 Good morning everybody. We'd like to call to order the Board of Supervisors for May 22nd 2018 if we could begin with a roll call, please Supervisor Leopold here Coonerty here cap it here McPherson chair friend here And before we begin our moment of silence and Pledge of Allegiance I'd just like to honor Jim van Houten who passed away recently Jim was a very active member of Lafkoe as well as in some of the South County did a lot for Watsonville wetlands watch a number of their environmental Organizations that lived on the Selva Beach, but he contributed a lot to this counting He just recently passed away, so please join us in a moment of silence and the Pledge of Allegiance Morning mr. Plasio, so then he changes today's agenda There are and a few changes to the agenda today On the consent agenda item number seven. There's additional materials. There's a revised attachment a Which is packet pages 16 and 17? There's also an addenda to the consent agenda. This is item 53 point one There's which is to authorize the chair of the board just to write our state legislative representatives in support of assembly bill 2258 which would provide grant funding for special studies to help identify issues and provide recommendations for local agency formation commission To use to promote better services in our county. This is recommended by Supervisor Leopold There's a board memo and the bill text for AB 2258 on the regular agenda item 57. There's additional materials There's a planning department memo and related correspondence. That's all. Thank you Thank you, Mr. Plasio. Good morning Supervisor Caput. Is there anything you'd like to pull or briefly comment on an item 6 through 53 point 1? No, thank you. Thank you. Good morning Supervisor McPherson Excuse me, there's a couple of items Item number 14 the report on the Office of Economic Development on the broadband survey very encouraging especially up in the Santa Rosa Valley in the Fifth District that people would be Receptive or open to having seen that extend into the Valley areas, and I think it would it might help Those who want to stay at home and do their work of them who may be employed over in Silicon Valley in particular, but I think it's It's a good prospect that something can happen in that that area Also on number 15 the budget adjustments for the County Library Fund. It's very encouraging We have several because of the people of the County voted to support Library measure a couple years ago. We have a great opportunity to expand our services there and The one in particular in my district the Felton Library. We hope to break ground this late this summer this fall and it's it looks very very good with a library fund Funds and improved resources that it's getting on the Item number oh item number 25 and Number 27 regarding the probation department. It's nice to see the the plans of specifications have been Approved for the juvenile hall multi-use recreation and programs facility. We've had a very good Grant program there for seeds to table that is very encouraging and I'm glad to see that work going on there for those services that would be provided and on item 27 the accepted file the report on a B 109 outcome evaluation by the resource development Associates it shows that Santa Cruz County outcomes in our probation center are better in general than the state average And I think a lot of credit should go to the probation department for what it does and and all those the grants that it has received Through the recent years. They've really paid off and doing an excellent job. So I just want to Publicly commend them. Thank you survive from a person. Good morning. Survisor Coonerty. Hi. Good morning Just a couple items to comment on today The first is item number 21 report on community TV and I just also want to point I'm happy community TV seems to be doing well But also that we've been able to spend the peg fees to support media education in our schools It's a really great thing to be able to give the next generation that training That'll pay off in both arts and in the future economy. And so I want to continue supporting those efforts on item number 24 agreeing to a memorandum understanding with the Bureau of Land Management around the planning for access and management of the Katoni Coast Darry's National Monument It's been a long time in the making but one of the requirements of the presidential proclamation was that there'd be a local land use local planning process in order to figure out the best uses and access points and This is the beginning of that phase And then similarly to supervisor McPherson On item number 25. I'm really happy to see those juvenile hall updates Upgrades coming through to serve those kids and then on item number 27 I want to thank my colleagues for putting this off For a couple weeks. I met with probation and they answered all my questions And gave me a really good sense of where the funding decisions will be going in the future and I'll so Appreciate that and I'll be supporting it today. Thank you. Supervisor Coonerty. Good morning. Supervisor Leopold. Good morning chair Just a couple of items to comment on on item 16 I'm glad to see the general services department going out to seek funding For a new electric vehicle and I just want to take this opportunity to thank the staff in the department for deploying new electric chargers the charger we have now at simpkins I see used on a regular basis and I think when we have those When we deploy those resources it makes it easier for people to use electric vehicles all around santa cruz county So thank carol johnson and general services for that on item number 23 This is an item to try to start identifying our affordable housing priorities With all the talk with the state Housing bond and talk of a local bond It's important for us to have this list together and I appreciate the work done by community members Uh to to put us in this position But I think staff will need to spend some time and trying to figure out exactly Our greatest priorities and how to use those resources On item number 25. Um, it's a great day that we're finally, uh Have plans and going to be going out to bid uh for juvenile hall the recreation facilities This has been a long time coming. Um, the uh, the june bug or the beetle or whatever it is that has uh Been keeping that has been challenging as part of this It's great to see that we were able to resolve the environmental issues so we can get this done. I know that That the staff really cares about ensuring that the kids are healthy while they're there Both in terms of eating and now having good recreational opportunities. So thank you for seeing this through. It's been a long road I'll also add my appreciation to probation for the ab 109 outcome evaluation It's good to see in the presentation that you gave to us the That the recidivism rate is lower here in santa cruz and uh than the statewide average It tells us that what we're doing is working And I appreciate all the work uh and time that our probation staff puts into making that happen um on item number 38, uh I I encourage everyone to really read this report about the bringing families home program This is a a great grant that we got to help families and in reading that report and reading the stories that are in this report um, it really Hit me pretty hard about the challenges that families face and Uh, the the role that housing plays in keeping families together and I just really appreciate the ongoing work of our staff to Uh, to find these resources to help these families to strengthen families here in santa cruz. So thank you very much for that On item number 41. I want to thank the park staff Uh for working with neighbors in the maran lake area There's an opportunity for us to acquire this land to be able to to to make it a more active recreation area and uh, I appreciate the leadership of our park staff and and and putting this together and I look forward to continue working with them to make sure that we have these pathways and other pieces That will make this an even a greater used local resource On item number 46, uh, is i'm glad to see public works moving forward With the plans and specification for the main street bridge street project. I know this is with a long time coming I know the staff has been working very hard to to make this project happen This will be a great addition to so kell and will really improve the safety for The kids going to main street schools. So thank you very much for the hard work you put into that And lastly, I would urge the support of my colleagues on item 53.1 in support of ab 2258 This is an opportunity for the first time for the state to provide Funding to lafkos to do special studies and as As my colleagues who serve on lafko know right now we're in the midst of a very expensive study But an important study to looking at the mergers or consolidation possibly of fire districts These are the kind of studies that need to be done but lafkos and the way that they're funded It makes it hard to have those resources. So This bill would be the first time that the state would be providing money To do these special studies and it could help improve the efficiency of local government. So I urge your support Thank you So if I was really pulled now open it up for the community We are commenting here on consent This is an opportunity for members of the community to address us on item 6 through 53.1 Would anybody like to come forward on consent? morning Good morning becky steinberg I would like to comment on item 42 And I realize this is just setting the dates for the study sessions for the public works Capital improvement program I just want to be very public in my protest for the over six million dollars That's being spent in public money In the aptos village area to accommodate the aptos village projects additional 8 000 cars a day That has been estimated by now retired county senior traffic engineer, mr. jacks rickhoff I think that's an abuse of public funds a gift of public funds To the developer and I protested in advance of these study sessions I would also like to pull items number 44 and 49 And respectfully ask because i'm taking time off my job this morning To be here that um you Consider these two items at the end of the consent agenda action rather than made me wait until the very end of the day Any other items you want to comment on and consent? No, that's all we'll make them items We'll take item 55 first. We'll make them items 55.1 and 55.2. Thank you very much Mr. Chair in regard not to that subject in in particular, but to this Capital improvement report. This is the best most sink understandable capital improvement report We've had in some time. It's really well done. I want to just compliment The public works department and the ceo for putting together a very understandable proposed 2018-19 capital improvement report Thank you. Anybody else like to address us on consent good morning morning, my name is victoria solexander and I apologize. I don't have my glasses. I hate not having my glasses But I rushed and so I didn't have my glasses But I want to be able to talk on on the consent calendar light item 15 It's very important to myself and then also to my constituents Uh, they need we need more funding for the for the public libraries You know, and I really enjoy the scott's valley library even though I got thrown out twice For reading my books right, um, how to win an election and then uh democracy and chains this was in the past but I and also I got thrown out of watsonville library public library for speaking up for the people that are being They're turning the public library in watsonville into a checkpoint even though it's a city library Into a checkpoint for the mexicans Um, but but when it comes to the funding, I think that the increase is important We need to extend the library hours To seven days a week because a lot of the constituents that I noticed are depending on the internet connection They're depending on the library to be able to go and read Because they have a lot of uh leisure Leisure time and so I I see a great need and extend the libraries will help people feel a lot better I know that in your district bruce mcpherson. I know the felton library is open on sunday The hours are limited, but I think it's important a lot of people can't migrate all the way down there into the um Into the uh felton library, but the increase in it is a good thing It keeps people not caught up in shenanigans. They're on the the computers Reading I think the funding is very important also, um In extending the hours also the light on a number Uh on the justice and public safety regarding, uh, the probation department Wanted to destroy the the routine videos You know, I you know just destroying videos You know, I don't know if the probation department got body cams But I would want to preserve those to help members of the public For whatever issues they need also line item number, uh, 27. They be 109 Um, I I according to this right here the report they had no public input No community involvement, you know, and I I just say that that it's just one sided It's a privileged point of view when we just allow the functionary bureaucrats to keep trying to impose what they want It's only going to get better man when you include members of the public to weigh in And to help shape the policies I would say hey stop funding these people man Thank you Thank you. Anybody else like to address us on consent I see none will bring it back to the board for action. I moved the consent agenda So there's a motion in second on the consent agenda with two items that have been pulled all those in favor I opposed it passes unanimously now we'll do oral communications and opportunity for members of the community to address us on items That are not on today's agenda or within the purview of the board of supervisors Good morning. Welcome Good morning. I have some goodies to pass out Good morning chair and supervisors and staff. My name is michelle williams I'm executive director of arts council santa cruz county And i'm here today to invite you to ebb and flow ebb and flow is a two-day all ages family friendly free festival of art science and our river and An event as extraordinary and diverse as this is only possible in a creative community such as ours So thank you for your leadership and your vision that has made this possible Ebb and flow kicks off on friday night We're closing down cooper street for a full night of art making puppetry music and dance When the sun sets we're all going to process together on the river walk at night to front street We're closing down front street for a street party fire dancing dj And we're going to be unveiling the installation of a semi permanent public art piece on the soquel street bridge By local artists rachel stall and erin altmark and this public art piece is one of a kind It is an led led installation that the lights respond to the data that's happening in the river You're not going to want to miss it At noon on june 2nd We're having a march for the river right now being passed out to our school fish projects that we've passed out to local schools So they can create schools of fish to join us on the march for the river And then we ended the tannery art center for an all day celebration Art making music dance giant bubbles river education And we're also bringing bandaloupe the vertical performance pioneers who will be dancing off the lofts at the tannery art center It's a full day amazing celebration of art and science a marriage and collaboration between nearly a dozen public and private agencies We invite you to come bring your families And i want to say thank you to all of you for your visionary leadership of the Support and support of the arts because these things aren't possible unless we live in a community as extraordinary as ours Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your work Morning. Welcome. Good morning supervisors and chair friend. My name is greg pepping. I'm the executive director of the coast of watershed council Probably not surprised that i'm following michelle's Comments about the river the coast of watershed council is an environmental nonprofit. We've been around since 1995 and we've partnered with the county in all those years Historically, we have focused on all the rivers and creeks that drain to monterey bay In recent years, we focused as many of our resources as we can on the sand and runs a river and we've learned a lot in those years we've learned that The river is an integral part of the history of this community and and and it's a missed opportunity right now It lacks the vibrancy that some communities have ebb and flow the ebb and flow river festival is one of many opportunities that the community is investing in to reconnect to the river To transform our relationship to the river. So we partner with fisheries biologist at the county And the city and other nonprofits stormwater professionals. We're your green schools program implementer We work with stormwater experts in public works environmental health sometimes parks And we're collectively all of us. We're okay at getting messages across about habitat and water quality and the importance of rivers When you bring artists into the to the picture when you bring the artist community, and it's not just an artist community It's this artist community. It's a total game changer It's an entirely different opportunity Because the science stuff that we do speaks to a lot of people But when you get the artists involved in the creativity that they bring It's a unique opportunity to get people to realize the importance of this river and its history That this river is the largest watershed in this county That the river is about 30 miles long and it runs right by this building right by this county seat The economic center of santa Cruz the river is home to endangered and threatened species The river is drinking water supply for about a hundred thousand people in this county a hundred thousand Over a third of the people in this county use that as their primary drinking water supply It's a it's a driver for economic activity and could be more of one And it is a special place perhaps most importantly amongst all those Benefits that the river offers us It's an opportunity for everyone in this community to get away from these things and our dizzying fast-paced life And go down to the river and it's waiting for us peaceful and calm And restore through connecting with nature And I bring that up particularly because it's important for the entire community It's important for a lot of people in this building that you lead So I bring that up Because ebb and flow river the ebb and flow river festival is an opportunity to highlight all that we welcome you Have a unique request if you put on your hats You have more here than I do to worry about messing up But if you put on your hats michelle would love a photo If you decline that I understand but we invite you to come out and rediscover the river We protect what we know and love ebb and flow river festival is an opportunity to learn about the river And to love it so we welcome you to come out june 1st and june 2nd I've got a couple takers on the hats. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Beving. We'll do it. All right You probably used to get together. Hold on. I think we gotta Go over here, Greg. All right I think you'd say yes Is that everybody's good side? Thank you very much. Thank you Good morning. Welcome. Thanks for waiting and thank you for your visionary leadership It really makes this festival is a great thing But the work that you two do every day in your respective organizations really make a difference in the community. Thank you Thank you, mr. Chairman members of the board. I'm jeffrey ellis Here to comment on the use possible use of the park and ride on Soquel avenue near the hospital As a homeless shelter Um, I've heard about discussions from Santa Cruz city council that they Think they can do that. I don't know if they can do that or not but What what should happen is that it should be your decision As the board on land use and unincorporated santa cruse county Um, I I sent emails to each of you Questioning whether or not this could happen without an opportunity for public input. I certainly hope not and I Appreciate their responses that I got from from you or you know personally or staff Please Do not let this happen As a decision in the middle of the night It needs to be a decision of this board Following a proper opportunity for public input. Thank you Thank you. Thank you Good morning Good morning. My name is michael spadafore. I own java junction down at twin lakes beach I came down here and talked to you guys last march Was the last march? Yeah last march. I talked to you guys about the progress nothing being done down in the beach So I got calls from the county I got counties from public works I got calls from my supervisors office Saying that they were working on the plans didn't have plans on the ocean side of the road So come memorial day weekend last year the road was still closed both sides of the road There was no parking nothing else nothing had been done from march until memorial day So I tried to put off as long as I could since me and the rest of the business owners are Under a lot of pressure of customers not coming down there I tried to put off construction starting again until after the summertime I was told as soon as the plans were done they would start They didn't have the plans done until late august. So we had a meeting around table meeting with Port commissioner with the port the business owners granite and department public works told us that they had everything ready to go And it would be done which starts september 15th and be done April 26th. So now Come this year. I'm all like, why aren't you guys doing anything? You had the plans, you knew what you were doing find out after calling everybody That they didn't know what they put into the cement. So they had to have the cement mix tested Which held us back again. So now I just get the new blog saying the road's not going to be open until july 3rd Two-way traffic the road was closed november 20th to one Reduced down to one-way traffic. So today there's three people working down there. Yesterday. There were four people working down there There's a million people that come down to that beach a year My sales are down the palomar sales are down the crow's nest sales are down They need to close the road Move traffic on the other side so they can finish the north side of the road The north side of the road was closed all last summer The only reason that there was parking last summer was because memorial thursday before memorial day I took it upon myself to move all the cones on the north side Back as far as it could to make it wider for cars to get through on both directions and people to safely walk I'm the one that piled up all the saw horses that kept the ocean side of the road closed Come monday after memorial day. They put them all up. I'm the one had to call department public works and tell them to clean up all their construction Supplies that were piled up at the roundabout Before you guys talk about doing any more projects Into public works. You guys need to look at I've been told that you need to look at your policy procedures I've been told we can't tell our contractors what to do. We can't do this. We can't do that Nobody's working down there. I mean, it's it's a joke That's all I have to say. I mean there's there's landscaping that has to be done still There's homeowner. There's there's rentals that can't rent out their houses because their beach is closed And you finish that wall and it's like stucco or coral. Thank you. Thank you Good morning. Welcome Good morning. Judy grunstra I'd like to suggest that a measure s oversight committee be formed and recruited For the library the previous measure s now is going to be another measure s in the city. It's a little confusing There's a measure a citizen oversight committee For transportation Money Measure d and there are a citizen oversight for measure a and b the school funding And measure s needs an oversight committee as well I know the money's already been designated to the jurisdictions, but Within those jurisdictions there are projects being suggested or moving forward that May or may not be Within the measure s wording that people voted for so I'd like to move this ahead sooner rather than later Most people don't pay attention to I think who's running things there on the library the jpa on a mr Palacios is on the jpa But I think there's a potential for conflict of interest when the members of the jpa are also the city managers so no They have a They are not really held accountable in the same way as elected officials are So, uh, I'd like to suggest that measure s oversight committee be formed. Thank you Thank you millions of dollars. Thank you Good morning Good morning becky steinbrunner. I concur with miss gunstra A measure s oversight committee is needed. I have protested many times The expenditure of millions of dollars from measure s for the live oak library annex, which is really a community center And I would also like to comment on the ebb and flow event. I think it's great I'd really love to see some action on the paharo river too and applaud the Watsonville city council's recent bike rides on the levee. They're great I would like to comment Because i'm not going to be able to stay have to get back to work On the this afternoon's nissan development hearing I Am really opposed or we can't do that comment during rural communications We did receive your your letter on it though Two weeks ago, whatever it was. All right. Thank you. I just want to remind Supervisor lipo. He said there would be no light at at robertson at a public meeting Then i'll move on to my other comment that I hope will be allowed and that is regarding um No encroachment permit in the aptos village project area I have submitted twice public records act requests of county council And both times I have been told there is no encroachment permit for the work that the aptos village project developers They're doing and have done within the county public right of way. I have A copy of the county public works fees And under their own schedule this permit is required And if it is not there and work proceeds, there is and there is to be an investigation I've turned this matter into a code compliance. I've written public works many times And i've made it publicly known that there is no encroachment permit What that does for the county is it makes The county and the taxpayers liable for any Injuries or property damage as a result of the work that's that the contractor has done And there is a lot being done on cathedral drive on trout gulch on so cal now There are steel plates in the bicycle path without any cones or anything Why is there no encroachment permit being required? For the aptos village project developers It's a lot of money that the county should be getting It's a release of liability that the county needs to get and the taxpayers need to get I guess that's all i'm allowed to say right now. Thank you. Thank you Good morning Wait miss carrot Indeed why is there no encroachment permit for that aptos project? And why is our taxpayer money? going for So-called development, which I call desecration and disfoilment of the area I'm going to read something that some of you may have read recently In a certain publication The FCC forced rollout of the new 5g wireless technology and internet of things Will force a cell tower transmitter in front of every two to twelve homes emitting high density High frequency wireless microwave radio frequency radiation 24 gigahertz to 900 gigahertz 90 gigahertz Wireless radiation has been proven and you know this to be so Proven to be harmful and will increase cancer neurological disease immune system disorders And damage fertility near these 5g transmitters google 5g science appeals the source Science studies have shown for decades that radio frequency radiation Has sub thermal biological effects below our current FCC guidelines Google naval medical research institute of 1972 The 1996 telecommunications act section 704 has been used to ban local governments from Even considering your health and safety when placing these antennas Why would they Ban looking at health effects if there were no health effects We are allowing the industry control the FCC to microwave Poison our families children homes neighborhoods and it gives us sources here This is um And he says there is a new two-party system representatives who represent Corporate interests and those that represent the public interest He represents the public interest. This is kevin modus running for US senate That's what we need you to do as you represent the public interest Four more of these 4g sites the platform for 5g technology Were approved in this very room by your zoning administrator last friday One of them near the new library on live oak in the parking lot So that people can get more dangerous radiation and the children can be radiated The other by the kz association Represent the public well-being not the corporate harm. Thank you. Thank you Welcome back. Mr. Alexander Good morning. Uh, this is victoria solid zenders civil society activists Um, maryland. I just want to be able to say your outfit. Look really adorable Really like our outfit Um But I want to be able to share with members of the public real quick before pivot For our pivot into my public comment what it is to be a good Flag waving american and I know of my last appearance I wasn't at my best getting down here as a real struggle dealing with a ptsd Dilling with my soul struggles. I really don't like advocating for myself. That's what thrusts me in here trying to find community justice All right, I wear my glasses because I don't want I don't want to look like none of you guys I really don't I don't want to be a part of the establishment. I'm not quoting public admiration Nor am I looking for a handout that should tell you guys something members of the public, you know, because they're watching me You know, they're watching me because they want to hear the the the unscripted reality the soul struggle Right, I come in here because hey, I'm being abused by the whole system You know, and if we can't speak liberating truth to political power, what hope do we have for a better tomorrow? I want to remind members of the public because I don't believe in the left and right paradigm I don't even believe in voting there goes my flag but You know, I still want to give hope because there are good men and women that do run the system the elections coming up June 5th Local elections and I want to be able to weigh on the political issues I want to share people my social relationship with with some of the county board of supervisors I want to let the mexican and people of color to know that The supervisor a great capital is a great man I want you guys to vote him back into office. He's a great man. A lot of the activists here really enjoy him He's for the people Right, I know there's a lot of people out there that are contending for your seat I want to remind people that there's a provisional ballot If you're registered within the center cruise county and you can't make it down to the voting You can run in there real quick and do the provisional just ask some provisional They're not going to ask no questions no no no no idea and you're going to be able to vote But I'm here because I'm looking for community justice Right, we got the da's office right and we got the legal community just corrupt in our common life You know when I'm being mistreated and when they're trying to take me through two malicious prosecution Trying to consolidate the case Right the da they have no case in scott's valley. So they want to consolidate Here's sergeant fish Uh fish and then we got sergeant spark back here Right, here's her here's her body cam Right, they're showing her body cam And prosecutorial misconduct is three years three years in state prison. So this is what I'm going to be asking Now in this corpatory evidence here's sergeant fish He has a body cam The da's office in the sheriff department don't want to turn over that evidence and it I find it ironic That they had a shooting in which they shot the suspect three times coming from santa clara And now they want to make let members of the public release the video Why can't they do that for civil society activists that are good law-abiding citizens? Why can't they do that for me? Thank you. Is there anybody else? I'd like to address this in oral communications Seeing none will close oral communications. We'll go on to the first item of the regular agenda Which is item 55, which is to consider the 2018 2019 tax and revenue anticipation notes Not to exceed a total of 45 million dollars authorize the auditor to secure the note Adopt resolution authorizing the stale the 2018 19 tax and revenue anticipation notes approve the execution of a continuing disclosure Certificate approve the form of the official statement and official notices sale approve the distribution of a preliminary official statement and authorized necessary actions An execution of documents in connection with the issuance of the 18 19 tax and revenue anticipation notes is outlined And the memo of the auditor controller treasurer tax collector We had the board member of the resolution and the trans information and that's the shortest title. I'd just like to appreciate the Auditor controller treasurer tax collector for this item. Are you going to kick it off? I am there's risk. Okay. Good morning Good morning. Edith Driscoll auditor controller treasurer tax collector The item before you is the county's annual tax and revenue anticipation notes or tran In an amount not to exceed a total of 45 million dollars With your approval to go forward the notes are scheduled to be sold on june 13 2018 and will mature in less than a year These short term notes are issued by the county to address timing issues or lag time between cash disbursements Which occur evenly throughout the year? We pay our bills regularly And revenue receipts such as property taxes and state and federal reimbursements Which are received less regularly and later in the year creating a cash flow problem for the county Without the issuance of these notes the county would experience its most negative cash balance day In late october before the first property tax bills are due in november These notes provide cash flow during otherwise negative periods The county has issued annual tax and revenue anticipation notes tran for many years This year. We are recommending issuing 45 million in notes Last year the county issued 47.5 million and for many years prior to that we issued 50 million The county's cash position has improved over the recent years in part due to the county's increased cash reserves Resulting in less borrowing being needed Fiscal and economic presentations were recently made to both moody's and standard importers Rating agencies by the county finance team which includes staff from the otter controllers office The ceo's office along with susanne harrell the county's financial advisor The rating agencies should be issuing their rating shortly and we anticipate that they will be sp1 plus And meg negative one as we received last year These represent the highest short-term ratings available Working with our financial advisor the county has prepared the preliminary official statement and other required documents necessary for the sale These documents are included in today's board item for your approval The interest rate will be fixed upon the sale and payable at maturity. This will be a competitive sale document I ask that your board approve their recommended actions authorizing the otter controller to proceed with the necessary actions To issue the 2018-19 tran in an amount not to exceed 45 million dollars And that your board adopt the attached resolution authorizing the sale Approve the execution of a continuing disclosure certificate Approve the form of the official statement and official notice of sale Approve the distribution of the preliminary official statement and authorize necessary actions And execution of documents in connection with the issuance of the 2018-19 tran Thank you for your consideration of this item. I'm available if you have any questions Thank you mr. Are there any questions from board members before we open up to the community? Supervisor Leopold, thank you chair Thank you for the short presentation. Ms. Driscoll and thank you for the work of the staff You know the the work that the board has done To manage the budget has really helped improve our rating. This is a very necessary A borrowing that we have to do But to see that we have the high that we expect the highest ratings possible Means that those who assess Our fiscal health recognize that we're doing the best job we can What the money we have correct? And I just want to acknowledge the work that your staff does every day and help to make that happen It really makes a difference. Thank you. We appreciate that Thank you. Any other comments from board members? Okay, we'll open it up for the community as a member There's an opportunity for members of the community to address us on item 55 Thank you Thank you. Becky Steinbruner. Thank you for that report too. And I have a question. Is this being done because There is a gap. I remember in last year's it started off three years ago. We were like 12.8 million short And that amount has been reduced to I think eight million And last year's is that why we're having to to borrow So go ahead and ask your questions. Okay. Why are we having to borrow? Can you please answer that for the public? Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other questions or comments from the members of the community on this item? Shall I go ahead? No, I mean I felt like you actually answered this question in your presentation But if you want to restate it, that's fine. Sure. Um, think about it in simple terms of money in money out We don't get our money in as early as we need to send money out So it's simply a matter of that we need to pay our bills before property taxes come in Okay, miss gara Thank you for that lay person's explanation. I must say it's um, Very technical and over my head, but I do Um, and I also think we need to have evening meetings when you have public hearings as with the zoning administrator And people are at work at 9 a.m It's it's a mockery. So this kind of item needs to be on an evening agenda And I appreciate your You know financial skills and laying this out. I should certainly don't have them, but I Um, and it's made often to see the misappropriation of funds like for big developments taxpayer money going And then I've brought this up before where you look at the overall picture where all our tax dollars are going And I'm a homeowner. I pay plenty of taxes for the county to the county Over half of our dollars go to the military budget for wars present And pass and when over 50 percent is siphoned out We don't have what we need to provide for the benefits of the community and the quality of life We need to shift that kind of Priority and I know you're members of what is that county governments or different associations That represent county board of supervisors mayors This needs to be looked at seriously Of the priority of where the finances are going that we need to keep this money in the community So we can provide for the well-being of the community. Thank you Thank you. Is anybody else like to dress this should be specifically on The issuance of these notes. Sorry. I forgot my uh my prop But I just want to tell you thank you for that report. It was really uh really uplifting Also, I just want to be able to support uh, uh, mrs My my yeah, maryland, uh requests of you know, when you do the budget hearings Maybe do it at night Some members of the public can can come in and weigh in the hard work in americans that do pay for all this So mr. Alexander, let's let's actually keep it to the item. Okay. I just want our two budget hearing Input sessions at night one in watserville one in sand crews have done it for decades So let's just keep this item though. Okay So my my I do appreciate that in my is who have it right here in the county board supervisors. Thank you There is one. Okay. You just haven't attended them. Oh, okay. So is there anybody else who'd like to address us on item 55 See none will bring back to the board for action I move the recommended action and just want to say uh repeat uh, supervisor leopold's comments congratulations to The whole county team for putting us in a much better position Four or five years ago. We weren't in this position, but it's it's uh, it's going to be better for the people of of this county and The lower interest rates that we have to pay and so forth that it's worth the effort And I want to just thank everybody who's been involved, especially Well, I'll start with the auditor and you can have all the rest of the those departments that you oversee But thank you very much. We have a motion second So we have a motion from supervisor McPherson a second from supervisor leopold any additional comments? I'll just say Just one last thing, you know, the board has made a number of of fiscal decisions During the years of the great recession and thereafter Where we've worked hard to manage cost where we've worked to increase The our reserves that has yielded a better rating. It allows us to do which is this is a normal course of business For us to spend less money doing that normal course of business And so it's a reflection of our our our board our cao all of our departments and our auditor controller Thanks for doing the work. We have a motion and a second all those in favor I oppose that passes unanimously will now move on to item 40 pulled item 44, which is 55.1 Which is approved contract change order in the amount of 394,331 dollars 78 cents for