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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05/09/1989 Minutes - Regular MeetingMINUTES OF STUDY SESSION OF DIAMOND BAR CITY COUNCIL May 9, 1989 Call to Order: San Bernardino v. City of Diamond Bar: Mayor Papen called the Study Session to order at 7:00 P.M. Mayor Papen asked City Attorney Arczynski to give an update of the Mandatory Settlement Conference that had occurred on May 9. Attorney Arczynski advised that the hearing set for June 2, 1989 had been continued to June 9, 1989. At that time the issue of the Writ of Mandate would be addressed. Presentations: Mayor Papen advised the audience that in order to get background information regarding the planning function 3 people were asked to address the Council. Mayor Papen then introduced Rudy Lackner from the L.A. County Planning Department assigned to Diamond Bar and asked Mr. Lackner to give an overview of what is the current status of our General Plan. Mr. Lackner displayed a Community Plan Map and explained the reason for a General Plan. It is to provide a framework for the future. Allow for utilities, schools, transportation to provide for the future and is required by law. State Law says that each General Plan must have 7 mandatory elements which are land use, circulation, noise, safety, conservation, open space and housing. Mr. Lackner went on to discuss how to develop a general plan and gave 3 ways to develop the plan: 1. Get public involvement, develop data in each areas necessary to develop an element. 2. What are the community issues, needs and objectives. 3. What are objectives. May 9, 1989 Mr. Lackner advised that the Diamond Bar Community Plan adopted in 1983 met state requirements through L.A. County. It was adopted by 3 elements, land use, circulation and noise. All other elements were taken care of by the County General Plan. All elements of the General Plan must be consistent with each other. Mr. Lackner explained how to implement the policies of the General Plan once the General Plan is adopted. He advised that the procedure is most commonly addressed in the local ordinances, such as the building code, zoning ordinance and sub -division ordinance. Once a sub -division map has been filed the first requirement is that within 30 days it must be reviewed by a committee consisting of the Public Works Department, Parks and Rec, Fire Department and Regional Planning who will sit down with the developer and engineer and give him their recommendations based on their^! individual review. Most comprehensive is from Public Works Department. All engineering requirements are reviewed by the Department of Public Works. Mr. Lackner explained that the difference between a zoning case and a sub -division case. In zoning cases the legislative body has more discretion. A sub -division case, the State Map Act provides for many.of the general guidelines. Sub- division creates lot lines, and type of ownership. Mayor Papen asked Council if there were any questions? Councilman Werner asked if there was any reason with the exceptions of the white areas shown on the map that we would consider the D.B. Community Plan not consistent with the requirements for state law. May 9, 1989 May 9, 1989 Mr. Lackner explained that as far as he knew it was consistent with state law. In terms of land use it is consistent. Councilman Werner then asked about the four other elements that are required, does the state allow the use of policies of the County Plan in lieu of going through the exercise of adopting our own. Mr. Lackner advised that we could adopt the safety element only as to how it applies to the community. The one element that is going to be tricky is the housing element. Councilman Werner also asked questions about housing, more specifically affordable for all. Councilman Werner also advised that SCAG updates those plans every 5 years or so. So even if we wanted to update a housing element now we would not have any numbers provided for us ^I by SCAG. Mayor Papen then introduced Mr. Dal Cabell who was Chairman of the Municipal Advisory Planning Advisory Committee to give an update on their report. Mr. Cabell advised that the General Plan had been adopted in 1982 and readopted in 1983. The new committee established priorities in the elements that they could deal with in adopting and amending the Community Plan. Their first priority was in land use and then confined themselves with areas that could and should be added to the City of Diamond Bar as the areas of the "sphere of influence" or direct annexation. They recommend that the City request for a sphere of influence with LAFCO, as these areas are wide open and under _ the new rules, we have no sphere of influence as a new city and we must create it. There are two portions that need to be addressed, commercial and industrial. May 9, 1989 Mr. Cabell then spoke about the circulation element. Critical problem of traffic coming from all the arterial highways that go to and through D.B. They looked at all major highways. A series of motions which were put in amended