| Time | Speaker | Text |
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| 00:00:00.89 | Jill Hoffman | school here. School Marm. Yeah. Thank you. in a good way. |
| 00:00:08.84 | Jill Hoffman | Good evening and welcome to the August 30th, 2016 special meeting of the Sausalito City Council. Debbie, could you call the roll, please? |
| 00:00:18.78 | Debbie | Councilmember Weiner. |
| 00:00:19.86 | Unknown | THE CITY IS A CITY IS A CITY |
| 00:00:20.45 | Debbie | Council member Theodores? Present. Council member Pfeiffer? |
| 00:00:21.46 | Unknown | Present. |
| 00:00:23.61 | Debbie | Vice Mayor. |
| 00:00:24.36 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:00:24.70 | Debbie | Withy? |
| 00:00:25.19 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:00:25.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:00:25.29 | Unknown | here. |
| 00:00:25.78 | Debbie | Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:00:26.39 | Jill Hoffman | you Present. Items D1 through D2 on tonight's agenda will be discussed in closed session. Do we have any public comment on closed session items? Seeing no one approaching. Moving along to item 1D, I am going to adjourn the city council meeting for closed session. |
| 00:01:12.69 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. Thank you. Welcome back to the August 30th, 2016 special meeting of the Sausalito City Council. We are returning from closed session. Debbie, would you call the roll, please? |
| 00:01:27.97 | Debbie | Councilmember Weiner. |
| 00:01:29.10 | Jeffrey Chase | you |
| 00:01:29.13 | Unknown | THEIR OWNERS. |
| 00:01:29.64 | Debbie | Council member Theodores? Present. Council member Pfeiffer? Here. Vice mayor Withy? |
| 00:01:30.65 | Unknown | Present. here. |
| 00:01:34.43 | Debbie | Mayor Hoffman. |
| 00:01:35.36 | Jill Hoffman | you |
| 00:01:35.75 | Debbie | THE BEST OF THE BEST OF THE |
| 00:01:36.03 | Jill Hoffman | I'm not sure if it's a person. Next is the Pledge of Allegiance. Would either one of our people in the audience like to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? |
| 00:01:44.47 | Unknown | . Well, I thought you were Thank you. Thank you. Don't miss. |
| 00:01:49.26 | Jill Hoffman | Yes, ma'am, but first we say the Pledge of Allegiance. I'll leave it, how about that? |
| 00:01:56.17 | Unknown | I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. to the Republic. Please stand. Amen. |
| 00:02:13.70 | Jill Hoffman | All right, very good. We have no closed session announcements. Do we have any public comment on closed session items? YES, SIR. |
| 00:02:29.66 | Jill Hoffman | Sure. And this is about closed session items? |
| 00:02:34.81 | Kevin Kiefer | Yes, my name is Kevin Kiefer, and I've been living in the Anchorage on my sailboat for a few years, and I'd like to make a brief comment concerning the ferry terminal projects. I believe that was one of the top questions. That's a closed session? |
| 00:02:35.59 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. |
| 00:02:46.16 | Jill Hoffman | Exactly. That's a closed session I am sure. |
| 00:02:48.76 | Kevin Kiefer | Okay. I've brought this up at previous meetings and also at RBRA meetings, but it's going to be really important for this council to be real mindful of the public's trust, and it needs to tread lightly because there's a situation developing where there's been a lot of of transfer intergovernmental transfer of revenues that were public trust revenues and specifically slated for certain items and and not others and so basically they were transferred on underhandedly shady there's going to be a new set of of documents that the state controllers office is going to require and they're trying to get a handle on public agencies joint powers agencies city governments operating as agencies that have that have gotten outside of regulatory control and And that piece of property, that particular, although it has a definite public trust sphere developed around it, it wasn't always it wasn't always leased by the current leaser you know this that the lease has been actually running longer than it's supposed to run and it was the transfers and different things so all that stuff you know it's all taken place you know it was all other people other times but this is the this is now and the new documents and the new forms that are gonna be required, you guys should take a look at them because they are going to uncover the many millions of dollars that have been intergovernmental transfers through the police department, through the different departments used for capital construction funds, used for debt servicing. And none of those are allowable under the regulatory codes, yet that's what's been happening. So that's all I'd like to say. |
| 00:05:01.22 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any other public comment on closed session items? |
