Agenda
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ESTABLISH QUORUM AND CALL TO ORDER
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COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENTS
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DIRECTOR ANNOUNCEMENTS
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PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEMS ON THE AGENDA
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SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA ITEM(S)
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Waterfront Master Plan Advisory Committee - August 6, 2026, Special Meeting Minutes
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WMPAC Meeting #15 - Preferred Alternative
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ADJOURNMENT
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Ready to go. All right looks like we've established quorum
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so I'm calling. To order this committee of the Wompa
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Committee for September 3rd 2026. This is a Waterfront master
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plan advisory committee. There is one absence, the chairman Peck,
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and I'll be taking this place today. He will be
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sorely missed. The next item will be any committee. Members
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announcements for today. I'm good, I don't have any announcements.
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It's good to be here, everybody. So far they're making
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it easy for me. So the next will be any
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director announcements. Oh, defer my announcements to the presentation. So
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nothing at this time.
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Next item is public comments for items that are on
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the agenda at this time. Is there any. Thank you?
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State your name and you have three minutes. Hi, Eric
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Meyer speaking as a private citizen. I'm upon a commissioner
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also, but I'm not speaking on behalf of the commission.
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I have two things I want to discuss briefly. As
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this process moves forward, it's going to come to the
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planning commission and it's also going to go to the
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city council. And there are subjective responses that I've heard
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a lot of you discuss and debate. And there are
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objective responses that we've seen in the form of the
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public meetings and the outcome of voting and however you
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feel about that, whatever. But I would like to suggest
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that you form our memorialize your own feelings about things
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a little bit more concisely. At this juncture, I've heard
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disparate opinions about some of the subject street ends, traffic,
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you know, et cetera, et cetera. The fisherman's kiosk, the
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otter area. And what I'd like to see from you,
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I think what the public needs or what the city
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needs. His confirmation of an agreement. So someone needs to
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make a motion about the various things which you agree
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on. As a lot of them you agree on. And
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so just whichever items do you feel you agree on,
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in my opinion, just to set it in stone, if
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you memorialize it through a motion, it'll make it much
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more certain to us and staff. Secondarily, with respect to
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how the design guidelines. Moral bays not like every other
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beach city more obey is a little bit more casual,
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I'd like to say. What we saw happen in Avaloft,
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for instance, kind of the Disneylandification, I call it, of
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what Avalo used to be sad in a way. And
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we've lost some of its quaint old features. And when
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you go down to the Waterfront and you sit down
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on an old log from a eucalyptus tree that was
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cut down 50 years ago and you eat your bologna
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sandwich while watching the otters. That's different than sitting on
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a concrete whale tail with fake starfish. And I just
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want you to keep in mind what morobay really is
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when you discuss your design guideline. And don't turn it
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into hardy plank and vinyl windows. Thank you very much.
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Is there anybody. On the queue. There are no raised
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hands in the keel. Thank you. Mr. Chair, just for
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the public's benefit will also take public comment after the
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staff presentation on the agenda item as well. There want
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to hear that. Okay, thank you. Uh, item five here.
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We need to, I imagine all the committee members have
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reviewed the minutes from our August 6, 2026 meeting. And,
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uh, at this time, if the questions or comments or
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I'll entertain a motion to approve those minutes as presented
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to us. I move that we approve the minutes as
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presented. I'll second. All those in favor. Aye. Opposed.
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None.
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Okay. The next part here isn't actually two parts. And,
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uh, at the chair's discretion, we're going to allow five
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minutes for speaker instead of the three. And so anyone
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in the audience that has any kind of comments on
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the revised preferred alternate, you can step four at this
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time and you have five minutes. Is that right? Or
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is it for the committee? So Mr. Chair, I will
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go ahead and start off with the staff presentation and
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then committee members will ask questions. Then we'll go to
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the public. Thank you. Thank you for correct me. So
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I will start the presentation and then hand it over
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to Amy Sinsheimer with placeworks. Also, we have Alan Loomis
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with placeworks available on Zoom. And he will present a
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couple of the slides as well. So here is the
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timeline that we present at each one pack meeting, you
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know, where are we going. So we actually have only
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three more WAMPAC meetings, only two after this meeting. So
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I know that's maybe sad news that we're coming to
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an end on this work. Um, it's been great working
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with the WAMPAC. We're at a very exciting time in
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the process wrapping up the preferred alternative. Really the focus
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of today's meeting is getting the final comments that the
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WAMPAC is going to forward to the planning commission on
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the revised preferred alternative. Also, we're going to introduce the
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design guidelines, which is going to be the focus of
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the October one - pack meeting. And that's pretty much
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what this agenda slide. Uh, states. So we're going over
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the preferred alternative and introducing the design guidelines and preparation
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for the October 1PAC meeting. And I wanted to give
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a kind of high level overview, again, of the purpose
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of the Waterfront Master Plan and how that relates to
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zoning. In the city of Moro Bay before we hand
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it over to Amy to go over the referred alternative.
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So first, I wanted to really emphasize, I think I
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mentioned this last time, I'm going to say it again
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that the underlying is donating is what determines the allowed
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land uses. So the Waterfront is divided up among a
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few different zilling districts. We have Waterfront zoning district. We
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have commercial fishing visitor serving, uh, commercial parks and recreation,
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open space. And those zoning designations and those zoning code
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determine which types of land uses are allowed where. So
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with that in mind, the purpose of the Waterfront Master
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Plan is to one, provide a framework to make sure
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that new development keeps with a character of the Waterfront.
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And that really is primarily the, uh, the role of
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the design guidelines that we're going to get to. We're
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going to introduce today and get to more in October.
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Um, next, the Waterfront Master plan really identifies the infrastructure
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and public improvements and amenities that are needed to kind
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of wrap around that development allowed by the zoning code
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to make the waterfront function successfully. Then finally, since the
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city does own a lot of key sites on the
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Waterfront, the Waterfront Master plan is an opportunity to, um,
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kind of envision different land use concepts, um, for the
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city council to consider, um, for future development of those
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city owned parcels. And with that introduction, I'm going to
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turn it over to Amy to go over the revised
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draft referred alternative. So Amy is going to discuss how,
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um, place works and staff have made revisions to the
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preferred alternative to reflect the input that we got from
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WAMP back in August. So Amy. Great. Good afternoon committee
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and chair. Thanks for having us again. Um, so next
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slide, please. Just a refresher on the character areas that
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we're talking about. And we'll go to the next slide.
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So this is character area six, which is the former
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wastewater treatment plan, morodunes RV park and a little, um,
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additional area around there. You did not have a drawing
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for this area or a set of drawings for this
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area in August. So this is new. So just pausing
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here to let you see the kind of the full
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drawing before we dive into the one that has the
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proposals called out. So we can move on now. Um,
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so what we ended up drawing, um, on this next
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slide is to have the retaining of RV camping, but
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also including glamping on the site. And also, um, some
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public recreational uses. And we did redesign the area where
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the RV camping and storage is now. So you'll see
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that, um, number one on here that indicates the area
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where there would be RV camping. Then we have glamping
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closer to the creek. To the south. And then the
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area marked two is an area for public recreational uses,
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but we didn't actually draw any particular use. This could
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be baseball. It could be other sports pickleball soccer, et
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cetera. The details at this point, um, we believe are
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up to a particular proposal, but definitely interested in the
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committee's feedback. Um, item number four on this drawing is
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actually, um, the relocation of an existing parking area that's
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on the west side currently and the sea level rise
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analysis for the Waterfront master plan has indicated that within
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the horizon of the plan, 25 to 30 years, it's
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possible that there could be, you know, a lot of
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flooding issues on the west side. So we're drawing the
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parking into the east side. For the purposes of that
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impact. And then number five is the bridge over Moro
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Creek. So that would be widening that bridge to allow
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for vehicles. Shown number five. And we'll go to the
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next slide. And before I go to the next slide,
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I just wanted to add to what Amy said on
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this slide for the old wastewater treatment plant side and
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moral dunes RV. Park in the concrete plant site. So
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this is a kind of illustrative example of how the
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site could be developed at some point in the future,
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but it really is just illustrative, you know, at this
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point in time the city doesn't know exactly how a
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developer might bid on a request for proposals and how
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they might like to lay out a RV park or
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a glamping facility. So this is again, not set in
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stone by any means. It's really, um, inspirational illustrative drawing
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of how the area could be developed. And then at
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some point in time the city would issue a request
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for proposals and developers would, um, propose different development concepts
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that kind of fit within these parameters, but may also
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make more sense from a developer and economic standpoint. Okay.
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So then the next slide shows roadways and bike facilities
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that serve this area. We've also noted on here that
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there are existing, uh, 170 existing RV camp spots and
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the way this has been drawn. It could accommodate at
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least 170, possibly more, but wanted to note that. And
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we'll go to the next slide. And we can skip
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this one. So moving on, uh, to the areas that
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we've made revisions. So character areas one, two, and five,
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which is basically the area north of Beach Street, but
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south of where we just were looking. There weren't a
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lot of edits. There weren't a lot of comments that
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led to edits. So really the two big changes are
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to extend the harbor walk along the shoreline from Coleman
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Park two towards Moro Rock. And we'll see that on
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a couple of slides. And then also to include a
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class one bikeway or multi - use path. On the
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sidewalk or where the sidewalk would be next to the
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road on the east side of the embarkadero. And that
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would be, you know, between that intersection with Coleman Drive
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and Beach Street. So we will see that on a
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few slides as well. So we can move on. To
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the next one. So you can see the harbor walk
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is extended down along the side of the rock and
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this drawing. You can't really see the bike way that
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well. So we'll look at that on a different side.
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Next slide. And similarly the call - outs for each
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proposal have been updated here. Next slide. And we can
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go past the tables. And then on this one, you
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can see a little more clearly the pink harbor walk
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extension. Towards the rock. And next slide. So these cross
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sections are very similar, but a little bit modified from
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the last set that you saw. So this first slide
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just shows where the cross sections of embarcadero are drawn.
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Uh, in two locations. And then next slide. The proposed
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cross section in both locations. Now it's hard to see
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at this scale, but on the far right, it does
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indicate that there would be a multi - use path.
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And that could be for pedestrians, bicyclists, et cetera. But
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there are still bike lanes in the roadway as well
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going north and south. So it's an option for bikes.
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Which facility they would like to use. And we'll go
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to the next one, which is pretty similar, just at
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a slightly different. Location along Embarcadero Road. And we'll go
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to the next slide. So this slide, um, just the
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drawing underneath the parking has changed. Um, we did get
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some comments about parking numbers in this area. And we
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are happy to, um, discuss that. During the, uh, the
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Q and A a little bit later. We have some
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numbers now that actually split out the east side from
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the west side of embarcadero on the right side of
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this graphic. So we'll go to the next slide. And
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I believe now I'm going to hand it over to
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Allen to present. The next few slides. Yeah. Thank you,
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Amy. Can you give me a thumbs up or? We
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hear you. Audio is coming through. Yes. Thank you. Um,
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so appreciating able to participate remotely this afternoon. Uh, I'm
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going to speak to market plaza and street ends. Um,
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at our last meeting, uh, August, kind of two directions
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on these two topics that are reflected now and kind
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of the way we're thinking about the drawings. The first
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bullet, kind of the most significant was that the committee
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deferred identifying a specific land use strategy for the market
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plaza, uh, parking lot and associated building that's on a
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city lease. And suggested that instead the primary issues with
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that site are design oriented and that we should address
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that through the design guidelines of the Waterfront Master plan.
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Um, so we've started outlining as we think about potential
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development scenarios on that site. Like what are the key.
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Design topics that we need to address? And that'll be
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on upcoming slide. And then there was also a kind
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of direction to revise the way we've drawn this street
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end plaza at the end of moral bay boulevard. The
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earlier drawing, we, we first showed, uh, encroached upon the
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801 embarcadero or the Libertine lease site. So we've made
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a somewhat subtle revision to that drawing to reflect the
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difference between public space and the lease site. So the
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next slide. Brings up, uh, illustration of market plaza. So
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this is not intended to be a proposal that's being
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recommended for market plaza. This is very similar in some
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ways to an earlier kind of, um, more intense development
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scenario that was shown at one of the earlier workshops
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that by and large. Most community members, uh, committee members
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sort of suggest it was not appropriate for the market
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plaza. But that being said, the underlying zoning, um, on
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this site does permit a developer to submit a proposal
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to the city that would maximize the potential of this
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site with the presumed premise that that development would have
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to replace any public parking, um, that's currently on the
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parking lot. And then probably, you know, most likely also
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self - park the new development on that site. And
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there's very little ways of thinking about that scenario. Um,
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without imagining that there ends up being effectively a two
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story parking structure on that site with buildings on top
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of it. So this drawing is illustrating the embarcadero and
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the waterfront is, uh, in the lower right, um, effectively
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at bird's eye seagull view looking to the southeast. So
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the bluff in downtown is kind of oriented in your
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upper left in this illustration. And as we think about
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that kind of, very intense development scenario, well, we've highlighted
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in the pink callouts are some of the kind of
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key design topics that we think such a building would
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have to be addressing. And so these are not the
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specific design guidelines. They're really just calling out this sort
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of ideas that we would need to address and open
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to the committee sort of feedback on, are we kind
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of hitting the mark or do we think the other
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topics. To take on? So without going through all six
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of the call outs, um, I just point out that,
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you know, there's potentially a very significant kind of building
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face engaging directly onto the embarcadero. So we think, you
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know, having guidelines that address how those storefronts are treated
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and modulated so that it begins, um, to look like,
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you know, it's not one long building, but potentially looks
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like a collection of smaller buildings, um, potentially the third
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floor located on the embarkadero side. So we think like
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there's these design guidelines that suggest those larger, taller portions
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of the building are kind of broken up into smaller
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pieces. We think there should be some sort of guidelines
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suggesting that there should be direct access through stairs from
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embarcadero to some upper level plaza. That's probably at the
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level of market street. And that any buildings that are
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located on this kind of platform that the market street
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level should be smaller structures, more kind of character with
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the size of existing buildings and the downtown. And that
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they should have modulated roof lines. Um, and so that's,
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these are some of the ideas that we're starting to
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flag here is saying if such a building were to
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come to the city as a proposal, how would the
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guidelines begin to help city staff and committees and commission
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sort of modulate this building and respond to this context.
