City Council - Regular Meeting

So it's not only just a basic room and you know the guests can come and sleep but we focus as a whole hospitality more warmth and welcoming. That's what our goal normally we follow. Business grown every year pretty much. I would say since opening December 6th, 2023, right? Now we are at about one and a half year plus, but every year we see significant growth. This year is much more, I would say 10 to 20% more than what we were in the first year. And surrounding area what we see a lot of opportunity still considering our location. And one of the biggest location I would say about the BAPS Swaminarayan Temple that helps a lot. A lot of weddings and a lot of events happening there. Guests do come and stay here. Besides that we do get a lot of teams. That gives us a good growth opportunity and we are still seeing a lot of opportunity around the businesses in the area which we are trying to explore too.

Thank you.

Well, interestingly, I opened up the very first LA Fitness that was the very first ground up they'd ever built here in Chino in December of 96. And I just had become a new yoga teacher and decided I wanted to open up my own studio. And Fit Body was nice enough to let me sublease space from them. And it grew from there. About 11 years ago, we opened up the space you see here behind me. And this weekend, we celebrate our 14th year anniversary. And this just has become my home community. Most of our advertising is simply word of mouth. And so the fact that people continue to tell their friends to come here is something that we're eternally grateful for beyond words. Not only do we have yoga, but we have heated kettlebell classes where people do barefoot kettlebell to good music in hour-long heated room. And we have ice bath classes in the backyard where people come together and get into the ice. We have sauna and lockers and showers. But I think really what sets us apart more than anything is this vein of mindfulness that we try to thread throughout our offering. To go from a small boot camp spot, subleasing behind Sprouts, to this large 4,000 square foot space with lockers and showers and two big yoga rooms is beyond our original vision and literally a dream come true. We're just super grateful that the community continues to show up for us. As long as they do, we're so excited about continuing to show up for them. Continue to persevere. Grit, work ethic is something that goes a long way when you own your own business. We're just super grateful to be here. So I would say more than anything, just the sense of humility that the challenges have brought created this grit and gratitude for what it is we do.

resident of the city of chino do you recycle your bottles and cans here's something you should know bottles and cans are good for the environment when recycled properly the city of chino encourages its residents to recycle their bottles and cans on trash day in their curbside recycling cart or by taking them to a certified collection center for a cash refund do your part keep chino clean and recycle your bottles and cans for more information Visit the City of Chino's website under recycling or call 909-334-3289. This program is being brought to you by the City of Chino.

Haz tu parte. Mantén limpia la ciudad de Chino y recicla tus botellas y latas. Visita el sitio web de la ciudad de Chino en la sección de reciclaje o llama al 9093-3432-89.

Chino has both modern side and countryside charm. My husband, he likes the countryside. I like the modern side. He loved eating here. He'll even bring his clients here. And when it was up for sale, he took the opportunity and we bought it. And we're very happy because we get to eat food here more often for free and I don't have to cook as much. First, I really need to thank Larry and Shelly. They're the ones who started the Avocado House, and they're the ones who made this a Chino favorite. When we took over, we kept the same recipes. We just upgraded ingredients, switched oil to the avocado oil, and added new menu items. The support from community is awesome. Police officers, city staff, residents from Chino and all around cities, they come and support us, so we're very grateful.

What sets your business apart?

First, food. It's homemade food made with love, like grandma would. And that was Shelly's motto, and we really like it, and we're keeping it, too. And second is the high-quality ingredient, especially the avocado oil. It costs us $3,000 more per month to use avocado oil instead of canola oil. But we made the decision to do it because we care for the health of our customers, our employees who eat our food every day, and for our family. If you want cozy countryside warm feeling, you could eat inside the restaurant. And if you want to like a more modern feel, you can eat at a veranda and the backyard, which is everyone's favorite. It's like having a picnic. You can relax and enjoy, you know, nice Southern California weather. We're very grateful as we continue to grow. So we plan to increase ours, and we're going to open for dinner. So people can now enjoy Avocado House all day long. We started a coffee shop called Rabbit and Bean in La Habra, and it's really doing well. So we want to open a second coffee shop here. So customers enjoy specialty coffee and matcha. We're very excited. First, you know, don't focus on money, profit, but just focus on giving joy and happiness to your customers and employees. Always serve high quality food that you would serve your own family. People will notice and they'll come back and also take good care of your employees because they'll take good care of your customers.

Bye.

So my dad came like 45 years ago in the city of Chino. He thought the city of Chino was a good opportunity to open a new business and he was right. First of all, I want to thank the community of the city of Chino because all these years they support us and they love us and I want to say a big thank you to them. quality, the good quality for the products, the good customer service and I think they love what we're doing for that. So we opened the first location four years ago and now we moved like two years ago over here with a big and nice location and we drive through. Because it was the first project for us, it was a little bit hard at the beginning, thank God we made it. With the help of the city of Chino, the help of the people of Chino, we are here now to serve them.

We knew Chino was in demand for more restaurants, but we also knew that the location that we were gonna be going into, that there was a lot of growth and there was gonna be a lot that was gonna come in. But we also knew it was gonna take time to get there, but still just with it, like how it is right now, we're still doing really good. Like we knew coming into it, we were gonna be busy right off the bat. It seemed like a great place for the second location for us to grow and, you know, make our name bigger. The customers, you know, have been awesome with us. You know, we've been busy. It's been a year and we've been busier and busier every day. You know, we've sponsored a lot of the youth baseball teams, football teams. We know customers on a first-name basis and, you know, we have a good set of regulars. So, you know, the community has supported us tremendously and they're keeping this place open. They're keeping it going. We always knew that this is what we wanted to do. Both the owners always wanted to own their own restaurants. I knew them closely. I wanted to own restaurants as well. And that was just the goal behind it was, hey, let's turn Kenwoods into a household name. We love when the kids that come in here, hey, we want to go to Kenwoods. That was the goal to be the next big thing. I would say what sets us apart, one thing is we are a scratch kitchen, so everything is recipe-based, everything is made fresh, everything's made fresh daily. One thing that we really preach is giving the best service possible. Again, it all falls back to, you know, you can have great food, which we do, and a great atmosphere, but at the end of the day, the customers are coming back, for the experience, for the service part. And we try to teach our staff every day, hey, make each visit count. Put a smile on someone's face. Get to know them on a personal level. When that customer comes in, we want them saying, hey, is so-and-so working today? You know, we have a lot of good things going on, live music, we do a taco special, we have a brunch, we have a happy hour from 3 to 6, Monday through Friday. So as, you know, the community, you know, hears about us and finds these things out, we just continue to grow. My name is Matt Mraz. I am the general manager of Kenwood's Kitchen and Tap in Chino, located in the Preserve Shopping Center off of Chino in Maine.

Chino is an absolute beautiful community. My husband and I are from Los Angeles. And so we were trying to get closer to family. We have a little toddler and in LA there's wellness bars on every corner. Whereas here we kind of noticed that there was missing link. You know, there's lots of big corporations and franchises. And so we decided this would be the absolute perfect location to bring a little bit of that here. The community in Chino has been the most important part, I think, of growing this business. Word of mouth in this community is so major. Everybody knows somebody and it's such a tight-knit community, especially in the wellness world. And so it's just been incredible to, you know, grow with the community. You know, there's smoothie bars everywhere, but do they truly, you know, care about the ingredients? What's in it? Are they organic? And so really, I don't think there's anywhere here in the area that really brings that to the community. So that's truly what sets us apart. And the aesthetic, of course. Sana in Arabic means brilliant praise, and in Spanish it means healthy or healing, and mana is the bread that God made rain, the nourishment, God's nourishment. And so altogether it means praise God's healing nourishment, which is really just taking it back to the root of how he intended us to eat, not the processed foods, really just nurture our bodies with whole food ingredients. And then really the intention behind Sanamana, there's such a bigger picture with the community and how we want to grow. This is our first location, and we have exceeded what our expectation was within the community, and so it's so beautiful to see, yeah. stay rooted in faith, stay rooted in your beliefs. And when it gets tough, keep going because there was tons of times where we wanted to give up, but just stay true to your calling and what you believe in your vision and you'll succeed.

Thousands of baseball fans from across Southern California gathered on the Chino City Hall Wall to celebrate the grand opening of Oral Hirschheiser Chevrolet. The day kicked off with a procession down 7th Street from the dealership to the hall, followed by a ribbon cutting with Mayor Eunice Ulloa, the Chino City Council, Oral Hirschheiser, and his team. Fans enjoy live music, DJ entertainment, food trucks, and a live broadcast of ESPN Radio, along with appearances by some of the biggest names in baseball and professional sports, creating an unforgettable day for fans and audiences. The four-word version of Chevrolet, sticking with the reigns of longtime local dealership MK Smith's Chevrolet, which has served Chino and the surrounding region.

We are here because we're brewing up business. Chino is absolutely a phenomenal place to be. Multi-generational city. We've been here over a hundred years and very business friendly. You're going to love Chino. As far as businesses are concerned, I personally want to see something for everyone. I want our kids to be able to stay in town, have entertainment places to go. I also want all kinds of entertainment for every age group. We need to stay here, we work here, we live here, and we play here. So I'm looking for businesses that are going to fill any void that we have.

So welcome to the Business Roundtable. This is the Broker's Edition.

I was first elected in 1984. Chino used to be very, very heavily agricultural, and over time we have evolved into something for everyone when it comes to housing stock, which is wonderful, and also businesses. We're growing by leaps and bounds. Very, very proud of our community. Multi-generational, so we have grandparents, parents, kids. So Chino's a wonderful place to be, and I'm very, very proud to represent it.

Hey there, I'm Samantha. I'm the community engagement manager here at the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire. We're the new animal services agency for this region. We serve Ontario, Montclair, Chino, and the unincorporated areas of West Amador Neal County. We provide all animal services for this area, things like pet licensing, microchipping your pets, supporting the community when they find stray animals, adoptions, foster opportunities. We also have volunteer opportunities. Come on down, come meet some of our very cute animals.

Community support since we opened was pretty good, very incredibly supportive. What I understand from the city part, the mayor and all the people around the city was very helpful since we started operation of construction and then fully operational opening in December 2023. Our business sets apart, I would say, being a Marriott hotel, we more focus on service as well as local community, what we support and more hospitality, I would say. So it's not only just a basic room and, you know, guests can come and sleep, but we focus as a whole hospitality, more warmth and welcoming. That's what our goal normally we follow. Business grown every year pretty much. I would say since opening December 6th, 2023, right? Now we are at about one and a half year plus, but every year we see significant growth. This year is much more, I would say 10 to 20% more than what we were in the first year. and surrounding area what we see a lot of opportunity still considering our location and one of the biggest location I would say about the BAPS Swaminarayan temple that helps a lot a lot of weddings and a lot of events happening there guests do come and stay here besides that we do get a lot of That gives us a good growth opportunity and we are still seeing a lot of opportunity around the businesses in the area which we are trying to explore too.

Well, interestingly, I opened up the very first LA Fitness that was the very first ground up they'd ever built here in Chino in December of 96. And I just had become a new yoga teacher and decided I wanted to open up my own studio. And Fit Body was nice enough to let me sublease space from them. And it grew from there. About 11 years ago, we opened up the space you see here behind me. And this weekend, we celebrate our 14th year anniversary. And this just has become my home community. Most of our advertising is simply word of mouth. And so the fact that people continue to tell their friends to come here is something that we're eternally grateful for beyond words. Not only do we have yoga, but we have heated kettlebell classes where people do barefoot kettlebell to good music in hour-long heated room. And we have ice bath classes in the backyard where people come together and get into the ice. We have sauna and lockers and showers. But I think really what sets us apart more than anything is this vein of mindfulness that we try to thread throughout our offering. To go from a small boot camp spot, subleasing behind Sprouts, to this large 4,000 square foot space with lockers and showers and two big yoga rooms is beyond our original vision and literally a dream come true. We're just super grateful that the community continues to show up for us. As long as they do, we're so excited about continuing to show up for them. Continue to persevere. Grit, work ethic is something that goes a long way when you own your own business. We're just super grateful to be here. So I would say more than anything, just the sense of humility that the challenges have brought created this grit and gratitude for what it is we do.

President of the City of Chino, do you recycle your bottles and cans? Here's something you should know. Bottles and cans are good for the environment when recycled properly. The City of Chino encourages its residents to recycle their bottles and cans on trash day in their curbside recycling cart or by taking them to a certified collection center for a cash refund. Do your part. Keep Chino clean and recycle your bottles and cans. For more information, Visit the City of Chino's website under recycling or call 909-334-3289. This program is being brought to you by the City of Chino.

Haz tu parte. Mantén limpia la ciudad de Chino y recicla tus botellas y latas. Visita el sitio web de la ciudad de Chino en la sección de reciclaje o llama al 9093-3432-89.