form of the circulation element of the General Plan. Four areas of priority were: Traffic generated from S.B. County (Chino Hills). Traffic generated from the westside (Industry Valley Blvd area) additional development in and around Diamond Bar and general growth in traffic. Most critical is Tonner Canyon Roadway. Another concern the Committee looked into was signal controls that would need to be installed if Grand Avenue is opened. The committee recommends that mitigation be in place and paid for by San Bernardino County before Grand Avenue is opened. Mayor Papen asked Mr. Cabell if the committee had looked into any other elements beside circulation. Mr. Cabell advised that they looked into housing, but in terms of percentages it was the same as the 1982 plan. It was recommended that the committee look into housing percentage requirements as we begin to think about building out into the northeast section. Would also talk with the people building in the Shell property. Mr. Cabell did not feel that there was a threat in regards to the Firestone Camp area since this is a dedicated trust property. The new committee should look into these areas of building in a timely basis. Mr. Horcher asked Mr. Cabell if it was safe to say that we will have a 6 figure population. Mr. Cabell advised that yes, we "— would. The Shell property is looking at approximately 1500 dwelling units. All property west of the camp site. Either set for dwelling or commercial use. May 9, 1989 May 9, 1989 Mayor Papen asked Mr. Lackner if there were guidelines regarding notification to the City when projects were being considered out of the City boundaries but within a few miles. Mr. Lackner advised that the County will notify any city or jurisdiction within a mile. Mr. Werner stated there are two large areas not designated and he would like to know if the City of Diamond Bar ran any risk in terms of land use development proposals within the areas? The concept is:would it be proper for the City to establish an interm land use designation for those areas that would reflect existing land use. Mr. Lackner advised that the County General Plan does have land use designations for them. Councilman Werner asked City Attorney if the City needed to adopt the the Community Plan as might be supplemented with the 2 areas discussed as an interm policy, would it allow us the 30 months to develop our own general plan and would it give us some means of guidelines if and when each development proposal comes before Council. Mr. Arczynski advised that is what we have at this time. Mr. Werner reiterated that by adopting all the County Ordinances we more or less adopted those as interm land use designations. Can we amend those interm land use designations before we adopt a complete General Plan? Mr. Arczynski advised that it was possible. Mr. Caswell asked Mr. Lackner to let Council know what exactly those two areas in question are designated for. May 9, 1989 Mayor Papen asked Mr. Lackner to also advise Council on the percentage of housing in each category. Mayor Papen then introduced Mr. Koffi Sefa, who is an urban land economist who has developed an interim growth management plan for the City of Diamond Bar. Mr. Sefa discussed his proposal with Council. Mr. Sefa also discussed the fiscal impact of all the various elements. Two elements that could also be added were urban design and economic development. These elements were included because of the direct relationship they had to the other 7 elements. Mr. Sefa recommended that Ordinances should be enacted that would limit certain kinds of developments that are undesirable. Mr. Sefa went on to explain there are two kinds of ordinances, urgency or emergency ordinance which could be formulated without going through the long term process, and then the regular ICO (Interim Control Ordinance). He feels that we could benefit from the ICO. Mr. Sefa thanked Council for allowing him to speak with the Council and offered to help in anyway possible. Mayor Papen asked about the 600 acres in the City of Industry redevelopment area and whether Mr. Lackner, Mr. Cabell or Mr. Sefa were aware as to whether or not there were any plans to mitigate the freeway impact? Councilman Miller advised that City of Industry has no thoughts of doing industrial,they know that it is under Diamond Bar zoning, so that particular piece of land is not a concern as far as putting in major industrial. May 9, 1989 May 9, 1989 Mayor Papen opened discussion up to the audience. Joe McManus, 23561 Coyote Springs Drive. He asked to clarify if in fact when there is talk of adopting the General Plan if it also meant adopting the amendments that were discussed or as it was written in 1983 or the plan in 1988. Both Councilman Werner and Miller advised that Council has to create the plan. Mr. McManus advised that there were some mitigation measures on specific things discussed such as signalization, if adopted would it be adopted with the amendments? Mayor Papen advised that Council would take a look into it and possibly insert it. Councilman Miller advised