Folsom City Council Regular Meeting

good evening everyone. We will go ahead and we convene . Any final extra report out of closed session. >> no final action. >> we will convene the regular meeting for tuesday, March 28, 2017. Call will. -- caldwell. >> please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> with that any agenda updates ? >> Mr. Meet you to have additional comments on item 98. The comments has been provided to the council and have been made available to the public at the back table. >> thank you. Next item-''\}b uv {?T o} Fr ?E x~UDvhv=h)~6zt+^er$g?Re@p^.Pm&`-#j}bept}@d\YPCww presentation 58. This is proclamation of the mayor of the city of folsom proclaiming ce April 9-15 as national public safetyp poll communicators week in the city of folsom. >> cannot have our police chief -- can I have our police cheif. Am I butchering the other names? I'm sure they will get corrected.7s~ every year for those PGeof YOUHt who view council meetings on a regular basis we do this every year. We recognize our dispatch folks in full some. Most of you know we are lucky and proud to have our 9/11 dispatch center in the city of folsom as pFhwe know that provides us rapid emergency response. As I read through the proclamation,ok the specifics are amazing to me. Then after I get through with this and hand it off to our police chief and she can recognize some special recipients. Thank you for being here. Without further ado I will be the large print version of the resolution. This proclamation the city mayor proclaiming April knife to the 15thp 2017 as national public safety poll communicators week in the city of folsom.Lmu+j the communication dispatchers of the city of folsom are responsible for answering( incoming calls for emergency services. Dispatching assistance to help save the lives and property of our citizens. Were ASyVj1+g the dispatchers are a vital link to the police u officers, monitoring radioactivity copywriting information and ensuring their safety.D$ the safety of our emergency responders is dependent on the quality and accuracy of 9klcj% information obtained from citizens who called the city of folsom public safety answering point. Where as in 2016q-/atm. Communication dispatchers handled more than 103,000 telephone calls. Dispatched more m than 45w3 than 45,000 events. In 2016 the 5communication dispatchers answered; 97.6% of all those calls within 10 seconds or less.8h where as full sums communication dispatchers contributed substantially to the apprehension of criminals in the city of folsom where as the communication dispatcherso[I exhibited compassion, understanding and professionalism during the performance of their job in the f* past year. Now p for I andy morin the mayor do hereby proclaim9wx the week of April knife to the 15th 2017 as national public safety poll communicators week in the city of folsom. I extend our gratitude to |&the community patient dispatchers for the dedicated service to our community to keeping eEnour city and the city -- v'2s qvl citizens of our city safe. Could everyone please give these folks, vw qcognition. [Applause]. >>s t thank you for RECOGNIZINGl< our dispatchers during national -- telecommunications week.0"0cu heard they are the primary public safety answering point for the city which means any emergency comes to them first._k if a loved one is having a heart attack, a child pwho needs`f6 medical care that all comes into these folks first. they are -- their call time x~ answering that amount of calls in 10 seconds or less is a stunning benchmark. You will not find that in most cities. Today we HAVEs sherry wrinkle is our technical service manager. She's the supervisor over records caught dispatch here to support her dispatchers. What we DOp Kvc is we choose our two dispatchers who are receiving awards at the annual regional bank WITHxl.Td jenny you are our customer service of the v:year? Congratulation for your words. Thank you for the job you do. You make our city safer eEnevery day. [Applause]{0 thank you. I always wonder when you are at home who answers the phone? Do you ignore it or do get on it right away within 10 seconds? >> thank you again for coming out and congratulations.U with that next item. >>\f* next item is business from the floor. You have one request to speak from john combs. >> good evening john. >> good evening. Is this the best place? >> you are amplified and on the record. >> sorry for the casual attire. I'm an assistant coach for the aa cubs and we are playing a game tonight. + did you have a good year? >> a dgreat year. The game is `g45-5 when ci left.F  I am john combs. thank you for letting us speak this evening. Representing the city of folsom who are opposed to building a similar road. The nature area is a 40 acre undisturbed natural area with a creek that drains to the american river. It is located near the corner of oak avenue, parkway and american canyon drive. In conversation with the city manager he indicated that this project would be presented to the city council for policy approval in the next 30 to 60 days. The road is being constructed to allow trucks to drive up to manholes and vacuum out waste. After two years of studying this issue and engaging a wide variety of experts and management we are convinced there are alternatives that are just as effective in protecting the overflows in the creek what eliminating the need to build a road through one of city of full sums was natural area. We have to request. The first request is to meet with each of the council members. We would like to take less than an hour with each of you to review alternative proposals and make an informed policy decision on this matter. Second request is for community meeting. In 2015 the city held to community meetings when this issue came to a head. We would like to request the staff to inform the full some citizens of the recommendation and encourage each council member to a tent. We believe the overall objective has been a target from the beginning. Page of one prepared by the city contractors engineering firm the problem for each section of sewer line said no truck access to the manhole. We do not believe that truck access is a problem. As we worked successfully with the city in a qualified contractor to flush the entire satellite last August without having a vector truck set the wheel into the nature area. We believe the objective of this project should be to develop a plan to ensure that the sewer line is properly maintained and service including early warning system for potential overflow and effective process to deal with packages. Our alternative can be accomplished in a manner the state regulatory agency would consider exemplary and at a cost at the lower projected cost. Our recommendation has four elements. Number one complete the necessary maintenance work on the sewer line with the key to minimize damage and destruction of the trees. After construction we turn the area into a natural condition. Number two, contract with a qualified contractor to clean the lines annually. We think we should do it every year. Number three, to install wireless floor monitors to provide early warning for potential blockages. Finally if there isn't a plane blockage that needs to be cleared using industry standard baskets versus a truck to remove the waste. >> we have past three minutes. Is that it? >> I'm almost done. >> go ahead. >> the report shows 175 trees will be impacted with 77 