HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Packet 2002/12/07Notice is hereby given that the Chair of the Redevelopment Agency has called and will convene a
special meeting of the Redevelopment Agency/City Council, Saturday, December 7, 2002 at 9:00
a.m., at the Chula Vista High School Cafeteria, 820 Fourth Avenue, Chula Vista, CA to consider,
deliberate and act upon the following: ~_..~~~ ~.~_~/. ·
S'~evez:~adilla, C'hair -
crlY OF
CHUIA VISTA
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2002 CHULA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA
9:00 A.M. 820 FOURTH AVENUE
SPECIAL JOINT MEETING OF THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA
CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
Agency/Council Members Davis, McCann, Rindone, Salas; Chair/Mayor Padilla
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
This is an opportunity for the general public to address the City Council/Redevelopment Agency on any subject
matter within the Council/Agency's jurisdiction that is not an item on this agenda, (State law, however,
generally prohibits the City Council/Redevelopment Agency from taking action on any issues not included on
the posted agenda.) If you wish to address the Agency on such a subject, please complete the "Request to
Speak Under Oral Communications Form" available in the lobby and submit it to the Secretary to the
Redevelopment Agency or City Clerk prior to the meeting. Those who wish to speak, please give your name
and address for record purposes and follow up action.
BUSINESS
1. "SHARE YOUR VISION" FOR CHULA VISTA'S IVIID-BAYFRONT - The City
and Redevelopment Agency of the City of Chula Vista will host a public
workshop to obtain input on future development of the Mid-Bayfront. The
126-acre site is located within the Bayfront Redevelopment Project Area,
generally north of Lagoon Drive (F St.), west of Bay Blvd., & east of the
Sweetwater National Wildlife Refuge. The meeting will be facilitated I~y Sam
Gennawey with MIG consultants in accordance with an agenda that will be
distributed to the public at the meeting. [Community Development Director]
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting will adjourn to an adjourned meeting of the Redevelopment Agency on
December 10, 2007, at 6:00 p.m., immediately following the City Council meeting
in the City Council Chambers.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
The City of Chula Vista, in complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), request individuals who
require special accommodates to access, attend, and/or participate in a City meeting, activity, or service
request such accommodation at least 48 hours in advance for meetings and five days for scheduled services
and activities. Please contact the Secretary to the Redevelopment Agency for specific information at (619)
691-5047 or Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf (TDD) at (619) 585-5647. California Relay Service is
also available for the hearing impaired.
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CI]Y OF
CHULA VISTA
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
City of Chula Vista
MidBayfront Community Outreach
Saturday, December 7, 2002, 9:00 a.m.
Chula Vista High School Cafeteria
820 Fourth Avenue, Chula Vista
9:00 a.m. Call to Order
Roll Call
Oral Communications
9:05 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
9:15 a.m. Property History
9:30 a.m. Values and Expectations
10:15 a.m. Ideas and Concepts
"Blue Sky Dreaming"
11:25 a.m. Conclusions and Next Steps
11:45 a.m. Adjournment
276 FOURTH AVE/CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA 91910/(619) 691-5047
December 7, 2002
To: the Developers of the Chula Vista Bay area,
and Chula Vista City Council:
I do not want the areas west of the Interstate 5 Freeway to be heavily
developed. We have seen so much development already in Chula
Vista and the results have been unfortunate. Prime examples are the
mess on H Street and other freeway access roads, and the excessive
development in the Eastlake area. Schools are maxed out. This
development will cause even worse commuter problems in the areas
of Freeway 5, and more school and population overcrowding.
Please consider an alternate to all this population increasing
development. Make the shorelines and associated areas open
space. Turn the area into a focal point for recreation, with parks,
water sports, and wildlife issues considered. With the increasing
interest in the arts, theatres, galleries, and so on would be attractions
that could be marketed as recreational relief for the huge populations
now in South Bay, San Diego and other communities, and Tijuana.
I am sorry I am unable to attend the meeting scheduled today. I will
be at the meeting scheduled next month.
Thank you,
Susan Walter
238 Second Avenue
Chula Viata, CA
91910
(619) 426-5109
Vision of Chula Vista bay front development
I see the creation of a very special neighborhood with architecture that accentuates the natural
beauty of our waterfront. The landscaping incorporates and preserves native plant and animal
habitats. And, the development utilizes state of the art power and water conservation
techniques that are the envy of other cities. Kartchner Caverns visitor center in Arizona is an
example of the type of architecture and landscaping I am discussing--but Tucson would envy
Chula Vista Bay front buildings equipped with enough solar panels to generate power for the
neighborhood!
I see a waterfront made up of diverse residences and businesses. A true neighborhood that is
open even when businesses are closed, and is accessible to all, not just those who happen to
be hotel guests. My husband and I recently visited Victoria, BC. We were enchanted with the
public boardwalk that stretched from a residential neighborhood, where our bed and breakfast
was located, past a local pub/brewery, by the marina, and some luxury hotels and finally over
the bridge to Victoria. We watched seaplanes taking off and landing on their bay and saw
people traveling to and fro on water taxis. It is this exciting memory that prompts a desire for
something similar in Chula Vista. How wonderful it would be to join the new bay front
development with the exemplary Sweetwater River trails and the Imperial Beach and Silver
Strand walkway.
