Minutes of the Linda Vista Planning Committee meeting
February 26, 2007
Linda Vista Public Library
Call to order at 6:10 by Chair Ed Cramer with 45 people in attendance.
Presentation of Colors and pledge allegiance was conducted
Roll call all were present except: Roy Hughes, Rosemary Ortega and Ron Tomcek.
The following government representatives made presentations: Pari Sanati from Donna Frey’s office, Kirsten Clemons introduced her replacement from Lori Saldana’s office, who is Melanie Cohn and Katherine Fortner from Susan Davis’s office.
Brian Schoenfisch, City Planner announced that the community plans for Linda Vista and Clairmont will be amended as agreed upon by council as regards the Mesa College Parking structure and impacts on the South side of Mesa’s campus. Each member will receive the document to review.
Libby Day reported on the Home Improvement Loan Program. Thirty four projects have entered the system as of December 31, 2006. 15 rehabs have been completed, 11 are in assessment phase and 2 are under construction.
Action Item:
University Center Expansion at USD Project # 114292. Expansion will add
55,000 square feet to the Center.
Don Ballantyne made a motion to approve the project. Wayne Bamford seconded the
motion. It passed with 14 yes, 0 no.
Hearing dates for the City’s Annual Action Plan for Housing was presented by the Housing Commission. Hearing for public will be March 22 at 6 pm at 1122 Broadway # 300.
Ed Farley from Linda Vista View announced that deadline to submit articles for next edition is March 9th. Please contact him at 858-569-4200 edfarley@juno.com with news articles
Final Fiesta Island update plan for park development is on line.
Mesa College master plan and parking structure issue: Members can protest decision of City Council by writing to the Community College Chancellor at 1102 Q Street, Sacramento CA 95814-6511 or call 916-445-0752
Metropolitan Wastewater Dept. reported on their plan to keep sewer trunk lines in Tecolote Canyon.
Action Item: 1209 Azusa map waiver Project # 94628.
Motion was made by Don Ballantyne to accept the project contingent on city
approval as submitted. Rich Bussell seconded the motion. 11 members voted in
favor of motion and 3 opposed it.
Action Item: 5648 Lauretta Street # 102781 Variance to allow tandem parking. Don Ballantyne made motion to approve the project. Wayne Bamford seconded the motion. 5 members voted in favor of motion and 9 opposed the motion. It failed.
At this (7:40 pm) time Grover Diemert, Secretary left the meeting. Rob Spahitz accepted task of taking minutes for remainder of meeting
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member Rob Spahitz taking over, Diemert gone (vote counts reduced by 1)
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Item 7631 Linda Vista Road (next to northeast corner at Mesa College Drive) to
demolish 6700 square feet and replace with new businesses, probably fast food
such as Starbucks, Robeks Juice, etc. Requesting a switch from residential
commercial to business commercial. Existing plans to be reduced by city
ordinance requiring tree every 30 feet.
Motion: Subcommittee / Don Ballantyne, second by Sandy Duncan, recommend
approval as submitted. Vote: 12-1 in favor.
Item 5968 Lauretta Steet.
Motion: Subcommittee / Don Ballantyne, second by Rick Bussell, recommend
approval as submitted. Vote: 13-0 in favor.
Item Pacific Highway information item on Storage center expansion one southern building from one-story to 4-story, 42’ with 50’ ornate roof.
Item DIF money from the proposed Uniti project (at the old USD HS plot, across from the main entrance to USD.) When the money becomes available, should it go to developing a joint-use park project with Montgomery Middle School (4th on the Linda Vista CPC Park & Rec project list) or should it be diverted to a Twain School joint-use park project (7th on the priority list)? Discussion included the fact that the Montgomery project will cost more and we may not see money for this project for a long time, but there was lots of concern about how much the community would get to use this since it would be unavailable during school time and school events. It would also only pay for phase I (about $954,000)—mostly turfing and lighting--but not phase II ($317,000)—including picnic tables and water fountains. Discussion also included the fact that the Twain project is near the Uniti project and would be paid for in full and would have limited school use because of the type of students there. A motion to approve the Montgomery project was withdrawn after realizing that not enough information was available to make this decision.
Item Linda Vista Economic Summit. Discussion on the recent summit on how we
can revitalize the community, most of it entailing changing zoning to allow
densification to make it worthwhile for developers to invest here.
Motion: Wayne Bamford, second by Don Ballantyne, to review the community plan to
density. Vote: approved 13-0
Item Morley Park (aka Morley Strip, across from Linda Vista Plaza / Skateworld) Discussion on whether we can transfer this to the city Park & Rec department. Libby Day indicated that this is currently in the redevelopment project and is scheduled to be move to park & rec by 2012. Request was made to move it sooner because of concerns over it being developed before that. Libby indicated that this is unlikely since this is designated in the master plan as park area and would require many levels of reviews before this could happen (including requesting a change to the LV Community Plan, review by LVCPC, and approval by the Planning Committee.)
Item Food Dumping (feeding the birds/health issues) Motion To Table JoAnne Carini, second by Don Ballantyne. Vote: approved unanimously, 13 for 0 against.
Motion to approve minutes. Vote approved unanimously.