut ��'uu^''Rett$ampian is¢city that moving theadded acres ocut will, Srioe.oJcex create se W f s , ValignmeuttOl field jastisn't-. .' _ : . x.. w movmgshe Page 66 �. adTank'<.� ,1etters,seeoad 1. create less'• ;:.JISUIE welcomes your . than 2 aicn»vpdacidedVVcre- ... end them to: adon space on the�amsin Gar i cia site—not en F.P.O.BOX 112, enough far h sOo,CA.•93406, • f another athletic field.The:. �` remaining Zplus acres would to 781-7905. only be suitable for open them to: space tfietrlbunenewscom: •the Santa Lucia Home- Owners ome Owners Association,which rep. resents thousands of residents n:`. Page Wort Bill More in the Fdna�slay neighbor y 1e2 m 78I hoods,is on record as Being opposed to both the Lndashdai �_ }81456 8449. and Tank Farm meats.if the Tank Farm alignment isserious therewillun:fimbtedlybe many.hew 9riestions and con - � ceras oomiog f-omthis ijeeigb- borhood.Thus,there are no s easy answers If we end up in a proverbial Gordian knot,our options will be to either give up on our 41 �6 Z . i a J 40M,M at d eftmentary from Central Coast Readers . .r�OICE .mV $6 THE TRIBUNE SAN LUZ ORMPO'Cozasr,CAr�F. T nu H S,D AY , AUGUST 28 , 2 0 0 3 A.:. . VIFswpowr Penced-in _s ` o, extension threatens playing fields BY dvm.i vvlovrcii-L+.BAaas j l c;works should;g x bush'improving existing road conditions a, ns Yes,Mr.EIamplan,demon: .t?c.... •`�:4?:' ,• r �e:.- . racy is alive Brag °andrefraiii from spendu so;much time and money paving over wen in SIA.Although there are greater battle -x the precious'land that IS left for recreation. grounds m be won f . throughoutthe world,the one here y .' in SLO has the potential to pre " ,a 100 Soot. e eateasioii of Prado Road bens have spoken up and rve the integrity of the Damon ttnaei,arida new stoplight Tfie ".? ::should-be seriously considered requested a AMEIR for the entire, acia Sports Yields a eek and wetlands have skeady now while we std have choices. length of the Prado Road eapan- ce 19 In J„ 99.mipayers vent$2 endured ier]>armeimg and mifiga•:, One choice,Industrial Way,has son project Negative Declarations million for a 235acre tea ea:-2i fion measues.The'Not baen�urinated prepared and signed by city staff area on Broad Sheet aear7ank realign ddebtyed tire.' "Begme.the redaimed water lines members are not adevabe,unbi, •H, r:4 Farm Road.The sde was.selecbed cankractioa of aw,&lds formore : ire dpg acid part of the ai eheologi- aced environmental assessments because it bordered open-space, than 1 ,mous bgrmrse the Army.�:: cal'sibe is dishabe4 the alternative So whether it is seven aces, had the possibility for six sand' ' � .of 9uea> ed .�;,At�g PMo Road from E Wi- . a000rdmgto irSage,tom saps ba9ed,weWrt fields and was close was g > FtoPertK';'.' ,5 101 connecting to a widened a�igio McCluskey,or two to hmi'jy homeswith young Bn1- Com ?4u�ed,was < Farm Road near an improved saes,according to.Hampia4 the dren.In February 2000,the City -there a iaad oraot4ioad odiie:` ,'SadtaFe 49ad-is worthy of study bottom line Is that many residents Council amended the General Plan. prcjec& [lid Coipeifmal}y appiurved`:s�' ere si e:ao shw ies to sap do notwaata toad bise�gthe and a very small portion of Prado the Beek r sad the'Aar'._porf',ICw,,H'E plan's assertion that sports fields and ope inpace park, Road became the new adopted strirefio4ofthe sports fid&a 2002.