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City Council Special Meeting
August 16, 2021 5:00 PM
The City Council of the City of Palo Alto met on this date in virtual teleconference at
5:00 P.M.
Participating Remotely: Burt, Cormack, DuBois, Kou, Stone, Tanaka
Absent: Filseth
Special Orders of the Day
1. Presentation from Valley Water Regarding Drought Conditions.
NO ACTION TAKEN
Study Session
2. 280 & 300 Lambert Avenue (21PLN-00133): Request for Prescreening of a
Proposal by Lambert Fields, LLC to Rezone the Properties at 280 and 300
Lambert Avenue from Service Commercial (CS) to Planned Home Zone (PHZ),
Merge Parcels Into One Parcel, and Develop the Site with a 49-Unit Residential
Development. Environmental Assessment: Not a Project. Zoning District: CS (Service Commercial).
NO ACTION TAKEN
Agenda Changes, Additions and Deletions
Item 6 Closed Session was continued to August 23, 2021 City Council special
meeting.
Oral Communications
None.
Minutes Approval
3. Approval of Action Minutes for the August 9, 2021 City Council Meeting.
ACTION: Continued to August 23, 2021 City Council special meeting.
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Action Minutes: 08/16/2021 Sp. City Council Meeting
The City Council Adjourned for a break at 6:33 pm.
The City Council reconvened the meeting at 6:42 PM.
City Manager Comments
Action Items
4.Finance Committee Recommends the City Council Decline to Adopt the EnergyStorage System Targets; and Receive the 2020 Energy Storage Report.
MOTION: Vice Mayor Burt moved, seconded by Council Member Stone to:
A.Direct Staff to return to the Sustainability and Climate Action Plan (S/CAP)Ad Hoc Committee with a further plan for accelerating the exploration of
expanded energy storage systems and to identify the resources for Staff to
implement; and
B.Decline to adopt energy storage system targets under California Assembly
Bill (AB) 2514 at this time.
MOTION PASSED: 6-0, Filseth absent
5.Approve the Workplan for Development of a Revenue-Generating Local BallotMeasure for the November 2022 General Election; Review and Potential
Guidance to Staff on Affordable Housing Funding as Referred by the City
Council.
MOTION: Council Member Burt moved, seconded by Mayor Dubois to approve
the workplan for the pursuit of a revenue-generating local ballot measure for
the November 2022 General Election with the following focus:
A.The pursuit of a business tax and the preference of square footage as the
basis for such a tax;
B.The pursuit of a utility use-based tax, and explore the option to
incorporate revenue on climate adaptability;
C.Proceed with the refinement of estimates and evaluation of potential taxmeasures—including stakeholder outreach, polling and further feasibility
analysis—and bring forward the budget actions necessary;
D.Review and accept additional information regarding affordable housingfunding mechanisms, and refer to the Policy and Services Committee on
the housing land trust, Jobs Housing Linkage Policy, and particularly withthe CalCHA; and
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Action Minutes: 08/16/2021 Sp. City Council Meeting
E.For the Finance Committee to discuss and recommend to the City Council
the initial polling to inform whether one or more taxes may be feasible on
the 2022 ballot, the support for different uses of revenue, the scale of thetax, the uses and needs informing the scale of tax, and the form of tax, as
indicated in the staff report.
MOTION PASSED: 5-1, Tanaka no, Filseth absent
Closed Session
6.CONFERENCE WITH REAL PROPERTY NEGOTIATORS
Authority: Government Code Section 54956.8
Property: 300 Homer Avenue, Assessor’s Parcel Number 120-17-093Negotiating Party: Palo Alto History Museum
ACTION: Item was continued to August 23, 2021 City Council special meeting.
Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 9:33 P.M.
ATTEST: APPROVED:
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NOTE: Action minutes are prepared in accordance with Palo Alto Municipal Code
(PAMC) 2.04.160(a) and (b). Summary minutes (sense) are prepared in accordance
with PAMC Section 2.04.160(c). Beginning in January 2018, in accordance with Ordinance No. 5423, the City Council found action minutes and the video/audio
recordings of Council proceedings to be the official records of both Council and
committee proceedings. These recordings are available on the City’s website.
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