Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

All right, good evening. Welcome to the City of Antioch Planning Commission meeting of May 20th, 2026. It is 6.30 PM and I'm now calling the meeting to order. Katie, can you please call the roll?

Yes, thank you, Chair Weber. Commissioner Spiker is absent. Commissioner Aguilar is absent. Commissioner Sumon?

Yes, I'm here.

Commissioner Riley?

Present.

Commissioner Perez is absent. Vice Chairperson Jones? Here. Chairperson Weber?

Present.

We have a quorum at 6.30 PM.

Please join the commission for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the flag of the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Public comment, 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-agendized items?

None received.

I'm now closing the public comment period. Next we have the consent calendar. Consent calendar items are considered routine and will be enacted upon by one motion. By approval of the consent calendar, the staff recommendations will be adopted unless otherwise modified by the commission. There will be no separate discussion on these items unless a member of the commission or a member of the public requests removal of the item from the consent calendar. We have the following item or items on the consent calendar this evening. Planning commission meeting minutes, this is item 5-1 for April 1st, 2026. Do we have any members of the public who would like to speak on this item?

None received.

Do I have a motion on the question?

I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes.

On the question, I have a motion.

No questions, I second it.

I have a motion and a second. Katie, can I have a roll call vote?

Yes, thank you, Chair Weber. Commissioner Sumon?

Aye.

Commissioner Riley?

Aye.

Vice Chairperson Jones? Aye. Chairperson Weber? Aye. The motion passes unanimously by the members present to approve April 1st, 2026 minutes.

Our next item, 5-2, Acorn Business Park Extension PD-18-02, UP-18-09. AR-18-19 East 18th Street Drive in Way. The applicant requests approval of a two year extension of the final development plan, use permit and design review approvals for the Acorn Business Park project. Do we have any members of the public who would like to speak on this item?

None received.

So do we know what we're approving?

Or no, yeah, go ahead.

So this would be an extension of the existing entitlements that were previously approved by the Planning Commission and City Council. The conditions of approval, all approvals related to the project would remain unchanged. The applicant has currently applied for building permits and is actively working towards beginning to develop the project. They're seeking this two-year extension just as some insurance in case that building permit review process takes a little bit longer than anticipated.

Did anybody hear a vote on that project ever?

No, but I have questions. Can we table this? Oh, your mic's not on.

Is this something that we could table for a later meeting and request a presentation? Because I don't think anybody on this commission is familiar with this project.

Yeah, so I think we could certainly table it and re-agendize it. And maybe I would seek guidance from the city attorney if necessary. But if you'd like to state questions so that staff could be adequately prepared for a future presentation, that could be helpful.

Sounds fine.

I have a question. What was the initial reason for the extension in the first time?

Yeah, I wouldn't be able to answer that in detail. I think we'd have to come back with either staff.

What is the reason for their, because, or let me ask this question. What is the reason for the extension this time? Is it because they're in the process of building permits?

Correct.

When did that process start?

I believe they've applied within the last couple of months, but we could get back to you with that information.

Okay. And this project has already been before this council, correct?

Correct.

And so for me, I'm okay with it, with the exception of, I'd like to see the reasons in these extensions, because there's none. And so when we eventually I'd like to see like all the reasons for the delays and all the like projects going on and like what are they keep asking for extensions because they could come back in two years again and say we need another extension we need and then then where we are at. So my concern is continuing the extension stops development. And if it is truly because of permanent or did they just submit the permit so they could say they're out of status to extend so they can request it. You know what I'm saying? So that's why I kind of want to understand where the developer is coming from or they don't necessarily need to be here, but they need to put it in writing and tell the community why they keep delaying projects. why they're not delaying but extending projects so I'm okay with the extension if the council or the committee and council have already voted on on this process so far it's just any time an extension comes up I think going forward and this is just a recommendation that the reason for the extension and the things that the developer is doing to mitigate that That reason, like you said, they're in the process of permitting, which is understandable, and it takes time. So answering those questions, I think. But I'm okay with if the previous commission has already approved this phase, they've already went to council on this phase. The project is not in question. It's just an extension of the additional The extension. Drawing a blank. Understood. Okay, thank you. So that's where I'm at.

I am on board with tabling it. I'm also, I can also see how we can extend it because we're not changing anything. We're just extending it, right? For two whole years. Right, for two whole years.

And it can come back completely different.

