Cayucos Citizens Advisory Council Minutes of June 6, 2007 Vet’s Hall

Meeting called to order by President Ed Carnegie –7:05pm [approx. 35 in public attendance]

Present: Arley Robinson, John Carsel, Carol Baptiste (Alt), Ed Carnegie, MaryAnn Carnegie, Bill Shea (Alt), Roland Hutchinson, Mike Hargett, DeAnne Harland, Marie Jaqua, Greg Bettencourt, Chris Pope, Smith Held, Larry Fishman ;Absent [e] Harry Wiese

Minutes of 5/2/07 approved with noted correction of L. Fishman not being an alternate

Motion to approve: A. Robinson ; 2^nd: R. Hutchinson; verbal approval

Treasurer’s Report: balance of $1,617.99; bill turned in for annual website payment

Announcements:

• Smart Growth 2050 Leadership Workshop was well attended; the need to break from standard mold—example is to have commercial first, then light offices and 3^rd residential; incite less growth; attended the Morro Bay Planning Commission Mtg. re: sphere of influence to annex Chevron Property—still want to do; LAFCO as well as CCAC does not support this annexation; letter was sent.

• various other agendas available for review by all; discussed some of the topics discussed at recent CAC chairs mtg. with planning director; means to do reporting and reviewing CAC’s; a list of HOT items to prioritize—list will be sent back to councils hopefully in July.

The Kruft Appeal for Juanita St. was upheld—CCAC will now need to work together on setting policy, regulations and uniformity on what to do with street ends within community.

Correspondence: Bill Callahan of Cayucos Sanitary Dist. sent a reminder for community wide town hall meeting to be @7:00PM June 21 to discuss future treatment options proposed but to mainly have support for tertiary treatment

Public Comments:

• Jesse Arnold-Cambria discussed concerns and importance of labeling food for complete awareness-would like for as many as possible to sign a petition; was voted for under Measure Q in ’04

• Connie Paine-Cayucos-questioned notification of CCAC Mtg. to be in 2 news medias—Dick Weiss does for Sun Bulletin, TT is to list on Monday; will have on Vet Hall Markee—asked if she would like to volunteer to place in media mediums

• Paul Birmingham-volunteered to do this instead; would also like on next month’s agenda the Planning of elections for 2009 turn out historically is low—possibly mail out via post card, mail out sample ballot, and have option of absentee ballots as well as for elderly, blind, handicap. Idea is to set a better goal

•-Paul Chocolis-Cayucos—what Estero Area Plan is used? Current vs. proposed update?

Public Agencies:

Sheriff/California Hwy./ State Parks/Cayucos Sanitary Dist absent/

Co. Planning–Kerry Brown—re: current Estero vs updated proposed—it’s a hard sell to get them to use proposed, but projects in process are informed of new proposed updated plan. And encouraged to follow

Co. Public Work–Nola Engelskirger –

· Ocean Ave. improvements have been completed—just have striping and painting to do

· Tomorrow contract bids for 2 ADA ramps will open [

· Street lights out in some areas—but Nola said they should call PGE;

· Diagonal parking may be implemented if more spaces are created and if deemed safe

· Dirk Langer questioned speeding and noise levels of motorcycles especially on Ocean & during recent construction detoured to Pacific—resources need to be found to do law enforcement on this issue

· Other concerns addressed to Nola: 3400 block of Ocean needs to cut growth of bushes that interferes with line of sight?; are bike lanes to be put on both sides of Ocean?; and again, is there to be any street cleaning on Stuart/Ocean Ave.? Speeding on Old Creek Rd. is too fast. Area is now more residential than when speed was est. need to revisit—needs a referral to transportation

Chamber of Commerce-Bill Shea-

May 26 May Madness—fireworks fundraiser was successful and Cayucos will have fireworks

Getting ready for July 4have approval for street closures, and many porta potties have been ordered

Supervisor Gibson:

· Speed and traffic counts on Old Creek Rd. to possibly lower the speed limit will need to be revisited.

· Discussed the history of the CCAC and noted that controversy usually breeds interest; use to have a candidates night in Vet’s Hall for elections; meetings have always been held first Wed. of the month 7:00PM for the last 30 years; [G. Bettencourt also mentioned that per a survey conducted last year 63% of Cayucos residents had attended a CCAC Mtg.—this is considered to be quite high]

· Supervisor Gibson then gave a brief history of the formation of the Coastal Commission, development of local coastal programs; update procedures to be done every 5 years—this will be the first since inception—much of the delay is due to cumbersome bureaucracy; regarding which standards to follow—once a project is deemed as accepted for processing locks in the rules to follow. However, the CCAC has a standing request to apply standards of new update and these have generally been acceptable and followed.

· The Kruft/Juanita appeal was to preserve coastal access, not impair it. A policy will need to be developed to improve and not impinge on these accesses.

· Approval of the Scenic By-way Hiwy 1 will allow greater opportunities to apply for funds/grants

· Sphere of Influence—LAFCO has to approve this but a buffer is desired between the two communities

· Recently met with chairs of CACs and Land Use Committees from Cayucos, Los Osos &Cambria. This was to bring councils together with similar issues. Very informal, very beneficial & to do again.

· County is working on the adoption of the fiscal year 2007/2008 budget of $475million for 23 departments, 2600 county employees. Hearings to start June 18.

