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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981/03/16 - Minutes - Special Adjourned March 16, 1981 CITY OF R_~NCIIO CUCAMONGA CITY COUNCIL MINUTES Special Adjourned Meetin~ 1. CALL TO ORDER. A special adjourned meeting on the General Plan of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga was held in the Lion's Park Community Center, 9161 Base Line Road on March 16, 1981. The meeting was called to order at 7:06 p.m. by Mayor Phillip D. Schlosser. Present: Councilmen James C. Frost, Jon D. Mikels, Michael A. Palombo, Arthur H. Bridge, and Mayor Phillip D. Schlosser. Also present: City Manager Lauren M. Wasserman, Deputy City Attorney Robert Dougherty, Community Development Director Jack Lam, City Planner Barry Hogan, Senior Planner Timothy Beedle, and City Engineer Lloyd Hubbs. 2. DISCUSSION OF ETIW~NDA SPECIFIC PLAN. (1) Mr. Hogan presented the Etiwanda Specific Plan item. He stated that the revised general plan text stated that a Specific Plan should be developed for the Eti- wanda area and should address the following: a. Local Street and Circulation Patterns b. Community Character and Design Standards c. Neighborhood Park Plan d. Riding and Hiking Trails e. Commerical Center Location f. Land Use Adjustments. He said the cost to prepare such a Plan would be approximately $50,000 whether a consultant did the work or it was done by staff inhouse. It would require hiring two additional employees if it were done inhouse. He said the Council would have an opportunity to discuss this further at the time the 1981-82 fiscal budget was prepared. A Resolution was presented for adoption with a map described as Exhibit "A" which detailed the boundary areas for the Specific Plan. The number assigned to the Resolution was 81-35. The resolution also stated that no general plan amendment applications would be accepted within the Specific Area until the Plan has been adopted by the City Council; any request for a residential development within this area must be presented as a total development package; and any proposed development must be consistent with the General Plan. Mr. Hogan further stated that commercial development usually followed residential, therefore, it was not anticipated there would be any great amount of commercial acitivity. Also, because of the limited amount of sewer lines and the low water pressure in that area, it was doubtful there would be much residential acitivity in the next year. Adoption of Resolution No. 81-35 puts into writing the policy of the City Council relative to the Etiwanda Specific Plan. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Palombo to approve and adopt Resolution No. 81-35 and to consider the cost of the Specific Plan development through the budget process and that the work be done inhouse rather than by a consultant. Councilman Frost suggested that the southern boundaries be dropped south to Arrow, east to Etiwanda Avenue. Both Mikels and Palombo concurred with these changes. Mayor Schlosser opened the meeting for public hearing. Speaking were: * Ron Tannebaum. Expressed his support for the Specific Plan concept. * Donald King, representing Andrew Barmakian. He read his statement. A copy was submitted for the record. City Council Minutes March 16, 1981 Page 2 There being no further response, the public hearing was closed. Councilman Brid~e asked how long would it be before we would know whether we could fund and get into this process. Mr. Wasserman stated that we are now in the budget process. Once Council approves the Resolution, it will be included in the budget. Mr. Bridge also asked if it were possible to do like the County had done with the' A-l-5 (agriculture) zoning by zoning areas in a "holding" zone. Mr. Dougherty said there were two requirements by State law: zoning and general plan. the law requires that the zoning be consistent with the general plan. The specific plan's purpose is to systematically implement the general plan within a given area. He said he would not recommend a "holding" zone while a specific plan was being con- sidered. He recommended that the zoning be made consistent with whatever the general plan designation is. Motion carried unanimously 5-0 to adopt Resolution No. 81-35. City Clerk Wasserman read the Resolution in full. RESOLUTION NO. 81-35 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING POLICY FOR DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY WITHIN THE ETIWANDA SPECIFIC PLAN AREA. Councilman Mikels said Mr. King brought up several points which should be considere:! during the specific plan review, such as the circulation around Base Line, section urban design, and some of the measurable criteria. Motion: Moved by. Palombo, seconded by Mikels for Council to appeal the Planning Commission's decision on the approval of the tract in the northern Etiwanda area and to set April 1 City Council meeting for the hearing. Motion carried unanimously 5-0. (Tentative Tract No. 11549 by Lewis Homes). Councilman Frost expressed concern of whether the current General Plan designations would be reasonable guidelines until the time the Specific Plan was adopted. 