So do we want to make a motion to table this upon explanation for need of extension?

No, I think he just gave it to us. They just submitted their permit plans and they're waiting through that and permitting. How long does permitting usually take for a business park? Is it going to be two years? Because then that's on us, really. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I wouldn't be able to answer that on behalf of building. I think it all depends on the scope of comments.

Have they ever submitted plans before or they just submitted the first set of plans two months ago?

I'm not aware of the full history of the submittal, so I wouldn't want to speculate on that.

I'm still the same boat. It's been approved by the commission before, it's been approved by council before, and it'll come back to us when they're ready to do something. I'd just like to see the reasons on the extensions in the future in writing from the people building, developers.

So is that something that we could put to a motion that we would like to, before approving this, that we would like to see an explanation of the need for extension?

I think in that situation, we'd be tabling it until we would come back with another staff report that had that additional information that you're seeking.

I think we need more information on this. All right.

Well, so as long as the staff report has everything that I just mentioned in it, which is the initial extension reason, this extension reason, the process and the steps they're taking to mitigate these extensions, and how are they gonna prevent, I guess they can't really prevent another extension, but at least mitigating these situations. And then if staff wants to come back with those answers, we can then have that conversation. But it's more of the why, I guess. So, yeah. So if we have the answers to those questions, I don't know if they need to come in here for that or if you guys want them to come in here for that. Because I feel like, honestly, I feel like if they come in here, it's just we're waiting on permits. That's what they're going to tell you. You know what I'm saying? So we could table it in.

We could.

We can motion to table it until we have more information from staff.

Yeah, yeah, okay, I'm okay with that.

I make the motion to table it till we have more information on it.

I second that motion.

I have a motion and a second. Katie, roll call.

Thank you, excuse me. Thank you, Chair Riley. Commissioner Simon?

Aye.

Commissioner Riley?

Aye.

Vice Chairperson Jones? Aye. Chairperson Weber? The motion passes unanimously by the members present to table this item with direction to staff to bring back the information requested regarding the extensions.

I think you accidentally said Chair Riley. Yeah, Chair Weber. You're okay.

It's okay.

All right, moving on to regular item 6-1, determination of the 2026-2031 Capital Improvement Program consistency with the Antioch General Plan, PW150-26. It is recommended that the Planning Commission determine that the 2026 to 2031 Capital Improvement Program is consistent with the Antioch General Plan, including a determination that any acquisition or disposition of property identified in the project description for each project in the capital improvement program is consistent with the general plan. May we have a staff presentation please?

Good evening. So my name is Scott Bunting. I'm the Public Works Director, City Engineer here at the City of Aniaka. I also oversee the Capital Improvements Division. The primary objectives of the Capital Improvements Division are to offer professional and technical engineering services and support to all city departments and provide leadership and implementation of federal, state, and local programs. The capital improvement program or the CIP is a five year plan developed to guide construction acquisition of capital improvements for the city of Antioch. The CIP is reviewed annually to enable projects to be reassessed and revised if necessary. The CIP before you tonight outlines the 26 to 31 expenditure projections for capital projects. It is provided to the commission for planning purposes only. Any secret requirements will be determined on a project by project basis prior to final approval of the construction of each project. As required by section 65401 of California Government Code, staff is recommending the planning commission make the determination that the 26 to 31 capital improvement program is consistent with the Antioch General Plan. which includes a determination that any acquisitions or depositions of property identified in the project description is consistent with the general plan. Thank you for your consideration on this matter, and I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.

We don't currently have a general plan, so we're going based upon the previous general plan.

That's correct.

It's still in effect.

That would be the general plan.

Hi, how are you? My first question, is there any major projects that have changed since the last time we overviewed the CIP? Is there anything that's been dropped off, like it's not happening, or anything added significantly?

There are some things. Basically, that's a council determination. We had a workshop a while back. They had some recommendations, but basically the CIP in front of you is kind of what it is. They'll be approving that and looking at it in a week or so in terms of within the park and rec stuff. Council's kind of looking for the rankings of the playgrounds and parks that we might want to get to because we do have a reoccurring playground rehabilitation project but nothing that I can think of that's that's majorly within the parking rec that's being added or removed my other question was

As you're searching for that, quick question on the parks. I've noticed that there's been new branding for all of Antioch's park signs. The newest park, Jolpan Park, if I'm pronouncing that correctly, has a sign that is more modern than our old 90s wooden signs. Are we planning on changing all of those or updating those throughout the next few years?

