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From YouTube: San Bruno City Council Meeting November 12, 2013 10g. Acquisition of the Bayshore Circle Median
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San Bruno City Council Meeting November 12, 2013
10g. Acquisition of the Bayshore Circle Median
B
Mr.
mayor
members
of
the
City
Council,
this
report
comes
to
you
after
a
very
long
time
of
interest
and
concern
on
the
part
of
the
City
Council
and
the
residents
of
the
Bayshore
circle
area.
Staff
acknowledges
that
this
is
in.
This
is
a
long-standing
interest
of
the
City
Council
and
we're
hopeful
that
the
report
tonight
gives
you
an
opportunity
to
move
forward
in
whatever
direction
you
may
desire,
hopefully
with
the
opportunity
to
produce
a
better
appearance,
and
hopefully
some
utility
of
this
property
in
our
community
bayshore
circle
is
located
in
the
5th
edition
neighborhood.
B
The
map
that
you
have,
the
overhead
visual
that
you
have
in
front
of
you
gives
a
good
perspective
of
the
proximity
of
this
open
piece
of
land
to
within
the
neighborhood
extending
north
south
and
the
I'm
sorry,
it
extends
east-west
in
the
eastern
portion
of
the
town
roughly
running
eastward
from
the
front
of
the
bart
station.
In
total,
the
property
comprises
about
1.2
acres.
It
is
situated
between
two
residential
streets
that
are
both
fairly
narrow.
One
of
them
is
a
two-way
street.
One
of
them
is
a
one-way
street.
B
Parking
is
restricted
because
of
the
width
of
the
streets
to
one
side
and,
as
you
know,
this
is
a
fairly
densely
populated
neighborhood
in
our
city
and
one
which
is
impacted,
of
course,
by
the
narrowness
of
the
street
and,
as
I
indicated
earlier,
has
been
impacted
for
a
long
period
of
time
by
the
visual
character
of
this
kind
of
massive
open
space.
It's
hard
to
even
really
call
it
a
median
it's
because
it's
so
wide
and
so
long.
B
The
property
was
acquired
by
samtrans
san
mateo
county
transportation
district
during
the
early
stages
of
planning
for
the
bart
line
extension
in
the
late
1990s
early
2000s,
the
bart
line
extension
into
san
bruno
and
beyond,
via
agreement
between
bart
and
SamTrans
bart,
has
been
responsible
since
that
acquisition
for
the
maintenance
of
the
property,
and
they
do
I
think
what
could
best
be
described
as
a
limited
job
of
maintaining
the
growth
of
weeds
and
the
again
a
very
minimal
pruning
of
the
trees.
The
city
has
coordinated
with
Bart
over
the
last
several
years
in
two
manners.
B
The
City
Council
has
previous
previously
directed
a
number
of
years
ago.
I
believe
it
was
in
2008
that
staff
review
and
report
back
to
the
City
Council
what
might
be
done
with
this
property?
Should
it
whatever
Worth's
the
bra
range
of
options
for
utilization
of
the
property?
Should
the
city
have
an
interest
to
potentially
seek
its
development
or
its
improvement
for
public
use?
B
B
Investigation
or
analysis
of
opportunities
for
utilization
of
this
property
have
extended
to
conversations
with
bard
has
been
somewhat
difficult
to
catch
their
attention
on
this,
but
recently
our
conversations
have
proved
worthwhile
in
that
bard
has
identified
that
it
would
be
potentially
in
its
interest
to
transfer
the
property
at
a
nominal
price.
We
have
not
engaged
in
any
negotiations
with
the
right
people
at
Bart,
but
are
pleased
to
report
to
you
that
we
do
have
their
attention
and
that
that
attention
is
positive,
I
guess
in
terms
of
their
willingness
to
consider
transferring
the
property.
B
Now
again,
that
would
be
potentially
complex
because
they
don't
actually
own
the
property.
The
property
is
owned
in
title
by
SamTrans
I.
Think
it's
a
very
good
start
and
with
City
Council's
direction,
we
would
undertake
what
could
be
a
potentially
extensive
work,
effort
to
negotiate
unravel
the
property
ownership
issues
and
to
negotiate
both
with
Bart
and
with
SamTrans
towards
eventual
transfer.
The
title
property
title
and
fee
ownership
to
the
city.
B
I'm
staff
would
recommend
it.
That
is
the
interest
of
the
City
Council
and
then
your
subsequent
and
you
wish
to
consider
subsequently
productive
use
of
the
property
in
a
different
manner
that
it
is
that
other
than
just
simply
maintaining
it.
That
staff
would
also
strongly
recommend
that
any
consideration
to
acquire
the
property
would
include
our
analysis
of
any
contamination
issues
that
might
exist
on
the
property
and
might
eventually
impact
the
city's
ability
to
utilize
it
in
a
different
manner
and
potentially
the
ownership
liability
issues.