trees being removed or critically impacted. For those in the audience who May think this is not apply to me since I'm not sure where this is copy clear the standards are being applied to the entire city. If you have a manhole in your community is not acceptable by a large truck there is a road near future. We noticed there's an agenda item consent counter to approve purchase one combine single engine 110 yard cleaning vehicle. I encourage you to postpone this decision we can meet with you. We look forward to meeting all the council members. We understand this project is made from staff recommendation to a city council policy decision. Once you understand the details of our proposal, you will be convinced that an alternative is a solution and meets the objectives we have outlined above. For those wanting more information go to www. Save info creek. >> thank you john. Thank you for taking time away from your game. Go cubs. >> would you come back up john >> I got your request I will call you. >> thank you. >> that concludes business from the floor. Next item. Consent calendar. You do have to request to speak on item 70. >> I will go ahead and enter a pole. So we have no consent calendar. We're going to talk about everything. Isn't that it? Very good. I will move letter a, b, f, g and h. Second. Please call role. >> item 7c with that you roger. City clerk please read that item. >> resolution 9893. The resolution authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement with environmental rental services for the purchase of one combination single engine 10 yard vacuum sewer cleaning truck and appropriation of funds. >> I want more details on it. >> this truck is scheduled to be deployed in the storm dream -- drain system. You cannot use the same vector equipment in the sort that use in the storm drain. This is replacing a vector in the storm drain system. >> I will move item c. >> please call role. >> next item. It's a request to be pulled it by two members of the public. This is resolution 9895. The resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a consultant and professional services agreement with kim lee juan and associates for environmental and preliminary engineering design services for the 10 nine placerville rail trail project funded by a regional active transportation program grant. >> for speaker on that item. >> it's from a gym harvell. He is followed by bill mueller. >> good evening. Jim harvell. I wanted to cover a few items. One we do support this trail extension. The connection between the willow creek area and that trail that's out to highway 50 -- we are happy to see that trail put in. We would take the opportunity to welcome our new councilmember and look forward to sharing with you more about our program that your fellow council members have supported over the years. I want to take one last minute and complement the city staff, developers and consultants in the sl project. They have been so helpful and attentive to trying to mitigate the impact of that project on our program. We appreciate that. >> your next speaker is built mueller. >> good evening. I'm built mueller. We are based in sacramento with offices in sacramento and stopped in. I'm here to talk about the folsom rail to trails program. My organization and others are excited to see built out. Tonight we hope that you are approving an additional mile of that trail which we feel is important to the overall trail network. I'm here to complement you and the leaders throughout the sacramento area both business and private sectors see that folsom leadership in building out a connected trail network of bike and pedestrian is something that we are renowned for. In the larger context we would like to see more of from other cities and other counties and create a connected system that not only links the american river bike trail but also the city of fulsome -- folsom. If we were to do that we could have one of the most -- longest and biggest connected trail system not just in the united states but in the world. It's well over 200 miles. This would be something that would have tremendous health impacts but also very positive economic and tourism benefits and folsom is leading the way. I want to say thank you for your leadership, your standout in the region when it comes to cities and that sort of development we would truly like to see more of that and we are hopeful to be working with you over the next few years. >> thank you.>> I want to thank jim and bill for coming out. I had a long conversation earlier today. I think I provided more inclination than he was expected to proceed. There is already 50 miles in chennai. I think that's important. It's bob line about don't talk to yourself out of a consent item. I think everyone has been supportive of this. It's been too long of that real gpa. Folsom is continuing to build and we hope that we are serving as an example. >> thank you. >> already moved it. Second. >> roll call. >> this resolution is a city of folsom renaming scott wrote in the folsom plan area to east e. Bidwell st. And appropriation of funds for new freeway signs. >> I spoke to the city manager about this and I understand why we are doing it. We have scott street and scott road. We May hear from the history site later tonight. I understand why safety personnel wants to do this. I guess there is fear of confusion that at some point in time that businesses would address it on scott street and address scott wrote. Not the $50,000 is the end of the world but I would like to find other alternatives so we don't have to spend $50,000 on signs. I've lived here for a long time and I have seen scott road. I need more convincing on science to change the road. Is there something that we could do. Call it's out scott -- south scott? >> it would have to be north scott. >> north scott works for me.>> scott words do not align -- roads do not align. >> I was going to add I appreciate those concerns. We have done this in the past. We have renamed skala away from clarksville because we ended up with two clarksville broad stone or something like that. we are bad at :naming s%<2p,*qq*s.;_tmyZgy] I understand the need to do this. If we decide later to do this, it will get more expensive because once there are addresses on their there's additional hoops to jump through to pay for that disruption of those addresses. I understand the reluctance on the part of vice mayor hal -- vice mayor kerri howell. I will move the item. >> moved and seconded. >> roll call. >> I was not trying to get this to a tie. >> that motion fails for the lack of maturity. We will push that off and work on additional details. >> is nice to have a tie vote on occasion. >> last item on consent was a requested recusal by vice mayor kerri howell. I will move item 7I. >> second. >> roll call. >> that gets us through consent. With that next item. >> next item is old but the him eight letter a. This is ordinance 1261 and ordinance adding section 10 point 10.20 .280 and 10 point 10.20.470 10.20.4702 the tonight municipal code pertaining to parking and storage of vehicle, recreational vehicle and utility trailers. >> this is brought to you last September. Based on council feedback we are bringing this back to you for consideration. Let me start off by saying there is no change the original proposal limiting the parking of rv and utility trailers on city streets for up to 72 hours. For the residents the semi two- hour