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CITY COUNCIL
MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING
January 2, 1974
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A. ROLL CALL:
Present: Councilmen Cheney, Grabowski, McReynolds, Councilwoman Miller,
Mayor Helgesson, Comm. Mueller for Env. Planning Commission.
Staff: City Manager Lawson, City Attorney Gillio, City Engineer Russell,
Deputy City Clerk Hislop
B. CONSENT CALENDAR:
Councilman Grabowski moved, seconded by Councilwoman Miller and
unanimously carried to adopt the items on the CONSENT CALENDAR, namely:
1. Approval of Minutes: December 19, 1974 (Regular Meeting)
2. Approval of Warrants: $21,046.20
3. Motions for Adoption:
a) Motion approving contract with Spartan Industrial Security for
Patrol Service - Resolution #744.
4. Resolutions for Adoption:
a) Resolution #743 approving consolidation of the Town of Los
Altos Hills General Municipal Election with the Annual Governing
Board Member Election and Special Revenue Limit Increase
Election -to be held in the Palo Alto Unified School District
on March 5, 1974.
b) Resolution #746 approving agreement accepting Bond and
authorizing recordation of Final Map, Barton Subdivision
(formerly Rockwell), Tract #5470 located on Fremont Road near
Robleda.
C. PRESENTATIONS FROM THE FLOOR:
Mr. and Mrs John Parker, Almaden Court:
At the invitation of the City Council, Mr. and Mrs. Parker were asked to
attend the meeting because of a letter they submitted regarding alleged
problems they had in trying to build their home in the Town. After
hearing Mr. Parker and City Manager Mr. Bruce Lawson, it was the consensus
of Council opinion that the Municipal Code should be studied by Staff,
who would come back to Council with recommendations as to possible
revisions to alleviate undue hardships and restrictions on those home-
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owners who wished to do the major portion of construction themselves.
The City Manager and City Engineer agreed to come back to Council
with their recommendations as soon as possible.
D. CONTINUING BUSINESS:
1. Discussion of formation of Public Works Commission:
Since Council had just received a written proposal regarding the scope
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When asked if he had any objections, Councilman Cheney stated that he
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at the next meeting.
The Mayor also directed Staff to reproduce for Council review, Chapter 5
and Table 6-2 of the Master Plan for Storm Water Drainage by McCandless
and Co. Councilman McReynolds also asked if the City Engineer would
prepare some comments on the status of the recommendations that had been
made in this Report as to the extent to which the Town had undertaken
improvements based on the McCandless recommendations.
The motion to Agenda this item to the meeting of Jan. 16th carried
unanimously.
2. Discussion of a 9 member or 7 member Planning Commission:
After hearing the comments from Chairman Mueller of the Environmental
Planning Commission regarding the Commission's views on this subject,
a discussion ensued between Council members. Councilman McReynolds
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could determine the workload of the Commission, the value of the Board
of Planning Administration, and the opinions of the Commissioners on
the size of their membership.
Council agreed, and a joint work study meeting was scheduled for
Wednesday, January 30, 1974 at 7:45 PM in the Council Chambers. The
meeting will be open to the public. Councilman Cheney also requested
that Staff prepare an Agenda for this meeting.
3. Discussion of Business License Fees:
City Manager Lawson summarized his survey of cities regarding quarterly
` business licenses and stated that the revised recommendation of Staff
was for the Town to issue quarterly business licenses (3 months).
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1. Approval of Minutes: January 2, 1974 (Regular Meeting)
Councilman Grabowski requested that on Page 3, Item E, No. 2 "Council-
man Grabowski", that the first sentence be changed to read as follows:
"Referred to the survey cards recently compiled by the Los Altos Hills AN and the numerous complaints he had received about loose
dogs roaming the streets of the Town,"
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After discussion by Council which considered the feasibility of
a semi-annual business license versus the quarterly license, con-
sideration of penalty fines on unlicensed businesses, the Council
also discussed the changing of other fees included in the Fee Survey
undertaken by Staff.
Councilman Grabowski asked that the question of the business license
be considered separate from the question of changing the building
permit fees.
MOTION, SECONDED AND CARRIED: Councilman McReynolds moved, seconded by
Councilwoman Miller that Staff be directed to prepare an ordinance to
allow for the quarterly issuance of business licenses. The motion was
carried by the following vote:
AYE: Councilmen Cheney, McReynolds, Councilwoman Miller, Mayor Helgesson.
No: Councilman Grabowski.
MOTION, SECONDED AND CARRIED: Councilman Cheney moved, seconded by Council-
woman Miller, and unanimously carried that staff be directed to prepare
an ordinance incorporating recommendations on other building fees as
outlined in the Staff's Fee Survey.
�A' E. ADDITIONAL BUSINESS BY COUNCILMEN:
I. Councilwoman Miller:
Informed Council that Town Historian Mrs. Florence Fava, who was unable
to be present at the meeting, had asked her to apprise Council that
the Santa Clara County Planning Department was drafting a county
ordinance for a historical district. One aspect of the "H" zone would
include some of the historical sites within the Town, and that the
Town's Planning Consulting firm, Nm. Spangle & Assoc., was helping to
draft this ordinance. The draft would be discussed at a joint session
of the County Historical Heritage Commission and the County Planning
Dept. on January 17th. Mrs. Fava asked that the Council endorse this
historical district by letter or resolution to the County Planning Dept.
