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The Planning Commission meeting is canceled today because of the holiday. City Hall is also closed.

Happy Veterans Day!

The City Council meeting starts early today, 6 p.m., so that a number of people can be recognized by city leaders. The Lions Club, A.C.E. all-star teams, the year's "community heroes" and others will get some props.

Not a whole lot on the agenda for the 7 p.m. portion of the evening. The city is expected to amend the municipal code so that permit parking districts can be established without a minimum size requirement. With this amendment, the neighborhood near Chaffey College can begin the process of creating a permit parking district.

Council gadfly Jim Moffatt had a message for Don Kurth at yesterday's City Council meeting but the mayor was absent. The message was -- hey, why aren't you here?

"If he wants to be assemblyman, he can spend all the time he wants running for Assembly. He was elected to do a job and I'm sure all the residents of Rancho Cucamonga expect him here," Moffatt said.

Perhaps the message would be more effective if Moffatt saved it for Kurth's return.

The mayor was in Washington D.C. yesterday speaking to legislators about health care reform.

Library Director Robert Karatsu will lead a workshop on future plans for the second floor of the Biane Library at a special meeting today with the City Council, library board and library foundation board. It'll be 3 p.m. at the Cultural Center Celebration Hall.

The agenda for the 7 p.m. City Council meeting is very light. Organizers behind National Night Out, Linda Bryan of the Military Family Support Group and Minuteman Press will be honored at the start of the meeting. Planning Director James Troyer will present the results of a community survey as part of the General Plan update process. The Community Services department will present the Healthy RC Living show and Web site.
 

Red Hill traffic -- it never ends.

Come to the neighborhood meeting 6 p.m. Wednesday at Valle Vista School for a Power Point presentation on rumble strips, traffic islands and chokers, radar speed signs, speed humps and raised medians.

Traffic Engineer Jon Gillespie will explain it all but I'll give it a shot. Rumble strips are the little bumps on the road that make your car go "da, da, da, da, da." Islands and chokers are obstacles that make a straight street seem curvy.

Those alternatives probably won't get as much traction as raised medians, which prevent left-hand turns. For example, if you put a median on Foothill, drivers won't be able to turn left onto Red Hill Country Club Drive. Some residents back this as plan B to the Red Hill Country Club Drive closure.

The City Council gave a preliminary ok to let Massage Envy open near Henry's at the southeast corner of Base Line and Day Creek tonight. The Planning Commission would still have to set the conditions and the City Council would have to approve them.

Apparently, no massage parlors are permitted west of Haven under current zoning. The decision tonight would allow massage operations within the Victoria Arbors Master Plan, which is bordered by Base Line, Etiwanda, Foothill and Day Creek.

It's race weekend, John Lyons, a regular at the City Council meeting, reminded everybody tonight.

Many out-of-towners heading to the Autoclub Speedway will be passing through Rancho Cucamonga and frequenting local businesses.

"They don't know where they're going. ... But instead of flipping them off, thank them," Lyons said.