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Um, some of these guidelines might apply to sort of
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lower scale development, but the reality is that unless the
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existing parking is completely replaced, uh, relocated, uh, existing development
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is likely to take the footprint of the building that
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is there today with a surface parking lot. Um, so
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this is looking, as I said, at a somewhat extreme
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scenario, um, but one that's possible within the context of
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the zoning. So we think it's appropriate that the design
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guidelines, uh, provide some guidance for this possibility. So with
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that, we can move to the next slide. So looking
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at the street ends, uh, scenarios, as I mentioned, the
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drawing that addresses more obey boulevard street end or the
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one directly Jason to market plaza kind of as you
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kind of cascade down the stairs towards the waterfront. The
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original drawing that produced sort of encroached onto the leasehold
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site. This illustration is in the upper right. And there
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is a very subtle change in this illustration to indicate
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that what appears to be a portion of that street
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end plaza would actually be, um, a plaza or kind
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of public space that we'd be developed and concert with
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the leasehold site, uh, and would effectively be sort of,
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um, done independently of any sort of street and plaza.
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And this is while we draw in as relatively consistent
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with the most recent leasehold proposal that the city's received
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for what's known as the Libertine site. So it's very
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subtle change to the drawing, but one, that's important to
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recognize where right of way and leasehold sites, uh, bound
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reserve on. So in the next slide, sequence of slides,
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um, this really comes back to this other kind of
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consistence at a slide to be produced for the other,
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um, uh, character areas of sort of following the circulation
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pass, the harbor walk and pink bike lanes and dash
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purple and vehicular circulation or the roadways and the kind
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of teal color for the market plaza site. And then
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this case, you can see the drawing here is indicating
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what is so far been kind of the preferred scenario
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for this site, which is to expand the existing parking
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lot to increase some parking supply and effectively leave the
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existing, uh, building that front side of market street in
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place. So that's what these drawings are showing. And so
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these drawings do not show any change to circulation patterns
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from what was shared at the August meeting. And next
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slide. Uh, and again, this also shows to kind of
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disposition of parking in the accounts for parking between the
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two street end conditions and the expanded, um, parking lot,
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uh, public parking lot at the market plaza site. And
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so they're again, no changes to this drawing or these
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counts in comparison to what we presented in August. So
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next slide. Um, so with that, I'm going to turn
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it back over to, uh, Ayrlan to kind of round
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out the presentation. So this concludes the, um, the first
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part of this agenda item, which is the draft preferred
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alternative. The specific ask of WAMPAC is to provide your
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final feedback on the revised draft preferred alternative. And then
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I have just a couple of slides on the second
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part, which is the, uh, Design Guidelines introduction. So I'll
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go ahead and present those slides. And then the one
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pack we want to ask questions of staff and open
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it up to the public. So second part of this,
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uh, introduction to Design Guidelines. Again, we're going to have
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a full discussion about this in October. And Allen just,
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um, already touched on this talking about the different, um,
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possibilities for design guidelines at market plaza kind of shape
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the massine and form of a building at that site.
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Um, but as far as introduction, I wanted to just
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emphasize really the purpose of the design guidelines. So first
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is to ensure that new development is compatible with that,
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you know, working Waterfront fishing village character. Of the Waterfront.
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The design guidelines are heavily focused on protecting public views.
[25:24]
The Design Guidelines specifically define what is meant by public
[25:27]
views and specifically says that means it does not protect
[25:31]
private views from businesses or residences or any other private
[25:34]
view. And the Design Guideline specifically call out the Bay
[25:39]
Harbor Rock and Sandspit as those resources to be protected
[25:43]
from public view standpoint. Then something else that I think
[25:48]
is a little unique and very forward thinking of the
[25:52]
96 Waterfront Master Plan designed Guidelines is that they very
[25:57]
intentionally focus more on building mass and scale over architectural
[26:01]
design. So I think the Design Guidelines even specifically call
[26:05]
out, um, downtown stand up barbar saying, we're not, our
[26:10]
intent isn't, um, define a specific architectural style like downtown,
[26:14]
stand up barbarous kind of mission style. But instead to
[26:17]
focus on, uh, form and massing. To allow four more
[26:21]
of a diverse eclectic variety of architectural styles. And so
[26:29]
that's my kind of initial, um, introduction on design guidelines,
[26:35]
a important ask of the Juanpack is that you do
[26:38]
review the current 1996 Waterfront Master Plan aside Guidelines before
[26:41]
the October meetings. So we're prepared to have a full
[26:44]
discussion and a kind of substantive discussion on that in
[26:49]
October. Um, with that, I'll turn it back over to
[26:52]
the chair for questions of staff.
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Is there any, I'm sure there is questions and comments
[27:07]
for staff. Mary, we can start with you. Is it
[27:13]
just questions right now and then we'll do public comment
[27:17]
correct. Okay. Um, I had a question regarding character area
[27:20]
six is the, we said something about, you know, leaving
[27:25]
it open - ended in terms of, um, different designs
[27:29]
from developer proposals is the proposal then to just kind
[27:33]
of zone to allow those or call out zoning to
[27:38]
allow those uses specifically in those areas. Or kind of
[27:43]
what, since we're leaving it open - ended to development
[27:46]
proposals regarding the specific design, what would go into the
[27:50]
master plan that kind of expresses the view of those
[27:56]
uses, such as the rec facilities or art camping.
[28:13]
So the. So the Waterfront Master Plan would identify.
[28:24]
Those uses so the glamping, the RV camping. And then
[28:27]
now we added an area showing the kind of recreational
[28:32]
fields and leaving that, um, that open, not specifying specific
[28:36]
types of recreational facilities at this time. Um. It would
[28:42]
be through a subsequent process, um, after the Waterfront Master
[28:46]
Plan is finalized when the city is ready to go
[28:49]
out for a request for proposals where the council at
[28:53]
that point, um, likely with input from other committees like
[28:57]
recreation and park committee on the specific types of recreational
[29:00]
facilities that would make the most sense on that site.
[29:03]
And that should be identified in the request for proposals.
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Thank you. Hello. Uh, okay. So my question is, um,
[29:19]
for the access between market street and the embarkadero, um,
[29:24]
prior to the, this Waterfront master plan, um, there were
[29:28]
other workshops regarding an elevator or some kind of form
[29:31]
of ADA transport from the top of the bluff to
[29:34]
the bottom of the bluff. I know that when we
[29:36]
had other workshops for this one, it was brought up,
[29:39]
um, I do understand that there was a survey done
[29:42]
and it was omitted from one of the options. But
[29:46]
is there, um, a reason why it cannot be put
[29:49]
in this preferred alternative because it was requested at other
[29:52]
times, but that survey was the only one that didn't
[29:55]
have it. And I think a lot of people who
[29:57]
took the survey didn't realize that it wasn't included in
[30:00]
keeping the current stairs. So like, uh, Alan presented
[30:10]
the direction we heard from Juanpacket, the last meeting for
[30:13]
market plaza was to let the zoning. Kind of do
[30:19]
its job, identify the uses that are allowed on the
[30:21]
site. And then when the city in the future is
[30:24]
used in RFP, we can receive different proposals for those
[30:28]
allowed uses. But looking then at the rule of the
[30:31]
Waterfront Master Plan as controlling the architectural design, they can
[30:36]
elevator is a feature that, um, the city council could
[30:40]
certainly put into, um, the requirements for an RFP to
[30:43]
be incorporated. But that would be more of a use
[30:46]
function than design guidelines. Um, with that said, I think
[30:50]
it would make sense for, you know, as one pack
[30:54]
develops your recommendation on the Waterfront Master Plan to have
[30:59]
some type of comment that you forward to planning commission
[31:01]
and council, um, uh, there is a need for an
[31:06]
elevator and that should be considered in any future development
[31:09]
plans for the site. So you're just referring to the
[31:14]
site as the, um, the building that's currently being rented,
[31:19]
that it would be part of that RFP. Or are
[31:22]
you talking about a city? So I'm talking about the.
[31:27]
Looking at the site currently as it is at zone
[31:29]
visitor serving commercial under the zoning code that allows for
[31:33]
a hotel allows for restaurant, you know, retail, um, development.
[31:38]
We wouldn't specify what type of, uh, use goes on
[31:41]
that site because that's a decision later for the council
[31:45]
when they, um, approve an RFP to go out for
[31:49]
potential developers to propose on. But instead just focus on
[31:55]
the design guidelines or how to protect what would be
[31:57]
inappropriate height limit to protect public views of the bay,
[32:02]
the different ideas of, um, very facades and roof pitches
[32:06]
like Alan was talking about that would be really the
[32:09]
role of the Waterfront Master plan on those design features,
[32:12]
in those design features. Okay. Yeah. I just, I still
[32:17]
feel that an elevator can be included in the design,
[32:20]
especially if we're saying that the courtyard instead of parking
[32:23]
in the one zone and we're drawing up that. And
[32:25]
then so my next question is, um, the intersection at
[32:29]
the bottom of beach street and in the embarkadero front
[32:33]
street as well. Um, with the change of it shutting
[32:38]
off the one inlet, it still creates this parallelogram, kind
[32:43]
of an odd format for pedestrians to walk. And, um,
[32:49]
as far as that goes, it has been, the comments
[32:51]
have been made to make that more, uh, friendly to
[32:56]
pedestrians. And then help with the flow of traffic. So
[33:01]
I was just wondering if there was a way that
[33:03]
we could see that in, um, this preferred alternative. Um,
[33:09]
yeah, so I'll leave that to Amy or Alan to
[33:12]
respond to you. But, um, first I did want to
[33:14]
go back to your comment about the elevator at, at
[33:16]
market plaza and just reiterate that even though the approach,
[33:22]
we're now taking is design guideline focused. I think it
[33:25]
would be appropriate for one pack to forward a comment
[33:29]
to planning commission and council that future development proposals should
[33:33]
consider an elevator. So I just want to end as,
[33:36]
um, as Eric Meyer mentioned during public comment, that could
[33:38]
be an example of something someone can make a motion
[33:41]
on and then that could be a recommendation that gets
[33:43]
forwarded onto the decision makers. Hi, so responding about
[33:53]
Beat Street, we did actually draw that a little bit
[33:55]
differently in the big drawing, but it's probably a little
[33:59]
bit hard to see the change at the scale. I
[34:02]
don't know if we want to pull up that slide
[34:04]
again. There it is. So it is
[34:15]
drawn a bit differently. We kind of reduce the size
[34:18]
of the public plaza part of that area. Um, in
[34:22]
order to change the geometry. So if you want to
[34:25]
take a look at it, um, like when you can
[34:28]
zoom in more and let us know if you still,
[34:31]
I don't know if you already noticed that or not.
[34:33]
So, um, yeah. It wasn't consistent across the different diagram.
[34:37]
So that's what I was wondering. Is this if this
[34:39]
was, and that's really small. So yeah. And I apologize
[34:42]
that the street ends diagram wasn't updated properly. Um, so
[34:46]
this is the new overall drawing that is underlaying everything.
[34:52]
So, okay. Great. Thanks.
[35:04]
Yeah. Back on Beach Street. Have you, has there been
[35:11]
any. Thought on putting maybe like a roundabout there instead
[35:17]
of. Everybody loves roundabouts? This is a perfect space for
[35:24]
it. How funny is that? You know, I'm against roundabouts.
[35:31]
So that is funny. But we want to keep all
[35:33]
our options open. I just wondered if they, if there
[35:35]
was any study or anything done on them to get
[35:38]
that, because my focus is on traffic flow. So if
[35:43]
you want to, you're kind of choking that area out.
[35:47]
So I just didn't know if you looked at all
[35:48]
the options or we just, that's off the table. Or
[35:51]
I mean, I want everything on the table. We can
[35:53]
pick and choose what we want. I'm not saying that's
[35:54]
what we have to do. I want to know what's
[35:56]
been done. I want all the information to see. We
[36:01]
can double check with our transportation teammate. But my recollection
[36:05]
is that wasn't an option there. We can double check.
[36:08]
Thank you. Yeah. I just want to know if there
[36:11]
was a study down on that. I was wondering if
[36:20]
you can bring up the slide for a character area
[36:23]
six if it's possible. In that area chose that, um,
[36:31]
where the public works yards are and where the water
[36:35]
plant building at houses, the reverse osmosis, they're not there.
[36:39]
So where it becomes of them. Is there a destination
[36:43]
for those facilities. To put this in the words. You
[36:49]
showed the parking where those things are now. Yeah. That,
[36:53]
that's actually a really good point. Coming member Donnelly. So
[36:56]
we will make sure to coordinate with the public works
[36:59]
department. I know there is some, uh, essential infrastructure there
[37:04]
that may still be needed long term. So we'll make
[37:06]
sure that those are not, um, shown as future development
[37:10]
sites. Well, in that area, it's all plumbed up. For
[37:16]
the new recycling. Right. Yeah. So exactly. So any site
[37:19]
that we know will be necessary for IPR or for
[37:23]
the current wastewater treatment plant operations, um, those would maintain.
[37:27]
We're not proposing to replace those. But we'll coordinate with
[37:29]
public works to make sure we identify the right facilities
[37:33]
and show them on the plan. Also, there is a
[37:36]
note there. It's hard to read, but it talks about
[37:38]
the bridge of our moral creek. And I think I
[37:43]
went time you were going to, somebody was going to
[37:44]
check the conditional development permit that the state posed upon
[37:50]
that bridge about what can or cannot be done in
[37:52]
the future of that location. Did anybody check that out.