· Viewshed ordinance will be on the agenda next Tuesday, [probably will be continued

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

Land Use: Met Mon. ,6/ 4 projects under discussion were per attached report Next LUC 7/9/07 3:00PM

Public Safety: concerns brought out on the usage and safety of signs, tables and chairs on narrow, smaller, sidewalks; obstruction and concerns for safety; are there regulations on this for businesses? and if so would like to “agendize” for July

Recreational Planning/Utilities/CSA10A:: nothing to report

Community Design-met with Dave Flynn; the idea of waiving parking, for in leiu fees dropped—would not raise enough money; still need to deal with the issue; lot constraints. Have agreed that an intern will help and develop an inventory of what exists, how we might expand, striping to maximize, diagonal vs straight; where possible and with owners permission.

By-laws/trying a new approach with legal counsel on the committee; reviewing the by-laws along with those of other councils; trying to better define what a conflict of interest would be for council members; maybe establish better polices and procedures as these are easier to alter compared to by-laws; asked the council for a sense of direction—it is easiest to review one document

July 4- a letter will again be sent out community wide, extras placed at vacation rentals for visitors to basically behave and follow rules; strict fine for illegal fireworks. Signs will be placed at entrances, on beach walks and at other locations throughout town. Possibly send a letter to Bill Morem of TT to publish. Let’s get back to being a family oriented event as was originally started.

Old Business:

A. Events ordinance: Greg Bettencourt reported on committee findings and questions [Chris Waddell, Dwayne and Steve Ottenberg] Do wineries have a specific ordinance; are standards the same or not especially re: noise, parking, screening. Ag. Tourism group had reasonable questions and items are in the process for clarification. Definitions need to better defined—is a noise ordiance the same for urban as for rural? What is the difference between events and social gatherings? Time line to get it done? Better to do it right than merely get it done. What is an appropriate # of events, espoeically if based on issues; is it site specific, levels of permits—should be less involved than what is required for a MUP-maybe just have a very simple check list; a site plan: thus far no grandfather clause; try to reduce the turn around to gain approval; currently seems that forgiveness is better than the process; needs to be streamlined for certain events. Hopefully to the document would be able to be a stand alone document.

B. Community information notification—expand the knowledge, influence to greater numbers via notices, emails, awareness on our part—do all we can not just via one medium—newspaper publishing won’t solve it all—distribute fliers in the precincts, door to door on important issues; have the builder post proposed project and/or discussions scheduled on it vbia meetings, etc. put controversial projects on the website. Needs additional brainstorming on this. Greg said he would be leaving soon and not back until Sept. Joyce Fox is a community rep group—4-5 people as an ad-hoc committee—will get their names

NEW Business:

A. Hallemeyer Golf Shop Project on Ocean Ave. in residential area but zoned for CR. Located on a tough, hard to build 35ft. wide lot. That is currently blighted. Will be a small 30’high building to support commercial use, with caretake unit on top. Noise for fabrication has been measured and fits within allowable windows and for safety from hiwy. Owner/builder to live and work here; parking waiver is within set back, business will be for designated hours i.e. for example 10-4 M-Thurs. otherwise available. Designed for one HC van accessible, plus 2 plus another in tandem. One member from the public questioned the economic viability of such a business in a neighborhood, what would be the impacts on the neighborhood—no heavy machinery-goes mainly to the client to get input and take them the finished product. Concern for what happens if the business changes down the road—similar fit or certain conditions to be placed on the project. Further information and drawings were to be brought forth, and precinct reps from precinct 1 especially wanted to canvass their neighborhoods to get further input from surrounding neighbors so the project was asked to be placed on next month’s agenda under Old Business.

Motion: A. Robinson to place this project on next month’s agenda so that neighborhood can be walked to gain further insight and input from surrounding neighbors on this project. 2^nd: J. Carsel—verbal vote carried the motion. Also questioned provisions for signage of the business—hopefully to be discreet, on the door, nothing big, neon.

B. Wyrick Project on Ocean—permit expired and with increased sensitivity to parking concerns project was referred back to Land Use Committee to re look at parking concerns/agreed off site contract, etc.—look at next month in greater detail

C. Amendments to revise CA Land Conservation Act for ag. Land. –copy of this was given to precinct 8 representatives. Approx. 85% of those affected are in Adelaide area. Neighbors, etc. to meet with Smith Held to review the questions etc. Similar to the events ordinance. Most of the current lands are in Williamson Act per Ca. Land Conservation Act. 1965. Vconcerns were cited re: the mixed signals on time frame to get input and comments to county.

Motion: Larry Fishman: postpone or table discussion on this document for now until more time and information is received to discuss with surrounding neighbors, property owners that would be affected by this. 2^nd Lynn Schoennauer. Verbal vote carried the motion.

Good of the Order: next meeting Wed. July 11, Precincts 3 & 4 will do refreshments/setup/cleanup

Concerns expressed for length of meeting, public discussions, was the new application received for Dirk Langer to be a new precinct rep. For precinct 4 and Margaret Ambrosavage for precinct 5. Both received and accepted for precinct appointments.

Adjournment: 10:20PM.

Respectfully Submitted:

Mary Ann Carnegie Date:

Acting Secretary

Motion to Approve:- Seconded: