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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
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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.