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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1996-04-17 Packet - Special CITY OF UKIAH CITY COUNCIL AGENDA Special Meeting COUNCIL INTERVIEWS OF PLANNING COMMISSION APPLICANTS April 17, 1996 4:00 p.m. The City Council convened at 4:12 p.m., in a special meeting, of which the agenda was legally noticed and posted, in the Ukiah Civic Center Council Chambers, 300 Seminary Drive, Ukiah, California. Roll was taken and the following Councilmembers were present: Mastin, Wattenburger, and Vice Mayor Shoemaker. Councilmember Malone joined the meeting at 4:45 p.m. Mayor Schneiter was absent. Staff present: Melody Harris, Planning Administrative Secretary, Assistant City Manager Harris, Planning Director Sawyer, and City Manager Horsley. 2. AUDIENCE COMMENTS ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS None. NEW BUSINESS 3a. Council Interviews of Planning Commission Applicants Council proceeded with the interview of Mike Brown at 4:15 p.m. Council concluded their interview of Mike Brown at 4:43 p.m. Council proceeded with the interview of Mike Correll at 4:45 p.m. Council concluded their interview of Mr. Correll at 5:12 p.m. Staff advised Council of Mr. Derek Fridley's canceled appointment for 5:15 p.m., and indicated he would be willing to reschedule. Council proceeded with the interview of Brian Carter at 5:15 p.m. Council concluded their interview of Mr. Carter at 5:43 p.m. 4. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 5:45 p.m. CCMIN.227 Melody Harris, Planning Secretary Special Mtg. April 17, 1996 Page 1 CITY OF UKIAH CITY COUNCIL AGENDA Special Meeting COUNCIL INTERVIEWS OF PLANNING COMMISSION APPLICANTS CIVIC CENTER CONFERENCE ROOM 3 300 Seminary Avenue Ukiah, CA 95482 April 17, 1996 4:00 p.m. . . . Roll Call AUDIENCE COMMENTS ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS The City Council welcomes input from the audience. If there is an item of business on the agenda that you are interested in, you may address the Council when this matter is considered. If you wish to speak on a matter that is not on this agenda, you may do so at this time. In order for everyone to be heard, please limit your comments to three (3) minutes per person and not more than ten (10) minutes per subject. The Brown Act regulations do not allow action to be taken on audience comments in which the subject is not listed on the agenda. 3. NEW BUSINESS a. Council Interviews of Planning Commission Applicants 4:15 p.m. - Mike Brown 4:45 p.m. - Mike Correll 5:15 p.m. - Derek Fridley 5:45 p.m. - Brian Carter ADJOURNMENT The City of Ukiah complies with ADA requirements and will attempt to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities upon request. CITY OF UKIAH APPLICATION FOR PLANNING COMMISSION Date . April 8, 1,996 I am applying for an appointment to the City of Ukiah's Planning.Commission. 1. Name M~chael W..Brown 2. Residence Address ~ql ~nrf. h p~rn~.~ 3. Business Address ~. 90Q .Talmage Road, Ukiah 4. Employer Parnum Paving & Redi-Mix Job Title Manager Res. Phone 463-6Q7Q Bus. Phone 462-4474 Employed Since 1974 5. How long have you resided in Ukiah? 2 years; Mendocino County 44 years 6. Please list community groups or organizations you are affiliated with and indicate any offices held Vice President, Ukiah Rod & Gun Club Please answer the following questions on separate sheets of paper and attach. 7. Why are you applying to serve on the .City of Ukiah's Planning Commission? 8. What is your understanding of the purpose, role and responsibility of the Planning Commission? 9. What is, or should be the relationship between the City's Planning Commission and the City Council, and between the Commission and Staff? 10. How do you believe your own skills, experience, expertise and perspective will be beneficial to the work of the Planning Commission? 11. What do you believe is the most important land use related issue presently facing our community? 12. As a member of the Planning Commission, how would you attempt to address this priority issue? 13. In your opinion what type or types of growth, if any, should the City encourage? 14. In your opinion, what type or types of growth should the City discourage? - 15. Are there any changes to the City's current planning review process that you would like to see implemented? 16. What kind of ideal community do you envision for Ukiah? Please return this application and attachments to the City Clerk by Noon on April 10, 1996. r , To help keep Ukiah in the top ten cities nationwide, as well as an environmentally clean and productive city. . . To keep the city in balance both economically and environmentally. All parties must maintain an open and close relationship to help keep an environmentally and clean and productive city. 10. I have lived in the Ukiah area for 46 years and have worked in the construction industry for 22 years. As manager of Parnum Redi-Mix, I am very aware of both environmental and growth issues our city is faced with. 11. Redwood Business Park 12. Pursue types of businesses that would benefit our sales tax revenue and create jobs in our community. 