City Council Meeting Agenda Highlights
Highlights from the upcoming City Council Agenda:
Public comments will be heard at the beginning of the meeting. Members of the public are allowed 3 minutes per agenda item and 3 minutes for non-agenda items.
CONSENT CALENDAR
All matters listed under Consent Calendar are considered by the City Manager to be routine and will be enacted by one roll call vote. Therefore, there will be no discussion of these items unless a member of the City Council or the public request specific items to be removed from the Consent Calendar for a separate discussion.
Item 2.3 – Warrant and Wire Transfer Resolution
Below is page 1 of 2 showing the expenditures. For the complete list click on Item 2.3.
Item 2.6 – Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance No. 22-07 Approving Zone Change to Provide New Citywide Regulations for Residential Beekeeping
Will the City Council revisit and possibly lower the beekeeping license fee of $300 for the first year and $75/year renewal fee every year after to encourage more registrants?
For background information, click HERE.
Item 2.7 – Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance No. 22-08 Approving A Zone Change to Rezone the Village of Los Olivos (Planning Area 39) From 2.4 To 2.4h
An Ordinance of The City Council of The City of Irvine, Approving Zone Change Increasing the Maximum Residential Cap By 330 Dwelling Units and Rezoning the Subject Property to Medium-high Density Residential; Located at the Northeast Corner of Encanto and Dana in Planning Area 39 (Los Olivos); Filed by Irvine Company
Item 2.8 – Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance No. 22-09 Regarding the Police Department’s Acquisition and Use of Military Equipment
The staff Memo from the first reading reads “… “Public Safety is seeking City Council approval to continue using military equipment as defined by AB 481 that was acquired prior to January 1, 2022. Public Safety is also seeking City Council approval to obtain additional equipment in the future. All current and future equipment will adhere to the new ordinance requirements.”
PUBLIC HEARINGS
Item 3.1 – A Resolution of The City Council of The City of Irvine Finding the General Plan 2021-2029 Housing Element Update Consistent with the Purposes of The State Aeronautics Act and Overrule the Orange County Airport Land Use Commission’s Determination that the 2021-2029 Housing Element Update Is Inconsistent with the 2008 John Wayne Airport Environs Land Use Plan
The City submitted the 2021-2029 Housing Element update (HEU) to the Orange County Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC) for a consistency determination with the Airport Environs Land Use Plan (AELUP). The ALUC conducted a hearing on the matter on January 20, 2022, and found the HEU was inconsistent with the AELUP for the following reasons:
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- Section 2.1.1 Aircraft Noise that the “aircraft noise emanating from airports may be incompatible with general welfare of the inhabitants within the vicinity of an airport.”
- Section 2.1.2 Safety Compatibility Zones in which “the purpose of these zones is to support the continued use and operation of an airport by establishing compatibility and safety standards to promote air navigational safety and to reduce potential safety hazards for persons living, working, or recreating near JWA.”
- Section 2.1.4, and PUC Section 21674 which state that the Commission is charged by PUC Section 21674(a) “to assist local agencies in ensuring compatible land uses in the vicinity of … existing airports to the extent that the land in the vicinity of those airports is not already devoted to incompatible uses,” and PUC Section 21674(B) “to coordinate planning at the state, regional and local levels so as to provide for the orderly development of air transportation, while at the same time protecting the public health, safety and welfare.”
On March 8, 2022, the City Council authorized staff to formally provide notice to the ALUC and the State Division of Aeronautics of the City’s intent to overrule the ALUC inconsistency finding and the City Council will be voting on this resolution to overrule the ALUC’s determination tonight.
Item 3.2 – A Resolution of The City Council of The City of Irvine, Approving the Amended Adopted 2021-2029 Housing Element in Its Current Form
COUNCIL BUSINESS
Item 4.2 — A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Irvine to Express Support for The Mental Health Justice Act Of 2021
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2 Comments
Branda Lin
May 10, 2022 at 11:56 amRe: Consent Item 2.3, I don’t know much about the iShuttle service and its needs. But an expenditure of over $654k stands out. Curious to know what this line item entails and what the ridership for the iShuttle is.
Kevin Corrigan
May 10, 2022 at 1:00 pmBranda Lin, this is the written comment that I submitted this morning, which contains an overview of the expenditure. This written comment follows a written comment that I submitted via email on April 6th for the April 12th City Council meeting. “In 1990, by a vote of the people of the State of California, the City of Irvine “cleverly obtained” and secured $121.3 million to invest in a fixed-rail guideway demonstration project. At the time, the leadership of the City of Irvine believed that it was most important to “put the money to use [immediately in order to not] put the money at risk.” The Orange County Transportation Authority (“OCTA”) invested the $121.3 million, upon receipt, into county-wide capital projects. In January 2011, the City of Irvine sought a full exchange of these funds over an extended period of time through match reduction in operation expenditures, a concept that the OCTA was not entirely comfortable with at the time. As the City of Irvine expressed interest in using these funds for operation expenditures rather than capital projects, the OCTA approved an agreement that provided a thirty-year funding stream for ninety percent of January 2011 iShuttle operation expenses, with the City of Irvine funding the remaining ten percent of iShuttle operation expenses. The OCTA’s initial maximum annual obligation of ninety percent of January 2011 iShuttle operation expenses has increased by three percent, every year. Before the City Council is an authorization of $654,569.03 of a budgeted $762,471 allocation for contract services. This appropriation is more significant in the adopted FY 2021-22 budget, marked by an increase of $642,449.00 between FY 2020-2021 and FY 2021-2022, as OCTA will purchase 12 replacement vehicles in the iShuttle fleet. Vice Mayor Kuo raised several concerns at two recent City Council meetings regarding the viability of continued operation of iShuttle services and it would be irresponsible for the OCTA to purchase 12 replacement vehicles in the iShuttle fleet and the City of Irvine to authorize payment of the required match for replacement vehicles, if the City of Irvine intends to terminate or modify iShuttle services in the near or immediate future.”
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