3. LAND USE ITEMS IN THE ETIWANDA/PLANNED COMMIrNITIES AREAS. Following are the items which City Council had reviewed on March 9, but deferred to this meeting for consideration. Timothy Beedle presented the staff reports. Mr. Beedle stated that the items had been referred back to the Planning Commission for consideration along with changes made in the Victoria Plan. Changes had been made to be consistent with the Victoria Plan. a. Property located at approximately Rochester Avenue north and south of the Pacific Railroad tracks. (Known as Item "j" on the March 9 agenda). Was originally designated medium density; however, staff was recommending low-medium density which would be more suitable with the surrounding low density. Motion: Moved by Palombo, seconded by Mikels to retain the low-medium density for the parcel on the north, and medium density (5-15 du/ac) for the parcel on the south. Mayor Schlosser opened the meeting for public hearing. There being no response, the public hearing was closed. City Council '[inures March 16, 1981 Page 3 Councilman Frost asked about the future of the lumber yard; if the area is zoned medium density, would the lumber yard be grandfathered until such time as the ownership changed or the use was changed. Mr. Hogan said it would be grandfathered until such time as the use discontinued. Motion carried unanimously 5-0 to retain the low-medium density for the northern parcel, and to designate medium density for the southern parcel. b. Property east of Day Creek Boulevard, north of Church Street. (Known as Item "e" on the March 9 agenda). Mr. Beedle said staff recommends that this area be designated commercial which is consistent with the Victoria Plan which was recommended and approved by the Planning Commission. Council expressed concern over the large area of commercial designation (approxi- mately 200 acres). Mayor Schlosser asked if this were viable with the potential of the regional shopping center and the rest designated commercial? Mr. Hogan said the same concern was expressed by the Planning Commission, and one of the suggested conditions of approval for the Planned Community was the applicant must phase his development of regional related from Foothill to Miller Street first, then subsequent phasing would be from Miller Street to Base Line. The character of that development would be residential kind of office use. Those would be con- ditions of approval of the Planned Community which would tie the applicant down to some very specific kinds of things that he can or cannot do. The final Resolution would come before Council for consideration and approval. Councilman Palombo stated that he did not like the idea of increasing the commercial. Councilman Mikels requested the language for the condition for monitoring the phasing development. Mr. Hogan read the following condition which the Planning Commission adopted as a staff guidance for the preparation of the final condition: "The development process and regional demand for the regional related area shall be periodically reviewed to determine the continued viability of the amount of acreage proposed. This review shall be not more than three years apart and shall begin after the opening of the regional center." Mr. Hogan said the Planning Commission was satis- fied with this language of the conditions for monitoring the development. Councilman Mikels concurred that this wording would put in the safeguards that Motion: Moved by Palombo to designate this area as office. For lack of a second, the motion failed. Motion: Moved by Frost, seconded by Mikels to approve the Planning Commission's recommendation to change this from high density to commercial and regional related with the stipulation of a full review. Mayor Schlosser opened the meeting for public hearing. There being no response, the hearing was closed. Motion to approve the Planning Commission's recommendation was approved unanimously 5-0. City Council Minutes March 16, 1981 Page 4 c. Parcel located at East Avenue and the Pacific Railroad tracks by the 1-15 freeway. Currently designated low density. Has been requested that Council consider a neighborhood commercial designation. Motion: Moved by Frost, seconded by Palombo to leave as low residential designa- tion until after the completion of the Specific Plan. Mayor Schlosser opened the meeting for public hearing. Speaking was: * Mrs. Kleinman. She requested that Council go back to the Sedway/Cooke Plan and