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HomeMy WebLinkAbout01/22/1991423 MINUTES ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL CITY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1991 - 7:00 P.M. COUNCIL CHAMBERS - CITY HALL - 990 PALM STREET SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA ROLL CALL Councilmembers Present- Vice -Mayor Bill Roalman, Councilmembers Peg Pinard, Penny Rappa, Jerry Reiss and Mayor Ron Dunin Absent: None Planning Commission: Present: Commissioners Keith Gurnee, Barry Karleskint, Janet Kourakis, Fred Peterson, Richard Schmidt, Dodie Williams, and Chairman Gilbert Hoffman Absent: None City Staff Present: John Dunn, City Administrative Officer, Ken Hampian, Assistant City Administrative Officer, Glen Matteson, Associate Planner, Jeff Jorgensen, City Attorney, Pam Voges, City Clerk, Arnold Jonas, Community Development Director, Bill Statler, Finance Director PUBLIC COMMENT P.C.I. Michelle Willis. Roy Emerson, Gail Gilman, Deanna Constable, Claire Chew, Brad Goans, and James Merkel urged City support of future peace marches in the downtown and help in facilitating the permitting process with staff to close streets as necessary. CONSENT AGENDA C -1 AMENDMENT OF QUESTION ON MEASURE B (File No. 324) Council considered an amendment to the ballot question for Measure B at the Special Municipal Election to be held Tuesday, April 9, 1991. Gary Kunkel, proponent for the W.A.T.E.R. initiative, felt that the question on the ballot was unclear and recommended amendment to read "Shall the ordinance requiring the City to obtain public an /or private sources of water to phase out water rationing, and to roll back rate increases caused by rationing, fall within one year of passage, be adopted ?" Pam VOEes, City Clerk, recommended that the wording could be amended from its current language which reads "Shall the ordinance to eliminate water rationing be adopted ?" to "Shall the water action to eliminate rationing ordinance be adopted ?" to more accurately reflect the question being submitted to the voters as reviewed and supported by the City Attorney. 424 City Council Minutes Page 2 Tuesday, January 22, 1991 - 7:00 pm. After brief discussion, moved by Pinard /Ranpa to adopt Resolution No. 6925 (4-1, Mayor Dunin voting no) amending the ballot question for Measure B to more clearly identify its title as recommended by staff. BUSINESS ITEM 1. LAND USE ELEMENT UPDATE (File No. 462) Council considered the economic study scope of work, budget, and use of study results in updating the General Plan. (continued from Planning Commission meeting of December 27, 1990, and related to action taken by the Council on September 25, 1990.) A. Mayor Dunin welcomed the Planning Commission to their joint meeting. B. Arnold Jonas. Community Development Director, briefly reviewed the purpose of the joint meeting, stating that on September 25, 1990, Council had referred the General land Use Element update to the Planning Commission with direction to further evaluate 13 topics plus some preliminary Council editing. Also, the Council asked for an economic evaluation to be used. in further considering the update. C. John Dunn. City Administrative Officer, reviewed a draft memorandum from the Citizen's Advisory Committee with their observations and principles regarding municipal finance, which.included 22 principles (please see File No. 462 for specifically worded principles). D. Bill Statler. Finance Director, gave a brief review of where the City's monies are derived, how they are spent and provided a slide presentation that identified various revenue sources. E. The Council and Commissioners made comments about their observations and understanding of previous 1 Council action. Mayor Dunin asked for public comment. Commissioner Peterson stated for the record that he had listened to the tapes from the Council's previous meeting. discussing the LUE on September 25, 1990. Commissioner Williams stated as she had just been appointed, she was not prepared to comment. Commissioner Gurnee supported the need for an impartial economics needs assessment. He also felt that the previous strategic planning program should be reviewed. He suggested the City undertake a comprehensive look at the General Plan reviewing the previous plan and updating it. Commissioner Schmidt was concerned that an economic study could cloud the ability of the Commission to propose a vision for the City. Commissioner Kourakis was also concerned that the economic study not "drive" the LUE and undermine the environmental concerns. Commissioner Hoffman felt he had sufficient information to continue the LUE review. Brett Cross. 1217 Mariners Cove, did not support the Citizen's Advisory Committee's Recommendation No. 7, feeling that it was too narrow a definition regarding the perspective on quality of life. Don Smith urged that the Council provide as their first priority, quality of life issues. Carla Sanders , representing the Citizen's Planning Alliance of San Luis Obispo County, read a letter into the record dated December 17, 1990, expressing concerns about the scope of the proposed economic study. She 425 City Council Minutes Page 3 Tuesday, January 22, 1991 - 7:00 pm. urged the study take in the following issues: A) Answer the question "What is the cost of new development to existing residents of the City of San Luis Obispo ? "; B) The study separate the economic effects from the environmental effects; C) That the economic study address the issues of adequate resources i e. water, air, sewer, school, traffic, agricultural land and whether or not the residents would be willing to pay to keep peaks, hillsides, creeks, and marshes open; D) Assess development and expansion areas so that funding for new or expanded resources does not require the City to pay for it; and, E) obtain information from other recognized authorities on economic studies, such as Navaro and Carson. Charles Lone: 639 AI -hill Drive, urged that the economics of the study be completed prior to going further with this plan. Dave Garth. 