Yes, sir. That is the plan. Oh, okay.

Okay.

There is currently, Holpoon Park has signage throughout the park. Chichibu Park also has at least an entry level or entry park sign that's of the same style. Okay. What was the decision for changing it to the new style? It was years ago. The rebranding that we did, it was all part of that. The signage and wayfinding were part of the rebranding concept that was developed.

I'm a fan of the old wooden signs. They have a bit of 90s nostalgia for me. But anyway, things have been going.

For the water treatment plant, I just want to make sure I'm reading this right. It costs half a million every other year to maintain.

So there are a number of projects. The one that you're probably referring to is a reoccurring cost for replacing the filters, the GAC filters. It's basically a granulated activated carbon that we use for filtering and it needs to be replaced every so often. I don't believe every other year in terms of that particular project. But there is reoccurring costs, maintenance costs that happen out there that need to happen on a regular basis. It's a very active and complicated facility.

Got it. And then on B59 Amtrak station improvements, This is just for lands, isn't Amtrak responsible for their area or which part are we responsible for and which part are they responsible for? Because it says this project will install landscaping, hardscaping benches at the current station.

Sure, so that project's complete at this point. It would be the station that we have downtown here. It was re-landscaping, it was defining a fair free zone out there for where only the riders would be separating it from just being a park and other amenities, lighting, security stuff that was done in the area.

Okay, thank you. Let's see if there are other ones. And I think I asked you this last year as well about funding. Because I know this is everything that needs to be done in the city, basically. Is that my understanding? I want to make sure I understand. This is all the items that need to be done within the city.

I wouldn't say that everything is included within the capital, but there's a large portion of the facilities would be in there, or other work that is capital related.

And how is it determined, and this is just out of curiosity and for people who don't know, how is it determined on which projects get funded or how funding is? Because this is a lot of capital, basically. So I feel like last year I said it's kind of like the wish list and see what's possible, what's not possible. But can you tell a little bit about sourcing funding for these projects, how that goes about?

So the actual funding of the projects is all determined by the city council. They're the ones that are responsible. We can provide recommendations, and that's what we do. The CIP is the same thing. They're free to change things around, fund them in different ways if they feel that that's the need. But for the most part, it's a recommendation from staff, the entire staff, depending on what the project is. And then it's presented to council for their approval.

And is there any project in here that you are super excited about?

I mean, all of them. It's great. No, we have a lot of stuff going on. The Elf Street work that we have right now is just the first phase of a project. The second phase will widen the street in front of the fairgrounds and between the high school and the fairgrounds to a four-lane road with sidewalks on each side of the road to increase accessibility in that area, which is an exciting project. We'll be starting work at Marchetti Park here within the very near future, replacing the restroom out there and doing other improvements in that area. And there is a lot of stuff within the capital. There's lots of work at the water treatment plant that we'll be looking at doing. There's electrical stuff that needs to be done, some reservoir rehabilitations, other sort of projects. They kind of range throughout everything, but they're all exciting to me, important, and I couldn't say I had anything that I was most excited for.

Understood, thank you. And then going back to the water treatment plant, and maybe this is a little off topic, but what percentage of the water treatment plant does Antioch utilize? All of our water doesn't come from that water treatment plant, does it?

Yes.

So the water treatment plant- Or maybe I'm thinking two different things. The brackish and then the water treatment, is that two different things?

It's two different animals. Your brackish water system, we've talked about that it can take eight million gallons a day of brackish water and transform that into six million gallons of drinking water. Our water treatment plant has a much higher capacity of that, and what it produces fluctuates depending on the needs of the city, and that fluctuates depending mostly on seasons, time of year, or any events that are happening.

Okay, thank you. And I think that one was done, that's done, that's done. Somebody else can ask questions while I look for my last one. I know I had one more.

On the topic of the water plan, One of the projects here includes a water treatment plant drainage capture. That's at the water treatment plant, not at the wastewater treatment plant, right?

Right, so we own and operate a water treatment plant. The wastewater treatment plant that we utilize would be Delta Diablo, a separate district. So yeah, so what you would be looking at is something, a facility related to our water treatment plant.

Right, that's what I was thinking. And then when I was hearing drainage capture, for some reason when I think drainage, I think wastewater, so that's why I was confused. What is the drainage capture?

