2013/03/25 City Council MinutesMINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING
OF THE CITY OF ROHNERT PARK
City Council
Monday, March 25, 2013
Rohnert Park City Hall, Council Chamber
130 Avram Avenue, Rohnert Park, California
1. CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING - CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL
Mayor Stafford called the City Council special meeting to order at 6:00 pm, the notice for
which being legally noticed on March 21, 2013.
Present: Pam Stafford, Mayor
Joseph T. Callinan, Vice Mayor
Gina Belforte, Council Member
Jake Mackenzie, Council Member
Absent: Amy O. Ahanotu, Council Member
Staff present: City Manager Gonzalez, Assistant City Manager Jenkins, Assistant City
Attorney Barnhill, Deputy City Attorney Visick, City Clerk Buergler, and Interim
Director of Development Services Ponton.
2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Led by City Clerk Buergler.
3. PUBLIC HEARING
APPEAL OF PLANNING COMMISSION CERTIFICATION OF THE REVISED
FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (EIR) AND APPROVAL OF
THE SITE PLAN AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW AND SIGN PROGRAM
APPLICATIONS FOR WALMART STORE EXPANSION PROJECT
Interim Director of Development Services Ponton presented the item. Leonard Reporting
Services provided transcription services. Consultants Grant Gruber, Michael Brandman
Associates; Zachary Matley, W- Trans; and Greg Tonkovich, Michael Brandman
Associates, were available for questions. Debora Quick with Morgan Lewis representing
Walmart was available to answer questions. Recommended Action: Staff recommends
City Council take the following actions:
1) Consider and approve the request of the applicant to recirculate the portions of the
Draft EIR that were revised in response to the trial court decision and direct staff
to recirculate those revised portions of the Draft EIR; and
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2) Adopt Resolution 2013 -049 to (1) rescind and set aside the action by the Planning
Commission on January 24, 2013 to certify the Revised Final EIR, adopt the
Mitigation Monitoring Program and Statement of Overriding Considerations, and
approve the Site Plan, Architectural Review and Sign Program for the Walmart
Expansion project and remand the project application back to the Planning
Commission for action upon completion of the recirculation of the revised
portions of the Draft EIR and completion of the Final EIR; and (2) deny the
appeals as recirculation of the revised portions of the Draft EIR negates the need
to consider further and the appeals are therefore moot.
Public Hearing Opened: 6:18 pm
Michael Vosler spoke against the Walmart expansion.
Matthew Weinstein spoke in favor of recirculating.
ACTION: Moved /seconded (Mackenzie /Belforte) Approving the request of the
applicant to recirculate the portions of the Draft EIR that were revised in
response to the trial court decision and direct staff to recirculate those
revised portions of the Draft EIR.
Motion carried 4 -0 -1 unanimous vote (Ahanotu Absent).
ACTION: Moved /seconded (Belforte /Callinan) Approving resolution 2013 -049 of
the City Council of the City of Rohnert Park to (1) rescind and set aside
the action by the Planning Commission on January 24, 2013 to certify the
Revised Final EIR, adopt the Mitigation Monitoring Program and
Statement of Overriding Considerations, and approve the Site Plan,
Architectural Review and Sign Program for the Walmart Expansion
project and remand the project application back to the Planning
Commission for action upon completion of the recirculation of the revised
portions of the Draft EIR and completion of the Final EIR; and (2) deny
the appeals as recirculation of the revised portions of the Draft EIR
negates the need to consider further and the appeals are therefore moot.
Motion carried by a 4 -0 -1 unanimous vote (Ahanotu Absent).
Public Hearing Closed: 6:25 pm
4. PUBLIC COMMENTS
5. ADJOURNMENT
Mayor Stafford adjourned the special meeting at 6:25 pm.
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