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Votes at a glance: San Bernardino council continues appeal, approves downtown event support and passes consent items
Summary
Council continued a quasi-judicial appeal to Sept. 17 by unanimous vote, approved consent items including support for a downtown Route 66 event, and pulled one consent item for further consideration on Sept. 3.
The San Bernardino City Council recorded several formal actions during Tuesday’s meeting:
- Appeal continued to Sept. 17: The council unanimously continued a quasi-judicial appeal regarding a planning commission approval tied to administrative development permit 22-020; council members said the parties reported a tentative agreement and asked staff to return to the Sept. 17 meeting. The motion to continue was made on the record and passed without objection.
- Consent calendar: The consent calendar (items 4–16) passed unanimously after Council Member Barr requested Item 15 be pulled to allow staff to move it to the Sept. 3 meeting for further consideration. The clerk confirmed the consent calendar passed unanimously.
- Support for Route 66 event (Item 16): Council approved city participation and co-support for the downtown car event commonly referenced in staff reports. During discussion, Council Member Howard asked staff to correct the event name throughout staff materials to “Rendezvous Back to Route 66” (staff had used “Route 66 rendezvous,” a registered trademark used elsewhere) and raised concerns that a unilateral date change to the second weekend in October conflicted with a long-standing Lighthouse for the Blind fundraiser. The motion to approve Item 16 passed unanimously.
Votes recorded at the meeting were procedural for the items above; in cases where individual roll-call votes were not read into the transcript, the clerk recorded the outcomes in the electronic voting system.
