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Home My WebLink About5.1 Annex Doolan Canyon. ~ CITY OF DUBLIN AGENDA STATEMENT CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: September 28, 1992 SUBJECT: WRITTEN COMMUNICATION: Livermore's request to consider a six month dela~r for the LAFCO hearing on the Doolan Canyon area Sphere of Influence REPORT PREPARED BY: EXHIBITS ATTACHED: RECOMMENDATION: i~~~/~ FINANCIAL STATEMENT: DESCRIPTION: Laurence L. Tong, Planning Director Attachment 1: LAFCO leter dated February 11, 1992 Attachment 2: Livermore letter dated April 2, 1992 Attachment 3: LAFCO letter dated June 3, 1992 Attachment 4: Livermore letter dated September 23, 1992 Consider and provide direction to Staff Potential for substantial additional consultant costs and Staff time due to prolonging processing time of GPA and LAFCO Sphere of Influence application. In September of 1990, after extensive studies in 1989 and 1990, LAFCO separated and unallocated the upper portion of Doolan Canyon fram Dublin's Sphere of Influence. It also established a policy that reconsideration of the Doolan Canyon area 5phere of Influence issue would occur after both Dublin and Livermore completed their General Plan Amendments covering the area. Dublin was working on its Eastern Dublin General Plan Amendment; Livermore on its North Livermore General Plan Amendment (see Attachment 1}. In April of 1992, Livermore expressed its concern regardinq an indefinite time period during which one city must wait for the other city to complete its General Plan Amendment. Livermore recommended that LAFCO establish a reasonable time frame for both cities to complete their respective plans and after that date allow unilateral application for a Sphere of Influence for poolan Canyon (see Attachment 2). At that time, Livermore was ahead of Dublin in its General Plan Amendment processing._ Livermore had released its draft General Plan Amendment and EIR and was holding hearings on them. Dublin, however, was in the middle of renegotiations with Alamed.a County on its --------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEM NO. COPIES TO: Agenda File Application File Lee Horner, City of Livermore Bob Brown, City of Livermore CITY CLERK FILE ~ ~ a ..~ • C~ annexation agreement. Dublin was still preparing its draft General Plan Amendment and EIR. In May of 1992, LAFCO agreed that the outside date in which they would hear the Sphere of Influence application would be in May of 1993, even if only one City was ready to proceed. Both Dublin and Livermore were given a full year to complete their General Plan Amendments and submit the Sphere of Influence application (see Attachment 3). Since that time, both Dublin and Livermore have been proceeding with their General Plan Amendment processing. Recently, Dublin has released its Draft General Plan Amendment and EIR and has begun holding its hearings on them. Livermore, however, has decided to significantly revise its General Plan Amendment and EIR for future release and hearings. Livermore is now willing to consider a delay of up to six months for the LAFCO hearing (see Attachment 4). The Doolan Canyon area has been in dispute between Dublin and Livermore for many years. The citizens of Dublin, Livermore and Doolan Canyon have spent hundreds of hours and hundreds and thousands of consultant dollars preparing plans for the Doolan area, many of which could be considered wasteful duplications of effort. The Dublin Staff and Consultants have been moving forward responsibly with the Eastern Dublin General Plan Amendment in order to resolve this dispute in a timely fashion and to develop a long term plan for the future development of the Eastern Dublin area. If the General Plan Amendment is delayed, it could add substantially to both consultant costs and Staff time. The City Council should consider the request from Livermore and provide direction to Staff. -2- ~ . LAFC~~ - ~ Local Agency Formation