timeframe can be extended upon request for up to four times in a year. We are showing redlined to the staff report. Utility trailers must be moved 1 mile away from the original location. This is increase from the original proposal of half a mile based on council defect. If a provision is in for the towing after the third violation within a one-year period. With notice prescribed in the tonight municipal codes. It will give notice to the property owner. Based on feedback by neighborhood completes the proposal would prohibit parking of any vehicle on the front yard, side yard line, landscaped area visible from the public's right of way or grass unless they are part of a permanent driveway or parking space. They can still do that but have a paid service by the city. Lastly there must be 40% of long grass landscaping remaining in the front yard. This is to avoid situations we have a private residence with the entire front yard paved over with concrete for parking as you May see from time to time in some neighborhoods in san francisco. Hopefully we will not see that here in folsom. With that, I will answer any questions you May have. >> any questions? >> I have a comment. it irritates me when you move one mile from where the owner of the vehicle to somewhere where they don't of the vehicle. I am concerned about that. Most of the people I know they have storage. Sometimes businesses will come in grand appearance and we have provisions for that. As far -- I always that we had and ordinance from stopping on the grass. You take a trip down from montrose it's horrible. With these ordinances I believe you need enforcement. That has to stop. The renters do not want to be affected. You have to talk to the owners of the apartments who are absentee owners because that's a horrible deal. Everything else is pretty good but when you get in that one or two block it is tremendously bad. >> we work closely with quote enforcement -- code enforcement. We have a good tool to move forward without telling people to move without having the authority to rely on. >> I have a request to speak. >> the request is from casey. >> you want the general plan item? >> I was one of the council members you had comments about when we talked about it before as it relates to rvs and recreational vehicles. On my cul-de-sac there are eight houses. There are two houses for which I know completes have been filed. One of the houses there is no issue about the landscaping. that house is in a corner. I have never checked how far the recreational vehicles get moved. There are two other houses on my cul-de-sac. One of the houses when the house was flipped if you years ago the owners at the top of the cul-de- sac there is not a lot of front yard including my house because I am one of the two on the top of the cul-de-sac. One of the houses that never parks and rv or both in the driveway or on the street, if there's any landscaped area in front of their house it's not 40%. That's not a problem. One of the other neighbors -- one of the rvs return a few days ago but now it's gone today. In that location another section of driveway has been added that goes directly up to one of the front windows of the house. The rest of the landscaping has been removed. There are a few trees that were planted. That's all that is there. This house has a two-car garage. You can park at least four if not six cars in front of the garage. There is parking for a boat, motor home and several other vehicles that go up to the front door. There's a little strip of work with a few trees in it. I don't know how you include the rv parking with the illegally transformed what used to be a front yard into a parking lot. I don't have to be the guy to do that. >> that's exactly why this provision was added. >> you should have come back at the last council meeting because that was before the pavement was installed. >> this one resident has been a problem for 10 years at least. You know where I live. Go drive up the seat and you will see what I'm talking about. >> will see if there's any requirement >> probably not. >> we will check. >> any questions for steve? I think folks can tell there is a balance. Hopefully we are striking the right talents. We will see if there is an unintended consequence and we can address that. Thank you for your work on this steve. I know it's taken many swings. I think we have struck it out there now. With that no request to speak on the item. Let's entertain a motion for item 8 a. >> if it comes back -- >> I May have to bring it back. >> move the item. >> I did. >> with no stipulations. >> moved and seconded. >> roll call. >> with that next item. >> new business tonight is 98. This is a preliminary draft general plan workshop. >> mayor and city council I have few remarks. Then we will have chelsea were we are getting to know to come up and run through the presentation and give you more information that you can take a look at and give us direction as to where we go from here. Since you saw this draft on January 10, chelsea has been to our parking reparation commission, two historic district commission and also to the planning commission to make the presentation. As you would guess there were comments that came from those meetings not only from the commissions but also from people who attended those meetings. You have copies of all those comments including those that were added this evening. What we will do is to go back over and we familiarize you with the issues because some of these comments deal directly with the content of the policies. We also went like to let you know because we think it is important that since the January 10 city council meeting we have done considerable outreach. In February and March we printed newsletters that reached 20,000 residents and businesses. Without five articles in the weekly e newsletter. Each of them reaches 8000 subscribers. We also had five facebook twitter post resulting in a total reach to over 7000 social media users and they have reacted to the document in terms of likes and shares. We've also put out email blasts about the public meetings to the folsom 2035 website. We have had request to make presentations to a few others. i've made presentations on this issue. One question I thought I would preempt and bring up because it's been asked many times. It's good to clarify it. That is, what is meant by the planning area portion of the general plan map which extends beyond the city limits? If we look at this government code with relation to the general plan there is a section that says for purposes of determining the adequacy of your general plan you need to relate to any land outside of the boundaries of the planning agencies jurisdictional boundaries that might bear relation to its planning. There are two areas that are outside the city limits that are included. The first is that by borough eastern area which we know has been approved for development. We think that development will bear upon our city in various ways whether it's traffic or services or that sort of thing. It is important that we do conclude that and plan with them. The second area is the area south of white rock road which was included in the 2004 blueprint as a future urbanized area and it includes a large rock quarry mining operation. That will affect folsom. We've had lengthy discussions about truck traffic. There is no development or any proposal in the general plans for either of these areas