the aptos village improvements phase one project Can take related actions as recommended by the interim director of public works. We have a board member of the contract Change owner and uh miss time runner You pulled this out. Thank you. And again, thank you for taking this item Now instead of at the end of the day. My employer really appreciates it you I am here because I want to protest this I am happy that the contaminated railroad bed soils were responsibly handled They were very toxic and had to be hauled to a Place over the hill that takes very toxic soils, but I want to protest that Part of this 394,331 dollars 21,495 dollars of it is going to pay john madonna construction company For training their workers in hazardous materials That's unnecessary because they are certified to handle hazardous materials Their website states it and I called their office. They've been certified to handle hazardous materials for 10 years So why are the county taxpayers? Having to pay them almost 22,000 to train their workers in something that they are already trained and certified to do I think this is a misuse of public money and I protested and asked that you do not Approve that amount. I also protest that they The county taxpayers are paying them over $3,000 because they had to relocate their staging area They were always staged over in the aptos village project. They were always there They didn't move anything except maybe they had to move their soils that they had taken over there Before county environmental health got into the picture and deemed them contaminated Maybe they had to do something there But that was not the fault of the taxpayers and they should not we should not be held accountable for paying for This project the phase one aptos village traffic improvements has cost taxpayers almost $2 million This county this project alone is 1.8 million dollars And very little of it if any coming from the aptos village project developers This project involved moving the bus stop for the developers to have parking and their gateway entrance to the development That's all And that was publicly stated by metro officials It was done to provide parking for the cafe sparrow people And to provide space For the gateway entry to what is proposed to be the parade street entrance from socal drive For the aptos village project. So I am protesting Certainly and ask you the the 21 $1,500 for training john madonna construction And hazardous materials that's unnecessary and I should I do not think we should pay it Nor do I think we should pay for them to relocate their staging Does anybody else like to address us on the change order? I want to Second everything becky said i'm a 30 let's see 37 year resident of aptos And I think I think one of you or all of you Should take these well researched Comments of becky steinbruner and put it into action Misappropriating public funds to suit the profits of a developer It's not What public officials should be doing? It's inappropriate. It's irresponsible and We're up to several million dollars here of taxpayer money for this I take the bus And I went right by there today on the 71 bus speaking to the bus driver And he said there have been stops that have been made Were they built stops that they don't use that haven't been implemented? But it's inappropriate For taxpayers to be paying to suit this development and it happens over and over again I'm beginning to think that the taxpayer money that we get towards develop for from developers Maybe that's a false paradigm I remember reading an article hidden costs of development That we are giving our money for the infrastructure of these and the bus driver the traffic It's just horrible. It was horrible before it's getting worse and it will get worse And I was late here today Because because of the traffic So I think I protest this I don't think this these funds should go for this and It's really What are you doing here? How are you representing the public? You know the passports of supervisors would listen to the public and actually Take some of the recommendations because they were so well researched here It's like We haven't even spoken and Becky Steinbruner is one of the most thorough Researchers analysts of where our money is going. She speaks in the public interest I want you to do that not in the interest of Barry Swenson and the developers. Thank you Thank you. Ms. Garrett. This is about the change order. Yeah. Yeah, I got it. You don't keep it to that actual subject I got it. I got it I just want to be able to say this Line 44 thanks to Becky Steinbruner's leadership. I want to be able to say this is very illuminating And the boondoga expenditures are not needed And remember this is a reflection of the county board supervisors, man The american public don't want all this the political scamming Honest day work for honest day pay man I worked all my life We don't want to be supporting scams. So I would say hey at some point in our humanity. We got to come out of right It works for all of us You know, well Becky Steinbruner is pointing out the political details Dude, it grieves I'm not coming down here struggling to come down here and just not participate. I don't know weigh in And we're gonna have to make political we're gonna have to make social accommodations that they're offering down below is real, man I'm telling you Okay, is there anybody else that'd like to address us on the change order? Uh scene then we'll bring it back to the board for action I move the recommended actions Emotion from supervisor leopold a second from supervisor. Coonerty all those in favor I opposed it passes Unanimously move on to item 55.2, which is pulled item 49. Ms. Steinbruner. This is the item adopt resolution Accepting an appropriating unanticipated revenue in the amount of 329 thousand dollars from the highway safety improvement program funds for the south county Striping project except the low bid Of chris company of fremont and the amount of 250 602 10 authorizing award of the contract and take Rock related actions. We have the memo the resolution the bidders list And actually your original comments that are attached to this item as well Thank you becky steinbruner Again, I want to protest the inclusion of portions of the trout gulch road Sections that have been destroyed by barry swinds and builder in their aptos village project work As they have cut into the road in multiple places They've damaged the road on trout gulch where the county is now going to use public money federal money To repair and with a striping grant and I've protested this before I've asked you to adjust the boundaries of this It's a it's a small area. It is I agree But it's the principle and if Part of this federal grant is used to repair work that a private developer has done And has done without an encroachment permit from county public works Again, I think that you need to look at a gift of public funds and abuse of public funds And what that might mean for the county for its reputation and for future funding According to the public works document The developer should be getting an encroachment permit and paying $10 And 72 cents a linear foot for work that they're doing and that would include the striping repair work But public works wants to do this work for barry swinds and builder because as mr. Wiesner has said and I'm not misquoting you I've been accused of that The county wants the work done properly So what does that say about the county's confidence in these developers to repair the work that they have The roads that they have damaged And all the more reason for these developers to be required to get an encroachment permit So again, I'm going to ask you to not To to amend the boundaries of this striping project to eliminate the portions of trout gulch road That barry swinds and builder has destroyed and should be responsible for repairing properly. Thank you Thank anybody else who'd like to address us on this contract On to urge you to take action on the recommendations of becky steinbruner On the inappropriate use of our public funds to repair what this Developer has damaged that should be His financial responsibility, you know, this reflects upon you And the public Doesn't have in large part much Sense that you are helping the public when they see this type of Siphoning off of public funds for a developer's profit that we're paying for And you are sitting there like oh, well, that's all right What It's no wonder That people are distrustful of government That's supposed to represent them Responsible supervisors, and I remember marty warmhound and jambus when they were on this board Would Look more carefully at things Stop projects reexamine This is really disturbing I would like to be represented as other members of the public Why are you giving our money to very sense and developer and joe apenrond For damage they've caused and this is just part of the damage I feel we hear this aptos village project. I call it an aptos village project The trees are gone toxic spills. It looks like silicon valley south the traffic is huge There's only Two ways to get in there. They used to be called those spots so small looks too bad passes or roads Ms. Garrett the striping project the striping project should not be approved That's all our money should not go for that. Thank you because this item is not about the aptos village project Irrespective of what all the commenters are speaking of this is a contract award for a south county striping project So mr. Alexander if you'd like to speak to this Proposal to accept the low bid for a south county striping project Yeah, yeah, I just want to be able to comment on becky stanburner's leadership that members of the public I just want to say members of the public need to pay heed She illuminates members of the public and she's speaking liberate you to political power people don't want these to be supporting scams So I would say hey, don't fund it. Thank you All right, is there anybody else I'd like to address us On the item see none move back to the board move approval Second we have a motion for the recommended actions from supervisor coonerty a second from supervisor leopold all those in favor I oppose It passes unanimously because we actually have a long closed session The board will just take a break right now until a 10 30 scheduled item Then we'll come back for the 10 30 scheduled item after the 10 30 scheduled item We'll go into closed session We'll make sure there's an opportunity for members of the community to address us at that time So the board will recess for 30 minutes until 10 30 Take my hand back Everybody would like to welcome everybody back to the board of supervisors meeting We have a very special 10 30 scheduled item Which is the presentation recognizing the emergency medical services week As outlined as a chair from our office and we'd like to Kick it off by inviting the health services services agency director newin up to make some introductory comments. Good morning Welcome director newin. Good morning. Thank you chairman and members of the board jane wind from the health services agency It's my honor to Be here before you today to celebrate the national emergency medical services week And for our county as you know emergency medical services Week is a nationally recognized opportunity for all of us to express our thanks For the rather clock heroism of our ems providers And our local resident bystanders Who stepped in to save the lives of those in need? Just wanted to share with you some very cool stat You I thought you would like to hear this Last year we treated about 155 people with cardiac arrest conditions Nationwide survival from this devastating disease was only 36 percent However in our county Our survival rate is almost 48 percent Which means that in our county you or your loved one is 33 percent more likely to walk out of the hospital Than you are elsewhere in the state or our country This success is due to the hard work and professionalism of our dispatchers our firefighters our paramedics our emt's nurses and doctors But there is another ingredient to the success In over half of our cases CPR was immediately started by by a family member co worker Or average citizen on the community 13 percent greater than the rest of the country This is important because we know that early CPR Is one of the most important predictors predictors for survival Each year free free of charge our current ambulance provider American medical response trains thousands of ordinary people in hands on Enhance only cpr today on the first floor in our building They are offering this training to anyone who so desires If anyone has a loved one who one day may suffer from cardiac arrest. I urge you to participate today So with that I wanted to thank Your board for taking the time to acknowledge our local heroes And um, also want to thank our staff from the health services agency. Dr. David Giladucci Who's our medical director for ems and our ems administrator branda brander and all of the staff and all of the members from emcc commission Who you appointed to that help us guide us through the years to help us with our emergency medical services system here in santa cruz county So with that I'd like to introduce branda brander who will lead our presentation this morning. Thank you Morning miss brander. Welcome Good morning. Thank you for having us This is the 12th year that the board has recognized ems week in our county And we would really like to thank you for your continued support of this. This is very important to the responders Historically, we honor only ems personnel as heroes of emergency incidents That would take place during the year this year. We're also honoring agencies of the ems mutual aid system This is the system that shares ems personnel with other counties during statewide disasters This year we're going to highlight two emergency incidents One was out of our county. It was the north bay fires up in the napa and sonoma area And the second one was a fire that took place inside our county in the response to that I am one of the county's local mohawk m h o a c And what that stands for is medical health operational area coordinator A mohawk is the county's 24 7 365 single point of contact to coordinate ems resources To mutual aid requests from other counties statewide A mohawk is also responsible for monitoring ensuring and procuring medical and health resources For both local emergencies and disasters as well as for other county's mutual aid requests In other words, if our county has a major disaster Then the mutual aid system is prepared to assist us with our emergency response personnel and equipment needs as well In the same way that we did uh in napa The north bay fire storm began on sunday october 8th 2017 With the diablo winds gusting up to 70 miles per hour fueling more than a dozen wildfires across multiple north bay counties In the early hours on monday morning of october the 9th just after midnight Statewide the mohawks. So all of the people like me and every county Received a flash alert from the regional disaster medical health coordinator about the major fires in the north bay We didn't know what was yet to come Three hours later just before three in the morning. I received another notice Requesting immediate ambulances to help evacuate 30 patients from a skilled nursing facility Quickly after another request came in for immediate ambulances Which was issued to help evacuate kaiser hospital in santa rosa, which is a very large hospital American medical response amr local ambulance provider Was able to send an advanced life support ambulance and crew And a supervisor unit up to um santa rosa to help out The calls for mutual aid kept coming in With requests for bed availability at skilled nursing facilities to help receive some of the evacuated patients The two amr units drove with lights and sirens all the way from santa crews to santa rosa Where they were surrounded by fire By the time they got up their amr was suddenly diverted from the kaiser hospital evacuation Over to sutter hospital in santa rosa another large hospital having to evacuate When amr arrived the sutter hospital sign was burning In the parking lots the grounds workers were attempting to put out small fires and inside the hospital was full of smoke Which is very difficult for very ill people to breathe The amr ambulance evacuated the last patient from this facility This was a burned patient who was critically injured as she narrowly escaped the fire on foot from her rural home In order to recognize the responders Could you please come up as your name is called? And supervisor leopold will you please recognize the first group? Thank you I'd like to invite the following responders to come to the front and you could be at the lectern from america america medical response greg benson bryan smith Courtney dimple and christ jones Any of them here today? All right, please come forward Greg is a paramedic supervisor and he was dispatched to santa rosa where he led an ambulance strike team bryan and courtney are paramedics who responded with an advanced life support ambulance to sutter santa rosa hospital To evacuate patients due to threatening fires and severe smoke in the building chris is an operation manager and we are presenting to chris today on behalf of amr A proclamation that recognizes american medical response of santa cruz county To greg bryan courtney and chris. We extend our thanks and recognition for your willingness to respond immediately To an unknown and dangerous situation and help people in need. Please join me in thanking them Don't all rush to the microphone at once Sure Thank you everyone for the recognition These are just a small sub-sample of what we do every day with all of our fire partners and law partners just to Work in the community and you know, we're a very integrated community or county with our responses to all emergency incidents and From the dispatchers down to The mechanics that work on all of our vehicles. Um, oh Thank you for the recognition Thank you. Thank you supervisor leopold And continuing on with this same fire Severe fire weather conditions continued through the night and ignited the hills by monday morning Governor brown had declared a state of emergency in five north bay counties By tuesday in napa county another large residential facility was under threat This was the yantville california veterans home with over 1000 residents A partial evacuation was ordered at that time Supervisor capet, could you please make the next presentations? Thank you. This is a wonderful opportunity to thank people that uh, our first responders and Uh, it's our way of showing that we are backing you up But you're the ones that are actually going out there. You're on the front line. So, thank you I'd like to invite the following responders to come to the front from central coast ambulance in watsonville jessica campa And venessa marinshaw jessica you're also Accepting a proclamation For your Ems partner who's unable to be here and that would be david slater And jessica david our emergency medical technicians and on tuesday october 10th 2017 they were deployed to the yantville veterans facility to assist with the partial evacuation They evacuated veterans for 12 straight hours venessa is general manager for central coast ambulance and we are presenting to venessa on behalf of your company Uh proclamation recognizing central coast ambulance To jessica david and venessa. Thank you for your willingness to immediately respond To this emergency and for helping evacuate our veterans to a safe location And these two you and uh i'm i'm curious. I just would like to ask you uh You did have to drive down from here to get up there and probably took what a couple hours to get to yantville And what did you see when you first got there? I just kind of described the scene that uh that you were That you were faced with when you got up there When we first arrived to the area it was um Extremely smoky you can see ash falling onto the windshield um, there was smoke coming from over the mountains and um, It was really hard to see uh far away, which normally would be on a clear day miles But yeah with the veterans you were dealing with all ages up there, I guess also and so How did how did you first respond and help with the evacuation? Um by the time that we were there to help evacuate we had dealt with several different patients whether they were in wheelchairs or had um The need to be completely laid flat or different needs for each person But they each came very uniquely and we dealt with each as according And lastly, what did you evacuate them to? We evacuated them to a church gym. There was red cross there and they had Many beds put out and so they accommodated the patients as needed and they helped kind of keep information separate per patient as well Yeah, thank you Thank you Thank you supervisor cappett Later that day the california governor increased the level of emergency at the yonville veterans facility and ordered a complete evacuation of