Commission County of Alameda _ County Administrator's Office, 1221 Oak Street, Suite 555, Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 272-6984 February 11, 1992 Mayor Cathie Brown City of Livermore 1052 S. Livermore Avenue Livermore, CA 94550 Mayor Peter Snyder City of Dublin P.O. Box 2340 Dublin, CA 94568 Dear Mayor Brown and Mayor Snyder: Alameda County Local Agency Formation Commission is aware that both the City of Livermore and City of Dublin are in the process of updating their general plan. In addition, we are aware that there is continuing interest on the part of both cities to annex portions of the Doolan Canyon area. Both cides have informally discussed this issue with Alameda County LAFCO staff and I wish to reaffirm LAFCO's intent. On September 20, 1990, the Commission passed a resolution excluding the upper portion of Doolan Canyon from Dublin's sphere of influence. The resolution also p*~~~ides :hza tr.e lo.der porti~~ ~f ~~oian Road is not in any city's sphere of influence and that Croak Road subarea remains in Dublin's sphere of influence. Further, it was understood that this issue may come before LAFCO after one year and after both cities have completed their general plan amendments (GPA's). In accordance with Cortese-Knox, Alameda County LAFCO will not consider an application for annexation of all or part of Doolan Canyon until the portion to be annexed is within the sphere of influence of the annexing city. This requires the sphere issue to be addressed prior to the annexation. ~TTACNMEHT EDWARD R. CAMPBELL, Boa~d oi Supervisors • MARY KING, Board ol Supervisors ~ KEN MERCER, Pfeasanton DAVE KARP, San Leandro • THOMAS SCHWESER, General Public • ALTERNATES: PETER SNYDER, Dublin JAMES MARTIN, General Public • BILL J. ARAGON, Board ol Supervisors • STEVEN C. SZALAY, Executive 0/licer • Mayor Cathie Brown Mayor Peter Snyder Page 2 February 3, 1992 CJ LAFCO's consideration of an application to amend a sphere of influence will include a review of both. cities' GPA's and a determination of which, iE either, city can better serve the Doolan area. LAFCO would conduct a public hearing on this matter. If you should have any questions or concerns regard.ing this, please contact Crystal Hishida, Principal Administrative Analyst/LAFCO Staff at 272-3882. Very truly yours, Thomas Schweser LAFCO Chair TS:CKH:dc cc: Steven C. Szalay, Executive Officer Lee Horner, City Manager, City of Livermore Richard Ambrose, City Manager, City of Dublin Bob Brown, Director of Planning, Ciry of Livermore Dennis Carrington, Planning Department, City of Dublin Adolph Martinelli, Planning Director, County of Alameda Misc3.LAF AC?y1INiSTRATION 2UILDi`:G 1C~2 Sout~, Livermc;e , _ ;;~ L;ver,~~ore. C= __~~0 (-.~~ _~- _ -'~ ~A;< r:. ~~ ~%- = -~ , April 2, 1992 ; Mr. Thomas Schweser, Chairman i Alameda County Local Agency ~ Formation Committee 1221 Oak Street, Suite 555 Oakland, CA 94612 Dear Mr. Schweser: Your letter of February lI, 1992, to the Mayors of the Cities of Dublin and Livermore, confirmed LAFCO's policy that reconsidera- ~ tion of the Doolan Canyon area sphere of influence issue would occur after both cities have completed their General Plan Amend- ment Programs covering that area. I can appreciate LAFCO's intent, however, this policy establishes an ir_definite time period during which one City must wait for the other City to complete its General Plan Amendment Program. I would recommend that LAFCO establish a reasonable timeframe for both cities to complete their respective programs, and after that date, allow unilateral applica.tion for a sphere of influence change for poolan Canyon. An end date, such as April 1, 1993, should allow both cities a realistic period to complete their planninq programs while providinq the assurance that the programs will be able to proceed to completion within a reasonable timeframe. Obviously, by mutual agreement, such a date could be subsequently adjusted. /~ Sincerely, .