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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-03-11 - Minutes - PC-HPC CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA k r r MARCH 11 , 2020 HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION AND PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA MINUTES RANCHO CUCAMONGA CIVIC CENTER COUNCIL CHAMBERS 10500 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA A. 7:00 P.M. - CALL TO ORDER 7:oopw Pledge of Allegiance Roll Call: Chairman Guglielmo _x_ Vice Chairman Oaxaca _x_ Commissioner Dopp _x_ Commissioner Morales x Commissioner Williams x Staff Present: Nick Ghirelli, Assistant City Attorney; Anne McIntosh, Planning Director, Mike Smith, Principal Planner; Elizabeth Thornhill, Executive Assistant; Vincent Acuna, Associate Planner, Jason Welday, Director of Engineering Services; Gianfranco Laurie; Senior Civil Engineer. B. PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS This is the time and place for the general public to address the Historic Preservation Commission or Planning Commission on any item listed or not listed on the agenda. State law prohibits the Commission from addressing any issue not previously included on the Agenda. The Commission may receive testimony and set the matter for a subsequent meeting. Comments are to be limited to five minutes per individual or less, as deemed necessary by the Chair, depending upon the number of individual members of the audience. This is a professional business meeting and courtesy and decorum are expected. Please refrain from any debate between audience and speaker, making loud noises or engaging in any activity which might be disruptive to the decorum of the meeting. Chairman Guglielmo opened the public communications. Seeing none, closed. C. CONSENT CALENDAR/HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION AND PLANNING COMMISSION Page 1 of 7 01 MARCH 11 , 2020 HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION AND PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA MINUTES RANCHO CUCAMONGA CIVIC CENTER COUNCIL CHAMBERS 10500 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA C1. Consideration to adopt Regular Meeting Minutes of February 26, 2020. C2. Consideration to adopt Workshop Minutes of February 26, 2020. Moved by Commissioner Williams, second by Vice Chair Oaxaca; to approve Items C1 and C2. Motion carried unanimously, 5-0 to adopt the minutes as presented. D. DIRECTOR'S REPORTS/SCHEDULED MATTERS D1. HERITAGE PARK BRIDGES UPDATE —An update on Heritage Park Bridges. Gianfranco Laurie, Senior Civil Engineer, presented Commissioners with a Staff Report and oral presentation. Commissioner Dopp asked regarding Bridges C & D life span, if there is an estimate. Mr. Laurie answered they do not have an estimate. The only thing they have identified in their report is to continue regular monitoring of those specific Bridges C & D. Chairman Guglielmo inquired about the weight load on the new bridge. Mr. Laurie replied those bridges have existed for quite some time. What prompted this would be the visible deterioration that you see when you traverse each bridge. The main vehicle bridge, looking at the deterioration underneath the beam supports, exterior outside the bridges, the deterioration is significant. They have moved forward working with Public Works on some temporary improvements to narrow that travel width from 26 to 12 feet and cross hatching the outside edges. He does not have an answer right now about how much weight the new bridge would hold, but having a concrete super structure in place is going to last 50 years and with current weight regulations in code, it could withstand easily a single axle fire engine along with other passenger vehicle uses. Commissioner Morales asked the amount of the Park District-85 (PD-85) annual assessment. Page 2 of 7 CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA MARCH 11 , 2020 HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION AND PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA MINUTES RANCHO CUCAMONGA CIVIC CENTER COUNCIL CHAMBERS 10500 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA Jason Welday, Director of Engineering Services, estimated$30.00 year per household. Public comment: Joseph Calin stated it would be more sufficient to replace bridges all at once. The cost would be less then to pay a contractor to replace each bridge one at a time. Suggests maybe take from emergency funds or funds from the reserve can pay for them now, and then take a loan from PD-85 and pay it back. Mr. Welday stated he agrees and mentioned studies show there would be cost saving to replace bridges all at once but there is no funding. An option would be to look at another funding source, which we have not been able to identify yet or a loan but unfortunately, given the financial position of PD-85 at this time, it would be impossible to pay back from general fund. The City will continue to seek opportunities to fund those improvements of those two bridges while we extend the life as long as we can. Commissioner Dopp stated he knows this is a very sensitive topic for the horse community. Given limited finances and resources, it does show that taxes are important if money is not there. Absent public support, cities are forced to make tough choices. The preference would be to solve the problem all at once, but it seems the most creative way to address the problem is to bring in fire reserves. He supports moving forward to City Council. Vice Chair Oaxaca stated he had a chance to see this information at Design Review concerning the state of the bridges. It's unfortunate the district does not have sufficient funds to implement a complete solution, but this is the most realistic option to give us a couple of functioning bridges for the community. He supports of the proposal. Commissioner Williams stated she also supports the proposal and praised staff for being creative with the fire district to create a way to finance this because there would have been no way to finance alone. It will give the community 50 years or more of usage, she supports the project. Commissioner Morales stated he lives in Landscape Maintenance District-7 (LMD-7) and pays $139 assessment every year. With that fee, they take care of parks on Day Creek. When there is a problem, he reports it and it gets taken care of right away because funding is there. Hopefully, he would like to see PD-85 get considered again in front of voters so in the future, when things come up, we can maintain them. He believes this proposal is reasonable and