I want to preserve, enhance and showcase what is uniquely Chula Vista. Gun Powder Point
and the Western Salt Company are to Chula Vista what the Hotel Del is to Coronado. In my
vision, the bay front development would include and glory in these historical landmarks.
Having a rail system to join the bay cities seems a wonderful idea to me. What better way to
bring San Diego tourists to our jewel by the bay! And, Chula Vistans could take the train to the
new Padres' ballpark (there is no parking downtown San Diego) then home again to celebrate
after the game at El Torito!
409 Palm Ave., Suite TOO, Imperial Beach, CA 91932-1121 Tel: (619)429 7946
Hon. Steve Padilla and City Council Members
276 4th Avenue
Chula Vista, CA 91910
Dear Mayor Padilla and City Council Members:
During your December 7, 2002, public workshop at the Chula Vista
High School on 4th Avenue, you will discuss yet another proposal
to "develop" your bayfront. We will strongly recommend that
you plan on an in-depth study of the likely effects of the
impacts associated with global warming on any proposed
development.
It would be conscientious for your proposed developer to alert
its investors to the hazards, both short term and long term,
guaranteed to result from global warming.
Please, for your information, refer to our May 29, 2001,
MEMORANDUM to the California "Energy" Commission, SUBJECT:
Testimony for SPECIAL MEETING DURING THE BUSINESS MEETING ON
MAY 30, 2001, with its attachment.
Pay particular attention to our May 28, 2001, MEMORANDUM TO:
Global Warming Files and more especially to Items 2. and 25.,
relating to sea level rise, and 22. relating to intense
precipitation events.
The intense precipitation events, made more damaging by
accompanying wind and sometimes ice, are already happening.
The sea level rise during the 20th century is a fact; that
predicted for the year 2100, at the .88 meters (34.6 inches)
would, when accompanied by a major hurricane coming in from
the Pacific, would be a disaster for the Silver Strand and
bayfront developments.
Plan cautiously. Future events could be worse than predicted
prior to the time when Bayfront investments would be amortized.
.S~~~/~~.~ Attach; 5 pages
W~Via~ E. Cla~c~O~mb~-President
409 Palm Ave., Suite 100, Im erial Beach, CA 91932-1121 Tel: (619)429 7946
Certified Mail No. 7000 1670 0006 0597 2213
Return Receipt Requested
MEMORANDUM
TO: Global Warming Files
FROM: William E. Claycomb,President
SUBJECT: Summary for Policymakers, A Report of Working Group
I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
Third Assessment
~he_ .~d~.. Ass~es~nt__R~pQ~_,was prepared by 122 coordinating
ead AuEnors, 515 Contributing Authors, 21 Review Editors and
337 Expert Reviewers. Delegations of 99 IPCC member countries
participated in the Eighth Session of Working Group I.
They reported that:
1. there has been a widespread retreat of mountain glaciers
in non-polar regions during the 20th century [page (p) 4],
2. global average sea level rose between .1 AND 2 meters
during the 20th century (p 4), '
3. since 1950 there have been fewer extreme low
temperatures and more extreme high temperatures (p 4),
4. E1 Ninos have been more frequent, persistent and intense
since the mid 1970's compared with the previous hundred years
(p 5),
5. in parts of Asia and Africa the frequency and intensity
of droughts have increased in recent decades (p 5),
6. emission of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human
activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are
expected to affect the climate (p 5),
7. concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases and their
warming effect (watts per square meter) have continued to
increase as a result of human activities (p 7),
8. the present CO2 concentration }]as sot been exceeded
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during the past 420,000 years and likely (66-90% chance) not
during the last 20 million years (p 7)
9. about 75% of man-caused emissions of CO? during the
past 20 years is due to fossil fuel burning (p 77,
10. the present methane concentration has not been exceeded
during the past 420,000 years (p 7),
11. small changes due to the 11-year solar cycle are a
natural factor making small changes in climate of the past
century (p 9),
12. two major natural factors (solar variation and volcanic
eruptions) would have caused global cooliQg during the past
2-4 decades but have not offset the~g~bal warming caused by
man (p 9),
13. confidence in climate model prediction of future climate
has increased (p 9),
14. model simulation of E1 Ninos has improved (p 9),
15. there is new and stronger evidence that most of the
warming observed over the last 50 years is caused by man (p
10),
16. human influences will continue to change atmospheric
composition throughout the 21st century (p 12),
17. in 1750, the CO2 atmospheric concentration was 280 ppm;
to stabilize the concentrations at 450 ppm would require
reducing man-caused emissions within a few decades to below
1990 levels with steady decreases after that (p 12),
18. from 1990 to 2100, global average surface temperature
will increase by 1.4 to 5.8% C (p 13),
19. these increases will be greater than predicted ~n the
Second Assessment Report of 1995 (p 13),
20. this rate of warming is very likely (90-99% chance)
to be greater than any during the last 10,000 years (p 13),
