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| 00:00:00.89 | Vicki Nichols | Bye everybody. |
| 00:00:05.20 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, do we have everybody? we, |
| 00:00:08.01 | Councilmember Cox | comments and scripts. |
| 00:00:09.24 | Janelle Blaustein | Oh, right. Okay. That's kind of important. |
| 00:00:11.57 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:00:11.79 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 00:00:11.81 | Councilmember Cox | but we don't need him to call |
| 00:00:12.97 | Janelle Blaustein | in your garden. |
| 00:00:13.51 | Unknown | you |
| 00:00:13.55 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:00:14.88 | Unknown | you |
| 00:00:15.93 | Walfred Solorzano | Yeah, it's 531. |
| 00:00:17.97 | Unknown | Recording in progress. Mm-hmm. |
| 00:00:25.04 | Walfred Solorzano | Oh. Good evening, Council, we're ready to call the meeting to order we can take a roll call. |
| 00:00:33.48 | Janelle Blaustein | Did you want to first say that the meeting is being held pursuant to the government code? |
| 00:00:37.27 | Walfred Solorzano | Oh yes, sorry, I left my script over there. This meeting is being held pursuant to government code 54953 in light of the declared state of emergency, this meeting of January 24, 2023 will be conducted telephonically through Zoom and broadcast live on the city's website. The council chamber is also open and You can also attend in person. |
| 00:01:05.96 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you, city clerk. I will now call the city council, regular city council meeting of January 24th to order. City clerk, will you please call the roll? |
| 00:01:13.93 | Walfred Solorzano | Amen. Council Member Cox. |
| 00:01:16.17 | Janelle Blaustein | Where? |
| 00:01:17.23 | Walfred Solorzano | Councilmember Hoffman. |
| 00:01:21.94 | Jill Hoffman | Sorry, here. |
| 00:01:23.04 | Walfred Solorzano | Thank you. Council member, uh, coming. |
| 00:01:25.79 | Jill Hoffman | Sure. |
| 00:01:26.80 | Walfred Solorzano | Vice Mayor Sobieski. here. And Mayor Blaustein. |
| 00:01:31.29 | Janelle Blaustein | here. At this time, we will hear our closed session items on the agenda. These are items B1, Conference with Legal Counsel, Existing Litigation, Leach et al. to Conference with Legal Counsel, Anticipated Litigation, Government Code 54956. 0.9. B3 Conference with Labor Negotiator, Government Code Section 54957. And B4, public employee performance evaluation, government code 54957. I will now open it up for public comment on the closed session items. City Clerk, could you please remind members of the public how they can make public comment this time? |
| 00:02:05.46 | Walfred Solorzano | Video or audio public comment participation is limited to three minutes per speaker. If you'd like to make a comment, please raise your hand in the Zoom application and you'll be called upon when it's time for you to speak. If you raise your hand from the phone, press star nine. Each speaker will be notified when the time has elapsed. And if you're here in person, and for the record, we don't have anybody in attendance. But if you do show up, you can fill out a speaker slip or just simply raise your hand. |
| 00:02:31.85 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. Do we have any public comment on the closed session agenda items at this time? Okay, I will now close public comment and we will adjourn to closed session. Thank you. |
| 00:02:40.22 | Councilmember Cox | One moment, Mayor, if I might. I am going to recuse myself. from, The last item that you read, the public comment, employee performance evaluation. |
| 00:02:51.29 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, so noted. Thank you very much, Councilmember Cox. Thank you. We will now adjourn. |
| 00:02:53.64 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 00:02:56.14 | Janelle Blaustein | Recording style. |
| 00:02:57.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:02:58.06 | Jill Hoffman | Is there a breakout room? There is a way to do it. |
| 00:03:01.89 | Jill Hoffman | breakout room. for you. |
| 00:03:04.95 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 00:03:04.96 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Sorry, that was my question too. Are we supposed to re-log back in? |
| 00:03:09.62 | Jill Hoffman | Go to the bottom, you will see a breakout room and you can join Oh, join. There we go. |
| 00:03:15.51 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
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| 00:03:15.90 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
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| 00:09:13.57 | Vicki Nichols | You know, in the future, if I'm going to hear a meeting, you're welcome to come in and do this. Okay, thank you. |
| 00:09:18.95 | Sybil Boutlier | So, Put me in the breakout room. |
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| 01:15:40.98 | Nolan Ralston | you Bye. This is it because... Thank you. |
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| 01:19:27.40 | Unknown | Yeah. |
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| 01:21:03.96 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:21:28.40 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:22:49.16 | Unknown | recording in progress. |
| 01:23:33.46 | Walfred Solorzano | Boom. |
| 01:23:34.25 | Unknown | Bye. Thank you. |
| 01:23:35.53 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:23:35.72 | Walfred Solorzano | I didn't think he was going to be in here. promote |
| 01:23:40.70 | Jill Hoffman | Come. |
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| 01:23:49.46 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
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| 01:23:50.20 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:23:56.19 | Jill Hoffman | We all have all these greats. |
| 01:23:58.97 | Sandra Bushmaker | . Thank you. |
| 01:24:02.11 | Unknown | I love you. |
| 01:24:07.97 | Unknown | Rorty. |
| 01:24:15.29 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, it looks like we have almost everybody. We need, Ian needs to rejoin. can get started. Thank you. |
| 01:24:20.61 | Unknown | I'm here. |
| 01:24:22.30 | Janelle Blaustein | Oh, you're not, he's not, can you turn your camera on? You're not showing up on the screen. |
| 01:24:24.74 | Unknown | Sorry, thank you. |
| 01:24:26.23 | Janelle Blaustein | That's okay, no problem. |
| 01:24:27.29 | Unknown | There I am. Hmm. |
| 01:24:28.71 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay. So it is seven o'clock. I think we're ready to start. So whenever you're ready, Walford. |
| 01:24:33.85 | Walfred Solorzano | We have the approval of the agenda next. |
| 01:24:37.11 | Janelle Blaustein | I know. Have you started the, okay, no problem. |
| 01:24:38.21 | Walfred Solorzano | That's right. Sorry, we started closed sessions. Sorry, we just reconvened and the video's on. |
| 01:24:44.06 | Janelle Blaustein | Oh fantastic okay so we're everything is going perfect okay so we are returning from closed session there are no closed session announcements. And the first item of business on the agenda this evening at our regular city council meeting is approval of the agenda, can I have a motion for approval of the agenda from a member of the Council. |
| 01:25:01.19 | Unknown | So moved. |
| 01:25:02.14 | Janelle Blaustein | Second. All right. |
| 01:25:03.03 | Jill Hoffman | second. |
| 01:25:03.52 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:25:06.35 | Jill Hoffman | Did I get a second? That was me on the second. right? Okay. City Clerk, would you please call the roll? |
| 01:25:11.27 | Walfred Solorzano | Councilmember Cox. |
| 01:25:12.48 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:25:13.60 | Walfred Solorzano | Councilmember Hoffman. |
| 01:25:14.96 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:25:16.26 | Walfred Solorzano | Councilmember Cohen. |
| 01:25:17.46 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:25:18.45 | Walfred Solorzano | Vice Mayor Sobieski. Yes. and then, love seeing. |
| 01:25:21.69 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:25:21.71 | Janelle Blaustein | Yes. Okay, and the next item on the agenda, there are no mayor's announcements this evening, so we will move on to action minutes of the previous meeting. Do we have a motion to approve the action minutes from the previous meeting? two previous meetings. |
| 01:25:38.82 | Jill Hoffman | So moved. Second. Thank you. |
| 01:25:44.34 | Janelle Blaustein | And before we take a roll call vote, is there any public comment on the action minutes of the previous two meetings? City Clerk, could you please remind members of the public how they can make a public comment? |
| 01:25:55.24 | Walfred Solorzano | Once again, for the people that are in attendance, and we do have people in here, if you would raise your hand, we can call you over to the dais and you can speak. You have three minutes to speak on each item. And for those that are over Zoom, you can use the Zoom application and use the raise hand function to join in. And if you're joining in by phone, make sure that you press star nine. And once again, each speaker is allowed three minutes. |
| 01:26:21.20 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. Do we have any public comment at this time? on the action minutes on the agenda. |
| 01:26:25.40 | Walfred Solorzano | We do not. |
| 01:26:26.26 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, I will close public comment and ask for a roll call vote. Thank you. |
| 01:26:29.31 | Councilmember Cox | May I propose one minor amendment? Absolutely. For the action minutes of December 13, 2022, page 5 of 7. second to the last line. They wrote John Doerr, and it's actually John DeRay spelled with an I, who provided public comment. |
| 01:26:49.38 | Unknown | the road. |
| 01:26:50.47 | Councilmember Cox | D-I-R-E. Thank you. |
| 01:26:52.36 | Jill Hoffman | I accept that amendment. |
| 01:26:53.55 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:26:54.20 | Jill Hoffman | Fantastic catch. Thank you, Councilmember Cox. |
| 01:26:56.73 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:26:57.24 | Walfred Solorzano | Thank you very much. Councilmember Cox. Thank you. |
| 01:27:00.18 | Jill Hoffman | Yes. |
| 01:27:00.56 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:27:00.62 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 01:27:01.24 | Walfred Solorzano | Councilmember Huffman? |
| 01:27:06.73 | Walfred Solorzano | Yes. Councilmember Cummins. Yes. Vice-Marie Sobieski? Yes. and Mayor Blaustein. |
| 01:27:13.80 | Janelle Blaustein | Yes, motion passes 5-0. So we will now move on to item three on the agenda, which is our consent calendar. 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. There will be no separate discussion of consent calendar items. before the 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. Items removed from the consent calendar will be discussed later on the agenda and public comment will be heard on any item that was removed from the consent calendar. Members of the Council, do you have any comments on the consent calendar? |
| 01:27:57.89 | Councilmember Cox | Yes, Council Member Cox. I had two minor comments regarding consent calendar item 3A. Interestingly, I did not know where this work took place until I looked at the resolution. So for the future for staff reports, when you're accepting completion of a project, say where the project occurred. So that someone glancing at the agenda item knows where it occurred. And then for consent agenda items, |
| 01:28:37.31 | Councilmember Cox | I wanted to thank the Sybil Boutelier, Chair of Age Friendly Sausalito and Commissioner Marine Commission on Aging for her support of this important project. |
| 01:28:51.89 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:28:51.91 | Councilmember Cox | That's it. Thank you. |
| 01:28:52.94 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. So just before I open it up for public comment, a reminder, what items are being considered on the consent calendar this evening? which is to adopt a resolution of the city council of the city of Sausalito accepting the 2022 Pavement improvement project as complete. 3B resolution authorizing the city manager to execute amendment one to the professional services agreement with BKF engineers for the Coloma Street Safe Pathways to School project. 3C, declaring the city's 2006 for Ranger surplus and authorizing the city manager to dispose of said equipment at auction. and 3D, second reading and adoption of Ordinance No. 1291. to adopt a military equipment use policy per California Assembly Bill 481. Do we have any public comment on any items in the consent calendar at this time? |
| 01:29:36.64 | Walfred Solorzano | So for the record, we don't have anybody in the room with their hand raised. And on Zoom, we have no speakers. |
| 01:29:43.09 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, I will now close public comment and ask for a motion on the consent calendar. |
| 01:29:47.59 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:29:48.67 | Janelle Blaustein | Um, |
| 01:29:49.03 | Councilmember Cox | Mayor I move approval of consent calendar items 3A, 3C and 3D. And I'm going to recuse myself in an abundance of caution from 3B. Okay. Because it's possible that it's within 500 square feet of my house. I'm not sure. |
| 01:30:07.07 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. |
| 01:30:07.27 | Janelle Blaustein | Bye. |
| 01:30:07.35 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:30:07.39 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:30:07.49 | Councilmember Cox | Great, thank you for that. |
| 01:30:08.72 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. So could we have a second for Council Member Cox's motion and then we'll make a separate motion to approve item 3b? I'll second the motion. Go ahead, Whisper. |
| 01:30:17.99 | Unknown | Second. |
| 01:30:19.56 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, city clerk, would you please call the roll on items 3A, 3C, and 3D? |
| 01:30:23.98 | Walfred Solorzano | Councilmember Cox. |
| 01:30:24.97 | Janelle Blaustein | Yes. |
| 01:30:25.65 | Walfred Solorzano | Council member Hoffman. |
| 01:30:27.05 | Janelle Blaustein | Yes. |
| 01:30:28.03 | Walfred Solorzano | Councilmember Kelman. |
| 01:30:29.17 | Janelle Blaustein | Yes. |
| 01:30:30.74 | Walfred Solorzano | Vice Mayor Sobieski? Yes. And mirror blasting. |
| 01:30:34.44 | Janelle Blaustein | Yes, motion passes for zero. And now we will take a vote on agenda item 3B. D. B, pardon me, 3B. I have a motion to approve item 3B on the consent calendar. |
| 01:30:47.21 | Sybil Boutlier | So, maybe. |
| 01:30:47.64 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. Second. Okay, city clerk, would you please call me? |
| 01:30:54.03 | Councilmember Cox | role. Thank you. |
| 01:30:54.64 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:30:54.67 | Councilmember Cox | Uh, |
| 01:30:54.93 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:30:54.98 | Councilmember Cox | you |
| 01:30:55.03 | Walfred Solorzano | Thank you. |
| 01:30:55.04 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:30:55.06 | Walfred Solorzano | Thank you. Councilmember Cox |
| 01:30:57.42 | Councilmember Cox | I will recuse myself because I may be within 500 linear feet of the subject project. Thank you. |
| 01:31:07.18 | Walfred Solorzano | Councilmember Hoffman. |
| 01:31:09.05 | Councilmember Cox | Yes. |
| 01:31:10.06 | Walfred Solorzano | Councilmember Kelman? Yes. Vice Mayor Sobieski. Yes. And Mayor Blasthien. |
| 01:31:16.12 | Janelle Blaustein | Yes. Okay, we will now move on to item four on the agenda, which is public hearing items. We have none, so we will immediately move forward to business items, item five, and we will begin with item 5A, which is to receive and file an update on timing for adoption of our objective development and design standards. So I believe we're going to hear from someone in our Community Development Department on this item. Bob Brown, welcome back. Nice to see you. Go right ahead. |
| 01:31:45.31 | Bob Brown | Thank you very much. Bye. Thank you. I don't have my earphones in. |
| 01:31:55.02 | Bob Brown | Apologies for that. Can you hear me now? Yes. Okay, thank you. And if the city clerk could give me the authority to share my screen. |
| 01:32:04.18 | Walfred Solorzano | Yes, you can show your screen. I think you have that. |
| 01:32:07.61 | Bob Brown | Thank you very much. Okay. |
| 01:32:17.61 | Bob Brown | Okay, can everyone see that? Yes. Okay, very good. Thank you. At your last meeting, the council director of staff and the consultant team to prepare zoning code amendments as soon as possible that would implement a new set of objective design and development standards. These would apply to new multi-unit housing projects that qualify for consideration under these new state laws. You asked that we provide you with a timeline for bringing these before the planning commission, and also before the council, and also asked for inclusion of a handful of other items that you wanted feedback on. So one of those was you asked if we could incorporate the recommendations of the 2019 landslide task force. You also asked that the odds could be applied to properties in the industrial waterfront and R1 single family zone sites. and whether it could apply to SB9 projects And finally, whether the requirements could be added for enhanced accessibility features in new buildings. So just to walk through each of those. Let's see. I'm not seeming to be able to. advanced slides here. Ah, okay. All right, in terms of the slope standards that landslide task force considered back in 2019, you're gonna discuss this item in your next agenda item. but suffice to say that, uh, These recommendations call for preparation of a detailed slope hazard map. by an engineering consultant that might then advise any future regulations. So this one really is not ready for consideration at this point. And can I advance again? Secondly, regarding application to some of the other zone properties, the odds hasn't been drafted to apply to waterfront or industrial parcels, since these don't currently allow multi-unit new housing projects. And that's what the odds is intended to apply to. So if Marin ship or other parcels along the waterfront are proposed in the future for rezoning for housing, which may occur at implementing the new housing element, the odds would have to then time be changed to apply to these sites. And there would have to be necessary sequel review and possibly also the change to the fair housing initiative. And then I'm sorry regarding R1 properties, the odds also wasn't scoped to apply to the R1 districts. It could be, you could add a new lower density T3 zone to the odds document that would apply to new homes but that would take an amendment to the Opticos contract. And I should clarify that it's probably not a good idea to try to impose these odds regulations on renovations to single family homes, since they're built under the current zoning code, which is quite different. At that point, modifications would be difficult to regulate. A similar answer on the SB9 projects. It's possible that an Opticos actually has now prepared model SB9 criteria for odds. And they did that under contract to ABAG, so that's available. and it could be customized for Sausalito, But again, because of the hilly terrain, that's gonna require a little customization So a contract amendment would be needed there too. And I'll discuss the timing of that in a minute. And lastly, the desired accessibility or universal design features in new construction that are discussed in a new housing element program, these are constrained by state law. To go beyond the basic accessibility and ADA requirements of the building code, cities can adopt a state prepared model ordinance But it's only requirements are that developers identify the accessibility features in their new home products and buyers and are able to contract and pay for additional features during the construction phase. So that state model ordinance, it can be incorporated into municipal code. but it doesn't address specifically the added accessibility features that I think you're looking for. And then in terms of the best case timeline, we could likely be ready with a draft ordinance amendment to the planning commission in mid February, and that would get to the council in early March. So then the ordinances would be effective in late April. And if you'd like to incorporate the SB 9 regulations, that would probably add a month to the timeline. And if you would like to add a T3 zone that would apply to new single family homes, that would probably add a couple of months to that schedule. So with that quick report, I'm happy to answer questions or take direction from the council. |
| 01:37:19.83 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you so much, Bob. Do we have questions from members of the council? Joan, pardon me, Council Member Cox, you have your hand raised? Yes. |
| 01:37:26.04 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:37:27.42 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:37:27.44 | Councilmember Cox | um, First of all, I'm wondering if you can send us a copy of your PowerPoint presentation And, Just a note for the city clerk if it's possible to publish PowerPoint presentations to the Council in advance of the meeting, it really helps with our preparation if that's feasible. Um, Next is I'm curious to know what, how much it would cost to incorporate the work you've already done for SB nine into Sausalito's odds. |
| 01:38:00.14 | Bob Brown | Well, the work that I'll give credit to Opticos, the ordinance that they've prepared, they believe would probably cost about 25 to $30,000 to incorporate and again, to customize, largely because we're dealing with some very sloped sites that aren't the norm for, this was created for the whole Bay Area. |
| 01:38:12.60 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:38:18.69 | Bob Brown | there would have to be some modification for Sausalito. |
| 01:38:22.20 | Councilmember Cox | And thank you for your timeline. That's very... Um... quick. But what was attached to our packet is dated July, 2021. Isn't there a more current draft or else if there's not, how can you possibly bring it to the planning commission in one month? |
| 01:38:41.18 | Bob Brown | Well, actually, the draft we've been holding for a while, pending the resolution of a lot of the housing element issues, Now that the decision is made to go ahead and adopt a draft that's just based upon your current code allowances, that would be that draft. We have made a number of revisions to it at the staff level that haven't been published in a revised draft because that takes, you know, there's a cost to doing that. So what we're doing is we'll assemble some additional comments from the city attorney that I've received recently. Thank you. and the fire district, And again, we should be ready to go within a month. |
