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PLANNING COMMISSION 4 Town of Los Altos Hills 26379 Fremont Road Los Altos Hills, California MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING Wednesday, April 23, 1980 Reel 86, Side 1, Tr. 1, 001 to End; Side 2, Tr, 1, 001 to 130 Chairman vanTamelen called the meeting of the Planning Commission to order in the Council Chambers of the Town Hall at 7:47 p.m. ROLL CALL Present: Commissioners Lachenbruch, Rydell, Stewart, and vanTamelen. Commissioner Dochnahl arrived at 8:55 p.m. Absent: Commissioners Carico and Kuranoff (both .excused absences) Also Present: City Engineer/Planner John Carlson, Assistant Planner Pat Webb, Secretary Ethel Hopkins CONSENT CALENDAR: The Consent Calendar items were all considered separately. The following corrections were made to the Minutes: Ir 1(a) Minutes of April 3: Page 1: Add 'Assistant Planner Pat Webb' as staff listed under the "Roll Call" portion. Page two: Amend the third line sentence to read: careful search shall be made from off site locations..." . Also, ."A under the second motion "Passed by Consensus", amend the third line to read 11 ...current neighbors or potential neighbors are concerned." The Minutes of April 3 were declared approved as amended. 1(b) Minutes of April 9: On page three of the Minutes the following amendments 'On first were made to remarks made by Mr. Danenberg. page three, paragraph, on strike the last two sentences. Add instead: An example was the new road the Dawson subdivision that was in danger of being washed out because of excessive drainage running along the roadway.' Insert an additional para- Lachenbruch's request graph to be next in order: 'In response to Commissioner for standards that would maintain rural for advice on recommendations road roads and minimize damage from storm runoff, Mr. Oannenberg stated that pre- vious road curbs had been a staff recommendation, and that as development increased and more and more drainage was being channeled onto roadways, hazards to traffic increased and the roads themselves were damaged. His Committee was against the use of curbs on roadways. Instead, he recommended burrows the use of wide road right-of-ways with natural areas for drainage he on either side of the roadways. If this could be obtained, recommended a concrete, shallow ditch type of road berm that would not endanger cars going over them and which would channel drainage. The Minutes of April 9 were declared approved on the motion of Commissioner Stewart, seconded by Commissioner Lachenbruch. 14: On the 2. Setting of Public Hearings for Planning Commission Meeting of May Rydell, and approved motion of Commissioner Stewart, seconded by Commissioner by all Commissioners present, the following items were scheduled: