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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1979/01/03 - Minutes January 3, 1979 CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA CITY COUNCIL MINUTES Regular Meeting CALL TO ORDER The regular meeting of the City Council was held at the Community Service Building, 9161 Baseline Road, Rancho Cucamonga, on Wednesday, January 3, 1979. The meeting was called to order at 7:12 p.m. by Mayor James C. Frost, who led in the pledge to the flag. ROLL CALL Present: Council members Schlosser, Mikels, Palombo, West, and Mayor Frost. City Manager, Lauren Wasserman: Interim City Attorney, Sam Crowe; Assistant to City Manager, Jim Robinson~ Community Development Director, Jack Lam: and City Engineer, Lloyd Hubbs. APPROVAL OF The minutes of December 20, 1978 had not been completed. MINUTES ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Wasserman introduced Don Newman, our new re~orter from the Daily Report. 2. Herman Rempel, Chairman of the Planning Commission, returned an armoured vest and hard hat to the >{ayo~ since the Council would soon be opening public hearings on the General Plan. The vest had been ,resented to him when the Commission ooened public hearings for the General Plan. CONSENT CALENDAR The following items were presented as part of the Consent Calendar: a. Approval of warrants in the amount of $380,918.B3. b. Authorization for Lauren Wasserman, City Manager, and Jim Robinson, Assistant to the City ~{anager, to attend 1979 City Managers Spring meeting in ~onterey on February 7-9. Funds have been budgeted for this con- ference. c. Denial of claim of Mr. and ~{rs. James Ransfer as recommended by County Counsel. d. Tract 9586: Release cash staking deposit to Thompson Associates - $2,600. e. Tract 9432: Accept roads and release bonds to Chevron Construction Performance Bond (road) $162,000. f. Tract 9401: Release of bonds to Olympus Pacific Corp. Performance bond (sewer - on site) $45,000.00 Performance bond (sewer - off site) $22,000.00 Performance bond (water - on site) $70~000.00 Performance bond (water - off site) $49,000.00 g. Tract 9409: Release of bonds to Coral Investment, Inc. Performance bond (sewer) $20,000.00 Performance bond (water) $35,000.00 h. Tract 9455: Release of bonds to Fred Schneider Performance bond (sewer) $20,000.00 Performance bond (water) $35,000.00 i. Tract 9484: Release of bonds to DavJ. d W. Long' Performance bond (water) $26,000.00 j. Tract 9602: Release of bonds to ~atreyek Homes, Inc. Performance bond (sewer) $43,000.00 Performance bond (water) $44,000.00 City Council Minutes January 3, 1979 Page 2 CONSENT CALENDAR Motion: ~oved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to (continued) approve the Consent Calendar. Motion unanimously carried. ZONE CHANGE 78-03 (1) Change of zone from R-1 to A-P on 4.2 acres of land located on the northeast corner of Hermosa and 19th Ordinance No. 49 Street submitted by Walt Seigl. (second read) Motion~ Moved by Palombo, seconded by West to approve the zone change, adopt Ordinance No. 49, and waive the entire reading. Wasserman read title of ordinance. Motion unanimously carried. ORDINANCE NO. 49 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, REZONING ASSESSOR'S PARCEL NO. 202-191-13 FROM R-1 to A-P GENERALLY LOCATED ON THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF 19TH STREET AND HEP~OSA AVENUE. ZONE CHANGE 78-05 (2) Change of zone from R-1 (single family residential) to A-P (administrative/pro~ssional) for 5.51 acres of Ordinance No. 51 land located on the west side of Haven Avenue, north (first read) of Lemon. Submitted by the Southern California Lutheran Church. Staff report presented by Jack Lam. Purpose of the change, so the Lutheran Church could develop a church and facility. Planning Commission recommended approval of request. This is a request for zone change only, not for the project. Planning Commission will approve the project. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Schlosser to approve the zone change, waive entire reading of ordinance, and to pass on the January 15 meeting for adootion. Wasserman read title of ordinance. Motion unanimously carried. ORDINANCE NO. 51 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, REZONING ASSESSOR'S PARCEL NO. 201-261-08 FROM R-1 TO A-P. ZONE CHANGE ~78-06 (3) Change of zone from R-1 (single family residential) to A-P (administrative/professional) for 9.7 acres of land Ordinance No. 52 located on the southwest corner of Baseline and Hellman. (first read) Planning Department had recieved only one letter which was in favor of the zone change provided a fence were installed. Letter was from Virginia Ercek, 9180 Alder Avenue. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by West to approve the zone change, waive entire reading of ordinance, and pass on to the January 15 meeting for final reading and adoption. Title read by Wasserman. Motion unanimously carried. City Council Minutes January 3, 1979 Page 3 PUBLIC HEARING FOR Jack Lam presented the staff report. He emphasized there LAND USE ELEMENT - were nine mandated elements required. Council would be GENERAL PLAN discussing only three of those elements which were: land use, circulation, and public facilities. State law gives us thirty months to approve the other elements. Planning Commission held the first official public hearing on September 15, 1978. There had been several other public meetings for input from the community prior to that date. Mr. Lam summarized the major changes made by the Planning Commission from the printed General Plan which had been circulated throughout the city. These were: 1. Regarding the large portion which had been set aside as a "reserve area." Concern had been expressed regarding the area. Planning Commission recommended eliminating the term "reserve" designation and substitute the same with "study" area. Basically, the Planning Commission set up some standards for review for projects within those areas and standards for further study. 