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February 27, 1991
MEMORANDUM
TO: City Council
�\ tFROM: Councilmembers Jerry Reis and Vice Mayor Bill oalman
Liaison Subcommittee to the Promotional Coordinating Committee
SUBJECT: RECOMMENDATION FOR APPOINTMENT TO
THE PROMOTIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE
After reviewing all applications on file, the Subcommittee (Reiss/Roalman) met on
February 26, 1991 to interview two applicants for a vacancy on the PCC. Dan Pittaway,
Vice Chair to the PCC, participated in the interviews.
The Subcommittee is pleased to recommend LaVerne Schneider for a second term which
will expire on 3/31/95.
A copy of Ms. Schneider's application is attached. All other applications are available in
the Council Office for your review.
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PPOINTMENT
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APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT/REAPPOINTMENT TO A CITY ADVISORY BODY
Advisory Body Applied For:
Name of Applicant
Residence Street Address & City 2.
( If a second chojc ee is indicated, a
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1 . Are you a registered voter of the city? !'YES NO
2. How long have you lived in the city? .
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PLEASE NOTE: If you are ap ointed to the Planning Commission, Architectural
Review Commission, or the City Housing Authority, you are required by State
law to file a Statement of Economic Interest disclosing all reportable interests
held by YOU at the time of appointment. A copy of ti,is form :s available from
the City Clerk. .
Applications are accepted year round, however, if you are applying for a current
vacancy, your application must be returned to the City Clerk by }16 ZAN Q)
in order to be considered for the current round of interviews.
***TO BE FILLED OUT BY CITY CLERK'S OFFICE***
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Interview Date: Screening Committee
***TO BE FILLED OUT BY SCREENING COMMITTEE CHAIR***
Recommend for Appointment: ES = NO
Recommendation is for: QUnexpired term
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March 19, 1991
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1) Area Coordinating Council
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On March 13, 1991, the results of the analysis on the Unmet Needs Hearing was
discussed. The ACC approved the following as unmet needs for 1991-92:
a. Door to door service in Five Cities area: Expand current subsidized taxi
programs to cover the Five Cities area and initiate similar service in Oceano
and Grover City.
b. Increase frequency of service on SLOfPaso route: Direct increases that
include at least one round trip per weekday and limited Saturday service.
C. Service between Santa Maria/SLO: Find request is an unmet need,
reasonable to meet provided a fair and equitable interregional funding
formula can be established; request SLORTA consider implementation
following the negotiation of such an agreement.
d. Evening service to Cuestas Find request is an unmet need, reasonable to
meet if funding becomes available from Cuesta College or through a change
in TDA funding formula.
e. Increase CIP services: Increase allocation by $3,000 (Cerebral Palsy Assn.).
Also discussed were a number of issues found not reasonable to meet at this time.
Several are important to the City of SLO.
1. Service between SLO County Airport and downtown SLO.
2. Expanded hours for SLO Transit
3. Additional buses to Cal Poly
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As the City of SLO dedicates all of our TDA monies to transit, it becomes more and
more important that we continue to support a change in the funding formula
currently being used. This issue is scheduled for discussion in April.
To simply explain the impact on San Luis Obispo, I offer the following example:
With more and more of our TDA monies going to regional transit, we have less and
less to use on our own system. One option is to fund all regional and local transit
needs before distribution to the various agencies for street and road purposes.
Another issue was a request by P.G. & E. - Diablo Canyon for transit service to
Avila Beach. There are over 3000 employees at Diablo Canyon. The question of
providing service to one employer is a policy question not currently decided by the
ACC. We will evaluate this further in the near future.
2) Regional Transit Authority
The transition from Santa Barbara Transportation to County Engineering (interim
operator) went very smoothly. RTA will evaluate and make a decision on a
permanent operator in June.
3) Business improvement Association
BIA Board continues to act in a very pro-active manner. One of the exciting
programs supported at last week's meeting was an employee parking management
policy and implementing program (attached).
They are also working on a beautification/Art in Public Places idea. Schematic
designs for a downtown 'banner" program were shown.
4) Route 101 Visual Study Presentation
The ACC requested that the Planning Directors Committee work with the Cal Poly
Design Institute, Mr. Ed Ward, for review of the study. Arnold Jonas was able to
see the brief presentation and will keep us informed of the progress and/or
suggestions.
This study (attached) could be very helpful to our master planning process for the
Wastewater Treatment Plant.
if there are any questions, I will be happy to address them.
Attachments
ATTENTION DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS
We all want to succeed as a profitable downtown
merchant. One key component to our existence is
availability of parking. We can successfully offer our
customers convenient parking if we choose to. It will just
take a little team work! The BIA has put together a
suggested parking policy to encourage both merchants and
their employees to park on the outskirts of the downtown
core. This policy may be added to the existing policy
manual and handed out as you hire new employees. In
addition we will sponsor an incentive program for your
employees in hope of enticing them into participating in
this parking effort.