return the ten acres to a neighborhood commercial designation as originally approved by the Planning Commission. She said th~ area did not lend itself to residential land use. There being no further response, Mayor Schlosser closed the public hearing. Motion carried unanimously 5-0 to retain the low density designation. d. Parcel north of Church, east of Day Creek Boulevard. Mr. Hogan said this was previously indicated as high density. However, last Thursday the Planning Commission saw revisions of the Victoria Plan and felt a designation of commercial would be better, and ~o designate the parcel next to it as high density. It is presently indicated as office. This would put the higher . use next to the proposed water amenity. Councilman Frost said he totally objected to a high density in this area. Council questioned why this change was requested. Mr. Hogan said the applicant indicated that where the high density was originally proposed was doomed to poor planning; it had no amenity to draw from. Therefore, he said the high density would be more appropriate along the western edge of the lake. Councilman Frost said that without knowing what the lake was going to look like, he could not visualize this. Mr. Lam said that in effect what has happened is the density has shifted from the corridor to the lake. Councilman Frost said he questioned whether the density should be there at all. He felt it should remain regional related commercial. Motion: Moved by Mikels, seconded by Palombo to retain the residential use for this area. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, Palomobo, Bridge, and Schlosser. NOES: Frost. Mayor Schlosser requested Council to reconsider a decision made on March 9 on the property located at Foothill east of Rochester. Applicant has requested a iow- medium density (5-8 du/ac), but Council determined to leave this an office designation. Mr. Dougherty said there had to be a motion for reconsideration which had to be approved by at least three members of the Council. Motion: Moved by Schlosser, seconded by Mikels to reconsider the previous action for the parcel at Foothill east of Rochester. Motion failed by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, Schlosser. NOES: Frost, Palombo, Bridge. Mayor Schlosser called a recess at 8:40 p.m. The meeting reconvened at 9:05 p.m. with all members of Council and staff present. City Council >?[n~t'~ March 16, 1981 Page 5 Additional Individual Requests for the Etfwanda/Planned Communities Area. * Charles V. Cummins, 1645 N. Laurel Avenue, Upland. Requested the zoning for the northeast corner of Etiwanda Avenue and Foothill Boulevard remain commercial. Councilman Mikels said this should wait to be addressed by the Specific Plan. Council concurred with the Planning Commission's designation for this property pending the completion of the Specific Plan. * Mr. R. R. Smith, 34 Harbor Sight Drive, Rolling Hills. Requested that the southwest corner of Etiwanda Avenue and Base Line Road should remain commercial. Council concurred this should remain as designated until the completion of the Specific Plan. * Randall Lewis, Lewis Homes. Requested that the density for Terra Vista be changed from medium to medium-high density. Council concurred that this should be handled after the total plan for Terra Vista has been submitted. * James Banks, 13181 Victoria, Etiwanda. Requested that 15 acres north and south of the Pacific Railroad tracks between Etiwanda Avenue and East Avenue be considered for very low density pending the Specific Plan. He felt such a designation would protect the whole area until the specific plan was completed. Council expressed the draft General Plan did what he wanted. * Betty McNay. Said Mr. Banks'parcel is bounded by Southern Pacific Railroad. This area is made up of many small parcels. Feels this area should have a specific plan to include all these small parcels. There being no further comments from the public, Mayor Schlosser closed the public hearing for further discussions on the Etiwanda area. Motion: Moved by Bridge, seconded by Palombo to approve the recommendations by the Planning Commission as modified by the City Council for the Etiwanda area. Motion carried by the following vote: AYES: Mikels, Palombo, Bridge, Schlosser. NOES: Frost. (Councilman Frost said he did not completely concur with the Sedway/ Cooke Plan). Motion: Moved by Bridge, seconded by Palombo to approve the General Plan Land Use designations as shown on the map as recommended by the Planning Commission and modified by the City Council for the areas within the proposed planned communities areas. Motion carried unanimously 5-0. Individual Requests from the Cucamonsa Area. * Anne Calinsky. Requested consideration of the parcel at the southeast corner of Archibald and Church. The Planning