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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1955-08-15 PC MINS MINUTES OF A REGULARMEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA, CALIFOR 11A Held Monday, August 153 1955 The Chula Vista Planning Commission met in the Council Chambers at Civic Center at 7:30 P.M. on the above date with the following members present: Young, Henninger, Corsley, Burford, and Shamrell. - Absent: Chairman Raitt. Also Pfesent: City Planner Scherer. Absent: Principal Civil Engineer Johnson, City Attorney Campbell, who had been excused by the Vice-Chairman. Vice-Chairman Young presided over the meeting. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: It was moved by Member Henninger, seconded by Member Crosley and unanimously carried that the minutes of the meeting of August 1, 1955 be approved, copies having been mailed to each member. CITY COUNCIL, - PLANNING. COMMISSION JOINT MEETING: The City Council offered the date of August 30, 1955 for the joint meeting with the Planning Colnmission. The members of. the Commission agreed to this date. The following items were submitted by the members for discussion at tYr_ proposed meeting.- (1) eeting:(1) M-1 and C-2 Zones (2) Olarification on Procedure (3) Technical Assistant for Planning Department (4) Requirements for Subdivision maps (5) Planning for unincorporated areas abutting the city; i.e. just how far from the city should the DE.partm6nt of Planning extend its studies in relationn to sewers, streets, etc. (6) Method of rezoning the city based on a new ordinance. (7) Appropriations for topography maps for unincorporated lands. DISCUSSION AND RI COIMENDATION: - Bank of America Parking Lot at Davidson & Church , The City Council referred .to the Planning Commission a letter from the Bank of America proposing that the City purchase the Bank's parking lot at the northwest corner of Davidson and Church Streets, for the sum of, 20,000.00. Considerable discussion followed and comments received from two realtors in the audience, Mr. C.C. Alley, and Mr. -Broihm that they would not advise pro or con as to what should be done but expressed- their opinions as to the return on the investment. From an appraisal of the returns from exisitng parking lots and meters, it was con- cludedthat the income from the meters would not be sufficient to induce the purchase. It was noted that as an example, if 22 meters were filled for eight hours a day, every day, in_a months time 22 meters would bring an income of $220.00 or $2,640.00 per year. Average parking lot is filled approximately one and one-half hours a day, or 150 would be taken in on 22 meters a day which would be total $3.30 per day, $82.50 per month and $990.00 per year, which would indicate a very poor return on an- invest- ment of $20;000. This, of course, is the very minimum. Member Young pointed out that if the City purchased this parking lot it would in effect be beneficial to a relatively few merchants along Third Avenue and would serve only a small portion of the people as a whole. It .was agreed that if the merchants along Third Avenue felt the reed for additional parking space that it should be left to them to decide where this parking space ,could be provided. It would.seem that the proposed lessors of the Bank of America building might wish to provide this parking . service (the parking lot offered by the Bank of America to the City of Chula Vista) for their oven clients. It was the opinion of the Planning Commission that taking into consideration all the above facts, weighing both pros and cons, that it would be their recommendation to the City Council that the City ego not purchase the parcel of land as offered by the Bank of America. It would seem incongruous to the best interests of the city as a whole for the city to attempt to speculate in real estate. It was moved by Member Crosley, seconded by Member Burford and unanimously carried-that the Planning Commission recommend to the City Council that the City not purchase the parcel of land offered by the Bank of America, but to let it remain on the tax rolls. It was also directed that the Planning Department write a letter to the Downtown Third Avenue Business Association advising them of the action of the Planning Commission on this matter and suggesting that if they have any .concrete suggestion, to forward it to the City Council. DISCUSSION: 11-1 and C-2 Zones Mr. -Scherer presented the maps that will be used during the discussion with the City Council at the joint meeting, shoving the differences between the present zoning map, the actual land use map and the proposed zoning map based on Ordinance 398•. He explained the need for a change of zoning and showed how the proposed zoning map was based on the present land use map. The map was approved by the Commissioners and will be presented to the City Council at the August 30th meeting for