the premises Which was multiple hundreds of folks By 5 30 p.m. Additional evacuations had begun in napa and sonoma counties In other facilities as well Santa Cruz county continued to receive additional mutual aid requests for ambulances that went on for days Every few hours Both boulder creek fire district and ben loman fire protection district responded to the request By sending a single basic life support ambulance staffed with volunteers to assist with the evacuations Upon their arrival personnel from boulder creek and ben loman fire protection districts Became part of a large ambulance strike team, which was in place in napa county to help with all of the evacuations there Participating in an ambulance strike team was a new experience for everyone involved Supervisor mcpherson, will you please make the next presentation? Thank you Proudly so i'd like to invite the following six responders to come front come up front From the boulder creek Wow Is that a celebration? Is that in recognition of you or what? But uh From boulder creek fire protection district. I'd like to invite up to the front josh clark Ben slaughter And fire chief kevin mclish who incidentally was named sentiments of alleys man of the year last year The ben loman fire protection district matt boynton This is a legend. I mean, this is I think he's third generation up in the valley fighting Or responding to people who are in great need. So congratulations Xavier cheviz And fire chief stacey brownlee who incidentally Performed as you may have seen two phenomenal Rescues in the waters along with her colleagues from the ben loman fire department a couple years ago Josh and ben are volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians with the boulder creek fire protection district Over the course of four days josh and ben assisted with the the evacuation of hundreds of residents from the yontville california veterans facility After assisting with evacuations for four days They were then deployed to the queen of the valley hospital in napa to triage and transport additional patients to skilled nursing We'd also like to recognize chief mclish for his leadership with a proclamation for the boulder creek fire protection district Xavier and matt are volunteer firefighters and emt's from ben loman fire protection district Over five days Xavier and matt participated in ambulance strike teams evacuating yontville residents We'd also like to recognize chief brownlee who i don't think is here today for her leadership with a proclamation for the ben loman fire district To josh ben and kevin on behalf of boulder creek fire protection district and matt Xavier and stacey on behalf of the ben loman fire district. We thank you for immediately responding To a dangerous and difficult situation You are the people that nobody really wants to see but boy, they're sure glad when you arrive So thank you very much and i'll come down and give you some proclamation Well on behalf of all of us, I think we're just lucky and blessed to have the opportunity to go and help and do our part A few words, um Thank you for recognizing us for doing that and also for my family for the generations of service and As Xavier put it we were just happy to be able to go up and help Moments notice bill just kind of pick up and go Just really quick. Uh, we weren't able to go up and actually help to fight the fires out there at the fire engine so for us to be able to You know help a community out that really needed what we could provide was An honor for us. So uh for you guys tremendous work I know you guys uh worked night and day Not a lot of sleep Not a lot of food hitting the quick stops and everything for whatever you could find But just for you guys great work. That's all I have. Thank you Thank you supervisor McPherson Well smoke from the north bay fires created unprecedented levels of unhealthy air as we even experienced down here Officials issued air quality warnings To the entire bay area and noted that masks may not be effective and advise residents to stay indoors Santa Cruz county was now receiving additional mutual aid requests for respiratory medications and therapies to be sent to the north bay Area to help with the patients up there who will being affected by the air quality Santa Cruz county has an active coalition for health and medical preparedness Called champs Made up of a lot of our community medical partners who all come together to help out in times of disaster and need Both inside our county as well as in this case outside of our county We notified champs with the requests for the needed medical supplies for respiratory treatments An alert was sent out via the california health alert network Which is an emergency notification system used locally and by the state for medical and health emergencies for those medical supplies Um a robust supply was procured of respiratory treatment medications and supplies And then deployed to the north bay area Supervisor coonerty Will you please make the next presentations? Sure So I'd like to invite the following people to come forward from hearts and hands post-acute care and rehab Donna honnehy From Santa Cruz post-acute rusty griner Sabrina Castro and oscar bueno And from the county health services agency homeless persons health project jody crudigini Donna represent anyone here anyone you all want to come forward There we go Took a little work. Yeah Um, so donna represents hearts and hands post-acute care and rehab who donated a thousand nebulizers and Abatrol treatments rusty supreme and oscar represent santa cruz post-acute who donated seven new Nebulizers with medications and other respiratory treatments Joey is the health services health center manager of the homeless persons health project And he secured medical supplies and machines from hsa clinics and transported them to santa rosa on his day off to donna Rusty sabrina and oscar. Thank you for your generous donation of medical supplies and respiratory medic medications to the patients who needed them And to joey hsa clinics And hsa hsa hphp project. Thank you for your outstanding support in a time of need Let me come up Okay Well, it just shows that every little bit helps Here we are here rusty. Thank you. There you are. Sorry. I'm late So I don't know what I just missed. I'm sorry something came up in the building. Um, it was an emergency, but it's resolved now um But I believe this is in regards to this is a fire evacuation. So yeah Just thrilled to help out in any way possible. I mean our main purpose. I think if we're We're leaving the most amount of pain We're going to be the most successful in the community and anything we can do to relieve pain Whether it's in our facility or out in the community. Um, I think it will Benefit everyone and that's what we're committed to doing at santa cruz post-acute. So thank you so much Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Supervisor community The north bay fires continued for weeks and were not fully contained until october 31st In total two major hospitals were evacuated as well as seven skilled nursing facilities The sonoma developmental center and the yawnsville veterans facility Excuse me over a three week period. There were 15 ambulance strike teams deployed That involved a total of 97 ambulances and 334 ems personnel from all over the state This large fire had turned into a very large medical response as well Meanwhile in santa cruz. We were busy responding to a hepatitis a outbreak When the bear fire erupted near boulder creek On october 17th at 145 in the morning one week after the north bay fire storm started A 10 acre fire began in the santa cruz mountains requiring evacuation of residents During the effort to put out the fire a cal fire fighter tumbled 50 feet down a steep ravine And as his crewmates rescued him they also fell down the canyon as the trail continued to erode One of the firefighters was seriously injured when his fall was suddenly stopped by a large boulder He broke many bones from the fall including his nose and jaw The hillside continued to erode with debris and boulders continuing to fall on to all of the rescuers An amr supervisor arrived at the scene where he grabbed a backboard and descended to assist with the injured A firefighter from boulder creek fire protection district also descended with additional rescue supplies They reached the injured firefighter and strapped him to a board He had to be carried across a moving creek to an opening where he could be safely evacuated Uh At the top of the ravine coordinated efforts with the santa cruz county cal fire Led by felton fire protection district Were being taken to bring the injured and the remaining responders up the cliff with a rope rescue system. It was quite a Quite a harrowing situation An amr ambulance was waiting to accept the patient and transport him to a helicopter rendezvous site A life flight helicopter then transported the patient to a trauma center While this rescue was occurring The fire illuminated the light sky and was raging toward them And I did hear stories that the fire was actually surrounding them where they were at By five a.m. The fire had burned a hundred acres And the santa cruz county emergency operation center was activated along with two general population shelters For people displaced by the fiery evacuations in all Five firefighters in uh were injured in the fall or by the falling rocks The entire team worked together to be sure everyone got to safety The ambulance and helicopter crews took great care of everyone who was injured And despite the massive response to assist the north bay fires our own region was ready to respond locally Chair friend will you please make this final presentation? Thank you We do remember this remarkable story and I'd like to invite the following responders up to the front from santa claire Cal fire andy goodson eric long richard murray and brandon neal from amr Greg benson tyler broom and scott cambell from boulder creek fire protection district ben slaughter If you wouldn't mind coming back up for us from the felton fire protection district robert gray from santa cruz county cal fire Tim fox josh roman and austin rug and from stanford lifelike emily auto becky jackson and david white I think you all fit So eric richard brandon and andy are with santa claire cal fire and they were firefighters Turned ravine rescuers on this mission while responding to the barefire They risked their own lives to save one of their own in a very dangerous conditions Greg a paramedic supervisor with amr carried a backboard down a ravine into a creek to locate the injured firefighter While tyler and scott paramedics with amr operated the ambulance ben a volunteer firefighter from boulder creek fire Was another rescuer at the ravine where he risked his life to save the life of another firefighter in very dangerous conditions division chief gray from felton fire supervised the rope evacuation captain fox from santa cruz county fire Cal fire along with firefighters john and austin assisted with the rope evacuation of the injured firefighter emily and becky who are flight nurses with stanford lifelike and always deal with very difficult situations every day Cared for the patient while pilot david white flew the helicopter And if it weren't for the outstanding teamwork performed by all the rescuers that you see here today A firefighter may have lost his life Thank you for your willingness to risk your lives for the help of others and thank you for your service to our county It's a remarkable story Good to see you again, ma'am. I'll say something, please So I was the one that was uh Back away to be a helicopter. So, um, now I get to see everybody's face I really just appreciate everything you guys have done for me all my fire family You know, you hear a lot about uh, like the brotherhood and the sisterhood of the first responder community And when something like this happens, it's just really awesome to see everybody just come together and help each other And you know, it's it's obviously you're very stressful and uh, and a hard thing to Deal with but I just want to say thank you to everyone involved really means a lot to me and I'm really really honored and looking forward to hopefully getting back to work here in the next month or so So, thank you all Anybody else like to share some words about this incident? Thank you. It's remarkable coordination Yes, it was um in this type of incident, you know, usually there's a lot of coordination and stuff going on This was probably one of the most Streamlined rescues. I've ever been a part of Everybody knew what their job was and just went to work. There was Very little leadership that needed to be bestowed upon these folks. They pretty much did it for me So, um, I'd like to thank everybody who was part of this For doing just such a great job and Making me proud to be in charge of Is a great group of people. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you supervisor friend By working together and providing and receiving mutual aid response. We help each other overcome catastrophic events As a local mohawk, I am confident that we as a county can count on our mutual aid partnering agencies and neighboring counties To help us should we ever need assistance following a devastating fire earthquake Or other emergency or disaster I would also like to recognize the Life-saving skills of all of the responders the firefighters who do what they do As well as the paramedics and EMTs on the ambulances for Risking their lives to help take care of all of us in just the way that they did on that last call The emergency medical care commission and the county emergency medical services program Would like to thank the board of supervisors for your participation in EMS week The dedication and effort of these people and their peers in the EMS community Is something we truly value and we really recognize and appreciate your help with that We have a small reception in the hallway outside of your chambers and invite everyone to join us And this concludes the EMS celebration week for 2018. Thank you very much I can invite everybody to out into the hallway for the reception the you know the board each year We do these events and they are just remarkable stories and also the amount of humility that All of you in public safety have you always say the same thing You're just doing your job But you're by doing your job you're saving people's lives and just think about the parents the kids The friends the neighbors that wouldn't be here if it weren't for what you did every single day And you give people extra day of memories extra lifetime of memories because of your service every single day So I do appreciate the board appreciates all of your service. It means a lot So the board will recess for 15 minutes to join then we'll come back in For a closed session before we go into closed session. Will there be anything reportable? No Is there anybody from the community that'd like to address us on closed session before we recess for 15 minutes and go into closed session All right, seeing none the board will recess for 15 minutes and then enter into closed session To call back into session the board of supervisors and we're going to do our 130 scheduled item which is item 57 which is a public hearing to consider application 171 179 a proposal to amend the general plan land use designation and zoning from community commercial C2 to service commercial c4 and construct An automobile dealership with service facility including consideration of adoption of a mitigation monitoring and reporting program and a statement of overriding Considerations and certification of a final EIR is recommended by the planning commission We have a number of attachments including the board memo the resolution the rezoning ordinance the conditions of Approval of the mitigation monitoring and reporting program the planning commission resolution Planning commission minutes the planning commission staff report the transport vehicle turning radius and a number of comments and correspondence And just note that we have received all of your correspondence that we've Been written to over this over the last quite some time So we have received all that a number of them are actually here attached To the agenda and we'll start with a planning department staff presentation. Good afternoon. Welcome afternoon Nate McBeth planning department The planning commission held a public hearing on april 25th 2018 and after consideration of all the information unanimously voted to recommend the board of supervisors approve application 171 179 all findings can be made To the to approve the proposal The general plan amendment and rezoning is appropriate due to the location of the project site and surrounding development The project as condition will reduce potential environmental impacts to the greatest extent feasible Environmental review has been required per the requirements of the california environmental quality act attached to the staff report our details extensive information regarding the analysis of the project As noted the project would result in significant and unavoidable traffic impacts to both highway one and temporal impacts at the intersection of Soquel drive and robertson street these impacts require the board to Make findings of fact and a statement of overriding consideration which would evaluate the benefits of the project Against the identified significant environmental impacts Findings of fact and statement of overriding considerations in your packet the position of the planning commission Was that the traffic congestion on soquel drive In the vicinity of the project is not acceptable and should be addressed by the county as soon as possible The commission's motion included a strong recommendation to your board That the signalization of the intersection of soquel drive and robertson should be completed within three years Of the auto dealership becoming operational rather than five years It's recommended that it's recommendation of staff that your board acknowledged the planning commission's recommendation by directing The department of public works to prioritize installation of the soquel drive and robertson street and pursue funding For installation of the signal to ensure this short-term temporal and unavoidable significant traffic impacts are minimized I'd like to run through a series of slides that kind of give you context of the proposed development This is an intersection of soquel drive and 41st avenues the project site highlighted in blue The one parcel here is not included in the proposed development The corner here is currently developed with king's paint and paper and an automated car wash or A self-serve car wash if you will and a number of single family homes This is a corner looking across the street back at the project site king's paint paper And the car wash here Running up soquel drive away from 41st avenue. This is the Again the car wash These are the homes that were proposed for demolition but since been abated as a public nuisance This is south of the project site as an automated car wash Looking across 41st avenue from the project site. We have redwood shopping center on the frontage here. We have starbucks coffee subway and pan express Inside the shopping center. We have safeway also a safeway gas station Best buy and home depot Looking across soquel drive from the project site is ocean honda This is a proposed general plan designation amendment Uh converting the project site I led here as uh to from community commercial to service commercial existing zoning changing to service commercial and the surrounding zone districts The site improvements include demolition of existing structures approximately 14 000 square feet and to construct a 12 000 square foot dealership 10 000 square foot service facility up here in the West northwest portion of the property. There's removal of approximately eight trees and planting of approximately 50 trees Both on the interior of the site and around the the periphery of the site Be a total of parking for uh 129 cars that includes customer parking service vehicles employees as well as their inventory There's an elevation drawing showing what the site will look like We have here Main building This is uh 41st avenue. That's what it was seen from 41st avenue And this is the elevation drawing of the service base. This elevation here is seen from uh soquel drive There's as part of the project. There's a um There's a sign exception being requested. That's to increase the number of allowed signs there's Several monument signs as well as the total number of total square footage of the signage exceeds 50 square feet, which is required or which is allowed by code It's pretty typical that large developments large sites corner sites Development that's set back sufficiently Set back from the from the road Apply for a sign exception Similar sign exceptions have been applied for and granted in the in the vicinity includes ocean honda And redwood shopping center. This is a view of