City Council Meeting – 1/20/2009
UPDATE: Please check out a summary of the Council’s decision on the Promenade project at Dublin Townhall
The City Council will be meeting at 7pm on Tuesday night at 100 Civic Plaza. The most notable items to be discussed include:
The City Council will consider the appeal of the Planning Commission’s approval of a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to adopt a “Shared Parking” model at Phase I of the Promenade. The Planning Commission recently approved a developer’s request to provide 500 parking spaces at Phase I of the Promenade vs. the 541 spaces required by Dublin’s Zoning Ordinance.
A Dublin resident appealed the Planning Commission’s decision to the City Council based on the principle that the Shared Parking Study approved by the Planning Commission does not take into account the existing street parking shortage at the Dublin Ranch Villages and that if this had been taken into account, the Shared Parking Study would have required all 541 parking spaces specified by Dublin’s Zoning Ordinance.
The Dublin City Council will consider the approval of Mayor Tim Sbranti’s Commission and Committee appointments:
- Planning Commission – Alan Brown to fill the position recently vacated by newly-appointed Councilmember Don Biddle.
- Heritage & Cultural Arts Commission – Sonal Nuckols to fill the position recently vacated by newly-appointed Planning Commissioner Eric Swalwell.
- Senior Advisory Committee – Delilah Vanderpool and Jeanette Villegas
- Housing Committee – Christine Kachuaea and Ramoncito “Jing” Fermeza.
Request For Community Development Block Grant Funding
The City Council will consider City Staff’s recommendation to request funds for various local non-profit agencies as part of Dublin’s 2009-2010 $80,524 Community Development Block Grant funding request.
Please join the Around Dublin Team at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting.
12:15 PM on January 19th, 2009
I think the best thing from this meeting is that Fallon Sports Park is coming out to bid and will start construction this summer. I think this will be a great attraction to the area.
8:37 PM on January 20th, 2009
To all,
Coincidentally, the school district website (www.Dublin.k12.ca.us) placed the announcement of a Town Hall meeting for 2/4/09 in the evening to discuss Kolb Elem. Check it out. There are also Town Hall meetings on the budget crisis planned.
Hope this helps.
John B. Ledahl
11:11 PM on January 20th, 2009
Hi John – are these February meetings regarding the opening of Kolb Elementary and the DUSD’s operating budget being conducted to glean community feedback prior to the DUSD making decisions on when to open Kolb and what our budget priorities should be or are these meetings being held to communicate the decisions that will be made at the Board meeting on January 27th?
Thx, John Z.
1:12 AM on January 21st, 2009
John Z.
The Town hall meetings are meant to share basic facts based on recent analysis from staff and getting feedback from the community. Meetings where decisions are made based on recommendations are the school board meetings, also where community input is sought.
John L.