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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1982-0928 REG MINMINUTES OF THE ADJOURNED MEETING ASHLAND CITY COUNCIL September 28, 1982 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE SPECIAL AGENDA ITEMS Commercial off-pre- mise Billboard adv. ordinance LID 51 Improvement Bonds - Ordinance Liquor License Rondo Lanes PUBLIC HEARING CO)~REHENSIVE PLAN REVISION LCDC Mayor Medaris led the Pledge of Allegiance and called the meeting to order at 7:30 P.M. in the Civic Center Council Chambers on the above date. Acklin, Howard, Laws and Corliss were present. Dale was on leave and Sims' position is vacant until 10/5/82 meeting at which time a replacement will be appointed to serve out his term to 12/31/82. Second reading was given by title only of an ordinance relating to off-premise advertising and Laws moved to adopt; Corliss seconded the motion which passed unanimously on roll call vote. Second reading by title only was given an ordinance authorizing the issuance of Local Improvement Bonds in District No. 51 and Ack]in moved to adopt; Howard seconded the motion which passed unanimously on roll call vote. A liquor license application from Rondo Lanes, ].505 Siskiyou Blvd., adding the name of Heritage Bank to the business ~as considered and it was noted that license is recommended by Chief of Police Lively. Laws moved the request be approved; Howard seconded and on voice vote the motion passed unanimously. Mayor Medaris commended staff for their work on the Comprehensive Plan, UGB and Land-Use and gave background of LCDC saying that he would recommend that Council go on record taking an affirmative stand opposing Ballot Measure 6 which would seek the repeal of LCDC. Medaris said such a measure if successful would be a tremendous waste of the efforts of LCDC and would be catastrophic to planning procedures. Laws so moved; seconded by Acklin and passed unanimously on voice vote. Planning Director Fregonese gave the background of the Comprehensive Plan saying that the previously drawn plan had been returned by LCDC after their review and rejected on the basis that it left out the ~ctual basis for policies. Fregonese said it was a good document for implementation of the policy. Fregonese said much of the Plan has been taken directly from the previous document and in no case added new policies and did not revise any policies in there. Fregonese said this Plan was built on the foundation of the 19 Statewide ~oals~ and has been revised to comply with those Goals, only 13 of which apply to Ashland. Fregonese reviewed the Goals!as follows: Goal 1 - Citizen's involvement: Fregonese said that we had the process but not the policy to commit them. Goal 2 - Land-Use Planning - did not have adequate inventories for forestry or open spaces or resources for air, land And water quality, for economic development, housing, transportation, public services etc. 9/28/82 P. 1 Adjourne~eeting Ashland City Council 9/28/82 P. 2 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN cont. Goal 4 - on forest lands productivity inventory was said to be lacking and since the forests in Ashland aren't actually productive in that sense and Fregonese said he had SORCI make up a report from findings in the field. Goal 5 - Fregonese said an inventory was made up of resources not in the original plan including mineral & active resources, energy res- .~ sources, fish & wildlife habitats etc. Goal 6 - air and land resources quality - Fregonese said the Ashland Airport Master Plan will be supportive to comply with federal and state environmental quality regulartions. Fregonese reveiwed reasons the rural residential zoning at the airport were changed. Goal 7 - complie4 by providing adequate inventories of known slope and flood hazards and policy on flood hazards. Fregonese touched on what was considered as one of the most important/controversial sub- jects and the most important ordinance adopted relative to flood zones to insure that development in Ashland will be safe. Goal 9 - on LCDC's requirement that suitable amounts of land be planned for future economic growth, Fregonese reviewed the different steps taken to satisfy this compliance relative to housing needs. Goal 10 - lack of buildable lands inventory - complied with. Goal 11 - solid waste disposal agreement with County complied with. Goal 12 -. inadequate information & implementing measures on Ashland Airport - noise ordinance implemented. Goal 14 - lack of findings on urban growth boundary and criteria to change. Fregonese said that Chapter 12 of the CP was complied to satisfy LCDC's recommendation along with annexation policies. Fregonese said that there were other things the Planning Conmission wanted to add to the plan which included background of the City - historic facts, maps and pictures to familiarize people with the development of the City and to make the document more interesting to read. Fregonese noted that Chapter 13 will include a cross refer- ence to Land-Use policies showing the ordinances drawn to implement land-use, housing etc. Fregonese reviewed the plan chapter by chapter as to which was new, old or revised. Fregonese briefed Council and the audience on what took place when the comprehensive plan was returned in January 1981 saying that it took six months to write the plan where some of the implementing o~din- ances were inserted and added that 600 notices had been sent out to individual property owners in preparation for public hearings. Fregon- ese said during such hearings that valid objections were brought up and ordinances were reworded along with map changes and at that point the entire plan was retyped. 9/28/82 P. 2 Regular Meeting Ashland City Council 9/2 ~82 P. 3 Comp. Plan cent. PUBLIC HEARING Fregenese reviewed the map changes and the corresponding zone changes and suggested the public testimony be taken upon completion of the explanation saying that the public would be mostly interested in the map changes. (Information showing Chapter and designations shown on the map made part of the record). Pregonese read one piece of testimony received opposing the zoning of property at 196 Nutley Street (Tax lot 5200) and signed by George Sanders. Fregonese said the low-density designation for res- idential was done in 1978 in the original plan. Fregonese said it may have called for 8000 sq. ft. before 1978.