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Adjourned Meeting of July 13, 1981
7:30 p.m.
Regular Meeting, July 20, 1981
ITEM PAGE
Adjourned Meeting of ;July 13, 1981
Palo Alto Tree Task. Force (CMR:341:1)
Project .Mobility Taxicab Service - 1981-82
(CMR:351:1)
Request of Councilmernbers Fletcher and.Fazzino
re Arastra Land Park Dedication
Regular Meeting of July 20, 1981
Oral Communications
Special Orders of the Day
Resolution of the Santa Clara County Associa-
tion of Planning Officers, Commending Naphtali
1i. Knox, Director of Planning and Community
Environment, City of Palo Alto
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Feasibility analysis - Downtown Parking Struc-
ture - Referral to Finance and Public Works
Committee (CMR:338:1)
Downtown Retail Study Consultant Selection
Referral to Finance and Public Works Committee
(CMR:354:1)
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Consent Calendar Action 1 0 8 2
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Ordinance Re Manufactured Homes ;2nd Reading)
Ordinance Re 705 Sari Antonio Road From P -C to
C-8 (2nd Reading)
Planning Commission unanimously recommends approval
of the Application of Robert W., Burnett . for - a
change in Zoning from RM-1 to RM-2 for property
at 185 Bryant
Agenda Changes, Additions and Deletions
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35G-360 Hawthorne, -.351, 357 Bryant Court�Continuance
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PUBLIC HEARING: ` Planning Commission Recommendation
re the Application of Ronald Casentini for a : Tenta
tive Subdivision Map for Property located at
551 Lytton Avenue _ ,�
ITEM PAGE
PUBLIC HEARING: Planning Commission Recommendation re
Application of Robert E. Shepard for a Minor Subdivision
Lot Line Adjustment for property at 736 and 728 Forest
Planning Commission and Architectural Review Board
Recommendation re Application of Ehrlich-Rominger,
Architects for Site and Design Review for an addition
to Hewlett-Packard Building 25 at :;500 Deer Creek Road
Planning Commission Recommendation re Application of
the City of Palo Alto for a Change of District for
Property Known as Lucas Lane from PF to CC and CS -
Ordinance
Resolution Calling General Municipal and Special
Elections for November 3, 1981
Grant of Easement - Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Company - Parking Lot N
Grant of Ec: > 'Went -- Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Company - Foothills Park (CMR:362:1)
Election Matters
a. Ballot Arguments for Special Election, November
3, 1981
b. Candidates' Charges for General Municipal Elections
c. Clustering of Precincts/Ballot Rotation
Report of Assistant City Manager June Fleming re Medfly
Situation
Adjournment
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Adjourned Meeting of July 13, 1981
7:30 p.m.
Regular Meeting, Monday, July 20, 1981
ADJOURNED MEETING OF JULY 13, 1981
The City Council of the City of Palo Alto met on this date in
the Council Chambers at City Hall, 250 Hamilton Avenue, at 7:35
p.m. in the adjourned meeting of July 13, 1981.
PRESENT: Bechtel, Eyerly, Fletcher, Henderson, Klein, Levy,
Renzel, Witherspoon
ABSENT: Fazzino
PALO ALTO TREE TASK FORCE (CMR:341:1)
Staff recommends that -the Mayor appoint a "Tree Advisory Task
Force" as outlined below.
1. The Task Force should consist :.of seven appointed members.
Five of the members should be appropriate professionals with
at least one of those five being a practicing Arborist. The
other four professional appointees should be arborists,
horticulturists, agronomists, fortfstry management profes-
sionals, landscape architects, or other persons with related
professional backgrounds. The remaining two members should
be lay persons. All members of the Task Force should be
residents of the City of Palo Alto.
2. The Task Force should be charged with the responsibility of
obtaining citizen input and Working with City staff to
develop policies, standards, and guidelines for management of
the urban -forest.
3. The Task Force should be terminated upon City Council
acceptance of their recommendations, which should be not
later than May 1, 1983.
4. The Task Force should not be assigned any responsibility for
regulatory functions. The should, however, be considered a
resource for advice to other City bodies which have regula-
tory functions
• The Task Force will be supported by the Public Works Depart-
ment staff. The staff Arborist will be the coordinator and
Task Force Secretary. He or she would not be a vdting member.
of the Task Force.
• The Task Force should conduct regular periodic meetings which
are open to the public.
7. The Task . Force's focus should be on development of an Urban
Forestry ..Management Plan. Cdal s and specific elements of
that plan should include but not be : limited to the fol-
loving:
a. Provide for citizen input to the planning process through
conduct 4f ' public _ meetings, interactions with, citizen
groups and other appropriate means.
Review and: recommend revision, if necessary,
rent Palo Alto; Tree Ordinance.
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d. Review and recommend revision of permit systems as they
apply to trees.
e. Development of a preservation plan for mature trees.
f. Development of a disposal plan or tree harvesting plan,
and associated policies for removal of City -owned trees.
g. Advise concerning a record management system appropriate
for tree management within ,the Ci ty of Palo Alto. Note
this does not necessarily mean a requirement for a com-
plete inventory of all City trees.
h. Encourage education concerning City tree preservaion and
care.
i. Develop a means for providing expert opinion concerning
trees and forestry management within the, City of Palo
Alto to such bodies as. the Planning Commission,
Architectural Review Board, and City Council.
Erica Prince, 302 College Avenue, thanked the staff for working
in cooperation with the tree committee on the Tree Task Force
proposal. She was happy that that type of commission was going
to be implemented. She felt it was important that there be a
better balance between people in tree -related professions and
people in other professions. She felt public education was going
to be an important part of the commission's work so that people
like teachers and environmental educators, artists, and writers
would be important to the commission. She suggested that the
Council change the balance from 5 tree -related persons and cwo
others to.4 tree -related persons and 3 others. She also thought
that if the City Council wished to keep the task force in force,
it should not have to terminate the task force upon acceptance of
a recommendation. Regarding the responsibility for regulatory
functions, she thought the group should meet with the City
Forester to determine what types of things they would be doing. ;.
Councilmember Levy asked why a 5-2 split was recommended between
professionals and lay people on the Task Force.
Assistant City Manager June Fleming, said that the ratio had
been discussed with the Tree Comriittee and they had endorsed the
figure.
Director of Parks and Open Space Management, Larry White, said
that the split was,; to assure that the City had people on the tree
advisory task force that could advise the staff on any technical
things to do with trees, and any other problems in forumulating
policies of the master plan for tree management in t :Ie City. He
said to have professionals :residing in the City of Palo Alto on
the task force would be the best of all ,worlds for staff to work
wi th,
MOTION: Councilmember Levy moved, seconded. by Witherspoon, to
approve the staff recommendation.
Councilmember Levy said that trees were very important to the.
quality of life in Palo Alto and he thought everyone recognized
that. The 5-2 : relationship of : professionals and lay people
concerned him slightly, but he thought that since all of the
members of the task force would be residents of Palo Alto, they
were talking about public =spirited citizens who would ..al o in
large part be professionals, and, therefore, he could ,live with
it, The fact - that there was a sunset clause that .,the Tree Task ..
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Force would terminate when their recommendations were presented
to the City Council, which should be by 1983, was satisfactory to
him. At that point, the task force could be evaluated and its
life extended or phased into a permanent committee. He pointed
out that Councilmember Fazzino was instrumental in moving the
Task Force concept ahead and commended him. for that.
Councilmember Bechtel asked about the proces$1' by which the
appointments would be made. She wanted to make sure that there
would be some type of an application procedure so that if a mem-
ber of the public were interested in serving, they might be able
to apply. Further, she said she was sympathetic to the request
of Erica Prince regarding the balance of .the committee. She said
that sometimes it was difficult to find the exact balance due to
resignations, etc. She hoped the Council could aim for a balance
of lay and professional people, and she would like to see the
professional people include educators with an amendment to that
affect.
AMENDMENT: Councilmember Bechtel moved, seconded by'Renzei, to
change No. 1 of the recommendation to read: "1. The Task Force
should consist of seven appointed members. There should be a
balance between lay persons and professionals. All members of
the Task Force should be residents of the City of Palo Alto."
Councilmember Klein supported the amendment and thought that when:
committees such as this were being set up, it was not a good idea
to be locked into five of one category and three of another cate-
gory. He thought the Council should preserve flexibility with
the goal in mind to have a significant number of professionals as
well as the background and viewpoint of the lay citizen of the
community.. He asked about .the rationale of having the Mayor
appoint the Committee aid not the Council.
Ms. Fleming said that it did not set a precedent. She said that
this was the method used in. appointing members to the South Bay,
Cooperative Library Systems, and at the time that route was taken
upon the advice of the City Attorney's Office.
Councilmember Witherspoon noted that the Veterans' Building
Committee was- another committee appointed in this manner. She
said it had been the practice for appointing ad hoc committees.
City Attorney, Dorn Mayor, said that under the Code, the Mayor had
the authority to make such appointments except for certain
specific commissions and boards, to which the appointments must
be made by the City Council:.
Councilmember Renzel said that with the Historic Resources Board;
which was a permanent Board, a subcommittee of the Council inter-
viewed all applicants and then made a recommendation to the
council. She agreed with the ``amendment for the balance between
professionals and lay people and felt it was a much more flexible.
way for the Council to deal with the situation, and would not
result in the Committee being overwhelmed by professional
people.
Councilmember Witherspoon endorsed the idea and the: amendment.
AMENDMENTJPASSED unanimously, Fazzino absent.;
AMENDMENT: Councilmember: Bechtel moved, that on page . 2,' 'item 3,
change' -`the word "terminated" to "evaluated" and add at the end,
"to determine whether the Task Force _should. continue."
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Mayor Henderson pointed out that regarding ad hoc committees, the
idea was for the committee to exist for a given period; then, if
Council wished to have a regular commission or committe, that
action would be taken. He felt that if deadlines were not set,
the work goes or, and never reaches a focal point.
Councilmember Bechtel said that she wanted to leave it so that
Council would not be stuck having to continue the task force, but
that it was .not so definite that it must be ended. Further, she
said she had received °a telephone call from Katherine Stegman who
was relating Albert iii i eon' s request that the Task Force be
renamed a committee.
Ms. Fleming reassured Councilmember Bechtel that staff's inten-
tion was not to close Council's options for having some group
continue actively. The focus was to bring this task to comple-
tion and then allow Council to make a decision after having seen
the task `force's work She said there was concern that perhaps
the -task force would function better if they had some time lines
and parameters in which to work, but it was not staff's intention,
to say that completion of the task would be the end of citizen
involvement.
Vice Mayor Fletcher would not support the amendment to say that
the Task Force's work would be evaluated to determine whether, it
should continue. She felt it .sounded as though if they did a
good job, the Task Force would be continued; and if not, the Task
Force would be terminated. She thought that to set the lask
Force up in that manner with the original clause, left in, would
leave the door. open for changing the make-up or direction of the
Task Force, and .Council could decide at any time whether it
wanted to continue or in what format
Councilmember Klein also would not support the amendment. He
felt it was useful for the Council. 'to have some set ;provisions
and thought that before Council made anything a permanent part of
the City, there should be a careful analysis. He did not think
Council should write .i Ito it the idea that it may go on. He felt
the burden should be on those who wish it to be permanent, to
come forward at that time and make a case.
Councilmember Levy agreed:. with Vice Mayor Fletcher and Council -
member Klein that the way : the clause was stated gave the Council
better flexibility.
City Attorney, Don Maynor, read from the Code, the rule on
appointment for standing committees, "In additiqn to standing
committees, the Mayor may, . subject to approval of the Council,
appoint such other special committees, of Councilmen, private
citizens or both, as he deems necessary and desirable to assist
and advise the City Council in its work."
AMENDMENT FAILED by, a vote of.. 6-g, Renzel
"aye," Fazzino absent.
and Bechtel voting
MOTION AS AMENDED PASSED unanimously, Fdzzino absent.
PROJEGT,240111LITY :TAXICAB SERVICE • 1981.82, (CMRs351 i).,
Staff recommends that Council accept the -revised bids and autho-
rize the Mayor to execute contracts which; reflect the negotiated
bids with Mid -Peninsula Cab Compa`hy-�arid Peninsula Cab Leasing Co.
for Project Mobility service in ..196.1-82.
Councilmember- Klein: was concerned 4toot the bidding process and
wanted to hear more ,about it' from the City Attorney. It seemed
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to him that the process was highly unusual and he wanted reassur-
ance as to what staff was doing and whether it was a fair and
appropriate procedure.
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Mr. Maynor said that the reason for the renegotiated contract was
because the original bidding process was not fair in that the
award of the bid to two contractors was not anticipated in the
original bid package. He said that the Code provided that staff
did not have to necessarily award a bid, they could be thrown
out, and that was what was done. Further, he said the Code also
provided that staff did not have to go to bid if they felt that
going out to bid would be "impracticable, unavailing, or impos-
sible. He said staff's position was that to go out to bid again
would have been impracticable and unavailing. Mr. Maynor said he
suggested to staff that they attempt to renegotiate the contracts
with the bidders along the same lines as their bid. He said that
staff was able to renegotiate contracts which were better, for a.
lower- price, than the original bids. He said he felt comfortable
that the bidding process was kept in tact and that the purpose
was served. He said that staff was concerned about having. two
different rates because it would not be fair to the public
because they would not know which was the. lowest.
Councilmember Klein asked if other potential bidders who were not
part of the negotiations treated fairly.
Mr. Maynor said they had an opportunity to bid originally and
only two cab companies bid, and that was why they felt that to go
out to bid again would serve no useful purpose.
MOTION: Councilmember Klein moved, seconded by Fletcher , to
approve the staff recommendation.
AWARD OF RENEGOTIATED CONTRACTS
1. Mid -Peninsula Cab Company
2. Peninsula Cab Leasing Co.
MOTIDH PASSED unanimously, Fazzino absent.
REQUEST OF COt;NCILMEMBER �LETCFIER AND FAllIP O RE ARASTRA LAND
Vice Mayor Fletcher conveyed that Councilmember Faz ino.felt a
sense of urgency to dedicate the Arastra Land. She said that
Council had made it very clear that it intended to keep the 438
acres South of Arastradero in open: space when the study of the
remaining 77 acres for possible suitablility for housing was com-
missioned. Since the Council was committed to keeping the land
in open space, she and .Councilmember Fazzino felt it was appro-
priate to dedicate . that land as open space and demonstrate to the
community that that was what was going to remain.
MOTION: Vice Mayor" Fletcher mowed, seconded by Klein, to direct
the City Attorney to draft a park Dedication Ordinance for the
Arastra Property excluding the 77 acres currently under study,
with provision ;,included in dedication ": ordinance transferring
density capability of dedicated parcel to 77 acre parcel.
Proviso would not require that 77 acre parcel be developed at the
higher density, but would permit it.
Mayor Henderson asked Mr Maynor if this coilid be done without
jeopardizing the City's ability to cluster tomes on the 77 acres:
if that was the Council's _decision.
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Mr. Maynor said he thought the most appropriate way to -protect
the ability to develop the 77 acres would be to include a- provi-
sion in_the dedication ordinance which would specifically mention
that Council wished to transfer the density capability to the 77
acre parcel not necessarily that it had to be developed to that
density, but at least have the ability and specifically tie that
density transfer to the dedication itself of the larger parcel.
From a legal standpoint, he said he preferred to see it done in
the same ordinance. He said Council, always had the ability later
to rezone the 77 acres to a -higher density in the event that a`
density transfer was ineffective, but it might be difficult to do
as a practical matter. He Said he would recommend the problem be
dealt with in :the Park Dedication -Ordinance if that was what
Council wished to do.
Councilmember Eyerly said that the original assignment to the
staff was to study the feasibility of the 77 acres for housing so
that the: City could recapture its investment in the property, but
further, he said it included _a provision to study other acres
within the property that might be . suitable for clustered housing.
He did not understand which 77 acres were being spoken to.
Vice Mayor Fletcher said that Council's direction to staff
changed the original suggestion to specifically exclude all but
the 77 acres. She said the 77 acres were north of Arastradero
Road. She said the property to which she referred was south of
Arastradero Road,
Director of Planning and Community Environment, Ken Schreiber,
said that was correct. He said Council made that change When the_
consultant contract went through for approval.
Larry Faber, 3127 David Avenue, said some citizens were forming a
group called The Palo Alto Horsemen's Trail Preservation and they
were interested in the property. He said they were hoping to
bring to Planning Commission and Council suggestions on what they
thought should be d ne with the property. He said he objected to
the City was being locked into the 77. acres on the grounds that
that would: open up Stanford to develop :right next to it on the
Lakeside Properties. He thought the property in the barn- area
where the road turned to dirt or ;ravel would be better for the
development proposed by Council. He proposed from that road west
to .the bottom of the hill be developed .on both sides. He thought
there -was sufficient acreage to develop what Council wanted and
it would leave the rest of: it as continuous open space .from 280
to the open space preserves above Los Trancos and Montebello
Ridge. He said if the dedication were clone' now, the Council
would lock themselves oat of that possibility and he thought it
was premature. He recommended that since there was a staff study
currently, and he presumed_. they would put together a use and map
plan for the property, that Council wait until they got that
-first so that they, had an idea of how they wanted to ruse that
land, for --what, and in what'manner, before they decided. to dedi
cate it for anytring,
Rose Gray, 1235 Hamilton Avenue, Chapter.. Chair of the LomaTrieta
Chapter of the Sierra Club. She said the Loma Prieta Chapter of
the Sierra Cl ube had, always 'gone on, record in support of open
space protection of the natural environment. Ti)eye viewed the
retention of open space and preservation of the natural foothills
as. a -necessity not a luxury which mandated careful ,scrutiny. She
said the .,potential for trail exktensions and -connections into a
regional -trail :system:. in the foothills needed to be emphasized.
She said the, Sierra Club requested that the Counci t dedicate the
.entire 515 acres of Arastra as open space Parkland. She -said
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they were aware that the Council had designated consultants to
study the possible development of 77 acres of the Arastra land.
She said they were concerned about the possible development and
had voiced there concerns at the meetings they had had with the
consultants. They primarily believed that a planned housing
development would set a precedent and invite further urbanization
in_ the surrounding property. They felt it would also intercept
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hills. They were concerned that the type of dwellings being pro-
posed would not substantially affect the housing shortage as they
would be priced well out of the reach of lower and middle income
families. According to the Livingston/Blaney report, she said it
would cost Palo Alto taxpayers less to keep the foothills in
their natural state than to develop it and have to provide City
services. She said a positive policy toward protection of
natural resources was needed because once the foothills were
developed, there would be no turning around and no regeneration
of land would be possible. They. urged land use control by dedi-
cating the 515 acres as open parkland. She said there was poten-
tial to earn a greater interest on the investment by conserving
the land.
Nonette. Hanko, -3172 Emerson Street, thanked Councilmembers
Fazzino and Fletcher for placing the matter on the agenda. [n
her opinion, the City as a'. -whole received quite a -buy when the
previous Council had negotiated the settlement for the property.
She felt that the Council could accept Mr . Maynor's recommenda-
tion. She said she would like to see at least the_ southern por-
tion -dedicated.
Councilmember Witherspoon would not support the motion because
she did not understand the sense of urgency. She felt the
Council was very dedicated to keeping at least the 500 in open
space and that the reason for having the study on the 77 acres
was because of the pressure from citizens n the community to buy
some of the surplus school- sites,, She reminded everyone that the
study for possible development ias for an alternative means of
raising money. She further reminded the Council that at the time
of the controversy of the Arastra . settlement , the public was
promised that when the Council .was out of the woods as far as -all
of the other lawsuits were oncerned, extensive hearings and
extensive public input would be had. Further, she reminded the
Council that there was a very -strong element of the community who
felt the. City should recoup their money by developing the entire
land. She felt there should have more public input. She said
she felt the entire Council was all for keeping as much of the
land, maybe all of it, in open space and _felt that the new
Council would feel the same way.
Councilmember Eyer1y was sensitive to Councilmember Witherspoon's
comments, but was confused as to what was done by the Council.
He asked staff what the Council was to receive from the study.
Mr. Schreiber responded that his recollection was that Council
had adopted a policy that the 438 acres would be used for open
space purposes. It was not dedicated for open space, but a
policy was adopted. Further, he said regarding the 77 acre par-
cel, the future uses would either be housing, open space, or some
combination of those two uses. He said that to that : end, the
City entered into a consultant contract which would provide the
Commission and Council with detailed evaluation of the site,.
alternative developmont possibilities, including a number of dif-
ferent ranges of units and types of development, and the
economics that -could go with the alternatives ae\far as return to
the City. He said the information would come back to Council in
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preliminary form on August 10 for a joint meeting of the Planning
Commission and City Council. That material would be finalized
by the consultant and would be subject to hearings by the
Commission in September or early fall. The Council would prob-
ably have the report by October or early November.
Councilmember Cyerly felt it was premature to dedicate property
and he preferred to keep the options open. He did not see any
Councilmember'doing anything with the expansive property other
than open space and also did not see the urgency.
Councilmember Renzel said that, although they knew the consultants
report would be back, she thought that the entire Council was
unanimous in saying it did not wish to develop .the 400 plus acres
on the south side of Arastradero Road. She said that the motion
basically asked the- attorney to draft an ordinance to return to
.the Council along with the consultant's material. She thought it
made sense to get- the process under way since everyone wished the
major portion of the property dedicated. She -preferred to see
the entire property dedicated, but felt it was important to have
the results of the study.
Councilmember Levy thought everyone basically agreed that the 438
acres would be dedicated for parkland --and it was a -question of
moving. forward on what everyone had agreed was a wise course of:
action. He said there may have been some community -feeling some
time ago, but he sensed no community feeling at present other
than the 438 acres should be set aside as parkland and that a
good portion of the 77 acres, if not all, should also be dedi
cated as parkland. He felt the Council was not doing something
out of a sense of urgency, but moving ahead in a logical manner,
Councilmember Bechtel agreed with Councilmembers Levy and Renzel.
She preferred to see the entire 500 plus acres dedicated and
would support the motion as suggested. The only sense of urgency
she heard .from the community was to get the park open to the
public and accessible. She said it was a fantastically good buy
and supported the motion.
Mayor Henderson said his only concern originally was that there
night be a better piece of property for development on the south
side. He had been concerned .that if there was a possibility of
up to 51 units of housing, it be put on the most suitable part of
the land. He said that the Council had voted not to consider
anything except the 77 acres north of Arastradero, and if the
remainder of the land was protected and would not be considered
for housing, .then he was i.n `favor of dedicating it as soon as
possible.
Mr. Schreiber commented that in the park dedication process,
staff was concerned ab'out protection of a ,potential easement in
utility development in the future. He said it might be the most
economical and 'aesthetic solution to use part of the 438 acres
for utility services, which he. said the Council could discuss
further on August 10. Further, he said that a decis4,on to
dedicate the land would also be a decision to terminate the -
residential use of the house already on the property. He said,
that the City cot rently ,rented that house and the Council would
then need to . consider whether the house should be destroyed or
should the ` house go into some other type of park use.
Mayor Henderson commented that the house could be tetai ned for
some sort of interpretive center or some type of headquarters
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for park staff.
Councilmember Renzel asked i; the dedication could not be des-
cribed as including one habitable house that could continue to be
used in that way. She thought the Council could vote exceptions
after an ordinance had been adopted and did not understand why in
the adoption of the ordinance inclusion of the house as a habit-
able dwelling could not be considered.
MOTION PASSED by a vote of 6-2, Eyerly and Witherspoon voti,g
"no," Fazzino absent.