POLICY
Between the hours of 9:00 am and 5:00 pm scheduled
employees of this establishment will not be allowed to leave
the premises to feed parking meters or move their vehicle.
In your packet is a map with suggested and convenient
parking areas. These include parking structures as well as
information regarding cost of parking permits and the 10
hour meters.
Park Smart
take advantage of
BIA rebate program
Employee Fact Sheet
Did you know?
You can park in San Luis for less than $1.00 a day if
you purchase a 10 hr meter permit ( $25.00 a month) .
You can park all day every day in the structure for
$1.30 a day with a pass card. ( $2. 00 a day without) $40.00
a month.
Did you know there is a late fee each time you don' t
pay a parking ticket.
Chronic offenders with more than 5 tickets could have
cars towed. This will cost you $75.00 plus!
Your boss as a BIA member can get you a $5.00 rebate on
your purchase of a parking structure pass card or permit.
Parking permits are available through the Finance Office at
City Hall, 990 Palm Street.
CARPOOL - RIDE A BIKE
TAKE THE BUS - USE THE TROLLEY
INCENTIVE PROGRAM
1. BIA sponsor free employee parking contest monthly.
Business owners submit employee of the month to BIA. A
drawing is held and the winner receives a pass card
for the structure as well as their picture in the news-
letter.
2. Rebate program sponsored by the BIA. Employees receive
a $5.00 rebate with the purchase of a pass card or
permit.
3. BIA sponsored awareness campaign. If this isn't an
incentive, I don' t know what is; if all else fails a
friendly reminder can' t hurt.
Implementation of this program would be similar to our
Christmas bag program. The BIA would need to hire an
individual to pass out posters and support material at the
same time educating the merchants on the supplement program
as well as the long term goals of the parking program. I
estimated 20 minutes per merchant. At a minimum it will be
an effective and cheap campaign to promote structure parking
and permit sales. Obviously it's a winning situation for
everyone.
Budget
Posters $ 160.00
Policy and support material 100. 00
1 temp employee 160 hrs. at $6. 00 hr 960.00
$1220. 00
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Employer/employee parking:
Recommendations:
1 . BIA sponsored awareness campaign
to make employers and employees aware of
how critical this problem is and how when
customers cant park they lose money
2. BIA print and distribute " You Lose " !
slips to merchants or better yet meter maids
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if you as a merchant or employee find it difficult
to park in San Luis Obispo, just think how your
customers feel. . in the interest of preserving down-
town, please try to find a parking space on the
fringes of downtown, and leave these prime spaces
for our paying customers. it only makes good cents!
Thank you,
Your fellow business neighbor.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
1. Buy a pass card or permits for holiday gifts, bonuses, etc.
2. Educate your staff--make all information available to them.
3. Post a fact sheet, map, and poster.
4. Help valued employees out by covering a % of their parking
cost.
5. Never, never park in the core.
6. Print a parking message on all payroll check stubs.
7 . Give away $0.25 validation coupons for employees with the
highest sales for the day.
8. Prepay cost of employee quarterly permits and recoup through
payroll deduction.
HIGHWAY 101
AESTHETIC RESOURCE STUDY
PURPOSE
Provide an assessment of the 101 corridor's town and countryside landscape amenities and
recommendations to manage it as a resource as change and development occurs.
The rationale and assumption is that the amenities of the county, its rolling hills, views,
countryside, variable town character and settings, is an important aesthetic resource that
contributes to a quality-of-life important to its residents. It is also an invaluable resource
that underlies the tourist sector of the economy. The stimulus for the study is the rate of
past change and expected continued change. No matter how valued, the resource that
attracts people and businesses can still deteriorate. Just as new transportation policies are
directed to handle present and projected needs, so we need to consciously think about the
aesthetic resource and develop the means to conserve it as part of the approach to
managing land development.
What is the landscape aesthetic resource?
The surrounding environment that a person views and experiences at one time. It is
aesthetic because it applies to one's psychological reaction to what is being viewed. This
reaction varies in intensity and is influenced by distinctive qualities that endow a place with
character and identity. The more favorable anexperience, the greater the benefit to well
being. Therefore, it is considered a resource because our surrounding environment is
something we value and need.
The aesthetic experience is enhanced with one's ability to comprehend the landscape. A
region or community can be understood easier through distinctive character components
which encourages the viewer to identify with it, giving it meaning and a sense of place. The
components which shape character involve concepts of scale, sense of place, and
distinctiveness. The larger expression of this shapes the aesthetic experience and quality.
1. Scale has to do with size and distribution of land use activities and settlement
patterns.
a. Relation of the new to the past.
b. Degree of clarity of major groupings of activities, and between
groupings.
C. Location to relation to town edges.
d. Extent a major grouping stands out.
e. Appropriateness to setting.
