Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to the city of Antioch planning commission meeting of April 1st, 2026. It is 6:30 p.m. I'm now calling the meeting to order. May I have a roll call, please? Thank you. Commissioner Egelard. Commissioner Spiker, present. Commissioner Riley, present. Commissioner Suman, Commissioner Perez present. Vice Chair Jones is absent, and Chair Weber present. Thank you. We have a quorum at 6:30 p.m. Would everyone please join us in the Pledge of Allegiance?

We're now going to have an introduction of one of our new commissioners. So, yeah. Uh, good evening. So, I believe at our joint meeting, Don Aguilard was there, our new commissioner, but we didn't formally introduce him. So, if Don wants to Commissioner Aguilard wants to talk a little bit about himself, um, we welcome him to the commission. Oh, thanks.

Thanks. U, thank you. Kind of caught me by surprise. Um, so I, uh, I'm not I'm not new to being a planning commissioner. I was planning commissioner for four years and chair of the commission for uh a year or two at the city of Stockton and also was part of the general plan and and changing ordinances there for quite a long time beside being a part of many other different types of um of committees and commissions there as well. So I'm big on ADA because I I formed the ADA commission for the city of Stockh city of Stockton that specifically worked under the mayor. So, um, it's been one of my one of my prize things as well as urban farming. Um, I've been here about about four years, five years. My I moved here with my my my daughter and her husband, my grand my granddaughters. It was the granddaughters that got me. It wasn't everything else, but I love those grandb babies. But, um, I love u I love working in the community and I love serving the community. So, I'm just uh I'm um I'm proud and uh just happy to be part of your your planning commission in this city to serve it. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Commissioner. Welcome. Um public comments for persons desiring to address the commission on an item that is not on the agenda. Please note that each speaker is limited to three minutes. The Brown Act limits the commission's ability to discuss or respond to items that are not on the agenda. Please fill out a speaker card and place it in the speaker card tray. Staff, are there any public comments on non-aggendaized items? We have no speaker cards for unagendaized items.

Okay. I'm now closing the public comment period for non-aggendaized items. Next, we have our consent calendar. Consent calendar items are considered routine and will be enacted on by one motion. By approval of the consent calendar, the staff recommend recommendations will be adopted unless otherwise notified by the commission. And there will be no separate discussion on these items unless a member of the commission or a member of the public requests a removal of the items from the consent calendar. We have the following items on the consent calendar this evening. Item 5-1, planning commission meeting minutes, February 4th, 2026. Do we have any members of the public who would like to speak on this item? Seeing none, may I have a motion?

I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes. I have a motion and a second on the question. May I have a roll call? Commissioner Agelard. I, Commissioner Spiker. I, Commissioner Riley, I. Commissioner Suman, I. Commissioner Perez, I, Chair Weber, I. Thank you. Motion passes. 6. Thank you. So before we address the next item, I'm going to turn the meeting back over to Commissioner Agelar.

I'm sorry, I have to recuse myself from the from the from the AIA. Sorry, my my throat's messed up on on the Laurel project. So I want to Just I want to make a public comment before I go. Is Kanye's going down there? You want make up? If I'm up here, I'm not I'm still planning. Will we open the public comment period to allow him to do that or

Yes, he has to leave the chambers until it's his turn for public comment. But uh Mr. Dragul your comment to the public to recuse yourself has to explain to the public the conflict and interest in sufficient detail to be understood by the public and that you are recusing yourself of the matter. You don't need to give addresses or things like that but um as I said in my email previously there's some criteria that has to be met for the public. It could be as simple as a plain Englishless reason why you have to recuse yourself.

Oh, I would have to I'd have to recuse myself because I live within 500 uh feet of the uh project. In fact, I live within 50 ft of the project. So, um that's the reason why I confuse myself.

Okay. Thank you. Okay, that brings us back to line item 6-1, the Laurel Ranch Retail Parcel H, Laurel Ranch Road, Country Hills Drive, PR206-00001. The applicant requests preliminary development plan review for a proposed gas station with a 3340 ft convenience store, automatic car wash, and 10 vacuum stations. uh parking, landscaping, and other site improvements. May we have a staff presentation, please?

Yes. Good evening. Yes. We'll just jump in real quick if the clerk wouldn't mind putting on the record the time that Mr. Aguilard left the chambers. Mr. Aguilard left the chambers at 6:35 p.m. Thank you.

Good evening, commissioners. Uh, I'm Nathan Tinclair, associate planner, and I'll be presenting a preliminary development plan proposal for the Laurel Ranch PELA site. This preliminary development plan, or PDP for short, proposes development of a gas station, convenience store, and car wash. The purpose of a PDP is to gather feedback from the planning commission and others in order for an applicant to become aware of concerns and issues prior to a full entitlement submitt. So, the purpose of tonight's hearing is solely to provide feedback. To be clear, the project is not up for approval or denial tonight. Um, and for that reason, uh, no environmental review was required at this stage. Should the applicant decide to proceed with the project after the preliminary development plan phase, future required entitlements um would include environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act, a general plan amendment, specific plan amendment, plan development reszone, a final development plan, use permit, and design review approval. The proposed project site is a 1.35 acre parcel located at the intersection of Country Hills Drive and Laurel Road. Images of the site and a map showing the location are shown on this slide. The general plan designation is East Lone Tree specific plan focus area and within the specific plan, the parcel's designation is low density residential. The parcel was part of the Laurel Ranch Plan development district and was originally identified as a buyer retention facility for storm water control. However, after that project's entitlement phase, the storm water control plan was re-engineered and this parcel was no longer needed for that purpose.

The preliminary development plan before you tonight is the third iteration of similar commercial projects proposed for this site. The first propo proposal shown on the left uh was for a gas station, convenience store, and car wash, and it was reviewed by the planning commission in February 2023. Um concerns were shared at that meeting uh regarding placing a gas station on a constrained parcel bordering close to residential properties. The applicant came back with a revised proposal which included a convenience store and car wash eliminating the gas station proponent which was reviewed by the planning commission in February of 2024 and the city council in June of 2024. Um concerns were again expressed regarding developing a car wash close to residential property. um alternative uses uh were suggested including a standalone convenience store, cafe or other neighborhood serving retail. The third uh preliminary development plan iteration which is before you today is similar to the first PDP from 2023 um with the gas station component added back in as well as with some adjustments to the size of the facilities and the overall site plan. Um because the project proposes different uses and a different layout from the more recent PDP. Um and given the time passed since the prior PDP hearing, another PDP review is required prior to submittal of a full entitlement application. Um I'll now uh move into the proposed project design um as well as touch on some staff recommendations. Um so the proposed design is on um this slide. The project would include a gas station with 12 pumps underneath a fueling canopy. Um an approximately 3,300 square foot convenience store with