Chino has both modern side and countryside charm. My husband, he likes the countryside. I like the modern side. He loved eating here. He'll even bring his clients here. And when it was up for sale, he took the opportunity and we bought it. And we're very happy because we get to eat food here more often for free and I don't have to cook as much. First, I really need to thank Larry and Shelly. They're the ones who started the Avocado House, and they're the ones who made this a Chino favorite. When we took over, we kept the same recipes. We just upgraded ingredients, switched oil to the avocado oil, and added new menu items. The support from community is awesome. Police officers, city staff, residents from Chino and all around cities, they come and support us, so we're very grateful.

What sets your business apart?

First, food. It's homemade food made with love, like grandma would. And that was Shelly's motto, and we really like it, and we're keeping it, too. And second is the high-quality ingredient, especially the avocado oil. It costs us $3,000 more per month to use avocado oil instead of canola oil. But we made the decision to do it because we care for the health of our customers, our employees who eat our food every day, and for our family. If you want cozy countryside warm feeling, you could eat inside the restaurant. And if you want to like a more modern feel, you can eat at a veranda and the backyard, which is everyone's favorite. It's like having a picnic. You can relax and enjoy, you know, nice Southern California weather. We're very grateful as we continue to grow. So we plan to increase ours, and we're going to open for dinner. So people can now enjoy Avocado House all day long. We started a coffee shop called Rabbit and Bean in La Habra, and it's really doing well. So we want to open a second coffee shop here so customers can enjoy specialty coffee and matcha. We're very excited. First, you know, don't focus on money, profit, but just focus on giving joy and happiness to your customers and employees. Always serve high quality food that you would serve your own family. People will notice and they'll come back and also take good care of your employees because they'll take good care of your customers.

So my dad came like 45 years ago in the city of Chino. He thought that the city of Chino was a good opportunity to open a new business and he was right. First of all, I want to thank the community of the city of Chino because all these years they support us and they love us and I want to say a big thank you to them. Quality, the good quality for the products, the good customer service and I think they love what we're doing for that. So we opened the first location four years ago, and now we moved like two years ago over here with a bigger, nicer location, and we try it through. Because it was the first project for us, it was a little bit hard at the beginning, thank God we made it. With the help of the city of Chino, the help of the people of Chino, we are here now to serve them.

Music.

We knew Chino was in demand for more restaurants, but we also knew that the location that we were gonna be going into, that there was a lot of growth, and there was gonna be a lot that was gonna come in. But we also knew it was gonna take time to get there, but still, just with it, like how it is right now, we're still doing really good. We knew coming into it, we were gonna be busy right off the bat. It seemed like a great place for the second location for us to grow and make our name bigger. The customers have been awesome with us. We've been busy. It's been a year, and we've been busier and busier every day. We've sponsored a lot of the youth baseball teams, football teams. We know customers on a first-name basis, and we have a good set of regulars. So the community has supported us tremendously, and they're keeping this place open. They're keeping it going. We always knew that this is what we wanted to do. Both the owners always wanted to own their own restaurants. I knew them closely. I wanted to own restaurants as well. And that was just the goal behind it was, hey, let's turn Kenwoods into a household name. We love when the kids that come in here, hey, we want to go to Kenwoods. That was the goal to be the next big thing. I would say what sets us apart, one thing is we are a scratch kitchen, so everything is recipe-based, everything is made fresh, everything is made fresh daily. One thing that we really preach is giving the best service possible. Again, it all falls back to, you know, you can have great food, which we do, and a great atmosphere, but at the end of the day, the customers are coming back. for the experience for the service part and we try to teach our staff you know every day hey make each visit count put a smile on someone's face get to know them on a personal level you know when that customer comes in we want them saying hey is so-and-so working today You know, we have a lot of good things going on. Live music, we do a taco special, we have a brunch, we have a happy hour from 3 to 6, Monday through Friday. So as, you know, the community, you know, hears about us and finds these things out, we just continue to grow. My name is Matt Mraz. I am the general manager of Kenwood's Kitchen and Tap in Chino, located in the Preserve Shopping Center off of Chino in Maine.

Chino is an absolute beautiful community. My husband and I are from Los Angeles. And so we were trying to get closer to family. We have a little toddler and in LA there's wellness bars on every corner. Whereas here we kind of noticed that there was missing link. You know, there's lots of big corporations and franchises. And so we decided this would be the absolute perfect location to bring a little bit of that here. The community in Chino has been the most important part, I think, of growing this business. Word of mouth in this community is so major. Everybody knows somebody and it's such a tight-knit community, especially in the wellness world. And so it's just been incredible to, you know, grow with the community. You know, there's smoothie bars everywhere, but do they truly, you know, care about the ingredients? What's in it? Are they organic? And so really, I don't think there's anywhere here in the area that really brings that to the community. So that's truly what sets us apart. And the aesthetic, of course. Sana in Arabic means brilliant praise, and in Spanish it means healthy or healing, and mana is the bread that God made rain, the nourishment, God's nourishment. And so altogether it means praise God's healing nourishment, which is really just taking it back to the root of how he intended us to eat, not the processed foods, really just nurture our bodies with whole food ingredients. And then really the intention behind Sanamana, there's such a bigger picture with the community and how we want to grow. This is our first location and we have exceeded what our expectation was within the community. And so it's so beautiful to see. Stay rooted in faith. Stay rooted in your beliefs. And when it gets tough, keep going because there was tons of times where we wanted to give up. But just stay true to, you know, your calling and what you believe in your vision and you'll succeed.

Thousands of baseball fans from across Southern California gathered on the Chino City Hall lawn to celebrate the grand opening of Oral Hershiser Chevrolet. The day kicked off with a procession down 7th Street from the dealership to City Hall, followed by a ribbon cutting with Mayor Eunice Ulloa, the Chino City Council, Oral Hershiser, and his team. Fans enjoyed live music, DJ entertainment, food trucks, and a live broadcast from ESPN Radio, along with appearances by some of the biggest names in baseball and professional sports, creating an unforgettable day for fans of all ages. Oral Purchaser Chevrolet is taking the reins of longtime local dealership MK Smith's Chevrolet. which has served Chino and the surrounding region since 1941. It was a memorable day for Chino, welcoming a new chapter for a legacy business and celebrating the kind of community pride that makes this city special. Welcome to Chino, Oral Burscheiser Chevrolet.

We are here because we're brewing up business. Chino is absolutely a phenomenal place to be. Multi-generational city. We've been here over a hundred years and very business friendly. You're going to love Chino. As far as businesses are concerned, I personally want to see something for everyone. I want our kids to be able to stay in town, have entertainment places to go. I also want all kinds of entertainment for every age group. We need to stay here, we work here, we live here, and we play here. So I'm looking for businesses that are going to fill any void that we have.

So welcome to the Business Roundtable. This is the Broker's Edition.

I was first elected in 1984. Chino used to be very, very heavily agricultural, and over time we have evolved into something for everyone when it comes to housing stock, which is wonderful, and also businesses. We're growing by leaps and bounds. Very, very proud of our community. Multi-generational, so we have grandparents, parents, kids. So Chino's a wonderful place to be, and I'm very, very proud to represent it.

Hey there, I'm Samantha. I'm the community engagement manager here at the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire. We're the new animal services agency for this region. We serve Ontario, Montclair, Chino, and the unincorporated areas of West San Bernardino County. We provide all animal services for this area, things like pet licensing, microchipping your pets, supporting the community when they find stray animals, adoptions, foster opportunities. We also have volunteer opportunities. Come on down, come meet some of our very cute animals.

Community support since we opened was pretty good, you know, very incredibly supportive. What I understand from the city part, the mayor and all the people around the city was very helpful since we started operation of construction and then, you know, fully operational opening in December 2023. Our business sets apart, I would say, being a Marriott hotel, we more focus on service as well as local community, what we support, and more hospitality, I would say. So it's not only just a basic room and guests can come and sleep, but we focus as a whole hospitality, more warmth and welcoming. That's what our goal normally we follow. Business grown every year pretty much, I would say since opening December 6, 2023, right? Now we are at about one and a half year plus, but every year we see significant growth. This year is much more, I would say 10 to 20% more than what we were in the first year. and surrounding area what we see a lot of opportunity still considering our location and one of the biggest location I would say about the BAPS Swaminarayan temple that helps a lot a lot of weddings and a lot of events happening there guests do come and stay here besides that we do get a lot of teams That gives us a good growth opportunity and we are still seeing a lot of opportunity around the businesses in the area which we are trying to explore too.

Bye.

Chino is an absolute beautiful community. My husband and I are from Los Angeles and so we were trying to get closer to family. We have a little toddler and in LA there's wellness bars on every corner whereas here we kind of noticed that there was missing link. You know there's lots of big corporations and franchises and so we decided this would be the absolute perfect location to bring a little bit of that here. The community in Chino has been the most important part, I think, of growing this business. Word of mouth in this community is so major. Everybody knows somebody and it's such a tight-knit community, especially in the wellness world. And so it's just been incredible to, you know, grow with the community. You know, there's smoothie bars everywhere, but do they truly, you know, care about the ingredients? What's in it? Are they organic? And so really, I don't think there's anywhere here in the area that really brings that to the community. So that's truly what sets us apart. And the aesthetic, of course. Sana in Arabic means brilliant praise, and in Spanish it means healthy or healing, and mana is the bread that God made rain, the nourishment, God's nourishment. And so altogether it means praise God's healing nourishment, which is really just taking it back to the root of how he intended us to eat, not the processed foods, really just nurture our bodies with whole food ingredients. And then really the intention behind Sonamana, there's such a bigger picture with the community and how we want to grow. This is our first location and we have exceeded what our expectation was within the community. And so it's so beautiful to see. stay rooted in faith, stay rooted in your beliefs. And when it gets tough, keep going because there was tons of times where we wanted to give up, but just stay true to your calling and what you believe in your vision and you'll succeed.

of baseball fans from across Southern California gathered on the Chino City Hall Hall to celebrate the grand opening of Oral Hershiser Chevrolet. The day kicked off with a procession down 7th Street from the dealership to City Hall, followed by a ribbon cutting with Mayor Eunice Ulloa, the Chino City Council, Oral Hershiser, and his team. Fans enjoyed live music, DJ entertainment, food trucks, and a live broadcast on ESPN Radio, along with appearances by some of the biggest names in baseball and professional sports, creating an unforgettable day for fans of all ages. Oro Purchaser Chevrolet is taking the reins of longtime local dealership M.K. Smith's Chevrolet, which has served Chino and the surrounding region since 1941. It was a memorable day for Chino, welcoming a new chapter for our legacy business and celebrating the kind of community pride that makes this city special. Welcome to Chino, Oral Hershiser Chevrolet.

We are here because we're brewing up business. Chino is absolutely a phenomenal place to be. Multi-generational city. We've been here over a hundred years and very business friendly. You're gonna love Chino. As far as businesses are concerned, I personally want to see something for everyone. I want our kids to be able to stay in town, have entertainment places to go. I also want all kinds of entertainment for every age group. We need to stay here, we work here, we live here, and we play here. So I'm looking for businesses that are going to fill any void that we have.

So welcome to the Business Roundtable. This is the Broker's Edition.

I was first elected in 1984. Chino used to be very, very heavily agricultural, and over time we have evolved into something for everyone when it comes to housing stock, which is wonderful, and also businesses. We're growing by leaps and bounds. Very, very proud of our community. Multi-generational, so we have grandparents, parents, kids. So Chino's a wonderful place to be, and I'm very, very proud to represent it.

Hey there, I'm Samantha. I'm the community engagement manager here at the Animal Resource Center of the Inland Empire. We're the new animal services agency for this region. We serve Ontario, Montclair, Chino, and the unincorporated areas of West Hampton O'Neill County. We provide all animal services for this area, things like pet licensing, microchipping your pets, supporting the community when they find stray animals, adoptions, foster opportunities. We also have volunteer opportunities. Come on down, come meet some of our very cute animals.

Community support since we opened was pretty good, very incredibly supportive. What I understand from the city part, the mayor and all the people around the city was very helpful since we started operation of construction and then fully operational opening in December 2023. Our business sets apart, I would say, being a Marriott hotel, we more focus on service as well as local community, what we support and more hospitality, I would say. So it's not only just a basic room and, you know, guests can come and sleep, but we focus as a whole hospitality, more warmth and welcoming. That's what our goal normally we follow. business grown every year pretty much I would say since opening December 6 2023 right now we are at about one and a half year plus but every year we see significant growth this year is much more I would say 10 to 20 percent more than what we were in the first year and surrounding area what we see a lot of opportunity still considering our location and one of the biggest location i would say about the baps swaminarayan temple that helps a lot a lot of weddings and a lot of Events happening there, guests do come and stay here. Besides that, we do get a lot of teams. That gives us a good growth opportunity, and we are still seeing a lot of opportunity around the businesses in the area, which we are trying to explore too.

