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Home My WebLink About02-11-03 packetSaratoga Mustard Walk February 9, 2003 Ideas / Observations for Mustard Walk - February 8, 2004 W � +�pt3iz� w ti * alkin Minstrels - flutes, violins, and harp music * A Mustard Walk/ Race (Fruitvale, Three Oaks, Farwell, Offices) * Mustard Stroll - around the orchard * Dancing in the Orchard * Have a picnic in the orchard * More small animals - sheep / goats / chickens * Story telling * Raffle / Contest - answer questions - win a dinner for two * Benches in Orchard -- 01 • Garlands in your hair vofobYLS • Improve Organization * Arborist / Horticulturists in the orchard to talk about trees, pruning, etc. C * Hostessin costume. * Begin a two month festival - Saratoga Mustard walk and Historic Blossom Festival. * Sell Calandars (Do j A71 JA/ j4, 0 X John Livingstone To: Morgan Kessler Subject: FW: Austin Way Morgan, John C. said you would know the schedule for fixing up Austin Way. The Heritage Preservation Commission HPC would like to install a sign at each end of the road designating it a Heritage Lane, like the signs on Saratoga Avenue, and have a ribbon cutting ceremony once the work is done. If you can give a general idea of the month that the work should be complete it would be great. Thanks John L - - - -- Original Message---- - From: John Livingstone Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:47 PM To: John Cherbone Subject: Austin Way John, Just a reminder that the CC asked that 10K be added to the CIP budget to fix up Austin Way. I would like to submit the restoration project for an award. Any idea when this may be put into motion? Thanks John F. Livingstone, AICP Associate Planner City of Saratoga 408.868.1231 City of Saratoga HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION AGENDA Date: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:00 a.m. Place: Warner Hutton House, 13777 Fruitvale Avenue Type: Regular Meeting 1. Routine Organization A. Roll Calf - ° pQQ fz tlLS_Q B. Approval of minutes from 1/14/03 ' ��® C. Posting of Agenda - Pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.2, the agenda was posted on Thursday February 6, 2003 D. Oral Communications -COftCS A" A- E. Written Communications 1 II. Old Business �olr✓'t. 1'��Zt�C� A. Heritage Orchard update A c_O A (z- 1; ,39- Nks- x Z B. Orchard information sign : kZ �A . 5 0 N Sn (�,q 0 G p, e-?xi SZ W6 5166.) III. New Business A. 14501 Big Basin Way -The applicant is proposing three new awnings to a NOA'4A structure on the City of Saratoga Heritage Resource List. Mv-(caN wvl VAS IV. Items Initiated by the Commission l - �- 3 4� � P t U V t A tS 1 A. Critique of Mustard W alk --e � �b u B. Follow up from the joint City Council /HPC meeting. The Mills Act and the Historic Criteria have been scheduled for the March 5, 2003 CC meeting. V. VI. Items Initiated by the Secretary A. Design of the Austin Way Sign designated the new Heritage Lane Adjournment 9:00 a.m. Tuesday March 11, 2003 — Warner Hutton House (cl/�SStOr—'s ON �n�-�c� NP�9,, -�(�,, \ r `V-10 V L-�/J til rL i ` `0 (N O ^T J ` `-' Y } A / " r D I AJ G W .P 4l �rZ� City of Saratoga HERITAGE PRESERVATION COMMISSION MINUTES Date: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:00 a.m. Place: Warner Hutton House, 13777 Fruitvale Avenue Type: Regular Meeting I. Routine Organization A. Roll Call- PRESENT - Bailey, Conrado, Koepernik, Lowdermilk, Peck, Grens ABSENT - Ballingall GUESTS - Art Commission Lee Murray, Developers Larry Shuck and Jerry Huston, Nick Streit, Beth Wyman, Danielle Surdin B. Approval of minutes from 12/10/02 - Aproved 6 -0 C. Posting of Agenda – Pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.2, the agenda was posted on Thursday January 9, 2003 D. Oral Communications - Staff gave a brief update on the proposed project on 20331 Orchard Road. E. Written Communications - None II. Old Business A. Heritage Orchard update - Nick Streit gave a brief update on the progress of the replacement trees in the Heritage Orchard. B. Mustard Walk Banner - The design was approved 6 -0. C. Orchard information sign - Item continued to next meeting. III. New Business A. Mustard Walk Flyer - Approved 6 -0 IV. Items Initiated by the Commission A. Mustard Walk planning, food and drinks. - Final preparations