 Okay, we'll call to order this city council meeting for November 5th Madam City clerk could we call word, please recall roll call Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of council member combs council member oliveras and council member Sawyer Okay, and going over the agenda. We do have a couple items that are going to be removed item 11.3 We'll postpone the vote so that'll be pulled off the consent calendar item 11.3 and Our first public hearing item 14.1 regarding the formation of the Santa Rosa Rd. Square Community benefit district and living the assessment of connection therein that will be continued to date certain and that certain date will be November 19th So item 14.1 we move to November 19th So with that we had no closed session No steady session No proclamations. Mr. McGlynn. Do we have a staff briefing today? Yes, a very brief Briefing and I'll turn it over to director Gwine to provide that Thank You Sean. This is really just to make members of the public aware that at your meeting next week November 12th We have staff from California State Department of Housing community development to come and explain the owner occupants survey that was released Friday. This is to Survey that was pushed out to members of our community homeowners who lost their house in the 2017 disaster It's based on a program called community development block grant dr Disaster relief and it's for owner occupants And so we asked the state to come to your meeting next week and explain the purpose of that survey what they hope to achieve by it The process and allow everyone to have some questions. So I just wanted to make that announcement tonight Great. Thank you counseling questions about that announcement See none any important. Yes, I'm gonna ask Jennifer Burke because she has some late-breaking news that she'd like to share tonight Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mayor Schwedholm and members of the council. I'm Jennifer Burke The director of Santa Rosa water. I just wanted to take a moment to share some good news As the council may recall following the October 2017 wildfires Portions of the water system were damaged resulting in a never before seen contamination issue that affected a portion of Fountain Grove following a very intensive investigation and numerous sampling we were able to restore water quality to the Fountain Grove area and lift the advisory in October of 2018 To ensure that the contamination did not reoccur We implemented a very robust water quality sampling plan at 68 locations for a year after lifting the advisory and we have conducted our final sampling of all 65 hydrants and three sample stations and the results showed that the contamination was eliminated and did not reoccur so We're continuing to follow up with FEMA about reimbursement and we are also continuing to share any lessons learned from this experience Most recently actually with Windsor and the fires that just occurred up there We shared all of our experience and lessons So I just want to thank the community for their patience as we work through this the city council and the board for your leadership all of our regulators that helped us through this process and in particular the Santa Rosa water department team that really Put in a lot of work to ensure that our water quality was restored. Thank you. Great news. Thank you so much for sharing Anything else? Great. Thank you Mr. City Manager report Just I want to take a moment and thank this the city staff for their really Heroic and commendable efforts over the last two weeks. I will be providing a more detailed Breakdown of some of those efforts at a future council meeting But I can't thank the staff enough for the work they put in For nine days straight often in the emergency operations center The department operations centers throughout the city And in support of our colleagues that were Experiencing challenges around the county. So thank you to the team Thank you And I'm saying journey I would simply also express my appreciation and gratitude for all of the hard work of staff across the city In the times of emergency and I have nothing else to report. Thank you Any statements of abstention by council members? I do I'll be abstaining from the item But I believe you already took that off the agenda tonight relating to the railroad square community district It's because the organization I work for owns a piece of property in that specific district The other thing I wanted to ask is or actually that was it. Thank you Good. I'm hoping to see no other abstentions All right mayor council members reports. Does anyone have anything they'd like to share? mr. Vice mayor Just a couple of quick ones mr. Mayor, so first and foremost wanted to thank and Express my gratitude to the Western neighborhood Association who still pushed forward with their annual Halloween event Even just getting back into their homes the day before if anybody hasn't been out there put it on your calendar for next year It's required that you learn the thriller dance and get out there. So that was a really good community event following What was just a really trying week and a half to two weeks for folks? I had the chance to attend a city council meeting for the town of Windsor in this chamber Last week and then the mayor asked me to express his gratitude to our team on behalf of his city as well For everything that we did to step in and help out and partner And there was an open invitation for our council to have a council meeting from their chambers up in Windsor That perhaps will take advantage of someday And then finally a couple of days ago was the hundred year anniversary of California voting to give women the right to vote And I wanted to just point out as I always do whenever we have an opportunity that Santa Rosa was the only city in the entire county Who voted in favor of it, but thankfully California went along with it And I know next year we'll be celebrating the national suffrage movement Any comments go ahead miss flow me Thank You mr. Mayor I too would like to thank you our team and the whole system in general for the Epic amount of work and the fact that the fire stayed out of our city limits was really a testament to The the planning that went into this I also want to note that yesterday I went to the water advisory council and the fact that the water stayed on is not something we We often notice when a disaster does happen but when a disaster doesn't happen and We didn't lose water anywhere in the city and none of the people who lost power Throughout the system that the water contractors From Sonoma water all the way out down to Marin nobody lost water and that was a great Comfort to many people who didn't have electricity or other ways of basic creature comfort. So a special. Thank you to our water department Great. I also want to add my thanks Over the last he said nine days, you know, some people think of that as just one event But it's actually to public safety power shutoffs and one fire and then the fourth event I just really want to acknowledge city staff and the work that everyone was doing was the food distribution To date to food distribution event were over 3,000 folks Received some food coordinated by the city and some other nonprofit providers So I'll say some additional comments when your full report is but I was very appreciative of all the work that the city Staff was doing that 12 on 12 off gets really old But I think the results shown where we had no fatalities no civilian injuries during these four events So thank you much for so much for your efforts. Look forward to your report All right approval minutes. We had to the first one the special meeting minutes from October 14th They didn't see any corrections on those And we will accept those and then on the October 22nd meeting the joint meeting with the school board any adjustments to those See none. We'll also accept those Mr. Regland the consent calendar Item 11.1 resolution approval of blanket purchase order for multi-space meter purchases and ongoing communications and support services item 12.2 Resolution fourth amendment to professional services agreement with W solutions Inc for safety employees Waving the competitive selection process per council policy 6-0-0-0-1 and increasing the compensation by $150,000 for a total not to exceed amount of $750,000 for wellness services item 11.4 resolution professional services agreement with calendar associates landscape architecture incorporated Corporated calendar and associates incorporated to provide landscape architectural design services for fire damage roadway Landscaping item 11.5 resolution additional funding for the purchase of computer and server equipment from Dell Incorporated item 11.6 ordinance adoption second reading ordinance of the city of the council of the city of Santa Rosa Amending certain sections of Santa Rosa city code 15 sewers to maintain compliance with environmental protection agency industrial pretreatment program regulation revisions item 11.7 resolution extension of proclamation of a local homeless emergency Item 11.8 resolution extension of proclamation of existence of a local emergency due to fires Thank you council any questions mr. David's yeah, I apologize but given the nature of my employment I will not be able to vote on 11.7. So can we separate that from the consent calendar? We'd have to pull that right Yes, we then fail to have a quorum and I'm going to check the dates as to I'll check the dates as to we need to Consider that review that every 60 days, and I'll make sure that we have an opportunity to Consider that once we have a quorum Great. Thank you Any other questions on the consent calendar? Okay, even though we will not be hearing Item 11.7. There are some cards on one card on that and I'll allow you to make comment So for the consent calendar you have two minutes to make the comments So Lisa Landrous followed by Ephraim cardio Mine was going to be on an agenda item. So I had listed that on there. I don't think we're at that part are we This is 11.7. That's what the cards has consent calendar. Okay work For the resolution For the extension of proclamation of local homeless emergency correct So we will not be voting on that tonight because we don't have a quorum for that but we'll receive your comments You are doing public comment. Yeah, I just didn't want to speak out a turn on it I'm fielding a lot of complaints from people that live around the Morgan Street Spot the Redwood gospel mission a lot of people saying that the conditional use permit is pretty much obliterated and that there's a lot of activity that's happening there that doesn't seem to be in sync with that I'm not sure if the emergency status has provided for a greater scope Including changing ADA requirements Traffic and safety and all that but there's a lot of people