other than a corporation yard. What we are doing is planning for areas that will affect our future and however that planning turns out to be in the future because whatever happens there will affect us. It's good to clear it up. A lot of people ask the question and say what you intend to do with those areas. We don't intend to do anything with those areas that are approved for development. We have no plans for white rock road but we know it's important to our boundaries. The message sent that this could be urbanized and we don't want people moving in doing that without us having a say in it. That's the reason those exist. The focus of tonight's presentation is to review the major content of that draft 2035 plan and seek counsel's consensus if any changes or additions to the plan May be included by the commission of public review and the comments you receive. If you do, we would go ahead and make those changes before we begin the environmental impact report. Want to make sure the total project description is there and we cover everything. We will have later hearings once that eir is that an there will be mitigation measures and recommendations for policy change that deal with the environmental impact of the document. It is customary for the environmental review to add medication and edits to the document in order to comply with the california environmental quality act. You have an opportunity when these hearings come up to make changes that you think are important and you will have the benefit of the environmental analysis to include in your decision making. Should you decide any of the major recommendations that you hear from the public and have it in writing than we would like that direction so we don't have to bring it back to you. Without further ado we have chelsea with a presentation. >> maybe chelsea will cover this. I think it's important for everyone watching this and wanting to participate is it's a timeframe issue. We will listen and have gotten many comments on this. We will hear more this evening. When would you expect to finalize council and put through all those comments? >> we have the comments now. If there's anything that stands out that you feel strongly about, we will deal with that now. Usually in these process the city council want the environmental review. They want to know what the impacts are. They want to know about big issues like traffic noise. I would say in 5 to 6 months we will have a draft ready to circulate. Not only do you have the comments but we are required to circulate that to state agencies and our neighbors in the area. We will have comments back whether it's a school district or surrounding jurisdiction or counties that surround us. We will have that back with the eir because they will have it. that's when you get the major public comment period in about 5 to 6 months we will bring back to you the draft eir that will be circulated and we will bring the comments to you so you'll be able to take a final vote on the document. This document is so important for the community that if there are changes you want we will take any time we need to to make it right. >> concerned that you will hear the input. There's a lot of input in this. This is not an easy reading document. This is technical. There are a lot of questions in there. I hope you don't expect me to make a decision tonight on what I hear. I will have to have some time to think about it. And in response to some of the things I've looked at to have an opinion on the direction how this is going, I'm not going to make any decision tonight to say that's happening and let's do it. It takes more thought. I'm saying from my point of view I've had a lot of questions to ask and I will hear the input. I think some of these attachments of people that have sent in a think they are outstanding. I don't agree with every single thing but the level of thought that flight in is great. I'm hoping you do not expect to get final guidance tonight. >> let me repeat myself. You do not vote to adopt this an attempt by law until you have the environmental document. I am saying if you received them input -- we are getting a lot of input. If there is anything that stands out that is clearly in the front of your mind and this has to be in the document that's what I'm looking for. You'll have plenty of time over the next six months to come back and say there are certain things you need changed in the document. Whether or not that affects the environmental review, we will react to that. What we want to do is take the majority of what we have and see if that is moving in the right direction so we can start the environmental work. You can't adopted until the environmental work is done. >> do we want have a consensus of all the five members as to the direction as we are going in this plan? I know you've been working on it for a long time. I'm saying take it easy. When the council considered in 1988 the saving of all the creeks in the park commission made that request it fell on deaf ears. They did not know what the heck we were talking about. When the plan came out it was in it. Today you can tell how good that idea was. We preserve our creeks and trails. It's important and you emphasize that. This is the future. I have concerns. I want to be sure -- >> 70% of this is directly out of the ada plan. We've done so many things so well let's not reinvented. let's build on what we have. The majority of the changes that I have seen and reading the ada plan and this one are things that are mandated. There is still issues that people have strong feelings about. We will do with the council wants us to do. Part of our job is to not only do that but keep these projects moving. I've taken 10 years to get this to you. I'm at your service as to what you want to do. >> I've been living here for 32 years. Time does not impress me. I know you are working hard and your consultants are working hard. I don't doubt that. This is a test document to read. >> I think it's an easy document to read. It is well written. I want to remind everyone this is not here for approval tonight. We are here for a workshop and to get input from a -- the public. If you have comments make them tonight but that does not mean that your last opportunity to say something. >> we used our pi owes. I've offered information pieces that she interpreted and put it in more layman's terms. Our consultant also did that. They have a subnetworks with our page and it is user friendly. All of the outlets that we have for our information at the city , we are using all of them. >> I would like to get a report on the engagement as far as the impression of that 2035. I would like to see the engagement level of that. >> we can provide that for you. >> any other questions for david before we get chelsea? Thank you david. It is a hard process. This is the first swing at receiving a lot of input. As you indicated there will be opportunities down the road. I will add that I have been impressed with what I have seen commentary. People are taking this seriously and spending a lot of time looking at this stuff. We as councilmembers appreciate that. Thank you david. >> good evening mayor and members of the council. I'm chelsea. I'm happy to be here you to present the draft general plan for the second time. David mentioned we are far along in the process. We've been at this for several years. Earlier this year we saw the preliminary draft as a general plan. This