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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1978/08/02 - Minutes August 2, 1978 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, August 2, 1978. The meeting was called to order at 7:10 p.m. by Mayor James C. Frost. Present: Council members Jon D. Mikels, Michael Palombo, Phillip D. Schlosser, Mayor pro-tem Charles West, and Mayor James C. Frost. City Manager, Lauren M. Wasserman, Interim City Attorney, Sam Crowe, Community Development Director, Jack Lam, City Engineer, Lloyd Hubbs, Assistant to City Manager, Jim Robinson, and Finance Director, Harry Empey. APPROVAL OF Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to approve MINUTES the July 19, 1978 minutes. Motion unanimously carried. ANNOUNCEMENTS A representative from Rotary made an announcement that the Rotary had given the City a check in the amount of $900, which had already been deposited, to go towards some play ground equipment. Mayor Frost gave a summary of a meeting held the previous Monday evening regarding the formation of an Historical Society. Dr. Smith, Director of the San Bernardino Museum Assoc., Ada Cooper, Leonard Gorczyca, Herman Rempel, and Bill Holley met. They received some guidelines which had been turned over to the City Attorney for review which, hope- fully, could be presented to the Council in two weeks. PUBLIC HEARINGS Ordinance No. 35 The meeting was opened for a public hearing with Ordinances Ordinance No. 34 Nos. 35, 34, and 27 being presented. Ordinance No. 27 Mr. Martin questioned Ordinance No. 35 -- wanted to know if this covered a trailer parked in ones own driveway. Mr. Wasserman said it probably would but the intent was just for commercial vehicles. Mr. Crowe pointed out there was no definition for a recreational vehicle in the California Vehicle Code -- however, if the ordinance was not clear now as to our intent, we would always have a problem. Richard Pearson felt that all three ordinances were really addressing a "commercial" vehicle. Mr. Wasserman said the term "motor truck" was used directly from the vehicle code. Mr. Crowe said we would have trouble with the term commercial vehicle. Trying to change the ordinances to better explain the word commercial and to exclude recreational were dismissed. City Council Minutes August 2, 1978 Page 2 Mr. Wasserman read titles of Ordinanc~ Nos. 35, 34, and 27. ORDINANCE NO. 35 ....... AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, RESTRICTING PARKING IN RESIDENTIAL ZONES. ORDINANCE NO. 34 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, RESTRICTING PARKING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. ORDINANCE NO. 27 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING PARKING RESTRICTIONS FOR CERTAIN COMMERCIAL VEHICLES. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to waive entire reading and to adopt Ordinances Nos. 35, 34, and 27. Motion unanimously carried. ORDINANCE NO. 33 Title Read by Mr. Wasserman. ORDINANCE NO. 33 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, RESCINDING ORDINANCE NO. 16 AND GRANTING TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, A FRANCHISE TO USE AND TO CONSTRUCT AND USE, FOR TRANSMITTING AND DISTRIBUTING ELECTRICITY FOR ANY AND ALL PURPOSES, POLES, WIRES, CONDUITS AND APPURTENANCES, INCLUDING COMMUNICATION CIRCUITS NECESSARY OR PROPER THEREFORE, IN, ALONG, ACROSS, UPON, OVER AND UNDER THE PUBLIC STREETS, WAYS, ALLEYS AND PLACES WITHIN THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Palombo to waive entire reading and to adopt Ordinance No. 33. Motion unanimously carried. APPEAL Appeal had been withdrawn. McCutchen & Assoc. APPEAL Applicant: Crowell/Leventhal, Inc. Location: N/E corner of Haven and Jersey Blvd. Crowell/ Proposal: (1) Vehicle rights dedicated for Haven. Leventhal (2) Interior access shall be redesigned to provide a 50-foot street termina- ting in a 47-foot radius cul-de-sac Minor Subdivision in lieu of proposed 40-foot private W78-0230-I easement located between lots 4 and City Council Minutes August 2, 1978 Page 3 7 through 9, a 50-foot street shall be relocated between proposed lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 through 6. Staff: Jack Lam Briefly Mr. Lam explained that Haven Avenue was a main arterial and access rights should be minimal. Mr. Harry Crowell, representing Crowell/Leventhal was present. He said that at the Planning Commission meeting there were only two that voted since two commissioners had not received copies of their applications and the Chairman was not present. The proposal was to be similar to the one in Upland with buildings designed to face Haven. It was felt this was more appropriate since that would be the front and would be better landscaped. This design would also give parking in the front for employees and visitors. Designed in this fashion, the service area would not be exposed to Haven. It was felt this was important for the reason of continuity of beautification on Haven. The area would be strictly an industrial area with no retail sales at all. Mayor said he felt leary about perpetuating access onto Haven Avenue. West agreed it would look nicer seeing the front landscaped, but did not like having additional traffic onto Haven either. Schlosser wanted to see the plans before granting approval. Crowell stated that plans could not be ready without first knowing what the Council wanted. Lam pointed out that Haven was a major arterial handling both residential and commercial traffic. Now was the time for the City to decide what type of controls these major arterials should have. Although a regional shopping center was planned some day with an entrance onto Haven, Lam pointed out that a street access with traffic controls for left- hand turns, etc. is entirely different than private drive entrances. Left-hand turns should be entirely eliminated except for access streets where there are controls at the intersections. Lam also pointed out that there were many ways to provide buffers -- could use walls, plants, etc. Felt that should be left up to the architect as to the type of buffer to be used in this particular case. