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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1982-03-15 City Council Summary Minutes1 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES ITEM Regular Meeting Monday, March 15, 1982 CITY PALO ALTO ORAL COMMUNICATIONS 1 7 6 0 RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING ACCOMPLISHMENT OF 1 7 6 8 PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL MEWS BASKETBALL TEAM RESOLUTION OF APPRECIATION TO ASSEMBLYMAN 1 7 6 9 BYRON D. SHER CONSENT CALENDAR 1 7 6 9 Referral 1 7 6 9 Action 1 7 6 9 REHABILITATION LOAN PROGRAM FOR 1 7 6 9 BELOW -MARKET -RATE RENTAL HOUSING BUDGET AMENDMENT PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION RE APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS OF THE SEA GROUP APPLICATION FOR SITE AND DESIGN REVIEW FOR A PASSIVE SOLAR SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE AT 810 LOS TRANCOS ROAD RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF REIMBURSEMENT UNDER THE DISASTER RELIEF ACT OF 1984 AND .THE PRESIDENT'S DISASTER RELIEF FUND 1 7 7 0 1 7 7 0 AGENDA CHANGES, ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS 1 7 7 0 PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION RE APPLICATION OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO FOR ZONE CHANGE FOR -TWO PARCELS,- APN 120 -16 -30 -FROM PF TO CC AND--APN 129-16-31 FROM C, TO PF AT PARKING LOT E/630- 636 GILMAN- STR.EET.'(CONTINUED FROM 2/22) PUBLIC HEARING: PLANNING COMMISSION AND; ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD RECOMMENDATIONRE APPROVAL -.WITH -CONDITIONS OF - THE APPLICATIO!1 -OF HARRINGTON-KULAKOFF: DEVELOPMENT -COMPANY FOR_ APPROVAL OF A TENTATIVE SUBDIVISION MAR -FOR PROPIRTY LOCATED AT 1327 AND 1335 ALMA _STREET FINANCE AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMI.-TTEE- RECOMMENDATION PROJECT :I4OBILITY 1 7 7 1 1 -7 6 8 ITEM PAGE PROJECT MOBILITY TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT ACT 1 7 7 5 FUNDING FOR FISCAL YEAR 1982-83 BICYCLE BOULEVARD IMPLEMENTATION PLANS 1 7 7 5 OVERNIGHT PARKING AND SEVENTY-TWO HOUR PARKING ISSUE 1 7 7 9 RECOMMENDED OPPOSITION TO SB-1326 (GOVERNOR'S 1 7 83 PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 1982-83) REQUEST OF COUNCILMEMBER LEVY RE RESOLUTION FOR 1 7 8 3 PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS' TENNIS TEAM AND GIRLS SOCCER TEAM ADJOURNMENT 1 7 8 3 1, 7 5 9 3/15/82 Regular Meeting Monday, March 15, 1982 The City Council of the City of Palo Alto met on this . date in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Aveue, at 7:30 p.m. PRESENT: Bechtel, Cobb, Eyerly, Fazzino, Fletcher, Klein, Levy, Renzel , Witherspoon Mayor Eyerly announced that prior to the Regular City Council meeting, the Council had held an Executive Session re Personnel which commenced at 5:30 p.m. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS 1. Dan Gernand, Palo Alto, said that regarding the creek bank erosion on Palo Alta Avenue, it would take about 6,300 sand bays to reinforce the creek. He said that while some of the -larger tree_ s were removed to ease the erosion, much more hel p was needed to clean the bank. He felt a closer watch should be kept of the activities fvr which Palo Alto had allocated money. He commented on a City comparable worth program. 2. Katherine McCleary, -. 610 California Avenue, said she had lived in Palo Alto for Al years afod was , concerned .about the di s- pl acement problem in Palo Alto. She said long time Palo Alto residents were being forced, because of high rents, to move to. another place. She said she was a working, self-supporting, single parent and the house she lived in was up for sale and possible demolition. She said the house she lived in was built in 1893 and had been a. source of housing to her at a moderate rent for six years. As she looked at the available housing in Palo Alto, she was terri fi ee. She spoke on behalf of many single parents who worked for Moderately paid posi- tions who were caught in a housing price crisis. She said the price of housing could not be mitigated except by doubling up and putting two households under one ''roof, which she was doing. She talked about a woman in Palo Alto who had three children and worked seven days a week as a blood lab worker at Stanford and in San Jose. The woman rented a three.bedroom house -and all of her children lived in one bedroom and she lived in another, and she rented the third bedroom out to stu- dents so that .she could survi ve. She spoke of a similar situation and said it was also the Council's problem to work toward a solution. 3. Frank Manfredi , 219 Addison, . Palo Alto, said that five years ago he spoke before the Council and had said the United States was headed for American Fascism and it happened. ' He thought it was time that the people took a stand against the Fasci sts because the society was becoming Fascist and there was nothing left but a few dollars. Regarding the municipal insurance program and the fact that insurance agents had spoken and said the program would put them out of business, he did not think there was an honest insurance salesperson alive, and that the enormous jump in insurance premiums was due to greed for profit and not inflation. 4. Camp Fire- Group Presentation re 77th Birthday Observance' of the Camp Fire Group. A. poem was presented to Mayor .Eyerly. 1 7 6 0 3.115182 Mayor Eyerly announced that Counci lmember Larry Klein had been selected the new Chairman of the City/School Liaison Committee. President Kennedy of -Stanford University said that the Stanford University officials were delighted to be at the City Council meeting. He commented that this meeting was the third that he and his colleagues had attended and he felt safe that the attendance was now a Palo Alto tradition. He said that the- City of Palo Alto ,and Stanford had a number of mechanisms of cooperation and consul- t ati on which worked well, but this one. served the added purpose of offering a public airing of matters of mutual concern. He said some matters were agreed upon and some had differences, but there was no issue which could not be discussed in the knowledge that differences could be resolved between parties which had so much to offerone another. He said he was proud of the University and the accomplishments of the many people associated -with it. Stanford's presence in the mid Peninsula was the single largest contributor to the development of a quality of life that made this particular suburban area superior to almost any other in the country. He said the presence of Stanford and its people was so pervasive }Feat it no longer seemed remarkable that its art gallery, museum, audi- toriums, and athletic facilities were a very important community resource. Last year there were 1200 events on the campus which .were open to the public, and the outreach program of the lively arts at Stanford sent visiting arti sts - to perform 103 times at local schools, senior citizen centers, civic groups and the like. He said, that Stanford Hospital remained the community hospital for Palo Alto residents and was a magnificent resource for a city of 50,000 people. He added that the- hospital had serious moderniza- tion needs, which Stanford hoped to address through an ambitious program already being discussed with the community. He said that the hospital made significant progress in healing, improving the relationship between the faculty and the community physicians, and in improving the financial position of the hospital and medical center in order to prepare for a significant effort hoped to be a strong benefit to the community as well as to the University. President Kennedy commented that many faculty and staff had held important positions in the civic arena, had served on local com- mittees, worked in charitable activities and neighborhood associa- tions. He said that the highly regarded paramedics program was started by a Stanford doctor, and nearly 350 Stanford students took. - part An over 250 nonprofit community groups through the Action Research Liaison Program. He c+nimented on the prosperity enjoyed in Palo Alto and the area based, in large part, on a large and stable Stanford work force and an extraordinary collection of businesses attracted to the area by Stanford's program. Palo Alto was -An extraordinarily attractive community because its schools, libraries, parks . and excellent City services had hel ped to attract faculty to Stanford. He said many faculty and staff chose to live in Palo Alto and he -trusted that iwoUld always be the case, He said his own family lived in Palo Alto for 17 years until a recent job change made it almost imperative that he move tot -the campus-. He commented that Mr. Rosenzweig had ' voted in local elections for almost.20 yea -s. Pr:es-i dent Kennedy said he thought- it was odd that all the cross running benefits, and intertwining of ,objectives and needs did not always add up to smooth sai.i i.ng. He said that the dark side of prosperity was always seen most cl earl y'.by those' who were already there, : and there was the threatening reality Of growth and change. He said that if the University, was doing _its jib, it was never at rest -faculty was always pressing in new directions, and programs changed. The University's aspirations were.- high because the horizons of knowledge were literally bound.le.ss. He said -that as a consequence, it would be St anfor.d's habit to ' push against - the status quo. People in institutions who behaved like that Were apt to_ .be viewed -with —suspicion no matter how much they were admired by those whose- comfort was.