| 01:39:17.77 | Councilmember Cox | And what is the cost to take it from the July 2021 draft to a draft for the Planning Commission in February? |
| 01:39:24.35 | Bob Brown | That's already part of the scope, so no cost added. |
| 01:39:27.99 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:39:28.01 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:39:28.03 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay. Thank you. Those were my questions. Thank you, Councilmember Cox. |
| 01:39:31.03 | Jill Hoffman | TO COUNCILMEMBER KELMAN. |
| 01:39:32.47 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:39:32.48 | Jill Hoffman | Great. Thank you. Nice to see you again, Bob. So this is a question I think maybe for you and for Director Fiff's You said that, you breezed through that first slide about the landslide and the gradient updates. So, and we talked about that at length at the last council meeting. But I wanna note that you said that because of the hilly terrain, we would need a contract amendment if we wanna apply this to SB9. Isn't there an economy of scale of addressing that? Um, It's sort of the same thing. If we can't do SB 9, unless we... I mean, if we do SB 9, we want to address the hilly terrain. It seems like we should probably look at the landslide impact and gradient. And then that's, I guess, the question for you. And then the question for Director Phipps is that later on tonight, we'll be talking about the Landslide Task Force report I want to make sure that as we make decisions tonight and always that they're consistent with one another. And so I wouldn't want to start thinking about land side task force and disaster preparedness without also taking that admonishment for this type of task. So to you first, Bob, and then your thoughts, Dr. Phipps. |
| 01:40:33.47 | Bob Brown | Well, I think the two can be handled independently as, as mentioned earlier, the current odds and also the odds for the SB nine properties do include slope regulations. Now they won't be as detailed as you might get using a, you know, a, a, a very detailed hazards map that you would have prepared subsequently But when that work is done, that can all be incorporated as well. But I think again, if you want to do something that can be accomplished fairly quickly in terms of grappling with SB9 projects as they come in. you know, that ABAG produced model ordinance can be modified to apply. |
| 01:41:16.09 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. And then my understanding, maybe this is for you, Director Phipps, the question is, how do we stay consistent in our actions and make sure that we don't, not taking advantage of an opportunity. And I'm pretty sure that our SB 9 draft includes many objective design standards. So I'm trying to understand what the scope of work would be. So I don't know if either one of you can speak to that. |
| 01:41:40.83 | Brandon Phipps | Without having the opportunity to discuss details, I'm not sure that I can provide a meaningful comment at this time. |
| 01:41:47.87 | Jill Hoffman | I don't know if our city attorney has a copy of our SB 9 draft ordinance, but maybe we can return to that after public comment. |
| 01:41:57.07 | Sergio Rudin | So I'm aware the city has recently adopted SB9 standards. Um, And so the city does have an SB9 ordinance currently in effect. I think the question for the council is, You know, what is the additional scope of work to revise the existing ordinance that the city adopted, which does include some objective standards, including height limits, setback requirements, requirements with respect to design of balconies and things like that. So we have some some SB 9 standards currently in place, I believe. The question is, is how much additional work is it to revise the city's existing ordinance with what is proposed by Opticos? And this is a question I think, you know, I would have to lean on Bob pretty heavily because he's familiar with the Opticos draft ordinance sort of what the differences there would be. |
| 01:42:51.47 | Bob Brown | The idea would be to take the Opticos draft and customize it by incorporating the city's current regulations in it, because again, the Opticos Code is much broader in terms of adding a lot of design parameters that you don't currently have. but the idea of setbacks and height limits, et cetera, that you do have. would be incorporated as part of that customization. |
| 01:43:13.76 | Sergio Rudin | And then, of course, it would go to our planning commission, and they may have some further recommendations and revisions to whatever Opticos has proposed. |
| 01:43:23.85 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, council member Kielman. Let's go to council member Hoffman. |
| 01:43:29.31 | Jill Hoffman | And this is just on the SB9, aspect that we're talking about. Bob, If we went back later and said, okay, you know, we've got all this other mountain of work we need to do in the next two months done. And now we wanna look at bringing our SB9 ordinance in line with OptiCoast, would it still be the same price? I mean, it would be like $25,000, so there's no, |
| 01:43:51.02 | Unknown | You have some. |
| 01:43:54.41 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, so is there any other than just the cost and maybe it might slow us down. urgency in doing that work right now, what's the benefit to us? |
| 01:44:07.16 | Bob Brown | Not necessarily. Again, I don't know how many SB9 applications you've received. I don't think many. So it's, you know. It's entirely up to you in terms of a timeframe. And no, there's no economy of scale in terms of doing that work now versus later. We will have to come back to you at some point, you know, after the housing element's adopted and update the odds to address, you know, the housing opportunity sites, which are higher density. So it could be incorporated at that time as well. |
| 01:44:33.52 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. So we decided to do it now. It's going to push out our timeline for adoption. But if we wait till later, we're going to have to come back and do it anyway with some other things. So we could just bundle it in that. Thank you. |
| 01:44:47.81 | Chris Zapata | to you. |
| 01:44:47.88 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. And there's no cost differential. It's just timing in my mind. Okay, thank you. |
| 01:44:55.52 | Janelle Blaustein | Do we have any other questions from the council? I had just a few, Bob, and thank you for that presentation. Thanks for being here. So there were several mentions of the housing element and needs to change the odds after the passing of housing element, depending on the sites. So the timeline as you proposed it now with April adoption, that that should be |
| 01:45:04.80 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 01:45:14.72 | Janelle Blaustein | consistent with our timeline to approve the housing element on the 30th and we should be up to speed to meet those deadlines. |
| 01:45:22.79 | Bob Brown | And again, the idea would be then after you adopt the housing element, the implementation of the housing element includes rezoning several sites. So that would be done in conjunction with adoption of an odds to go along with those rezonings. |
| 01:45:35.46 | Janelle Blaustein | And just to clarify for the additional SB9 inclusion, it would be another month. So we would expect May for the adoption. |
| 01:45:41.88 | Bob Brown | Yes. |
| 01:45:42.55 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay. And then I had a question specifically about the ADA requirements because I've heard from a representative on the commission on aging. that there's a concern about multifamily units and accessibility, especially with regards to stairs and access. And I was wondering what we are allowed to request in terms of ADA access for an elevator or if there are certain housing types where we might require an elevator. especially within senior housing or affordable housing in particular. |
| 01:46:10.70 | Bob Brown | You know, I'm probably not the best to define exactly what's in the building code. Your building official is probably more qualified to do that. |
| 01:46:19.61 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, I will follow up with our building official. Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay. And no further questions from the council? So now I'm going to go ahead and open it up to public comment at this time. Looks like we have at least one hand raised. |
| 01:46:34.00 | Walfred Solorzano | We'll start with the public here. Anybody want to speak? |
| 01:46:38.07 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:46:38.91 | Walfred Solorzano | What is that? Amen. You can go up to the microphone. |
| 01:46:47.11 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 01:46:47.16 | Diane Johnson | Thank you. |
| 01:46:47.18 | Unknown | you |
| 01:46:51.30 | Diane Johnson | My name is Diane Johnson and I've been a resident of South Salado for over 20 years. and the house has been in my family for longer than that. I understand about the adoption of the housing element, but I think that this odds, requirement is needs to be discussed further, especially regarding slope. regarding traffic issues, which weren't even brought up, you know, in terms of individual sites. just, taking away all discretion from the city or the homeowners to have anything to say about what is going to happen right next door or in front of their house and that sort of thing. And also they said that geotechnical issues are not concerned with that or water flow or slopes or possible slides and You know, it just seems like we're rushing this through to try to get this done really fast. And I think we need a lot more consideration. |
| 01:47:54.26 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:47:54.70 | Diane Johnson | Thank you. |
| 01:47:54.98 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you very much. Thank you. |
| 01:47:59.78 | Walfred Solorzano | Any more speakers in the house? Okay, we'll go to Zoom. We have Vicki Nichols. |
| 01:48:08.54 | Vicki Nichols | Welcome. Hi, good evening, Mayor Blaustein. I want to follow up on Diane's comment and it's related to the objective standards, Um, particularly with SB9 and maybe it's for Bob, Could we not, have we adopted a safety element? I don't know. If we have, that is an opportunity to expand the definitions that are in the, um, the preliminary definitions for environmental sites like FEMA areas, et cetera, we could add, I think, topography in there. We could add sea level rise. We could add air quality. So please keep that in mind when we're updating SB 9. That gives a more control over the review, particularly under SB9 with Byrite properties right now it's very limited. to wetlands and a couple of other conditions. I probably should have responded to the EIR for this, but since you're talking about SB9 now, The other thing is I looked at table 10A.11.030. which is, The adjustment to the standards for development sites over 10% slopes. And when I looked at that, I know that Sausalito's zoning is pretty prescriptive about slopes, et cetera, and the formulas used to reach those. Was there an analysis by the working group as to which standards were more prescriptive, meaning not just... prohibitive but more germane to Sausalito's slopes Um, and then, also 10 a.12.020 which is the measurement method methods just if there was that analysis was done if it isn't that's a great place to start because it's really um It was a planning commissioner's nightmare, but there were formulas in there to help with these kinds of slope projects. So that's it. And I got to admit, I didn't read the whole thing, but those stood out to me. Thank you. Thank you, Vicki. |
| 01:50:17.44 | Walfred Solorzano | And next speaker is Sybil Boutlier. |
| 01:50:21.56 | Janelle Blaustein | Alfred, we're not seeing them on the screen here. So if we can just, oh, now we can. |
| 01:50:24.90 | Unknown | Oh, sorry. |
| 01:50:27.25 | Janelle Blaustein | Hi, Sybil. |
| 01:50:28.02 | Sybil Boutlier | I'm not. |
| 01:50:28.58 | Janelle Blaustein | You're welcome. |
| 01:50:29.58 | Sybil Boutlier | Thank you, Mayor Blausty, for bringing up the question of access to upper floors for people with mobility issues. California Building Code 1103B, like boy, designates buildings three stories or higher, must have a hoist. But there's also a variant there that says, If the billing our reasonable portions of the facilities and accommodations normally sought or used by the public or in such a building accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities. When we're looking at multi-unit rent you you attendance. |
| 01:51:28.54 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. Sybil, we're here. |
| 01:51:31.80 | Sybil Boutlier | having trouble hearing you. |
| 01:51:33.41 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:51:33.45 | Sybil Boutlier | We'll see you next time. |
| 01:51:34.11 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:51:34.12 | Sybil Boutlier | Yeah. And I believe that that allows for that variant for a hoist at two would allow for it at two stories rather than requiring it at three. So I would like to suggest that that be looked at a little bit more for at least that kind of Housing Unit. for the ODDs. Thank you. |
| 01:52:03.98 | Janelle Blaustein | you Sybil, we can't hear you. I think you're frozen or... your connection is not strong enough. Can you turn your camera off and maybe we can just try your audio? |
| 01:52:19.91 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, we've lost Sybil, but if she comes back, if we could. Do we have any other public comment while we wait for her to, |
| 01:52:28.14 | Walfred Solorzano | We have no additional speakers. |
| 01:52:29.81 | Sybil Boutlier | Can you hear me now? Thank you. |
| 01:52:31.04 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:52:31.08 | Sybil Boutlier | Yes. |
| 01:52:31.58 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 01:52:32.60 | Sybil Boutlier | I'm sorry. Okay. So, How's that again? So thank you, Mayor Blassey, for mentioning the question of lifts for multi-unit housing. |
| 01:52:49.69 | Janelle Blaustein | How's your thing? We actually got that part, but we just lost you at the second point you made. So we heard you talk about- |
| 01:52:53.71 | Sybil Boutlier | or do you talk less? I think for the second point. Okay, so did you hear me mention California building called 1103B? |
| 01:53:03.39 | Teresa Ancona | Yes. |
| 01:53:03.60 | Sybil Boutlier | Yes. Okay, and the point I was making was that Uh, has seems to have an exception for buildings that are utilized or frequented by people with disabilities. And I think when we're talking particularly about senior housing, that would include many of the people that would be likely to rent. or that it would be aging in place there. And therefore, it might be relevant, so I'm wondering if that can be looked at as one way of including in our odds, Some minimum level of a hoist |
| 01:53:49.49 | Sybil Boutlier | more than one being built for senior residents. I'd like to see it for all multi-unit, but particularly for any buildings being built for seniors. |
| 01:54:02.08 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:54:03.53 | Sybil Boutlier | Thank you. |
| 01:54:03.55 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you very much, Sybil. Okay, do we have any further public comment at this time? |
| 01:54:08.87 | Walfred Solorzano | no further speakers. |
| 01:54:10.72 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, I will now close public comment and we'll go to Council comment and discussion. I just want to note that I would like to hear from the Council on both the discussion of the timeline for the odds, as well as the consideration of including SB 9 in the timeline for the odds and the cost and adoption of including the extra fee for Opticos. So who would like to start? Councilmember Hoffman. |
| 01:54:38.05 | Jill Hoffman | I think the timeline as is is fine. I think we need to look at including the revision for SB 9 and the second, what I would maybe call phase 2. But I think we need to drive forward and adopt the odds as they're proposed right now. That would be my choice. |
| 01:55:02.36 | Julie Vieira | in the room. |
| 01:55:06.88 | Jill Hoffman | Mayor, I can chime in. Thank you. |
| 01:55:09.58 | Jill Hoffman | My microphone wasn't on. Council Member Kelman, yes, please. Great. Yeah, I support Council Member Hoffman's direction, but I would also ask that we have some discussion on the timeline for including landslide and gradients in an update to the odds. And I think we also probably need to have some idea from Director Phipps what the Sustained Municipal Code updates are going to look like after the housing element, just so we're on the same page about those updates being needed as well. WHAT THE UPDATES ARE GOING TO LOOK LIKE AFTER THE HOUSING ELEMENT. WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE ABOUT THE UPDATES BEING NEEDED AS WELL. If we move forward with adopting the odds as proposed in the current format, I definitely want to address the SB9 improvements, and I want to address the landslide ingredient, and that would be what I would be comfortable moving for, that understanding that we would come back to those two other items in some type of set time frame. And so, Bob, you said about a month to include SB9. You didn't give us an anticipated time frame for the landslide gradient stuff. Do you happen to have an estimate in your head? |
| 01:56:09.14 | Bob Brown | I think you'll hear from the public works director and your next item that will give you a sense of how long that may take. And I would just also make the point that whatever comes out of the additional work to implement the landslide task force recommendations is probably going to apply citywide. So it's not going to have to be specifically put into the odds. It's probably going to be a citywide ordinance. |
| 01:56:31.39 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, that's right. And I just wanna make sure that there isn't some loophole or somehow because it's not in the odds, it doesn't get applied. And I want to make sure it gets applied to SB9 projects as well. So whatever we have to do to tie and knit all those things together, I want to be clear that that's the direction that I want to move forward with as we move forward tonight with what we have on the table. |
| 01:56:50.04 | Janelle Blaustein | That's all I have, Mayor. Thank you, Councilmember Kelman. |
| 01:56:52.08 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:56:54.33 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:56:54.34 | Councilmember Cox | Councilmember Cox, thank you. I too agree the timeline is probably fine. I am aware of two builders so far who have taken advantage of the fact that we don't have the odds in place and built Um, Homes under SB9 that are perfectly legal And push the envelope in terms of their impact on their neighbors. And a local architect came to me to complain And that's the reason I was so invested in moving this along. as quickly as possible. But I think mid-February is probably fine. I endorse the approach of including SB9 in phase two. I also... endorse the approach of having a landslide ordinance that is standalone and therefore we need not invest additional monies to once again update the odds and I would like to see us accommodate some of the recommendations from Sybil Boutelier and in our odds to ensure access for senior housing projects. Thank you, Councilman Burke. |
| 01:58:08.97 | Janelle Blaustein | Fox vice mayor. |
| 01:58:10.67 | Unknown | I agree with my colleagues and have nothing more to add. |
| 01:58:13.39 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay. Thank you very much. So it seems like the consensus, as I heard it from members of the Council, and I'm exactly in agreement with, is that we're going to move ahead with the timeline as directed and we'll have a phase two for the odds, where we will have a consideration for SB 9 inclusion and especially a discussion with regards to landslide task force considerations and potentially a landslide ordinance. And there will also be additional consideration for the ADA requirements as requested by Sybil Boutilier and mentioned this evening. And I just want to add that There were some public comments about specific um local control or about what what will be considered by neighbors with regards to these odds and we have yet to see the final draft of the odds, but we will have a robust discussion about all of those components of them, so I do appreciate that public comment being brought forth and we will. Work through the updated draft together as well to planning Commission before there is approval and we will continue forward with this timeline. IS THAT DIRECTION CLEAR FOR STAFF? |
| 01:59:09.16 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:59:09.97 | Janelle Blaustein | Yes. |
| 01:59:10.37 | Walfred Solorzano | Thank you. |
| 01:59:10.71 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay. |
| 01:59:10.98 | Walfred Solorzano | Bye. |
| 01:59:11.03 | Councilmember Cox | Bye. Great. So may I ask a question before you? Yes, by all means. You just mentioned public comment, but my staff report has no public comments. So where is that? |
| 01:59:13.38 | Janelle Blaustein | Yes, by all means. |
| 01:59:20.31 | Janelle Blaustein | JUST THAT. Thank you. |
| 01:59:20.82 | Councilmember Cox | made by the |
| 01:59:21.24 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 01:59:21.27 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 01:59:21.31 | Janelle Blaustein | Nichols. |
| 01:59:21.93 | Councilmember Cox | and then, |
| 01:59:22.00 | Janelle Blaustein | Bye, Diana. |
| 01:59:22.03 | Councilmember Cox | by Diana this evening. |
| 01:59:23.25 | Janelle Blaustein | at the meeting. |
| 01:59:23.27 | Councilmember Cox | at the meeting. Thank you. |
| 01:59:23.94 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, perfect. |
| 01:59:24.68 | Councilmember Cox | I just want to be sure I didn't miss something. |
| 01:59:26.22 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. Thank you. You never, it's very rare that you miss something that's written, Council Member Cox. In my experience. Okay. All right, great. So then we will go ahead and move on to the next item on the agenda. Next business item is 5B, which is the staff update recommendations. Did you want to add something city manager before we move on? I don't know. |
| 01:59:46.69 | Unknown | Spinker. |
