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CC - 07-11-950 i APPROVED CITY O~ ROSEMEAD DATE 71 S ~7 r MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING RY" ROSEMEAD CITY COUNCIL ,JULY 11, 1995 The regular meeting of the Rosemead City Council was called to order by Mayor Vasquez at 8:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the City Hall, 8838 E. Valley Boulevard, Rosemead, California. The Pledge to the Flag was led by Mayor Pro Tern Clark The Invocation was delivered by Pastor Tony Rodriguez of the First Presbyterian Church ROLL CALL OF OFFICERS: Present: Councilmembers Imperial, Vasquez Absent: Bruesch (excused) Taylor, Mayor Pro Tem Clark, and Mayor APPROVAL OF MINUTES: MAY 30,1995 - ADJOURNED MEETING MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER TAYLOR, SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM CLARK that the Minutes of the Adjourned Meeting of May 30, 1995, be approved as submitted. Vote resulted: Yes: Clark, Taylor, Vasquez, Imperial No: None Absent: Bruesch Abstain: None The Mayor declared said motion duly carried and so ordered. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: JUNE 13, 1995 - REGULAR MEETING MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER TAYLOR, SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER IMPERIAL that the Minutes of the Regular Meeting of June 13, 1995, be approved as submitted. Vote resulted: Yes: Clark, Taylor, Vasquez, Imperial No: None Absent: Bruesch Abstain: None The Mayor declared said motion duly carried and so ordered. PRESENTATIONS: - None ORAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE Juan Nunez, 2702 Del Mar Avenue, Rosemead, asked about the medians on Walnut Grove and Del Mar and noticed that the streets were being marked. Al Rodriguez, City Engineer, explained that aerial photographs were taken of the area. Mr. Nunez mentioned areas on Garvey Avenue where tree roots are a problem. He then asked for any information on the California Constitution Revision Commission meetings. Mayor Pro Tern Clark responded that she had attended two public hearings and had voiced her opposition to several proposals and will provide Mr. Nunez with copies of documents from those meetings. CCA 7-11-95 Page #1 II. PUBLIC HEARINGS An explanation of procedures for the conduct of public hearings was presented by the City Attorney. A. A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENT NO. 94- 01 - TO ALLOW CERTAIN PERMITTED ALTERNATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO EXISTING NON-CONFORMING RESIDENTIAL DWELLINGS WITH INSUFFICIENT OFF-STREET PARKING (FIRST READING) VERBATIM DIALOGUE FOLLOWS: MAYOR JOE VASQUEZ: I now open this second session for the Public Hearing, and if there's no objections from any of the Councilmembers, I would like to defer some of the items, II.A. and 11. Al., to the next Council meeting as I would like to have a full Council participate in this. MAYOR PRO TEM CLARK: On this particular one I would like to make some recommendations so that maybe staff can be working on it. COUNCILMEMBER IMPERIAL: I would just open it up for discussion then. VASQUEZ: The Public Hearing is open for discussion. Does anyone want to get up? Juan? FROM THE AUDIENCE: Mr. Nunez: A or B...Since you're going to defer it, I'll wait. COUNCILMEMBER TAYLOR: Mr. Mayor. As far as this particular one if we can just continue this to the next meeting ...for what discussion we're having, I'm opposed to it and I'll vote No on it the way it is in the sense that we're having such parking problems throughout the City as far as...What this is doing will allow a 50% increase in the size of the residence R-1 and R-2. The intent of this was to make the property owners put the required parking. And, the logic of it is, the little diagram they showed of one property with the garage in the back, I saw no problem with just making that garage wider. I would be agreeable to something in the nature of removing the $2000 restriction and raising it to $30,000 or $35,000 for a bedroom or bath addition to a house. Something of that nature. But to just completely take the whole issue out and allow someone to take a 1200 square foot house and add 600 square feet more, or two bedrooms and a bath ...The reason for that in most cases is, as they get older they end up needing more parking because the children are staying at home longer, when they get out and drive, the teenagers/young adults start getting cars then they need more parking. I'm seeing more and more of the need for the parking to be there, so it's a Catch 22 situation. By removing the $2000 and allowing to put on smaller additions of a bedroom and a bath or something of that nature, in the $35,000 range or even up to $40,000, once you get beyond that then we're defeating our purpose. We create more need, more