HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-12-1993 City Council Minutes MINUTE8
SARATOGA CITY COUNCIL
TIME: Tuesday, October 12, 1993 - 5:00 p.m.
PLACE: City Hall Administration Meeting Room, 13777 Fruitvale
Ave.
TYPE: Adjourned Regular Meeting/Joint Meeting with Planning
Commission ~
1. Roll Call
Councilmembers Anderson, Burger, Kohler, Monia and M~yor Tucker
were present. Planning Commissioners Asfour, Caldwell, Jacobs,
Kaplan, Murakami, Wolfe and Chairperson Moran were present. Staff.
members present were City Manager Peacock, Community Development
Director Curtis, and Associate Planner White.
2. Report of City Clerk on Posting of Agenda
Pursuant to Government Code 54954.2, the agenda for this meeting
ado from
was properly posted on October 9. The notice of j u~nment
the October 6 Council meeting was properly posted bn October
7.
3. Closed Session on Litigation relating to West valley college
and the city,s stadium prohibition ordinance
The closed session was conducted from 5:00 to 5:45 p.m.
4. Open Space Element
Mayor Tucker passed out her written comments and referred to
suggested changes which have come in through further written
communications. These were gone over as the comments became
relevant as the City Council and Commission reviewed the document
page by page.
A number of changes were agreed to and are to be incorp~orated into
the final document. It was generally agreed to reserve the word
"shall" for policies and "should" forimplementation measures.
Staff to make all changes and prepare the marked-up version for
final hearing.
Show all changes.
5. Sphere of Influence
Referred to letters:
7/9/93 Mid-Peninsula Open space District
10/12/93 Giberson
10/12/93 Greenbelt Alliance
10/12/93 The Committee for Green Foothills
9/27/93 Walton
In response:
Dorothy Warren, Bohlman Road, wrote letter previously. Don't want
to be part of Sphere of Influence.
Options to pursue:
1. Cooperative agreement with County on development standards and
review of same.
2. Agreement with Monte Sereno re: Eastern Boundary~.
3. Sphere of Influence to Viewshed 9nly.
Council agreed to have these three options pursued !as soon as
possible.
City Councll Minutes 2 OctOber 12, 1993
Commissioner Caldwell suggested that it would be helpfdl to all if
Council could articulate a policy as to the steps itsintends to
take and how they would serve to protect the existing outlying
hillside areas.
6. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 9:37 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
City Clerk