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MINUTES
RANCHO PALOS VERDES CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
APRIL 6, 1982
The meeting was called to order at 7:35 P.M. by Mayor Jacki Bacharach at the
Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District Building, 30942 Hawthorne
Boulevard. After the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, roll call was answered
as follows:
PRESENT: HEIN, SHAW, DYDA & MAYOR BACHARACH
LATE ARRIVAL: RYAN @ 9:00 P.M.
Also present were City Manager Donald F. Guluzzy, City Attorney Patrick
Coughlan, Director of Planning Sharon W. Hightower, Director of Public
Works Carl Abel, Director of Parks & Recreation Maynard Law, Director of
Administrative Services Kiti Laisure and City Clerk Mary Jo Lofthus.
Mayor Bacharach announced that the Council had met in Closed Session at
6:00 P.M. to discuss matters of pending litigation. The City Attorney will
continue to research the matter. No action was taken.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA: Councilman Dyda moved, seconded
by Councilwoman Shaw to approve
the agenda as presented.
WAIVER OF FULL READING OF Councilwoman Hein moved, seconded
ORDINANCES & RESOLUTIONS by Councilwoman Shaw and carried
to waive reading in full of all
ordinances and resolutions at this meeting with consent to the waiver of reading
of the title unless specific request was made at that time for reading of such
ordinance or resolution.
It was the consensus of Council to hear Item E-1 (Communication from the
Palos Verdes Library District) and the Construction Staking & Soils Engineer-
ing) as the next items of business to be discussed after the Consent Calendar.
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CONSENT CALENDAR After addition of the supplemental
register of demands, the Consent
Calendar was approved as follows on motion of Councilwoman Shaw, seconded by Council-
man Dyda : .
MINUTES Approved as presented the minutes
of January 25, March 15, March 20,
and March 24, 1982.
RESOL. NO. 82-21 - REGISTER ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 82-21 OF THE
OF DEMANDS CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
PALOS VERDES ALLOWING CERTAIN CLAIMS
AND DEMANDS IN THE SUM OF $410,453.15,
DEMAND NUMBERS 1149 THROUGH 1221,
DEMAND NUMBERS 11137, 11138 AND
11140.
RESOL. NO. 82-22 - SUPPLEMENTAL ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 82-22 OF THE
REGISTER OF DEMANDS CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
PALOS VERDES ALLOWING CERTAIN CLAIMS
AND DEMANDS IN THE SUM OF $151,199.46,
DEMAND NUMBERS 1222 THROUGH 1245.
RESOL. NO. 82-23 - DENYING GRADING ADOPTED RESOLUTION NO. 82-23 OF THE
APPLICATION NO. 528 (1801) CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
PALOS VERDES DENYING GRADING APPLICA-
TION NO. 528.
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PUBLIC HEARINGS:
COASTAL SPECIFIC PLAN AMENDMENT Public hearing was opened on the
NO. 1 - GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT proposed amendment to the Coastal
NO. 10 (701) Specific Plan, with the City Clerk
reporting that notice of the hear-
ing had been given, with evidence on file, and no written communications received.
Marineland General Manager John Corcoran, told the Council that he was in
favor of this zone change and felt that it is a more suitable use of the
land.
There being no further response to the Mayor's call for public testimony, she
declared the hearing closed.
Council then discussed the notification period set out in the proposed ordinance
and whether it should be lengthened.
Mayor Bacharach moved, seconded by Councilwoman Hein and carried to change
the notification period under Section 17.67.040 of the ordinance to fifteen
calendar days.
The City Attorney recommended deletion of the words "1981 Municipal Code"
and that it be replaced by the words "Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code"
in the text of the proposed ordinance. Councilwoman Hein so moved, seconded
by Councilman Dyda and carried.
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Line -/ of Section 4 of the proposed resolution was amended by adding the
following: ' . . .together with Exhibits "A" and "B". . . ." and Section 8
was added at the suggestion of the City Attorney.
RESOLUTION NO. 82-24 OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
ADOPTING GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 10 AND COASTAL SPECIFIC PLAN AMENDMENT
NO. 1 was read by title and ADOPTED as amended on motion of Councilman Dyda,
seconded by Councilwoman Shaw and carried.
ORDINANCE NO. 149 OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES APPROVING ZONE CHANGE
NO. 9 AND CODE AMENDMENT NO. 12 AND AMENDING THE RANCHO PALOS VERDES
MUNICIPAL CODE was read by title. Councilman Dyda moved, seconded by
Councilwoman Hein and carried to waive further reading and INTRODUCE
ORDINANCE NO. 149,as amended.
CODE AMENDMENT NO. 13 - MISCELLANEOUS Public hearing was opened
REVISIONS TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE (1103) on the proposed code amendments,
with the City Clerk reporting
that notice of the hearing had been given,with evidence on file, and no written
communications received.
Director Hightower presented the March 16 staff memorandum on this matter
which listed the sections to be amended,added and clarified. She noted
that the Planning Commission recommended these amendments.
There being no response to the Mayor's call for public testimony, she declared
the hearing closed.
Section 4, Subsection E was amended to delete the words "There shall be. . . ."
Section 12 was amended to read as follows: ". . . Section 030, Subsection A is hereby
amended by adding."
ORDINANCE NO. 150 OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES MAKING MISCELLANEOUS
REVISIONS TO THE TEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT CODE, AS CODE AMENDMENT NO. 13,
AND AMENDING THE RANCHO PALOS VERDES MUNICIPAL CODE was presented by title.