bedrooms, more cars. I've received several calls in the past of people getting tickets, the last one was Sunday morning, because the neighbors have visitors come on the weekends and park in front of their homes and they would park on the lawn or something to keep their... they couldn't park on the street, period. So they park on the lawn or part way on it and get a ticket for doing it. I really think we're defeating the whole intent. It doesn't seem like a lot when you say, Well, they can add on to it", but a 50% increase is a pretty good size improvement. CLARK: Mr. Mayor. I agree with Gary in that sense also. One of the problems I had with it is that if a person had a 1300 square foot house and added 50%, he could come up with 1990 square feet and get by with a one car garage, where the person building a new 2000 square feet house, 10 square feet more, has to have a three car garage. That seems like a really big discrepancy there. I agree with Gary about the parking problems we have. wouldn't want to see such a high valuation placed on it because I don't think that we should be allowing bedrooms to be added on without parking. I can see the intent of this ordinance as far as the $2000 triggering the two car garage. It's totally unrealistic in this day of inflation, so I think we need to raise the amount. But, I think it should only be for patios, kitchens and bathrooms or something like that. But, when you add a bedroom, you're going to have two, possibly three drivers there. That is going to impact the City. I would like to see this go back to the Planning Commission with working out, possibly, $6000 or $7000 CCA 7-11-95 Page #2 addition and then have them come to the Commission... have to come to the Commission on a case-by-case basis. I have a problem with a blanket... saying if you have so much you can add this much. I think it needs to be a case-by-case basis. I have a problem with one car garage and I think we're just shooting ourselves in the foot. VASQUEZ: Is that a motion to send it back to the Planning Commission? CLARK: Yes. IMPERIAL: Mr. Mayor. I can agree with that because we've already got a problem. We've got maybe three bedrooms with 10-15 people living there. There is no room to park on the existing lots and they're parking all over the streets and taking the neighbors parking in front. So, we've already got a problem, we're adding to it. So, I can agree with what... VASQUEZ: Would that be a second, Jay? IMPERIAL: Yes, it would. VASQUEZ: This would be going back to the Planning Commission. FRANK TRIPEPI, CITY MANAGER: Do we continue with the hearing, Bob. ROBERT KRESS, CITY ATTORNEY: No, the motion is to close the public hearing and to take no action on this and refer it back to the Planning Commission with the comments that the Councilmembers made in the form of minutes. CLARK: Perhaps, could we have them verbatim so they would know what our concerns are. VASQUEZ: OK. We'll go ahead and vote to send this back to the Planning Commission. Ordinance No. 759 will be deferred, which a follow-up to II.A. Vote taken from voting slip: Yes: Clark, Taylor, Vasquez, Imperial No: None Absent: Bruesch Abstain: None END VERBATIM DIALOGUE. B. PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING ADOPTION OF THE PROPOSED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) CONSOLIDATED PLAN FOR FY 1995- 2000 The Mayor opened the Public Hearing. Juan Nunez, 2702 Del Mar Avenue, Rosemead, asked if the City is changing from L.A. County to HUD as HUD has not worked well previously and the Block Grant would not benefit the City. The Mayor closed the Public Hearing Councilmember Imperial stated that he cannot vote for this and requested the item be deferred pending a full Council. There being no objection, the Mayor deferred this item to the next meeting when it will be anticipated a full Council will be present. CCA 7-11-95 Page #3 III. LEGISLATIVE The following item was taken out of order: B. ORDINANCE NO. 758 - WATER QUALITY ORDINANCE REQUIRED FOR NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT IMPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE (INTRODUCE) There being no objection, the Mayor deferred this item to the next Council meeting when it is anticipated there will be a full Council. Discussion then ensued on this item. Councilmember Taylor stated that he does not favor this item and asked if there are any other options. Al Rodriguez, City Engineer, responded that the City can pull their own permits with the State Water Resources, but they are not recommending that. Councilmember Taylor stated that he would make the motion, with reservations as this is a Federal program with another layer of bureaucracy to regulate the storm drains, but does not see any other options. MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER TAYLOR, SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM CLARK that the Council introduce Ordinance No 758 and set it for adoption at the Council meeting of July 25, 1995. It is further recommended that the City Council approve the Storm Water Management Program Standards for new developments and significant redevelopment. Vote resulted: Yes: Clark, Taylor, Vasquez, No: Imperial Absent: Bruesch Abstain: None The Mayor declared said motion duly carried and so ordered. At this point the Council returned to the regular order of the Agenda. A. RESOLUTION NO. 95-29 - CLAIMS & DEMANDS The following resolution was presented to the Council for adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 95-29 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD ALLOWING CERTAIN CLAIMS AND DEMANDS IN THE SUM OF $698,638.09 NUMBERED 13415 THROUGH 13544 Councilmember Imperial requested information on M & G Auto Body repairs to Unit #29, $819.51, Check No. 13491. MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER IMPERIAL, SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER TAYLOR that Resolution No. 95-29 be adopted. Vote resulted: Yes: Clark, Taylor, Vasquez, Imperial No: None Absent: Bruesch Abstain: None The Mayor declared said motion duly carried and so ordered. CCA 7-11-95 Page #4 IV. CONSENT CALENDAR The following item was taken out of order: CC-B. SELECTION OF CONSULTANT FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM SERVICES There being no objection, the Mayor deferred this item to the next Council meeting when it is anticipated a full Council will be present. At this point the Council returned to the regular order of the agenda. CC-A APPROVAL OF EXTENSION TO LANDSCAPE AGREEMENT - MARIPOSA LANDSCAPE MOTION BY COUNCILMEMBER TAYLOR, SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM CLARK that the Council approve the Extension of Agreement and authorize its execution by the Mayor. Vote resulted: Yes: Clark, Taylor, Vasquez, Imperial No: None Absent: Bruesch Abstain: None The Mayor declared said motion duly carried and so ordered. V. MATTERS FOR DISCUSSION AND ACTION - None VII. STATUS REPORTS - None VIII. MATTERS FROM OFFICIALS A. COUNCILMEMBER JAY IMPERIAL Requested the status of the Finance Committee. 2. Inquired about information previously requested on Building Permit fees being lowered. B. MAYOR PRO TEM MARGARET CLARK 1. Stated that in the interest of saving trees the Councilmembers save their items that were deferred so that they do not have to be recopied. C. COUNCILMEMBER GARY TAYLOR 1 . Asked about the status of Highcliff Street. Mr. Rodriguez responded that they are working with the City Attorney on the properties already recorded by the Recorder's Office and this item should be on the next meeting. 2. Requested an update on the trash scavengers. Mr. Tripepi responded that a count of arrests and citations issued will be provided. Councilmember Imperial state that he has a video of the scavengers. Mr. Taylor requested that the City do as much documentation as possible and added that the Courts are reluctant to prosecute these minor offenses. Mr. Tripepi responded that trucks used are now being impounded and a value is placed on recyclables which changes the citation from Scavenging to Petty Theft or Grand Theft. Sgt. Wallace stated that the D.A.'s office will now accept those charges by using State Violations instead of the City Ordinances and that Team Members are on duty from 5:00 a.m. going before the trash truck routes for that day. Sgt. Wallace stated further that three citations and one warning have been issued. Councilmember Taylor stated that citations could be issued through documentation done by the City. CCA 7-11-95 Page #5 D. COUNCILMEMBER IMPERIAL 1. Councilmember Imperial brought up the problem of people going through the recycling buy back center at Universal Shopping Center and that many people are being intimidated by those persons. VIII. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE Juan Nunez, 2702 Del Mar Avenue, Rosemead, stated that on Garvey Boulevard, west of Del Mar on the north side, the concrete on the pole has been damaged. Councilmember Taylor verified from Mr. Nunez that the City entrance sign at the east end of Garvey Avenue is tilted again and added that the soil compactior-oat that site is faulty. 20' east:(of Mr. Rodriguez responded that the sign has been righted but usually when an accident occurs, the vehicle will break the irrigation system. Councilmember Taylor stated that the brick on the monument shows no damage which leads him to believe that the problem is in the compaction. IX. ADJOURNMENT There being no further action at this time, the meeting was adjourned at 8:45 p.m. The next regular meeting will be held on July 25, 1995 at 8:00 p.m. Respectfully submitted: APPROVED: City Clerk CCA 7-11-95 Page #6