is a workshop tonight to present the comments we received over the past several months. We will be at this -- you will see a couple of additional drafts before we are here for the adoption hearing. I want to go over some of the process for the general plan update. There's a lot of early input that went into the work that we did on the draft general plan. We had our first workshop back of April back of April 2013 where we talked to the community members about opportunities, challenges and the vision of the future for here in folsom. We heard -- we also had a lot of interaction to the online town hall forum. There were 22 different topics posted on the forum will get feedback from the community and reviewed all of that feedback as we reviewed the general plan and develop new policies. We also published a worker survey that we sent out to the major employees here in folsom. We got 202 responses. That was asking people that May not live here in folsom don't work here. What amenities they enjoy about folsom and what they would like to see in the future. Looking not only at residence but I know capture the voice of employees here in folsom. We produced many documents throughout the process. They are listed here. All of these documents are available on the project website . There is a summary of the community workshop. Summary of the input we received through the online forum. A copy of the background report which is a detour existing condition report . David mentioned a lot of the publicity that we did after we released the draft general planning in January. I will go through that in detail but we have done our best to reach out to many people and a lot of people are aware of this process and have engaged and provided comments. It has been -- the caliber of the input from the community is impressive. following the January 10 meeting at the city council we published a preliminary -- preliminary draft plan and had meetings with the various commissions that david mentioned. All of that input and feedback we heard from the public is included in your packet. I want to highlight the major scenes of the preliminary draft general plan. >> I want to know -- note just showed eight when farm. There's no intention of having a wind farm in folsom. >> that is not in the vision. We will breeze over the winter farm. >> there are nine chapters of the draft general plan. >> you should breeze over the wind farm. >> the general plan draft has many topics it has if you optional topics like economic development, parks and recreation. I will mention the housing element while it's an element of your general plan if something updated as part of the general. Plan update because the city adopted that housing element in 2013. The housing element is on its own schedule. Once you adopt the rest of the general plan the housing element will be integrated and that's what makes it the whole general plan. >> will go through the major themes of each element. Land-use element covers a variety of topics. It has a large focus on maintaining and enhancing the quality of life and since of community here in folsom. It also focuses on supporting thriving urban centers. These are community gathering places throughout folsom. We've introduced a new overlay from the last presentation to council. We've introduced a mixed-use overlay that creates flexibility for property owners in the future that May be interested in doing a more mixed use logic. It doesn't affect the underlying or zoning but creates flexibility to do a new type of development. We've introduced the overlay around the transit station. The policies focus on creating complete and livable neighborhoods that provide a variety of quality housing choices. Also maintain the land-use supply for jobs and retail to make sure that folsom keeps a strong job base in a variety of goods and services. The policies guiding the urban design to make sure the development adds to the high- quality and create a memorable place in folsom. The mobility element has strong element. Thinking about streets not just moving cars but also serving cyclists and pedestrians and people of all ages and abilities. There is a large emphasis on improving sidewalks and trails and bikeways. One of the major policy changes in this draft general plan is to move from a level service fee . We did talk about that during the January counsel meeting. We can answer more questions on that. The ability to limit uses a working technology in corning with regional transit providers to improve light had railways and preserve a right away by score door south of 50. The economic prosperity element it focuses on maintaining folsom business climate and in housing social and cultural amenities that will attract the creative skills and innovative workforce. Coordinating with leaders in the technology senator check new technology start up businesses, investing in infrastructure such as fiber optics and coordinating with local regional state workers that support economic development and a large emphasis on promoting tourism. The natural and cultural resource element focuses on protecting natural and scenic resources and improving air quality. Preserving and protecting water quality and restoring and maintaining historic buildings and sites. There is also emphasis on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The plant is intended to service these climate action plans. The iarc will cover greenhouse emissions will provide streamlining benefits for future proposals that are consistent with the general plan. The public facility and service element addresses the whole range of public facilities and services from civic and educational services to water supply. There are many policies about what a conversation -- conservation. Reducing waste by supporting recycling and composting. The parks and recreation element and this is an optional element but still important here in folsom. This element focuses on maintaining the robust system of parks you have an folsom and developing new parks. Providing recreational programs, involving the community in the planning of the new parks and coordinating with state cocke county and other partner agencies. Leslie the safety and noise element focuses on emergency response and reducing risk from flood and wildfire. Managing and regulating hazardous materials and protecting presidents from excessive noise exposure. That's the whole range of topics addressed in the general plan. It is a lengthy document. Within our best to make it an easy to read document that we hope to be effective here in the future. As david mentioned and you can see in your staff report we received a lot of comments from the commissioner, members of the public that attended this commission meetings. We also received several public comment letters, emails and comments on the online form. All of that is summarized in your packet. I will highlight a few of those major themes that were brought up through the meetings and comments. The first is the idea to adopt a river district overlay. this would apply to the air surrounding the american river. The comment was by having this river district overlay the city could focus on expanding access to opening up the river and making the river more of an integral part of the city. So having more recreational opportunities and amenities along the river. The second comment that we heard and this is emphasized at parks and recreation commission