Same sort of concept, that there's necessary for additional water usage and it needs to be held in some fashion. It would be basically expanding on the facilities to allow that water to be held. Because typically, the water doesn't need to be most of the time the water can be treated and reintroduced into the headworks of the project or of the plant and then go through the process and be reutilized. Sometimes there's a need to kind of get, maybe empty a basin or get rid of some water because there might be some problem for a second or we need to slow down the process. So that's the type of thing that that would be utilized for in order to hold some of that water and then be able to reintroduce it back into the plant.

OK. All right. And then my other question, this is a hindsight question, so it's not that important. And I remember thinking about this last time, but I just dare to ask the question. But it was about the utility box artwork. And I noticed that the budget for that was like $83,000. And I just thought that was a lot of money to paint utility boxes. And I just wanted to ask, how does that $83,000 break down?

They've expanded most of those funds. The boxes look awesome. They do. They do? So basically that's how the funding was expelled in order to drill down onto every contract and such like that. I would need to talk a little bit, but I know that it was utilized and it did get spent for the purpose, which was to decorate these boxes.

It is probably closer to 400. How many utility boxes are there? More than dozens, like hundreds, right?

Yes, I couldn't give you a number on the number of utility boxes because there's quite a few.

Okay, okay. Well, I didn't think that was a lot, but that's hindsight now. But thank you, though.

On page B14, the projects completed in the fiscal year 2025-2026, $999 million. Of that, I guess, wait, $96 million. I guess what my question is, is what percentage of the projects were completed? So this is on page... B14, and I didn't get it, I should have done this before, I'm sorry, compared last year's to this year's, but would you say 70%, 60%, 50%,

I would have difficulties giving you that number. Our staffing levels go up and down, projects of different sizes. The L Street project, for example, is a very intensive project, so engineers are spending time on that. There's more stuff within the CIP that we can get to, but there are advantages of that because sometimes projects fall off and then we're able to rotate to something else. In terms of the overall, within the entire CIP, what we're accomplishing, I would have to come back with you with the math. It's more of a percentage on the ability for us to get the work out. There is funding and there is projects. Most of what you see on there would be enterprise fund, not necessarily general fund. That's why you see stacked up of projects because the encumbrance of them isn't such a burden on anything.

Yeah, now that I think about it, you can't really base it on percentage completed because everything is in flux and things change and projects get moved around and priority shifts. It looks great, so thank you. I know your team, thank your team, because every year I look at this and it's simple, easy to read, understand, so that's the reason I don't have a lot of questions for you.

I do appreciate that the team that works on this is rather small. Laurie Medeiros is an analyst who works on this. Julie Vire is also an analyst that puts in time. We have a couple engineers, Robert Pizarro, Paul Fuentes, and Mitchell Loving who put in time. But that's pretty much the extent. We get help from finance, we get help from all of the departments. This basically is a book that's created by all the departments. We just put it together and then end up doing some work and then we put it back out. So it's a big group effort, but the team is small and I think they do a great job.

Small but mighty. They did a wonderful job. So send them that information. The reason that we don't have a lot of questions is because most of them are answered. This is simple, easy to read, and straightforward. So I appreciate that.

And we're here. Whether it's here or at another place, anybody, yourselves, or residents, feel free to reach out if there's any questions regarding a project or whatever.

I have one question. on the trail program project. Are most of the trails ADE accessible, or have they still been working on trying to get that to work out?

It's being worked on. There's some that are. There's some that are just kind of rural trails. We do try to improve where we can. A lot of the trail stuff is maintenance on the existing ones. But I guess it depends on which trails that we're talking about, as you might probably know. But it is something that we look into. But yeah, they're not all ADA.

I know you can't do every one of them because every one of them has extensions where you just can't put anything out there.

Well, to that point, there's sometimes breaks in our system. It happens with sidewalks. It might happen with trails. There could be some improvements that we could do in certain areas if there was a way that we could improve the conductivity. I would love to know if there was some improvements that you might have in mind.

Yeah. I haven't got a chance to get out to the trails or to the lake. I talked to somebody on the phone briefly one time, but once I get out there, my little scooter don't.

A lot of them are trails. There is the difference. The sidewalks are your ADA, and sometimes the trails are just trails and not necessarily to the same standards.

Right, right. And for most of the other projects that have to do with buildings, like community centers and so forth, Even though one or two of them do mention ADA upgrades, do most of our buildings, are they all like up to date with ADA? Like some buildings that don't have the push bar, they need a push bar, they have a push bar. Has that been evaluated?

It is something that we continue to work on. It is, whether it's push buttons or latches or whatever. There are still programs, we still have processes that we need to get through. Some of these buildings are older and we're still working on them.

Yeah, and this doctor, we had this doctor just made a whole ADA assessment of everything.

Yeah.

Because there's so many things that nobody could pinpoint or somebody could talk about. So we just did a whole all around, It took some time, but it was quite helpful. It kept us safe. You know how people are always coming around trying to sue you. Thank you.

Thank you. I just had one question about this bicycle garden construction. We already received a grant for that project. Has that gone out to bid? Is there any ground being broken on that project? Is there any movement there?

Yes. So that was part of a grant that we got into with CCTA. It was a $4 million for the bicycle garden. In addition, it was $13 million that went to the second phase of L Street. that was grant money working with CCTA. Currently the project is located out by community center on the western side. It used to be kind of where the Frisbee golf area was looking at. They had some environmental issues that we needed to take care of. First step is to go out and do a geotechnical report. You got to get a rig out there to do borings. They had to work through the environmental aspects of that before they could get the piece of equipment out there to do the work. That has happened recently, and we'll continue to work on that part of it. As for the design, there's been a lot of work on that. The layout of it and what it's going to look like utilizing the stuff we got from the community outreach to try to define what that is. But there is no contractor just yet. It is still in the design process. But, yeah, we hope to get that thing going relatively soon in terms of construction. But there is a process. Like I say, it was environmental. Then we just had to work around it and go through the process. So that's kind of where we're at on that. Believe it or not, it's a fairly complicated process. It's almost like building a little city, city-state. They want to put in lots of different items out there. So it's been a process, and I look forward to it getting it in construction and people getting to take a look at it.

When you say environmental, did they find some sort of newt that was protected, or was it...

I believe there was a burrowing owl that was on site. Gotcha.

That's my only question. Anybody else?

I'm guessing that you guys need this approval to continue on with this work, right? It's something that's... needs to be gone over, voted on by council and commission so that you guys can continue doing what you're doing?

Sure, and part of the process is for us, per government code, is to present it to the planning commission to make sure that we're in alignment with our general plan, and then it gets moved on. In this case, tomorrow I'm at the Park and Rec Commission, where I'll be presenting the same thing, answering the same questions. And then if there's anything that comes up, I take both of those commissions. I then go to council next week to present the draft to the council. I can tell them any issues that might have come up in the two different commissions. They go through everything also, and after that, we take a revision, and then that ends up being our final CIP.

I do have one more question for city staff, and I know we kind of touched on it earlier. This says the determination of the 2026 to 2031 plan in accordance to the general plan, but we get this report annually just as an update.

yeah so so basically it's a five-year plan that's given every year the title of it changes so you'll see 26 or 31 this year you'll see you'll see 27 or 32 next year and the plans like I said reviewed every year so it is it is what it is I'm not sure if the question is the title and it looks like we're approving five years but it is it is actually reviewed every year

Okay, and then how does that work with the general plan being updated as well simultaneously? We have a lot of moving parts with that coming up. Will this have to be revised again if there's some changes to the general plan that make this invalid? No, I wouldn't say invalid is the right word, but how does it work with the general plan?

So once the new general plan is adopted, certainly this EIP would be evaluated for consistency against that plan moving forward. It's obviously early in the general plan process now, but certainly as we move forward, I think considerations around the capital program will certainly be part of those conversations. Scott's staff will be involved as well. folks from Parks and Rec and the other agencies that are informed and impacted by this plan. But given that it is an annual update, when the time comes, we will be evaluating this against a new general plan.

Okay.

Just a quick question about the citywide signage program. I heard there was some discussion about reducing the allocation for signage in city.

It's one of the projects that I believe is unfunded going forward. We have funds to do a part of it. So it is one of the things that's being discussed. I think that that's all going to happen within the next month with the council as to what they choose to do with many of those projects that are often maybe either not started or at a point that they could be stopped. That's gonna be up to the council's discretion, I think, going forward with our budget.

All right, thank you.

I'd like to make a motion to determine that the 2026 to 2031 capital improvement program is consistent with the Antioch general plan including a determination that is any acquisition, I'll stop there. I make a motion to approve the capital improvement plan and it is consistent with the general plan.