ADJOURNMENT
MOTION: Councilmember Klein moved, seconded by Fletcher,
adjourn the meeting of July 13.:
MOTION PASSED unanimously, Fazzino absent.
Adjournment of July 13, 1981 meeting at 8:30 p.m, on July 20,
1981.
8&aL? a.C_ j e e t i r o
Mond•y, 1uly 20. 1981
PRESENT: Bechtel, Eyerly, Fletcher, Henderson, Klein,
Levy, Renzel, Witherspoon
ABSENT: Fazzino
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
None
SPECIAL ORDERS OF THE DAY
RESOLUTION OF THE SANTA ,CLARA COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF PLANNING
Mayor Henderson presented the resolution to Mr. Knox. Mr. Knox accepted the resolution and thanked the Council.
APPOINTMENT OF TWO PLANNING COMMISSIONERS
Mayor Henderson read the names of the. applicants. The applicants
were: Virgil R. ,Carter, Patricia P. Cullen, Lawrence P. Faber,
Jr., Robert G. Moss. Hal W. Plotkin, Eros M. Resmini, Jbhn R.
Shelton, and Helene, S. Wheeler.
City Clerk, Ann Tanner, announced the tally for the first
position:
COUNCILMEMBER
Witherspoon
Levy
Bechtel
APPLICANT
Carter
Cullen
Cullen
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COUNCILMEMBER APPLICANT
Henderson
Fletcher
Klein
Renzel
Eyerly
Cullen
Cullen
Cullen
Cullen
Carter
Ms. Tanner announced that Ms. Cullen received C votes; Carter
received 2; Cullen reappointed.
COUNCILMEMBER
Levy
Witherspoon
Bechtel
Henderson
Fletcher
Klein
Renzel
Eyer ly
APPLICANT
Wheeler
Carter
Wheeler
Wheeler
Wheeler
Wheeler
Wheeler
Car ter
Ms, Tanner announced that Ms. Wheeler had 6 votes; Carter
received 2 votes; Wheeler reappointed.
Mayor Henderson announced that Councilmember Fazzino had
telephoned him from Boston and asked him to say that if he were
voting he would have cast :cis votes for Cullen and Wheeler.
Councilmember Renzel commented that in the interview process,
there were a number of highly qualified applicants and also a
couple of highly qualified incumbent Planning Commissioners. She
hoped that the applicants who .did. go through the process would
not be discouraged from doing it again.
CONSENT CALENDAR
Councilmember Levy removed Item #11, Ehrlich-Rominger Site and
Design Review application be removed, Vice Mayor Fletcher removed
Item #10, Zone change application of City of Palo Alto for Lucas
Lane; Councilmember Eyerly removed Items #7, Grant of Easement to
PT&T for Parking Lot N; Item #8, Grant of ' Easement to PT&T for
Foothills Park; and Item #12, Resolution calling General
Municipal and Special Elections for November 3, 1981.
MOTION: Council'inember. Witherspoon moved, seconded by Levy, to
approve the zonsent calendar as amended.
Referral
FEASIBILITY .ANALYSIS DOWNTOWN PARKING STRUCTURE , - REFERRAL TO
Council refers this matter _ to the Finance and Public Works
Committee.
DOWNTOWN RETAIL STUDY
Council refers
Committee.
CONSULTANT SELECTION! - REFERRAL TO
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Action
ORDINANCE RE MANUFACTURED HOMES (2nd Readin
ORDINANCE 3291 entitled "ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF:PALO ALTO AMENDING THE ZONING CODE (TITLE
18) OF THE PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE TO PERMIT INSTALLA-
TIONS OF MANUFACTURED HOMES ON LOTS ZONED FOR SINGLE-
FAMILY DWELLINGS" (1st reading 7/6/81, passed 9-0)
ORDINANCE RE 705 SAN ANTONIO ROAD FROM P -C T 0 C-S ,2nd- Read i
ORDINANCE 3292 entitled "ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF PALO ALTO AMENDING SECTION 18,08.040 OF THE
PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE (THE ZONING MAP) TO CHANGE THE
CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY KNOWN AS 705 SAN ANTONIO
FROM P -C TO C -S" (1st reading 7/6/81, Passed 8-0,
Renzel absent)
PLANNING COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE
APT L 14 '
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ORDINANCE FOR FIRST READING entitled "ORDINANCE OF THE
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO AMENDING SECTION 18.08
OF THE PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE (THE ZONING MAP) TO
THE CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY KNOWN AS 185 BRYANT ST
FROM RM-1 TO RM-2"
`MOTION PASSED-- unanimously, Renzel voting "no," on Item #6,
Ordinance re 705 San Antonio- Road from P -C to C -S, Fazzino
absent.
AGENDA CHANGES ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS
Assistant City Manager, June Fleming, advised :.that Item #11, -
Application of Ehrlich-Rominger for Site and `Design Review at
3500 Deer ' Creek Road would become Item .15-A; Item 41.0 -..City of
Palo Alto Application for Change in Zoning for Lucas Lane would
become Item 1.5-B; Itei .#12, Resolution Calling General Municipal
Election and Special Elections for.November 3, 1981 would become
Item 15-C; Item #7, Grant of Easement • Pacific Telephone -
Parking Lot N would become Item 1.5-D; and Item #8, Grant of Ease-
ment - Pacific Telephone - Foothills Park would become 1.5-E.
Mayor Hender son announced that he had 'a request for a continuance
of Item #14, Public Hearing for a `tentative -subdivision may for
property_at 350-360 Hawthorne Avenue and 351, 357 Bryant Court.
MOTION: Mayor Henderson moved, seconded by Renzel, to bring item
#14 forward.
350-360 HAWTHORNE, 351, 357 BRYANT ,.COURT - CONTINUANCE TO
MOTION: Mayor Henderson moved, Seconded by Klein, to continue
Item #14, Public Hearing for approval of a tentative subdivision
map at 350-360 Hawthorne Avenue and 351, 357 Bryant Court, until
August 17, 1981.
MOTION PASS
PUBLIC.. HEARING: PLANNING COMMISSION BY A VOTE OF 5 IN FAVOR, 0
UPPUSEI) I ABS I EN I IUN I'LCUMMENU5 AP RUVAL OF THE APFL1-CATION OF
1 LYTTON AVENU
MOTION: Vice Mayor Fletcher moved, seconded by Witherspoon, to
approve the Planning Commission recommendation.
Councilmember Klein advised that he would not be participating in
this Item because his firm represented Mr. Casentini.
Counci1member Renzel asked for .clarification that the request
only related to 551 Lytton Avenue and not the parcel adjacent.
Director of Planning and Community Environment, Ken Schreiber,
said that was correct,
Councilmember Bechtel said that at the Planning Commission
meeting, Mr. Casentini mentioned that he planned to move the
existing house to another location, and she wondered if he
had a site to which to move the house.
Ron Casentini, 380 Escobar, Portola Valley, said they had not
found a suitable house for the residence.
Counci lmernber Bechtel asked if the house had been advertised for
availability.
Mr. Casentini said no, he felt that was premature. _
Mayor Henderson declared the public hearing open, and .'eceiving
no requests to speak, he declared the public hearing closed.
MOTION PASSED by a vote of 7-0-1, Klein abstaining, Fazzino
absent..
PUBLIC HEARING: _ PLANNING COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS
Mayor Henderson declared. the public hearing open, and receiving
no requests to speak, declared the public hearing closed.
Counciimember Renzel said she thought staff report made it clear.
that the land transfer would reduce the four units that could be
built on the site down to three. She thought it would have a
positive impact.
MOTION: Counci1member Renzel moved, seconded by. Klein, to_.
approve the Planning Commission recommendation.
Counci`lmnember
parcel B.
Robert E. Shepard, 728 Forest Avenue, said that the garage was
open ended and one could go down the driveway, through the garage
and into parcel Bo so that there was access through the garage.