a 1,400 square ft automatic car wash attached. Um it also includes 10 vacuums beneath um a second canopy. Um 18 parking spaces inclusive of the vacuum spaces. uh new concrete masonry wall on the southern perimeter, landscaping, bio retention, and other site improvements. Um staff do recommend um should the project move forward that the vacuum stations be relocated away from the property line that's closest to residential um houses to the south. Um and uh I would also just clarify that a noise analysis for the project would be required as part of the SQA review process um for a future entitlement phase. This slide shows the parking in circulation. The project would include two new right turnin and out driveways to Laurel Road and Country Hills Drive. Um, and the section of Country Hills Drive adjacent to this site merges from two southbound lanes to one. Um and staff are concerned that cars entering out of the station into a lane merge could create a traffic issue as well as potentially invite people to drive across the site who are trying to get around the stoplight at Laurel and Country Hills. Um so we would recommend changing the Country Hills Drive to um an entry only um to avoid this conflict. Uh although I'd note that an analysis provided by the applicant showed that fuel trucks would only be able to enter um through Country Hills Drive and exit onto excuse me through Laurel and exit onto Country Hills. So this circulation would need to be further studied as part of an entitlement submitt. Um, the majority of the parking provided uh is vacuum spaces and staff would recommend that the applicant provide the required parking spaces for the convenience store without relying on vacuum spaces to reduce potential conflict between users. Um, as it stands now, there would only

be four spots open um, not counting staff parking um, that are not vacuum. Um, and the number of vacuums could also be reduced to help meet the parking requirements. Um this this last slide shows the proposed architecture and landscaping. The building architecture features stucco with brick veneer and metal roof accents. Um staff do feel that the design uses cohesive materials and colors to create a single architectural style and screening trees, shrubs, uh and grasses serve as a buffer between the adjacent street frontage. So again, I'll just reiterate that there's no action tonight on whether to approve or deny this project. The purpose is simply to provide feedback um prior to a potential future submittal of an entitlement application, which would require approval from both the planning commission as well as the city council. We have received approximately 26 emails from members of the public along with two petitions which have expressed opposition to the project. Um, letters were included with your packet as well as printed tonight. Traffic, noise, air, and light pollution are common concerns. Uh, and city staff provided a list of recommendations for the applicant to consider. Some highlights are, uh, on this slide. Uh, first staff recommend that the proposal take into account the concerns that were brought up in the past preliminary development plan hearings um regarding noise and air quality impacts from potentially developing a gas station or car wash on a constrained parcel so close to residential. Um and again some um potential alternative uses that um were suggested in past hearings include a standalone convenience store, a deli or

coffee shop type use um among other ideas. Um, you know, should this type of project proceed, staff would also recommend revisions to the site plan, including relocating vacuums, uh, addressing concerns around exiting into a lane merge, uh, providing the, uh, required parking without relying on vacuum spaces, adding electric vehicle charging, and lastly, engaging with the neighboring homeowners association and residents prior to submittal of an entitlement application. That concludes my presentation and I'm happy to take any questions.

I'm assuming there's no presentation. We do not see the applicant here. Okay. I would move to the general public comment. All right. For anyone who'd like to speak on this item, I will now open the comment period. City staff, please proceed with identifying the speakers who will have three minutes to address the commission, of which I have several. Um, first I have Mr. Rick Stein.

Good evening. My name is Rick Stein. I am a resident of the Park Ridge development which abuts this property. I'm also the vice president of the HOA for Parkridge. Listening to the presentation you gave here tonight, I haven't seen anything that differs significantly from the original proposals that were disapproved by both the planning commission and the city council. Looking at the traffic that you have up there, as close as this parcel is to the intersection of Lone Tree and I'm sorry, not Lone Tree, but the Country Hills and Laurel, the amount of traffic that is on that road, the significant safety hazard with people especially crossing Laurel to go westbound, crossing that traffic. It's going to be nearly impossible that close to that intersection. um referencing the official city record PC resolution 20234 when the town homes across country hills were approved. It was approved under the uh east lone tree focus area boundary layer which specifically spells out residential only. No commercial. Commercial is east of the freeway. Residential is west of the freeway. you would require an amendment to the general plan, excuse me, and also to the uh loan tree focus area boundary. Um, under finding number three of that, it says any commercial component is justified economically at the location proposed. The project does not have a commercial component. Nothing about any of this is commercially active. Uh the planning commission in 2023 stated they would not approve even

without the gas station. In 2024, the council opposed the proposal, stated no intention to amend the general plan for commercial use here. City staff corrected its own error that it said it was commercial and they came back and said, "No, it's residential." The applicant's representative from Milestone Associates admitted the parcel was purchased under a mistaken commercial assumption. Now they're trying just to push it through, just to ram it through so they can make their money. No material changes to the fundamental land use conflict, only a new council to petition and a new mayor. Davidon Holmes filed formal written objections to in February 2023 and June 2024, and that record stands. The incompatibility, the car wash would be open from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. 7 days a week. Noise, machinery, high-pressure equipment adjacent to homes. convenience store 5:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. 7 days a week. 21-hour operation selling alcohol, beer, wine, and tobacco. Light and glare from late night operations directly into homes immediately abudding the parcel increased traffic and pedestrian safety hazards at Laurel and Country Hills.

Thank Thank you, sir. Okay. Sorry, I have to stop you right there. Not a problem. You've got my handout. Yes, sir. Everything's pretty much laid out in there. Thank you very much for your time. Okay. We do oppose. Next, I have a public comment for Shane Battle. Did I Did I say that? I'm sorry. Forgive me. Sean Battle.

Can you hear me? Okay. Um, I spoke before in front of the city council last time. Um, and I heard a lot of information last time. Um, I oppose it. On the diagrams, it doesn't really show how close this is to the homes. Like I stated before, Steph Curry could shoot a basket from the car wash into the backyards of the people who live there. Um, at that time the KB homes across the street weren't even there yet. So, not only do you have Park Ridge homes, but you also have the KB homes and you have the town homes that are coming. So, this whole thing is surrounded by residential. Um, there's nothing good that can happen at night selling alcohol, you know, tobacco or whatever. Tobacco I guess not but alcohol. Antioch already has a bad reputation for crime. I've lived out here it will be 35 years this year and I have seen the reputation of Antioch and it's not good. Um having a car wash and a store that sells liquor open all hours of the night. It's it's just to me asking for for trouble there. We live on the corner. There is a turn from Laurel onto Treeline Way. There are accidents on that corner all the time. We have people who ring our bell and ask for camera footage because there's people cut Well, there's a couple things. There's a blind spot because of of um vegetation that's growing there. So, we've had the city come and cut that down several times so

people can see when they turn off of Laurel into Treeline, which is right there on that corner. Um, and we also have people who cut across. It's supposed to be right turn only, but they don't want to make a right turn and make a U-turn, so they cut across and that causes accidents. Um, it just it just doesn't make sense. There's a lot of noise already. There's side shows on Country Hills in Laurel. Um that's piped down a little bit, but it just it's it would it would be and it just doesn't fit. Everything there is residential. And Antioch has car washes. I mean, Costco's or both Cos are are planning on adding a car wash. There's Duckies car wash. There's another one on Lone Tree. Um it just it just doesn't make sense. Um, Antioch was a very beautiful place when I first moved here. Um, and it's starting to look very urban. Um, and not the suburban kind of look that it had before. That's that's it.

