Review and Action on
Draft City Council Agenda for October 25,
2005.
Action:
All
items approved for placement on the agenda with the following
additions, deletions or changes:
Moratorium
on Issuance of Massage Parlor Permits
From: City Manager
Recommendation:
Adopt a Resolution directing the City Manager to impose a moratorium on
issuing new massage parlor permits for a one-year period effective
immediately and ending October 25, 2006.
Financial Implications: See report
Contact: Phil Kamlarz, City Manager, 981-7000
Action: Moved to November 15, 2005.
Purchase
Order: Vehicle Replacement
From: City Manager
Recommendation:
Adopt a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a purchase
order with San Francisco Toyota in an amount not to exceed
$137,852.58 to purchase six Toyota Prius Hybrid vehicles for the
City of Berkeley fleet.
Financial Implications: Equipment Replacement Fund - $22,975
Contact: Claudette Ford, Public Works,
981-6300
Action: Approved as amended.
Amending
“By Right” Residential Additions and Definition of a Story in
the Zoning Ordinance
From: Councilmembers Olds and Wozniak
Recommendation:
Refer to the Planning Commission the following issue for discussion and
return to the City Council within 120 days with recommendations for
proposed modifications to the language of the Zoning Ordinance: 1)
an addition of up to 700 sq. ft within the required setbacks be
permitted on the first floor of a residence, by right with a zoning
certificate; 2) an addition of up to 500 sq ft. to a second story
and higher stories require an Administrative Use Permit; 3) clarify
the language in the Zoning Ordinance on how many feet constitute a
story in residential construction.
Financial Implications: None.
Contact: Betty Olds, Councilmember District
6, 981-7160 and Gordon Wozniak, Councilmember District 8, 981-7180
Action: Moved to Action Calendar.
Bevatron Preservation
a.
From: Peace and Justice Commission
Recommendation:
Adopt
a Resolution recommending that the City Council request: 1) the
Department of Energy, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and
their managing agency, the University of California, to continue
with their original plan to preserve the Bevatron Facility as a
place of merit on the National Register of Historic Places for the
benefit of future interested individuals and students of science,
history and architecture; and 2) that the $85 million budgeted for
the demolition of the Bevatron be primarily redirected to the
decontamination of toxic underground plumes at Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory as promised with enough spared to complete the
conversion of the accelerator facility for safe public access.
Financial Implications: None
Contact: Manuel
Hector, Secretary, 981-5110
b.
From: City Manager
Recommendation:
The City Manager takes no position concerning the recommendations of the Commission.
Contact: Fred Medrano, Health and Human
Services, 981-5100
Action: Moved
to Action Calendar.
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