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HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 5 - Memo to Commission.rr_i/_rw "` VISTA MEMORANDUM CHUIA DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT DATE: June 3, 2015 TO: Honorable Chair and Members of the Planning Commission FROM: Ed Batchelder, Planning Manage SUBJECT: Items 5A & B on your June 10, 2015 Meeting Agenda The following is provided as a quick background /overview for you regarding items 5A & B: Item 5A — Approval of Annual Activity Report to the City Council Each year we are requested to provide a report to the City Council on key activities undertaken by each of our Boards and Commissions over the past fiscal year. The attached form was developed from a review of your Agendas over that period. If you would like staff to make any revisions, please be prepared to go over those with us at the meeting. The second part of the form provides an opportunity for the Commission, if it chooses, to provide any comments or recommendations to the City Council. Please give thought to this, and be prepared to discuss and provide specific direction to staff regarding any comments or recommendations you'd like to forward. The Commission will need to reach agreement or consensus on any items to be included. Item 5B — Commissioner participation on an upcoming TDM Stakeholder Advisory Group In Spring 2014, the City in partnership with SANDAG and the consulting firm KTU +A, held and introductory 2 -part workshop series on Transportation Demand Management (TDM) with staff and the development community. The purpose of the workshops was to develop an understanding of TDM, and how TDM programs and policies could be implemented in the City of Chula Vista as a way to provide cost - effective solutions that reduce traffic congestion, parking demand, and help the environment though reducing vehicle miles traveled and associated GHG emissions. Phase two of the partnership (which we are readying to launch) will include a series of workshops /discussion to shape the development of a formal transportation demand management (TDM) program for the City of Chula Vista. The process will utilize a broad -based Stakeholder Advisory Group (SAG) to provide input to develop a roadmap for proposed TDM programs /proviwsions that will be presented to City Council for action. PC memo Items 5A & B, 6 -10 -15 Agenda Page 2 It has been suggested by the team that a member of the Planning Commission potentially participate as part of the SAG. Should the Commission desire to participate, staff is requesting that the Commission designate a member to participate. The first SAG half -day workshop will be held in late July, and up to three sessions will be held in 2015. SANDAG is administering an on -line poll as to possible dates /times, and will send out a formal workshop invitation in June for a date that works best for the majority. cc: Kelly Broughton, Development Services Director Marilyn Ponseggi, Principal Planner (shared \dsd \planning commission \06 -10 -15 mtg memo -Items 5A &B.doc)