2. Modified the areas that showed the alternative regional shopping centers. 3. Adopted study areas of the Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee. Some minor changes were: 1. Certain corners had been modified. 2. Changes around Chaffey College from high to medium density. Mr. Lam said the Planning Commission was recommending Interim Elements not the final elements. Reason for this was the other elements have not been developed yet. State law re- quires when they are developed that they all fit together in terms of policy and be consistent with each other. Mikels asked for a visible presentation of the changes made on the map. Lam said he would have a mylar overlay made with the changes circled. Mayor opened the meeting to the public. Mr. Vito DeVito Francesso, attorney in Ontario representing (4) Jack Sylvester, a property owner northeast of Haven and Highland. Mr. Sylvester had seventy-five acres with a strip designated low density while the rest was designated mixed use. He wanted to have the whole area designated miXed use. It was the feeling of the Planning Commission to use this s~ipas a buffer area. Discussion followed. Mikels asked the width of the strip. No one really knew. Lam said this could be obtained from the assessor's parcel maps. Moved by Palombo, seconded by West to concur with the Planning Commission's findings. Mikels desired to wait until the next meeting to find out the exact size of the strip in question. West concurred and withdrew his second. Palombo withdrew his motion. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by West to refer to the next meeting on January 15, 1979 to find out the dimensions of the property in question. Motion unanimously carried. City Council Minutes January 3, 1979 Page 4 8th & 9th Streets (5) Mr. DeVito Francesso spoke representing Nick DeVita, east of Grove Inc. and Bill Skovgaard and the property between 8th and 9th Streets east of Grove. This item also had not been before the Planning Commission. Area was designated low density on the General Plan and the property owners would prefer a higher use designation for apartments. Mr. Lam suggested that the Planning Commission would be discussing the housing issue within the city. Perhaps this should be discussed then. Council agreed this should go to the Planning Commission as part of the housing issue discussion. Foothill/Turner (6) George Guidera spoke regarding property north of Foothill and Turner. His property is divided between mixed use designation and iow density designations. This also had not been before the Planning Commission. General consensus of the Council was to concur conceptually to extend designation further east to Center Street. Was referred to Planning Commission for review. Issue of higher density to the north should be included in the housing discussion by the Planning Commission. Windrow Designations (7) J. Alvin Musser referred to the General Plan and the windrow designations. He spoke in opposition to this designation. H & ~ Lumber (8) Edward Fednew of H. & M Wholesale Lumber. Property at 7205 Rochester Avenue, Etiwanda calls for low density (northeast of Baseline). Fednew spoke in opposition to the General Plan designation. He felt the low density designation was not appropriate and should have either a commercial or higher density designation which, he felt, would be a better buffer for a lumber yard. Discussion followed. This area could be declared a non-conforming use. He would be able to operate the business and sell the property, but could not expand. Lam told the Council that if this were allowed to con- tinue, there would be other similar requests. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Palombo to concur with the Planning Commission recommendations to maintain the General Plan designation of low density residential making present use non-conforming and subject to restrictions of non-conforming uses. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Schlosser, Mikels, Palombo, Frost NOES: West City Council Minutes January 3, 197~ Page 5 Chamber of Commerce Jeff Sceranka of Lucas Land, spoke representing the Chamber (9) Industrial Com. of Commerce Industrial Committee. The Committee was con- cerned with the terms "major" and "minor" impact, and desired to see them reclassified "Industrial." Motion: Moved by West, seconded by Palombo to maintain the two designations of major and minor impact as approved by the Planning Commission. Motion unanimously carried. Foothill/Center Steve Lucas, Lucas Land, spoke regarding property north (10) of Foothill to Center. Council said they had referred this back to the Planning Commission with the Guidera request for the whole area to be reviewed. RECESS At 9:10 p.m. Mayor Frost called a recess. The meeting reconvened at 9:20 p.m. with all council members present. Vanir Development Property located northwest of Archibald and 19th Street. (11) Mayor explained to those in the group from Vanir that the Council was only interested in how and why Vanir felt their proposed project was appropriate. Council was not interested in the clients. The subject property was designed high density on the General Plan. Vanir wished to see the area designated