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| It's that time again. | 00:02:01 | |
| Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. | 00:02:03 | |
| Welcome to the City Council regular meeting. I'm calling this meeting to order. The time is now 6:30 PM. | 00:02:05 | |
| Please stand and join me for the flag salute. | 00:02:11 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. | 00:02:19 | |
| And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:02:24 | |
| Madam Clerk, will you please take roll call? | 00:02:39 | |
| Councilmember Gama. | 00:02:41 | |
| Council Member Hernandez, Council Member Martinez, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Legend and Mayor Perez. | 00:02:44 | |
| We will now hear public comments not pertaining to items on the agenda. Comments are limited to three minutes. This process will | 00:02:51 | |
| be the same for comments pertaining to each agenda item. | 00:02:56 | |
| Madam Clerk, does anyone have any public comment tonight? | 00:03:00 | |
| We do have one, but I don't know if you wanted to scroll back real quick for the inspiration, but this is really loud. Is it | 00:03:05 | |
| echoing? Sounds like it's echoing to me. | 00:03:10 | |
| It would have been quite all right if you missed me tonight. So our inspiration tonight will be given by Mayor Putin, Martha | 00:03:16 | |
| McQueen Legion. | 00:03:20 | |
| OK, so you all if you have heard an inspiration from me before, I'm. | 00:03:24 | |
| Usually write it down. I've checked all my spell check and periods and cross the TS and dots. The IS. Well, I didn't do that this | 00:03:31 | |
| time. | 00:03:35 | |
| I've been thinking in the last couple of days, what did I want the inspiration to be? | 00:03:41 | |
| And it just came to me today. And so I was reflecting back on some conversations that I've had with some friends and a long | 00:03:48 | |
| conversation I had with my son on yesterday. | 00:03:53 | |
| And we talked a little bit about. | 00:03:59 | |
| Just ourselves. How do we show up for people, anyone? | 00:04:02 | |
| And so my inspiration today, I'm just going to share a little bit about that, if you don't mind. | 00:04:08 | |
| And as we quickly approach, I can't believe it's almost the end of the year already 2022. | 00:04:16 | |
| It's crazy, but as we approach the end of the year. | 00:04:21 | |
| And let's see, the holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, we all have different reasons or different philosophies about how you | 00:04:26 | |
| celebrate and why you celebrate those days, right? So it's not always the same for everyone. | 00:04:33 | |
| And so as I move closely to the end of the year and we're going to hear a proclamation later. And so there's some also something I | 00:04:41 | |
| want to share about that as well, but. | 00:04:47 | |
| I think about just being thankful. | 00:04:54 | |
| Right for all things being thankful. | 00:04:57 | |
| And so I started thinking about one of the things that I'm thankful for. | 00:05:00 | |
| I'm thankful that while I don't have my father, I still have my mother. | 00:05:05 | |
| While I have a sister that's I'll, I have another five siblings that are doing very well. | 00:05:09 | |
| We're able to have food on the table. We're not homeless. | 00:05:18 | |
| And, and we are doing well enough, we can help others, right? And so those are some of the things that I'm personally thankful | 00:05:24 | |
| for. And then for a minute I start thinking about. | 00:05:31 | |
| Sitting on the dais, you know, a couple of times a month and learning all this new stuff and kind of some of the things that I'm | 00:05:39 | |
| thankful for as it relates to City Council. And so I had something special for you guys, so for Bobby. | 00:05:47 | |
| I so appreciate you and I'm thankful for the flyer that you sent me today. I really love arts and the idea that you would share | 00:05:56 | |
| something for me and I can actually go out and do some of the things that I like to do. I appreciate that. | 00:06:02 | |
| Steven for always sharing what you think might be important to me. So I love it when you call me and we talk about things and I'm, | 00:06:09 | |
| I feel most precious because you feel that you can call me. So I appreciate that. | 00:06:17 | |
| Laura, for always providing me information that you think might be helpful to me as a new council member or two years in, I | 00:06:25 | |
| appreciate that. And for our mayor, I appreciate you always giving me the time to think through my thoughts. | 00:06:33 | |
| Because I'm not a quick, quick talker, I don't talk a lot, so it takes some time for me to think about the things that I want to | 00:06:41 | |
| say. So I appreciate you for giving me that time. | 00:06:45 | |
| So giving thanks is really important. | 00:06:50 | |
| So let's all continue to give thanks for the things that we have. | 00:06:53 | |
| And not only give thanks, but also say thank you. | 00:06:58 | |
| To people. | 00:07:05 | |
| Right. Say thank you when someone opens the door for you, right? Or someone you're at the grocery store and instead of putting | 00:07:06 | |
| your cart back in the rack, someone gives it to you. | 00:07:11 | |
| Right. Or if someone you drop something and someone reaches down and picks it up for you. | 00:07:18 | |
| Or if something someone carries something for you that's too heavy, whether it's that's a metaphor or whether it's actually | 00:07:24 | |
| something that's too heavy, be thankful for that and say thank you. | 00:07:30 | |
| Umm or anytime someone just helps you do anything, say thank you that helps you put. I know sometimes I'm sitting and I'm trying | 00:07:37 | |
| to get my clothes on and I can't really get my jackets on. Then someone will come and try to help me put my arm in my jacket. | 00:07:45 | |
| Say thank you for that. And so as we continue all to move to the end of this this year and enter into the season, think about the | 00:07:54 | |
| people who don't have. | 00:07:59 | |
| Right. Who don't have their health and don't have their strength and don't have food. | 00:08:05 | |
| Don't have a home to sleep in? | 00:08:10 | |
| Don't have their health? | 00:08:12 | |
| Don't have their children anymore. | 00:08:14 | |
| Don't have their parents anymore. Just think about the things that you could be thankful for and then say thank you. And the last | 00:08:17 | |
| thing I'll say is as we enter into this Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving season, remember again, we're going to have the proclamation | 00:08:25 | |
| later. But remember, Thanksgiving to some native Indians are a day of mourning. | 00:08:33 | |
| So while we're celebrating, just know that not everyone is celebrating with us. So thank you. | 00:08:42 | |
| Thank you. That's beautiful. | 00:08:49 | |
| Now we will go to public comments. | 00:08:54 | |
| Madam Clerk, do we have any public comments tonight? We have 1 written public comment. Good evening City Council members. Your | 00:08:56 | |
| leadership in 2024 is appreciated. Spring, summer and now fall. I've looked for updates on the municipal website. Below the header | 00:09:03 | |
| City Spotlight you can see there's a hyperlink to Storm Recovery Update. February 8th, 2024 is the most current posting with SCE | 00:09:10 | |
| information added. Nine months have passed without a newer posting. | 00:09:17 | |
| In the spirit of transparency and to boost local comprehension of recovery. | 00:09:24 | |
| Here's some topics I request you address in a year end update. | 00:09:28 | |
| First, questions about those damages and losses in which city operations were a factor. | 00:09:32 | |
| How many claims has the City received since December 21st, 2023? How many of those claims have been rejected as of November 15th, | 00:09:38 | |
| 2024? How many of those claims have been fully processed? How many claims are still in limbo? Neither fully processed nor | 00:09:45 | |
| rejected? What matters most to the City upon receiving a claim related to stormwater runoff? Next, a broader spectrum of | 00:09:53 | |
| questions. What risks should citizens be wary of as we move toward the season when fresh incidents of storm? | 00:10:00 | |
| Runoff difficulties are most likely to occur. What challenges, if any, is the city position to handle differently during the next | 00:10:08 | |
| storm season? Priorities. What challenges will the city face in the same way as last winter? Examples. What was the typical water | 00:10:15 | |
| level for Sumas Creek years ago before the creeks renaming? What level is now the norm for Sumas Creek? How frequently is the | 00:10:23 | |
| Creek level measured in conjunction with J St. pumping operations or other storm water management concerns? | 00:10:30 | |
| Were certain resiliency improvements or remedies for runoff infrastructure explored during the past nine months? | 00:10:39 | |
| Are any operational measures or innovations shortlisted for consideration in the near future? | 00:10:45 | |
| If the city is in the loop with the state and the federal SBA loan program some local households opted to pursue, can the city | 00:10:51 | |
| provide a participant tally among those home owners, vehicle owners or other property owners now enrolled in federal loans, our | 00:10:57 | |
| local loans that are unsecured beneath a $17,000 threshold more plentiful? Or are secured loans above the threshold more | 00:11:02 | |
| plentiful? | 00:11:08 | |
| If the city has intelligence on folks facing relocation beyond city limits as a result of damages and losses, can the number of | 00:11:15 | |
| households be shared with the public? The spectrum of questions could shift direction with further input. Questions listed herein | 00:11:21 | |
| are opposed while bearing in mind a vision of affordable housing. | 00:11:27 | |
| Alas, housing supply may shrink abruptly if stormwater management shortcomings arise. | 00:11:33 | |
| If city leadership seeks improvements for stormwater management but folks are clueless as to how or when actions may occur, | 00:11:39 | |
| households may rush to scope out relocation plans. To avoid repeats of recent events, I request an update be posted on the | 00:11:47 | |
| municipal website so that the stories hold in February 2024 is not the end point for current or prospective citizens and | 00:11:54 | |
| businesses to grasp the aftermath of last winter storm impacts. Thank you, Dulce Satterfield, and that concludes public comment. | 00:12:01 | |
| Mayor, if I can just comment on a couple things very briefly. I know it's not on the agenda so we we can't fully respond, but we | 00:12:09 | |
| are, we actually have under the city manager's report tonight, we're going to be updating. | 00:12:15 | |
| On a couple of storm preparedness efforts that we've been working on, including literally today, the timing of this comment is, is | 00:12:24 | |
| a great timing because some of the things we've been working on for quite a while were accomplished in the last 48 hours. | 00:12:32 | |
| Including getting working with the county to have the channel cleared out in advance of any storm this year. That was accomplished | 00:12:40 | |
| this morning. So we'll have some information on that and some photos and I think there's a. | 00:12:47 | |
| Four quick points I wanted to note. 1 is that we've been working with the county to get the channel cleared. We'll have | 00:12:54 | |
| information on that. We've been working on our own Bubbling Springs project even within those very tight windows that we have in | 00:13:01 | |
| place due to all the federal regulations. And we have an item on the agenda today to even kind of expedite that. So we've still | 00:13:07 | |
| been working on that Bubbling Springs Creek issue. We had our first CERT community emergency Response team preparedness training. | 00:13:14 | |
| Graduation this weekend. | 00:13:22 | |
| Recommend some things they might want to look into. So we'll have a little more information on that later. We'll do some posts on | 00:13:54 | |
| that. And then we'll keep trying to get the word out on storm preparedness as we heard today that there could be the first rain | 00:14:00 | |
| coming this weekend. So it's something we've been working to get ahead of. So thank you. | 00:14:07 | |
| Thank you, Mr. City Manager. | 00:14:15 | |
| Can I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda for tonight? | 00:14:17 | |
| May I make a comment or question? | 00:14:22 | |
| Regarding item number one. | 00:14:26 | |
| First of all, I just want to say that my wife is a card carrying a member of Comanche Nation and she works for the Owens Valley | 00:14:28 | |
| Native American Career Center providing needed services to Indian families and children throughout Ventura County of all tribes. | 00:14:37 | |
| When we approve this, I thought it was going to cover all Native American peoples in our area and so. | 00:14:45 | |
| I noticed that the proclamation takes a turn towards a chew mask. I just have one question. Did we? | 00:14:54 | |
| Did we? | 00:14:59 | |
| That we seek guidance from the two mass tribal Council on this. | 00:15:01 | |
| Proclamation. | 00:15:06 | |
| We, we did not. There is no tribal council. There is actually no, there's not. And I can, I can ask Misty to I'm not Misty. I can | 00:15:08 | |
| ask Casey to address that. But I just, I spoke to the chair yesterday. There is a tribal council. | 00:15:17 | |
| It's not federally recognized, so my point of bringing this up is to recognize all Native American groups. That's what I thought | 00:15:26 | |
| this proclamation was doing, and so I'll just leave it at that. | 00:15:32 | |
| I would ask that this discussion on item 1 be. | 00:15:39 | |
| Withheld until we get to item one and then we can have a further full discussion. Thank you. | 00:15:43 | |
| So can I have a motion to approve? | 00:15:50 | |
| In a second please second. | 00:15:53 | |
| All in Favor or Madam Clerk, please call the vote All in favor. | 00:15:55 | |
| All opposed hearing none. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 00:15:59 | |
| Do any members of Council have any conflicts of interest to disclose for any item on the agenda? | 00:16:04 | |
| Not seeing any, We'll move on to the presentation. The presentation tonight is the Indigenous Peoples Month Proclamation. | 00:16:10 | |
| And that will be given by Councilmember Hernandez. | 00:16:17 | |
| Thank you, Mayor, and it is my honor tonight to read the Indigenous Peoples Month proclamation, which recognizes all Indigenous | 00:16:20 | |
| people, but especially those first people in the area of Port Hueneme, which are the Chumash. | 00:16:29 | |
| And I'll begin now. Whereas November marks the 57th annual celebration of Indigenous Peoples Month, recognizing 100 years of | 00:16:39 | |
| citizenship and the fight for the right to vote from 1924 to 2024. And whereas this year's Indigenous Peoples Month commemorates | 00:16:46 | |
| the moment when, 100 years ago, Native Americans were conferred citizenship in the United States of America, and with it, the | 00:16:53 | |
| right to vote in the state of California. | 00:17:00 | |
| And whereas in these last 100 years we have witnessed California tribal nations. | 00:17:08 | |
| And Native American individuals fully embracing their potential in this collective democracy. And whereas the Chumash Nation and | 00:17:14 | |
| the Chumash people are the first known inhabitants and rightful original stewards of this land, we call Port Hueneme. And whereas | 00:17:21 | |
| the Chumash Nation utilized the area known as Wineemoo and Wineema has a trading route and resting place for voyagers to the | 00:17:28 | |
| Channel Islands and other surroundings on the Central Coast. | 00:17:35 | |
| And wear a shoe mask. Tribal culture and language is still alive through people, songs, storytelling and ceremony. And whereas | 00:17:42 | |
| Shoe Mash people are still walking amongst the many other people who have come to call Ventura County their home. And whereas, the | 00:17:50 | |
| City of Port Hueneme recognizes the rich cultural history of the Chumash and understands that in the present day we continue to | 00:17:57 | |
| enjoy the rich legacy of regional commerce, environmental stewardship and preservation of our land. | 00:18:05 | |
| Waters and whereas the federal government in 2024 established the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, which stretches | 00:18:12 | |
| along 116 miles of California coastline and has been home to coastal ocean going tribal nations and indigenous indigenous peoples | 00:18:20 | |
