Courtesy of Nancy Groves, her UC PLANNING GROUP REPORT of the April meeting:
Announcements:
There is a site development permit for a new trail behind Genesee Highlands.
Sears is cutting their parking in half in May and will share with Crate & Barrel.
City Councilmember Barbara Bry will hold a Budget Town Hall on May 6, 10:00-11:30am at La Jolla Village Square Community Room next to AMC. Full City Council hearings for public input on the 2018 budget will be May 15, 6:00pm at City Hall.
Reports:
Bridger Langfur representing Councilperson Bry reminded all that input is welcomed at the Town Hall May 6. Bry does not expect parks and libraries to be cut. Bry is chair of the budget committee which is reviewing pension payments. A 3.5% lower city budget is being proposed. Bry will help any neighborhood watch group get started and pay for their sign. The Community Forest Advisory group had met with Bry and set tasks but no money has yet been allocated to replace trees.
Chevelle Tate representing Senator Toni Atkins announced that Atkins is on the Rules, Transportation, Health, and the Natural Resources Committees. She supports SB2 the Affordable Housing bill, three Human Trafficking bills, Single Payer Health Care, SB1 road repair, transit and road improvement, and SB 179 for gender recognition. There was discussion over the 500 affordable housing units in District 1. Chevelle will follow up and check the city list of these units in 92121.
[MCAS Miramar] Permit applications for the MCAS trails (Santee Lakes to Stowe Trail) are at www.miramar.marines.mil/Resources/StoweTrail/.
The board unanimously voted to seat the officers: Chair Janay Kruger, Vice Chair Meagan Beale, Secretary Kris Kopensky.
Action item: Campus Pointe 10290 & 10300 to add 318,383 sf multi-tenant office building and add a two-story 10,000sf, microbrewery and dining area (not be open to the public) as well as a six-story parking structure, soccer field and reconfiguration of 2,909 parking spaces. The Sub Committee recommended: Approve the Campus Pointe project, including the proposed Community Plan Amendment with the following conditions: 1) The City commits to preserve and dedicate as permanent Open Space the 42 acres of city-owned lands adjacent to the project site and that Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE) commit to support and advocate for this with the City. 2) As a community benefit, ARE deposit $3.5 million in the escrow account for UC Projects: land acquisition, restoration, and/or dedication of Open Space or parkland in the UCPG area. Up to $500,000 may be used for improvement of population-based developed parks in the UCPG area since the community bears the brunt of the extra traffic and the change to the community plan. 3) ARE maintain permanent public access to the adjacent 42-acre city-owned open space parcels and include no less than 12 free public parking spaces and bike parking adjacent to the parcels. 4) ARE register a permanent no-build restriction on the area north of the existing 10300 building and designate MHPA that would preclude development of building or parking structures within the area. 5) ARE will reduce the height of the proposed new building CP3 to a be a tiered 10- and 5-story configuration. The follow up is to get a letter from the City Council “dedicating” the 42 acres as Open Space. The recommendation of the subcommittee was approved.
Action Item: Expansion of the existing cell towers by Sprint at Doyle Park. A citizen’s committee did some research on cell tower antennas and had Dr. Alan Ross give a presentation slated to keeping cell towers away from parks and schools. The 1996 city mandates that: 1) The city must let cell towers be installed and not deny permits. There is antenna in 620 locations in SD of 50,000 watts each. 2) One cannot sue a communications company over electromagnetic fields. At Doyle Park Sprint, ATT, Verizon, and T-Mobil all have antenna installed; Sprint is requesting to expand at Doyle. Sprint noted that with all the companies in the area combined; at groundlevel the emissions were 5% below what is allowed by the FCC. Subcommittee members reported on their findings: Testing would cost $5,000. 34 community groups were contacted, comments included: Children are sensitive receptors; maintain a safe zone for kids. Peter Krysl, a UCSD Engineer weighed in that the waves were 70’ in the air and not a problem. Others felt that NIH and scientific data should be gathered. A motion was made to disapprove of Sprint’s request and ask them to find an alternate site, which passed. If this is approved by the City the UCPG will do further study.
NEXT MEETING: No May meeting. The next meeting will be June 13, at 6 PM, at Scripps Office Bldg, 10010 Campus Pointe Drive. Enter to right of building to free parking lot and entrance.
Editor’s note: Guest speaker will be Colonel Jason Woodworth, the commanding officer at MCAS Miramar.
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