13. Small. business/industry and housing. 14. Environmentally unsafe types of businesses. 15. Not at this time 16. A community where my children and their children can live a clean, healthy and productive life. CITY OF UKIAH APPLICATION FOR PLANNING COMMISSION I am applying for an appointment to the City of Ukiah's Planning Commission. 1. Name ~~ ~m i~r~// 2. Residence Address ~~ ~/ ~//~/~ ~f- //~'/,.~/~ Res. Phone~K~Y 3. Business Address /~ ~~/5~ ~ ~/~/~ Bus. Phone~ 4. Employer~~<~ ~// Job Title.~.i~..,J ~i-~-~,~ Employed Since /'~~ 5. How long have you resided in Ukiah? ~ years; Mendocino County /~ years 6. Please list community groups or organizations you are affiliated with and indicate any offices held .~?_~;c~;~. z-z~/,~"' ~.'~ -~-~,,~.'~ Please answer the following questions on separate sheets of paper and attach. 7. Why are you applying to serve on the City of Ukiah's Planning Commission? 8. What is your understanding of the purpose, role and responsibility of the Planning Commission? 9. What is, or should be the relationship between the City's Planning Commission and the City Council, and between the Commission and Staff? 10. How do you believe your own skills, experience, expertise and perspective will be beneficial to the work of the Planning Commission? 11. What do you believe is the most important land use related issue presently facing our community? 12. As a member of the Planning Commission, how would you attempt to address this priority issue? 13. In your opinion what type or types of growth, if any, should the City encourage? 14. In your opinion, what type or types of growth should the City discourage? 15. Are there any changes to the City's current planning review process that you would like to see implemented? 16. What kind of ideal community do you envision for Ukiah? Please return this application and attachments to the City Clerk by Noon on April 10, 1996. dut-,'es. ne~ de~e. top~-t~ oor I0. Pr~ o.- Gensc / be.. ~s"L. / 6h~a id b c ~ s~uraqt'~ ~shops clrc, J process longer before ~hc p l~ao i ~ a~ op;oion r cl~e. q'o J , u e ;'n/ / :n -Civ._ u ^ , ' h r~ ~Sf, dcs, .'X i co~,,,fv CITY OF UKIAH APPLICATION FOR PLANNING COMMISSION I am applying for an appointment to the City of Ukiah's Planning Commission. 2. Residence Address ~C'~7 jC/~-~./~.Tc~/ ,/~,/~.~_ Res. Phone ~/~-2~,'¢73' 3. Business Address ~d~-~ /~..%~.z~rd.,~.~?.~.,~./~:_ ~/~-~ Bus. Phone '._~7_(:.9~-7g'O 4. Employer ~' ~ Job Title/~/3~*?,SF~~ Employed Since '~ ~'~ 5. How long have you resided in Ukiah? ~ years; Mendocino County ~ years 6. Please list community groups or organizations you are affiliated with and indicate any offices held /%f~/~ Please answer the following questions on separate sheets of paper and attach. 7. Why are you applying to serve on the City of ukiah's Planning Commission? 8. What is your understanding of the purpose, role and responsibility of the Planning Commission? 9. What is, or should be the relationship between the City's Planning Commission and the City Council, and between the Commission and Staff? 10. How do you believe your own skills, experience, expertise and perspective will be beneficial to the work of the Planning Commission? 11. What do you believe is the most important land use related issue presently facing our community? 12. As a member of the Planning Commission, how would you attempt to address this priority issue? 13. In your opinion what type or types of growth, if any, should the City encourage? 14. In your opinion, what type or types of growth should the City discourage? 15. Are there any changes to the City's current planning review process that you would like to see implemented? 16. What kind of ideal community do you envision for Ukiah? Please return this application and attachments to the City Clerk by Noon on April 10, 1996. Derek Fridley 807 Walnut Ave. Ukiah, CA 95482 Application For Planning Commission Addendum 7) I am applying to serve as planning commission member because I care about the future of the City of Ukiah, and feel that I have a proper combination of education and experience to become a useful and effective member of the planning commission. 8) The planning commission is responsible for city planning decisions; it works with staff members who provide recommendations and data for the basis of informed planning decisions. 9) The City Council appoints the planning commission members and oversees planning staff members, who work as a liaison for the City Council and Planning commission. 10) I have a BA degree from Sonoma State University in Management Studies with a minor in Environmental Studies and Planning. I have a JD law degree from Empire Law School and am a member of the California State Bar (inactive). I am a Certified General California Real Estate Appraiser (AG0019270). I am a graduate of Ukiah High School and have had a long standing interest in the community. 