| for 10s of thousands of years. And whereas we have seen the first California Native American elected to the state legislature and | 00:18:27 | |
| heard native languages echoing in the halls of the state capitol. | 00:18:34 | |
| We have welcomed back Condor, Beaver and wolf populations on California tribal lands, and we have seen dynamic Native leaders | 00:18:42 | |
| reclaiming their place throughout this state on local and county boards and judicial offices. And whereas this land and ocean | 00:18:49 | |
| composing, the City of Port Hueneme will continue to be home to the Chumash Nation and all of Indigenous nature and species and | 00:18:57 | |
| where it is with deep respect and gratitude that we gather here today and acknowledge that it is our. | 00:19:04 | |
| Responsibility to take care and protect this land now therefore be it proclaimed that the City Council and the City of Port | 00:19:12 | |
| Hueneme does hereby acknowledge November has Indigenous Peoples Month that the land on which we are gathered here today is the | 00:19:19 | |
| home and traditional land belonging to the Chumash Nation. And while Julie Tomamite Stansley, the Chumash Traditional Chumash | 00:19:27 | |
| Elder was invited to receive this proclamation, she has sent. | 00:19:34 | |
| Casey Rodriguez in her stead to receive the proclamation. And I'd like to invite Casey up to say a few words. | 00:19:42 | |
| Thank you. Hello. First of all, I'd like to say thank you to your arrived service among the Indigenous peoples community. | 00:19:58 | |
| I am honored to be present here tonight to receive this proclamation under the blessing of my traditional Shamash Elder Julie to a | 00:20:06 | |
| Maidstone Sly. I sincerely thank you, Council, for this proclamation tonight. | 00:20:12 | |
| For over scientifically proven 19,000 years, Shamash people have been one with the surrounding land. Our story first begins on the | 00:20:19 | |
| move or what you call today, Santa Cruz Island. | 00:20:24 | |
| As a Chumash woman, I'm aware of the beauty of being able to walk with my ancestors daily and a give thanks especially to my great | 00:20:31 | |
| grandmother, Juana Maria Rodriguez. | 00:20:36 | |
| Because of her steadfast and resilient prayers, I have been blessed with this life. | 00:20:41 | |
| A life where I have a birth obligation to always be a good representative of all who paved the way. | 00:20:46 | |
| This includes self reflection, maturity and accountability. During my previous council visit, some misinterpreted my passion for | 00:20:53 | |
| something else. For those individuals, please understand it was unattended. This prestigious recognition tonight is a moment that | 00:21:00 | |
| will continue to inspire Chumash individuals like myself who are fostering a collaborative spirit and igniting a passion for | 00:21:08 | |
| sharing all culture, traditions and stories. | 00:21:15 | |
| Promoting unity and understanding within our community. | 00:21:23 | |
| Where I named me translates to resting place, yet I inspired the council to acknowledge what our county's pressing need for | 00:21:27 | |
| collective action and knowledge sharing, aligning with my ancestors traditions. For over 19,000 years, my ancestors have paid | 00:21:34 | |
| dedicated stewards of this land, cultivating a legacy of respect, compassion and harmony with all living beings, including their | 00:21:41 | |
| land and water. | 00:21:49 | |
| While we're really welcoming all who have traveled here in honor of them, we must continue to live in this manner and work | 00:21:57 | |
| together for a better and brighter, inclusive tomorrow. I know I'm dedicated to doing my part. Please join me. Thank you. | 00:22:05 | |
| Thank you, Casey. And if we could, can we get a photo please? | 00:22:14 | |
| Oh, you have a camera? | 00:22:25 | |
| Yeah, right in front, right here. | 00:22:36 | |
| Right. | 00:22:43 | |
| Yeah. | 00:22:49 | |
| Get some higher shoes. | 00:22:51 | |
| Chief. | 00:22:55 | |
| Did you tell her to get some higher shoes? | 00:22:58 | |
| Thank you. We will now consider items on the Consent Calendar which will be enacted in one motion unless a Council member has a | 00:23:17 | |
| request to remove an item for discussion. Do any members of Council have a request to remove an item for discussion? | 00:23:23 | |
| Move to approve. | 00:23:32 | |
| Thank you. Can I have a second second? | 00:23:33 | |
| Madam Clerk, all in favor? Aye, all opposed. | 00:23:35 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. | 00:23:40 | |
| We'll now move on to public hearings, the. | 00:23:46 | |
| Hearing tonight is to the introduction of an ordinance approving amendments to article. | 00:23:49 | |
| Article 10 of the Port Wayne Municipal Code with regard to affordable housing regulations and to revise the mixed-use density or | 00:23:59 | |
| R4 zoning standards. To repeal the Cities Accessory Dwelling Unit Ordinance and to rezone certain properties to be consistent with | 00:24:05 | |
| the General Planned Land Use Map and to approve the addendum to the Environmental Impact Report previously prepared for the | 00:24:11 | |
| General Plan Update Project. | 00:24:17 | |
| Madam Clerk, do you have proof of publication as required by law and a complete file of reports and exhibits? | 00:24:23 | |
| Madam Mayor, well, staff, please present the report. | 00:24:28 | |
| Yes, thank you and good evening, Mayor. | 00:24:32 | |
| Council members, staff, audience. | 00:24:35 | |
| And thank you for reading that, and we can discuss the recommendation towards the end here. Again, it's a long 1, though. It's not | 00:24:39 | |
| as long as the last one. There's only one ordinance attached this time. I appreciate that. So, so as you mentioned, this is | 00:24:46 | |
| meeting #2 with regard to discussing changes to the zoning ordinance as well as a rezoning certain properties here in the city, | 00:24:52 | |
| Port Hueneme. | 00:24:59 | |
| With regard to meeting our general plan and its housing element, as well as many new state laws with regard to boosting production | 00:25:06 | |
| of new housing units of all types for all income levels statewide. | 00:25:15 | |
| So to comply with these laws, the cities Housing element which was approved by the City Council in October of 2021 and then | 00:25:25 | |
| certified by the states Housing and Community Development Department or HD in October of 2022. There are 21 programs to basically | 00:25:34 | |
| encourage the production and rehab of new and affordable housing units for all incomes here in the city. | 00:25:43 | |
| At our last meeting, the City Council approved an ordinance, as you'll recall, to allow employee and supportive housing by right, | 00:25:52 | |
| to make a minor update to the density bonus ordinance with regard to senior housing definitions and to make the inclusionary | 00:26:00 | |
| housing ordinance applicable citywide, whereas it had been only a play applicable to coastal zones prior. | 00:26:08 | |
| Therefore, we had met two additional programs and so we're up to meeting 15 programs now. They're either completed or they're | 00:26:17 | |
| ongoing. | 00:26:21 | |
| Tonight we're going to bring that total up to 20 and so we'll only have one remaining and hopefully we'll get that to you by the | 00:26:26 | |
| end of this year. | 00:26:29 | |
| So, as a reminder, the housing element is required by state law. In fact, it's the only element of a general plan that needs to be | 00:26:35 | |
| updated on a regular basis. It's called a cycle, and it's eight years. Part of that is that it's basically a. | 00:26:44 | |
| Based around what's called the regional housing Needs Assessment, and the state basically puts together how much, how many units | 00:26:53 | |
| A. | 00:26:59 | |
| A region needs to meet and in this case is the Southern California Association of Governments or SCAG skagged in divvies that up | 00:27:06 | |
| amongst the the jurisdictions within its area for the city of Port Hueneme we have to meet a basically plan for 125 new | 00:27:13 | |
| residential units within our eight-year housing cycle. So it doesn't sound like many especially when you consider cities like | 00:27:20 | |
| Oxnard to have to meet or plan for thousands, but. | 00:27:27 | |
| Were built out or small, so 125 units is quite a bit, especially since our last cycle was 2 units. So this is a breakdown of the | 00:27:34 | |
| different income types and what the the units are. | 00:27:41 | |
| So with regard to the background here or why we're here this evening too, is that our municipal code also requires that any land | 00:27:51 | |
| uses that are situated within the coastal zone that are affected also have to. | 00:28:00 | |
| They basically constitute an amendment to our local coastal programs. So once we're done here. | 00:28:10 | |
| Then staff will need to apply to the the Coastal Commission and have them approve all of these changes that are going through this | 00:28:15 | |
| evening as well. And I'll talk about the deadlines a little bit more detail later on because there is a fairly significant one | 00:28:22 | |
| that needs to be met. And so that's why we're doing all of this now. We're starting the process now. | 00:28:29 | |
| So our First Amendment that we're discussing this evening is there's a lot of text here, but it's actually fairly simple and it's | 00:28:40 | |
| got to do with a replacement housing. And the similar Bill 13 and 97, along with the government code, basically requires the | 00:28:46 | |
| replacement of any affordable housing units that were identified in the city's housing element sites inventory, as well As for any | 00:28:53 | |
| parcel for which a density bonus is proposed. | 00:29:00 | |
| So our sites inventory identified 2 parcels that have residential units on them. However those those sites, neither one of them | 00:29:08 | |
| have an actual affordable housing agreement with them. So we don't know specifically if they are actual affordable units or not. | 00:29:15 | |
| So they could be we also don't know for sure if you know projects down the line will take advantage of the density bonus laws that | 00:29:23 | |
| are taking you know basically in effect now, but. | 00:29:30 | |
| Is presumed that they probably will be because this state is very. | 00:29:38 | |
| They make a basically. | 00:29:43 | |
| You know, applicants basically, you know, they make it very easy for applicants to go through the density bonus process at this | 00:29:47 | |
| point. In fact, some of the standards that we'll be talking about in a little bit, they could, they actually could have been even | 00:29:54 | |
| even more, you know, say denser and whatnot. But we tried to keep them at a certain level because we also knew that these density | 00:30:01 | |
| bonus laws could have, you know, allow additional development on top of what we're already requesting here, so. | 00:30:08 | |
| So we have to assume that there will be additional development under these these laws here. And so Simply put after all that. | 00:30:17 | |
| We are proposing that there be a new section added to the code that basically requires that any new affordable or any existing | 00:30:27 | |
| affordable units that are going to be torn down, that they simply be replaced. And so that is with the Section 10804. Now, that is | 00:30:35 | |
| actually now the inclusionary housing ordinance that we just approved at our last meeting. So that'll be moved to Section 10805. | 00:30:43 | |
| South, with all that, that's the staff's recommendation for that to address our replacement housing requirements per statement | 00:30:52 | |
| law. | 00:30:56 | |
| Now this is, this is probably the, the, the, the meat of this discussion here this evening and this is our, our forest standards. | 00:31:03 | |
| R4 is our residential mixed-use zone. | 00:31:08 | |
| And this exhibit here shows where our current R4 properties are located there along E Pleasant Valley. I believe it's E Pleasant | 00:31:14 | |
| Valley Rd. basically from San Pedro at the West to just before Ventura Rd. where you've got the. | 00:31:23 | |
| Casa Pacifica project basically along the this area here to the east. | 00:31:34 | |
| And so. | 00:31:42 | |
| We have several of the city owned properties, vacant properties in this area here. The Habitat project is located here. | 00:31:43 | |
| And. | 00:31:53 | |
| What we're looking at needing to do based on our general plan and also based on state law, is to expand these areas to several | 00:31:54 | |
| other areas within this city. | 00:31:59 | |
| So we'll be discussing that this evening. | 00:32:04 | |
| So the three areas that we're looking at and this again, these areas were specified in the general plan. So they already exist on | 00:32:09 | |
| the land use map that was approved in 2021. The three areas are basically up. | 00:32:16 | |
| There's my little dot here. | 00:32:25 | |
| There we go. So we've got the area up here at Patterson Channel Islands, which is where the cost of VMR and the the Racquet Club | 00:32:31 | |
| and some commercial including the Tradecraft dispensary are located. | 00:32:37 | |
| The the larger commercial area along Ventura and Channel Islands. KFC, the former $0.99 center up to Bay Blvd. | 00:32:45 | |
| And then down here in this area, which is what we are considering or at least hoping will become the recreated downtown area north | 00:32:56 | |
| of Port Hueneme Rd. South of Scott, just across Market where the existing office building is and also the few uses just across the | 00:33:04 | |
| street from the Police Department on the east side of Ventura Rd. | 00:33:12 | |
| And these two exhibits come below that up a little bit. So those are the two on the north side of town. | 00:33:21 | |
| And then the area of the South side of town. | 00:33:28 | |
| So why are we doing this? Well again, really to meet state standards. | 00:33:35 | |
| And so we've got two. First of all, we've got 2 housing element programs, 5 and 15, which require the rezoning that we just, I | 00:33:42 | |
| just showed you. | 00:33:46 | |
| And they also require the up zoning or increasing the density from 25 units per acre to 30 units per acre and or providing one | 00:33:51 | |
| additional floor. | 00:33:57 | |
| For project or for new development basically, however, that would be additional project enhancements were provided by the | 00:34:05 | |
| developer and I'll talk about that in a couple slides with those enhancements or in a little bit more detail. | 00:34:12 | |
| Program 16 is to allow supportive transitional and employee housing by right and this is exactly the same as what we just did with | 00:34:20 | |
| the other residential zones at our last meeting. So as I mentioned our last meeting, you may recall we kept out the R4 standard, | 00:34:26 | |
| so we can talk about that this evening. | 00:34:32 | |
| And then program 17 similarly would be to allow low barrier navigation centers by right as well. And what those are is basically | 00:34:38 | |
| their Centers for homeless that provide all kinds of services so that a person who's experiencing homelessness can be connected | 00:34:45 | |
| with the right services to get them into housing as quickly as possible. And so those would also be allowed by right person at | 00:34:53 | |
| Bill 1395, which requires that they be allowed by. | 00:35:00 | |
| In mixed-use zones. | 00:35:08 | |
| AB 1397 also considers Port Hueneme to be with a suburban jurisdiction and that's a jurisdiction of less than 25,000 population, | 00:35:13 | |
| but within a larger metropolitan statistical area of more than two million. And with that definition we are required to have a | 00:35:21 | |
| minimum. | 00:35:29 | |
| Density for our sites that were identified in the housing element. | 00:35:38 | |
| At 20 units per acre currently our mixed-use zone has no minimum, it's got a maximum of 25. So our we do have to add that minimum | 00:35:43 | |
| 20 units per acre per state law again. | 00:35:50 | |
| So moving to the standards. | 00:36:00 | |
| We gotta try not to make this too confusing because a lot of this, what it is, is we kind of shift its standards base or shift it | 00:36:03 | |
| sections so to speak. So there are a few that were inserted in. So we had to shift a few more down the down the line, so to speak. | 00:36:10 | |
| So for instance, section 10460, which is the first one, which is called purpose, it stays the same. But then section 1O461 we | 00:36:17 | |