meeting is the need to strengthen implementation programs related to parks and rec. There were comments that the body policy is strong but there was a need for additional implementation. Specifically a program to develop -- to look at opportunities to develop additional funding strategies and emphasize indoor recreational facilities. We received comment letters and their comments made at the meeting from the heritage preservation league about strengthening policies for historic preservation and several comments. One last comment is related to the mix overlay. There's a comment to extend that to apply to the entire quarter with all the way to the interchange. There are a lot of comments echo beyond this but these are some of the themes that were brought up many times through the meeting. With that, I will answer any questions you have about that draft general plan or presentation. >> thank you. any questions? >> I do have a number of questions. >> any questions for chelsea? >> I would like to hear the public. >> we do have a number of people to talk on this subject. >> we have loretta and kc. hello loretta. >> hello. It's nice to see all of you. We had a dozen or so historic 501(C)(3) And many of them find that they are nervous about entering into the political arena because of the regulations of the preserved text exempt status. That's what you don't have a big stack of cards from history people to speak tonight. Most of the comments at hpl are not all supported by the history organizations. I am not just speaking as heritage presentation league but for the many history people . >> thanks for forwarding those comments. >> it's helpful to see. It's easier for me to convince my speech. I'm trying to do that. There are a lot of things to say. Over arching and more serious concern is that this document is on the role of history and the future of folsom. I don't mean to imply that history is ignored in it but there are errors that need to be corrected. As much guidance as you can give the staff tonight you want the opportunity to save the trees because our comments will be coming back to the process. in doing the changes we are hoping for there are two big benefits for the city. Not just the history community. Our history is what distinguishes us from any town usa. Every town has a walmart and Mcdonald's but they don't have a folsom prism, powerhouse or mining trenches. The second wind is a current topic and that's the fact that our history is one of the factors that unify us with the entire community not just the 98 block area. When people see their roots they feel rooted. The areas south of highway 50 comes up that people are worried that that will be two separate cities. They won't be unified with the rest of us. There's a huge amount of history in the south area that if we make that visible the people will be feeling like they are part of the rest of the community because of a shared history. To piggyback on the city manager's metaphor we are sitting on the shoulders of the people on the past. If we make those shoulders visible both in writing and the visible things on the ground then we will be better unified as a city. >> do have a lot left? >> I have half a page. >> I am shortening some of it. What does hit a few highlights. Creating a new historic land use designation of some sort would address our concerns. The corporation needs to be identified at historic is where folsom began. Before -- that original town needs to be identified. The railroad and the federal pacific quarter need to be identified as historic. The ground mining site needs to be identified as historic open space. The draft description of folsom history of the historical society can help rectify. The master plan is called out for the historic preservation. You will see we have proposed a few specific changes that we would like to see to illustrate ways that the history could be further incorporated into the document. I wanted to conclude by saying we don't describe any bad intentions to anybody on this. The community development department is still recovering from the huge cutbacks that occurred in the recession. There is not a long-range plan on staff there now. We feel these were unwitting omissions and we look forward to having them included. In conclusion I would like to ask for a show of hands of people in the audience that feel this is valuable to folsom future. >> let the record reflect that there were many hands. >> anyone who wants to join hpl , I have the brochure. >> go ahead kc. >> a man eight year folsom President. Thank you for doing that plan. It's an important document. Most people do not understand it . If you are not in the business and you don't know how important it is they don't get involved. I did send you a letter. I want to reiterate some points that are important to me and many people. Future planning area caught you don't have to plan for future planning area. The fact that this happens to match up with land that is owned by the biggest developer is a stop for the city. You don't have to plan for or nor most people do not with you that type of development. Today it document came out from uc berkeley have the right type, the right place. It's about development and how much better it can be for the future of california. The document says if you do business as usual you will see a higher economic growth and more tax revenue and lower construction costs. California committee long-term objectives by building the right houses in the right places. We allow for reduced driving, less energy, less water and more compact transit good and services. This is the opposite of what would be achieved by the future planning. This is not what we want. We should remove the future planning area from the plan. >> to clarify what you are talking about is a future study area outside recently annexed area. >> want to make sure we understood. >> to point out there are different -- and what you are talking about is not owned -- it's not a subsidiary. >> the general plan has a lot of good planning practice. The future planning area that contradicts reducing the gas admissions. You have all those people driving in an out from out far into where folsom creating more traffic. That would defeat the goal of the general plan. The south 50 plan is a 20 year plan to build it out. Why are we planning for more growth will already have growth that has not even started. I would like to see the city invest more into the central business district and what you push out south of 50 and more's it draws people away. A good example is red robin. Red robin left. Without strong policies they will go to better areas. I would like to finally see the city is missing a golden opportunity. Our transit stops have parking lots around them. We should plan for future transit spots. We don't know what will happen. The toyota to a ship could redevelop and have a bunch of houses. We should be planning for transit development. I would like to direct the staff to pick up a planning area. >> thank you for your participation. >> your comments are outstanding. >> next speaker will be rob and then we will have will. >> good evening. >> good evening mayor and council members. I want to talk to and encourage you to look forward it to folsom future and modifying the 2035 plan to include the comments that were listed about an overlay of the river district or expansion of the river district. The river district could win