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HomeMy WebLinkAbout07/05/1995, - AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION Aeg BramUbunu- 3825 South I iguera•Post Office Box 112 • San Luis Obispo, California 93406-0112 • (805) 781-7800 In The Superior Court of The State of California In and for the County of San Luis Obispo _ aiy of 1111111"san tuts owspo AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION cm COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARINGS. DVI-86017-0-5 1995, Wednesday, July 5, 1995, the San Luis Obispo 1 CITY OF SLO City Council will hold public hearings beginning at 7:OD p.m. in the Council Cham- bers of City Hall, 990 Palm Street, on the items listed STATE OF CALIFORNIA, below. The reports will be SS. available for review in the City Clerk's Department on County of San Luis Obispo the Wednesday before the meeting.For more informa- tion,please call 781.7103. 1 am a citizen of the United States and a resident of The Council may also the County aforesaid; I am over the age of eighteen discuss other hearings or business items before or and not interested in the above entitled matter, I am after those listed. If you now, and at all times embraced in the publication challenge any one of the proposed actions described herein mentioned was, the principal Clerk of the below In court,you may be printers and publishers of the SAN LUIS OBISPO limited issues to raising only those you or someone else COUNTY TELEGRAM-TRIBUNE, a newspaper of raised at the public hearing described In this notice, or general circulation, printed and published daily, in written correspondence Sundays excepted, at the City of San Luis Obispo in delivered to the City Council at, or prior to, the public the above named county and state; that notice at hearing. which the annexed clippings is a true printed copy, HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION GRANTS. was published in the above-named newspaper and IN-AID-to consider recom- not in any supplement thereof - on the following mendations from the Hu- man Relations Commission dates,to-wit:JUNE 24 i9s5 ssin the amnoun9 fof that said newspaper was duly find regularly $86,800 to 33 organizations. ascertained and established a newspaper of general (15 min.l. PROMOTIONAL COOR- circulation by Decree entered in the Superior Court DINATING COMMITTEE of San Luis Obispo County, Sate of California, on GRANTS-IN-AID-to const-. der recommendations from June 9, 1952, Case #19139 under,the provisions Of the Promotional Coordinat- Chapter 1, Division 7, Title of the Government Code ing committee for Grams- ,In-Aid funding for 1995-96 Of the State Of California. In-Aid the amount of$80,400 to 129 agencies.(15 min.). I certify (or declare) under the penalty of perjury that I CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO the foregoing is true and correct. c City Y clerk ladwell, June 24,1995 dvrA67 (Signature of Principal Cleric) Date: JUNE 24, 1995 f Display ad to SueRun: Sat., July Dand eo-IMonday, July 3, 1995 From: Kim @ 781-7103 ART-CITY LOGO CITY COUNCIL MEETING WEDNESDAY, JULY 59 1995 Due to the Independence Day Holiday, the San Luis Obispo City Council will hold their first regular meeting of meeting of the month on Wednesday, July 5, beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo. The location is accessible to the disabled. You may listen to the meeting on Cal Poly radio station KCPR FM 91.3. PUBLIC HEARINGS HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION GRANTS-IN-AID - 1995-96 - to consider recommendations from the Human Relations Commission for Grants-In-Aid funding totaling $84,700 to 33 agencies . (15 min.) PROMOTIONAL COORDINATING CON MUTI'EE GRANTS-IN-AID - to consider recommendations from the Promotional Coordinating Committee for Grants-In-Aid funding totaling $80,400 to 30 organizations. (15 min.) BUSINESS ITEMS PUBLIC SAFETY STUDIES A. POLICE DEPARTMENT REVIEW - to consider a management review of the Police Department by the Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST). (30 min.) B. FIRE DEPARTMENT REVIEW - to consider a management study of the Fire Department by Hunt Research Corporation. (30 min.) SALINAS RESERVOIR TRANSFER AGREEMENTS - to consider approving the Salinas Reservoir Expansion Project ownership transfer agreements. (30 min.) STATE WATER PROJECT EASEMENTS -to consider a request by the State Department of Water Resources (DWR), necessary for the Coastal Branch of the State Water Project, for: 1) a permanent pipeline and access road easement and temporary construction easement on City property located on Fox Hollow Road near the base of Cuesta Grade (Police Firing Range); and, 2) a permanent access road easement using an existing roadway crossing City property located on Stenner Creek Road. (15 min.). RECORDS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - to consider adopting a City-wide Records Management Program. (15 min.) SPECIAL NOTE: At their meeting of Tuesday, June 20, 1995, the City Council voted to hold its second regular meeting in July on Wednesday, July 19th. They also elected to hold only one meeting in August; Tuesday, August 15th. If all business cannot be accommodated on August 15th, or if an urgent items needs to be presented to Council for direction, an adjourned meeting may be scheduled later in the month. Diane R. Gladwell, City Clerk ;)6/27/9513:51 22805 7R1 7109 SLO CITY. HALL 1iJ001 sss. ACTIVITY REPORT ssi s�sss:sssss�sissasasasssass