| already have to shift the existing one down because we had a new section of definitions. | 00:36:24 | |
| Then so 10462 then become what was conditional uses becomes what is now what we call the ministerial permitted uses. They were | 00:36:33 | |
| formerly just permitted uses, basically the same. These are uses that are permitted by right. They don't require any discretionary | 00:36:39 | |
| approval. They're just basically what we call, you know, a rubber stamp at the counter, so to speak. Now I want to stop here real | 00:36:45 | |
| quick because. | 00:36:51 | |
| You folks everybody should have received a letter from. | 00:36:58 | |
| The attorneys that represent the Whiny Bay Center. | 00:37:02 | |
| And. | 00:37:06 | |
| You know, a purpose of all of this too, and we'll talk about that a little bit later, is we're basically up zoning here, so to | 00:37:09 | |
| speak. We're trying to keep all of our C1 commercial standards in place, but allowing additional residential standards on top of | 00:37:15 | |
| it, so to speak. | 00:37:20 | |
| And so this letter basically confirms that and that they're in support of that. But they did ask for a couple changes, minor | 00:37:27 | |
| changes to the text that was proposed in the ordinance to you. And so that was what was proposed in here. So the first section. | 00:37:36 | |
| That they're asking requesting changes to in Exhibit A. | 00:37:45 | |
| Was for and I mentioned this here, but it was for 110461 which is the permitted uses. | 00:37:51 | |
| They ask that we clarify and pull out the permitted uses within section 10481 that we're existing as of January 1, 2025. And | 00:38:01 | |
| again, this basically allowing just basically saying that all of the existing uses in the C1 zone will be that are permitted uses | 00:38:08 | |
| now will be continued to be permitted uses. | 00:38:14 | |
| I also want to mention I didn't earlier, but I item C. | 00:38:21 | |
| Which was condominiums, apartments and townhouses. I want to also specify that that would be fewer than 6 units are allowed by | 00:38:27 | |
| right? | 00:38:31 | |
| Because when we go to the next section, it defines that those projects with six to 20 units would require administrative permits. | 00:38:36 | |
| I just want to put that clarifier in there as well. | 00:38:41 | |
| So and then Speaking of the next section. | 00:38:48 | |
| Those are administratively permitted uses. | 00:38:51 | |
| And those basically would require some discretion, but they would be handled at staff level, either at my level with the director | 00:38:54 | |
| or through the development review committee. | 00:38:59 | |
| And again, one change that the folks per this letter are asking for is to delete section F altogether. And I mentioned that and | 00:39:05 | |
| that is fine with staff because it's covered either in the previous change I just mentioned or it's handled in the conditional use | 00:39:12 | |
| permit section, which is coming up next. | 00:39:19 | |
| So the following section. | 00:39:35 | |
| With regard to conditional use permits. | 00:39:38 | |
| That is pretty much been modified fairly heavily because again, we are looking at addressing several types of uses that we want to | 00:39:42 | |
| make sure that the City Council has discretion over such as auto oriented uses, uses that are currently requiring CUPS in the C1 | 00:39:50 | |
| zone. | 00:39:58 | |
| Or larger residential and transitional housing types of uses. So we do add those in our conditional use permit section. | 00:40:07 | |
| OK, I'm trying to get myself back on track here. | 00:40:23 | |
| OK, so then we have a new section or basically rename section development standards. | 00:40:27 | |
| And the development standards are? | 00:40:35 | |
| Basically your setbacks, your heights and whatnot. So and with regard to that, to begin with, the the base maximum density 25 | 00:40:39 | |
| units per acre is not proposed to change unless the developer is agreeing to provide the project enhancements which would allow | 00:40:48 | |
| them to potentially go up to 30 units per acre or add an additional story in height. | 00:40:57 | |
| The building height also the base building heights would not change. Right now they are 45 feet or 60 foot if there's a minimum | 00:41:08 | |
| 1/3 of the building is residential uses. But if again there were project enhancements provided that could potentially go up one | 00:41:16 | |
| floor up to 75 feet height in maximum height. | 00:41:24 | |
| And we do add though the minimum density though of 20 units per acre here. | 00:41:33 | |
| The front yard standards would stay the same. | 00:41:41 | |
| Siding rear setbacks abutting residential zones would actually be reduced from 5 feet to four feet for buildings up to 2 1/2 | 00:41:44 | |
| stories in height. And then anything taller than that would be adding one foot of set back for each additional story. And this | 00:41:51 | |
| again is only if they abut residential uses. If they abutted, say commercial uses, then there would be no set back requirement and | 00:41:58 | |
| that's the current standard. And that would be current not only for the. | 00:42:05 | |
| Current R4 standards, but also for the commercial standards as well. | 00:42:13 | |
| And parking standards, landscaping standards would both remain unchanged as well. | 00:42:17 | |
| And that we do add new open space requirements and I'll explain why these are a little specific in a minute here, but we recommend | 00:42:25 | |
| that they be a minimum of 200 square feet per unit. | 00:42:31 | |
| That they can be provided as both private. | 00:42:38 | |
| Both either private common and or both private and common. The common open space would have to have a minimum dimension of at | 00:42:41 | |
| least 15 feet in any direction, and the private would be amendment 50 square feet and no smaller than 4 feet in any dimension. | 00:42:50 | |
| And then new Section 10466 that talks about objective design standards. And So what those are and why they're important is because | 00:43:02 | |
| as the state continues to strip away our local land use authority and make more and more of these uses that we're talking about | 00:43:12 | |
| here, ministerial permitted by right, the one thing they haven't taken away yet is our ability to at least. | 00:43:22 | |
| Look at the design of projects. And so that means at least we can require these project project to at least have a, you know, | 00:43:32 | |
| hopefully a high quality design, but only if they are per an objective design standard. Meaning that this the design standards | 00:43:39 | |
| like the ones I just showed you for the outdoor area are spelled out so that the plan of reviewing the the plans and the designer | 00:43:47 | |
| drawing them know exactly what. | 00:43:54 | |
| Basically drawing for so the planner can no longer say, well, you know, I want this color instead of this, or you need to make | 00:44:02 | |
| this, this, this outdoor area, you know, this dimension is dead in a lot of cases. We can't do that anymore per state law. We | 00:44:09 | |
| we've unfortunately lost that, that ability. | 00:44:16 | |
| But what we can do at least, is provide as many of these standards as possible. Now what I did? | 00:44:25 | |
| When we were drafting these. | 00:44:32 | |
| Was I also thought though of you know how whiny me, you know, how we developed in the past and what our developers are like and | 00:44:35 | |
| whatnot. So we tried not to be too onerous at this time. And if you look at cities like Ventura and and Thousand Oaks, for | 00:44:41 | |
| instance, they're they've got page after page. | 00:44:47 | |
| Dealing with, you know, objective design standards for cottage type units and and multi family units and and. | 00:44:55 | |
| Single families and, and courtyard homes and whatnot and they just go into a lot of detail. I'm not sure if we're there yet, but | 00:45:04 | |
| the the. | 00:45:08 | |
| But we may get there one of these days. This at least gets something on the board. The good thing is that these are just design | 00:45:14 | |
| standards. They don't affect uses in the coastal zone, so they won't need to go to Coastal Commission if we do want to change them | 00:45:21 | |
| in the future. But what we're presenting, at least this evening is, is a starting point. At least right now, they are only for the | 00:45:28 | |
| R4 zone, but they can also easily be applicable to the rest of our residential zones as well. | 00:45:35 | |
| So and so that section does then talk about standards again for building location. | 00:45:46 | |
| Window design, parking lots, bicycle racks, all kinds of all kinds of features, basically development features. So those are | 00:45:56 | |
| spelled out at least in the new the new section there for you. I didn't list them all out because this presentation is long enough | 00:46:03 | |
| as it is. | 00:46:09 | |
| And I didn't want to make it that long. | 00:46:16 | |
| But we also, the other thing we're talking about, as I've mentioned there are the requirement that we allow for increased density | 00:46:18 | |
| and or building height as we talked about or basically incentives. | 00:46:26 | |
| But in order to get those incentives, the applicants have to provide. | 00:46:34 | |
| Project enhancements above and beyond the design and development standards we've just been talking about. | 00:46:40 | |
| And so section 10467 lists the requirements for that. So if a developer wants to either increase the density up to 30 units per | 00:46:47 | |
| acre or have that additional building height added to the project, they have to provide at least three project enhancements. If | 00:46:55 | |
| they want to do both, they'd have to add at least five of the enhancements and the enhancements are listed out. | 00:47:04 | |
| I've listed a few here, for instance providing minimum 20% of the units in the project below income. | 00:47:13 | |
| Having a minimum one acre lot size and this would be for instance to consolidate lots into a larger project area. And usually | 00:47:20 | |
| those provide a large, a better project design, providing high quality architectural materials and those are actually some of | 00:47:27 | |
| those are spelled out in the code. Again being objective, having one or more types of businesses per that we're looking for in our | 00:47:34 | |
| economic development plan. | 00:47:40 | |
| Having a green project, it's LEED certified and several other features again that would need to be included in the project design | 00:47:48 | |
| in order to obtain these particular. | 00:47:55 | |
| Increases. | 00:48:03 | |
| And so finally the last two sections which were performance standards and pre-existing non conforming standard. | 00:48:07 | |
| Were simply relocated to the end of the chapter, as they are now, and they were both just received minor clarifying revisions. | 00:48:14 | |
| So. | 00:48:25 | |
| Do you want me to keep going? I have any questions. | 00:48:28 | |
| Before we get into rezoning, I just might take a break here. | 00:48:33 | |
| We need a break. | 00:48:37 | |
| And you have your you have staff here who? | 00:48:40 | |
| It's just you today, so on page 17. | 00:48:43 | |
| Design standards, I think you need to cross out there. It says 10104646. I think the four needs to be crossed out. When you do the | 00:48:50 | |
| redlining at at that's how it looks. It is actually red line, but yeah, I can see it. | 00:48:57 | |
| On the other ones I just couldn't see it there and then. This might be a silly question, but how many floors is 75 feet? | 00:49:05 | |
| Honestly, it really depends on how high they want the ceilings to be and how they how they put their, you know, the equipment | 00:49:14 | |
| within it and everything. So that's why we didn't actually specify the number of floors. We kind of left that open so that the | 00:49:20 | |
| designers could have some flexibility with that. | 00:49:27 | |
| Correct. | 00:49:35 | |
| So if you, you know, we're thinking, you know, at least probably at least 10 feet per floor. But again, that could allow for | 00:49:39 | |
| instance, again, roof pitch or whatnot too, so. | 00:49:44 | |
| Most likely 5:00 to 6:00. | 00:49:52 | |
| Thank you. | 00:49:55 | |
| You mentioned up zoning and I heard the term before spot zoning when I had a crazy idea. | 00:50:00 | |
| I didn't think it was that crazy. I thought it was a good idea, but I said well, that would be spot zoning. So what's the | 00:50:08 | |
| difference between up zoning and spot zoning? Those are equal the same. Are they good? Are they bad? | 00:50:12 | |
| They are different when is good, when is bad. OK, well, and also depends on who you ask up zoning usually in this case, all of | 00:50:18 | |
| this is up zoning. Basically what it means is that and it depends on who you ask if you're the property owner and you're being up | 00:50:26 | |
| zoned, usually it's a good thing because it means that you're allowed additional density, which means your property values go up. | 00:50:33 | |
| Now maybe if you live next door or something like that you you may not think it's quite as good, but normally it's. | 00:50:41 | |
| Considered a good thing, at least for the property owners. Spot zoning, on the other hand, is not allowed by state law. It's so | 00:50:48 | |
| it's bad. And spot zoning is exactly what it sounds like. For instance, if you've got commercial uses but you want to put a | 00:50:55 | |
| parcel, you want to just zone residential or vice versa. | 00:51:02 | |
| You you are not allowed to do that basically. So does commercial mean hotel? | 00:51:11 | |
| In this case, yes, yeah, they normally do. So if there's a zone that has commercial, it's then that a hotel is commercial, | 00:51:16 | |
| correct. OK, yeah. | 00:51:21 | |
| And then the other question I have, because I this is all like, I know it's clear to you, but it's pretty crazy. | 00:51:26 | |
| Be honest with you, but I think about Mar Vista. | 00:51:31 | |
| Clearly higher than 75 feet. | 00:51:35 | |
| Out of that, no, I'm spot zoning. I couldn't answer that but but it but I think we agree it's it's higher than 75 feet I think | 00:51:40 | |
| right. Honestly, I couldn't answer that question. I think it's 678 floors. Is it? | 00:51:48 | |
| Five floors, yeah, but. | 00:51:57 | |
| Yeah, I was actually gonna say I think it might be. It's probably capped out at 75 feet. So prior to this change to 75 feet, it | 00:52:01 | |
| was. | 00:52:04 | |
| Well, the that particular project site is not under discussion this evening that that area is no, I'm just trying to understand | 00:52:09 | |
| how. | 00:52:13 | |
| Achieve that height Well again, that was developed back in the 60s, well before you know any of this. | 00:52:19 | |
| Any of our current codes were in effect. So I'm not sure exactly how that happened. No documentation to show anything. I mean we | 00:52:28 | |
| might have some but OK. So building our house buildings built to standards and then the standards change. The buildings still | 00:52:34 | |
| exist, they're just called legal non conforming, meaning they don't conform with the with the zoning map. So grandfathered in. | 00:52:41 | |
| Grandfathered in is another way of saying it. OK, so. | 00:52:47 | |
| I think it's healthy to dream and have a dream and the dream is what if the Navy came to us one day and said, you know, we're | 00:52:55 | |
| tired of this golf course really just cost us way too much money a month. And they said we either want to sell or give you 300 | 00:53:03 | |
| feet on shadow islands and relieve ourselves from that would the zone just. | 00:53:11 | |
| Crossover there and make it? Or would you have to go through a process to zone it that would be up to. | 00:53:20 | |
| All of us to come up with that, what we want to zone it, yeah. | 00:53:27 | |
| And then? | 00:53:33 | |
| Up zoning in this case, talking about the property on the corner of Channel Islands and Ventura Rd. If I can envision what this | 00:53:36 | |
| may look like, I just drove through the Wagon Wheel development and I noticed the bottom floors are like 12 feet and there's a lot | 00:53:42 | |
| of going to be a lot of commercial stuff in there. And then the apartments are on top of that what we're talking about or | 00:53:48 | |
| envisioning. | 00:53:54 | |
| Ultimately that that is, that could very well be yes, yes, because. | 00:54:02 | |
| It doesn't seem like we're going to reach our arena numbers under the current situation. | 00:54:07 | |
