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HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/1/1992CITY OF DIAMOND BAR MINUTES OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION JUNE 1, 1992 CALL TO ORDER: Vice Chairman MacBride called the meeting to order at 6:15 p.m. at the South Coast Air Quality Management District Auditorium, 21865 E. Copley Drive, Diamond Bar, California. PLEDGE OF The audience was led in the Pledge of Allegiance by ALLEGIANCE: Vice Chairman MacBride. ROLL CALL: Commissioners: Grothe, Meyer, and Vice Chairman MacBride. Chairman Flamenbaum arrived at 6:18 p.m. C/Li arrived at 7:00 p.m. Also present were Community Development Director James DeStefano, Associate Planner Rob Searcy, Planning Technician Ann Lungu, District City Attorney Craig Fox, Lloyd Zola, with the Planning Network, Carlton Walters, of DKS, and Contract Secretary Liz Myers. OLD BUSINESS: VC/MacBride recessed the meeting at 6:16 p.m. to move the meeting to Room CC -2. General Plan Land Use Chair/Flamenbaum reconvened the meeting at 6:23 Element p.m.. Lloyd Zola explained that the document, before the LCommission, contains the Land Use Element, with those changes made Thursday, May 28, 1992, and the other elements of the General Plan, per the Commission's most recent actions. The document also contains an Implementation Mitigation Monitoring, which includes discussion regarding the basic implementation of the General Plan. Under the law, you must provide a method to monitor implementation of the General Plan EIR, and prepare the annual report which will provide for the CEQA mitigation monitoring. The General Plan EIR incorporates the strategies of the General Plan as the mitigation measures. In general, the preparation of plans, the analysis, or the determination if something is feasible, must be completed within 18 months of the General Plan adoption. The City will make a determination, as to it's feasibility, within a certain time frame, and then implement the findings of that analysis within a time frame there after. VC/MacBride inquired if there will be a general introduce of the function of the Plan. CD/DeStefano explained that the Goals, Policies, and Objectives is complete with the exception of _ putting the introductory language, and the acknowledgements on the cover. The document before the Commission is the "working" document. June 1, 1992 Page 2 Lloyd Zola stated that the document, before the Commission, contains the following: a Resolution, prepared by the City Attorney; the EIR, which identifies mitigation measures, and impacts of the General Plan; a response to comments, which are our responses to comments received from other agencies on the draft EIR; exhibit A, which responds to comments received on the draft Housing Element from the Department of Housing and Community Development, based upon the Commission's most recent version of the Housing Element; and the land use map which shows all the changes made on Thursday, May 28th. Chair/Flamenbaum stated that he would like the opportunity to fully review the document prior to recommending it. However, any obvious errors should be pointed out tonight. The Commission concurred to begin review of the Land Use Map. The following corrections were made: The portion of the Zelman property, known as "Lot Zero" should be OP; the land behind "Lot Zero", should be open }1q space; the area where the proposed hospital is supposed to be, adjacent to the church, should be OP/PD; the RNP property, in and around Sycamore Canyon, was changed to be consistent to the -current zoning and deed restrictions to PD/RL; the property on Brea Canyon Road, just north of the Water District site, should be designated PD/RL; the two open space lots, just south of the aforementioned property, should be designated PD/RL,PK,OS,C; the Little League ball fields are RIM, and the YMCA office buildings are OP; the site, of the Casa O'Briens Restaurant, should be CO; Summit Ridge, right of the first street, the entire area is designated PK, and should be corrected to indicate that just the end is PK and the rest is RL; the area by Armstrong School that appears to be excluded from the school should be amended to delete the lot line; the fire station indicated at Ronald Reagan Park, on Pathfinder, should be eliminated and properly shown as being further down Pathfinder; define the SP in Tonner Canyon, and eliminate the three lower ones; the 2 pieces by Tres Hermanos should be designated SP; the area by the intersection of Gentle Springs and Diamond Bar Blvd. should be designated C; drop the lot lines from the corner lots on Golden Springs by the Goodyear and Carl's Jr. site, and designated C; and the site behind the Church Latter Day Saints should be designated RL. T ... June 1, 1992 Page 3 �-a t Chair/Flamenbaum recessed the meeting at 7:03 p.m. The meeting was reconvened at 7:13 p.m. Chair/Flamenbaum suggested that the Commission review the definitions of Planned Development and Specific Plan. CD/DeStefano stated that the Planned Development would take into account the surrounding, existing urbanized development to properly plan for that remaining piece of acreage. The Specific Plan are the two areas on the perimeter, surrounded by vacant land in other communities, which is to be more detailed and comprehensive in it's analysis, both environmentally and from a plan and circulation standpoint. Lloyd Zola stated that all definitions will be under Objective 1.1, Strategy 1.1.1. The final version of the Land Use Map will be on page I-22. VC/MacBride requested that all "high quality of life" statements delete the "high" to read "quality of life". Lloyd Zola inquired if Strategy 1.1.10, on page II - 18, regarding diversification of residential developments, is written as the Commission directed. VC/MacBride questioned if the five (5) urban residential units is a feasible standard. C/Grothe pointed out that requiring developers to pay another City fee places a financial burden upon the developer, which in turn raises the cost of the dwelling units. C/Meyer stated that the intent is to establish a reasonable fee to create a housing assistance fund, to be used for financing, to make housing affordable. The development standards should not be lowered to make housing affordable. The fee