San Bruno CA: ordinance 1284 - City of San Bruno Municipal Code Article II, Chapter 12.26.010

The following is presented as an individual’s thoughts and comments regarding San Bruno Measure “N” on the upcoming November 4th 2014 ballot.

Russ Stines, who lives in the transit corridor and has read the San Bruno Patch editorials on prop N offers the following:

“Although I know you are in support of it, I ask you for your consciousness neighbor for all of the people in San Bruno. Please let them know what 1284 Stands for I have attached the intent of it please be a fair journalist and a SB neighbor and allow them to see what is the true meaning of 1284.”

Thank you

/s/ Russ

The document (below as submitted) is in the City of San Bruno municipal code Article II, Chapter 12.26.010

I give you permission to print my statement.

Thank you

Russ

San Bruno Municipal Code

12.26.010 Introduction: Reproduction of notice of intent to circulate petition.

Editorial Note: Pursuant to section 4 of Ordinance 1284, the Notice of Intent to Circulate Petition for the initiative entitled Initiative Measure to Require an Affirmative Vote of the Voters of the City of San Bruno Prior to the Issuance of any Permits or Other Approvals for High-Rise or High-Density Developments and Projects Encroaching Upon Scenic Corridors and Open Spaces is reproduced below. The petition was certified by the city clerk on May 23, 1977, and adopted by the city council on June 1st, 1977, pursuant to Sections 4010 and 4011 of the 1977 California Elections Code [2005 Government Code Sections 9200 et seq.]

Notice is hereby given of the intention of the persons whose names appear hereon to circulate the petition within the city of San Bruno for the purpose of assuring referral to the qualified electors of San Bruno certain planning and zoning enactments proposed by the City Council which may establish new precedents in planning and zoning policies: substantially affect air and noise pollution; substantially encroach upon scenic corridors; and any other enactments which may threaten the community, its quality of life or its interaction with neighboring communities.

A statement of the reasons of the proposed action as contemplated in said petition is as follows:

Air pollution, noise pollution, traffic congestion, energy shortages, depletion of open space and flora and fauna, and aggravation of attendant storm drainage and waste disposal problems all associated with planning and zoning policies which promote high densities, breaking of existing height limits and dilution of increasingly scarce community resources are rapidly approaching emergency proportions in a community further deluged by major highway and freeway systems and airport operations. The peace, comfort and enjoyment of suburban living of the very recent past is rapidly being displaced by pollution, clamor and depletion of community environmental resources. Unless these accelerated trends are halted quickly, San Brunans will be irreversibly plunged into the problems of central-city despair which heretofore have been avoided or kept at controlled minimal levels.

It is essential to adopt this initiative proposal so that San Bruno citizens may have the opportunity to make for themselves the final decisions on these types of crucial, turning-point planning and zoning enactments proposed by the City Council. We citizens of San Bruno, and we alone, should decide the ultimate direction and character of this community which we who live here love and wish to preserve.

/s/ Terri Rasmussen

/s/ Dr. Louis Maraviglia

/s/ Rose Urbach

/s/ Lawrence Lucero

/s/ Gary Mondfrans

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Robert Riechel

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Photo Credit: San Bruno Patch Archives

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Source Credit: Russ Steines & San Bruno Municipal Code

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