Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

question. Are we just having that since we don't have farm workers here in our city and I don't see that ever happen button eyes crossing tees for the state? Yes. That's for the farm workers, but the agricultural could be our our um nurseries and things like that. We do have a couple that are close by that would work on that.

Y is 81. I'll change specific to smaller case. resial care facilities. Biggest one is again such as place. It's meant to both with government government, but also

sorry, they're not taking I didn't read on that too depth. They're not reducing any of the um mandatory care and rules that they have to follow by dumbing it down and sticking it with normal housing. No, they still have So, they still have everything they have to do. They're just saying, "Let's put it in this basket also." Correct. Correct. They're not stating uh they're not reducing the requirements for residential care facilities or that anything like that. Um it's just allowing that use within residential zones to be treated as uh regular residential use and not a separate use. But they still do have those requirements. Yeah.

City in the uh larger residential care facilities that treat uh seven or more patients uh would be required to um be licensed by by the state as well. So they have an additional um and lastly it's uh the density bonus. So it's just updating um regardless of what was in the code um staff process um uh projects and density bonus uh request per state law. So essentially what the zoning code is uh what the uh this amendment is doing is just aligning that. So aligning state law with the density bonus what what it is as part of state law. Um and then lastly, this is not part of um the zoning code or nowhere really in the zoning code, but um as part of this project, we developed an ADU guide. So, it's essentially it's a a pretty straightforward guide um of what's required for ADUs, what's allowed, what can you do, what your options are. Um and it really it really simplifies the process. Uh simplifies it both for the applicant, both for staff. Um so that applicants, they know what what they need to have when they come in. um it really can speed up the process, speed up the processing for for your staff here. Um again, also with SB35, um so this is

Oh, hello.

I um with SV35, uh we established just a checklist. Um again, so it's easy to process. It's it's part of um uh California state law. You must have a checklist and an applicant can come in and say, "Hey, I have this, I have this, I have that." Um, and that's also going to be essentially just a sheet that's at the planning counter to to speed up processing for uh SP35 projects in the city. Um, and lastly, the replacement housing. This is the same thing. It's a form um that an applicant proposing a new housing development must fill out this um sheet stating, you know, if you're replacing any existing units um if there's a threshold of five units or more. Um, under circum circumstances, you may have to replace those units elsewhere. um or um uh in very specific circumstances like build them into your project. U with that I'll pass it back to Kelly.

Okay. Thank you. And maybe do you mind going to the next slide? So we are going to have a modified recommended action. Um but we wanted to allow the commission to um ask any questions. Of course Bryant's here. Um Seline, our senior planner, worked hard on this um ordinance. and then Katherine from the city attorney's office. So, we open it up to questions and then we'll discuss the public comment received.

Did you want me to address that first? I would really like that.

Sure. Okay. So, we did receive um one item of public comment on tonight's public hearing. It was received from the California Housing Defense Fund and they have um a number of concerns regarding the ordinance's compliance with various provisions of the state um law specifically as it relates to ADUs. So um as Bryant discussed, there are a number of revisions that are being proposed in the zoning ordinance. Um but this letter is specific to ADU revisions. So, the city attorney's office is um taking a look at at the letter and will ensure that if any uh revisions are needed to the ordinance that they will be made prior to presenting the item to city council. So, I'll remind the commission tonight's action is a re a recommendation um to this city council um not approval or denial. And so, um any revisions that are needed um per this letter will be um considered again prior to city council's consideration. Um and then Katherine is going to provide us with a revised uh recommended action if you want to go through that.

Um yes. So, contingent with this letter, um, we are recommending the language be tonight that you recommend city council adoption of ordinance 419 subject to necessary changes as recommended by the city attorney after review of the legal objections raised during the public hearing. Um, as Kelly mentioned, we will review the objections made in the letter and compare it to what has been proposed prior to going to city council and suggest necessary revisions as needed. So, we're going to [clears throat] look at that and say to, you know, recommend with uh um So, the recommended language for tonight is the planning commission recommends city council adoption of ordinance 419, subject to necessary changes as recommended by the city attorney after review of the legal objections raised during the public hearing and if you need me to repeat that during the motion I am happy to do so chair.

Okay. [laughter] Do you have that written? Yes. Okay. Yes, I do. All right. [sighs] Okay. [snorts] So, with that, we have any Commissioner Lewis, you have any questions, comments?