` threatened. He said Stanford tried hard to alleviate those worries by keeping the City as current about its ,plans as they were. President Kennedy commented -that the City had received early and complete briefings on the .hospital modernization program and on Stanford's housing plan. He said Stanford would continue to try and anticipate issues that might affect the City of Palo Alto, and to try to bring the City in as soon as possible. He said there had been occasions on which Stanford had felt abused by the City. The failure of the Sand Hill, aka Willow Road Project was one occa- sion, and. the action of the Council with respect to the Quarry Road parcel produtted some anger and resentment on the Stanford side of El Camino. He said Palo Alto and Stanford could not always avoid bruising one another, but he hoped they could avoid going out of their way to do it. As he looked around the country and spoke with his counterparts at other universities, he con- cluded that - Stanford and Palo . Alto got along as well as any university and its community and better than most. President Kennedy said that the larger issue was housing and would be for some_ time into the future, and Stanford hoped to provide a great deal of it. He sa,i d the issues were familiar --how much housing should there_ be; where should it_be.located; who should be eligible t� live in it; who should decide who was eligible to live in it. He said tonight was -not the occasion to debate or decide those matters. H.e said a good deal more, discussion and study was needed before they could be confident that all the feasible alter- natives had been considered. He promised that those who reprea sented Stanford would be listening very hard to the positions put forth by the City's representatives and would be especially atten- tive to the City's purposes, to the objectives of policy. He also pledged that Stanford would make an honest effort to find ways to meet the City's purposes. In return, he asked that Stanford be met with an open mind, with a willingness to be persuaded that there was more than one way to accomplish almost' any objective, and that it was the objective --not the means of achieving it --to which Stanford and the City should be primarily committed. He thought that with those mutual assurances, he was certain Stanford and the City would produce a result in which they could all take pride. Presi dent Kennedy introduced Bill Massey, Vice Presi dent for Business and Finance; -Bob Rosenzweig, Vice President for Public Affairs; and Larry Crowley., Vice President for Medical Affairs.. Counci lmember Fazzi no._ thanked..Presi dent Kennedy and said he was intrigued by the comments about the hospital modernization. He asked what specific plans Stanford had. . Presi dent Kennedy responded that the most important thing to keep in mind ' was that the modernization plan was being undertaken not to increase the number of beds in the hospital, but to increase the quality and efficiency and range of services which could be offered given the number of beds. He said that among all major teaching hospitals in the United States, Stanford 'was on the very low side of the square footage per bed. Further, Stanford had some inefficiencies which had accumulated in ,the arrangements of space, and the modernization program wit _desi fined to rebalance to eliminate the bottle necks and, make more space per bed available as well as to improve efficiency. He said the problem was not unique. to Stanford, it wasone that eyer,y teaching hospital as old as Stanford . experienced, and one major _university medical center after another in the United States, soderni zati on plans were being programmed to accommodate the profound technological changes which occurred in the development and delivery of the highest technical care such as that practiced in a hospital like Stanford. Mr. Crowley commented that Stanford planned to increase the physi_- cal size of the hospital by adding a wing which would contain a new pediatric unit, an raperati ng .suite, and some intensive care beds as ,well as to modernize some of the existing facilities to correct the deficiencies addressed by President Kennedy. He thought the goal was to be certain that_ Stanford University Hospital remained as a. premiere community hospital, as well as a major regional referral center _in the 1990-'s and 21st century, as it had in the last 15 to 20 years. Further, he said that the technological revolution that occurred in the delivery of medical care had gotten by Stanford's ability to keep up. For example, when Stanford Hospital was originally ripened, it did not- have any intensive. care units; and now, a significant -portion of i n- hospital care takes place in the intensive care units. He said that except for -one unit, none of Stanford's intensive -care units were very modern and that would be a major thrust of the project. Councilmember Fazzino asked if the present plan would be solely financed by Stanford. Mr., Crowley responded that the present plans were that the project would be financed by a combination of hospital reserves which were being developed for that purpose; a revenue bond offer of approxi- mately $70 to $80 million; and a community -wide fund raising campaign. Counci m ember Fazzino said . that duri ng the recent campaign of which, he was a participant, much discussion centered around the issue of Stanford West and the general issue of housing on the campus and the periphery. He said one concern always raised was about the possibility of locating housing --not only for students --but al so for faculty and staff --in the central part of the campus. He said the matter had been discussed before, but he never had a clear indicat on of the possibilities for the location of faculty, staff or other housing within the central core of the. campus, as opposed to the periphery of Stanford North, Stanford West, or whatever. Presi dent Kennedy responded that Stanford had already used a sub- stantial amount of the central core of the campus for faculty housing with some senior staff eligibility and Stanford was in the midst of building an 800 -bed new students residential complex. He said some sites had been identified to serve for small amounts of additional housing in the existing, or on the fringe of, the faculty housing area. He' said that to get the amounts of housing necessary, and to be located in proximity to the kinds of services those sorts of housing units required, suggested a , somewhat more peripheral location. Mr. Massey said that Stanford had a Land Use Plan prepared about 1a1/2 years ago, which outlined all the possible sites and indicated Stanford's plans with respect to them. He said the flat lands, which were not now occupied but which were adj scent to the campus core,, were held as academic reserves, except for those identified for student housing. As space was needed for programs, no huge expansion was in mind, but history had shown that. Stanford had things which continued, which were required if Stanford was to continue to . maintain the "leading edge postur;e," mentioned by President Kennedy., He said Stanford needed the flat space closest 1 1 i i 1 to the existing classrooms and offices for academic building. He said it made sense to locate housing --other than housing for students and faculty --slightly further out. If both peripheral areas and the closer -in sites with housing were covered, the only expansion path for academic programs would be westerly past Juni pero Serra. He said Stanford preferred to fill in the area closest- to the university before that happened. Vice Mayor Bechtel said that Dr. Crowley had mentioned the Stanford Hospital modernization, and she asked him if he could estimate when Stanford would go before the City. She was also concerned about whether the modernization would add to the price paid by Palo Alto residents and others for a hospital bed. Dr. Crowley said that Stanford was currently completing a sche- matic design and getting ready to file a Certificate of Need. Also, Stanford's staff was meeting with the City's planning staff regarding the preliminaries, and Stanford was anxious and ready to enter into meaningful discussions which might be desirable by the City Council and other bodies regarding the details of the plan. He said that the process for a Certificate of Need took something like six to nine months; and, Stanford hoped that by next January, it would have an approval on, the Certificate of Need and be able to arrange financing by that time. He said that inevitably some- one would have to pay for modernizing the hospital. He said there would be revenue bonds, which would have to be amortized. Careful financing modeling was done and Stanford believed that it would be possible with a reasonable room rate increase and very good man- agement to manage the debt. He said it was a federal form of financing which more and more hospitals were doing all around the country. Vice Mayor Bechtel said she kept hearing rumors about additional changes at Stanford Shopping Center. She asked whether the theater was dead and what was happening with another major store she heard was coming in. Mr. Massey responded that Stanford had hopes for another major store, and that negotiations were ongoing to try and work out _ the remaining problems i , e. , parking, road links, etc. He . said the store was proceeding with its plans in San Francisco so Stanford was hopeful. Regarding the theater, he said it was still in Stanford's plans, but the combination of other problems could require that it be dropped. Couhcilmember Klein asked about the timetable for Stanford West. Mr. Massey said the "first -preliminary -rough -approximate -draft" of the environmental impact report appeared on their desks a few days ago, which would be reviewed shortly by . City staff. He said Stanford hoped to ;Hove ahead with it, but did not know a precise timetable. He hoped Stanford would be in a position to seek City approval during this calendar year, and that it:. would be in con- struction a year from now. Counci lmember Levy said that regarding the hospital, in the past there had been a problem of access by community physicians, and he asked Dr, Crowley to comment whether the problems still existed. Dr. Crowley said he thought the problems had been greatly amelio- rated. Extensive dialogue had taken place over the past several years, and the Hospital Board had ' adopted -a new policy which called for control or limited _ access by community physicians due to the various hospital -based lab -oratories. He said , there was an ongoing committee chfli red by a member - of the Hospital Board including three comnunity phystci'ans` and three faculty physicians 1 7 6 4 3/15/82 1 1 who discussed continuing issues or future issues which may come up regarding access. He thought Stanford's policy of open access was clear --that qualified physicians could admit patients, and make use of the facilities, in a planned fashion, at Stanford University Hospital. Presi dent Kennedy said he thought the situation was much better than it was two years. He said he was concerned at the time that there seemed to be_ such a small zone of agreement between the come munity physicians who were members of Stanford's voluntary faculty and full -tine faculty. He said that he and Dr. CrowI_ey worked h and to get people to talk to -. one another and to begin to make progress not only on the formal agreements, but on the individual affiliation agreements which had been the source of difficulty in the minds of many of the community physicians. He said not all of the problems were solved, but enough had been' solved to give Stanford's colleagues in the communi-ty a much better sense of con- vi cti on than they previously h ;;d. He said the University was com- mitted to solving those probl ems, and that it understood that it had extraordinarily skilled and able community physicians to augment and compliment the skills of Stanford's full-time. faculty. The oily way that Stanford would be an absolutely first rate, nationally top ranked. Center was to secure the active and .enthu- siastic participation of both grolups. He said Stanford had come a long way and was very determined to go the rest of the way. He thought that a good symbol of Stan.ford's success was that physi- cians from both sides of the controversy in the forward planning of the Hospital Modernization Program had been involved as well as in the programs to raise funds for it. Stanford felt it could approach the completion of the task with great confidence. Counci lmember Levy commented that he appreci ated the comments as well as the fact that Stanford and Palo Alto got along as well as any E1r;iversity and its community and better than most. He did not think that those at the community level lost site of the essential commonality of interests that Stanford and Palo Alto shared nor the degree