MINUTES

Linda Vista Community Planning Committee

February 23, 2004

ATTENDANCE

Members Present	Members Absent	Staff Present
Wayne Bamford	Don Ballantyne	Kevin Smith – Councilmember Donna Frye’s Office
Doug Beckham	Gail Cole	Maureen Ostrye – Community Redevelopment Agency
Rick Bussell	Greg Edwards	Captain Bruce Peffercorn – SDPD Western Division
Jo-Ann Carini	Ester McNulty	Officer Deborah Borders - SDPD Western Division
Ed Cramer	Janis Richmond	Marco Camacho, City of San Diego
Grover Diemert	Liliani Stiffler
Sandy Duncan	Xiongh Thao
Roy Hughes
Rob Spahitz
Gary Stang
Ron Tomcek
Don Wetzel

CALL TO ORDER

Chairperson Ed Cramer called the meeting to order at 7:06 p.m.
Presentation of Colors and Pledge of Allegiance was performed by the Kearny Mesa High School Army Junior ROTC Color Guard Unit
Roll call was conducted by acting Secretary Rick Bussell. There was a quorum consisting of 12 members.

STAFF REPORTS

Kevin reported that the tree planting by the Urban Corps was a big success. They planted 27 ficus trees and mulch. And, Gary Stang at Skateworld has agreed to water the trees. Council Day for Councilmember Frye is Friday the 27^th, but she is all booked up. He also encouraged the community to provide input to Donna regarding budget issues.
Maureen provided handouts and status reports and indicated that things were moving slowly.
Don Wetzel asked Kevin to keep the committee up to date regarding any local property that the city could potentially consider for sale to pay off city debt. Chair agreed to send any information available to the committee.

PUBLIC COMMENT

Deborah Berger, Candidate for City Attorney made a statement and took questions from the community.
Steve Quinn and Eric Luna gave an update on the Fashion Walk Project. The project will be a 5-story complex on approximately 1.8 acres. The mitigation is done according to staff recommendations and they plan to go to the Planning Commission on March 11^th.
Don Wetzel asked for volunteers to help with flags on holidays
Sandy Duncan reported that the community cleanup on February 17^th collected 32 Ľ tons. Jo Ann Carini reported that the project has collected a total of over 900 tons since October of 1995.

MAIN PRESENTATIONS

San Diego Gas and Electric Lay Down Yard and Sub Station Remodeling Update. Patrick O’Neil of Sempra Energy provided a short update on the plans for the update. The current plan calls for block on some of the exterior but not all. There was some discussion about why there was not block all the way around. The reasons appeared to be cost related.

Public Facilities Finance Plan Vote. Marco Camacho reported that the draft plan was completed by the sub committee on February 13^th and the priorities established. This was the result of 16 months of work.

Chair indicated that the goal was to focus on the gateways into the community (i.e. Genesee and Napa).

Motion to approve the priority list was made by Wayne, seconded by Ron. Vote was unanimous 12 YAY, 0 NAY.

Riley Street Condo Conversion. Jose Semper presented his plan to convert his 6 unit property located at 5763 Riley Street (at Colusa). Motion to approve was made by Wayne, seconded by Doug. Vote was unanimous 12 YAY, 0 NAY.

Mildred Street Garden Terraces. Postponed.

Piling replacement for Morley Street Park. Postponed.

Chair brought up issue about the restriction on big box stores raised by Dave Potter Chair of the Community Planning Committees. Chair requested the feelings of committee on how to vote on this issue. After some discussion, there was a motion by Don to put the item on the agenda. It was seconded by Gary and was approved 11 YAY, 1 NAY. There was continuing discussion and then a motion to approve the position as stated in the letter from Dave Potter. The motion was made by Wayne and seconded by Doug.

The motion was approved 11 YAY, 1 NAY.

Ron mentioned that the elections were coming up at the March meeting. He gave chair a copy of the list of census tracts whose representatives are up for re-election. The following census tract representatives are up for re-election:

Rob Spahitz in census tract 86
Greg Edwards, Janis Richmond, and Ron Tomcek in census tract 89.01
Grover Diemert, Don Wetzel and Xiongh Thao in census tract 90
Wayne Bamford in census tract 91.05

UNFINISHED BUSINESS (sub committee reports)

Wayne reported that all is well at USD.
Doug reported that there was no activity in the traffic sub committee, but that the Goshen and Glidden lights are on the list.
Jo Ann reported that the LMAD was “keeping it green” and open for suggestions.
No report on North Bay
Rick reported that the main issue at the upcoming Mission Bay Park meeting was scheduled to be the alcohol ban at Fanuel Street Park.
Wayne reported that the Morena Vista project was to begin offsite work soon.
COMPACT needs a new representative.
Don reported that the Open Space Canyon Advisory Committee was getting into the wastewater issue. There are some pilot programs in place to evaluate erosion control.There is also a plan to relocate some pumps.
Rob reported that the Tecolote Nature Center Expansion is now running a little late and is scheduled to finish between June and August.
Jo Ann reported that the committee collected $14.00 in donations at the meeting.

Someone made a motion and second to adjourn and the meeting was adjourned at 8:58 p.m.

Respectfully Submitted,

Rick Bussell, Acting Secretary