that have contacted me and they've had particulars all written down And I'm happy to share them with you later in a bigger format But I want you to note that as a concern that maybe they're not aware of what they can really do under that order Or if it even affects their scope of work at all Okay, thanks. Thank you. I think you're you Mr. Mayor council members effort career two one five eight waltzer road I guess zone nine now for the evacuation zone first of all thank you to the council and to staff I think in responding to the PSPS Power shutoffs the Kincaid wildfires and the mandatory evacuations Normally you hear from folks that are unhappy when things go wrong and I think that by the fact that you're not hearing things It's important for members of the public to acknowledge the council's work and staff's work So do want to acknowledge that regarding item 11.8 Burbank housing is certainly supportive of the premise of the price gouging and we're here publicly supporting that however there is a Caveat in the anti-rent gouging language You know Burbank housing properties are already subject to rent restrictions Via regulatory agreements with various federal state and local agencies and our rents are based on HUD published rent maximums Some years the rents do not increase as was the case in 2013 2014 15 and 16 so that means that even though expenses may grow for us as a property manager For example with the recology increases recently that accumulated to about a hundred eighty five thousand dollars per year for our Santa Rosa properties of additional cost HUD published rents finally increased in 2017 2018 and 2019 But we're then restricted by the cities and the county's Emergency ordinance of no more than 10 percent cumulative increases across all years I think one of the things that was missed was the fact that affordable housing developers via property management already have Rent restrictions that are guided by regulatory agreements with federal state and local agencies What we hope that the council will will consider is as you move through the extension through the end of the year and as AB 1482 kicks in in January that essentially provides run control across the state that you will consider The unintended consequences on affordable housing developers and by essence affordable housing property managers In many cases our rents are already Hundreds of dollars less than the HUD published maximum rents and because per bank is mission-based We do not wish to inflict any hardship on our residents by issuing rent increases that are not manageable or unreasonable So what what may happen is we may actually have to catch up to match expenses In a way that is unsustainable to the residents So we're managing our budgets through the end of the year But as you look at the beginning of the year as to what you do with price gouging Hope that you'll consider the state law that looks at rent control and how Affordable housing entities are are acknowledged in that way as you may know with 1482 Affordable housing communities were exempted from that because we are already under essentially rent restrictions through our federal state and local agreements Thank You mr. Mayor. Thank you Victoria and as followed by Peter Chernoff Thank you for this opportunity I'm Victoria Yanez. I'm with homeless action, and I'm here with my poster Jails first housing question mark The reason I brought this is because supposedly a couple of years ago already We've already adopted housing first without judgment to the people behavior-based and Now we're getting ready for a sweep. I'm afraid Everything's going according to the way they've gone in the past before the police have swooped in to the Joe Radota trail and Sided people for illegal camping Now there isn't any other reasonable place for them to go If they don't want to go to Sam Jones or Mary Isaacs And even if they wanted to there wouldn't be enough room for everybody that needs to go so we're still under a homeless emergency and I don't have to give you the history of the various locations that the homeless have been chased from with never a sanctioned area Where the government says okay come in but you're going to be managed and We're going to provide toilets something civilized Instead the homeless are out there Getting the bad reputation from everybody When it's a government failure so I also Would like to urge the city council to Pressure the board of supervisors into making their Assistance program more viable Well, good afternoon So I was listing a Couple radio stories about homeless students throughout the Bay Area and It was interesting to find out that a county supervisor at some of the county actually took in a homeless student I thought that was pretty good You know, I mean a lot of us have extra rooms and such and I mean it's not something you have to do But it's a nice thing to do love. I think it's called love There's a lot of homeless students high school and college and If the high school students and college students were Truly engaged and they knew for a fact that if they boycott school and said to the supervisors and the city council members We're not going to go back into those classes until the homeless issue is resolved There's a lot of ways you can do this and I understand on the spiritual realm why you can't perhaps And we've talked about that So on behalf of these students I would invite them to look up Russell means Welcome to the reservation it was like a message to people of the Caucasian in the in the Afro group and the Hispanics as opposed to the natives Russell means welcome to the reservation Things are getting so bad that people be knocking on their doors for some teepee space and The fact that we're on our knees to usurus bankers bar lawyers in the Silicon and telecom Valley these four groups of people that never work except with each other To steal from us that make these prices so high But it's the students that need to understand this because they along with everyone else are supporting this Insanity and lastly, I'll share with the fact that I had a conversation with the elderly gentlemen today Who was at journey's end and he lost his place there and he said he's still being goofed around by the county and his insurance at this point in time So I invite the students to Powerful they are and what time it is. Thank you. Do we have any additional cards? All right Mr. Mayor I did if I may I did check the dates the last renewal of the homeless emergency was on September 10th 2019 Which means that the council would have to take action by November 9th in order to have that declaration Remain in effect You have two options We can either try to schedule a special meeting and see if now we are able to Gather a quorum or alternatively you may want to invoke the rule of necessity under the FBPC regulations which we Coincidentally used just a week or two ago In order to get a quorum and in that case Mr. Tibbetts council member Tibbetts would be Authorized to participate in order to establish a quorum in order for the council to be able to act in a timely manner Thank you for that council your thoughts any preferences bring out the hat So why don't we do your second option there very good, and we would traditionally use a hat to draw a name randomly among the council members that are Disqualified since we only have one council member at this point I don't believe we need to draw a name from a hat and we can simply invoke the rule of necessity And that's FBPC regulations 18705 to allow council member Tibbetts to participate in that vote Great. Thank you so much for that clarification takes all the mystery out of it though So okay, mr. Rogers the other consent calendar now that we have a quorum All right, mr. Mayor. I will move item 11.1 item 11.2 11.4 through 11.8 and wave for the reading of the text second We have a motion and a second your votes, please And that passes unanimously. Thank you All right not being five o'clock yet. We will go to item 14 again. We'll continue to item 14.1 Till November 19th Mr. McGlynn item 14.2 item 14.2 public hearing South Park Rezone for general plan consistency Susie Murray senior planner presenting So we're gonna we're gonna need to wait till five that In other words 14 to 14 3 14 4 14 5 Are all public hearings so we'll take a recess until Five o'clock Okay, we'll get back to order. We're gonna start with public comment item 12 First card we have is Peter Chernoff followed by Pat Mitchell You have three minutes. Is that correct? That's correct. Okay. Thank you. So Okay, I know what a lot of you were thinking when we all heard about how the vineyard stopped one of the fires and you Were thinking well, we got to get cactus Pete to do the living cactus fences and Chris Rogers stated that Santa Rosa was the first one to Vote for women's rights to vote. So perhaps you'll be the first ones to go ahead and implement the living cactus fences, which will stop Any fire a lot faster than a vineyard? Next topic okay, so here we go way to go Eric Holder and Obama for hands-on input into the drama far from curious and Harley-Spurious nine women and children massacred by your weapons deal fast and furious Weapons Holder and Obama did sell to the cartel from their home base under a cracked Liberty Bell So people say never again There's a guy named Thomas Paine he said something about when a nation's prisons are all but empty in the elderly and infirm and Homeless or taken care of and the poor have enough that that nation can boast its Constitution And all these blessings and more be absolutely guaranteed under our US Constitution Which is why I've commanded the 40-day strike before and the fires that did ensue after the night 2017 October meeting That freeze Leonard Peltier all the animals and the earth and absolutely the US Constitution Those two years ago and from that day to this the iron rod of God has continued with fires around the world and back in California how many times I've lost track and now comes the quakes and the tsunamis as well You have this pope calling for People to serve the United Nations will veterans in law enforcement man your stations you either serve the pope or you serve Christ Those anti-american anti-us Constitution people have supported and watched the United Nations as they freed killers baptized warlords as statement statesmen Transformed in surgeon groups into governments invading Even as I speak American cities including in this country Pardon that double while maintaining human trafficking and child exploitations the bar association runs all three branches of government. That's tyranny And they even lie about the fact that there's a California bar association They don't exist. It's a federal bar if you research it deep enough and that's a fact So here we are once again in this most beautiful place The most powerful