11) The most important land use issue in our community is that of maintaining the quality of environment with the limited resources available to the municipality. These include air quality measures that recognize the Ukiah Valleys susceptibility to inversion layers, water quality measures that recognize the riparian environments and flood plain issues, and balancing competing interests of environmental and business groups. 12) As a member of the Planning Commission, I would be sensitive to staff recommendations regarding environmental concerns, and support the commissions efforts to balance the interests of landowners with the quality of the local environment. 13)The city should encourage growth which meets the societal needs of its diverse inhabitants; but only with attention to the provision of proper infrastructure components. the infrastructure needs cannot be satisfied, the growth should be postponed. In addition, alternatives to traditional infrastructure items like bike pathways should be planned for. If 14) The city needs to discourage growth that will significantly impact the quality of environment. This is particularly important for Ukiah as opposed to a city like Santa Rosa due to the size and shape of the Ukiah Valley. Air quality issues are more important here because inversion layers tend to trap contaminants in the valley and not disburse them as readily as the Santa Rosa plains do. Runoff concerns can be crucial to hillside projects in this area. Many other land use issues are affected by the physical and environmental characteristics unique to the Ukiah area. CITY OF UKIAH APPLICATION FOR PLANNING COMMISSION Date .... · ~ .,~ ~ .... I am applying for an appointment to the City of Ukiah's Planning_ commission. 1. Name ~.~'FiJ~l ~'~. C'~?C~'~'- 2. Residence Address //z(~ ,~,~ ~' ~_ J j~,~ _~ - '~ ~'~-% {~ ~V ~ Res. Phone ~ -~ '~' {'~ 3. Business Address /~? ~a~ ~., ~ ~OO ~ Bus. Phone ~.~ -6~ f'~ Employer ~(~,~~,~c~tJ- Job Title ~o~ Employed Since (~/~%~ 4. 5. How long have you resided in Ukiah? l/ years; Mendocino County L~' years 6. Please list community groups or organizations you are affiliated with and indicate any offices held ~~, C-~ ~k~. ~{~ ~~.o~ Please answer the following questions on separate sheets of paper and attach. 7. Why are you applying to serve on the City of Ukiah's Planning Commission? 8. What is your understanding of the purpose, role and responsibility of the Planning Commission? 9. What is, or should be the relationship between the City's Planning Commission and the City Council, and between the Commission and Staff? 10. How do you believe your own skills, experience, expertise and perspective will be beneficial to the work of the Planning Commission? 11. What do you believe is the most important land use related issue presently facing our community? 12. As a member of the Planning Commission, how would you attempt to address this priority issue? 13. In your opinion what type or types of growth, if any, should the City encourage? 14. In your opinion, what type or types of growth should the City discourage? 15. Are there any changes to the City's current planning review process that you would like to see implemented? 16. What kind of ideal community do you envision for Ukiah? Please return this application and attachments to the City Clerk by Noon on April 10, 1996. Attachment to Application For Planning Commission 7. I would like to serve on the Planning Commission because it will allow me to give something back to my community, and because it will be a valuable experience for me. I am an attorney here in town, and my practice often involves real estate. While I do not have much experience as a "planner", I hope my training and experience will enable me to contribute in some small way to the quality of the commission's deliberations and decision making. I think serving on the Commission will also be a valuable experience for me personally. It will give me extensive, first hand experience with land-use planning in Ukiah, which will make me a better, more knowledgeable lawyer. It will also allow me to meet and work with many members of the local government and business community, which will help me in my practice as well as in my efforts to get to know more people in town (having been away from Ukiah from 1978 to 1994). 8. My understanding is that the Planning Commission is the first agency to hold a hearing on and render a decision on a variety of proposed changes in the use of real property in the Ukiah city limits. I understand that the Commission's responsibility is to conduct fair and thorough hearings, to ensure the compatibility of proposed uses with existing land use laws/regulations/criteria, and to exercise sound discretion in deciding whether to approve proposals. 