2046 San Luis Drive, felt that the problem was not with excessive growth, but to start by doing an economic study, so that there was a balance between the environment and economic impacts. Jim Merkle. 392 Pismo, felt that the vision of the community needed to be identified. He questioned, "How was this community going to sustain itself in the future ?" He was concerned about the environmental effects identified with air quality, traffic, circulation, animals, and others. 9:08 p.m. Mayor Dunin declared a recess. 9:10 p.m. City Council reconvened, all Councilmembers and commissioners present. Councilman Roalman felt that the Commission needed to look at the original process. He was concerned about lasing some of the information originally received from the public and hoped the LUX. would not be driven by economic goals. He encouraged the Council not to send the document back to the Planning Commission and was specifically concerned that the entire document not be up for grabs. He suggested letting the Council continue reviewing the draft LUX, and the City could prepare an economic study if necessary. Councilman Reiss felt that economics was an important element and could not ignore the Citizen's Advisory Committee's recommendation No. 21 as it related to the need for a different perspective of quality of life. Specifically, that quality of life and economic development could no longer be viewed as divergent or as opposites. They should be viewed as parallel agd complimentary objectives. Councilwoman Pinard questioned how the City could continually grow without destroying what it has. She felt it was important to be fair for all the people, not just those currently living in San Luis Obispo. Councilwoman Rauna restated the need for choosing the City's future rather than letting it just happen. She felt that the regional center issue needed to be reviewed using the previous strategic planning program as a guide. It was not her intent to slight the environmental program and she could support the approach suggested by Commissioner Gurnee, but was not prepared to discuss the workscope this evening. She thought it important to retain local control, but remain aware of what is happening in the rest of the County. She did not want to see a complete rewrite of the plan, but to focus on those areas previously outlined by the Council. Mayor Dunin supported sending the plan back to the Planning Commission for review of those issues previously outlined. He was also concerned that some type of economic study be provided. He hoped that the Land Use Element would be reviewed by the Planning Commission with the issues that were previously identified by the Council and in light of the recommendations by the Citizen's Advisory Committee. He, too, felt the strategic planning program previously adopted could be used as part of an update. After discussion, and upon general consensus, Council directed the Planning Commission and staff to report back on the 13 points referred to the Planning Commission from the September 25, 1990 meeting, with staff to prepare a limited work scope to review economic and environmental concerns using an outside trained economist. 426 City Council Minutes Page 4 Tuesday, January 22, 1991 - 7:00 p.m. Upon general consensus, the City Council and the Planning Commission agreed to meet again to review and approve the work scope at a future meeting. COMMUNICATIONS Comm.l. Request by Councilwoman Rauua to agendize the resolution declaring "Yellow Ribbon Days" at the 1/29/91 Council meeting. Council supported request and directed staff to agendize. Comm.2 Council supported the agenda outline for the January 29, 1991 joint meeting with the Architectural Review Commission as proposed by the ARC in a memo dated January 22, 1991, from the Community Development Director. 10:40 p.m. There being no further business to come before the City Council or the Planning Commission, the two bodies adjourned. APPROVED BY COUNCIL: 7/16/91 Li' PV:ch Pam Voges, City Clerk ROLL CALL Councilmembers Present- Absent- Architectural Review Commissioners Present: Absent: City Staff MINUTES JOINT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMISSION TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1991 - 7:00 P.M. COUNCIL HEARING ROOM - CITY HALL - 990 PALM SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA Vice -Mayor Bill Roalman. Councilmembers Peg Pinard, Penny Rappa and Mayor Ron Dunin Councilmember Jerry Reiss Commissioners Melinda Clark - Bradford, Madi Gates, Curtis Illingworth, Linnaea Phillips, Mike Underwood, and Chairman Duane Morris Allan Cooper Present: John Dunn, City Administrative Officer, Kenneth Hampian, Assistant Administrative Officer, Jeff Jorgensen, City Attorney, Pam Voges, City Clerk, Arnold Jonas, Community Development Director, Dave Romero, Public Works Director, Bob Neumann, Acting Fire Chief I