ON THE AGENDA Here are some of...

ON THE AGENDA

Here are some of the items the council will consider tonight.

REPORT ON THE MARINAPARK LEASE TALKS

The council will again take up the discussion of terms and

conditions for a lease if the Marinapark hotel is built on the Balboa

Peninsula. Council members postponed action on a memorandum of

understanding -- basically a signed agreement with the project

developer -- at a Sept. 28 meeting after vitriolic public comments

from Marinapark opponents. The council voted to have the information

brought back as a term sheet, which doesn’t need to be signed and

lays out the city’s expectations if voters approve a general plan

amendment allowing the hotel to be built.

WHAT TO EXPECT

The term sheet is nonbinding, and council is not required to vote

to accept it, but a large contingent of vocal opponents to the

waterfront hotel will likely make comments anyway.

VIA FIRENZE TRAFFIC CONTROL

The council will consider an ordinance to make Via Firenze a

one-way street for northeast-bound traffic only between Via Lido Soud

and Piazza Lido. Residents of the Lido Isle street petitioned the

city for the change because of traffic volumes and safety concerns.

Via Firenze is 20 feet wide and has parking on one side, which does

not meet city standards to bear two-way traffic.

WHAT TO EXPECT

A similar request made by Dover Shores residents was approved, and

the city’s traffic affairs committee approved the change for Via

Firenze, so council members are likely to authorize it also.

NEW ST. MARK CHURCH FACILITY

A public hearing is scheduled on a general plan amendment to allow

St. Mark Presbyterian Church to build a new facility at San Joaquin

Hills Road and MacArthur Boulevard. The project, in the works for

more than a year, entails a 34,000-square-foot facility to replace

the church’s current location next to Our Lady Queen of Angels Roman

Catholic Church in the Eastbluff neighborhood.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Unlike the contentious St. Andrews Presbyterian Church expansion

plan, the St. Mark project has raised little opposition from

residents. The space for the new building is now vacant, and the only

concern at a council study session was how easily traffic will get

into and out of the property. The council will likely approve the

amendment.

ORDER FOR NEWPORT SANDS STREET IMPROVEMENTS

The city’s public works department since February has been urging

the property manager of the Newport Sands Mobile Home Park to make

required improvements to Grant and Highland streets off of West Coast

Highway. The streets are slated to get concrete curbs, gutters and

sidewalks.

The city council can order the property owner to complete the

improvements, estimated to cost $20,000, within 60 days, after which

the public works director would do the work and bill the property

owner.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Council members probably will approve the order.

-- Alicia Robinson