• dy moretr Me would be especially on land that was pinu °Nor(bW abgom�t,in one vote, ,did not approve nay g e:ated beyond Broad Street chased tnr recreational purposes a bw4ane}pghway that bisects the bm> :ofP;ado Road Facia' ': -s Jbto I,&Edna4shy aeighbar- Pubfic works should get busy .. plying fields and opeaspaoe park do not f i3�""'�"'"Via- , ; '"hoods_ the Tank Farm Road impruvaig e>ostmg Fuad oon�offi was created h was a smgtise to ;,:Thii�:thei a is sM a gaper ..owe dti'!he T'aok Farm Road and refrain from spendng so mach somh culzens when diet'learned d an the land that.r:a6gm>i makes a straight east time and money paving ovathe that the"North'aTtg»ment was was hw iecieison I am'. we4t coniiextion that could°serve precious laud that is left for recre- not m$'explained to the sports searching for a Qomp¢eheasve, the greapest'number of people over atioa Right now Grit'af5dals)rave a field site selection oor,anitbee It iactoai Zraf&c d>atwiD sap "'tlre,loitg7iaiil' - than to demonstrate are and should have been deart.eaplained portthe'5>ba -need for the envi- In addition,I am concerned•that concern)hey also have an opportir to ire committee and to ire com tmhiendl9,dangerous, . the entire.8ittse Prado Road,from nhy to promote quality planning that mtmity that the city staffprebened naisy,;fi>��e:55�ph roadway west of 13rghway 101 to Broad wilt enhance tourism,preserve our the'Nor*erly alipmear for Elado OldWM our children Sheet,is being illegally segniedted heritage and provide a safe eaviro>r Road,as proposed in its Mazzarita betften it and busy Broad Sheet I into the JIM&Project,the Mar meat f it our duldr ii.I am keeping Specific Flan dated Apel 1998... believe thait by having sPrado and open !lam�:ire Airport Pian and the faith that reason will preva0. •The new'lorthedp".aftgnment bisel playing pen- the DamonCarcia Sports Fields. wr'Q impa d a 5,O00yearoki ari3meo- .'tile COP-creating eavirun• During ing the past four years,many Mira Vrgovicit-La Barre is a sesi- logirai site.It vM regime an ele meatal haafird .AQ alternatives for conscientious community item dent of San Luis Obispo i a s From: Linda Fitzgerald[SMTP:LINDA_FITZGERALD@SBCGLOBAL.NET] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 1:34:54 PM To: Council, SloCity Subject: Prado Road Extension Auto forwarded by a Rule Dear Mayor and Members of the City Council: It is my understanding that you are considering once again the subject of dropping the Prado Road extension along the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields for alternatives that may place Prado Road traffic onto Tank Farm Road. As a 26 year resident in the neighborhood east of Broad Street near Tank Farm Road, I oppose this realignment and ask Council to continue with the existing plan of routing Prado Road to the north of the Damon-Garcia Sports Fields. The traffic along Tank Farm Road between Broad and Orcutt Road has been a problem for years. Cars often travel 45-50MPH along that stretch and at some points, due to landscaping along the roadway,there are blind spots,particularly at Poinsettia and Tank Farm. That intersection is one of the most dangerous in the City for pedestrians and bicyclists. There is a need for traffic calming measures in that area as many residents walk to the Marigold Shopping Center; I hope the Council would consider addressing this at some point. Redirecting Prado Road to funnel onto Tank Farm Road is likely to add to the existing problem. The traffic plan that has been presented to the Council in the past takes into consideration the proximity to Damon-Garcia and measures can be taken to elevate the roadway and provide barriers for the safety of the Damon-Garcia users. The parcel that is designated for the roadway is not big enough to add a soccer field or any other recreational amenity that would enhance the existing facility. Thank you for your consideration. RECEIVED RED FILE Respectfully, JUL 2 0 2010 MEETING AGENDA Linda Fitzgerald SLO CITY CLERK DA 20 10 ITEM #_N_ 827 Columbine Ct. San