[37:55]
Uh, yeah. So I had a brief conversation with, uh,
[37:59]
our coastal commission staff planners. And they indicated that, you
[38:04]
know, of course, anytime you're proposing to build or widen
[38:07]
a bridge over a stream and a brother, sensitive habitat,
[38:11]
um, area, concerns, um, policy issues to address through that
[38:18]
planning process, but they also said the, um, there's no,
[38:22]
uh, strict, uh, condition or policy that would prevent that.
[38:26]
So it would have to go through. So when the
[38:28]
pedestrian bridge was permitted, it received what's called a coastal
[38:31]
development permit waiver from the coastal commission. Um, so there
[38:35]
would be a process for the city to, um, apply
[38:38]
for a new waiver to allow for widening of that
[38:41]
bridge. And of course, we'd have to consider, um, extra
[38:44]
impacts, um, possibly, you know, sea level rise impacts, but
[38:48]
there is a path forward for that proposal to be
[38:51]
submitted and approved by coastal commission. I really don't see
[38:57]
how you can widen it to make it work. Um,
[39:00]
you need to really actually remove and put in a
[39:03]
highway bridge like they're doing on self - eat boulevard
[39:05]
right now. Yeah. And when I say widen, I don't
[39:08]
literally mean necessarily widening, but just replacing it with the
[39:11]
bridge that could handle, you know, regular vehicle traffic. And
[39:14]
of course, we leave that to the engineers to design
[39:15]
and plan out. Also on this area, and I brought
[39:19]
this up before the character area six, we assured the
[39:21]
RV parking. That, that's an underflood. And that has flooded.
[39:26]
So it seems to me anything that goes in there.
[39:29]
It must be conditioned with the heaven and already evacuation
[39:32]
plan for anybody that might be there when the flood
[39:35]
comes like this winter. We expect some big floods. And
[39:38]
that area will definitely flood out again. I'd hate to
[39:41]
see some campers getting floated in a way because they
[39:43]
didn't know that they were supposed to evacuate. Is there
[39:46]
some condition that could be posed upon any development there.
[39:50]
So, I mean, we already have policies in our general
[39:53]
plan and standards in our zoning code dealing with, um,
[39:56]
development in a floodplain that any feature development would have
[39:58]
to comply with. So I think we already have that
[40:00]
covered. On this slide, or this thing for the character
[40:10]
areas one, two and five, it talks about the moral
[40:13]
rock parking area. A couple of things. They show the
[40:16]
new parking layout there, which I guess was new. I'd
[40:19]
never seen that before. And I'm just wondering if in
[40:23]
coming up with the quantity of parking spots, did you
[40:26]
use the zoning code, what, 17, 27, 110 about parking
[40:32]
widths to come up with your quantity of parking spaces.
[40:36]
They're supposed to be nine foot wide parking spaces. Yes.
[40:42]
We adhere to the size standards. This is a conceptual
[40:47]
drawing. So, um, obviously when you're actually laying out a
[40:51]
parking lot, you would make sure that it's exactly right.
[40:54]
But that, that is what we were using to understand
[40:56]
how many spaces could be included. Um, will they be
[41:01]
reusing those concrete piles that are out there right now.
[41:06]
And I tell you right now, um, somebody, you know,
[41:09]
got high centered on one the other night. And when
[41:12]
the tow truck guy came out, he said, he's had
[41:16]
50 people like that this year. They don't see them.
[41:19]
And they drive up onto him and get stuck. I
[41:21]
can't speak to that, but I think this would be,
[41:24]
uh, there'd be some redesign happening. Are you going to
[41:27]
reuse those columns. Committing member Donald, your way ahead of
[41:31]
us here with, um, the kind of engineering details. I
[41:33]
know you have an engineering background. This is very much
[41:36]
kind of high level conceptual, but certainly like those types
[41:40]
of details will have to be addressed at some point
[41:43]
when an actual project is scoped out and designed, but
[41:45]
we're still at a very high level with the Waterfront
[41:47]
Master plan. And it also mentioned about constructing and access
[41:53]
stare form the parking lot down to the beach level.
[41:56]
And what I recommended at one time is that you
[41:58]
get the existing revetment. And if you just place those
[42:01]
rocks that you have a flat level surface with each
[42:03]
of the rocks, you can make a stairway of stepping
[42:06]
down to that beach just by rearranging some of the
[42:09]
rocks that are already there. I'd be a lot simpler
[42:11]
to do a lot less expensive. Just an idea.
[42:25]
On the, uh, market plaza street ends. You show three
[42:29]
locations where you want to widen the sidewalks. Who does
[42:34]
that with the city be obligated and make those whitenings
[42:37]
or a developer that comes in and does improvements make
[42:40]
who does a physical whitening of the sidewalks. It would
[42:44]
be a developer, if there was a proposed development of
[42:47]
an adjacent lease cider private property. Yeah, it's only half
[42:55]
right now. Um. Let's see. Back to
[43:06]
character area six. Um, just a question, does that, so
[43:11]
I'm guessing the current zoning allows for storage. And I
[43:16]
don't see a description of storage. In the descriptions. And
[43:23]
I'm hoping that. Storage isn't going to be included as
[43:26]
we move forward. It seems like a little bit of
[43:28]
a waste of space. Just that's just a comment. Um,
[43:33]
the second thing is I would encourage folks to take
[43:37]
a look at the Harvard Tarous project in Port San
[43:40]
Louis. That was a 14 or 15 acre tank site
[43:43]
in Port St. Louis that was very industrial and it's
[43:47]
been changed completely. And to, uh, I think I've said
[43:50]
this before, but I'll just, I'll repeat myself. It's been
[43:53]
changed to a glamping and camping area. Um, with amenities,
[43:57]
recreation amenities and tent camping and all sorts of things.
[43:59]
So, um, you can do some amazing things with property.
[44:06]
Um, let's go to character areas one, two and five.
[44:09]
You don't need to, um, move the screen. When we
[44:15]
talk about the moral rock parking, um, area in your
[44:18]
description, A2 and A3, um, and this is kind of
[44:21]
a little tiki tacky, but it seems like that could
[44:23]
be one description because we talk about, um, the parking
[44:27]
area in a natural context through the use of rocks,
[44:30]
wood ballards, cables. And then in A3, we talk about
[44:33]
enhanced maintenance accessibility, um, improved service and restripe. And I'm
[44:37]
just. Thinking that restriping dirt. Is probably what. So sorry.
[44:47]
Am I a header behind you? Sorry, we're trying to,
[44:50]
I know you said not to pull up a slide,
[44:51]
but we did anyway. Before our slides so we can
[44:54]
follow along. It's slide 26. If you want to go
[44:57]
there.
[45:09]
Or I can just talk about it.
[45:28]
Sorry. Now that we have it in front of us,
[45:29]
could you repeat your question one more time? Or your
[45:34]
comment? Yes. Um, and on slide 26 on character areas
[45:38]
one, two and five, were you talking about the moral
[45:41]
rock parking lot? Um, uh, it seems like A2 and
[45:44]
A3 might be able to be combined into one point
[45:47]
because you talk about, uh, improve the parking area in
[45:51]
a natural context with bollards on and on. And then
[45:55]
in the second A3, you talk a little bit about,
[45:57]
um, enhanced maintenance, improved surface and restripe. And it seems
[46:01]
like an odd thing to restrict. If we're not going
[46:03]
to do, um, some sort of surfacing. And so anyway,
[46:07]
just a thought. That's a thought. And then the final
[46:09]
comment I have is not on this, but on the
[46:11]
last market, um, market plaza area, I love the idea
[46:17]
of putting in, making a comment, even emotion, um, about
[46:21]
some sort of people mover instead of an elevator. Because
[46:25]
I think in my head, um, elevators are kind of
[46:28]
utilitarian, but the, you know, funiculars and cool people movers.
[46:33]
So, um, maybe I like the idea of having that
[46:36]
ability, but maybe it's just specify or not specify exactly
[46:40]
an elevator. And that's it. Thanks. For the funcular. Thank
[46:47]
you. A couple, a couple of questions. First, that would
[46:51]
be that, um, do I understand these drawings are strictly
[46:56]
conceptual to generate discussion and comments that, that they're just
[47:03]
ideas and things from what's on what we've been presented
[47:07]
and what reality might be could be completely different. So.
[47:14]
So yes, so let me break it down into the
[47:18]
different, different parts. So there is the land use concepts
[47:22]
on city owned land, like the old treatment plant site.
[47:27]
So those are conceptual and use concepts. And we can't
[47:30]
plan out all the details of exactly what would ultimately
[47:34]
make sense on those sites from a, like economic standpoint
[47:36]
from a developer and what the city councils desires are
[47:39]
when they issue RFP. So that's conceptual. Uh, when we
[47:43]
get to the design guidelines, that actually is going to
[47:45]
be, um, regulatory. So the design guidelines, those are going
[47:49]
to be applied to any future development project in the
[47:52]
Waterfront area. So those are, um, those hold more like
[47:57]
regulatory weight. Those aren't just conceptual. Those are real design
[47:59]
guidelines that will be applied. To development. And then the
[48:04]
aspect of the infrastructure roadways, uh, public amenities. And those
[48:09]
are, um, those are. Also, um, conceptual. They're a little
[48:15]
bit more, a little bit more precise, but those are,
[48:18]
um, conceptual, the types of infrastructure that would be needed
[48:21]
to support future development on the Waterfront. And it really
[48:26]
would depend on, you know, funding and what types of
[48:28]
development projects that we see come in. So I have
[48:35]
a clear. So these drawings are, they're strictly conceptual. In
[48:42]
other words, for an example of the layout in the
[48:44]
drawings of what is at the bottom of embarketeral and
[48:47]
beach street, is that conceptual or is that the approach
[48:52]
to eliminate that problem there at that, that intersection? That
[48:57]
would be the city's official plan on how to eliminate
[48:59]
that problem at that intersection. That would be the city's
[49:03]
official plan. That would be the, essentially the circulation plan,
[49:07]
um, to address the issues with that intersection on what's
[49:11]
drawn here? Yes. Okay. But again, it's drawn out of
[49:16]
conceptual level. So, um, of course, you know, when the
[49:19]
city gets to the point of, you know, getting ready
[49:21]
to go out to bid at that point, we're going
[49:24]
to have much more precise engineered detailed plans. But it's
[49:28]
the conceptual plan at this level. Mike.
[49:39]
I'll move on. My question about, uh, the clamping area,
[49:42]
the RV part. So the existing LEC there has five
[49:47]
years left on their lease. So in this conceptual plan,
[49:51]
the cities take it back and put out for RFP.
[49:56]
The whole area there, or the more doom still. Get,
[50:02]
in other words, what it looks like is one big
[50:03]
giant project there eliminating morodunes trader part. So this is
[50:12]
a conceptual plan. Um, it's not really looking at any
[50:15]
particular leaseholder at, at this time. Um, so and I
[50:20]
can't really get into any specifics on lease negotiations with
[50:23]
any leaseholder. But this is more the long - term
[50:25]
plan and any, you know, qualified developer could propose when
[50:31]
we do release an RFP. And my final question be,
[50:36]
there will be a draft master Waterfront Master Plan come
[50:40]
out that we'll be able to comment on and maybe
[50:42]
fine tune when we get there or not. Yeah. No,
[50:48]
good question. So, um, in November, we actually, we have
[50:54]
a date set the week before Thanksgiving. November 17th is
[51:01]
the plan date to have a public workshop here in
[51:06]
this room for, uh, unveiling, um, the wampax recommended Waterfront
[51:12]
Master Plan. So we're going to take all the input
[51:14]
we get from you put that together into a draft
[51:17]
waterfront master plan that we're going to present at the
[51:19]
workshop on November 17th. And then that will get forward
[51:23]
onto planning commission in January. And there will be an
[51:27]
opportunity to public on that draft plan before the first
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planning commission meeting. Thank you. Wait, just a follow -
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up specifically on that before that plan is presented as
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the WAMPAX recommended master plan. Will we have a chance
[51:44]
to review and comment on that master plan. So that
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is the goal of the November one pack meeting where
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we would present, I'll call it like the initial draft
[51:58]
plan just to get kind of confirmation. And that is
[52:00]
the direction of your recommendation. Thanks, Mary. Anybody else, any
[52:09]
follow - ups? James. Thank you. You know, on the,
[52:13]
um. On the power plant site, we can specify some
[52:19]
of these roads like that would go to Quintana. I
[52:23]
mean, we can design that into that property. So if
[52:28]
they're going to, uh, improve that property or do anything
[52:31]
with that property. We have, uh, access to a right
[52:38]
away, so to speak, to get those roads in. Yeah.
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So let's, uh, let's think about that. So. We're anticipating
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at some point in the future. There will be a
[52:51]
development application again on the vistra property. Let's say it's
[52:57]
an application for a resort, which is allowed in the
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visitor serving commercial zoning district. Um, that would be a
[53:05]
development project that would, um, definitely have impacts on circulation
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on the waterfront. And so we would have a legal
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right and actually have an obligation to negotiate with the
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developer and say in order for us to address the
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impacts of your project, we need another roadway connecting to
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Quintana main highway one. And we'd like to see your
[53:29]
plan show right away for that, that connection. And in
[53:33]
fact, we have that planned right away already shown in
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the Waterfront Master Plan. This is what we've decided that
[53:38]
we want to see here when the site developed. So
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that absolutely is something we have the authority to do.