| 01:59:47.82 | Janelle Blaustein | Absolutely. Okay, so we'll move on to item 5B, which is the staff update regarding recommendations from the Sausalito landslide task force and I will hand it over to the city manager who would like to get us started. |
| 02:00:00.24 | Unknown | Thank you, council members of the public. President Bajma, before we start our presentation, which Public Works Director and Brownlee will give, we will be scheduled to move on the motion, which is to adopt the resolution of the resident city manager to execute an agreement. We will be able to get this contract with our Wells Engineering Group as well as with the new city attorney. I'm going to move this back to my agenda so the council can probably hang me up. in my bottom direction to my life. I don't know. to about the contract with the Pacific and General |
| 02:00:44.72 | Jill Hoffman | I'm sorry, city manager, it's very difficult to hear you. I'm not sure what's up with that microphone. Yeah. |
| 02:00:49.46 | Janelle Blaustein | No. My hand was up. I don't know. Yeah, I was. I don't think that I don't think they can hear you on Zoom. So try this microphone. |
| 02:00:55.82 | Jill Hoffman | We can hear you, it's just very distorted. So I've Was the microphone on? Maybe we were catching you on a other microphone. Who can |
| 02:01:03.11 | Chris Zapata | You all have any better? Is this better? Thank you. |
| 02:01:05.77 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah. |
| 02:01:05.90 | Chris Zapata | Yeah. |
| 02:01:05.92 | Jill Hoffman | Bye. |
| 02:01:05.97 | Chris Zapata | That's a lot. |
| 02:01:06.20 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:01:06.25 | Chris Zapata | Yeah. |
| 02:01:06.34 | Chris Zapata | Yeah. |
| 02:01:06.35 | Jill Hoffman | Bye. |
| 02:01:06.41 | Chris Zapata | I'm sorry. |
| 02:01:06.49 | Chris Zapata | Yep. Let me see if I can repeat that work of art. Mayor and Council, thank you for letting me speak tonight. Before directing the Gowling, the landslide task force recommendations, I wanted to ask you to not look at the recommended motion, which involves adopting a resolution for a contract with Meta Pacific Engineering to do the geologic hazard report. What we're asking tonight is for you to hear the report, provide us direction, and because we need to work with the contractor And with our new city attorney, We would need to bring this back in the agenda form so that there could in fact be an action by the council at a future meeting date, which would anticipate would be the next meeting in February. And provided there's no hiccups tonight, we'd like to see that be a consent item. So with that, I will turn it over to Director McGowan for his report. And if you all have questions about the request in terms of not acting on the resolutions, the city attorney can weigh in as well. |
| 02:02:08.15 | Janelle Blaustein | Just for clarification, you're asking us to shift the staff direction away from the passing of the resolution this evening. |
| 02:02:15.90 | Chris Zapata | I'm asking you to do that because the agenda has to be properly set up so that that action could take place. And at this time, based on a review by our new city attorney, we would not be in good standing if we did that. We're asking to get the information, but at the same time, asking that we bring this back and that would be adoption of a contract with Miller Engineering, and I have to review that and the city attorney has to review that agenda title so that there can in fact be an ability for the council to act. That's what we're asking. So we wanted to talk about the item. because it's important, but we also need to make sure We don't ask you to adopt a resolution which isn't agendized properly. |
| 02:02:55.30 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, thank you city manager. Councilmember Kelman, your hands raised. |
| 02:02:58.00 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, I just want to confirm with the city attorney. Could this be put on consent for Monday? |
| 02:03:07.74 | Sergio Rudin | Yes, yes it can. I think the big issue here is of course the resolution requires, grants the city manager the authority to approve a contract that is subject to city attorney review. My understanding is that contract hasn't been drafted yet even so. You know, there's not an urgent rush for the council to provide that authority at this time. I think it would be wise for the council to provide that authority once that contract has been prepared and finally negotiated. |
| 02:03:40.36 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:03:40.41 | Janelle Blaustein | Yeah. |
| 02:03:40.48 | Jill Hoffman | remember half the day. |
| 02:03:40.95 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 02:03:41.03 | Jill Hoffman | you Okay, I think I'm, so the, So thanks, Chris and everybody. So I think what you're looking at for tonight, just to summarize, is that We're not ready to sign the resolution yet. We're not ready to move forward with the contract, but what you'd like for us to listen to the report, give feedback and then provide direction to move forward with finding a, you know, drafting a contract and presenting us presenting it to us when it's ready. in the next, either at the next meeting, at the joint meeting or the meeting after on the consent calendar, you know, generally in the same scope, I think, of what we're going to present tonight and the presentation we're going to get. Is that how I got that? |
| 02:04:23.91 | Sergio Rudin | That is my understanding. |
| 02:04:25.01 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 02:04:26.54 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:04:26.58 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, thanks. |
| 02:04:27.13 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 02:04:27.40 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you for that clarification, Councilmember Hoffman. Okay, Director McGowan, if you're ready for your presentation. |
| 02:04:34.29 | Kevin McGowan | Good evening, Mayor Blaustein and members of City Council. I'm Kevin McGowan of the Department of Public Works. I do have a presentation for you. And hold on, let me share my screen for a second. |
| 02:04:47.08 | Kevin McGowan | that. Hold on. There it is. Hold on here. Let's see if we can get it to work. |
| 02:05:01.15 | Kevin McGowan | There we go. Can everyone see my screen? It has a green background that says landslide task force recommendations and update. Wonderful. Thank you so much. All right. So on January 10th, 2023, your council requested an update regarding the recommendations presented by the landslide task force. The item before you this evening is a short update regarding the recommendations from the landslide task force. The item before you this evening is a short update regarding the recommendations from the landslide task force and how staff is managing those. Now I have a lot of pictures in here and they're not all necessarily from Sausalito. Just want to make that clear that these are not all from from here. This is kind of throughout my travels in Marin and other projects I've interacted with. So no need to panic right now. Thank you. On February 14th, 2019, the city of Sausalito was impacted by a mudslide that originated on National Park Service property above Sausalito Boulevard. The mudslide damaged several houses. Luckily, there were no fatalities in this specific event. The removal of the slide debris took several years to complete. Ultimately, a portion of the cost for the debris removal and cleanup was supported by the state of California. There are still some remaining expenses that the city is waiting to be reimbursed upon. On June 11, 2019, the city council implemented the landslide task force to study and make recommendations to staff related to identifying the needs of the city and assessing its vulnerability for future mudslides. On September 24, 2019, The task force made a presentation to the council which detailed 12 recommendations. Attachment three is part of your packet this evening, represents the task force recommendations which which obviously include those 12 items. Sausalito is an older community. The last geologic map which encompassed Sausalito was developed in the 1950s. and does not sufficiently detail instabilities that we have faced from the 2019 mudslide. In order to provide more information on soil instabilities, the MUNSlide Task Force recommended proceeding with securing the services of her professional geotechnical or geologic engineering firm to prepare a report for the city, which among other things, maps identified instabilities and provides recommendations on how to address these instabilities. The landslide task force also recommended implementing code changes and other measures to further protect the city and its residents from future landslide events, at least as much as possible. The landslide task force listed 11 other, let me start over, a landslide task force also listed 11 other recommendations. Some of these have been addressed by the city staff, while others are dependent upon the completion of the geologic hazard study. For example, the city is moving forward with a reporting software system that allows members of the public to report issues such as roadway problems and also soil sloughing. to the Public Works Department as a work order process. It expedites the process for us. Other recommendations such as forming an alliance with the state and federal agencies to share data has not been pursued at this point in time. However, the city staff is actively participating in the development of a new hazard mitigation plan through the county of Marin. In addition, our community development and public works department can and have expedited permit issuance for those impacted in an emergency. Other recommendations from the task force may not be implemented based on legal procedures, such as the causation of the 2019 month's life. The geologic hazard study has been included On the capital improvement program, since the task force has made their recommendations to council. However, funding for that effort became available in September. 2021. In early 2022, staff developed and issued a request for proposals seeking qualified geotechnical and geologic firms, geological firms. to develop the geologic hazard study for the city in Sausalito in compliance with the applicable recommendations from the task force. Staff did forward the draft proposal to the landslide task force members and we were very pleased to get their recommendations and their insight prior to issuing that RFP. In February 2022 staff received two proposals for the preparation of the report snap staff has not been able to act on the proposals since that time due to other priorities here in the city and staffing issues. Staff has reviewed this submittal proposed received last February. While both firms appear to be qualified to perform the work, staff is recommending proceeding with authorizing the city manager to execute the professional service contract with Miller Pacific, not in this meeting, but in a future meeting, just to make that clear. staff also contacted Miller Pacific Engineering, who are willing to provide this service to the city. Staff estimates that the development of the report will take four to six months. And we'll also include several meetings with the landslide task force to clarify what specifics can be provided and cannot be provided by the consultant. Now, I think we also did just talk about that we will bring this, the award of the contract back to the City Council in the next available meeting on a consent item after we prepare the actual contract. So my apologies for not making that all seem seamless in this meeting. Soil instabilities throughout Marin have existed for many years. The picture on the right is from the 1950s of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, just north, excuse me, just west of Fairfax. That area has been prone to soil instabilities, but is a vital arterial to the public. So we've got throughout the life of that roadway, it's had many, many improvements to stabilize the soil so that folks can utilize that material. Sausalito, while having different geology, does have soil instabilities. The study that we are proposing to move forward with will help to identify those instabilities for us to better understand how to address these areas from both a safety and development perspective. On January 10, 2023, staff made a presentation to the City Council with regard to impacts in the recent storms. Geological instabilities can be linked to rainfall and drainage issues. considering that we have more than double the average rainfall in the last 15 to 20 days, we believe Sausalito residents in the public and public infrastructure fared fairly well during the recent rain events. We do have some impacts though, which staff is addressing and is considering pursuing state and federal assistance for some of these, depending upon their scope and their extent. City staff over the last year have also been attentive to all possible issues that could affect properties in town. staff walked and monitored Hecht Avenue, which is a ways above Sausalito Boulevard, during the recent rain events and over the last year to make sure that the systems are functioning as they were originally designed back in the 1950s. This is a dirt road, Hecht Avenue is a dirt road. It will need repair, and we will be working with various agencies to address this concern. Since stormwater has been shown to be a key factor in the geologic stability, Our actions to monitor and include an analysis of stormwater within the geologic hazard study will be very important to identify where we can address some storm drain issues and that affect geological instabilities. So as I mentioned, Sausalito fared fairly well in the last storms. A lot of that has to do with our staff working very hard. While staff has been occupied with other capital projects and tasks, we are now ready to move forward with the development of the geologic hazard study pending the development of the actual agreement. And with the intent of improving our knowledge of the known geologic instabilities here in Sausalito. So that concludes my presentation and I thank you for your time and I'm here for questions or comments. Let me stop sharing my screen here. How do I do that? There we go. |
| 02:14:40.91 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you very much, Dr. McGowan. I can see that Councilmember Kelman already has her hand raised, so we'll start there. |
| 02:14:48.44 | Janelle Blaustein | You're muted, Council Member Kellman. Thank you, Mayor. |
| 02:14:50.01 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Director McGowan. Just a couple of questions. What kind of storm event post-mortem did DPW put together after the January rain events? |
| 02:15:02.65 | Kevin McGowan | I'm not sure I understand the question. So, |
| 02:15:05.28 | Jill Hoffman | So we're aware that there's a number of hotspots and landslides. And although you feel like we performed fairly well, I'm hoping that there was some type of lessons learned and some type of tracking and management of those areas that did fail. And so I'm wondering what process is in place in City Hall, whether your department or director Phipps' department to evaluate how we have responded in the level of resilience that we have right now. |
| 02:15:33.31 | Kevin McGowan | So the way we respond generally to this, it also depends upon the emergency status. So if we decide to move forward with seeking reimbursements for some, let's say, improvements to some of the areas that we keep track of, then we have to document those fairly soon. I'm aware of two. One is Hecht Avenue, which I've shown you, and the other one is North Street Steps to see if what the repair would be. Our status is to break for, let's say North Street Steps is to bring back A GEOLOGIC CONSULTANT TO ADVISE US ON WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO HERE? We've also taken the initial steps to remove debris and try to make the area fairly safe, but the stairs in that specific area are still closed. Now, the other project that you may have been aware of is Hecht Avenue. and That had some raveling in the dirt road, which is not uncommon. However, I think that needs to be repaired. And I think there's a question that will come up. Who's responsible for that repair? Is that us or is that Caltrans or is it the National Park Service? So we still have some work there to do to figure out who is responsible for it. Those are the two main ones I'm aware of at this point in time. In addition, we were looking at drainage issues and drainage incising. So when you get a lot of rain, you may get some incising in our in our channels, in our waterways. So we have to examine those to see what we can do with those specifically. And we may have to bring in a special consultant to advise us on how we make sure that we don't get landslides in those areas if we can make sure to protect against incising in those creeks. |
| 02:17:18.46 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, thank you. That's very helpful. You mentioned state and federal assistance. I'm aware of at least a handful of private residents that experienced mudslide damage to their properties. You probably know most people don't have flood insurance. Flood insurance, if you had it, doesn't cover mudslides. FEMA doesn't get involved because it's not a disaster area. the state, the county, and the city all have a state of emergency What can residents do to financially handle some of the local mudslides. I'm getting questions around should we go to DPW? I think I reached out to the supervisor. She is looking into some tax incentives that are going to be on the table. Do you have any, information on that? Have you been contacted by many private homeowners about events. |
| 02:18:13.60 | Kevin McGowan | But no, I haven't been contacted by private homeowners on this specific event. This has come up in the past. And I have found that getting state and federal assistance for private property is very difficult, if not almost impossible. So reaching out to their insurance, like you mentioned, sometimes these things are not covered. And it does make it very difficult for the private property owners to repair some of their issues. So I don't have great information on for you on this only that in the past, I don't think that private properties have been able to qualify for any state and federal funding. Sometimes there are loan programs that have come in and you may have seen those in the past that you can get a low interest loan from the government, federal government or the state government that may help private property owners. I've seen that, but haven't heard about it in this recent event. |
| 02:19:11.11 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Yeah. I was just curious. I thought you had gone out to a couple of properties off of a spring street. Woodward, a couple of homes underneath the Cypress Ridge area had mudslides, and I know DPW deployed resources out there. |
| 02:19:23.47 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you. So we were looking at mostly drainage issues. Personally, I don't see too many major mudslide issues with the exception of one off of, that I included in our last presentation. I forget which street, it's near Easterby. |
| 02:19:38.89 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, and then in the prior conversation, the prior the odds discussion, there was a conversation around the landslide ordinance. And maybe this is for you, or maybe this is for Director Phipps, but my question is, what is the interplay and timing between the engineering study for which we don't yet have a contract and the pursuit of a landslide ordinance? And I don't know if you have an answer to that or Director Phipps, this is in your wheelhouse, but. I'm interested in pursuing that. |
| 02:20:05.20 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:20:05.49 | Kevin McGowan | I'll make an attempt to try and answer that at this point. We would, the study that we are pursuing will not only identify instabilities in public roadway systems and other areas that are public, but the idea is to develop a map that shows instabilities throughout Sausalito, just as you mentioned inUS ITEM. AND I'M ANTICIPATING THAT WE, MEANING STAFF AND OUR GEO TECHNICAL ENGINEER, WILL NEED TO GET TOGETHER WITH OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT AND THEIR CONSULTANT IN ORDER TO TRY TO WORK OUT SOME LANGUAGE TO DEVELOP A TYPE OF ORDINANCE THAT WILL COVER THESE TYPE OF INSTABILITIES AND WHAT A PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNER WILL NEED TO DO BEFORE THEY BUILD UPON SUCH INSTABILITY. |
| 02:20:55.22 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. And I don't know, Dr. Phipps, do you have any opinion on that? I mean, in some respects, it should be as simple as, you have an average gradient, you are subject to increased you know, measures, what are your thoughts? |
| 02:21:07.55 | Brandon Phipps | Thank you. Thank you for the question, council member. So I think based on the contract not having been written, there are a number of kind of contingencies that I think will come to the surface, will be better defined once the contract is written and approved. I would have to agree with Director McGowan that a discussion with all of us to understand the separate scopes and disparate scopes in some cases from the odds in the Landslide Task Force and how they can best be combined. So that would be my initial comment. And yeah, apologies, I'm not able to back into a strict timeline at this time. |
| 02:21:47.83 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:21:47.88 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 02:21:48.91 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 02:21:48.93 | Janelle Blaustein | That's all I have for now, Mayor, thank you. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN ROLL KELMAN. Further questions from members of the council? |
| 02:21:57.77 | Janelle Blaustein | I have a few if, oh, sorry, Vice Mayor Sobieski, as your hand raised, go ahead. |
| 02:22:01.97 | Unknown | Thanks, Mayor. Director McGowan, just one question for you. One of the last recommendations of the task force was to get an update in 60 days. which was done. Thank you. |
| 02:22:12.98 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 02:22:13.77 | Unknown | Obviously we're getting an update today. What's the appropriate schedule given the high priority that this is to the council and the community? to ask you to provide updates on the, the numerous recommendations. without that's manageable and productive for your department. |
| 02:22:34.86 | Kevin McGowan | I think the primary one right now is to get the geologic study going because that dictates a lot of things on the rest of the items. So, as I mentioned, the entire study should take from four to six months. And we can talk to the consultant to see if we can shorten that up a little bit. but as that is progressing forward, I can see us regrouping with the council probably halfway through that process to give you an update. |