Luis Obispo P L linda_fitzgerald@sbcglobal.net COUNCIL ' C CDD DIR tfl8 CM eJ FIN DIR IAGA@ FIRE CHIEF ATTORNEY PW DIR CLERK/ORIG POLICE CHF ❑ D PT HEADS REC DIR UTIL DIR HR DIR rJcs TMS G�Lt ,A _ From: Jacqueline Whitesides[SMTP:JACQUELINE6W@CHARTER.NET] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 12:32:51 PM To: Council, SloCity Subject: Prado Road Auto forwarded by a Rule I am unable to make the council meeting tonight regarding the Prado road extension. I am in favor of keeping the approved Prado Road Extension. The City needs this additional access. Too many of our roads (Tank Farm, Los Osos Valley Road, Madonna...) are impacted with traffic. I do not agree with the opponents who say there will be a safety issue with the children on the soccer fields. I live near these fields behind the Marigold Shopping Center. Jacqueline Whitesides EC°EI RED FILE JUL 20 2010 ME ING AGENDA SLO CITY CLERK DATId ITEM # COUNCIL CDD DIR ZQAG CM �Q FIN DIR 6 7EY fd FIRE CHIEFATTORJ�PW DIRQI CLERK ��dd POLICE CHF ❑ PT HEADS 17l REC DIR UTIL DIR j� NpJTrME$ ��nY�c.—' Oct �IIIIIIIIIIIIIII���I���III��������� council memojzanbum DATE: July 20, 2010 RECEIVED TO: City Council JUL 2 0 2010 SLO CITY CLERK VIA: Katie Lichtig, City Manager FROM: Michael Codron,Acting Assistant City ManagAD Prepared By: Chris Judge, Administrative Assistant SUBJECT: RED FILE — Initiative Measure To Enact Revisions To The Margarita Area Specific Plan—Item B4 The Staff Report for Item B4 contained a number of attachments, and it has come to our attention that Attachment 1 was inadvertently truncated prior to publication. A complete copy of the proposed Prado Road Extension Initiative is included with Agenda Item B-5, as Attachment 2. Council will be provided with a complete copy of Item B-4, and the initiative, to facilitate discussion at tonight's meeting. RED FILE MWING AGENDA DA 7.b D ITEM #�l Wvi la4AL_ COUNCIL V1 CDD DIR FIN DIR A6Ag ACS FIRE CHIEF ATTORNEY XPW DIR CLERK/ORIG fG POLICE CHF ❑ DHEADS ;J REC DIR QI HR DIR II Ti MES a Countu L 13 CLa, _ councit MCMORAnbum RECEIVED RED FILE July 20, 2010 JUL 10 2010 ME I G AGENDA D_AT 0 �°ITEM # TO: City Council SLO CITY CLERK RW COUNCIL CHAIL: CDD DIR 1 r CM FINDIRFROM: Jay D. Walter, Public Works Director rACJ FIRE CHIEF RNEY PW DIR VIA: Katie Lichtig, City Manager ¢(CLERK/ORIG jz(POLICE CHF O DEEP1TT HEADS A REC DIR SUBJECT: RED FILE—Prado Road Initiative Item B-4 HRI D RIR ,0 T►aJ?irtES . �'ccTu�u� ' Constituent Ken Hampian submitted an email requesting answers to the following questions: Xcm CUEge- Q1: How far is Tank Farm Road right now from the playing area of Islay Hill Park(e.g. the basketball court)? It appears to be 40' from the outside of paved roadway to the ball court line. See figure below. t a f` 11 "•7 1. I. a A. 3. ue Path Lwo, 0.10`Fax Mmmcgi om O.W. ..Q Mane Ne ipllm Response to Questions on the Prado Initiative Page 2 Q2: When Prado Road is initially extended with one lane in each direction, how far will the edge of the road be to the nearest playing field? (not the distance to the property line, but to the northwestern field playing itself). I wish to compare this initial distance to the distance now measured from the edge of Broad Street to the same field (which is 76', I believe). This is much more difficult to answer at this time since we have not designed specifically what the initial two lane connection will look like, particularly near Broad. Since Prado near Broad is part of the intersection, it needs to line up with the driveway across the street. The road will be wider as it approaches the intersection with Broad because there will need to be turn lanes on Broad Street constructed with the initial