soquel drive. This is existing shot again And uh proposed Rendering of the site off-site improvements would include Sidewalks and landscaping along the project frontage Sidewalks extending west of the project site and south of the project site There would be a dedicated right turn lane on soquel drive onto 41st avenue Uh right turn lane on at soquel and porter street. This is uh away from the project site slightly This would be a um only during certain times of the times of the day Otherwise it'd be utilized as a loading zone and be funding For the signalization of the soquel Soquel drive and robertson intersection This is a kind of a bird's eye view of the project site in context of the surrounding development Right turn lane here is proposed There there's a deviation from the uh from the approved plan line And that's what the road roadway roadside exception is required for Essentially it's extending the right turn pocket Succeeding the requirement. It was like by another 100 190 feet or so. So it'd be the whole length of the site Additionally when the plan line was approved King's paint was expected to stay And so the plan line would basically It required the implementation of the right turn lane, but there would be you know sidewalk Curb gutter sidewalk going out and around king's paint In this case with king's paint going away, uh the The curb gutter sidewalk can be right in line with the rest of the right of way If there are no wouldn't bolt out right here This is a lookout where the traffic improvements would occur. So again, right turn lane here at the project site That might be kind of hard to see This is the intersection of robertson And then down here is the highlighted. This is the intersection of porter and soquel Again, that kind of summarizes it. So porter and soquel. Uh, we're going to do right turn striping the peak p.m Soquel and robertson will include And a statement of override is required for the added trips to highway one, which there is no mitigation identified I received some public comment since the Since the planning commission hearing and specifically as it relates to turning movements of Transport vehicles. This is a diagram provided by the applicant It demonstrates that a 65 foot automobile transport vehicle is able to Navigate that entrance to the site Essentially, they would come down soquel drive I actually have another This is that turn here. So this is a 65 foot vehicle coming down soquel drive making a right turn onto 41st avenue Oh and go back and then And then into the project site The loading unloading would occur in this location leaving sufficient clearance for vehicles to continue to use that entrance So in consideration of all the material that's been submitted Staff feels that the project is consistent with all applicable codes and policies including the zoning ordinance and general plan And therefore recommends that your board adopt the attached resolution Adopting mitigation monitoring and reporting program statement of overriding consideration And certify the final environmental impact report per the requirements of california environmental quality act And approve the general plan land use designation amendment the project site from community commercial to service commercial And a zone district amendment for the project site And approve commercial development permit under application 171 179 with the attached findings and conditions. I'm happy to answer any questions Thank you, mr. McBeth are there questions from board members before we open up the public hearing Supervisor Leopold Thank you chair Thanks for the presentation. I had some questions though that I wanted to ask On the there's a last slide before this which you went through pretty quickly I wonder if you could explain again the question about the trucks and being able to get in there There are a number of Emails and concerns raised by a constituent about whether a transport truck would actually be able to get in there effectively I understand that we have That you're recommending that they only be allowed to do it inside The the facility But could you just explain a little bit about this picture and what it's telling us about The ability to be able to make this this turns or this entryway? Yeah, sure It's my understanding that this model represents the the the turning movements the various where the wheels would be So to speak so in this diagram It shows the vehicle having to swing rather wide But able to navigate this corner with sufficient clearance between the various curves both here on the corner and There there may actually need to be a slight realignment here, but the vehicle will will make that turn and then Yeah, and then as it enters the site here It's tight, but it does make the clearance It just shows the various, you know, how the wheels meander as its various turning movements And then yeah and parking here. Yeah, and as you mentioned a condition of approval requires that they The transport vehicles would only be allowed to Load and unload on the project site It was as you said some concern about the use of soquel drive and and we're prepared to recommend that they're only allowed to yeah, and I and I know because I've checked I mean previous to this application I didn't really get complaints about unloading of vehicles from the Honda dealership, which I understand I know happens now, but we don't have any Permitting or encroachment requirements for people who want to do that. Is that is that accurate? In terms of well, I mean so the Honda dealership across the street For instance offloads some of their cars in the in the center lane But we don't have any There's nothing in our code that says you have to get an encroachment permit. Is that correct? Not that I'm aware of And for this if if the if we're inaccurate about them getting to be able to transport truck and Since the permit requires that what happens if if they would have to make changes to their physical layout if this didn't work because the permit requires that they That they would have to do it on site. That's correct. Okay The I wanted to ask a couple questions About the traffic study There was a concerns raised to me about What the definition was that we used To figure out the counts And I'm wondering if you could explain the difference between the categories that that were Considered and why we chose the one that we did in order to make the traffic counts right there was some correspondence from the applicant the traffic engineer and Basically clarifying that it was a discussion we had at the planning commission hearing Some concerns raised, but yeah, essentially the use code that was used was for auto sales And it's for auto sales dealerships Typically located on large arterial arterial streets and characterized by a bunch of commercial developments surrounding automobile services Parts sales substantially used car, you know used cars are also allowed And so that was the category that they selected There were a couple other ones which would be auto care centers. It would be like It'd be maybe like a like a quickie lube where they're just processing vehicles one after another And automobile parks and service centers. So that would be like maybe a smog check place that also does transmissions and Basically a series of auto related So the the category that that was chosen automobile sales Um, it says auto services and parts sales, but that also includes the maintenance or it doesn't include the it does include the maintenance And that's that's common. It's we don't have to add these two Sections together to get the traffic. No the To me one of the big issues here is is going to be the impacts on traffic And the the staff report talks that that there there is a solution in terms of a light Um, and there's a question whether you whether it's acceptable to have five years or something else um But there but even if we had a perfect solution for um The lighting Um, we would still have a statement of overriding consideration because of the highway That's relatively new. Could you explain why we have that and where we will see that again? Um Kathy Malloy planning director as you know, uh regional transportation commission and cal transit etc continue to work on trying to identify highway one improvement project and Identify funding to implement the project through its course But in the meantime before we have such an identified program program, which would be a programmatic mitigation measure There there is nothing a mitigation measure that we can point to so Particularly when you have projects that are controversial Then where you want to dot every i and cross every t You Do an environmental impact report which basically says You know the standard is any trip added to during a peak hour, you know, isn't going to be mitigable And so we're making a finding we're providing that information and making a finding Recommending and making a finding of statement of override in the future We hope not to have to Take projects through this course and there are two potential opportunities that will Allow for that the ambag and RTC Are will be considering an eir very soon on the regional sustainable community strategy multiple transportation plan and that document has Included information about the lack of mitigation for highway one And so when that eir is certified and actions flowing from that eir will also need a statement of override Additionally when we do the sustainable santa cruz general plan update We will be doing a master environmental impact report And that same type of information and mitigation strategy and statement of override will be Will be part of that package Obviously in the ensuing time, you know, if there is mitigation program identified then you know Maybe that won't be necessary, but Sitting here today. It doesn't look like we're going to come up with a A project and a funding strategy that's going to enable level of service d on highway one, so it's Well, someone who is very involved the last funding strategy for the regional transportation commission I know that that's that's not a deep will Beyond what was already funded But whatever Whether we chose this project A mixed use project as a commercial project or even the alternative site That was you would still have a statement of overriding consideration because of that Correct The There was also some concern that We're we're doing this project without taking into consideration the other sustainable santa cruz county pieces I know that i've been a bit advocate for Getting the eir done on our sustainable santa cruz county. What will that eir be taking a look at? The In regards to the the the corridor that we're that we're talking about here I know there's a lot of different pieces to it There's a lot of different pieces to it, you know with respect to this corridor on the upper 41st avenue In particular it was a focus area and Some of its policy ideas really were were more oriented toward The adjacent properties where all the lumber storages and lorenzo lumber storage as a very large piece of property Also pro build more at the corner of highway one Very large piece of property, you know lumber storage and so That those two sites and and additional properties more in the interior of the upper 41st focus area Have a lot of vacant and underutilized land and the the policy land use policies that have been that were discussed in sustainable santa cruz was that that perhaps could become more of an employment center And so we talked about the concept of a workplace flex where it wouldn't just be you know industrial or heavy commercial or office But it would be a workplace flex where you could do Almost like the sash milk where you have All kinds of workspaces going on some light assembly some office You can also have cafes and dry cleaner there so that workers don't have to get in their cars and drive away to services So that was the policy idea That was really the central part of the upper 41st avenue frankly this particular site along the frontage of Um 41st avenue Wasn't given a whole lot of attention. It was it was general commercial and c2 and And it was just sort of contemplated to remain the same The focus was on the more the interior of the area And and that'll look at the all the cumulative impacts of all those different changes Yes, that'll be what the eir addresses is It'll we'll be taking the the 2040 population and employment forecasts and just as the you know The rtc and baggy ir is doing right now We'll be we'll be echoing that if you will and and showing where population employment growth to 2040 Where we think that is likely to land and we'll make certain land use development assumptions and we'll run you know, we'll do traffic modeling and of Key intersections and highway one and we'll be looking for mitigations if if possible, you know to identify Improvement projects that might help and that'll all happen with the master eir. Yeah And the the last thing and i'm i'm not sure this is a question that we can answer right now But the the issue of the light, you know, it seems to me that whatever Um an individual's choice is for what happens on this property that the that adding a light at robertson Is a way in which you can alleviate the impact That's going to occur there or with any other development along the corridor Why is five years not three years I think initially the eir, you know, we we sort of put out that time frame as Kind of echoing what impact fee law says is that when you take impact fees You're kind of supposed to have spend them within five years And so, you know that seemed like that was a reasonable time frame Also, because the current capital improvement program of the county Does not identify and commit funding to that project and so You know it would Need to be considered by your board and you know some different priorities established and so that was thought that it was probably going to take a little bit of time Um, but yes because that that improvement has not been there's design And and all of that so those processes just take time I know the planning commission, you know was Very supportive of trying to minimize that time to the extent possible and talk with the public works department about that and And I think you know staff would certainly be receptive to your board's direction to do that and Prioritize it for for grants And any available funding it's it's a well positioned project to attract funding because Uh, the traffic conditions are so poor And it's highly heavily used and Very needed improvement that will that will make a difference. Yeah, the light seems critical I don't know how we do this without the would do anything there without the light So and that's all the questions I have. Thank you. There any supervisor cap it you bet I guess we're always looking at benefit versus burden every project has that And I'm looking at Well, you answered pretty much the three-year five-year But let's say all grant funding doesn't come through. I mean, that's always a possibility. We've seen it Then we're going to have to pay for it out of what the general fund and for the signalization of that area Well the the staff recommendation is that um The board in conjunction with this recommended action would basically impose a requirement on the county to Build the signal within five years. That's the staff recommendation The applicant would be required to pay their fair share of the contribution to the impact which We've redone the math because the the estimated cost of the traffic signal has increased um But in any event the applicant we require to pay his his fair share and the rest of the funding would need to be identified by the county And from the staff's perspective, we think that allowing for five years is is reasonable Even though we can try and make every effort to shorten that time frame Uh imposing a requirement ourselves for five years is what's recommended and the projected sales tax revenue that comes in is about what 200 000 a year or something like that I actually don't know that number. Okay Yes, we did some preliminary estimates and it's Um, it's really hard to predict but generally a good number. It would be about 200 000 a year So five times 200 000 is a million. Would that money be able to pay for then maybe the uh signal? I mean that will be a decision of your board going forward in in every as you adopt budgets and capital improvement programs Okay, and then of course uh environmental concerns. I always have our um, if we're looking at landscaping and all that and sidewalks and Parking of the vehicles. Is it permeable uh asphalt that they're going to put in where the water will be able to go through? That's correct. That's correct. Okay, and then what about uh more trees for landscaping? I know Soquel and that that whole area It's a beautiful area. I'd hate to see not not a I'd rather see more trees than not enough trees So can we increase the number of trees on the landscaping and that's more shade more carbon banking? Yeah, there's about 50 trees planted and the number of Increasing the number of trees made may be restricted by spacing of those trees. I mean 50 is not very much for 2.6 acres We could certainly look at that. That's a possibility. We could increase that Well that as a point of clarification. I think it is 50 new trees actually specifically correct. Yeah, yeah Yeah, but some trees will go down, right? They'd be required to maintain the trees in perpetuity So yeah, and then uh, our sidewalks and the turn turn lane are they included? How much is that going to cost in addition to the signal change? Um, those those are costs that will be Assumed by the applicant. Okay. Yeah and I'm curious A car dealership, where do they get get the gasoline for the cars? Did they have an on-site? Gas pumps there's no on-site storage of gasoline So they have to go to the gas station like all of us. I believe so perhaps the applicant would be Better yeah Okay, so that's traffic going back and forth to The gas station to fill up the cars or whatever Um, maybe the applicant could could maybe further explain How gas how the gas but yeah the trip generation for that would account any vehicle to or from originating at the site Or coming to the site. Yeah, I know when they sell a car. They always Well, my understanding they always fill it up for the customer when they drive off So they have to go somewhere to get that gasoline And uh, that's it. Thank you Are there any other questions for board members before we open up the public hearing? I believe we begin with the applicant. Is that correct from a structural standpoint? Right So we'd like to invite the applicant up Mr. Gopetti, how much time would you need for your presentation? Maybe 10 minutes. Maybe seven minutes All right. Let's let's make it seven. Okay. You got it. We want to show the people have an opportunity perfect I don't know whether my presentation really isn't very long Just some basics. We are family business. No has no bearing on land use, but we are We we look forward. We think we put a good project together along with along with staff There's been lots of changes from how I would like this project to have been if I was designing it without any restrictions But I understand that the need to the need to make those modifications I believe that also the the additional 1300 feet of sidewalk that extend beyond our project ADA sidewalks and curb and gutter that go past the lumber yard and and down to pass the cruise car wash and Down to the next intersection there on on on 40 41st is a is a significant improvement beyond just our project improvements You've done the math on the on some sales tax revenue the the employment we we believe will begin with 25 We currently have about 10 So we'll be doubling our staff and at some point in the first three to four years We should be bringing that staff up to 45 maybe 50 People that will be working within the dealership Vehicle deliveries is a big concern I have a letter from Nissan. I don't know whether it was input in your packet or not Again, I said that there it was okay. Good. All right I I just heard from from Kathy that they've recalculated the the mitigation fees that are that we're going to have to participate in for the stop light I'm assuming that that the $14,000 that I have my presentation has gone up, but I haven't heard the new number And I certainly understand that's a big concern across the board and and from what What what I've heard from staff what I've heard from our traffic engineers that this will this that mitigation will be a Significant improvement to that So I would like at this point in time to say whatever Kathy's got the fees calculated at for that project I'm willing to up that to $200,000 So that my contribution to that signalization is is a much larger portion of the Of the of the project versus probably the 28 or 30,000 that Is is our fee Dedicated right turn lane the new sidewalks if you guys know everything about the project I don't there's not a lot to talk about here other than I really think