Mayor and Council Agendas for

1. ROLL CALL

2. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

INVOCATION - Pastor C. J. Medearis, Vineyard Community Church

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE - Mayor and Council, Staff and Public in Attendance

3. CONSENT AGENDA - ITEMS A THROUGH H

FOR COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF ITEMS

SEE THE CONSENT AGENDA

Matters listed under the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine and will be enacted by one motion and one vote. There will be no separate discussion of these items. If discussion is desired by members of the governing body, that item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and will be considered separately.

A liquor license application will automatically be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as a separate item by the Mayor and Council if either of the following occurs: A protest against a liquor license application has been received by the City Clerk; OR, A City staff report recommends denial of a liquor license application.

4. FINANCE: CONTINGENCY FUND TRANSFER TO THE PIMA COUNTY INTERFAITH COUNCIL TO FUND THE "EXPLORING OUR FUTURE" JOB TRAINING PILOT PROGRAM FOR PUEBLO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

(a) Report from City Manager FEB8-99-76 WV

(b) Resolution No. 18230 relating to finance; approving and authorizing the transfer of forty-thousand ($40,000.00) dollars from the Contingency Fund to organization 001-183-1838-268, to fund the Pima County Interfaith Council Job Training Pilot Program, "Exploring our Future" for Pueblo High School students for the 1999 spring semester.

5. PUBLIC HEARING: EL CON MALL REDEVELOPMENT - ACCESS TO JONES, PALO VERDE AND DODGE BOULEVARDS (CONTINUED FROM THE MEETING OF JANUARY 11, 1999)

(a) Report from City Manager FEB8-99-79 WVI

(b) Hearing.

6. SPECIAL EXCEPTION LAND USE PUBLIC HEARING: APPEAL OF ZONING EXAMINER'S DECISION, TUCSON ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY - 3505 EAST BROADWAY BOULEVARD, R-1 ZONE (SE-98-32)

(a) Report from City Manager FEB8-99-80 WVI

(b) Hearing on an appeal of the Zoning Examiner's decision to approve a Special Exception Land Use request for the expansion of an existing electrical substation at 3505 E. Broadway Boulevard located on El Con Mall property. The Special Exception Land Use request is from Mr. Duane Bock on behalf of Tucson Electric Power Company. The appeal to the Mayor and Council is from Mr. Leo Pilachowski, a party of record in this matter and an adjacent property owner.

The Special Exception Land Use request is to allow the reconstruction and expansion of an electric substation which serves the El Con Mall and surrounding neighborhoods. The site is located south of the El Conquistador Estates Subdivision, east of the El Encanto Subdivision, west of the El Montevideo Subdivision, and north of El Con Mall, but within the northernmost parking lot, approximately 1,600 feet north of Broadway Boulevard. The preliminary development plan is for the expansion of the existing electric substation from 2,726 to 5,670 square feet within a 11,543 square-foot easement. The portion of the El Con Mall property on which the substation is located is zoned R-1.

An electrical substation is identified as a Utilities: Distribution System use in the Tucson Land Use Code (LUC) and requires approval through a Type V Administrative procedure (Section 5.4.3.5) when located in a residential zone. This process requires a public hearing before the Zoning Examiner after which a decision is rendered to approve the use with or without conditions or to deny the use.

The Planning Department recommended in the report dated December 17, 1998, that the Zoning Examiner approve the Special Exception Land Use request for the expansion of the existing electrical substation, subject to certain conditions. The Zoning Examiner held a public hearing on December 17, 1998. The Examiner approved the Special Exception Land Use request for the expansion of an existing electrical substation, subject to staff's recommended conditions. The City Manager recommends the Mayor and Council uphold the Zoning Examiner's decision to approve the Special Exception Land Use request for the expansion of an existing electrical substation, subject to the following conditions as recommended by the Zoning Examiner:

1. A Site Plan, in substantial compliance with the preliminary development plan, shall be submitted for review and approval including, but not limited to, the following:

a. Australian Willow (Geijera parvifolia) shall be replaced with a species on the Drought Tolerant Plant list that meets the needs of the neighborhood and TEP.

b. The new walls shall be a desert earthtone (not gray) and compatible with the design and character of the existing screening.

2. The overall easement to Tucson Electric Power Company shall be increased to include all proposed landscaping surrounding the substation.

3. Any required or proposed masonry screen walls shall be constructed of, or painted with, graffiti-resistant materials.

4. "Safe by Design" concepts shall be incorporated in the subdivision plat for review by the Tucson Police Department.

5. Any relocation, modification, etc., of existing utilities and/or public improvements necessitated by the proposed development will be at no expense to the public.

Seven (7) written approvals and forty (40) written protests have been received.

7. APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES

(a) Report from City Manager FEB8-99-77 CITY WIDE

8. CALL TO THE AUDIENCE, for persons desiring to speak.

9. ADJOURNMENT

The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Mayor and Council will be held on Monday, February 22, 1999, at 7:30 p.m., in the Mayor and Council Chambers, 255 West Alameda, Tucson, Arizona.

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