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PC Minutes 2002-06-04MINUTES SPECIAL MEETING TRAFFIC WAY ENHANCEMENT - INITIAL PRESENTATION CITY OF ARROYO GRANDE PLANNING COMMISSION JUNE 4, 2002 1. CALL TO ORDER: The Special Meeting of the Planning Commission was called to order at 6:00 p.m. 2. ROLL CALL: Present were Commissioners, Brown, Fowler, Guthrie, Keen and Chair Costello. Also in attendance were staff members Ryan Foster, Planning Intern and Rob Strong, Community Development Director. 3. FLAG SALUTE Chair Costello led the Flag Salute. 4. PRESENTATION BY CAL POLY CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING STUDENTS OF TRAFFIC WAY ENHANCEMENT CONCEPT PLANS: Rob Strong introduced Ryan Foster, explaining he was the coordinator between the City and the Cal Poly City & Regional Planning 2nd year lab class who had prepared the study. Ryan Foster then introduced Cal Poly Professor Jelka Howard who thanked Steve Adams, City Manager and Rob Strong, Community Development Director for the opportunity to work on the project. She said the students had worked above and beyond expectations and she was very proud of the project. Chris Jordan, MC, Cal Poly, explained that their presentation included two visions of the development of the Traffic Way area: 1) a short range plan (10-15 years) which included retention of the automobile dealerships at their current location and 2) a long range plan (25-30 years), which included relocation of the automobile dealerships within the City. The class had done the project in three phases. The first phase included gathering background information to assess the character of the City, the second phase surveying the residents and visitors as to how they viewed the City; and for the third phase a site inventory and analysis of the Traffic Way Area block by block and building by building was completed. They then created two concept developments based on the information gathered. Chris Jorden then went on to describe the results of their findings, both positive and negative. Individual students then spoke explaining their part in the project and describing their design ideas in detail using a Powerpoint presentation. MINUTES PLANNING COMMISSION JUNE 4, 2002 PAGE 2 The Planning Commission then introduced a 20 minute break to give everyone time to view the many poster boards displaying individual site designs and enabling specific questions to be directed to the students regarding their design and discuss any concerns. Rob Strong explained that this presentation did not require any action of the Commission and staff would return in future months with an extract and proposals developed by City staff to synthesize the two concepts into a strategic plan, and at that time seek comments from property owners and businesses. Chris Jordan explained that they had a web site for their project and it would be updated by the end of the week. In addition, they had email links to enable questions to be directed to students regarding their ideas and design: http://suntzu.Iarc.calpoly.edu/crp/agtrafficwy/ No members of the public requested to speak. The Planning Commission commented individually and each said that they were very impressed with the innovative ideas introduced, the professional quality of the presentation and how their questions had been very well answered by the students during break. 5. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS: None 6. ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business before the Commission, the meeting was adjourned at 7:30 p.m. on a motion by Chair Costello, seconded by Commissioner Keen, and unanimously carried. ATTEST: n LYh REARDON-SMITH, COMMISSION CLERK AS -10 C ROB STRONG, COMMUNITY DEVELOP T DIRECTOR EPH M. COSTELLO, CHAIR 1 PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA COMMISSION MEMBERS Joseph Costello' Chair John Keen Vice -Chair James Guthrie Commissioner Nan C. Fowler Commissioner Tim Brown Commissioner 1 NOTICE OF CANCELLATION CITY OF ARROYO GRANDE Steven Adams City Manager Timothy J. Carmel City Attorney Rob Strong CDD Director PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING JUNE 4, 2002 - 7:00 P.M. THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION ON JUNE 4, 2002 AT 7:00 P.M. HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF AN AGENDA. THERE WILL BE AN ADJOURNED SPECIAL MEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION AT 6:00 P.M. ON JUNE 4, 2002. ROB STROMC�, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR 1 1