Well, interestingly, I opened up the very first LA Fitness that was the very first ground up they'd ever built here in Chino in December of 96. and I just had become a new yoga teacher and decided I wanted to open up my own studio and Fit Body was nice enough to let me sublease space from them and it grew from there. About 11 years ago we opened up the space you see here behind me and this weekend we celebrate our 14th year anniversary and this just has become my home community. Most of our advertising is simply word of mouth. And so the fact that people continue to tell their friends to come here is something that we're eternally grateful for beyond words. Not only do we have yoga, but we have heated kettlebell classes where people do barefoot kettlebell to good music in hour-long heated room. And we have ice bath classes in the backyard where people come together and get into the ice. We have sauna and lockers and showers. But I think really what sets us apart more than anything is this vein of mindfulness that we try to thread throughout our offering. You know, to go from a small boot camp spot, subleasing behind Sprouts to this large 4,000 square foot space with lockers and showers and two big yoga rooms is beyond our original vision and literally a dream come true. We're just super grateful that the community continues to show up for us. As long as they do, we're so excited about continuing to show up for them. Continue to persevere. Grit, work ethic is something that goes a long way when you own your own business. We're just super grateful to be here. So I would say more than anything, just the sense of humility that the challenges have brought created this grit and gratitude for what it is we do.

Resident of the city of Chino, do you recycle your bottles and cans? Here's something you should know. Bottles and cans are good for the environment when recycled properly. The city of Chino encourages its residents to recycle their bottles and cans on trash day in their curbside recycling cart or by taking them to a certified collection center for a cash refund. Do your part. Keep Chino clean and recycle your bottles and cans. For more information, Visit the City of Chino's website under recycling or call 909-334-3289. This program is being brought to you by the City of Chino.

Haz tu parte. Mantén limpia la ciudad de Chino y recicla tus botellas y latas. Visita el sitio web de la ciudad de Chino en la sección de reciclaje o llama al 9093-3432-89.

Chino has both modern side and countryside charm. My husband, he likes the countryside. I like the modern side. He loved eating here. He'll even bring his clients here. And when it was up for sale, he took the opportunity and we bought it. And we're very happy because we get to eat food here more often for free and I don't have to cook as much. First, I really need to thank Larry and Shelly. They're the ones who started the Avocado House, and they're the ones who made this a Chino favorite. When we took over, we kept the same recipes. We just upgraded ingredients, switched oil to the avocado oil, and added new menu items. The support from community is awesome. Police officers, city staff, residents from Chino and all around cities, they come and support us, so we're very grateful.

What sets your business apart?

First, food. It's homemade food made with love, like grandma would. And that was Shelly's motto, and we really like it, and we're keeping it, too. And second is the high-quality ingredient, especially the avocado oil. It costs us $3,000 more per month to use avocado oil instead of canola oil. But we made the decision to do it because we care for the health of our customers, our employees who eat our food every day, and for our family. If you want cozy countryside warm feeling, you could eat inside the restaurant. And if you want to like a more modern feel, you can eat at a veranda and the backyard, which is everyone's favorite. It's like having a picnic. You can relax and enjoy, you know, nice Southern California weather. We're very grateful as we continue to grow. So we plan to increase ours, and we're going to open for dinner. So people can now enjoy Avocado House all day long. We started a coffee shop called Rabbit and Bean in La Habra, and it's really doing well. So we want to open a second coffee shop here so customers can enjoy specialty coffee and matcha. We're very excited. First, don't focus on money, profit, but just focus on giving joy and happiness to your customers and employees. Always serve high quality food that you would serve your own family. People will notice and they'll come back. And also take good care of your employees because they'll take good care of your customers.

So my dad came like 45 years ago in the city of Chino. He thought the city of Chino was a good opportunity to open a new business and he was right. First of all I want to thank the community of the city of Chino because all these years they support us and they love us and I want to say a big thank you to them. quality, the good quality for the products, the good customer service, and I think they love what we're doing for them. So we opened the first location four years ago, and now we moved like two years ago over here with a bigger, nicer location, and we try it through. Because it was the first project for us, it was a little bit hard at the beginning, thank God we made it. With the help of the city of Chino, the help of the people of Chino, we are here now to serve them.

We knew Chino was in demand for more restaurants, but we also knew that the location that we were gonna be going into, that there was a lot of growth and there was gonna be a lot that was gonna come in. But we also knew it was gonna take time to get there, but still just with it, like how it is right now, we're still doing really good. Like we knew coming into it, we were gonna be busy right off the bat. It seemed like a great place for the second location for us to grow and, you know, make our name bigger. The customers, you know, have been awesome with us. You know, we've been busy. It's been a year and we've been busier and busier every day. You know, we've sponsored a lot of the youth baseball teams, football teams. We know customers on a first-name basis and, you know, we have a good set of regulars. So, you know, the community has supported us tremendously and they're keeping this place open. They're keeping it going. We always knew that this is what we wanted to do. Both the owners always wanted to own their own restaurants. I knew them closely. I wanted to own restaurants as well. And that was just the goal behind it was, hey, let's turn Kenwoods into a household name. We love when the kids that come in here, hey, we want to go to Kenwoods. That was the goal to be the next big thing. I would say what sets us apart, one thing is we are a scratch kitchen, so everything is recipe-based, everything is made fresh, everything is made fresh daily. One thing that we really preach is giving the best service possible. Again, it all falls back to, you know, you can have great food, which we do, and a great atmosphere, but at the end of the day, the customers are coming back for the experience, for the service part. And we try to teach our staff every day, hey, make each visit count. Put a smile on someone's face. Get to know them on a personal level. When that customer comes in, we want them saying, hey, is so-and-so working today? You know, we have a lot of good things going on, live music, we do a taco special, we have a brunch, we have a happy hour from 3 to 6, Monday through Friday. So as, you know, the community, you know, hears about us and finds these things out, we just continue to grow. My name is Matt Mraz. I am the general manager of Kenwood's Kitchen and Tap in Chino, located in the Preserve Shopping Center off of Chino in Maine.

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Chino is an absolute beautiful community. My husband and I are from Los Angeles and so we were trying to get closer to family. We have a little toddler and in LA there's wellness bars on every corner whereas here we kind of noticed that there was missing link. You know there's lots of big corporations and franchises and so we decided this would be the absolute perfect location to bring a little bit of that here. The community in Chino has been the most important part, I think, of growing this business. Word of mouth in this community is so major. Everybody knows somebody and it's such a tight knit community, especially in the wellness world. And so it's just been incredible to, you know, grow with the community. You know, there's smoothie bars everywhere, but do they truly, you know, care about the ingredients? What's in it? Are they organic? And so really, I don't think there's anywhere here in the area that really brings that to the community. So that's truly what sets us apart. And the aesthetic, of course. Sana in Arabic means brilliant praise. And in Spanish, it means healthy or healing. And mana is the bread that God made rain, the nourishment, God's nourishment. And so altogether, it means praise God's healing nourishment, which is really just taking it back to.

Thank you.

Good evening and welcome to the July 7th council meeting. Council member Burton is going to lead us in the flag salute. Please stand and join us.

Ready to begin.

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

Thank you. You may be seated. Okay, our first ceremonial this evening is a proclamation for Parks and Recreation Month. Before we read off the proclamation, we'll be presenting a video highlighting the Chino Community Services Parks and Recreation programming, as well as the staff who work hard to provide the Chino community with excellent service all year long. So let's watch the video.

July is Parks and Recreation Month and the City of Chino has lots to celebrate. Our Community Services Parks and Recreation Department is proud to highlight the positive impact of parks, programs, and services that bring our community together through connection, play, community, nature, belonging, and well-being. This is the power of...

This year we hosted the first annual Lunar New Year celebration, bringing together cultural traditions and connecting our community through song, dance, activities, and play. Events like this highlight the importance of creating spaces where our community can gather, engage, and feel a true sense of belonging.

One of Chino's newest traditions is our inclusion community celebration. This family-friendly event reflects Chino's commitment to ensuring that everyone feels that they belong. With games, vendors, and activities specifically designed for our newer diverse community, we are creating a space where all community members are valued, connected, and welcomed. I love all the activities.

Youth sports play such an important role in connecting our community through play. They give kids the opportunity to stay active, build friendships and learn teamwork and just enjoy being part of something fun and positive. Youth basketball is one of our strongest programs. Its success is rooted in the way our coaches, parents and staff teach our young athletes the importance of good sportsmanship and friendly competition.

With 3,700 visitors and 12,000 tokens used since our renovation, the new batting cages at Yala Park are officially a community staple. We are proud to provide a high-quality, affordable home for our Little Leagues, Chino Girls Fast Pitch, and families across the city to come out, swing for the fences, and stay active all year long.

I came here first with a friend of mine from Bowling and we wanted to meet some new people and the senior center is very welcoming. You walk in the door and you know everybody here. We'll take care of you if you have a question or a problem.

Our grounds team works hard every day to keep Chino's parks beautiful and well maintained. From landscaping to irrigation, we help keep our parks clean, safe and welcoming for the community.

This year, Healthy Chino celebrates our 10-year anniversary of the Chino Community Garden. Over the past decade, the garden has become a place where community members and families come together to experience the joy of gardening. The garden's continued success highlights the importance of creating spaces where families, neighbors, and friends can gather, grow, and engage with nature together.

To me, gardening is a place of the community. We come together, help each other out.

Gardening means to me pretty much therapy. When things aren't clicking at home, I can come here and everything comes together and then I can go home with a clean slate.

The garden is not the only way we help nurture our community's mental health. We also offer counseling and mental health resources through Chino Human Services. These programs help create a healthier, more connected community where people feel supported both physically and emotionally.

The power of community is strong here in Chino.

The power of connection is strong here at the Senior Center. The power of play is alive and well in Chino.

The power of nature is continuing to grow here in Chino.

The power of wellness is in full bloom here in Chino. The power of connection is strong here in Chino.

The power of belonging is strong here in Chino.

This is the power of Chino.

okay and our proclamation reads whereas july is nationally celebrated as park and recreation month to promote building strong vibrant and resilient communities through the power of parks and recreation 86 of u.s adults seek high quality parks and recreation programs when choosing a place to live in chino we're fortunate to have approximately 297 acres of parkland and open space which provides opportunities for our community to celebrate the outdoors. Parks and Recreation promotes physical and mental wellness for community members of all abilities through opportunities to be physically active and socialize with neighbors. Parks and Recreation programs are vital to establishing and maintaining the quality of life in Chino and contribute to the economic and environmental well-being of our community. Parks and Recreation programs provide positive alternatives for children and youth during non-school hours to reduce crime, helping youth develop and grow into healthy, productive adults. The Chino Community Parks and Recreation Department has adopted the California Park and Recreation Society's Parks Makes Life Better slogan and logo to promote the benefit of park and recreation. The City of Chino urges all residents to recognize the parks and recreation enriches the lives of its residents and visitors, as well as adding value to the community's homes and neighborhoods, making Chino a great place to live, work, and play. Now, therefore, I, Eunice Semiloa, Mayor of the City of Chino, do hereby proclaim July 2026 as Park and Recreation Month in the City of Chino. and urge all residents to enjoy, recognize, and help promote the benefits derived from quality programs, services, and parks, which provide something of value to everyone. Neil?

Thank you very much, Mayor. I'm so honored to be able to speak for this great department. On behalf of the Council, Mayor Pro Tem, Dr. Reich, and all of the staff, we thank you very much for all that you help us do. This department is beyond amazing. You know about the fireworks spectacular. You know about the youth Christmas parade and the Halloween spooktacular. How about every single day there's different functions? Every day there's something where these green shirts are the first ones there and the last ones to leave. They're there before the sun rises. They're there when the sun sets. That's amazing. If you ever go to one of these events, listen to... how they talk on the walkie-talkies. It's with such precision. Hey, make sure, oh, there he goes. There's a nice guy. Okay, make sure this going to, it's over there. I'm speaking gibberish because I don't do what they do, but they don't speak gibberish. They do a great job every single day. I'm so proud to look around every single one of you. At any given time, you have all done an amazing job. Jeff and your team, thank you very much. Public Works, Thank you so much for what you do. Our police department, let me tell you something. We've got the best police department in the country. Thank you for everything you do. Chino Valley Fire, thank you for everything you do. I don't think I'm missing anyone. Am I missing anybody? So on behalf of the commission... Oh, I do want to talk about the commission real quick. So there's Jamie. I'm going by seats because there's Jamie, Linda, Bobby, Carl, and Julissa, and most of us are here tonight. My fellow commissioners, thank you for what you do. They walk the parks every single day. They make sure that we have a report for staff. They make sure they talk to all of the community members. This is... the power of Chino. And together, we make such a great organization. These green shirts, please stop and say thank you to them whenever you see them at an event because they're amazing. Thank you very much, Mayor.

I said I would try to make it short.

Neil said he was going to try to make it short. Neil cannot make it short. That's Neil. I want to thank you all also on behalf of the council and all of the residents. You do make our parks wonderful. You make our programs wonderful. So thank you very, very much. And this isn't even the whole department. So now we have to somehow get a picture. So squish in everybody.

All right, one, two, three.