He said it was_ a two -car garage, that two" cars could. go on the
right side and the left side was maintained as a right-of-way.
Witherspoon asked
how one would one get access ,to
Councilmember Witherspoon asked staff if that satisfied the Fire
Department.
Mr. Schreiber said that the current configuration of the lots
plus the two houses satisfied the Fire Department. He said that
if there were an application for another structure in the back,
that would -have to be reviewed by the Fire Department.
Councilmember Witherspoon asked for clarification that at this
time the Council was approving the lot split, but would not
promise that the back lot could be developed.
Mr. Shepard said that he had no plans to place a building on the
back lot. He said if the situation arose, he would have to
remove the garage or whatever the City required. -
MOTION PASSED unanimously, Fazzino absent.
PLANNING COMMISSION BY A VOTE OF 5 IN FAVOR 0 OPPOSED x
8S N IO D RCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD, BY A VOTE OF 4 IN
V0R, S U; RtC MEi'1D APPRt'VAL, WITH CONDITIONS. OF THE
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Councilmember Levy asked about the amount of parking related to
the amount of employment. It looked to him that Council was
approving an inordinate amount of parking which would give the
opportunity for Hewlett Packard to employ substantially more
people that they were planning to. He asked for clarification
that there were 200 people employed at the facility, and 185
par king stalls. He said the proposal was to add 350 employees,
but to add 950 parking stalls. He wondered why it was necessary
to approve more than the first stage of parking, which would be
456 Stalls, and not have to go in and approve the potential to
build the parking edifice-.
Mr . Schreiher advised that. the zoning ordinance required a
certain relationship of parking to square footage it was not
related -to the proposed use of the site. He said that in this
case, the applicant, under the zoning ordinance, was required to
show that they would be able to provide all parking_ required by
the crdinance. He said they were showing that, and that was the
950 spaces. He said they were not proposing to develop all of
those spaces, but were holding over 40O spaces in a reserve.
Under the zoning ordinance they were required to show the ability
to house the par king spaces if they were ever needed.
Councilmember Levy asked if the applicant would have to come bare,k
to Council if they wanted to take the parking spaces out - of
landscape reserve or could they just do it when they wanted.
Mr. Schreiber, said that the decision to take Perking out of land-
scape reserve would be made by the Chief Building Official on the
basis of identified problems. He said that whatever parking was
then developed would have to be reviewed and approved by the ARB
n terms of des i gn, landscaping, etc. However, he said that the
basic approval of the parking °,:in the Site and Design: provisions
of the zoning ordinance would occur' at this time.
Councilmember Levy said he would like to be able to hold the
approval of the extra 400 plus parking stalls at the Council
level and wondered how it could be done. He asked if the :'Council
could approve the proposal without the 404 extra parking stalls,
or could the Council hold the right to approve the construction
of the parking building when necessary.
City Attorney, Don Mayor, said the ordinance would have to be
looked at.
Councilmember Renzel said that on page 2 of the staff report,
under building coverage, it said 12.7%, 139,500 square feet, and
under purpose on page 1, it said it would be a 233,200 _ square
foot addition. She said she thought there was an approximately
15% lot coverage.
Mayor Henderson said that was because it was multiple stories.
Councilmember Renzel said that under -drainage in the [IR section,
on page 5, it said the storm drain lines. appeared to be adequate,
but would have to be confirmed by analysis by the applicant's
engineers. She asked what would happen if the drain lines were
not adequate.
Mr. Schreiber said that the solution would have to be worked out
with the Public Works Department. It would be the applicant's
responsibility to not overload the system.
Councilmember Renzel said that .the current problems with the
industrial draining into the Barron Park Creek were serious,, that
At had caused erosive there, and if the systems capacity were
overloaded where it.;emptied into the creeks fore the drainage
b.eain there would be 'serious problems. She did riot think anyone
wanted to see the creeks in Barron Park cemented in and she
wanted to be certain that this was covered because they were
getting a negative declaration which suggested that all the
impacts had been addressed.
Mr. Schreiber said staff's - understanding was that there was
likely to be no problem, but confirmation was necessary from the
applicant and the Public Works Department.
Councilmember Renzel asked if as a standard rule catch basins
were required on the parking lot on the storm drainage systems or
would that have to be specified. She said there had been prob-
lems with oil and chemicals being dumped into storm sewers and
she would like . to see that problem taken care of .
Joe Ehrlich of Ehrlich-Rominger Architects said that virtually
all of the building sites and the parking areas to the left_ was
already paved so that the only increase in run off would be the
parking area on the left side of the parcel. The significant
amount of -increase drainage was minimal. He said the ,parking
lots had catch basins which was a matter of policy on the pro-
ject.
Mr . Maynor; said ..there was: a specific pr ov i s iean in the ordinance
,.in which the Chief Building Official was delegated the ability to
make the decision regarding:the extra parking stalls. He said
the Council could require that before the Chief Building Official`
made the decision,lt in the event the deferred par kl ng were_. neces-
sary, that the matter 00 back to Council for further discussion.
Mr. Ehrlich said that the parking reserve structure Was a way of
complying ., with the - ordinance_ .in order to preserve most" of .'the
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sites along Deer •[reek without any additional parking. He said
that the building was a laboratory building and was capital
intensive and relatively low occupancy. He said there was no
intention on the part of Hewlett Packard to develop the addi-
tional parking area. He said it had been designed to comply with
the City requirements for a "parking reserve." He said they had
no objection to any constraints because there was no intention to
add the additional parking. He said the number of people who
could fit into the building with the kind of equipment in the
laboratory was handled by the 500 p1 us parking shown on the site
without the structure.
Councilmember Levy asked if there would be any objection to
deleting the parking structure from the plans.
Mr. Ehrlich said they would be pleased.
Councilmember Levy asked staff if it were possible to approve the
project with the deletion of the parking structure.
Planning Commission Chairman, Fred Nichols, said that the
Comi ssi on was concerned with Lots G and H because if the parking
structure was no built first, it would be a temptation to move to
G & H because it would not require a massive capital investment
in a parking structure.
Mr. Maynor said that the deferred obligation was an alternative
to meeting the parking requirements. He said that in order to
reduce the parking requirements, the City would have to grant a
variance which would require going through the variance proce-
dure, which could not be done at that meeting. He said the
deferred parking obligation was a fulfillment of the parking
requirements of the Municipal Code.
Mr. Ehrlich said they would prefer not to institute a variance
procedure on the project. They felt they had complied with the
ordinance and stated their intention in terms of the function of
the building, and looked to the Council for whatever guidance
short of instituting an entire variance application procedure.
Councilmember Levy said the purpose of his questions was to
attempt to limit the amount of total employment .possible at that
facility. He was concerned if there was a great deal more
parking, it would be possible to intensify the employment at a
Later date even if -there was no intent to do so now. He thought
that the best the Council could do at that point, in order to
meet that objective, would be to require the zoning administrator
to report to the Council prior to the approval of any parking
structure on the facility.
MOTION: Coun�ci imember Levy moved, seconded by Klein, approval .of
the Tanning' Commission recommendation with .:the condition that
any expansion of the parking would have ,to come from the Chief
Biiilding Official through the City Council for approval before it
could become effective.
Vice Mayor Fletcher said that the purpose of`�:= i e i ng, the number of
parking spaces tothe square -footage was because the- building use.
could change and d unless there was " a limit- on the number of
employee.3 per square foot, any succeeding occupant of the
building might pave over some of the landscape' area which, might
not be preferable.
Councilmember Renzel asked for clarification that the landscapes
reserve would stay in as a requirement and the .amendment made by
Councilmember Levy would run: it by the. Council before the
reserved spaces could be put into operation, so that it would not
diminish any requirements.
Mr. Schreiber said it would not diminish any requirements, that
it would require the Council be notified as opposed to being put
on an agenda for Council approval.
Mr. Maynor clarified that the Chief Building Official had been
given the authority to make the decision by the Council. He said
that if Council wanted to amend that authority, they would have
to amend the ordinance.
