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CITY COUNCIL <br />TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS <br />26379 Fremont Road <br />Los Altos Hills, California <br />MINUTES OF A SPECIAL MEETING <br />Monday, June 12, 1978 <br />cc: Reel 110, Side 1, Tr. I, 312 -End <br />Mayor Luclle Hlllestad called the Special Meeting of the City Council to order at <br />3:40 PM In the Council Chambers of Town Hall. <br />ROLL CALL 8 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: <br />Present: Mayor Hlllestad, Councilmembers Brown, McReynolds, Nystrom and Proft. <br />Absent: None. <br />Staff: City Manager Robert Crowe, City Attorney Frank GIIIic and Deputy City Clerk <br />Susan Buttler. <br />Press: Iver Davidson, Los Altos Town Crier and Frank Cracolice, Mercury -News. <br />I. Consideration of Proposal to update General Plan. <br />E Councilman McReynolds provided Introductory remarks reviewing the scope of work deemed <br />4I necessary by the Ad Hoc Committee and the Priority List established by the Consultant. <br />Council members concerns centered on funding with possible reductions to be found by <br />utilizing Staff time supplementally on certain projects. <br />Mr. Mader, Consultant, advised of the extensive studies made of the General Plan and <br />all Town ordinances for inadequacies therein, the need to obtain consistency throughout <br />all documents, the difficulties in splltting the re -organizing work effectively with <br />Staff time and the need to consider Priority A items as urgency. <br />Mrs. Wood, Stonebrook, questioned the annual budget amount shown for General Plan <br />revision. <br />The City Manager called attention to the aerial map and Pathways Map as two expenditures <br />against this account with money still available to utilize for the proposed revision. <br />Mrs Sobel Christopher's Lane, asked If the Town Planner could work on the revising and <br />updating of the General Plan and ordinances. <br />Council response was that, due to the vol um nous buI id Ing and subdi v ldIng occurring In the <br />Town at present, the Planner time was heavily expended in the day to day implementation <br />of Town ordinances. Per Councilman Brown's suggestion, the Council began an item by Item <br />review of the Priority A list. <br />Item I - No questions or discussion. <br />Item 2 - Discussion on policy consistencies and the feasibility of the Consultant pro- <br />viding the definition for Staff direction. <br />Item 3 - Consensus was to have the Consultant handle all definition Inadequacies. <br />Item 4 - Discussion on the need for a detailed review of our Zoning Ordinance, how to <br />determine expertise for calculating slope density and the necessity to expend <br />the number of hours allocated. <br />