| 00:05:10.92 | Unknown | My name's Type Glazer, I live up on Ray, right up here. I've been here for 43 years. And I've seen a lot of Sausalito. When I moved here, we had a grocery store on Bridgeway. and we had a wonderful bakery, a Swedish bakery. We had all the things that served the citizens. Now it's all tourists, we're prostituting the city And we're not getting the money. They are. . Uh, I hear that Well, the beauty salons on Caledonia, upstairs and downstairs, they'd been evicted. because a hedge fund bought that building. And I'd hate to see Caledonia turn out to be a nice little place to have my business. You know, a cute little town. But let's keep something for the citizens. That's what I want. I will work on it if you want me to or donate. I think we should protect our flank. We've given up enough. You can't go downtown on a weekend. We all know that. We go away. Anyway, that's all I have to say. And thank you all for working so damn hard. I watch you on TV. And I like what you've done. It looks great. Thank you. That's all I have to say. Can I go home now? Yes. Thank you very much. |
| 00:06:42.04 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Any other public comment? I see no one. Would somebody like to move to approve the agenda? |
| 00:06:54.01 | Jeffrey Chase | So moved. Second. |
| 00:06:56.35 | Jill Hoffman | All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Okay, so we're moving on to item |
| 00:06:57.06 | Jeffrey Chase | Hi. |
| 00:07:05.96 | Jill Hoffman | one on our agenda the consent calendar. I don't believe we Okay, we do have something on there. Matters listed under the consent calendar are considered routine and non-controversial, require no discussion, are expected to have unanimous council support, and may be enacted by the council in one motion in the form listed below. There will be no separate discussion of consent calendar items, however. Before this, council votes on a motion to adopt the consent calendar items. Council members, city staff, or members of the public may request that specific items be removed from the consent calendar for separate action. In order to request an item to be pulled, you must have completed a speaker's card and turned it into the city clerk. Items will only be removed from the consent calendar by a vote of the council. Items removed from the consent calendar will be discussed later on the agenda when public comment will be heard on any item that was removed from the consent calendar. Do we have any public comment regarding the consent calendar? I don't I see no one approaching. Do we have a motion to approve the consent calendar? |
| 00:08:10.18 | Jeffrey Chase | So moved. Second. |
| 00:08:12.41 | Jill Hoffman | All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Moving on to item two on our agenda, public hearing. Item 2A, an ordinance to extend interim urgency ordinance number 1238 adopted on July 26, 2016, establishing a moratorium on the issuance of occupancy, use permits for banks and financial services, retail uses in a CR mixed commercial and residential zone. |
| 00:08:13.30 | Jeffrey Chase | Bye. |
| 00:08:39.36 | Jill Hoffman | Do we have a presentation this evening? |
| 00:08:41.25 | Mary Wagner | Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'll give you a brief presentation. As you indicated, the issue before the council is the extension of the interim urgency ordinance, establishing a moratorium on the issuance of occupancy use permits for banks and financial services and retail uses in the CR zone. As you're aware, on July 26th, the city council enacted a 45-day moratorium on this topic. That was the maximum extent that was allowed at the time under the government code. The item before you is for an extension for 10 months and 15 days, that is until July 24th, 2017. In the event that an action was brought to the City Council that resolved the issue prior to that date, the ordinance would expire upon the adoption of the the change or the determination that nothing needed to change. If it wasn't resolved in that time period then one additional extension of one year would be allowed for a total of bringing it to July of 2018, two years. The government code also provides that the city council must issue a written report describing the measures taken to alleviate the condition, which led to the adoption of the ordinance 10 days prior to the extension or expiration of the urgency ordinance. That report must be issued by August 30th, and the report in your packet is actually that report. It includes a detailed bullet point list of the items that staff is undertaking and will be undertaking, including scheduling a planning commission study session. researching and collecting information from other cities regarding banks and financial institutions and the provision of their zoning ordinance, taking that land use inventory that the staff had been working on previously and the data that they received from other jurisdictions, bringing that to the Planning Commission for consideration as was directed by the City Council, and then receive direction from the Commission and then bring that forward to the City Council in accordance with the provisions of the zoning ordinance for an amendment. One piece of information that was included in your staff report that's different than what you had in front of you on July 26th is that on July 27th, staff did receive application for an occupancy use permit for a mortgage broker's office in the CR zone. Staff informed the applicant of the moratorium and the application was withdrawn. In order to adopt the item before you in your packet tonight, a four-fifth vote of the City Council is required as was required in July. The same findings also apply, and they're included in the draft ordinance that you have in your packet. And you need to be able to find that there's a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety, and welfare. And with that, I'm happy to answer any questions, and staff's recommendation is that you adopt the ordinance in your packet. Thank you. |