~~ , Rvi3~FtT ~ . BROWN ;:~ DIRECTOR OF PLANNING _~ ~~ ~c: Don Graff ~ RGB/csn/lafco.ltr _~ . ~ • . ~ LAFCO Local Agency Formation Cummission County of Alameda County Administrator's Office, 1221 Oak Street, Suite 555, Oakland, CA 94612 (510) 272-6984 June 3, 1992 REC~IVE~ Mayor Cathie Brown City of Livermore 1052 South Livermore Avenue Livermore, CA 94550 JUN - ~.~ ~~gcfi,; ~~B~~~`1 PIANNING Mayor Peter Snyder City of Dublin P.O. Box 2340 Dublin, CA 94568 Subject: Doolan Canyon and Potential Sphere of Influence Designation Dear Mayor Brown and Mayor Snyder: This is a follow-up to two letters: (1) my letter (Atta~hment A) of February 11, 1992 recognizing that both of your respective cities are in the process of updating tY~eir general plan, have a continuing interest on the part of both your cities to annex portions of the Doolan Canyon area, and my confirmation of the Commission's resolution that this issue may come before LAFCO after one year and after both cities have completed a general plan amendment. The second letter, is from Robert Brown, the City of Livermore's .Director of Planning (Attachment B). Mr. Brown was concerned about LAFCO's policy which establishes "an indefinite time period during which one city must wait for the other city to complete its general plan amendment program." Mr. Brown recommended that LAFCO establish a reasonable timeframe for both cities to complete their respective programs and after that date allow unilateral application for a sphere of inEluence change for poolan Canyon. This is to advise your respective cities that on May 21st, the Alameda County LAFCO Commissioners agreed that the outside date in which they will hear the sphere of influence (SOI) application for the Doolan Canyon area will be in May, 1993 even if only one city is ready to proceed. This means that both of your cities will have one full year to complete their general plan amendments and take all the necessary steps to submit the SOI applicakion. LAFCO staff has had preliminary discussions with your respective planning departments and it appears that the fall of this year seems to be a reasonable time in which the general plan amendments will be submitted to your respective councils. In addition, both cities must complete all the necessary application/paperwork and required documents (ie: EIR, Negative Declaration) for an _ A1TA~HMEHT ' EDWARD R. CAMPBELL, Board o/ Supervisors • MARY KING, Board ol Supervisors • KEN MERCER, Pleasan~~;. DAVE KARP, San Leandro • THOMAS SCHWESER, Genera/ Public • ALTERNATES: PETER SNYDER, Dublin JAMES MARTIN, General Public • BILL J. ARAGON, Board o/ Supervisors • STEVEN C. SZALAY, Executive Ofticer ~ S Mayor Cathie Brown/Mayor Peter Snyder June 3, 1992 Page 2 application for a sphere of influence designation and applicable LAFCO, County and State fees. Assuming that both cities are in agreement, the SOI application(s) can be either heard prior to or after May, 1993. Further, it should be noted that in order to have this scheduled in May, 1993, LAFCO staff requires sufficient time to review the documents from both cities. It is preferable to receive both packets by early January but no later than January 25, 1993 in order for the packets to be thoroughly reviewed/analyzed for preparation of the LAFCO staff report and for a notice to be placed in the newspapers 30 days prior to the May L.AFC~ meesng. Crystal Hishida, Principal Administrative Analyst and Don Graff, Administrative Analyst and LAFCO staff will be coordinating a meeting with~ both the cities to ensure all the necessary paperwork is completed and address any issues or concerns that arise from you or your respective documents. If you should any further questions or concerns, please contact Crystal Hishida, Principal Administrative Analyst/LAFCO Staff at (510) 272-3882 or to write to me directly in c/o the County Administrakor's Office. Thank you. Very truly yours, ~~~~~~~~~ Thomas Schweser LAFCO Chair TS:CKH:dc Attachment ' cc: Each Commissioner, LAFCU Steven C. Sza~lay, Executive Officer Lee Horner, City Manager, City of Livermore Richard Ambrose, City Manager, City of Dublin Bob Brown, Director of Planning, City of Livermore , Larry Tong, Director of Planning, City of Dublin Dennis Carrington, Planning Depar~cnent, Ciry of Dublin Susan Frost, Planning Department, City of Livermore Adolph Martinelli, Planning Director, County of Alameda LAFCO Staff Mrsca.i.nFCiai i> • ~' ~ ~ ~~ ~~ i x=;. , . -e: ,~;~a ~ ..~~ ,~ ~~~~ '~..~-~ September 23, 1992 Richard Ambrose City Manager City of Dublin 100 Civic Plaza Dublin, CA 94568 ~. ~~- . Dear M~-.-~ase, R~C~IV~D S~EP 2 ~~ 1992 u~TY, O~ DUBLIfV At the September 21, 1992 Dublin Planning Commission meeting it was stated the accelerated hearing schedule for the Eastern Dublin General Plan Amendment and Specif ic Plan was due to the City of Livermore's request for coordination of our sphere of influence applications to LAFCO. Earlier this year, the City of Livermore did request that LAFCO establish a reasonable timeframe for both cities to complete their respective programs and then allow unilateral application for a sphere of influence amendment. Based on this request, LAFCO decided that consideration of a joint application for sphere of influence expansion would be scheduled for May 1993, even if only one city is ready to proceed. However, this date can be changed with agreement from both cities. The City of Livermore is willing to consider a delay of up to 6 months in consideration of our applications by LAFCO if desired by the City of Dublin. Let me know what, if any, adjustment is desired and we can mutually notify LAFCO of the new target date. We are available to meet with you and/or your staff to discuss a mutually acceptable alternative date. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact me at 373-5140 or Bob Brown, Planning Director, at 373-5200. Respectfully, ` . ~ 1~11~~ ~ A1~MI~JISTRATIOPJ BUILt7!tdG ~ i052 ~outn Livermo~e a.v.nue Liverr~::;re; Cr. 9:550 (41 ~) 37~~5 i GQ ~.4X (415) 373• ;135 ~~~~~~~ Lee Horner City Manager cc: Bob Brown, Planning Director, Livermore Larry Tong, Planning Director, Dublin Crystal Hishida, LAFCO ;~~~~ ''`~,, ~'~` ~ ,r.: ~ ,s :~ ~. . ~, . >...,..,~. - • September 23, 1992 Richard Ambrose City Manager City of Dublin 100 Civic Plaza Dublin, CA 94568 ~~ ~~ °_ Dear M~~.-~i~~se, At the September 21, 1992 Dublin Planning stated the accelerated hearing schedule General ~lan Amendment and Specific ~la Livermore's request for coordination of applications to LAFCO. • ADMIRlIS7RATIORI ~UILDlRlG 1052 South Livermore Avenue Livermore, CA 94550 (415) 373-5100 FAX (415) 373-5135 RE~~iV~D s~~ 2 ~~ 19~z ~~TY, 4!~ a1J~LIIV Commission meeting it was for the Eastern Dublin n was due to the City of our sphere of influence Earlier this year, the City of Livermore did request that LAFCO establish a reasonable timeframe for both cities to complete their respective programs and then allow unilateral application for a sphere of influence amendment. Based on this request, LAFCO decided that consideration of a joint application for sphere of influence expansion would be scheduled for May 1993, even if only one city is ready to proceed. However, this date can be changed with agreement from both cities. The City of Livermore is willing to consider a delay of up to 6 months in consideration of our applications by LAFCO if desired by the City of Dublin. Let me know what, if any, adjustment is desired and we can mutually notify LAFCO of the new target date. We are available to meet with you and/or your staff to discuss a mutually acceptable alternative date. If you have any questions regarding this matter, please contact me at 373-5140 or Bob Brown, Planning Director, at 373-5200. ~ O ~ ~ O ~ Respectfully, G'~1?~s'~ Lee Horner City Manager cc: Bob Brown, Planning Director, Livermore Larry Tong, Planning Director, Dublin Crystal Hishida, LAFCO ~ O ~