(Placed on file.) Mayor Medaris opened the public hearing to the audience and Jim Hays, Chairman of CPAC commended Fregonese and the Planning Co~nission for the volumes of information compiled in six months time and said the result of the efforts of these dedicated people the City of Ashland has a truly comprehensive plan. Hays cited Councilman Laws efforts at the pivotal planning session at which time he assisted with the policies etc. Hays urged adoption of the revised plan for submittal to CPAC. Marion Krebs, 1983 Tamarack Place addressed Council by saying that he wonders why more of the North Ashland property wasn't taken in where a golf course is planned and said he felt this all should be taken into the City's urban growth boundary so that the City has something to say about the north entrance to the City where 20,000 people are living. Krebs went on to say that what has been designated as exclus- ive farm use by the County has not been used for that purpose for years and years and on the other hand where we have designated Employ- ment District to property where excellent crops could be cultivated. Krebs said that we should have control of the farm-use property by inclusion of it into our u.b.g. On Medaris' question about the makeup of the u.b.g. Fregonese said that most of the developed portions of the North Interchange were taken in and that for future zoning an urbanization line was dragon to take in further properties and agreed with the County that at a later date Ashland will have something to say about it's development. Fregonese said he thought it best to comply with LCDC at this point and consider the outlined concerns in a revision at a later date. Carol Matthews, 23 Sherman St. recommended that a D-overlay be used for the triangular property at Sherman, Siskiyou & E. Main Streets because the area is made up of single family homes and parking is a. problem. Matthews said that a petition had been signed with all property owners signing in favor and since that petition has been submitted two additional names have favored the proposal - Gadberry and Heintz. Fregonese said there could be an amendment which would make the site D-overlay and that it could call for off-street parking where possible without calling for demolition of any structures for parking purposes.. 9/28/82 P. 3 Adjourned Meeting Ashland City Council 9/28/82 P~ Comp. Plan continued Councilman Howard said that he is one of the persons signing petition. Howard said there are eleven lots in there and only three are resi- dences now. Fregonese asked for guidance from Council on the matter, Laws cautioned that should more commercial parking be allowed in that area that it will create a ripple whereby others will be using your lot and the problem won't be solved and more problems will be created. Fregonese said he would bring a proposal back. Mark Cooper, 538 Granite Street reviewed his application for develop- ment of property on Granite Street saying that he had originally been given acceptance to a proposal for two units per acre and ended up with twenty eight units. Cooper said he then bought an additional fifty acres and now it looks as though he can have two to ten acre lots. on fifty acres and will be able to build only about ten homes. Fregonese said the lines were drawn based on slope and property lines and that the Planning Commission is using a new topography map, Freg- onese noted that this land is above 50% in slope. Cooper said it is a very subtle way of making a person think he has something only to find he can't use it. Fregonese said its a physical restraint ordin- ance controlling slope development and that Woodland designation calls for low density and was applied sparingly with the. very steep slopes. There being no further input from the audience the public hearing was closed & it was noted that copes of the document are available in the Southern Oregon State College and Ashland Public Library. Fregonese invited questions relative to the document and Acklin asked for an explanation on page 8 of chapter IV where Quarries are dealt with and expr&ssed concern with the way it is written relative to continued operation under nonconforming use etc. Fregonese explained that LCDC had noted the quarries were in operation but no policy was given on their operation. Laws brought up the fact that it seemed ~n- ferred that they would continue regardless of any conditions and sug- gested that "unless noise controls or other factors/criteria would enforce closure" etc. Fregonese said he would add a sentence or two to #4 under Policies to the effect suggested by Laws and agreed on by Acklin who brought up the question initially. Of Policy #17 relative to Water Supply Laws suggested better language than "The City should seek funding assistance to construct a new impoundmerit on Ashland Creek etc." and after some discussion decided to change the language to "investigate and continue to study". Fregonese reviewed Chapter 18,14 - WP Woodland Residential Dist. saying it is a new zone to be applied to forested areas to ensure that these areas are protected from incompatible development on slopes and forests with erosion control and scenic values as the prime purpose of the zone. Fregonese reviewed the slope criteria with lot sizes computed on the slope percentages, Cooper said he cannot ask for permission to cut down every 6" tree as its his property and he will have to build roads etc. 9/28/82 P. 4 Regular Meeting Ashland City Council 9/28/82 P. Comprehensive Plan cont. ADJOURNI,~ENT Suburban Residential District was reviewed by Fregonese, as was R-2 Low-Density Multiple-Family Residential District, R-3 High Density Multiple-Family Residential, C-1 Retail Commercial District, E-1 Emp- loyment District, M-1 Industrial District, Airport Overlay Zone, Physical Constraints, General Regulations, Solar Access, Site Design and Use Standards, Minor Land Partitions, Street and Greenway Dedica- tions, Manufactured Housing Developments, Off-Street Parking and Con- ditional Use Permits. This review concluded Fregonese's presentation of the revised comprehensive plan. Fregonese said he could bring back an ordinance to adopt by reference for the meeting of the 21st October and said he anticipates a six month period for review by LCDC. The meeting adjourned at 9:35 P.M. Nan E. Franklin City Recorder L. Gordon Medaris Mayor IH