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2. councilman n Grabowski:
Referred to the survey cards recently compiled by the Los Altos Hills
Association and the numerous complaints he had received recently about
dogs roaming the hills of the Town in packs recently. He requested
that Staff be direct
alleviate thispproblemrepare recommendations that Adiscussion ensued regarding
could
regarding
the problems of controlling these animals.
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Staff agreed to check with the County regarding the costs of additional
surveillance and patrols, and a possible education program for the
horsemen and homeowners of the Town regarding the Ordinances pertaining
to unleashed animals. Staff will prepare a report to be presented to
Council for the first meeting in February and recommendations on
possible solutions.
F. HEARINGS:
1. Public Hearing on Proposed Revision of General Plan:
At the request of Council, Mr. George Mader of William Spangle and
Associates, Planning Consultants, presented the proposed revision to the
General Plan. He stated that the Environmental Planning Commission had
made only minor changes to the Plan during their deliberations. The
portion of the Plan being discussed was the Land Use, Circulation, Open
Space, Recreation, Housing and Conservation elements. Four other
elements will be added according to contractual agreement.
Mr. Mader and Mr. Tom Vlasic then showed slides of the various areas
indicating those lands designated for residences, open space, public
and private school sites, historical sites and circulation routes.
The mountain ridges and slope density recommendations regarding develop-
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of these ridge areas were discussed.
�+ After Mr. Mader's presentation, Mayor Helgesson opened the discussion
to the public, asking if there were any comments or questions concerning
the General Plan.
Speaking from the Floor:
fAr.StI Peterson 24737 Prospect: Addressed question to Mr. Mader
as to w at opera ono method the lown used to enforce open space
requirements. Mr. Mader stated that zoning and slope density require-
ments on the steeper areas of the Town would preclude most of the
area included and designated as open space from ever being densely
developed; but dense development would be discouraged because of the
terrain and instability of the land in certain areas.
Mr. 11IMer, Fremont Road: Asked question pertaining to the Burger property
s tuate across mom t e Town Hall. Mr. Mader responded that no chage
had been made in the General Plan regarding this property, that the
planned use was as shown in the previous general plan.
When no other comments pertaining to the General Plan were forthcoming
from the public, Mayor Helgesson requested questions and/or comments
from members of the Council.
Councilman Grabowski commented on the circulation element of the Plan
and said he felt strongly that the Plan should concentrate on the
40. internal circulation of the Town. He said that ingress to' main.roads
by citizens should be given equal consideration with through traffic,
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and that through traffic should be discouraged by whatever means
possible. He also stated that the 35MPH speed limit on the narrow,
winding roads of the Town was unrealistic and excessive; that the
safest maximum speed was 25 MPH.
Councilman Grabowski also noted that the new maximum speed limit
on the IS280
speedlimitshould be noted as 55 MPH.
the Foothill Expressway be setsats35ged
MPH
to minimize noise.
MOTION, SECONDED AND CARRIED: Councilwoman Miller, moved, seconded by
Councilman Grabowski and unanimously carried to adopt Resolution #745
approving and adopting the revised General Plan.
G. STAFF REPORTS:
1. City Manager:
a) Reported that Mr. Robert Hoffman had resigned as a member of the
Santa Clara County Fire Protection District, and asked Council's direction
as to whether they would like to make recommendations to the County
Board of Supervisors regarding a replacement for Mr. Hoffman. Staff
[ was directed to write the Board requesting that the naming of a re-
f6r placement be deferred until the Council could make recommendations to the
Board concerning this matter.
b) Mr. Lawson noted that a letter had been received addressed to Council
from the Traffic and Public Safety Committee.
c) Informed Council that a bill had been sent to the owner of the
car that had been witnessed as knocking signs down in the Town along
Altamont and Taaffe Roads.
letterad been from Sheriff's Office
Burglary Prevention Program.
e) The Town had received a letter from the City of Morgan Hill stating
their objections to weighted voting as proposed by the Planning Policy
Committee of Santa Clara County.
f) Regarding Mr. Lawson's memo on Planning Services, the City Attorney
was directed to prepare a contract to be entered into between the
Town and William Spangle & Associates for Planning Consultant Services.
2. CITY ATTORNEY:
a) Relative to the letter from the City of Baldwin Park, Mr. G11110
informed Council that he had written to the City for additional
information on which to base a recommendation he could give to Council.
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3. City Engineer:
a) Informed Council that the Governing Board of the Purissima Water
District had voted at their last meeting to spend the sum of $20,000
for the moving of water lines for, the Elena Road improvement. Mr.
Russell also asked Council's direction regarding the rights-of-way
that will be required for such improvements; that is, did Council wish
to wait until the bids were submitted to contact the property owners
regarding rights-of-way. It was the consensus of Council opinion
that Staff begin contacting property owners as soon as possible to
avoid any delays once the bids on the Elena Road improvements were
submitted.
b) Informed Council that the State was in the preliminary planning
stages for adding a fourth lane to IS280 from the Lawrence Expressway
to Magdalena.
H. ADJOURNMENT:
The meeting was adjourned at 11:30 P.M.
Respectfully submitted,
Norma J. Hislop
Deputy City Clerk