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HomeMy WebLinkAboutFinal Minutes January 15Los Altos Hills Pathways Committee Minutes of the Meeting January 15, 2007 1. Administrative A. Chairman Chris Vargas called the meeting to Order at 7:10 PM B. Members Present: Anna Brunzell, Courtenay Corrigan, Nick Dunckel, Bob Stutz, Chris Vargas, Jolon Wagner C. Review and Approval of agenda Motion by Courtenay Corrigan. Seconded by Jolon Wagner Vote 6-0-0 2. New Business A. The Following Properties were reviewed for committee recommendations: i. 26889 Nina Place (New residence, lands of Arakawa). The reason for pathway review is construction of new residence. The property owners were present at the meeting as was their Architect, Mark Sandoval. He spoke and said they were not aware of any plan (master plan) to put a path on this property. Further he was not sure there was any value to putting a path on this property. Because the road side is above the house, pedestrian traffic along a roadside path would be invasive into their privacy. Owners have lived in the house for over 30 years and have always walked int e street and never had a problem. All PW Committee members present agreed that the road is wide and only serves four (4) homes. Courtenay Corrigan moved to charge an In- Lieu Fee rather than ask homeowner top build a pathway. Nick Dunckel Seconded. The vote was 5-0-1 with Jolon Wagner abstaining. ii. 14132 Seven Acres Lane (major remodel, Lands of Kalkat). The reason for pathway review is a major remodel. Homeowner was present. Owner pointed out that Seven Acres is a very quiet cul-de-sac, serves seven (7) properties, no other homes on the street have any sort of pathway and therefore one on his property would serve no functional purpose. Further, his street frontage was approximately 10 Feet. Anna motioned to ask for an In Lieu Fee. Nick Dunckel Seconded. Vote was 6-0-0 iii. 27500 Edgerton Road (New Residence & Pool, Lands of Ahsan). The reason for pathway review is the construction of a new residence and pool. Homeowner was present. Nick Dunckel reported that the street is steep and homeowner added that street is 22 Feet wide in front of his house and that the road is very steep.. The embankment increases as street slopes away. Street and roadside undulate up and down street. He is very skeptical that there would ever be any functionality. Neighbor, Mike O’Malley said a path does not seem reasonable going into the future because of the landscape. Owner says he could dream of a path there but the landscape won’t support it. Bob Stutz suggested that we ask for the City’s Engineer to review the street. Jolon Wagner said she would not like to wait for the City to put in a path but rather ask the homeowner to put it in now. Chris Vargas suggested adding the entire street to the PW Committee’s CIP list and to ask engineering to determine if a path cam be built on this street. Further, Chris Vargas suggested taking an In-Lieu Fee now and if City found it feasible, to bump it up on our CIP priority list, and then to let the City build it. Nick Dunckel montioned to ask for an In-Lieu Fee from the owner. Bob Stutz seconded. The vote was 5-0-0 iv. 12758 Leander Drive (Major remodel, Lands of Munch). The reason for pathway review is a major remodel. It was agreed by the Pathway Committee that Leander was a quite street with little traffic. There is no reference to it on the master Path Plan and the current “Wish list” that we are working on lists the roadside pathway on the other side of the street. Bob Stutz motioned to collect an In-Lieu Fee. Anna Brunzell seconded. The vote was 6-0-0. v. 25844 Springhill Road (New residence, Lands of Askarinam). The reason for pathway review was the construction of a new residence. All the same reasons for the aforementioned motion exist here, too. Anna Brunzell motioned to collect and In-Lieu Fee. Jolon Wagner seconded. The vote was 6-0-0. vi. 14329 Miranda (New residence, Lands of Yu). Reason for pathway review was not clear since we believe it had previously been reviewed and a In-Lieu fee has already been requested. 