Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good. Good evening and welcome to the Anaheim Planning Commission meeting of October 6, 2025. My name is Jeannie Tran Martin, vice chair of the Anaheim Planning Commission. As a reminder, planning commission meetings are broadcast on all our channels, including online and Anaheim TV channel 3. The first order of business is to salute our flag. Commissioner Lieberin will lead us in the flag salute. And I would like to dedicate today's salute to our US military, past, present, and future. Okay. Right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin.

I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nationy and justice for all. Thank you. Next, I will ask the planning commission secretary to take a verbal roll call vote of all planning commissioners. Chair Walker, Vice Chair Tran Martin here, Commissioner Lieberman here, Commissioner Perez here, Commissioner Castro here, Commissioner Abdul Raman here. Commissioner Kelly

here. We have a quorum.

Thank you. If you would all please silence your electronic communication devices so that they don't disrupt the proceedings, we would appreciate that. The doors at the back of the room are automatic. They open when you get close to them and they don't close until you walk down the hall. Please move away from the automatic automatic doors and allow them to close. Today we have two public hearing items on our agenda. I would ask members of the public who wish to speak on a public hearing item to please complete a yellow speaker card and give it to staff if you have not already done so. The cards can be found at the table uh on the table at the entrance. Please keep your remarks brief as you can. We are more influenced by the content than the length of your presentations. First, we provide an opportunity for any member of the public to speak on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission that are not on tonight's agenda. Is there anyone here to speak at this time? [Music] Seeing none, we will move to the public hearing. Prior to the prior to beginning the public hearing, I will now ask the planning commissioners for any disclosures they wish to make regarding the public hearing item on today's agenda. Please note that actions taken by the planning commission tonight will be final unless an appeal is filed with the city clerk. The appeal deadline is Thursday, October 16th, 2020 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Appeal forms and information are available on the city clerk's web page. I will now begin the public hearing and ask staff to present item number one. Nicholas,

good evening. Chair uh Vice Chair Tran Martin and members of the planning commission. Um staff does not have a presentation prepared for item number one tonight. The applicant is requesting a continuence to the next planning commission meeting um to work out some condition of approval details. Thank you. Do any members of the commission have questions for staff? I will open the public hearing and invite the applicant to come forward, but I do not believe they are here. Um, so I will ask the secretary to call forward any comments from members of the public. No speaker cards were received.

Thank you. Um, seeing that, I will close the public hearing and ask for a motion. I'll move to continue. Do we have a specific date or open-ended? They've requested to the October 20th meeting. Okay. move to uh continue to October 20th. We'll second. Thank you.

Let's see if we can call the question on that. of a vote. So, it was motioned by Commissioner Lieberman and seconded by Commissioner Castro to continue. And now you'll vote on that motion. Yes.

Six yes votes. The motion carries. Thank you. We will now move to item two um for a staff presentation by Grace. Here we go. Good evening, Vice Chair Tran Martin and planning commissioners. I'm Grace Cho, senior planner. Allow me to introduce item number two, which is case number DEV2025-00004. This is involving a request for a conditional use permit to permit a community and religious assembly use within an existing 7500 square foot office building and a shared parking permit to provide off-site parking spaces. The subject property is located at 2544 West Woodland Drive. It's east of Magnolia Avenue and north of La Palma Avenue. The site is approximately half acre in size. seed church. The applicant and property owner is requesting a cup for religious assembly use and the site is outlined with a solid yellow line. The site outlined with the dashed yellow line is the location in which offshared offsite shared parking would be provided. This site is owned and operated by Mariners Church and its address is 2532 through 2540 West Woodland Drive. Both properties are located within the I industrial zone and designated for industrial land uses in the general plan. The surrounding land uses include industry and office uses to the north and east, industry and

development offices to the west and Mariners's church to the south. The next few slides will go over the proposal. Per the zoning code, community and assembly uses and industrial zones are subject to a conditional use permit. seed church. The applicant would use the building for two purposes as coded on the site plan on the right hand side of the screen. First, they would establish their administrative offices for church staff. This is the green area which designates office. Secondly, they'd like to establish an assembly space by converting about 2400 square feet of the office area into a multi-purpose room with seating capacity of up to 152 seats. This area is shaded in yellow. This site has a total of 27 parking spaces, four in the front portion of the property and 23 at the rear. Uniquely, this location would not be used for Sunday church services. Seed Church currently holds and will continue to hold their Sunday services in the city of La Palma at Kennedy High School's performing arts center, which allows the capacity needed for their congregation of over 500 adults. In terms of how the space operates, the office hours for seeds church staff members are include 15 and their hours would be from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and occasionally occasionally on Saturdays based on the church's calendar and programming. The multi multi-purpose assembly area would be used for the church's non-s Sunday programming for senior meetings and youth and prayer groups on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays with the duration of the meeting shown on the screen here. All the assembly activities would be conducted indoors. The proposal also mentions a shared parking agreement. So to effectively

