CC MINS 19750510 ADJ M I N U T E S
RANCHO PALOS VERDES CITY COUNCIL
Adjourned Regular Meeting
May 10, 1975
The meeting was called to order at 8:30 a.m. at the City Offices, 30940 Hawthorne Boulevard,
notice having been given with affidavit thereto on file. Roll call was answered as follows:
PRESENT: Councilmen Gunther Buerk, Ken Dyda, and Robert E. Ryan
ABSENT: Councilman F. D. Ruth and Mayor Marilyn Ryan
Also present were City Manager Leonard G. Wood, Planning Director Sharon Hightower, Acting
City Attorney Pat Coughlan, Administrative Services Officer George Wunderlin, and members
of the Planning staff, Gary Weber and Larry Davis. Councilman Buerk was elected chairman
to preside over the meeting in the absence of the Mayor and Mayor Pro Tempore.
GENERAL PLAN Planning Director opened the meeting and stated
that the format would be to have subcommittee
status reports on various sections of the Draft
General Plan and then a review of goals and
policies.
ACTIVITY AREAS The Subcommittee indicated there were several
areas they wanted__ to strengthen, particularly
the housing element.
INFRASTRUCTURE Discussion included the need for additional data,
especially in regard to traffic, where it was
felt there was a need to look beyond the City
to other Peninsula cities in order to show the effect proposed land use would have on the
various arteries, as well as a need for more analysis of existing utility networks and
trunklines to determine if any additional facilities would be needed to support proposed
land use.
SAFETY Mr. Weber stated the subcommittee had identified
an item of major concern and that was to develop
a stronger risk policy in relation to all safety
hazards.
SENSORY SECTION Discussion on this section focused on views and
there was a suggestion to include highway noise
in the Noise Element.
SOCIO/CULTURAL Indication was that the major part to be worked
on was the social services section in order to
refine some of the goals, and take some of the
objectives and turn them into policy statements.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT It was the consensus of this subcommittee that
there were no significant changes to be made
except in the section on air pollution.
FISCAL Councilman Dyda summarized the committee's ef-
forts to qualify and identify the impact of
increase in level of current services and pos-
sible fiscal impact. He said they also planned to identify the alternative methods of
accomplishing the various goals and to do this by two basic measures: regulation and
acquisition; and in so doing to extract and identify the effect of, regardless of whether
acquisition is done by purchase or regulation, costs associated with development.
HOUSING There was discussion regarding the legal re-
quirements for housing elements and the City
Attorney cited a court case in New Jersey and
read from the Court decision with reference to economic discrimination. City Attorney
stated that the Court said the New Jersey city had made it physically and economically
impossible to provide low and moderate income housing in the municipality for various
persons who needed and wanted it and that the city must affirmatively afford the oppor-
tunity for a choice and variety of living accommodations. The Court went on to say that
when regulation had a substantial external impact on the welfare of state citizens be-
yond the borders of a particular municipality, it could not be disregarded and must be
recognized and served. City Attorney stated he believed it possible to follow
the language of the New Jersey court decision for the General Plan and still come
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forth with policies that do not alter basic goals of the community. There followed
further_discussion of the housing section.
ENERGY AND LIGHTING Discussion included aspects of energy and
lighting and also encompassed sun rights,
site privacy, view protection, and prevailing winds.
HOUSING DIVERSITY There was discussion regarding the
character of the community and the sug-
gestion was made regarding the establishment of an architectural committee to control
preservation of trees, views, and site lanes to the ocean.
SLIDE AREA Councilman Dyda said there had been some
discussion among the people who live in the
slide areas with respect to their properties and there was concern among them as to
their legal status with regard to monitoring such areas.
WASTE DISPOSAL & RECYCLING Discussion centered on the City taking an
active interest in energy conservation and
recycling by offering assistance to groups carrying out recycling projects and it was
agreed that this section needed some reworking.
TRANSPORTATION Discussion encompassed such areas as building
new roads, bike plans, and motorized ve-
hicle access to foot paths or equestrian trails, and the question of the City providing
stables. Another aspect considered was off-street parking and policy regarding
parking of recreational vehicles.
BEACH COMMITTEE It was moved, seconded and carried to ap-
point the following cummunity representa-
tives to a Beach Committee to meet with
County Beach Dept. regarding plans for Abalone Cove and Pt. Vicente: Bob Pelton, Bob
Smolley, Joe Clifford, Elinor Schadle, and John McTaggart.
ADJOURNMENT At 12:50 p.m. , it was moved, seconded and
carried to adjourn the meeting to May 17,
1975, 8 a.m. , for the purposes of another
work session on the Plan.
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MAYOR
LEONARD G. WOOD, CITY CLERK AND
EX OFFICIO CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
By
Deputy
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