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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMin - CC - 1987.03.1827 CITY OF BURLINGAME CITY COUNCIL STUDY MEETING March 18, t987 , 7:30 p.m. City HaII, Conference Room B Mayor cloria Barton convened the continued regular meeting of March 16 and the study session of the Burlingame city Council on the above date in Conference Room B of Burlingame City HaII at 7:30 p.m. PRESENT: COI,NCfLMEMBERS AMSTRUP, BARTON, LEI4BI , MANGINI , PAGLIARO STAFF PRESENT:ARGYRES, COLEMAN, KIRKUP, MONROE, WAGNER OPPOSfTION SB27. This item had been continued from the March 16 meeting. MayorBarton indicated that she had discussed the matter further withstaff and others and that she had no problem opposing the biII. SB27 would be to limit the expansion of the Hetch-Hetchy water sys-tem which may limit the future amount of water that the Bay Area users can receive from the system. councilman Lembi made a motionwhich was seconded by Councilman Amstrup to have staff send a let-ter opposing this senate bill. The motion passed by unanimous vote. The adj ourned regular meeting was concluded at 7:32 to the regular study meeting. 1. CONSIDERATION OF SMOKfNG CONTROL ORDINANCE. City Manager briefly reviewed the material which had been sent to Council from the Health Alliance of san Mateo County and the Chair- man of the smoke Free committee of Mills-Peninsula Hospital, asweII as copies of ordinances from other cities. Council-manPagliaro indicated that his primary reason for bringing this matterup was the surgeon general's recent report concerning secondary smoke and the affect to the health of others. He supported thedraft Health Alliance ordinance to a point. Councilman Manginiquestioned what the enforcement provisions of the ordinance wereand how did you define such places as a bar. Councilman Amstrup shared Councilman Manginirs concerns about enforcement but had nogeneral opposition to a smoking control ordinance. Mayor Bartonindicated that she had no problem with the idea so long as the or-dinance was not extreme and felt that San Bruno's ordinance may bea good model. Howard Oliphant, of the Health Alliance, reviewedthe efforts of his organization towards increasing the rights of non smokers. Consensus of the Council was that we should look atan ordinance similar to san Brunors including various types of en- forcement options and have staff report back to Council at ourApril 22 study meeting. fN SINGLE FAMfLY DISTRfCTS. city Planner reviewed her report and the questions for Council asto the types of ordinance which we may want to enact. There was a Council consensus that we should look at all residential zones, notjust R-1, but that a study of what currently exists was needed. Councilman Pagliaro indicated he felt that the County ordinance hada good definition except we need to be more specific in definingthe width of the driveway apron. He also indicated that he saw noreason to exempt an area such as Easton from the proposedordinance. After some discussion, Council agreed not to exempt Easton and that vehicles such as campers and boat trailers shouldalso not be exempt. Council directed staff to prepare an ordinancefor their consideration with the suggested revisions and bring itback to a regular Council meeting. 2. REGULATION OF PARK]NG OF AUTOMOBILES IN FRONT SET BACKS 3, L]ABILITY OF RECREATION CLASSES A}iID ACTIVfTIES. Based on our recent settlement authority for a judo injury, Council_wanted to review the current risk of the Recreation classes and ac-tivities that we offer. The Recreation Director and City Attorneyreviewed our activities and divided them i_nto various riskcategories. Recreation Director indicated that the judo class cur-rently has 27 participants and that it would be very difficult forthe instructor to obtain any type of insurance. Some of our otheractivities, such as karate, are run as private businesses which werequire to provide insurance. After some discussion of the variousactivities, Council concluded that we should phase out the judo program but that the recreational swimming was a risk that we arewilling to assume. With aII use of our facilities and activities,staff wiII attempt to minimize the risk wherever possible orrequire insurance of groups when it is feasible. 4. BICENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION. Mayor Barton questioned the Council as to whether we need a special committee for this activity. Councilman Mangini indicated that he was aware of some plans that the Chamber of Commerce has and thatpossibly we might want to encourage people to plant trees as partof the bicentennial . Councilman Pagliaro indicated that we shouldcheck with the schools and try to cooperate with their plannedactivities. It was also pointed out that the Library plans specialdisplays and programs and have received a grant from the federalgovernment to do this. It was the Council consensus that we wouldnot form a special corunittee at this time but that $re shouldcooperate with the schools and add the theme of the bicentennial tovarious City activities during the year. 5. COI'NCIL MEET]NG FORMAT. Councilman Pagliaro stated that he felt at times when our meetingsgo very Iate, we were not functioning at our best and that this wasunfair to the Council and the public. He questioned whether we should have a cut-off time or begin our meetings earlier, such as 7p.m. Mayor Barton, Councilmen Mangini and Amstrup indicated thatthey felt 7 p.m. was too early to start but they agreed that theydid not like extremely late meetings. Staff indicated that pre-viously when we anticipated a very late meeting, we indicated onthe agenda that at 11 o'clock the meeting would be continued untilthe next night if the public hearing was not concluded. There wasa general Council consensus that $rhile we would not establish arigid policy at this time, that if we anticipated very long andIate meetings, v're would try to establish a reasonable cut-off pointfor discussion. Councilman Lembi indicated that he thought we should move the I'From the FloorI section for public comments to the beginning of themeeting. He was aware that other cities have done this withoutproblem. Councilman Amstrup indicated that he was concerned aboutthis and it could be disruptive to our meetings. He noted people who are on the agenda have followed the proper procedure and may have waited a significant amount of time for their public hearingsor Council action. Mayor Barton indicated that she agreed with Councilman Amstrup and saw no need for the change at this time.Staff indicated that they usually encourage people to write lettersto Council so that all of the Council are aware of their concernsprior to the meeting. There $ras a general consensus of the Councilthat we did not wish to make any change at this time. 6. OTHER. a Diagonal Parking on Park Road. Mayor Barton stated that she had a report from Public works whichshe had requested which indicated that 7 to 9 additional parking spaces could be obtained on Park Road by going to diagonal parking. council felt this was an excellent idea and agreed to refer it to the Traffic, Safety & Parking Commission at their meeting in April so that lve could move as soon as possible nith this idea. 28 29 b. Mills QaEyqn P4!E. Councilman Lembi asked staff to respond to a request from the Mi1ls Canyon Park Association asking for assistance in improving thetrail- system at that park. It was agreed that we would refer thisto Park and Recreation for consideration and then back to City Council prior to any action. The City Attorney reminded the CityCouncil of the provisions of the new Brovrn Act which restrict ourability to take action on items which have not been placed on the agenda and receive proper notice. He indicated that we had not had any problems to date, but $re need to be careful in this matter. councilman Pagliaro requested that we refer to the Traffic, Safety & Parking Commission a request he had received concerning palment of the all day parking fees in our long-term lots. He indicatedthat with the current lock box arrangement, people could not enter and leave the lot during the same day vrithout paying for additionalparking. He felt that we should possibly return to the previous system of issuing numbered tickets for a given Iot which allows forin and out movement. Council agreed to ask Traffic, safety & Park-ing Commission to review this matter. 7. FROM THE FLOOR. There were no co[unents from the public. 8. CLOSED SESSION. The meeting wasing Litigation Howard Avenue . vmy adjourned to a closed session at 8:59 p.m. and possible property acquisition of concern- 1320-1350 ADJOURNMENT The cl-osed session was adj ourned at 9:29 p.m. Judith A. MaIfCity Clerk ri Mayor Barton indicated that she had just received a l-etter from Su-pervisor Tom Huening concerning the half cent sales tax fortransportation improvements and that this item would be consideredat the Council of lvlayors meeting on March 27. After a general discussion, Council directed the Mayor to vote no on this proposal until we know specifically the projects proposed. Council also in- dicated that it was not in favor of the representation proposed for a committee on the half cent sales tax and directed the Mayor to vote no on this item as well.