cooperative action between the two bodies. This proposed zoning map will include the rezoning of National Avenue from its M-1 to C-2 (according to Ordinance No. 398)• It was suggested .that National Avenue would charge to a C-2 rather than an 11-1 on the new zoning map because of -the majority of,existing uses now fall under a C-2 classification rather than an M-1. It was further recommended by the Planning Commission that any use which would not fall in the C-2 category be allowed to remain and to alter and e xpand to the limits of the deeded properties as on the effective date of the adoption of this proposed amendment to Ordinance.No. 398. It was brought out that the City Council, at the time- of the Planning Commission's recommendation that National Avenue, et al, be changed from M-1 to C-23 did not approve, in total, the rezoning from M-1 to C-2 because of the discrepancies in the C-2 zone inielation to existing uses on National Avenue. It was their suggestion that a re- vised zone might bb created so that these discrepancies might be eliminated. The City Planner suggested for the present that National Avenue could be rezoned to C_2, in keeping with the zones allowed under Ordinance No. 398, but when a new revised zoning ordinance was written, it was most probably that National would be "treated as a separate zone (which would include the compromise between the existing M-1 and C-2 uses) and that this new zone would be restricted to the area of National Avenue. Discussion from the audience indicated that the map, as presented, for all intended purposes seem to accomplish the desired ends. Except for a very few minor changes in the zone boundaries, the map would satisfy the majority of the property owners in the City of Chula Vista. Variance granted Fuller Motors, 700 Block National Avenue - March 7, 1955 A situation had arisen which prompted citizens living in the area near the new Fuller Motors site on National Avenue to protest the` zone variance granted in March, 1955, due to the technicality that they haat not been notified of the public hearing. The citizens were actual property owners at the time, but the names had not been changed on the tax rolls. Due to the fact that the City had complied with the pro- visions as defined by Ordinance No. 398, i.e. notifying citizens as per the tax rolls, publishing the notice of public hearing in a local newspaper of general circulation for the use requested by the variance, and that at the time of the public hearing no protests were made, the Planning Commission had acted in good faith in granting the variance. The situation was explained to the Commissioners and a petition was presented by John A. Dawley, 719 Riverlawn, the representative of the group, asking that the variance be .withdrawn unless Faller Motors comply with the requests of the citizens involved by constructing a fence and retaining wall to protect their properties. The petition was signed by 29 of the citizens on RiVerlawn Avenue. After a discussion and consideration, the Planning Commission concurred that the City was in ho way connected with the differences between Fuller Motors and John Dawley, et al. They had complied with the laws in publishing the variance request and had held the public hearing, bringing no protests, and had granded the. zone variance in good faith. They could not retract their decision in granting the variance. It was suggested that the protestants, et al, meet with Fuller Motors and attempt to work out an equitable solution by themselves. Present Land Use Map rv�.Scherer presented copies of .the land'•ise map which were reproduceable (black and white Ozalid) and informed the general public that they were now available for sale at the City Clerk's office for $2.00 per copy. Secondary Street Plan A map s howing the proposed secondary street plan, not to be confused with the adopted major street plan, was presented and the need for such a plan discussed. The hope was expressed that by adopting this type of plan, indicating the location and direction of secondary. streets in the undeveloped areas, it would aid the sub- dividers when development work began in these undeveloped areas. It was hoped that this would help to eliminate future conditions involving land locked areas in Chula Vista. The meeting was recessed at 9:15 for ten minutes. Opinion of City Attorney Campbell on Variance Applications The opinion prepardd by Uity Attorney Campbell giving information that could be required on a variance application was presented to the members. It was not discussed at this time, but was to be studied by the members and brought to the next meeting. The City Planner informed Planning Commission members that the next Regular Meeting would be on September 6, .1955• ADJOURNMENT: It was moved by member Henninger, seconded by Member Shamrell and unanimously carried.that the meeting adjourn., -sine die. Audrey Stollhouse., Secretary