| 02:22:55.16 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 02:23:07.15 | Unknown | So would a quarterly report on this subject be appropriate or is that too aggressive? Yeah. too short. |
| 02:23:13.62 | Kevin McGowan | That seems to work. |
| 02:23:14.45 | Janelle Blaustein | you |
| 02:23:18.82 | Janelle Blaustein | Is that it, Vice Mayor? |
| 02:23:20.71 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 02:23:22.18 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. And thank you for your presentation, Director McGowan. I appreciate it. I had a couple of questions. I noticed that there you know, there are many excellent recommendations from the landslide task force in and and some of them, for instance, the creation of the geological hazard abatement district wasn't necessarily highlighted. Is that something that staff has considered and what do you think would be the steps that staff would need to take for that to become a reality. |
| 02:23:48.81 | Kevin McGowan | So it's my understanding that the geologic hazard abatement district is similar to an assessment district. And in order to form one, You have to have a project. Let's see. Let's back up. One of the reasons to form a Jihad, G-H-A-D. is to gather money associated with doing work within a specific area. And it could be fully citywide. It could be in a specific area. So at this point, the study is critical to find out, do we need to move forward with some improvements, specific improvements in specific areas that we're going to need additional funding in order to stabilize these areas. And that's where the jihad comes into place. So again, I have not moved forward with this type of an assessment district in the past. So maybe you folks might know a little bit more than I do. |
| 02:24:45.63 | Janelle Blaustein | But assuming after the geological study is completed and we have a better idea of hotspots, that's something that could be considered by staff. |
| 02:24:53.59 | Kevin McGowan | YES, IT CAN BE CONSIDERED BY STAFF, BUT IT CAN ALSO BE ENACTED UPON BY THE COUNCIL. SO IT IS ESSENTIALLY AN ASSESSMENT DISTRICT. |
| 02:24:53.78 | Janelle Blaustein | Yes. |
| 02:25:02.86 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay. And then additionally in the, in the recommendations from the task force, There was a question of documentation of the cleanup for the existing debris where the landslide is now. And I've been asked by a number of residents, you know, what's the status of that? And will there be a documentation of the cleanup and where are we in it? So could you give a brief update on that? |
| 02:25:22.52 | Kevin McGowan | So if we are talking specifically about the mudslide that occurred in 2019, which I think we are, All the debris has been removed. And the storm drain system has been reestablished. All the physical work in the field has been completed as far as the public improvements itself. We are still waiting on funding to come back to the city for the permanent repairs. So we have received some money from the state on the debris removal, but we're still waiting for the permanent repairs, which is the piping and other stuff that has gone in after that. |
| 02:25:59.79 | Janelle Blaustein | Thanks. And I know we all just lived through some pretty serious weather and the end of the storm season hopefully is approaching and we're gonna have some weather that might be more favorable to making some of the necessary improvements for prevention of landslides, is there a way that we could create a timeline that might consider when the work would be done in advance of of the event or that might put us in a position where we could start some work over the summer after the assessment is completed? |
| 02:26:27.50 | Kevin McGowan | I'm a little confused on the question. So at this point, I'm aware of two specific areas within the public right of way that need to be repaired. And I mentioned those North Street steps as well as Hacked Avenue. Now I'm anticipating that we're not gonna sit on this. We're not going to just let it stay there for a while. We wanna move forward with its repair. There are complexities with each project And As far as a timeline, I would love it if we could get it done in the summertime, but I don't want to give the false sense that we can do that because we haven't gone into all the details such as dealing with the federal government, the National Park Service, Caltrans. So there may be some other things that might get in our way. But the best case scenario, yeah, let's get them done before the next rain hits in the |
| 02:27:25.28 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, and now I'm going to go to Councilmember Kaufman who has her hand raised with an additional question. You're muted, Councilmember Hoffman. |
| 02:27:33.75 | Jill Hoffman | This is just a comment on how the geologic hazard abatement district works. Just a really brief summary is that you would look at the assessment of the hazard you're trying to abate. And then you would assess a fee or a tax or whatever you wanna call it. for the properties that are affected by that hazard. And that you would use that to fund fixing the hazard. Now, obviously, that would require quite substantial public outreach and work with the property owners. And there are mechanisms by which the property owners could object. And that would, you know, they could protest and you wouldn't be able to form the district. So there are some built in, built in safeguards, but that's just a brief summary of how that process works. But, when you have an area where all the property owners agree and they all agree to pay their proportional share to fix the hazard. you know, it actually would benefit their properties and increase the value of their properties, I would think. that's just a quick summary of that aspect. But again, A lot of outreach, a lot of notice, a lot of cooperation and support from those property owners would go into that sort of. |
| 02:28:51.72 | Unknown | And... |
| 02:28:51.78 | Janelle Blaustein | Yeah. |
| 02:28:51.87 | Unknown | All right. |
| 02:28:51.88 | Janelle Blaustein | a lot of people. |
| 02:28:57.98 | Janelle Blaustein | effort. Thank you. That's a great overview of how it works, Council Member Hoffman. So I appreciate it. Are there further questions from the Council for Director McGowan? Okay, seeing none, we're gonna open it up to public comment. And before we do that, I just wanna note, there are some members of our landslide task force who are participating in the meeting. And I just wanted to take a second to thank them again, including council member Hoffman, who served on the landslide task force as the city council representative alongside Ray Withey. We also had Michael Stewart, Christina Feller, who's on our planning commission, Steven Woodside, and Sandra Bushmaker, a former mayor. And a couple of them already have their hands raised to make public comment. So with that, I'll go ahead and open it up to public comment at this time. |
| 02:29:36.97 | Walfred Solorzano | We'll start with the people in-house. Anybody have any public comment? You can raise your hand. Yes, sir. |
| 02:29:46.07 | Bob | Thanks. |
| 02:29:46.48 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:29:49.92 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:29:53.34 | Bob | Good evening everyone. Don Lalonde, my wife is also here, Millicent Lalonde. Um, uh, Many of you know me. and my wife. And, First of all, obviously we live next to the North Street steps. I want to thank Kevin. uh, He disappeared. for coming out. I guess it was day after New Year's when it slid. And I wanted to thank Melissa and Jill and Chris for calling me back over the holidays. So, Um, We're here to help. um, Many of you weren't here in 2017 when the first problem with the hill began, which was the acacia trees ripped out. of the side of the hill. because they were 30 feet tall, they weren't trimmed, And when it rained, they got top heavy. And that began the saga of three slides now in four years. um, So, and Kevin, I'm glad to hear that Time is of the essence here with the North steps from what I understand in your comments. Um, The hood is unstable. This is our third slide. We've lost now. I don't know. 15 feet of land on our side. And there's another big chunk ready to go underneath that black plastic. The North Stale was closed for 18 months after the last slide. It's closed now. It cannot reopen, as Kevin will probably agree, because it's too unstable there. The more stair is on top of being used by residents, employer, employees, et cetera. It's also a designated evacuation route for the city of Sausalito. So, We really need to get this thing going quickly. And we're more than happy to help cooperate. When you have a slide, I've learned this now, I wish I hadn't had to take the class, IN PERSON BY When you have a slide and you're like this and you go like this, you got to bring the bottom up. in the top down. We've already removed 200 yards of soil from our yard. I know we're going to have to remove more. in order to help Kevin get this fixed, which we're more than happy to do. But I would hope that And I get the geologic hazard study. I mean, we've done those all the time in our developments, you have to do it. but I'd also like to hope that the city can allocate some funds to immediately get a new topo done. We did the last one, and we gave it to the city. Andrew Davidson has it. We paid for it. but you have to redo the topo now because the lambs move. And then you need a soils engineer to figure out what you've got underneath there and then a design. Um, And as Kevin said, we really need to get this done this summer because I don't think that hill can handle another winter. And the other thing I wanted to mention is that You know, when it slid on New Year's Eve, That was the beginning of this big storm. If you look at Marin County waterfall, rain waterfall, records only about an inch had fallen and that thing went. it's really unstable and Anything we can do to help But, uh, I can't stress, we need to get the engineering done now so that when the black plastic comes off, in 30 days. You can start bidding and getting things going. |
| 02:33:26.46 | Walfred Solorzano | Thank you. |
| 02:33:26.56 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you, Baba. |
| 02:33:26.96 | Walfred Solorzano | Thank you. |
| 02:33:30.59 | Walfred Solorzano | Any more speakers in-house? All right. Next speaker on Zoom is Sandra Bushmaker. |
| 02:33:37.43 | Unknown | Hi, Sandra. Good evening, mayor and council members and staff. Uh, I'm glad to see Steven Woodside is on also and of course Councilmember Hoffman. One of our philosophies on the task force was We need to find out We need a diagnosis first citywide diagnosis of our vulnerable areas. Then we can develop a plan on how to fix the problem. So that is why The topo map that we were working with was from 1976. that we had access to. So the idea was to have a citywide mapping program so that we could identify or diagnose the problem areas, and then we can devise a plan to fix them. And so that was the whole idea. We knew that citywide mapping is in a very expensive item. And therefore the discussion about the geologic hazard assessment, not assessment, abatement district. to finance this thing was born. so that the whole city bore the brunt of the cost plus the benefit of knowing where we were and that we were working from a current map Um, And basically, I just want to say that I'm very happy to see this finally on the City Council agenda again. Thank you. so that we can get moving. You can probably see from the dates, we worked very hard on the task force to get this on the council's dais within 90 days of being appointed to the to the task force. So we worked very, very hard Obviously, this time of the year, we are very aware of the vulnerabilities in Sausalito. Uh, I live right around the corner from where that 2019 mudslide occurred. So it was literally almost in my backyard. I live below Hecht Avenue. So Hecht Avenue is a very important street for me as well. I did want to point out that my neighbor, and I want to give kudos to the Department of Public Works on this, my neighbor at 350, up. 350 Sausalito Boulevard had an oak tree that was uprooting and leaning downhill onto her roof or about to. And the city was very good. about bringing a tree cutter up there the next day and removing the tree. Unfortunately, it had to be removed because there just was no substance to be able to allow it to be retained. So that was, things happened. a lot in Sausalito during this last rainstorm. I just wanted to give, uh, Public Works a round of applause for attending to that. My neighbor was very freaked out. She called me about what to do, what to do. And so I just want to say thank you. And I appreciate the councils addressing the landslide task force issue. Thank you. Thank you, Sandra. |
| 02:36:36.57 | Walfred Solorzano | And Steven Woodside. |
| 02:36:47.51 | Unknown | Can you hear me? |
| 02:36:51.24 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, we can already see them. |
| 02:36:52.26 | Steven Woodside | Okay, thank you. Thanks to the mayor and to all of you for bringing this back so quickly. since the storm started in your first meeting in January, you agreed to bring it back. And I hope you keep at it because I think this is not something that's gonna be resolved in a short period of time. I'm very encouraged by the fact that, as Sandra said, You're going to get on with the notion of evaluating and assessing where the hazards are. And that really becomes the foundation for future actions. Um, I'm encouraged also that you'll take a serious look at a geologic hazard abatement district. I think that's a mechanism that is seldom used, but can be very effective. in resolving the problems. One suggestion or maybe a couple of suggestions with regard to of Miller Pacific and what you look at. Um, the staff at DPW, knows where many of these hazards are. Why? Because they have to clean them up. periodically. They know where to go. They know They know almost exactly what's going to happen when there's an inch of rain falling on Mount Tam or something. And on January 1, there were slides all over town. Many of them were minor. Some of them were pretty significant. And the one in particular that I hope you pay attention to why, because it's in my neighborhood, is something that we've talked about before Edwards and Marion, where you've got a eucalyptus tree with almost, you know, a third of its root structure exposed to the sloughing off It's not something, though, to slough off because gradually, When the roots are undermined, the trees fall. Right around the corner from my house on Alexander Avenue, you've all seen probably the slide that occurred on GGNRA property. just beyond the city boundary, as you mentioned, go up toward the bridge. It was a pretty significant slide. If there had been cars on the road, cyclists on the road, pedestrians on the road in that vicinity, easily been killed by the volume of material that came down. It looks to me like it was a tree. Um, That was a significant factor, a falling tree. in that case. So I do hope that you take close look at all of these as they come back. And I like the suggestion that Council member Sobieski made to have it come back periodically just for a status report so the public can see What's happening? and can make additional suggestions and comments course of action that might be appropriate. Thank you very much. |
| 02:39:39.28 | Janelle Blaustein | you Thank you, Steven. Do we have any further public comment at this time? No further, well, |
| 02:39:45.11 | Unknown | We have a person. |
| 02:39:45.15 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 02:39:46.77 | Unknown | and people who are in the |
| 02:39:55.54 | Nolan Ralston | It'll be pretty brief. My name is Nolan Ralston, co-owner of 81012 Josephine, the adjacent property. Mr. Lalonde. I just wanted to state that we are also very concerned about the current conditions and hope that Um, something can be done. with haste. That's it. Thanks. |
| 02:40:17.72 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. Okay, if there's no further public comment, I will go ahead and close public comment at this time and bring it back up to the council for discussion and staff direction. So I'll wait to see who would like to start. |
| 02:40:35.13 | Jill Hoffman | I'm happy to start there. Oh, sorry. Please, but you want to start? |
| 02:40:41.27 | Unknown | That would go right ahead. |
| 02:40:42.17 | Jill Hoffman | Councilmember Hobbs. Oh, you having trouble raising your hand there, Councilmember Hobbs? I just went old school. Okay, go for it. |
| 02:40:43.03 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:40:49.27 | Jill Hoffman | I think from my perspective, and I think I'm hearing that collectively from the council, I don't think we can overstate the importance of inserting urgency around this conversation. Other communities are dealing with disaster preparedness around wildfires, I genuinely believe ours is either going to be flooding or some type of landslide. And I'm not making that up because we've seen landslides and they've been significant. And so this report has been hanging out for a couple of years now is I think the date is 2019. And What I'd like to see us figure out tonight is a way to empower staff to inject further urgency to this, find a way to work with staff and the city manager, allocate resources, to make this a priority. And so I don't wanna leave tonight without a sense from our city attorney and our city manager when that engineering study contract will be complete. I think we need to set some milestones and some timelines for making that happen. I think we need to hear from our city, our community economic development director about a landslide ordinance, some ideas around when and how we might insert that into our priority planning schedule. And I do think we need a storm event postmortem. I think we did a wonderful pre-operational meeting. The current mayor and I met with a cross-disciplinary team to understand how the emergency services are going to be rolled out. I think the council should now have a report out saying, here are the hotspots. Here's what didn't drain. Here's what backed up. I think we need to understand the magnitude so that we then go to engage in some type of engineering study. We have that information. So that's my primary request is that we inject some urgency to this and it's not something that And I appreciate quarterly updates, but I don't want to just hear an update that we're going to be looking at it. I actually would like to have a timeframe and I would like to direct staff to come back to us at our next regularly scheduled meeting with a timeframe for performing that contract for the postmortem and for landslide ordinance. Those are my three priorities. I do think An economy of scale would be to look at the geologic hazards in tandem with some recommendations of the Sea-Liber-Rise Task Force. If we're going to do any type of GIS mapping, we're going to do any LIDAR. If we're going to look at land movement, we should take the entire community into account. That may save us money down the road. So that's my big effort. I'm happy... to talk more about a jihad, unique insurance mechanisms. There's lots of opportunity here for us, but I'd like to see some emergencies tonight. So that's it for me. Thanks. Thanks, Council Member Kalman. |
| 02:43:24.19 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, Vice Mayor. |
| 02:43:27.09 | Unknown | Thanks, Mayor. So I agree with Councilmember Kellman's summary, and I know that we have a procedure for prioritizing capital works projects. And we'll have a day when we do that. But I think the consensus here is that this is one of the most important capital works projects and that we're prioritizing this here now. by staff direction to be at the top of the heat. Um, And so we saw a list of recommendations from the Landslide Task Force, and some of them had action that was taken. And I think what I hear council member Kellman saying is it'd be nice to see that same list with some proposed dates when all of them will be attended to. that can be. and then some schedule of regular reporting so that we can hold ourselves accountable, really. to make sure to give DPW the resources it needs to get those things done on the schedule that's proposed. So we have a role at City Council 2 which involves money and direction and prioritization. And want to make sure that Director McGowan, who is extremely busy in his whole department, which is extremely busy with many tasks, has clear direction and knows And we all know that some things would get pushed a little bit later if you're going to put this on top. So I would invite when I suggested quarterly updates, whatever works to achieve that goal and hold us all accountable. We don't. we don't let other issues push this off the table. so I'd love to hear what my colleagues and also Director McGowan thinks about that. My second kind of category is just the more acute issue here on this North Street steps. I just want to make sure that you know, we are clear in prioritizing that when I think I joined the council, North Street Seps was closed. So it's only been reopened for a little while. It'd be nice to know if we are I'd like to hear from the director if we are if he has the resources he needs. to solve that problem. definitively. And I'm still not clear if that's the case or not. |
| 02:45:46.65 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council Member Hoffman. |
| 02:45:53.46 | Janelle Blaustein | You're muted, Council Member Hoffman. |
| 02:45:57.36 | Jill Hoffman | So yeah, I concur that we move forward with the hazard report right now. And just, this is identifying the problems, right? And this is a safety and infrastructure issue. And this also enables us to take care of perhaps smaller problems now so they don't become big problems, so they don't become a huge mudslide. where houses fall down and cars. And it was a miracle that nobody died in that, in the 2019 mudslide. I think that's the perspective that we're all driving towards. And I'm happy that we're moving forward with the recommendations. I would urge people to look at the report is very, you know, it's pretty simple. It's not that it's not a long report and the recommendations are pretty clear. And they also move through in kind of a chronological order. Um, you know, throughout the, through the recommendations. And I think at the last meeting, I requested that that report And those recommendations be attached to whenever we do our capital improvement project and our budget prioritization and planning session, which I'm not sure if that's coming up in February or March, but And that way we can be sure to fund those things on the timeline and the schedule. for this year. for the next fiscal year. So I would, you know, agree that we need to look at a timeline, but also a funding timeline and make sure that we're budgeting for these things. You know, keep in mind, That when you start budgeting, it means something else is going to come off. And so when you're talking about your city budget, you're constantly evaluating what other funds are allocated and where we're going to get this money. Anyway, that's always the challenge. So that would be my request moving forward this year. But I do like the quarterly report idea. So thank you, Director McCowan, for supporting that. |