Thank you again. Okay, next we're proclaiming July 26th as Americans with Disabilities Act Awareness Day in Chino. To accept the proclamation, I would like to invite up Lisa O'Malley, the city's accessibility coordinator. Yeah, not quite as many people. Whereas the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law July 26, 1990 to ensure the civil rights of people with disabilities and established a clear and comprehensive national mandate for the elimination of discrimination against people with disabilities. The ADA has expanded opportunities for Americans with disabilities by reducing barriers and changing perceptions and increasing full participation in community life. The City of Chino affirms the principles of equality and inclusion for persons with disabilities as embodied in the ADA, the laws of the State of California, and the ordinances of the City of Chino. Numerous organizations in the City of Chino and the County of San Bernardino work with constituents and communities to bring forth the promises of hope and freedoms envisioned by the passage of the ADA. The City of Chino on the 36th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act celebrates and recognizes the progress that has been made by reaffirming the principles of equality and inclusion and recommitting our efforts to achieving full ADA compliance. Now, therefore, I, Eunice Emilo, and Mayor of the City of Chino do hereby proclaim Sunday, July 26th, as Americans with Disabilities Act Awareness Day. Lisa? Thank you.

Thank you. Mayor, members of city council, and community members, thank you so much for this proclamation for ADA Awareness Day. This year marks the 36th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, as you mentioned, signed in July 26, 1990. The ADA is more than a law. It represents the belief that everyone deserves equal opportunity to participate fully in community life. While we've made significant progress in the past 36 years, the work of accessibility is never truly done. Accessibility isn't just about ramps or curb cuts or parking spaces. It's about creating a community where every resident visitor can come to our city and access programs and services and public spaces with dignity and independence. As the city's ADA coordinator, I am grateful to work alongside city leadership and staff who continue to prioritize accessibility. In the coming year, we'll be building on that commitment and expanding ADA training for all of our staff, and also by approaching projects with accessibility in mind first. We're gonna create streets and public spaces that are safer, more accessible, and welcoming for all. Thank you to the City Council for your continued commitment to inclusion and accessibility and for recognizing ADA Awareness Day. Together, I know that we can continue building a community where everyone has the opportunity to live, work, and thrive. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Lisa. Thank you.

Oh, next we have a special retirement. Now, I have mixed emotions about this. Would Captain Ryan Crowley and his family please join me up front? I think I should refuse to do this.

You can.

I can't.

You can't.

It won't do me any good. Tonight, we have the honor of recognizing Captain Ryan Crowley as he retires after more than 32 years of dedicated service to the city of Chino and the Chino Police Department. Captain Crowley began his law enforcement career in 1987 as an explorer with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. In 1994, he joined the Chino Police Department as a police cadet and reserve police officer. And after graduating from the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Basic Academy in 1995, he became a full-time police officer with Chino. Throughout his career, Captain Crowley served in many important roles, including patrol, field training officer, problem-oriented policing, training, investigations, the special enforcement team, professional standards, and executive leadership. He was promoted through the ranks, serving as corporal, sergeant, lieutenant, and most recently, captain, and appointed operations division commander. where he oversaw patrol operations in several specialized units. Captain Crowley was also a founding member of the Chino Police Department SWAT team and served in every leadership role on the team, helping shape and strengthen the department's tactical capabilities. His service has been recognized with numerous honors, including three department unit citations, seven excellence awards, Officer of the Year in 1999, and the Chief's Award of Distinction in 2023. Captain Crowley, your career reflects integrity, professionalism, servant leadership, and unwavering commitment to public safety. Your leadership, mentorship, and service have left a lasting impact on the Chino Police Department and the community you have faithfully served. On behalf of the City Council and the entire Chino community, I want to thank you for your outstanding service. Please join me in congratulating Captain Ryan Crowley on his well-deserved retirement and wishing him well and his family all the best. And we have the coveted Chino Tile, for your retirement, noting your 32 years of service. That's incredible. Now, we have some other people that would like to honor you this evening. First, I'd like to invite up Deputy Chief Nick Murata to say a few words. Thank you.

Thank you very much. So Ryan, we just want to say thank you for 32 years of dedicated service to this community. Chief Menton always says that it's his goal that all of our employees make it to a longevity retirement with their physical, spiritual, and mental health intact. You may not know, but Ryan actually has a broken leg, so he's got two of the three right now. So he's doing pretty good. But in all seriousness, Ryan has the lowest ID number of any of our sworn officers. So the institutional knowledge that he's leaving behind They're really big shoes to fill, and we're just very happy for your retirement. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you.

Next, I'd like to invite up Chino Valley Fire District Vice President Howie, Board Member Luth, and Deputy Chief Gable.

Thank you, Eunice. Appreciate that.

Hey, Ryan, how are you? Hey, it's been a long, long trek, 32 years, and what Nick was just saying about your institutional knowledge. That's always the one thing when people retire. You have a lot of young people working, and they don't know the background and the history of the city, and that's something that you have all that, and hopefully you can mentor a few in times to come. We're just so happy for you. And I'm gonna let Harvey talk for a little bit before we present the certificate.

Okay, so I know Ryan best through Kiwanis. So from that perspective, this is a man who leads sometimes in front, sometimes in the background, but he's definitely a leader. He brings a lot of value to our club. He cares about this community. his leadership, his approach to things. He has an incredible gift to be able to organize events and try to make things better. And so he's been a wonderful part of the Kiwanis Club of Chino. I can imagine it's been the same for the police department, your leadership and your skills and your gifts that you bring. So for the city, for the police department, definitely going to miss everything that you bring to the party. So best of luck in your future. Thank you.

Thank you, Harvey. Well, and honestly, it's going to be, you're going to be tremendously missed. And I know we have two former police, you're not running for city council, are you? You don't live in the city, so he can't run for the council. He can move, all right? Anyway, on behalf of the Chino Valley Fire District, we wanna present you with a certificate of congratulations for your 32 years and have a great retirement, okay? Thank you.

Next, I'd like to invite up Natalie Tong, representative for the office of Senator Susan Rubio.

Good evening, everyone. Hi, my name is Natalie, and it's an honor to be here today on behalf of State Senator Susan Rubio to offer her sincerest congratulations on your retirement. And it is a pleasure to present you with this certificate of recognition that reads, on behalf of the California State Senate, it is my honor to congratulate you on your retirement. Thank you for your courageous, sorry, thank you for courageously answering the call to serve the city of Chino for the past 32 years. Our community was incredibly fortunate to have had you serve on the force. Your dedication and service through your various roles over the years have proven to be invaluable. I wish you the best as you embark on your next journey. Congratulations.

Next we have Sophia Cohen, representative for the office of Assemblymember Michelle Rodriguez.

Thank you, Mayor. Good evening, everyone. So I'm here today on behalf of Assemblymember Rodriguez, and I'd like to present this certificate of recognition for your service in the Chino Police Department, and thank you for all your dedication and sacrifice and mentorship for our police officers still here. So thank you so much, and we wish you a great time in Cabo. I heard that's his first destination for retirement, so...

And now we have Melissa Campani from Supervisor Kurt Hagman's office.

Well, good evening. Congratulations, this is absolutely wonderful, wonderful for you and your family. I just have a nice certificate from Supervisor Kurt Hagman congratulating Captain Crowley on his retirement after 32 years. And we've already had so many nice words said. I won't read the whole certificate, but I do think that I'd like to read this portion from Supervisor Hagman. Here's to a new chapter filled with happiness, tranquility, and the well-deserved relaxation you've worked so hard for. May retirement treat you well. It doesn't say in Cabo, but we can kind of pen that in. We're running in. Wherever you may end up and you may need somewhere with a big office because you have lots of Certificates and plaques to hang out, but thank you so much. We appreciate your service. Thank you Well Ryan

I'm afraid this is goodbye, but we're going to miss you. You know, this man has been such an excellent example to our officers. There is a way of life in our police department and Ryan has exemplified so much of what our department stands for. He sets an example for our younger officers. to aspire to be. We're very blessed in the city of Chino because of people like you. And I want to thank you personally for all of your years of service. We're going to miss you a lot. I'd like you to introduce your wife and then it's your turn.

This is my wife, Holly. 27 years. 27 years married. 27? Yeah, 27. Yes, 27. Yeah, yeah, no... No, no, no, no. Don't get that wrong. And thank people in this room for introducing us. Mayor Pro Tem. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you. It's been an honor to serve this community and the men and women of the Chino Police Department. 32 years has gone by very, very quickly. It's been fun. It's been exciting. It's been fulfillment. but it's gone by very quickly. So thank you, Council, for the support that you provide to our officers, that we may be able to have the equipment and the training that we need to be able to serve this community with excellence. And so I know we're very proud of our department, and it's with your support that we can do that. So it's been an honor and a privilege to serve this community and this department, and thank you for recognizing me this evening.

You have a lot of honeydews to do.

A long list, but you know, I've got time.

That's true, you do. Just make sure he gets it all done. Now, if you get bored, you know, you can come back as a reserve or something.

Yeah, give me a few months.

Okay, just a couple months, and then you'll be back.

Thank you again, Ryan. Thank you.

Let's give him another hand. Thank you. I know I'm really biased, but we have the best police department, I think, in the whole United States. And a lot of it has to do with people like Ryan, who really care about this community. It's very unusual for people to start as like an explorer or a cadet and spend their whole career with one department. That says a lot for the leadership in the department and the quality of the officers themselves. And they police each other. Believe it or not, they don't put up with any nonsense from each other, which is nice. Well, yeah, I know, except for Dustin. Then there's Dustin. Okay, our next ceremony for the month of July, I'd like to congratulate Tri Auto as one of our businesses of the month. Will the representative from the business, owner Danny Arteaga, and guests please join me up front. You have a cheering section. Specializing in Toyota, Honda, and Alexis, the Arteaga family opened their original location on Schaefer Avenue in 1999. They quickly outgrew the location and moved to Central and became incorporated in 2007. To the success of their business, they were able to purchase their current location once again on Schaefer Avenue. The triado story is one of dedication, skill, and commitment to community. They're proud to support families in need through Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, and they have a special place in their hearts for widows and families experiencing financial struggles. TriAuto is consistently praised for their attention to detail and honesty. Customers appreciate Danny's vast expertise when it comes to their vehicles and many have been visiting his shop for decades. The Arteaga family opened their business here based on a suggestion and they are so glad they listened. They are part of local clubs and say that the residents of our community are like family. Please join me in congratulating one of our July 2026 businesses of the month, TriAuto. I'd like to present you with a certificate of congratulations. Thank you so very much for operating in the city of Chino. Would you please like to say a few words?

Well, I don't have a lot of words, but thank you for recognizing us, and we are so glad to serve as Geno.

Well, I'm glad you're here.

Thank you.

Would you like to say anything? I'm okay.

It's hard to get people to talk. Thank you very much. Our next business of the month has been a staple in our city for 40 years. I'd like to congratulate Ranch Burgers as one of our businesses of the month. Will the representative from the business, owner Alexis Ayala, and guests please join me? Ranch Burgers is known and loved for not just their burgers, customers also rave about their breakfast burritos and dinner plates. This restaurant is a must try here in our city. Ranch Burgers also supports local businesses by purchasing local dairy products as well as local meat products. We love hearing about local businesses who support one another. When asked why they chose Chino, Alexis said, we value our deep roots in the city and are committed to offering great food and exceptional service to our neighbors. Please join me in congratulating one of our July 2026 Businesses of the Month, Ranch Burgers. certificate of congratulations.

We just want to say we are truly honored to receive this recognition by the City of Chino. We want to thank everyone that has supported us, and we are really grateful for this recognition. Again, we look forward to serve everyone in our community. Thank you.

I want to tell one of your ladies.

Oh, we're located?

We are located right here on Benson and Riverside Drive.

Yeah.

And thank you all, and hopefully you guys can come and support us and get burgers, everything, shakes and burritos. Thank you.

Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

THANK YOU, EVERYBODY. YOU'RE WELCOME.

Okay. Prior to the council meeting, we did have a closed session. I'd like to ask our attorney to give us a report out of any action that was taken.

Thank you, Mayor, members of the Council, and all those present. The City Council met in closed session and held a discussion on the two items listed in the closed session portion of the agenda, beginning with item one, conference with legal counsel. One item of existing litigation, the matter of City of Ontario, including the City of Chino versus Inland Empire Utilities Agency. City Council received a briefing on the status of that matter, provided direction, and no further report of election was taken. Pardon me. The council unanimously agreed to pursue an appeal of that matter. Item number two, conference with legal counsel. One item of anticipated litigation under the heading significant exposure to litigation. One matter, city council received a briefing and no further reportable action was taken. That concludes the report.

Okay, thank you very much. City Manager Wright, do we have any announcements, additions, or revisions?

Thanks, Mayor. We'd like to pull item 23 and return it to staff, please.

OK, 23.

OK. We have a brief presentation right now, informational item on Chino Channel 3. This presentation will provide an overview of the city's government television station, including its purpose, programming, production process, and the various ways residents can access city meetings and other Channel 3 content.

