LA JOLLA SHORES ASSOCIATION (LJSA) Meeting Minutes March 14, 2007

Next Meeting: LJSA Meeting Wednesday, April 11, 2007 7 pm at Summer Auditorium at Scripps Institute of Oceanography.  Present:  Andrea Dahlberg, Ken King, Sherri Lightner, Sharon Luscomb, John Metzger, Isabelle Tihanyi, Greg Salmon, Shirley Goddard, Mary Coakley, Todd Lesser, Andy Coy.  Absent: Carol DuPont, Jim Heaton, Joe Dicks, and Sue Weissman. 

A. CHAIR Sherri Lightner called the meeting to order at 7:04 pm.  Attendance was recorded.  Minutes from January, February 7^th and 14^th 2007 were approved. 

1. LJSA Bylaws-Sherri Lightner added a role call to the LJSA meetings.  Sherri reminded the group of the bylaws requiring attendance-absent 5 times in a year is dismissal from the Board and 3 meetings in a row absent is also a potential dismissal from the Board.

2. LJSA Board Position filled-Pat Nissan was voted in to replace Charlie Williams place on the LJSA Board.

3. Princess Street Traffic Signal-CPA has approved.

4. Via Capri Traffic Calming - one portion was approved by CPA.

5. Commercial Center Parking-will be heard at the March 15 supplemental CPA meeting. 

6. Chabad Project-Sherri requested permission to solicit a City Attorney opinion on whether a preschool is permitted use in the single-family neighborhood.  It is considered an entitlement without a conditional permit.  Motion was made for Sherri to prepare the letter to the City Attorney and to also clarify that the waiver notice on the property is not the correct notice.  MOTION. Approved (King 11-0-0). 

7.  Advisory Board Appointments-Keely Sweeney and Sherri Lightner to make sure Board has enough participants.  Will add to next months docket a vote to change the location of the meetings to La Jolla.

8. SIO Conference Center - low attendance for the community meeting last month.  The Project is scheduled to be reviewed by Coastal Commission in April. 

9. Venter Institute-update will be provided to the LJSA  Board in 60-90 days with details and drawings.

10. LJSA Board appointed position to CPA-Sherri appointed Tim Lucas to represent LJSA on CPA.  This action was ratified by the Board.

11. Parking District Board Vacancy-LJSA needs to appoint a LJSA Board member to be our alternate on the Parking District Advisory Board.

12. Site 653 no update at this meeting.  Upcoming issues are Waste Claim scheduled for 5/11/07 and Summary Judgment scheduled for 4/13/07.  Alex Varon mentioned that there are still funding opportunities/needs for funding this lawsuit.  Please check out www.trlu.org for additional information on funding opportunities. 

13. The LJ CPA bylaws were approved –attendance to one meeting provides eligibility to vote.  Please see their website for further information (www.lajollacpa.org).  To become a member, you only need to attend one meeting and fill out an application.  To be a trustee, you need to attend three meetings.  New Bylaws increased the number of Board members by 4 positions for a total of 22.

B.  TREASURY.  Beginning balance of $4,687.16-additions of $780 and expenditures of $1,311.23 primarily from the newsletter.  Ending balance $4,155.93.

C. POLICE REPRESENTATIVE-Lt. Brian Ahearn updated the group on neighborhood auto thefts and burglaries. His department is working with the city on potential signage for the LJ Shores area to watch out for these types of crimes.  The potential signage will be presented at a future LJSA meeting.  Lt. Ahern mentioned that there would be increased enforcement in the Beach communities due to the 6 weeks of upcoming spring breaks for schools.

D. STREETSCAPE AGREEMENT PROPOSAL-Sherri Lightner provided update for Joe Dicks in his absence.  Gary Pence is working on landscape agreement and maintenance of the map agreements.  The LJSA agreed to have Sherri Lightner continue to work on this. 

E. OVERSIGHT OF THE MAP (KELLOG PARK) MAINTENANCE AND FUDNING-Mary Coakley provided update on the map project.  Still need funding of approximately $75k for the project.  A proposed maintenance fund is $50K which the city has requested direct access to the funds.  Friends of the map and LJSA are not in favor of this and Mary will be bringing full docs to the LJSA to be in charge of issues.  At April LJSA meeting a vote will be taken on oversight of the map.

F. BASE ZONE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS AND THE LA JOLLA SHORES PLANNED DISTRICT ORDINANCE-Rob Whittemore presented his findings on the Base Zone requirements in La Jolla Shores.  Motion that LJSA requests that the City Attorney, Michael Aguirre, require the Development Services Department to apply forthwith the existing Base Zone Development Regulations of Chapter 13 of the Land Development Code as required by the La Jolla Shores Planned District Ordinance to all development projects the La Jolla Shores Planned District, including floor area ratio and set-back requirements.  MOTION. Approved Be it resolved, the La Jolla Shores Association requests that the City Attorney, Mike Aguirre, require the Development Services Department to apply forthwith the existing Base Zone Development Regulations of Chapter 13 of the Land Development Code as required by the La Jolla Shores Planned District Ordinance to all development projects in the La Jolla Shores Planned District, including floor area ratio and setback requirements.  (King  8-1-1).  

G. LA JOLLA PARKING AND MANAGEMENT PLAN- Ken King presented the latest draft of the plan.    The La Jolla Parking District’s members consist of 3 from Promote La Jolla, 2 from Councilmember Scott Peter’s office, 2 from LJSA, 1 from LJTC and 1 from Bird Rock Community Council.  This committee has come up with their draft based on solicited input from community members, walk-abouts, other communities and the input of Dr. Shoup.   City Hall will make the final decision on the parking plan.  The plan calls for Kiosk mechanisms for parking, residential parking permits and enforcement in the Beach and Village areas of La Jolla.  The proposed plan will use some of these revenues to purchase GPS, more parking garages and shuttle services in the long-term plan.  The goal of the plan is to create 10-15% vacancies in the most congested parking areas.  Dr. Shoup has written a book on this type of parking plan and will be speaking on 3/21/07 at the Sherwood Auditorium.  Many members of the community attended this LJSA meeting to share their concerns/opinions on this plan.  Some of the issues raised were local employees taking up too many spaces and the need for employers to provide more parking options to employees, the concern of local residents having to pay another tax for parking in their own neighborhoods.  Questions were raised about doing studies on the vacancies in local parking garages and where the additional revenues brought in from this proposal will go in the city and whether the parking board will come to LJSA for a vote on this as it gets closer to a final draft.  The lack of parking enforcement was also raised as an issue.  An update will be provided at the April LJSA meeting on next steps.

Meeting adjourned 9:58 pm                    Respectfully submitted by Sharon Luscomb, recording secretary