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Good. And that can be, and that's what I'm getting
[53:45]
at that we can put that here in this plan
[53:47]
that the access. Right. Thank you. Anyone
[53:57]
else. So now we're going to move on to, uh,
[54:04]
public comment. Uh, I do want to comment on a
[54:08]
couple of correspondence that we received as committee members. And
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Betty, I want to thank you for your correspondence. You
[54:14]
do a lot of homework for me that I don't
[54:15]
have to do. And then, uh, we've got a letter
[54:20]
from a chamber and also letter from the master lease
[54:23]
holders association. And before I comment on, I want to
[54:27]
emphasize that I don't belong to either of them. So
[54:30]
I have no bias in this, but I do appreciate
[54:32]
your letters. I think they were well written. And I
[54:35]
think they, they bring out points that, uh, both the
[54:39]
chamber and the master organization that I think this committee
[54:43]
has talked about over and over again for the last
[54:45]
year and a half or so. So I do appreciate
[54:47]
those, those letters. And they are red. I don't think
[54:50]
I'm supposed to comment on them in writing, but I
[54:52]
can comment on them today. So. Anyone, uh, with public
[54:56]
comment, now's the time we're going to make it five
[54:59]
minutes. You have five minutes because it's kind of a
[55:01]
two part thing. So you have five minutes today. So
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welcome to the microphone state your name. And you have
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five minutes. Thank you.
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Thank you. Um, Betty Windholtz, I do want to note
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that I'm kind of hearing a mixed message that this
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is conceptual, but at the same time we can ask
[55:30]
for a road now that we'll be there later. So
[55:33]
my concern is on the plaza thing that even though
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it says it's not, um, this is what could be
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done in case of. But if it's in the plan
[55:47]
by feeling it will in the future be interpreted as
[55:50]
what will be. And so that becomes really kind of
[55:54]
crazy to me, you know, we're, we're saying just maybe
[55:59]
this is what we'll do. But if it's in the
[56:01]
plan five years from now, some planning commission is going
[56:04]
to say, Oh, but look at what they put in
[56:06]
there. We have to do it this way. So I
[56:08]
think language is going to be really important. And you
[56:11]
need to pay attention to that if you would. I
[56:15]
really don't like the idea of the harbor walk going
[56:18]
down to the target rock. Um, that's where people pull
[56:22]
in their cars where people go between their cars and
[56:25]
the squirrels or the rocks and the otters to look.
[56:29]
And if you put a walkway between the cars and
[56:32]
the water, I think that's really breaking up people's access
[56:36]
and continuity. And so I would prefer that you not
[56:40]
extend the harbor walk past where it is right now.
[56:44]
Um, I, I really object to the glamping being where
[56:47]
it's moved. I don't think you all ask for that.
[56:51]
And, um, and even though it's probably the more, uh,
[56:55]
place for rich camping. That's nice. But Morodues is in
[57:00]
the negotiation right now. Uh, the RV park. I think
[57:03]
that's really uncomfortable. Um, to put this plan on top
[57:09]
of their property. And it's not their property. It's our
[57:12]
property. But there are leasing over that property right now.
[57:17]
So I, I would rather have the glamping backward originally
[57:20]
was not where the consultant chose to put it. Um,
[57:25]
I, I had consistently heard that we don't want to,
[57:30]
um, get rid of parking at the street ends. And
[57:34]
the compromise on that little subcommittee was, well, we won't
[57:37]
get rid of those unless we have something somewhere else.
[57:40]
And my position is you don't get rid of what
[57:43]
you got. You add to it. You don't want to
[57:48]
make one for one exchange on your parking because we
[57:50]
don't have enough parking. You want what you've got. Plus
[57:54]
you want to create more. So I don't, I hope
[57:57]
you will not go along with the plan to, um,
[58:01]
put widen the sidewalks and get rid of parking. Um,
[58:06]
did that, did that. I'm going to maintain my concern
[58:09]
about the back, the bike lane going all the way
[58:12]
down the embarcadero. I don't know where you're going to
[58:14]
put that. You can't put bikes on that sidewalk. I
[58:17]
mean, it's just too narrow. And unless you're going to
[58:21]
get rid of parking. So I think that you need
[58:23]
to look at that more specifically if you would. What
[58:28]
else. And the whole, well, that's not necessarily. Oh, yes.
[58:37]
And I don't think we should commercialize Coleman Park. Whether
[58:41]
that's with a concession stand or a doc or whatever,
[58:44]
that's just really low key recreation. So I would hope
[58:49]
that you would take out that doc and the suggestion
[58:52]
that we have concession stands there. And then this is,
[58:59]
in a sense, petty, but, uh, the working Waterfront, I
[59:02]
think should look like a working raw defront. It shouldn't
[59:04]
have furniture. It shouldn't have this and that, you know,
[59:08]
that make it look pretty. I want it to look,
[59:11]
you know, rough and masculine. Um, and then the Guideline
[59:17]
on to, um, the last point, which is about the
[59:20]
design guidelines that we aren't talking about today, but have
[59:23]
been introduced today. And when they talk about mass and
[59:26]
scale, I hope it's with the understanding that we're not
[59:29]
looking for mass and scale, but that's what we want
[59:33]
to look at in terms of fit, that we're not,
[59:37]
that, and certainly I prefer that idea over the architecture.
[59:40]
But that we're not looking to expand and make things
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huge. We're going to be in scale with already what
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is. Thank you. Thank you. Eric Meyer again
[59:57]
speaking as this private citizen. I'm going to expand on
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my earlier points just a bit based on the testimony
[1:00:03]
of you guys earlier. Um, Shariza's comment about the elevator
[1:00:08]
with the Andrea's changes calling it a people mover or
[1:00:12]
something else. Just a mechanical device is a perfect example
[1:00:15]
of something that I have no idea what your opinion
[1:00:18]
is now. I know Sharisses and I generally know Andreas,
[1:00:21]
but I don't know the opinion of the committee. And
[1:00:24]
staff doesn't know the opinion of the committee and the
[1:00:26]
consultants don't know the opinion. So if you do have
[1:00:27]
a suggestion about something like that, you need to codify
[1:00:31]
any to memorialize it. And I'm going to, I'm just
[1:00:33]
pounding that in. We need a motion where you guys
[1:00:36]
vote and you say, this is what we want. And
[1:00:38]
the same thing goes with like I've heard differing opinions
[1:00:41]
from staff, from the consultants at the public meetings and
[1:00:44]
from yourselves with respect to the street ends. What I've
[1:00:47]
heard from you and what I've heard from the public
[1:00:49]
and what I've proved from staff and the consultants are
[1:00:51]
three different things. I have no idea the hierarchy of
[1:00:54]
how those things lay out. And I'm really love to
[1:00:56]
hear from you as a body to vote on some
[1:00:59]
of these things specifically so that we have a clear
[1:01:01]
understanding can carry it forward. Thanks. Thank you.
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Hello, Kindall Welch, president of the Moral Bay Maritime Museum.
[1:01:24]
And I just want to follow up with what Eric
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Myers has just spoken about. The maritime museum board would
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appreciate it if your committee could memorize expanding the museum's
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footprint at our current location. And also, uh, recommend that
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the city negotiated a longer lease with us. Thank you.
[1:01:49]
Thank you.
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Hi, my name is Margaret Carmen and I want to
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do a public service announcement and say that person that
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got stuck on the boulders on the parking lot in
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the dark at the lock. She couldn't get anybody to
[1:02:13]
come until she could figure out what they address is.
[1:02:18]
And she found out the address is Coleman Drive. If
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any of you are stuck down there and you're calling
[1:02:23]
AAA, they want to know the address. And she kept
[1:02:27]
saying the rock. And they go, you can't say the
[1:02:30]
rock. Okay. That's all I'm going to say about that.
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Um, okay. I want to say a really very much
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agree with everything this windholt said. And I love that
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the glamping in Avila, that was just an area that
[1:02:46]
was never anything else. And it was a great place
[1:02:48]
for it. And I just think where you're saying you
[1:02:51]
want to put it on the RV part. Let people
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have some places they can afford to come over here.
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And then they eat in the places and drink and
[1:03:02]
buy things in the stores. And I just think that's
[1:03:05]
not the right place. And, um, I agree very much
[1:03:09]
with not commercializing Coleman Park. We have a natural wonder,
[1:03:15]
the rock and the ocean. And these cutesy little places
[1:03:19]
to see it and commercializing, it takes away from people
[1:03:23]
going, wow, I'm coming tomorrow bay to see something that
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I can't see anywhere else. So don't take away from
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that. And I heard you talking about that it would
[1:03:35]
have to, um, change the zoning on market. Why don't,
[1:03:40]
it seems like let's change the zoning now on market
[1:03:43]
plaza site. So a developer can't apply for a ridiculous
[1:03:47]
project. And then it's hard to talk it down. It
[1:03:51]
reminds me of Reggie's cottages and they get torn down.
[1:03:55]
And then all this stuff gets put up. That's just,
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okay. The other thing I want to say is it's
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not a good idea to put bikes in people on
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the same path. If you're going to have a biking
[1:04:07]
on the road, let it be on the road. Cause
[1:04:10]
I always speak as a 46 year chiropractor. People move
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a little bit. Here's the bike. Nobody's paying attention. And
[1:04:18]
they get injured. Don't put bikes and pedestrians on the
[1:04:22]
same trail. And let's see. Please, I'm going to say
[1:04:29]
it again. Don't get rid of the street in parking.
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And this is what I keep harping on. It's never
[1:04:35]
mentioned. We really need to have guidelines about LED lighting
[1:04:41]
and white blue bright LED lighting at night. And what
[1:04:45]
it will do to the ambience of the whole area.
[1:04:48]
And what it will do to the marine animals. And
[1:04:51]
the birds. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else in the
[1:05:00]
audience here. Is there anybody in the queue. Yes, sir.
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There's one raised hand in the queue. Judy Lynn, go
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ahead. Hello commissioners. I'm Judy setting.
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Can you hear me? Yes. Oh, thank you. Um. I
[1:05:27]
really want to speak to the moral dunes. And I
[1:05:32]
am also a little confused about the conceptional plan versus
[1:05:37]
something that somebody can go back in the future and
[1:05:40]
say, Hey, well, this is what the, you know, with
[1:05:43]
the commissioners voted for. But anyway, um, Mauro Dunes has
[1:05:50]
been, as you all know, a very consistent. Business for
[1:05:57]
our community and their occupancy rate is really pretty high.
[1:06:04]
And I'm just wondering if anybody has asked, um, what
[1:06:09]
port San Les'new glamping parks occupancy rate is. They're wonderful.
[1:06:17]
I love them. I think it's great. Um, and, but
[1:06:22]
I, I do wonder, you know, what their occupancy rate
[1:06:26]
is year round. And then. I just really want to
[1:06:33]
make a plea to the city that they, um, offer
[1:06:38]
a longer lease for moral dunes. I feel that that
[1:06:42]
entity deserves a longer lease. And it seems like the
[1:06:47]
short five years that you're offering is because you really
[1:06:50]
want to see something else there. And I would like
[1:06:53]
to see you do a longer lease and give the
[1:06:56]
owners of Moro Dunes the opportunity to, you know, revamp
[1:07:01]
what they have and maybe include more trailers and maybe
[1:07:06]
do some glamping, but I feel like they would be
[1:07:09]
willing to do that. I don't know that. You have
[1:07:11]
to talk with them. But I just think we need
[1:07:14]
to be kind - hearted. And recognize how loyal they've
[1:07:20]
been for so many years. And the TOT that they've
[1:07:23]
provided for our city has been consistent and good. And
[1:07:27]
they're wonderful to work for. They've always kept a clean
[1:07:30]
business. And they're just a real asset. And let's treat
[1:07:34]
them fairly. I'm a little confused about the, um, traffic
[1:07:42]
way on the embarcadero. I think it's all still two
[1:07:49]
way in your plan. Um, I, I just want to,
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I just want to say that the embarcadero has never
[1:07:58]
been a thoroughfare. It really is a slow moving street
[1:08:02]
that we all know when we're going to go down
[1:08:05]
there. We're going to, we're going to move slow. And
[1:08:08]
that includes if we have to slow down for any,
[1:08:11]
you know, bicycles or anything like that. I don't know
[1:08:15]
that we really have to have bike lanes, you know,
[1:08:19]
on both sides of the streets and eliminate all the
[1:08:22]
parking. And it seems like you could increase the parking
[1:08:26]
that you put in just, um, north on the power
[1:08:31]
plant property, just north of where the stacks are. And
[1:08:35]
then down at the rock, the parking area to me,
[1:08:40]
the design that you have there looks like you have
[1:08:42]
shrunk the parking lot. And it's been really sad to
[1:08:48]
see for the last 15, 20 years how the parking
[1:08:54]
that we used to have on the south side of
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the rock allowed people who don't really get out and
[1:09:02]
walk to drive down there and sit and watch the
[1:09:05]
boats coming in from the harbor, which is a real
[1:09:08]
treat. And we've always, we've always, you know, made sure
[1:09:13]
that's happened. And I'm just wondering, does anybody talk with
[1:09:18]
parks and rec to see if we can, you know,
[1:09:20]
get that back at his shrunk and shrunk and shrunk
[1:09:24]
throughout the years. And now it looks like you're shrinking
[1:09:26]
it again. So I would like to see that change.
[1:09:31]
Um, I would like to see it open up at
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least once or twice a week for the residents. I
[1:09:38]
feel like that's something that we've had in the past.
[1:09:41]
And we deserve to have again. And then I'm still.
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Hoping you're, you know, keeping all of the in street
[1:09:53]
parking. And instead of taking away an parking on the
[1:09:58]
embarcadero, you're adding parking. Thank you. Thank you.
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We have someone else. Go ahead and come on up.
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Unless there's someone else in the queue right now. There
[1:10:14]
are no more raised hands in the queue. Go ahead.