supports it. Page 3 of 7 CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA MARCH 11 , 2020 HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION AND PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA MINUTES RANCHO CUCAMONGA CIVIC CENTER COUNCIL CHAMBERS 10500 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA Chair Guglielmo asked if the report gives an economic life on the remaining two bridges in this study. Mr. Laurie answered no. The only thing preference in this study is they noted deterioration that has occurred. They identified some temporary improvements and Engineering submitted a work order to Public Works and they are in the process of gathering all the material required to alienate Bridges C & D to produce narrow span. Also, they are going to install signs to limit heavy access along bridges. Moved by Vice Chair Oaxaca, second by Commissioner Morales; carried 5-0, to approve staff recommendation to the public works subcommittee. E. PUBLIC HEARINGS/PLANNING COMMISSION El. DESIGN REVIEW DRC2019-00069 - CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A request to construct a 24,512 square-foot concrete tilt-up warehouse building at the Rancho Cucamonga public works yard, within the General Industrial (GI)district, located at 8794 Lion Street—APN: 0209-013-85. This item is exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the City's CEQA guidelines under CEQA Section 15332 — In-Fill Development Projects. Vincent Acuna, Associate Planner, presented Commissioners with a Staff Report and oral presentation. Albert Espinoza, Deputy Public Works Director, stated the cost for this project is 2.4 million dollars. He is hoping to have the `project shovel"ready by next fiscal year with capital reserves available to build this by. Vice Chair Oaxaca asked what is the anticipated use of the building. Mr. Espinoza answered it would be used for storage. Currently, they have a lot of their equipment in storage containers and want to get away from that due to vandalism and it would make it more sufficient to have it all in one building. No public comments. Page 4 of 7 CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA MARCH 11 , 2020 HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION AND PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA MINUTES RANCHO CUCAMONGA CIVIC CENTER COUNCIL CHAMBERS 10500 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA Commissioner Dopp stated it sounds like very good use of the land and Public Works department. He approves. Vice Chair Oaxaca stated he supports the project. Commissioner Williams stated she supports the project and hopefully it will get under construction when fiscal year works out. Commissioner Morales stated it looks good at site and it's compatible in the area it's in. He supports the project. Moved by Commissioner Williams, second by Vice Chair Oaxaca, to approve Item E1, motion carried unanimously, 5-0, staff recommendation to approve DRC2019-00069. F. COMMISSION BUSINESS/HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND PLANNING COMMISSION DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS: Anne McIntosh, Planning Director announced that we have launched the website for General Plan Update (Cityofrc.us/GeneralPlan). We are providing information and sticker cards so people can easily locate website for upcoming events. Keep checking back to get updates as we get underway. Countdown - 1 year and 9 months. COMMISSION ANNOUNCEMENTS: None G. ADJOURNMENT Motion by Commissioner Williams, second by Commissioner Dopp, to adjourn the meeting; carried 5 7:45pm I, Elizabeth Thornhill, Executive Assistant of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, or my designee, hereby certify that a true, accurate copy of the foregoing agenda was posted on Thursday, March 05, 2020, seventy-two (72) hours prior to the meeting per Government Code 54954.2 at 10500 Civic Center Drive. Page 5 of 7 CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA MARCH 11 , 2020 HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION AND PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA MINUTES RANCHO CUCAMONGA CIVIC CENTER COUNCIL CHAMBERS 10500 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA If you need special assistance or accommodations to participate in this meeting,please contact the Planning Department at(909)477-2750. Notification of 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility. Listening devices are available for the hearing impaired. INFORMATION FORTH PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE PLANNING COMMISSION The Planning Commission encourages free expression of all points of view. To allow all persons to speak, given the length of the agenda, please keep your remarks brief. If others have already expressed your position, you may simply indicate that you agree with a previous speaker. If appropriate, a spokesperson may present the views of your entire group. 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A copy of any such materials should also be provided to the Secretary to be used for the official public record. All requests for items to be placed on a Planning Commission agenda must be in writing. Requests for scheduling agenda items will be at the discretion of the Commission and the Planning Director. AVAILABILITY OF STAFF REPORTS Copies of the staff reports or other documentation to each agenda item are on file in the offices of the Planning Department, City Hall, located at 10500 Civic Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga, California 91730. These documents are available for public inspections during regular business hours, Monday through Thursday, 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., except for legal City holidays. Page 6 of 7 *IF MARCH 11 , 2020 HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION AND PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA MINUTES RANCHO CUCAMONGA CIVIC CENTER COUNCIL CHAMBERS 10500 CIVIC CENTER DRIVE RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA APPEALS Any interested party who disagrees with the City Planning Commission decision may appeal the Commission's decision to the City Council within 10 calendar days. Any appeal filed must be directed to the City Clerk's Office and must be accompanied by a fee of $3,114 for all decisions of the Commission. (Fees are established and governed by the City Council). Please turn off all cell phones while the meeting is in session. Copies of the Planning Commission agendas, staff reports and minutes can be found at www.CityofRC.us. Page 7 of 7