we'll be a good member of the community We we support kids causes and and less fortunate children And we we do a heck of a job of that and we plan on continuing that so your consideration is appreciated. Thank you Thank you. Thank you for only taking three minutes of that You wouldn't ask him about the trees. I think yes supervisor cap. I did have a brief question Well, our our guests would be at the at the car wash next door to us Without the the illustrations up on the screens Um, there's there's a couple of methods that can happen number one when we get a vehicle delivered to us Um, we have to take that vehicle out on a test drive after we made sure all the oil and everything's in And we could certainly fill the cars up with gas prior to delivery Which would which would take care of most of the situations Uh, the next thing that's possible I I I say possible from from a layman's the layman's stance Is that there is a there is a small easement that comes out of the car wash On the 40 for the people exit the car wash on on the 41st side it it it would be possible from from my position to potentially Create an opening on my property that leads into that easement so that we could go to and from the car wash without Entering on the any of the main streets From an efficiency standpoint that would make a lot of sense to me In place of having people get on the 41st get gas and then somehow work their way back around to us landscaping the trees the trees There's probably three times the trees that I would like but you know if more trees are are are necessary We can certainly take a look at it. They're they're there is a limited space. I know I know 2.6 acre sounds like a a lot But I don't know that I think we probably and I'm I'm making this statement. I had the answer at one point in time, but We have more trees. I believe on our site than what the the shopping center across the street Probably has on a on a on a per square foot bases. Yeah, maybe they they need to add more trees too though. They might yeah Maybe we get together and do an arbor project there or something sure And Any I didn't see in the report. I I should have looked closer a solar power or we're gonna have some of that Right now. There's no solar panel. There are two or three electric charging stations on the premises But no solar planned at all right at this point in time It doesn't mean it won't happen. It's just not planned right now Okay, and then it is permeable All all of the asphalt is permeable. Yes. Okay. Thank you You know the question is the applicant before we open up the public hearing Okay, seeing none can I get a sense of how many people are interested in speaking today? Just so I'm gonna make sure everybody has an opportunity to speak Okay So we're gonna have to keep the comments to two minutes to ensure that we actually can hear everybody's comments today So we're gonna open up the public hearing. Please feel free to line up just for efficiency standpoint And we want to make sure that everybody has an opportunity to be heard and all the voices are heard this time Good afternoon. Welcome. I appreciate you welcome. You're waiting. Yeah, good afternoon In a different life I wore a different outfit and I was a parole psychologist for state parole Just quite near where that area is and I can tell you that the best thing that ever happened to that area Is to have it all cleared out because we used to have a lot of our customers in parole Living in that area and you'll save money on your sheriff's calls as well. So I congratulate you guys for sort of private Regentrification of the area. The the other thing is is that You know I where I live There hasn't been a slurry seal put on the road for 25 years And I see you guys down here Just wasting money. All right, and we've got real needs in the county Other things to do besides the rassies guys. I mean they the the environmental impact report was crazy Whoop. Oh, you have time you have another minute. Okay. Yeah. I mean, it's like It's it cost him a fortune All right, it's amazing to me that anybody ever builds anything in Santa Cruz So it's no wonder that we run into structural deficit On the budget not if you harass people like this, it's impossible That's all I have to say. Do you mind providing your name for the records? Yeah, sure. My name is john hur I live on loma prieta way Thank you if you want a reference to the road that needs some help. Well both do but Thank you for taking the time Good afternoon. Welcome Hello, my name is catherine sweet I've lived in san and so kehl since 62 graduated from so kehl high in 64 So kehl has been a named place since 1833 It's changed a bit since then But it's where people live and work and play We raise our families and we send them to the local schools And we believe that our village and our hills have unique charms And give us a quality of life that we couldn't have anywhere else And i'm sure that each one of you other supervisors have people in your district that feel the same way about where they live As a small county our citizens enjoy unique access to local government In ways that those who live in larger places can't do I wish I had a dollar even a dime for every hour i've spent over the last 40 years going to meetings Working with local officials and joining with my neighbors to try to ensure that our community remains a safe healthy happy place to live Those goals have been seriously challenged in the last few years as the population has increased So kehl high is now the secondary freeway even though it was never designed for that And travels through small business areas and residential areas Sometimes and in some places it becomes either completely gridlocked Or a dangerous racetrack The sustainable plan gave us hope that there would be a clear path forward to deal with future challenges Regretfully all of that hard work and money that went into that plan was thrown away by a few people in this building starting sometime in 2015 It doesn't matter what their intentions are The bottom line is that they didn't care about our community or the current zoning or the sustainable plan And they intentionally tried to shut the public out of the process The 200 emails that we got from our freedom of information act request Can I finish my last very very very briefly, please If it had happened the way that The special favors that were done for this Applicant if it happened he would be having big balloons celebrating a memorial day sale on that thing right now Please honor the so kehl community and turn this back. Thank you And we have received your letter and your organization's letter as well just so we know My name is vivian fenner evans, and i'm a member of sustainable so kehl I would like the board to know that the public only became aware Of this applicant and the proposal for the nissan dealership in april of 2017 But according to the freedom of information act Filed and received by sustainable so kehl Over 200 emails were exchanged between 2016 and march 2018 That's two years of emails that were exchanged between the cao susan mariello Kathy previsich Nathan mcbeth the economic development department Which is Sorry i'm a little nervous andy constable and barbara mason The emails demonstrate that this was not business as usual a nissan dealership applying to change zoning And that the nissan applicant was given special favors and consideration I ask you what justifies changing the zoning to accommodate a car dealership How does the nissan dealership serve or benefit our community? I urge you to deny the request for a zoning change at this location of 41st avenue and so kehl Track location traffic congestion is horrific and defies all logic Why a car dealership would even be considered by you, but it also defies the 2014 General sustainable plan the general plan and the so kehl village plan Please please do not submit to an out-of-county entrepreneur whose only interest is monetary profit at the expense of so kehl Aptos and all sanikers residents Please do not subject us to an attitude that adulates a love of money as superior to a love of the environment The community and his residents Thank you Thank you if I could Just before you speak sir, if I could just request You're welcome to clap But just remember that we're trying to make it a welcome an environment for all viewpoints. And so I just in general if we could just Not be too noisy on that regard just so everybody feels welcome in this environment. Good afternoon. Well, good afternoon. Thank you My name is bob morgan. I also participate with Sustainable so kehl and I want to make a point before I begin that miss mulloy made a comment regarding c2 and c4 Zoning in that focus area The area adjacent to the redwood Small shopping center there and the haunted dealership was identified in the Sustainable plan to go from c4 to c2 So that focus area is actually de intensifying zoning Intensity there there. We are not we're moving Now with this request from the project applicant to rather intensify the zoning But the sustainable plan is clear. It is asking to de intensify the zoning I also want to mention that John leopold has very nicely written to all his constituents to ask for a better community for through engagement Any states that it is my belief that good policy and development are born out of a robust public process This is the result of that robust public process It is the sustainable plan and it is a visionary plan It is not simply a feasibility study. It has received Lottery comments from many organizations Many people in this community as well as the hard work of many constituents And I just want to share a couple of the Comments from the appendix g of the draft and this was the hard work that workshops put together And mentioned and I wanted to mention that letters From many organizations are included in this appendix One of the workshop comments was increase the density diversity to mixed use residential commercial office tech bio Etc get people out of the cars and onto their bikes use public transit There is nothing in this draft document which asks us to rezone for a parking Thank you. Thank you and a dealership. Thank you. May I give you this this appendix? I'm sure you can give it. Thank you Appreciate it Good afternoon. Welcome. Good afternoon. Michael st with campaign for sustainable transportation You you guys are all supervisors. I'd like to bring you back to also being rtc commissioners for a moment I have a document here travel travel patterns chapter three of the 2014 regional transportation plan And this was your study that everyone did there And basically bear with me what it talks about is the travel to work by the various cities In santa cruz county watsonville residents do carpooling primarily Much more than other cities the residents of santa cruz and capitol use a mixed A different transportation alternative City of santa cruz has the least number of drive-alone Trips likely due to land use that includes proximity of jobs to housing High bus use by ucs students extensive bicycle lane network and other transportation infrastructure that's in place The goal of the rtc is basically we want to reduce vehicle miles travel as well as greenhouse gas emissions Um scott's valley has the greatest number of residents working from home, but also the greatest drive-alone trips So basically this mode share data shows people's travel preferences are influenced by type of land use And transportation facilities that are available in their community The information as you said in the rtc study is valuable for assessing how the number of trips driving alone Could be reduced further in each of the cities Um, I don't think a car dealership is going to reduce any of our traffic I think it's going to increase it So I very carefully would ask you to give the 2.5 acre parcel on the corner of 41st And so kill And keep it the same zoning. Thank you Thank you. Good afternoon. Welcome You don't have to keep the long distance. There's not a it's not like a vortex right there. I promise No alligators or anything you can get closer Good afternoon. Welcome. Thank you for waiting. Good afternoon. I am Pam north from santa cruz And I'm here to make a citizen recommendation Know to spot zoning and car centric thinking And yes to the sustainable plan that you have unanimously adopted in 2014 And stated as well as that it was well done and forward thinking The citizens don't want this and isn't that who you serve. Thank you. Thank you Good afternoon. Welcome. Thank you. My name is Susan Cavallieri. I'm from santa cruz Car travel must be reduced if human life is to continue on earth Cars are a pipeline along our roads each full of gas Leading to continued exploitation of the land and drilling for fossil fuels Last week bill mckibben spoke At peace united church and according to him we have little time to address climate change As the planet heats feedback loops develop The melting tundra releases methane Ice at the poles melts and the heat is absorbed from the sun Housing is a crisis in santa cruz county We need to use imagination and we need to change the way we are living on this planet And I would hope that you Do not change the zoning. Thank you. Thank you Good afternoon My name is an steinloff. I live in sokel And I'm here to express my opposition to the nissan development Not only due to the traffic But rather because it provides so little to the community and myself Unless you happen to own a nissan. I have a Subaru So I don't understand why we're ignoring the sustainable plan. Everyone's spent so much time on I would urge everyone on the board to vote against this plan and the change in zoning Please ask mr. Gropetti To present an alternate plan with a community focus And then I have a question about the right turn on porter There's two lanes that go through porter one is a left turn So if you put a right turn lane in there that leaves only one lane to go through that huge that very busy intersection at peak times So we'll have a right turn we have a left turn and only one lane passing through the village So I think we should address that. Thank you. I've taken down that question at the end of the public hearing We'll work to address some of these questions. Thank you Good afternoon Lisa shared in for sustainable sokel Within 1,000 feet of this project there are over 1,000 residents in four mobile home parks They were not mentioned in the eir Palo Alto medical plans to expand a number of acres off sokel drive New housing projects are being proposed for the sokel corridor. These projects were not mentioned in the eir or the traffic study Auto transport trucks tow trucks parts trucks ups trucks and other trucks will be arriving to this auto mode of business Truck impacts were not mentioned in the eir or the traffic study The second paragraph of the sustainable plan states when housing employment and services are closer together The walkability of an area increases when needs can be met within the neighborhood car trips are shorter And some trips can be made without a car Without alternative shopping nearby residents will have no choice but to get in their car and travel It should not take 45 minutes to drive one or two miles for a loaf of bread or a doctor's appointment The applicant wants you to think the addition to sidewalks to this project is solving the problem, but any project would have this type of addition The applicant wants you to believe him when he says I will have transport trucks park on my property But these promises cannot be guaranteed when it comes to the independent trucking industry and the trucking unions and the driving liability There may not be a magic bullet to solve our traffic problems But we must at least make the incremental steps in our thinking and planning You voted for a sustainable plan which had the full support of the planning department the cao's office the planning commission And the local soquel community Let's see this project through It was how it was intended and not throughout the thousands of hours of good work and the thousands of dollars We have invested in good plan There is no evidence this plan This proposal to support findings that benefit or outweigh the negatives. Please keep the zoning community commercial. Thank you Thank you Good afternoon. Welcome. Excuse me. My name is larry lop. I come from the summit area So how do we see it? Well? We want you to build a big Healthy prosperous economy down here because frankly if you're not prosperous We're in big trouble. That's the first thing uh during the the last Road closure about we were told about 20 percent Of the economy suffered in soquel Due to the lack of our people coming down that road So we come down here because you have competitive products and services And if you don't the people will go Over to silicon valley. So that's the first thing the second thing is The traffic on this little section of soquel we've been talking about Has been bad. I've been up there for 42 years. It's never been good Uh school in the morning and school in the evening or in the afternoon or times. You just don't travel that road So I would love to see some good Synchronized stop lights to clean that that section of the road up It would make our travel in and out of the mountains better And I would point out that robertson is the absolute best way for us to get to the beach and surfing So Fix that one too. Thank you Thank you Good afternoon. Good afternoon My name is jane camp and I've lived in soquel since 1993 as a result. I hardly support The goals and efforts of sustainable soquel So called primitive cultures had elders who assumed responsibility for tending To the needs of their people and the environment Future generations dependent on their wisdom and foresight Today we have wizards equipped with clipboards calculators and computers Who creatively support developers proposals in their quest for wealth and empire automotive empire Accordingly our leaders with an eye on monetary rewards from these developments Work hand in hand with the applicant and county planning department staff For more than a year and crafting EIRs to promote in the community The assertion that the biggest objection to nissan's dealership Traffic impact can be mitigated by installing an unfunded traffic light is laughable, but not to the wizards The intersection at 41st avenue and soquel drive is presently gridlocked and adding a dedicated right turn lane Will simply speed up traffic to run into a stalled wall of cars on 41st avenue the way they do today Worse at the same intersection forcing dealership destined Northbound traffic on 41st avenue to make a u-turn at soquel drive as a recipe for road rage And lastly adding more traffic on already congested highway one with no possible mitigation is a clear sign for failure Our leaders ought to take to heart the maximum of old when making decisions that impact our community First do no harm. Thank you Thank you Good afternoon. Welcome. Thank you for waiting Good afternoon. My name is Tara. Call your young. I live in soquel and have been there since 1991 I'm curious that the community was not consulted regarding the rezoning from community commercial to business commercial. I find that very problematic The space clearing that has already been done is not justification for moving forward and I want to hold that up I haven't heard that spoken yet I think that sustainable soquel as we have worked on it for all these years Must be the first priority and the first lens that we look through as we proceed And as there is a lot of work that has been made in that space I would like to ask that the builder consider Doing work that is in relationship with sustainable soquel And that can address a lot of the conditions and concerns that have been brought up in this meeting today Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon Hello, my name is stick shyly. I've been in this area paying taxes since 1972 So I've seen a lot of changes as most of you have to I oppose this for several reasons. First of all, if you look at the deluge of numbers from this traffic report It says It's based the high the traffic data on highway one is based on the figures from 2012 It was in 2013 14 that the traffic really started gathering steam then backing up And if you've been there, you'll see how long it gets during the rush hours It's miles and miles of backed up cars So it's wrong data in the traffic report I'd like to point out that the large delivery trucks that are bringing autos and things Who will have to go all the way down to Dominican hospital travel two miles to get to this dealership When he turns right on the 41st He has to cut across the lane cut off the right hand lane in order to swing into his dealership Not a good deal not not good planning The dealership like this belongs in the outskirts of town not in the busiest intersection of the busiest street in the whole county 41st avenue is busy and here we are adding more An activity brings in more cars to it. That doesn't make sense. It's not good planning