Hello, Mayor and City Council. My name is Ariana Fajardo. I'm your communications manager, and today we're talking about Channel 3. Channel 3 is the city's government television station. Its primary purpose is to provide residents with direct access to their local government and keep the community informed. The station also creates a permanent public record of meetings and provides access for residents who may not be able to attend in person because of work schedules, mobility challenges, or other commitments. In many ways, Channel 3 is another way to provide transparency and make government more accessible. Through the city's cable franchise agreements, Chino is able to broadcast Channel 3 programming without paying traditional airtime or broadcast fees. Channel 3 also receives support through PEG funding, which stands for Public Educational Government Access. PEG funds are collected through cable franchise agreements and are intended to support capital needs, such as broadcast equipment, cameras, production systems, and technology upgrades. So as part of our Channel 3 team, these are our faces behind the cameras. So we have Christian Reyna. He's been with the city of Chino for 10 years and serves as our broadcast coordinator. He oversees production, planning, scheduling, and the technical operation of the station. Then we have Kevin Carlson. He's been with the city for 12 years. And Josiah Mancinaras, who's been here for about five. Together, they are our broadcast associates, and they handle camera operation, editing, graphics, audio, photography, and many of the behind-the-scenes technical responsibilities that make every broadcast possible. While viewers often only see the finished product, there's a tremendous amount of preparation before, during, and after every meeting or video production. The team wears many hats and supports communications efforts throughout the organization, so we can all just wave and say hello and thank you to those guys that are currently broadcasting. So the types of content produced, our council meetings, it's only one part of what this team does. Throughout the year, they capture community events, they create videos highlighting city programs and services, much like the video we just saw, that was an example of something that they were able to produce. They also produce recurring programs like the Mayor's Message, which we see a little preview of there, experience Chino and they create content for the city's social media channels and develop internal training videos. They also provide lots of audio and visual support for community meetings and city events. They also help to facilitate remote meetings when they're held at the senior center or at the police department. Their work helps to tell the city's story while educating residents about services available to them. Recently, we had an equipment upgrade. It's a couple years now, but much of the equipment used to operate Channel 3 had reached the end of its useful life, so some components were more than a decade old. The city invested in a modernization of the product system, and the upgrade included camera controls, a modern production switcher, and a new broadcast software. Additionally, there were a few of the cameras in this room that were upgraded to 4K cameras for improved image quality and one additional camera was installed to provide better coverage. So one of the best ways to illustrate this is for me to momentarily put on my director's hat here and have us take a look. So first we're gonna cut to camera one. now. Maybe momentarily. Thank you. All right, there we go. That's camera one. So camera one, this angle is primarily used for the speakers at the podium. So now we will go ahead and skip around to camera three. This one is known as our safe shot. So this is a wide angle, and it's used as a transition scene when we're cutting in between close ups. So this gives us a nice clean view of the room as well. Now, let's go ahead and take camera two. So this one, ah, there I am. This one is used for our staff presentations, and that's a dead-on view, so that's this camera right here, camera two. Now, let's go ahead and go back to camera three for a transition. As I talk about camera four, which is the camera right next to that, and Mayor, if you take a look at that one, we all get a nice close-up of you. Hi, Mayor. Now we'll go back to camera three for one more transition as I talk about our latest camera addition, which is camera five. That's this one right here. Extreme close up. Let's back that up. Back it up, back it up, back it up. Much better, much better, but still not as good as cut to camera two. All right, so camera five comes in handy. You might ask yourself, what's the point of that one? Oh, okay, yeah, cool. So camera five comes in handy for when we are having some kind of a dialogue. So for example, if Council Member Flores, let's take camera five. Hey there. If he is having some dialogue with Council Member Burton, let's cut to camera four.

Wave, Kurt.

Then we can easily cut between those two council members. Whereas before, we would have to, there we go. We would have to cut to camera three to transition. The guys would have to hurry up and shift the focus and then go back to that person. And oftentimes we would just miss that dialogue. So then we would have to stay here on this transition. So I'll go ahead and take my director's hat off once again and I'll hand the reins back over to Christian. All right, so we'll go back to the presentation. We're gonna have one more like this, Natalie. All right, so now we've got our timeline of a council meeting. Before each meeting, the team arrives early to set up cameras, test microphones, verify internet connections, load presentation graphics, and ensure every system is functioning properly. During the meeting, they are actively managing the live stream, recording the meeting, switching between camera angles as we saw earlier, and then they're monitoring the audio. Can I get a camera on me one more time? They also take care of the graphics. So for example, they'll display lower thirds like this one. Oh, no. After 10 years, they spelled my last name wrong. I'm just kidding so we did that on purpose because while I am a local government nerd I that's not my official title so sometimes we do make mistakes or we have unexpected folks come in and we don't have a lower third for them so this is an example of what we would fix in post-production so if we go back to our slide So after the meeting is all said and done, if we have any mistakes, which hopefully we don't, they will go ahead and make those corrections in post. Then the recording is archived and uploaded for online viewing, replay schedules are prepared, and the meeting is preserved as part of the city's public record. How you can watch at home, you can watch on cable TV. Those are the channels you can watch it on depending on your provider. You can always watch on YouTube and you can also live stream in our agenda portal. On YouTube our handle is at Chino3TV. The goal is to give residents multiple ways to access city information whether they prefer watching on cable, online, or live, or even later when it's more convenient. So that concludes the overview of Channel 3. As communication tools continue to evolve, Channel 3 remains an important part of how we serve the community, especially for residents who rely on live meeting access, archived recordings, and city-produced programming. We're proud of the work the team does to keep Chino connected, informed, and engaged. And with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions.

OK. Kurt? Do you have a comment?

I just was gonna say, this is why you're the City of Chino Employee of the Year.

Arianna is great, and when she's on vacation, we all miss her very much, so I just told her this evening, you don't get any more vacations, you have to stay.

Well, I missed you guys too, believe it or not.

Thank you, Arianna. Excuse me. Okay, next on the agenda is public announcements. First, summer is in full swing and our Chino Summer Nights movie series is the perfect place to spend a warm summer evening. Join us every Friday night until July 31st for family-friendly movies under the stars. This year, half of our summer movies will take place in the newly opened Stuvi Family Park in the Preserve. Be sure to bring your blankets, snacks, and lawn chairs and enjoy a beautiful night under the stars watching exciting movies the whole family will love. To view the lineup, please visit cityofchino.org forward slash movies. If live music is more your style, Chino Kiwanis Annual Concerts on the Lawn Series is in full swing right here at Chino City Hall. Enjoy toe tapping, boy, I'm having a time tonight. Toe tapping live music every Thursday evening until July 23rd with special performance by bands the whole families will love. Join in on the fun. For more information, including the band's schedule to perform, please visit cityofcino.org forward slash concerts. Next, I invite you to join us as we mark 10 years of our community demonstration garden on Saturday, July 18th from 8.30 to 11 a.m. The event will highlight all the work Healthy Chino has done to make the community garden a staple in our community. and will feature children's discovery crafts, seed planting activities, healthy grilling examples, story time area, and much more. Be sure to bring your sneakers for the community garden history walk, which visually showcases the history of the community garden. To learn more, visit cityofccino.org forward slash healthyccino, and we can't wait to see you there. Finally, We'd like to adjourn tonight's meeting in honor of two beloved members of the Chino community. Lori Viramontes was a beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother who was the devoted wife of Henry Viramontes of Viramontes Express. They were married for over 30 years. She was born in Livermore, California, and lived in the Chino Valley for many years, becoming a pillar of the community alongside her husband. She's survived by her daughters, her grandchildren, and her great-grandchildren. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her. Lori passed away at the age of 78. She had incredible physical challenges, and as my husband used to say, she was one of the bravest, strongest women he ever knew. Wilma Dauma was the longtime owner of Chino Florist, one of the first florists to open in Chino, and one of our most cherished legacy businesses. Wilma was known as a hard worker who dedicated herself to her business and her family. She will be remembered fondly by her family and friends in Chino, Lake Havasu, and throughout the country. Wilma passed away at the age of 82. On behalf of the City Council and the entire City of Chino, we extend our deepest condolences to their families and loved ones of Lori Viramontes and Wilma Downer. Tonight's meeting will be adjourned in their memory. Next, under Public Communication, this is the time and the place for the general public to address the City Council about subjects that do not appear elsewhere on the agenda. Due to Council policy and Brown Act requirements, action cannot be taken on any action that's not on the agenda. We have several requests to speak that we will do first. Our first is Pastor Joshua Gaunt from the Chino Campus Sunrise Church. I'd like to ask you all to stand who would like to join us in an invocation.

Thank you so much for having me. Let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, I just thank you so much for local government. I thank you so much for the community servants that have been honored all this evening and so much for their hearts, for their community, for what they do on a daily basis, Lord. I pray for strength, for wisdom, for the city council as they move forward with positive things for this community, Lord. Again, thank you so much for the opportunity that we have to come together. And in your name we pray. Amen.

Amen. Thank you, Joshua. Thank you. Okay, next we have Marsha Richardson. You say you would like to meet with someone after the meeting, but would you like to address the council first? Okay.

My name is Marcia Richardson. I think you remember me from probably about six weeks ago, I spoke here about Griswold's receivership.

Yes.

That I've had that $100,000 bill from them, and I haven't heard anything from them. Well, I just got a bill the other day. They sent me a bill every month. This one was for $4,700. Okay. And one of the parts of it said, and it really upset me, was on April 24th, they reviewed my file And they're going to commence preparing ex parte application for authorization to list my property for as-is sale. And I'm just getting really stressed about this situation. Sorry, I don't want to start crying again. And I just maybe, I know the meeting today might last longer, but maybe I could email all of you to maybe contact me, just so I kind of know what's going on or what's the status of the situation. Because I'm getting very stressed out thinking about like any day now am I going to get something from them about my house going up for sale or something without me knowing. I don't know how the legal process works. Do they have a court date and I get to attend the court or how that works. So that's why I'm asking for some communication somehow.

Okay, Marcia, we will have our city manager have someone get back to you. All right, thank you so much. I appreciate that. And they have your information, I believe.

Yeah, I think so. I thought maybe I'll send all of you an email, just a reminder. Okay, thank you. Thank you.

Next, yes. Just a comment for Ms. Richardson. Ms. Richardson, if you email all of us, we can't all respond to you, just so you know, right? I have responded to you individually, but in the past, you haven't provided your phone number. So if you email, please provide your phone number if you so choose.

Thank you, ma'am. For sure, yes, thank you. All right, thanks for reminding me.

Next is Donna Marchese. Donna Marchese.

Good evening, everybody. I'm here to talk about some disconnects in departments. So I'll read you my little story. So spring of 2025, Sophia Petrillo, and I'm telling you, picture this. Spring of 2025, from my backyard, I hear a speeding car finally coming to a sudden halt near my house. I hear the car door slam and someone yelling. When I get to the front yard, I see an irate man beating on the front door of the house across the street. The residents come out and try to calm him down. I call the police department to send help, and I'm told this residence is not in their service area. I tell dispatch that Chino annexed this area six months ago. The dispatcher puts me on hold, then comes back and says she is sending a car. This area was annexed by Chino November 25th, 2024. I'm talking about the Yorba, Ramona, all that area. The same neighbors have flower and gift sales for the holidays. They never take down their signs, and they leave them on the telephone poles for weeks or months. I saw a city truck one day taking down yard sale signs, but he doesn't take the ones down near my house. That's some little pickup. I put in a complaint through the report and issue app on my computer, and the reply I get is, location is outside of our service area. So now it's a year and a half since the annexation and another department doesn't know about the new part of Chino. So it's kind of concerning. Now I was on part of the discussion group for the annexation process and I understand there's about four or five little pockets in town. I don't know if you've annexed any more of them, but the city needs to have some kind of a chart that when you take something in, We need to tell the police department and code enforcement and parks and recs or whoever, because somehow you've got some disconnects there. So that makes me wonder if you have any disconnects in case we have a major emergency somehow.

Good point.

Yes, and another thing I heard the other day was about ham operator stirring emergencies when the cell towers go down. Do you guys know who the ham operators are in town? That might have to ask that of staff. Yeah, so just a little FYI.

Well, thank you, Donna, and I'm sure our city manager is taking notes on that. Okay, next is Mr. Scholl. You have regular general public comments and then something on the consent calendar. So right now it's just your general comments. All right.