could be on a sliding scale. CD/DeStefano pointed out that, most will pay the fee. A couple hundred units, in future a developments such as in Tres Hermanos and Tanner Canyon, there will be a greater opportunity to develop some lower income units. Fees paid will go to a fund that can be used in a variety of different ways, yet to be determined. June 1, 1992 Page 4 C/Li stated that both sides must be considered, and the number should be increased. C/Meyer pointed out that 5 unit is reasonable because the tract map starts at five units. It is another fee that goes onto the project. C/Grothe stated his concern that there is not a specifically defined program as to what will be done with the money. C/Meyer pointed out that the State requires that we address housing for low to moderate income. This is just a concept on how to get revenue, and the amount of revenue is a topic of debate during the implementation process. The five units is a logical place to start, since it is consistent with the finding of the tract map, and especially given the size of the vacant land left. It is a positive response to the comments we got from the State on our Housing Element. He noted that we should not have a concept for providing housing for low to moderate income if it excludes the majority of the property in the City. Lloyd Zola stated that the strategy is defensible because the General Plan indicates that a program will be developed six months following the adoption of the General Plan. Five units is a legal definition that separates parcel maps from tract maps. The Commission concurred to keep it at 5 residential units. The Commission concurred to review the Resource Management. CD/DeStefano noted that the statement, under Parks and Recreation, third paragraph, page III -3, should be reword to state, "...470.8 acres of recreational facilities, including 59.4 acres of developed parkland, and 75.5 acres of undeveloped parkland." Lloyd Zola, noting that the Commission had requested that examples be deleted from the strategies, inquired if the examples in Strategy 1.1.8, page III -9, page III -10, strategy 1.2.2b, and page III -11, seventh bullet, in strategy 1.3.1, are to remain. .,,..._ .._. �_. ,.,...,.. �,..._. iid._ �.., I �u'-pr-�,.. S� �m ��...,,��.,,. .6.... �_ _.. 1 June 1, 1992 Page 5 VC/MacBride stated that the examples are appropriate in these strategies, and they should remain. The Commission concurred. Chair/ F lamenbaum stated that the words, "public and private park and" is to be deleted from Objective 1.3, page III -10. Chair/Flamenbaum stated that strategy 2.2.2, third bullet, should indicate that reflective surfaces are% to be minimized. There should also be some discussion regarding run-off from large surfaces in the document. The Commission concurred to review the Plan For Physical Mobility. Chair/Flamenbaum noted that page 3, of the Circulation Element, should reflect a residential collector category. CD/DeStefano, referring to the Minutes of the Joint Study Session of May 11, 1992, stated that a residential collector has a roadway volume of 2,501 to 10,000, a local residential has a roadway volume of 1 to 2,500, and a collector has a volume of 10,001 to 20,000. Carlton Walters stated that the document will be changed to reflect the categories, as defined, and Table 2-1, and Figure 2-1 will be changed to be consistent with those limits. C/Meyer, referring to Figure 2-1, stated that Sunset Crossing should stop being a minor arterial at the route 57 southbound ramp, and should become a residential collector. Prospector and Montefino should be deleted from the map because they are not major collectors. C/Grothe noted that pieces of Lycoming, Washington, and S.Lemon should be deleted as well. Chair/Flamenbaum, referring to page 21, Table 3-3, stated that Diamond Bar Blvd. is to be kept as a major roadway, Lemon (s. of Colima) should be downgraded to a residential collector, and Lemon (n. of Colima) is to be classified as a secondary roadway. The Commission concurred. The Commission concurred that Lycoming should be added to the cul-de-sac classification. l June 1, 1992 Page 6 I VC/MacBride suggested that subsection 8, page 22, ILI should be reworded to read, "...with Washington Street in the vicinity. The City of Industry is considering development of the area with industrial uses to make maximum advantage of its proximity to freight rail lines. However, the area through which Sunset Crossing is to extend is presently substantially undeveloped. The extension of ...". The Commission concurred. VC/MacBride suggested that the'71.3sue Analysis, on page 23, be changed to read, "The City could implement measures to maintain...", so that it corresponds with the Issue Analysis on page 22. The Commission concurred. VC/MacBride stated that Objective 1.1, on page 23, should read, "Participate in local and regional transportation related planning and decision making.". Chair/Flamenbaum stated that the statement, "...to relieve congestion on other roadways within the City of Diamond Bar.", should be deleted from Strategy 1.1.4, on page 23, and "of Diamond Bar" should be deleted from the last the last sentence of that strategy. Chair/Flamenbaum suggested that the words, "urban village" should be deleted from Strategy 2.1.3 on page 25. VC/MacBride suggested that the word "utilization" be replaced by "efficiency" in objective 3.2 on page 26. Lloyd Zola stated that discussion of urban storm water discharge will be added, in the Plan for Public Health and Safety. The Commission concurred. The Commission concurred to review Public Services and Facilities. VC/MacBride stated that the word "high" should be deleted from bullet one, page VI -1. STAFF COMMENTS: CD/DeStefano suggested that the Commission submit any further comments to the document by Wednesday, June 3, 1992. C/Flamenbaum stated that there will' be a presentation, on the conceptual plan on Tres Hermanos, at the June 8th meeting. ADJOURNMENT: Motion was made by C/Meyer, seconded by C/Grothe June 1, 1992 Page 7 qwk' and CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY to adjourn the meeting at 8:45 p.m. to continue discussion of the General Plan on Monday, June 8, 1992• Attest: Bruce Flamenbaum Chairman Res ectivel , Ja s DeStefano Secretary ---- I VIT111:'T'111F,111