state in the world the most powerful beautiful county in the world The problems that we have are all based on the fact that we serve two masters Cannot serve Mammon and the living Lord We cannot maintain the industry of the blood flow Which is the slaughterhouse and the oil industry highly subsidized by a corruptive government to maintain all these Insanities and seek to find answers from a city council. The answers are with the people It's called the 40-day boycott of the entire system of labor in schools Pat Mitchell followed by Alan Thomas Good evening Pat Mitchell. I'm back I'm back With the same requests Fifth time requests you guys have this on your desk. I hope you have copies on your desk Thank you Yes, I noticed something I hadn't noticed before up in that top corner You see there's a redwood behind those cypress trees and that redwood is leaning The reason it's leaning is because of the cypress trees. They're huge big powerful trees. They are not native To California. They're not native to Sonoma County. They need to be cut down There's a they are a fire hazard. You can see how they're overwhelming my home Creating shade all winter long costing me higher utility bills I want these trees cut down. They also could blow down leaning rotting wood This is my fifth request. I have gotten no reply from anyone about what you intend to do about this just as the wind comes from the southwest and just as that wind Would come from the proposed compost facility and would cover Walker and Lonnell Road with the smell and cancer-causing chemicals Just as that wind would carry that to my neighborhood this wind also Carries that wind to the cypress trees blowing them in the direction of my house if they ever caught on fire My house would be toast. There'd be nothing left. I Really would appreciate it if you would cut those trees down. Thank you. Thank you Alan Thomas Followed by Maruna Mara Ronald Council thanks My name is Alan Thomas 306 Boy Street I'm here to address some of the issues associated with the illegal camping out on the Joe Verdota trail I've done a little bit of research and tried to look into Some of the different aspects that you guys are looking at and when I do call dispatch about some of the items I'm told over the phone when I'm calling the police about the Boise Ruling and then there's an injunction, but it's a little confusing to the public because there's two separate things here There's the Boise ruling in the Ninth Circuit Court that is I'm going to the Supreme Court and I wish the council And the city would support Boise and their fight to put up the legal camping signs in their cities It's so be it And then there's the injunction brought on by a lawsuit Against the city of Santa Rosa on the police department by some individuals So it's very confusing to the public and it would be helpful if you could explain How your hands are tied why your hands are tied? What are the parameters that have to You that you guys are under That I hear the sheriff's department is not under and I would also urge you you know with your support to Boise Just to bring the county Up to speed here and whoever the representatives I don't know if that's Shirley Sane or Linda Hopkins to have their sheriff's department work On their property if their rangers feel Intimidated going out there and trying to clear the camps Um, I don't see how the the city of Santa Rosa police department can handle it. It's so there's they're already taxed They have to deal with so many issues And I really think the county is kind of fumbling personally And I would hope that your group your leadership group would reach out Maybe you have and I apologize if you've already done that To not just collaborate but to hold their feet to the fire and get this thing cleaned up Because it's doing nothing for the reputation of the city of Santa Rosa It's doing nothing for the people that are out there. It's getting to be super cold And so what's the next solution going to be? Where are they going to go after this or they got to go back downtown or they got to go somewhere else? They need suitable place To go to be sorted out hopefully Their issues are dealt with but in the meantime I would just ask For you folks to do your best to get the county involved as much as you can And have the sheriff's department deal with this because we all We all kind of have to work within rules and boundaries And you're you're asked the public to speak for three minutes So every time you hear the buzzer go off in three minutes just remind yourself you ask citizens to do things And we try our best to comply So we're asking you to help Everyone comply to some of the issues. So thank you for your time. Thank you Maruna Marterano followed by victoria ianes Good afternoon mayor schwedholm council members marlina marcherano here as some of you know I'm a tenant and voucher recipient first off. I really want to thank you for passing your recent protection for voucher recipients Really appreciate that heard a lot of kudos from a lot of people that really benefited from that So thank you very much. Thank you. I really thank you for that So today i'm here speaking a little bit different issue, but still very relevant to tenants As you know, nearly half of santa rosa residents are renters in multi-family housing single family homes and granny units Most are going to heave a sigh of relief come january When ab 1482 clicks in capping rent increases and protecting them against unjust evictions Right now up and down california Opportunistic landlords are issuing a wave of 60 day eviction notices To make an end run around 1482 All over the state they're trying to evict tenants before the end of the year So they can raise rents on new tenants Here's the sort of advice they're giving from eviction attorneys attorneys quote You have a small window of opportunity to terminate a month to month tenancy If it's 60 day notice to serve prior to november 1st If the rent for your unit is under market value A notice to terminate should be served immediately You should also consider serving a notice to terminate On tenants that you believe have a bad attitude. That's the exact wording Once this law becomes effective, it will be more difficult to evict unquote This city council can heed this off other cities have been taken steps to do so The la city council passed an urgency ordinance 13-0 to black unjust eviction Closer to home the melpitas council did the same Last week. So did redwood city daily city and santa cruz Redwood city held an emergency council meeting to do so We hope that you will will take the steps to put an emergency ordinance on this evening's agenda, please If you have not perhaps you can hold an emergency meeting to adopt an urgency ordinance Time is of the essence if opportunistic landlords had to move before november 1st You have to move quickly You can block these evictions retro actively As other cities have done by blocking any 60 day notice underway right now But please please understand a 60 day notice issued in the next two weeks Means families will be forced out around christmas So this is just uncomprehensible. This is happening right now And I know from experience that right after 2017 fires. There was a negative 2 vacancy rate county So anyway, thank you for your time. Thank you victoria yanes followed by brenda gill chris Yes, um once again, I'm here with my poster Jails first housing question mark and the reason I have this is because I'm in total agreement With the gentleman who spoke about the joe radota trail It's the county that we need to pressure Because in the legislative scheme Well, fair and institutions code 17 000 States that the county shall provide for those with no other means of support But somehow They have wiggled around the legislation To make it a program that only gives benefits for three months out of the year And does not even give any housing benefits We're going to be looking into this because The county program is supposed to be available to all parts of the county Where um, they go in and general assistance is a real program like it is in other counties Anyway, um The reason I'm talking about this is because we have to have some remedy to the homeless on the joe radota trail And I appreciate that the gentleman did not want the santa rosa police Doing it, but he wants the sheriff to do it. Well, thanks a lot You know, uh right now I have here my, uh The district attorney's response to a motion that we made to dismiss um The misdemeanor citations for camping and public property Because there's nowhere for people to go And so it's a violation of their eighth amendment right against cruel and unusual punishment So for the police to be chasing people around with nowhere for them to go This is cruel and unusual punishment Now I know it's hard to swallow in everything because everybody wants to just stick the cops on them But the thing about it is the last time I checked santa rosa and sonoma county was still in the united states And the constitution is the supreme law of the land And our founding fathers had the wisdom to put that in there Our constitutional rights Because they knew at some time these things would be happening where it's popular to be against the poor The poor are never going to be popular What are we going to do when we look back at this time like we look back at um the depression the soup lines And everything What do we want it to look like when we look back at this time? Because I hope someday I can retire my sign and not have to worry about the criminalization Of the homeless rather than giving them a house. We want house keys not handcuffs Brandy gillcrest followed by anita anderson Hello everyone. Good evening. Um, I'm a Taxpayer and a resident in santa rosa. Um, I'd love to see Hands up from anyone that's here from citizens for action now Great glad to see more people from can um showing up I think a lot of the problems in the community have brought people like me and Others that have shown up here tonight because of the frustration and the concerns for um our quality of life and um concerns for our safety Um, as some of you know, there was a recent video that went out that reflected the amount of tents um on the juror dota trail Um during that bike trip down the juror dota trail. I witnessed two people in my in front of my own eyes Uh, rat one man wrapping a tourniquet around his arm and shooting the needle up his arm It was shocking to me. I've never seen anything like that in my life Um, the other thing that I saw next to that shortly thereafter was another gentleman to the left of the bike trail shooting a needle in his wrist That's on video as well. There were numerous tents There was a tent city that one of my neighbors from fountain grove had recently gotten removed From behind the outlook apartments That same chop shop. It's