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P.O. Box 65 Avila Beach CA 93424 (805) 595-2797 |
AVILA VALLEY ADVISORY COUNCIL
AVAC meets the 2nd Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m. at the PG&E Community Center, 6588 Ontario Road, Avila Beach, CA. Items for each agenda may be submitted to the Executive Committee two weeks in advance of the meeting. Public Participation: Following discussion of each agenda item by Council, the Chair may allow public comment as time permits. Non-agenda concerns may be raised during the Public Comment period. Please limit remarks or questions to 3 minutes. |
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Officers for 2007 Chair Sherri Gooding (San Luis Bay Estates) 805-595-2797 Vice Chair/Treasurer Anne Brown (Avila Beach) Secretary Jayne Morton (San Luis Bay Estates) ________________Members of Council Avila Beach: Lisa Newton John Salisbury Anne Brown Julie Scott (alt) Avila Valley: Jan Taylor Boyd Horne Vacancy (alt) San Luis Bay Estates: Karla Bittner Sherri Gooding Jayne Morton Dusty Palaia Bob Pusanik Ted Ivarie Lynn Walter (alt) Vacancy (alt) See Canyon: Marylou Gooden Bill Tickell Jack Biesak (alt) Squire Canyon: Karin Argano John Schug Vacancy (alt) |
Meeting Minutes of Monday, May 14, 2007
7:00 P.M. Call to Order/Roll Call – a quorum was established. Sherri Gooding/Jayne Morton Public Comment- Boyd Horne, of the Avila Beach Community Foundation, gave a brief history about the Avila Trolley and introduced Colleen Kuble, of South County Area Transit. She thanked Boyd for the continual help the Foundation has given them and that Avila is getting a new/used Trolley. It is longer, more efficient, in beautiful condition and should attract more people. Because of the closure of SLB Drive they have made a more efficient and simpler schedule for tourists to help with the traffic problem. Approval of Minutes – April 9, 2007 minutes were approved as corrected. Public Comment – Farm Bureau instead of Farm Control Bureau 1.0 Treasurer’s Report Anne Brown The balance as of April 30, 2007 is $1330.91 same as last month. No bills were given to the treasurer last month however she was just given a bill for $4.45 to be paid this month. 2.0 County Reports Sheriff’s Department Lt. Ben Hall Lt. Hall said there was nothing of real significance to report. He said there have been discussions with the Fire Dept., local Police and the Sheriff’s Dept. about the current impact the closure of SLO Drive will and is making. 2.2 County Supervisor Jerry Lenthall No report due illness. 2.3 Planning Department Ryan Hostetter The Schoolhouse Project has been revised and resubmitted to keep the schoolhouse on the property. It will be completely restored to the way it was and converted into apartments for teachers. It is in initial review. There was an inquiry about the Squire Canyon project. She will check on the status and let us know. 2.4. Public Works Michael Britton, PE Michael Britton is the new representative from Public works replacing Rosemary Gagliano. He commented on the following: The first half of the bridge has been removed and the second half will be removed June 15th. He still hopes for completion by Nov. 1 but if there are any unforeseen delays it could go as long as two years. They are aware of the confusion on San Luis Bay Drive and they are working on new signage. They are aware of the traffic problem at Shell Beach Dr. and Avila Dr. and are working on a solution. A Board member made a suggestion to make right turn lanes at the intersection of Ontario Road and San Luis Bay Drive where so many accidents occur. Michael said he would look into it. A Board member said the signage at the Avila Barn is inadequate because there is no referral to enter at Ontario Rd. He said he would check on that also. Michael said that a consultant did a traffic study of Avila and that AVAC should have a committee to review the draft. A motion was made and passed to form an AVAC Circulation Committee to review the draft of the updated traffic circulation report to consist of the Land Use Committee, a representative from the ABA and Port San Luis. MSP The Committee will contact Michael and bring information to AVAC. 3.0 Old Business 3.1. Events Ordinance Amendment Karen Nall, County Planning Karen handed out proposed changes to the Special Events permit process and a chart of Coastal LUO Amendments, which makes it easier to understand the permit process. She said instead of the multiple event permits, each permanent venue can obtain a single Use Permit, and that such permits can be modified by a permit procedure and they will no longer have unpermitted events. The initial permit is costly but simplifies the process for future events. Use permits require a circulation study and imposes requirements according to the type of event and its impact on the community. Non-profit events will be accorded a simplified process without a permit. AVAC has supported an automatic fee exemption instead of permit exemption. They are clarifying the definitions for non-profits. An audience member questioned the length of time it takes to get a permit and would like to see the process simplified more. A spectator said that Paso Robles has a much simpler process and suggested that it might be helpful to look at it in trying to simplify our current process. The Supervisors will vote on the amendment hopefully in the Fall. 4.0 New Business. 