commercial. They proposed a shopping center for that corner. They felt they could justify the proposed center and the location was right. Frank Dominguezaddressed the Council (from Vanir). He felt the Council should hear the reports of some of the feasibility studies which were conducted by his clients in support of the project. The following addressed the Council and presented statistical reports supporting the need for additional shopping areas in the city: Wayne Walters of Lucky Markets Tom Gray of Southwest Savings and Loan Douglas Nye~ a local resident Speaking in behalf of maintaining the General Plan designations of high density were: Herman Rempel, Chairman of Planning Commission John Vlasic, Advisory Committee member Motion: ~oved by West to uphold the Planning Commission's recommendation to have only one shopping center per intern- section and to maintain the high density designation on the General Plan. Seconded by Palombo. Motion unanimously carried. Baseline/Archibald Dr. Ih~io Pope , part owner of oroperty at Baseline and (12) Archibald next to the Alpha Beta Shopping Center. Wanted to see the property designated commercial. This had not been before the Planning Commission. City Council Minutes January 3, 1979 Page 6 Lam said the Planning Commission had discussed the whole corner although not just one specific piece of property. He said that the present shopping center was lacking parking space, therefore, the additional parking needs would have to be planned for in the undeveloped area. Discussion followed. Motion: Moved by West, seconded by Mikels to refer this back to the Planning Commission for a decision. ~otion unanimously carried. Lewis Homes Charles Dowskow sooke very briefly for Lewis Homes. Turner/Center (13) Bill Esponnoza spoke regarding property between Turner and Center north of Foothill. Council told him this area was included with the request that had been referred to the Planning Commission. Foothill/Vineyard (14) Gil Rodriquez, owner of property located at southeast corner of Foothill and Vineyard, spoke desiring to see the General Plan designation of high density changed to mixed use. Lam pointed out that the Planning Commission did not want Foothill to become a commerical strip. Mrs. Lane, Advisory Committee member, spoke against having any residential areas along Foothill. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by West to concur with the Planning Commission decision to retain the General Plan designation of high density. Motion unanimously carried. Rochester/Foothill (15) Steve Aggazzotti, owner of property southeast of Rochester and Foothill, said the property has a commercial designation at the present time and would request to keep this designation. The General Plan has a major impact designation. Council concurred in this area and referred this to the Planning Commission for review. No further requests had been received by the Council to be heard for the evening. Public Hearing was closed and rescheduled. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to continue the discussion of the General Plan land use elements to the next meeting on Monday, January 15, and for formal decision on the Interim EIR elements. REVISION OF COM- (16) Jack Lam presented a comparison fee schedule of the PREHENSIVE FEE cities within 15 mile radius of Rancho Cucamonga. ~ .... RESOLUTION Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Schlosser to approve the 1979 Unified Building Code, adopt Resolution No. 79-1, waive entire reading. Frost read title. Motion unanimously carried. City Council Minutes January 3, 1979 Page 7 RESOLUTION NO. 79-1 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 78-25 ESTABLISHING A COMPREHENSIVE FEE SCHEDULE. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT Location approximately Archibald and Baseline. Applicant (17) PROJECT Ed Young, had left, but had requested Mr. Hubbs to continue with the item. It was his recommendation to split the costs of improvements 1/5 - 1/5 - and 3/5. Thus, the city's share would be approximately $5,000. Discussion followed by Council as to whether the city should incur this expense. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to uphold the Planning Commission's decision to allow the Day Care Center, but with the applicant putting in the street improvements. The Council denied the request of sharing costs. Motion unanimously carried. ANNEXATION Item was before Council to adopt a Resolution for the (18) City of Ontario to proceed in the lead city position with the deannexation of three areas within the city limits of Rancho Cucamonga to the City of Ontario. --- Motion: Moved by Schlosser, seconded by ~ikels to approve the deannexation of the three portions of the city to Ontario, approve Resolution No. 79-2, and waive the entire reading. Motion unanimously carried. RESOLUTION NO. 79-2 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, AGREEING TO A ~NICIPAL RE- ORGANIZATION PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 35300 ET SEQ TO INCLUDE DETACHMENT OF PROPERTIES AS DESCRIBED ON ATTACHED EXHIBIT "A" AND ANNEXATION OF SAME PROPERTIES TO THE CITY OF ONTARIO. RECESS Mayor called a recess at 12:40 a.m. Meeting reconvened at 12:45 a.m. with all members of the Council present. FAU PROJECTS An oral report was presented by Lloyd Hubbs showing the status of the Federal Aid Urban (FAU) Project Selection. NEW BUSINESS None. ADJOURNMENT Motion: Moved by West, seconded by Palombo to adjourn to Monday, January 15, 1979. Motion unanimously carried. Meeting adjourned at 12:43 a.m. Respectfully submitted, Beverly Authelet Deputy City Clerk