| Well, with the under today, no, but that's why we're having this discussion this evening, OK. | 00:54:13 | |
| Because we're trying to set in, in place new standards to allow us to get to that, achieving that arena goal. And so by doing so, | 00:54:19 | |
| by allowing, like you just said, having that mixed-use development like the habit wagon wheel now where it's redeveloped, where | 00:54:26 | |
| you have the commercial with the residential on top, that'll get us there. | 00:54:33 | |
| OK, thank you. If I can note that I was going to say similar that with the R4 zoning standards, it is sort of what we're talking | 00:54:40 | |
| about is that in the past these were were residential zones and now we're saying for these high density residential zones, they | 00:54:47 | |
| can also have commercial uses. And so it is similar to that wagon wheel project. I think if I, I was going to say this at the end, | 00:54:55 | |
| but if I can just make a comment quickly because we have met with the state and HCD and we got their feedback. So I. | 00:55:02 | |
| I want to talk a little bit about that because I do think. | 00:55:10 | |
| All of this and the wagon wall project I think was a result too, of it is the state, state's goal to really make sure that, you | 00:55:15 | |
| know, in the past, for lack of a better word, cities would play games with the affordable housing process or they would decline | 00:55:23 | |
| projects because the objective standards Tony mentioned, you know, if you had subjective standards that no one knew. | 00:55:31 | |
| And that you didn't tell people you can decline projects, you know, with really not a good basis to do so. | 00:55:40 | |
| So a lot of these are now trying to. | 00:55:47 | |
| Respond to the state, which is saying, you know, essentially all cities have to pull their fair share for housing from now on and | 00:55:51 | |
| they have a goal across the state to build. I think it's hundreds of thousands of units across the state. No city is special. | 00:55:58 | |
| Nobody gets to opt out of it. There is one city everybody knows that is fighting it as hard as they can and spending a lot of | 00:56:04 | |
| money to do it. But but Huntington Beach is sort of the the notorious 1. | 00:56:11 | |
| But but everybody else you know, is sort of. | 00:56:18 | |
| Coming to grips with the reality that the state is holding everybody to these standards, you can't deny it anymore because it | 00:56:22 | |
| impacts your view or because it because it doesn't look the way you want it to look. And so I think that these there's a lot of | 00:56:29 | |
| good, like Tony said in in this for property owners, it's good. Now they have more flexibility to build what they want to build | 00:56:36 | |
| and they can add uses that they couldn't have on their properties before. | 00:56:43 | |
| For us, obviously the concern is not having local control. We can't say this isn't a good fit for our city. | 00:56:50 | |
| Anymore, it's just now it's, you know, does it meet the state standard or not? | 00:56:56 | |
| And so there's there's good and there's bad. I think the point I wanted to get to is we met with HCD. I think one of the things we | 00:57:02 | |
| wanted to do meeting with HCD is I just wanted to make sure that we were all on the same page and we're clear we had clarity. | 00:57:08 | |
| Even if we didn't necessarily agree on everything, we were clear on it and I think we talked with them and one of the main | 00:57:16 | |
| questions we we got to at the end that. | 00:57:21 | |
| That we were sort of surprised by the answer, but I think it sort of shows the direction we're going is we thought there was a | 00:57:27 | |
| misunderstanding because we require affordable housing covenants for all the projects that get all the affordable housing | 00:57:31 | |
| benefits. | 00:57:36 | |
| We thought for sure that there was a misunderstanding because the state had said that they did not agree with affordable housing | 00:57:42 | |
| covenants and that they were illegal. | 00:57:46 | |
| So we got in the room and we met with, with HCD and we said, you know, are we 100% clear on this? And the state said, yes. Our, | 00:57:51 | |
| the state HCD opinion is that affordable housing covenants are illegal moving forward. So that's like, you know, it's a moving | 00:57:59 | |
| target, not to be negative, but the, you know, each round of Reina, the state has to get more and more aggressive to try to force | 00:58:06 | |
| people to build the units that they're trying to get. And so one of the things they said is that people weren't. | 00:58:14 | |
| Because they couldn't justify the cost because there's affordable housing covenants that will limit how much rent they can charge. | 00:58:22 | |
| And so for us, we were like, well, that's the point of affordable housing. But the state said, no, we want the units built. So, so | 00:58:28 | |
| I think maybe I jumped ahead to that and Tony was talking about we're there basically that part of the presentation. But it's just | 00:58:34 | |
| for me, it's, I'm just speaking to sort of that shift. | 00:58:40 | |
| In where the state essentially has just said at this point is everybody needs to get on board with building these units and stop | 00:58:46 | |
| finding excuses to not build units. And so our ordinances and our goals now are to try to make that happen. | 00:58:52 | |
| For us as a city. | 00:58:58 | |
| Thank you, Mayor. Just a couple questions. So I'm going all the way back to the beginning. You mentioned in the last cycle our | 00:59:00 | |
| number was 2. | 00:59:05 | |
| And now our numbers 125. | 00:59:11 | |
| And what is the cycle limit? I mean, how long is the cycle? It's eight years. Eight years, yeah. | 00:59:14 | |
| And so in our last cycle, we had two. | 00:59:20 | |
| Satisfy the two no. | 00:59:25 | |
| We did not. We did not assuming, I was just guessing we would. We did not get an extremely low unit built and that's probably one | 00:59:27 | |
| of the reasons why they bumped it up a little bit. | 00:59:33 | |
| And so so each cycle we will get. | 00:59:41 | |
| If things go according to history, every year we get a number. Every eight years, every eight, That's what I meant. Every cycle | 00:59:44 | |
| will get a new number. | 00:59:49 | |
| So at some point we're going to be. | 00:59:55 | |
| I don't know how many we can build, right, right. At some point we'll be back to we can't build anymore. | 00:59:57 | |
| So the standards will probably get higher and denser and taking away setbacks and that's, I mean we're kind of in the middle of | 01:00:04 | |
| that right now. | 01:00:09 | |
| Yeah, right. And I think one of the things right now that near the league and whatnot are starting to look at and ask cities for | 01:00:18 | |
| and whatnot is some assistance and some feedback with regard to the process, the overall arena process. | 01:00:25 | |
| And just to see if that can be worked out a little bit better, because every year or every cycle basically, it seems to be a | 01:00:34 | |
| little bit more onerous and there are a lot more arguments amongst the regions as well. | 01:00:41 | |
| This is a constant discussion of SCAG. | 01:00:48 | |
| I guess my thought, your response took me to another thought is so we are very in tune, I believe with our resident desires. | 01:00:51 | |
| And so at some point. | 01:01:05 | |
| We we may have to take a harder stance. That's all I want to say. Yeah, and I think that's true. One more question. | 01:01:10 | |
| Regarding the the weather, it was the. | 01:01:19 | |
| Covenants. Isn't that the issue that Mister Scrivener raised several months ago? Right and so. | 01:01:22 | |
| For the audience, this is. | 01:01:31 | |
| What a lack of local control looks like, and this is what we've been hearing up and down the state, is that the state has taken | 01:01:34 | |
| away local control for good reason, but. | 01:01:40 | |
| You know, the devil is in the details, and for our city, we're so strapped for land, you know? | 01:01:46 | |
| When you look at Los Angeles versus New York, Los Angeles was spread out, New York went up, so it kind of feels like we're going | 01:01:55 | |
| to be forced to go up. | 01:02:00 | |
| Yeah, I think that's the thought in California, You know, California we were, we built large properties, low density. And the | 01:02:05 | |
| future is going to be trying, you know, and the state laws trying to sort of expedite, you know, building more dense, building | 01:02:14 | |
| more compact, building up instead of spreading out. And like I said, there are positives to that for me and for the council. | 01:02:22 | |
| You know, for us, at the end of the day, I believe we all believe that we know our community better than somebody in Sacramento | 01:02:31 | |
| knows our city. | 01:02:35 | |
| So we would like to have that local control and the ability to say this is not right for the city. But I think the problem in the | 01:02:40 | |
| past has been too many cities. | 01:02:44 | |
| Use that to get out of doing their fair share. And so now the state's reacting to that. So, so we're trying to find the balance. | 01:02:49 | |
| We're trying to. | 01:02:53 | |
| Adopt the state standards where we have to and maintain local control where we can. So the days of council rooms being filled with | 01:02:57 | |
| beachfront property owners upset because we're contemplating building in front of their view is going to be eventually over where | 01:03:04 | |
| we're going to have no choice to build, unfortunately to block their view because it's the only place we have to put property. | 01:03:10 | |
| Call your state representatives if you if you don't agree with that. | 01:03:19 | |
| OK. So moving on, just James basically started the segue here, our Adu ordinance. And so as everybody is aware, we presented | 01:03:24 | |
| several versions of the Adu ordinance to council for approval, the latest being just this past May. The Adu ordinance is the only | 01:03:34 | |
| ordinance out of all of these laws that we've been discussing that needs to be as required to be approved by the state by. | 01:03:44 | |
| So once again we sent our ordinance to HCD. | 01:03:56 | |
| When we brought the ordinance to you back in May, we were under the impression based on HCD's past communications as James had | 01:04:02 | |
| mentioned that there were, that they had basically two issues with the ordinance. So we made those adjustments and that the third | 01:04:10 | |
| issue was that they misinterpreted it. They thought that our covenant requirement. | 01:04:18 | |
| Would basically prevent a homeowner from getting a building permit. | 01:04:26 | |
| Versus getting a building final, they basically only want the unit started. They really don't care if they are ever finished and | 01:04:32 | |
| we let them know no, the text says it's just prior to final, but it doesn't hold up permitting and so we didn't make any changes | 01:04:38 | |
| in that case. | 01:04:44 | |
| Well, we received a letter a dated September 25th, 2024 with a new litany of Corrections, and most of those were pretty pedantic. | 01:04:50 | |
| They pretty much focused on the fact that we were not quoting a state law at this point. But the whole point of having an Adu | 01:04:59 | |
| ordinance is that you don't necessarily. | 01:05:07 | |
| Quote state law. Otherwise you just refer to state law. | 01:05:17 | |
| The idea with an ad ordinance is tried to keep as much local land use authority as possible as you can. And again as we've just | 01:05:22 | |
| all mentioned, it's getting stripped away further and further. They also continue to take issue with the covenant requirement. | 01:05:30 | |
| However, once again, they did not tell us specifically what the issue was, insight what the state statute was. | 01:05:38 | |
| Um, in addition to that, for instance, when I went to the planning conference just a couple days after we received that letter, | 01:05:48 | |
| when I'm finding out about all these other state laws since May, there have been two more changes to the Adu or statutes that have | 01:05:55 | |
| been made. They're basically changing every year, you know, for a city our size. | 01:06:03 | |
| That's a lot to keep track of. For instance in in addition to all of these. | 01:06:12 | |
| Requirements. You know those two laws, for instance? If you look them up, they're not together. There are two separate statutes | 01:06:17 | |
| altogether, and it's up to planners to put them together and present them to you as one whole, for instance, in addition to | 01:06:22 | |
| everything else. | 01:06:27 | |
| And then, as I mentioned, this then has to go to. | 01:06:35 | |
| The state for approval, so every time the state, the statutes change, we have to go to you to get approved, goes to HD, but | 01:06:40 | |
| because we're a coastal city, it then has to go to the coastal Commission. | 01:06:47 | |
| Now it hasn't gone to coastal yet because we still have not gotten approval from HED to begin with, but assuming we ever did, then | 01:06:54 | |
| we would go through this whole annual cycle which would be quite a burden. | 01:07:00 | |
| So at this point, with all of that and the fact that it looks like HCD is just not going to back off. After a lot of discussions | 01:07:06 | |
| amongst the city attorneys, city city manager staff, we have decided that it's probably best that we just especially with HDDI now | 01:07:16 | |
| demanding that we quote state law anyway that we that we request that the council just. | 01:07:25 | |
| Repeal the Adu ordinance altogether. | 01:07:36 | |
| That would take away the the affordable covenants and we will just refer to state law staff will and we will ask the applicants to | 01:07:39 | |
| do so as well. And that way anytime state law changes we at least won't have to come back and go through this whole. | 01:07:49 | |
| Process again. | 01:07:59 | |
| Now what that means to our arena, it's good and bad. | 01:08:01 | |
| Currently. | 01:08:05 | |
| We've been putting our ad you in the low income category. | 01:08:07 | |
| So they all come out of that category and they will be a part of our above moderate. | 01:08:14 | |
| Although we put in our above moderate category, so to speak, but as you'll recall, and that's actually the one that we need to | 01:08:20 | |
| feel the most anyway, we have 65 required in the above moderate category, 16 in the low income. | 01:08:27 | |
| We do currently have the five habitat units that would stay in the low income category, so we only need to get 11 more. | 01:08:35 | |
| Habitat is actually interested in purchasing our properties along Pleasant Valley. It looks like it would be more than 11 units | 01:08:43 | |
| that they'd be constructing there. So that alone would allow us to meet our arena with regard to that. So, so hopefully that will | 01:08:51 | |
| all come to fruition and then it shouldn't be a problem. And then our adus would just be counted as above moderate. | 01:08:59 | |
| The only drawback, of course, again, is that we are no longer ensuring affordable units are being provided. | 01:09:07 | |
| Here in this city and being a beach community that is something to take into consideration. But again, we think at this point it's | 01:09:14 | |
| just it's, it's a losing proposition with HCD. So it's just time to kind of cut our losses and repeal the ordinance. So that's | 01:09:21 | |
| what we are requesting be done. | 01:09:27 | |
| And then the the last component of this evenings request or the rezoning says, I've mentioned already we talked about the three | 01:09:36 | |
| areas that proposed to be rezoned from general commercial or C1 to mixed-use. So I won't go through all that again. But there is | 01:09:44 | |
| one other area to discuss here and that would be a really true up zoning from limited. | 01:09:53 | |
| Multifamily to true multi family basically from R2 to R3. | 01:10:03 | |
| And that is for one area, just. | 01:10:09 | |
| Bring it over here. | 01:10:13 | |
| Fast forward here. | 01:10:16 | |
| It's the little area. | 01:10:17 | |
| Here along East Port Wanami Rd. just to the east of the extension of Surfside Drive, we have several older commercial area uses | 01:10:20 | |
| there or properties, some vacant. We have the Seaside Motel, there's a liquor store there, and then there's a one story older | 01:10:28 | |
| apartment complex behind there. | 01:10:35 | |
| Currently the R2 standards allow 15 units per acre. The rezoning would be basically again allowing the up zoning to 25 units per | 01:10:43 | |
| acre. | 01:10:48 | |