Councilman Dyda moved, seconded by Councilwoman Shaw and carried to waive
further reading and INTRODUCE ORDINANCE NO. 150 as amended.
COUNCIL -3- APRIL 6, 1982
UNDERGROUNDING OF UTILITIES AT Public Works Director Abel
CITY HALL - AWARD OF CONTRACT presented the staff memorandum
(901 x 1109) of April 6 which listed the
references contacted
to find out more about the firm of Eggett and Helfn, Inc. Staff contacted
five sources and recommended that the Council authorize the Mayor and City
Clerk to sign a contract with Eggett & Helin, Inc. for the undergrounding
of electrical and communication facilities at City Hall for Part I at a
cost not to exceed $6,000 and for Part II at a cost not to exceed $7,000.
The contract will include a clarification of communication facilities,
meaning telephone lines only.
Councilwoman Shaw moved, seconded by Councilman Dyda to adopt the staff
recommendation and award the contract to Eggett & Helin for the amounts
stated. The motion carried on the following roll call vote:
AYES: HEIN, SHAW, DYDA, & MAYOR BACHARACH
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: RYAN
COMMERCIAL ANTENNA ISSUES Planning Director Hightower
(1801) presented the staff memorandum
of March 31 which referred
Council's direction to staff to identify the areas of concern regarding low
power television stations and commercial antennas and report back with
findings. Staff completed the preliminary investigation and recom-
mended that Council determine the issues of greatest priority and request
staff present all issues to the Planning Commission for study,review and
recommendation.
Planning Commissioner Dr. Harvey Brown told the Council that the Commission
would like to study the rights that the City has under the FCC guildelines
and would like some flexibility in studying that phase of the subject.
After Council comments regarding the safety and design aspects of antennas,
the possibility of franchises, and the City's area of jurisdiction,
Councilwoman Shaw moved, seconded by Councilman Dyda to request the Planning
Commission to study all of the issues identified in the staff report with
emphasis on safety and design standards. With the permission of the second,
Councilwoman Shaw amended the motion to include a review of FCC regulations.
The amended motion carried.
RECESS At 9:00 P.M. Mayor Bacharach
declared a brief recess. The
meeting reconvened at 9:15 P.M.
At this time Councilman Ryan
had arrived and was present for
the remainder of the meeting.
AUDIENCE QUESTIONS Representing the Rancho Palos
Verdes Council of Homeowners
Associations was John Arand, 5731 Mistridge Drive, who expressed that
organization's concern about the establishment of halfway houses in the
City. The City Attorney recommended that the residents of the area
consider enforcing their CC&R's. Also speaking on this same matter was
Ken Handman who represented the Peninsula Rim Homeowners Association.
(At 9:30 P.M. the City attorney was excused from the meeting.)
COUNCIL -4- APRIL 6, 1982
TREE REMOVAL PROGRAM (1407) Director Abel presented the
April 6 memorandum which
presented the background on this replacement program to minimize future
damage to sidewalks by certain species of parkway trees. Proposals to
do this work were received, from four companies and staff recommended that
the contract be awarded to Travers Tree Service to perform tree removal,
replacement and raising services at a cost not to exceed $100,000.
Councilman Dyda moved, seconded by Councilwoman Shaw to approve staff
recommendation. The motion carried on the following roll call vote:
AYES: RYAN, HEIN, SHAW, DYDA & MAYOR BACHARACH
NOES: NONE
DIRECTION TO TRAFFIC COMMITTEE (1502) Councilwoman Hein moved,
seconded by Councilman Dyda
to direct the Traffic Committee to examine and evaluate all staff reports from
the Sheriff's Department and bring back to Council their recommendations to
improve policing within the City of Rancho Palos Verdes. Councilman Dyda moved
an amendment, seconded by Councilwoman Hein, that the Committee examine and
evaluate reports from the Sheriff's Department dealing with traffic enforcement.
The amended motion carried.
Representing the Traffic Committee was Arline Grotz, who suggested that this
be handled at work sessions over a two to three month period.
It was the concensus of Council that the Traffic Committee should look at
recent traffic history, accidents and their characteristics and make
recommendations based on their findings.
LEGISLATION (306) The City Manager reported that
AB2418 had died in committee.
Councilwoman Shaw moved, seconded by Councilman Ryan to take the following
positions on the legislation presented: SB1651 - Oppose. SB1667 - Oppose.
AB2634 - Oppose. SB1440 - Oppose. AB2638 - Oppose. AB3433 - Oppose.
It was the consensus of Council that staff should find out the deadline for
submitting resolutions to the Contract Cities for the May meeting. The
suggestion was made that consideration be given to submitting a resolution
regarding the State pre-empting local zoning laws. Councilman Ryan said
he would give staff information concerning proposed legislation on low cost
housing in coastal cities.
STATUS REPORT Council reviewed the Status
Report contained in the
agenda package. No action
was taken.
REGIONAL HOUSING ALLOCATION Councilman Dyda moved, seconded
MODEL - GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 9 by Councilman Ryan and carried
(701) to send the letter prepared by
staff to SCAG.
ADJOURNMENT At 10:00 P.M. Council adjourned
on motion of Councilman Ryan,
seconded by Councilman Dyda and
carried.
MAYOR
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LERK
COUNCIL -5- APRIL 6, 1982