Date Posted: 9/1/2022
REGULAR MEETING of the Larkspur City Council
Wednesday, September 7, 2022: 6:30 p.m.
Larkspur City Council Chambers
400 Magnolia Avenue, Larkspur, CA
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Scot Candell
Kevin Haroff
Dan Hillmer, Mayor
Gabe Paulson, Vice Mayor
Catherine Way
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REGULAR MEETING 6:30 P.M.
1. ROLL CALL & PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
2. PUBLIC COMMENT (Only for matters not listed on the agenda) This is the time for members of the public to address the City Council regarding items that are not on the agenda or that are listed as part of the Consent Calendar. Please approach the podium, and state your name and city (optional). Individuals have 3 minutes to speak; 5 minutes if representing a group. The Council is not permitted to take action on matters that are not on the agenda. It may engage in limited discussion, refer the matter to staff, or direct staff to place a matter on a future agenda. It may also add a matter to the agenda if it can be demonstrated to be of an emergency nature or the matter came to the City’s attention after the posting of the agenda and requires immediate action. (Gov. Code §54954.2)
• Public Comment – Letsinger
3. PRESENTATIONS/PROCLAMATIONS
3.1 Update on the Neighborhood Response Group (NRG) Program by Rachel Kertz, NRG Coordinator.
4. APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR
All matters listed on the Consent Calendar are considered to be routine and will be enacted by a single vote of the Council. There will be no separate discussion unless specific items are removed from the Consent Calendar for separate discussion and action. Any Councilmember may remove an item from the Consent Calendar and place it under Business for discussion.
4.1 Approve warrants.
4.2 Approve minutes of the August 3, 2022, regular meeting.
4.3 Approve minutes of the August 9, 2022, special meeting.
4.4 Adopt Resolution 64/22 authorizing City Council and City Advisory Body meetings to be held via teleconference for the 30-day period beginning September 10, 2022, and making related findings pursuant to AB 361.
4.5 Adopt Resolution 65/22 approving revisions to the City of Larkspur’s Conflict of Interest Code.
4.6 Approve the City’s response to the 2021-22 Marin County Civil Grand Jury report entitled “Affordable Housing: Time for Collaboration in Marin.”
4.7 Adopt Resolution 66/22 adopting the amended Investment Policy for the City of Larkspur.
4.8 Adopt Resolution 67/22 approving amendments to the Outline of Salaries and Benefits for the Management Unit of Employees.
4.9 Adopt Resolution 68/22 amending the adopted Fiscal Year 2022/23 Capital Improvement Program to add the Bon Air Road Bridge Mitigations Project FiveYear Monitoring and Replanting Project (CIP 25-302).
5. CITY MANAGER’S ORAL REPORT
6. COUNCILMEMBERS’ ORAL REPORTS AND COMMENTS
7. PUBLIC HEARINGS
7.1 APPEAL OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION DECISION TO APPROVE APPLICATION DR/FAR #22-12; 355 BRETANO WAY; APN NO. 070-232-12: A
REQUEST FOR DESIGN REVIEW AND FLOOR AREA RATIO EXCEPTION TO PERMIT AN 847 SQUARE-FOOT SECOND STORY ADDITION TO AN EXISTING 2,285 SQUARE FOOT SINGLE-STORY HOME ON A 7,521 SQUARE FOOT PARCEL IN THE R-1 (FIRST RESIDENTIAL) ZONING DISTRICT; DAVE JOCHUM, APPLICANT; JAMES & LAUREN MALACHOWSKI, PROPERTY OWNERS; ANTHONY GERALDI, APPELLANT.
Council to hold a public hearing and consider adopting Resolution 69/22 denying the appeal and upholding the Planning Commission’s approval of the project. • Appellant Presentation
• Applicant Presentation
8. BUSINESS ITEMS
8.1 AWARD CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR THE BON AIR ROAD BRIDGE MITIGATIONS PROJECT (CIP 15-002)
Council to adopt Resolution 70/22 awarding a construction contract for the Bon Air Road Bridge Mitigations Project to McGuire and Hester as the lowest responsible bidder submitting the lowest responsive bid.
• Presentation
8.2 REPORT FROM RENT STABILIZATION AD-HOC COMMITTEE
(COUNCILMEMBER HAROFF & VICE MAYOR PAULSON).
Council to receive verbal report from the ad-hoc committee on their activities. • Public Comment – Taube
• Public Comment – Hausman
• Public Comment – Hallquist
• Public Comment – Burla
• Public Comment – Adelman
• Public Comment – McCandless
• Public Comment – Edler
• Public Comment – Frajman
• Public Comment – Keyser
• Public Comment – Neustadter
9. ADJOURN
Regular Meeting of September 21, 2022
NOTICE IS HERE BY GIVEN: If you challenge any item on this agenda in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing herein described, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Clerk at, or prior to, the public hearing. [G.C. § 65009 (b) (2)]
In the interest of time, the City Council has established time limits. Public Hearings: applicants and /or appellants shall make their presentations within 10 minutes and will be allowed a 3-minute summation period. Public participation shall be limited to 3 minutes per speaker per topic. These time limits may be waived by a majority vote of the City Council. [G.C. § 54954.3].
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