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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda Packet - BC - 2004.10.07NOTICE B URLINGAME BEAUTIFICATION COMMISSION OCTOBER 792004 S: 30 P.M. CITY HALL Conference Room A 501 PRIMROSE ROAD BURLINGAME, CA A GENDA I. ROLL CALL H. MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 2, 2004 COMMISSION MEETING M. CORRESPONDENCE IV. FROM THE FLOOR (At this time, persons in the audience may speak on any item on the agenda or any other matter. The Ralph M. Brown Act prohibits the Commission from acting on a matter which is not on the agenda. Comments are limited to three minutes.) V. OLD BUSINESS A. Tree View Ordinance - Committee Appointments VI. NEW BUSINESS A. Spring Garden Seminar Preliminary Planning B. Volunteer Application — Action Item C. Street Tree Removal Policy - Council Request for Recommendation VI. REPORTS A. Parks & Recreation Director B. Parks Superintendent C. Chairperson D. Commissioners V CITY CITY OF BURLINGAME URL.INGAM6 PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM DATE: September 28, 2004 J TO: BEAUTIFICATION COMMISSIONERS FROM: TIM RICHMOND, PARKS SUPERINTENDENT p� y RE: OCTOBER BEAUTIFICATION AGENDA At the October meeting there are several items that require additional information. 1. Tree View Ordinance. Chairperson Hesselgren will formalize the appointment of the committee members who will study this issue and report back to the Commission. This meeting will give non committee members a final opportunity to make brief statements as to the direction that they would like the committee to take. Directions may include historical background for this issue in Burlingame, study of existing ordinances in other cities, methods for fact finding in Burlingame, description of the scope of the task, and many other possibilities. If you have a clear direction statement that you wish to make to the committee, please come prepared to do so. 2. Spring Garden Seminar. After the last seminar, the Commission did not have a clear direction about how to proceed in 2005.. If a seminar is to be held in 2005, it is imperative that it take shape very quickly. Speakers are often unavailable when they are approached too close to the meeting date. The Commission needs to elect whether or not to hold the seminar. If it chooses to, it needs to begin soliciting presenters in short order. The Commission recently chose to approve all volunteers working on park related projects, whether they be groups or individuals. Bob Disco has been working with Robert Curincita, who volunteered to prune the camellias in Washington Park. In fact, he has been performing that service for several years. Camellias are his hobby. Bob is very pleased with his work. Your approval of his volunteer work is recommended. 4. Street Tree Removal policy. Since our last meeting Council (via Director Schwartz) requested that the Commission make a recommendation on a policy for street tree removal during sidewalk repair. The recommendation will assume that approved removals will be the financial responsibility of the requesting property owner. The Commission is being asked to consider conditions under which removals will be approved. In formulating its recommendation the Commission will need to carefully think through many factors; it will need to consider various .� models for considering removal. Factors may include species, cost of repair, future financial obligations, cost of removal, character of neighborhood, value of tree to property owner, nature of sidewalk damage. The commission may wish to establish weightings for various factors. It may wish to develop a cost model. It may wish to describe an array of factors and establish a threshold beyond which removal would be permitted. This task will require more than one meeting. Please come to the meeting with your ideas and models for approaching this issue. Thank you very much for your careful attention to these matters.