HomeMy WebLinkAboutcc min 1975/03/15 MINUTES OF AN ADJOURNED REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA
Held Saturday March 15, 1975
An adjourned regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Chula Vista,
California, was held on the above date beginning at 8:00 a.m. in the Council
Conference Room, City Hall, 276 Fourth Avenue, with the following
Councilmen present: Councilmen Scott, Hobel, Hamilton, Hyde, Egdahl
Councilmen absent: None
Staff present: City Manager Cole, City Attorney Lindberg, Director
of Public Works Robens, Director of Planning Peterson,
Traffic Engineer Sawyerr, Senior Planner Pass.
Mayor Hamilton opened the meeting at 8:00 a.m. and explained that the meeting
was called to discuss the CPO's Regional Transportation Plan.
Lane Cole, Mr. Cole commented that the new proposed
City Manager CPO Transportation Plan was received by
his office at 11:00 o'clock yesterday
morning (March 14th) and that taff had
not been able to analyze it as fully as
they would like; however, Director of
Public Works Robens did look it over and
has some recommendations to make.
Bill Robens, Mr. Robens recommended that the elements
Director of policy be approved; also, staff believes
Public Works that until land use is tied into it, the
groundbreaking for the system itself
should not begin. In answer to Councilman
Hyde's query as to whether or not staff
is considering the "feeder system of
transportation" when speaking of a land
use plan that would provide the densities,
Mr. Robens explained that in the controlled
proposed plan adopted by CPO they have
certain densities allocated by which
ridership is determined; CPO is using the
same kind of model used by staff in its
own traffic study with the County; staff
has serious doubts that these densities
will occur.
Mr. Robens explained that staff had also
recommended that certain words be under-
lined, for instance the words "bus service"
and that the word "interim" be removed.
Also, staff recommended that the wording
"participating agencies shall work in
consort with CPO in determining technical
and overall staging of the system" be in-
cluded at the bottom of Page #3.
On Page 10 of the proposed plan regarding
basic transportation policies, staff is
recommending that some system be set up to
insure that local jurisdictions will
have input.
Adjourned Regular Meeting 2 March 15, 1975
Discussion Mr. Peterson, Director of Planning, com-
mented that when people compare this
system with the BART system in the Bay Area,
they must bear in mind the difference in
distance that is involved; he questioned
the need to develop a system that travels
at a very high rate of speed to cover a
distance of seven or eight miles.
Councilman Hobel reported that the recom-
mendation of the City of San Diego is that
the first part of the regional system be
the downtown MAC - a system to serve that
downtown area built around a complete
redevelopment plan. That system proposes
11 parking garages at various locations;
one of these garages is ten times the
capacity of Community Concourse parking,
San Diego is going to push for most of
the funds in the beginning going into that
system and there is no way Chula Vista
could support that kind of a system.
Councilman Hyde commented that any state
funds should be subject to the same kind
of distribution as is currently in effect
for Federal funds through CPO, then CPO
farms it out to the operating agency;
Councilman Egdahl agreed that each city
should not be the recipient of the funds.
Motion for It was moved by Councilman Egdahl, seconded
adoption of staff by Councilman Hyde and unanimously
recommendations carried that the staff's recommendations
be adopted and add to this motion that
the CPO be the recipient of funds; also
that the MAC element of the plan is
opposed. (4-1) (Councilman Scott had
left the meeting)
Discussion regarding It was brought out in the meeting that if
airport location Brown Field is adopted for the airport
location, the highway element of CTP is
not functional; also the transit element
is not functional. There was also the
comment that if Brown Field is the new
airport location, it would be unwise to
vote for a transportation plan that is
not oriented around that.
Discussion regarding Councilman Hobel suggested the Council give
letter from Lou Conde, further consideration to Mr. Conde's pro-
County Supervisor posa] that the airport location go to an
area-wide vote of the people.
Adjournment Mayor Hamilton having left the meeting
approximately 9:00 a.m., Mayor Pro Tempore
Egdahl adjourned the meeting at 9:20 a.m.
to the meeting scheduled for Tuesday,
March 18, 1975 at 7:30 p.m.
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