Thank you.

I have another public comment from Mr. Carlos Hermosio. Good evening. So, I live on Promontory Way in this community. I bought my first house here in this community about three years ago. And when I moved here, the southeastern edge of the city was still very quiet. In three years, I've watched it change faster than most cities change in a decade. Uh that's a big part due to the Costco we just got and a lot of the development down in Oakley which is not too far from where we are in the Parkridge division um on Laurel. And the Parkridge community is full of a lot of very beautiful humans. And this community is one of the nicest communities with some of the most beautiful homes in the entire city of Antioch. And the entire area, as previously noted by some of the folks that were up here just a moment ago, has been zoned for residential despite some of the challenges that have been put up against that. Nathan Tinclair who confirmed a 25page report that I've already submitted um to everyone here which hopefully you have a copy of um calls out that in a 5m radius we have 20 plus gas stations we have 8 plus car washes 7 plus convenience stores I think we we have enough I think everyone's needs are are met And if I'm being completely honest, the majority of the residents in the Parkridge neighborhood are driving electric vehicles at this point. If this were going to be a charging space, perhaps maybe the environmental impact might be different. Perhaps um there might be a

different kind of energy around this project, but it doesn't fill any unmet need at this juncture. And as of this evening, the change.org or petition that I helped start along with my neighbors has already garnered 275 signatures which have been verified. When I submitted the report that uh Nathan Sinclair um confirmed an email had arrived, we were at 235 signatures. All of these with again verified addresses on file. So, while we don't want to completely get in the way of how this land can be used, I think there's a lot of other approaches that could be taken to how this land is being developed. I think keeping Antioch strong and growing and its commerce sector growing is important. Um, but I would like to challenge the um the folks involved with putting this together to consider some alternatives that would both give back, add safety, help improve the reputation of the city, and put things back on the right track. There's been no changes since the last uh report. I think we've made our case.

Thank you for your time. I have another public comment by Jamie Laros. Hopefully I said that right. Hello. It's pronounced haime. Nice to meet everyone. Apologies.

Yeah, it's all good. Uh I'm representing the lower ranch community. I just bought a house there a year and a half ago and uh on top of this public comment, I did submit a petition with quite a few signatures. I have it a copy of it in case you guys need it. Anyways, I'm here to urge you guys to reject the proposed gas station and car wash project. It's not about opposing development. It's about opposing the wrong development in the wrong place. Let me be clear at what it's at at stake. A g a gas station and car wash directly adjacent to an active town home development and two established residential neighborhoods will bring constant traffic noise, exhaust fumes into our community. We're not talking about a park or a neighborhood retail that families actually want. We're talking about a high impact commercial facility that will degrade the quality of life for hundreds of residents. The traffic and safety concerns are real. Add up the cars entering and leaving the gas pumps, the backup at the car wash, plus delivery trucks, you create a congestion and a safety problem on a street where families live and children play. Then there's the health issue. Our neighborhood already sits very close to Highway 4, which means our air quality is already compromised. A gas station brings fuel fuel spills, groundwater contamination risks, and additional vehicle emissions. Why would we intentionally add another pollution source to an area that is already struggling with air quality? And frankly, we don't need it. There are plenty of gas stations serving this area. The project doesn't fill a community need. It just saturates an already served market. And here's what troubles me the most. We have new families moving in to the town home development next door. They choose this neighborhood because they thought it was a good place to raise their kids. And now we're considering a gas station in their front yard. That's not progress. That's failure to plan responsibly. I understand the city wants tax revenue and economic activity, but not every project deserves approval. Some uses

simply don't belong in residential areas. This is one of them. I urge you strongly to deny this project. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you. Haime, I think we need to bring back in Commissioner Aguilar. Agu, I thought you had to stay away for the discussion. He has a public comment on the line item. Yeah, we have another staff member getting him. Oh, we have a staff member getting.

We'll just need the microphone. Thanks, Um, I'm coming to you guys to the planning commission today as as uh speaking as public comment as a citizen right now. last meeting at this at our uh general plan meeting, um Councilman Freighus made a statement that made an impact on me especially, what do we want our city to look like? What? When you when you drive into Antioch and you get up on the freeway, do you know you in Antioch or do you think you at Oakland or do you think you in Richmond? No disrespect to those cities. I was born I was born and raised in Oakland so I can talk about Oakland. don't want to get off the freeway and see beautiful million-dollar homes, million-dollar condos, town houses, and then see a no disrespect to the business people in this community. And no disrespect to the owner owner of of the of the of the project. Do I want to see a gas station and a car wash off on that side of the on that side of the freeway with with have with million-dollar homes is if you lived above that I live right

above it. Right above it. Now, you know, I'm in a wheelchair, so I can't throw that far, but I could throw I could throw I can throw a rock down at that that that project. We already here boom boom going up and down that street at nighttime and daytime. Imagine what you going to hear when a car wash comes because that's where everybody likes to hang out. I'm all for business development, but there's a there's a there's a place for specific projects in a city. There's a place for them. If I'm not m if I'm not mistaken, that side of the street is zoned residential, not commercial or industrial. And it's for a reason. instead because it's residential. This project has come to this to this to this planning commission has come to the city council more than one time and each time the members of that community has have to have the painstaking painstaking task of coming down here to fight for their rights. How many more times since 2003 do they got to keep coming down here to fight for their rights? So you going to beat them down until they don't come more no more? Because the more you come down here and and and and be a project, the the less people show up. So thank you for comment. All right. Seeing no further public comments, I'm now going to close the public public comment um period and we'll place it back before the commission for discussion.

All right. U first I would like to thank the members of the community came out um to u provide their public uh feedback regarding this project. Um, personally, I'm in agreement. Um, I actually uh drove past that property uh before this meeting a couple days ago, actually. um just to get a firsthand look at what the environment looks like. You know, says picking up on um something a former uh commissioner used to do um because uh as one of the speakers mentioned, it's kind of hard when you look at the map to actually get a sense of how close the the gas station and all the amenities would be to the homes. Um, now some of this I'm basing on my own personal experience having pumped gas at other gas stations where yes, there is noise. There's the ambient light from the from the overheads. There's uh, you know, just some people leave their car stereoss blasting while they're filling up their gas. Um, that's probably a sample that you would expect to see at any gas station around town, and I would expect it would be happening here, too. Um my my personal thought is you know it is um perhaps by accident that it was um zowned residential uh low density single family residential um as it was mentioned it was supposed to be a catch basin for storm water. Now we're stuck with this piece of property um or at least someone is um the applicant. Um my first question is you know when we compile our recommendations to the applicant is is our discussion going to be compiled and sent back to him as feedback or I should say uh as feedback u to you know for further discussion.

Um so generally the applicant is here um to hear the feedback firsthand. Um the meeting is being recorded so they would be able to watch it. Um, but they have our written comments that you've seen in the packet.

