ZAPR committees and review of the community plan

[Honeysuckle Landscape & Design]

Jud, Mary and Steve,

    Richard and I recommend that the proposed commercial zone changes be sent out to the association before the next ONA meeting with your expanded information  Mary.  Thanks.  Richard and I plan to open the discussion on the proposed document at the meeting.  

    The review of the community plan is upon us, as well as the efforts of the  newly formed grading committee to respond to the issues supported in the survey.  The grading committee currently consists of- Jerzy Rub, James Hansen, Kathy Kolody ,Richard P. and myself and anyone else interested.  

    We do not believe that the community plan will need to follow the other committee work.  The review and update of the community plan will reflect the survey responses  in a more narrative form, as well as  data that has changed in relation to Oceanside.  This will also be a topic at the next meeting.  There currently are no members signed up to review and revise the plan, but anyone is welcome to get involved.

     Kris and Richard

[Stephen Macartney]

Hi folks,

Since the process, as stated on Jud's website, has the community plan
update preceding the development of zoning recommendations, to present
the commercial plan at this time is to ignore your own process.

Since the commercial committee recommendations are based on the
outdated community plan, do not consider the survey results and quote
the authority of something they refer to as "village atmosphere," it
is not appropriate to present them, even in draft form at this time.
If you want a legitimate result it is important to follow the
prescribed process.

Steve

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 20, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Honeysuckle Landscape & Design <Honey...@oregoncoast.com

[Mary B. Flock]

Hi Kris and Richard,

 

I’ve added some Discussion info to a couple of sections of the Commercial Committee recommendations and highlighted the changes. I think that the document should be sent to the ONA membership so that everyone knows what we’ve been working on, but I prefer not to put it on the agenda for the July meeting because I’m not sure who if anyone from the committee will be at that meeting and the document is still a work in progress that I only sent out, because the process has dragged on so long. Again, our recommendations for changes to the Oceanside Commercial Code are only recommendations and unless a specific change is approved by the ONA, the change will not be made.

 

The Commercial Committee has put in a lot of hard work and continues to work on the Oceanside Commercial Code so I hope our efforts will not be sidelined by the update of the Oceanside Community Plan. I agree the Oceanside Community Plan should be updated, but based on survey results (see below), I doubt that the concept of  Oceanside as a village would be dropped in favor focusing on being tourist destination. I’ve only been here 10 years, so I wasn’t here when the Oceanside Community Plan was adopted, but I’ve always thought of Oceanside as a village and would hate to see us lose what makes Oceanside unique among coastal towns.

 

Mary

 

Survey results:

Q16	Oceanside should not have more motel/hotel development	80.41%
Q14	Oceanside has sufficient Tourist attractions	77.31%
Q14	Oceanside has sufficient Tourist facilities	68.56%
Q16	Oceanside should not have more commercial services for tourists.	60.06%

 

 

 

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[Honeysuckle Landscape & Design]

Mary and Commercial Committee,

    Haven't spoken to Richard yet.  Is anyone coming to the ONA meeting from the committee? Richard and I will moderate the discussion. I think it would be valuable to get some initial responses at the meeting and via email as you mentioned. It's all  a work in progress, lilke you say.   Kris

[Mary B. Flock]

Kris,

 

As I said, I don’t know if anyone from the Commercial Committee will be at the July ONA because of the holiday and other conflicts. That may also be the case with other people in the ONA.  I’m may not be at the meeting either depending on how I feel. I’m still having problems from my head injury and have been very tired lately.

 

I think the document with Commercial Committee Recommendations should be distributed by email to all ONA sooner rather than later, so hopefully the Discussion behind each Recommendation is read as well as the Recommendations. I would prefer the Commercial Committee Recommendations be on the agenda of a future meeting where more Commercial Committee members and more of the ONA will likely be present.

 

Mary

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[Judson Randall]

Mary,

        At the June meeting, the group -- at Kris' request -- agreed to discuss the commercial committee's recommendations for Appendix F in July, and then act on Appendix F at the August meeting.  So I'm compelled to include your committee's recommendations on Saturday's agenda.

        I will send the recommendations along with the agenda, and I've included your notes below at the end.

        Thanks,

                 Jud

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