provide adequate parking spaces during certain assembly times, a shared parking agreement would be necessary to meet the parking demands. The adjacent properties have had a long-standing shared parking agreement per the conditional use permit that was established for the Mariners's church property. The agreement is amended to update the most recent property owners and refresh language for reciprocal use between two properties for specific times and days. In total, there would be 103 parking spaces. The shared parking agreement makes for most of each property's parking by sharing the spaces when needed for mutual benefit. So, what does this um assembly space require in terms of parking? So, a parking demand study is required for community and religious assembly uses. Um the applicant retains P2SK engineers to prepare the study analyzing office and assembly demand. Office was simply parked at the code requirements which is one or four spaces for every thousand square feet of office area. The assembly demand is based on attendance records and data from highest attended non- Sunday gatherings. And in this case that would be the Saturday morning prayer group of 120 attendees. Based on the data analyzed by the vehicle counts and attendance, 67 parking spaces are needed to accommodate 120 attendees. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday parking demands are met with the 27 parking spaces that are provided on the site. Wednesday, and Saturdays are the two days of the week in which off-site parking is anticipated and can be satisfied by that shared parking agreement, which yields 103 parking spaces. The next slide just includes a few images of the seed charge property. As you can see, it's a singlestory office building with the 27 parking spaces. The

front view shows the four spaces out front and then at the back of the rear view, it's 23 spaces. This item was duly noticed as required by code and staff did not receive any public comments. Staff evaluated the proposal and found that the requested religious assembly use meets all the required conditional use permit findings and that the site can appropriate appropriately accommodate the proposed use and would not result in adverse effects to the property or the general vicinity. Staff recommends that the planning commission determine that a class one existing facilities categorical exemption is the appropriate environmental determination. Uh staff would like to note for the record that the notice summary prepared for this item listed both class one and three for SQA exemptions and the staff report recommends one exemption as it is unnecessary to have both. Um staff supports the request and recommends approval of the application subject to the conditions of approval. That concludes my presentation and I have the um applicant representative Pastor Kan and Mr. Kim, the administrative director of Seed Church in the audience here today. Thank you.

Thank you, Grace. Do any planning commissioners have questions of staff?

Thank you for the presentation. Um since uh seed church will be sharing parking with another church primarily um the extra parking will be needed on Wednesdays and Saturdays. What's the other church's Wednesday and Saturday schedule? What kind of parking do they need on those days? Yes. So specifically the conditional use permit that was issued for the mariners's uh church property um their their usage does not coincide with the uh proposed schedule of seed church. What I want to hear? Thank you.

Are there any other questions at this point? I will now open the public hearing and invite the applicant to come forward um to make a presentation or respond to any questions. There there's a microphone. Hello. Um my name is Samuel. Um I'm the applicant for this pro project. Um, we're representing Ca Church and um um if you have any questions I could answer them.

Thank you. regarding the architecture. Thank you. Do any commissioners have questions of the applicant? Okay. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Um I will now ask the secretary secretary to call forward any comments from members of the public. No speaker cards were received. Is there anyone in the audience that would wish to make comment? Um, seeing none, I will close the public hearing and open it up to the planning commission for discussion. I'll make a motion to approve.

I'll second a motion by Commissioner Perez and seconded by Commissioner Kelly. Six yes votes. The motion carries. Thank you. Um are there any commissioner updates, staff updates?

Thank you, chair, vice chair, chair Martin. So, um it's my pleasure tonight to um I think reintroduce to some of you, introduce to others Joanne Wang, who is coming back to us to u be the deputy director for planning services. So, in that role, she's your staff for the planning commission. Um so, she'll be sitting in this chair starting with the next meeting. Um so, it's been my pleasure to work with all of you. Um but you'll be in in good hands with Joanne going forward. Thank you. just have um one announcement on the meeting of October 20th. So, we will have the continued item from this evening and we also have a conditional use permit for a request for a condo conversion of an existing apartment complex. That's it.

Thank you. Um thank you Heather and welcome Joanne. Um so the planning commission is adjourned to the meeting of Monday, October 20th, 2025. Thank you. Welcome to