3. Old Business F. Pinewood Roadside Pathway. It was reported that Henry Louie has erected a sign that says “No Passing.” We can also call the Sheriff to monitor and ticket those in violation. Chris Vargas will follow up and see if the sign is having any effect. Mike O’Malley also pointed out that the Town Council looked into having a left-turning lane but the cost was estimated to be $70,000.00 and that neither the City, not Pinewood, nor the PASD was interested in spending that kind of money. A. Earthday Pathway Pickup. Both Bullis Charter School and Pinewood have agreed to participate this year. Pinewood will take Wednesday, April 18th. The Bullis Charter School will take Friday, April 20th and then Saturday, April 21 (actual Earth Day) will be left for the Los Altos Hills Citizens. Vests, which Los Altos Hills purchased last year, will be reused and we are hopeful that Hills 2000, Los Altos Civic Association and The Los Altos Town Crier will all be willing to run articles in their publications and help publicize the event. B. Maintenance and Capital Improvements. CIP budget has run over. Moody Road is running over budget and draining resources. Breen Keer has gone back to the VTA to ask for more Money to complete Moody Road. Mike O’Malley is our new Council Liaison and hasn’t seen our CIP List. He suggested that our committee come and present our CIP list, inform the Council what we are working on, and detail our priority List of projects. Chris Vargas suggested that we get a report from Henry in February and have our committee meet and discuss what we would like to present to Council at that meeting and hope to get on the Council’s agenda in April. Jolon Wagner moved to extend an invitation to Henry Louie and Carl Cahill to our February meeting. Nick Dunckel seconded. Vote was 6-0-0 C. Pathway in Lieu Fees. Because none of us are sure how fees are calculated, we will ask Henry Louie and Carl Cahill to define how fees are determined. The committee would like to discuss the fairness of In-Lieu fee calculations once we have the information on how fees are currently calculated. D. Attendance at future Council and Planning Commission Meetings. We agreed to have a member of our committee represent us at the Town Council and Planning Commission meetings. Anna Brunzell signed up to take the February 1, 2007 Council Meeting. Jolon Wagner committed to being at the February 15 , 2007 Meeting. Nick Dunckel committed to attending the February 8, 2007 Planning Commission meeting where the general Plan will be discussed. E. Reports from Previous Council and Planning Meetings. No one was here tonight to report from the previous Town Council Meeting. Bill Silver did pass on to Chris Vargas that there was nothing concerning the Pathway Committee at he most recent Town Council meeting he attended. F. See above. G. Trash Cans at Trailheads. Henry Louie reported to Chris Vargas that putting trashcans at Trailheads is no problem. We will discuss this with Henry further at February’s meeting. We were told to assume we could get 6-8 of the trashcans installed and to be thinking about where to put them. H. VTA Update. Anna Brunzell had to miss the January meeting but at December’s meeting the VTA agreed to put up traffic signs (along Page Mill?). Anna agreed to keep her eye on how effective the sign are and how they are working. I. Westwind Barn. Nick Dunckel let the Westwind Barn Board know that we already funded the pathway from the barn to the ring/corrals.. He was asked if the Pathways Committee could do anything about the poison Ivy. Nick suggested to the Board that they file a maintenance request. 4. Communications 4A. Presentations from the Floor. Carol Gottlieb expressed her concern that the Town is over budget on the Pathways Projects and she has been told by staff that there is little or no money for Pathway projects or our CIP priorities B. Next Pathway Committee Meeting: February 26, 2007 (perhaps at 6:00pm to accommodated Staff’s schedule if they are able to attend) Next Pathway Walk: February 24, 2007 C. Minutes from November 2006. Nick Dunckel moved to approve minutes with the exception of item 2.A.4 (The Pathway Committee acknowledged that the vote passed on this item but does not know the actual vote count which was omitted from the minutes.) Anna Brunzel seconded. Vote was 4-0-2. Meeting was adjourned at approximately 9:30. Motion to adjourn was made by______________ and seconded by__________. Respectfully submitted, Courtenay C. Corrigan February 26, 2007