HomeMy WebLinkAbout1978/04/19 - Agenda Packet - SpecialApril 19, 1978
CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA
JOINT MEETING WITH CITY COUNCIL AND PLANNING COMMISSION
Special Meeting
CALL TO ORDER
The special meeting of the City Council and Planning
'
Commission was held at the Community Services Building,
9161 Baseline Road, Rancho Cucamonga, on Wednesday,
April 19, 1978.
The meeting was called to order by Mayor James C. Frost
at 4:07 p.m.
ROLL CALL
Present: Council members Jon D. Mikels, Michael Palumbo,
Charles West, and Mayor James C. Frost.
Planning C our, ission members Richard Dahl, Jorge Garcia,
Laura Jones, Peter Tolstoy and Chairman Herman Rempel.
City Manager, Lauren M. Wasserman: and Interim City
Attorney, Sam Crowe; Tommy Stephens, Planning Department;
Marianne Cordova, Planning Department; and John Blayney,
Planning Consultant.
Absent: Phillip Schlosser
PURPOSE OF MEETING
Herman Rempel, Planning Commission Chairman, explained
the purpose of the meeting was to review major issues
which must be considered in the General Plan.
DISCUSSION
Blayney: Alternative Population Projections had been
distributed in order to stimulate discussion concerning
the future rate of growth for the City of Rancho Cucamonga.
He explained that the City Council and Planning Commission
are in a position to determine the rate of growth for
the City.
Blayney suggested that the City Council review the list
of key issues and options reported at last week's
adjourned City Council meeting.
Rempel: Commented that he was assigned to a subcommittee
to evaluate circulation transportation system. The city
must be concerned with roads located within the city
limits as well as those streets which go through the city,
but link our community with neighboring cities.
Palumbo: City should plan alternative development plan
for area now included within right -of -way of proposed
Foothill Freeway in event the proposed freeway is not
constructed.
Blayney: Traffic patterns are key influence an future
development of commercial properties. City must be
concerned with proper planning in order to minimize
traffic congestion at major intersections.
Frost: It appears that the Foothill Freeway may not
be built. Therefore, the city should be very concerned
with land use.
Doug Hone: Commented that there is still a chance that the
State Legislature or State Transportation Commission will
determine the fate of Foothill Freeway.
City Council Minutes
April 19, 19.78
Page 2
Tom Stephens: Suggested that the General Plan have
alternative plan showing no freeway. Also suggested that
all rights -of -way be retained until the issue regarding
the construction of the Foothill Freeway is definitely
not going to be completed through Rancho Cucamonga.
Garcia: Proposed that Circulation and Transportation
element include reference to Ontario Airport, type of
design of streets, and future transportation needs.
Garcia also suggested that some limitation on growth be
determined and included in the General Plan.
Blayney: City has serious problem concerning design of
present streets. Some effort should be made to deal with
design of major arterials.
Rempel: Development of equestrian trails, bikeways, and
jogging trails should be included as a goal of our
General Plan.
Blayney: Automobiles will continue to have a major role
in transportation for citizens of Rancho Cucamonga.
Garcia: City should consider providing priority to
buses on major arterials.
Garcia: Land use is very important part of General Plan.
Mikels: Sphere of influence should be subject to control
by city to make certain that future development north
of city limits is compatible with General Plan.
Stephens: City should request county to use city's
General Plan guidelines for unincorporated territory
north of city limits.
Stephens suggested that General Plan take in area
between city limits and national forest boundary.
Mikels: City should apply separate requirements for
hillside development.
Blayney: Retention of hillsides and wind - breaks should
be retained. The city has an opportunity to have
varied development because of the large undeveloped
areas which now exist.
Garcia: All future design standards should be compiled
into a single document, rather than being assembled on a
piecemeal basis.
Mikels: It may be difficult for the city to have a set
of uniform standards to all types of development.
Tolstoy: General Plan may provide "guidelines" rather
than specific standards for all developments.
Blayney: It may be appropriate to have different sets
of development and design standards for each of the three
geographical villages within the City of Rancho Cucamonga
in order to provide diversity in planning standards.
Mikels: City should spell out its basic intent in the
General Plan.
Frost: In regard to community identity, many options
available need not be included in General Plan.
City identity is being sought, but the separate identity
of the three district areas of city should be preserved
if possible.
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April 19, 1978
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Mrs. Jones: Development should not be allowed to "leap-
frog" through the community. Growth patterns should
expand from the corps areas. City needs to foster a
cultural identity.
Dahl: Growth and land use decisions are critical. Growth
should be within industrial areas and into Etiwanda on
a gradual basis. Growth west of Haven should be incremental
and orderly, rather than scattered.
City must be able to provide services before growth should
be permitted. Mr. Dahl stated that Etiwanda development
should not be encouraged until the Cucamonga and Alta
Loma areas reach their peak growths.
Hempel: City should consider encouraging more individualized
construction by discouraging large projects from being
developed.
Blayney: Question of phasing is critical. It may be
desirable to encourage development adjacent to some
isolated developments which have already been constructed.
Garcia: Council and Planning Commission should discuss
maximum population which may be desirable for Rancho
Cucamonga. City must be certain that adequate sewage
treatment facilities exist.
Mr. Hone: Commented that some effort should be devoted to
preservation of water in the Cucamonga water basin.
Blayney: Sewage treatment issue may be beyond control of
city. Council and Planning Commission may wish to phase
growth in accordance with available sewage capacity. City
must assume that sewage capacity problem will eventually
be worked out. Clustered developments in proper areas
may be a good alternative to resolve sewage problems since
those developments may be sewered by "package plants' or
septic tanks.
Joe DeIrio: Growth should be concentrated in areas
nearest to transportation facilities.
Stephens: Open space areas should be preserved by
reserving park and open space areas for future. City
should also be concerned with preservation of areas
which are already within flood plain areas. All vacant
land should not be used up on � acre residential
developments. It may be best, for example, to encourage
smaller lot development with open space areas in immediate
vicinity.
RECESS Mayor Frost called for a recess at 5:45 p.m.
The meeting reconvened at 6:10 p.m. All members were
present.
Garcia: Comented -- regarding the industrial - commercial
development in the future hotels and other commercial
development should be segregated from industrial areas
of the city. Those in attendance concurred with Mr.
Garcia's viewpoint.
Frost: Noted that if the Foothill Freeway is ultimately
completed, it may be appropriate for city to encourage
some construction of hotels and motels in adjacent areas.
Garcia: Designation of alternative sites for location
of a future regional shopping center should be related
to future growth and should not be detrimental to existing
commercial developments.
Garcia noted that the city is in an excellent position to
attract an auto center.
City Council Minutes
April 19, 1978
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Dahl: Major shopping center should be visible from freeway.
Joe Dilrio: Whatever locations identified for shopping
must also be acceptable to the Shopping Center industry.
Stephens: Eastern boundary of city should be viewed as a
"window" to the city when development occurs. City will
be pressured in next year or two to approve development
in eastern portion of city adjacent to Devote Freeway.
City should be extremely cautious and should be very
selective about the types of development which may occur.
DiIrio: City should make an intensive effort to market
its industrial development potential through adoption of
its General Plan.
elayney: Discussed agenda for Saturday meeting at Alta
Loma High School on April 29, 1978.
ADJOURNMENT Motion for adjournment: Moved by West, seconded by
Palombo to adjourn. Unanimously carried. Meeting of
the City Council was adjourned at 7:02 p.m. by Mayor
Frost. Chairman Rempel adjourned the Planning Commission
meeting to Tuesday, April 25, at 7:00 p.m. in the County
Library Conference Room to discuss the Flood Control
needs of the community.
Respectfully submitted,
Lauren M. Wasserman
April 12, 1978
CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA
CITY COUNCIL MINUTES
Adjourned Meeting
CALL TO ORDER An adjourned meeting of the City Council was held at the
Community Services Building, 9161 Baseline Road, Rancho
Cucamonga, on Wednesday, April 12, 1978.
The meeting was called to order at 4:06 o;m. by Mayor
.lames C. Frost.
ROLL CALL Present: Council members Jon D. Mikels, Michael Palombo,
Charles West, and Mayor James C. Frost.
City Manager, Lauren M. Wasserman, and interim City
Attorney, Sam Crowe.
Absent: Phillip D. Schlosser
PURPOSE OF Mayor Frost explained the purpose of the meeting was to
MEETING provide general guidelines to the Planning Consultants as
they begin work on the general plan preparation.
Mr. Herman Rempel, Chairman of the Planning Commission,
was introduced. Mr. Hempel in turn introduced Mr. John Blayney,
the Planning Consultant.
Mr. Blayney said he was seeking thoughts concerning the
direction in which the Council and Planning Commission wished
to have the Consultant go.
He outlined the proposed work program for preparation of the
general plan which would be completed by June 28, 1978.
The City Council reviewed Preliminary Issues list with
John Blayney. The following issues were discussed:
A. Community Identity
B. Land Use
RECESS A recess was called by Mayor Frost at 5:30 p.m. The meeting
reconvened at 6:04 p.m.
Absent: None
City Council and Planning Commission members continued
discussion of the Preliminary Issues.
Mayor Frost suggested that each Commissioner and each
Councilman may wish to express his personal views concerning
the type of Community which may be desirable. Among the
topics discussed were:
A. Open Space Preservation
B. Agriculature Preservation
C. Circulation and Transportation
D. Phased Growth Program, particularly for the Etiwanda
area, which is essentially undeveloped at this time.
E. Varied housing density to provide a variety of housing
types.
F. Acquisition of future park sites.
G. Design Standards.
H. Population Projections for the City of Rancho Cucamonga.
I. Environmental Constraints and Flood Hazards.
City Council Minutes
April 12, 1978
Page 2
PURPOSE OF The Council and Commission members discussed the planned
MEETING Community meeting which is scheduled for Saturday, April 29.
(continued) The City Council concurred that the staff should make every
effort to publicize the meeting.
ADJOURNMENT Motion: Moved by Frost, seconded by Palombo to adjourn to
Wednesday, April 19, at 4:00 p.m. Motion unanimously carried.
The meeting adjourned at 7:19 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Lauren M. Wasserman
City Clerk