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March 26, 2007 City
Council Agenda
JOINT CITY COUNCIL/
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY/
PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY MEETING
MARCH 26, 2007
7:00 P.M.
PLEASE TURN OFF ALL ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT SUCH AS CELLULAR
TELEPHONES AND PAGERS, SO AS TO NOT DISTURB THE PROCEEDINGS
OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
*ATTENTION SPEAKERS: If you wish to address the City Council/Redevelopment
Agency/Public Financing Authority, please complete a speaker’s
card (next to agendas) and give it to the Council Assistant
(seated to the left of the City Council). By submitting the
speaker’s card, the Mayor/Chair will recognize you
at the appropriate time. In order to afford all members of
the public the opportunity to address the City Council/Redevelopment
Agency/Public Financing Authority, each speaker will be provided
3 minutes.
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. ROLL CALL
3. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE – Jeff Ira, Council Member
4. INVOCATION -
5. SPECIAL ORDERS:
Presentation - Girl Scout Troop 1793 Flag Ceremony
6. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS AND CONSENT CALENDAR - CITY COUNCIL/REDEVELOPMENT
AGENCY/PUBLIC FINANCING AUTHORITY
Items on the Consent Calendar are considered to be routine
by the City Council/Redevelopment Agency/Public Financing
Authority will be enacted by one motion and one vote. The
Consent Calendar category is limited to 15 minutes of comment
to be allocated as determined by the Mayor. If you wish to
speak to items on the Consent Calendar, please complete a
speaker's card and give it to the Council/Redevelopment/Public
Financing Authority Agency Assistant.
MOTION: waive reading of the Consent Calendar except the
ordinances by title, adopt the resolutions and the ordinances,
and approve other items.
6.1 Section – Motions -
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Approve the Joint City Council and Redevelopment
Agency meeting minutes of February 26, 2007 as submitted.
Staff contact: Patricia Howe, City Clerk 780-7222 phowe@redwoodcity.org
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Proposed Debt Management Policy - City Council/Redevelopment
Agency/Public Financing Authority
Staff contacts: Brian Ponty, Director of Finance
and Financial Planning 780-7048 bponty@redwoodcity.org
Recommendation:
It is recommended that the City Council, the Redevelopment
Agency Board of Directors, and the Public Financing
Authority Board of Directors approve the proposed
debt policy.
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Acceptance of Improvement – Post Office Lot
Project - Redevelopment Agency
Staff contact: Jon K. Lynch, P.E., City Engineer
780-7371 jlynch@redwoodcity.org
Recommendation:
Accept the Improvements for Post Office Parking Lot
Project, and return the performance and labor and
materials bonds in the amount of $63,530.00, according
to City procedures.
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6.2 Section – Final Acceptance
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Final Acceptance – Red Morton Community Park
Gardener Shed Replacement Project
Staff contact: M. Saber Sarwary, P.E., Senior Civil
Engineer 780-7370 ssarwary@redwoodcity.org
Recommendation:
By motion, accept the Red Morton Community Park Gardener
Shed Replacement Project, and authorize the release
of bonds and retention according to City procedure.
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Final Acceptance – 2005/06 Slurry Seal Project
Staff contact: M. Saber Sarwary, P.E., Senior Civil
Engineer 780-7370 ssarwary@redwoodcity.org
Recommendation:
By motion, accept the 2005/06 Slurry Seal Project,
and authorize the release of Payment Bond and retention
according to City procedures to Valley Slurry Seal
Co.
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Final Acceptance – accept the 2004/05 and
2005/06 Asphalt Rubber Chip Seal Projects
Staff contact: M. Saber Sarwary, P.E., Senior Civil
Engineer 780-7370 ssarwary@redwoodcity.org
Recommendation:
By motion, accept the 2004/05 and the 2005/06 Asphalt
Rubber Chip Seal Projects, and authorize the release
of payment bond and retention.
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6.3 Section – Resolutions
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. Fiscal Year 2006/07 Appropriation Revisions -
City Council/Redevelopment Agency
Staff contact: Araceli Fierro, Senior Accountant
780-7074 afierro@redwoodcity.org
Recommendation:
It is recommended that the City Council and the Redevelopment
Agency approve, by resolution, appropriating and
transferring certain funds for specified purposes
to conform the budgeted amounts to actual expenditures
approved for transactions, which have occurred
during the fiscal year 2006/2007.
