Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

I guess the door is open. It's kind of stuffy. Get in.

Well, we got Chris here. Maybe he could take care of the AC.

Do we have an infrastructure project for this? Okay, good evening. Welcome to the May 12th Planning Commission meeting. I'm going to call the meeting order. Are there any comments on that?

Well, I'll do that after, but thanks. I'm just following the agenda. Thanks, Joe, for that help. Jenna, can we do the roll call?

Thank you, Jenna. Can we declare the posting?

Thank you. Joseph, will you lead us in the pledge? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. John Potter, Public comment, the Members of the public are entitled to address the planning Commission concerning any item within the Morgan planning Commission subject matter jurisdiction public comments are limited to no more than 30 minutes. Except for certain specific exceptions, the commission is prohibited from discussing or taking action on any item not appearing on

Thank you. Gentlemen, orders of the day, any changes or comments? No changes. No changes. Thank you. Public hearings. Do we have any speaker cards or anybody wants to comment on any non-agenda items?

Okay. Our first item, the review of the fiscal year 26-27 through 20-31-32, the draft capital improvement program. That's consistent. for consistency with the general plan. Russ, good evening.

So if we turn this off, do we have an excuse? No. Do a darn good job.

I can get it to move forward. There we go.

Before we go to David, I do have one general question, Chris. So for the first two years, how many of the projects you propose are fully funded?

Okay, thank you chair. Chris, thank you. It's good to see you again. I just had quick clarity questions. Did I hear you right when you said the city web pages have like a real conditions index for the public to review? And is that listed in more of a priority or how is that listed?

The other question was, you talked about bike lane improvements. Yes. With the increase of youth biking, whether it's e-bike or biking to and from wherever they want to go, what kind of bike improvements are we looking at? Are we talking about... more dedicated lanes or restripings. We've got a lot of share, share, share the road kind of situations. Yeah.

Okay. Last question would just be, in addition to our bike lanes and our curbs, Is part of the plan to increase the last mile, first mile for all these new communities as far as safe school route? You know, with all these new communities popping up, more kids are going to be walking or biking to school. Are we going to connect those gaps?

Oh, yeah, it says it here. Climate action plan, GP clause 12 and 13, policy COS 12.12.

Chris, a couple of questions. So just to confirm what I think Jim was asking earlier, so I was trying to compare what was on your presentation versus the 130-page document we were sent, right? And a lot of those projects span across quite a number of years. Some have already started, for example. Is everything you put on your slides either already started or will be started and funded 26, 27?

I'm asking more administratively because our function tonight is supposed to be to confirm but the next two years of projects that they comply. But if we can't tell which ones are in and which ones are not, if I help to say, if you could just tell us which ones are not included, because it sounds like most of them are included, right?

I mean, do we want to know or does it matter to you guys? Does it matter?

Yeah, that would help. I think you answered that. Yeah. OK. You also mentioned, Chris, and this is more of a curiosity question. You said something to the effect of since we lost the RDA funding, right? I know a lot of the projects you would typically try and do, where that funding would come from, have kind of dried up. So you have to kind of either not do things or rethink how you do things. Just curious. We're not the only person with that, but what's everybody else doing? Are they all in the same boat? Have they come up with other creative ideas? Have they found other sources?

Okay, I'm just curious. On the parks and rec, well, actually maybe on a lot of them, but specifically on the parks and rec, I mean, most of the stuff in here is horrific. I'd love to see this and more. But to Steve brought the point up earlier, it's really concerning that the more you build, the more you have to maintain, right? And we can barely maintain what we have. I mean, don't get me wrong, we don't do a bad job, but I think we could do a better job at communicating some of the stuff we have. And we do all these projects, like, are we just putting more strain on the, like, because assumi

There's a dilemma in that. to Steve's point earlier, which was, you know, when you look, everything's funded, right? Yeah. And you've got funding from very creative places, right? But I assume if you don't spend it, you lose the funding, right? But once you spend it, there's a cost to maintain it. And I would assume, to take products and records as an example, I was trying to work out the numbers, but it was a little complicated. But I would guess at the end of the day, if you do everything on this list, even though some are revenue generating, the net is that it's going to cost the city more.

Money that we already don't have, right?

I understand the dilemma. I get it. I'm just saying that. We need to understand that there's a cost to run these things, cost and money that we don't really have. Okay. A couple other... Let me see here. Oh, last one. So... Probably the most disappointing thing in this report, which wasn't a whole lot, pavement rehabilitation and sidewalk repair. $150,000? What's that, like 150 linear feet? I mean, I'm serious, right? We know how much concrete is these days, right? It's nothing. We have no other way to get funds to do pavement rehabilitation and sidewalk repair?

Sorry, sidewalk repair was $150,000, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so the pavement retention is $7 million. But even that, for the size of the city.

I thought you were going to say levitating scaffolding.

So the city has no other funds to do sidewalk repair?

Okay, I understand that it's a little disappointing that we don't have a bit more funds for that, but I understand the concern. That's it, Jim. Thanks. Thank you. Joe?

So I'm going to ask a question about one. The West Yavis Creek flood project. How long will it take for the flood map to be changed?

Okay. That's a little quicker than what I thought it was.

Yeah. I just think because that affects insurance for property, ought to be clear when that might happen.

Okay. And Valley Water is trying to push ahead before?

Yeah, we need to have a set of clear explanation that The other one is the El Toro Trail is highly anticipated and been that way for several decades. The question, I guess, I know the trailhead that I think we play a bigger role in, one of the big issues is where to have parking.

Right, right. And Just because we had a project that opted out, how do we get money for undergrounding

So we really don't have a funding source.

Okay. And now I got one because I just don't remember. from the other studies that we did in the last couple of years. How can we fill in the gaps to Sobrato High School, which is mainly along Monterey, I believe?

Because as I recall from working with the interns, that was one of their big issues was that was the bike and the safety of riding bicycles along Monterey without all that kind of stuff. It came over and above, and they were actually trying to figure out a way to go from Mission View up at Target and then going through there. But there's not a real path.

Don't let the kids hear about that because I think there's some private property in there.

If you're willing to deal with the punchers, Chris, some of that trail is very rough. Some of that trail is pretty rough coming to the back way into Sobrato High School.

So I don't know. Maybe that's something to consider because that was, again, the interns looking for what it is to get us involved.

I thought I had one more, but I think that's it.

We can come back to you, Joe, if you remember.

Right in the TV section of Costco, right there.

Joe, do you remember? No. Okay. Chris, excellent report. I have a couple questions related to projects that we're going to be able to recover some of the costs through rate payers or impact fees. I'm assuming like in the wastewater, the sewers, obviously we're all going to get a bump at some point. The lift stations?

Okay. And then the same question on the water. Yeah. It looks like we're going to spend quite a bit on the expansion of that. And then a follow-up question to that, it's probably not a CIP, but is the city considering being more strict on landscaping? Because we spend an enormous amount of water on lawns and non-drought tolerant land.

Okay. And then I hate to admit it, but I think I agree with both Liam and Steve on the sidewalk. I think the city should actually consider. That we should use the model of San Jose and recapture those costs. I think we need to do it or seriously consider it.

Gilroy does it, but the problem is they do the work and then they build the resident, but they really struggle to collect

They'll collect it eventually. And then I do have one comment for David. The asphalt condition report on the website is excellent. Steve and I have spent years looking at asphalt condition reports, and it's really well done.

Joe has one more question. Maybe it's a clarification on the pavement status. We were low for many years, right? And it was getting down to where the threshold to the repair cost was going to accelerate.

So what I thought I heard you said, though, is we're really not – A little bit of a structural problem. We're not, we don't have enough money coming in from our revenue sources to really maintain that.

Yeah. Because I know a former planning commissioner was pretty experienced at where that number he thought should be. Okay. So we do have a problem.

Right. And it's about a million dollars?

Anything else, Joe? No, that's it. Okay, we've had a very patient resident, so we need to open the public comment.

Thank you. Is it any do you know do we have anybody online.

I was going to make a motion to go ahead and say I was going to make a motion to recommend or fight make the findings that we first 2 years of the 6 years yet be consistent with the general plan you speak into the mind. I'm reading motion to. uh make the findings that the first two years of the cip and are consistent with the general plan and also for accepting the cip is that correct thank you second second second who is the seconder

Any other discussion. I don't know Jennifer Jennifer.

Yeah, I mean, I don't know when you report this out, do you give a summary of how this meeting went in terms of the general consensus? No. And maybe the general maintenance of annexing land and building stuff, where is that funding? If you could express at least, that was our concern, not that there's much they could do about it maybe, but.

Yeah, let's mention sidewalk. Do you have something?

Any other questions or comments? Do we remember the motion? Yes, we do. Okay. Let's do a vote.

She did? Yeah, I think she did. Actually, I think she did.

She was an anonymous. Oh, I thought she was like a consulting attorney or something, but she's an actual employee. Correct. Okay. Okay.