| It would allow from a height from two stories to three stories. Setbacks would be increased from 15 feet to 20 feet in the rear, | 01:10:53 | |
| but that's because of the additional height. But at this point, again, this is because this would allow additional units to be | 01:11:00 | |
| constructed to meet our general plan and housing element requirements. | 01:11:08 | |
| So staff, even though all of this was vetted out back in 2021, staff did send letters specifically about these to the 30 affected | 01:11:17 | |
| property owners of all four of these areas. | 01:11:22 | |
| We also included for the 24 property owners that were going to be rezoned from C1 to R4, we included the draft R4 standards. We | 01:11:29 | |
| are not changing the standards for the R2 or R3 zone, so we didn't have to mail anything there. | 01:11:37 | |
| And we explained the the reason for the rezonings and the benefits for the property owners. | 01:11:47 | |
| We've heard back from several of them. So far they've been in favor. We've heard back from property owner in our downtown area, so | 01:11:54 | |
| to speak. Who's in favor? He had some questions and so we clarified that he's in favor of the rezoning. | 01:12:02 | |
| Property owner of the little church right across the street from the police station sent us an e-mail this this afternoon saying | 01:12:10 | |
| that she was in favour. | 01:12:14 | |
| You received a letter here from the whining eBay a center as well stating that they were in favor as well. So. And that's what | 01:12:20 | |
| we've heard from us so far. | 01:12:26 | |
| Up through this evening with regard to this item. | 01:12:32 | |
| And so with regard to SQL. | 01:12:40 | |
| We, as you may recall, an ER or environmental impact report was prepared for the general plan. And so for this project and | 01:12:44 | |
| addendum to that ER was prepared and that was done in accordance with the SQL guidelines and it's basically to analyze the | 01:12:51 | |
| proposed modifications. | 01:12:58 | |
| And what the modifications are basically are very minor and that would be looking at the the the minor increase or potential minor | 01:13:06 | |
| increase from going from 25 units to 30 units per acre. If somebody wanted to take advantage of those incentives in the R4 zone | 01:13:15 | |
| and the additional potential impacts and they were determined not to be a significant. So this addendum was prepared for that. | 01:13:24 | |
| The City is the lead agency on both the IR and this addendum. | 01:13:33 | |
| And then finally, while none of these amendments will have a direct impact on the general fund. | 01:13:40 | |
| They're due to the rezonings. They could result in potential additional development which potentially could raise property values | 01:13:48 | |
| and thus increasing property tax revenues for the city. | 01:13:54 | |
| And so here we are at the recommendation. | 01:14:01 | |
| Would you like? Would you like to read that? Would you like me to paraphrase? | 01:14:05 | |
| Before we do, I think we have some questions. | 01:14:11 | |
| Can you just tell me how many Adus? | 01:14:16 | |
| How many AD use do we have in the works right now? | 01:14:27 | |
| You know, I just, I had that on the thing. I believe that we have 20. Well, we have a lot coming, coming through as far as the | 01:14:32 | |
| plan check process. We've actually permitted 7 so far this year. But like I said, I imagine we'll have quite a few more by the end | 01:14:40 | |
| of the year. And then over the last couple of years, we've reported 24 so far. | 01:14:48 | |
| With our general plan reports to the state. | 01:14:57 | |
| And if if it's repealed? | 01:15:02 | |
| Then do the other ones that you have. | 01:15:06 | |
| That haven't been permitted yet. Do those go through or do they not go through? They go through, they just go through in the above | 01:15:11 | |
| moderate category instead of the low income category, but they still get counted. OK. And when you say. | 01:15:17 | |
| That. | 01:15:25 | |
| That request would have to be in alignment with the state's requirement. | 01:15:28 | |
| Does that mean it will go through the state and not the city? No, I just mean that right now. | 01:15:33 | |
| The, you know, we have our ordinance basically. So we've got a few nuances, a few minor nuances at this point, very minor, | 01:15:41 | |
| including that covenant that's a requirement. But if we. | 01:15:48 | |
| Repealed our ordinance, then we would just basically be required to abide by the the letter of the state law, so to speak, but we | 01:15:55 | |
| would still have complete jurisdiction over the plan review, permitting process and whatnot. All right, thank you. | 01:16:03 | |
| Any further questions? Yes. | 01:16:12 | |
| I think I remember that the Surfside Hotel Motel, but it's not the Holiday Inn, was going to provide 55 low income units. | 01:16:16 | |
| The the Surfside Motel, they are at 41 units, 41 units. Only nine of those would be low income though. | 01:16:27 | |
| OK. | 01:16:39 | |
| Any further questions? | 01:16:42 | |
| Thank you, Director Stewart. I know that's painful, but a necessary part of city government. | 01:16:44 | |
| I'm going to open the public hearing and take public comment. The public hearing is now open for public input at 7:45 PM. Are | 01:16:51 | |
| there any public comments regarding this item? Yes, we have one public comment. Thank you, Mr. David Scrivener. | 01:16:57 | |
| First thing I'd like to say is thank Tony and staff for. | 01:17:11 | |
| Going through it looks like something I couldn't read for two minutes without going to sleep and remembering what the other pages | 01:17:16 | |
| said. I mean this is this is next to impossible I. | 01:17:20 | |
| I strongly urge you to avoid the current Adu policy. It's illegal and it's created some problems that may not go away so quickly. | 01:17:26 | |
| OK. | 01:17:31 | |
| If you look at page three of the presentation on the zoning stuff. | 01:17:38 | |
| It basically says if you have ever rented basically to a low income person. | 01:17:45 | |
| OK, you are then obligated to rent to low income people if you want to improve your property. | 01:17:50 | |
| This is going to make landlords not rent to people who have low income. This makes absolutely no sense. So it basically if I had a | 01:17:59 | |
| piece of property and I had a great tenant who was paying their rent and then suddenly they had rented a hard times and needed to | 01:18:07 | |
| go on to some sort of it sounds like even if they just had a low income if I continue to rent to them. | 01:18:15 | |
| I'm out of luck. | 01:18:25 | |
| I'm required then to. | 01:18:27 | |
| Do low income in the future. Now please tell me I'm wrong. I think this is a state situation but. | 01:18:30 | |
| That's what it says. | 01:18:37 | |
| So. | 01:18:39 | |
| I'm a landlord, I've been renting a house was for 35 years. OK, I have a lot of experience with this I've had good tenants it's | 01:18:41 | |
| gone pretty well. I've had two bad ones that cost me 100 and 10s of thousands of dollars to get rid of them. They both strung on | 01:18:46 | |
| them crystal meth and. | 01:18:51 | |
| One right behind the the police station over here. | 01:18:57 | |
| But the vast majority of people pay their rent. They're good people. I keep their rents, you know, usually less than market rates. | 01:19:01 | |
| But if any of those people were, it sounds like falls into low income. OK, I'm not allowed. If I want to read it off that property | 01:19:09 | |
| to to do what I want, I'm I'm stuck with low income. So as a landlord, what a property owner, what do I do? | 01:19:17 | |
| I would like to be of service to people, but I don't want to lose. | 01:19:26 | |
| My ability to develop my property. So this is concerning. Now, this comes at a time where landlords in California are under | 01:19:31 | |
| extreme attack by the state at this point. | 01:19:37 | |
| You can't get rid of bad tenants. You can't tell somebody who's a felon that they can. You have to rent to them. You can't evict | 01:19:45 | |
| people. | 01:19:49 | |
| If somebody tears your place up, basically you're out of luck. You can't keep dangerous dogs off your properties. There's a lot of | 01:19:54 | |
| and you're responsible for all this. | 01:19:58 | |
| Oops, I'm out of time. So. So anyway, I. | 01:20:03 | |
| Thanks for getting tough. And what I'd like to see is we do something that increases low income housing and and helping people. | 01:20:07 | |
| This isn't going to do it. Thank you. | 01:20:12 | |
| There are no further speakers. Thank you. | 01:20:18 | |
| I will be closing the public hearing. Public input has been concluded at 7:48, so we have before us a recommendation to introduce | 01:20:22 | |
| the first reading by title only, waiving further reading of an ordinance entitled An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of | 01:20:29 | |
| Port Hueneme, CA Amending Port Hueneme Municipal Code, Article X, Chapter 4, Section 10460 pertaining to mixed-use residential or | 01:20:37 | |
| R4 zoning standards. | 01:20:44 | |
| Amending Chapter 6, Section 10804 and establishing Chapter 6, Section 10805, both pertaining pertaining to affordable housing | 01:20:52 | |
| regulations. Repealing Chapter 6, Sections 10802 pertaining to accessory dwelling units, standards and rezoning. Rezoning certain | 01:21:02 | |
| properties from general commercial or C1 to mixed-use residential R4 or from limited multi family R2 to multi family R3. | 01:21:12 | |
| Adopt the addendum to the Environmental Impact Report that was previously prepared for this portway. Meet General Plan Update | 01:21:23 | |
| Project State Clearing House number 202-104-0164, and take such additional related action that may be desirable. | 01:21:32 | |
| May I have a motion and a second? | 01:21:41 | |
| Come on people, so moved second. | 01:21:45 | |
| Thank you, Madam Clerk. | 01:21:48 | |
| Roll call vote because public hearing council member Goma. | 01:21:53 | |
| Aye Council Member Hernandez, Aye Council member Martinez, Mayor Pro Tem McQueen Legend and Mayor Perez. Yes. Motion passes | 01:21:58 | |
| unanimously. May I make a comment? | 01:22:03 | |
| Yeah, yes. | 01:22:10 | |
| So I just want to make the comment that I. | 01:22:12 | |
| This is coming from the state, right? And our hands are tied and. | 01:22:15 | |
| If you gotta. | 01:22:22 | |
| We've got a problem with what's happening, that we need to commune it up to our state representative somehow, some way, because we | 01:22:24 | |
| just keep. | 01:22:28 | |
| Falling into the state's mandating this. | 01:22:33 | |
| And if I could just I think I don't want to interrupt the motion because it was a long recommendation of motion. But can I ask | 01:22:39 | |
| Tony, I don't, I don't believe there's any requirement that if you to respond to the comment that if you've rented to a low income | 01:22:47 | |
| tenant that anything in here would require you that your next tenant be low income. In fact, the elimination of the covenant | 01:22:54 | |
| basically says that's not required anymore. | 01:23:01 | |
| Do you know is there anything I I'm missing? | 01:23:08 | |
| If we're discussing Adus, then by repealing the Adu ordinance, then that requirement goes away. And so since we just repealed | 01:23:13 | |
| that, that requirement would go away. | 01:23:19 | |
| Anything further? | 01:23:27 | |
| Thank you, Director Stewart. | 01:23:29 | |
| Yeah, the requirement goes away and we confirmed with the state that they view that requirement is illegal, so. | 01:23:36 | |
| OK. We will now move on to business items. | 01:23:44 | |
| The first business item is the analysis of options related to potential parking improvements. | 01:23:48 | |
| Thank you. | 01:23:55 | |
| I'll try to keep these two actually brief after that. | 01:23:56 | |
| Interesting one to start. | 01:24:03 | |
| So. | 01:24:05 | |
| Really simply. | 01:24:08 | |
| We've talked a few times recently about some of the efforts we've made that have been focused on traffic efforts, pedestrian | 01:24:11 | |
| safety efforts and parking related efforts. We've had a couple of conversations lately where we talked about each and this. We've | 01:24:17 | |
| made good progress on the traffic in the pedestrian related efforts and I think the parking efforts we have done a few things, but | 01:24:24 | |
| we are. | 01:24:30 | |
| Hearing from the community and we're also kind of seeing some issues and. | 01:24:38 | |
| Seeing some state laws coming up where we know parking is going to be an issue, that is probably going to become a bigger issue | 01:24:42 | |
| and something that will that we want to look at proactively. So this slide shows some of the efforts we've made related to traffic | 01:24:50 | |
| efforts, reinstating our traffic division, motorcycle enforcement, launching pilot programs for the speed humps and rubber medians | 01:24:57 | |
| to prevent Donuts, updating speed limits, updating stop sign operating. | 01:25:05 | |
| Updating truck route signs and truck routes and we're gonna be bringing a grant proposal for a safety action plan to council at an | 01:25:13 | |
| upcoming meeting. So we've been putting significant effort in there. We've put significant effort into pedestrian safety and | 01:25:20 | |
| making ADA ramp improvements, pedestrian safety crossing improvements, marked crosswalk and and other striping improvements and | 01:25:27 | |
| the Reflect Yourself pedestrian safety campaign we just launched, but the parking efforts. | 01:25:34 | |
| Are an area we're still looking at. We had done the. | 01:25:42 | |
| Realignment of our parking enforcement to work with the Traffic Division to coordinate efforts that can focus on all three of | 01:25:45 | |
| these areas. | 01:25:48 | |
| We've worked with the Navy base to add some parking on San Pedro, which was critically needed. And we've seen from some of our | 01:25:52 | |
| visits that the that parking is filling up already pretty pretty much immediately after it was installed. And then we adjusted our | 01:26:00 | |
| street sweeping schedule to try to ease some of the impacts on parking that street sweeping was having. But there's some things | 01:26:07 | |
| coming up, most sort of time sensitive is that on January 1st, which. | 01:26:15 | |
| Somehow it sounds far away, but it's somehow, what, about six weeks away? At this point, a new state law is going to be | 01:26:23 | |
| implemented, called the California's Day Lighting Law. | 01:26:28 | |
| And essentially that's going to require the removal of on street parking within 20 feet of the vehicle approach side of any marked | 01:26:35 | |
| or unmarked crosswalk. And so now where cars can be closer to the crosswalk, I think in some areas it can be within 10 feet. Now | 01:26:42 | |
| there's going to be a bigger area of where the state's requiring no parking. And you know, just like the last item we talked | 01:26:50 | |
| about, there's positives and negatives and unfortunately. | 01:26:57 | |
| We have to figure out how to deal with the negatives. But the positives are it's supposed to allow for clearer views for | 01:27:05 | |
| pedestrians, but also drivers. So it's supposed to be a safety effort, but it is going to impact parking and it is going to be | 01:27:10 | |
| especially you can picture certain neighborhoods where it could be every, you know, 50 feet, there's another intersection that | 01:27:16 | |
| that could be impacted. | 01:27:22 | |
| And so we have that coming. And then tying in with that last conversation with State Building laws and accessory dwelling units | 01:27:28 | |
| and those things, a lot of state laws now, some of the standards we talked about where we said that we used to be able to have | 01:27:33 | |
| some standards that would allow us to say no to projects. | 01:27:39 | |
| For example, one of those things was saying you don't have enough parking for this project. And now it's the State Building laws | 01:27:45 | |
| get more they're finding are limiting the city's ability to do that because they need the units built. So they're saying, you | 01:27:51 | |
| know, parking is not a good enough excuse to not allow housing, you know. | 01:27:57 | |
| And all these things have good and bad. The good is, you know, that encourages building. The bad is. | 01:28:05 | |
| If you ask anybody who lives in that neighborhood if they would want there to be parking if somebody's building a new project, I'm | 01:28:12 | |