Correct, my name is Carl Scholl. I've been a resident of Chino for 41 years. I've had a business at Chino Airport since 1985. and I live up in Cypress Creek up the street here. I was at a meeting here a couple of weeks ago for the, I guess it was a planning commission for three different projects that were being proposed here, and I was a little concerned about the way that was handled. First of all, I'd read about it in the Chino Champion, which was three days before the meeting, so I'm wondering how anyone gets notified of these types of meetings. And I was told that, well, if you're within 300 feet of it, you get a mailed letter about it. Okay, well, I don't live 300 feet from these developments, but I think there ought to be a different method of communicating with the city residents of Chino. I spent six hours in that meeting that night, and I was a little bit distressed. My gut feeling when I left was that The Chino City Council, this was a planning commission meeting, but the council had to vote on these different projects. And there were some exceptions made about the builders weren't putting, didn't want to have to do underground utilities and things like that. The feeling that I got, just my impression was, that the council was more concerned about getting the fees from the builders than they were about listening to the residents that had questions or problems with these particular developments. And personally, I think that the biggest issue is the traffic problems that all these, what do we call them? affordable housing overrun projects in the city. You know, when you're building 300 apartment buildings in five acres or whatever it is. I mean, I've got the list here, but that's not relevant right now. But the bottom line is there's a lot of more vehicles that are impacting our traffics in our street. And of course that falls back into the police department too, having to maintain all that. And I listened to the traffic manager that explained how they had done their analysis and so forth, and it sounded to me like this man had never even been on some of these streets that were being impacted that the residents were talking about. So I think it's important that Maybe the council listens a little bit more to the residents instead of the builders. I am really concerned about that. There's so many of these new developments here, these affordable housing overrun things in the city, and I realize that that's a state mandate, and there's not a whole lot you can do, and there's certain laws and regulations that you have to abide by. but I think it's important to listen to what the residents have to say about these different communities too. I had never been down on Amsterdam Street in my life in Chino here for 41 years until after that meeting and then I drove down there to see what the residents were complaining about about the traffic and the fact that it's a narrow road, there's no parking and so forth. And I just wonder if that traffic guy had ever been down that street before and looked at it before he provided a report that said it's not gonna be a factor, so. just my impression of what was going on. I think the council needs to be paying more attention to the residents and not letting this place turn into thousands of more apartment buildings like it's going on up in Euclid and Walnut, yes, okay? That is just disgusting, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Scholl. One other quick question. Has anybody defined affordable housing?

The state has. The state has?

Well, I've never seen it. That just seems crazy because, you know, there's 10% of these houses that are in these overlays that are quote-unquote affordable. What does that really mean? I mean, you're not taking people off the street that are homeless and throwing them in these places, are you? I don't think so. So it seems like a lot of BS to me. Thank you. Thank you.

Next is Mr. Bob Nigg.

I'm going to piggyback on some of his comments. I'm Bob Nigg, and if you don't know, I'm very detailed and factual orientated. The first thing that just recently came to my attention, a year ago, a citizen could file an appeal to the Planning Commission or a development thing. There would be no cost. That changed in July of last year, where now if a citizen wants to appeal a decision, it'll cost them $1,029 for a Planning Commission decision, or $1,569 to appeal a development decision. The citizens who are making those appeals are looking out for the best interests of the city. They shouldn't be charged to make a valid appeal for something that they deem to be wrong. Then I'll kind of piggyback on the last gentleman. I also attended that Planning Commission meeting. I was there until 1.30 in the morning. I could describe most of it as a debacle. I wish we would have had the TV cameras on that so the citizens could see what happened. During that meeting, and I'll try to go on in my five minutes, it came to light that the developer paged the contractor to do a traffic study. They did the traffic study when the shopping center with the new marketplace not there. Well, city staff and the city attorney says, well, we cannot create a new traffic study because SB 330 says they can't. Well, SB 330 says you cannot change the standards after they put their application in, but we already had standards that were in fault. A traffic study, standardized traffic study, even within the city's own, what is it, traffic impact analysis study, actually looks at and should look at future growth and when a good traffic study, a valid traffic study would say it needs to judge that maximum capacity of that shopping center when it's full. You don't look at it at the time it's empty. That will under-report the traffic. Standardized traffic engineers look at the future projected growth and what is there at the time. They should do the maximum amount of traffic that would be generated when that shopping center is full. They should use standardized things, two to 3% growth, or when you have developments going all over Riverside, the high density developments, those should be included in the traffic stunt. SB 330 does allow the Planning Commission to hold up the five meetings on the development status. There was no reason that the, the commissioners asked, that they couldn't continue that meeting and ask for an accurate traffic study, not a new traffic study. Now, would it have made a difference? Who knows? Until you have the facts, you can't make an accurate decision. Our density standards are mandated unrealistic by the state. I totally agree with that. We're behind a lock in a hard space. But we can use health and safety standards to deny these high density developments if you have objective factual data in the zoning code, and I'll come to that on item 17, that you can use to say this will negatively impact the health or safety of our citizens. You might not be able to cancel the project, but you could have the developer put in mitigating things that would help prevent that. So that's my comments. I'm gonna have much more in my five minutes to say come up on the zoning code. Thank you. Thank you, Bob.

Okay, those are the requests to speak on items that are not on the agenda. Is there anyone else in the audience that would like to address on an item that is not on the agenda?

Mayor, I believe there's one more card.

Not that I have, Natalie. Is it online? Do you have something online? Everything else has the item numbers on them.

There was an organization reach out. There's not one there?

It was for an agenda item.

Okay, it's for an agenda item.

Okay, we do have a tradition here and that is if there's any students in the audience or scouts that are here working on a badge or anything, we ask that you come up and give your name and report on the project that you're working on or why you're here. And I know we have one scout, Melissa's son, so if you'd like to come to the lectern, please.

Hello, my name is Nicholas Campani. I'm with Troop 220, and I'm here working on my communications merit badge. The current status is I did not get into the class when I was going to summer camp, so I walked into the class at summer camp and said, can I join you guys? And they said, sure. And they were able to do every requirement at the camp except for attend a town meeting and take notes. So that's what I'm here doing tonight.

Well, thank you very much for being here. Now are you working on your eagle? Well, congratulations and I hope you finish it. Anyone else in the audience, any students or Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts? No, okay, then we will move on. Under consent, we do have comments from Mr. Scholl on item number five, Mr. Scholl.

Carl Scholl again, and item number five was on the agenda for the meeting on the 17th that I was a part of, listened to, and I mentioned previously when I spoke about my concerns about the traffic and so forth in that particular area, and I was not happy with the traffic report that that gentleman provided about what what the traffic impact was gonna be to the other residents in that community right there between Cypress and Euclid Avenue. I'm familiar with the Cypress and Euclid Avenue intersection there, but they were gonna run Amsterdam Street through the bottom of this new development and that was gonna exit on Cypress and It's going to be crazy. I mean the traffic is just going to be crazy And then the residents were really concerned about the traffic that was going to be coming down Amsterdam because now it's a dead-end street And it only allows them to go into the little cul-de-sac areas in that particular part of the community there Which is very nice? but as soon as Amsterdam is opened up clear to the end and That's going to be another thoroughfare in there, and I think that the council and the traffic engineer that ran that or ran that report didn't have a clue what was going to happen there. I drove it two days later just to see what that was all about, and I think that that was a problem. Now, I do understand after talking to the engineer tonight that that project has not been approved yet. It's not finalized, so there needs to be more input, I believe, on a couple of different areas there. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Scholl.

Is there anyone else who would like to speak on any of the consent calendar items? Or do we have anybody online? No? Any council comments or questions? Then I want to entertain a motion for approval and a second. I need a verbal motion and a second.

I'll make the motion.

A motion from Council Member Lucio. I'll make the second, Mayor. Second from Council Person Comstock. Please vote. and consent calendar passes unanimously. I would like to take this opportunity to ask our attorney, impromptu, to please give a quick explanation on, when it comes to these housing projects, state mandates on

possible reasons for denying projects and what's legally allowed now by our great legislation and up in sacramento certainly mayor thank you for the question um i know and recognize that there could be frustration by members of the public when these projects come to your town your your residents know best how a project may or may not fit into an area from their perspective. As you mentioned, Mayor, our legislature, our California legislature, has done to cities with respect to housing projects that meet these criteria, basically, for example, a multifamily housing project, to the extent it meets the objective standards of a city's code. And Chino is no different. The legislation applies statewide. City councils, planning commissions are now left with virtually no discretion to deny the projects. The only opportunity to fully deny a project is dependent on making a finding that under state law is considered a specific adverse finding. The legislation explains that that is to be found in very unusual and limited circumstances. And the Housing and Community Development Department, HCD, that interprets that legislation, the agency for the state of California has published guidelines interpreting that legislation that have made it abundantly clear that finding of a specific adverse impact required to disapprove a project is rarely established and a very high bar. Traffic impacts, they specifically say in their published guidelines, do not qualify as specific adverse impacts. And other concerns, noise, et cetera, don't qualify. Frankly, there has not been any city that has won in facing a court challenge in court on the basis that a project should be denied based on that finding. So if you ask me or anyone asks me what exactly is a specific adverse impact, I can't tell you because no court has told us. The legislation doesn't tell us. All we know is that HCD says that those are to be established in very limited and rare circumstances. So it must be a pretty unusual circumstance. I know there was also a question about what qualifies as affordable housing. It's a very good question. I know with the pricing of some of these units, it's hard to imagine they are actually affordable. but state law does have definitions. So, for example, there are moderate income units, which are defined as 120% of area median income, lower income, 80% of median income, I think I have those numbers right, and then low and very low. Those each have state-defined criteria depending on the median income amounts of the established area. Here it would be in the San Bernardino area. I could keep going on, but I'm sure that that's not what...

I think the point that I wanted made was because of Sacramento and the decisions up there, they have virtually taken away our ability to control growth within cities. They have mandated all of this, what I call stack and pack, with virtually no way of defining them to prohibit them from coming in. And if we try to deny it, then we get sued, and all of the court cases to date have lost at great expense to the communities.

And the result, if I may just say a couple other things, the result of denying a project without appropriate legal basis per that legislation means that the applicant can sue, recover penalties against the city, their attorney's fees, and obviously the city has to pay its own attorney's fees, and the project gets built. And it still gets built. It still gets built. So that would be the result. So obviously, it's a very significant consequence. And your state legislature, with all due respect, has forced all of you as city leaders to face the community explaining what this legislation has done, which is, as you mentioned, remove your discretion.

So they don't care about traffic, they don't care about the impact on the community, they don't care about the impact on neighboring housing projects or whatever, they just want these stack and packs built at all expense.

If I could piggyback off that. And the reason they choose these high density projects is because the belief in Sacramento is that if we build more units, therefore there's more units on the market, the market will go down, making it possible for people to afford into communities, which we all know doesn't really happen, but that's their excuse for what they do and why they force us to do high density housing. And it's not, and really these should all be directed towards Susan Rubio, Michelle Rodriguez, your legislators that are up there in Sacramento that make these decisions up there and then they come down here with already established guidelines and then the residents get upset with us based on something that we had no control over. And that's really something, when they have their community barbecues, you guys should be attending those community barbecues and you should be having those discussions with them. Because those are the people that are passing these laws here in California. It's not the city council. If we could put 4.5 an acre, we would. But unfortunately, that's been taken away from us.

And I would add, just incidentally, not only do they have to be fairly high density per the standards under the legislation, there is what's called the state density bonus law, where if a developer proposes some some percentage of affordable units. The city is compelled to grant them additional density, reduction of your setback, increased height, and various things that I'm sure your community would not find appealing.

So Mayor, I would say just my comment on this as well because I want to be careful because this is not an agendized item. So I want to thank you for coming here this evening. But once again, if the community wants us to, we can entertain the idea of having just a public workshop about housing and local control. But I want to assure you that every single member of this council sitting up here ran on the premise of local control and going to Sacramento and demanding that Sacramento give us local control over particularly land use and zoning. And what happens is exactly what council member Lucio said. We are paying attention to what our residents want. I am a longstanding resident of this community. I went to Doris Dixon, the day open Ramona junior high school, Don local high school, and spent 34 years working at the police department here. That's part of the reason I ran for public office is I want to protect Chino and the quality of life that we have. We want to help you. But part of the challenges is some of the mandates that the state has imposed upon us. And to your point, sir, yes, probably only 10% of those houses will be what they consider affordable because Sacramento has, in the last probably 10 years, introduced well over 600 pieces of legislation involving housing, zoning, and local control, all adversely which affect local communities. Their mindset in this now is that instead of building one large affordable complex, which is subsidized for affordable housing, to spread that subsidy or that affordable housing into separate developments. I'm not saying I agree with this mindset. I'm just saying that this is the mindset that gets explained to us when we go in front of housing and community development. What we can do as residents, if you're sitting here tonight, is what Council Member Lucio said, help us work with our assembly member and our state senator. But also when the project comes before us, we're fortunate in Chino where we have developers that often want to give us accommodations or amendments to the project that are impactful to us that can help us as a community. I've seen it happen on several different projects. It does not mean that the project will not be built, because that's what's happening in our community right now. The community meeting is sometimes misunderstood for, hey, you just need to kill the project. The project needs to go away. But somebody like Mr. Nigg, who can bring us things that say, hey, listen, this may be the wrong analysis of this, or we may need to take a separate look at this, or there's another project that just happened about a year ago, where the community didn't like the height of the project and the developer was willing to make adjustments, that's where we get the score for what it is we're trying to accomplish. So that being said, I don't want anybody sitting in the audience tonight to think that we're not up here fighting. We've spent copious amounts of hours in Sacramento with legislators, but sometimes it's falling upon deaf ears, and it's very, very frustrating for us too. I talk about this all the time, I saw it in safety, And then I see it now in the land use control. It's very hard and very frustrating for all of us. But thank you for your comments, and we'll keep listening to them and keep attending our meetings. It's helpful. And write your assembly member, which is Michelle Rodriguez and Sandra Rubio, in the Senate, in the California Senate. We have to come back to the podium, sir, not from the audience.