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to uphold the Planning Commission findings and deny the appeal. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, Palombo, Frost NOES: West, Schlosser ABSENT: None City Council Minutes August 2, 1978 Page 4 PUBLIC HEARING Mayor Frost read title of Ordinance. Ordinance No. 37 ORDINANCE NO. 37 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, PERTAINING TO THE PRESERVATION OF TREES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. The Ordinance had been passed on June 7, 1978 by an urgency measure, and at the suggestion of the City Attorney, it was up for adoption by the regular process. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to waive the entire reading and to pass on to the next meeting for adoption. Motion unanimously carried. Ordinance No. 38 Presented by Jack Lam who pointed out the reason for adding Director's review for multi-family develop- ments to the Ordinance. Mikels asked why this was an urgency measure. Mr. Crowe said the urgency clause could be eliminated if the Council wished. It would mean eliminating Sections 2 and 3 also. Mayor asked Mr. Lam if he needed the urgency measure. Mr. Lam said "no" since the moratorium was put into effect. Consensus of the Council was that the Ordinance should be passed by the regular process. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Schlosser that Ordinance No. 38 be passed by regular process and to waive the entire reading. Title read by Mr. Wasserman. ORDINANCE NO. 38 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF _RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, ADDING CERTAIN RESIDENTIAL USES TO THOSE BUSINESS AND MANU- FACTURING USES WHICH MUST RECEIVE DIRECTOR'S REVIEW. Motion unanimously carried. KINGSWAY This had been advertised for the August 16 agenda. HOMES Inadvertantly it was put on the August 2 agenda instead. Request was made to remove from the present agenda and put on the agenda of August 16. Request granted. COMMUNITY Mr. Lam presented a list of items which needed to be DEVELOPMENT purchased now for the Community Development Department REQUEST FOR in order to process work. EQUIPMENT Not included on the list was a microfilm printer which would run approximately another $600. Mikels asked if there would be additional equipment to purchase. Lam felt there probably would be another similar list in the future. However, the present list was for the immediate needs. Motion: Moved by Schlosser, seconded by Palombo to City Council Minutes Aug~s~t~2~ 19178. Page 5 approve the purchase of listed equipment including the microfilm printer for the Community Development Depart- ment. Motion unanimously carried. REQUEST FROM An oral report was made by Mr. Wasserman regarding the FOOTHILL placement of a referendum measure on the November general FREEWAY ASSOC. election ballot. There would be a cost to the City of approximately $3500 to $4000 total. This would be $75 to $100 per precinct with about forty precincts in Rancho Cucamonga. Mayor was hesitant since he felt we could find out the information in a less expensive way. West felt we should find out "what the public really wanted" -- it should go on the ballot. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Schlosser to authorize funds to put referendum on the November ballot. Motion unanimously carried. REQUEST FROM Mr. Don Newcomb from the Office of Community Development SAN BERNARDINO in San Bernardino presented the request. This would COUNTY BOARD OF allow a referendum be placed on the November general SUPERVISORS election ballot for elderly, handicapped, moderate, and low income housing. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by West to approve the referendum. After further discussion, the Council felt it would like additional time to investigate this further. Mr. Newcomb said there was time for the Council to do so, but they would need to know by August 24. Palombo agreed to withdraw his motion and to bring the matter back on the 16th for further discussion. RECESS At 8:55 p.m. the Mayor called a recess. The meeting reconvened at 9:10 p.m. with all present. EMPLOYEE Mr. Wasserman pointed out that Blue Cross had been contacted HEALTH and that both policies, one from Empire and from Tom Gray, INSURANCE were identical. However, our City Attorney had recommended that we keep the present insurance. The Council discussed several ways in which the City could remedy the situation. Mr. Gray, the broker who had lost the City's contract, stated it was a very simple matter. Ail that needed to be done was to write a letter to Blue Cross stating we were changing brokers. Motion: Moved by West to keep the present policy for one year, then go for bids again. Motion was dropped for lack of a second. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Schlosser for City to investigate; if possible to change Broker of Record then staff is directed to do so. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Palombo, Schlosser, Mikels, Frost NOES: West City Council Minutes August 2, 1978 Page 6 RESOLUTION NO. Jim Robinson made the presentation to the Council 78-43 regarding holiday, sick leave and vacation benefits. It was recommended that the Council adopt EMPLOYEE Resolution No. 78-43 establishing holidays, sick BENEFITS leave, and vacation policy and that these be retroactive to November 22, 1977. After discussion, the Council directed the staff to bring back at the next meeting statistics from industrial, commerical in the area comparing benefit policies. LAFCO Mr. Lam gave a presentation regarding the northerly and easterly borders which is before LAFCO for con- sideration. Mr. Lam had been asked by a LAFCO representative to justify the boundaries we were requesting since they went into the National forest. It was decided that we did not need the extra land, we could not service the area satisfactorily, it was within the National forest. Because of this, Mr. Lam was bringhg a request to the Council for approval to change the northerly and easterly boundaries. Mayor said perhaps we would want to check the westerly border also. For the eastern boundary we would be using the Foothill Fire District's boundaries. Doug Hone felt that on the east we would want to ........ check into the fact that there was one property owner we would be cutting his property in half. He was trying to decide whether to go with City of Fontana or Rancho Cucamonga -- we might want to include this within our boundary. The next LAFCO meeting would be in September. We would be able to make modifications at a later time. The September meeting would be an initial input only. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by West to approve the new boundaries as suggested by staff. Motion unanimously carried. WEED PROGRAM Mr. Holley gave the Council a report regarding the weed program in the City. He explained how the City was involved in a weed maintenance program and gave the Council some alternatives in resolving the present problem. The Council gave Mr. Holley authorization to seek bids to contract the maintenance program of parkways which were behind block walls or did not have some- one to care for them. Bids will be received from the County and also private vendors. City Council Minutes Augus~ '2, 1978 Page 7 MODIFICATIONS City Engineer, Lloyd Hubbs, gave a presentation of some FOR THE BRIDGE modifications for the bridges which will be constructed STANDARDS - over the Cucamonga Creek. By incorporating these modi- Cucamonga Creek fications, it would save the City a total of $159,840. Modifications recommended: Fourth Street unchanged -0- Remove sidewalk on east side of Hellman $ 20,700 Remove sidewalk from south side of Sixth Street 7,000 Remove all sidewalks from Eighth St. 32,800 Remove sidewalk from south side of Red Hill Road 6,700 Reduce Arrow Highway to two lanes, 32-foot curb to curb, remove south sidewalk 66,000 Ninth Street unchanged -0- $133,200 20% overhead 26,640 TOTAL ESTIMATED SAVING $159,840 Motion: Moved by West, seconded by Schlosser to approve staff's recommendation of revision of bridge standards. Motion unanimously carried. SPECIAL This was a routine item since the Council had previously CENSUS approved the special census to be taken. However, an official Resolution needed to be adopted. Resolution No. 78-41 Title read by Wasserman. RESOLUTION NO. 78-41 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AND THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA FOR A SPECIAL CENSUS. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Schlosser to waive entire reading and to approve Resolution No. 78-41. Motion unanimously carried. CONSENT The following items were presented on the Consent CALENDAR Calendar for approval: a. Request authorization for City Manager to attend the International City Management Association Annual Conference in Cincinnati. b. Request authorization for staff to seek bids and purchase: Broadcast spreader, weed sprayer, five mini- pickup trucks, additional office equipment for new employees (desks, chairs, etc.) c. Tract 9397: Release Staking Deposit of $2,000 to Crowell/ Leventhal, Inc. Tract 9324: Release Staking Deposit of $3,650 to Griffin Development Co. City Council Minutes August 2, 1978 Page 8 d. Tract 9320: Request street name change from Manzanita Street to Cottonwood Way. Request by Foothill Fire District. Tract 9351: Request street name change from Quartz Avenue to Celestite Avenue. ~-~ Tract 9634: Request street name change from Roberds Street to Regency Way. Tract 9337 Request correction of street name -- was and 9617: recorded as Avenida Castro. Should' be Devon Street. Request east/west portions of Matterhorn Street be changed to Chelsea Street. e. Claim against the City by Karl and July Lobensommer be referred to the City Attorney. f. Approval of bills. g. Adopt a Resolution approving Parcel Map, Improvement Agreement, and Improvement Security. RESOLUTION NO. 78-42 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING PARCEL MAP NUMBER 4499 (TENTATIVE PARCEL MAP NO. 4499), IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT, '- AND IMPROVEMENT SECURITY. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by West to approve the Consent Calendar items. Motion unanimously carried. NEW BUSINESS 1. Aerial Maps. Both the City and the Water District will be sharing the cost of having new aerial maps taken. Our map will remain in the CS Building for Council and Planning Commission meetings. Our share of the cost will be approximately $2,000. Motion: Moved by Schlosser, seconded by West to approve the purchase of aerial maps at a share cost with the Water District. Motion unanimously carried. 2. Mayor Frost had been hearing complaints regarding the proposed Drag Strip in Fontana. After some discussion, it was decided that the Council would have the mayor send the City of Fontana a letter opposing the drag stip. Motion: Moved by West, seconded by Palombo to have staff draft a letter for the mayor's signature expressing opposition to the drag stip. Motion unanimously carried. 3. Wasserman brought up the new emphasis by Supervisor Townsend to consolidate the courts with either Ontario or Chino. Although the City had adopted a Resolution in the past in opposition to this, it was decided to have staff send a letter signed by the Mayor reaffirming our position regarding this issue. General consensus of the Council to proceed. City Council Minutes August 2, 1978 Page 9 ADJOURNMENT Motion: Moved by West, seconded by Palombo to adjourn the meeting. Motion unanimously carried. Meeting adjourned at 11:05 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Beverly Authelet Deputy City Clerk