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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda 021307• CITY OF A TASCADERO CITY COUNCIL "SPECIAL STUDY SESSION'k* AGENDA Tuesday, February 13, 2007 5:30 P.M. City Hall Council Chambers 6907 EI Camino Real Atascadero, California ROLL CALL: Mayor Luna Mayor Pro Tem Brennler Council Member Beraud Council Member Clay Council Member O'Malley A. MANAGEMENT REPORTS: 1. Downtown Commercial Zoning Text Amendment, Zone Change 2006-0124 Study Session (Atascadero Redevelopment Agency) The Atascadero Main Street Organization has requested a study session to discuss the following Downtown zoning issues: 1. A potential change in the zoning ordinance to restrict office, research & development, and health care uses on the first floor within the Downtown Commercial (DC) zoning district, in order to promote more retail and pedestrian -oriented business within the Downtown Commercial (DC) zoning 0 district; and 2. A potential change in the zoning ordinance to require Planning Commission review of all downtown construction projects including those of less than 10,000 square feet. • B. ADJOURNMENT: Please note: Should anyone challenge any proposed development entitlement listed on this Agenda in court, that person may be limited to raising those issues addressed at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Council at or prior to this public hearing. Correspondence submitted at this public hearing will be distributed to the Council and available for review in the City Clerk's office. I, Shannon Sims, Deputy City Clerk of the City of Atascadero, declare under the penalty of perjury that the foregoing agenda for the February 13, 2007 Special Study Session of the Atascadero City Council was posted on February 6, 2007 at the Atascadero City Hall, 6907 EI Camino Real, Atascadero, CA 93422 and was available for public review in the Customer Service Center at that location. Signed this 6`h day of February, 2007 at Atascadero, California. Shannon Sims, Deputy City Clerk City of Atascadero • CITY OF A TASCADERO CITY COUNCIL AGENDA Tuesday, February 13, 2007 7:00 P.M. City Hall Council Chambers 6907 EI Camino Real Atascadero, California • STUDY SESSION: 5:30 P.M. Downtown Commercial Zoning Text Amendment, Zone Change 2006-0124 (Atascadero Redevelopment Agency) The Atascadero Main Street Organization has requested this study session to discuss the following Downtown zoning issues: 1. A potential change in the zoning ordinance to restrict office, research & development, and health care uses on the first floor within the Downtown Commercial (DC) zoning district, in order to promote more retail and pedestrian - oriented business within the Downtown Commercial (DC) zoning district; and 2. A potential change in the zoning ordinance to require Planning Commission review of all downtown construction projects including those of less than 10,000 square feet. REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY: 6:30 P.M. • CLOSED SESSION: • (Immediately following Redevelopment Agency Meeting) 1. PUBLIC COMMENT — CLOSED SESSION 2. CALL TO ORDER a. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATORS (Govt. Code Sec. 54957.6) Agency Designated Representatives: City Manager Wade McKinney, Assistant City Manager Jim Lewis Employee Organizations: Department Heads, Confidential, Atascadero Police Association, Atascadero Professional Fire Fighters Association Local 3600 3. ADJOURN REGULAR SESSION: 7:00 P.M. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Council Member Beraud • ROLL CALL: Mayor Luna Mayor Pro Tem Brennler Council Member Beraud Council Member Clay Council Member O'Malley COMMUNITY FORUM: (This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wanting to address the Council on any matter not on this agenda and over which the Council has jurisdiction. Speakers are limited to five minutes. Please state your name for the record before making your presentation. The Council may take action to direct the staff to place a matter of business on a future agenda. A maximum of 30 minutes will be allowed for Community Forum, unless changed by the Council.) APPROVAL OF AGENDA: Roll Call PRESENTATIONS: 1. Boy Scouts of America, A Report on the Impact of Scouting in Atascadero. 2. Proclamation declaring Tuesday, February 27, 2007 as "Spay Day USA." 3. Proclamation recognizing Atascadero High School Community • Challenge Days as March 12-13, 2007. COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REPORTS: (On their own initiative, Council • Members may make a brief announcement or a brief report on their own activities. Council Members may ask a question for clarification, make a referral to staff or take action to have staff place a matter of business on a future agenda. The Council may take action on items listed on the Agenda.) 1. Reconsideration - of City Council direction to staff on January 23, 2007, concerning Strategy and Timeline for Big Box Ordinance. (Mayor George Luna) 2. Controversial agenda items — Request to discuss placing controversial agenda items at the beginning of agendas to accommodate the participating public. (Council Member Clay) 3. Length of City Council meetings — Request to consider options. (Council Member Beraud) A. CONSENT CALENDAR: (All items on the consent calendar are considered to be routine and non -controversial by City staff and will be approved by one motion if no member of the Council or public wishes to comment or ask questions. If comment or discussion is desired by anyone, the item will be removed from the consent calendar and will be considered in the listed sequence with an • opportunity for any member of the public to address the Council concerning the item before action is taken.) 