The planning department should know better I think that if you end up approving this thing, you are raping So Cal and you're raping the county Please don't rape us Thank you Thank you Good afternoon. Hi. I have one page hand out to just be a place Okay, can I hand it over here? Can we reset the clock? Yeah Thank you Greetings all board members and staff. My name is Anthony Solvera Also representing the north rodeo golds road traffic alliance I wish to address the conditions of approval specifically the county staff recommended approval of item five i As it relates to no dealer test driving on north rodeo golds road We thank the entire planning commission and staff for their support of our regards of same regards with their conditions and intentions Also, thank i want to thank nate Macbeth for all of his Helpful correspondence appreciate that The concern we have about it is could the fact that if the Nissan dealer later expands or emerges with another Auto maker like for example Kia or Acura To also sell and service those vehicles And if so is the now identified as Nissan dealership conforming to their conditional use Or a possible loophole by not using test drives on north rodeo golds road only for those Nissan vehicles But now It feels that they can use north rodeo golds road for a possible alternative auto maker like Kia or Acura vehicles later Not conditioned down This is precisely what we don't want to happen down the road in time Please refer to the list. I just hand it out to all members, please We have a quick list of auto dealers that can still come in the area that uh are still available Mazda kia jeep Acura Chevrolet Many auto dealers tried juggling with other auto brands to see if it works Just like ocean honda used to be ocean chevrolet and ocean honda Also, don grappetti does have a honda dealership and vice-seller Which shows me that he is certainly willing to consider expanding So to further implement our goal to maintain the prohibited use But a dealership to north rodeo golds road from the possibility of going beyond the just Nissan vehicle test drives stated allowance I ask that you please add this suggested line. Thank you to this text. Thank you. Thank you, and we have it right here Good afternoon. Thank you for waiting Good afternoon. My name is lis levy with sustainable so kehl Nissan is a multinational corporation that wants the corner of 41st avenue and so kehl drive So that they can compete with a honda dealership But the sustainable plan that you accepted in 2014 Specifically recommended that this important anchor location Have an office park development with pedestrian friendly retail shops on the first floor And nearby mixed-use development people would bike walk drive or take transit to their jobs And get lunch or do useful errands on foot from their offices It was visualized as a quote walkable and inviting urban environment End quote no car repair traffic no transport trucks. No out-of-region traffic and no new car test drives The so kehl community is asking you supervisors To be clear-eyed adults and preserve the vision you all signed off on in october 2014 To reimagine this corridor We know that planning staffers were under a lot of pressure from the applicant to speed up his project at a time when plans for actualizing The sustainable plan were supposed to occur They bent to his pressure writing draft and final eir's Tailored to his wants and needs. We think this is wrong We note that his backers have a petition of a little over 200 signatures But it only doesn't has a dozen people from so kehl I'm submitting petitions with 500 signatures From residents in so kehl and santa cruz county rejecting this zoning change As our representatives, we hope you will honor the wishes of the people who elected you And scrap this terrible program planned Dealership. Thank you very much. Thank you. You can hand it over there. Good afternoon and welcome Good afternoon chair supervisors. My name is robert singleton. I'm the executive director of the santa cruz county business council I'm here to speak in favor of this project. Um, I'll be quick. Just give you a couple reasons Currently, uh, this this parcel or series of parcels is an underutilized parcel of underdeveloped businesses and dilapidated buildings Um, surely the economic benefits we could get out of having some some uh, Tax sales tax revenue as well as a greater use of this building or this parcel would be Benefit over the status quo The applicant has bent over backwards in order to mitigate their potential impacts, which I believe are overstated in the traffic impact study Including increasing the length of the right hand traffic lane offering an additional impact fee monies right here What's interesting to me is that I think actually if you look at the Current commercial uses whether it be the paint store or the do-it-yourself car wash The car dealership will actually result in less overall car trips to the parcel And with the combination of the right hand turn lane surely that will actually improve the flow of traffic on the intersection Um, next I want to say the opponents in the same breath are saying they support the sustainable santa cruz county plan while complaining about the traffic But any intensive urban mixed-use housing development is surely going to add a lot more traffic than what would be a car dealership With less than a hundred car trips to it per day At the high end of estimation and then consolidating these these parcels lastly has inherent economic value for the future By having a bigger total parcel to work with in the future It opens up this potential area for a lot of greater uses In terms of larger housing developments in the future perhaps when automobiles are no longer the main mode of transportation Or other things that might happen But certainly having more parcels and more area to work with will be easier down the line to plan for something That the community would like in the future. So thank you. I hope that you will support this project Thank you Good afternoon. Welcome. Is there anybody else would like to address us after this? Come on join us. Thank you Excuse me. My name is glenn hannah. I'm a 40 year resident of the county In 2014 The you you gentlemen adopted the sustainable plan in fact five of the five four you are still here with the exception of Ryan the uh Your vote today is going to be a test of your credibility You promised by your Ascent to the plan that you had developed at great expense and with much involvement of the community A plan that you believed by your affirmative vote would serve the community well We believe that it was true. We participated. We supported you and now based on the number of uh shenanigans that apparently have been going on with relation to Paying attention to the plan you are about to uh overturn that That will affect your credibility and for that. I think you might want to pay some attention. Thank you for your time Thanks for waiting Good afternoon. I'm lute to osto. I'm a 40 year resident of santa cruse county I'm also a small business owner and I own commercial property downtown sokel village I love sokel. I've coached basketball baseball and soccer and all those kinds of fun things that we do with kids I'm a former trustee of sokel union elementary school districts head on the oversight committee We built three schools or rebuilt three schools in a community art center as well I was on the career college citizens oversight committee and corridor commission That came up with the plan and helped come up with that sustainable plan I feel that I am a layperson and I give an opinion here simply an opinion as a layperson I'm confident that this board has listened and has heard It's stakeholders as they have done in past proceedings I'm confident also that they will continue to take these things into consideration that have come to the board Not only have we been heard We have been listened to this has been an emotional project. I realized that residential mixed With no door breaking down for people wanting to develop Unfortunately, that's one of the things that we run into although we have mixed residential zoning Nobody's wanting to do it right now for various reasons high cost of construction bank difficulties projects Are not so good right now because of possible rent controls 40 years In the car business my father-in-law was I know car dealers to be honest And they communicate they communicate their needs well and they also give a lot to the community I believe that mr. Grappetti will also do that. This was a blighted area. It is no longer a blighted area Ocean Chevrolet One third of the size has had virtually no impact on my business and I believe that whole area as well I don't believe that this Project will hurt us. I believe it will hurt us help us I'm confident this board will consider all those that are involved in this and I hope that you vote according To the immediate needs of all the stakeholders. Thank you Good afternoon. Thank you for writing Good afternoon. My name is Austin Comstock and I represent Richard Novak who is an owner of a commercial Property on the north side of a robertson intersection Um The lack of Consistent planning on this traffic issue Has resulted in the potential for Um A driveway that is absolutely essential for the operation one of the businesses out of the Crawford's John Crawford will suffer if this So-called signalization goes in Because there is no plan to take care of it if you have this signal where where it's I understand it's proposed Crawford will have no way to get in or out of his business Now that's a that's a problem that might be addressed by somebody but nobody has done it so far And i'm here to talk about the flaw here and the lack of Interest in in this. I understood that it was communicated by Richard Novak Earlier on but this is an issue that Is a serious flaw in the thinking so far and you might give me a contact If you're going to go ahead with this project. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Comstock Good afternoon. Welcome. Good afternoon. Joe Jordan long time Santa Cruz resident and elder of sorts Maybe even a wise elder speaking of wisdom There are a whole lot of people around here other than yourselves who are also very intelligent well informed Smart and wise and they have done From what I can tell a lot of really good work on Remaining the problem that a couple of people refer to about okay that area is sort of blighted and underdeveloped now Well, the point is that there's this whole big plan a couple of them Maybe three of them if you include the general plan That say hey, we could develop this area in a much more enlightened intelligent, you know new age Santa Cruz style way And okay, so along comes somebody who waves a bunch of money at you and You seem to be willing to just well. I don't know. I mean I haven't I'm kind of late come around the history of this But don't please don't just throw away The benefit of all these folks is wisdom and hard work On on you know, okay one idea and actually speaking of which I mean there is this unified quarter Investment study coming out soon, right? I mean November. I heard recently. Maybe it'll come out sooner That's all about traffic including this quarter where this thing is. I haven't heard anybody else mention this But maybe at the very least we should wait and see what that study says. I don't know whether they I don't I doubt they're including the prospect of this new wrinkle in In the whole picture and if you my final fallback position if you are going to decide to do this Then make bloody well sure that they do or they are required at their own expense to put a lot of solar in there And put lighting in there. There's not going to screw up the already Impaired aesthetics and energy use and extreme over lighting of dealerships car dealerships everywhere and several places around this county That's an issue that has not been brought up. It's a huge impact on birds wildlife and humans So that's okay. Thanks so much for everything that you do. Bye Thank you Good afternoon. Welcome Thank you. Um, my name is Karen Gamel. I'm here as an individual. I lived in soquel for eight years I currently live in live oak. I'm here to tell you that whatever they say about the impacts you need to quantify I frequently go back to soquel It varying times of the day. It can take more than 30 minutes And until that situation is corrected I can't imagine why you would even consider uh A project of this size as they say Stop digging when you're in over your head the anchor site is The front edge of soquel which is beautiful and historical What you do there is going to have impacts for the next hundred years So rather than thinking about five years or three years think about a hundred years And as far as five years and three years How dare you ask the citizens of this county to bear the excruciating traffic That's already there. Please correct the situation. Mr. Gropetti I'm curious why he didn't purchase A already permitted lot That would have been much more amenable to his business. Thank you for your consideration Thank you Is there anybody else who'd like to address us after this next speaker? Okay, go ahead My name is Mary Flo Dean. Um, I know many of you. I've been here in Santa Cruz since 1976 teacher homeowner and political activist Um, and many of you I've worked on your campaigns and voted for you and I'm Utterly shocked and appalled at what you're proposing to do here that I can't believe I can't imagine why you would even be considering this. This is the 21st century And as uh, although they realized that there are many in the business community that have not done their homework and have no idea What we are facing coming into the future I think some of you have some some inkling of the climate change issues issues and consequences coming Some of you know that there is a huge body of work that has been done and is being done To make Santa Cruz sustainable and resilient as we go forward A car culture is absolutely unacceptable and inappropriate in this age. This is a 21st century We are moving away from personal automobiles. We do not want to become another san jose or another Car auto mall Attractant that is not us The fact that you would consider this can makes me think that you're sellouts I don't know why what the deal is But we know that throughout our country from the top white house on there's lots of lots of corruption I would hate to think that that's what's happening here, but I know that there's a lot of money in the car dealership scam So, uh, I would hope that you would reconsider Very seriously stop it. Don't even think of it. Don't go forward with this Automall. Thank you very much Thank you. Is there anybody else who'd like to address us? The scene then we'll now close the public hearing and bring it back to the board for deliberation There were some questions. I think yeah, there was a question that we had one specific question regarding the right The question regarding the right turn on the porter mr. McBeth. Did you have a Way you can address that. Yeah, sure. Um, the there are There are two lanes on the eastbound direction and the right turn pocket pocket will is basically um a parking space It's a loading zone that will be utilized in the peak pm as a like do not park here And then folks would be able to make a right turn not a not affecting the two eastbound lanes of soquel So there's no it won't be shutting off of eastbound lane. We'll just be creating a pocket Thank you, mr. McBeth. So bring it back to the board for uh consideration Supervisor Leopold, uh, thank you chair Um, I want to thank everyone who came out today to to speak the I've had a lot of conversations with a lot of constituents over the the last year On this project and so I have a pretty good sense where people stand um One of the things that I've said fairly consistently with this is um It's a it's a difficult Hobbesian choice here because half the people don't want the project because they believe it's going to generate more traffic And half the people want a more intensive development that um May not be exponentially greater, but it will be greater than than uh the proposed project So you can see that that's being put in across areas of something. You can't actually Make everyone happy In thinking about this Along the way You know, I tried to look first at the soquel village plan a plan created in In the early 90s to think about soquel village I looked at the the the borders of uh, of what was in the soquel village plan This project is not in it, but I did notice that over the years We have been able to accomplish much of what was in the soquel village plan With the last major pieces being the creation of the heart of soquel park And when we finish in maybe 18 months The trail that will connect the village with the main street area over by lions park We will have accomplished everything the the most major pieces of the soquel village plan And I was it was great to be out there just last week When we started this soquel family movie night series where we had about 85 people out watching a great movie And I look I encourage everyone to come out for that one when we do it again next month The other thing I took a look at was What happened with the honda dealership Because and when I thought about the the honda dealership being right across the street, I thought I don't remember this level of anxiety and fear being leveled at at that time So I went back and I pulled the information about the honda plan That too was a zone c2 and it was Re-zoned to c4 for a dealership that's about twice as large It That only had a mitigated negative declaration Although it also had riparian exceptions and it had concerns about birds and that didn't exist on this site And that was telling to me because the the the board then was As environmental as this board as my predecessor was as concerned as the about the environment and the impacts of soquel is As anyone and so I was trying to understand what Had gone on To understand that to to understand how that got Processed it was done at the at the end of the turn and was built at the beginning of my term um, I also started So I I think I've been very clear about with constituents is that there are really two issues It seems to me to be here. There's land use choice And there's the impact of traffic So whatever your choice of what should happen On the corner of 41st avenue and soquel it's going to have an impact on traffic Now the eir right we did a full eir that looked at an alternative analysis But the thing that they that became clear is a light at robertson's including with synchronization could have a Good impact on the flow of traffic And then I thought well the flow of traffic Is good for moving people, but what does that mean for pedestrian and bike safety? And so I talked to Traffic engineers bike experts to try to to think about that The light at robertson It has been something that hasn't always been something that people wanted in soquel Um, but as I say what whether you want a mixed use project or the car dealership You there's a there's a traffic issue and there is a limited number of tools that we have So a light at robertson Uh makes sense to me And then it came down to how do you how do you pay for a light the we got information that a light is A million dollars when it all said and done it's a lot of money Um, but the impact which we've heard described here today Um Is already extraordinary regardless of what we put on this site So Getting a light done Seems to be very important to me Um Then I try to look at the land use choice Um, I think about that area a lot. I am through that area a lot. I live less than a mile away Um And so i'm through there my kids went to soquel elementary we We we traversed that intersection on a daily basis for 10 years When my kids were at soquel elementary and uh, and I still go there, uh quite a bit And I looked around what was there, you know To me It seems like a regional shopping area It why is it a regional shopping area? Well, look it has a car dealership across the street. It has Uh, a major electronics retailer. It has the home depot. It has Uh, the safeway Um, I looked at the what was around this Existing site It's a car wash a lumberyard But I also looked at the other amenities that were around there, you know, there are Five restaurants Across one of the streets and two more down the street There are two coffee locations a juice bar or a gas station a nail salon a tanning salon. You can get your taxes done You can do your stocks. You can get your fish. Uh, there's a veterinarian for fish. There's a ups store There's a toy store And you can also work out and work on your weight It's a lot of things you could do when I see my, uh, my constituents from the, uh Um, from the summit area They would kill for half that amount of the things, uh, in their neighborhood Um, and for the people in the in the, um Mobile home parks that that have been discussed that is all accessible