| guessing they would want them to have to put some parking in. | 01:28:16 | |
| So, so that's another, there's, there's a few areas like that. And So what we thought about doing. Oh, and lastly, I'll say, and I | 01:28:21 | |
| think we've all gotten, you know, a public comment at some of our council meetings recently and, and through e-mail comments and | 01:28:27 | |
| things, we do hear from people who say, you know, parking is a problem in my neighborhood. But unfortunately, typically the | 01:28:33 | |
| responses are the, the comment will be, it's a problem in my neighborhood. So can you stop it here and move it over to the | 01:28:39 | |
| neighborhood next to mine? | 01:28:45 | |
| And, and we've had a lot of those conversations and we talked to people and say like, well, what about what would your neighbor | 01:28:51 | |
| say to that? You know, what, how do they, how would they feel about it? And for us, it kind of led us to a discussion where we | 01:28:58 | |
| said, we really think the answer or the best we have in an answer here is to do AI know the word holistic is overused, but a | 01:29:05 | |
| holistic citywide approach versus just responding? | 01:29:11 | |
| You know when somebody comes in today and asks for. | 01:29:19 | |
| Red curb on their St. and then the next week when their neighbors come in and say, now we don't have parking and having to to play | 01:29:22 | |
| that game. So we want to do a parking analysis. And so we are we brainstormed some ideas as an example so that, you know, we can | 01:29:29 | |
| talk about what kind of things we'd be looking at and then as we're looking at these if like other opportunities arise or if we | 01:29:37 | |
| see this won't work here but actually this other thing will, then we'd also incorporate that but. | 01:29:44 | |
| As an example for areas that we think are worth looking at right away, one is we've heard a couple conversations recently about | 01:29:52 | |
| and we had a public comment a couple months back about someone who wanted to build an Adu, but they had too much of their front | 01:30:00 | |
| yard was already a driveway. And so then that was going to impact their project. So we want to look at those standards. | 01:30:08 | |
| And see. | 01:30:17 | |
| You know, one of the questions is cities are always reactive to these things and usually kind of behind the curve. | 01:30:19 | |
| And so we want to look and try to look proactively and see what are other cities doing, Is there anything other cities are doing | 01:30:26 | |
| or is anything we can do? | 01:30:30 | |
| Where maybe we start looking at that differently, where in the past you needed to have more lawn and now for, you know, there's so | 01:30:34 | |
| many factors, but there's a lot of people who say lawns actually aren't good for the environment anymore and the water | 01:30:40 | |
| conservation and, you know, those types of things. So maybe now the standards should be shifting to allowing for more parking on | 01:30:46 | |
| site, for example. | 01:30:52 | |
| And so we don't. | 01:30:59 | |
| We don't know what the answer is to these ideas yet, but we're saying like we're recommending that the council authorized us to | 01:31:01 | |
| start spending some time trying to think about these things and come up with some recommendations. So that's one. Second is | 01:31:07 | |
| residential permit parking. Just I think it's the request we've received. I think more than more than others, I think we've | 01:31:13 | |
| probably received it. | 01:31:19 | |
| And maybe four or five council meetings request from different neighborhoods and then we also typically get that question at all | 01:31:26 | |
| of our like kind of community events and. | 01:31:30 | |
| And via e-mail there's some negatives with permit parking, but if. | 01:31:36 | |
| It's one of those things I think we'd analyze and we'd come back and we'd encourage some public conversations after that to see if | 01:31:43 | |
| people understand what that includes. And you know, the fact it there's just a lot to them. They they can be, there's there could | 01:31:49 | |
| be cost to permits, there could be. | 01:31:54 | |
| Limits to how many permits each person gets. And maybe, you know, the resident who's advocating for it might realize that they | 01:32:02 | |
| actually don't want that that limit themselves. So we just want to have those conversations rather than just respond to each | 01:32:07 | |
| request on a case by case basis. | 01:32:12 | |
| Third was looking at our existing streets or existing properties and looking at the city and looking for opportunities to add | 01:32:19 | |
| parking spaces or capacity, which could be as simple as doing things like changing striping in some areas. | 01:32:26 | |
| Or it could be a future capital improvement project that we identify to, you know, to address parking four or five years down the | 01:32:34 | |
| road. So, so there's we want to be able to look at those things and kind of come come up with some recommendations about some | 01:32:40 | |
| options there. | 01:32:46 | |
| And then fourth was we actually did this this year and it was, I think it's worked pretty well. It was one neighborhood that it | 01:32:53 | |
| was very dense and had a lot of parking issues and we installed more stop signs. I. | 01:32:59 | |
| Which allowed for more parking, but then slowed the traffic down to address any to also make it safer and to help with the | 01:33:06 | |
| traffic. So that could be another type of program that we look at and look at other areas of the city to see where we could | 01:33:12 | |
| recommend that, where that could work. So, so that's we wanted to come up with some examples just so that it wouldn't be, you | 01:33:18 | |
| know. | 01:33:24 | |
| So that the Council would have an idea of kind of the things we'd be looking at. | 01:33:31 | |
| The idea with this recommendation is. | 01:33:36 | |
| Today, council is not saying that we will move forward with any of these things, but we're going to analyze them, come back and | 01:33:39 | |
| say where these things could work, where they wouldn't work, what the costs would be, and then we can talk and the council can | 01:33:46 | |
| then decide which ones to move forward with. So it's just for that analysis. | 01:33:52 | |
| And So what the Council is asking for is essentially the authorization to do that including, and this is an up to, we don't know | 01:33:59 | |
| that we'd actually spend this, but I think it's the most we would spend, but up to a $30,000 allocation for engineering costs to | 01:34:05 | |
| fully analyze these ideas and and others that may arise from them. So we are recommending the Council authorize us to move forward | 01:34:12 | |
| with that. | 01:34:18 | |
| Thank you. Does Council have any questions for staff? | 01:34:26 | |
| Council member comma do. | 01:34:29 | |
| Yes, as I was sitting here, I was thinking, OK, so. | 01:34:32 | |
| We go for the low hanging fruit as I say, and did parallel parking on the beach. | 01:34:36 | |
| I think it's pretty obvious we generate more parking spots, but then we. | 01:34:41 | |
| Probably start generating a safety issue for the surfers who are trying to get in and out of their wet suits, the back of their | 01:34:45 | |
| cars. So these are the type of things that they're going to look at, right? Yeah, exactly. And, and I think in the past there have | 01:34:50 | |
| been some proposals for some different striping patterns and things like that at the beach. So that's something we could we could | 01:34:56 | |
| come back with. | 01:35:01 | |
| Didn't leave one year do parallel parking at the beach for an event. | 01:35:07 | |
| Did we? | 01:35:11 | |
| No, not that I know. No. Could have been for a car show or something, maybe, yeah. | 01:35:14 | |
| We turned a street into a parking lot. That's the only thing I recall. Yeah, we've done that a few times. | 01:35:19 | |
| Yeah, I think. | 01:35:25 | |
| And then on the Adu in the front yard, you know, there's you get to go and drive around the neighborhoods and the people with the | 01:35:27 | |
| bigger front yards. I. | 01:35:32 | |
| I think it's 40% concrete in the front. | 01:35:37 | |
| And they'll have like 6-7 cars parked in there. | 01:35:41 | |
| Front yard and. | 01:35:45 | |
| I think that's another one where, yeah, we we have to change it. We need more parking. So. | 01:35:47 | |
| I just want to make sure that that they're really going to take a hard look at all the options and realizing that hey. | 01:35:53 | |
| Councilmember Hernandez. | 01:36:02 | |
| OK, Mayor, pretend. | 01:36:07 | |
| Thank you. Are there any public comments regarding this item? | 01:36:10 | |
| Yes, we have a public comment from David Scribner. | 01:36:14 | |
| I need to switch my hat from. | 01:36:23 | |
| A citizen to president of the homeowners association Surfside Village. | 01:36:25 | |
| So we have Miranda Park where we've had lots of long, long term parking problems in that NE portion of the park. I'm sure you're | 01:36:30 | |
| all aware of it. | 01:36:34 | |
| Things are better now than they have been, but we still have people there who are basically living in the park. They're there at | 01:36:40 | |
| 8:00 in the morning till 9:00 at night. Some of them are doing drugs, some of them are just hanging out. But pretty much if you | 01:36:45 | |
| don't, what we would like to request is you put a time limit. | 01:36:51 | |
| On that area. | 01:36:57 | |
| When we had cones put out there in the past, the Police Department authorized those. The people disappeared. They didn't go park | 01:37:00 | |
| out where everybody else was parking because they're skulking around. They don't really want to be seen. So what I'm asking for is | 01:37:06 | |
| in in Miranda Park. | 01:37:12 | |
| If we could get a four hour, 2 hour, I don't really care what the time frame is. That basically says you can't just stay there all | 01:37:18 | |
| day and drink beer and do God knows what. | 01:37:24 | |
| And that that's not for the whole park. The stuff that's open, I see no problem happening at all. It's used by the park. Getting a | 01:37:31 | |
| lot of use is really positive. And and you know, as a resident there, the more people that use the park, the happier I am. So good | 01:37:37 | |
| vibes in the air and the criminal element disappears. | 01:37:44 | |
| The other area that I think I'd like you to pay attention to is Bulker Park. You've got some parking lots there that are pretty | 01:37:52 | |
| much completely monopolized by. | 01:37:57 | |
| The people living in the convenience and. | 01:38:03 | |
| Apartments around there, so it's supposed to be dedicated for park use. Frankly, nobody uses the park. | 01:38:07 | |
| OK. And there's time limits on it which don't get enforced. I would like you to either take away all the the signs, let people | 01:38:14 | |
| park there or start enforcing it, if that makes sense. I think we have signs that say, you know, for park use only. I don't know | 01:38:21 | |
| how you figure out who's at the park or not, but. | 01:38:28 | |
| Basically this is problem because there's no place to park all. A lot of the condominiums are. | 01:38:37 | |
| The garages are full, people are sleeping in them. People have to park someplace. So I'm not saying don't let them park there. And | 01:38:44 | |
| I don't see any problems there, by the way. It's just their parking and we got signs saying don't do it and. | 01:38:49 | |
| It's not enforced, so I'd like to encourage you to either enforce it or to get rid of the science. So thank you. | 01:38:56 | |
| That concludes public comment. Thank you. So the recommendation is to receive the update on potential parking improvement options, | 01:39:06 | |
| provide feedback and authorize staff to perform an analysis of potential options for future consideration, including a $30,000 | 01:39:13 | |
| allocation for engineering costs as needed. May I have a motion and a second please? | 01:39:19 | |
| So moved. | 01:39:28 | |
| 2nd is there any further discussion on this item? I just wanted to make a comment. So tonight when I go home I won't be able to | 01:39:30 | |
| park in my garage because I have one vehicle in there already and the rest of the garage is like a workshop. | 01:39:37 | |
| I very rarely find parking on the street at this time of night and so I end up finding parking like 2 blocks away from my home and | 01:39:47 | |
| don't always feel so safe and secure walking from my car to my home. I think you know our HO As do what they can to encourage | 01:39:54 | |
| people to make space in their garages for both cars. | 01:40:02 | |
| But not everybody does that, and you know, I'm guilty of being one of them. So I take a parking space on the street when I can, | 01:40:10 | |
| when I can manage that. | 01:40:14 | |
| But when I do try to, when I do park on the street, I often find cars parked where they're taking up two spaces. And I'm like, oh, | 01:40:20 | |
| you know, you just moved a little further forward. I could park my car there. And I don't know if there's a solution to that. | 01:40:27 | |
| Maybe, you know, striping the curb so cars can fit in a systematic way. But hopefully this study, this analysis will look at those | 01:40:35 | |
| kinds of situations and, and then also what the Hoas can do to. | 01:40:42 | |
| Urge people to to actually use their garages for parking so we that takes more cars off the street. | 01:40:50 | |
| Thank you. | 01:40:57 | |
| Any further comments, if I could just note in with that in the comment, the public comment as well as I think striping and signage | 01:40:59 | |
| are two areas where there might be some hopefully some low hanging fruit and kind of low cost. I. | 01:41:06 | |
| Improvements we can make. | 01:41:14 | |
| Thank you, I just wanted to make a comment. I know that one of the HOA's approved for a gate. | 01:41:17 | |
| And they haven't installed it yet. It was approved a couple years ago. I'm not going to mention any names, but. | 01:41:26 | |
| But again, you know, it's a great enhancement for that community. However, the reality is is there's people parking in their | 01:41:35 | |
| neighborhood because there's a lack of parking across the street. And yeah, so. | 01:41:42 | |
| As you know, parking is less and less available. It just gets to be a bigger and bigger problem. And As for Miranda Park, I like | 01:41:50 | |
| David Scribner. | 01:41:55 | |
| Pickleball has. | 01:42:02 | |
| Brought so many good people to Miranda Park. | 01:42:05 | |
| Thanks, Rich Rollins. And it's pretty amazing because like like Mr. Scrivener said, when you have wholesome uses of the park, it | 01:42:09 | |
| has great benefits. But. | 01:42:15 | |
| That little corner is a problem and so yeah. | 01:42:22 | |
| Anything we could do to? | 01:42:26 | |
| To help. | 01:42:28 | |
| Madam Clerk, can we please take the vote? | 01:42:33 | |
| All in favor, all opposed hearing none motion passes unanimously. Thank you. The next item is the update on the Port Hueneme | 01:42:35 | |
| expanded polystyrene or EPS and single serve plastics ordinance. | 01:42:42 | |
| Staff, please present the report. Thank you. Yes, and we just have one slide on this and we just wanted to update everybody on the | 01:42:50 | |
| efforts related to the EPS ordinance implementation or commonly known as the Styrofoam prohibition. And so we have on the right of | 01:42:59 | |
| this slide is the kind of the marketing materials that we had sent out and posted. | 01:43:09 | |
| Reminding people that EPS was banned. | 01:43:18 | |
| That alternative biodegradable. | 01:43:21 | |
| Materials are allowed, but also that reusable. | 01:43:26 | |
| Dishes and things like that are our best typically. So we had started sharing that information out at the start of right before | 01:43:32 | |
| the start of the year, and we spent several months. | 01:43:38 | |
| Kind of trying to do regular. | 01:43:46 | |
| Outreach and phase one was sort of six, six months give or take doing the public education and outreach portion of of the | 01:43:49 | |
| implementation. | 01:43:54 | |
| Phase two, what we had identified as phase two would be that once we got any notification, any complaints about businesses that | 01:44:01 | |
| were violating this prohibition that we would issue a 30 day notice to the business. | 01:44:08 | |
| Require, you know, educate, educating them directly and then requiring them to schedule an inspection with us where we could | 01:44:16 | |
| confirm that they were transitioning over to the. | 01:44:21 | |