Counciimember Renzel said she was concerned about the scope of
the project and the continued intensification of the uses in the
industrial parka She said she realized staff worked very hard
with the: developer and everyone tried to mitigate the. impacts.
She felt that the drainage issue had not been fully addressed,
and she would•vote against the motion.
Mayor Henderson said if Council wanted ,to stop that sort of
thing, they would have to rezone that area. He said they had
chosen not to rezone and he did not see how they- could stop
development that was within the zoning which existed.
Councilmember Eyerly agreed with Mayor 'Henderson and felt it
behooved the Council to move along with i t . He would not support
the addition made by Councilmember Levy. He felt uncomfortable
_with the Council being in an advisory capacity and not being able
to take any official action to hold the developer to the Planning
Commission's recommendation for parking. He said it sounded.
okay, and it miyht come down the way Council wished, but that
their hands were somewhat tied. He preferred to leave the
Planning Commission recommendation as it was.
Mr. Maynor said that Council should note that under the ordi-
nance, the Building Official's function was to determine whether
there was a need to require the additional parking. If the need
was there, presumably he would urge that the deferred parking
requirements be met. __
Mayor Henderson said he, felt it was clearly set out in the
policies, that the decision was an administrative duty of the
Building Official, and he did not feel comfortable having the
Council intercede and have it as a special item of advice.
Councilmember Renzel said she felt the Council was bypassing the
straight environmental impact process by . granting a mitigated
negative declaration and that mitigated negative declaration was
supposed to=:fully address all identified environmental impacts.
S`he did not believe that had been done, and did ' nut think it was
possible to do- it without significant amounts of :money. She
thought Council must recognize that zoning alone was not the only.
constraint on their decision.
Mayor Henderson decided to: separate the motion and vote - first on
the requirement that the Building ' Official bring any need for
expanded parking to the Council- for .comment and advice.
AMENDMENT . FAILED by a vote of :.6-2, Renzel and Levy voting "aye,"
fazzino absent
MOTION PASSED to approve Planning Commission _ recommendation by
vote of 7-2, Renzel voting "-no,* Fazzl no absent
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PLANNING COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THE
APPLICATf!N U'P THE CITY OF PALO ALTO FAR 1'c CKA
PROPERTY KNOWN AS LUCAS Lit rROM - ILITT TO CC
Vice Mayor Fletcher said she would like to leave the option open
for the creation of a bikeway along that property. She said it
was one of the proposed bikeways in the Comprehensive Plan which
run parallel to the Southern Pacific tracks behind all the prop-
erties. She asked if legally the City could require an easement
or some other method of keeping the land from being built on.
City Attorney, Don Maynor, said it was hi s understanding that the
application was initiated by the City. He did not think it was
appropriate for the City to initiate the zone change and then
impose conditions on the property owner.
Mr-. Schreiber said the area . known as Lucas Lane., was abandoned by
the City in the 195O's, and through a base map error, the Compre-
hensive Plan designation was Service Commercial .and Completional
Community Commercial, but -the base map used in the. zoning. ordi-
nance update in 1978 continued to show a Lucas Lane and. was
picked up and put in a Public Facilities category as a roadway.
It was brought to staff's attention. some months ago, and they had
other situations like it where it was clearly a graphic and staff
error which resulted in a designation which was not consistent
with the Comprehensive Plan. Staff asked the Planning Commission
to initiate the zone change to bring.it into conformance with the
Comprehensive Plan.
Vice Mayor Fletcher asked ;t that meant there was no way the City
could preserve a right--of-way.
Mr. Maynor said he did not think so under the circumstances.
When the property was developed, it may be a possible condition
of the development. He could not see the City Council requesting
zoning changes and as a, condition of the change, impose that the
property owner give the City an easement.
Mayor Henderson asked Vice Mayor Fletcher if the City had ease-
ments on, all the other properties.
Vice Mayor Fletcher said it had been discussed with Town &
Country on an informal basis. She said it connected with an
overall plan which was intended to tie up with El Camino Bike
Path all the way to Menlo Park on that end, and with a connecting
overpass which was planned by Palo Alto High School over._,
Embarcadero Road and then tie in with Park. Boulevard all the way
through the south end of the City. She said it would be a lost
opportunity if the Council made : a gift of it and it was built
upon and lost all options.
Mayor Henderson asked where it differed from the other proper-
ties. If the City wanted to put a bike path or trail through
there, they world have; to get easements from Town and Country and
everyone else. -
Vice Mayor Fletcher said the other properties were riot as yet
built upon. It was her understanding from discussions with staff
that if the property owner chose, to build on it, there would be
nothing the City _'could - do. She wanted to prevent' that from
'happening. .She said since it was On -the agenda, she felt now was
the Council's opportunity to make . some provision for leaving it
as an easement. She was not sure how to do it legally.
Councilmember Witherspoon said that if Vice Mayor Fletcher wanted
to assure a bikeway, she felt the best way to do it would be to
start putting in easements along the Southern Pacific's right of
way rather than trying to :negotiate with individual property
owners.
Councilmember Renzel suggested that if Vice Mayor Fletcher wanted
to pursue it, maybe the item should be continued for one week and
Council ask staff to discuss with the applicant whether they
would be willing to grant an easement. Then the matter could
come back to Council and they would have the information as to
whether an easement might be negotiated.
MOTION: Vice Mayor Fletcher moved, seconded by Renzel, to
continue the matter until July 27, 1981, and staff to explore_
acquiring an easement.
Mayor. Henderson -said he felt like he was treating someone
different from everyone else.
MOTION FAILED by a vote of 4-4 as follows:
AYES: Renzel , Klein, Bechtel, Fletcher
NOES: Eyer1y, Henderson, Levy, Witherspoon
ABSENT: Fazzino
MOTION: Counc,i 1men ber Wither spoon . moved, seconded by Klein, to
approve the Planning Commission recommendation, and ` introduced
the following ordinance for first reading.
ORDINANCE FOR FIRST READING entitled "ORDINANCE OF THE
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO AMENDING SECTION
18.08.040 OF THE PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE (THE ZONING.
MAP) TO CHANGE THE CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY KNOWN AS
LUCAS LANE FROM PF TO CC AND CS"
Councilmember Renzel thought it would be worthwhile to have staff
explore the possibility of getting an easement.
MOTION PASSED unanimously, Fazzino absent.
MOTION: Councilmember Renzel moved, seconded by Fletcher, that
staff explore with Alta Mesa Cemetery Assocation and Ronald
Williams whether an easement might be dedicated to the City for
purposes of creating a through bikeway ultimately.
Mdyor Henderson asked why the property owners would even think
about an easement when : there weren't si mi 1ar steps happening with
the other properties. He asked . why. ' they would be open to
granting an easement and Town and Country had not nor any of the
othe, . He thought i f the Council were' to move on a bike path,
they had better seek easements on all the properties.
Councilmember Renzel said she_ did not object to staff exploring
the` possibility, but did. not + i sh to' make it a major project.
She thought that since the City . was dealing, with the people and
proper ties now, she thought it made, -sense to explore the
possibilities.
Mayor Henderson clarified that they were not dealing- with. the
property owners. They -were not before the City, that staff :was
trying to clear up an error:
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Mr. Schreiber said he understood there was a question raised of
staff by a property owner of what the zoning was of their
property which lead to why the PE was there.
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Councilmember Levy asked if the parcel was about 1/8 of an acre
and was divided in half, with Town and Country owning one-half
and the other half belonging to someone else. If the City were
going to explore an easement for a bike path, one party the City
would be dealing with would be Town and Country.
MOTION FAILED to explore easements by a vote of 4.4 as follows:
AYES: Renzel, Klein, Fletcher, Bechtel
NOES: Eyerly, Henderson, Levy, Witherspoon
ABSENT: Fazzino
RESOLUTION CALLING GENERAL MUNICIPAL AND SPECIAL ELECTIONS FOR
1112111ELL 3' 19431.
Councilmember Eyerly asked if the City Clerk could give him an
idea of the cost of the sexual orientation .discrimination
ordinance.