Mr. -- McManus that all data would be looked at and considered. Sunny Martindale 1333 Rapidview Dr. She wanted to know where the boundaries of the 600 acres that had been discussed? Council advised that it was in between little league field goes around Honda dealership, backing up to Valley Blvd. She asked if it would impact Brea Canyon Road and Grand going through Diamond Bar Blvd. Mayor Papen advised that Golden Springs will be significantly impacted because maps show Sunset Crossing opening up to Grand Ave. Mr. Sefa advised that it would pay a city to do a cost analysis of all the services that are being provided and then identify what type of General funds should be utilized. May 9, 1989 Councilman Miller advised the audience that the City would not subsidize any development in the City of Diamond Bar ^, and that the costs would be paid by the developer. Mayor Papen then asked the Councilmembers what direction they wanted to take. Mayor Papen recommended that each Councilmember put together a list of people to serve on the planning committee. It was decided by concensus that each Councilmember nominate 6 people to serve on the planning committee. Mayor Papen advised the audience that if anyone was interested in being on the planning committee to send letter to City Hall and with what area or areas you are interested in. Mayor Papen then asked Council if a City Planner or a firm should be hired to work with the group to develop the General Plan. Councilman Miller recommended that before a Planner is hired that the hiring of the City Manager should come first since he should have quite a bit of influence in the hiring of a City Planner. Councilman Werner said that he would like to keep things flexible. That even though Mr. Sefa mentioned 3 optional elements, there aren't any limits in the General Plan. Mayor Papen felt that it was appropriate that a letter be sent to both LAFCO and Regional Planning that it is anticipated that the area in question would be in our sphere of influence and that we would like to be kept up to date with any projects within the future sphere of influence and even though we are to be notified she would like it in writing. May 9, 1989 May 9, 1989 Mr. Caswell advised that he would send letters to both LAFCO and i Regional Planning. Councilman Werner went on to suggest that this issue be taken up with the Planning Sub -Committee so they can put the application together to be recommended to the City Council as a group. Secondly, to request planning staff to provide definition of Land Use from the County to the local designations that are white on the map and make sure they reflect existing land uses. Thirdly, Mr. Werner liked the fiscal Impact analysis from Mr. Sefa. That the City get the best information available from the developer which would also include a fiscal impact analysis which he felt would not have to be done by an interim zoning ordinance. Horcher asked Mr. Sefa if he in fact had a specific game plan --� in mind for the City of Diamond Bar? 'i Mr. Sefa advised we need to do a data base analysis, and looking at our strengths. Councilman Horcher asked all things being equal what does the City want? Mr. Sefa replied that the city wants to be economically viable. We want retail, because of the revenue. Mayor Papen asked the audience if there was anything urgent that anyone in the audience wished to discuss. Mr. Al Rumpilla 23958 Golden Springs. Mrs. Mayor, at your last meeting according to your agenda and according to the way the meeting was handled the public did not have a chance to participate. Tonight, I see that that has been corrected. My question to the City Council is next Tuesday's meeting are you going to follow last Tuesday's agenda or continue with the way you did tonight, which is very acceptable. May 9, 1989 Mayor Papen explained that this was a study session, so it was opened up for questions and answers. The procedure at any council meeting is that there are slips on the back table to be filled out and what item number you wish to discuss. The procedure will be this way for City Council meetings. Rumpilla - If a citizen comes in during the meeting with no desire to address council, then an item comes up and he wishes to ask a question? Will the citizen have the opportunity to fill out a sheet of paper and address the council and then be called upon. Mayor Papen time allowing "yes" that citizen would be called upon. Councilman Miller reiterated that the whole point is for organized discussion. I� Rumpilla - "I don't want to beat a dead horse", the agenda was acceptable. But Council did not stay with the agenda. Mr. Philip Duarte 1340 Red Bluff gave update on South Pointe School and problem with boundary. It appears that Arciero is acting on behalf of the school district. City Attorney Arczynski adjourned meeting to Executive session to discuss County of S.B. v. Whole World. No action will be taken. Also personnel matters will be taken under advisement. Adjourned at 9:00 P.M. R pectfuul�ly Submitted, 6 -- Tommye A. Nice I Secretary ATTEST: 4/�7" Phyllis Papen Mayor