9. I understand that the City Council can overrule any Commission decision that is appealed to the Council. However, I understand that good decisions by the Commission tend to reduce the workload on the Council by reducing the number of appeals to the Council and by reducing the issues that the Council must address. The Commission should therefore assist the Council by essentially "screening" the proposal that the Council must review. I am not familiar with the relationship between the Commission and Staff. However, I would assume that the City and/or Commission employs full-time, permanent planners that have expertise in city and land use planning and who render advice and guidance on applications. I therefore assume that the Commission members review and carefully consider the opinions of Staff in connection with any application, and utilize those opinions in determining whether to approve a given proposal/application. 10. I have worked as an attorney in Ukiah for the last year, having clerked for a judge for one year (1988-89) and having practiced law in the private sector for almost seven years (1989-94 in Los Angeles and Orange County). My practice has consistently included real estate litigation or transactions, so I am familiar with certain, but far from all, areas of the law of California real estate. I believe my knowledge and experience will help me identify and understand certain issues and problems presented by many applications. I also believe that I am fair and reasonable, have reasonably good analytical skills, and am able to calmly and objectively discuss/analyze disputed matters. I hope that these skills will help me be a productive member of the Commission by promoting full discussion and fostering applicants' impression of having received a fair hearing and a good decision. My perspective is essentially "centrist": I have spent several years out of Ukiah and I appreciate the high quality of life available in Ukiah. At the same time, I also appreciate an individual's right to do with his or her own property whatever he or she wants to, as long as the proposed use does not cause unreasonable damage or harm to others. I believe that my centrist perspective will be beneficial to the Commission in that I believe it reflects the views of many Ukiah residents. 11. I would suspect that a shortage of good housing is the number one land-use issue in Ukiah today, though I cannot say this with much certainty. 12. If I am appointed to the Planning Commission, I will not have a specific agenda other than to fairly apply existing law and/or criteria, and to exercise my best judgment, in passing on all issues submitted to the Commission. I am confident that private landowners and businessmen and women will respond to shortages and/or disequilibriums in the Ukiah economy by presenting applications designed to alleviate or address them. I would tend to believe that applications which would alleviate high priority land use problems in the community should be approved as long as they are well reasoned and consistent with existing zoning and other criteria. 13. I do not feel I have an adequate basis for an opinion on this subject at this time. It seems to me, however, that the growth of the community should generally be balanced between residential, commercial, industrial and public (parks, etc.) uses, unless there is a significant shortage of one or more. In addition, I generally oppose excessive governmental intervention · ti ti in the marketplace (i e., encouragement of certain uses), because I doubt that government decision-makers make good decisions more often than do private sector, profit-oriented decision makers. I therefore believe that the Commission should "encourage", i.e., want to approve, those proposals that are consistent with good planning and seek to alleviate shortages or imbalances in local land use patterns. However, I do not think the Commission should waive normal standards or requirements for the approval of such applications just because they are currently in favor, as this might lead to an excess of certain uses that turn out in the long run to be undesirable or counterproductive. 14. My answer to this question is similar to the answer to number 13, as I do not feel qualified to render an opinion at this time and I oppose excessive governmental interference with the private sector. However, I doubt that "low-income" housing is ever a wise object of planners' "encouragement", so this is one type of land use which I would not tend to favor. 15. I am not sufficiently familiar with the City's planning review process to suggest any reforms. 16. I believe Ukiah has already come about as close to being an ideal community as any city I have ever lived in. Ideally, Ukiah will stay relatively small, so we do not have traffic jams, huge housing tracts or bad air pollution. Ideally, Ukiah will be pro-business, so Ukiahns will have plenty of well- paying jobs and enjoy a good standard of living. Ideally, Ukiah will remain relatively crime-free, so we can continue to walk the streets without fear. The ideal Ukiah is not much different from the present Ukiah. The one area in which I would hope to see improvement is in the quality of education available here - I think it would be very beneficial to have a good, four-year university in our area.