Pleasanton: Town to align ADU effect fees with new point out law

Proposed adjustments to the city’s grasp charge plan for accent dwelling units (ADUs) will be viewed as for the duration of a public hearing at the Pleasanton City Council’s standard on the web meeting on Tuesday night.

For the reason that community ADU ordinances have to conform with not too long ago enacted condition legislation, employees have prompt amending present laws “to match the new prerequisites.”

If adopted, there would be no impact to the city spending plan or general public solutions, and the town would not obtain affect expenses for ADUs measuring 749 square toes or significantly less. However, lessened effect costs for ADUs totaling 750 sq. toes or extra would be obtained, as expected by the condition.

Acknowledged also as in-legislation units, among the other names, ADUs may perhaps be fully in an existing one-family dwelling, or crafted as an extension or a detached device. Junior accent dwelling units (JADUs) are related but situated wholly in just a one-family dwelling, and are no extra than 500 square toes in dimension.

The models have been lobbied by many as a practical section of solving the Bay Space housing crisis more than the past couple of yrs by offering shelter that is speedy and reasonably priced to establish.

In a report, workers mentioned, “Even though a great deal of the new ADU legislation that went into impact in January 2020 and January 2021 is complicated and tricky to interpret, it is crystal clear on its intent: present greater versatility for the development and conversion of present house to ADUs and JADUs, restrict the imposition of impact expenses, and streamline approvals by getting rid of discretionary evaluation of ADUs and JADUs.”

Assembly Invoice 3182 which builds on legislation handed quite a few several years in the past and was handed by legislators final calendar year, went into result on Jan. 1, prompting staff’s advice to update the Grasp Rate plan.

Gov. Gavin Newsom also signed six distinctive expenditures in 2019 that adjusted restrictions for ADUs and JADUs.

City staff stated the advantages of ADUs in the report, these as being “conducive to on-internet site impartial residing room for loved ones customers or getting older relatives, a handy place of residence for caregivers and deliver a way for a lot less-abled or getting older owners to keep in their households, or only as a different option for rental housing.”

The standard council meeting is scheduled to commence at 7 p.m. Tuesday (Jan. 19) by means of Zoom.

In other business

* Four months after an exterior engineering agency was permitted to prepare a foundation of style and design report for treatment method of for every-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and rehabilitating three city-owned groundwells, the council will take into account an more $100,000 for the task.

PFAS are a team of male-created chemical compounds located in widespread domestic methods and objects these types of as nonstick cookware and paint.

The obtainable fund balance is at this time $470,000. If accepted, the improve would carry the amended contract overall to $537,374. Employees endorses allocating $70,000 from the city’s water replacement Cash Enhancement method to deliver the task fund balance to $540,000.

The fund maximize would also push the report’s completion from March to May.

Employees not long ago discovered and proposed incorporating several objects to the report, such as “the evaluation of remedy systems to meet opportunity hexavalent chromium polices, and a feasibility evaluate of relining or replacing the very well casings at Wells 5 and 6.”

Lingering issues about previous and current compounds contaminating nearby drinking water sources, as properly as new condition testing prerequisites, have prompted town leaders to find methods around the previous various a long time.

Throughout the course of much more recent tests, metropolis officials detected in their wells, amounts of artificial compounds in the PFAS relatives. The city-operated Perfectly 8 has not operated in over a 12 months thanks to contamination, when a pump motor failure built Properly 5 non-operational last yr.

In September, the council moved ahead with programs to fix a contaminated groundwater effectively and fulfill, if not surpass, foreseeable future water high-quality criteria.

At the time, the council approved a $430,374 agreement with Walnut Creek-dependent Carollo Engineers to put together the report, which will include treatment of PFAS and rehabilitation of Wells 5, 6 and 8.

Mayor Karla Brown also instructed the city glimpse to the condition and federal government for grants and lower-curiosity loans to enable fund the task.

About 25% of Pleasanton general public h2o provide will come from the town ground h2o wells. The rest is supplied by the Zone 7 H2o Agency, which gets most of its drinking water from the Point out Drinking water Undertaking.

* The speed restrict along parts of Stoneridge Drive may perhaps fall from 45 mph to 40 mph, between the proposed visitors-similar products on the consent agenda on Tuesday.

Every single 12 months the city’s site visitors engineering division opinions and update speed limits as desired.

A the latest engineering and targeted traffic study observed assistance for modifying the posted pace restrict from 45 to 40 on each Stoneridge involving Stoneridge Mall Highway and Johnson Push, and in between Johnson and Hopyard Highway.

Important speeds and roadway circumstances allow for reduced speed together both portions of Stoneridge, according to staff members. However, the condition prohibits reducing the velocity from 40 mph between Johnson and Hopyard for any cause.

A a single-time price of $2,000 to exchange existing velocity limit signals is funded by the annual targeted visitors buttons and line markers money advancement venture.

* In yet another visitors-connected product that night, the council will consider banning oversize motor vehicle parking on a residential avenue close to the Interstate 580 offramp in northern Pleasanton.

The resolution would prohibit motor vehicles in excess of 20 feet in duration from parking on the north facet of the I-580 freeway soundwall on Pimlico Push, just east of Brockton Generate.

Consisting of multi-spouse and children and one-family households, employees mentioned the north aspect of Pimlico Generate has “constantly expert parking of oversized motor vehicles these as recreational motor vehicles, shifting trucks, oversized industrial autos, and extended trailers.”

As a end result, “residents have elevated considerations that this part of Pimlico has come to be a site for vehicle storage which has subsequently resulted in particles and garbage still left powering in the place.”

The town visitors engineer will publish symptoms giving detect of the new parking restrictions along around 1,500 toes of the north aspect of Pimlico Generate. There are no new fees linked with the improvements, and are bundled in the city’s operating price range.