RESOLUTION APPROPRIATING AND TRANSFERRING CERTAIN
FUNDS FOR SPECIFIED PURPOSES DURING FY 2006/07
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Authorize receipt of grant funding for the Community
Shuttle Service Pilot Program and authorize the City
Manager to execute Funding and Management Agreement
for same.
Contact: Diane Howard, Council Member, Chair for
Traffic Congestion Relief Alliance 363-0462 dhoward@redwoodcity.org
Recommendation:
1. By resolution, authorize acceptance of Lifeline
Transportation Program Funding in the amount of
$129,488.00 from the Metropolitan Transportation
Commission through City/County Association of Governments
of San Mateo County for the Community Shuttle Service
Pilot Program.
2. By motion, authorize the City Manager to execute
the Funding and Management Agreement for the Community
Service Shuttle Pilot Program.
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ACCEPTANCE OF LIFELINE
TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM FUNDING IN THE AMOUNT OF $129,488.00
FROM THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION THROUGH
CITY/COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTS OF SAN MATEO
COUNTY FOR THE COMMUNITY SHUTTLE SERVICE PILOT PROGRAM
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6.4 Section –Claims and Warrants
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Approve warrants dated through March 26, 2007 and
usual and necessary payments through April 9, 2007.
Staff contact: Brian Ponty, Director of Finance
and Financial Planning 780-7048 bponty@redwoodcity.org
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7. PUBLIC HEARING
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Downtown Precise Plan - The public hearing was closed
at the March 12, 2007 City Council Meeting. Public
Comments will be addressed under Oral Communications
Staff Contact: Tom Passanisi, Community Development
Services Manager, 780-7237 tpassanisi@redwoodcity.org
Recommendation:
Continue the March 12th City Council discussion of
issues, questions, and responses on the Downtown
Precise Plan. Consider approval of the Downtown
Precise Plan, per recommendations from the Planning
Commission and City Staff with any additional City
Council revisions. The following actions are required
for the Plan to take effect:
1. Adopt a Resolution approving the attached Findings
and Statement of Overriding Considerations and the
accompanying Mitigation Monitoring Program.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
REDWOOD CITY MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS CONCERNING MITIGATION
MEASURES. ADOPTING A MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING
PROGRAM, MAKING FINDINGS CONCERNING ALTERNATIVES,
AND ADOPTING A STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
ACT FOR THE REDWOOD CITY DOWNTOWN PRECISE PLAN
2. Adopt a Resolution amending the General Plan:
a. Amend the General Plan Land Use Designation of
the Downtown Precise Plan Area from “Mixed
Uses” (Commercial and Residential), “Multi-Story
Structures for Office and Retail Uses,” “Moderate
and High Rise Residential Structures,” “Government,” and “Office
Park Oriented Uses” to “Downtown Mixed
Use” and “Downtown Expansion Blocks.”
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
REDWOOD CITY AMENDING THE STRATEGIC GENERAL PLAN
OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY TO CHANGE THE GENERAL
PLAN LAND USE DESIGNATIONS OF PROPERTIES LOCATED
WITHIN THE REDWOOD CITY DOWNTOWN PRECISE PLAN AREA
TO “DOWNTOWN MIXED USE” AND “DOWNTOWN
MIXED USE EXPANSION BLOCKS”
b. Add new text to the General Plan describing two
new land use designations, i.e., “Downtown
Mixed Use” and “Downtown Mixed Use Expansion
Blocks” and their associated definitions.
3. Introduce an Ordinance to rezone the Downtown
Precise Plan Area from numerous retail and mixed
use residential zoning designations to “P” (Planned
Community) District and make associated findings
that this rezoning action is in the public interest.
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ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD
CITY AMENDING ARTICLE 60, ZONING MAP NO. 22 OF ORDINANCE
NO. 1130, THE REDWOOD CITY ZONING ORDINANCE, AS AMENDED,
TO REZONE PROPERTIES LOCATED WITHIN THE REDWOOD CITY
DOWNTOWN PRECISE PLAN AREA, AS FURTHER DESCRIBED
IN THIS ORDINANCE, FROM THE EXISTING ZONING DISTRICTS
TO THE PLANNED COMMUNITY DISTRICT
4. Adopt an ordinance approving the Downtown Precise
Plan and selecting the “Moderate Intensity
Alternative” build-out standard with recommended
revisions. The moderate Intensity Alternative build-out
standard will be documented in an Appendix of the
Downtown Precise Plan.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
REDWOOD CITY ADOPTING THE REDWOOD CITY DOWNTOWN PRECISE
PLAN AND THE MODERATE INTENSITY ALTERNATIVE AS THE
MOST APPROPRIATE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE DEVELOPMENT LIMITATION
FOR THE DOWNTOWN PRECISE PLAN
Pertinent attachments and revisions for all of these
actions were included in the previous staff report
dated March 12, 2007. Please refer to those documents
for more information (available on line at www.redwoodcity.org).
