Tuesday, 12-3- City Council meeting, 5 PM, Hybrid. You can find the
agenda packet at https://pinoleca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/64/files/agenda/739 .
There are no closed session items- so you should expect the meeting to start at 5.
There are three proclamations, for Remembering Robert Walker (page 7), Honoring First Responders for their exemplary life-saving efforts on October 8th (page 8), and Honoring Matt Avery on His Retirement (page 9).
Then there’s the consent calendar- There are the normal warrants (but not the minutes), a resolution to update the master salary schedule to adjust for the minimum wage increase in the new year for seasonal/temporary positions (from $16 to $16.50 in the minimum wage, and by proportional amounts in higher steps- see page 27) (net fiscal impact $2312.25, page 21), and second read and adoption of Pinole Municipal Code and Specific Plan Amendments related to Housing Element Programs No. 10, 12 and 15, and Regulatory Consistency. Copying over the relevant points from when the planning commission considered this on September 9th- (see pages 74-78 for a summary, pages 30-31 for the ordinance, pages 33-73 for details with pages 123-4 flagging the particular housing element programs). To quote the highlighted parts of pages 123-4- “Investigate Density Bonus beyond state law.”(page 123), “Amend the Emergency Shelter ordinance to comply with AB 139 and to ensure that standards for emergency shelters are subject to the same standards as other uses in
the same zone and parking requirements are based on staffing levels only.
• Amend the zoning ordinance pursuant to Government Code Section 65583 to allow
for Low Barrier Navigation Centers by right in areas zoned for mixed uses and
nonresidential zones that permit multifamily uses.
• Amend the zoning ordinance in RMU to permit manufactured homes on permanent
foundations as if they were single-family homes.”(page 123), “Review and revise standards and definitions for both group homes and residential care facilities to ensure that they are fully compliant with all appropriate state laws
and that there are no constraints on group homes in the Zoning Code. This includes
an amendment to allow group homes in the R zone as a permitted use by right as is
allowed in all other residential zones and adding a definition of group residential to
the Zoning Code.
• Review the definition of family and revise as appropriate to ensure that the definition
does not require, or imply that it requires a single lease or rental agreement.
• Amend the zoning ordinance to comply with state density bonus law (California
Government Code section 65915). Specifically the update will increase the maximum
density bonus from 35 to 50 percent, add student housing as a housing type that is
eligible for density bonus incentives, reduce parking from 2 to 1.5 spaces for two and
three bedroom units and from 2.5 to 2 spaces for four or more bedroom units. The
City is complying with state density bonus law though the code is not yet updated.” (pages 123-4), and “Lower the approval authority of entitlements for all Density Bonus projects from City Council to Planning Commission.” (page 124). There is also the planning commission’s resolution on pages 125-6.
There is one public hearing item- First reading of an ordinance amending chapter 10.56 “speed zones” of the Pinole Municipal code, with a resolution to accept a traffic speed survey and establish new speed limits- Pinole Valley Road from Tennent Ave to Granada Ct going from 30 to 25 MPH, Pinole Valley Road from Granada Ct to Simas Ave going from 35 to 30 MPH, San Pablo Avenue from Oak Ridge Rd to Sunnyview Dr going from 35 to 25 MPH, and San Pablo Ave from Sunnyview Dr to the West city limit going from 40 to 30 MPH, and additionally Pinole Valley Road from Simas Ave to the city limits going from 35 to 30 MPH (see page 128 for the relevant table, fiscal cost not stated, reported as minimal (128). Resolution on pages 129-30, Report on pages 132-193, ordinance on pages 194-197).
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person at Pinole City Hall, 2131 Pear St.
Rafael Menis for Pinole City Council 2022 