1. City Council Meeting Minutes — January 9, 2007 ■ City Clerk Recommendation: Council approve the City Council meeting minutes of January 9, 2007. [City Clerk] 2. December 2006 Accounts Payable and Payroll ■ Fiscal Impact: $1,980,937.87. ■ Recommendation: Council approve certified City accounts payable, payroll and payroll vendor checks for December 2006. [Administrative Services] 3. Chico Road — Traffic Way Drainage Improvement Project (Change Order #1 ■ Description: Request for approval of additional funding for drainage improvements at the intersection of Traffic Way and Chico Road. ■ Fiscal Impact: Expenditure of $3,556.53 in previously allocated Drainage Improvement funds. ■ Recommendation: Council authorize the Administrative Services Director to approve Change Order #1 for the Chico Road — Traffic Way Drainage Improvement project to Ajay Excavating, Inc. in the amount of $3,556.53. . [Public Works] 4. Temporary Road Closure — Coromar Avenue (Paladini) • Description: Approval would grant the two-day day -time road closure request of Coromar Avenue to allow a new home to connect to the public sewer main. ■ Fiscal Impact: None. ■ Recommendation: Council approve the temporary road closure request by Pamela Paladini to close Coromar Avenue on February 21St — 22nd 2007, from 9:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. [Public Works] 5. Historic Banker House Planned Development / ZCH 2005-0109 (5715/5735 Rosario Ave. / Ravatt) ■ Description: Project approval would allow a 10 -unit residential planned development on a project site that is currently developed with a single family residence that has been identified as a Colony Home. ■ Fiscal Impact: Based on the revenue projections from the Taussig Study, the City has developed standard conditions of approval for new development projects that require the cost of maintenance and emergency services to be funded by the project through a combination of road assessment districts, landscape and lighting districts and community facilities districts or other approved means. ■ Recommendations: Council: 1. Adopt on second reading, by title only, Draft Ordinance A approving Zone Change 2006-0128 based on findings to establish Planned • Development Overlay Zone #28; and, 2. Adopt on second reading, by title only, Draft Ordinance B approving Zone Change 2005-0109 based on findings. [Community Development] 0 B. PUBLIC HEARINGS: 1. Road Abandonment 2006-0017 / Reauest to Summarilv Vacate an Undeveloped Portion of East Front Road (Jacobson/Patel) ■ Description: Upon approval, the City would abandon a 5400 square foot undeveloped portion of East Front Road to accommodate the construction of an 80 room, four story hotel. ■ Disclosure of Ex Parte Communications ■ Fiscal Impact: No significant fiscal impact is anticipated with this road abandonment. • Recommendations: Planning Commission Recommends Council: 1. Adopt Draft Resolution A summarily vacating an undeveloped portion of East Front Road right-of-way based on findings and subject to conditions of approval; and, 2. Seek market rate compensation for the undeveloped portion of East Front Road Right of Way. [Public Works] C. MANAGEMENT REPORTS: • 1. Broadcasting of City Council Meetings ■ Description: Request for Council direction concerning the broadcasting of City Council meetings. ■ Fiscal Impact: The cost for implementing the staff recommendation will range from approximately $34,000-49,000 annually depending on the desired options. In addition to this annual cost, $30,000-$40,000 will be required to set up the in-house camera system, which can be covered by PEG fee revenue. ■ Recommendations: Council direct staff to: 1. Begin negotiations with Charter Communications regarding the implementation of a PEG fee with the proceeds to be used for installation of cameras and related recording and transmission equipment in the City Council Chamber; and, 2. Design an appropriate in-house audio and video recording system; and, 3. Implement live broadcasts of City Council meetings on Charter Cable channel 20, live web streaming over the Internet and a video -on - demand archive system; and, 4. Solicit bids from broadcasting and web streaming companies; and, 5. Enter into agreement with AGP Video of Morro Bay to broadcast Council meetings until the permanent in-house system and vendor are • established. [City Manager] 2. City Council Strategic Planning ■ Description: The City Council will discuss, and receive public input, on potential issues to be considered at their Strategic Planning Workshop. ■ Fiscal Impact: None. ■ Recommendations: Council: 1. Invite community input regarding potential strategic planning issues for the February 23-24, 2007 workshop (there will be additional opportunities at the workshop); and, 2. Add potential strategic planning issues from Council Members (there will be additional opportunities at the workshop); and, 3. Review meeting logistics. [City Manager] 3. Fiscal Year 2005-2006 Audit ■ Fiscal Impact: None. ■ Recommendation: Council review and accept the financial audit for the period ended June 30, 2006. [Administrative Services] 4. Financial Reserve Policy ■ Description: This report has been complied, in preparation for the upcoming budget cycle, to assist in evaluating the City's fiscal position and • the level of appropriate reserves. ■ Fiscal Impact: None. ■ Recommendation: Council review and accept the financial reserve policy. [Administrative Services] D. COMMITTEE REPORTS: (The following represent standing committees. 