| Compliant materials. | 01:44:29 | |
| And so. | 01:44:31 | |
| We had not received any complaints. Actually I can say as of this moment we have not received any complaints. But we became aware | 01:44:33 | |
| of a couple of restaurants that were using the materials. And so we have issued 30 day notices to those restaurants and we have a, | 01:44:41 | |
| we're having our, we're planning to have our follow up inspections with those restaurants in December. | 01:44:49 | |
| Depending on how that goes, if they haven't converted, we would move to phase three, which would be performing the follow up | 01:44:59 | |
| inspection. And if they have not complied, we would issue citations at that time to those businesses. So the hope would be that we | 01:45:06 | |
| don't have to do that, but that is the plan if needed. In the meantime, we've talked about doing another round of public | 01:45:14 | |
| education, public outreach, and I think this time maybe one of the lessons learned. | 01:45:21 | |
| More prominently including the code compliance information. | 01:45:28 | |
| In that in those materials so that people know immediately who to call and how to report it. So that that could potentially have | 01:45:35 | |
| been an issue, although typically people do figure out how to get a hold of us, but we we hadn't received any complaints in the | 01:45:43 | |
| last 11 months that we've been going through this process. So so again, at this point we have notices issued to to. | 01:45:52 | |
| A few businesses and we'll be doing the follow up inspections in December. | 01:46:01 | |
| And with that, I think this was intended to be a status update and so. | 01:46:07 | |
| We recommend that Council receive it and provide any desired direction. OK. | 01:46:14 | |
| Thank you. Does Council have any questions? | 01:46:20 | |
| Not seeing any. Are there any public comments regarding this item? No public comments, thank you. | 01:46:24 | |
| The recommendation is to receive an update on the city's expanded polystyrene ordinance and deemed necessary direct provide | 01:46:29 | |
| direction to staff. I have a motion in a second to receive. | 01:46:35 | |
| Move to approve the recommendations by staff I mean. | 01:46:41 | |
| A second, please second. | 01:46:45 | |
| Any further discussion? Not seeing any Madam Clerk. All in favor? Aye, all opposed. | 01:46:48 | |
| Hearing none, motion passes unanimously. Thank you. And I would just like to point out that it's 814. | 01:46:54 | |
| You know when when you go to a restaurant and they give you the the new containers I. | 01:47:00 | |
| If you put a piece of foil at the bottom of it, they'll last a lot longer, but if you don't, it soaks through. So yeah, well, and | 01:47:09 | |
| I noticed that my favorite restaurant does a really good job of accommodating that. | 01:47:16 | |
| Thank you. We'll move on to City Manager comments and reports. Thank you. | 01:47:25 | |
| We have a few today. We've had a few things we wanted to provide updates on. So first we just wanted to thank everybody who | 01:47:30 | |
| attended and. | 01:47:34 | |
| Represented our city and appreciated our veterans at the 2024 veteran's day ceremony. We had a great event and. | 01:47:41 | |
| The the video. | 01:47:51 | |
| Facebook post a video Facebook stream that we we were able to record the whole ceremony is available to watch. There's a AQR code | 01:47:53 | |
| here. You can just go to the City of Port Hueneme Facebook page and check that out. | 01:48:00 | |
| Particularly, I think it was great we got to hear from our keynote speaker was Captain Daniel S Bentsy and our special honoree was | 01:48:08 | |
| Orvin Carpenter, our longest serving Council member and. | 01:48:15 | |
| Former postmaster and World War 2 and Korean veteran who is going to be celebrating his 100th birthday, I believe next month. So, | 01:48:24 | |
| so it was a good event and probably hard to top for next year. So we got to start thinking ahead. So, but so we had that last | 01:48:30 | |
| week. | 01:48:37 | |
| And we have some events coming up we wanted to let people know about and get on people's calendars. | 01:48:44 | |
| First, our holiday, holiday tree lighting celebration is on Tuesday, December 3rd, 5:30 to 7:30. Last year that one was very well | 01:48:50 | |
| attended. So so plan to to get there maybe a little bit early and the line for Santa and everything got pretty lengthy last year. | 01:48:59 | |
| So, so that will kind of kick off. | 01:49:08 | |
| Our winter season and then following the week after that will be the Senior Holiday Luncheon and at the Orvines Carpenter | 01:49:17 | |
| Community Center. | 01:49:22 | |
| We mentioned this earlier and the next couple slides are. | 01:49:30 | |
| Like I said, we were it was great timing because with the storm coming up and with us completing some of the storm efforts gives | 01:49:34 | |
| us a chance to talk about some of the those those efforts we put in place. First and foremost, this week we had our graduation of | 01:49:41 | |
| 23 community members from the Community Emergency Response Team program, otherwise known as the CERT program. And so | 01:49:48 | |
| congratulations to these graduates for. | 01:49:55 | |
| Who took the time to master disaster response skills and. | 01:50:02 | |
| Now I. | 01:50:07 | |
| Can help serve a support role during the next emergency situation so and as we saw a couple weeks back with the mountain fire | 01:50:10 | |
| these emergencies can happen at anytime and when you least expect it and it's just part of always being prepared for it so that | 01:50:18 | |
| was a great showing 23 people graduating is. | 01:50:26 | |
| Pretty pretty good size class for, especially for being our first one back, so that's great. | 01:50:34 | |
| And then? | 01:50:42 | |
| Related to disaster prepare preparation and specifically storm preparation. | 01:50:45 | |
| Both the city and and our partners at the county have been proactively preparing for storms. We have some information here shows | 01:50:51 | |
| our City team and our public works director and and and deputy director on site and myself with the county public works director | 01:51:00 | |
| and a representative from Supervisor Lopez's office where we actually went out and we walked. | 01:51:09 | |
| Areas of the channel and and got got our eyes on it and then following that the county and, and these are projects that take some | 01:51:18 | |
| time. I think that meeting was about a month ago, but the county actually scheduled a clean up of the channel that took place this | 01:51:25 | |
| morning at 10:00 AM and we our police team provide support to the county in those efforts. Our police team actually went out and | 01:51:33 | |
| we cleared. | 01:51:40 | |
| I want to say it was a 30. | 01:51:48 | |
| Foot dumpster. | 01:51:53 | |
| Large dumpster, not just the, you know, not like a home use dumpster, but the big 30 foot long ones. Yeah, what is what? Yeah, 40 | 01:51:56 | |
| foot. We filled one of those up with the, the stuff, the debris that we found in the channel today. So, so that was a big effort | 01:52:03 | |
| and we had kind of pushed and scheduled that. And that was before we all found out this morning that there may actually be a storm | 01:52:10 | |
| coming. So, you know, we had said at the time that hey, you know. | 01:52:17 | |
| It's almost December, a storm may may come and and it turned out to be very good timing. So we went out there and did did that in | 01:52:25 | |
| partnership with the county. And then like I mentioned earlier, the council today approved that additional work on bubbling | 01:52:30 | |
| springs. | 01:52:36 | |
| We always, it's a sort of a challenge to explain to people why like it takes so long to do the bubbling springs, but there's the | 01:52:43 | |
| Fish and Wildlife requirements and things where we can only work so many days a year. And so this year we are making sure this is | 01:52:50 | |
| actually year three of us working on all those days that we can work to really try to clean up the the Creek and, and we're moving | 01:52:57 | |
| forward. And that item today was that actually add some. | 01:53:04 | |
| The ability to do even more work this year. | 01:53:11 | |
| So you may see that work ongoing. It's been ongoing in that area shown on the map, that blue area. It's a little hard to see, but | 01:53:14 | |
| we'll, we'll post, we're going to do a post on this in the next couple of days and we'll include some of this information as well. | 01:53:22 | |
| And, and the pictures a little larger, but we're just continuing to try to get prepared for storms and get ahead of. | 01:53:30 | |
| Any winter weather that's coming so. | 01:53:39 | |
| At the same time, Public Works is making good progress on a lot of the different capital improvement projects and. | 01:53:43 | |
| Pavement projects that we have across the city, you can see that the westbound Channel Islands resurfacing project is now complete | 01:53:51 | |
| with the new restriping was the last piece and that's now done. We also, and I want to give credit, Public Works has been looking. | 01:53:59 | |
| Ahead and getting creative and when our the crews on site to do 1 project where trying to make sure we do other projects that are | 01:54:09 | |
| close by to keep the costs low. And so we've also had slurry so projects at Lot C in the at the beach and the recreation corridor. | 01:54:17 | |
| Lot C for now, people may notice it's not striped yet and that's because we're taking the opportunity while we're doing this and | 01:54:28 | |
| we're doing that ADA plan we had talked about. We're going to try, we're going to try to connect the two and see what we can | 01:54:34 | |
| stripe better to be more ADA compliant rather than stripe it and then have to immediately update it. So, so we're working on that. | 01:54:41 | |
| And then people have probably noticed the beach walkways were under construction. | 01:54:48 | |
| The first area has been. | 01:54:56 | |
| Almost completely complete. There's one little area that we're going to work on, mostly the aesthetic of it, but the. | 01:54:58 | |
| It's one side of the beach walkway is done and we've now moved over to the second side. So we're moving through that project. And | 01:55:09 | |
| then the last note, it's actually related to one of the council, future council requests at the last meeting was a request for us | 01:55:17 | |
| to bring back the review of the Ventura Road and Waimea Rd. traffic issue related to a protected left turn. | 01:55:25 | |
| And so we dug into that and we found that when it was required, when it was requested by council initially, we did some initial | 01:55:34 | |
| research, but it basically. | 01:55:40 | |
| Concluded that more data was needed to move forward with the project. So we've now authorized our staff to move forward with | 01:55:47 | |
| gathering that additional data. And once they gather that, then we'll bring the findings back to council with the costs and | 01:55:54 | |
| everything else and then we'll come back with a recommendation of how to proceed. So, so that'll be coming back to council in | 01:56:00 | |
| coming months. | 01:56:06 | |
| And after all that, so looking ahead at the December 2nd agenda, just for anybody who's wondering the because it changes | 01:56:15 | |
| sometimes, but the all the election related. | 01:56:20 | |
| Dates this year, we're expecting to have all of the all of those items on the December 16th agenda. | 01:56:27 | |
| Because the county has to certify the election results and that takes some time. People probably noticed they're still counting. I | 01:56:35 | |
| think it's about 20,000 ballots left that they're still counting 15,000. So it goes up a little every time. So the that's not | 01:56:43 | |
| planned yet for the December 2nd agenda. It'll be the December 16th most likely, and so the December 2nd agenda. | 01:56:52 | |
| Which would be the last with everybody sitting up here right now? | 01:57:02 | |
| And we plan to bring a Safe Streets grant that we mentioned earlier on consent. We are going to bring part three of these fun | 01:57:07 | |
| community and economic development ones. And so that'll be another long recommendation to read. And then we have a few items we're | 01:57:16 | |
| planning to bring forward as business items. One, we're just calling it the Grants Pass update and just without getting into it. | 01:57:25 | |
| The Grants Pass court decision passed this year and there's a lot of questions or confusion about. | 01:57:35 | |
| What that means for each city and how the unhoused issues can be approached. | 01:57:42 | |
| So we just want to do kind of a status update and talk about how we're working with other cities in the county and and where we're | 01:57:48 | |
| at in that process. | 01:57:52 | |
| There's also surf riders have approached the city about a dune restoration project that we want to get feedback from the council | 01:57:57 | |
| on and then the. | 01:58:02 | |
| I think everybody's aware that Port won't. Even Little League in the past had an exclusive use agreement at Bubbling Springs Field | 01:58:07 | |
| baseball fields. But with the park going through this $15 million grant and renovation. | 01:58:15 | |
| Coming back from it, we know that other people are going to want to use the field, asked to use the field, and so we've talked | 01:58:25 | |
| with the Little League about a proposal to. | 01:58:30 | |
| Drop some of the requirements that they've had in the past in exchange for what down grading from an exclusive use to a priority | 01:58:36 | |
| use that would allow others to use the field. So I think we have an agreement that's worked that is proposed that the City Council | 01:58:44 | |
| will receive an update on and and determine whether to move forward with so so December 2nd meeting is. | 01:58:52 | |
| We'll have a lot on it and it's kind of to get, it'll be the last meeting, what we expect to be the last meeting before the | 01:59:02 | |
| election. | 01:59:05 | |
| Change the change resulting from the election so. | 01:59:09 | |
| Thank you. | 01:59:13 | |
| Thank you. Any questions or comments for City Manager Vega? | 01:59:15 | |
| I would like to make some comments on some items that you mentioned the cert program. I was one of those graduates and I just want | 01:59:20 | |
| to thank. | 01:59:23 | |
| County Fire Steve Lazenby and firefighter Nick Hyatt for a great program and for preparing and equipping us with all the | 01:59:28 | |
| information we need. Then I'll be in. One of my cert compadres is in the audience. | 01:59:35 | |
| And I want to thank Joan for being such a great victim. | 01:59:42 | |
| You look, you look beautiful with a head wound and I had such a great time. I do want to say and also thank you Mark for Mark the | 01:59:46 | |
| building inspector for inviting me and the two words that I keep thinking of when I think about the CERT training and the | 01:59:54 | |
| experience I went through on Saturday being a victim and I had a great time falling into rescuers arms and how great is that? | 02:00:02 | |
| I keep thinking of the words inspiring and reassuring because these are the people who are going to be taking care of us. | 02:00:11 | |
| And organizing us when a disaster happens and it will happen, we just don't know when. And I was so impressed with how these | 02:00:18 | |
| trainees, they were so serious about what they were doing and how they were getting us out of buildings and tending to our wounds | 02:00:26 | |
| and and triaging all of us. It was just a really impressive day and I hope to be able to do it again. It was a lot of fun. | 02:00:34 | |
| No, he they did a very good job of of making sure we were ready. | 02:00:43 | |
| Also want to thank City Manager Vega, Sergeant Perez, Officer from for pushing on the county. | 02:00:47 | |
| And it literally was a push to get them to come down and, and get the clearing of those canals. So I'm, I'm really happy they did. | 02:00:55 | |
| So they did not let up and they were on them and making sure it was done. They knew how important it was to residents to make sure | 02:01:01 | |
| that we could say we did our part and making sure the channels were clear. So they did a great job of that. | 02:01:07 | |
| OK, moving on to Councilman reports and comments, I'll start with Councilmember Gama, I mean Martinez, sorry. | 02:01:14 | |
| Thank you, Mayor Perez. I just want to say that after the election, I've had a lot of concerned residents, friends and family | 02:01:22 | |