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Hi, I'm Betsy Garnett Cross and a couple of things
[1:10:24]
I've been thinking about. First of all, I don't know
[1:10:27]
if I'm the only one who rides a bike around
[1:10:29]
here. But when I ride along the embarcadero, I appreciate
[1:10:33]
being right there in the middle of the road with
[1:10:36]
everybody. Um, I wouldn't want a bike laying or be
[1:10:40]
with, um, people mostly because people don't pay attention. Like
[1:10:46]
over by, um, beach track, you know, when you go
[1:10:50]
by the park there, um, there's a bike lane and
[1:10:55]
there's a walkway. And people are always walking in the
[1:10:59]
bike lane. And it's very confusing. And I, you know,
[1:11:04]
I'm trying to let people know I'm coming. And they
[1:11:07]
need to be on the sidewalk. And I've mentioned this
[1:11:10]
in the past that it would be nice if they
[1:11:12]
were the little symbols were on that bike lane. But
[1:11:15]
anyway, um, so bikes I think are great on the
[1:11:19]
road glamping. I've never done glamping, but I think, I'm
[1:11:26]
assuming it's cheaper than a hotel. So therefore, if people
[1:11:29]
don't have an RV, I'm not against glamping, but I'm
[1:11:33]
not saying that that's the place to have it. But
[1:11:37]
I assume it's cheaper than a hotel. And if you
[1:11:39]
don't have an RV or something, it's more affordable. And
[1:11:44]
also if it were down close to the bay, it
[1:11:48]
would be lovely as opposed to being up at a
[1:11:51]
hotel where you had kids. And you had to walk
[1:11:53]
down and whatever. Um, and I did at one point
[1:11:59]
I mentioned this before, um, at another meeting, Michelle and
[1:12:04]
I walked around and we counted how many spaces would
[1:12:07]
be eliminated if we got rid of the spots by
[1:12:12]
the replaced them with parquettes or whatever you were thinking
[1:12:17]
of doing. And there were 20. And that's a lot
[1:12:20]
of parking. So anyway, that's my two cents. Thank you.
[1:12:27]
Is there anyone else. I'll go ahead and bring it
[1:12:31]
back. Committee, uh, Arland, do you have some, would you
[1:12:35]
like to? Yeah. If I may, vice chair. So we
[1:12:39]
do have a hard stop at five habits meeting after
[1:12:41]
us. So we have about 45 minutes, um, kind of
[1:12:45]
in line with some comments that we heard during public
[1:12:49]
comment, um, pack should get into decisions making mode on
[1:12:54]
some of these items. Um, I would recommend kind of
[1:12:59]
for the next 45 minutes thinking of a punch list
[1:13:01]
of the most important items. And then doing a straw
[1:13:04]
pool vote, a straw pool, uh, vote on those so
[1:13:08]
we can make an official record that we could pass
[1:13:09]
on to planning commission on the sediments of WAMPAC. I
[1:13:14]
have four items right now, just from my, from my
[1:13:17]
notes that I've heard come up that I would recommend
[1:13:20]
OnePack vote on. One is the kind of elevator people
[1:13:27]
mover concept. The next one is small, but, uh, noteworthy,
[1:13:32]
um, committee member Luker mentioned combining a two and a
[1:13:35]
three regarding the Moro Rock parking ADA path. So getting,
[1:13:41]
you know, what's the one packs vote on that next
[1:13:44]
is a street end parking. Do you repeat that again?
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Yeah. So combining A2A3, that's the idea of the, um,
[1:13:52]
the walkway from the rock parking lot down to the
[1:13:57]
beach. And the, I think like the maintenance, just committing
[1:14:01]
number of Luker mentioned that those, uh, those seem to
[1:14:03]
be repetitive and they could be consolidated together into a
[1:14:06]
single item. And then street end parking. I do want
[1:14:12]
to say on street end parking, um, you know, at
[1:14:15]
this point we've had multiple conversations with coastal commission staff,
[1:14:18]
um, there is a requirement in our general plan for
[1:14:21]
those pedestrian connections. We've drawn something up that we believe
[1:14:25]
is a reasonable compromise and contingent on no net loss
[1:14:28]
in parking. So that's something that, um, we're going to
[1:14:31]
keep in the plan because we've already drawn that up,
[1:14:35]
uh, and again, we believe it's a reasonable compromise. Um,
[1:14:38]
but it's up to one pack. If you want to
[1:14:41]
vote to provide a comment that you don't want to
[1:14:44]
see any street ends converted, then that's something we can
[1:14:46]
let the planet commission city council know. And then the
[1:14:49]
fourth item that comes to mind is, uh, RV camping,
[1:14:52]
glamping and whether those should be flipped back to how
[1:14:54]
they were originally, or do we keep clamping along the
[1:14:58]
creek? We're welcome to talk about the reasoning behind moving
[1:15:01]
the clamping along the creek and putting RV camping above
[1:15:05]
it where the old wastewater treatment plant site is, um,
[1:15:08]
I do want to say in that conversation, it's really
[1:15:10]
not appropriate to talk about individual, you know, leaseholders. We
[1:15:14]
should be talking about the long - term vision for
[1:15:16]
that area regardless of any, um, specifically solder. So those
[1:15:21]
are the four items that at a minimum, I think
[1:15:23]
wompax should vote on. I'm sure you have several others,
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um, your minds as well. Thank you. So, uh, we'll
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bring it back to committee for comments at this time.
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Okay. Mary, you always get a start. Sorry. All right.
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Um, my comments for character area six regarding the glamping.
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Um, I just wanted to say that glamping does serve
[1:15:51]
and underserved customer segment in our community based on the
[1:15:54]
analysis done by the economists that we don't have, I
[1:15:58]
think any luxury hotels. Um, also I think that we'll
[1:16:03]
see potentially additional revenue from people who don't have kitchens
[1:16:07]
in their RVs. And they're glamping would be more accessible
[1:16:10]
to youth compared to the high purchase cost of RVs.
[1:16:16]
I think we also saw in the community survey that
[1:16:19]
glamping was, um, very supported. And I just felt like
[1:16:23]
calling out those data points because I think a lot
[1:16:25]
of youth and family is generally not represented in this
[1:16:29]
form because these meetings are scheduled during core working hours.
[1:16:33]
Um, my argument, something else to consider for glamping being
[1:16:37]
near the edges as I think it could be quieter,
[1:16:41]
um, to have glamping along the edges near nature, um,
[1:16:45]
because glamping, they wouldn't be running generators and things like
[1:16:47]
that RVs. For the character areas one, two and five,
[1:16:53]
um, I think that as someone who bikes on, um,
[1:16:57]
on that strip to the rock with their children, um,
[1:17:01]
I think we should look at making that more bike
[1:17:04]
friendly, whether that's clearer signage on the road to share
[1:17:09]
the road with bicyclists or some sort of specific path
[1:17:14]
for bikes. Um, for the street ends, I feel that,
[1:17:20]
um, you know, we've said that we're not supportive due
[1:17:23]
to the impact on local businesses and accessibility for residents,
[1:17:29]
um, and for me, I personally would like us to
[1:17:33]
vote against street ends, because I think we've heard clear
[1:17:36]
signal from the community and the community engagement, um, feels
[1:17:41]
performative, honestly to me if we hear all of that
[1:17:45]
clear signal and don't vote against the street ends. Um,
[1:17:49]
and then for me regarding the marketplace plaza design guidelines,
[1:17:53]
what I heard the consultant essentially say was like residents
[1:17:57]
don't want this, but this is how we do it.
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And then propose guidelines for how to make it work
[1:18:03]
with the parking requirement. Um, and so I just wanted
[1:18:06]
to flag that, that I'm just not supportive of that,
[1:18:09]
that kind of vision. And then, um, yep, that's it.
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Thanks.
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Some comments because of public comment and, um, letters. So
[1:18:30]
I'm just going to go and then the preferred alternative.
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So, um, my first comment is, um, areas of open
[1:18:38]
area. So if you'd like think about, um, passo, how
[1:18:41]
they are in a tascadero, they have those huge areas.
[1:18:45]
And they're underutilized. Um, I feel that seating is huge
[1:18:48]
for the public enjoyment. So I feel strongly that areas
[1:18:53]
that have like picnic tables and other areas for people
[1:18:58]
to relax and enjoy nature for a longer period of
[1:19:01]
time is much more comfortable than, you know, sitting down
[1:19:05]
in the grass. Plus it takes care of both things.
[1:19:09]
So you can have a picnic at a table or
[1:19:10]
you can have picnic on the ground. So, um, I
[1:19:13]
think that, um, some extra seating for public on these
[1:19:17]
open areas such as Coleman Park. I'm pro for that.
[1:19:22]
I said the elevator said my piece doing a people
[1:19:26]
murder down with that. There was a workshop before this
[1:19:29]
program started and we were really trying to talk about
[1:19:32]
the funicular in a slide. And we had all these
[1:19:36]
other different like ways of getting down, um, I think
[1:19:40]
that my most important aspect of this is ADA accessibility.
[1:19:44]
So and then actually getting it accomplished. So if we
[1:19:47]
don't decide what it's going to be a funicula or
[1:19:50]
a slide or an elevator, I think this is the
[1:19:53]
time to do that now. Um, because you want the
[1:19:57]
community backed and you want it to be in the,
[1:20:00]
in the document. Um, and then I have been told
[1:20:04]
that there's another concept that, um, we want staff to
[1:20:08]
look at as far as further research on a one
[1:20:12]
way for market street to increase parking up above the
[1:20:15]
bluff. So that's just a future food for thought. Um,
[1:20:20]
I know that we got shut down with the embarkadero
[1:20:24]
mostly because of the activity on there with loading and
[1:20:26]
unloading. But if we could create some more parking spaces
[1:20:29]
with a one way at market or have some kind
[1:20:32]
of resirculation, maybe that's another way to increase parking. Um,
[1:20:38]
the sports complex, the map that is out for everybody
[1:20:40]
to see. I just look at it and I'm like,
[1:20:42]
that's too baseball diamonds. So, um, the really big important
[1:20:48]
thing. Yes, it's great that it's open to any kind
[1:20:51]
of recreational things, but when you're talking about a sports
[1:20:54]
complex that does travel teams and teams having four fields
[1:20:58]
of the same type of sport is where you really
[1:21:02]
find the money makers. That's when you get like four
[1:21:06]
to, um, you get 20 different teams playing at different
[1:21:11]
times throughout the day. And so that means about, um,
[1:21:15]
12 teams. They have their families, the coaches. I mean,
[1:21:18]
we're talking about 600 visitors in an area that's underutilized
[1:21:22]
that wouldn't really take over a lot of demand. But
[1:21:24]
then those people, when they go to lunch or they
[1:21:26]
go to dinner or they stay at a hotel, they
[1:21:29]
will spend thousands of dollars. And this is something that
[1:21:32]
if you actually design it, then the, um, document that
[1:21:37]
you can get grants for these things. Or you can
[1:21:39]
at least show it to a developer and they're like,
[1:21:41]
this is pro, you know, the city is pro doing
[1:21:44]
this. I got the green light already. So I'm going
[1:21:47]
to apply for this. So, um, my next one love
[1:21:51]
the fact that you're talking about widening the bridge. I
[1:21:54]
love the idea, um, of the, um, shutting off the
[1:21:59]
bottom of Beach Street. It makes the storefront area, the
[1:22:03]
bakery, the goddess goods, all of the different businesses down
[1:22:06]
there much more safe area for them to have people
[1:22:10]
sit out. And it's still a beautiful area to look
[1:22:13]
right across the bait. But when you have all these
[1:22:15]
cars coming and going and coming and going, I think
[1:22:17]
it's going to make it calmer area for public enjoyment.
[1:22:21]
So I'm happy with that. Um, I mentioned about the
[1:22:24]
intersection being more of a square. Rather than a parallelogram.
[1:22:32]
Um, I think we're going to talk about roofs and
[1:22:37]
I'll put this out there. But we always need to
[1:22:39]
talk about bird housing. We don't want to house the
[1:22:42]
bird. So when we get on that, I'll elaborate employee
[1:22:47]
parking. So we have a lot of spaces that are
[1:22:50]
dedicated to hotels at the top of market. And I
[1:22:54]
feel that that would be a great place for employees
[1:22:57]
to park. And because they're there for eight hours, you
[1:23:01]
know, six hours, eight hours, nine hours, um, and if
[1:23:03]
that were the case that we could actually allocate that,
[1:23:07]
um, employee parking, uh, then we also really need to
[1:23:10]
take into consideration that, um, the elevator and some kind
[1:23:14]
of form of easier access is really important. And then
[1:23:18]
we also need to talk about lighting, um, because you
[1:23:22]
don't want an employee to leave at like 9 p.
[1:23:26]
m. when it turns into a ghost town down there
[1:23:28]
and not have a safe avenue to their cars. Um,
[1:23:33]
Coleman vending, I did hear some people talk about, um,
[1:23:37]
not wanting, vending at Coleman Park, um, being on the
[1:23:40]
harbor advisory board. We were always, you know, it's been
[1:23:43]
every single year we've looked into like ways of revenue
[1:23:46]
generating and got shut down on one thing, shut down
[1:23:50]
on another thing, shut down on another thing. Um, right
[1:23:52]
now we have the sauna there, which I think is
[1:23:55]
awesome. You know, it's, it's, it generates revenue and it
[1:24:01]
creates a new thing that's going on there. That's not
[1:24:03]
taking away from other businesses in the area. So there
[1:24:07]
is that possibility. And I really would want at least,
[1:24:11]
um, maybe we could put something in there that if
[1:24:13]
it is a vendor that the harbor advisory board is
[1:24:16]
the one who gets to approve those, um, transient leases.