TRANSMISSION OK T%/R% NO. 1524 CONNECTION ,TEL 97817870 CONNECTION ID TELEGRAM TRIBUNE START TIME 06/27 13:50 USAGE TIME 00'56 PAGES 2 RESULT OK ETING GENDA ve. ���IQ�hI IIIIIII► IIIIIIIIIII DATE - • ITEM #� ►I��II�IIIIIIIII� � II II city of sAn WIS OBISPO A 955 Morro Street • San Luis Obispo, CA 93401 �OI�NCIL r ❑ ADD DIA O Gr FIN DIR June 30, 1995 CAO o F�AE CHIEF �� PW DIR Ms. Carol Tangeman RECEIVED CLERIOORIo O POUCECHF 806 Murray Street o ��� 0 REC DIR San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 JUL 5 ��� o UTILDIR . . O PERS DIR Dear Ms. Tangeman: CaTVCLERK SAN LUIS As a follow up to our telephone conversation, here is an update on what is happening with traffic planning in your neighborhood: ❑ Installation of the speed table: On June 28th, city crews began installing the community's first speed table. The speed table is a temporary facility and is being installed on a trial basis to test the effectiveness of its design to slow traffic. Before we installed the speed table, we collected data on traffic speeds and volumes at the Mission-Chorro Street intersection and at a location 200 feet south of the intersection. Now that the speed table is installed, we will again collect traffic data (probably on July 17th and 18th) to determine the facility's impact on speeds. Depending on the outcome of our "before" and "after" study, we will consider changes to the facility's design to improve it effectiveness. Stay tuned for more developments as our testing process continues. We should remember that this "trial facility" is not designed to solve the traffic problems in the Chorro Street neighborhood. Also, there are a wide variety of facilities that can be installed in combination with speed tables that can slow traffic down and avoid creating unacceptable conditions for motorists or for people who live next to the facilities. ❑ Action on the Budget: On June 20th, the City Council approved a two-year financial plan. The financial plan earmarks $50,000 during fiscal year 1995-96 for preparing a neighborhood traffic management plan, construction drawings and specifications for traffic calming facilities. This money will be spent preparing a plan for the Chorro Street neighborhood. The financial plan earmarks $80,000 during fiscal year 1996-97 to pay for the installation of "interim" traffic calming facilities. "Interim" facilities will be installed throughout the neighborhood at the same time. Their performance will be monitored for two or three years. At the end of the monitoring period, a decision will be made to continue with, remove or redesign and replace the interim facilities. The cost of "permanent" facilities (both the cost of installing and maintaining them) will be determined and a method for paying these costs established. /O The City of San Luis Obispo is committed to include the disabled in all of its services, programs and activities. Telecommunications Device for the Deaf(805) 781-7410. kv ❑ Preparing a Neighborhood Traffic Management Plan: The first step in this process will be to prepare a request for proposal (RFP) that asks qualified consultants to submit a proposal for preparing the neighborhood plan. I will send you a copy of the RFP for your information. It will take us two or three months to hire a consultant but our goal is to have a consultant on the job and working by early fall of this year. We will invite a member of the Chorro Street neighborhood to sit on the interview panel for selecting the consultant. Stay tuned for more developments. Once a consultant is hired, there will be a series of neighborhood meetings, surveys, and field studies done to define the problems, evaluate alternate solutions, and come to consensus on an appropriate plan for action. This plan will then be sent to the City Council who will be asked to adopt it. Once the neighborhood plan is adopted, construction drawings and specifications will be prepared with funding for installing "interim facilities" available as of July 1, 1996. I hope that this letter helps clarify what's going on. Feel free to share it with other neighborhood residents. If you would like either Mike McCluskey or myself to attend one of your neighborhood meetings or you or other folks have questions, don't hesitate to give me a call at 781-7178. Sincerely, Terry Sanville Principal Transportation Planner cc Mike McCluskey John Dunn (� . 'f uBUC CoM�t/EMT LISE HAINES 808 MISSION STREET SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA 93405 (805) 545-7705 June 30, 1995 . To the Members of the San Luis Obispo City Council Re: "Speed Plateau" . at Mission and Chorro My family and I live at 808 Mission Street, at the Corner of -Mission and Chorro. I would like the- City Council, to reopen the discussion concerning the installation of the speed plateau, crosswalk and the accompanying plastic stripped "pylons" at my corner. I am in favor of slowing the traffic on .Chorro Street. It moves much too fast for this quiet, residential area. But it is my opinion that a mistake has been made by the Transportation Department at the corner- .of Mission and Chorro, in attempting to fix the problem. I would like to see the current installation modified or completely changed . (removing the pylons .at. minimum) to become more effective and .substantially more safe, and I would . like to see that it is made aesthetically pleasing, to retain the charm of the neighborhood and the City--as well as the property values. Chorro Street, after all, is where we- find our much prized Mission; the City. must care about.