Okay. Thank you. Um, it's a shame because I think they've should be aware of what the stance of past planning commission has been, what the city council has voiced as their opinion on on potentially reszoning the property to um this for this type of um purpose. Um, it's a shame because they they probably need to read the room a little bit better, I think, honestly. Um, I did some research on it. Uh, you know, what would be the most compatible development for a parcel like this near by and surrounded by residential development? And they said basically the most compatible retail developments are neighborhoods serving businesses that generate low traffic, low noise, and operate during standard daytime hours. Okay, so that's pretty much off of Google. Um, examples would be a small scale retail uh store, be bakery, cafe, whatever, something less than 10,000 square feet with the appropriate parking around it. Um, could be professional services like a small office um small offices for uh perhaps for real estate or law office or insurance or dental. um personal services, barber shop, a nail salon, even a tattoo parlor would fit within that kind of classification. And finally, daycare facilities for either for a child or adult. Um or finally, quiet dining, you know, not drive-thru type of properties, but a quiet sit down restaurant. Um it's just not this type of proposed uh development here is just not appropriate, I don't think, for the property. So, that would be my recommendation for the applicant.

I'd like to chime in. Excuse me. Um, I'd like to chime in on the on the proposed project. Um, I remember having this mentioned the last I think the last two times I was here and this is the third time we're seeing this project. Um, and I'm uh nothing has changed. I'm still not a fan of it. Um, I do know a little bit of a history with the I've heard from the I've heard from these meetings at the commission that the uh owner uh was thinking maybe they were buying a residential lot and then surprise surprise it was commercial something along the lines of that. Maybe I'm mistaking reading that wrong. But what I do remember is that we have this proposal for a gas station when it's surrounded by houses. And when it was brought to us in 2014, 2024, 2023, uh when it was first brought to us, there was even less houses and now there's even more houses. And I understand that SQA mentions things about noise and traffic and air pollution. Um but I go to the gas station that is uh I'm sorry, the car wash and gas station that is half mile up the road on Laurel Drive in Oakley. the uh the super clean car wash. And what none of these uh what no one mentions is the smell that car washes have. Car washes smell like soap, old soap and dirt and grime and muck. And it's just what happens. You know, you wash your car, the soap is on the ground, and no matter what the drainage system is, there is always going to be puddles at the car wash because it's a car wash. Um, so I it's so hard for me to see this project come through to be a car wash because I I agree with the consensus that I'm kind of feeling in this room is that it's just not the place for that kind of business. Um, this is a business if it must be commercial, must be retail. I love everything that uh Commissioner Spiker said. Uh, everything from the daycare center to the uh to the dental office is a great great idea. Uh, but a gas

station, I would even be more in favor if this was just a standalone 7-Eleven convenience store and not the gas station, not the car wash. I would actually prefer that even um I would actually much like your ideas, but you know, if I had to if I had to pick uh if I had to pick two bad things, I'll pick the standalone convenience store uh instead of the car wash and the uh the car wash and the gas station. Um, I just don't think I think it's a redundant use of of our city's land. Uh, there's a car there's a gas station car wash right up the street in Oakley. And even on the Antioch side, we have um you just drive a little bit further and once you're on Hillrest Avenue, you go down and Hillrest Avenue, there's a 7-Eleven on that side. There's the there's another Chevron. There's another Safeway. There's another Arco. you turn around and you you turn around and go down uh Canada Hills and there's the Costco gas station which is very very popular for cheap reasons. Um so I just don't see how this project could in my I I I cannot ever see me voting for putting a gas station car wash on this property. It just doesn't make sense. I don't think it's a good use of our city's land nor um how we can use this neighborhood because uh I live not too far away from this neighborhood. I live off uh if not off Country Hills, I live off of Wild Horse, so I live right off the neighborhood, right? Yep. So, um so yeah, I just just a few thoughts that I have. Uh I second everything that Commissioner Spiker says along those other those are all great ideas, by the way. Um but yeah, gas station car wash is just I I just can't see it happening in my opinion.

Yeah, please.

Well, there were a couple comments made in the last few meetings. One was uh Mr. Agra just repeated that what do you want this NX city to look like? Second was one of the questioners said in um last meeting I think says what kind of city do you want to leave behind for our next generation? What do you want our kids to say to us? What kind of job did we do with creating this kind of havoc or this kind of beautiful city? So choice is all of ours. If you want to make the city beautiful, it depends on the citizens, the residents. Businesses do help. They do bring the revenue. But there's the right place for the businesses. We have real estate office right next to the gas station on U Hillrest and even in meet our meeting rooms. It's uh double pin or triple pin glasses. Every time the vacuum goes on, car wash goes on, we can hear it. Somebody spins the car in and out of the gas station, we can hear it. So, think of that kind of noise level, we are there in the daytime. At night, people who are sleeping, the residents are sleeping or maybe there's some day sleepers listening to that kind of noise level. They probably cause some kind of sleep deprivation. They won't be able to sleep or rest. not do their duties as the parents or go to jobs or do anything productive. I think it's a health risk. It's it'll cause some traffic safety issues, increase noise level. I think it's a bad place for this uh kind of business. Um I'm against it. Thank you.

Uh I want to touch base and thank everyone that spoke today. Um I want to say that I completely agree with everyone saying that you know particularly it's a residential area and there is already a lot of car washes in Annioch. Um I personally would not support having another car wash. Um, I think there should be other type of development. Um, especially in the residential area. Um, like Commissioner Spiker said, maybe even a daycare would benefit residents near that area. Um, you know, we don't have much daycarees here in Annioch and a lot of families tend to struggle on that as well. So, um, that's just my thoughts. I would not support this project.

I think there's a lot going on with this project. I think the only thing it's missing is a Chuck-E-Cheese. It's got way too much happening there for me. Um, not to mention the design of it is dreadful. Um, I think there's a lot to be said about the future of the city. I think we're here to represent the people who live here and their best interest and I feel like you guys have already spoken the way that you feel about it. I think we don't want our city to look like a truck stop and that to me is what that screams. Not to mention the wear and tear and everything that's going to happen on Laurel and um what is it? Country hills from these trucks going in and out of that constantly, you know, refueling and doing all those things and um you know the health risk associated with those who have been living there, right? So I'm definitely not in favor of this project. I do feel like we're discussing it and providing feedback and it it seems to me like the applicant doesn't even believe in the project because they didn't even show up here. So, um, if the buck could stop with me, I would say that that would be the case, but I'm sure that we'll be back to visit this again. I just want to thank you all for your time and for your dedication to your communities and your neighborhoods. And thank you, and forgive me for butchering the names of any of those who spoke.

And no motion. If um everyone's done commenting, then we can um bring back Commissioner Aguular. It's okay. Commissioner Agalard has returned to the chambers at 7:15 p.m. Okay, moving forward with our meeting to line item 7-1, Wildflower Senior Apartments, APN 052- 034 052-342- 010 DR2025-

Z0021. The applicant requests approval of a design, review, and density bonus application for the Wildflower Senior Apartments Project, which consists of 183 senior affordable housing units along with parking and associated site improvements. May we have a staff presentation, please?