0 Informative status reports will be given, as felt necessary): • E 0 Mayor Luna 1. County Mayor's Round Table 2. Finance Committee 3. S.L.O. County Flood Control & Water Conservation District Water Resources Advisory Committee 4. Nacimiento Water Purveyors' Contract Technical Advisory Group 5. North County Water Purveyors Group Mayor Pro Tem Brennler 1. Air Pollution Control District (APCD) 2. Economic Opportunity Commission (EOC) 3. Atascadero Youth Task Force Council Member Beraud 1. Integrated Waste Management Authority (IWMA) 2. City / Schools Committee Council Member Clay 1. City / Schools Committee Council Member O'Malley 1. S.L.O. Council of Governments (SLOCOG) / S.L.O Authority (SLORTA) 2. Finance Committee 3. Economic Vitality Corporation, Board of Directors (EVC) 4. League of California Cities — Council Liaison INDIVIDUAL DETERMINATION AND/OR ACTION: 1. City Council 2. City Clerk 3. City Treasurer 4. City Attorney 5. City Manager ADJOURNMENT: Regional Transit Please note: Should anyone challenge any proposed development entitlement listed on this Agenda in court, that person may be limited to raising those issues addressed at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Council at or prior to this public hearing. Correspondence submitted at this public hearing will be distributed to the Council and available for review in the City Clerk's office. I, Shannon Sims, Deputy City Clerk of the City of Atascadero, declare under the penalty of perjury that the foregoing agenda for the February 6, 2007 Regular Session of the Atascadero City Council was posted on February 13, 2007 at the Atascadero City Hall, 6907 El Camino Real, Atascadero, CA 93422 and was available for public review in the Customer Service Center at that location. Signed this 6`h day of February, 2007 at Atascadero, California. Shannon Sims, Deputy City Clerk City of Atascadero • City of Atascadero WELCOME TO THE ATASCADERO CITY COUNCIL MEETING She City Council meets in regular session on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m., at the City Hall Council Chambers, 6907 EI Camino Real, Atascadero. Matters are considered by the Council in the order of the printed Agenda. Copies of the staff reports or other documentation relating to each item of business referred to on the Agenda are on file in the office of the City Clerk and are available for public inspection during City Hall business hours at the Central Receptionist counter and on our website, www.atascadero.org. An agenda packet is also available for public review at the Atascadero Library, 6850 Morro Road. Contracts, Resolutions and Ordinances will be allocated a number once they are approved by the City Council. The minutes of this meeting will reflect these numbers. All documents submitted by the public during Council meetings that are either read into the record or referred to in their statement will be noted in the minutes and available for review in the City Clerk's office. Council meetings are recorded and may be reviewed by the public. Copies of meeting recordings are available for a fee. Contact the City Clerk for more information (470-3400). In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in a City meeting or other services offered by this City, please contact the City Manager's Office or the City Clerk's Office, both at (805) 470-3400. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting or time when services are needed will assist the City staff in assuring that reasonable arrangements can be made to provide accessibility to the meeting or service. TO SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEMS Members of the audience may speak on any item on the agenda. The Mayor will identify the subject, staff will give their report, and the Council will ask questions of staff. The Mayor will announce when the public comment period is open and will request anyone interested to address the Council regarding the matter being considered to step up to the podium. If you wish to speak for, against or comment in any way: • You must approach the podium and be recognized by the Mayor • Give your name and address (not required) • Make your statement • All comments should be made to the Mayor and Council • No person shall be permitted to make slanderous, profane or negative personal remarks concerning any other individual, absent or present • All comments limited to 5 minutes (unless changed by the Council) • No one may speak for a second time until everyone wishing to speak has had an opportunity to do so, and no one may speak more than twice on any item. If you wish to use a computer presentation to support your comments, you must notify the City Clerk's office at least 24 hours prior to the meeting. Access to hook up your laptop to the City's projector will be provided. You are required to submit to the City Clerk a printed copy of your presentation for the record. Please check in with the City Clerk before the meeting begins to announce your presence and turn in the printed copy. The Mayor will announce when the public comment period is closed, and thereafter, no further public comments will be heard by the Council. TO SPEAK ON SUBJECTS NOT LISTED ON THE AGENDA Under Agenda item, "COMMUNITY FORUM", the Mayor will call for anyone from the audience having business with the Council to: • Please approach the podium and be recognized • Give your name and address (not required) • State the nature of your business This is the time items not on the Agenda may be brought to the Council's attention. A maximum of 30 minutes will be allowed for Community Forum (unless changed by the Council). FAFO HAVE ITEMS PLACED ON AGENDA II business matters to appear on the Agenda must be in the Office of the City Manager 14 days preceding the Council meeting. Should you have a matter you wish to bring before the Council, please mail or bring a written communication to the City Manager's office in City Hall prior to the deadline.