B
So
that
would
accompany
the
ownership
of
a
property
that
that
might
be
impacted
in
that
manner.
Given
its
historic
use
for
rail
for
active
railroad
purposes,
we
can't
predict
but
would
strongly
recommend
that
a
phase
can't
predict
what
types
of
impacts
might
be
experienced
by
the
property
from
an
environmental
perspective.
But
we
would
strongly
recommend
that
any
consideration
to
acquire
the
property
include
our
initial
effort
to
complete
a
phase.
One
environmental
review.
C
B
Strongly
recommend
the
answer
to
be
guess
that
you
would
do
that
sooner
rather
than
later,
and
in
fact,
given
that
we
have
Bart's
attention,
I
would
suggest
that
we
do
that,
with
their
permission,
obviously
to
access
the
property.
But
we
do
that
or
and
access
records
that
we
do
that
right
away
as
a
first
step,
so
that
any
additional
consideration
you
might
want
to
take
would
include
the
results
of
that
review.
Okay,.
B
We
have
not
engaged
a
formal
public
participation
process
we
have
heard,
and
the
council
has
previously
had
people
who
generally
given
their
opinion,
that
there
would
be
an
interest
for
additional
recreational
opportunities.
But
I
think
that
the
primary
thing
that
I
have
heard
over
the
years
is
an
interest
for
a
better
and
consistently
maintained
visual
appearance
of
the
property.
There
is
also
an
interest
within
the
neighborhood
that
I've
heard
having
to
do
with
additional
or
the
constraints
on
parking
availability
and
I
would
expect
that
to
be
a
value
of
the
neighborhood
as
well.
Ok,.
A
D
Anticipation
issue
here
or
whatever:
why
isn't
there?
You
know
just
go
straight
to
the
owner
and
say
take
care
of
this
now
before
we
even
start
discussing
as
far
as
any
transition
on
it,
because
I
can't
imagine
if
I
was
living
on
that
street.
I
mean
this
is
a
new
for
me.
It's
like
a
new
new
development
that
there's
a
potential
contamination
and
it's
like
white.
Why
wouldn't
it
because
it
was
at
one
time,
railroad,
you
know
railroad
tracks
and
stuff,
so
obviously
there's
some
petroleum
spills
or
something
whatever
so
I.
D
B
Let
me
let
me
explain
the
recommendation
better.
Thank
you
for
the
question.
First
of
all,
staff
is
not
aware
and
is
not
anticipating
any
type
of
public
health
hazards.
So
so
the
short
answer
to
your
initial
question
is
no.
There
is
nothing
that
we
are
concerned
about
or
that
we
have
any
information
about
that
suggests.
B
Residents
of
the
neighborhood
should
be
concerned.
It
is
prudent
and
in
in
property
transactions
for
a
somebody
who
is
acquiring
a
piece
of
property
to
be
interested
in
concerned
about
what
type
of
wood
it.
What
is
the
status
of
the
property
and
in
particular,
whether
with
open
land,
there
is
any
type
of
situation
on
the
property
that
might
require
remediation.
Should
there
be
disturbance
of
the
soil
in
a
manner
that
would
be
necessary
for
development
of
the
property
for
any
type
of
additional
use.
B
Again,
staff
is
not
suggesting
and
has
no
information
to
suggest
any
type
of
concern
about
a
public
health
hazard.
It
is
prudent
to
undertake
environmental
review
of
the
top
of
any
property
prior
to
considering
ownership
of
it,
because
you
own
the
long-term
liability
of
that,
and
there
may
be
issues
that
you
would
need
to
know.
Should
you
want
to
move
forward
with
any
type
of
physical
development
of
the
property.
B
Answer
one
more
question
that
I:
don't
think
you
asked,
but
maybe
you
implied
and
in
the
end
the
short
question,
maybe
is:
why
isn't
Bart
doing
that
because
I
don't
care
they're,
not
doing
anything
with
the
property,
they
have
no
interest
in
it
and
there
is
no
other
than
the
city
acquiring
it
at
the
city's
interest.
There's
no
need
for
anybody
to
do
anything.
E
Thinking
of
the
answer
to
the
question
you
haven't
asked
yet
I
yeah
I
do
think
it's
prudent
to
do
an
evaluation.
Usually
that
happens
either
before
there's
any
negotiations,
or
even
sometimes
during
the
escrow
period.
There's
a
contingency
for
an
inspection
I
think
in
this
case,
unless
there
were
some
overt
evidence
that
we
already
had
that
there
was
a
seepage
of
contamination
into
the
groundwater,
for
example,
or
those
sorts
of
things
which
we
don't
apparently
have
any
evidence
of.
E
B
Well,
well
again,
the
city
has
no
specific
concerns
as
part
of
the
due
diligence
to
be
able
to
advise
you
about
whether
the
property,
it
would
present
a
liability
to
us
potentially
down
the
road
and
or
there
is
any
possibility
of
it
being
developed
for
any
other
use
or
what
it
would
take
to
develop
it.