project. Therefore, the best we could estimate at this time would be that the initial two lane road section would be a minimum of 6' farther away from the fields and could be as much as 16' farther if we do not construct the dual left turn lane as part of the initial project T:\Council Agenda Reports\City Attorney CAMMASP Initiative Sharing Folder\Red File Hampian 7-20-1Mac LRECEIVED 010 From: Eugene Jud[SMTP:EJUD@CALPOLY.EDUI LER Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:56:53 AM K To: Council, SloCity Subject: Addendum to Council Meeting of July 20, B 4: Engineering License Eugene Jud Auto forwarded by a Rule Dear Mr. Mayor, Council Members and Main Attendants, In the above meeting I was asked about my P.E. number. I replied that I was a P.E. in all European Countries. I called the Board of Professional Engineers and was informed, that in California I could use "P.E." but with an indication where the title comes from. In my case this is P.E. EURING#114892, which is highly respected by the above Board and is valid in an area of around 400 million people. I am a licensed P.E.in Switzerland since 1961 and an EURING since 1993 (www.EURING.ch). Anybody is welcome to see my documents. I apologize for the incorrect use of"P.E." on two papers delivered to the City Council this month. I never intended to mislead the readers. I send you this e-mail because there is no Council meeting on July 27, where I could see you personally. A hard copy of this will also be in the City files. I wish you all the best for your well deserved vacation, and I appreciate Mayor Romero for pointing out the above omission to me. Sincerely Eugene Jud CC: Main attendants of above meeting, agenda item B 4, Prado Road Eugene Jud, Fellow institute of Transportation Engineers At: Faculty Civil and Environmental Engineering p JCC Lc�G California Polytechnic State University n t� San Luis Obispo, CA. 93407-0353 Phone: (805) 756-1729 /- http: //ceenve3.calpoly.edu/jud / Or: �l(3`!-/? Jud Consultants POB 1145 (�C•� San Luis Obispo, CA 93406-1145 7— Phone and Fax: (805) 545-5919 www.judcons.com CONSULTANTS TRANSPORTATION, RECEIVED San Luis Obispo,July 27, 2010SS JUL! 22 yyte'�tm` 8 220�011I0 Addendum to Council Meeting of July 20,B 4: Engineering L ns��Edg Dear Mr. Mayor,Council Members and Main Attendants, In the above meeting I was asked about my P.E. number. I replied that I was a P.E. in all European Countries. I called the Board of Professional Engineers and was informed, that in California I could use "P.E."but with an indication where the title comes from. In my case this is P.E.EURING#114892, which is highly respected by the above Board and is valid in an area of around 400 million people. I am a licensed P.E. in Switzerland since 1961 and an EURING since 1993 (www.EURING.ch). Anybody is welcome to see my documents. I apologize for the incorrect use of"P.E." on two papers delivered to the City Council this month. I never intended to mislead the readers_ OI send you this e-mail because there is no Council meeting on July 27, where I could see you personally. A hard copy of this will also be in the City files. I wish you all the best for your well deserved vacation,and I appreciate Mayor Romero for pointing out the above omission to me. Sincerely azee Eugene Jud �*ro "i W CC:Main attendants of above meeting, agenda item B 4,Prado Road Eugene Jud, Fellow Institute of Transportation Engineers At: Faculty Civil and Environmental Engineering California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-0353 Phone: (805) 756-1729 http://ceenve3.calpol_y.edu/ 'ud Or: Jud Consultants POB 1145 San Luis Obispo, CA 93406-1145 O Phone and Fax: (805) 545-5919 www.judcons.com