to which both benefited from Stanford's presence. He said there were plans underway in the community for an indoor/ outdoor ice skating facility to be built on City land, and he won- ---dered if that was something that might be useful for Stanford's athletic and recreation programs. President Kennedy said that obviously there were a number of people at.;Stanford who participated in athletics that were done on ice, and to that extent it would obviously be welcome. He was not prepared to comment because he had not done any background work on where it would rank in Stanford's system of prioeities or what kind of density of use one could expects Mr. Rosenzwei g . said that Stanford had heard about some of those plans, and he thought that Stanford's Athletic Director, who .would be, most concerned with the development, had his hands full trying: to finance facilities on which one could stand upright without ice skates. President Kennedy went on that there had been moments i n _ Andy Geiger's life in which he might well have accepted with delight the substitution of hockey for another. Winter sport:; as Stanford's favorite, but he reminded the Council that Andy Geiger was sti l l known in Philadelphia as the athletic director who ended varsity hockey with them. Counci lmember Renzel said that regarding the hospital negotia- tions, she was still concerned about Palo Alto patients whose doctors mdy not be clinical faculty at the hospital, and whether Palo Alto would represent its citizens in the ongoing settlement agreement.: 1 i Dr. Crowley said that Stanford Hospital had what was called an "open staff concept" regarding admitting pri vii eges for physi ci ans practicing in the area so that any qualified physician who met the qualifications set up by a peer group, consisting of both commu- nity and faculty physicians, had the opportunity- to gain privi- leges to admit patients for services in which they were competent. He thought that all the citizens of Palo Alto would have a physi - clan • available to them at Stanford Hospital. Counci lmember Renzel said that specifically a woman had a heart attack and was admitted to emergency at Stanford and underwent a number of tests in the emergency situation. When her regular doctor wanted- the results of those tests, evidently he was unable to get them and the woman had to undergo the tests again. She wondered if that - was a mistake of the system or if it was some operational protocol. Dr. Crowley responded that it must be a mistake in the system because any patient who wanted the results of any tests done at Stanford could easily request them and normally it would be done very quickly. Mr. Massey said that another possibility was that people who were ill or had been through an understandably traumatic medical experience sometimes did not ful ly understand reports given to them by their physicians of what had happened. He said that if Counci 'member Renzel could supply him or Or. Crowley with the names of the people involved, they would be happy to look into .it and get a report on the matter. Counci 1 member Cobb sai d that the difficulties in finding some sort of solutions to Willow Road and Stanford West had been mentioned and -he asked Mr. Massey if he felt that as Stanford and the City approached the issue, they would be able to look at not only those projects but enough of the other major projects which were apt to come down the road the next ten to fifteen years so that they could approach the question of finding some kind of solution in that area in a context which would last for 20 years that everyone could be happy with. President Kennedy said he hoped so, but indicated a reluctance to predict what the- American economy was likely to give one -in Y +. 15. He said that had he been talking to the Counci 1 about Stanford's housing plans . as of 1982, in 1967 the shepe of the pre- diction he would have given would bear almost no rel ati onshi p'- to the world in which they now found themselves either with respect to the cost of competitive housing in the outside community or the financing or the regulatory hurdles in the face of constructing new housi ng on the campus or elsewhere. He said the world was so. much different now from the one in view 15. years ago, and pre - di cti ng the next 15 made him want -to shudder. In regards to Stanford's willingness to want to engage with Palo Alto in long range planning, he was happy "to commit to that. He said Stanford wanted to let the City in on the best vision possible for their own future, but was doubtful that one could be provided that was a good 15 -year horizon for planning. Mr. Massey said that Stanford was attempting to pull together, and Stanford would be coma ng forward . with _ a master set of proposals for the whole transportation business in thecontext of ..Stanford West, the Shopping Center, and everything. else. Councilmember Cobb said he had heard talk that the character of the i ndustri al park may change in terms of the types of uses, and said he was interested in Stanford `,s ,view of where the park would be some years' down. the road ;when some :of the land leases ran. out. Mr. Massey said the park was almost built to its authorized level, and regarding the leases, Stanford was prepared to release --and had released --some companies which could involve some changes in the improvements, but not necessarily. He said Stanford stood ready to negotiate renewals of the leases. He said there was a study area --Stanford North and South --and the City and Stanford had jointly developed a report on it. He said the report ran more to housing than to the park, but that staff had a copy, and every- one would be talking about it in due course. President Kennedy said he suspected that the industrial park would not look much different than it did now. He thought it was exciting to speculate about what would be going on there in thirty years. Would it still be as vital a frontier for developing tech- nology for the nation; and would people still be talking with alternate reverence and despair about the "Silicon Valley." He suspected some kind of next generation success of basically the kind of technology there now, but it would be interesting to find out. Mayor Eyerly .said he was aware that the preliminary plans for the Hospital Expansion Program were in the hands of the City, and that zst week -he and Dr. Crowley had discussed the possibility of the City providing municipal bonds sales, not to assume any financial responsibilities, but whether it might be feasible for City bonding to take place rather than the University going to the market. directly. He said that duni ng the discussion, they talked about some of the pluses and minuses, and he had commented that it seemed feasible to him as an individual, but that he would agen-• di ze the .subject for Council policy direction sometime in the near future. He asked Dr. -Crowley to make some overview comments regarding that issue which might. surface the matter .for the Council and so that the public would be aware of what discussions might be forthcoming. Dr. Crowley said that regarding the financing of the hospital on the bond issue, there were basically three ways to go. One, to float revenue bonds wh.ch were not tax exempt; and second, to try and get tax exempt bond's, which would be the most preferable. He said there were two possibilities for that --one, through the California Health Facilities Authority; and two, through the Charter City Route.- He said: that regarding a discussion of the matter, Stanford was prepared at any time to get together any group of people to discuss with the City staff and City Council members the pros and cons and all ; the ramifications of both the plan itself and how, i t might be financed. He deferred to Mr._. Massey for discussion on the financial ins and outs of the Charter City Route. Mr. Massey commented that the Charter City Bonding Authority was one route to the tax exempt bond market. He said there would be no assumpti on of liability , by the City in any way --that was Stanford Hospital's liability., But , goi ng through the City would have the effect of reducing the interest on the bond --because they would be tax exempt. for State and Federal Income Tax purposes -- and, therefore, would reduce the effect on the rates that the patients at the hospital paid. He thought it might well be a good idea for everyone. Counci lmember Klein said he had read about the significant. cuts in assi stance for hi gher education from the federal, government, and asked' President Kennedy to share what would happen tO Stanford if the cuts continued at the present magnitude for the rest of the 1980's. i 1 President Kennedy said that the impact so far had been that Stanford had peobauly suffered in budget decreases in the direct student aid programs of close to $500,000, which had been filled in with University General Funds. He said the 1983 budget, together with some threatened 1982 federal rescissions, could cost $1.5 million more. Stanford doubted that the student aid proposal or any other part of that budget would be left intact i n its trip through the Congressional Budget Mi xmaster. It was unknown _ what Stanford would get, but he guessed it would involve some further decreases,' but not of the amount threatened when the 1983 budget first came out. He said there were two kinds of problems posed for Stanford. First, the problem associated with the loss of direct student -aid for undergraduates. He said that Stanford would have to fill in with general funds in order to continue their commitment to aid, to the extent of their demonstrated need, all the students admitted by Stanford. He said Stanford felt that that policy was .crucial in permitting Stanford the diversity and the meri t of the student body it attracted. Stanford wanted to continue to be able to look only at ability and what the student offered and not at his or. her ability to pay. President Kennedy said that a more complicated and troublesome issue was the threatened loss of the guaranteed student loan pro- grams which were taken advantage of by numbers of graduate students as well as undergraduates. One -proposal of the' Administration involved.the loss of graduate student eligibility for those funds, which would be troublesome. He said Stanford felt that access to loan capital at reasonable interest rates was a Very important part of a government plan for insuring access to higher education for the best students in the country, a plan which had been carefully crafted by the Congress over the past thirty years. Stanford hoped it would not be given up and planned to work very hard to see to it that the government had the maximum incentive not to give it up. Counci lrnember Klein asked who the new men's basketball coach would be. President Kennedy said that nothing would give him greater plea- sure than to reveal it as this moment, but the fact that he could not do it should show that he did not know. Mayor Eyerly said the Council appreciated President Kennedy, Massey, Mr. Rosenzweig and Or. Crowley coming to the meeting. President Kennedy thanked the City Council for the -welcome oppor- t uni ty of appearing each year. RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING ACCOMPLISHMENT OF PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL. MEN'S bASkETBACL TEAM Councilmember Fazzino said it was nice to talk about a successful basketball team in the area, and as one of the two ".Daly High" graduates at the meeting, he wanted to present the 'resolution. MOTION: Counci lrnern#er Fazzi no moved, seconded by Cobb, approval of the resolution. RESOLUTION 6007 entitled "RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF T'R •CITY OF PALO ALTO RECOGNIZING THE OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE 1.981-82 PALO ALTO HIGH SCHOOL MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM" MOTION PASSED unanimously. Counci1member Fazzi no presented the framed resolution to the Palo Alto Hi gh School Men's Basketball coach, CI em Wiser, Mr. Wiser thanked the City Council, and introduced the season's co -captains and one of the guards who played on the team. He said that of the six seniors who were to graduate, all intended to attend coil ege next year and the P al o Alto Hi gh School was very proud of them. RESOLUTION OF APPRECIATION TO ASSEMBLYMAN BYRON D. SHER Vice Mayor Bechtel said that she and Councilmemher Fazzino had agendized the resolution because they wanted to express their appreciation to Assemblyman Byron Sher for his work on behalf of the citizens of Palo Al to. MOTION Vice Mayor Bechtel moved, seconded. by Fazzino, approval of the resolution of -appreciation. RESOLUTION 6008 entitled "RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALQ ALTO EXPRESSING- ITS APPRECIATION TO ASSEMBLYMAN BYRON D. SHER FOR OUTSTANDING PUBLIC SERVICE" MOTION PASSED unanimously. Vice Mayor Bechtel presented the framed resol uti on of appreci ati on to Kip Lipper, Byron Sher's representative. Mr. Lipper thanked the City Council on behalf of Assemblyman Byron Sher. CONSENT CALENDAR Referral None Acti on MOTION: Counci 1member Witherspoon moved, seconded by. Klein, approval of the Consent Cal endar. REHABILITATION LOAN PROGRAM FOR BELOW -MARKET --RATE RENTAL HOUSING Ii MEt1T ICMR: • Staff recommends that the Council authorize the City Manager, or his designated representative, to si gn the Standard Agreement, and the Agreement to Assi gn Deed of Trust, Promissory Note, and Loan Agreement, and submit the contracts to the State of California Housing and Community Development Program, and that Council adopt the resolution and budget amendment. RESOLUTION 6009 entitled "RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO: AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION ,OF THE STANDARD AGR ': MENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS. TO SECURE THE COMMITMENT OF FUNDS FROM THE DEFERRED PAYMENT REHABILITATION LOAN.. PROGRAM OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA" ORDINANCE 3339 entitled "ORDINANCE OF THE. COUNCIL OF it i TY OF PALO ALTO AMENDING THE' .BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR I9B1-82 ;TO ESTABLISH CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT NO.. 81-94= 'STATE REHABILITATION LOAN PROGRAM FOR BELOW -MARKET -RATE RENTAL HOUSING' AND TO PROVIDE-. FOR RECEIPT OF FUNDS FROM THE STATE DEFERRED PAYMENT REHABILITATION PROGRAM" f i 1 7 6.9 3/15/82 corrected 4/19/92 PLANNING COMMISSION UNANIMOUS RECOMMENDATION RE APPROVAL WITH APPLICATION /-OR SITE AND ULSIUN R vILW rok A PASSIVE SOLAR SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE -777717 —LOS TRAWCOS ROAD ( CMk : 1 88:'1) - Staff recommends approval of the recommendation with conditions as follows: I. Storm water runoff should be directed away from the building and roads and shall be dispersed over a wide area. Drainage plans shall be subnjtted and approved by the City. Engineer. 2. An automatic fire sprinkler system shall be submitted to and approved by the Fire Department prior to issuance of a building permit. 3. A 4" line shall be installed from the swimming pool drain to a point providing easy access to mobile _ fire fighting equipment. Temporary water storage (2000 gallon tank) shall be required on -site during construction. 5. Construction of the septic system shall be pursuant to the requirements of the Santa Clara County Environmental Health Services. The Environmental Health Services shall be con- tacted prior to excavation on the property regarding replace- ment of fill. Areas disturbed by septic system construction shall be reseeded to the natural -grasses. 5. That the Santa. Clara County Health Department approve only leach lines that do not encroach into the drop lines of the existing trees. 7.. All windows shall be double glazed. 8. All graded slopes shall be reseeded to natural grasses. 9. A final site grading plan shall be submitted before the building permit is issued. This plan shall indicate the number and type of the trees to be removed. . The location, size, and type of the trees to remain on site shall al so: be indicated, along with the means used to preserve- these existing trees during the construction of the dwelling. The amount of grading and filling around the trees Is to be shown, and it shall be noted on the plan that any disruption of the land will be reseeded to natural grasses. RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF REIMBURSEMENT UNDER THE DISASTER RELIEF Staff recommends approval of the resolution designating the - City. Manager as the City's Agent in applying for reimbursement. MOTION PASSED unanimously. AIENUA CHANGES, AUDITIONS AND.DELETIONS Counci lmember Levy added requests for resolutions in recognition of. the Palo Alto High School Girls' soccer_ and tennis teams to the agenda. PLANNING COMMISSION, BY A VOTE OF 4 IN FAVOR, 2 ABSTENTIONS, IiLCUmMLNUS APP'RiVAL Ua -Ht APPLII.hI ION OF 1HE CITY OF PALO ACTI1 fOR ZONE CHANGE FOR TWO PARC'I.S APN 1ff=I - - OM PF TO, CC AND APN 12O-16'31 FROM CC TO PF AT FOKING Oft rTom-636 CTLJ4AN- STREET Mayor Eyerly_ announced that staff's recommendation was that the matter be continued to a later date in order for an economic analysis to be completed and brought to Council. MOTION:, Mayor Eyerly moved, seconded by Bechtel , to continue the matter until April 5, _ 1982. MOTION PASSED unanimously. PUBLIC HEARING: PLANNING COMMISSION AND -ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW T R M F _ (RE APPLICATION OF HARRINCTON-KUL OFF DEV APPROVAL OF K TENIT B 132T ANU .1 Al -MA ST ET Planning Commissioner John Sutori us reminded the Council that this was pine of the first developments to occur In the recently rezoned Alma section. He thought the Planning Commission Minutes were self-explanatory. Mayor Eyerly declared the public hearing open. Stephen Saul, 349 North California Avenue, represented the firm of Harrington -Kul akoff Devel opment Company, and said he felt .the staff report was very compi eta. He supported the recent rezoning of the parcel and said it was an appropriate zone for a contransi - ti on multiple family development and thought the proposal was a good example of how increasing densities along a major transit corridor could be done while also providing a high quality devel- opment conducive to a Palo Alto type lifestyle. Mayor Eyerly declared the public heari ng closed having no further requests to speak. E Player Eyerly said that the ground was rezoned sometime back, and the developer had come forward under that zoning, and he felt as though the City was locked into what the developer requested. He had had problems with the rezoning, and was still concerned that someplace along the line, in view that it was a deep lot and the back portion abutted six R-2 areas, there should have been consid- eration as to whether the lot could not have had a flag lot in the back that would 'be zoned commensurate with the cone it abutted, and the front portion be zoned with the new zoning. He asked if anyone had considered that type of situation. Chief Planning Official Bruce Freeland said he could not comment on what was considered in Apr°i l , 1981 when the zoning went into effect. In order to subdivide the particular parcel to have a flag lot in the back : that would be R-2, quite a bit of the development potential would be lost He said that an R-2 lot in the back would require a 7,200 square foot interim lot size plus area would be taken out for the driveway and access into the back. The result would be that rather than having nine units, only. about five units would be possible on the property. Councilmember Cobb said that when the area was rezoned, it had started with a request for one particular lot so that a condo- minium development could be made, which precipitated a larger dis- cussion of the whole' area. The conclusion was that the best way to -go was ;to : take the . lots that fronted on Alma Street and give them the RM zoning in the spirit of the contransition reterred to by Mr. Saul, which was seen by the Planning Commission and Council at that time as a consistent way to get the type of transition to multi -family housing, and to let it go through a density gradient ,into R-1. 1 i Counci lmember Cobb pointed out that there were two spaces per unit, which was adequate if everyone had two cars and always parked in their designated space. He said he had heard many times that people did not park in their spaces and, therefore, it could be assured that some of the parking would spill over to Kellogg. He said that as the strip developed, he thought it would point out the need for a larger ratio of parking per unit. He hoped that before it became a problem, the question would be dealt with. MOTION: Counci l member Klein moved, seconded by Witherspoon, to adopt Planning Commission recommendation, finding that the project, including. the design and improvements (e.g.,. the street align- ments, drainage and sanitary faci 1 i ti es locations and size of all required rights -of -way, lot size and configuration, grading, and traffic access) is consistent, wi th the adopted Comprehensive Plan and complies with the Subdivision Map Act and Title 21. of the Palo Alto Municipal Code; that.._tle: project will not have a significant impact on the environment nor be likely to result in serious pub lic healtheprohlems; that the site is physically suitable for the type and density of the proposed development; and that -there are no conflicts with public easements, and finding: 1) The proposed project, together with its design and improvements is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan which encourages low -density multiple family construction where multiple -family areas touch single family areas; 2) The proposed project, together with its design and improvements is consistent with the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan Housing Objective: "It is important to maintain the char- acter and physical quality of residential nei ghborhoods... to avoid drastic changes in neighborhood character... to reduce the intru- sions of through traffic. into the neighborhood," in that the multiple family corridor along Alma Street borders but does not intrude into the neighborhood and channels traffic onto the Main transit arteries rather than into the neighborhood; 3) The pro- posed project, together with_its design and improvements is con- sistent with the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan Housing Objective: "It is important to maintain a diversity of housing opportuni - ti es... a variety of housing types and sizes" in 'that this project expands the existing housing _opportunities in the area offering a different style of housing as well as conforming to the current rental /Ownership mix. Counci lmember Klein noted that the Planning Commi ssi ran Minutes of February 24, 1982 included the fact that six of the parking spaces would be set aside for visitors and would be outside of the secu- rity gate. i;ouncilmember Cobb commented that those six spaces could only. function as visitor spaces;i f six of the units only had one car per unit. MOTION PASSED by a vote of 8-1, Levy voting "no." 1 7 7 2 3/15/82 Corrected 4/19/82 FINANCE AND Public WORKS COMMITTEE UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS RE y, € rte19rOTTITUN FOSE OF VOEUNTAR [ PRESCHEDULI NG T L IT ME T S 140U0, SERVICE AREA as+++� vv:aaav as� aar.v va a..vv sa�+v.