-this street's ' appearance. . The day after the crosswalk was installed, two small boys, not much taller than the pylons, crossed the. busy intersection; they were not accompanied by an adult. I asked. them if they were scared crossing such a busy street. They shrugged their shoulders and said; 'To. " I assume the City Council is aware of the significant baby boom happening in this area.. The births are up in the hospitals, the classes at the .Adult .School are.•bulging to the point of waiting lists and adding on extra classes, the neighborhoods are filling up with new families. I'm concerned 'that a child or children . will be injured or killed .at the corner of-..Mission and Chorro as a result of this new "plateau" installation. I believe the crosswalk creates a false sense of security--giving children the feeling that this is a safe place to cross. Admittedly, some cars are slowing down. But many cars are speeding up and I have no doubt this situation will worsen when the Cal Poly students return in the fall. . I .believe .we run too .great .a risk .that a .. child will Become obscured in the busy .visual :impressions of the crosswalk with its "loud" stripping, and more particularly, its forest of pylons. If a child isn't seen among the pylons, the very next step will be into oncoming traffic. Small _children Lise Haines 6/30/95 Page Two cross to go to Anholm Park, just a half-block down 'on Mission, on a regular basis. Ideally, they .are accompanied' by adults. In reality, this. is not always the .case. I believe the City will discover, as I have, that this. is not an effective solution to slowing the traffic speed. The primary problem is 'that there are too many cars that speed over the plateau because it's such a gentle slope and can.- be "fun" to drive over. The cars that do slow down often speed up after the plateau to make up for the time they lost. I hope that when you analyze the data you collect that you not only look at average speeds but the number of cars that go too rapidly over the plateau or accelerate too rapidly after crossing the plateau. I have been told by Terry Sanville of the Transportation Department that this "study" on Chorro Street will go on for at least two years--beginning at my, corner and slowly expanding to other. corners -on. Chorro 'Street. My family is currently being held hostage by approximately fifty- five plastic pylons that surround two sides of our house--and most of the windows in my living room, . including a- large picture window. The number 'of pylons will climb .to 220, .or so in mid-July when additional supplies. are shipped in from another location. I have been told this is a "low=cost" solution to the problem. I. would like to know the cost. of the 220 pylons and the .other work that has been done, and how that cost. compares to more traditional solutions, i .e. , speed bumps, stop signs, etc. I would like to know' the. cost of doing one of these 'instal.lations at every corner down Chorr.o . Street. as proposed. Terry Sanville . has also informed me. that after. the. two=year period is up, an aesthetically pleasing alternative will onlv. be installed when the neighborhood in which I live agrees to a tax assessment. I have been told by a member of the City Council that if the neighborhood does not agree to this assessment, we may be facing A long future of looking at 220 pylons per corner--a sight which has turned our view into' a cross between a landing strip and a Von's parking lot. We face a minimum of two years in which the Transportation Department has determined, without consulting the city Council or the neighborhood association, that their "acceptable"solution is a commercial/industrial one. A solution which Mike McCloskey has referred to as, "Ugly- When I asked Mr, Sanville about the pylons. he said they were there, in part, to prevent. peopie from driving into the crevice between the asphalt and the curb. I asked him if he .had considered simply extending the asphalt to meet the curb. He said the Department had not considered this. - (Not even considered it! ) Lise Haines 6/30/95 Page Three I can't help but question the .idea of two years of further studies, using expensive consultants.. It smacks of .foot=.dragging generated by an overall lack of funds, or the desire to properly allocate them, or what I suspect is a wish by the varying agencies and governing bodies that the. neighborhood simply yells,, "Uncle" and lives with the City's traffic 'problems. In talking with neighbors, members of the City Council, the Mayor, and the Transportation Department, and taking some time 'to reflect on our current situation, I am left with the following impressions:' No one on the City Council seems to have voted on this installation as it exists--particularly with the pylons. All but one of the Members of the Council shar-.e my displeasure with the current situation.: San Luis .has a Transportation Department •unable to cope with its traffic problems using effective, safe and attractive methods-=or even willing to give them enough thought. This is a city that does not seek nor obtain the approval of such projects from the people most directly impacted. This is a city that no longer ,cares about its appearance as it once did, if the situation is not .remedied immediately. The speed bumps on Broad Street went in rapidly, without elaborate testing of "European" solutions becauseseveral former members of the City