Commission designated this as office. She felt this was not compatible with the area, but should be designated medium density, * Lloyd Michael, owner of the property, felt the property should be zoned office. * Bob Mill, owner of the property, felt the property should be zoned office. * Sharon Romero, felt an office designation would create more traffic. Best designation would be medium density. Councilman Bridge said he would like to postpone item so he could study the actions of the Planning Commission. Council concurred. City Council Minutes March 16, 1981 Page 6 *Gerry Koski, 9268 Layton Street. Represented over 200 homeowners just north of 6th Street who were concerned with the development south of 6th Street between Hellman and Archibald. Council concurred they would they would look into this and return on March 30 to discuss this and to make a determination. * Roy Ratliff, 9405 Hellman Avenue. He has five acres that runs along the flood control channel. His property has been divided between low-medium density and industrial. He requested a consideration for the entire property be zoned medium density. Council concurred to return this item on March 30 for a determination. * Nacho Gracia, 10360 Humbolt Avenue. Speaking regarding the La Manchia Golf Course. He said the owner of the golf course was going to donate a portion of the property for parks. Me. Beedle said that Mr. Milliken, the owner, had said he would consider a pro- posal to donate up to ten acres of land for park use. Council directed staff to look into this item. Mayor Schlosser called a recess at 10:30 p.m. The meeting reconvened at 10:45 p.m. with all members of Council and staff present. Individual Requests from the Alta Loma Area. *Stan Sievers, 6481 Orangethorpe Avenue, Buena Park. Requested that the City Council concur with the Planning Commission recommendations to designate their property very low density. Property was located northeast of Beryl and Almond, "Valleyview Mesa Ranch." Council directed staff to provide Council with information as to the Planning Commission's actions. Council concurred it would be helpful to look at the pro- perty and to bring back on March 30 for a determination. * Roger Sudduth, 5695 Canistel Avenue, Rancho Cucamonga. Said he was present to discuss the proposed Neever tract buffer on east end of Wilson Street just east of Chaffey College. He said they had retained Charles Doskow to represent them. He said he simply was present to speak and will come back on the 30th for a determination. * Sharon Romero. She addressed the issue of park credits being given for bridle trails and wanted to see the practice stopped. Council said they would take this item up with the Parks Element discussion on the 30th of March. * Anne Calinsky. She requested the removal of the Trails System from the General Plan. * Pam Henry, felt the trails system should be left in the General Plan. * Chris Benoit, emphasized the safety that trails bring for horse riders, and re- quested the item remain in the General Plan. * Bruce Chitiea said he concurred with Ms. Calinsky. Council concurred this item should be looked into and discussed during the Parks Element on March 30. City Council Minutes March 16, 1981 Page 7 * Diana Hoard, The Planning Center, 240 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach. Requested consideration of the 97 acres at the north end of Hermosa which is currently designated entirely for parks. Councilman Frost, with Bridge concurring, said that we should keep the park designation. Any development in this area should be unique utilizing clustering or other such considerations. Council concurred this should come back on March 30 for further discussion. * Paul Burns. Requested that the park designation at Foothill and east of Archibald be placed back in the original area. Mr. Hogan said that at the request of the owners of the property, the park site was relocated at Central School on Archibald along with the policy to locate parks adjacent to schools for park facilities. What Mr. Burns was asking was to have the park site removed so he could proceed with his development so he will not have to revise his map. He is willing to designate park site land on a future site. Councilman Mikels said that not all of the Council had read Mr. Burn's letter and that they should consider this on the 30th and to direct staff for more input regarding this item. Council concurred to bring this back on the 30th. 5. REVIEW AND DISCUSSION OF LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT SUPER ELEMENTS. It was decided to discuss this item at the March 23, 1981 meeting. 6. ADJOURNMENT. Motion: Moved by Bridge, seconded by Palombo to adjourn. Motion carried unanimously 5-0. The meeting adjourned at 12:05 a.m. Respectfully submitted, Beverly Authelet Deputy City Clerk