Hello, commissioners. My name is Monae Boyd and I'm the assistant planner here at the city of Antioch and I will present to you the Wildflower Senior Apartment Project. So, there are two items that we're asking you to consider for approval. One, design review approval of the project's architecture, design, and landscaping and confirming their consistency with applicable objective design standards. Two, approval of a density bonus application. The project will provide 100% of the units for low-income households in exchange for additional units above the base density in the zone uh in the zone and they will be requesting waiverss and concessions from some development standards. So, here is the project location. The project site is a vacant 3.77 acre parcel at the southeast corner of Hillrest Avenue and Wildflower Drive. The subject site is zoned highdensity residential R35 and has a general plan land use designation of highdensity residential. The project site is identified in the 2023 and 2031 housing element as site 112. The site is within a half mile of BART. The northeast northeast portion of the site has a 100 foot wide P gen tower line easement occupied by existing overhead wires. Surrounding land uses include the Wildflower Station, town homes to the northwest, Dutch to the north, northwest, Dutch Bros to the west, Chevron gas station to the south, and single family homes abudding the property to the north and southeast side of the property along Hillcrest Avenue. So, a little bit on the proposed development. So, this is a senior citizen housing development. They are offering 183 apartment units, onebedroom apartment units uh will be a total of 113 units. Two bedroomedroom um

apartments, 70 units are available. The project will offer 145 units at 60% AMI. 19 units will be available to households at 50% AMI. Um and another 19 units will be available uh to households at 30% AMI. The proposed building would front Hillrest Avenue with parking to the rear of the building. The parking lot is comp comprised of three interconnected slightly stepped levels of parking with an American with Disabilities Act compliant pedestrian pathway and drive aisles that connect the parking to the to the driveways. Shade trees are proposed within the parking area and landscaping is proposed between the parking levels along the exterior exterior of the parking areas. A second driveway for egress is located further up Wildflower Drive at the top of the parking area. These two driveways are separated about um 100 ft. The pedestrian paths within the project span the perimeter of the building, allow access to the dog park, which is in the far uh southeastern portion of the site, the internal building courtyard, and allow for pedestrian access onto Hillrest Avenue as well as Wildflower Drive. Pursuant to Antioch Municipal Code section 9-5.2607, proposed development of any new building or construction apart from a single family home is subject to design review. The city of Antioch adopted citywide multifamily residential um objective design standards which the project was evaluated against. The proposed architecture of the building is contemporary. The project uses earth tone colors, crystal white, titanium gray, and muted orange. The color combination provides soft variations and transition along the building facade. The project provo proposes a variated parapit topped by cornises, large windows and very detailed landscaping. The project design complies with the

applicable mult multifamily residential objective design standards. The proposed landscaping and storm water treatment facilities are located on the perimeter of the site. Um, a little under half of the site is dedicated to landscaping made up of trees, shrubs, and ground cover that comply with the city of Antioch standards. The central courtyard is comprised of seating areas with tables, fire pits, barbecue facilities, succulent gardens, and pedestrian pathways to seamlessly connect the complex and provide the amenities required for multifamily objective design standards for common open space areas. The proposed um the subject site has a general plan and zoning designation that allows housing consists of 3.77 acres and is surrounded by existing utilities, public services and urban uses. The project site is also a housing element site and has been an analyzed alongside several other sites in the housing element and the site complies with applicable city standards um and regulations. In conclusion, staff recommend that the planning commission approve the design review and density bonus application.

Do we have a applicant presentation perhaps? Yes. Okay, thank you Monae. Um, can we just get 10 minutes for the applicant time, please?

Yeah, great. Thank you. Um, appreciate the uh, overview by staff and um, it's been very helpful working with staff over the past year or so to um, kind of get this project to where it is and we appreciate all the work that's gone into it. Uh, thank you commissioners for this opportunity to uh, share about this project this evening and the uh, benefit that we see it being to the community of Antioch. Um, so much was said in the in the staff presentation. I'm just going to go quick and probably just highlight things. So, it is a housing element site. This is 100% affordable as it was said at the 60% AMI, the 50% AMI, and the 30% AMI levels. Um, we're providing um parking on site that that meets the um or exceeds the what what the senior um what a senior housing project in Antioch would require. Um even though we are within a half mile of BART and um technically the project doesn't require any parking but we see it as a amenity for the residents, for their guests and for the community to provide the parking on site. Um this is also you know I I I saw in a previous meeting you guys talked about accessibility. So just wanted to highlight that this is a uh as a senior housing project that this project uh emphasizes accessibility. There will be 28 mobility units at greater than 15% of the units. Um other units will have enhanced communication features and as an elevated building all

um 183 units of the project are adaptable and um accessible to guests which is another thing. you know, you get the the projects that um you know, there may be the ground level is accessible for residents, but how can a disabled guest visit the uh the upper units if it's a walk up building? Um so this uh project addresses that. Um, we think this is a great location, half mile to BART, accessible to Safeway and um, convenient shopping and the other things along the Hillrest corridor. There's that. You know, it's nice to see Dutch Brothers move in. Uh, that'll be another great feature for the future residents. Um, there are some challenges with this site. It is fairly steeply sloped. um in order to and then there's also the 100 foot wide PG and easement along the back side that restricts the grading um and the uses of that piece of the parcel. Um so the project we've we've pushed the project up towards the Hillrest frontage but not all the way to the Hillrest frontage. Um we do leave a landscape buffer along that uh that corner. We are uh as part of the project um in consultation with staff, we are doing landscape improvements at the uh the corner piece that's in the right ofway. And um that'll all be um landscaped and go from a empty grass lot to um to fill in this final uh final corner of the intersection as as the development is happening there. Uh we've worked with the fire district

uh to come up with a plan that's safe and effective uh for fire access. Um we have, you know, in addition to the the building itself, there's a whole pallet of landscape um furniture and elements and paving and stuff that goes into um a project like this. And we feel like it's just going to it's going to be a high quality place for the um for the residents who live there. There's some of the vegetation that's planned. Uh we have four unit types. U primarily it will be units A and B uh two-bedroom and onebedroom units. Uh there'll be a variety of uh common areas from a club room to common laundry, a large courtyard for um residents to mingle and uh to do. There's a barbecue and the other features that Monae talked about. And then in addition there is this dark dog park feature at the um far end of the site which is which was something that we found uh could be you you could be developed within the PG& easement. Uh we are asking for uh three concessions. The project is eligible for five to u reduce the cost of the project. Um there are a variety of waiverss just um with the steep slope in the back. the PG& ement. Um there are constraints on the building pad and so these are uh waiverss to um to eliminate further reductions in the area available for building the building. So in just in summary, um we're pleased

to bring this proposal for a housing element site. Um, Cypress Equities has um is looking forward to investing in the community. Uh, we feel it's an excellent location with access to BART, Highway 4, the stores. Um, and then, you know, it's serving a specific community with the active seniors. So, appreciate uh this opportunity this evening and am available for any questions. Good evening. Just want to see you haven't

Can you ask that before public comment? Um I think we should do public comment very quickly. Sorry about that. Um for anyone who would like to speak on this, I will now open the comment period. City staff, please proceed with identifying the speakers who will have three minutes to address the commission. Do we have any public comments on this item? We have no speaker cards for this item. All right. As there have been no speaker cards received, we'll now place it back before the commission for discussion. Sorry. Sorry. Just a quick question about would you have an HOA there?