4.1 Advisory Council Annual Report Ted Ivarie/Boyd Horne An “Annual Reporting and Formation Process Manual for Community Advisory Councils” was given to AVAC for their reaction. The implications of the “Proposal” for AVAC is to change their Bylaws to: Incorporate a Conflict of Interest policy Incorporate a description of how AVAC transmits it input to the County Incorporate the “Conduct Guidelines” document previously adopted by AVAC, as an addendum. The Bylaw committee has one issue that has been identified as the characterization of Advisory Council as “comments” versus “recommendations”. Specifically, the “CAC Compliance and Verification Checklist” Criteria #7. It is recommended that the AVAC reaction to the Proposal be as follows: AVAC is ready to comply with the requirements of the CAC Proposal of the Department of Planning and Building based on the version adopted by the Board of Supervisors and AVAC strongly objects to the wording of Criteria #7 that seeks to prevent recommendations and suggests the wording be changed to an acknowledgement that Advisory Councils do not make the final decision. A motion was made and passed for AVAC to send a letter expressing the reaction to the Proposal. MSP 4.2 Elicit Community recommendation Sherri Danoff for use of former tank farm property After the four committee meetings held by Supervisor Lenthall, paid for by Rob Ross/LLC, AVAC was asked to coordinate getting community recommendations for the use of the tank farm property. AVAC’s Land Use committee with representation from ABA and conferring with Rob Rossi, Chevron, and planning, will develop a plan for a process for deciding what will be the best use of the land from the community perspective. Rob Rossi hopes to have some concept by year-end. Executive Committee Communications – No report 6.0 AVAC Committees & Liaisons Reports 6.1 Land Use Committee Karla Bittner No report Diablo Committee Emergency access (Blakeslee) Blakeslee suggested that the county could request one-time capitol expenditure for emergency access, funded by state ratepayers as beneficiaries of Diablo. His suggestion was in response to our informing him that the Board of Supervisors declined to support the recommendation of the county Grand Jury to construct a Pirates Cove Emergency Access. A motion was made and passed to inform Supervisor Lenthall that AVAC supports a request by the Board of Supervisors to Assemblyman Blakeslee that he sponsor legislation to fund an emergency access from Avila. MSP Carpooling Mark Shaffer of Ride On is going to help the Diablo Canyon employees form more carpools. Also will help the Diablo employees reinvigorate the van pool program. It will begin in June. Out of the area parking lots and shuttle buses will be provided for the outage workers. There is a 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. shift, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. shift, maintenance crew starts at 6:30 a.m. and the professionals start at 7:30 a.m. 6.3 Avila Beach Committee Lisa Newton/John Salisbury Lenthall has not addressed the code enforcement issue. A motion was made and passed to send a recommendation to Jerry Lenthall regarding code enforcement. MSP It will be sent by e-mail for review. The height for buildings in Avila is being held at 25 feet. 6.4 Avila Valley Committee Jan Taylor 65775 Avila Valley Drive – construction of separate garage plans review. Motion was made and passed to go no comment. MSP 6.5 San Luis Bay Estates Ted Ivarie No report 6.6 See Canyon Committee Marylou Gooden No report 6.7 Squire Canyon Karin Argano Still watching the new housing project. 6.8 Port San Luis Liaisons Karla Bittner She reported that a special Commission meeting was held Thursday regarding the Ports peace officers wearing side arms. They have been trained in the use of weapons and will be a very valuable back up in deterring problems and in the case of emergencies. A motion was passed to support the Commissions recommendation to arm the Port’s peace officers. MSP 7.0 Community Liaisons 7.1 Avila Business Association Leonard Cohen They are still working on having a membership drive. 8.0 Meeting adjourned at 9:15 p.m, Respectfully submitted by, Jayne Morton, Secretary |
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