MINUTES

A) CALL TO ORDER

B) SALUTE TO THE FLAG

C) ACTION OUT OF CLOSED SESSION

D) ORAL COMMUNICATION
During Oral Communications, the public is given the opportunity to directly address Council with regard to Agenda Items (including Consent Calendar), as well as on any issue of interest to our community at large. Please provide your name & address for the record, and limit your comments to three minutes. Thank you for your cooperation

E) ADOPTION OF MEETING AGENDA

F) COUNCIL REQUESTS AND IDEAS FOR DISCUSSION

G) CONSENT CALENDAR
The following items listed on the Consent Calendar are considered routine and are approved by a single motion. The Mayor or any member of the City Council or of the public may request that any item listed under the Consent Calendar be removed and action taken separately. In the event that an item is removed from the Consent Calendar, it shall be considered in its numerical order.

1) Accounts payable for the period ending Thursday, July 30, 2009.
($16,747.55)
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve payables.

2) Minutes of the July 21, 2009 regular City Council meeting.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approve Minutes.

3) Adopt an Ordinance to amend Title 15, Chapter 15.50 titled Board of Appeals, of the Calistoga Municipal Code to clarify, streamline and improve program implementation.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt Ordinance.

H) PUBLIC HEARING
4) Consideration of Resolutions to amend the General Plan Land Use Map and Land Use Element and Ordinances to amend the Zoning Ordinance Map and Zoning Ordinance, specifically the Community Commercial District. The subject property is located at 963/965 Silverado Trail (APN 011-050-043) within the High Density Residential Land Use Designation and “R3” Residential/Professional Office Zoning District. (Link includes attachments 1-4)

Attachment 5 - Applicant Letter, Attachment 6 - General Plan Land Use Map Figure LU-4, Attachment 7 - General Plan Overlay Districts, Attachment 8 - General Plan Land Use Designation Summaries, Attachment 9 - Zoning Disrict Map, Attachment 10 - RS Residential/Professional Zoning District, Attachment 11 - "I" Light INdustrial Zoning District, Attachment 12 - Commercial Land Use Districts, Attachment 13 Planning Commission Staff Report and Minute Excerpt

RECOMMENDED ACTIONS:
A.     Adopt a Resolution approving a General Plan Land Use Map Amendment 
        redesignating the subject property from High Density Residential to 
        Community Commercial.
B.     Adopt a Resolution approving a General Plan Land Use Element Text Amendment 
        to the Entry Corridor 2 Downvalley Silverado Trail.
C.     Introduce Ordinance amending the Zoning Map redesignating the subject p
        roperty from “R3” Residential/Professional Office to “CC” Community 
        Commercial–Design
        District and waiving its first reading.
D.     Introduce Ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance to allow wineries and 
        bicycle sales, rentals and tours as conditionally permitted uses with the 
        “CC” Community Commercial-Design District and waiving its first reading.

5) Consideration of Resolutions to adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration, to grant an exception to the wastewater connection requirements to allow individual septic systems, and to approve a Tentative Parcel Map to divide a 9.70-acre parcel into four lots. The subject property is located on Grant Street (APN 011-390-035) within the “RR”, Rural Residential Zoning District.

Attachment 1 - Vicinity Map, Attachment 2 - Draft Resolution approving Mitigated Negative Declaration, Attachment 3 - Draft Resolution approving Wastewater Exception, Attachment 4 - Draft Resolution approving Tentative Parcel Map, Attachment 5 - Planning Commission Staff Report & Minute Excerpt, Attachment 6 pg 1, pg 2- Project Plans

RECOMMENDED ACTIONS:
A.     Adopt a Resolution adopting a Mitigated Negative Declaration.
B.     Adopt a Resolution approving a Wastewater Exception.
C.     Adopt a Resolution approving a Tentative Parcel Map.

I) CITY MANAGER REPORTS 
    • Low Vision Group Meeting on Thursday, August 21st (1:30 PM, Rancho de 
       Calistoga Club Room). 
    • Climate Action Plan joint Planning Commission/Community Resources 
       Commission public meeting August 5, 2009 at 5:30 p.m. at the Community Center. 
    • State Budget update. 
    • Urban Design Plan/Merchant sub-committee update. 
    • Hispanic Community Meeting at the Community Center, August 11th at 6:30 p.m.

J) CITY COUNCIL ADJOURNMENT
To the next scheduled regular meeting of the Calistoga City Council, on Tuesday, August 18, 2009, Calistoga Community Center, 1307 Washington Street, 7:00 p.m.

Susan Sneddon, City Clerk

COPIES OF ALL STAFF REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS subject to disclosure that relate to each item of business referred to on the agenda are available for public inspection the Monday before each regularly scheduled City Council meeting at the City of Calistoga City Hall (first floor), located at 1232 Washington Street, Calistoga, CA. Any documents subject to disclosure that are provided to all, or a majority of all, of the members of the City Council regarding any item on this agenda after the agenda has been distributed will also be made available for inspection at the City Clerks Office during regular business hours."
NOTICE: If you challenge a city’s zoning, planning, or other decision in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Council at, or prior to, the public hearing. Judicial review of any City administrative decision may be had only if a petition is filed with the court not later than the 90th day following the date upon which the decision becomes final. Judicial review of environmental determinations may be subject to a shorter time period for Litigation, in certain cases 30 days following the date of final decision.
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