Second.

On the question, I have a motion and a second. Kitty, may I have a roll call vote, please?

Yes. Thank you, Chair Weber. Commissioner Aguilar?

Present.

Commissioner Sumon?

Aye.

Commissioner Riley?

Aye.

Vice Chairperson Jones? Aye. Chairperson Weber?

Aye.

The motion passes unanimously to adopt the resolution recommending adoption of the finding that the proposed 2026-2031 capital improvement program is consistent with the adopted general plan of the city of Antioch as required by sections 65401 and 66402 of the government code.

Just to clarify, jump in real quick in case I misheard, was Commissioner Aguilar's vote a yes vote or did he say present? Just to clarify, I understand it's going to pass, but.

Commissioner Aguilar?

Yes.

Would you just like to confirm your vote, sir?

Yeah, the vote is unanimous by the commissioners present to approve the adopted resolution.

Moving on to item 6-2, annual election of chair and vice chair. May we have a staff presentation, please?

Yes, so this is another annual item this time for the commission to elect a chair and vice chair person to serve through next April. Per the municipal code, the commission shall elect a chair and vice chair at the last regular meeting of April each year. Because we didn't have a second meeting in April and the first meeting in May, we're holding that during this meeting. The new officers will assume their positions at the next planning commission meeting and again serve through next April. And with that, I would turn it over to the commission for discussion and deliberation on these officer roles.

It was expressed to me that Commissioner Spiker has an interest in nomination for Vice Chair, so I would like to nominate Commissioner Spiker as Vice Chair.

Did you first want to allow public comment on that? I know there's nobody here, but.

Yeah, I will open public comments on this item if there are any.

None received.

Back before the commission, anybody have interest?

I support Spiker's vice chair.

Yeah, I also think Spiker as vice chair or even chair of the commission. I was just chair of the commission. I don't know if Commissioner Sumon or Commissioner Aguiar would prefer to or would be interested in chairing. I will say, as someone who was once chair, and I'm sure you can attest to this, the resources that staff provides, including the script, is really, really good to have. It's very straightforward, yeah. Really nice script.

Commissioner Sue Mahon also?

Yeah, I'd be grateful for the opportunity.

Okay, so we have Commissioner Spiker for Vice Chair. We have Commissioner Sumon for Chair, as well as Commissioner Aguilar. Do we have any votes?

I'll let them pick.

Do you guys, well we can only have one chair. So I don't know, of the two of you, Mr. Suman, yeah.

Well, I would like to express my support for nominating Commissioner Spiker as Vice Chair and Commissioner Suman as Chair.

Did you want to second that with your microphone?

Was that a motion? Or was that a recommendation that needs to be a motion?

I don't think I can motion as the chair. Oh, you're right.

You can't motion as a chair? I don't think so.

So that's one thing. Oh, yeah. If you're motion shy, being in the chair has a perk of that, yes.

Or if you don't like something, you can't motion for it.

Anyways, go ahead. I also think Spiker would be great as a vice chair. And Commissioner Suman, I think you would make a great chair. So as I mentioned as a previous chair, it's nice. But yeah, I'll go ahead and make that motion. I'd like to make a motion to appoint, is appoint the right one?

Well, I think first you motion to nominate, there's a second, then there's a vote.

Thank you, sorry, sorry, sorry. And do they have to be separated between vice chair and chair?

It would be quite helpful if they were.

Gotcha. So I'd like to make a motion to nominate Commissioner Spiker as the vice chair of the Antioch Planning Commission. for the next year until April 2027.

Are you sure he wants this?

Yeah, he called me personally.

I was like, we're sure he wants this because he's not here right now.

He called me personally, and he even got permission to get my phone number, so he had some personal issues he had to deal with tonight, but he wanted to make sure that I was willing to express his interest.

I second that.

On the question, I have a motion and a second. Kitty, roll call vote.

Thank you, Chair Weber. Commissioner Aguilar? Aye. Commissioner Simon?

Aye.

Commissioner Riley?

Aye.

Vice Chairperson Jones? Aye. Chairperson Weber?

Aye.

The motion passed unanimously by the members present to appoint Commissioner Spiker as Vice Chair of the Planning Commission.

Wonderful.

