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Oakland City Planning Commission
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Mark McClure, Chair |
OCTOBER 20, 2004 Regular Meeting
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MEAL GATHERING 5:00 P.M.Off Broadway Cafe & Catering Co., Cafe Deli, 416 15th Street Open to the public at no charge. (Members of the public must pay for their own meals if desired. Purchase of meal is not required to attend.)
BUSINESS MEETING 6:30 P.M. Hearing Room 1, City Hall, One Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Persons wishing to address the Commission on any item on the agenda, including Open Forum and Director’s Report, should fill out a speaker card and give it to the Secretary prior to the convening of the meeting or prior to 8:30 p.m. for matters scheduled to be heard after 8:30 p.m. Speakers are generally limited to two minutes at the discretion of the Chair. Applicants and appellants are generally limited to five minutes. Agenda items will be called at the discretion of the Chair and not necessarily in the order they are listed on the agenda. However, a matter identified as an 8:30 p.m. item shall not be called until 8:30 p.m. or later. The order of items will be determined under "Agenda Discussion" at the beginning of the meeting. With the exception of Open Forum, a new item will not be called after 10:15 p.m., and the meeting will adjourn no later than 10:30 p.m. unless the meeting is extended by the Chair with the consent of a majority of Commissioners present. Please check with the Planning Department prior to the meeting regarding items that may be continued. Any agenda item may be continued, without the hearing on the matter being opened or public testimony taken, at the discretion of the Chair. Persons wishing to address the continued item may do so under Open Forum. Staff reports for items listed on this agenda will be available by 3:00 p.m. the Wednesday, one week before the meeting, to any interested party, at the Community and Economic Development Agency, Planning and Zoning Division, 250 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, California 94612. Reports are available at the Strategic Planning Division on the 3rd floor (Suite 3315), which closes at 5:00 p.m. Staff reports are also available on-line, generally one week prior to each meeting, at www.oaklandnet.com by searching "Frequently Visited Pages" located on the City of Oakland Homepage. Clicking on "Planning Commission Meetings" will open a menu of Planning Commission and Committee Agendas. Staff reports are available on the selected agenda by clicking on the highlighted case file number. For further information, please call 510-238-3941. While attending Planning Commission meetings parking in the Clay Street Garage is Free. Attendees should write Planning Commission on the back of the parking ticket.If you challenge a Commission decision in court, you may be limited to issues raised at the hearing or in correspondence delivered to the Zoning Division, Community and Economic Development Agency, at, or prior to, the hearing. Any party seeking to challenge in court those decisions that are final and not administratively appealable to the City Council must do so within ninety (90) days of the date of the announcement of the final decision.. ROLL CALL WELCOME BY THE CHAIR COMMISSION BUSINESS Approval of Minutes October 6, September 15, and August 18, 2004Correspondence City Council Actions Agenda Discussion Director's Report - Al’s Market, 3841 West Street – Clarify Staff Direction - Seventh Street "Infill Opportunity Zone" Committee Reports Commission Matters City Attorney's Report OPEN FORUM At this time members of the public may speak on any item of interest within the Commission’s jurisdiction. Speakers are generally limited to two minutes or less if they are six or less speakers on an item, and one minute or less if there are more than six speakers. CONSENT CALENDAR The Commission will take a single roll call vote on all of the items listed below in this section. The vote will be on approval of the staff report in each case. Members of the Commission may request that any item on the Consent Calendar be singled out for separate discussion and vote. PUBLIC HEARINGS The hearing provides opportunity for all concerned persons to speak; the hearing will normally be closed after all testimony has been heard. The Commission will then vote on the matter based on the staff report and recommendation. If you wish to be notified on the decision of an agenda item, please indicate the case number and submit a self-addressed, stamped envelop for each case. Planning Commission decisions that involve "major" cases (i.e., major variances, major conditional use permits) are usually appealable to the City Council. Such appeals must be filed within ten (10) days of the date of the announcement of the Planning Commission decision. If you challenge a Commission decision in court, you may be limited to issues raised at the public hearing or in correspondence delivered to the Zoning Division, Community and Economic Development Agency at, or prior to, the public hearing. Interested parties are encouraged to submit written material on agenda items in advance of the meeting and prior to the close of the public hearing on the item. To allow for distribution to the Commissioners, staff, and the public, 25 copies of all material should be submitted. Material submitted at least ten days prior to the meeting may be included as part of the agenda packet; material submitted later will be distributed at, or prior to, the meeting. To ensure that material is distributed to Commissioner, it should be received by the Commission Secretary no later than 48 hours prior to the meeting and preferably earlier.
APPEALS The Commission will take testimony on each appeal. Following testimony, the Commission will vote on the report prepared by staff. Unless otherwise noted, the decisions in the following matters are final and not administratively appealable. Any party seeking to challenge these decisions in court must do so within ninety (90) days of the date of the announcement of the final decision. If you challenge an appeal in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues raised at the appeal hearing, or in written correspondence received by the Zoning Division, Community and Economic Development Agency at, or prior to, the appeal hearing. ADJOURNMENT By 10:30 P.M. unless a later time is agreed upon by a majority of Commissioners present.
GARY V. PATTON Deputy Director of Planning and Zoning
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