This
is
an
information
gathering
opportunity.
B
B
F
F
So
I
will
tell
you
what
I
have
heard
being
out
there
is
that
they
do
feel
the
parking
is
an
issue
as
a
manager
indicated
that
I
know
that
Bart
is
supposed
to
maintain
it,
they
don't
the
city
does,
and
sometimes
we
don't
get
paid
for
it,
where
we
don't
at
all.
So
in
essence,
we're
already
having
money
invested
in
there
to
not
have
it
a
blight
and
that's
just
to
obviously
assist
the
residents
because
who
wants
to
live
like
with
that?
F
So
I
think
what
you're
you
may
hear
is
as
far
as
parking
and
emergency
vehicles
going
down
that
path.
In
addition
to
the
cars
that
are
not
just
on
the
sidewalk,
they
basically
cover
the
sidewalk
and
so
I
think
that
they,
the
residents,
if
we're
able
to
do
something,
have
been
looking
forward
to
it.
As
this
gentleman
has
sitting
here
and
would
love
to
see
something
go
forward.
D
Motion
I'm
is
that
a
motion
I'll
second
it
but
I'd,
also
like
in
discussion
of
motion
a
second
on
the
question:
can
we
can
we
at
least
I
mean
there's
not
a
lot
of
residents
there?
So
we
can
get
a
note
notification.
You
know,
or
at
least
a
copy
of
the
staff
report,
just
inform
them
that
we
are
moving
forward
on
some
information
on
this.
G
G
For
grabs-
and
it
does
seem
to
make
sense
to
me
that
the
city,
the
city
should
probably
I
mean
no
other
entity-
has
any
real
interest
in
the
property,
and
so
probably
the
city
should
take
ownership
of
it,
but
I
think
I.
I
personally
would
like
to
have
a
little
bit
better
of
an
idea.
What
we
intend
to
do
with
it
before
we
move
forward
with
planning
to
purchase
it
and
I,
don't
know
what
the
rest
of
the
council
thinks
about
that
maybe
I
mean
we
didn't
really
talk
so
much
about
okay.
G
C
A
Think
we
have
to
approach
bard
west
approach,
SamTrans
and
say
this
is
what
we'd
like
to
do
to
to
get
on
solid
ground
want
to
make
sure
that
the
phase
one
environmental
should
pass,
and
if
we
have
to
go
to
Phase
two
I
think
we
have
discussions
there,
but
I
think
we
have
to
make
sure
that
it's
in
fact
safe
to
pursue
further
negotiations,
especially
with
the
neighborhood.
As
to
what
they'd
like
to
see
done
with
it.
G
B
I,
don't
know
for
sure,
because
I
I
don't
know
for
sure
disturbing
the
there's
there's
a
couple
of
different
issues.
One
is
the
use
after
improvement
and
the
other
is
disturbance
of
the
soil
that
can
have
bearing
on
the
answer
to
the
question
and
I
and
I'm
sorry
to
say
at
this
point
we
don't
really
know
anything
about
the
property,
except
that
people
are
complaining
about
its
appearance
and
have
an
interest
in
potentially
putting
it
into
productive
use.
G
Something
so
the
night,
I'm
sorry
so
so
pretty
much
the
the
answer,
then,
is
no
matter
what
we
do
with
it.
There
is
a
potential
for
if
there
is
something
toxic
there
that
we
would
disturb
it
and
cause
of
it
an
environmental
issue,
and
so
we
would
want
to
do
that.
I
guess
the
other
other
alternative
is
we
just
leave.
It
alone
will
just
keep
cleaning
it,
and
in
that
case
then
there
is
no
potential
for
environmental
debate.
D
B
B
E
E
It's
also
possible
the
owner
of
the
property
when
we
approach
them
to
say
we'd
like
to
do
a
phase
one
on
your
property.
They
might
say:
well,
not
we're
not
so
interested
in
that,
because
we're
a
phase
one
to
show
that
there
was
contamination
or
a
problem.
They
would
then
be
responsible
for
actually
doing
something
about
it.
E
Irrespective
of
whether
there's
going
to
be
development,
the
property
so
I
think
that,
once
we
start
the
process,
we
should
be
able
to
figure
out
fairly
easily
what
the
interests
of
the
of
the
owner
of
the
property
are
in
that
regard
and
we'll
learn
something
about
what
they
know.
I.
Think.
Okay,
thank
you
right.
D
And
I
don't
anticipate
turning
it
all
into
a
parking
lot
either,
and
I
think
the
circulation
issue
is
a
big
issue
so
that
they
can
at
least
park
normally
along
a
street
and
still
have
and
still
maintain
a
good
width
of
the
street.
You
know,
but
then
you're
still
gonna
be
left
up
its
left
with
some
separation
there.
You
know
even
no
matter
how
white
I
think
we
we
make
it.