[1:24:21]
And there is a, um, a document that we're putting
[1:24:23]
in place for transient, um, vendors. So anyway. That's the
[1:24:30]
end of my comments. Okay. Thank you. Sorry. You don't
[1:24:39]
really have much of a voice today. In terms of
[1:24:42]
character area six, um, I don't have a strong preference
[1:24:45]
for flipping, but it does seem like some of the
[1:24:46]
issues of like having a quieter area, maybe something that,
[1:24:50]
um, during like large storm events could be, um, modified
[1:24:53]
more easily would be good. I think it's good that
[1:24:55]
we're moving parking away from the dunes. I do think
[1:24:58]
in the future, like the location of the dunes and
[1:25:00]
the creek, like those things are not metestic locations. And
[1:25:03]
so I think leaving as much ample space as you
[1:25:05]
can to allow, um, for future flooding, um, would be
[1:25:09]
good. Um, for a character area, one B5, like the,
[1:25:15]
there's a suggestion of the floating dock there. That particular
[1:25:19]
stretch along Coleman, um, along Coleman Beach as some of
[1:25:24]
the most persistent yograss beds that we have in the
[1:25:26]
whole entire bay when we got done to like 13
[1:25:27]
acres. Like that's where El Grass was still really persistent.
[1:25:30]
So I know a lot of folks like kind of
[1:25:32]
walk down and use kayaks, but I just think like
[1:25:35]
thinking a little bit about that's the best area maybe
[1:25:37]
moving a little bit further south where it's a little
[1:25:39]
steeper and not as like, um, dense impacts, not as
[1:25:42]
many impacts to, um, that habitat. I think, yeah, anywhere
[1:25:51]
we can get ADA access, that seems like a plus
[1:25:53]
in terms of like elevator. Um, I think for the
[1:25:56]
street ends, it does seem like the skeletons have worked
[1:26:00]
pretty hard to like find new areas for parking to
[1:26:02]
me. It seems like, um, it could be like a
[1:26:05]
phase approach. Or even like maybe keep like Beachtreet and
[1:26:08]
more Bay Bovard, but maybe we don't need a person
[1:26:09]
than the other ones. But. Um, or like, excuse me,
[1:26:14]
like divided in half. And like maybe you can still
[1:26:16]
get like five or four spaces that have like one
[1:26:19]
area where you can, um, say like maybe it doesn't
[1:26:23]
have to be that whole parking lot area. Maybe the
[1:26:25]
compromise there. I also think in terms of like walking
[1:26:31]
down to Coleman, I do think that that's heavily used.
[1:26:34]
And so I think, yeah, being able to have pedestrian
[1:26:35]
and bike access all the way down to Carmona is
[1:26:37]
good for families and areas where you can, um, sit
[1:26:39]
and have lunch. I do think, um, I agree that.
[1:26:42]
I think the family representation, you know, hasn't really been
[1:26:45]
talked about much in this process. Thank
[1:26:55]
you. I'll start with street ends. I think we need
[1:27:01]
those street ends. There are multi, we use those for
[1:27:05]
everything. I mean, I see delivery trucks use those, you
[1:27:09]
know, so that I think that's pretty critical to keep
[1:27:11]
that. I like the parking there. I don't think we
[1:27:14]
explored the one - way street. Doing a one -
[1:27:18]
way street. I think that opens up a lot. You
[1:27:22]
know, we can still have the parking there. I don't
[1:27:24]
think it's a parking issue. I look at it as
[1:27:25]
a circulation issue. I'd like to see better circulation. And
[1:27:30]
it does cut down the traffic too. If you have
[1:27:32]
that one way, you're cutting down the traffic. You don't
[1:27:35]
have traffic on the other way. Either you use front
[1:27:37]
street or, you know, I saw in that where they're
[1:27:42]
not, they discounted that using front street as a one
[1:27:44]
- way and embarcadero as the other. I thought it
[1:27:49]
was, cause of parking, but I don't think parking was
[1:27:50]
the issue. I thought it was circulation was the issue
[1:27:53]
to try to get a better circulation. So you can
[1:27:56]
park there and walk across the street with it. You
[1:27:58]
know, you're just looking one way. I think it's a
[1:28:00]
little bit safer. And you, we could widen the sidewalk
[1:28:03]
there. I think as far as the delivery trucks, you
[1:28:11]
know, the ways to mitigate some of that, uh, there's
[1:28:16]
a lot of deliveries that are AM deliveries that deliver
[1:28:20]
early in the morning there. I see a lot of
[1:28:22]
trucks there. Before six o'clock in the morning. Actually. And
[1:28:27]
so if you move up to talking about the elevator,
[1:28:31]
I don't think a fununcular would work there. I think
[1:28:35]
past counsel have looked at that. And it's, I don't
[1:28:41]
think that's feasible for that area right there. I think
[1:28:44]
it would be more of an access. And if you're
[1:28:46]
looking at ADA, and you can do a nice elevator
[1:28:50]
with a glass elevator so you can, you know, you're
[1:28:52]
looking out at the bay as you're going down up
[1:28:55]
and down. I think the ways you can do that.
[1:28:56]
I think a simple elevator. To move people, kids with
[1:29:01]
strollers and all that, uh, even if you put the
[1:29:04]
parking up there, employees could use that safely to get
[1:29:08]
to the car. As far as the. Harbor walk, I'm
[1:29:15]
for that to continue that all the way to target
[1:29:18]
rock. So it doesn't impede somebody from parking just before
[1:29:24]
that because there is a walkway there right now that
[1:29:27]
could be. Rehabbed or improve an improvement. That would be
[1:29:33]
an improvement along that all the way to target rock.
[1:29:36]
And you can ride your bike there. Because right now
[1:29:38]
you've got to go on the street if you're going
[1:29:40]
to go out, you know, if you go out to
[1:29:41]
the jetty. So I'm in favor of that. Uh, so
[1:29:45]
it's a no on street ends. Yes on an elevator.
[1:29:48]
Yes on the harbor walk. And. I forget what else
[1:29:54]
I had on there. I had, um.
[1:30:07]
And as far as the, uh, you're talking about the
[1:30:11]
glamping and all that, you know, I don't liked setting
[1:30:16]
what ideas come of that instead of making one set
[1:30:21]
use for that. I'd like to see if you put
[1:30:23]
it out for an RP. Maybe you don't be so
[1:30:26]
specific. And you can get more, you know, more ideas.
[1:30:30]
And somebody has an idea that, oh, that would be
[1:30:32]
perfect there that we haven't thought of that our business
[1:30:35]
people. So I don't like the hard set things. I
[1:30:38]
want a general. As far as even on, on the
[1:30:43]
buildings on the embarcadero on the west side, I think
[1:30:47]
it should be a generalization of how did you put
[1:30:51]
it mass. So you just set out a mass. And
[1:30:57]
that should be the, uh, the guideline. You follow that.
[1:31:02]
I call that a silhouette. So if you, however you
[1:31:04]
want it, the height and the width. I think that
[1:31:07]
would, I think that would encourage more, uh, more people,
[1:31:13]
uh, want to invest in moral bay. And I want
[1:31:16]
best for moral bay. What's best for more obey is
[1:31:19]
what's best for the businesses and moral bay. So let's
[1:31:21]
keep that in mind, not just the, uh, amenities that
[1:31:24]
we, that we would like. You know, let's, uh, I
[1:31:28]
think support business is one of the number one things,
[1:31:32]
I think. Thank you. Just to follow up question on
[1:31:36]
that, James. Well, one, I think we should do not
[1:31:39]
just what's best for businesses, but also residents and also
[1:31:43]
the environment. Um, when you're saying keeping it open in
[1:31:47]
terms of uses, are you thinking of putting hotel development
[1:31:50]
back on the table or are you thinking more in
[1:31:52]
just terms of like RV camping, glamping kind of like
[1:31:56]
low impact, like that category of use. I'm saying to
[1:32:03]
put whatever zone for, let the zoning speak for itself.
[1:32:09]
So if we zone it for, well, in that particular
[1:32:11]
property, as it's been mentioned, it's a flood zone. So
[1:32:15]
you wouldn't be able to put a hotel there. So
[1:32:18]
that limits the use of it. So we're already limiting
[1:32:20]
the use. I think we want to open it up
[1:32:22]
and maybe get some other ideas. What could go in
[1:32:25]
there? You know what I mean? So just use the
[1:32:29]
zoning. That make sense? Uh, Arylon, can
[1:32:39]
you repeat the four things you want us to take
[1:32:43]
action on. Well, now it lists up to eight. So
[1:32:50]
I've been, I've been taking notes on another ideas. Uh,
[1:32:52]
but the four I mentioned where the elevator or people
[1:32:57]
mover market plaza. The second one was minor just combining
[1:33:04]
the, uh, a two and a three regarding the ADA
[1:33:07]
pathway to the beach to the beach. Is that on
[1:33:14]
the north side of the rock. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.
[1:33:27]
Okay. Let's give me one second to make sure we're
[1:33:32]
putting out the correct. Hey, Ray, could you pull up
[1:33:41]
the, um, the presentation, please. So it's looking at, um,
[1:33:45]
a2 and a3 here. So a2 is improved parking in
[1:33:48]
the area in a natural context through the use of
[1:33:50]
rocks, wood ballers and cables. And chain or heavy ropes
[1:33:54]
to delineate boundaries and a three is enhanced maintenance accessibility
[1:33:59]
sea level rise adaptation measures, improved surface and restrict. So
[1:34:04]
committee member Luker mentioned these are similar and they could
[1:34:07]
be consolidated. That was the second. The third is the
[1:34:13]
street end parking discussion, which we've talked about at length
[1:34:16]
over the last year. And then the RV camping and
[1:34:20]
glamping, if that should be flipped back where we keep
[1:34:24]
the RV camping where they're currently is an RV park
[1:34:27]
and glapping to the north or keep it as shown.
[1:34:30]
And I will note on that. The reasoning behind flipping
[1:34:33]
it the way we did is, um, like we heard
[1:34:35]
some community members acknowledge, um, the glamping is a more
[1:34:38]
environmentally sensitive use that would make more sense along the
[1:34:41]
creek. And also, um, that's a better option for circulation
[1:34:45]
because it doesn't require the RBs to go all the
[1:34:46]
way down to the creek to access the RV camping.
[1:34:51]
So those were the four items. And then I think
[1:34:54]
when the committee's ready done with your comments, I'll go
[1:34:57]
down my entire list with all eight ideas that I
[1:35:00]
would like compact a vote on. Regarding the elevator concept,
[1:35:06]
it seems to me that that would be, um, beneficial
[1:35:10]
to access parking up above, getting people down to the
[1:35:13]
embarkadero, especially if it's in ADA issue. The idea of
[1:35:17]
a glass elevator would be really nice. Uh, the neckular,
[1:35:21]
I guess somebody said that probably wouldn't work. Although that
[1:35:25]
it would be an attraction, that's for sure. Like ancient
[1:35:28]
flight down in LA. The A2 and A3 combination, um,
[1:35:33]
I agree with that, that they all seem to be
[1:35:35]
one of the same there. But as far as doing
[1:35:39]
something at that parking area, it's not maintained very well
[1:35:44]
as it is. Those columns are out there kind of
[1:35:48]
are in the way. Um. I don't know what you
[1:35:52]
could do out there that would improve the situation. But
[1:35:56]
as far as those columns go, if you're going to
[1:35:58]
reuse them or leave them in there, I mean, I
[1:36:00]
split like a raised pavement markers on the top of
[1:36:03]
them. So you can see them at night. The street
[1:36:07]
end parking, definitely, I've been again since day one. You're
[1:36:10]
eliminating very valuable premier parking places. And nothing can replace
[1:36:15]
them in kind. You'll not find something of equal value
[1:36:18]
by placing parking somewhere else and taking it away from
[1:36:22]
the street end parking. A lot of those parking areas
[1:36:25]
have handicapped spaces too. So we would be out of
[1:36:28]
compliance with ADA down on the embark and neuro. As
[1:36:32]
far as the RV glamping, um, you know, glamping or
[1:36:37]
even tent camping would be okay as long as everybody
[1:36:42]
understands that the flipling, extending, um, the moral dunes RV
[1:36:48]
to that area. I mean, it seems to me that
[1:36:50]
that would be revenue generating to do something like that.
[1:36:54]
And it's already a use that's there. So it wouldn't
[1:36:57]
be a problem. It's set for. Where it's taking over
[1:37:00]
the areas where the city yards are and why the
[1:37:03]
water treatment plant is. Those facilities, unless you have some
[1:37:08]
other place to put them need to belong there. So
[1:37:11]
you just can't erase them on your map. They exist
[1:37:15]
and they have to be there. Like I said, as
[1:37:17]
part of the plumbing of the Water Reclamation facility is
[1:37:20]
at those locations, including the outfall that goes to the
[1:37:24]
ocean, there's a standpipe, air release valve in the middle
[1:37:28]
of what would be that RV parking area. That has
[1:37:31]
to stay. It can't be removed. So those are my
[1:37:34]
concerns, but the other thing I want to bring up,
[1:37:37]
and this was brought up at the beginning by Gene
[1:37:38]
Dowdy, what about the water side of the embarkadora? We
[1:37:41]
never speak to that, you know, there's going to be
[1:37:43]
some, activities who go down there. There's the whale rushing
[1:37:48]
vessels. There's the electric boats that go in and out
[1:37:51]
of there's a lot of usage. And some of the
[1:37:54]
things that you see from that side, from the water
[1:37:57]
side of the waterfront. And we've never spoken to that.
[1:38:00]
And somehow or another, we've seen to skip over there.
[1:38:02]
But as soon as very important that we address that
[1:38:05]
too somehow. That's all I have. I'll be very brief
[1:38:11]
because I think you already know this about what I've
[1:38:14]
said. Um, I'm happy with the people mover. I could
[1:38:17]
be okay with an elevator. Um, uh, fine obviously with
[1:38:22]
putting together a two and a three and deleting the
[1:38:25]
word restripe. Um, I'm not wild about eliminating parking on
[1:38:30]
the street ends, but I could live with no net
[1:38:32]
loss in the project area. I think that's probably going
[1:38:35]
to be on a losing end of a vote though.
