HomeMy WebLinkAboutPublic CommentsJanuary 21, 2020, BLT Agenda Comments
These comments on Newport Beach Board of Library Trustees (BLT) agenda items are submitted by:
Jim Mosher (jimmosher@yahoo.com ), 2210 Private Road, Newport Beach 92660 (949-548-6229)
Item 1. Minutes of the December 16, 2019 Board of Library Trustees
1. Page 2, paragraph 1: “Motion made by Vice Chair Watkins, seconded by Board Member
Kost, and carried (4-0-0-1 4-1-0-0) to approve the Minutes of the November 18, 2019
Special Meeting and RegularMeeting as amended.”
2. Page 2, Item 6, paragraph 1: “Homeless Coordinator Natalie Basmaciyan reported the
City Council is reviewing multiples multiple sites, including the City's Corporate Yard and
4200 Campus Drive, as possible homeless shelters.”
3. Page 3, paragraph 1, sentence 3 from end: “Homeless Coordinator Basmaciyan will
present an overview of City actions on at Speak Up Newport in January and is attending
Leadership Tomorrow.”
4. Page 3, paragraph 2, sentence 2: “The homelessness page of the City website discusses
private property owner's owners’ rights.”
5. Page 3, paragraph 2, sentence 6: “The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA)
leases the bus terminal property from the Irvine Company; therefore, it is not public
property.”
There seems little doubt this is what was said, but I don’t believe it is correct.
The main 105,097 square foot terminal property at 1550 Avocado is Orange County
Assessor’s Parcel Number 442-014-22. According to the City’s records, the Assessor
shows it as having been owned by OCTA since at least July 26, 1990. The Irvine
Company does, according to the City’s records, own the narrow landscaped strip at the
north edge of the transit center (between it and San Joaquin Hills Road, in which the
Fashion Island monument signs are placed and on which some of the camping formerly
occurred). Those TIC-owned 17,106 sf are APN 442-014-23.
OCTA’s recent cooperation with the City by fencing off the main transit center and
allowing NBPD to enforce no trespassing / anti-camping laws on it during late night hours
is evidently based on some theory other than it being privately owned land.
6. Page 4, Item 9, paragraph 1: “Chair Ray advised that the Council approved a contract
with Robert R. Coffee Architects and Architect + Associates to prepare conceptual
designs for the Lecture Hall.”