Well, just one of my concerns. Uh I seen uh the the whole edu situation is going down in San Diego. I guess one of my concerns that you know uh people just find a way to bypass a lot of uh um stuff that's implemented by the city like and so my concern is that you know they're they're going to be stacking up these ADUs you know uh from property line to property line. So that's one of my concerns with it because in San Diego it's already happening. you know, they're stacking them up two, three stories. And you know, these little residential lots have like 15 units on them sometimes. So, and very limited parking, too. So, that's just one of my concerns. It's a resident in here. Good. Fine. Not so far. No.

No, I don't have any concerns. Right.

Yes. Ass always my biggest concern is the state stripping the power from the city which we're supposed to have with zoning. They've decimated our zoning [clears throat] regulations but this comes down from the state and the powers be till we have our next election and replace them all. Yeah, wishful thinking. Um yeah, that's just my biggest thing. Uh I've been up on the ADUs San Bernardino city has been on there and they actually have the processing. I would recommend staff talk to anybody over there. They've actually got a pipeline and they've got their plans that they'll actually give to the homeowners and yeah, they've been on this for it's probably at least three years or something. They were ready for it. So, I would advise staff to check them out. But that yeah, it's what we got to do, we got to do. So, thank you.

I have nothing to add to it. Yeah, I had the advantage of having worked uh been on the general plan committee for just about 10 years. So, I know most of this stuff in here and a lot of it is just updating um the new stuff like we didn't have ADUs back then or Jedus and things like that. So, um subject to this right here because this caught me off guard, but it's just upgrading um the original plan. So, with that, um do I have a motion? Someone want to do the recommendation? And do you like to

Can I hear the recommendation one more time? Um, the recommendation is that the planning commission uh recommend city council adoption of ordinance 419 subject to necessary changes as recommended by the city attorney after review of the legal objections raised during the public hearing tonight. So, this will not come back to us again after if we approve this recommendation. It goes to council.

Correct. So, what would happen is that um should the commission recommend approval, we'll make sure that the city attorney's office carefully reviews the letter that was received, we'll compare that side by side with the proposed ordinance, and if we find any merits to the legal arguments that are raised, we'll make any revisions in accordance with state law, and that's the version of the ordinance that will be presented to the city council. Awesome. Okay. And then last question, any idea when that would be? Is there is there February the 2nd? Is that right, Seline? February 2nd. So, that will be a council meeting that this will be brought up in. February 2nd. Okay, that's the only question I have. Thank you. Great. Thank you. And then, um, chair, if you wouldn't mind closing the public hearing.

Oh, yep. Sorry. Closing the public hearing. [clears throat] Been a long time. Well, maybe we should reconsider our rec.

Okay. with what you said. That's you can uh adopt my reference by motion. Adopting your motion. I'm [laughter] making a motion to adopt, you know, Catherine and Preach's motion. Can I get a second? I second. All in favor? I I I hopefully this year will be a nice good year. Yes, we can stay in practice. So with that, we will go to commissioners reports and comments. John, I just want to thank Kelly, Selene, and staff for putting this stuff together. A lot of work. I know that. So, that's it. Very good, Mike.

Um, now just hopefully everybody had a great Christmas and holidays and let's have a great year 2026. Y Lewis, I just wanted to thank the staff for their hard work and dedication and uh congratulate Kelly for her promotion. So, thank you. Congratulations. As always, thank staff and congratulations, Kelly. Thank you so much. And I'd like to thank staff, too. And especially Yasa for making accommodations because, you know, Thursday, Friday, Saturdays, I'm usually out of town and she was very gracious to help me out. So, I thank her for that. And uh with that, we will go to our community development director's reports.

Thank you. So, um the only thing I'd like to share is that we will be having an Easter event coming up um in April. Um date, I believe, is to be determined. Ya, do we have a date? Okay. Please keep an eye on our social media and city website. Um we like to hold our Easter events down at Summerwind Park. Um so we invite the commission and all members of the community to come join us for that. Which park? Summerwind Park. Summer. Yeah. coming back. We're just sticking everything on the new side, huh?

Um well, that's the other item is also please keep an eye out on the city website and social media pages at some point. We don't know exactly when yet, but we will be having um a ribbon cutting ceremony for Mountain View Park. So, that's the expansion of Fourth Street Park. It's under construction now. Just don't have the exact date on that. Um but once we get that expansion open, I'm sure we'll have additional events to occur at the new park. It's getting closer. It's getting closer. That concludes my reports. Thank you.

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very enjoyable and it's on YouTube, so you can just watch all the all the ones that you want to see. So, with that, we will call the German here for to the next meeting of Monday, February 9th, 2026 at 6 PM. Thank you all. Yes, sir.