[1:38:37]
Um, flipping the RV and the glamping, I don't particularly
[1:38:43]
think that it's, I'm not overly interested in, it doesn't
[1:38:48]
really matter to me as long as all sorts of
[1:38:50]
different opportunities can be on that site. So I think,
[1:38:54]
um, you know, if we don't specify the creek areas
[1:38:58]
only for glamping, if we just open it up, um,
[1:39:02]
for RV glamping, tent camping, that sort of thing. So.
[1:39:05]
Thanks. Okay. I'll be brief too, because we're starting to
[1:39:12]
run out of time. Uh, but, but I'd like to
[1:39:14]
comment that the problem at beach and embarcadero isn't just
[1:39:19]
traffic. It's, uh, it's like the problem you run into
[1:39:24]
at the, out at the morbid high school at lunchtime.
[1:39:26]
The people, uh, drag across that intersection. We have a
[1:39:29]
lot of people in town, uh, it's, it's about regulating
[1:39:33]
the pedestrian flow there as well as traffic because people
[1:39:38]
would drag across her and hold up traffic for minutes
[1:39:41]
and minutes and minutes a lot of time. So it's
[1:39:42]
not just a traffic issue there at beach in Barkett
[1:39:46]
Hall. It's a pedestrian issue too. So I don't know
[1:39:48]
if just by closing off front street and doing those
[1:39:51]
things, it's going to be the answer to that quagmire
[1:39:54]
there. I think the answer to regulate the pedestrians as
[1:39:58]
well so that you can move the traffic at a
[1:40:02]
quicker pace. Um, if you could bring up character proposed
[1:40:08]
actions for one, two and five. Maybe that's not just
[1:40:16]
a. Okay. Yeah. Ray, can you pull up the slide
[1:40:20]
please? Well, yeah, I think. Some of this stuff, not
[1:40:26]
just here, but in a couple of places, I think,
[1:40:28]
I think for an example, A2 could have just been
[1:40:30]
improved parking in area with a natural context. It doesn't
[1:40:33]
have to, you don't have to get into what it
[1:40:36]
may pertain. I mean, just keep it simple. Uh, A3,
[1:40:41]
I think we all talked about sea level rise. And
[1:40:43]
I think we all kind of thought we shouldn't have
[1:40:47]
to deal with it right now. Uh, and then you
[1:40:50]
go down to, uh, B3 on that constructive peculiar for
[1:40:55]
approximately 10 tables. How about just construct picnic area. I
[1:41:00]
mean, to get so specific, I think it may lock
[1:41:03]
you into things later in the future, uh, and then
[1:41:07]
concessions. I think concessions here will take away from other
[1:41:15]
businesses in the waterfront. Uh, it's a front and center
[1:41:18]
spot. If you're going to get a ton of money
[1:41:21]
for it, that might be, but you're not, uh, and
[1:41:24]
so, so that's a problem with concessions there. I think
[1:41:28]
concessions can mean a lot of things can be snow
[1:41:30]
cones. And just could mean a lot of things. So
[1:41:34]
I just think that when you, when you do something
[1:41:36]
like that, that front and center, it's a perfect spot.
[1:41:38]
You're going to take away from other canoe and kayak
[1:41:41]
remandalis up and down the waterfront. So, and, uh. And
[1:41:47]
that's about all I have. Thank you. Okay. If we're
[1:41:55]
going to vote in one of the things at street
[1:41:57]
parking, um, I just had a question, is it because
[1:41:59]
on the actual slide 36 that has all the street
[1:42:02]
ends, like for beach street, you lose five spaces, but
[1:42:06]
do you have to do that in order for circulation
[1:42:08]
to work there? Cause it seems like everyone's talking about
[1:42:10]
circulation. And so is that one that we would like
[1:42:13]
take out from voting? Is that one that like, we
[1:42:15]
want to prioritize circulation over those five spaces? Are we
[1:42:19]
voting on all, like all, all of them. Because it
[1:42:24]
seems like you need that. Like everyone keeps talking about
[1:42:26]
the beach street circulation right there. Is the part. And
[1:42:30]
so if we vote no street ends, it seems like
[1:42:33]
then we have a circulation problem on beach street. Is
[1:42:35]
that correct? Number seven. Onslet page 36. And then the
[1:42:43]
more of a boulevard, or sorry. Yeah. On dune street,
[1:42:47]
you're actually getting plus two spaces. So it just seems
[1:42:50]
like it's a little more nuanced than just like no
[1:42:53]
street ends. And I'm not certainly voting for them. I
[1:42:54]
don't care honestly that much either way, but it just
[1:42:56]
seems like, are we going to have it if we
[1:42:58]
say vote no to street ends? Like are we going
[1:43:00]
to have a trouble at Beach Street to get the
[1:43:02]
actuals like circulation and flow of pedestrians and cars right
[1:43:04]
there. So if we're going to make a motion, what
[1:43:09]
sounds better we want no street ends lost. Excluding beach
[1:43:14]
street because that's how we end up getting the better
[1:43:17]
pedestrian flow at the bottom of that stairs or bottom
[1:43:21]
of that street. Or would you prefer the motion to
[1:43:25]
be more on, we just don't agree with the street
[1:43:31]
and conversion at moral bay Boulevard. So first of all,
[1:43:38]
in the interest of time, what I was going to
[1:43:39]
suggest is, um, I just, instead of doing the whole
[1:43:42]
motion and second, I could just go down the list
[1:43:45]
and then you could just do a, a straw poll
[1:43:48]
vote of support or not on that. Um, you are
[1:43:51]
right as far as street end parking. That discussion could
[1:43:55]
be a little more nuanced if there is support for,
[1:43:59]
um, converting just the beach street end in order to
[1:44:03]
fix that intersection. I think that's maybe worth doing a
[1:44:07]
vote on. And it sounds like it is from what
[1:44:11]
I'm, what I'm hearing. And then of course, so what
[1:44:16]
I'm hearing is, okay. So based on what we've heard
[1:44:21]
so far, there's not a lot of support for converting
[1:44:25]
the street ends into plazas. Um, but instead of just
[1:44:29]
having that be the one vote, um, another option is
[1:44:34]
to support, um, converting the beach street street end to
[1:44:39]
a plaza because that's also necessary to fix that intersection,
[1:44:43]
but the rest of the street ends still should not
[1:44:45]
be changed. And then Dune Street, you're actually adding two.
[1:44:54]
So you're actually going to lose two parking spots if
[1:44:55]
you vote no for that one. Yeah. So cards. That's
[1:44:57]
what I feel. I feel like beach street and Doon
[1:44:58]
Street, it sounds like for the most part, we get
[1:45:01]
more circulation and a plaza for Beach Street. We do
[1:45:04]
leaves five spaces. But then Dune Street, you're adding two.
[1:45:06]
So your net loss is like only three spacious. If
[1:45:09]
you say yes to beach and dunes. And it sounds
[1:45:11]
like most people don't want to take away the full
[1:45:13]
10 spaces at more Bay Boulevard. So it seems like
[1:45:15]
there's more consensus that like 10 spaces a lot. And
[1:45:19]
for the arc. Why don't we tackle that one first?
[1:45:23]
Um, so first of all, I think everyone understands this,
[1:45:25]
but the proposed concept is predicated on no net loss
[1:45:29]
of parking. We've talked about that again. Many times. Um,
[1:45:32]
so keep that in mind. But I think, um, committee
[1:45:37]
member, Garrity has a great point that dunes and beach
[1:45:43]
look a little different than the rest of the street
[1:45:44]
ends. So the proposal I'm hearing, and I think we
[1:45:49]
would like a wand pack vote on is, um, whether
[1:45:54]
to. So I'm going to, so. For the street end
[1:46:03]
parking lots. For beach and dunes to go ahead and
[1:46:13]
convert those into the plazas as shown by staff, because
[1:46:18]
again, beach is needed to fix that intersection and then
[1:46:22]
dunes will result actually in a net gain in parking
[1:46:25]
spaces. But that the wompack support for converting the rest
[1:46:29]
of the street ends into a public plaza. So that's
[1:46:34]
the, of course, I'm not making a motion, but I
[1:46:37]
think that's what I like wack to vote on for
[1:46:39]
the record. I think it would be a really clean
[1:46:42]
motion if we say we like the plan as is
[1:46:45]
except delete the street ends at the bottom of more
[1:46:48]
available. That's, yeah, if that's, if you want to make
[1:46:55]
that motion, I mean, we can do it that way.
[1:46:57]
Our airline, one of the things that I understand about
[1:46:59]
the beach street area and Chris is out there is
[1:47:01]
that that's dedicated for commercial fishermen to park there. So
[1:47:05]
are you eliminating that feature from the commercial fisherman? That's
[1:47:08]
something that was something that was addressed in our, um,
[1:47:11]
proposed concept where we would have bollards out there. So
[1:47:14]
commercial fishermen could still have access to those spaces as
[1:47:16]
needed for their operations. Well, then you can't have the
[1:47:19]
plaza and the commercial fisherman parking in the same spot,
[1:47:22]
can you? So yeah, wouldn't it be for, um, for
[1:47:25]
the ballers would be for commercial fishermen to access the
[1:47:28]
area for, you know, unloaded equipment, um, but you're right.
[1:47:31]
It wouldn't be four, for like long - term parking.
[1:47:36]
What would we be voting on then. So the one
[1:47:43]
thing I'd like to add to, so we talk about
[1:47:46]
net loss of parking, but if you say the flying
[1:47:49]
Dutchman and his net loss is five spaces, but those
[1:47:53]
five spaces are down at dioxide. It hurts him. Yeah.
[1:47:58]
And so, so net loss, it could be different to
[1:48:02]
me than it is to Paul. If you understand. So
[1:48:06]
no net loss in front of his business, or it
[1:48:08]
is net loss of say five. I'm just saying five
[1:48:11]
or six spaces, but, but you gain way far away
[1:48:14]
from it. It doesn't help him. It still defeats that
[1:48:19]
purpose. And so what the, this came up during this
[1:48:21]
in the subcommittee meeting and what think they came up
[1:48:23]
with is within a 500 foot radius. Um, there should
[1:48:26]
be no net loss of argument. That's the first I've
[1:48:29]
heard of that. So, uh, and then, uh, as far
[1:48:32]
as the street ended beach street and I'll address that
[1:48:34]
again, um. I don't know if we have enough information
[1:48:39]
to. To digest what could happen there. I mean, there's
[1:48:44]
a little drawing here, but I mean, the stuff that
[1:48:46]
has to go on there. And I don't know how
[1:48:48]
much room is there. I've looked at drawings before, uh,
[1:48:50]
for different projects. And when you look down on them,
[1:48:54]
Oh, that looks really good. But then in reality you
[1:48:56]
put a tape measure on them. They don't fit. And
[1:48:59]
so, uh, to say, I think we, to say you
[1:49:03]
can develop, you need beach street for that intersection, you
[1:49:07]
may. I just don't know by looking at what we
[1:49:09]
have here. What's it going to take? So to, to
[1:49:12]
have a, uh, a pedestrian plaza there, which is exacerbate
[1:49:17]
the problem that we have with people at that, that,
[1:49:20]
that area already. I mean, that's the, it's not only,
[1:49:23]
it's only, it's not only traffic. It's people moving across
[1:49:26]
those intersections that it's a major problem when it comes
[1:49:29]
to backing up traffic. I'll just say working with our
[1:49:33]
transportation consultant. It's not that we think that there needs
[1:49:37]
to be a playground there or some other example of
[1:49:41]
different activity. It's clarifying where people are supposed to walk.
[1:49:46]
Is part of the redesign. And so that is addressing
[1:49:50]
the pedestrians. And then also, Charisse, I'm still a little
[1:49:54]
confused whether you think the redesign is where it needs
[1:49:56]
to be yet, but I know that with the transportation
[1:49:59]
consultant, the way that it's drawn now was to continue
[1:50:04]
to allow for the trucks or vehicles to get in
[1:50:07]
for fueling. And it may not be able to be
[1:50:10]
changed that much more. So just on those two things.
[1:50:13]
But yeah, we were thinking about the pedestrian flow. Regardless
[1:50:18]
of what, you know, if the plaza, um, because right
[1:50:23]
now, as we all know, it's very confusing. For pedestrians
[1:50:26]
in that spot. So go ahead. I just said, can
[1:50:30]
you clarify, I was listening, but not well, um, about
[1:50:35]
the no, no, no, can you about the known net
[1:50:38]
loss within 500 feet of the, of, of the street
[1:50:43]
end? Is that, can you talk about that a little
[1:50:45]
bit. That's it. So that was a discussion topic at
[1:50:50]
the parculking and circulation subcommittee meeting. And that's what the
[1:50:55]
subcommittee agreed to was support of converting the street ends,
[1:51:01]
um, provided that the loss of parking within a 500
[1:51:04]
foot radius because that's a typical, you know, walking range.
[1:51:07]
Okay. Just one comment before we go deeper on this
[1:51:11]
too. If you look at Dune Street, just looking at
[1:51:16]
it compared to Google Maps image, the parking seems to
[1:51:20]
kind of make the pedestrian access like really close to
[1:51:25]
geos. And I don't know if anyone has ever chosen
[1:51:27]
to walk right in front of the takeout window there.
[1:51:30]
I know I never have, um, because it's just very
[1:51:33]
crowded with tourists and very difficult for traffic. So I
[1:51:36]
just personally think that aside from the parking issues, there's
[1:51:41]
just a lot of other issues with the proposal here.
[1:51:44]
And so wouldn't feel comfortable voting for it. So, so
[1:51:50]
we're, we're running out of time. And it seems like
[1:51:52]
we run out of time every meeting. I don't know
[1:51:56]
what we can get accomplished here as, as far as
[1:52:00]
votes. I mean, it looks like we do want memorialize.
[1:52:05]
Several things, maybe eight or 10 things, it looks like.
