HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-22-1988 City Council Minutes MINUTES
SARATOGA CITY COUNCIL
TIME: Tuesday, March 22, 1988 6:30 p.m.
PLACE: Community Center Day care Room, 19655 Allendale Avenue
TYPE: Regular Adjourned Meeting/committee of the Whole
i! Present: Councilmembers Anderson, Clevenger, Hlava, Peterson
. Absent: Councilmember Moyles
Staff present: city Manager Peacock
1. Regional Transportation Improvement Plan Santa Clara county
Priority Projects
It was agreed that a strong letter be sent favoring upgrading of
priority for Santa Clara County Projects to MTC. The letter to
emphasize the concept of credit for local matching funds and not
downgrading projects which are segmented for funding oconvenience.
2. Structure and Focus of County Transportation Commission
It was agreed to correspond to Supervisor McKenna the City's preferred
restructuring scheme as follows:
1. One representative from each City in the County to constitute
the entire Commission.
2. Voting authority to be equally weighted.
3. The Commission to be organized on a service basis with a
j] committee system similar to the I.G.C.
· 4. Discussion as to taxing authority be deferred until
restructuring is accomplished.
5. It would be impractical, inappropriate and premature for the
Commission to involve itself in the land use/transportation
linkage question.
JOINT MEETING WITH PLANNING COMMISSION - 7:30 P.M.
Present: Planning Commissioners Burger, Tucker, Kolstad, Guch,
Siegfried, Harris
Absent: Planning Commissioner Clay
Staff present: City Attorney Toppel, Planner Katy Caldwell
3. Proposed ordinance amending and adding certain sections to the City
Code relating to modifications of building plans and development
conditions.
After some discussion, there were no suggested modifications to the
draft ordinance.
4. Revised Village zoning
Discussion centered on potential ways to take development standards into
account as a part of the new H-C Zone, which would encourage
preservation of Designated Heritage Resources. It was agreed that a
statement in the zoning section of the Village Specific Plan should be
included to reflect the City's policy to this zoning orientation.
The City Council was requested to be certain that the Heritage
Preservation Commission understands that whatever proposals it makes
relating to encouragement of the preservation of Designated Heritage
Resources in the Village area are not to be construed as being
applicable to other areas of the City, i.e. no conversion of residential
to commercial use.
It was suggested that staff undertake an orientation program for the
Heritage Preservation Commission to familiarize the members with
constraints placed on the City and Planning Commission by existing laws
and previous approvals.
It was agreed that in adopting the Village Specific Plan the exact
boundary of the area to be considered the Village be specified.
5. Evaluation of design review ordinance revisions
Four objectives to the ordinance revisions were identified:
o Simplify and speed up the development review process.
o Reduce the size and bulk of new residential development.
o Get people out of the process who didn't really need to be in the
process.
o Make it easier for applicants who will build within all the
standards to get through the process.
Four indices for evaluation were identified. These were:
o Comparison of cases brought up six months prior to the revision
and six months after.
o Site committee cases now being handled by staff.
o Time difference to handle cases administratively compared to how
similar cases were handled before.
o Amount of time being saved at Planning Commission meetings.
Staff was requested to develop such other indices as it felt relevant to
the task at hand.
Other suggestions for followup were also agreed on as follows:
o The Commission should develop design guidelines for substandard
lots.
o City Attorney to prepare an amendment to the ordinance requiring
design review hearing for all new or expanded dwellings which are
single story and exceed 18 feet in height.
An evaluation cutoff date of July 1, 1988, was agreed to, with the
evaluation report due to the Commission and Council in early Aguust.
The Commission requested an article in the next issue of the Saratogan
on rules for tree permits.
7. The meeting was adjourned at 9:05 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
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