+ +svv�+a .a• TAISER TN ilt3WOOD CITY; 7 0Th OF ErrfaSTVr MAR!ETJNG AND PTROMOTIONAL CA1 P� Acij A1NT._ ENROLLEES WITH IHE I�EWLI� STR1JcTURED PRQGRICM — MOTION: Counci lmember Witherspoon moved, for the Finance and Public Works Committee, to adopt the staff recommendation - and to incorporate careful monitoring of the system. Councilmemaer Witherspoon said that essentially staff recommended that Project Mobility shift from a "demand/response" to a pre - scheduled, shared -ride mode because of anticipated budget cutback;. She said that Transportation Development Act (TDA) funds had fully funded the program for the' past two years, but was due to end in December of 1982. She deferred to Mr. Noguchi for the status of the bill in the legislature and whether the TDA funds would continue past December of 1982. In the meantime, staff recommended that between now and the end of this fiscal year, the program should be gradually phased into a prescheduling mode. She said there was a need to educate the patrons that beginning July 1, except for medical emergencies, it would be man- datory that trips be prescheduled. Staff would rewrite the con- tract for next year with the cab companies and incentives would be included for following the new guidelines. A uniform cost per trip of 60C" with eight trips allowed per month per patron and a limited service area would also be included. She said staff would provide the Finance and Public Works Committee with a report after about six months...into the program. Diana Steeples, Di rector of Planning and Community Needs for the Senior Coordinating Council, 450 Bryant Street, commented that when the matter was first considered by the F&PW Committee, at two separate, hearings, initially there were some differences between the City staff and the Senior Coordinating Counci l s Transporta- tion Committee after a study was undertaken of Project Mobility and other paratransit companies. She said the Senior. Coordinating Council (SCC) worked very closely with the City staff and liaison in working out some of those differences and was pleased with the present proposal. Also, the . SCC was assured_ there would be an . opportunity .after some six months to review' the performance. She said the SCC initially recommended that there be a third party to broker the service between those enrolled and the cab companies in order to achieve the maximum amount of shared rides. The SCC r.ecogni ae d some of the difficulties and thought that the City's proposal that there be a disincentive financially to the cab com- panies to insure compliance was a ;good step in the right direc- tion. Further, they hoped the City Council, staff and the SCC who were the consultants -to the City on senior affairs would look closely toseetow the program .worked in practice. i Ms. Steeples said that in Santa Clara and in other counties there were _models where the shared ride was accomplished by a third party organization which was able to do a more aggressive arrange ment of shared rides persuading doctors and other parties to coordinate services, She said the SCC hoped that could be done by the cab company and understood that they had -expressed their com- mitment to spend the necessary time to get more than one person averaged per:trip. The SCC supported the staff's recommendation and was interested to see how it worked. She was concerned that the SCC had, expected the Chairman of- the County's Paratransit Coordinating Council to' attend the meeting and give the City Council some background on the Paratransit Coordinating Council and its interests in coordinated paratransit services, but that it was anticipated that the matter would have been heard later. Vice Mayor Bechtel commended the Senior Coordinating Council Transportation Committee, the City staff, and the cab companies for pulling the program together. She said that when the item first went to the Finance and Public Works Committee, those who were on that F3PW Committee began to think it would never work. She was pleased that the matter had come back so fast. She was concerned that the SCC had requested to be the third party, and representatives of the Escort Service who were at the first meeting who described the kind of special care and support needed to work with the people who needed Project Mobility to explain the prescheduling. She hoped that staff would closely monitor the program to see that the program --and particularly the cab company schedulers --truly met the needs of the enrollees. She asked how staff intended to monitor the program. Associate Planner Gayle Likens said staff intended to begin by being involved An the training of the special schedulers who would not be the regular dispatcher at the cab cor,pany, but rather a new person. She said that staff would train the prescheduler with the preferred techniques and draw upon the resources of the Senior Coordinating Council who already had people who scheduled for the escort service, and model the program after successful scheduling programs elsewhere in the County. She said that during the first few months of the new program, staff would be out in the field, work with the schedulers, and get feedback from the enrollees. Councilmember Fletcher said that when the Matter was discussed by the Senior Coordinating Council's Transportation Committee last week, Ms. Steeples explained how the SCC had originally intended to do the scheduling; and, in order to facilitate the shared rides, the SCC would be able to talk with the seniors who called in and try and get them to rearrange their schedules to match up with another person who was going in the same direction. She had suggested that staff monitor the dispatcher's call and if the dispatcher Was not trying to rearrange schedules, then some incen- tive should be given. Director of Transportation Ted Noguchi said - that staff was sensi -tive to the issues and would carefully_'monito-r the program -to assure that the Project .Mobility_ enrollees- were given_ the utmost courtesy throughout the entire program. - Co,unci lmember Fletcher said that regarding making transportation available tothe handicapped .who Were above the income levels that qualified: for Project. Mobility .at cost, she recollected that it had been: discussed In the -past and wondered if -vans could _ be made avai l abl at - Cost to these who had ai.need for .it , but would not-. qualify 1n-come.'wise. Mr. Noguchi responded that those types of issues would be addressed when staff came_ back to the Council along with a number of other policy type matters. Mayor Eyerly commented that five or six years ago when Project Mobility was in its early stages, no sliding scale existed. He said that the costs grew rapidly, and considerable Council encour- agement was necessary for staff to arrive at a sliding scale in substantiation of the assets, income, etc. of the participants. He said that within the current recommendation, there was an elimination of the sliding scale for enrollee fare -box payments., He accepted what . staff said in the report --that the monetary impact was $1,000 or less --but hoped that in retrospect of what happened early in the program, staff would monitor the situation. He said that in a year from now when staff returned to Council for budget requests, he hoped he could ask questions about the elimi- nation of the sliding scale for enrollee fare -box payments, and staff could answer yes or no and that it was still within the $1,000 or less range. MOTION PASSED unanimously. PROJECT MOBILITY TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT ACT FUNDING FOR FISCAL R 9 2-83 CMR : 8 : Director of Transportation Ted Noguchi commented that staff did not know where Senate Bill 5.73 stood in the legislature, but was hopeful, and recommended approval of the resolution. MOTION: Counci lmember Fazzino moved, seconded by Bechtel, approval of the Resolution. RESOLUTION 6010 entitled "RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO AUTHORIZING THE FILING OF A CLAIM WITH THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION FOR ALLOCATION OF TRANSPORATION DEVELOPMENT ACT FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1982-82" MOTION PASSED unanimously. MOTION: Councilmember. Fletcher moved, seconded by Renzel, that the Mayor be authorized to send a letter in support of Senate Bill 573 to extend the Transportation Development Act funding for pare - transit services. MOTION PASSED unanimously. BICYCLE BOULEVARD IMPLEMENTATION PLANS (CMR:185:2) Director of Transportation Ted Noguchi commented that staff had held a neighborhood meeting on March 2. Councilmember Cobb asked Mr. Noguchi if any effort was made to have a meeting with the people in the north of Oregon Expressway area. Mr. 