Um, it would be it's a rental project and so it would be managed and there would be a leasing office that would um manage the property. So it's not condos, is it apartments? It's apartments. Yes. Okay. Uh do you offer any amenities for inance a senior project so do you offer any amenities like shuttle or bus or medical stores or something? Because you have seniors. You only have Yeah, there is there are bus stops right along Hillrest at the location um that are easily accessible. I understand that. Yes.

But nothing from your property. Nothing. I mean within the have nothing special. I mean we have gym, we have other common areas like the club room. We have the barbecue and the dog park. Um I understand that. What? How about um you have as far as like resident services or something, right? Yeah, we are um going to be uh coordinating with the senior there's a a city senior um what's this? There are services through this city to to seniors that will be partnered with as part of the project.

You want to Garrett Borges. I'm with Cypress Equity. Um again, thank you all for your time and effort to get us here. I think to directly answer your question, um we won't have like a shuttle service. We will have a uh third-party professional management group who will be operating managing the uh the site for us. Um we've got, I believe, two managers units as well that are set up. Um so, not only will those managers be working there, but they're also living and part of the community, which we find really helps service um the residents that live there as well. Um and we will be partnering with a group um similar to like pack housing um who also offers um other products and organizations and and support um for the community that will be uh qualified to live at at the residence here.

Great. Next question I have is about the cost. Is it lower than the market rent? How much lower?

Uh it is and that fluctuates. um those um rates are set by HCD or HUD. Um so they're completely out of our control as the developer. Um one thing that I would like to point out is that sometimes you'll see uh the affordable developers will come and um offer even in the 100% affordable ones all the way up to 70% AMI. So the higher the percentage of the AMI, the associated rent that's charged to that income category is higher than a 50 or 30% AMI unit. Um, and so those are all pre-established and we are all 60 and below. Um, so we've tried to reduce that as much as we can for this particular development and have no 70% units here. They're all below that that rate. So I understand these are all senior units um active senior units

55 and and over right so how many elevators would you be providing them or 183 units how many elevators will there be elevators yeah I think two two elevators correct for the service the building as well as the stairwells and and other required means of egress and access Right. For emergencies, you need that. Yes. All right. Thank you. You bet.

Um Okay. Um my question is a little bit more for staff and that was in regards to the concessions, the act, um the architectural concessions that uh this project has. Um because um and a few of those concessions includes um architectural detour uh detail at the eve, architectural features on all elevations and exterior window sun shades. This could be found on C1 along with a little snippet in the beginning. Um and and looking at that uh those concessions means it's kind of if if I understand this right is because this is a uh low-inccome project and has a lot of benefits to our city. they're um excused from having these kinds of concessions that we would normally have, which um I I did think was a little unfortunate because before I got to the concessions, I looked at the rendering of this project and it looks really bland. Um it looks like it looks like a 30-year-old hospital and and I and I feel like that is in such and no offense to the architectures. I know that that concession, you know, you could have it you could have it built right, you could have it built beautifully, you could have it built cheap, you could only pick two. I I get it. It's a tough world, but um and but it's going to be in such stark contrast to the uh to the housing that is right across of Wildflower. Um right across you have a you have a really nice condominium setup with balconies and uh one thing I noticed is uh windows of multiple sizes. I never realized how that could make a huge difference. Um, looking at the renderings for this project, um, it's it's very um, like copy pasted like from like one section of the of the of the building to another, there's no differentiation between like the ground floor and the and the and the higher floors. There's no window awnings. There's no differences in architecture.

And I was wondering like how does those concessions play play into that? Because looks like a bland building. And I would like to suggest or require the applicant to have a better architectural design for the building. But I think these concessions are kind of part of like what prevents that or it's kind of the give and take that we have. Right. Is that

right? So I think um I think we had spoke about this too in our March 18th meeting um about state density bonus law. And so with the concessions, the concessions are based upon um cost. And so if these if those type of things that were uh listed in the concession, so if the awnings and different things or balconies make it difficult for the project to happen due to more labor or more construction costs and things like that or having to um have more support beans, then uh they are allowed to use the concessions. They they use three for the um for this particular project. Um, I think the other thing to note too is that uh the the within the state density bonus law is because they're offering 100% senior housing unit and the affordability of uh 60% AMI, they are allowed up to five concessions and then an unlimited amount of waiver.

What were the three concessions that they can Oh, thank you. Uh, you can find it on C1. Yes, C1. C1. So architectural detail um at the cornis eve and then C2 architectural features on all elevations and then um exterior window sun shades and I also have our multif family objective design standard booked if you want to read exactly what that means. Thank you.

I I would say sun shades is least of our concerns. It is a very boring and very bland building. And not to mention, there's no access for the seniors who live there to have like a balcony outdoor experience, fresh air even. And then I've lived in apartments, you know, in a portion of my life. And having shared laundry, especially in a senior type situation just seems very inconvenient to me and a real hassle for the tenants who are, you know, who you guys are planning to accommodate there. Those are just some observations that I have. I would just comment and um we did try and work with um the applicant team to refine some things. We tried to get a little more color and um work within the confines of both our objective standards and the concessions here. So there have been project revisions that I think make it look um some more detailed than what um you some previous iterations. Um but we are bound by state density bonus law. Um, then if that's the case, would it be possible to make the building less gray and maybe choose because it seems there's three primary colors. It's like uh the white, the titanium, and then the and then the the, you know, the earthy color. Um, I wonder if one of those either the white or the gray could just be I don't know, maybe the color of the golden hills that are right behind that property. I don't know, just just to just to kind of do something to kind of help it. Or another option I think would be um in the bio retention area. I didn't get to the landscaping part of this, but I wonder, you know, with the bio retention area, if we can make sure that there are some nice um larger gallon trees that are already planted

there to kind of have a little bit of a jump start in um giving the um giving the residents here some shade because especially on that south facing wall uh facing Hillrest Avenue, it's going to be really really hot in that area and if there's no window treatments, it's going to make you know those seniors air conditioning bill run a lot higher on that south facing wall. And I know that seniors typically are not made of money, nor is anyone else. Um, so I'm wondering if if you know, maybe that can be a concession of making sure that we um consider consider a different color. I'm not saying that has to be done, just you know, just an idea here. Um, and then maybe we could add um make sure that those uh those trees that are on that um on that park strip by the sidewalk that could maybe like make sure that we have um trees that are you know not the minimal 5gallon tree but something a little bit larger or adding trees in the bio retention area.

