Tiburon Town Council Minutes #18-2022 August 31, 2022
TOWN COUNCIL
SPECIAL MEETING
MINUTES
Consistent with Government Code section 54953(e), councilmembers attended this meeting by teleconference. Members of the public were invited to participate in the meeting by live-streaming the meeting on the Town’s website and submitting comments to [email protected] to be included in the public record for the meeting.
SPECIAL MEETING – 4:30 P.M.
Mayor Welner called the special meeting of the Tiburon Town Council to order at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 31, 2022.
CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
PRESENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: Fredericks, Griffin, Ryan, Thier, Welner ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
PRESENT: EX OFFICIO: Town Manager Chanis, Town Attorney Stock, Director of Community Development Tasini, Town
Clerk Dilena
CLOSED SESSION
1. CONFERENCE WITH LEGAL COUNSEL – ANTICIPATED LITIGATION Significant exposure to litigation pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Government Code Section 54956.9: (One potential case)
Claim filed by Honeybadger Acquisitions LLC on March 23, 2022 on file with the Town Clerk’s office
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ACTION TAKEN IN CLOSED SESSION, IF ANY
ACTION ITEMS
AI-1. Draft Housing Element – Discuss the draft Housing Element, receive public comments, and consider adoption of a minute order direction to staff on any needed revisions to the draft Housing Element prior to submission to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (Community Development Department) Public comment was received by:
• Tracy Gary, who spoke about retaining local control of zoning. • Hilary Ross and Joshua Dick, who expressed frustration about the lack of guidance and believed not all units should be downtown.
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• George Landau, who asked what would happen if all the downtown landowners also refused to build on their properties.
• John Leszczynski, who asked about the possibility of including open space. • Leonor Noguez, who believed that part of the traffic problems were created by service workers coming to town, and that problem could be alleviated if more of those workers lived in town.
• Matan Shacham, who spoke on behalf of a group of residents expressing opposition to adding more units back to the Cove Shopping Center area. • Anne Libbin, who also agreed that many local service workers should be able to live in town and spoke in support of additional housing to improve diversity. • Jim White, who recommended the Council consider converting single family zoning to multi family zoning instead of giving up commercial space downtown. • Suzanne Kim, who expressed concern that Tiburon will lose its local teachers if there is not affordable housing available and said the Design Review Board is working on objective standards for the housing units.
• Tom Struttman, who recommended the Town undertake a parallel study on the traffic and environmental impacts of the additional housing units.
• H. McCorkindale, who expressed concerns about evacuation if most of the units are planned for downtown.
• Brenda Bottum, who expressed concerns about the impacts of planning most of the units downtown.
• Julie Jacobs, who hoped the Town would not rush the rezoning process to give more opportunities for appeal or to annex additional areas.
• Dorene Curtis, who requested a legal analysis of the zoning requirements. • Seth Jacobs, who asked the Town Council to consider whether the proposal is consistent with Town values.
• David Barker, who believed the downtown area was underutilized as it is now and it was time to share the privilege of living in Tiburon with others, but it would be good to spread the development over a longer period of time.
MOTION: To adopt a minute order to direct staff to submit the Draft Housing Element, as amended, with changes submitted by Councilmember Alice Fredericks, to delete the words “but only” from the final sentence of Page 5, Paragraph 2 (Section 1.4), and changes to the buffer as presented.
Moved: Thier, seconded by Ryan
VOTE: AYES: Fredericks, Griffin, Ryan, Thier, Welner
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business before the Town Council of the Town of Tiburon, Mayor Welner adjourned the meeting at 7:40 p.m.
JON WELNER, MAYOR
TOWN OF TIBURON
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ATTEST:
LEA DILENA, TOWN CLERK
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