| 02:47:45.53 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 02:47:56.01 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Huffman, Council Member Cox. I will endorse the comments of my fellow council members. And I also want to thank and acknowledge Jill Hoffman, the members of the public who are here tonight, as well as the other members of the landslide task force, including Sandra Bushmaker. I clearly remember our meeting on Valentine's Day of 2019 and how quickly it was so urgent for us to take immediate action. And the task force really did that. So thank you so much. for that and I have nothing further to add. I think all of your recommendations are well taken. Thanks. Thank you. |
| 02:48:35.24 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you very much. And I am very happy I'm in complete agreement with the members of the council. And I just really appreciate the attention to urgency with regards to this issue. Yes, we were very lucky at the last storm event to have no serious damage, but we came quite close. And because we have a really strong Department of Public Works and because we had a planning meeting In advance, we were able to identify those hotspots, but we won't always get that lucky. So if we're not making this a priority, we're going to end up with another mudslide or a flood as noted by council member Kelman. So I'm just really glad to hear that everyone is moving this forward with a real sense of urgency and I really appreciate the members of the public, especially those who are living in very close to or near the affected areas for being here and sharing their concern with us. And and being aware and willing to help and that that really makes a difference, I had a question before I give you know really the direction to staff, which is in the RFP to Miller. Their response, they specifically say they wanted to meet with members of the landslide task force to talk about the recommendations. I'm wondering what direction council wants to give in terms of reviving that or continuing those meetings or when we do these quarterly updates, check back in with the folks who served on the task force. Councilmember Hoffman, you're probably the best to weigh in on that. Do you want to be the council liaison for |
| 02:49:56.02 | Jill Hoffman | discussions? Sure. Yeah, I don't know that we need to formally reform, stand up the task force again, because we've already done our work, but whatever, you know, our names are on it. So I can't imagine that, I can't imagine that any one of the people on the task force would not take somebody's call. or if somebody wants us to join on a call, to talk about it, I'm sure we'd all be willing to do that. So I'm happy to participate. I can't imagine anybody that was on that task force would not. We had a really great task force. a lot of talent on it and specifically picked for their talent. So. Sure. |
| 02:50:34.40 | Janelle Blaustein | Certainly. It was a lot of really great work and we were lucky to have it. Vice Mayor, did you want to add something before I reiterate direction? |
| 02:50:40.59 | Unknown | I wanted to let Director McGowan speak first, and then I had a question for him, actually. |
| 02:50:46.82 | Kevin McGowan | Yeah. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Just to kind of address one of your questions was what do we do with the North Street Steps? How do we take action quickly? And one thing that is important is it needs to dry out. So having these times at which we don't get any rainfall and making sure that that area is covered, that's important. So we also, from a staff perspective, we want to set up, just like Mr. LaLanne said, we want to get set up our surveyor in there to get a topo, set up our geotech to get in there. Probably at the same time somebody does the topo so that they examine this to find out, okay, what do we do next? What are the next steps? Now, you had suggested, okay, what can you folks do to help me or help us collectively? And I'm anticipating that there will be some cost to this to fix it. And usually the city will have to pay for that upfront, whether we, even if we go and we try to recuperate these costs from FEMA or the state, we still have to pay for it upfront. That's generally how it works. So, and I don't have an actual cost yet. I have an idea of what we're looking at, But I will need our geotech to kind of inform us of what type of repair that will be. And that will be in communication with Mr. Lelaine, too, or Lelaine. So that's important to make sure that we communicate with all those folks up there at the same time. In addition, I think that having the landslide task force on board when we really get into the details with a specific scope with the consultant will be important. So we've done that before when we developed the RFP. We did send out the RFP to everybody on the task force requesting some insight and we made some changes. But just getting into some of the detail once we start with the consultant, that'll be important. And I'm anticipating pulling one or two folks in just to make sure that we're all on the same page and then summarizing that for the whole group if people can't make that specific meeting. Okay, thank you. |
| 02:52:52.52 | Unknown | Director McGowan, my two related questions then were first, do you feel that you have all the direction and clarity you need from City Council to resolve the North Street. Slide issue. |
| 02:53:05.87 | Kevin McGowan | I don't know what I need yet. But at this point in time, yes, I know that it is important to move forward with this. We do have to let it dry out. And once we do that, then we'll get everything lined up so that we can try to fix this thing in the summertime to get the stores back open and have our residents around this area feel more comfortable. |
| 02:53:28.04 | Unknown | And then related to Council Member Kellman's comments. Will we get, when we get another update or can we get, something that's sort of a definitive timeline of the all the, the implementation of the various items that you showed on that one slide, as well as other ones we talked about today. |
| 02:53:47.82 | Kevin McGowan | Yes, as one of the core tasks of the consultant is to provide us a schedule and provide us with detailed schedule of what they're anticipating and how long it will take. I'm assuming that's what you need at this point. |
| 02:54:01.30 | Unknown | Okay, thank you. |
| 02:54:04.17 | Jill Hoffman | Councilmember Kellman. Yes, I just wanted to clarify, Director McGowan, what I would ask the Council to do tonight is to give direction to staff to return at our next scheduled meeting with a timeframe for having a draft contract for engineering study. for having a timeline for when we might either even commence a work on a landside ordinance with an anticipated how long it might take. And then some feedback from the city manager around a storm event post-mortem. That would be the direction I would like some collaboration on. Councilmember Hoffman? |
| 02:54:40.76 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 02:54:44.55 | Jill Hoffman | So I don't want to, I'm not going to make light of any of the other damage, but I did want to point out that since we're talking about this issue, I got a lot of, I think we all did questions about Sammy the sea lion. |
| 02:54:57.26 | Julie Vieira | Aww. No. |
| 02:54:58.88 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. And I, Chris, our city manager has told me he's gonna give us a report. Chris, are you still gonna be able to do that? of. |
| 02:55:07.22 | Chris Zapata | you know, |
| 02:55:07.43 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:55:07.45 | Chris Zapata | You were going to do it. |
| 02:55:07.62 | Jill Hoffman | You were going to do it in city manager reports, I think, or do you want to do it now? Or does Kevin want to give it? |
| 02:55:12.97 | Chris Zapata | I'll wait for the city manager report. |
| 02:55:14.47 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, okay. Just so anybody who's watching, we haven't forgotten about that. And we're going to talk, Chris is going to give us an update, so. |
| 02:55:20.68 | Janelle Blaustein | A lot of heroic. Getting the sea lion in the sea lion hospital, otherwise known as the corporate yard tomorrow. So I can provide further update when we next meet. Okay. So just to sum up the great direction and ideas that have been put forth by the council so that the staff is aware, I think it's very clear that there is a, an immediate need to move forward with the hazard report contract with Miller right away. And, and there is also a request to know how quickly we can execute that contract once it's begun with clear timelines. Potentially, we would like to see that as soon as at our next meeting, as well as getting the contract itself on consent for the January 30th meeting so that we can move forward as soon as possible. And there was a request for a continuation of quarterly updates, or at least a more clear timeline with a sense of urgency on these issues. In addition to that, a postmortem of the storm. So if staff could work on a postmortem and we can see that on a future schedule for hotspots and where there were specific areas of flooding, a consideration of the landslide task, or pardon me, landslide ordinance and how long it would take to enact said ordinance and what would be required for that to happen. And then a commitment to really discuss this deeply at our planning retreat, which is going to be on February 10th. And an inclusion of this landslide task force report And in anything that we're discussing with regards to our CIP so that we really dig in deeper and I really want to say that this will be a topic that we will continue to revisit and it will be on the agenda frequently and I think it has to be on the agenda frequently in order for the real work to be done here and so. If you want to continue the discussion with us, members of the public, know that we will be talking about it again at the February 10th planning meeting. Councilmember Hoffman, you have your hand raised. No, you're good. Okay. Okay. All right, so is that direction clear for staff? |
| 02:57:09.29 | Kevin McGowan | Yes, thank you. And thanks everybody for their time and effort on this. I appreciate it. It's a big subject. |
| 02:57:16.66 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you very much to you and your staff for your hard work on this. And with that, we will move on to the next business item on the agenda. which is just a second. Item 5C, which is ParkWits and Outdoor Dining Program update. So I believe our presenter here is again, Director McGowan. No, it's our Community Development Director, Brandon Phipps. Welcome. |
| 02:57:42.91 | Brandon Phipps | Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the City Council, members of the public, and City staff. I am pleased to be here this evening to present a status update in connection with the City's proposed draft parklet and outdoor dining program. And let me just make sure that the presentation is working properly. Let me know if there are any issues on your end. |
| 02:58:06.97 | Janelle Blaustein | We can see the presentation, Brandon. So far, so good. |
| 02:58:09.62 | Brandon Phipps | Thank you, Mayor. |
| 02:58:09.67 | Janelle Blaustein | Right. |
| 02:58:09.89 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 02:58:10.93 | Brandon Phipps | Before I dive in, first order of business is to issue a big thank you to the members of the Parklet Working Group who have put a significant amount of work and effort in to get us to where we are today. For the record, active Parklet Working Group members consist of Christina Feller, Planning Commissioner, Jeffrey Luxenberg, Planning Commission Chair, Morgan Pierce, President of Sausalito Beautiful and Ali Iqbal, assistant civil engineer. Again, thank you all for your efforts thus far and for your support in getting me up to speed on the current state of the proposed program. I'll do a quick review of previous action taken in connection with this proposed program in October 2021. City Council requested staff to work with the Planning Commission to set standards for permanent parklets. Out of that direction came the Parkland Working Group who have met nine times since October 2021. to develop a draft proposed parklet and outdoor dining program, which was presented to City Council in May 2022. Following that presentation, City Council provided direction to staff and working group members to coordinate a meeting with the business community to solicit feedback Among other actions such as providing recommendations regarding fees and to explore ideas to bring businesses into compliance. On June 20, 2022, staff and the Parkland Working Group conducted a virtual town hall and public outreach event with members of the business community and the Chamber of Commerce to solicit feedback on the proposed program. which resulted in constructive feedback from the business community. Some specific comments received during the town hall include recommendations to remove a sewer hookup charge that fee has been subsequently removed. and recommendations to clarify the amount of tables or tops allowed as part of a sidewalk dining area. The working group settled on allowing up to four tables so long as a five foot minimum sidewalk clearance is maintained between the sidewalk dining area and the street Following the virtual town hall on September 12, 2022, the working group met to discuss next steps. At that meeting, legal staff indicated that an implementation ordinance would likely be the best mechanism by which to implement the proposed parklet and outdoor dining programs. This message was communicated to the incoming CDD director, myself, on November 10, 2022, when I was brought up to speed on the program to discuss next steps. And in addition to staff's high level approach and strategy for ultimate adoption. That brings us to today and the presentation you see before you this evening. |
| 03:01:02.98 | Brandon Phipps | As indicated in the draft proposed parklet and outdoor dining program, the goal of the program is to provide a comprehensive framework consisting of general guidelines and requirements for parklets and outdoor dining areas to be allowed and approved ministerially in the city. In addition to the primary goals outlined in the program, there are many additional positive impacts a well-structured parklet program can bring to the city. From the perspective of community and economic development, Additional positive impacts include but are not limited to an increase in corridor vibrancy and pedestrian utilization and augmentation of the experiential qualities of our city streets, contributing to a greater sense of place and supporting the success of our local commercial businesses, all while continuing to maintain health and safety in the community. A quick refresher for attendees this evening. As described in the draft proposed Parklet and Outdoor Dining Program, Parklet is a small public sidewalk extension created by the conversion of street frontage and parking spaces to multi-use public spaces for passive and active uses. A parklet is a removable surface made available to the public for use that occupies a portion of the parking area, which becomes closed to motor vehicle parking. The example shown here. is probably well known. It's located at the intersection of Caledonia Street and Turney Street, and is associated with the adjacent business, drivers, market, and deli. As described in the draft proposed parklet and after dining program, we'll have to make a SUMMARY FOR THAT TITLE. OUTDOOR DINING AREAS ARE AREAS LOCATED ON EITHER PRIVATE PROPERTY OR ON SIDEWALKS ADJACENT TO RESTAURANTS THAT PROVIDE RESTAURANT SERVICE TO CUSTOMERS. IN SOME CASES, ALTHOUGH NOT TYPICALLY, THESE SIDEWALK AREAS CAN ALSO BE USED AS A STAGING AREA FOR COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES. THE EXAMPLE SHOWN HERE IS LOCATED AT 670 BRIDGEWAY AND IS USED TO ACCOMMODATE PATRONS AT NAPA VALLEY BURGER COMPANY. |
| 03:03:20.22 | Brandon Phipps | Both forms of parklets and sidewalk dining areas are contained in the outdoor dining pilot program located on a portion of Caledonia Street between Johnson Street and Pine Street. This special pilot project was implemented at the direction of City Council in July 2020 and has evolved over time from a two-lane auto access street closure or street vacation. to the one lane closure concept you see on this slide. It should be mentioned that this special pilot project based on discussions with Parklet working group members was not intended to be impacted by the draft Parklet and Outdoor Dining Program. As the pilot program represents a full street scale initiative involving multiple businesses and direct collaboration with City of Sausalito, as opposed to the single business ministerial approvals for Parklets and Outdoor Dining proposed in the draft Parklet and Outdoor Dining Program. Staff is open to direction from council as to how to create a more formal process for these full street scale special pilot projects. Of course, if future pilots of a similar nature are desired in the city. Next steps in connection with finalizing and implementing the draft proposed parklet and outdoor dining program include developing a draft implementation ordinance to simultaneously retire the city's emergency ordinance and replace it with the proposed parklet and outdoor dining program. This action is currently in progress with legal staff, DPW, and CDD. This action consists of multiple steps, including a modification of the city's encouragement agreement provisions, in addition to... STAFF, DPW, and CDD. THIS ACTION CONSISTS OF MULTIPLE STEPS INCLUDING A MODIFICATION OF THE CITY'S ENCOURAGEMENT PROVISIONS IN ADDITION TO IDENTIFYING AND RESOLVING ALL CONFLICTING LANGUAGE AND ZONING STANDARDS IN OUR MUNICIPAL CODE. Additional steps include refining the draft application form for the proposed program, evaluating the process by which previously permitted parklets and outdoor dining areas can seamlessly transition into the new proposed program. |
| 03:05:24.00 | Unknown | and how it works. |
| 03:05:29.60 | Brandon Phipps | and minor revisions to the draft program document based on feedback from working group members and staff, including clarifying approvals with objective design standards and finalizing fees. |
| 03:05:46.24 | Brandon Phipps | Uh, steps open to additional direction from council to further develop a program to address issues that may not have been addressed in the material provided. Sam is also open to direction and or future discussion with city council and the parking working group as to how exactly to create a more formal process for these all street scale special pilot projects. if future pilot projects of a similar nature are desired in the city. Thank you very much for your time this evening. And I am available for any questions. |
| 03:06:19.28 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you so much, director Phipps. Okay, let's go back to the council for questions. |
| 03:06:29.35 | Janelle Blaustein | I can start if no members of the council have, okay. Council member Kelman, go right ahead. I'm caffeinated. |
| 03:06:33.93 | Jill Hoffman | I'll go. So, Dr. Phipps, your presentation, thank you very much. And thank you, of course, to the Parklet Working Group. This has been a long time coming and San Francisco just finalized the way they want to handle it. So thank you for bringing this to us as well for your presentation. your history and timeline references the final most recent meeting, etc. But the document that we have is dated March 2022 that's attached to the agenda. So I just want to confirm that that is in fact the most |
| 03:07:04.24 | Unknown | So I just want to say, |
| 03:07:08.40 | Jill Hoffman | up-to-date Parklet program. |
| 03:07:12.05 | Brandon Phipps | Okay, that was the draft that I came across when I was developing the staff report. What I can tell you is that the working group has certainly made some additional changes to the document since they initially presented to council. But similar to the odds, that version of the program is, I would say, not ready for primetime in the sense that it is still in draft form. We have not yet shared that with members of city council. and it has not been a subject of discussion with my THAT IT IS STILL IN DRAFT FORM. WE HAVE NOT YET SHARED THAT WITH MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL. AND IT HAS NOT BEEN A SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION WITH MYSELF AND MEMBERS OF THE PARKLET WORKING GROUP. |
| 03:07:45.07 | Jill Hoffman | So I guess I'm a little confused then about how do we How could we direct legal to develop a draft implementation ordinance to retire the emergency ordinance and replace it with a proposed program that we haven't seen? |
| 03:07:59.08 | Brandon Phipps | THE ORDINANCE WILL BE COMPLEMENTED WITH A REVISED VERSION OF THE DRAFT PROPOSED PARKLET AND OUTDOOR DINING PROGRAM, ENSURING THAT ALL THE ELEMENTS ARE COMPLEMENTARY TO ONE ANOTHER. |
| 03:08:10.96 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:08:10.99 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. |
| 03:08:12.83 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:08:12.85 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:08:12.90 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:08:12.97 | Jill Hoffman | I'll come back. |
| 03:08:13.81 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:08:13.90 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:08:14.03 | Jill Hoffman | you. |
| 03:08:15.80 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 03:08:15.82 | Jill Hoffman | Councilmember Hoffman. Yeah, I think that, I think I was thinking along the same lines. So it looks to me like, um, You have the next steps outlined for us so we can look forward. And I agree with all the steps, by the way, that you have outlined in there. And so at some point you'll be coming back to us with the actual draft implementation ordinance Is that right? |
| 03:08:44.64 | Brandon Phipps | Correct, yeah. Thank you for the clarifying question. And with that draft ordinance will come a revised and complimentary program. |
