Date Posted: 8/29/2024
REGULAR MEETING of the Larkspur City Council
Wednesday, September 4, 2024: 6:30 p.m.
Kreps Conference Center, Redwood High School
395 Doherty Drive, Larkspur CA 94939
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Stephanie Andre Scot Candell, Mayor
Catherine Way, Vice Mayor
Gabe Paulson
Teleconference Information:
The Larkspur City Council offers viewing of the meeting via Zoom as a courtesy to the public. Public comment via Zoom has been suspended. Unless a member of the City Council is attending the meeting via teleconference pursuant to the provisions of AB 2449 (2022), if a technical error or outage occurs on the Zoom feed, the City Council will continue the meeting in public in the Kreps Conference Center, 395 Doherty Drive, Larkspur CA 94939.
Submit public comment by:
1. Emailing [email protected] prior to 5:30 P.M. on the day of the meeting,
2. Attending the meeting in-person at the Kreps Conference Center, 395 Doherty Drive, Larkspur CA, 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)
3. PRESENTATIONS
None
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 7, 2024, regular meeting.
4.3 Appoint Councilmember Stephanie Andre as Larkspur’s voting delegate for the Cal Cities’ Annual Conference in October 2024.
4.4 Adopt Resolution 58/24 approving the plans and specifications and a cooperative agreement with Ross Valley Sanitary District for the Heatherwood Pump Station Rehabilitation Project (CIP 24-303).
4.5 Adopt Resolution 59/24 adopting the Marin County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan (2023) and the City of Larkspur Annex.
4.6 Approve the City’s response to the 2023-24 Marin County Civil Grand Jury Report entitled “Cyber Preparedness: Are We There Yet?”
4.7 Adopt Resolution 60/24 authorizing the City Manager to execute an escrow holdback agreement between the City and The Commons Foundation.
5. CITY MANAGER’S ORAL REPORT
6. COUNCILMEMBERS’ ORAL REPORTS AND COMMENTS
7. PUBLIC HEARINGS
7.1 ADOPTION OF THE 2040 GENERAL PLAN, 2023-2031 HOUSING ELEMENT,
AND CERTIFICATION OF FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT
Council to consider the adoption of Resolution 61/24 certifying the final EIR and Resolution 62/24 adopting the General Plan and Housing Element. • Staff Report
• Attachment 1 – Resolution 61/24 to Certify Final EIR and Statement of Overriding Considerations
• Attachment 1 – Final EIR
• Attachment 1 – Draft EIR and Appendices A-D
• Attachment 2 – Resolution 62/24 to Adopt 2040 General Plan and 2023-2031 Housing Element
• Attachment 2 Exhibit A - 2040 General Plan
• Attachment 2 Exhibit B - 2023-2031 Housing Element
• Attachment 3 - Housing Element Sites Map and Inventory Summary • Attachment 4 - HCD Finding Letters
• Attachment 5 - Public Comment Report
• Public Comment – Holmes
• Public Comment – Vilas
• Public Comment – California Native Plant Society
• Public Comment – Lovett
• Public Comment – Candrian
• Public Comment – Rivard
• Public Comment – Friends of the Corte Madera Creek Watershed • Public Comment – Marin Audubon Society
7.2 URGENCY ORDINANCE AND STANDARD ORDINANCE TO IMPLEMENT THE 2040 GENERAL PLAN AND 2023-2031 HOUSING ELEMENT PROGRAMS AND
REZONING
Council to consider adoption of Urgency Ordinance 1078, and approving the introduction and waiving first reading of Ordinance 1079, to implement the General Plan and Housing Element programs and rezoning.
• Exhibit B to Ordinances 1078 and 1079 – Zoning Map
• Exhibit C to Ordinances 1078 and 1079 – Objective Design and Development Zone Map Figure 20 02 030 A
8. BUSINESS ITEMS
8.1 LARKSPUR RENT REVIEW BOARD COMPOSITION
Council to discuss and provide direction to staff.
• Public Comment – Prime Residential
• Public Comment – Bon Air
8.2 DISCUSSION ABOUT THE USE OF ZOOM FOR TAKING PUBLIC COMMENT
DURING MEETINGS
Council to discuss and provide direction to staff.
• Public Comment – Lubamersky
• Public Comment – Lundstrom
9. ADJOURN
Regular Meeting of September 18, 2024
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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