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Solid Waste Collections Rate Increase
Staff contact: Brian Ponty, Director of Finance
and Financial Planning 780-7048 bponty@redwoodcity.org
1) Staff Report;
2) Open public hearing;
3) Hear public comment;
4) Close public hearing;
5) Council discussion;
Recommendation:
It is recommended that the City Council approve by
resolution a 10.75% rate increase effective February
1, 2007. For typical residential customers who
have one 32-gallon container picked up once a week,
the increase will amount to $1.82 per month.
RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING RATES OF CHARGES FOR SANITARY
INSPECTIONS, COLLECTIONS, RECYCLING AND REMOVAL OF
REFUSE IN THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY
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Amendment to Chapter 3 of the Municipal Code regulating
Advertising and Signs.
Staff Contact: Charles Jany, Principal Planner 780-7239 cjany@redwoodcity.org
1) Staff Report;
2) Open public hearing;
3) Hear public comment;
4) Close public hearing;
5) Council discussion;
Recommendation:
1. By Motion: Make the following findings:
· The 1999 inventory of non-conforming signs in Redwood City has been
updated and is confirmed as adequate and complete for sign amortization purposes.
· The proposed amendments conform to the California Environmental Quality
Act.
· The amended ordinance will make Redwood City’s sign ordinance
consistent with current law related to signage;
2. Rescind the existing sign ordinance (Chapter 3,
Articles II “Signs” and III “Motor
Vehicle Fuel Price Signs,” of the Municipal
Code); and
3. Introduce the proposed new sign ordinance (Chapter
3, Articles II “Signs” and III “Signs
on Public Property,” of the Municipal Code)
(Attachment 1).
ORDINANCE AMENDING ARTICLE ONE, TWO AND THREE OF
CHAPTER 3 OF THE REDWOOD CITY MUNICIPAL CODE ADVERTISING
AND SIGNS AND SIGNS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY
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8. Staff Report
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Resolution amending the City of Redwood City’s
Classification Plan and fiscal year 2006/07 budget.
Staff contact: Robert Bell, Director, Human Resources
780-7287 bbell@redwoodcity.org
Recommendation:
Approve by resolution amendments to the City’s
Classification Plan and approve resulting budget
appropriation.
A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY’S
CLASSIFICATION PLAN AND APPROVING RESULTING BUDGET
APPROPRIATION
(Deputy City Manager)
A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY’S
CLASSIFICATION PLAN AND APPROVING RESULTING BUDGET
APPROPRIATION
(Police Activities League – Management Analyst
I/II)
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9. MATTERS OF COUNCIL INTEREST -
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Legislation (information only) – This sub-section
involves possible discussion of City position on Proposed
Legislation described in the League of California Cities
Priority Focus Bulletin No. 10-2007 and 11-2007. Council
may direct staff to act on positions taken by Council.
(Copies of League of California Cities Priority Focus
available in City Clerk’s Department).
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Ad Hoc Charter Amendments Subcommittee
Contact: Diane Howard, Council Member 363-0462 dhoward@redwoodcity.org
Recommendation:
Discussion of creation of an ad hoc charter amendments
subcommittee.
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10. ADJOURNMENT: MOTION TO ADJOURN UNTIL THE NEXT REGULAR
CITY COUNCIL AGENCY MEETING OF APRIL 9, 2007
ALTERNATE AGENDA FORMATS: In accordance with AB 3035, the
City Council will provide materials in appropriate alternative
formats, or disability-related accommodation. Please send
a written request to Patricia S. Howe, City Clerk, at 1017
Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA 94063 or e-mail address
phowe@redwoodcity.org, including your name, address, phone
number and brief description of the requested materials and
preferred alternative format or auxiliary aid or service
at least seven calendar days before the meeting.
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