| 03:08:54.14 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, great, thank you. Yeah, I think it's great, great work. It's just a tremendous amount of work. And I think the parklets we have are a good addition. So it's a good program. It's always a balance between losing parking spaces and public space, right? Converting into something else. I THINK IT'S BEEN A successful. If I could say, Anyway, it's okay. Absolutely. Go ahead. |
| 03:09:19.37 | Janelle Blaustein | It's okay. Councilman Rockman. We'll bring it back to the comment. |
| 03:09:24.03 | Jill Hoffman | what? |
| 03:09:24.65 | Janelle Blaustein | Bye. |
| 03:09:24.67 | Jill Hoffman | The one thing I worry about is Um, that's some of the parklets that I see are not utilized or only utilize a certain period of time a small amount of time per day, right? I know that's the balance, right? Where you have a parklet that's empty a lot of the time, but it's taking a parking space. And so I don't know how that balance is recognized or called out in the program and maybe, and I don't know, a recognition that there's only there's a maximum number maybe of parklets that we would look at in town, but I don't want to derail any efforts that you guys have gone to at this point, because I know it's tremendous. So Anyway, thank you for your work. Food for thought, I suppose. |
| 03:10:14.55 | Councilmember Cox | Council member Cox, you had a question. Thank you. And thank you for that presentation. And I also endorse the steps that you've enunciated. I wanted to inquire about notification of the community. So a complaint that we received, particularly with respect to the parklets and the pilot program on Caledonia is notification of the residents in the area who may be affected. So I wanted to ask whether you have in mind. some way to notify those folks, whether a quick postcard or something. Since we are now contemplating a more permanent program and not just a pilot program, I want to be sure that they have ample opportunity to provide feedback and thank you for reminding us of how many times the committee met for the pilot program. I know there was a good effort to include the community, but I just want to make sure that we continue to do that as we head down the home stretch. |
| 03:11:17.00 | Brandon Phipps | Thank you for your question and comments, council member. I think I'll kind of do this in two parts. So firstly, just want to clarify that the Caledonia Street outdoor dining setup is a pilot program and should be considered taxonomically as separate from the outdoor dining that is currently being proposed in the parklet and outdoor dining program. |
| 03:11:39.68 | Councilmember Cox | I saw that in your report, yes. |
| 03:11:41.74 | Brandon Phipps | Very good, very good, thank you. So as far as public notification is concerned on Caledonia Street, that as a special pilot project, you know, is really, it's subject to direction from council as to how exactly they'd like to deal with it with public notification for future similar, you know, street scale level parklet outdoor dining projects with direct collaboration with the city and multiple businesses. The other piece of this is the ministerial side for individual parklet and outdoor dining approvals, which is within the parklet and outdoor dining program document and will be within the draft implementation ordinance. The big goal of that document overall is to create a program framework by. AND WILL BE WITHIN THE DRAFT IMPLEMENTATION ORDINANCE. THE BIG GOAL OF THAT DOCUMENT OVERALL IS TO CREATE A PROGRAM FRAMEWORK BY WHICH THESE SPARKLITS CAN BE APPROVED MINISTERIALLY. GENERALLY, MINISTERIAL APPROVAL DOES NOT REQUIRE NOTICING OF THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. HOWEVER, IF IT IS DIRECTION OF COUNCIL, WE CAN WORK TO POTENTIALLY INTEGRATE A PUBLIC associated with the ministerial |
| 03:12:50.22 | Councilmember Cox | So, |
| 03:12:50.46 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:12:50.48 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 03:12:50.58 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:12:50.68 | Councilmember Cox | it when it |
| 03:12:51.52 | Unknown | We'll be right back. |
| 03:12:51.69 | Councilmember Cox | Ministerial. I generally went to the establishment of the ordinance since the after the adoption of the ordinance approvals will be ministerial. I wanted to be sure that the. consideration of the ordinance was adequately publicly noticed. I'm not Thank you. asking whether you intend to, nor do I suggest that you change your proposed approach from ministerial to public noticing for individual applications. |
| 03:13:19.55 | Brandon Phipps | I'm interested. So certainly when we bring the draft ordinance to Council, there will be notice associated with that item on the agenda. However, if there is greater action that you'd like staff to take, perhaps noticing members of the public within a certain distance of corridors or areas that could take on parklets, we'd be happy to do that. |
| 03:13:44.44 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. I just wanted to be sure we consider it as we establish our path forward. |
| 03:13:49.34 | Brandon Phipps | Appreciate that. |
| 03:13:52.46 | Janelle Blaustein | Vice Mayor, did you have any questions for Director Phipps? |
| 03:13:55.78 | Unknown | No, just want to acknowledge the work of the volunteers on the Parkwood Committee. and thank them for all their work. |
| 03:14:04.78 | Janelle Blaustein | Great. I also really appreciate and acknowledge the hard work of the Parklet Committee and the hours of time that have gone into moving this forward. I just had a couple of questions. So in the staff report, it speaks specifically to municipal codes that might require additional potential review. The commercial zoning districts, the industrial marineship districts, restaurants and outdoor dining areas, of course, and definitions and the clean indoor air and health protection. that's something that I assume that the, the, Parkland Group has already looked at and considered. Are there specific areas or neighborhoods of concern that you're thinking about when you're considering these that need to be additionally reviewed and edited. |
| 03:14:46.66 | Brandon Phipps | I think the quick answer there is, |
| 03:14:46.81 | Janelle Blaustein | I think |
| 03:14:49.41 | Brandon Phipps | TBD based on a further dig into each of those individual elements of the municipal code. But the hope is that we'll be able to resolve each of these chapter subsections and ensure that they are in compliance. I have not had any specific discussions with working group members as related to specific components of those chapters, subAPTERS. AND AS I WAS NOT ATTENDANCE AT PREVIOUS MEETINGS, I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY SPECIFIC DISCUSSIONS THAT MAY HAVE OCCURRED THUS FAR. |
| 03:15:23.13 | Janelle Blaustein | I would just like for businesses to know that maybe they would have additional discretion with regards to what their park requirements might be to be aware. So if we're thinking about. key neighborhoods, it would be nice to look into that and alert those businesses so they know what's coming. And another question I had is obviously as things have changed with regards to COVID requirements, the state has changed a lot of their perhaps more lax rules around what can and can't happen in restaurant spaces. Do we know what might impact some of the state's changes to regulation for our parklets and what we need to change? Is that being considered in this potential ordinance? |
| 03:15:59.61 | Brandon Phipps | So that is certainly being considered. And Mayor, thank you for the question. What we are seeing based on some recent policy is that it is, well, and this is more specific to outdoor dining proposals on private property that take away parking. We are seeing that it is very difficult for city to denyVEMENT POLICY ACTION THAT HAS BEEN TAKEN AT THE STATE LEVEL. SO THAT'S JUST ONE INITIAL OBSERVATION. A DEEPER DIVE WITH CITY ATTORNEY, I THINK WILL BE NECESSARY TO GET A FULL PICTURE OF EXACTLY WHAT NEW POLICY MAY IMPACT IN THIS DRAFT DOCUMENT. What specific elements of that policy we need to be aware of? |
| 03:16:50.22 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, great. Thanks, Director Phibbs. It looks like Councilmember Kellman has another question for the director. Thank you. |
| 03:16:54.62 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Yeah, two follow-up questions. So I think we're all very eager to move forward with the final policy. So I don't want my comments to be taken in anything other than that direction. Um, is the idea that you would bring back a policy, a program and a matching ordinance. And then we would review them simultaneously. And if we had changes to the program, then we would also update the program and the ordinance. I just want to make sure we're not wasting staff time and it comes back and we look at it and go, Oh, this isn't what we thought it was going to be. And someone took all the time to draft an ordinance that matches it. |
| 03:17:38.63 | Brandon Phipps | Great question. My hope is that the program is in such a state and has, you know, based on previous review from city council, gotten to a point where there is at least some general consensus as to process by which the city will undertake ministerial approval of parklets and outdoor dining. I THINK MY UNDERSTANDING AND BASED ON DISCUSSION WITH THE WORKING GROUP IS THAT THE ITEMS THAT ARE IN FLUX ARE REALLY ITEMS RELATED TO My understanding and based on discussion with the working group is that the items that are in flux are really items related to the details, if you will. So one of those things being in particular, the fees will be levied on businesses in connection with their application for outdoor dining. and if an ordinance is drafted and for you know whatever reason um council has different direction to staff as for outdoor dining. And if an ordinance is drafted and for whatever reason, council has different direction to staff as to what the fees ought to look like, my hope is that that change will not change the overall structure. |
| 03:17:52.37 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:18:35.32 | Brandon Phipps | of the process. or the overall structure of the program. |
| 03:18:39.23 | Jill Hoffman | So would it potentially make sense considering it's going to take some time to actually draft the ordinance and finish the program to have an interim update to us where you highlight the key points because I think we, like the members of the public, would like to know what the key points are before we use staff resources to draft an ordinance to implement. a program. |
| 03:19:02.72 | Brandon Phipps | Very open to that council member. And I think it's a great comment. |
| 03:19:06.15 | Jill Hoffman | OK, and then my. So, the follow-up is, If the taxonomy as to Caledonia is distinct, will there be a separate program or series of policies issued to govern that separate taxonomy. |
| 03:19:21.42 | Brandon Phipps | GREAT QUESTION. MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT CALEDONIA STREET PILOT PROGRAM WAS A SPECIAL PROJECT DIRECTED BY CITY COUNCIL. AS SUCH, BASED ON THERE NOT BEING A PRECEDENT FOR THIS IN CITY OF SACIALITO PRIOR TO ITS APPROVAL, THIS THING WAS DONE AD HOC. AND WAS STRUCTURED TO BEST COMPLEMENT THAT BLOCK AND THAT STREET DESIGN AS WELL AS THE RESTAURANTS LOCATED ALONG THAT CORRIDOR. |
| 03:19:22.33 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 03:19:51.62 | Brandon Phipps | One of my questions to counsel was, To what extent do we think that there may be future street level pilot programs based on the reported success of this Caledonia Street pilot project. And if council believes that there is potential for additional, I think it may warrant a more formal approach for these larger scale outdoor dining initiatives. That's one position. The other position is because each street, each corridor, subsection, you know, each area where there may be a street vacation and then kind of significant collaboration with local businesses, there may be some power in being able to treat those on an ad hoc basis, as opposed to pigeonholing yourself into a formally approved process. So I can see benefits to both direction. There is less work associated with the latter, taking these things ad hoc. It will take a little bit of staff time, some staff's time to create a formal process by which these higher scale initiatives are implemented. But I think we could structure it in such a way that it would be a help and not a hindrance to potential future larger scale outdoor dining programs. |
| 03:21:12.46 | Jill Hoffman | Okay, so then my last question is for the city attorney, which is the legal risk in treating a subset of businesses This stinks. from other businesses and your recommendation, if you have one at this time, as to how we might mitigate that risk. as we move forward with tonight's direction on our program. |
| 03:21:36.28 | Sergio Rudin | I don't have a specific recommendation at this time, but typically with these sorts of programs, you know, business that meets the qualifications can apply. to have a parklet. Now the city can adopt a general limit overall in the number of parklets it might propose. but you avoid you know, the concerns of retreating businesses you know, differently by typically having this program be available to all all comers that qualify and meet whatever your specific requirements are. So you're not regulating based on the, businesses individually, you're regulating based on what you want to see in terms of parklets. if that makes it. |
| 03:22:22.62 | Jill Hoffman | So we want to grandfather in the existing parklets, but say all future parklets are subject to this new program. Isn't that the cleanest way to do it? |
| 03:22:32.31 | Sergio Rudin | I believe that would be one. viable approach in this. And Brandon and I will be reviewing in some depth. you know, our options in terms of dealing with the existing businesses and how to grandfathered them in, you know, Certainly one option is to allow them to apply for new permits under the new program. to maintain their existing use. And the city's program can authorize the continuance of any sort of previously established parklets. Um, you know, say either you have to have an established parklet that meets the requirements that were in effect under the emergency ordinance. And if you wanna establish anything new that hasn't already been permitted, you have to comply with these requirements going forward. And that's not atypical in land use approvals. |
| 03:23:24.81 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you for that. |
| 03:23:26.19 | Janelle Blaustein | No more questions for now. Thanks Councilmember Kellman. Okay, before I open up for public comment, I just want to ensure that there are no further questions from members of the Council. Okay. Oh yes, Councilmember Hoffman. |
| 03:23:38.17 | Jill Hoffman | I do. |
| 03:23:39.17 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 03:23:39.20 | Jill Hoffman | Yeah, sorry. Um, Brandon, is there, I don't remember seeing it in the draft, but Is there... Is there a provision or is there a mechanism for disestablishing an unused parklet? In other words, somebody gets a parklet approved and the business goes out of business or the business isn't using the parklet. I mean, you can just see that there's no tables. There's no use. Is there any... mechanism for that. And I apologize if there is. I just Tennessee. |
| 03:24:13.19 | Brandon Phipps | Thank you, council member. Yeah, great question. So I think that there are a couple ways that the city could go about taking away a parklet if it feels that the business has been negligent or is not using the parklet to a level that is appropriate or that appeases the city. I don't think that there is any specific language in the draft program document, but I think that the way that the ultimate program will be structured can allow city to do that. One way that we could do that is through an annual re-licensing process or, you know, whereby we would reissue an encouragement agreement essentially for a full year and for a one-year basis, which will be re-reviewed on an annual basis by the city. At the expiration of that encouragement agreement, that would be a great time if the city feels as though the business is being negligent or it's being underutilized for the city to make that comment and potentially not approve their application for an additional year. Additionally, those underutilized or inappropriately utilized parklets could become subject to court enforcement action by our code enforcement division in the case that we feel that they're not upholding some of the provisions within the program, draft program, or within the ordinance. And I think that it would behoove us to include some language that puts the responsibility on business owners to |
| 03:24:25.10 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:24:33.39 | Unknown | Yes. |
| 03:24:52.98 | Unknown | you Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:25:47.35 | Brandon Phipps | ensure the appropriate maintenance. and reasonable and appropriate utilization of the area that they are provided for the park lab. |
| 03:25:59.28 | Jill Hoffman | Okay. Thanks. Thanks. I agree. So thank you. |
| 03:26:03.67 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you again, Director Phipps, for your presentation and also to the members of the Parklet Working Group for the many hours that you've spent reviewing this issue. And now I'm going to go ahead and open it up to public comment. |
| 03:26:15.85 | Walfred Solorzano | If anybody in the public, they can come forward. |
| 03:26:20.31 | Mike Monsef | Thank you. |
| 03:26:23.78 | Mike Monsef | Hi, my name is Mike Monsef. I know you. I just thought it's a good time to give you a little history. about the sparklet. and outdoor dining. My restaurant. originally was the one who put the table on a sidewalk is a signature of Gatsby to Sausalito. outdoor dining. And at that time, through some issues. the city decided they're going to charge $25 per table. The reason I'm bringing this one up for you to at least to have a history about knowing how we went about it at the time. And also when the park later started, I was the one who push the first partlet in sauce leader. They're one in front of the Angelino, Venice Carmen Bridge, and Cafe. We went through a lot of problems. Finally, we got it established And, both issues that You started it. the outdoor dining. what's beneficial to the community. and increase the sale tax today. City. as well as the parklet came out. And this is, uh, knowing the people who operated that parklet and all of a sudden due to the pandemic The pocket became an issue. Everybody would love to have a pocket. This is a beautiful idea for city. Yeah. I don't think Don't discourage it. Don't make it hard for the people who are using it. Actually, I think you should encourage that. I'm Other policies you're going to have, that's something for you to decide, but make sure that it does not discourage the people. I mean, You're already getting a sales tax from that. you Thank you. And that should be sufficient. And if you wanna put some annual fee, so to speak. at least make it minimum. I've heard some numbers from the public That's unbelievable if you want to go that direction. at. Just that's what I was going to say. Thank you. |
| 03:28:43.42 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you very much. |
| 03:28:52.87 | Linda Fotch | I'm Linda Fotch. I'm a resident of Sausalito, and I own rural Napa in Sausalito. We have a park left. One and I can thank the committee for all the hard work they put into this. a lot of work, I know. One section that I would like to draw their attention to is the internal circulation and spacing. I'm just wondering if, I mean, it says six feet between dining groups. I'm thinking that that might have been something that was brought about by COVID, but I think we're in a little different times now. So I'm hoping that that section could maybe be reviewed a little bit better. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:29:44.21 | Teresa Ancona | Hello, everybody. So I'm Teresa Ancona and I have my family and me. |
| 03:29:45.76 | Unknown | My Teresa. |
| 03:29:50.49 | Teresa Ancona | Have Angelina. And I also sit as chair for the chamber. And mainly my concern for my fellow business members who would like to have Parklets, similar to what we have, is actually the fee structure. And although I appreciate director Phipps saying that there has been changes to it, and it's a little hard to comment without seeing what the current fee structure is, I do think it does need to be careful. carefully evaluated, you know, and thought through because Sausalito is not Culver City or San Francisco. We don't have a lot of like, chain businesses, national companies. So the fees could be a large discouragement from businesses that would like to apply. Thank you. Thank you, Teresa. |
| 03:30:53.23 | Janelle Blaustein | Any other members of the public who are present in council chambers that would like to make public comment at this time? Okay, so we'll move to Zoom. Vicky Mickles. |
| 03:31:06.27 | Vicki Nichols | Hi, thank you. I'm gonna speak quickly because I've talked to you about this since the beginning of COVID being a long time Caledonia residents. resident. I first like to strongly suggest to our new Community Development Director, that any road changes that were connected with this pilot project, which in my view crept into the parklet situation, be bifurcated, that is a much bigger circulation issue and it shouldn't be included in parklets. Just to let you know that we neighbors have never received any noticing all through this process. So I appreciate. Commissioner Yeah. Council Member Cox's comments. Considering these will be ministerial, not conditional use permits, how will enforcement work? I think he told us a little bit how that might work. But when you have a conditional use permit, there can be a revocation of the permit. I can tell you that within just the two blocks of the Caledonia existing parklets, there's continuous examples of noncompliance related to using areas not in front of the appropriate businesses. Parking spaces that are being used for specific businesses without the permits that the other businesses have applied for and are paying for. So I think that has to be just leveraged and, you know, be consistent with whatever you do. Um, And I've asked this question for the beginning, the areas that will be granted under these parklets, they are in no way, to be included with the FAR on that particular parcel, I don't believe. But I've never been able to get an answer on this. This is, you know, in other words, if you have a parklet and you have more space being used, do you get more advantage of the use of that space versus someone that's never utilized the outdoor dining? That should not be. included in there if they are in my view. And lastly, I want to bring up something when I keep hearing this, you know, the businesses have suffered. I want our businesses to be successful, but I'll reference the council to their December 13th, staff report item K, 5K. which was your sales tax report. There were three specific pages that I looked at with categories for sales tax revenue. One, they were listed as restaurants and hotels. On page six, the totals were up 52.1%. The historic change for this same category on page seven was up 53.28%. And the third year, historical trend on the next page, which I believe was page eight. was an increase of 108%. So I just want us to be clear about what we're publishing. I have no objection to these business succeeding. I want them to succeed, but I think we need to either accept what you're getting as business sales tax |