City Clerk, Ann Tanner, said the total election would cost around
$25,000, but that they were not certain at this time because it
Was too early to know how many agencies would be consolidating
with Palo Alto and sharing the costs. She said .there was also a
few unknowns in terms of cost of the ballot arguments, printing,
etc. She said the entire ordinance had to be printed` on the
ballot. She said she would be able to give a better estimate in
about three weeks.
Councilmember Eyerly said he would like to have the i.nformat on
whew it was available so that it would be in the packet for
public information. He said that as he read the resolution, it
had three parts --one calling ° for the general municipal. election
for Councilmembers, another part for the sexual orientation
discrimination ordinances and one for a consolidation with other
political bodies. He said he would like to vote against
second part, and wanted to know if Mayor. Henderson wanted to
split it or what.
MOTION: Vice Mayor Fletcher, seconded by Renzel, introduced the
following resolution and moved its approval.
RESOLUTION 5940 entitled "RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF,
THE CITY OF PALO ALTO CALLING ITS GENERAL MUNICIPAL
ELECTION FOR THE ELECTION OF COUNCILMEMBERS CALLING A::
SPECIAL ,ELECTION FOR SUBMITTAL OF AN ORDINANCE TO THE
VOTERS FOR TUESDAY, NOVEBMER 3, 1981, REQUESTING PAR-
TIAL OR COMPLETE CONSOLIDATION WITH ANY OTHER POLITICAL
SUBDIVISION HOLDING AM ELECTION IN THE CITY OF PALO
ALTO. ON THE SAME DAY AND REQUESTING THE SERVICES OF THE
REGISTRAR OF VOTERS FOR SAID ELECTION"
Councilmember Klein asked whether the -:City was still translating
the ballot documents, and if so,; what was its cost.
Ms. Tanner said that the law required that the ballot documents
be translated : and ;.the translation had to be . available in the
office. This would 'cost between $300 and $500. She said that
the voters requesting the Spanish translation were identified at,
the time _ they regi4tered ° to vote. She said : that in Palo Alto'
there were 27 such voters. She said these -+ersans would receive
the Spanish translation in the mail, and the sample ballots would
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state that the information was available for anyone else who
wanted to request. it. She said they would not be printing and
mailing to all of the 38,000 registered voters a bilingual sample
ballot.
Councilmember Renzel said that as she recalled previous Council
discussion, there was an amendment made that the City Council
would be able to amend or repeal the sexual orientation ordinance
by majority vote of the Councilmembers. She said she recalled
that the motion was that the Council would be able to amend and
not repeal the ordinance. She supposed one could amend something
until there was nothing left of it, but did not remember that the
amendment said "or: repeal this ordinance by a vote of the
majority of the Council." She thought it was a dangerous change
to the process of having the voters vote on something if Council
was going to allow a subsequent .Council by a simple majority to
repeal it.
AMENDMENT: Counci lmember Renzel moved, seconded by Henderson, to
amend Section 9.72.100 of proposed Sexual_ Orientation Ordinance
by deleting "or repeal," and add "it can only be repealed by the
majority vote of the electorate."
Counci lmember Renzel asked Mr. Maynor if the Council could made
subsequent amendments to the ordinance so long as the kinds of
amendments contemplated were not inconsistent with the what the
voters had passed.
Mr . Maynor clarified that. Councilrnember Renzel asked if the
Council could make new ordinances which would not be inconsistent
with this ordinance and not violate the requirements that the
ordinance could only : be changed by vote of the people. He said
he would have to see what the changes were, that he could not
just give a general answer, that it would depend on the nature of
the changes.
Mayor Henderson said that reason it came up last week was because
a citizen had spoken and said that trans-sexuals were not
included.
Counci lmember Klein felt that Section 9.72.100 of the ordinance
should be retained. He did not think it was good governmental
procedure to have an ordinance passed by the voters that would
require returning to the voters if technical problems were found
or problems which clearly required amendments. He said the State
level had shown examples of both procedures, i.e. Proposietion 13
contained many inequities which was impossible for legislators to
deal with because it was passed in such a manner that would
require the vote of the people to make any changes. On the other
hand, he said there was the Coastal Conservation Act which spe-
cifically had a provision which : would allow the legislature to
make needed changes even though it was also passed by a vote of
the people. He did not think. the .'City would want to incur the.
expense of going to the voters every time there was 'a_ minor prob-
1 em. He trusted future City Councils to act , in accordance with
the des ees of the people, and; thought it would ,be a brash City
Council that would'use the power granted to amend the ordinance
'in such a manner contrary to the vote of the people. He urged
that it be retained.
Mayor Henderson said'. he was persuaded by Cauncilnernber Klein
argument because it wa's such an emotional ;type-: of ,ordinance He
knew there were a lot of people who - would be opposed, to it if it
passed. He was concerned that with the type : of emotion present,
the .ordinance might .we 1. l get amended and be considerably altered.
He decided to vote .against. the -motion,
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AMENDMENT FAILED by a vote of 6-2,, Renzel and Bechtel voting
"aye," Fazzino absent.
AMENDMENT: Couacilmember Renzel moved, that the, words
repeal" be deleted, and inserted "vote of two-thirds .of
members of the City Council."
AMENDMENT FAILED for lack of second.
AMENDMENT: Councilmember Renzel moved, seconded by Witherspoon,
that the words "or repeal" be deleted under -section 9.72.100.
AMENDMENT PASSED unanimously, Fazzino absent.
AMENDMENT: Councilmember Renzel moved, seconded by Bechtel, to
include "this ordinance can only be repealed upon a majority vote
of the electorate."
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AMENDMENT PASSED unanimously, Fazzino absent.
MOTION PASSED 1) Calling for General Municipal Election; and 3)
Consolidation of Election by a vote of 8-0, Fazzino absent,
MOTION PASSED 2) Submittal of Measure S to Electorate by a vote
of 6-2, Eyerly and Witherspoon voting "no," Fazzino absent.
GRANT OF EASEMENT
-PARK rNG
- PACIFIC TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY- -
Councilmemher Eyerly asked how much disruption there was in
Parking Lot N, how many parking spaces were impacted, and, for
what length of time. He also wanted to know why it was necessary
for the telephone company to go through the City properties, and
where would they go if they .were built up.
Real Property Administrator, Jean Diaz, said as he understood the
plans, which were reviewed by Public Works, the easement itself
did not affect any of the parking stalls. He said it was iri the
landscaped area and the curb area between the parking lot and the
plaza at the corner. He said. the extent of the work would be
trenching to put in the underground facilities and replacing of
the surface material which was affected. He said it should not
take more than a couple of weeks from when work was begun.
Regarding alternate location, 'he said he always, asked that ques-
tion and because of the location of the existing telephone lines,
it would require that the telephone company go all the way around
Emerson and back up to Hamilton and much more extensive trenching
and undergrounding project. He said he was of the opinione that
if the City planned to .do something with the property i n`e the
future, this would mitigate any -adverse' affect that there may be
on City property.
Councilmember Eyerly agreed and thought it was going to take part
of the driveway and the parking. He asked if when a permit was
giver` to proceed with the easement, did the City have the right
to put parameters as to the time .:of disruption. He said he was
concerned because there was so many construction projects that
-just went on and on.
Mr, Diaz said that ...the actual construction permit was issued by
Public Works and that concern could be relayed to them and some.
reasonable time frame -could be worked out He said he knew that
Pacific Telephone was very anxious to put 'the facility in and
were under a great deal of pressure to get it in.
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MOTION: Councilmember Eye( 1 y moved, seconded by Fletcher, to
grant the easement to Pacific Telephone and Telegraph for Parking
Lot N.
MOTION PASSED unanimously', Fazzino absent.
GRANT OF EASEMENT - PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
FOOTHILLS PARK (CMR:36::1)
Councilmember Eyerly asked why it was necessary for the connec-
tion to be made from the Foothills Park lines. He thought there
were undoubtedly lines available in the Lee property and wanted
to know why it was not being taken from something in cloler
proximity.