'Noguchi responded that the meeting was an open one which invited everyone on Bryant. Everyone within a block of each side of Bryant was invited to a meeting at El Carmelo School. Counci lmemt,er Cobb said that letters had been received from citi- zens with some ideas for alternatives., and asked for some general comments on the kinds of alternatives raised. Ms. Likens responded that the group in the Colorado area requested hot eliminating the four-way stop, but maintaining it. In looking at that corridor, the Bicycle Advisory, Committee recommended that staff eliminate as many stops along Bryant as feasible that would not be at critical locations --such as adjacent to El Carmelo School and where the City had : intersections with collector streets. She said that since Colorado' was not one of those cases, it was recommended that that stop'be eliminated. There wereabout two blocks which would be affected by the elimination of the stop. 1 7 7 5 3/15/82 Ms. Likens said that the people north of California Street pro- posed that the barrier be relocated. She said staff had worked with the Bicycle Advisory Committee to find a good location for the barrier in that corridor that would not disrupt many people on their way down to Oregon Expressway, and that the section be closer to the north rather than the south. She said that any location for a barrier would disrupt some residents and the Lowell location disrupted those people adjacent to the barrier the least, and, therefore, was judged to be a superior location. Counci lmember Cobb said that the Challenger letter implied that change to a two-way situation from a four-way might create a fairly dangerous intersection. He asked staff if, for the pur- poses of the trial, the location was a relatively dangerous inter- section as implied in the letter. Ms. Likens commented that the. accident history of the intersection was reviewed by staff and it was found that there were no reported accidents for automobiles or bicycles at that intersection in the last. three.. years. Counci l member Witherspoon asked if comments on the barriers were made by the Fire Department or the Police Department. Mr. Noguchi said the Fire Department was basically opposed to any- thing that would cause a detriment to their immediate response to an area. Nevertheless, staff tried to design the barrier in such a way that at least the fire vehicles could still have access to the immediate' block cut off by the barrier. Ms. Likens commented that the Fire Department indicated that its vehicles --both trucks and paramedic vans --co ld traverse the barrier. Counci lmember Fletcher said that when the matter was first brought up, and the concept of putting in barriers on Bryant publicized, there was considerable public consternation and objection to the idea, and the ,umber of barriers was, therefore, limited to two widely dispersed. Tonight, a petition requested that more bar- riers be added by the City, and she asked staff about the feeling at the public meeting and whether the residents felt there should. be an additional barrier. . Mr. Noguchi commented that staff had just received the petition within the last couple of days and had not been able to . review the impact of additional barriers. Basically, staff felt that the less barriers the better the system because of the objections raised by the Fire Department, cost, and basic usability of a street if it was to be .a bicycle boulevard. Counci lmember . Fl etcher said that in those streets where new stop. signs would be facing one way, and where there were changes like 'that, drivers sometimes were in the habit of an intersection being one way and were not very alert to new signs. She wondered if it would be possible to add a sign such as W arni ng- Bicycle Route Ahead" to alert the drivers that the inspection was a special one. Ms. Likens responded that as part . .of the implementation plan, staff intended to have advance signing coming to Bryant at each of the cross streets which would indicate that it was a bicycle boulevard. Counci lmember Fl etcher s,ai d there was a, ' furthe r concern that bicyclists might run into the barriers, and she asked if it was possible to attach plastic pile-ons which would serve as a warni ng. 1 7 7 b 3/15/82 Ms, Likens responded that staff would look into it. She said staff had taken some measures to avoid any problems with bicy- clists entering close to the barrier. Staff intended to mark both sides of the barrier with "DO NOT ENTER" legends on the pavement and striping which would be very visible. The barrier would be painted with reflective white and gray paint, and bicycles would be directed to the outside of the barrier as they would If it were a bike lane. Councilmember Fletcher also recommended that a sign say "NON - MOTORIZED BICYCLES ONLY." MOTION: Councilmember Fletcher moved, seconded by Levy, that Council adopt 1) the implementation plan; and 2) the resolution which will permit the closure of Bryant at Lowell and El Verano and which will modify the City's stop sign system map. RESOLUTION 6011 entitled "RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 4291 CHANGING THE CITYWIDE STOP INTERSECTION SYSTEM AND MAP" Cdeeai lmember • Levy said the issue was not whether to have a bicy- cle boulevard on Bryant, but how to implement the .test. Although it was not policy and implementation was a staff function, he was concerned because the last time a barri er was pl aced, it was placed on Hamilton Avenue and turned out to be a bad placement because i n order to go around the barri er, dri vers found that there was easy access to a driveway of an apartment house closeby and proceeded to use that as a shortcut. He asked if staff had very carefully considered the location of the barriers and tra- versed the likely auto path around them to make sure it would be a fair test and would not fail because of a barri er which was not clearly tested on the spot in advance. Mr. Noguchi responded that staff had field investigated each of the locations and had concluded those which had the least impact on the abut ti ng property owners. He reminded the Counci 1 that no matter where the barriers were placed, someone would be affected. Counci 'member Levy said that in traversing the new bicycle route referred to by Counci1member Fletcher, he observed that no stop signs existed where Redwood Circle intersected with Carlson, and where Nelson Drive and Creeksi de formed a "T," which could be -;a pribl em for bicyclists. He thought it might be advisable to take a look at -those two intersections for stop sign placement. Jeanette R. Van Derveer, 2175 Bryant Street, said she rode a bicy- cle in Palo Alto, but did not believe the bike boulevard was needed. even on a trial basis. She said she would.- be impacted because when she wanted to ride to City Hall, she would not be able to ride directly down Bryant Street to City Hall. She would be impacted when she used her car. and returned from the Stanford .: Shopping Center and wi shed to go east on -Ernbarcadero and turn south on Bryant to get to her home. She resented the bike boule- vard when it was claimed that the barriers were: supposed to be constructed where they would least impact property owners. She asked why 80% or 90% of the citizens of Palo Alto had to suffer in convenience for a few. She felt that the passage of the resol u- tion had a :significant environmental_ impact. Regarding the acci- dent history, she felt the review was not always accurate because not all the accidents were reported especially with: bicycles. She _. was concerned by the comment that "should serious hazards develop during the course of the: demonstration period, immediate correc- tive actton will be taken by staff." She -asked who on the staff would be out in front of her home when someone raced by on a motorcycle at = 10:30- or 11:00 ,p.+. and she could not get the I icehse number to report it. She urged that Council reject the,. implementation shown, and the resolution permitting the closure of Bryant Street. 1 7 7 7 3/15/82 Diana Steeples, 3198 Ramona Street, supported the concept. Mayor Eyerly said he would support the motion because it had been studied for some time, was in the Comprehensive Plan, and the Council had directed that the resolution and implementation plan b'e prepared. He said it was a trial basis, and staff would monitor the bicycle route during thet period of time. Counci lmember Witherspoon said she had reservations and would vote. against the motion. U 1 1 Councilmember Renzel said she also ha.d some reservations with respect to the false sense of security that some bicyclists may have if motorists could not be relied upon to stop at stop signs, but she thought the only way to find out was to have the trial basis. She would look to see how the concept measured up to : the City's base criterion. Counci.lmember Fazzi no said he was not at the meeting two months ago to discuss the issue, and consideration of the implementation plan tonight was a consideration of the philosophy behind the entire issue for him. He was willing to allow the Council to move ahead with the trial , but at the same time had concerns about the concept. He thought that Palo Alto had been a leader in terms of bicycle routes, but the philosophy had always been one of bicycle and automobile coexistence. He was concerned that the concept was an exclusionary one, he was concerned about the precedent, and did. not think the concept oftered the possibility for coexistence in a safe manner, and would oppose the motion. He was concerned about the very strong words in the City staff report about the risks to the City. He thought that if there was an accident with the new plan, if he were an attorney for the other side, he would march into the courtroom waving the City staff report and collect a few thousand dollars fairly easily. He thought the Council must read those words very carefully before moving ahead with the proposal. He would vote against the motion and urged that his colleagues do the same. Vice Mayor Bechtel said she supported bicycles in Palo Alto and encouraged their use. She said she rode the length of Bryant Street, explored the stop signs, and did not find them to be par- ticularly difficult. She was not convinced that the removal of five stop signs would inspire a bicyclist to ride out of his or her way.. She did not think a bicyclist would ride . out of his or her way unless there was a substantial savings. She would vote ae ai nst the motion, but since the, votes were there, she encouraged staff to do their utmost in bringing any problems or concerns from the trial to the Council immediately. Councilmember Cobb agreed with Councilmembers Bechtel and F azzi no. He was concerned about the objections of the people who had to: live with the trial , and was not convinced about the removal of the stop signs --particularly the one on Colorado and Bryant. He. was inclined to vote against the motion, but . would watch it care- fully during the trial If it turned out to be a success, he would be happy to change his;>view; and, if it turned out to pre- sent problems to the people who lived i n the area, he would lobby very hard for discontinuing the trial. Councilmember Fletcher said that it was a real disincentive to have to stop at every other block; She said that -at the time Alma Street was undergoing reconstruction and was closed to traffic, it was a beautiful freeway for bicycles, and was used by many bicyclists. Regarding coexi tence, she believed in it also, but in effect, the. City spent $1 million on Alma Street to exclude bicycles_entirely. Councilmember Fletcher commented that 1,200 notices were sent out to people on Bryant and the surrounding streets and only one person attended the Council meeting. She did not think the obj ec- ti ons were that strong, otherwise, the Council Chambers would be filled. She said that if there were problems, staff could advise. the Council and changes could be made almost immediately, and that it was a trial period. Councilmember Levy thought it was important to understand that Council was discussing the implementation of a concept approved by Council earlier.. He said the matter was discussed previously, and the Council_ voted that Bryant Street should be implemented with a nine month test as a bicycle boulevard. The question tonight was not whether to make a bike boulevard test, but how to make the test. He thought that -Palo Alto had a lot of bicycles --6,000 to 8,000 per day on. the streets of Palo Alto. Many "of the bicycles were driven by children who were not as sensitive to traffic safety as motorists. He thought it was owed to the children to do everything possible to develop safe means of bi cycl i ng, and, the Councilmembers -owed it to themselves to- encourage bicycling in Palo Alto. He said there would be a slight inconvenience to some people, "and a slight inconvenience to