Yeah. So in terms of I'll speak to the tree comment first. Um our code requires 15gallon minimumsiz trees and actually most of their tree sizes is over that already. So I think the applicant has um looked at that. Thank you. I would say in terms of the color um you know this meets our objective standards in terms of color. I would reach out um to see if the applicant had thoughts on okay other color but um per what the design looks like now it meets our requirements versus and in I lost me training of thought except for the concessions and the waivers part

I understand I understand the concessions are the concessions are here to stay and I don't want to poke too much at the at the paint I'm not the I'm not the interior design person in my family at all so don't listen to me about paint I'm just trying to think of like, okay, if we can't add awnings and add balconies, uh maybe less gray is a better paint color, but I don't know. The the the the condo apartment complex, I I forget which one it is, right across the side from Wildflower. It also has gray in it, too, and it it's fine, but it has those architectural features that I think kind of bump it up a few numbers. Um, but yeah, just coming with up trying just trying to think of a different idea here, but I appreciate how they went above and beyond for having larger trees built on the property. I think that's a that's just a win-win for everyone. Yeah.

Are we able to approve the density bonus but not re approve the design review until we see what they have come up with as a alternatives or what other things they've added. So, I would say that again we're bound by state housing law here, the um housing affordability act um and state density bonus law that you can only deny housing and I'll look to um our attorney a little here if there's you know um like written objective health and safety hazards um that were in the record. So again um with the waiver unlimited waivers and the use of concessions you know there is somewhat limited discretion in terms of the design. So basically this is another formality.

This is another formality type situation where as long as they're meeting all the guidelines of what the state is saying is uh appropriate use of the land and meets the criteria then pretty much it's something that we have to move forward with whether we like it or not. Yes. Uh, regarding the objective design standards, the consideration of judgment and taste are not supposed to be in the analysis. That makes sense.

I have questions about the parking. Uh, so is the parking sufficient for residents and caregivers giving it since it's senior housing? Um, you know, there there's not like a formal parking need study that was done with this. Um, but we do far exceed the what the state would say is the requirement for the project and we do meet like the we'll meet electric vehicle charging will be provided. we meet the accessible parking requirements. Um, and we feel like this is a sufficient amount of parking to allow we we find with multifamily projects that it is difficult to lease projects that don't have any parking. Regardless of affordability and subsidized rent, whatever it might be, um, you have to provide some parking. um you know a typical close to BART maybe you could get away with um you know not not senior at like one to one u but senior we do feel confident at the you know threequarters of a stall per per unit um that that will be sufficient for the need particular and particularly when you also add in uh the public transportation that's available at this location. Thank you. No further questions.

All right. Um, yeah, I really feel like our hands are tied here. I guess that is our understanding. Um, I do appreciate the fact that they're the applicant is is uh providing lower income housing. I think it's it is needed here in the city. um and to have it 100% you know is is good. Um I understand though in order to make it affordable there is concessions on that that have to be we have to absorb I guess as a city and uh you know the design is um and the density is uh you know kind of highest among those two unless on my list. Um, I agree. I think the buildings look very plain. Um, you know, calling it mid-century modern is maybe a nice way of saying that it's very plain and boxy and you reminiscent of something you might see in an institutional building in the 50s. Um, it's not what we're trying to achieve, but it's probably what we have to deal with uh in order to get the costs down far enough in order to make the whole project affordable. So, it's a kind of a bitter pill to swallow you in my opinion. Um, I think from the perspective of um two things. First, let's start with the residents themselves. The units are relatively small. Um, 113 of them are one-bedroom units, 559 square ft. 70 of them are two-bedroom units at 771 square ft. And what bothers me not is besides the size is one of the waiverss that they're

asking for is the elimination of what the city would suggest I believe was um was a certain minimum amount of storage. I think it was cons waiver number four. Um and it's like you know where do people put their seasonal clothing in a small apartment, you know, any holiday decorations, even a bike perhaps if they have a bike. Um, it's it's uh makes it very small to actually really live in that unit. Um, I understand, you know, there's height restrictions on the building um to put in space. I think it was quoted, I forget the exact number that was quoted in the packet, but it was a fairly significant amount of space that would be required in order to add that storage, you know, what the city would normally require for storage um to the to the building. you would either take away units. Well, the way it was quoted in the in the response is that it would take away bit possible units or the number of units and render the building, you know, therefore um you know, infeasible as a as a financial leap. Um, is there any way of doing the storage in like a basement area where you go instead of going higher, you go down one floor and provide a like a basement storage for the for the for the uh residents. Um I will say that the uh the cost of going below grade is significantly more expensive than uh than building at grade and above. Um so that would be even more

cost prohibitive for Okay. All right. Fair enough. Um and then the other concern I have is um for the um property owners to the immediate souththeast of the property. Sher Weber has left the chambers at 7:48 p.m.

Um, that resident is going to be living next to a fourstory building that is very close to the property line. Um has has there been any discussion with that um property owner um about this property this this particular plan building going in and potentially any offering of financial compensation for the reduction in their property values?

I can only speak from my personal experience um since I've been a part of Cypress and the project. Um, no, not from my personal perspective. I don't know if there's been any other communications or reaching out from the broker, the prior owner or the current ocean owner, I should say. Um, but the pro the property is zoned for high density residential. So, it's uh, you know, we're coming in with what the city has planned for the area and hopefully the resident next door is aware, you know, would someday be built here. Um, I can promise you that the bio retention area will be a bio retention area for us and and not a car wash down down the way. Um, we're also beautifying the city land at the corner, which wouldn't be a requirement um of the project generally um under state density bonus law, but something that that we also found value in, not only for the community, but for our residents as well um to spend a few extra bucks to uh to make that to improve that area as well. Well, I don't know if that we have as a planning commission the ability to enforce that. I would really encourage you to just, you know, on your own meet with that property owner and um perhaps have a discussion with them along those lines. Um I guess the only other concern I would have is would be, you know, as we're working on our uh general plan revisions that we kind of look into it very carefully uh for those parcels that are open and to a development that we try and make sure that you know we don't set up this type of situation going forward where you have a you know a you know city zone parcel that's 35 or 35 you know they're not doing anything wrong. They're doing exactly what they're legally able to do. It's just it sets up a bad, you know, situation with the neighbors and like

would like to see that avoided in the future. That's all I have. Thanks. Yeah. I had a just a few a few questions on the on the building itself as far as um are you going to offer 24-hour cameras? Chair Weber has entered the building chambers at 7:51 p.m.

Uh, yes, we'll have a uh surveillance system that covers all areas of the building um that is recorded um on site too. And so we've got um the capabilities of keeping it safe. Um in addition to that, we'll be using um kind of key cards and those sorts of things for access um into the site. We've got uh vehicular entry gates as well to help keep the site um secure and and safe. Is that when you talk about door entry? Are the door entries um auto auto door entries? Yeah. So, we've got like we have here push the button and the door opens by itself.