I'll look forward to when he gets back from whatever situation he's in. I'd like to make another motion, a motion to nominate Commissioner Sumon to become the chair of the Antioch Planning Commission for the next year.

I second.

On the question, I have a motion and a second. Kitty, may I have a roll call vote, please?

Yes, thank you, Chair Weber. Commissioner Aguilar? Aye. Commissioner Sumon? Aye. Commissioner Riley? Aye. Vice Chairperson Jones? Aye. Chairperson Weber? Aye. The motion passes unanimously to appoint Commissioner Sumon as chair of the Planning Commission of the Cal, yeah.

You can vote for yourself. I think you should. Yeah, I mean, every president, they vote.

Are there any written or oral communications? Just a brief update, department update, that as of earlier this week, David Storer, who had been serving as the commission secretary and zoning administrator, is no longer consulting with the city of Antioch. And Kevin Scadero is now serving as the acting community and economic development director. So we welcome him into that role. Excellent.

Any other communications? Committee reports? Committee reports?

Yeah, so committee reports. The general plan action committee happened last Monday. Me and, excuse me, Commissioner Jones and I were in attendance on the board. It was mostly an introductory kind of meeting, but we have established that we will be meeting over the next two years. We plan to have, I want to say it was 20 meetings. One meeting a month with a few exceptions. I want to say 20 was a number I had in mind. So we'll be meeting about once a month until the general plan is completed. In that, there's going to be, I believe, forget exactly how many workshops, but a handful of workshops and many more meetings beyond that, but definitely going to have a lot of public outreach. That's the goal of our planning commission meeting is to try to have as much public outreach as possible. We're thinking about different places. There was talks about not only having it here, but also having it at the Antioch Community Center on Lone Tree Way to make it more accessible for more residents of Antioch to voice their concerns for the general plan update. As far as what was talked about in summary, the greatest things that I think people were looking forward to in the general plan was for opportunities for Antioch, including having third spaces and having places, things to do at Antioch, which is typically a complaint that many people have. There's nothing to do at Antioch. I've said that myself. And then the other thing is trying to balance out the housing to jobs ratio at Antioch. Both of those two are like the top priority. And trying to create more jobs in Antioch so as we build more houses, we don't have to have a huge crunch on the highway in the morning and evening as people are going to and from their work in other cities' economies. Yeah, that was kind of a gist of our meeting. Anything else you think of?

No, you covered it. I think the top three things that the people were interested in and the committee was interested in was land use, economic development, which we all have different versions of what that looks like. But I think it's an exciting time. And if anybody's watching, listening, the report out maybe we can put visit the Antioch general plan website sign up for the notifications so you can get to so you guys can get all of the community outreach that Commissioner Riley was talking about so Yeah, go to the General Plan website and come to these meetings because I think it's really important and I think that it's a great way to engage in the community as a community member and as a member of the commission. So visit the website and yeah.

The website is found at antioch.generalplan.org, which is a great website name, yeah, antioch.generalplan.

Good job. Is there also a number to call if you would call to ask questions? Ask for a number? That they can talk to a person?

There is a contact section on the General Plans website, and the main point is to try to get in touch and try to get more input. So you can email them, but there's also... Yep, and there's also a phone number too. Yep.

Some folks don't email.

You're right, you're right. So that's one, I remember that being one of the topics of the concern is having more meetings, including, I noticed at the General Plan Action Committee there was even a translator there, which... Um, we're not, we don't currently have one, but for our community meetings, but that's like the level of prioritization that accessibility and outreach gets for the, for the general plan. Yeah.

TTY and the whole bit.

All right. Are we still on schedule for June 3rd is our next meeting.

I am not aware that it has been canceled as of yet, so please hold that date for now and you'll certainly get noticed.

So the next Planning Commission meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026, where I hope to see all of you there in your new roles, new seats.

There's nothing else?

Motion for adjournment?

I'd like to make a motion to adjourn. Second.

I have a motion and a second on the question. Kitty, roll call vote.

Thank you, Chair Weber. Commissioner Aguilar?

Aye.

Commissioner Sumon?

Aye.

Commissioner Riley?

Yes.

Vice Chairperson Jones? Yes. Chairperson Weber? Aye. The motion passes unanimously to adjourn at 7.18 p.m. Thanks, guys.

Yay. Congratulations. Well done.

Thank you. No problem. Thank you.

Hey, Kevin. Hey, Kevin. Yes.

Can I get your phone number?