Council lived on. Broad Street at the time.. I fear this is a• city too thick with political problems. to embrace' simple solutions. This is not .a city in which one can feel confident in buying a home - or starting a business=-when such surprises can happen. I realize there typically- are. morethan a ,couple of .solutions to every problem. The City of San .Lus Obispo Transportation. . Department has chosen the .most ineffective, frightening and ugly solution possible at a questionable cost with total disregard to the people who must live with the ,"solution. " A couple of extra stop signs would have a .greater. effect, not only on the speed of drivers but the amount of traffic and safety of crossing Chorro. It's really very simple and doesn't require a study. Aren't there enough .streets in every possible ' configuration acrossour country that have already been studied ad nauseam? It seems to be a simple fact that .Broad Street has effectively solved its problems. Put stop signsor speed bumps at every corner between Murray and thefreeway and you will Lise Haines 6/30/95 - Page Four definitely slow down traffic and/or move some of it to other streets. I'll be the first to admit that 'I don't. want a stop in front of my house. I would gladly send. the project down a block to Venable. But if my corner .has been singled out, almost anything would be an improvement over the current situation. Since 'I first wrote this letter; there have been several near- . misses at my 'corner, caused by cars :and trucks that enjoy sailing. over the plateau at high-speeds. It's Just an ill-conceived plan. that. needs to be remedied right away. Sincerely, Lise Haines cc: KCOY Television KSBY Television New Times KCBX isuc dONMENT - - ------- - - -- — ____ _��-�.�_fir 5------- -- tA �c.-- --- _ 1�.t_tknc '1- LLe_ +Yk -_ -h I-h- �_S- JC�_be—�- t.l--Ne— pe -Ir _--7ue�e �oaM6�rT FROM:. Dr. Richard J. Krejsa, et aL DATE: 5 July 1995 189 San Jose Court San Luis Obispo, CA 93405 TO: Mayor Allen K. Settle and Council Members City of San Luis Obispo 990 Palm Street San Luis Obispo, CA 93403 SUBJECT: Adopted Major City Goals, Administrative Staff Actions, Budget Cycle, and the Job Description for the proposed "Natural Resources Manager" position. Honorable Mayor and Members of the Council: On 10 April, I addressed a letter to the City Council which I never sent. I'm now sorry I didn't.send it. In that letter I expressed my concern why, after 16 months as an official City committee, numerous correspondences,.submission of our EQTF Vision Statement, testimony at various meetings and workshops; setting of major goals, etc-, the administrative staff would not heed the wishes of the Council and the the input from members of the former EQTF. At that time (Council meeting of 4 April 1994), the CAO/Finance staff had recommended to delay the hiring of an open space planner and city biologist (both EQTF-recommended positions) until the Conservation Element is completed. Completion of the Conservation Element was not a priority of the EQTF but was made so by the administrative staff. This was an insult to all the EQTF input and it caused a fat of negative feelings among former EQTF members. And now, regarding the matter at hand, in his letter of 9 June 1995, CAO Dunn refers to some reasons, given on p. 66 of Appendix A, 1995-97 Financial Plan, as to why the "Natural Resource Manager" position should "be oriented toward open space and natural resource protection, as opposed to a primary emphasis on biology." This anti-biology argument was made despite input of the EQTF that the person hired for the approved position shall have a strong biological foundation, primarily in ecology. It seems obvious to us that in order to protect, restore or enhance natural biological resources and to manage services related to biological studies on open spaces or potential open space land within the City's sphere of influence, one must poses an appropriate biological foundation. A degree in Urban Planning will not qualify a person for this position. Nor, we believe, should the "knowledge of city organization, operation, policies and objectives" be the first criterion (among many criteria listed) for employment. Based on adopted Major Goals of the City, we believe that, in establishing these positions, it was the Council's intent to ensure parity between natural resource protection and economic development in City policies. The current draft job description for "Natural Resource Manager" has been discussed by at least six members of the former EQTF as well as by representatives of ECOSLO and the Sierra Club. We are all in basic agreement that just as the economic community wishes to have the best economic development advocate possible, the environmental community wishes the incumbent for this position to be an environmental advocate well grounded in biology/ecology and not educated primarily as an urban planner or a natural resource manager. Therefore, within a week, in time for your meeting of 1.9 July 1995, we will submit our recommendation for a revision of the current draft job description and a change in the title to "Natural Resource Protection and Restoration Manager." In the cause of equity, we shall use the format of the job description, duties, employment standards, and education given for the pro-active "Economic Development Manager" as our model for the revised job description. We trust that your honorable Council will recieve, consider, and act upon this request.