Sir, you have to come up to the lectern.

Just so you know, the Cypress Edison project is not an affordable overlay. That one doesn't fall in that category.

It's a different, yeah. We have a mixed-use overlay and an affordable overlay that we had to submit as part of our housing element.

No, no, I understand for others, but not for that particular project.

We're talking about other ones that are being vetted. Other ones, yes.

Obviously, I realize that, but a lot of people maybe think that that one on Cypress was an overlay project. That's market value. It is not. Thank you. Thank you. Kurt?

I know we've had discussions about HCD and our staff. I know our staff calls HCD frequently to get clarifications on what the law says today versus what it said yesterday. It's forever changing and HCD takes its sweet time in getting back to us. Ladies and gentlemen, it takes forever for HCD to get back to our city with answers to our questions. I'd just like to recommend to our staff that we put things down on paper and make hard copy requests to HCD if we just have a simple question. We need to start to really document all of our calls to them so that we have some kind of leeway and some footing in the event that we want to go forward in another direction. It's very, very difficult to deal with HCD up in Sacramento. We've done it. All the council members here, including the mayor, have been up to Sacramento. We've sat and had discussions with them, and they act like we're crazy. And it's very, very unfortunate. I'd like to thank Mr. Scholl and Mr. Nick for coming up with your concerns as well. But thank you very much, Mayor.

Okay, we'll move on now to public hearings. Item number 16, introduction of ordinance number 2026-007, sign ordinance amendment PL 26-0057. I'd like to declare the public hearing open and ask for a report from our assistant planner, Chris Cortez, and our city planner, Andrea Gilbert.

Good evening, Mayor, members of the Council, and community members who have joined us tonight. This is a proposed comprehensive update to Title 16 of the Chino Municipal Sign Code to amend and reorganize multiple chapters of Title 16. The sign code is being brought about in response to a court case, Reed versus the town of Gilbert. This court case noted that local jurisdictions can no longer regulate the content of a sign and that regulations must be equal for all signs. As a result, the city sign code has been amended to eliminate any content related regulations. A majority of these changes were made to temporary signs such as banners and yard signs. In addition to amending the code to become content neutral, this update is also including the introduction of new sign types such as murals, creative signs, and electronic message boards. In the current sign code signs such as banners and yard signs, yard signs and more specifically real estate signs are subject to the most content related regulations. The proposed sign code will eliminate such regulations to comply with the new ruling of Reed versus Town of Gilbert. For instance, signs that are placed on yards will be categorized into three general yard sign types regardless of the content featured on them. They will still only be allowed in private property. Banners are also subject to this change. They will no longer be subject to content related regulations. This update will include the expansion of electronic message boards to city's larger commercial centers. Currently there are only electronic signs at the Ayala Community Park sign and at Chino Hills Ford. The update will include regulations in regards to location restrictions, height maximums, distance requirements, and illumination standards. Another new sign type being introduced in the update is a creative sign. A creative sign is a unique and innovative sign that does not meet sign code requirements but enhances a site's visual quality. This code will establish a form of review for these signs to ensure creativity standards are met, all while mitigating negative impacts. A mural program will be established to allow public art in the city of Chino, which is currently not allowed. Standards will also be put in place in regards to size, height, location, and materials for future murals. The program will also establish construction and maintenance standards for murals. The sign code itself is also being reformatted to be more user friendly. The code will use a number of visual examples of how to calculate different things such as sign area for different sign types and height. The sign code will also have its own glossary with terms and definitions for specific sign types and sign terminology. And they'll also be accommodated by example photos. That way anyone of any expertise for signs such as new business owners or sign companies are able to navigate our sign code. Staff perform outreach with the Chino Valley real estate professionals, the Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce, and the Building Industry Association of Southern California for input. It made suggested changes to the sign code. And on June 17, 2026, the Planning Commission recommended approval of the update with no changes. The project is exempt from the provisions of CEQA pursuant to sections 15060 subsection C3 and a notice was published in the Chino Champion to which no public comments were received. Staff recommends the City Council approve ordinance number 2026-007 adopting sign code amendment PL26-0057. This concludes my presentation. I will now turn it over to Fred who has a few words to add.

Thank you, just the one item I'd like to highlight is to the extent that a city allows Muriel murals the the one Cautionary legal note is a mural is considered an artistic item. There have been circumstances where a city has tried to prohibit what it considered some commercial advertising within a mural. I will get that word right. The example was where a mural was painted on the side of what was a smoke shop And it displayed items that were sold within the smoke shop. The city had demanded that that be removed because it was prohibited by the ordinance, which only allowed murals for artistic purposes and not commercial advertising. And the city was not successful because the argument was, well, happens to have some elements that the business that was on the wall where the mural was sold that did not take it away from the free speech protections of artistic design. So long-winded way of saying it is sometimes very challenging to enforce that distinction to the extent you prohibit commercial displays within a mural. Happy to answer any questions.

We do have one written request to speak. That's Stubby Barr.

Good evening, Councillors. I had an objection on a technical legal thing, but I'm going to follow up on that with staff. A couple of comments. One is, thank you, Mr. Galante, the The murals tend to lead to First Amendment arguments that things that we possibly might consider pornographic or obscene and that we can't do anything about. That's something the city needs to be on top of and encourage. Unfortunately, I think our hands are tied just like they are with the housing law. The second thing is staff reported that we have three electronic signs. We actually have five. Maybe staff is not aware, but there are two extremely large jumbotrons on Calvary Chapel. So thank you.

Fred, is there a way to prohibit sexually explicit?

Yes, there are court decisions where the courts have ruled that to be outside First Amendment protections. You know, Mr. Barr is correct. There could be a fine line, but to the extent that, based on community standards, it's considered obscene, sexually explicit, and the like, those have been upheld. in defense of First Amendment allegations.

And do we have those protections within this ordinance?

That is written in the ordinance.

Okay, thank you. That was the only request I had to speak. Is there anyone in the audience that would like to address the council on item number 16? Okay, seeing none, I will close the public hearing, turn it over to comments, council comments. Any questions or comments? Kurt?

Chris, does this mean with this new sign ordinance, you're talking about banners, does this now give a business like Moon Nursery the ability now to advertise their business with a large banner attached to their fence, whereas before they couldn't do that?

Yes, they could. And in this case, they wouldn't be restricted in what they can do in terms of content. Whereas with our current sign code, Moon Valley would be limited to having just a grand opening banner or a promotional banner. That's it. But with this current, or with this update that's before you, those categories will be eliminated. So they can have a sign that just says Moon Valley, could have their hours. We wouldn't be able to restrict the content that they put on the banner.

Great, thank you. And Fred, in reference to the pornographic style murals, in what you mentioned, the commercial advertisement type style, could that also be incorporated into that as well?

So, for example, the draft code before you already has, this is subsection, it's 16.02.070 on murals. Subheading D says murals shall not depict any crude, obscene, or derogatory content or imagery. So that is included. Okay, thank you.

Any other comments from council? Questions, Karen?

Well, the revision of this ordinance is coming straight out of a workshop that we hosted several weeks ago regarding the sign as well as murals. And at that time, we had a great discussion on murals. And it caused me to actually drive around and look at murals in the surrounding community. I'm actually in favor of all the revisions to the ordinance. I have reservations about the murals. There's often, I think the murals are fantastic, especially when they're done with the right intention, but I even drove to a couple neighboring cities and I'm like, I don't know about those murals for our community. There were just elements of it, Fred, that you said that were on the, you know, probably on the cusp of me saying, like, as a local resident, I don't know if I really enjoy that mural. And once we go down this path, there are going to be murals here on businesses that we would say, hey, that's not really what I think we intended with murals. The other part of it is I don't understand how the ordinance clarifies, like, once the mural goes up, like, How long does it stay there? Does it have to come down after a certain period of time that the maintenance? Could we go into more explanation of that? Please?

Yeah, I can touch on that.

Okay.

Yeah, so where the mural's placed, the property owner is responsible for maintaining it. At any point, we don't have a time limit on how long the mural can be up, but it does have to be properly maintained. If at any point the property owner wants to remove it, what was there previously, so if it's on a blank stucco wall, that wall has to be completely refurbished to its pre-existing condition. So if at any point an owner doesn't want the mural or if someone purchases a building and they don't want it, if they want to remove it, there is a regulation here that it does have to be refurbished to the original condition.

Yeah, that's not really my concern. My concern is like after the mural goes up in the sun and the weather, after it starts looking tired, or vandalized or something happens to it, what are the safeguards in place for us to require the person to refresh the mural so that it looks appropriate and nice?

Yeah, so a weather coding has to be applied to it, so we have that standard in to maintain it, to delay the fading that happens here in sunny Southern California. Also, for any weathering or damaging that occurs to the mural, it is written in here that the property owner is responsible for that maintenance.

Okay, so it would become essentially what you're explaining to me with our ordinance and with those standards, it becomes a code issue where we would have to pursue it from a code perspective and requiring the owner of the mural to either repair it, remove it, or somehow fix it, right?

Yeah, in this case, it would be the property owner who is responsible.

So let's say, for example, we have this mural up and somebody comes up and just vandalizes it, spray paints over it. So it's not weathered, the paint's not cracking, but it's got all kinds of graffiti over it. What recourse do we have at that point in order to make them either fix it, or how much time do they have to take that? I mean, because any vandalism that we normally have in the city, we try to immediately remove it. So if their mural gets vandalized, how much time do they have to fix that vandalism, or do we have anything in the provision that requires them to fix it, and is there a set time limit for it?

There is no set time limit outlined in the sign code for how long they would have to fix the mural. But if someone did come in and vandalize the mural, that would be considered maintenance to it that they have to keep it in its original condition.

And I will add, you have code enforcement provisions, so to the extent it's maintained as a nuisance with graffiti, et cetera, there is a noticing and times attached to those notices to address a violation of your code, which is the lack of maintenance. Presumably, the weather coding could allow some removal of the graffiti,

I say it's different. We have a graffiti issue right now, even on some public and private property. We have a team that's going to go out there and address it so much simpler than they are with a mural. They're not going to be able to do this with a mural. I mean, they're not going to be able to go out there and address graffiti the same way they do on the side of a mural. It's going to be different. And I would venture to say that the owner of the mural is probably not going to want our public works people to go out there and work on it. because of them considering it something artistic, right? And that's not designed to go out there and repair the mural like our public works guys.

I will add that the council can allow murals with some of these regulations or prohibit them altogether. So that's not a First Amendment problem. because you're not picking and choosing which ones are allowed. You're simply prohibiting them all. So that is an option for the council.

I'll apologize for throwing a wrench in it tonight, because I know we talked about it at the workshop. But I just wanted to make sure that this is something we want to do with the murals moving forward. Just wanted to discuss it.

I think I really encourage us to allow the murals. But I think if it looks like it's going to be problematic, then I would ask our staff to bring that section back to us.

Fred, this is probably for you. If a mural goes up and it has inappropriate content within it, who makes that decision on what appropriate versus inappropriate is?

Well, the first stage would be your staff, right? The staff would see it and it could originate from a complaint from one of your residents commercial property owners or tenants, that would then lead to an informal request to have the mural removed or the offensive display addressed. If the owner of the mural does not agree, then it turns into a code enforcement process. And that process could get all the way up to a court and then the judge decides on that. But certainly, as I mentioned, from First Amendment standpoints, the way a court would look at whether that is obscene, sexually explicit, would be based on community standards in the area. So that's how the judge looks at it and makes that determination.

Thank you. And I would agree with the mayor. You know... I think we should probably wait on the mural end of this and have staff take another look at it. We need to probably have more of a discussion.

No, I think you misunderstood me. I think we need to go forward with it. But if it looks like there's problems, bring it back. But I do have a question. Usually signs have to go through a permit and reviewed by staff. Is that going to be the same with murals?

That is correct. There will be a review process for murals as they go through the process. An application would need to be submitted. It would be reviewed by staff. We do also have written into the code that murals that are installed without the city's approval shall be deemed and treated as graffiti. So that would take care of the issue of murals that just pop up that haven't gone through the proper process.

So they would have to show rendering of what they're going to put up.

Correct.

Correct. Which then gives an approval.

Yes. Okay. I understand.

And we would look at the mural and ensure that it doesn't have the commercial speech in it to advertise the business at that point in time.

Right. Right. Know there are there are some communities like Claremont has some murals and then they're just beautiful and they you can take a Absolutely boring blank wall and make it look really nice.