21. by the second half of the 21st century, i.t is likely
(66-90% chance) that precipitation will have increased over
northern mid-to high latitudes and very likely (90-99% chance)
to vary more year to year (p 13),
22. during the 21st century there will be higher maximum
temperatures and more hot days over nearly all land areas,
increase of heat index (temperature and humidity affecting human
comfort) over most land areas, more intense precipitation events
over many areas, increased summer continemtal drying and risk
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o~ dr~ught over most mid-latitude continental interiors (p 15),
23% beyond 2100, ocean transfer of heat to northern Europe
(by the conveyer belt current from the North Pacific) could
completely.and possibly irreversibly shut down (p 16),
24. the Greenland ice sheet is likely (66-90% chance) to
lose mass (The freshwater going into the ocean would make worse
the conveyer belt current shut down) (p 16),
25. global mean sea level is expected to rise .09 to .88
meters by 2100 (p 16),
26. man-caused climate change will persist for many
centuries (p 17),
27. about a quarter of the increase in CO2 concentration
caused by emissions today will still be in the atmosphere several
centuries from now (What a legacy for PG&E National Energy Group
to leave behind it.) (p 17),
28. ice sheets will continue to react to climate warming
and contribute to sea level rise for thousands of years after
climate has been stabilized (p 17),
29. to estimate (model) future emissions and their impact,
various possible future developments in the world (population,
energy production methods, information sharing, economic growth,
cultural and social interactions, technological development)
were assumed but no scenarios were included that explicitly
assumed implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change or the emissions targets of the Kyoto Protocol
(a safe pessimistic procedure) (p 18).
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BAY May 29, 2001
~409 Palm Ave., Suite 100, Imperial Beach, CA 91932-1121 Tel: (619)429 7946
Certified Mail No. 7000 1670 0006 0597 2213
MEMORANDUM
St~e of~California, State Energy Resources Development
and Conservation Commission
FROM: William E. Claycomb, President
.~UBJECT: Testimony for SPECIAL. MEETING 'DURING THE BUSINESS
MEETING ON MAY 30, 2001~ concerning SAVE OUR BAY, INC.'s Petition
for~ Reconsideration of the Commission's Decision approving the
OTAY MESA GENERATING PROJECT proposed by PG&E National Energy
Group
On Dec. 11, 1999, and March 6, 2000, even before we became an
intervenor in the Otay Mesa Geuerating Project, Appl. for Cert.
99~AFC~SF. we wrote you Commissioners letters about ph~~cs_ . .~
and~:~PEM%fuel' c~_s as solutions to the global warming crisis.
F0r~u~-~tely.and coincidentally photovoltaics and PEM fuel cells
.. are,'a~so solutions to California's electricity price and energy
crfses~--
You, so far, have chosen not to evaluate two studies (reports)
about photovoltaics which describe how cheap photovoltaic solar
panels can .be produced. The panels would produce electricity
.fo~ ~_~8¢ Der kilowatt ho~r which in the future will outcompete
other forms of electricity production. Of course once you
.~ evaluate these studies, you will obviously have to require PG&E
Nationa~:Energy Group .(or is it Otay Mesa Gen. Proj.) to m~i~gat__e
~ssions of 1,787,040 tons (their figure) of carbon
~ch y~r,
Now, if you still, are not convinced that global warming is a
problem, you should consider the r_9_~nt~_~a~t~_9~t from Scr~pDs
~ ~.~,,~on' of ~-~noqr~aphy (The San Diego Union-Tr~-e', Fri.
April..13, 2001, page B1). Scripps research indicated that
increases in ocean temperatures were a sign of global warming
~"'mOst~. likely the result of greenhouse gases produced by human
'ac~i~'~ty. The lead author of the Scripps paper presented in
the April' 13th Journal, "Science", said, "we were sort of stunned
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// 2 9 2001
/ ...when we saw how good the agreement was." (of the actual
historical' data with a computer simulation).
A "separate team, working independently at the Princeton__S.
J.'%~boratory_Qf the National Oceanographic Data Ce~te~J National
.~e_~anic_~J/d~Qsp~er~ic A~on arrived at the same
conclusion and had its paper published in the same April 13th
issue of "Science". The head of the Climate Change Research
Section at the Center said the Scripps researchers did "a
fantastic job" of correlating the computer data to the real
world.
If just that isn't enough to give you chills, listen to some
quotes from the Summary for Policymakers, A Report of Working
Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change THIRD
Assessment. (See attached MEMORANDUM dated May 28, 2001;
SUBJECT: Summary for Policymakers THIRD Assessment)
(Here Read para 1 re authors, editors reviewers and #4., 7.,
8., 9., 13., 17., 20., 22., 23., 24., 27. and 28.)
If you want to know how you and the rest of the world will be
affected, get the report of Working Group II.
If you want to know what to do about it go to Working Group
III.
Finally, explain the word, photovoltaics to Gray Davis. We've
never heard him use it. Maybe you must convince Lynn Schenk
· first.
If you're not interested, I'll pray fo~ your grandchildren along
with my own. ~/~., ~,~~
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