| 00:11:40.14 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, Mary. Do we have any city council questions for Mary? |
| 00:11:43.85 | Unknown | I have a quick question. |
| 00:11:44.82 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:11:45.39 | Unknown | Mary, in the ordinance that we were given, I just wanted to clarify that when we're talking about uh, retail, it says street level uses. I'm looking at page 104. At the bottom of the page, the third bullet is what they're going to be looking at, street level uses, amend the zoning ordinance to require that commercial parcels locate local resident serving retail and service office outlets at the street level with preference being given to retail uses. Just want to clarify that phrase, retail uses is resident serving retail uses. |
| 00:12:28.45 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. Council member Pfeiffer, what you're reading is actually directly out of the general plan. It's not the zoning ordinance provision. You see the whereas at the beginning it indicates that those are. |
| 00:12:31.22 | Unknown | what you're doing. |
| 00:12:31.54 | Unknown | RULE. |
| 00:12:35.12 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:12:35.14 | Jill Hoffman | that zoning. Thank you. |
| 00:12:36.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:12:37.08 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 00:12:37.30 | Unknown | the |
| 00:12:40.55 | Mary Wagner | specific policies out of the land use and management element of the general plan. |
| 00:12:45.21 | Unknown | Yeah, and I think the spirit of the general plan Would you agree that the spirit of the general plan when using this term retail uses for Caledonia Street was for resident serving retail uses? |
| 00:12:56.57 | Mary Wagner | I think that's carried forward in the zoning ordinance, yes. |
| 00:12:59.32 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:12:59.37 | Jill Hoffman | THANK YOU. |
| 00:12:59.66 | Unknown | Thanks. |
| 00:12:59.71 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. |
| 00:13:00.99 | Jill Hoffman | Any other questions? From the City Council. |
| 00:13:04.65 | Unknown | NO. |
| 00:13:05.24 | Jill Hoffman | Any public comment on item 2A on our agenda? |
| 00:13:11.30 | Unknown | What's item 2, honey? |
| 00:13:12.72 | Jill Hoffman | Item 2A is the ordinance to extend the interim emergency ordinance. |
| 00:13:21.14 | Unknown | And this is not for the banks. |
| 00:13:23.21 | Jill Hoffman | If you're going to ask questions, |
| 00:13:24.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:13:25.04 | Jill Hoffman | have to. the sorry I believe that there's a draft there's an ordinance over there on the side right in the three ring |
| 00:13:33.69 | Unknown | Yeah, I'm gonna talk. |
| 00:13:33.78 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. That's great. |
| 00:13:36.97 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:13:37.59 | Kevin Kiefer | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:13:37.88 | Unknown | Okay, it's okay. |
| 00:13:38.57 | Kevin Kiefer | I'm Kevin Khyfer. I have a speaker card for this topic. I'm curious. I'm not really up to speed on this, but I'm curious as to what the public's health or welfare, what endangerment to the public's health or welfare exists by getting the public Is the welfare, I mean, I heard the lady that talked earlier. I didn't catch her name. But was she mentioning that that's a, is that a welfare issue? So this is a. |
| 00:14:14.65 | Jill Hoffman | So this is a time for public comment on these issues. We wouldn't normally or any time actually respond to questions from the public. Okay, the committee. |
| 00:14:23.73 | Kevin Kiefer | from the book, but the Council didn't bring up the she mentioned specific, but didn't mention any specifics to Yeah. |
| 00:14:36.94 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. That's noted. There's some, you might want to take a look at the staff report. Anyway, any other public comment on this item? |