from hazel all the way through prison property and expand on both sides providing an amenity that we don't have today. We have turned our back on the river in folsom. It's a way that development was that in the 1800s and now with the opportunity to embrace the river and provide a lot of major amenities. One is one of the most important that's keeping folsom in a small town feel. How do we do that as we grow? The biggest thing we can do to grow and maintain a small town feel is to create public gathering spaces. Public gathering spaces are spaces that connect people with nature, connect people with other amenities and promote consequential -- coincidental meetings. They armies between neighbors that we would not normally see. I May be walking down the road and run into arnie. This gives us a chance to meet. It keeps that small town feel. The river district has the ability to encourage a healthy lifestyle. One of the things I hear it gives the ability for people of all ages to access our rivers. I don't mean the bike trails. Some of those bike trails very few go to the riverfront. Finally our seniors can get back down there. I think that something missing. It also has economic impact. Having an accident like a river district has the ability to be an attractive for large businesses that are looking for a place to relocate. Not relocate to the district but relocating to folsom and give employees something special they can't get elsewhere. It keeps employees here. It also will provide an increase of property value inside the river district and the surrounding areas. Potentially adding an increase in sales tax revenue and a dramatic increase in tourism which will help drive additional revenue to the city. I understand that currently the land that we are talking about is convoluted and part of it is owned by the state and part of it by the city. The predominant amount of eight is leased from the federal government by the state of california. I think someone argued that is reason enough not to go down this road and we should not try it. There are many great cities in the united states including tennessee, oregon, pablo colorado and portland, oregon that have faced the same challenges where they had a state over encompassing over an area and they were able to show the federal government or state government how they were going to develop that lands and how to create an asset that surround this body of water. It's time to add folsom. We have a great city running through our backyard. in closing I encourage you to start the process now because it will take a long time to see this through with the state and the federal government and it's a big challenge. I know we are of fort and the residents are interested in it. As the council you have the power. Please add a river district to the folsom 2035 general plan. >> the next speaker is will and then joe. >> good evening. Tonight I'm here on behalf of as chair for the city's parks and recreation commission. The parks and rec commission received a presentation at our March 7 regular meeting regarding the city's general. Plan update. Commissioners were afforded the opportunity to comment on the draft plan and provide direct input. I also sent a letter to counsel summarizes commissioners comment and input and briefly restate that information this evening. Commission observation regarding the draft plan were focused on parks and recreation programs and commissioners were pleased to see references to the importance of these issues contained in the proposed vision and guiding principles for the general plan. We noted many references throughout the document to be important for the healthy lifestyle for city residents. Recognition of folsom is a premium destination. The commission did note that the proposed implementation programs contained in the draft update do not go far enough to ensure the overall objectives of the new general plan are met in terms of parks and recreation programs. The commission believe the draft general plan needs to be modified to add additional implementation strategies to achieve the goals and policies referenced elsewhere in the plan. Specifically therefore recommendations. One, as recognized in the draft plan outdoor recreation facilities are and interval part of folsom attractions not just for residents but for tourism and economic development. A strategy for maintaining existing outdoor facilities and promoting new expanded facilities need to be included in the plan. To that end pr 4.1.5 calls for enhancement of the river parkway in preparing core doors to increase public access for active recreation. The commission received testimony at the March meeting. The commission agreed with gold pr and suggest creation of a river district in the final general plan and inclusion of a mixed-use overlay for the district to preserve options for achieving that goal. The draft plan makes little reference to indoor sports facility development. This type of development will play a critical role in meeting recreation needs a city residents. Number three, the development of programs and initiatives to obtain alternative sources of funding for the acquisition, development and renovation of park lands of expanded recreation programs is essential to meeting the needs of city residents and maintaining folsom as a premium recreation and tours destination. They endorse and implementation strategy along these lines. Finally a governmental coordination strategy needs to be added to the final plan to ensure engagement and appropriate assistant from counties, state, school districts and federal agencies in achieving the goals and policies contained in the draft general plan. We appreciate the opportunity to present these recommendations. We do want to complement the staff for preparing a comprehensive general plan for council consideration. I would be happy to answer any questions. the next speaker is joe. Joe is followed by bill. >> good evening. It's hard to follow when tomorrow he is celebrating a special birthday without the bulging his age it's one of the numbers is a zero at the end. A happy birthday too well. It's a special birthday. [Applause] >> joe were presented folsom tours in. We are here to support the creation of the river district overlay. The river area for folsom is a great asset but currently underutilized. We believe it's an opportunity to have an incorporated in the general plan to enhance that area. We are in support of the parks and rec commission comments for designating areas that will enhance folsom. We have submitted a map depicting the area we thought might make sense for that. Lastly based on success public participation and planning efforts in areas such as portland which has created nationally recognized enhancement to its riverfront's , better increase public access the city of folsom has that opportunity to do that and embrace the water as part of our community. We encourage you to incorporate a river district overlay into the general plan and start the process once the general plan is adopted to look at what opportunities are there. >> thank you. >> next speaker is built. Bill will be followed by harriet. before you finish -- do you need these back? >> I will get them next time. I was watching the special presentation this evening about nancy pelosi. It was a two hour session. It seems that the federal government is hand stops he can't depend upon anything especially with the people