HomeMy WebLinkAbout4a_Additional Materials Received_MosherMarch 31, 2021, HEUAC Agenda Comments
These comments on an item on the Newport Beach Housing Element Update Advisory Committee
agenda are submitted by: Jim Mosher ( jimmosher@yahoo.com ), 2210 Private Road, Newport Beach
92660 (949-548-6229)
Item IV.a. Minutes of March 17, 2021
The passages shown in italics below are from the draft minutes. Suggested corrections are
indicated in strikeout underline format.
Page 4, next to last sentence: “She referenced Table B 10 B-10 and said that in Newport
Center, 964 new dwelling units would be underneath the sight plane and that would annihilate
the sight plane.
Page 7, first full paragraph: “Committee Member Sandland pointed out that there was no
reference to the properties that were in the 65 dB Community Noise Equivalent Level (CNEL)
area.”
Page 7, paragraph 7: “Chair Tucker asked if Committee Member DeSantis was looking at
Appendix B, Page B13 B-13, Table B7 B-7.”
Page 7, paragraph 8: “Mr. Barquist said that Table B7 B-7provides a summary of the
opportunity or assumed development potential and it exceeds the numbers Committee Member
DeSantis stated.”
Page 9, paragraph 3, sentence 5: “Table B1 B-1 has 4,200 units beyond RHNA and if the City
submits that he was concerned the City would obligate itself to come up with that type of
production.”
Page 9, paragraph 5, sentence 2: “He asked staff to double-check the numbers on Table B 10
B-10 and stressed the need to clean up typographical, spelling, and grammar errors.”
Page 9, paragraph 2 from end: “Chair Tucker asked staff to investigate a technical solution to
Mr. Mosher’s accessibility concern.”
Comment: Staff has made no changes to the posted draft Housing and Circulation Element
PDFs. All pages available to the public continue to sport a large, bold “DRAFT” watermark
over the text that obstructs efforts to swipe over and attach comments to – or copy to a
separate comments document – most of the words under it, at least when viewed with the
most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Other City documents, such as the
present draft minutes have a similar-looking watermark, but it seems to be placed under the
text (rather than over) and does not produce this problem.
Page 10, full paragraph 4, last sentence: “That, in addition to the compliance and accountability
provisions in AB72 AB 72 and the development of the Housing Accountability Office, there is a
lot of pressure to comply and going beyond the deadline invites a host of remedies the State
can take to compel cities to comply.”
Housing Element Update Advisory Committee - March 31, 2021 Item IV(a) - Additional Materials Received Draft Minutes of March 17, 2021