called I guess where they take bikes that are stolen and they resell the bike park So they resell the bikes That chop shop is now out there on juror dota trail. I recognize the tent I recognize the people and I recognize that there's a bunch of bikes out there Has a cyclist. I'm concerned about all the the bikes that have been stolen Um at the end of the day what we're asking for as citizens reaction now is to enforce laws if there's Any situations like illegal drug use that I witnessed myself when I called the police I asked I reported it. I said, please report this Someone needs to do something about that and they said at this point an injunction from Boise, Idaho is restraining us from doing that I read the injunction the injunction does not protect illegal drug use The vagrancy the lawlessness that's happening in our city It's it's having people like me and others from can want to exit This county we're taxpayers or business owners We care and love about this community and at the end of the day we do have compassion for people But it's the transients the vagrants people that are felons that they used to be Arrested for these things because of prop 47. They're now not arrested. They're misdemeanors That needs to change. I would encourage everyone to vote for repealing prop 47 as well But we appreciate you listening to us and then and we really are just at kind of a tipping point And we know you have to hear from a lot of people. So thank you so much for listening to us as citizens Thank you Anita Anderson followed by Steve sold us Good evening council. Um, maybe I need to lower your list. How do I do that? On the side there. There you go. Oh, yeah, no, I can see you. All right Um, recently I sent you my video of the Joe Rodota trail I enjoy that trail as does Brenda and several other bike riders And uh in June and July Of that trail might have had a tent or two that moved around But now there's 200 yards of it And encroaching in on the six hundred thousand dollar homes that are now being built on the Joe Rodota trail And I live quite near there So um as taxpayers and people that enjoy that trail and we pay for that trail And there's laws in place to Clean up that trail And I don't know what to tell a homeless person to do What I do know Is there's a lot of fentanyl and a lot of drugs coming into this country And you're homeless because you have problems with either discipline Or drugs and I too have witnessed people shooting up right in front of me as I'm Writing through the encampment So we've got a drug problem. I call it the Joe Rodota drug trail And I plead with you that you clean it up. I don't understand tying Sheriffs and police officers hands with injunctions. Maybe I need to go to law school But I just don't get it So the taxpayers want to see it cleaned up and um, I don't know if any of you are up to being elected in the fall But we're going to do a great effort to Not vote for people who don't want to Enforce the laws that are already on the books Because it's frightening And we want things good stuff to happen for somebody struggling I have a big heart, but you can't go out on my trail and poop and pee and shoot up And start fires like they did the other day So it just has to stop and I'm hoping you guys will do the right thing for the taxpayers Steve sold us Can you hear me? Yeah, good evening. Thanks for taking the time to listen to what I have to say here I'm sure you've heard this over and over again about the homeless problem. We all know it. It's the the drugs The theft the the I have a building in Santa Rosa And I'm tired of picking up needles and use toilet paper And calling the cops on a daily basis for them to come out and do something about it But I am going to tell you something maybe you don't know and I hired recently a home of former homeless guy And I asked him I sat down to interview them for about an hour and I talked to him He said Out of 10 people that are homeless How many really want to be homeless and he said 80 percent I asked him clearly sat down and talked about 80 percent Choose to be on the streets 80 percent. I said, why is that? He says we get three square meals We know where to go to get our food Nobody bothers us. We get a camp out. We get to do our drugs We don't have to have any responsibility and I said, well, how do you guys survive? He says We go into the target shopping center and we pick up the receipts And we walk in with receipts and we go right up to all the items that are on that receipt And we return them to the store and they give us a credit card or Target card we bring that down to the credit exchange and they give us a percentage of that So that's how they make their money not to mention I said, what about uh, does anybody ever ask you do you uh to go to lunch or to buy you dinner? He says, why would I leave my corner and I make 40 to 45 bucks for that hour? I would never give up my corner for that. So It's a problem and these are people that choose to be there and That's one issue. The other thing I think you should know maybe you don't hear this but The police department is fed up And when I talk to the officers they say we are waiting For the uprising we are waiting for the change because nothing's being done We're not getting the support From the city council the sheriff's department's not getting support from the sheriff and they're frustrated So I can go on and on because I have my family's in the law enforcement I have friends that are out at the sheriff's out at the river and they tell me about All the stops they make and they don't even do anything anymore because they have no backing from the city council At the end of the day We are the taxpayers and you work for us and we hired you and remember The words that you said to us when you Ran for election and we expect you guys to honor those words and stick up for the taxpayer And take care of us and quit worrying about the homeless people because they're really not homeless There's probably 20 percent that choose to be homeless. I'll leave it at that. Thank you Thank you craig murphy Craig burphy. I live on dartmouth drive Uh, I'm here also to discuss the homeless issue in santa rosa. It's been a concern for quite a while I uh My kids walking home from school last year Witness somebody uh drugged out on the side of the green well way out of the yulup avenue with Used needles at their feet Um, we used to take our kids on the joe rhododa trail as a family outing to go to screaming memies We no longer do that because it's dangerous Uh, I was one of the folks on the bike ride that you most of you saw or a lot of you saw on the video That's been going around um the The homeless issue as was also mentioned These are folks some of these folks are truly in need and we want to give help to the people that Want the help we we need mental health care We need drug treatment that has to be done But there's a large population that they're offered shelters They're offered storage under the injunction for their goods yet. They do not take it They do not want to abide by the rules That are required in the shelters and so That's one issue another issue is that there is no tracking so when shelter is offered they don't take a name They don't say okay. Well now we offered you shelter on this day They don't come back two days later and find the person there and say well you were offered shelter You didn't take it. So now the rules of the injunction have been followed. We will remove you from the encampment That's what should be happening. That's not happening um Another issue uh that we've been discussing with local business leaders in santa rosa Is the frustration we've already already seen uh sprangers tap room That was something that disappeared a little over a year ago One of the issues and i talked to him personally was the homeless suffocating on his porch lighting his awning on fire by using his mushroom heaters in the middle of the night Throwing a brick through his window. There was no no Ramifications for that action. It was on him. He was threatened to be fined for not cleaning feces off of his front porch In time because of homeless people that were stupid on his front porch. We talked to uh Another restaurant owner just yesterday Who's looking at shutting down his business potentially within the next two weeks because a big part of it is the homeless issue There's other issues as well Like non responsiveness from city leaders, but the homeless issue was a primary theme that he mentioned There's big businesses like the russian river brewery That have concerns with the homeless issue and dealing with city council in santa rosa They talk about how refreshing it is to go to winzer and to have the city council there be so welcoming and open arms And a lot less red tape that they have to go through to get their business set up and running That's not the case in santa rosa. We're chasing businesses away Thank you very much Any additional cards? All right, mr. McGlynn 14.2 14.2 public hearing south park rezone for general plan consistency And i'd like to welcome back to their day jobs My two colleagues from the eoc Claire hartman and susie murray Okay, now that i got my electronics straight Good evening ma'ish weld home and council members the project before you is the south park rezoning Which okay Which uh was initiated actually by a cannabis dispensary located at 900 santa rosa avenue That project required both a conditional use permit and a rezoning because it was in an area designated or with a zoning of plan development so The the conditional use permit was approved by the planning commission contingent upon the rezoning back in august When staff saw the opportunity with a rezoning changing some plan development areas designated as plan development To the cg zoning district which is consistent with the general plan Sees the opportunity and grabbed another 33 parcels and added it to the rezoning So the the graphic that you see on this slide the slides that are highlighted in green are the Represent the 34 parcels that are subject of the rezone Um This is a general plan land use diagram for the area going down the center of the graphic You can see petaluma hill road all those are most of those parcels that are shown in red Alongside uh on the east side of petaluma hill road on the right Those are the general plan land use designation of retail and business services Here The area that is being rezoned is shown is outlined in yellow on the larger graphic And as you can see above I just kind of took a snippet from the previous slide so you could compare them The plan development is south park plan development It's a large area that includes housing as well as commercial uses and it's all you know kind of bordered Along petaluma or by petaluma hill road in bennett valley The benefits to Changing these parcels from plan development into the general commercial zoning district include It allows uses that would otherwise be permitted by right to be permitted by right right now The policy statement says any new use requires a conditional use permit We have two levels of conditional use permit minor or major But regardless those take you know anywhere from three to nine months to process and especially now so The other thing that is so that would also facilitate quick quicker retentening Promotes uses that are consistent with the general plan land use designation So right now there are a lot of automotive repair facilities down there and and major automotive repair paint paint or body shops or Just larger engine repair those would not be permitted by right However, that said Or they wouldn't be permitted with a conditional use permit either Those that are there and operating legally would be continued or allowed to continue to operate as legal non-conforming businesses This graphic actually shows you where those those automotive businesses are They're kind of clustered up towards the northern end. There's a few down more south So the project has been the Yeah, the Riza or the the project in its entirety has been found In compliance with CEQA and in terms of the rezoning It's or it's consistent with the general plan land use designation public comments that were received pertain to small businesses and auto repair facilities staff has worked with many of the business owners down there just to provide an understanding and and They trust that they will be continued or allowed to continue to operate Small businesses actually this will I think be A benefit for new small businesses coming in because this is exactly where our general plan wants them And many of those small businesses are permitted by right So in terms of what effect it will have on property values That is not staff's area of expertise So I I could only speculate I will say however that we've had several real estate agents tracking the Status of this rezoning. So there are no unresolved issues with the project or the rezoning And with that it is recommended by the planning commission and the planning and economic development department That the council approved an ordinance to rezone the properties Located along the east side of petaluma hill road and santa rosa avenue south of bennett valley road and north of colgan avenue Into the general commercial zoning district for general plan consistency And that concludes my presentation. Great. Thank you council questions for staff on this presentation Seeing none. Do we have any cards? Okay, we will open the public hearing if anyone would like to make comments on this item to council You're welcome to do so. You don't have to fill out a card Would anyone like to address council on this item? Seeing no one rise we'll close the public hearing Bring it back to council mr. Rogers. I believe you have this item All right, I will move ordinance of the council of the city of santa rosa Amending title 20 of the santa rosa city code Reclassification of 34 properties located at 900 and 910 santa rosa avenue 920 930 940 950 964 972 1014 1026 1038 1110 12 12 12 40 13 10 13 16 13 20 14 hundred 14 26 14 52 15 40 15 7 76 and 15 80 petaluma hill road 625 where avenue assessors parcel number 038 dash 15 5 dash 016 No street address is aligned 612 frazier avenue 611 612 and 628 milton street 636 and 1341 ruttledge avenue and 614 618 and 630 aston avenue to the cg general commercial zoning district file number prj 1 8 dash 0 5 5 and thankfully wave further reading of the text second and And if I may mr. Mayor clarify that we are at this point simply introducing the ordinance okay Thank you. So we have a motion and a second your votes, please And that passes unanimously. Thank you Mr. McGlynn item 14.3 item 14.3 public hearing a street and morgan street petition for addition To the downtown residential permit parking zone kim nidow parking manager presenting slight technical difficulty Good evening mayor and council members This item is to Present to you a petition that has been received to add portions of a street and morgan street to the downtown residential permit program The 500 block of a street and the 700 block of morgan street do not currently have a residential permit program City code section 11-44 Establishes the process for creating a residential permit zone And the residents in this neighborhood are impacted from long-term spillover parking from adjacent uses The petition has been received from the residents of these two blocks to be included in this existing downtown residential zone The zone has a two-hour time limit 9 a.m. To 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and residents are able to purchase permits that exempt them from those time limits This map shows you the the blue or purple is the existing Area and then the red area is the the blocks that are proposed to be added to the zone So the the city code requires that petition be circulated and signatures obtained from at least 60 of the residents in the proposed area And these two blocks have exceeded that requirement We also held a couple of public meetings In conjunction it was hosted by catholic charities at their office to have the neighbors come in and we talked Had we had at least two meetings where we met with them and went over the pros and cons and answered questions about moving forward with a residential permit zone Oh, and we also posted notification out on the street for 10 days prior to this meeting and posted in the press democrat So the benefit of moving forward with this is that it will provide relief to residents Allowing them to park In on their own streets near their own homes And they would be able to park beyond the posted time limits And it would serve as a deterrent from the spillover effect where people are parking from It's walking distance to downtown. It's walking distance to the santa rosa plaza. So this would Help alleviate that situation It's recommended by the finance department that the city council by resolution approved the a street and morgan street petition to be included in the downtown residential permit parking program And i'm happy to answer any questions that you have Great. Thanks again. Thank you for that presentation council any questions Mr. Vice mayor Thank you, mr. Mayor kim. What's the cost for the permit for residents? It's 20 a year Okay, and if they were they can purchase up to three permits per unit if they it's really 20 per transaction So if they were to come in and purchase all three permits at once with one transaction It's 20 dollars for all three But if they buy one one month and then they come back two months later and buy one then they'd be charged 20 dollars per permit And we started to run into as this council has Pushed for more infill development ad use things of that nature Have we run into an issue in other areas where three is insufficient for the amount of folks that are actually living on the Not yet that that has not been an issue that has been brought to us so far We haven't hit that wall yet Okay, if it does i'd hope you'd bring it back to the council because it's something that i'm definitely keeping an eye out for Thank you Any other questions mr. Chibis. Thank you, mr. Mayor two questions first is for sue Sue I apologize my i-legislate is requiring a password that I don't seem to have at the moment So I can't see the map is does this include wilson street at all Seventh and wilson or is this specific to the east side of 101 and morgan street? It doesn't include wilson. This is this is only morgan street The 500 block of a street and the 700 block of morgan Okay, great. Thanks. The the follow-up question I have is on behalf of the revered gospel mission I got a couple of texts and emails from their executive director not long ago and he was having issues With parking for his employees and he was hoping to get basically an employee parking pass for for his area Has he approached you at all or can you announce what the the procedure would be for him to follow To go through the petitioning process So in august the council approved a preferential employee permit permit program For that area over on the west end. So that went into effect The beginning of september I believe could have been a little bit later and we've now sold at last count I believe 57 permits and I If my memory serves me correctly, I'm pretty sure that the redwood gospel mission is on that list of businesses Who has purchased permits under that program? I'm 90 percent sure that that they Have and they were involved in those meetings when we developed that program. So they're aware that those permits are available Okay, great. Well, I'm sure that they have or if they haven't they know how to do it now. So thank you Any other questions Seen in okay, this is a public hearing. So I'll open the public hearing Do you have one card gregory furan? Testing okay. Thank you mayor and members of the council You'll have to forgive me. I'm going to try and make your Decision a little harder I believe your public hearing and the process you're going through right now as it applies to this particular stretch of the city Is inconsistent with the state budget act that was passed three months ago Um, let me try to explain the budget act contained a lot of things But one of those things it contained was a little sliver of a major controversy called by right decision making As you remember the legislature and the government's trying to get us to build more housing And they're threatening to take away your right to zoning and to make decisions one of those that passed Was where you're building where you're authorizing a navigation center We all know what those are you've got one in this town It's a combination of this property morgan street the drop-in center and the uses that it's being put and the Shelter they serve as a navigation center And we want people to come to the navigation center. We want people to utilize the services your funding there and so Denying those homeless who have Cars and that's what I think this is aimed at From going there is very very inconsistent with the legislature's decision to encourage more of these And they're doing it by basically saying you have a less right to Decide whether they go there by right decision making takes away from you your authority We all have you know opinions on that that basically it says you cannot do things like require off-street parking at navigation centers you cannot Regulate hours. There are lots of things the legislature's trying to do to overcome citizen opposition To navigation centers Please don't join the forces that are trying to stop navigation centers You are supporting a navigation center. You want it to work For it to work You're gonna have to endure some people who have cars who come