Mr. Diaz said that in reviewing the request for the grant of
easement, it was clear that any other access for the telephone
lines would be very difficult and would have to come around in a
much more circuitous route. Further, he said it was his belief
that given the conditions, and that it would be totally within
the existing road, except for about 12 feet where it tied into
the corner of the Hewlett property, and with the standard
relocation provisions, there would be no significant adverse
effect on the City's use of the park.'.
Councilmember Eyerly inquired if it had been specifically asked
if it could not be taken .from the Lee proper ty.
Leigh Crawford, Mountain View, Engineering Manager for Pacific
Telephone, said that the facilities in the Lee property were not
adequate presently. She said `there would need to be oui to a bit
of reinforcement in order to serve the Hewlett property.
Councilmember Eyerly asked how long it Would take to complete.
Ms. Crawford said it would go out to bid, and the .bidder would be
told how long they would have to start and complete the project,
which would be contingent on the City's requirements.
MOTION: Councilmember Eyerly moved, seconded by- Wi Cher spoon, to
approve the staff recommendation and approve Grant of Easement to
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph in Foothills Park.
MOTION PASSED unanimously, Fazzino absent.
ELECTION MATTERS:
uallot ,fir uments for S esial Election November. 3, 1.981;
S a recommen
analysis
orney prepare n imparinn
MOTION: Mayor Henderson moved, seconded by Witherspoon, to
direct the City Attorney to prepare a impartial., analysis.
MOTION PASSED unanimously, Fazzino absent.
Councilmember Eyerly said he would life to write.
opposed -to the ordinance re sexual orientation.
Councilmember : Witherspoon said she would also like to join in .and
write an argument opposed =, to : the ,ordinance, and Asked if that .:
" would preclude anyone from the public_ also putting their name on
an argument.
Mayor- Henderson said there could be five signatures total.
Councilmember Levy asked for clarification on shether the Council
i:ad to authorize individual Councilmembers to write the arguments
rather than Councilmembers volunteering to do so.
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City Clerk, Ann Tanner, said that in the past there had not been
a motion from the Council authorizing an individual Councilmember
to participate. Council discussion was . held with individuals
indicating their desire to participate, and it was presumed that
if the rest of the Councilmembers did not object, those indi-
viduals would write an argument.
City Attorney, Don Maynor, said that the Elections Code specif-
ically stated that "any member or members of the legislative body
authorized by that body." He said that placing the ordinance on
the ballot would authorize Councilmember Eyerly to write an
argument against it.
Councilmember.Levy asked if the Council authorized other members
of the public, and: how did theyend up writing an argument.
Ms., Tanner said that in terms pf priority, the City Council as a
body had the first priority, and then any member or members of
the Council authorized by the Council. She said that - Council -
member Eyerly had presumably made his intention public, and
unless a motion was_ made asking hire not to, the Council was
authorizing Councilmember Eyerly to write the argument. She said
there were five signatures allowed, so other Councilmembers or
citizens could join his argument.
Councilmember Eyerly said it was not his intente necessarily to
write the argument, but he was interested in signing the argu-
mentF He said that if someone had to be specifically named to
write the argument, he would ask that Councilmember Witherspoon
write the argument, and that he join her -statement.
Mr. Maynor said if a Councilmember was going to file a written
argument, then they - would aeed--authorization.;
Mayor Henderson did not think, -that was what had been .done in the
past because Councilmembers had filed arguments and had not been
authorized by.. the e Counc i 1 to do i t . He thought -it i t had al ways
been - a volunteer situation.
Councilmember Renzel said it seemed to her that part of it may
have been when there was not a unanimous Council, or when there
were seven members who wished to sign, but there were only five
slots for signatures.
Mr. Maynor asked if he could . clarify this question and return
next week wi th. the answer.
Mayor Hendersonasked if there ,were any other Councilmembers who
wished to participate in writing an argument.
Candidates', Char es for; -General tiunici al Elections.
Mayor Henderson said if was the current policy that there would
not be any election fees charged. If no action was proposed by
Councilmembers, Oat policy would remain.
Clustering of ;Precincts/Ballot Rotat im.'
Councilmember Rental felt that clustering as outlined,created
confusion and considerable extra cost and she agreed with City
Clerk Ann Tanrer's recofinendation that this not be .adopted.
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MOTION: Councilmember Renzel moved, seconded by- Witherspoon,
that Council go on record as not being interested in clustering
of precincts, and introduced the following resolution.
RESOLUTION 5941 entitled "RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF PALO ALTO AUTHORIZING A DETERMINATION BY
LOT OF THE ORDER OF CANDIDATES' NAMES ON THE BALLOT -
NOVEMBER 3, 1981 ELECTION"
MOTION PASSED unanimously, Fazzino absent.
REPORT OF ASSISTANT -_CITY --MANAGER, JUNE FLEMING RE MEDFLY
Assistant City Manager, dune Fleming, said staff had received
instructions from the Medfly Headquarters that citizens should
continue stripping in all areas whether they had been sprayed or
not, and that an enforcement program Was encouraged. She said
staff had started an enforcement program north of Oregon
Expressway because south of Oregon previously did not' have to
strip, and that an enforcement -program south of Oregon Expressway
would be started at a later date. She said firefighters had been
used to this point in enforcement, and that eit had been suce
cessfbl . She said that Palo Alto was one of the few cities Who
had an enforcement program which had been used vigorously. She
said the Medfly people had been very pleased with Palo Alto.
Counci lmernber Renzel asked if » the area Heath of Oregon Expressway
was going to be sprayed.
Ms. Flemming said that there was still a possibility that the area
North of Oregon Expressway would be sprayed, but there was no
date or time set.
Councilmember Bechtel commended the staff for the excellent
organization. She said firefighters had gone to her home over
the weekend to make an inspection. She said she had heard from a
number of citizens who were extremely upset over the conflicting
information they had received. She spoke of some people who had
been sprayed on a night when they were not supposed to have been.
She _wondered if the concern regarding the wee, the program was
being runf•,could be transmitted to the state officials.
Ms. Fleming said she had spoken with the Medfly headquarters that
day after making repeated efforts to contact Jerry Scribner or
someone at that level of the program to voice the City's concern.
that an enforcement program and the -, str i ppi ng be pursued
vigorously. She succeeded in getting through to someone who had
promised her that the message would be ear r ied forward. She said
staff had received a request from two other cities to meet with
Palo Alto to go over the plans Palo Alto had made and to try to
share them so' some model of those plans could be put into effect,
She said that Larry White, Jerry Lawrence and Geoff Paulsen would
be meeting with the re pr esentati ves. tomorr ow. She said she would
continue to try and communicate the City's concerns to the Medfly
people.
Kip Li ppett of Assemblyman Byron Sher's Office' -'said that numerous
inquiries to the Medfly people had been made, and that if : the
City had any problem getting .:through, they had a back number
where:- the information ;could be . received. - He said' .:that - every
morning at 7:00 a.m. the :legislative _ offices received a call -from
the Medfly Project, and if the City's;` would als`A like,^to receive
a call, it could be arranged. KCSS radio -would give a report ,on
what areas ,:had been sprayed and what areas would be sprayed.
He said Assemblyman Sher was trying to cut through a lot of the
messiness of stripping vs. not stripping and other issues
involved. He said their best efforts were trying to get through
to Mr. Scribner to let him know that there was a confusion. He
said he would like to work with the City staff and that Mr. Sher
would like to work with the Council and try and deal with the
issues.
Ms. Fleming said she would be glad to exchange numbers with him
because Jerry Scribner had given her a number which supposedly
would get through right away. She said the officials had felt
they had completed phase one and that the next phase would be
commenced.
Mayor Henderson said that the local newspaper had an editorial
which urged the Mayors to stop being critical of the program, but
did not mention the other Councilmembers, so he urged the
Councilmembers to continue being critical.
ADJOURNMENT
Tho meeting adjourned at 10:00 p.m.
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
Mayor
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