| 00:14:46.49 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 00:14:51.57 | Unknown | Hello, mayor, hello, city council. I'd heard that you weren't gonna have a meeting For August, that's what I thought I heard, now this is a special meeting, and I asked around to try and figure out what it was, and maybe it's because there's a bicycle path that's being built. down to Fort Baker and that you have to sign off on this. But I'm not sure. THE FAMILY IS You're talking about the banks, and I think the reason that there's not a lot of people here is because the issue is so technical. And so specific. about zoning, that there's two banks, there's Bank of America and Wells Fargo now in Sausalito downtown. And you are saying... that there won't be permission to build another one. Well, my people... Yehudi have Another idea about banks And this is in Exodus 22, 24. And it says this, and I'm gonna change the translation here from this version. Uh, Key is the word in Hebrew, and here it means when. It's my opinion. I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO To the poor who are among you, do not act towards them as a creditor. Exact no interest from them. Now, We have two banks here that are charging interest mainly to people who already have money and can prove it. There are people here in Sausalito who are living on their boats and that are passing through that don't have money. and maybe they could use it not just for beer or whiskey or alcohol, but for maybe setting up a loom to make their own clothes, maybe for brewing their own tea in Dunphy Park, as I'm going to be doing tomorrow at 9.30 a.m. if anybody wants to come. And This is an opportunity for me to talk about that and THE CITY MANAGER WAS kind enough once to answer me when I spoke. That was about Dunphy Park, and that was a while ago. There were $15,000, I'm bringing this up from a couple months ago, given to the city of Sausalito for the homeless. that Sausalito gave that to THE FAMILY. Because I heard that San Rafael has, the explanation was San Rafael has organized homeless services and Sausalito does not. That is all true. Sausalito has very unorganized homeless services, and I'm part of that. I host people on my boat. |
| 00:17:56.83 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you for your comment. |
| 00:17:57.11 | Unknown | for yourself. |
| 00:17:57.47 | Mary Wagner | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:17:57.85 | Unknown | you All right. |
| 00:17:59.51 | Jill Hoffman | I WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE ITEM. 2A on our agenda this evening. |
| 00:18:07.44 | Jeffrey Chase | Adam 2A. banks. |
| 00:18:16.33 | Jeffrey Chase | Personally, myself, I don't think. I just don't have to. Um, So I... But I don't care. about banking in general. It doesn't bother me one bit that there's a Bank of America and a Wells Fargo and those are the only two banks in Sausalito. I am just fine with that. |
| 00:18:36.19 | Unknown | with that. |
| 00:18:37.46 | Jeffrey Chase | What's the third one? |
| 00:18:38.13 | Unknown | Chase thing, and that's my name, so that's why I |
| 00:18:40.62 | Jeffrey Chase | I'm also fine with Aswell. I'm also fine with Chase Bank. Chase Bank. |
| 00:18:43.91 | Unknown | Face bangers. I'm going to go. |
| 00:18:45.37 | Jeffrey Chase | Thank you. You can pick up my sleeve. You know, as far as, you know, see, I'm, uh, I'm one of those. Gee, how do you put this? Notorious. Dastardly. Despicable. |
| 00:19:11.26 | Jeffrey Chase | Lowly. |
| 00:19:15.19 | Jeffrey Chase | tanker room. |
| 00:19:18.74 | Jeffrey Chase | I guess I, uh... You could consider me. vicariously. Houseless. |
| 00:19:27.88 | Jeffrey Chase | because I read that once. And, As my fellow anchor owner, biggest Jewish man amongst all anchor outs, Jeff Chase right here. was stating about What were you staying by the way? I got it. It's like way out there. But making a loon and making your own clothes and making tea and shit, I'm sorry about that, but I just don't do that. That's not what I do. And so And as far as homeless in Sausalito, I don't really care for them here, to be honest with you. I don't care for a lot of some anchor out activity. Okay. Um... So yeah, I say negative to homeless in Sausalito. Let's keep them in San Rafael, folks. They got better facilities up there to house those homeless people. So in Banks, item, was it 201A? |
| 00:20:40.55 | Jeffrey Chase | I'm all for anything having nothing to do with banks. Thank you very much. |
| 00:20:46.43 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Any other public comments? Seeing none. Moving on. City Council discussion. Do we have any City Council discussion on this item? Seeing no one shaking their head yes. We're going on to Um, Okay, would anybody like to make a motion? |
| 00:21:01.35 | Unknown | Madam Mayor, I move to adopt the attached ordinance. Is that good enough, Mary? To extend a moratorium on the issuance of occupancy use permits for banks and financial services, retail uses, and the CR, that is the mixed commercial and residential zone, ordinance number 1238, for 10 months and 15 days. |
| 00:21:24.00 | Jill Hoffman | Second. All in favor? Aye. |
| 00:21:25.86 | Unknown | Bye. Bye. |
| 00:21:27.95 | Jill Hoffman | Motion passes. 5-0. Thank you. |
| 00:21:36.15 | Jill Hoffman | Anything else? And we are adjourned. The next city council meeting will be held on September 13th. Open session commencing at approximately 7 PM. That's it, thank you. |
Type Glazer — Neutral: Shared observations about Sausalito's transformation over 43 years, lamenting loss of local businesses (grocery store, bakery) to tourism, expressed concern about evictions due to hedge fund purchases, and urged the council to protect amenities for citizens while acknowledging their hard work. ▶ 📄