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HomeMy WebLinkAbout08/12/14 CAC Minutes City of Central Point Citizens Advisory Committee Minutes August 12,2014 I. MEETING CALLED TO ORDER AT 6:00 P.M. II. ROLL CALL Present were: David Painter, Larry Martin, and Linda Reel Also in attendance were: Tom Humphrey, Community Development Director, and Karin Skelton, Planning Secretary. III. BUSINESS IV. MINUTES V. PUBLIC APPEARANCES -None VI. DISCUSSION rte,; Tom Humphrey introduced the Concept plan for CP4D. He explained the conceptual plans are to help identify the land uses in the UGB area. The concept plan is to refine and define the urban reserve areas. It is used as a guide and does not have any force of law. It will be presented to the City Council for their agreement to the proposed land use for the area. Mr. Humphrey informed the Committee that CP4D was mostly located in the flood plain and would be left as open space. It would allow the city to move up to CP1, which is planned to provide employment based land use. Mr. Humphrey stated that the biggest issue with CP1 would be getting water out there. An Interim water agreement has been prepared by Don Burt which provides that business owners in CP1 would have to demonstrate their ability to provide adequate water and once the City had water service out there they would be required to connect to city water. The committee inquired about the roads in the CP4D. Mr. Humphrey stated that there were no plans for new roads in CP4D, just extension of existing ones. They mentioned possible uses for the open spaces. Extending the greenway, a dog park and picnic areas were mentioned. Mr. Humphrey stated that another consideration as land becomes urbanized is irrigation. This needs to be considered so that irrigation continues to be available where needed. Currently CP4D does not have any irrigation canals. CP1 currently uses creeks to irrigate so there would be no adverse effects if the land is developed. CAC Minutes August 12, 2014 Page 2 Mr. Painter asked about the timeline for improving the Pine Street interchange. Mr. Humphrey advised the Committee that as it was originally the first interchange to be re- done, ODOT does not think it necessary to do major changes. Linda Reel asked about changes in the Municipal Code regarding signs. Mr. Humphrey informed the Committee that changes had been made to Chapter 15 to comply with the State Building Code, and signs had been separated from those changes in order to research and assess the issues involved. He stated that electronic signs were not something that the City wanted to see and that currently signs were being reviewed and allowed on an individual basis. Additionally it was planned that banners would be allowed but only on a temporary basis. The Committee mentioned some of the older signs around the downtown area that were in disrepair and stated they would like to see those maintained better. Mr. Humphrey advised the Committee on the issues of medical marijuana dispensaries within the city. He stated that once the current moratorium was over, if the City was allowed to prohibit them it would. However if dispensaries are legalized they would need to be restricted. There are currently a few areas where they would have to be allowed but the number of dispensaries would be very few. Mr. Humphrey updated the Committee regarding current activities in the City. He informed them that currently both the Point and Bobbio's have sidewalk café permits allowing them to serve food and beverages at sidewalk tables. He added that some local business owners had been working with a marketing consultant to create brand images and were hopeful that their lead would ignite the enthusiasm of other business owners. VII. MISCELLANEOUS VIII. ADJOURNMENT 7:15 meeting was adjourned. The foregoing minutes of the August 12, 2014 Citizens Advisory Committee were approved by the Citizens Advisory Committee at its meeting of . ))&1-- , 2014. 211414-'-- Chairman