there who stay a long time trying to get into housing That's what it's all about now if this is if this is the wrong place to put a navigation center Deal with that But don't wherever you put it make it so restrictive for people to go there That it fails So my point is I believe this is inconsistent with what you want to do And as hard as that's going to make it to for you to respond to the neighbors in this case on this street It's wrong. It's it's counterproductive and I hope you'll see the wisdom of that. Thank you Thank you, Greg You don't have to fill out a card. Would anyone else like to address the council on this item? Please sir You just identify yourself Thank you I wasn't actually planning on addressing The council but given the gentleman's last Talk there I just wanted to say that I'm not sorry. Matthew reed. I live on morgan street actually 700 morgan street Nobody in the neighborhood on well first off the block that were that we're talking about permitted parking is parking is not the entire Uh morgan street in front of the drop-in center in the caritas village, which we are in support of being built No one's arguing against that Um, the permitted parking would not apply. So to the gentleman's Concerns there would still be parking there for the Homeless that uh, you know are in their in their cars. We're just talking about the section in the residential area There's already a good neighbor policy that Um The catholic catholic charities, you know would have agreed to that has to do with There's not already not supposed to be You know parking from uh people on that street That that receive services at the homeless center If so, we're told by catholic charities that they lose their privileges to be able to Avail themselves of the services if uh, they they choose to park For days on end at times and i've you've gotten an earful of all the, you know Joe radota trail and stuff but that stuff was going on in our neighborhood as well You know prostitution and drug use and the feces and the whole thing in a residential neighborhood not Joe radota trail You know a neighborhood with children and working class people and you know county employees and You know carpenters and waiters and waitresses and the whole like homeowners and renters indeed We've done everything that uh, you know, we have been asked to do we've gotten our Petition signed over the 60 limit. We've gone through with the with kim and her her good efforts to You know see this through shepherd this through so i would just ask humbly request that as a resident That uh, you know it be it be it be considered because it's really truly a problem We just can't we can't park on our own street in front of our own houses sometimes because there's beat-up winnebago's and Cars where people are you know coming and going and something's going on there as you can imagine Uh and and so forth So i would just ask that you know that you consider that that one section of morgan street be You know For permitted parking and and for residents they've got that whole other side of morgan street right in front of the drop in center Right in front of what will i assume one day be caritas village Where they can where they can park plus they're also going to be apparently building you know parking on that on that side as well So so residents of caritas village can can park you know within the within the village itself Thank you Thank you. Would anyone else like to Address the council on this item Seeing no one else will close the public hearing council. Do you have any questions of staff? Mr. Vice mayor So i was just hoping you could respond to the public comment about the buy-right decision-making in the state budget Um understanding that typically legislation doesn't kick in until january 1st But because it was the budget with the two-thirds If it got the two-thirds, which i'm sure it did Could it been immediate? Have you had a chance to look into that at all? I have not so i do not know the effective date of that legislation I would note however that this decision that's in front of you tonight is not have to do with Approval of the navigation center itself. This is a A parking issue Whether it you know may have some impacts, but it is not the decisions that are by right under the Under the new legislation Okay, and this Will come back to us on second reading. Is that next week? This is a resolution not an ordinance. So this would go into effect now Okay, thank you Any other questions? Yeah, could um, I understand that you're saying that this doesn't impact it But that you haven't had a chance to take a closer look Do you think that if you were able to take a closer look that you could give us? A more in-depth answer perhaps at a future date Certainly, I could look further and give you a more in-depth response If if the council so desires you see any risk to us moving forward today without having you take that closer look I do not see a risk on this item Might I ask my fellow city council members? How would they think? I'm ready to move forward Okay, all right Any other questions Okay, miss flimmy. You have this item I so move a resolution of the council of the city of san aroza approving the addition of A street and morgan street both between 7th street and 9th street to the downtown residential permit parking zone And wait for the reading of the text. We have a motion in a second by mr. Rogers your votes, please And that passes with four eyes. Thank you Mr. McGlynn item 14.4 item 14.4 public hearing petition to establish the west end residential permit parking zone Kim nidow parking manager presenting Good evening again, mayor and council members. I'll go through this one even faster because it's it's pretty similar to the last one That we just did so we've received a petition from residents of the west end Under the same code section 11 dash 44, which establishes the process A little different on this side is that we did establish this employee preferential permit zone. That's immediately adjacent to this proposed residential zone The petition has been received from the residents this Zone would also have the same two-hour time limit 9 a.m. To 6 p.m. Monday through saturday And residents can purchase the permits for 20 dollars per year which exempts them from the time limits So this map shows in the purple the preferential employee permit Area that was recently established and then the green is the proposed residential permit zone, which is adjacent to that We also held community meetings at the round barn to discuss this Proposal and answer questions of the neighbors and did the same posting notifications And they exceeded by a significant margin margin the 60 requirement to To have the the code requirements Same benefits this area is experiencing spillover It's walking distance to the smart platform. It's walking distance to railroad square So this will provide relief to the neighbors who live there so that they can park on their own streets And deter that spillover effect So it's recommended by the finance department that the city council by resolution approved the petition to establish the west end residential permit parking zone Thank you kim questions for kim Mr. Vice mayor Thank you. So kim if you go back to slide 4 that shows the map really fast Right next to starks on adam street. There's actually one residential home that's there How does that work with the employee parking? Program as well When we established that employee zone I reached out to that residence because it was this anomaly surrounded by all of The whole entire rest of that purple area is Commercial so I reached out to them and and made it known to them that if they needed permits They would be able to get permits to park there because they can't It's a petition of one. I guess you could call it But I mean they're surrounded by all of the the commercial so I reached out to them and initially they didn't It wasn't a concern For them, but I think a few months ago They did reach out to get a permit Okay, great. And then Maybe I'll check with you offline I do know that they are also we're going to reach out because backing out of their home can sometimes be challenging With cars parked right on the the corners So I'll follow up with you after the meeting and just make sure that they did in fact do that. Okay Any other questions? Okay, this is a public hearing so I'll open the public hearing We have one card right now roger mcgill By uh on yeah mayor and city council. I may be a little out of order here, but um, I kind of represent myself and The myriad of people that work downtown a little history Unfortunately when the attorneys for the city of santa rosa Wrote a contract to let the mall establish itself They put in escape clause that allowed the mall to Uh, not give free parking to the businesses, which they agreed as part of their settlement to build the mall and said that if the City of santa rosa were charged for their parking lots that they also would be able to charge And whereas all the downtown workers Used to park in there some were rude and parked near the entrances to the businesses that set away in the back Or c4 where they were supposed to The mall decided for the great almighty dollar to start charging parking to shop there and get rid of the downtown workers Kind of leaving us as a spillover. I guess So, um, I didn't realize I had only three minutes. So I'll just cover a few things quickly Um, it seems to me that um, we don't care about the workers downtown. They have no place to park I've been a small business owner downtown for 33 years Um, I park way down in the burbs and I bike about a mile or walk a mile to get to work in the rain or not Um, I can't afford the parking and I think a lot of people that Have just regular jobs can't afford the parking So, um the exacerbations with the 420 mendicino They're putting 104 units in there with only 72 parking space Now the city decided to put meters under the sixth street overpass or Um Where we were able to park out of the rain and walk through the mall and get to work Well the meters far as I can tell in the year two or maybe two and a half years when I go through there There's nobody paying anything to those meters and the homeless have kind of moved back under there And those meters stay empty. So I don't know what that achieved Then on sixth street In the chops teen center They petitioned to have that changed over and now nobody parks on that street. So they empty that street out You covered them the catholic charities. That's a done deal. So the the residents Seems like the the code says you have to have a garage an apron and a driveway And that's your parking But nobody's using their garage or their driveways. I have submitted a picture that I took walking around Um, a lot of these especially at the corner of davis and sixth street