motorists. He thought it would take maybe a minute longer for motorists to reach their desti nati on. On the ,other hand, the advantages to bicyclists --in both speed and safety --would be substantial if the test was successful. He thought nine months was a small i nvestment; and, if the test was successful, Palo Alto would have mane - years of a good concept. If not- there would be nine months of inconven- ience, and the street would be reconfigured as it was. He thought the test was well worth taki ng, and that the cost in terms of money and i ncotiveni ence was sl i ght. He thought staff should be given ful 1 freedom to implement the tri al for the ni ne month period as they see fit. Councilmember Fazzino said he recognized that there were enough votes to pass the motion, but he had an uneasy feeling about the risks. He asked the City Attorney i f she concurred with the statement with regard to potenti al ri sks to the City. City Attorney Di ane Lee said there seemed to be some dispute About whether or not the City Attorney's Office knew of the language contained in the staff report. She said that in terms of the risk associated with the program, she thought the risks were kin to risks that the City incurred i n any other type of innovative things done from a traffic standpoint. The issue would be one that would be resolved on the facts of a particular case; and, until it could be seen what some of the barriers looked like out in the streets, and get a better senses it would be. difficult to say whether the City would be liable, She' said there was a poten- tial for liability associated with the program as there__ would be i n any program where the City was doing any kind of modifications to streets. Since the program was " innovative and because there were not many other similar designs, it would be question of first. impressions for a court to have .to answer as to whether the pro- gram in fact created a dangerous condi'ti on on public property. MOTION PASSED by a vote of 5-4, Fazzino, Bechtel, Cobb, Witherspoon voting "no." RECESS FROM 9:50 p.m. to 10:08. p.m. Councilmembers Levy" find Witherspoon left at 1.0:00 p.m. OVERNIGHT PARKING" AND SEVENTY-TWO HOUR PARKING ISSUE (CMR:172:2) City Attorney Diane Lee ; said that " i n .accordance with Council's direction on September 21, 1981, staid was returning two ordi- nances to address parking problems in Palo Alto. She> said that one ,modified the overnight parking ordinance, and the other modi �- f i ed the 72dhour ordinance. She said the'' overnight parki ng ordinance, as di ratted by Council, applied only to - certai n vehicles and only applied in residential districts. 1 Chief of Police, dim Zurcher, said that the Council had reviewed the overnight parking issue many times. He recommended that the Police Department be given the opportunity to work with the pro- posed ordinances for about six months to see if there were any bugs that could not be handled by the Police Department. Then, the Police Department could return to the Council with a report and some recommendations. He thought the ordinance was clear and straightforward and should accomplish the Council's objectives. 1 Mayor Eyerly said regarding campers and housecars being unable to park on the street, he did not know to what extent, but those two types of vehicles were used as transportation by some people, and some of those people did not have offstreet parking to accommodate them. He viewed those two types of vehicles the same as a regular passenger cars and was uncomfortable about the ordinance including them. He wondered if the Council desired to include those vehi- cles in the ordinance, what impact a permit requirement for those types of vehicles would have. Ms. Lee said that in determining what categories the vehicles were to be included, staff referred to the Council direction in the marked up agenda. To her knowledge, staff did not make an :Inde- pendent analysis of that direction. In terms of a permit process, she said there were provisions in California Vehicle Cede Section 22507 which authorized an exemption from the prohibition or restriction for handicapped persons or residences of high density, multiple family dwelling areas assuming there was lacking adequate offstreet parking facilities. She did not believe it contained anything about a permit process, and that if the Council desired that staff look into it, some time would be necessary to do so. Chief Zurcher responded that staff had discussed the permit system for campers and housecars, but felt that if there was a choice, if the family had more than one car and perhaps a camper, the camper- and the housecar would go in the parking space, driveway or garage if possible, and the other car would go on the street. Counci lmember Cobb said he saw some special cases where a person ' had a visitor who had a camper or a housecar and there was no place to park the vehicle. He thought the ordinance covered most of the cases, but did not know how the special cases would be dealt -with. Vice Mayor Bechtel said she was pleased to see the ordinance come back. She said that people might resort to parking on their lawns or on the sidewalks, and she believed there were ordinances that prohibited both of those means. She, wondered if that were true and how the City would go about enforcing it. Chief Zurcher said he believed there were some provisions in the ordinance which covered parking other than in driveways. He said there was an ordinance prohibiting parking on the, sidewalks, but he was not clear about the rest of the property. Vice Mayor Bechtel said that particularly in the areas where there were no median strips in between, people tended to get on the sidewalks and obstruct them. Further, she asked how residents would be alerted to the new ordinance. Chief Zurcher said the utility mailer would be used, but most importantly, the officers on the street would be reasonable about enforcement and would not have any heavy enforcement for at least sixty days. He said that after that, normal procedure would be to negotiate most of the situations so that people complied with the ordinance willingly. i~or the most part, the Police Department ° was successful in doing that. 1 7 S _0.` 3/15/82 Councilmember Cobb said that if someone had one of those large vehicles, and it would not fit in the garage, could not be parked in the driveway without obstructing the sidewalk, and could not be parked on the street, and the ordinance passed and the vehicle had to be disposed of, would the City be liable in that situation. Ms. Lee said not in her opinion. She said the City was enacting a reasonable health and safety regulation which applied across the. board to everyone. Frank Manfredi, 219 Addison Street, said that when City Hall was on Embarcadero and the question of overnight parking first came up, he thought the Council was shoveling water against the tide because people had to have cars and they had to have places to park. He said that when the houses were built 80 years ago, people had horses and wagons, and now there were automobiles. He did not think there should be any restraint on overnight parking or any type of parking because people already had to go three or four blocks to find a place to park. He said that he and his wife were handicapped and when they went to the doctors, they had to park far away because all the parking spaces were taken up. Councilmember Fletcher said she was relieved that the ordinance had returned to Council. She thought the ordinance was a compro- mise responding to the concerns of residents who did not want to permanently look out their windows and see vehicles parked in front of their home --especially RV's and . trucks. She clarified that the City was not banning the parking of overnight vehicles and only related to oversized vehicles. She thought the ordinance was reasonable to prevent repeated parking of the oversized vehicles on the street. MOTION: Councilmember Fletcher moved, seconded by Bechtel, to adopt the staff recommendation to enact the recommended Overnight Parking and 72 -hour Parking Ordinance. ORDINANCE FOR FIRST READING entitled "ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO ADDING SECTION 10.44.015, DEFINITIONS, AND AMENDING SECTION 10.44.020 OF THE PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROHIBIT STANDING OR PARKING OF CERTAIN VEHICLES IN RESIDENTIAL ZONES BETWEEN THE HOURS OF TWO A.M. AND SIX A.M." ORDINANCE FOR FIRST READING entitled "ORDINANCE OF THE tOUNCIL OF THE CITY PALO ALTO AMENDING SECTION 10.36.034 OF THE PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROVIDE FOR NOTICE AND HEARING PRIOR TO AND AFTER REMOVAL OF A VEHICLE PARKED OR LEFT ON THE STREET FOR SEVENTY-TWO OR MORE CONSECUTIVE HOURS AND PROVIDING THAT A VEHICLE SHALL BE CONSIDERED T ► BE PARKED OR LEFT FOR SEVENTY- TWO OR MORE CONSECUTIVE HOURS IF IT HAS NOT BEEN MOVED AT LEAST ONE THOUSAND FEET WITHIN SAID TIME" AMENDMENT, Mayor Eyerly moved, seconded by Fazzino, to remove campers and housecars from theovernight parking ordinance. AMENDMENT FAILED by a vote of 2-5, Eyerly, Fazzi no voting "ayes" Witherspoon and Levy absent. SUBSTITUTE MOTION: Mayor Eyerly moved, seconded by Cobb, to return the overnight parking ordinance to staff for inclusion of a permit system for campers and housecars. Councilmember Cobb said he wanted to expand the amendment to per- mits for hardsh p `°case, which,; could include any of the vehicles if they were hardships ; cases and could be proven as a hardship case. 1 7 8 1 3/15/82 1 1 Ms. Lee thought that perhaps Council could give staff some stan- dards in terms --of what constituted a hardship. City Manager Bill Zaner said he thought it would be helpful if, at the Council's direction, staff could go back and prepare what they thought would be appropriate standards. He added that one of the standards would not be what the neighborhood wanted because that would be a system that would be impossible for the Police Department to administer. 