HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021/01/06 - Minutes - Special JANUARY 6, 2021
CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA
CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING WORKSHOP MINUTES
A special meeting of the Rancho Cucamonga City Council was held on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at the
Cultural Center, Celebration Hall, 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, California. Mayor L.
Dennis Michael called the meeting to order at 3:02 p.m.
Present were Council Members Hutchison, Scott, Spagnolo, Mayor Pro Tern Kennedy and Mayor Michael.
Also present were: John Gillison, City Manager; Matt Burris, Deputy City Manager/Economic and Community
Development; Anne McIntosh, Planning Director; and Patricia Bravo-Valdez, Deputy Director of City Clerk
Services.
Council Member Spagnolo, led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Responding to the spread of the Coronavirus(COVID-19), and social distancing requirements, City Manager
Gillison announced that due to the Governor's Executive Orders, the San Bernardino County Department of
Public Health requirements, and to ensure the health and safety of Rancho Cucamonga residents by limiting
contact that could spread the COVID-19 virus, there will be no members of the public in attendance at the
Special City Council meeting and in place of in person attendance, members of the public are encouraged to
watch from the safety of their homes live from online webinar access via Zoom or by phone.
Mayor Michael announced that members of the public can speak during public communications by calling in
to (909) 774-2751.
The meeting was made available to the public via Zoom web application.
B. PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS
There were no public comments.
C. ITEMS OF DISCUSSION
C1. Discussion: General Plan Update: Recommended Land Use and Community Design Strategy.
City Manager Gillison introduced Deputy City Manager Burris, who presented a PowerPoint presentation
overview of citywide preferred land use scenarios for the City's General Plan update. Deputy City Manager
Burris shared the City's vision and priorities,community strengths and shared vision for the future. He spoke
about Community Engagement through "PIanRC" and noted that the General Plan Update has been a
tremendous opportunity to bring the community together and create"community" by working through areas
of agreement and disagreement about the future. Deputy City Manager Burris quantified PIanRC
Community Engagement efforts and noted that to date, PIanRC has received input from
over 2,000 community members through online surveys and virtual meetings and generated
over 675,000 digital impressions through various social media platforms. Lastly, Deputy City Manager
Burris provided an overview of the community's preferred land use scenarios which were crafted to meet
the City's core values of Health, Equity and Stewardship. Deputy City Manager Burris concluded by noting
the next steps of the multi-year General Plan Update process are as follows:
® Winter-Spring 2021 — Policy and Plan Development: Develop policy solutions to address a range of
topics covered in the General Plan.
• Summer-Winter 2022 — Review and Adopted: Public and decision makers to review and consider
adoption of the updated General Plan.
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Deputy City Manager Burris introduced Joseph Minicozzi, AICP, from Urban3 who gave an analysis of the
fiscal productivity and efficiency of the Cit/e land use and development patterns; presented a PovverPoint
presentation titled: "Dollars and $ense of City Development"with information on mapping and analyzing the
financial health of community as a method for the City to have more information to help prioritize capital
improvements and community design decisions.
Discussion ensued on Land Use Economics; property tax productivity; land use per acre; fiscal resiliency;
future projections for the City of Rancho Cucamonga; benefits on increased property values; developing a
matrix and standards on a tool that can assist with the General Plan update; the importance and added
value in having access tn data to make informed decisions; and the importance on having aoustainab|o
community and informing the community.
City Council consensus that the approach presented aligns with the City's economic development strategy
of facilitating high quality development and includes an analysis of the fiscal productivity and efficiency of
the City's land use development patterns; and to include the analysis incorporated as part of the data that
informs the update of the Ciiy's General Plan.
D. ADJOURNMENT
Mayor Michael adjourned the meeting at 4:43 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
-City Clerk Services Director
Approved: January 20. 2021 — Regular Meeting
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