Somebody turned a garage into a living space Recast the concrete the city's sidewalk got rid of the apron and it's a living space Um, so are they going to request a parking permit? So, um, I think the resolution of this quickly is you've got to give the downtown workers a place to park And if the residents have more than one car that they can park Then maybe give them permits too Thank you Any other cards on this item? Is there anyone else who'd like to address the council on this topic? You don't have to fill out a card Seeing no one rise we'll close the public hearing Council any questions Mr. Tibbets I move a resolution of the council of the city of santa rosa establishing the west end residential permit parking zone and wait for the reading of the text second Alrighty your votes, please. Oh you did. I'm sorry And that passes unanimously. Thank you Mr. McGlynn item 14.5 item 14.5 public hearing a place to play Park master plan amendment to include locations for an emergency ground water well and pump station basketball court hydration stations picnic areas Entry grates Gates and irrigation pump station gen santos deputy director presenting Good evening. Mayor schwedholm chris uh Vice mayor chris rogers and council members gen santos deputy director for parks We're going to talk about the latest greatest master plan amendment proposal tonight And just as a reminder A place to play is located in the area Right here in the outline or the kind of greenish yellow area. It's north of highway 12 west of highway 101 just south of college And you access the park vehicularly by west third street And so here is the current master plan for a place to play park And a place to play park is not completely built out But this is the plan for it right now. And so there's essentially eight soccer fields planned three forms of baseball youth and youth baseball fields as well as a skate park And a remote control track Let me try to get over to some of these. So here's the remote control track It's a skate park down there And we have an outdoor pavilion here next to the pond A play area that's already built three sand volleyball courts here And Let's see. What else we have a restroom here not built yet and another restroom here, which is built We have the dog park which is currently existing and a future plan playground area here bocce courts shuffleboard And I I think that I've covered everything there and these two are not built yet. These are combination baseball Soccer fields. So that's just a reference of the current plan the way it is now The proposed changes are highlighted. So they're easier to see The the main reason we're here tonight to make these amendments is so that the water department can place a future Water well pump station here at this corner. Let's see if I can get here Right there at the western edge of the of the park There is a current test well at this location And the water department would like to or have approved with their board of public utilities a Pump station essentially pump and station For emergency groundwater wells right there. And so that would involve a Enclosure a fenced enclosure with a pump house building right now. There's a current well site there, but that's Is just a well head and the proposal is to expand that to put a pump station there for a future emergency groundwater well And so that is the that's the reason why we started this master planning process And we went out to the community and asked what else they might like to have as well as Taking a look at the master planning cleaning up loose ends for instance this What we've done this master plan is to identify an existing pump station That was never originally identified on the plan So we wanted to make sure that that was there that pump station provides water to that Pond that you see there as well as providing irrigation to the park The other things that were requested were picnic tables near the existing playground These are usually pretty minor not something you'd see in a master plan But it was important to the community that they were in the plan And that it was shown that they should be near the playground And the other thing that's been requested by the community are two entry gates One of this entrance here and at the east entrance here Right now Anyone can drive in the park at any time of night So it's really important to have those entry gates there that we have at other parks too Because the park does close at sunset. So we want to make sure we have gates there Also, we've added in a basketball court, which is here the previous draft removed a basketball court And so community residents Wanted to see that placed back in the master plan Which we can easily accommodate. So we have included that back in the master plan The other addition was just to point out more picnic areas around the future Playground and so those are the only amendments we're suggesting for this evening Here's an aerial shot of the park now. So you can kind of see what's green is what has already been built This picture does not show the rc track that has been Built here as well as the dog park may have just been built. It's kind of hard to tell But i'm using this slide to show you Right here is where the test well is located and this is where the pump station will go It's installed in 2006 and the recycled pump station Was installed in 2008 just as a reference And so here's a picture of it on the left just so you can kind of see what we're talking about I maybe call and can do a better job describing this, but this is essentially a well head right here in the At the corner of west third and the west entry point and here is the existing recycled pump station that exists already We just want to make sure we identify that in the plan correctly So although our changes were relatively small this time around we had some pretty good outreach going on Originally, we took this item to the board of community services in 2017 To get some initial input from the board and to have that have a public meeting there And then we from there took their comments and had some community outreach between may First and 15th in 2017 with a lot of online comments as well as facebook next door et cetera And that's where we received 22 comments about including hydration stations basketball courts picnic Or adding the basketball court back in Picnic areas entry gates the skate park and there was one comment to locate the pump station outside the park But generally the comments were not necessarily about the water pump station. They were about park amenities So at that point we took the plan back to the board of community services And they provided some further recommendations for us to add those things that we had talked about previously with the community and then We had a that's when we had the fires in october 2017. So this project kind of stalled after that it kind of went On hold while we dealt with the aftermath of the Tubbs nuns fire in 2017 And so we felt it was necessary to go back out to the community since it'd been two years since we had solidified what they what the updates were just to check in with them and what we learned was that The comments were still the same regarding the well and pump station that no one had really any comments about it However, it was really great. We had a wonderful turnout of neighbors who had a lot to say about potential future items We can include When we look at the master plan more in depth And so those were of course a lot of support for pickleball Soccer baseball softball. There was a lot of sports groups there. Of course, we invited our sports groups We had conversations about a potential community garden Lots of folks for Making sure that the Speed bumps and the gates were in there because of the illegal activity that happens in the park there after after hours lots of support for Lighted turf and different things like that So the things that were requested like that are wonderful to know and we're glad to have that and they root prior much more in-depth study and discussions with the community about the changes because we do have a lot of The the park is relatively full with items. So Including some of these new items would be a great addition. We just need to have that more in-depth conversation with the community So this is just a reminder. I just wanted to place this slide in here as a reminder I think one thing I forgot to we have a it's just a note to add hydration stations in there Those are the places where you can put a water bottle and fill up your water bottle Throughout the park because this is the sports park and it would be a benefit to the community to have those there So don't know exactly where we want to put them. So there's just a note and they're way too small to show So again the the purpose of the amendment was to allow the water department's well pump station to to exist in this plan As an amendment as well as to listen to the community to see if there's anything future We should be looking at Long term or any immediate changes like adding the basketball court back in and those entry gates And the the water department produced this visual of what That corner where the existing wellhead is that and what the pump station might look like And so this is just a visualization of what it might look like. It's pretty good It looks like it's there, but that's a visualization and so it's a it's a offense with actually this is the This is a different design. There's a new design with birds and things like that on the fence. It's really creative It's they've done a really good job to To highlight that corner So it's the recommendation of the transportation and public works department parks division And the water department that the council by resolution Adopt the a place to play park master plan amendment to include locations for an emergency groundwater well and pump station basketball court hydration stations picnic areas entry gates And an existing irrigation pump station Great. Thank you for that presentation council questions on that presentation See none. This is a public hearing. So go ahead open the public hearing. We have several cards Ted alexander followed by james more There you go your life Okay Thank you council members for giving us this opportunity to comment in this forum I am here with a group of representatives from the pickleball community in santa rosa And there are we would have had a bigger showing but there are a number of our members who are at a national tournament right now in southern california We would like to address the urgent need for more and better pickleball courts And we do believe there may be an opportunity to remedy this need within the master plan of a place to play First however, um, we would like to briefly provide some background in context for those of you unfamiliar with our sport or