[1:52:09]
And, uh, I don't know if we can put that
[1:52:10]
together in the next. Nine minutes. Maybe you just go
[1:52:14]
to some easier. So, and I don't know how to
[1:52:16]
roll this. I know you're on a timeline, but, uh,
[1:52:20]
this is, this is something that's going to have all
[1:52:23]
our names on it for the next 20 years or
[1:52:24]
30 years. And it's really important to try to get
[1:52:26]
it right. I'm not saying we're going to get it
[1:52:28]
right, but we're going to do our best to get
[1:52:30]
it right. So I don't know, can we, uh, can
[1:52:34]
I make a question? Go ahead. So one of the
[1:52:37]
things that throughout this process, I've been told is that
[1:52:39]
we want coastal commission to get this and approve it.
[1:52:44]
And one of their big things is the widening of
[1:52:47]
sidewalks and public access on the Waterfront. Am I incorrect
[1:52:52]
in saying that? That it's that we really do want
[1:52:55]
to show that we're broadening the pedestrian area on the
[1:52:59]
harbor. It's a requirement of our general plan. So it's
[1:53:02]
a requirement of our general plan. So if we just
[1:53:05]
hired everybody to do all of this and figure it
[1:53:07]
out and then figure other parking spaces, I think that
[1:53:11]
that's what we've been asking them to do. So if
[1:53:14]
we say no to it, I don't, it's kind of,
[1:53:17]
we've got to give and take a little bit. And
[1:53:19]
I think getting rid of making a motion to just
[1:53:22]
say, um, we like the way that it is except
[1:53:25]
for we don't want the moral bay boulevard street end
[1:53:31]
to be converted. I think we've accomplished a good amount
[1:53:34]
of parking spaces in the other things that the staff
[1:53:38]
has done. I agree with exception. I'm doing this for
[1:53:42]
this people in more obey, not the coastal commission. Myself.
[1:53:51]
Can we just start maybe voting on a few things?
[1:53:55]
Yeah. So I mean, this is again, I think the
[1:53:56]
most tricky one. And I think the wand pack needs
[1:54:00]
to just discuss among yourselves and come up with emotion
[1:54:03]
and about on this. And we've been talking about it
[1:54:04]
for, for over a year. So I don't think, I
[1:54:07]
mean, yes, in a way, it's rushed, but again, we've
[1:54:09]
been going over the same concepts for quite some time
[1:54:11]
now. And so I think. We haven't had the details
[1:54:16]
because I'm looking at this drawing. I don't get it.
[1:54:19]
I mean, it looks like you narrowed the road a
[1:54:22]
little bit. Is that right? Uh, so there's a, so
[1:54:27]
for the street going south on in Barcadero at beach,
[1:54:33]
there's a left turn and a straight. And that's going
[1:54:37]
to continue like that. There's not a, I mean, it
[1:54:40]
looks narrowed. Doesn't look narrow to me. Because you got
[1:54:46]
the, you got that, I don't know if it's a
[1:54:48]
parklet at the end there on that side. So that's
[1:54:51]
what's my hurdle right there. It's like, how does that,
[1:54:56]
I can't tell how that's going to work by just
[1:54:58]
that little drawing on there. Doesn't make sense to me.
[1:55:01]
I can't vote on that. I don't, I don't like
[1:55:05]
the way it's. So Arlen, how do we, how do
[1:55:07]
we move forward today, uh, and be prepared for the
[1:55:12]
next one. I mean, uh, can, can we, uh, obviously
[1:55:16]
it looks like we're not ready to vote on revised,
[1:55:19]
pervert alternate night. That's what looks like to me. I
[1:55:22]
mean, that's what I'm assuming. And then I think it
[1:55:24]
looks like there's eight or 10 things that we like
[1:55:26]
memorialize. Did you say you had written down some things
[1:55:29]
that you wanted to add. Yeah. Could you do that?
[1:55:33]
Yeah. So let's see, we went over elevator, the 82,
[1:55:36]
a three straight imparking, the RV camping glamping. Um, the
[1:55:40]
other one was the one way circulation. I think that
[1:55:43]
could be a straightforward one because our circulation and consultants
[1:55:46]
said that would not gain any parking spaces or provide
[1:55:48]
any real benefit that makes it worth pursuing any further.
[1:55:52]
But I did hear some interest in that on the
[1:55:54]
committee. So wanted to bring that up. Widening the bridge,
[1:55:57]
I put that here. However, that's already shown in the
[1:56:00]
plan. So I don't think we actually have to have
[1:56:02]
a separate vote on that. I did hear an idea
[1:56:05]
from committee member Hanson about employee parking. I believe on
[1:56:08]
the top of market, I think was at Pacific and
[1:56:10]
market. Parking lot. So I haven't heard from other committee
[1:56:14]
members on that idea. And then, um, whether or not
[1:56:17]
to continue the harbor walk to target rock. Um, I
[1:56:23]
don't need motion to do the employee parking. I think
[1:56:26]
that the business is down there can actually work together
[1:56:28]
to make that happen, um, just as long as it's
[1:56:31]
a safe travel. So, um. If we want to make
[1:56:35]
a motion to approve this as is with the other
[1:56:38]
edits, the ones that I see, if I could do
[1:56:40]
this, get this done is one, um, a glass elevator
[1:56:46]
at the base of more obey to embarcadero street level.
[1:56:49]
Um, second edit would be combined parking A2 and A3
[1:56:56]
and remove the word restripe. And for number three, it
[1:57:00]
would be that no street end parkings are converted into
[1:57:07]
plazas. Except with the exception of Beach Street, which, um,
[1:57:14]
with the exception of beach street, because that's really not
[1:57:16]
a plaza, right? It is. Cause it's still has parking.
[1:57:23]
Well, all the pedestrian pedestrian connection. It looks like it
[1:57:26]
is. So as long as that's not considered applezai, you
[1:57:29]
know, the area that they have for the pavers for
[1:57:32]
the parking and the fuel. It says it is. It
[1:57:35]
says it's a plaza. It says, yeah, public plaza. I
[1:57:38]
think the idea is if that, that parking lot exit
[1:57:40]
is blocked off so it doesn't go into the beat
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street intersection. What are we going to do with that
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space? I think that's what we would need. Well, I
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think you still need to, whatever you put there, you
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can't put a whole lot because you're going to have
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fuel trucks and, and fishermen loading and unloading. I wouldn't
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consider a plaza. And, um, and I think that those
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are the three main important things. So if we want
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to. I'm wondering if we also, if the broad consensus,
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I've heard before that there was for the expansion of
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the maritime museum. I'm wondering if it would be quite
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easy to just add that as well to codify. Cause
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I think we as a committee had discussed. I don't
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think that's what the committee is here for. We can't,
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we're not supporting businesses or the plan on that. I
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don't think that's, I just don't agree with that. Okay.
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That's fine. Endless. Yeah. No, I was just testing the
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waters because I thought we had kind of a line
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as a committee on that before, but that's fine. We
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don't need a complicated if there's not support. I'll make
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a motion if you want me to. If you want
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to take a hell of a cart and just make
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a motion on the, I'll rephrase it just for notes.
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You want to use that. I'll make a motion. Yeah.
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We'll see if it passes. I hope it does. Okay.
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Um, we approve the, uh, revised plan as is with
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the following exceptions that at the base of moral bay
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boulevard to embroider a street level. We put a viewing
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elevator. Number two, combined parking A2A3 and remove restrict from
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that. And then three no street ends completely converted into
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plazas. One second.
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No. No, because parts of that I like and parts
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of it I don't like the combine at all in
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one. If we could just do a quick, uh, like
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a vote on the elevator, a vote on the harbor
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walk and a vote on that's, you know. Okay. I'll
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make that motion to accept the glass elevator at the
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base of Moral Babel of our to embark at Air
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Street level and to number two, to combine parking A2
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and A3 and remove the word restrict. You like those
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two. I'll second that. Any
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discussed? So by doing that, or agreeing with the actual,
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um, everything. And that also includes the street and plazas.
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No. I'm not agreeing to that. In each one individually.
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Okay. So. Are we setting aside the speed end plaza.
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So are we setting aside the street end plaza part?
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Okay. Yes. So committee member Hanson. Taking the vote.
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Yes. So what's stopping us from. Calling the meeting and
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working on this a little bit somehow and haven't, I
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know you have to have a timeline, but I mean,
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everything we're going to do here, it's now five o'clock.
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We have a hard stop at five. And everything we
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could do is going to be rushed. And that's right.
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I know for prepared to, are we prepared to make
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stopping us right now? It's the fact that we have
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emotional table that we need to do a call on.
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There is a motion on the table. So, uh, got
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second. So all those in favor of, uh, Charissa's motion
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say aye. Aye. Opposed. No. No. So motion passes five,
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two. Let's do a roll call.
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Can we clarify what, what we were actually just voting
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on right now. Is it to, was it the whole,
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the whole. Just two items. It's just feelings on two
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specific changes regarding and it's not saying if you only
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change those two things, then we approve. Okay. Did you
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want to roll call? Yeah. So I'm going to go
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ahead and do, I'll do a roll call vote. Okay.
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On this. So committee member Hanson. Committee member Donnally. Yes.
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Committee member Costanzo. Yes. Many member Garrity? Yes. Committee member
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Luker. No. Committee member Wachowski? Yes. Vice chair talking to
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Zini. No.
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So motion passes. Five to two. So that's the support.
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The revised preferred alternative with those. No. It was, well,
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sorry. My understanding the way it was just explained to
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me was that was specifically voting on two changes. So
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it was at least my vote was not saying if
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you just changed those two things, I support the revised
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alternative. It was just to vote on those specific changes.
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At least that's what I thought was just explained to
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me. And that's what my vote was on. That's what
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I said. My understanding was also. So are we in
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agreement that the only thing that we're still concerned about
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changing and making it a different motion is the street
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ends. So far. Okay. So does anybody else have a
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motion that they want to put out there to the
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one last final concept? I make a motion that we
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not convert any of the street and parkinso or anything
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else that they remain as they are. Aye second.
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Are we voting on just a single item, not the,
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not the whole. Austrians, but not, not the rest of
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the. Okay. We're all clearing that. Okay. All those in
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favor. How about you a roll? I opposed. No. I'm
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going to do a roll call about the fetal mindset
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promozini. So we're at 503. Is it a hard stop
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at five or helped me with this? I mean, half
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starts at 530. I think we can go a few
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minutes over. And you think we can get this done
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fairly and equitably? Uh, yeah, we have one other item
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though. Um, it's creating the submitting for Design Guidelines, but
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let's, we have the motion in second on the table.
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So. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to go ahead and do
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the roll call. Okay. So committee member Donnally. Yes. Committee
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member or vice chair, dog musine. And this is just
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on those two items and not on the whole, the
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one item, excuse me. Yes. Um, committee member Costanzo. Yes.
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And the number Hanson? No. Committee member Garrity. No. Many
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member Luker. Committee member Wachowski. Yes.
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So that was the. Question. No, it doesn't pass, correct?
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No, it. Tastes four. It did. Yeah. Four three. Yeah.
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It passed. Yeah. So it's four three to pass the
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motion. Mr. Lance. So where are we now.
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So now there's the balance of the plan. Just confirmation
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of support for the balance of the revised preferred alternative.
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And when can we memorialize some of the things we've
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talked about. When, when does that come in? If we
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just go right to the vote, then we're not able
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to memorialize the different things we've talked about. As far
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as an emotion. Well, there could be additional motions if
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the items that aren't shown in the preferred alternative or
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weren't covered in those additional motions. We just covered. So
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if I'm following along the right way for us to
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do this right now is that we, um, agree on
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the plan in totality minus the three things that we
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just made motions about. Correct? Correct. I make the motion
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to accept with the previous motions. Can you say that
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again, please? What are we doing? Sorry. We are approving
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the plan as is with the exceptions of the last
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two motions that we made. I second. Yes.
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You're going to do a roll call or you want
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to do this. I'm just ready to go. So can
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you do the motion again, please? The motion is to
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accept the revised plan as is with the exception of
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the previous two motions that we made. And. Where Mary
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seconded. So we just need a roll call. Those in
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favor. I'm going to go ahead and do the roll
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call. So committee member Hanson. Yes. Committee member Wachowski. Yes.
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Committee member Costanzo. Yes. Committee member Donnally. No.
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Member Garrity. Yes. Committee member Luker? Yes. And vice chair
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talking to Zini. No. The motion passes five, two. That's
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the direction, uh, that we need on the revised preferred
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alternative. There's one other item I'm hoping we can squeeze
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in here. And that is forming a subcommittee for the
[2:08:29]
design guidelines. So do we have any volunteers that would
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like to be in the subcommittee for the guidelines, I
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guess we can take up to four. Is that what
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it is? I know Steven Peck would like to be
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on it. Can I just ask a question about do
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you do those meetings in person or is it possible
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to Zoom on those meetings. The past subcommittee meetings have
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been in person. It's been helpful to have everyone in
[2:08:52]
the room, but I think if the committee member who
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really wants to be on a subcommittee and we can
[2:08:56]
accommodate a Zoom participation. I'd like to. Go ahead and
[2:09:06]
yeah, I'd like Steven Paul. Who else. Uh, I'd like
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to be an aught too as a planning commission representative.
[2:09:14]
It's three enough. Do you need four. It could be
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up to four. Oh, I'd like to do. It if
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nobody else. But I'll have to be probably by Zoom.
[2:09:22]
I'm sorry. I'd like to do it probably by Zoom
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though. Okay. If it's September. Okay. So that do what
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we need to have motion on that? No, so subcommittee
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will consist of committee member Donna Lee. Wakowski chairpek and
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committee member Luker. Thank you. So where we at adjournment.
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I think we're ready for you to take a motion
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for a tournament. I'd like to take a motion for
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a tournament place. Move the wee adjourn. All in favor.
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Aye.