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2. Sense of place.
a. Clear boundaries between major activities and town and countryside.
b. Clear gateways into the region, sub-region and town.
C. Sense of the past; symbolic of what was and which contributes to a
sense of continuity.
d. Variety with unity - vernacular expression - extent of how a place
"reads"what it is.
e. Extent physical setting respected and activities "fit" to it.
3. Distinctiveness.
a. Characteristics of landforms, vegetation, climate, views - natural
setting.
b. Characteristics of rural landscapes.
C. Differences in town character, architectural style, layout.
d. Extent of diversity or variety.
SCOPE
The study began as a visual resource study, but this proved too limiting in relation to how
people actually relate to and experience places and landscapes. The extent of knowledge is
limited in dealing with the broader esoteric concept of aesthetics. This required extensive
search and testing of ways people relate to their environment in terms of perceptions,
meanings and importance attached to settings. The intent is to broaden the foundation by
which the community understands and values its aesthetic resource and the justification for
managing it.
APPROACH
Video taping of corridor from north and south directions, and aerial video taping of
corridor settlement patterns. Edited version representing diversity of aesthetic experience
for use in analysis and workshops. Conduction of series of public workshops to evaluate
resident views on strengths/weaknesses, likes/dislikes, feelings about change, valued
landscapes, and reasons behind evaluations. Testing tentative assessments with small
groups--resident and visitor. Long-term growth scenario from perspective of public and
private sector professionals involved in land development.
Analysis and recommendations intended to contribute to:
1. Larger more connected awareness of the,region and its major areas as
experienced from 101 corridor where most residents live.
2. A range conveying the essence of a place or sub-region landscape to site
specifics.
3. Tailored to each jurisdiction.
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MAJOR CONCLUSIONS
Diversity of county's corridor rural and town landscapes is the major quality of the
aesthetic resource; variety contained in five sub-regions with further town and rural
distinctions.
Salinas River Valley
North County
Paso Robles
Templeton
Atascadero
Santa Margarita Ranch/Los Padres
San Luis Obispo
Cuesta Grade
San Luis Obispo
Squire Canyon
Ocean/Five Cities
Nipomo Valley
Integrity of rural landscapes and town edges and physical settings primarily intact.
Aesthetic experience of county's diverse landscapes in corridor still high.
More recent change in form of commercial and residential development largely viewed
negatively as inappropriate to both region and place character and lacking in
distinctiveness.
Long-range settlement tendencies likely to result in major deterioration of aesthetic
resource.
Opportunities still substantial to conserve resource and instill more appropriate
development standards and templates. Aesthetics of landscape not separable from growth
distribution policy. Reliance on ranches/agriculture to fully maintain rural landscapes not
feasible.
Large rural parcels remain (85% over 40 acres in corridor)
65% of corridor crosses open landscape
30% of corridor in areas experiencing intensive development over last
10 years
36%of viewshed in urban reserve boundaries.
64% of viewshed in rural areas.
Residents (workshop and testgroup participants) have awareness and concerns re&arding
change and amenities beyond their place of rdsidence, and make little distinctions in
jurisdictions when dealing with sub-regions.
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Settlement Tendencies
Long range suburbanization of corridor
Excessive linear pattern gradually obscuring views of open landscapes
Breakdown of integrity of urban separation
Disconnected and unorganized "spots" of development
Subdivision layout tendencies to overwhelm physical setting
Inappropriate scale of development
Rural lands valued for large lot residential
Overall, incremental blurring of rural character
Franchise architecture and site planning obscures local sense of place
Overall loss of distinctiveness of towns
Inadequate attention to the appurtenances of urbanization: power poles
and lines, utility installations, storage tanks, highway furniture,
and other impedimenta resulting in clutter.
Universal application of suburban development criteria from official design
manuals for improvements instead of more appropriate town and rural
standards.
Management Focus
1. Conserving aesthetic resource through:
a. Land acquisition; purchase or transfer of development rights;
purchase of conservation or scenic easements to protect critical
views.
b. Land use policy and development standard changes to instill
clustering, distinct modes, and alternatives to standard suburban
model.
C. Overlay districts and specific site plan criteria regarding scale,
massing, heights, sensitivity to landforms.
2. Signage:
a. View as integral part of site plan; size, height, shape, color, fits
building/site design.
b. Eliminate billboards. Replace with specially-designed,well
coordinated, travel information kiosks signs at highway rest stops,
highway commercial nodes.
C. Aply uniform size commercial logos (McDonalds, Shell, Motel 6,
etc on to freeway directional signs (as in other parts of
California and other states).
3. Screening and landscaping standards:
a. Soften visual effects of large expanses of paving.
b. Retrofittingpoorly-designed segments.
C. Berming parking lots and landscaping to lessen spill-over lighting.
d. Planting along selected corridor areas as means of enhancing the
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