that are going left out of the crowd that are brought in to make sure the billionaires get the raise. I have received the forbes magazine -- we are getting 200 billionaires per year on the forbes list. For someone who has a family that's been operating for many years has more money. What's going on the federal government has affected the state. I know what's going on because I'm close with jerry brown. What's going on is a zone where we are realizing as a nation the peak of the automotive industry. The millennial's have stopped buying cars and left out in the car because of uber. I mentioned last time having different types of transportation. If I took over it would be a longer ride. What I am realizing his how to combine american technology with americans who have managed to move and on 125-year-old bicycle industry. Michael is to buy bicycle. Once we get our health jerry brown has come up with a 28 our ruling for the bike lane. >> wrap it up. >> I've got a path. The path that you see berkeley. -- uc berkeley. >> thank you. Next speaker. >> we have harriet. thank you for coming out harriet . Welcome back. >> much has been said about parks and rec this evening. The arts come under the park and rec commission. I don't hear anything being said about the expansion of our public arts program for our educational programs that take place here in folsom. We have run out of space in the firehouse for the arts. We do need more room. We need more equipment. I would like someone to include the arts.>> we will add that to the indoor facilities wishlist. Thank you. Any further speakers? >> we have no further speaker request cars. >> we will close the public hearing. Before we get into general comments from counsel members any other specific questions for david or chelsea? Go ahead ernie. You have 30 seconds. >> lots of luck. First of all I go back to what I said in the beginning. I will argue with the engineer. The input we got from the speaker that did read it is fine and professional. I'm not criticizing the consultants. They did a good job. I still think it is technical. It's not for every tom, dick and harry to read this. I did not read the whole thing. I've had other things in my life in the last month. As I read this I say what are we doing? I look at this thing and it looks like we are going to a 200,000+ town. When I signed off back in 1985 I was looking at 75,000. When we moved to the south of 50 we will be at 150,000. The comment about don't let the white rock -- I have no intention of supporting anything past white rock. When you hear the comments of we have to protect our borders that's why we have south of 50. Now we have white rock road. There's a whole thousands of acres south of that. I don't have any intention supporting anything going that way. I'm saying this is a high technical agreement and the direction seems to be more and more and I don't believe bigger is better. I don't believe in that. I'm not so old-fashioned that I don't go for change. I will. We are heading for a 200,000+ community. I'm not sure that's what the people want. I don't think the average people -- bigger is not better in my mind. There are technical things and maybe you guys can tell me. It says new policy. First I ask myself what is new policy and what that means. It means it's not in the general plant where not operating today. I assume that's what it that means. Who leads the new policy? Is it the consultants, did it come from input from the residence, did it come from a standard that you have that you apply for planning? I want to know what that means. I thought the policy was made at counsel. What does it mean? How is it determined? We talk about historical preservation -- I taken issue with loretta. I'm not a lawyer. I represent a nonprofit 503c. As an individual I can say what I want. I can't say I represent my 503c. There is no reason for the whole crowd needing to testify. As long as they are not representing the organization. They are representing their views on history. When we talk about the historical society what answer did I get -- what answer did I get -- we can't get involved with politics. I have a problem. We have not done enough for the historical preservation. I think she is right. We don't have enough arts and culture. We need to do more. We are heavy on business. Maybe because we are looking for people or maybe the business needs more people. I'm not against growth. If somebody wants to go south of white rock that's fine. I don't think this town needs to be beyond 125 that we are at right now. Another thing is some technical remarks. It does not impact -- significantly impact -- what does significantly mean. If I get something next to my house and disturbs my quality of life is it significant? I will determine that. I'm not against million-dollar houses if you can afford it. Yeah people that want to come back cannot afford it. We need those $300,000 house. Get rid of the car and I know that's the trend. You can't get rid of the car. You can do a lot of good thing with bikes and walking. The trails are tremendous according to the park and brecht -- wreck. You can't get rid of the car. How will you carry two bags of groceries from trader joe on a bike? No you're not. You May have to make three trips with a basket or something. You have to -- the way this reads I know how much -- we have to recognize that the automobile at the time is going to be something. We need transportation and it's covered pretty well. These are some of the things I come across that I am reading. I'm not done. I May done for right now. I think the people I talked to -- I am not supporting the overlay for the river project. Do we need more drinking? I'm here to tell you I will fight to the end of my time for corporation. We want the restoration of our history. I will argue. I'm not with you that riverfront think. For now that's all I have to say. That's why I asked if this was final. I have to read this three times to understand to know where you are going. When I read this thing about the vehicle and the economic development. The plans should be driven by the desires from the people that are here. I could change this but I don't think so. I need to read it more. I think if you only read it once, you better read it again. Let me tell you if anything in that plan some years down the road someone will say it's in the plan. Whether you say it's temporary in the plan don't fool yourself. Someone will come up and say we are only following the plan. the next thing we know we have expansion of white rock. From a professional -- I do wonder -- I'm reading it and come back and say what does that mean. I have a masters degree. I'm not a complete idiot. Sometimes you can make it too lengthy. We want for people to understand . This is just my criticism. I think I read it like the average guy.>> roger? >> as I read this I've met with several of the stakeholders. A lot of the development companies who are in the process of south of 50 and I'm big on social media to gauge what the residents want and don't want. But then a good job as far as detailing the specifics on what they do want. The first thing -- I want to ask joe -- can put you in the hot seat? I've heard four folks today talk about the river district and what it can do to folsom. In your interpretation what's the vision that you push for that. Take the ideology of benefiting -- what's the vision? >> it could be anything. If