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. . . . . - 2. Open public hearing; - Mayor Pro Tern Ruskin opened the public hearing at 8:28 p.m. 3. Hear public comment: Bill Ruck, a manager with the parent company owning KNBR Radio, located at 1410 Radio Road, said the facility had been located at the Redwood Shores site for 65 years. He said his company had a vested interest in maintaining that site, and he was available to answer any Council question. Mr. Ruck said he would work with the Subcommittee to make sure that "our interests are met, as well as everybody else's." Don Warren, 125 Stonybrook Road, Los Gatos, said he has had a long involvement with the subject property, but was not representing anyone at this meeting. He said a period of ten months is a significant period of time when "you are a taxpayer and the tax bill meter is running on your property. It is a significant amount of time if you have plans or ideas of what you might want to do with your property. It is a significant amount of time if you have some transaction either contemplative or underway." Mr. Warren said he would like clarification on what property owners could do during the moratorium. He asked, "Will property owners have the opportunity during this time to interface with the City staff if they desire to begin implementation processing for ideas that they may have on the site, or to ask questions about changes in land use or changes in property ownership?" - Planner Passanisi, said, "Yes. Any developer or applicant who is interested in any of those parcels will certainly be able to contact staff and review proposals or projects with us, with the understanding that we may not give a definite answer until the moratorium is complete, and we have done our homework on the subcommittee. But certainly they will be able to approach staff and we will work with them." City Attorney Schricker said, "The legal purpose for the moratorium... had to do with questions regarding a great deal of discussion, and to some extent controversy, involving the properties in that area. Legally, what the City is compelled to do during this period of time, is to assess the areas with the very purpose of determining an appropriate zoning classification, whether it be existing zoning classification or a brand new zoning classification, or an existing classification other than the "Tidal Plain" zoning. In that context, it is my understanding that the subcommittee's function is to get as much input from the property owners, and certainly the City owes it as an obligation to the property owners to get input in that connection, in order to provide this hearing process, so that when the matter comes back to the City Council there has been a legislative process before it even gets back to the City Council that has allowed this somewhat studied process to go forward. I would recommend that staff contact the owners of the property, and I think they already have, to get that very information." - REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 56 FEBRUARY 23.1998 MINUTES Page No. 287 PAGE 10