| 03:34:12.76 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 03:34:12.79 | Walfred Solorzano | Yeah. |
| 03:34:12.81 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:34:12.82 | Walfred Solorzano | Thank you very much. |
| 03:34:15.90 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you, Vicki. |
| 03:34:17.57 | Walfred Solorzano | Next speaker is Julie Vieira. |
| 03:34:28.62 | Julie Vieira | Good evening, everyone. I just want to say that on behalf of the chamber, I sent in a letter that was actually attached to the incorrect. Um, Item on the agenda, it's under public comment. It should be under this from the Chamber of Commerce. So I hope that everyone on the council Did read that. That letter was written off of the proposal that was attached to the agenda, which is dated the 22nd that still had 2022. that still had all of the fees in there. We did not realize that some fees had been changed, and it would be nice to know what those fees are going forward. I just want us to be very careful about continuing to go back to the same wells for the fees and, making sure that our businesses are successful. If you look at the proposal that was attached to the agenda, If you had a small parklet that had 10 seats. That business was going to be charged about $11,000 to $14,000, depending on their square footage. So we need to take into consideration Vicki said yes, businesses or Income is going up because of hotels and restaurants. However, we are also seeing smaller margins for our restaurants. And I don't know if those totals that she was looking at had TOT in there. If TOT was in those totals, That is definitely going to throw it off. So we need to make sure compare apples to apples when we're talking about what's coming in from our restaurants. This Daily, we have people come into the visitor center and ask for outdoor dining options. They are still asking for that. People are still very cautious and it makes our community look more vibrant. having the parklet, so let's not put an extra burden on the restaurants to bring something special to our community by putting a lot of fees on it. So let's just be really conscious about the fees that you guys are going to charge. Thank you. |
| 03:36:45.39 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you, Julie. |
| 03:36:47.55 | Walfred Solorzano | Next speaker, Napa Valley Burger Company. |
| 03:36:57.17 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 03:36:57.20 | Sandra Bushmaker | you |
| 03:36:57.34 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:36:59.21 | Sandra Bushmaker | Oh, hi. Hello. Hi. I'm Sandra. I'm here on behalf of Napa Valley Burger Company. And so basically, you know, I just wanted to say that I understand the city is trying to come up with a plan and set a set of fees for, you know, the parklet and outdoor seating. However, you know, COVID really hit the restaurants the hardest and it would be very nice if you guys were all considerate of that when it comes down to the fees. Um, You know, just remembering that, you know, Sausalito is a tourist destination. It is seasonal. The business is not always the same. And those fees stay the same. Those fees are continuously and they go up, right, every year. And so, you know, considering all of that and making sure that, you know, the city doesn't push off their deficit onto the small businesses. You know, it's really important for the success of us, especially downtown Sausalito, that we are being considered and what we bring to the table. So thank you. Thank you. |
| 03:38:12.65 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you very much. Okay, do we have any further public comment at this time? |
| 03:38:17.80 | Walfred Solorzano | We do not. |
| 03:38:21.34 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay, great. Thank you. So we, Oh, we're not onto the communications agenda item yet, Linda. Oh, on ParkLets or on the, oh no. general comment on communications is the next item on the agenda. So let's just bring Parklet's back up to the council. I know many of you weighed in a little bit on your comments and direction, but is there Further, who wants to start? |
| 03:38:47.23 | Janelle Blaustein | I can start this time. I'm happy to do that. Again, I just really wanna thank the folks who volunteered on the Parklet group to put this together, to spend time on this report and staff. for putting together these next steps in a really clear way, which I think we all agree with, but I just really want to acknowledge that our restaurants have had a really difficult time in the wake of COVID. And they did everything they could to hang on and to serve our community in a really challenging time. And for many of us, the walk along Bridgeway to pick up a to-go cocktail and a pasta from somewhere, really was the only thing that kept us going at specific times. I'm not going to name specific restaurants, but you know. And I just want to make sure that we acknowledge that and really take into account a consideration for the fee structure, and maybe we would direct staff Again, I think we know we haven't seen the program yet and that's still being worked out. And so I would say just really consider the fee structure. And then with respect to Councilmember Kellman's suggestion, which I think was the right one, that we hear the program first before we go forward to draft the ordinance to make sure that we have that opportunity. to weigh in And then of course, making sure that this is in line with all of the state requirements as suggested, and Director Phipps will work with the city attorney on that. So those are Thank you. Those are my thoughts and I would love to hear from Councilmember Cox, who has |
| 03:40:11.03 | Councilmember Cox | headrest. Thank you, Mayor. A couple other comments that we heard that I'd like us to consider is the internal circulation and spacing, whether six feet is still really necessary in the now that COVID has calmed down a bit. And I really liked what Napa Valley Burger Company said about considering seasonal fees. You know, maybe fees would be higher during the height of the tourist season and be relaxed during the off season to reflect difficulties for businesses. I, and I continue to believe that some sort of noticing of our consideration of the ordinance is important to be sure that anyone who's, affected can weigh in, although I'm really pleased with the level of public comment that we've gotten today. including thanks to David Houghton and Julie Vieira for submitting comments in writing in advance of our meeting, which is always helpful. Thank you. Those are my comments. Thank you very much. Councilman McKellman. |
| 03:41:20.54 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, well said, Mayor. And I also want to echo the thanks to the chamber, Teresa, coming tonight and giving comments. I think we're now have the benefit of a community and or an economic and community development director. And so, Director Phipps, it might be helpful to flex those muscles when you bring this back to us and offer a narrative around the economic development aspect of this. So we really understand what is happening. Thank you, Mayor, for picking up on my comment and restating it that I do think It would be helpful to come in with a bulleted list of of what the program will entail so that individuals can comment on those individual We heard from a few people tonight that they can't really comment because they don't know what's going to be there. And I will just also share with folks who may know this already, but in San Francisco, According to the Chronicle, businesses looking for a commercial parklet annual license will have to pay $2,000 per parking space occupied. One time permits for fixed commercial parklets for the first parking space cost $3,000 and the second space costs $1,500. And then they have that businesses with fewer than and for them was $2 million in gross receipts receive a half fee waiver. And so there's some good examples out there about how we can support and be cognizant of the different economic status of different businesses. And so I think it's worth applying that lens. And so I wouldn't hold up. I think the direction is full speed ahead for sure. But I don't imagine it's going to come back to us. Given the prior conversations, it's not going to come back to us in a week. So if there could be an interim update where you could provide with us and allow us to engage in some dialogue and the community can be informed for full transparency of this is the component of the program. While we continue moving this forward, I think that will. tick off all the boxes I think are important for this community. So thank you. That's all I have. Thank you, Councilmember Killman. Councilmember Hoffman. |
| 03:43:20.54 | Jill Hoffman | So not to add you know, to the tremendous effort, but, you know, let me throw this out there too. So, you know, we talked about the enforcement side. We talked about the removal side for people that have not utilizing or, you know, just for whatever reason. But I'm wondering based on the seasonal aspect and the comment on the seasonal fees, I'm wondering if there might be some sort of seasonal parklet offer, right? Because, you know, we put the bike racks out in the summer because we need them in the summer. We don't really need them in the winter. So on Tracy way, we take them off and then we get all those parking spots back. So, but again, it just goes back to, you know we only have a certain amount of square footage in Sausalito. We only have a certain amount of parking spots. And I want to be sure that we're utilizing those assets appropriately. And so I'm just throwing that out there as, as something that somebody might be interested in doing. It would be a good balance between use as a parklet and then in, you know, low seasons, you know, it's, it's removed and, and it goes back to a parking spot, which would be commensurate with lower fees and things like that. So. Anyway, just a suggestion. Thanks. |
| 03:44:37.98 | Janelle Blaustein | that suggestion Councilmember Hoffman, Vice Mayor. |
| 03:44:42.87 | Unknown | I'm not sure I have any material comments that everyone takes, really contributory to the discussion. I just wanna thank again, Parklitz, the committee that came up with this and you, Director Phipps, for engaging with the subject. I did have one question for you. it's related since you brought it up. It was intriguing to me that you made mention of something I'd heard before, which was the advantage of some ad hoc experimentation in terms of trying some of these things out. And, I think you said something along the lines I can't remember exactly how it was, but that, um, that different areas might adopt, that it might be easier in a small town like ours, where you actually say are intimately familiar with the topology of a particular street. at a particular intersection, how many people walk there to have a different set of rules or customized set of rules, I guess, than a different part of town. rather than trying to write one set of rules that apply across the entire city. I thought I'm intrigued by that because we are such a crinkly town. you know, the width of the sidewalk in front of Napa Valley burger is very different than the sidewalk in front of avatars and And so I'm wondering to what extent I was wondering if you just expound on that thought a little bit more, since you're bringing with us to us a new set of perspectives on how to do this kind of planning. basically the contrast between a single set of rules and something that's customized for topology. And it also goes to the counselor, Kelman's question about whether you're even allowed to do that under the law. |
| 03:46:23.83 | Brandon Phipps | Sure, Vice Mayor, yeah, I appreciate the thank you and appreciate the comment and happy to expand a little bit more. So I guess we'll go back to the start of the Caledonia Street. pilot project, and that was, see, the closure started in July 26, 2020. The reason for that closure was brought about based on city's desire to quickly respond to, you know, the health emergency that was, and still was in some form, COVID-19. And not having a specific document to direct or require a certain set of behaviors to make that happen may have been to the city's benefit in that case, because flexibility was preserved. Again, there was no set list or framework of rules that the city had to follow and had previously approved. And without that city had flexibility to be able to implement something significant and adopt something in my mind that was significant in fairly short order, which was a strength in my view and put the city in position to |
| 03:47:38.18 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 03:47:40.06 | Brandon Phipps | appropriately and efficiently respond to these health crises. Yeah, and I appreciate your comment because the city is so small and because there are specific elements of individual corridors, individual roads, commercial businesses, that it's hard to write a specific document that... |
| 03:48:01.03 | Unknown | that |
| 03:48:02.85 | Brandon Phipps | contains all of the elements necessary and addresses all of the contingencies or wrinkles or differences between different streets. to perfectly support Efficient. you know, implementation in other areas. So that's where my comment related to flexibility, the strength of flexibility comes from. Where that could become a weakness is if we find ourselves at a loss for how to best approach, and how to best approach a special project in a different area of town. And maybe we could rely on that, you know, a potential framework as a compass of sorts. But in the case that that compass is not perfect, |
| 03:48:17.94 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 03:48:45.72 | Brandon Phipps | we might actually end up shooting ourselves in the foot, so to speak. and pigeonholing ourselves into a certain set procedure. My perspective on this, if I just could provide personal opinion, is that I'm hearing priority from council as related to moving forward with bringing some bulleted lists of program details for review as related to these individual outdoor dining minister FOR PARK CLATS OR FOR THAT SIDEWALK DINING. BUT I FEEL THAT IT WOULD BE FIRSTLY A LOT OF WORK AND POTENTIALLY DETRIMENTAL FOR STAFF TO TAKE ON A SIMILAR PROGRAM FOR THESE LARGER SCALE PILOT PROJECTS. I THINK IT WOULD BE EFFICIICIENT AND FOR STAFF TO NOT HAVE TO TAKE ON THAT WORK. AND ALSO BENEFICIAL TO THE CITY IN THAT WE ARE ABLE TO MAINTAIN A SENSE OF FLEXIBILITY AND ARE ABLE TO consider each corridor and potential special project on an ad hoc basis based on the particularities of each case. |
| 03:49:51.31 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 03:50:01.10 | Brandon Phipps | So I hope that has dug into that a little bit more. Thank you, Director. |
| 03:50:07.85 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you, Director Phibs. Okay. The direction is clear, which is that the next steps as outlined will be considered. that the council would like to see some sort of bulleted list of programs for review, considering the following topics that were brought up by members of the council, which is the internal circulation and spacing, whether or not the six feet are still necessary. A consideration of seasonal fees and perhaps seasonal parklet offerings and We might have a different fee structure on that. Generally considering our fee structure and what works for businesses in our community, making sure that we're engaging in a discussion with those businesses and looking at examples like we might have seen in San Francisco with their half fee waiver. and then think about how What are the enforcement sides of this and the parklet removal process if a business goes out of business or otherwise? So I think that that's the direction for staff. Is that clear? |
| 03:50:58.17 | Brandon Phipps | Thank you very much, Mary. Yes, it's clear. |
| 03:50:58.19 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you very much, Mary. Okay, and thank you again to the Parklet Working Group and to Director Phipps. Okay, so we will now move on to the next item on the agenda. which is, Communications, so this is the time on the agenda for members of the public to provide any public comment for items that are not on the agenda. If you would like to provide a public comment, please raise your hand in the zoom application or step forward the city clerk will call on individuals who have raised their hand or who have stepped forward to speak. after you are called on. On zoom, you will be unmuted to allow you to share your comments. Remember public comments are each allowed a total of three minutes to speak. So I will now open it up to communications for public comment items, not on the agenda. And I see someone approaching the podium. The mic is on. |
| 03:51:50.06 | Linda Lyons | Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council members. My name is Linda Lyons and I am the third generation owner of the Castle by the Sea. It's the old Victorian at the corner of Bridgeway and Richardson Streets on the boardwalk. You may be familiar. And you also may be familiar with the fact that it was crashed into on September 18th by a drunk driver It totally demolished the kitchens. and part of the bathroom, the toilet was demolished. The place was flooded. Um, My tenants were totally traumatized by the whole thing. It's been four months and we're still trying to repair the damage. This is the 11th. A documented time. since 1952 that this building has been crashed into. And at that time, You can look at the Sausalito the Sausalito News archives and find an article in which my grandmother attended a city council meeting and asked then, that the building be protected because it had already, this was the fifth time for her. That's 70 years ago. So, Today, my son and I met with Kevin McGowan, Public Works Director. And we talked about solutions for trying to protect the building. because that curve is so dangerous. It's a right angle turn. I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with that. that He also came down to the site and we looked under the house and looked to see how is the street, because you know the building is right up against the sidewalk, and then it goes down see what's what could be underneath the street to see what we can do. to put up some kind of barriers to protect the building. Also, I'm sure some of you are aware, it has historic status in the city, but it also has historic status in the state. And it's an important iconic building for Sausalito. |
| 03:53:46.60 | Unknown | in the state. |
| 03:53:51.24 | Linda Lyons | and really does need to be protected. Um, So we will continue to meet, I'm sure, with Kevin McGowan and try to come up with a solution. And I'll keep talking to you and we'll see where we're going. And I have a lot of pictures. This isn't the time to show people, but the You wouldn't believe the devastation that occurred. And my tenants are traumatized. If anybody had been in the kitchen, they would have been killed. There's no question. It's not if, it is actually, . Agree. Do any questions or what do I know what's next? Thank you. |
| 03:54:26.46 | Janelle Blaustein | I thank you for your public comment and we will follow up. And if you'd like to share the photos, you can also submit public comment in the form of a letter to the city council as well. |
| 03:54:33.38 | Julie Vieira | as well. Okay. |
| 03:54:34.07 | Janelle Blaustein | All right. Thank you. |
| 03:54:42.73 | Mike Monsef | Well, I back again. Yeah. As you know, downtown I'm familiar with downtown, I'm sure you are familiar. Seeing what happened to Tiburon I'm kind of. scared to see it happen in Sosolito. The reason is Because a lot of vacancy. and We need to, uh, somehow Ease up on the Eh. Regulation? in order to get these places rented. I have. two spaces. that I rented one of them today. holiday, shop, which Very prominent here. Everybody loved that store. and people still come here and ask for it. And the other one is to a gallery, which the artist is in. They got in their place and pingies already is in 30 princesses. She's going to move over there. Um, I did a devising role. between it because if the rising roll is not structural and it didn't require a permit for it, Thank you. But I made a mistake and add some electric choline, which I should have got some For a minute. I don't want that becoming an issue. I want to make sure that please, expedite that. We send it to plans and I did request it and send the plans for the 80 year bathroom over there. And I want to make sure that... you know, this be addressed, And now. Because they want to open the holiday shops and they want to open in February. They're ready to go. And the other one is going to be open in March. So You want to get the, especially as a very prominent place and that right in the middle of the, across from the park and all that next to the Gene Heller. So, I would appreciate if you, staff and your Community development. Uh, they, you know, the push for this one to be, We approve everything, we send everything for approval. It's very simple. and make it that I made a mistake I'm sorry. But, uh, That doesn't mean that they have to suffer for it. So, Please address that and make sure this one to be open. And the sooner they open that, it makes that area a little bit vibrant. Okay, thank you. |