the situation we now find ourselves in Pickleball is the fastest growing sport in the country and apparently also in santa rosa and sonoma county Just as in tennis pickleball has regional national and international tournaments with professional players and a growing audience of fans In the municipalities where these tournaments are held Revenue is significantly increased to local businesses such as restaurants and hotels Which consequently brings in more tax revenue for the city such as the transient occupancy tax furthermore fees are collected by the local parts department And sometimes other associated events will raise funds for local community services For example, baker's field just had their very first officially sanctioned tournament And they raised funds for the firefighters union with an auction A tournament quality pickleball facility in santa rosa would inevitably bring in these kinds of tournaments sanctioned by the united states pickleball association And um, uh, thank you very much for your time and i'm going to turn it over to uh another speaker. Thank you All right, thank you Mr. Uh, james moore is next followed by kathy cursed. I'm i'm sorry, uh james moore is uh His place is being taken by dug who you should also have a card for sorry. All right So james moore is not here Okay, then kathy cursed followed by arlene newton I would like you to consider building pickleball courts at places to play I am the volunteer pickleball ambassador for santa rosa through the national pickleball organization My role is not only to promote the sport by my daily play at finley, but also to encourage and teach new players It's been my joy to play The past 10 years all over the country just recreationally or in tournaments And when my husband and I moved to santa rosa nine years ago We had played pickleball a year in virginia And we were delighted that Windsor had just started the sport a week before our move. There was no pickleball in santa rosa So we joined in the fun and we soon helped to facilitate play in tournaments at finley A history of how pickleball grew in this community can be found on our Website, which is sinoma county pickleball club dot com So a preliminary rough survey of the space at a place to play indicates that between 8 and 11 Regulation quality pickleball courts could be accommodated Where the beach volleyball courts are presently planned There's excellent parking and the place to play portable bathrooms exists The space is also sufficiently removed from the surrounding residential community So that lighting if installed would not be an issue We have a large pool of enthusiastic potential donors for a fundraising campaign and we have started a non-profit. It's been approved We would have money not just for seed money to create the courts, but we'd also Want to help with ongoing maintenance and repair we're eager to partner with the city of santa rosa To create a tournament quality pickleball facility in this great city of ours Let's put wine country pickleball on the national map before napa valley beats us to it Thank you. Arlene newton followed by ramona howler I'm glad this is such a happy subject After listening to a lot of other comments. I just have a brief comment and that is the Reason pickleball has the popularity of it has exploded and it's primarily because of the age group it Provides recreation for I would say the majority of players are aged 50 to 70 And we all know that we're all living longer And need to stay healthy and we all know that recreation is one of the best ways to do it So I encourage you to give us more courts Thank you ramona howler followed by douglas beser Good evening. I second arlene what arlene just said I'd also like said I've been here for 40 years and i'm lucky enough to retire in the area And a lot of us are looking for healthy outdoor activities That will help promote society also as well as you know, some of the things that you brought out for children and younger people And uh, there are a lot of us here. Thank you. Thank you douglas beser followed by laurel chambers Yes, good evening ladies and gentlemen of the council The reason i'm talking here is because of the what we're seeing in growth in terms of the number of people that are wanting to play this sport There are many mornings On the weekdays as well as the weekends when all six existing pickleball courts at trinley park are occupied With other folks waiting to play Finley does not have lightning lighting But there are four courts at howarth park that have lights for the after work and after school crowd Often these four courts are also very busy and players are waiting to get on I think we've presented you with some photos that we brought today that are indicating These scenes um on a typical day of the week when we're playing pickleball Notice that on those those pictures also there's some empty courts, but those are tennis courts. Those are not pickleball courts The courts at both ends of these locations have various problems and that makes them substandard For example, the lights at howarth park are woefully inadequate With just two light canisters per court compared to an average of eight per court for the tennis players Another problem is the inconsistent playing surfaces on the courts at finley Thank you Little chambers Oh, okay. Thank you. Um, my name is little chambers and I live in the neighborhood just south of the park and um I uh, I was able to attend the uh, the meeting uh community meeting in september and I just wanted to reiterate a couple of Of points. Um, first of all, uh, thank you for taking a look at this park and for the proposed changes Especially the hydration stations. Very happy to see that Um, but there are a couple of issues that I feel are affecting current park usage and will continue to affect park usage First of all, there is no crosswalk across west third street leading into the park uh, it's a very busy road people drive very fast and um As a result, I don't take my daughter to the park. I go myself and I dodge traffic But it would be great to have a safe accessible way of getting into the park Uh, I feel like it's it's just a tragedy waiting to happen Having this big beautiful park and no safe way for the neighbors to access it I realize this is not a um parks jurisdiction, but um, I would urge staff if they haven't already to reach out to transportation and public works and see if we can figure out a way of Making a safe crossing across west third Um, and then my other point was just about the play areas and how the the current playground doesn't have any shade I know it's a minor thing, but as a parent, uh, if there's no shade, it's just not fun and kids don't want to use it So, uh, I really hope that staff takes a look at that and um includes more shade for the existing park and uh makes that a priority for the for the new park As well as Features that are accessible for everyone. Uh, the current park is designed for older kids, which is great But uh, hopefully the younger the other park will include features for younger kids as well as accessible features Like the swings that we have at bear park. Those are great. I would love to see more Accessible features in our parks. Thank you. Thank you. Those are all the cards. I have you don't have to fill one out If you'd like to make comments Okay, council and c. Lee, uh, I came wanting to ask two questions One i'm relieved to hear that the entry gates are only going to be closed when the park closes my husband plays soft, uh baseball there and there's a lot of, uh Traffic in and out and I wanted to make sure that that wasn't impeded The other concern that I have is that the proposed water well um sits immediately adjacent to a wastewater treated wastewater holding pond And that that aquifer that the well will be drawing from Very likely has been filled Has had quite a bit of treated wastewater to fill the aquifer So, please I hope that you'll deal with that and address it publicly. Thank you Thank you. Would anyone else like to address the council on this item? Seeing none, we'll go ahead close the public hearing bring it back to council any questions Mr. Tibbetts, thank you. I do have a question So it doesn't look like the current iteration of this master plan has pickleball courts in it Are we looking at that on in on the horizons? It is growing support Yes, thank you councilmember. Yes, um We did speak with the pickleballers on the 21st of september They were there and it's a great sport. We would love to include it there It would just exclude another sport that is already in the park So it needs a little bit more Deliberation with the community than we had time for this time during this amendment So we will be taking it up in the future to see I'm sure we can find places for for that sport Mr. Reismaner Thank you I was also hoping you could get with Transportation and public works and have a conversation about the crosswalk idea To connect the neighborhood. She doesn't have far to go and we've already discussed it. So absolutely councilmember excellent. Thank you so much The only question I have is about the aquifer how would you respond to that mr. Close? Thank you, mayor Schwethelm So the pond is built in such a way that it's to be sealed so that water doesn't simply sink into The groundwater around because in part that water needs to be there for irrigation So that pond is built to hold water At the same time the well is built quite a distance away and is Sealed a great deal down So the openings are down in a lower much lower aquifer So the the well itself is over 700 foot deep So we don't have any concerns about that whatsoever in addition We'll be doing water quality testing on that well when we develop it So we don't anticipate any issues with that at all great. Thank you any other questions All right, miss foaming you have this item I just wanted to make a comment that I Appreciate the presentation and that I support the idea that our park should be not I know that not Every individual park will be able to meet every dean of every Individual and every group in our community But that our park should be accessible and safe for young people for older people and from everybody In between and that it should be safe to get to the park and be at the park for everybody. So I am proud to move the resolution of the council of the city of santa rosa approving a place to play park master plan amendment to Include locations for an emergency groundwater well and pump station basketball court hydration stations picnic areas Entry gates and irrigation pump station and wait for the reading of the text We have a motion in a second your votes, please And that passes unanimously. Thank you Right do we have no well we have no written communications any additional comments public comment card item 16 seen none meetings adjourned