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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1979/02/07 - Minutes February 7, 1979 CITY OF RANCHO CUC~MONGA 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. The meeting was called to order at 7:10 p.m. by Mayor James C. Frost. ROLL CALL Present: Council members Mikels, Schlosser, Palombo, West and Mayor Frost. Interim Assistant City Attorney, Robert Dougherty; Community Development Director, Jack Lam, who was filling in for the City Manager; and City Engineer, Lloyd Hubbs. MINUTES Councilman Mikels requested the following motion be added to paragraph 7 on page 8 of the January 17, 1979 minutes; Motion: Moved by Schlosser, seconded by Mikels to table the Chaffey College issue to the February 7 meeting. Motion unanimously carried~ ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. Historical Commission meeting - Tuesday, February 13, at 7:00 p.m. in the Library Conference Room. 2. Thursday, February 8, Fact Finding Committee meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the Library Conference Room. 3. Thursday, February 15, at 6:30 p.m. Advisory Committee meeting in the Library Conference Room. 4. February.27 at~5:00 p.m. - a Sign Committee meeting at the Bronx Restaurant. 5. February 21, at 7:30 p.m. will be a meeting to consider input from the public hearings on school unification at Chaffey High School. 6. Staff requested two additional items to be added to the agenda: 8E - Helicopter program. 8F - Chamber of Commerce Industrial Committee request to hire a planning consultant. 7. Tentatively will be a Blood Bank at the Elks Club on Baseline Road on February 19. 8. Schlosser made a report from the Omnitrans meeting which he had attended earlier in the day. Subject of meeting was the approval of a firm to manage Omnitrans. A contract with AT&E was approved. CONSENT The following items were presented on the Consent CALENDAR Calendar: a. Appropriation for Special INvestigation Fund to transfer $1,000 from the contingency account to the Sher~.ff's Department account. b. Recommendation to receive and file the Blue Cross Insurance plan report. c. Addition of a Lieutenant's position to the Sheriff's contract for the fiscal year 1978-79 to be effective March 10, 1979. Authorize Mayor and City Clerk to sign agreement. d. Approval of warrants in the amount of $94, 716.08. City Council Minutes February 7, 1979 Page 2 CONSENT e. Approve Alcoholic Beverage License for on-sale CALENDAR general - Double D Company (Boar's Head) at n/w corner of 19th and CArnelian. (continued) f. Approve Alcoholic Beverage License for off-sale general foc Stephen Arbalo, Guillermo Arosteguy, and Frank Maldonada (Alta Loma Liquor) at 9638 Baseline. g. Approve Alcoholic Beverage License for on-sale general for Samed Inc. (The Bronx) at 10134 Foothill. h. Refer claim against the city for $10,000 by Edgar Blevens to the City Attorney for handling. i. To set February 21, 1979 for public hearing on Zone Change No. 87-73 by Rodgers. j. To set March 7, 1979 for public hearing on Zone Change No. 79-02 by Home Occupations. k. To set March 7, 1979 for an appeal of a Planning Commission deCision on Director Review No. 78-58 by Longley. 1. Authorization to request proposals for design services on the following projects: 1. Street improvements in North Town - Community Block Grant project. 2. Construction of signals at Archibald and Church, Haven and Amber, and Baseline and Hellman. 3. Resurfacing of Baseline from Vineyard to Hellman and Archibald to Ramona. m. Tract 8815: Release bond to Kent Land Company Performance Bond (road) $148,000 Tract 9189: Release of bonds to Mark III homes, Inc. Performance Bond (sewer) $ 62,000 Performance Bond (water)~ 69,000 Tract 9223: Release of bonds to Mark III Homes, INc. Performance bond (sewer) $ 51,000 Performance bond (water) 51,000 Tract 9352: RElease cash staking deposit to Inco Homes - $2,700 Tract 9421: Release of bond to Fox Hollow Limited Partnership Performance bond (water) $ 43,000 n. Request authorization to solicite and award contract for parkway improvements on Wilson east of Carnelian. PUBLIC HEARING (1) An ordinance before the Council for second reading and adoption which amends Ordinance No. 30 pertaining to Ordinance No. 56 financing of interim school facilities. Purpose of ordinance is to make sure that when other agencies issue (second reading) building permits, the fees for interim school facilities is paid directly to the city. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Schlosser to approve ordinance No. 56 and waive entire reading. Title and number read by Lam. Motion unanimously carried. ORDINANCE NO. 56 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 30 PERTAINING TO FINANCING OF INTERIM SCHOOL FACILITIES. City Council Minutes February 7~ 1979 page 3 RECONSIDERATION Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Sch!osser to OF CONSENT reconsider the vote on the Consent Calendar for the CALENDAR purpose of discussing one item. Motion unanimously carried. Item was the Traffic Impact Study/K-Mart for $3296.40 listed on page 6 of the warrants. Mr. Lam explained K- Mart was interested in placing a store in Rancho Cucamonga. ยท At the proposed location some traffic considerations would have to be made, therefore, staff had required a traffic study be made. Developers had submitted to the city a sum of $8,000 for the city to retain a company to do such a traffic study. This is done through the application process. The amount listed in the warrants is a portion of the fees paid for the services performed to the pre- sent time. The money is drawn from the $8,000 which is in a special fund for this purpose. Mikels was satisfied with the explanation. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to approve the Consent Calendar. Motion unanimously carried. PUBLIC HEARING An ordinance before the Council for second reading and (2) adoption amend~.ng Ordinance No. 8 which pertains to a Ordinance No. 57 park and recreation tax for new residential development. The ordinance insures the city can collect park and re- (second reading) creation taxes when not the agency issuing the building permits as in the case with mobile home parks. Motion: Moved by West, seconded by Mikels to approve Ordinance No. 57 and waive entire reading. Title and number read by Lam. Motion unanimously carried. ___ ORDINANCE NO. 57 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 8 WHICH PERTAINS TO A PARK AND RECREATION TAX FOR NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. PUBLIC HEARING An ordinance designating certain city officers and (3) employees to enforce the city code. The ordinance Ordinance No. 54 before the Council for second reading and adoption. (second reading) Motion: Moved by West, seconded by Schlosser to adopt Ordinance No. 54 and waive entire reading. Title and number read by Lam. Motion unanimously carried. ORDINANCE NO. 54 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, REGARDING THE POWER OF THE CITY OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES TO ENFORCE CITY ORDINANCES AND ALL PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CODES REFERRED TO THEREIN. PUBLIC HEARING Public hearing on the Draft Environmental Impact Report and Proposed interim land use, circulation, and public --- facilities elements of the General Plan. Two items had been referred back to the Planning Commission for further study. a. 19th and Archibald request by Vanir Development. (4) Original General Plan deSignation was high density residen- tial. Previous request for commercial had been denied. Owners now had requested four acres designated R-3 and three acres designated administrative and professional. Mr. Lam reviewed the Planning Commission's alternatives as listed in his memo to the Council dated February 7, 1979, and the final recommendation to the Council of mixed use designation of the entire seven plus or minus acres. Motion: Moved by West, seconded by Mikels to approve the Planning Commission's recommendations to designate City Council Minutes February' 7, 1979- ~ Page 4 PUBLIC HEARING entire area mixed use. Motion unanimously carried. (continued) (5) b. Second item referred back to the Planning Commission was the area surrounding Chaffey College. Mr. Lam stated that the staff had met with the college faculty. It was decided that the medium density designation be maintained and a statement be added to the text of the General Plan outlining the city's policy for development surrounding the college. It was requested the following statement be added to the Community Facilities Section subheading Chaffey Junior College paragraph two: "Since the Chaffey College Community has been developed through the years as a non-urban environment which reflects the natural character of the physical surroundings, any development adjacent to the campus should be sedigned to reflect the same values. Spec- ific attention should be paid to proper scale of build- ings, the sensitive clustering of structures, use of natural landscaping, and avoidance of harsh geometric design and grading. Such design sensitivity would preserve openness of surroundings, enhance the College community's environmental character and reinforce the long-standing aesthetic tradition of the institution. The above-stated principles would be best incorporated in planned unit developments." Council discussed the wording of the paragraph. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Schlosser to remove the word "any" from the paragraph and approve the Planning Commission's recommendation to including said paragraph in the General Plan. Motion unanimously carried. ~-~ GENERAL PLAN (6) Mikels asked for verification that Resolution Nos. 79-4 HEARING and 79-5 were interim only. (continued) Lam said they were merely certifying the EIR was adequate in the Council's opinion. The REsolutions would be the interim land use element, interim public facilities element, and interim circulation element. The reason they were only interim was that the other elements were not yet developed and when they are developed they could have some impact on changing some of the policies in these elements. Mikels questioned about future changes and how many could be made within a given time. Lam said the State law was clear that any main point of the General Plan may be amended three times in any one year. He pointed out that what would be proposed at a future meeting would be to schedule for yearly review dates which either requests or modifications by the city or petitioners so that there would be three specific times during the year in which one or a whole series can be considered. Dougherty said there were no limits as to the number of changes that could be considered during those three particular times of year. Lam also pointed out that changes made in any of the elements for adoption of the entire package would not be included as one of those three yearly changes. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to approve Resolution Nos. 79-4 and 79-5 and to waive the entire readings. Titles and numbers read by Lam. Motion unanimously carried. RESOLUTION NO. 79-4 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, CERTIFYING THE City Council Minutes February 7, 1979 Page 5 GENERAL'PLAN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT ON THE INTERIM LAND USE, HEARING CIRCULATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES ELEMENT OF THE (continued) GENERAL PLB~ FOR THE CITY OF RANCHO CUC~MONGA. RESOLUTION NO. 79-5 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CB~IFORNIA, ADOPTING THE INTERIM LAND USE, CIRCULATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES ELEMENT OF THE GENERAL PLAN AND INTERIM DEVELOPMENT REVIEW POLICIES FOR THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA. Councilman West noticed dates had been typed on the Resolutions which were wrong. Therefore, it was moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to change the dates to February 7, 1979. Motion unanimously carried. TRANSPORTATION Ms. Aileen Johnson, representing a property owner, spoke CORRIDOR regarding the transportation corridor. She said the land use designation would preclude any use of the property and would have to seek payment from the city. She asked Council to consider an alternate underlying land use designation for the whole corridor. Mayor stated that the Council had not discussed the corridor in the past and did not propose to do so until such time as the California Trans- portation Commission makes a recommendation. Ms. Johnson said it would save time to do so now rather than change the General Plan since Caltrans was doing a study whether to abandon the corridor, and the study should be completed in six months. Mayor recommended she come back to the Council in six months when the study was completed. PUBLIC HEARING An ordinance which will establish requirements for (7) dedication of right-of-way and construction of public Ordinance No. 58 improvements. This will give the city the authority to require street improvements and dedications on single (first reading) family parcels which had not been so under County ordinances. A revised version of Ordinance No. 58 had'been handed out to the Council just.prior to the meeting. Mikels asked for a recess in order to study the new revisions made in the ordinance. The following changes were made to the ordinance before adjourning to a re'cess: change the term "street improvements" to "public improvements" in section 4 and 6. RECESS Mayor called a recess at 8:05 p.m. The meeting reconvened at 8:15 p.m. with all councilmembers present. Motion: Moved by Schlosser, seconded by Mikels to set February 21 for second reading of Ordinance No. 58 and to waive the entire reading. Title and number read by Lam. Motion unanimously carried. ORDINANCE NO. 58 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING RE- QUIREMENTS FOR DEDICATION OF RIGHT-OF-WAY AND FOR CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY IMPROVE- MENTS IN CONJUCTION WITH BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. pUBLIC HEARING An ordinance adopting the 1978 edition of the National (8) Electrical Code. Lam explained this was an introduction Ordinance No. 59 of the ordinance and setting of the Public Hearing for March 7, 1979. The ordinance would be before the Council two more (first reading) times for the usual first and second readings. Motion: Moved by Schlosser, seconded by Palombo to set March 7, 1979 for public hearing for Ordinance No. 59. Motion unanimously carried. City Council Minutes February 7, 1979 Page 6 SPECIAL Mikels requested permission of the Council to hear Dr. PRESENTATION Catanzaro, President of Chaffey College, at this time. He had a proposal which Mikels felt the Council should hear. Because of time constraints, Mikels requested that Council allow him to address the Council at this time. Mayor said this was new business and was the policy of the Council not to change the order of the printed agenda. The majority of the Council agreed to hear Dr. Catanzaro -- at this time. Dr. Catanzaro made a brief presentaion of a proposal still in the working stage of allowing vocational and mentally gifted minor students from the high school to take 180 minutes of classes at the local high school and then the remaining classes at the college. The proposal was to help alleviate the busing of students to other high schools and the overcrowding problem. RESOLUTION NO. (9) A resolution establishing the Ontario DAily Report as 79-8 newspaperof general circulation for the publishing of legal notices as required by law. Establishing Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Schlosser to approve newspaper of Resolution No. 79-8 and waive entire reading. Lam read record title and number. Motion unanimously carried. RESOLUTION NO. 79-8 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING THE DAILY REPORT AS OUR NEWSPAPER OF GENERAL CIRCU- LATION FOR THE PRUPOSE OF PLACING LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. RESOLUTION (10) A resolution establishing charges for duplicating of No. 79-7 public records and documents at a charge of 15 cents per page with $1.00 minimum. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by West to approve Resolution No. 79-7 and waive entire reading. Lam read title and number. Motion unaimously carried.. RESOLUTION NO. 79-7 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING A UNIFORM CHARGE FOR DUPLICATION OF PUBLIC RECORDS. RESOLUTION NO. (11) A resolution authorizing the City Engineer to sign two 79-9 Quit Claim deeds on behalf of the city as a requirement for approval of Parcel Map 48-75. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Schlosser to approve Resolution No. 79-9 and waive entire reading. Lam read title and number. Motion unanimously carried. RESOLUTION NO. 79-9 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, GRANTING TWO QUIT- CALIM DEEDS. AERIAL PHOTOS (12) A report by Jack Lam on the status of the aerial photos of the city which Council had previously approved at a approximate cost of $2,000. Staff had contacted the Cucamonga County Water District to arrange for a cost sharing of said photos. However, the Water Company was not in a position to do so at this time. Since this was the winter season, it was the best time to take such photos. Breakdown of costs would be: City Council Minutes February 7, 1979 Page 7 AERIAL PHOTOS Flight $1055 (continued) Photo at 1/500 scale $1255 3Smaller photos at 1/1000th scale $ 675 TOTAL $3160 Council asked if'the negative would be ours. It was pointed out it would be the property of the company taking the photos. Discussion followed over the possibility of maintaining the ownership of the negative. It was suggested staff should try to make this condition of the agreement. Council also directed staff to try to continue working a share cost agreement with the Cucamonga County Water District. Motion: Moved by West, seconded by Schlosser to give staff approval to purchase the aerial photographs of the city and to negotiate the best they can with the aerial survey company in trying to keep ownership of the negative. Motion unanimously carried. ADDED ITEM Request had come to Council to write a letter of intent if Rancho Cucamonga was interested in continuing its participation in the regional helicopter program. Captain Wickum was asked what would happen to costs if (13) other cities dropped from the program. Captain said costs would increase, but they could also decrease as more cities became part of the program. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to write a letter ofintent to Sheriff Frank Bland stating our interest to continue the helicopter program. ---- Motion unanimously carried. ADDED ITEM A request by the Chamber of Commerce Industrial Development Committee to develop a specific plan for the industrial (14) Industrial Specific areas of the city to include issues such as traffic, Plan drainage, circulation, and development standards. A proposal had been solicited from John Blayney and AsSociates for the project for cost of project for the 5000 plus acres of industrial land and would be approximately $100,000. The Committee has established the funding for approximately $40,000 and are working on commitments for the additional amount. Since there are some industrial users that need decisions soon about the circulation and drainage, the Committee would like to go ahead immediately with the traffic part of the study. The Committee propses this to be a city project although it will be funded through the Chamber. They would establish a trust fund and turn it over to the city for the specific industrial plan. Request was for Council to endorse concept of proposal, although not approving any contract or dollar expenditures. And for the acceptance of hiring John Blayney and Associates to conduct the plan. Contract documents will be before the Council at the next meeting for approval. This will ---- be funded entirely by the Chamber of Commerce and no funds will be expended by the city. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by West for the City Council to introduce the concept of the specific plan and approve the retention of John Blayney to perform the specific plan with contract subject to Council approval. Motion unanimously carried. PROJECT HO~.i Sam Maestas, of Project HOY made a presentation with some (15) modifications of a previous presentation. He urged the Council again to participate in the grant program spon- sored by the Arrowhead Justice Association. City Council Minutes February 7, 1979 Page 8 PROJECT HOY Palombo recommended that since it involved two other cities, we should form a joint powers association, then submit as (continued) an agency in a Joint Powers Agreement to the Arrowhead Justice Association. This way the cities would be completely together and would not put the burden on Rancho Cucamonga to administer the program. Therefore, it was recommended this be continued until the cities could come to some joint powers agreement. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to recommend staff meet with other cities to discuss the formation of and study of a Joint Powers Agreement to approve in concept and permit the continuance of Project HOY. Motion unanimously carried. NEW BUSINESS 1. Herman Rempel stated that since the interim land use elements were approved and since there are some applica- tions to the County for development to the north of our city, he recommended that we now reapply to LAFCO to establish a Sphere of Influence. Mayor directed staff to draft a letter for mutual signa- tures, the Mayors and Chairman of Planning Commission, requesting that this come before LAFCO for reconsideration 2. Henry Rogers, representing homeowners of the Arrowview Homes, had requested to be heard before Council. However, he stated that during the recess time, he spoke with Councilman Palombo who promised to meet with them to help resolve problems. Therefore, he requested to be heard at the next meeting. Council concurred. ADJOURNMENT Motion: Moved by West, seconded by Mikels to adjourn to a legal session at 9:08 p.m. Motion unanimously carried. Respectfully submitted, Beverly Authelet Deputy City Clerk