Item 1 Additional Material posted 7-15-201 of 3July 15, 2020, Item #1M EMQRAN DLJ M City of Poway ADDITIONAL MATERIALS (Agenda Related Writings/Documents provided to City Council or Staff after distribution of the Agenda Packet for the July 15, 2020 Council Meeting) DATE: TO: FROM: CONTACT: SUBJECT: July 15, 2020 Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council Carrie Gallagher, CMC (858) 668-4535 or cgallagher@poway.org Sharing Outdoor Space (SOS) Initiative Attached please find correspondence received after the agenda posting deadline. Reviewed/Approved By: Wend aserman Assistant City Manager Reviewed By: Alan Fenstermacher City Attorney Approved By: City Manager
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS2 of 3July 15, 2020, Item #1Ana Alarcon From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Joe St. Lucas <jstlucas@gmail.com> Tuesday, July 14, 2020 5:34 PM Carrie Gallagher; Steve Vaus Caylin Frank; Dave Grosch; Barry Leonard; John Mullin; Chris Hazeltine Special Poway City Council Meeting July 15th I agree in general w. the concept of allowing churches and fitness centers that have been banned from holding services indoors, to use our public parks with the proper masks and social distancing, etc. I do have a couple of concerns, though. The agenda item does not specify which parks in our system will be allowed to have these events take place. Since the recommendation is to give staff the direction to look into this, I'm assuming that staff will implement the changes with no other input from the public once the meeting is over, so knowing which parks are under consideration prior to the meeting would be helpful. One of my concerns is that some churches hold services early Sunday or Saturday mornings. Currently our parks "might" have restrictions on outside noise or specifically against using amplified sound in the parks because of the proximity of neighbors. For instance, neighbors of Community or Aubrey parks might not like to hear an amplified sermon at 7am on Sunday if amplification is going to be allowed, and amplification is not specified. Most churches that I've been to have mies and speakers for the congregation. Unfortunately we are in summer now and outside services late in the morning might be unreasonable if the temperatures climb up into the mid 90's by noon, so these are considerations to weigh. These considerations are also true of fitness classes although they may occur any day of the week and not just be limited to weekends. Last, please do not allow these uses in pocket or very small neighborhood parks as the parking near those parks might not be sufficient for the neighborhoods. What will be expected of these users as far as cleaning up after themselves once they are done? Will we be expecting them to bring their own chairs or fitness equipment that they can take w. them when done, or can they use existing picnic tables and chairs but wipe them down when they're done for the day? Will they be required to empty their own trash when they leave? (empty water bottles, etc) Otherwise we'll have to send out extra city folks to collect the trash to prevent park trash cans from overflowing with the additional uses. Last, it would be helpful to have a listing on the Poway website that shows where and when these church events will take place. Maybe someone interested in going to a church service could see this taking place in a park near them and go. Or other groups of people who wanted to go to a park for a family picnic might avoid these parks knowing there's something else going on like a church or fitness service. I'm sure that staff will come up w. some workable solutions and a minimal set of paperwork that would need to be filled out for this to take place so that our churches and businesses don't have to suffer (as much) during crisis. Thank you, Joe St. Lucas 14829 Sunrise Dr Poway 92064 8586798386
3 of 3July 15, 2020, Item #1From: To: Subject: Date: Chris Cruse ~ Council meeting july 16 Wednesday, July 15, 2020 8:43:23 AM The city is rushing this without a chance for public input. 1. Why should businesses and churches use a public asset for free when residents are charged to reserve the park? 2 Do we really have "extra space" in the parks? Many people currently use the parks to exercise and to recreate in with their families. How will the city monitor any "space" conflicts? Neighborhood parks often have limited parking. Will people coming to these businesses park in nearby residential streets? 3. Covid. Who will monitor that the groups are wearing masks and physical distancing? Will the city allow people to go without masks because they say they can keep 6 ft away from other people? Will the people be singing, or shouting which increases the spread of droplets beyond 6 ft? How big of a group will be allowed? There is more risk of spreading covid as the size of the group increases and intermingling of people outside of the neighborhood. Chris Cruse