We'll be we'll be meeting all of the the ADA requirements for all the common spaces including pushpull requirements or where we can't meet those, we'll have the automatic door openers. question as I answer my question totally. Well, I guess if your answer is will all the doors have them, we will have them. And

say will all the downstairs entry units, the downstairs have a have a have an accessible outside push button for a person that comes in a wheelchair to go inside the door. Are you, you know, so you're not you're not telling me yes or no? You kind of went around went around the corner on that. I we're meeting the code and so I I do know I believe we have some doors that don't meet the code as far as the the require the sizing requirements for roll up and access and in those situations yes we are providing the push buttons but if it's not required per code we haven't planned for it. No.

All right. Um low low curb parking in the parking lot. Um have you um many accessible parking uh variations on the curbs so that when a person's getting out of the car, they're not getting parked, they're not getting out to a curb, but getting out to maybe a more level area. You guys have that in mind or was that even thought about? Um we we have you know what I'm talking about, right? When you get out of the car and there's that curb right there and Yes. Yeah. I mean, we we will have sufficient um accessible parking stalls with the loading areas adjacent to them.

Save you money, you know. Um there there aren't a lot of curbs in the thing. There aren't a lot of tree wells, you know. That's not Yeah. Your tree your tree selection was fairly fairly well. Um, not a lot of trees that had uh roots that would uproot the concrete or walkway. So, I liked about that. That was pretty good. Um, low bushes. Um, you don't have any bushes. I I didn't I didn't I couldn't visually get all No, not not a not a ton except for in, you know, along the in the bio retention and stuff. So, there aren't going to be low bushes that would interfere with entry into vehicles.

Yeah. In that area, it's still kind of tight. I mean, it's we got a lot of got you got Dutch Brothers if you got Safeway and the whole bit over there, but it's still still kind of a high crime auction homeless area right there. You got a lot of people out there hanging around. So, having having a low barrier objects when people are riding around, walking around, it's good. Mhm.

Um we mentioned so you don't have much control over housing itself, but just out of a general question. Um because we do have a lot of homeless individuals that are looking for housing. That's one of the big things. So as much as we have to deal with concessions and waiverss, the need for housing for individuals that are homeless is is is tremendous. Um but is do you know if it's accepting section 8 by any chance?

Um the project will accept section 8 vouchers. So in the event that there is somebody who qualifies and has the vouchers wants to live here, we're definitely welcoming them into the the community. Thank you.

Any other questions, comments by the commission?

Do have another comment. Um, going back to what we were talking about earlier about bus stops. Um, I and this is not on the applicant. This is something for maybe our commissioners that are on the trans plan committee, but I noticed that looking at um Tri Delta Transit's website, there's a really surprising lack of bus stops on that Hillrest Avenue part between uh Highway 4 all the way to Vodora Drive. There is not a single bus stop in the BART direction on Hillrest Avenue and there is only one bus stop in the, you know, southbound Walmart direction. Um, and that is in front of Travis Credit Union. Um, you know, I'd like to see in the future if Trida Transit, I don't know, maybe with the help of our transplant uh transplant some uh bus stops added. I think there is a great place to put birectional bus stops on one on each side of the street right there on Hillrest and Wildflower. I'm surprised there isn't one. It kind of looks like Tri Delta Transit hasn't added or like looked at bus stop density in this area since it was all just golden brown hills, you know, 10 years ago. Uh but that's just the something that I noticed and uh yeah, I I I you know, if this project goes through, that's something that should definitely be added because there is uh it's uh I it's a bit of a walk. It's a bit of a walk. Um, and then another thing, if this building gets built, I wonder if it would um I wonder if it would be beneficial to the residents there and maybe for the city to reook at the um the pedestrian crosswalks there on Wildflower and Hillrest. Right now, there's only three crosswalks um with one of the the missing crosswalk is not on the south side of Hillrest Avenue. with with this development being there, I think there would be more um demand for an for an additional crosswalk to be placed there. So, that intersection

would have four crosswalks around it. Just thinking of uh mobility and how people get around uh around this development. But that's just something I noticed. Uh just wanted to throw that out there for the record. Any other comments, concerns, questions? Okay. Do we have a motion? So, we are making a motion on this and that will include uh the concessions and the waiverss mentioned, right? That's just that's part of it. We can't and we just can't do anything about not just the concessions but the waiverss as well, right? That's just how it works. Okay. It's like that. All right. Well, if that's the case, um any other comments or I'm going to throw something out. All right. Um I'd like to make a motion to go ahead and to approve um item 7-1, the Wildflower Senior Apartment Project. uh that is DR 2025-000021 on APN052-342-0 second

on the question for item 7-1. We have a motion and a second. May I have a roll call, please? Commissioner Agelard. I. Commissioner Spiker. I. Commissioner Riley. I Commissioner Suman I Commissioner Perez I chair Weber I motion passes unanimously 5 or 6 sorry 6 moving on to written or oral communications. Are there any written or oral communications?

I would just give a quick um update for the general plan. Um the mayor um and council member Freighus and uh uh principal planner Scadero held interviews for the general plan advisory committee for the members of the public. So, um the mayor's, uh making those final decisions and if we stick to our plan schedule, those um members should be seated at the April 14th council meeting and then we'd be um holding our first general plan advisory committee meeting soon thereafter. So, um the general plan is still chugging along um internally that way.

Thank you, Zo. Are there any commit committee report? Uh no, another um oral comment. Um, I just want to remind all commissioners that today is the deadline for your FPPC form 700. If you haven't done that, you have to check your email and do it because if you're late, they give you a penalty. Where's that? And it has to be on the FPPC's website. Net file, if you already did it on Net File, you still have to do it on the FPPPC's.

Yeah, I've never uh I was never contacted about this. I wasn't either. And that's how I got my first $200 penalty. Uh whoopsies. So, it's due it's super simple, especially if you don't have any um large interests or anything conflicting in this. Yeah. If if it's a simple, then it it's just a few clicks, but it you do have to do it. Um FPPC Fair Political Practice Commission something. Uh yeah, go ahead and do it tonight before you forget. Do on April 1st. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Riley, for u mentioning that. Are there any committee reports, transplant, anything? No committee reports.

All right. The next planning commission meeting, if it has not changed, will be Wednesday, April 15th, 2026. Um, since we got through these items, then um I don't think there's any items for the 15th. And that puts us at May 6th would likely be the next meeting. So tenatively our next meeting will be May 6th, 2026. May I have a motion to adjurnn? I make the motion to adjourn the meeting. Second. I have a motion in a second on the question to adjurnn. May I have a roll call vote? I'm sorry. Who did the second? Agelard. Thank you. Okay. Roll call vote. Commissioner Agelard.

Hi. Commissioner Spiker. I. Commissioner Riley. I. Commissioner Suman I. Commissioner Perez I. Chair Weber. I. Motion passes 6. Thank you very much. Meeting is adjourned at 8:02 p.m.

Thanks for building 180 new units. Good job. Sorry. Sorry to crap on your design. I think it was great. You know what? almost 200 ft. I hear you. I'm not suggesting