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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08-05-1985 Adjourned Joint Meeting Minutes • Adjourned Joint Meeting - August 5 , 1985 An Adjourned joint meeting of the City of Dublin Planning Commission and Parks Commission. The Meeting was called to order by Cm. Alexander , Chairman of the Planning Commission at 7 : 15 p.m. * * * * ROLL CALL PRESENT: Planning Commissioners Alexander , Barnes, Petty, Mack , and Raley, Laurence L. Tong, Planning Director and Kevin J. Gailey, Senior Planner , Parks Commissioners Ovlen, Zika and Hernandez , and Diane Lowart , Recreation Director . * * * * ABSENT: Parks Commissioners Liz Schmitt and Barbara Donnel . NEW BUSINESS Joint meeting to review proposed. East Dougherty Hills park site. Mr . Tong presented the Staff Report providing the two Commissions with a brief chronology of the minor subdivision involving the 135+ parcel out of which the five acre East Dougherty Hills park site is proposed to be established. The minor subdivision ( City File PA 85-021 ) was conditioned providing the City authority to review and approve the size, location, configuration and access of the future public park . Mr . Tong advised that in conjunction with the City ' s review of the park site, the City had hired a park consultant. Mr . Tong indicated that the recommendations from Staff regarding the proposed park site are reflective of the findings and recommendations of the park designer ' s (Mr . Phil Singer ) report . Mr . Phil Singer addressed the two Commissions and underscored some of the problems determined to be associated with the proposal to split the park site into two pieces, bisected by a stretch of Alamo Creek . The smaller , most easterly, pprtion of the proposed park site was considered to have the following problems associated with its design; 1) Proximity to Dougherty Road creates special noise/safety problems . 2 ) Site ' s configuration is not conducive to passive recreation uses . 3 ) Site ' s configuration creates limitation to potential active recreation uses . • Mr . Singer , in response to Cm. Mack ' s inquiry, stated that to . secure an unbisected five acre park site, approximately 1 . 6+ acres would have to be taken from the Village 7 area and added to the westerly portion of the proposed park . Mr . Singer , in response to Cm. Ovlen ' s inquiry, stated the recommendation in his report regarding the need for access along a major portion of the site would not appear to create any major design problems for a modified park layout . Mr . Singer stated further that trees within the creek are proposed to be retained and would serve as a nice back-drop to proposed revised park - lay-out . Cm. Ovlen asked what the probable use of the small area along the east side of the creek could be if not used as a park . Mr . Tong indicated the developer would most likely attempt to locate some level of residential or private recreational uses in that area . Mr . Tong emphasized that it was the unique problems related to the developer ' s proposed location and configuration of the park site that prompted the joint Commission meeting to be called. If the site was regularly configured only the Planning Commission ' s input on the location and configuration would have been required. Commissioners Alexander and Zika discussed the range of possible uses shown on the developer ' s schematic park plans . The process that would be utilized to determine the actual land uses within the park site ultimately secured was discussed. Mr . Tong indicated that at this point input from the Commissions as regards potential land uses needs only be tied to a schematic review. The detailed review of land uses would be reviewed later in the park development process . Mr . Ron Nahas,.. Rafanelli and Nahas, advised the Commissions of the design considerations leading up to the development of the proposed park layouts submitted by his firm. He also described the attributes they felt a split park layout would provide. The major points he raised regarding these two areas are summarized as follows : A. The Conceptual design considerations the developer considered when initially determining the schematic split park layouts; - Providing a centralized location. - Spliting the park site. with a stretch of Alamo Creek to allow the total area of the park to include a section of drainage easement and having a gross area greater than the required five-acre minimum. - Tying the park site into the Creek area to provide compliance with the General Plan Implementing Policy which calls for promotion of access to stream corridors , in part to provide for passive recreation uses ( 7 . 1, B) . B . The Design attributes the developer feels are provided by split park layouts . - Sites could provide for a wide range of the potential uses Singer ' s report indicates are typically found in neighborhood parks . - Sites could take advantage of the natural creek setting as a desirable backdrop for a park . - Sites could allow opportunity for City to consider pursuing a City/Zone 7 joint use license for possible • passive use in parts of the creek drainage easement area . - The split park design would potentially serve to segregate different types of uses on the respective portions of the split park . Mr . Tong and Cm. Alexander discussed the issue of liability as it related to the Creek ' s proximity to the proposed park sites and the possibility that a joint use agreement between the City and Zone 7 could be secured. Mr . Nahas indicated that the west approach to the creek is relatively flat with no excessive grading necessary if some degree of passive recreational use into the creek drainage easement area was pursued. He stated that the issue of safety could not be addressed except in very generalized terms at this time. On motion of Parks Cm. Ovlen, seconded by Parks Cm. Hernandez , and by unanimous vote of the Parks Commissioners present, the Parks Commissioner voted to concur with the recommendations outlined within the park designer ' s report regarding the future - East Dougherty Hills . Park Site. On motion of Cm'. Petty, seconded by Cm. Raley, and by unanimous vote of the Planning Commissioners present, the Planning Commissioners voted to concur with the recommendations of the park designer ' s report, specifically concuring with the recommendation to exclude Area "A" and add to Area "B" (as delineated in the park designer ' s report) to create the five acre park site. * * * * 9 ADJOURNMENT There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 8 : 10 . Respectfully submitted, Planning Commission Chairman _ Parks Commission Chairman Laurence L. Tong, Planning Director Diane Lowart Recreation Director * * * * i