to them Very accessible to them and, uh, if they walk down the hill, of course, they're in the village of Soquel with the restaurants and shops that are there So If I look at it as a regional shopping area, it seems like a car dealership Fits in there And this area seems, uh, uh, like it is the commercial area Uh, of the county, um, it it's where we do most of our commercial activity as the county and so When I thought about, uh, the car dealership, I also realized that in two and a half acres There are very few things that we could put there in two and a half acres that would generate less traffic Then, um, then a car dealership I mean, I have had people last night at the supermarket. Someone said well, you could put a park in there True Probably would generate more traffic, but um, but that's not a realistic assumption Economic assumption to put together eight parcels and then have it as a very low intensity use In fact, someone suggested that we were increasing the intensity And you know a c2 use is actually a much Uh different and I could would say more intensive use Than a c4 a service commercial use Um, I do have concerns about the mitigations necessary to make this happen And I share the planning commission's unanimous concern about the light I'm glad to hear that mr. Grappetti is willing to contribute more But it obviously it's an expensive, uh, uh infrastructure investment And so, you know, I want to ask the county administrative officer if we Did a light not only could we afford it, but could we get it done? Sooner than five years. I mean, I think they they push very hard, uh unanimously to get it done in three And it seems to me that if we're going to do a project that's going to have an impact We need to put the mitigation in relatively close to when that impact will will be there and and I just kind of know that the resources are there to make that happen If what we're talking about is three years from Occupancy is I understand was the the recommendation from the planning commission. I think that That will be challenging, but if the board's direction is that that is what you want us to do We will find a way to do it Yeah, well, I I think that's really critical because I think that not only helps out people in soquel Helps people at that intersection helps people all along soquel drive Including in aptos the people, you know, we know Joe brought up the unified corridor study We are we are looking at our three main transportation corridors through this county Soquel drive is one of those transmission quarters. So is the highway. So is the rail corridor We're going to have a lot of discussion about that later on in the year I don't think we need to wait to make this any decisions about about About what gets developed there Because the level of detail that the unified quarter study They won't come down to figure out what light needs to be on what intersection It's really looking about how we can increase efficiencies Of the whole system I'm also concerned about Bicyclists As part of this Had some long talks with yonica straws from bike santa cruz county about the infrastructure necessary to be able to make that safe for Bicyclists and If we move forward, I would want staff to work with bike santa cruz county to come up with reasonable plans To ensure bicycle safety is because that's a main transportation corridor Um For the county for bicyclists and you know, we added the first green lanes in the entire county in soquel Because we wanted to make it safer there. And so as we think about the changes and traffic there We want to ensure that the safety For bicyclists is being tamed Throughout This is a difficult choice Um But it's what I look at it is as balanced between the needs of The community more broadly That I think it it doesn't mean that we have thrown away the sustainable santa cruz county plan Because as I look at the soquel drive corridor in the first district Um when I look through north rodeo gulch through Um To the hospital Heading west There's at least 10 acres of undeveloped land There's there's many more acres of underutilized land and that's where the residents are That's where the school is that you know, that's where the that's where the greatest walkability is for that part of the community And I look forward to the to the conclusion of the environmental review process for the for the Sustainable santa cruz county plan Because I think it'll allow us to uh to enact those pieces At an appropriate location I don't know whether we're ready for a motion chair, whether you want to hear from others I will say that that That I guess the last thing I'll say is some of the Some of the folks who have Uh have wanted me not to be supportive of this Project have asserted that this project will be better off someplace else They generally point to watsonville as if watsonville should take the projects that no one else wants But as I look here, there's a dealership across the street and there are dealerships in capitola less than a mile away This seems like a reasonable place An appropriate place To make the this kind of investment and to allow this kind of activity going on and I support the project I have a couple conditions that I would add on to it. Well, if you'd like to make motion I think it'd be appropriate. We can continue discussion when if there's a second. Yeah Well, so one question that I would ask, uh, uh, mr. Silvera Asked that he was worried about the language about the test drive Um On north rodeo gulch and I think the the language. I'm not sure if he's still here the uh The the the the question comes he was worried that if the dealership changes if nissan becomes something else Um, it does it Yeah, yeah No, I think it was so his question is around the word dealership And do do we need to have some other language there? That means that whatever uses that are there That the test drives don't happen on north rodeo gulch because I appreciate And I've talked to mr. Silvera and I've talked to the Honda dealer Um about the restrictions they have they they actually have in their employee manual that they're not I'm supposed to do test drive that their employee training is is uh, is supposed to Tells people not to not to test the cars there Um, and I want to make sure that we have the strongest language possible To ensure that people don't drive on north rodeo gulch And I guess I'm looking for either uh council or or our planning staff is is there Does this cover any car dealership or does it does? Do we need to strengthen the language? We need to say no exceptions for all uses Nate or Kathy may wish to speak this as well, but the condition in general would apply to the use So that it would carry along with the permit so any use under this permit would be subject to the conditions Um, I we could add something that's more specific If it would make you more comfortable with the approval Nate I don't know whether you wanted to weigh in or or that uh, mr. Silvera has included some A language and I don't know whether we need to include that or not Yeah, um, based on the way that the the condition currently reads that's I Of I don't have an actual page number, but I can read that into the record if you like. Yeah, I feel like the the The conditions will live on with the product with the with the development So if the dealership changes at any point, they'd be subject to these same conditions And the conditions don't specify nison. It's just dealership So if they you know, we're selling a used vehicle. It was a mazda or something. They would still Be subject to the same condition not being able to use Rodeo north north rodeo Gulch for test drives Yeah, I mean if if we put by anyone employed or associated with the dealership or the property is prohibited And that covers any time anybody wants to use the property Right, whether it's a key a dealership chevrolet or any of the other concerns I don't think there's any harm in adding those those three words, you know the dealership or the property That that that that we That is part of my motion I'll try to capture it all so You know there's the adopt the mitigation monitoring and reporting program and statement of overriding consideration and certify the final EIR in accordance with the requirements of sequa Adopt the attest Resolution which was in the the recommended actions. I won't go through all the apn numbers if that's okay Um Adopt the attached ordinance about rezoning the apns Direct staff to complete the installation of the traffic light and associated right-of-way improvements at robertson street and so-called drive Within three year of building permit issue Direct staff to return at the first meeting in september with a With a low cost Over-the-counter encroachment permit process to require any business wanting to unload Products and material within the county right-of-way to obtain a permit Direct staff to work with bike santa cruz county to review the bike lane safety treatments at the intersection of soquel drive and 41st avenue robertson street and porter street to ensure bike safety Is adequately addressed at these locations? And return to the board prior to the building permit issues for these right-of-way improvements for review Approved the commercial development permit application 171 179 and the associated sign exception in roadway and roadside exception based on the finding and condition and lastly Change the language in the subsection i To say test drive shall be limited to arterial roads and highways use of north rodeo gulch road For test drive by anyone employed by or associated with the dealership or the property is prohibited And I think that that captures my motion Okay, so you have a motion for the recommended actions with those those changes or additions. Is there a second? Second all right, so we have a second supervisor coonery supervisor cap it question Uh When we get a lot of projects What we didn't even consider here is What is the minimum size of the lot that This dealership would would accept if it was what if it was only 2.1 acres instead of 2.6? Uh, would that would that be a big enough lot for the? Nissan Developer to come in and do and then the other question is how big is the The hundred dealership across the the street does anybody know that The hundred dealership is over four acres. That's correct. It's it's twice as big. Yes. All right So what i'm getting at is why can't could we do something where? uh Half an acre is set aside for like open space maybe a park or whatever and then 2.1 acres is the Is the actual dealership and whether or not The magic number doesn't have to be a half acre but Is that a negotiable part of the deal or it's all or nothing I It's not part of my motion because that's not what the project's before us just to to redesignate a portion for Open space, uh, you know and a gene Cummings park which has both open space and recreational area Is uh is relatively close to here We have another park in soquel the farm park Which we're actually trying to construct after many years of conversation The heart of soquel park which we just completed relatively recently We're still trying to finish phase 2 and phase 3 As part of it. We also, uh, got some, uh, emails from A constituent, uh, who it from the car business who their charge was that two and a half acres was too small for a dealership So i i that's a level of engineering that i that i'm not I like the idea of open space, but this is the commercial area and, uh, you know the uh Uh, I don't feel confident that I could determine what would be a right amount wrong amount I'm trying to deal with the the proposal that's in front of us Okay, then I'll get back a little bit just on aesthetics part I'm like I said, it doesn't have to say, uh Half acre smaller, but something where parking lots and Car dealerships look look very similar We're talking about a number of cars and they're constantly parked there. It's like, uh, shopping, uh, window shopping You know, how many cars do you have to have in order to be able to have a you know Well-running business So something to brighten it up aesthetically in that area where maybe we were talking about a quarter acre that well, uh The the the owner could uh tell you about what his needs are But I will just say that I've tried to take a look at the number of trees And I I heard mr. Grappetti express his unhappiness with the number of trees Um, because he wants to show off his cars, right? That would make sense. That's what you do with a car dealer but uh, you know, we've we've conditioned at the Honda dealership to have trees to soften the look of the dealership and 50 trees on this site is is It's a generous amount of trees. Um, and I think it'll look it can look very nice I'm not exactly sure What your goal is Other than aesthetics because on a small property That uh, that's open space in the middle of a commercial area You know, it's on one side is bordered by a car wash on the other side is bordered by Um, a lumber yard. So it's You know, I'm not sure that that's a place where we would go recreate All of them could be improved to make it look aesthetically better, I guess Well, as the they get redeveloped that you can but you can't you can't just throw something on something That the owner can speak about whether he can deal with the smaller dealership or not or and speak to that issue I it's not for me to say I don't know. It's a new way of looking at it to me if you had a space I purchased a car before and you're standing out there Surrounded by a lot of cars if they had like a little small area That has shade and trees you could sit out there while you're waiting to think out whether or not to buy a car but Anyway, maybe you want to say What would you have to say is Very important because it's in your area Yeah, as I say, I would love your support A supervisor cap it so we can complete the farm park and the heart of soquel park because you know, there's The farm park was a permitted park that we lost the money after redevelopment And it had great amenities that included a bridge a community center Community gardens and we've only been able to build a portion of it because we haven't had the resources so I'm working very hard The ceo will tell you that uh that when we meet it's a regular topic of of conversation to find more money For our our existing parks because I have these projects that aren't done and uh, it's It's hard and let's just try and stick To the public hearing topics to the best we can Which you were you were able to do it But I mean that so the supervisor cap just um, what's before specifically are the things that we should be discussing about in the public hearing Okay, so nobody would accept changing an amendment making a quarter acre of it Like a reception type Green area That's part of the project mr. Grappetti Do you or one of your representatives want to just talk about the the the tree plan? What's going to happen in the reception or something to to help inform The conversation. I mean it might even make your business even more successful. I don't know The the the guide for for a dealership our size is actually close to three and a half acres While we have 129 parking spots when we take employment in the in the consideration customers in the consideration We're going to have fewer than than 30 day supply of cars on the ground as it is And typical dealership will have anywhere from 60 to 90 days worth of cars on the ground So to to to reduce that to reduce that Count from 80 to 60 Would would make the project Really really difficult What about from 80 to 70? So I'm I'm just trying to get a little bit of you know, I know that it wasn't mentioned here but I you know, I one of the concerns I would have about that, you know, I is is is potentially the the One of our either our public meeting or at the planning commissioner. I'm not sure which one there was some comments about the the homeless people That work that corner To me It's just not a place for if I had if I had five or six acres And you were asking me to give up a half an acre or land for a park in the middle of it I think it makes an awful lot of sense But at two and a half acres and the way this the way this parcel is laid out I I don't know how I don't know how you make it work I just I don't Do you have a specific amendment to offer then? Well, I'll offer it I'll make it as small as I can I guess something a Quarter acre would be part of the that it would be a green area Maybe I don't know how to how to phrase it. It would be Open space green area Or it could be a reception area too meaning that it's got some Trees and it's got some grass maybe and you know, whatever So I would that's what I'm offering A quarter acre instead of half an acre So we have a proposed amendment to convert a quarter acre of it toward open space Um Is there a second to the amendment? I can make the assumption. It's not a friendly amendment from the maker, correct It's it's not a friendly meant and there's no I don't support the amendment and and I believe that they're the I don't know Whether there's park dedication fees as part of this No, I think those are only charged on residential development But just as a point of information The project complies with the code requirement of one tree for every five parking spaces I mean, it's a net addition of trees that are on that current site. I mean, it's pretty significant. It's a it's a blighted site So we have we do have a motion and a second. There was no second to the amendment Was there anything else additional? That's about it. I just thought if somebody was thinking about a car Squirrels going up a tree or something it might make a more apt to buy a buy a car So anyway, I don't know if mr. Grappetti's going to hire you to sell cars for him under that construct But uh, that's something they can We can consider Okay We have a we have a motion and a second sir. Supervisor Coonerty. Sure. Yeah, I just want to real briefly first of all I appreciate everyone coming out and And I you know, I think there's lots of There's lots of opportunity to disagree about this project And I think my planning commissioner mentioned, you know, sort of like this isn't the most exciting Thing that you get involved with the land use planning is to have a car dealership, but I will say Jobs and a tax base are of value And that means a lot to the people in the community who have those jobs or the people who we serve with our services When we have an adequate tax base I do think that when you Look at the alternative uses As we've seen with similar sized Properties in this area as I think was mentioned we're talking about as an alternative to get to the real Mixed use we're talking about probably over a hundred units three stories With some mixed use built in there that would be It would be a it could be a net benefit for the community It would have a tremendous traffic impact and it would have a very difficult water impact That we've watched other projects struggle with so if I thought that that was the choice that was likely to be before us um, I would be making Probably have a different vote than supporting the project like I am today But I don't think that right now Um, the economics would make a project like that work. I think there would be significant opposition um, and uh, which would only raise the cost of a project to make one of those Make a project like that more difficult And so given the given the proposal to us given the nature of the area and given Some of the public benefits. I think I'm supportive of this project today And I guess I by one of the things is there was a mention of climate change Supervisor friend and I are on the air resources board. We're giving out Rebates for electric vehicles and we're the first air district I believe in the state maybe even in the country to give out rebates to you for used electric vehicles And the Nissan Leaf is easily the most affordable electric vehicle Especially used for low-income people and so to the extent that we're trying to reduce carbon footprints and giving people options That we'll we'll be expanding with as we expand Monterey Bay community power And expanding, you know electric charging stations and other things this particular dealership could have a real Benefit to people who are trying to come up with an economical And environmental choice of their for their cars. And so I think that's also a Potential benefit for this community as we as we try to subsidize and really grow the electric vehicle market to To reduce our carbon footprint and and help low-income people reduce some of their fuel costs as well Thank you We have a Motion and second any additional conversation Seeing none all those in favor aye. Aye opposed. I'll cast a no vote. It's a four one vote. No, I Yeah, I voted no, I know it's surprising that you I know so normally four one the other way, but it's a four one vote on this thing Supervisor friend will vote no, that's me That's the end of this meeting our next meeting is on june 12th I like to thank community tv in the sentinel for covering