made. V. Items Initiated by the Secretary A. Design of the Austin Way Sign designated the new Heritage Lane - Continued B. Joint meeting with the City Council January 21, 2003 (Prepare a list of topics) - The proposed staff report was reviewed and recommendations made. C. Request to change the street "The Terrace" to "Carriage House Court". - The street name was reviewed and changed to "Terrace Court" - Approved 6 -0 by the HPC and agreed to by the applicants. D. Mills Act - Discussed topic and possible impacts of the proposal. VI. Adjournment 9:00 a.m. Tuesday February 11, 2002 — Warner Hutton House John Livingstone From: Dennis Leong Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 4:58 PM To: John Livingstone Cc: John Cherbone Subject: Heritage Orchard Update Planting of the orchard is contingent on two issues: The permanent vacating of the orchard areas adjacent to the building concrete pathways by the building contractors, scheduled for the end of February and long enough weather "windows" for field preparation, irrigation and planting. Performing any of these tasks in saturated soil conditions would create more problems than already exist from heavy truck and equipment compaction resulting from the building construction. We don't know what soil problems we will encounter from the construction, ie. paint thinner, paint, lime deposits from concrete walk etching, and I noticed dry wall debre piles, what effect these will have an effect on the growth of these new trees I don't know, hopefully many of these contaminants will leached from the top soil. Orchard Tree Planting Phases 1. Rip (3 feet Deep) the orchard area to relieve compaction, focusing on corner of Saratoga Avenue and Fruitvale and larger areas adjacent to building where irrigation is available, time required for ripping :1 week. 2. Regrade ripped area, time required for regrading: approximately 1 week. 3. Install automatic irrigation from the library automatic valve sources. As of the end of January an orchard irrigation consultant has retained will begin design specifications for the entire orchard. End of February irrigation design phase 1 will be complete and design specifications for immediate library sites should be ready to go out for bid. 4. March (pending rain and saturated soil conditions), irrigation installation will begin for immediate library sites. 5. April (pending rain and saturated soil conditions), planting will begin. In December 2002, 140 bare root French Prunes (white blossom) 3/4 inch caliper on myrobolon 29c rootstock, 54 inches tall) have been secured from Sierra Gold Nursery, they will be dug out in February and held in cold storage after February 15 until the fields are ready for planting. 6. A double 4 foot fense arround the new trees will be necessary to reduce deer damage for the first year. Water Well Progress update: A well and pump design consultant has been retained to write design specifications for the orchard well and pump design. Final design specifications and working drawing should be complete within the next 5 weeks to go out to bid. I anticipate selecting a well drilling company by the end of March to begin phase one, Drilling a test well. If water is found an analysis will immediately be done ( "E" log) to determine actual soil profile.The test well will be pumped for 24 hours to determine actual production capacity. Within a 24 hour time frame a decision will need to be made to Santa Clara Valley Water as to our intent to begin construction of a production well or abandon and cap (concrete pump) the test well. If the well is dry, the test well will need to be capped also a decision will need to be made whether to chose a different area to test well drill. During the library construction provisions are being made to bring 3 phase power from the library for the well pump and and to "stub" in a water main line "spur" to the library irrigation ( leading outside the library landscaped area so as not to impact the library landscape) for future connection to the library landscape. Although the Santa Clara Valley Water will charge Saratoga a pumping fee it will be significantly less than the domestic water Saratoga now pays for, in addition if agricultural products are sold as a result of this water use the fees will be discounted further.