| asking me what I'm going to do with my life now that I'm not going to be on council. I'm I'm still a teacher, just for the record, | 02:01:26 | |
| and. | 02:01:31 | |
| And I'm still gonna be part of Sister City and Reach. So some of the my comments are that the Sister Cities hosting an art gallery | 02:01:36 | |
| this Wednesday at the Ocean View Pavilion. It's Wednesday, November 20th from 4:30 to 6:00 PM. It's an artist from Puerto | 02:01:42 | |
| Vallarta. | 02:01:48 | |
| I've actually met him on one of my first visits and so I'm and I really do love his art. It's very, very colorful. | 02:01:54 | |
| So I recommend that if you want to check out the art, I don't think he has any. He doesn't have anything for sale. But just to see | 02:02:01 | |
| his art, I think it's going to be inspirational. | 02:02:05 | |
| And I also want to mention that Reach had a really successful pickleball tournament. | 02:02:10 | |
| Since Reach is now more of a working board, I want to say that I, I, I'm one of the workers and I created the website, so I | 02:02:17 | |
| recommend you check it out and if there's any advice or feedback you can give me, I'm, I'm more than, I'm more, more than happy to | 02:02:23 | |
| take it. We have some photos from the last pickleball tournament on the website and it shows the winners and I think it's pretty | 02:02:28 | |
| cool. It's, it's only going to get better. And yeah, we're looking forward to hosting two more tournaments sometime next year. So | 02:02:34 | |
| we'll be coming back to council. | 02:02:40 | |
| Asking for permission, we're thinking about basketball and if you have any other ideas for sports, more than happy to listen to | 02:02:46 | |
| your suggestions. And then for Sister City, we're also looking and doing a fundraiser sometime in February and we've been working | 02:02:51 | |
| with. | 02:02:56 | |
| Some of the staff to see if we can have some availability to at the. | 02:03:02 | |
| Community Center, but that's it's it's just it's just talks but we're looking forward to doing fundraising for scholarships via | 02:03:07 | |
| sister city and then reaches more like fundraising for maybe some art. That's what we're saying art the tournaments for money for | 02:03:14 | |
| art so that we can paint the electrical boxes and. | 02:03:21 | |
| Also maybe fixing up anything that the city might need related to sports. | 02:03:30 | |
| That's all. Thank you. Thank you. | 02:03:37 | |
| We were supposed to have a Beacon meeting last Friday but it was cancelled to lack of a quorum so I don't have anything to report | 02:03:40 | |
| out on that this Thursday. | 02:03:45 | |
| We're having a long overdue Ventura County Animal Services meeting which I'm really excited to attend. | 02:03:51 | |
| We have a new director and you know the shelter is at Max capacity. So if you know anybody out there that wants to adopt that | 02:03:58 | |
| would be great. | 02:04:03 | |
| But the people down there, they do, they do do such a wonderful job. So if you ever get a chance and you want to. | 02:04:09 | |
| Get a smile on your face. Go visit the Ventura County Animal Services down there at the Camarillo Airport. | 02:04:15 | |
| I really excited tonight. I was excited to again hear about Chumash and stewardship and environmental and taking care of the | 02:04:23 | |
| environment and it I get a lot of joy out of Wyoming beach cleanup. And so I want to encourage anybody and everybody to come on | 02:04:31 | |
| down, join us every Saturday. I think we're at 9 1/2 years now. | 02:04:39 | |
| And I've been trying to negotiate with student groups for community service hours down there in preparation for the rain because | 02:04:48 | |
| it's pretty clean out there right now. But we know when the rain comes and we're going to have a, a hopefully not a monumental | 02:04:54 | |
| effort because of the the efforts that are happening now, whereas in the past they wouldn't happen. And so all that debris would | 02:05:00 | |
| would make it down to the beach. So. | 02:05:06 | |
| In line with that thinking, now is the time to type. Start preparing your yards and their areas to drain and and not be inundated | 02:05:13 | |
| with trash. And of course. | 02:05:19 | |
| We would love to have more volunteers after the rains because we do know that that's a time when. | 02:05:26 | |
| It gets a little dicey out there, but Wanami Beach is really clean. People keep saying how clean it is and on the Styrofoam, we | 02:05:33 | |
| really are seeing less Styrofoam out there. | 02:05:37 | |
| So that's a good thing. | 02:05:43 | |
| At the risk of sounding negative, I just want to mention because I see we have our port representative here, we've had two. | 02:05:47 | |
| Instances of. | 02:05:55 | |
| Noxious emission evenings. | 02:05:57 | |
| And generally speaking, the wind keeps it going the other way, but when it comes down the path of my street, it's really, really | 02:06:01 | |
| noxious and. | 02:06:07 | |
| I was visiting a friend of Anacapa View the other night and it was just, it was stifling. So it's a concern because I know that we | 02:06:14 | |
| have residents that have breathing disorders and this like that, but maybe we could come up with like a, an app warning system | 02:06:22 | |
| because it's it, it's entirely due to the wind. And so I just wanted to mention that, but it really was a. | 02:06:30 | |
| I dragged our city manager out of his office to say, look, do you smell anything here? No. And then we went over to my street and | 02:06:39 | |
| you know. | 02:06:43 | |
| The thing about fumes and odors is you can't take a picture of it, you know, you just have to say your word. So just want to | 02:06:48 | |
| mention that and hopefully we could collaborate, work together and. | 02:06:53 | |
| Look for ways to. | 02:07:00 | |
| Maybe have a warning system or something? | 02:07:02 | |
| Thank you, Mayor. Just to follow up on Councilman Gamma's comments regarding air quality, I do subscribe to the AQMD's website and | 02:07:06 | |
| app and they deliver an air quality report every day. So that's an option you might want to consider. And I know that the air | 02:07:13 | |
| quality was particularly bad in the last week due to the fires, and it seemed like it would get worse at night. | 02:07:21 | |
| Unfortunately I was out of town and left. My windows got left open and so when I came home my the smoke was just. | 02:07:30 | |
| All in the upstairs of my home and it was, it was really hard to get rid of it, but. | 02:07:38 | |
| Anyway, my meetings were both canceled due to the fire. Speaking of the fire. | 02:07:43 | |
| So I do, but I do have some comments I wanted to share regarding the City Manager's report. One was the street maintenance report | 02:07:49 | |
| in the Channel Islands Blvd. Resurfacing I. | 02:07:55 | |
| I want to thank public works staff and a street maintenance folks for the work on Channel Islands Blvd. It is beautiful and it | 02:08:03 | |
| feels so nice to drive down Channel Islands Blvd. on that side where the repaving repay vein has been done. It just what it does | 02:08:10 | |
| to the neighborhood is just incredibly different and it and it feels different. It looks different and that's the kind of quality | 02:08:18 | |
| of life I think we all are looking for for our residents. | 02:08:25 | |
| And so thank, thank you for for that work. And I think it was a really great improvement for our community. The trash cans. We | 02:08:33 | |
| finally at my HOA received our organic waste trash bag trash cans. And I noticed on nextdoor.com there were some complaints about | 02:08:40 | |
| where am I going to put this trash can and I don't have any room for it in my garage. And then I noticed and I didn't have a | 02:08:48 | |
| problem with it because it's small and I can find. | 02:08:55 | |
| Room for it and then I noticed too that they replaced the larger trash cans, the Gray and the blue one with smaller ones so I have | 02:09:03 | |
| three small ones which are it's ideal so I I wanted to thank sanitation services for that and and thinking about the space | 02:09:10 | |
| limitations that we sometimes have in our garage so thank you for that I. | 02:09:17 | |
| I did attend the Boys and Girls Club for for Oxnard Port Hueneme Gala on that was Saturday night. It was well attended emceed by | 02:09:24 | |
| President Selena Zacharias from the port. She did amazing job as usual, well attended event and raised a lot of money for our | 02:09:31 | |
| youth. | 02:09:37 | |
| Also attended the Navy League luncheon on Friday. No, that was Thursday and that was that was a great event. They celebrated the | 02:09:44 | |
| Marines 20 / 249 years of service. | 02:09:51 | |
| Well attended events as well. And then today I went down to the local assistance center and took the volunteers. There are some | 02:10:00 | |
| cookies and kind of went walked around and talked to the various volunteer organizations who were there assisting people who are | 02:10:05 | |
| trying to recover from the fire. | 02:10:10 | |
| And one of the interesting things I learned is that there was a there's some families from the fire who lost homes in Camarillo | 02:10:16 | |
| and are relocating here in Port Hueneme. | 02:10:21 | |
| In short term rentals, so when we start to talk about short term rentals and how some people might not like them or appreciate | 02:10:26 | |
| them, they are serving a purpose for people who are looking for short term rentals while their homes, they go through the | 02:10:33 | |
| insurance process and the process of rebuilding which is not too short term. | 02:10:40 | |
| Also, I volunteered on Friday with Food Share on 5th street. They have a food pantry now on Friday afternoon. | 02:10:49 | |
| Really enjoyed it and hope to make it a regular volunteer activity. | 02:10:56 | |
| In the coming weeks and let's see, oh, on the behalf of the veterans. | 02:11:02 | |
| VFW 390-3935 They are conducting a toy giveaway and collecting toys. Now they're working along with Premier America and you can | 02:11:10 | |
| drop off your toys at the VFW or Premier America during business hours. The VFW is open from 11:00 AM to 10:00 and they'll be | 02:11:19 | |
| collecting toys through 12/15. | 02:11:28 | |
| For for giveaways later on closer to Christmas. | 02:11:38 | |
| And then I also wanted to congratulate the CERT students, the graduates who went through that CERT program. That is quite a | 02:11:42 | |
| commitment of six weeks plus the the training exercise. And it does elevate our level of readiness here in the communities | 02:11:49 | |
| provided we keep them organized and we keep them active. And I hope that we can swear them in as disaster service workers so that | 02:11:56 | |
| we can use them during an emergency. Otherwise they're left to their own devices and they. | 02:12:04 | |
| Their own thing in their own community, which is fine too. But if the city intends to use them, I think maybe having a ceremony | 02:12:11 | |
| here and swearing a man would be a would be a really nice way to yeah. | 02:12:17 | |
| DSW process sometimes gets complicated, so I just wanted to bring that up. If we're going to do it, I think we should I, I'm, I'm | 02:12:24 | |
| totally supportive of that I. | 02:12:30 | |
| Let's see. And I think that's it. Thank you. | 02:12:37 | |
| Mary Pro Tem. | 02:12:41 | |
| Couple of things I too attended the boys and. | 02:12:44 | |
| Mayor Pro Tem, is your mic on? Oh, sorry, thank you. | 02:12:57 | |
| And I was able to attend the Navy League luncheon and we I was able to present the Navy Sailor of the Year. | 02:13:03 | |
| And what so happened that he was this He's the Sailor of the year. | 02:13:12 | |
| For local naval base Ventura County, he's also. | 02:13:17 | |
| The Navy Sailor of the Year for the next level and also for the next level. So for the, I think it's for the the Navy overall. So | 02:13:25 | |
| it was really nice. It was an honor for me to present to him. So it was really nice. I attended after our Port Hueneme veteran's | 02:13:34 | |
| day celebration, I attended the Oxnard veteran's day as well. It was pretty nice. | 02:13:42 | |
| They had it on on a not unapproved but unsolicited fly over. So there was a fly over right at the end, but they hadn't even asked | 02:13:51 | |
| for it for some somewhere somewhere else. But it just happened to be a family over for the event was really nice and I did just | 02:13:58 | |
| want to share. We talked about our ordinance for the. | 02:14:04 | |
| Styrofoam and then. | 02:14:13 | |
| Councilwoman Laura talked about her, her getting her her new. | 02:14:16 | |
| Been yeah. So last month, late last month, I was able to go. | 02:14:22 | |
| As a part of the Ventura Regional Sanitation District, we went on a tour to the toll in landfill. | 02:14:29 | |
| I have a renewed sense of making sure I'm recycling properly, that I'm taking the things that need to go, mattresses and carpet | 02:14:38 | |
| that need to go where they need to go. It was amazing to see all of the trash. Well, the size of the the landfill is just | 02:14:46 | |
| incredible, but to see a lot of the items. | 02:14:54 | |
| Plastics. Like I said, mattresses, carpet. | 02:15:02 | |
| Things that have been in the landfill for many, many years still in their original form. | 02:15:08 | |
| So just kind of, you know, reminded me the importance of making sure that you're using the recycling bins and the the new bins | 02:15:15 | |
| that we just received and putting the right things in the right bins. And so, so that was eye opening for me. So I was glad that I | 02:15:21 | |
| was able to do that. | 02:15:28 | |
| And I have attended a couple of my meetings were canceled this month, but I still have a few that I have attended so. | 02:15:35 | |
| Yeah. | 02:15:43 | |
| Councillor Gama, do you want to add your? | 02:15:44 | |
| Yes, some friends of mine are doing a. | 02:15:48 | |
| Feeds the homeless event this November 23rd at 11:00 AM at Plaza Park in Oxnard. They'll have available food, used clothing, | 02:15:51 | |
| sleeping bags that they would like to give to anybody that's homeless in our community. So November 23rd, 11:00 AM at Plaza Park. | 02:15:59 | |
| Thank you. So I my committee meetings were also pretty much cancelled this month. | 02:16:08 | |
| After the city's veterans celebration, I went over to Plaza Park as I'm a The Salvation Army on the Salvation Army Advisory Board. | 02:16:17 | |
| Feeding the homeless random pop-ups. So stay tuned for that for anybody who wants to volunteer. | 02:16:55 | |
| The note this will the anybody in addition to the Lions Club, not just the Lions Club. | 02:17:01 | |
| I also attended the Boys and Girls Club Gala as I'm on the board and I hosted a table and as our biggest fundraiser of the year. | 02:17:10 | |
| And I'm curious to hear what we actually brought in this year and all that goes back into the community for the children. We have | 02:17:17 | |
| a big construction happening at our Waimea facility, so some of that will be going towards that to make sure we give the boys and | 02:17:23 | |
| girls of this community just a beautiful building that Oxnard has. So we're looking forward to that construction taking place. | 02:17:30 | |
| And the cert training, I graduated from that as well and I would love to be able to get everyone here. | 02:17:39 | |
| For city recognition and certification for. | 02:17:45 | |
| Swearing in so I'll ask that for it. | 02:17:50 | |
| Yes. So I wanted to add that for an agenda item. | 02:17:54 | |
| And. | 02:17:59 | |
| I think that is it. I don't think I forgot anything. | 02:18:00 | |
| Moving on to future agenda items. | 02:18:04 | |
| Council Member. | 02:18:08 | |
| No, Councillor Ragama. | 02:18:09 | |
| Senator Ernest. | 02:18:12 | |
| Yes, I'll send that tomorrow from Dulce Cert centerfield. | 02:18:25 | |
| Regarding the January storms and all the data that was being requested. | 02:18:29 | |
| Yes. | 02:18:32 | |
| At the next meeting, I'll decide whether or not I'll request an agenda item. | 02:18:34 | |
| Mayor Putin, do you have anything? | 02:18:39 | |
| I would like to put on for I don't know when but try to get everyone together, assert recognition and swearing in. Thought I heard | 02:18:41 | |
| a consensus, so can we assume a consensus on that one? Sure, thank you. | 02:18:47 | |
| OK. Seeing nothing else, if everyone is done, we're going to adjourn at 8:46. Sorry, I was close to 830. | 02:18:58 | |
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