1 1 i Counci lmember Cobb said he thought that a distinction should he made between a genuine hardship case and someone who just wanted a permit to park their camper in the street. He said there were people who might have to sell their vehicle because there was no way to park off the street. Councilmember Klein said he would support the amendment if hard- ship was interpreted to mean that the owner of the vehicle had no on -site parking place forthe vehicle. Mayor Eyerly thought that if the Council accepted a hardship case that the staff, on a permit basis, would have to have some type of a sticker or something which would identify the vehicle and it. would have to be posted on the vehicle. Councilmember Fletcher said she thought the City had an ordinance which prohibited RV's from parking in driveways and that they had to be out of sight. She said that at first the ordinance was strictly enforced and then the City received a petition where the neighbors said the camper was not a nui sance to them and that it should be allowed to stay. The enforcement policy was, therefore, changed to enforce only on a complaint basis. She did not have much sympathy for a camper that did hot fit into a driveway because there were enormous campers; and, on her route home, there were two campers at different locations which periodically parked in the street for extended periods of timer She thought that either RV's and trucks should be banned from.. parking on the street, or not. Vice Mayor Bechtel agreed with Councilmember Fletcher and would vote against the amendment. She urged the Councilmembers to vote against the- amendment. Councilmember Renzel said she was torn because she did not like to see campers and RV's on the street, bat on the other hand, if it was impossible for a property owner to park it on their own prop- erty, she thought a probi em was being ignored if the ordinance was passed. She felt that if any kind of a permit was issued, it "•woulld have to be for that vehicle to be parked in front of the property that was getting the permit. She said that if there was a .compl ai nt about a recreati on vehicle being parked on the street, the Police Department would have to go out and inspect anyway. She did not -think the permit mechanism would cause any additional inspections because the only way to get any enforcement was to have the Police . come out and put a notice ,on the vehicle. She thought that if the City had very stringent criteria --either zero' space or truly inadequate space where the vehicle would ':hang out over the sidewalk --she thought it might be reasonable. She asked ;. the City Attorney if it was necessary to send the ordinance back to staff or could it be approved in concept and the wording ,come., on a second reading.. Ms. Lee suggested that because of drafting the standards and looking into the permits procedures, the matter should come back to Council. Counci Member Renzel thought that if the Council . fou:nd that there were problems with the impossibility _ _ situation, then an_ amendment could be looked into. She thought. the Council should see if they could achieve - compliance through - the ordinance as written. 1 7 8 2 3/15/82 Corrected 4/19/82 Mayor Eyeriy commented that regarding the permit and that it would limit the parking to the address of the home, he was sympathetic to that and if a permit process was developed, he thought that could be incorporated with the posting of the vehicle license number on the sticker. C.ounci lmember Fletcher said if someone obtained a permit to park in front of their own home, what would happen if someone else parked there. SUBSTITUTE MOTION PASSED to refer overnight parking ordinance back to staff by a vote of 4-3, Renzel , Bechtel, Fletcher voting "no," Levy and Witherspoon absent. MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY to approve 72 -hour Parking Ordinance for first reading, Levy .and Witherspoon absent. RECOMMENDED OPPOSITION TO SB 1.326 GOVERNOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET FOR MOTION: Vice Mayor Bechtel moved, seconded by Fazzino, to adopt the staff recommendation to oppose SB 1326 as written and staff to communicate that opposition to the Governor of the State of California, the Senate Committee on Local Government, the State Legislators representing Palo Alto residents and the League of C al i forni a ;Ci ti es , including their concern that they not lose any of the funds which they need very desperately for road maintenance and repair. Councilmember Fletcher said that last Fri day's newspaper contained an article regarding this year's budget and that the Governor was trying to find some funds to balance the budget. She said there was an item whereby $30 million would be added to the revenues by shifting gasoline sales tax money which would ordinar y: be used for future transportation projects. She said the money was to be shifted into the general fund. She said she called Mr. Zaner because she was concerned that that was the type of money cities received for street maintenance and repair, - Counci lmember Cobb said he agreed totally with the the statement in the staff report that "staff believes that permanent, long- range revenue base for cities is needed which returns predicta- bility to local fiscal planning..." He,thought the Council might wish to consider a resolution which requests the City's represen- tatives in the legislature to offer legislation which would accom- plish that kind of a return of power to the local municipalities to have some confidence in their future budget process; and, if such a resolution were passed, other cities should be encouraged to do the saner MOTION. PASSED unanimously, Levy and Witherspoon absent. 'REA,UEST. OF COUNCI.LMEMBER LEVY RE RESOLUTION FOR PALO ALTO HIGH MOTION: Mayor Eyerly moved, seconded by Fletcher, that staff prepare resolutions recognizing the 'outstanding achi evements of the Palo Al to High School Gi rl s' Tennis Team and Gi rl s' Soccer Team. MOTION PASSED unanimously, Levy and Witherspoon absen ADJOURNMENT Council adjourned ATTEST:. APPROVED: 'Mayor Ms. Lee thought that perhaps Council could give staff some stan- dards in terms of what constituted a hardship. City Manager Bill Laner said he thought it would be helpful if, at the Council's direction, staff could go back and prepare what they thought would be appropriate standards. He added that one of the standards would not be what the neighborhood wanted because that would be a system that would be impossible for the Police Department to administer. Councilmember Cobb said he thought that a distinction should be made between a genuine hardship case and someone who just wanted a permit to park their camper in the street. lie said there were people who might have to sell their vehicle because there was no way to park off the street. Councilmember Klein said he would support the amendment if hard- ship was . interpreted to mean that the owner of the vehicle had no on -site parking place for the vehicle. Mayor Fyerly thought that if the Council accepted a hardship case that the staff, on a permit basis, would have to have some type of a sticker or something which would identify the vehicle and it would have to be posted on the vehicle. Councilmember Fletcher said she thought the City had an ordinance which prohibited RV's from parking in driveways and that they had to be out of site. She said that at fi rst the ordinance was strictly enforced and then the City received a petition where the neighbors said the camper was not a nuisance to them and that it should be allowed to stay. The enforcement policy was, therefore, changed to enforce only on a complaint basis. She did not have much sympathy for a camper that did not fit -into a driveway because there were enormous campers; and, on her route home, there were two campers at different ' locati ons which periodically parked in the street for extended periods of time. She _thought that either RV's and trucks should bee banned from parking on the street, or not. Vice Mayor Bechtel agreed with Councilmember Fletcher and would vote against the amendment. She urged the Counci lmembers to vote against the amendment. Councilmember Renzel said she was torn because she did not like to see campers and RV's on the street, but on the other hand, if it was impossible for a property owner to park it on their own prop- erty, she thought a problem was being ignored if the ordinance was passed. She felt that if any kind of a permit was issued, it would have to -be for that vehicle to be parked in front of the property that was getting the permit. She said that if there was a complaint about a recreation vehicle being parked on the- street, the Police Department would have to go out and inspect anyway. She did not think the permit mechanism would cause _ any additional inspections because the only way to get any enforcement was to have the Police come ' o.ut and put a notice on the vehicle. She thought that -if the City had very stringent cri teri a--ei ther zero space or truly inadequate space where the vehicle .would hang out over the -sidewalk --She. thought i t might be reasonable. She asked the City Attorney if it was necessary to send the ordinance back to staff or could it be approved in concept and the wording come on a second reading. Ms. Lee suggested that because_, looking into the permits procedure to_ Council. Counci member Renzel thought that if the Council _:found_- that there 'were problems with the impossibility situation, then an amendment could_ be looked into.' She thought the, Council . should see eif athey could achieve .compliance through `the ordinance as written. drafting the standards and the matter should come back 1 7 -B 2 - 3/15/82 Mayor Eyerly commented that regarding the permit and that it would limit the parking to the address of the home, he was sympathetic to that and if a permit process was developed, he thought that could be incorporated with the posting of the vehicle license number on the sticker. a Councilmember Fletcher said if someone obtained a permit to park in front of their own home, what would happen if someone else parked there. SUBSTITUTE MOTION PASSED to refer overnight parking ordinance back to staff by a vote of 4-3, Renzel, Bechtel, Fletcher voting "no," Levy and Witherspoon absent. MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY to approve 72 -hour Parking Ordinance for first reading, Levy and Witherspoon absent. RECOMMENDED OPPOSITION TO SB-1326 GOVERNOR'S PROPOSED BUDGET FOR I -83) tCMR :190: 2 MOTION: Vice Mayor Bechtel moved, seconded by Pazzino, to adopt the staff recommendation to oppose SB 1326 as written and staff to communicate that opposition to the Governor of the State of California, the Senate Committee on Local Government, the State Legislators representing Palo Alto residents and the League of California Cities, including their concern that they not lose any of the funds which they need very desperately for road maintenance and repair. Councilmember Fletcher said that last Friday ` s newspaper contained an article ' regardi ng this year's budget and that the Governor was trying to find some funds to balance the budget. She said ',there was an item whereby $30 million would be added to the revenues by shifting gasoline sales tax money which would ordinarily be used for future transportation projects. She said the money was to be shifted into the general fund. She said she called Mr. Zaner because she was concerned that that was the type of money cities received for street maintenance and repair. Councilmember Cobb said he agreed totally with the the statement in the staff report that "staff believes that permanent, long- range revenue base for cities is needed which returns predicta- bility to local fiscal planning..." He thought the Council might wish to consider a resolution which requests the City's represen- tatives in the legislature to offer legislation which would accom- plish that kind of a return of power to the local municipalities to, have some confidence in their future budget process; and, if such a resolution were pessed,` other cities should be encouraged, to do the same. MOTION PASSED unanimously,. Levy and Witherspoon` absent. REQUEST OF COUNCILMEMBER LEVY RE RESOLUTION FOR _PALO ALTO HIGH SOCCER 'RAM - MOTIO►i: Mayor Eyerly moved, seconded by Fletcher, that staff prepare resolutions recognizing the outstanding achievements of the Palo Alto High School Girls' Tennis Team and Girls' Soccer Team. MOTION -PASSED unanjeloesly., Ai)JOURNMEMI Witherspoon .absent.