| 03:57:27.98 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 03:57:35.47 | Bob | Good evening again, back on it on us. a different topic. the storm. corrugated metal. storm drain running under Josephine Street. I'm going to give you a real two-minute history on that hillside again. this was actually six years ago when these trees fell. Believe it or not, I can't believe it's that long ago. This is walking down the stair, and I can give the, I'll send these to the council. And this was the cut. that remained. And keep in mind these trees up here. Um, And two years later, January, You may not remember the Italian stone pine at the top of the North Stairs fell on my neighbor's house. The arborists determined that where this seven foot trunk hit the ground There was excessive groundwater that rotted the roots about a month later, we noticed out on Josephine Street, This is an AT&T trench box, junction box, and water was just pouring out of it when it was raining The box is located right here. um, right here. This is Atwood's drain with this eight-inch storm drain coming down. to the bottom of Josephine's tree. and the AT&T box is located here. A month later. when the big slide happened on South Saluda Boulevard, Um, we have our slide and you may remember this cut here. These trees and this cliff, It all came down. So this was the second city slide. that occurred on the North Steps. About a month later, We did a test. We grabbed a 800 gallon water truck in springtime and we dumped 800 gallons here. Everything was dry, ground was dry. In about five minutes, the 18 T-blocks flooded with water. So we were convinced that this eight-inch storm drain has a break in it. And that's what's contributing around the water to this hillside. Um, We finished I'll retain more. about a year later in September of 2020, a little over a year and a half ago, which is when the North stairs finally opened up. And then as we said earlier, Um, New Year's Eve. The hill slid again. But there's a couple of new issues. And Kevin came out and, he saw them with me, reviewed them. Hold on a second. |
| 04:00:17.80 | Unknown | Bye. |
| 04:00:21.93 | Bob | uh, This was the slide, all that jute that the city put down failed. We probably knew it would because that's a very steep slope and it's not going to hold up. However, we discovered a four foot by four foot sinkhole on the city property. Um, And then on top of that, This is the cut in the hill that looks like it's going to slide again. A week ago, we hired a civil with a camera. He went down the drain line. on January 6th, and we found the break. and the storm sewer and the corrugated metal. |
| 04:00:54.67 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you, Bob. Please send those images to the council. I will. Appreciate it. |
| 04:01:01.21 | Walfred Solorzano | Sorry, next speaker, Zoom, Vicki Nichols. |
| 04:01:08.81 | Vicki Nichols | Hi again, Mayor Ralstein. I wanted to, I didn't expect to do this, but I wanted to say hello to Ms. Lyons. and from a historical preservation perspective really show our appreciation for the excellent maintenance she's always maintained on the Jack London house even though it's true that Jack London never really resided there according to her sister who did extensive research so I appreciate her and I hope that she could get her repairs done soon I wanted to ask that the council I don't believe you said this but that you adjourn in tonight in memory of Carol Peltz we will be doing that Carol |
| 04:01:47.32 | Janelle Blaustein | I'm caring for to the people. |
| 04:01:48.11 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. Pardon? |
| 04:01:49.04 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. Yeah. |
| 04:01:49.59 | Vicki Nichols | Yeah. |
| 04:01:49.61 | Janelle Blaustein | We're going to be talking about |
| 04:01:49.86 | Vicki Nichols | Thank you. |
| 04:01:49.97 | Janelle Blaustein | BORN. |
| 04:01:50.03 | Vicki Nichols | Bye. |
| 04:01:50.08 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 04:01:50.10 | Vicki Nichols | doing that. |
| 04:01:50.57 | Janelle Blaustein | Bye. |
| 04:01:50.59 | Vicki Nichols | Absolutely. Okay, thank you. I didn't hear that. I appreciate that. So thanks very much. |
| 04:02:00.11 | Walfred Solorzano | Okay, next speaker is Mark Van Gorder. |
| 04:02:07.74 | Mark Van Gorder | Hello, can you hear me alright? |
| 04:02:11.13 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Yes. |
| 04:02:13.64 | Mark Van Gorder | All right, mayor council members. Thank you. My name is Mark Van Gorder. I apologize. I probably should have put Pacific Gas and Electric after my name. I'll make this brief. You've had a long evening and I know there's a few more comments coming, I just wanted to take some time, say thank you. to Vice Mayor Sobieski, to managers of PADA and Public Works Director Kevin McGowan. And in our continued discussions, we had another one last week. with Tracy Craig and Sarah Craig of Craig Communications. So, And this is about the electric a distribution overhead rebuild project. and our communications out Um, to people in the community. I know there have been inquiries, both of PG&E and probably individual council members and certainly staff asking questions. We will be starting through Craig Communications, whom we've contracted with I apologize for those who may not know me and watching, my name is Mark Van Gorder. I'm the local government affairs representative for Pacific Gas and Electric. credit communications, is going to start some outreach and some communications with the first part or the first area of our project, which will start in Marin City. Um, And that's going to happen in several months from now. There will be plenty of outreach to the folks that live in those areas. in the unincorporated uh, part of, of Marin County, just outside your city limits. But again, we'll be coming back at a meeting in early February to provide an update, a schedule, talk about some of our general overview, websites, community meetings, either online or in person, whatever seems the most appropriate or COVID appropriate. and we will be following up with more information then. |
| 04:04:09.22 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you, Mark. |
| 04:04:14.35 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 04:04:21.71 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you. |
| 04:04:21.72 | Dan LaRusso | Hi, everyone. |
| 04:04:22.42 | Kevin McGowan | Thank you. Okay. |
| 04:04:23.97 | Dan LaRusso | Dan LaRusso, I am the tenant that Linda Lyons was referencing that lived in the unit when the car hit the side of the house that was the kitchen. I just wanted to echo my support for Linda Lyons. Myself, my wife and my daughter had lived in that unit for 10 years. Um, when those short 10 years and it did go by fast, um, I can easily name three to four incidents of cars going into the beach, a delivery truck that went straight off of Bridgeway, right through that corner that is usually busy and trafficked with tourists. Not too long ago, I think within the last six months, the car was heading south down the hill and missed the turn and went straight into the bay, again, crossing at that very dangerous, in my opinion, corner that definitely needs some form of safety barriers. So in addition to the house that was struck and we feel very fortunate not to have been in that that kitchen and our daughter wasn't home when it happened. Something needs to be done on that corner and the speed I would also say on that corner is I would say irresponsibly fast. If anybody had takes that corner at the legal speed limit of 25 miles per hour, I encourage you to try to do that. |
| 04:05:34.61 | Unknown | Yeah. |
| 04:05:34.72 | Unknown | anything. |
| 04:05:41.05 | Dan LaRusso | It is very fast. I know the recommended speed limit is posted at 20. Even that is fast. We see it all the time. In 10 years, those are easily three easy examples I can reference in addition to the one that hit the house. So I echo all of what Linda is requesting here and hopefully the town can get involved and expedite some form of safety barrier for not only the house, but those that spend time on that corner and joining the field. So. Thank you for your time. |
| 04:06:10.58 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you, Dan. Is there any further public comment at this time? |
| 04:06:15.70 | Dan LaRusso | Thank you. |
| 04:06:15.71 | Walfred Solorzano | Thursday. |
| 04:06:16.74 | Janelle Blaustein | Okay. Thank you very much. So now we'll move on to item seven, which is council member committee reports. Does anyone have a committee report they would like to share out at this time? Thank you. |
| 04:06:28.76 | Councilmember Cox | Yes, Councilmember Cox. The MCC MC legislative committee met on Monday morning and received an update on the governor's budget, as well as updates on several bills being watched by the committee, including a B 96 concerning protection of workers impacted by autonomous transit vehicle technology. And AB 99 regarding discontinuing the use of herbicides and pesticides for vegetation management along state highways. The clerk also provided links to some useful bill tracking websites, including tracking of housing, transit, and other key issues that I'm happy to provide if helpful. Thanks. Thank you, council member Cox. Council members. |
| 04:07:13.97 | Janelle Blaustein | Kellman. |
| 04:07:14.69 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 04:07:14.71 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 04:07:15.30 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. Yeah, the Blue Economy Task Force, we had our first meeting last week, the mayor and I, and we divided ourselves into four subcommittees to evaluate opportunities for help us to be climate leaders and develop new industries and create jobs and a more diverse tax base. So the four subcommittees are evaluating the benefit of a public-private partnership and a creation of 501c3. A subcommittee is looking at the concept of an innovation zone from a planning and land use perspective. The third subcommittee is looking at economic development strategies and pipelines. And then the fourth subcommittee is looking at accelerators and concepts that could help support young nascent companies. Also, I am now the MCCMC Disaster Preparedness Rep And after hearing from many neighbors about mudslides in their homes, I did reach out to the supervisor who I am now trying to get information from the county around what local property owners can do if you're not covered by flood insurance and you need money in a non disaster zone. Apparently there are some tax incentives going out and so I'll share this with the full council. And then the last is Council Member Hoffman and I are beginning the Bridgeway Marina conversations again. And so we'll have some more updates probably in the next few weeks. Nothing to report yet, but some contact has been made and we will keep you posted. That's it. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 04:08:44.03 | Janelle Blaustein | Anyone else want to report out? Well, myself and Councilmember Kellman, as members of the Racial Justice Working Group, met yesterday to talk about a variety of issues. one of which was hopefully continuing to pursue DEI consultant for the city. which was something that we'd brought up several times. And I just wanna mention it again, as we're gonna continue to push for that. We also had a discussion about four themed roundtable events within Sausalito and Marin City as a continuation of the topics that were discussed at MLK Day. And so those are just some of the areas that we touched on. So that work is continuing. Anyone else want to report out? Okay. So the next item on the agenda is We're going to now take public comment on 8a through 8b through 8e, which is city manager reports city council appointments and other council business do we have any public comment at this time. See you none. Okay, so seeing none, I'll now close public comment, and I'll go ahead and move on to item 8B, which is hopefully a hot update on Sammy the C-Ryan from our city manager. |
| 04:09:52.96 | Sybil Boutlier | Thank you. |
| 04:09:53.10 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 04:09:54.95 | Chris Zapata | I will thank you, Mayor and Council for that. important direction. Public Works rescued send me the sea lion, not send me the seal. I was taught that it's not a seal, it's a sea lion. It may not be a Sammy, but I really am. Happy that our public works department acted quickly to pull Sammy out of the water. and to place him in a position of safety at our public works yard as mentioned by the mayor earlier. We are currently getting bids from different people to look at the base that needs to be repaired as well as the steps leading to the path below and the sea lining. So that is all underway. We'll see how that turns out. for folks that may be wondering where the SAMI is. SAMI is in safe hands with our public works department. There's some obvious work to be done because of the erosion and some of the damage done as a result of seawater and wave movement. So, and very important to preserve our public art in Sausalito, so rest assured that's happening. Mayor and council have scheduled a February 10th planning session. That's a Friday. That's an important event for the city council and for city staff and for the public, you know, to understand what the priorities and values of the council are and how they align with our budget and our budget process going forward and how we work throughout the year is extremely important because this then gives staff and the community a sense of the work to be done. And tonight we heard one priority, which is make sure we work on these landslide task force recommendations. And we heard from Thank you. in the community a sense of the work to be done and tonight we heard one priority which is make sure we work on these landslide task force recommendations and we heard from the residents some of the things that are concerning them whether it's unsafe conditions in their neighborhoods or on their properties so that'll be a good day to see that unfold i want to report out that i was able to secure the services of what was formerly management partners but they're now assumed by a group called Dickertilly. So they are going to be the facilitator and prepare for that special day. They will be contacting council people to schedule pre-interviews to make sure that day is a success. I also want to thank Mark Van Gorder for his update on our conversations with PG&E, because I know they've been of question and concern to the residents. And so he kind of shot it out the gate. But one of the things that we'd like to do, Mayor and Council, is have PG&E come into our first meeting in February with some specific information to talk about what projects they need to do, what projects they are doing, what the schedules might look like, what our communication approach is going to be as partners, as it is their project. But there are some opportunities that the community may want, and underground is not everybody's cup of tea, but it may be for some. So a survey was done at the direction of the council that involves 276 responses as of now. So we want to speak a little bit about what those responses said and people's appetite for undergrounding that responded to that survey. But to set the record straight, you know, the city working on undergrounding has been going on since the early 70s. And if it's to happen, it may happen in bite-sized pieces, not the whole city. So I wanted to make that clear. And obviously, PG&E has a franchise agreement with the city. These are their customers. This is their project. And as I mentioned in our last conversation with the community and council, they have an obligation to provide power to folks. And if something happens before all of our plans unfold the way we think they may, they will have to act accordingly. So that concludes my report, Mayor and Council. Thank you for your time. |
| 04:13:34.31 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you very much, city manager. So now we'll move on to 8C, which is appointments to boards, commissions, and committees. There are no... |
| 04:13:40.76 | Julie Vieira | Thank you. |
| 04:13:40.81 | Julie Vieira | Right. |
| 04:13:41.03 | Jill Hoffman | Thank you. |
| 04:13:41.52 | Janelle Blaustein | No. |
| 04:13:41.69 | Jill Hoffman | I had a |
| 04:13:42.83 | Janelle Blaustein | Yes. |
| 04:13:43.04 | Jill Hoffman | a follow-up from the city manager. Absolutely, please. I did raise my hand virtually though. I want that noted for the record. Of course. do that. It's recorded, you know. So City Manager, so for the planning and priority session on February, could you tell us the times and that that will be a Brown Act agendized meeting open to the public agenda will be posted and the public will participate in that as they wish. So can you tell us the times on that? |
| 04:14:12.23 | Chris Zapata | All right. |
| 04:14:16.62 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 04:14:16.63 | Jill Hoffman | This morning. |
| 04:14:16.92 | Janelle Blaustein | This morning. |
| 04:14:17.80 | Chris Zapata | Right. |
| 04:14:18.03 | Janelle Blaustein | start? That's right, 8.30 in the morning on February 10th. Thank you. |
| 04:14:21.70 | Jill Hoffman | 8.30 to noon, 8.30 to 12.30, something like that, right? At least till 12.30, yes. Yeah, okay. So I just wanted that to be clear and people to have that on their radar that that will be coming up and the agenda will come out in the normal course as we do. So anyway, thank you. |
| 04:14:36.67 | Janelle Blaustein | And while we're on that topic of special meetings and the agenda coming out, and I want to remind members of the public that the city council has has scheduled a special joint meeting with the Planning Commission this coming Monday, January 30th. At 3 p.m. So if you are planning to participate or engage in this discussion, it's a special meeting with regards to the housing element. the public is aware of that in advance as well. Okay, so now I will move on to appointments to boards, commissions and committees, item 8C. We have no appointments at this time. So I will move on to 8D, which is future agenda items. Are there agenda items that council members would like to add? I see your hand there. Council member Cox. Yes. |
| 04:15:17.10 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. I note that we don't have an attachment to this. Typically we provide a list of upcoming agenda items, but that's not attached to our agenda this week. I would like to continue to see that so that we know what items are already being tracked. I'm just going to repeat one item. that I mentioned previously is an update from our Sausalito Marin City School District. |
| 04:15:44.15 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 04:15:44.17 | Julie Vieira | Mm-hmm. |
| 04:15:44.47 | Councilmember Cox | you Um, Thank you. And another item I'd like us to consider, we received public comment in writing tonight from someone concerned with our BLT. We get it. Periodic. complaints about our BLT. I don't know whether there's any to look at our BLT and consider some of the complaints we've received from the public, but I've received a couple since I was reelected in November, so I'd like to consider whether that's worthwhile. looking at as a council. Thank you. |
| 04:16:18.69 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 04:16:18.76 | Councilmember Cox | Thank you. |
| 04:16:18.77 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. |
| 04:16:18.81 | Councilmember Cox | And, |
| 04:16:18.98 | Janelle Blaustein | Thank you. Anyone else have future agenda items they'd like to add at this time? Okay, so before we adjourn the meeting, I would like to close and adjourn this meeting in honor of Carol Peltz, whose compassion and strength and advocacy were really a inspiration to a generation of Sausalitans. And she was a true political pioneer. And all of us sort of stand on her shoulders today when we're working to improve our community. So the least I can do here is just share an obituary of some of her accomplishments. I wasn't lucky enough to know her, but in the past week, We heard from Vicki Nichols this evening asking us to adjourn the meeting in her honor, but I've received multiple letters from members of the community who knew her and were moved by her. And so I'm just going to share a little bit about her. Carol Peltz. A two-term Sausalito mayor passed away on January 7, 2023. She was 82. Mrs. Peltz was a fourth generation San Franciscan. Raised by a single mother, Mrs. Pelt graduated from Katherine Delmar Burke School and went on to Stanford University, where she earned a degree in French. After obtaining a teacher teaching credential at UC Berkeley, she taught sixth grade at the John Sweat School in San Francisco. in coordination with the NAACP Mrs. Peltz formed and ran a mentoring and private school placement program for gifted African-American students. She was particularly proud of one of her students who ultimately obtained a PhD in astrophysics from her alma mater. Mrs. Peltz's family, has deep roots in San Francisco. Her great grandfather, Charles Ackerman, and grandfather Irving Ackerman, both San Francisco attorneys, founded, built, and ran a circuit of vaudeville and motion picture theaters from San Francisco to Los Angeles, as well as the Shoots Amusement Park in San Francisco. After her 1963 marriage to Dr. Morris Peltz, a prominent psychoanalyst, the couple moved to Sausalito, where they began raising a family and where Mrs. Peltz commenced decades of local activism. In 1979, Mrs. Peltz became the first woman elected to the Sausalito Marin City Sanitary District Board of Directors. She went on to serve eight years on the Sausalito City Council, including two terms as mayor from 1982 to 1984 and again from 1986 to 1987. Mayor Peltz launched Sausalito's first curbside recycling program championed public art and fought to protect the city's open spaces, undeveloped shoreline, bay waters and wildlife and historic character. Accompanying her to all her council meetings was Charlie, the family's floppy little black dog. I'm a great talker, Ms. Peltz once confided to a journalist, and not only in English. One July day in 1983, she led a visiting Zairean dignitary on a two-hour tour of Sausalito, all in French. As the two convivably discussed a range of municipal concerns, a U.S. State Department interpreter trailed silently behind. Mrs. Peltz adored art, gorgeous simple meals, hiking with family and friends in the GGNRA, hosting dinner parties, traveling with her husband, and fighting hard for what she thought was right. She is loved and will be greatly missed by her three children, four grandchildren, and many friends. Okay, I will now adjourn the meeting in honor of Mayor Carol Peltz at 9 55 PM. Thank you. Thank you all. Thanks, all. Have a good night. |
| 04:19:30.48 | Jill Hoffman | you |
| 04:19:35.20 | Jill Hoffman | Oh, I forgot to. |
Vicki Nichols — Neutral: Suggested using the safety element to expand environmental definitions for SB 9, including topography and sea level rise, and requested analysis of slope standards in the ODDS draft. ▶ 📄
Sybil Boutlier — In Favor: Advocated for including elevator/hoist requirements in ODDS, particularly for senior housing, referencing California Building Code 1103B and accessibility for people with disabilities. ▶ 📄