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Home My WebLink About1994-07-20 HAC MIN I MINUTES HOUSING ADVISORY COMMISSION Wednesday, July 20, 1994 Council Conference Room 3 : 30 p.m. City Hall Building CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL PRESENT: Chairman Casillas, de Jesus Chantengco, Dennison, Helton ABSENT: None STAFF: Housing Coordinator Arroyo, Principal Planner Bazzel, Administrative Office Assistant Gonzalez GUESTS: Steve & Les Warner (Warner Properties) , Greg Cox 1. MUSC (Dennison/Helton) (5-0-0-0) to approve May 25, 1994 minutes. MUSC (Dennison/de Jesus Chantengco) (5-0-0-0) to excuse both Helton and Ring from the April 27th meeting due to Helton was out of town and Ring was out ill. 2. LOWER SWEETWATER VALLEY AREA GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT GPA STATUS REPORT - Mr. Arroyo stated that Duane Bazzel will be giving a presentation on an issue paper that is being prepared for a Council meeting on July 26th in reference to the Lower Sweetwater GPA. Council directed staff to evaluate the land use proposals and to report back to them. Mr. Bazzel is here to give a briefing on that and get any comments or opinions from the Housing Advisory Commission Members. Mr. Bazzel gave an overview of the issue paper and the purpose for it. Member Helton asked Mr. Bazzel for the individual acreage in each parcel. Mr. Bazzell gave the information to the Commission Members. The acreage for parcel E is 5.74; acreage for parcel D is 14.25; acreage for parcel C is 18; acreage for parcel B is 24; acreage for parcel A is 5.59 acres. Parcel A currentlyjhas a child care facility and an adult rehabilitation counselling center and the property is zoned R-3. Parcel B is the KOA Campground which the property owner wishes to continue there. Parcel C is designated as open space along with parcel D. Parcel E is proposed as a Water desalination Plant by the Sweetwater Authority. Sweetwater Authority has identify 3 different sites in the valley in this vicinity. This site is one of the three and they are in the' process of preparing an EIR for those proposed sites. Member Helton asked what is the purpose of a Desalination Plant. Mr. - Bazzel responded that it is to extract brackish brown water from the Sweetwater Valley aquifer. The Sweetwater Authority proposes to locate a number a wells in the river valley to pump ground water out of there and back to the plant where reverse osmosis process would clean the water and ,then pump it back ton the Sweetwater Authority system for water supply. Parcel D involves a Veterans Home proposal and a Family Recreation Fun Center with eight additional acres out of parcel C combine to provide ball field areas. The main portion of parcel C would be a Senior Care facility. The Senior Care facility has been proposed in combination with the Family Recreation Center. i a: Member Helton does not agree to the joint proposal of the Senior Care facility next to a Family Recreation Center. Mr. Bazzel responded that Mr. Ron McElliot owner of parcel C has gotten together with the owners of parcel D on this proposal and has offered eight acres. They felt that the park facilities that are tied in with the Family Fun Centel would be beneficial to a Senior Care facility. Mr. de Jesus Chantengco asked what zoning changes is staff proposing from what it is now and what would be the actual designation of parcel A. Mr. Bazzel responded that there is no change in parcel A and the designation would be R-3 as it is now. Member Helton stated that there is only one entrance to these parcels off Second Street at the foot of the hill where the KOA is. Member de Jesus Chantengco asked if it has ever been discussed on alternative 5 to interchange the land use of parcel C and D. Mr. Bazze} responded that the Senior Care Facility and Family Fun Center proposal came in jointly. It was agreed that these are compatible uses. Mr. Greg Cox presented an overview on the Family Fun Center. The proposal is a combination of a couple of different things that they think is a real need for in the City of Chula Vista. Mr. Cox reported that Mr. McElliot owner of parcel C indicated that he will donate 8 eight acres of his property to this sports complex. Mr. Cox indicated what the proposal consist of, a two eighteen Bole miniature golf courses, a arcade, a kiddie land, a water slide, bumper boats, a batting cage complex, and a go kart complex. Mr. Cox indicated that almost every Family Fun Center in San Diego County is right on an interstate freeway. The go karts are no more noisy in fact they are less noisy than the cars that are going on the freeway. The nearest residences are at least 500 feet away and up a hill from the go kart complex. The parking that is proposed to be there will have 282 parking spaces that would be a shared parking space for the commercial recreational owner and the family sports complex. Within the family sports complex would be lighted soft ball fields, and a soccer arena. The proposal is a public/private partnership. It would involve the City of Chula Vista making this land available to the Family Fun Center, and on the balance of the property which would all be under the ownershiplof the City of Chula Vista. Mr. Cox would work on a partnership with the City of Chula Vista to develop these facilities using some City money and some from the private sector. The private sector would assume the full operational cost of this facility for the period of fifteen years. That is the proposal they made to the City. Member He ton asked if this Commission later on would be required to make some kind of recommendation or decision as a group. Mr. Arroyo responded yes, eventually once a specific project is being considered, it will be brought before this Commission. 3. EAST LAKE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TASK FORCE - STATUS REPORT Mr. Arroyo gave a progress report on this project. The emphasis so far has been on basically clarifying affordable housing issues and definitions. Staff has presented materials to identify types of income groups and how they translate linto actual job classifications that are meaningful to people. The purpose of this information is to emphasize that most people who fall into the low income category are working people who contribute greatly to our community. This is the type of information that is going to be sent out to the community. The Task Force is planning to put together a public forum in the EastLaike community to discuss this issue. At the next meeting the Task Force will identify sites within the EastLake Development. So far nine sites have been identified. Right now staff is looking at about 300 units that Ii I f I # should fall under the low income category which are units to meet the needs under the 800 of the medium income household. The total number that the developer is required to produce is 600 units, because 300 are for the low income and the other 300 would be for the moderate income. Mr. Arroyo asked Mr. de Jesus Chantengco if he had any comments to share since he is the representative of the Housing Advisory Commission. Mr. de Jesus Chantengco stated that the most important thing was obtaining input from different sectors of the community. The Eastlake Company has hired a public relations person strictly involved with managing the calls that would be inquiring about the project. Member de Jesus Chantengco suggested to get everyone to input including the developer, City of Chula Vista, existing residences, and affordable housing advocates. The plan should acknowledge everyone' ' concerns, then come back before the various Commissions and City Council and make the recommendations known. 4. ORAL COMMENTS - None 5. STAFF REPORTS - None 6. MEMBERS COUNTS - Member Dennison indicated to Mr. Bazzel that he did a good job on his presentation. Member Helton congratulated staff for a good job at this meeting. 7. ADJOURNMENT - At 5:15 p.m. to the next regular meeting scheduled August 24, 1994 In the Public Services Building. (a 0/7 ? R o er, Alicia Gonzalez [AG\C:\07-20-94.MIN]