The Concord City Council announced a recruitment for the Planning Commission to fill one (1) unscheduled vacancy for a term ending February 28, 2025. The deadline for applications by the City Clerk is Friday, June 2, 2023, at 5 p.m.
The Planning Commission is made up of five (5) members serving four (4) year terms. Members must be residents of Concord who hold no other municipal office in the City of Concord. The Planning Commission develops and maintains the General Plan of the Concord Planning Area; develops specific plans as may be necessary; makes recommendations to the City Council regarding proposed General Plan amendments and municipal code modifications, reviews planned district developments, tentative subdivision maps, and use permit applications.
The State of California Political Reform Act requires Planning Commission members to disclose interests in investments, real property, and income derived within the City of Concord or from sources doing business within the City of Concord. Filings are required within 30 days of assuming office and on an annual basis.
Contact Concord City Clerk Joelle Fockler if you’d like to apply: joelle.fockler@cityofconcord.org
Oh the lunatic applications they will receive!
What’s the stipend amount / compensation?
The Concord City Council doesn’t want diversity of thought, they only want to appoint individuals that think like they do. If you don’t think like them, then you’re a threat, and you stand in the way of their goals of developing Concord from a suburban city to an urban city.
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Concord City Council District 2 and Concord City Council District 3 are underrepresented or unrepresented on the City of Concord’s different boards and commissions. While not exact, but basically if you live west of Willow Pass Road, Farm Bureau Road, and Coventry Way in District 2 and west of Galindo Street/Monument Boulevard, Peach Place, Ernst Way, Orange Street, Mohr Lane ending at Whitman Road in District 3 then they don’t want you.
TBK,
I have noticed newer apartment construction projects downtown seem to lack the Spanish-style architecture which has been our city standard for decades. The new buildings look more like something I see in Oakland along the BART tracks. Boxy and boring. Personally I think the Spanish style units on the corner of Galindo snd Willow Pass are very nice. Wish the new buildings followed that classy style.
Do you know what’s up with that?
MIKE MCDERMOTT,
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That “early California-Spanish-style” architecture is only required in part of downtown Concord concentrated on the square blocks around Todos Santos Plaza, and Galindo Street from Market Street to Laguna Street. I’m not happy about the contemporary/modern architecture of The Grant – South, The Grant – North, and some of the future apartment projects coming to Concord, which fall under the “outer core,” because they just don’t fit in downtown Concord. The area/areas of mandated “early California-Spanish-style” architecture in Concord should definitely be expanded. This change in architecture from “early California-Spanish-style” to contemporary-style/modern-style just doesn’t fit and flow, it just looks dumb. One of the reasons the Concord City Council, especially former Councilman Ron Leone, constantly pushed for “early California-Spanish-style” architecture was to make Concord look different and unique, and they’ve failed. When The Grant – South and The Grant – North were before the Concord Planning Commission, several Commissioners actually praised its architecture style. You can see the expanded “early California-Spanish-style” architecture map on the link below.
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https://www.claycord.com/2020/08/06/concord-city-council-approves-expanding-spanish-influenced-architectural-area-near-downtown/
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My great-grandparents built a home on Grant Street in 1927-1928, where The Grant – South now sits. For several years in the early to mid-1980’s they were constantly harassed and pressured to move when the City of Concord embarked on their high-rise office building scheme, which has largely failed. After the Bank of America buildings were completed across the street from their home they experienced severe moisture and mold problems because the office buildings blocked much of the sunlight from reaching their home. The last years of their lives the City of Concord and developers constantly harassed and pressured them to move so that the Tischman Tower II, today that would’ve been Two Concord Center, could be built on their property, but instead the property sat vacant for 35+ years, until a year or two ago when construction of The Grant – South began. After they moved out of the home the homeless moved into it for several months, which was extremely hard on them, until their home was finally demolished. The entire process was an extremely traumatic experience for them.
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An interesting, even funny thing, was that the source of heat for the home until they moved out was the wood stove in the kitchen that my great-grandmother cooked on daily. You just wouldn’t think that in a suburban city like Concord, in the 1980’s, that someone was still cooking on a wood stove. A family member then took the wood stove and put it in their hundred plus year old home on a lake, opened a bed and breakfast for a number of years, cooking on and heating the home with that wood stove for another 25 years. They actually just sold the stove a few months ago.