Ontario's done it as well Any other comments questions comments questions sure Fred I have a question the so with the mayor's suggestion right not her suggestion but one of her thoughts was okay we go through with this and see what it's like if issues arise from this, from either the community standpoint, from the council standpoint, whatever the case may be, we want to bring this back, what does that look like? If we bring this back and we say, you know what, we want to do away with this, but the mural's already up, they've already gone through the process, the administrative process, what does that look like in terms of

That's a very good question. Any change to a code applies prospectively. So to the extent an operator secured all the appropriate permits, as Andrea mentioned, and put up the mural, that would be a legal nonconforming use once you change the code to prohibited. they redo the wall or it gets significantly damaged or becomes unsightly because they failed to maintain it. Unless one of those things happen, it can go on and on.

Just like it is now with signs. When we change it, you know, they're allowed, they're grandfathered in until they update it or whatever, and then they have to meet current standards.

So I guess what's going through my mind is what with a lot of smoke shops in our city, and there's a green leaf that goes up on the wall, and we change it, and that's gonna be up there for three to five years, six years, until whenever it wears out.

Well, I think what they said was.

But that's promoting drugs, so wouldn't that be prohibited?

Not just that, but I think what they said on the mural is that they have to be submitted, they have to be approved. If they're not submitted and they're not approved, it's considered graffiti, and then it comes down.

But I think what he's also saying, to this exact point, I went to a couple neighboring cities, looked at several murals that I thought were great, but I looked at several and I thought, oh my gosh, I wouldn't want that in my city, because it's gonna be considered art. And to your point, Mayor Luck, we just did all the boxes. A lot of people like those boxes. Some people think some of those boxes are hideous or ridiculous. So I like 90% of the boxes. There's probably a few of them I'm like, oh, I wouldn't have done that. That's what we're going to have to accept with the mural. They're probably going to challenge, well, our interpretation of something we would like up there and probably going to be allowed to do it because of a First Amendment right, not just because of an advertising right. So if we go down that path, we just have to accept that there will be murals and we'd be like, oh geez, not exactly what I thought we had envisioned for our city, but we're gonna have to, hopefully the majority of them would outweigh the ones that we're gonna get. We'll be like, yeah, it's not really what I wanted. I think the majority would be okay.

Okay, any other comments? Okay, then I would entertain a motion and a second.

I know no vote yet.

Yes, Kurt. There's a motion from Mayor Pro Tem Burton.

I'll second.

Second from Councilman Lucio. Our city attorney will read the ordinance first by number and title.

Thank you, Mayor. The City Council is considering before it ordinance number 2026-007 entitled an ordinance of the City Council of the City of Chino, California to adopt a comprehensive update to Title 16 signs of the Chino Municipal Code and amend and reorganize multiple chapters of Title 16 PL 260057 signed code amendment. And that's being read by title only and waiving further reading. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. Please vote. We're a short one. Okay, the item passes three yes, two no, the no being Councilperson Comstock and Councilperson Flores. Okay, next is item number 17, introduction of ordinance number 2026-008 and 2026-009. Comprehensive zoning code update, PL24-0146ZOA and zoning map amendment PL25-0108ZC to implement the 2045 general plan. I'd like to declare the public hearing open and request a staff report from our principal planner, Michael Hitz, and our consultant, Andrew Hill, from Deaton Badia.

Good evening. Good evening, Mayor and Council members. Before tonight are a comprehensive zoning code amendment, PL24-0146, and zoning map amendment, PL25-0108. These upstate are a culmination of efforts that have taken place over the last several years related to the 2045 general plan that was adopted last September. The comprehensive zoning code update is related to three primary goals. is for the ordinance to be implemented, to be in compliance with the recently adopted general plan, to help streamline the code to foster improved economic development and growth in the city, and to implement requirements under state law. On June 17th, the Planning Commission reviewed the comprehensive zoning code update and map amendments, and by a vote of six to zero, recommended that the City Council adopt the proposed map and zoning code amendments. Andrew Hill, the city's consultant with Diat Batia, is here to present the staff report. Andrew.

thank you mike and good evening council members um so tonight as mike said we're very pleased to uh introduce the uh comprehensive chino zoning code update for your consideration As you know, the general plan, the 2045 general plan was adopted last September. And under state law, the zoning code needs to be consistent with the general plan. So the city has prepared a comprehensive update to the code to ensure that consistency in parallel with the general plan. Additionally though, the update is an opportunity to modernize the code and make it more user friendly. And there are many elements in this update that's before you tonight that support business attraction and economic development. So all of the key concepts that are incorporated into the code were vetted with the community and city decision makers through the general plan update process. Additionally, between the fall of 2024 and early 2025, we held a series of study sessions with the planning commission to review initial concepts, get planning commission feedback on them and refine them for inclusion in the draft code. In January of this year, we held a joint study session with the planning commission and the city council also to provide an overview of the content and receive feedback. So all of the feedback received through that series of study sessions is reflected in the code tonight. Last month, the Planning Commission met and recommended adoption, which brings us to the hearing tonight. And so the objectives are to provide a brief overview of key components of the zoning code update, and if appropriate, for the Council to adopt the zoning code and related map amendments. I have a quick presentation to set things up. And there's a lot of information contained in the material tonight. And so what I'm going to do is focus on focus on five key areas. So the reorganization of the code, amendments to streamline the approvals process, amendments for buffering industrial and warehouse uses, parking requirements, and amendments creating new districts. Let me start with the code reorganization. So the current code is in title, the zoning code is in title 20 of the municipal code, and it follows a logical sequence and structure with a series of chapters. The proposed update to the code maintains much of the content that is currently working well, But in order to make it easier to navigate the code and find what you're looking for, we have organized it into a series of chapters under seven headings, which we're calling series. And so with the proposed update, all the base zoning districts are now located in the 200 series. All of the overlays are located in the 300 series. If you're looking for regulations and procedures for permits, well, those are in the 600 series. And this reorganization will also make it easier to maintain the code going forward and to add in new chapters without extensive renumbering in the future. Another important focus of the zoning code update is on amendments to streamline the approvals process for businesses seeking to start up or expand in Chino. The current code already permits a number of uses by right. And the zoning code update goes further and makes more of those uses permitted by right where they're allowed by the general plan and when the proposed project complies with the city's adopted standards. So, for example, if we think about a drive-through in a commercial zone currently under the code, that use would require a conditional use permit, even though it would be located in a commercial zone. With the zoning code update, that use would become by right, which would reduce the time to permit by about six months for the business, and save them time and cost for the business. And so in this way, this type of amendment really supports economic development and business attraction, makes it easier for businesses to set up and expand in Chino, and makes Chino more competitive with the surrounding cities. The zoning code update also incorporates some amendments for buffering warehouse and industrial uses from other sensitive uses. The amendments before you tonight implement Assembly Bill 98, which was passed at the state level in 2024 and came into effect in January of this year. This law sets statewide standards for new and expanded warehouse and industrial uses. The intent of the law is to limit air pollution and truck traffic near sensitive uses like residential neighborhoods, schools, playgrounds, nursing homes, and hospitals. The AB 98 requirements mirror what some other communities in the Inland Empire have already put in place. And they go beyond what Chino had previously considered with the infill industrial development overlay that was considered but not passed a few years back. So AB 98 applies to new and expanded logistics uses that are within 900 feet of a sensitive use as measured from the loading bay. And the areas where the law would apply are shown on this map that I have on the right of the screen. So the industrial areas where industrial uses are permitted are shown in black. and the yellow is residential areas, and where there's a yellow hatch over the black, that means the industrial area is within 900 feet of a sensitive use and where the AB 98 standards would apply. In these areas, the logistics facilities must comply with specific standards for the design of the facility and also for screening and buffering from the adjacent sensitive use. There are additional requirements for larger facilities of 250,000 square feet or more. Those facilities are required to construct EV charging stations on site. And there's also zero emissions requirements for forklifts and other off-road vehicles that might be used on the property. Again, in the interest of preventing air pollution. Additionally, the zoning code amendments before you tonight address parking standards for shopping centers, for restaurants, and also for residential neighborhoods, and I'll walk through those one by one. starting with the regional shopping centers. When we're talking with the regional shopping center owners, we heard that they feel over-parked. And right-sizing the parking standards for these businesses can help facilitate redevelopment in some of the older centers that were identified in the general plan. The parking strategy for shopping centers can also promote shared parking and optimize dimensions for drive aisles and make more efficient use of space. So shared parking is a concept, a strategy that's been used throughout the US for 20 years or more. It allows for shared parking, it allows for shared uses rather, it allows for uses to share parking spaces between businesses with different time of day uses. So for example, office uses are typically, the peak demand for parking in office uses is typically between nine and five. But restaurants, the peak demand might be in the evening. So there's an opportunity for those businesses that have different time of day needs to share spaces. And overall, the amount of parking provided would be less, and so it costs less to build, but there would always be sufficient parking to meet the peak need for those individual uses. Now, Chino's current code allows for shared parking, but it has a requirement that agreement be recorded with the county that has proven to be a deterrent because it runs with the land. So that requirement has been removed. from the code and instead we've replaced it with a requirement that anyone proposing shared parking do a parking study to establish the appropriate parking ratio and that that study must be approved by the Planning Commission. And if it is, then shared parking would be allowed. A final part of the parking strategy for shopping centers involves reducing parking ratios as a way of rightsizing the requirements in order to help facilitate redevelopment of some of these older shopping centers. And so the requirements would be reduced as follows, as shown on the screen, for smaller centers of 300,000 square feet or less the requirement would be three spaces per 1,000 square feet of space. And for larger centers, it would be 3.33 spaces per 1,000 feet of space. And now these ratios are in line with what other communities in the area have recently enacted. The zoning code also includes some amendments to restaurant parking standards. Currently, the code requires one space per 100 square feet of seating area, but the amendments would change that to one space per 150 square feet of gross floor area. And that's in the case of standalone restaurants. There would be no parking required for small restaurants of 3,500 square feet or less. The point of doing that is to try and provide an incentive for small locally owned businesses.

Andrew, your slide shows greater than 3,500 square feet.

Yes, that is incorrect. It should be less than. So the point is to try and provide an incentive for small locally owned businesses. So it's wrong on my slide, but it's not wrong in the code. And then for drive-throughs, currently the code allows one space per 100 square feet of seating area, and that would be changed to one space per 175 square feet of gross floor area with appropriate queue. And again, these standards are in line with what other communities in the area have enacted. And then the availability of parking in residential neighborhoods is a topic that came up again and again in outreach to the community. Large families and multi-generational households mean that parking is often in short supply in neighborhoods. And so a strategy to address this could be to reduce the amount of front yard landscaping and allow for nicely designed front yard parking. We have some images of what that could look like. Now, Chino's current standards for front yard landscaping are very generous. In the RD1 and RD2, it's a minimum of 70% of the front yard must be dedicated for landscaping. And in the RD4.5 and RD8, it's a minimum of 60%. If that was reduced by 10%, you could allow for one more parking space in the front, again, with generous landscaping and nice design. And so, for example, how this plays out, if you look at this example at 6348 Ortega, it's in the RD 4.5 zone. the actual as-built amount of landscaping is 74.7%. If you reduce that by 10%, you still have 67% of the front yard is landscaped, but you have one more parking spot. And so the idea here is to maintain generous landscaping standards, but allow for additional parking to ease those neighborhood parking pressures. And then finally, the zoning code update also incorporates some amendments to address parking supply in multifamily developments. Guest parking amount, the requirement would be increased from one space per 10 units to one guest parking space per seven units. And this is based on a recommendation from the Planning Commission. And then the applicability of tandem parking is also expanded in order to optimize the use of space and provide more parking for multifamily units. And then the final part of my presentation deals with amendments to implement new land use designations from the general plan. you will remember that the general plan created four new land use designations. The residential mixed use, the boulevard mixed use, employment mixed use, and downtown. The downtown zone is not included in the amendments tonight. That's because it would require a successful Measure M vote. The text has been prepared, and in the event of a successful Measure M vote, it would be available for the city to adopt. but it's not included at this time. And then the employment mixed use, which would apply in the preserved specific plan area, is not included. That will come before the council this fall as part of a package of amendments to the preserved specific plan. The two new designations that are in the amendments tonight are first the residential mixed use. regional mixed use, pardon me, and this implements the RMU designation from the general plan which applies in two specific areas, north of the 60 freeway in those larger regional shopping centers and also in the Majestic Spectrum Center. The intent, it's intended for uses that will attract attract people from all parts of Chino and from the surrounding region, and including retail, restaurant, commercial, recreational, public facilities, and professional offices. Multifamily residential development is allowed only on sites where the city has already adopted the mixed use and affordable housing overlays. So no change there from what's already been adopted.

Is your slide off on this as well?

I think yes. I may have used the wrong symbol. So the permitted FAR ranges from 0.3 to 1.0 for smaller parcels and from 0.3 to 1.7 for larger parcels. And this is quite a generous amount of FAR. It's permitted on a sliding scale. And so a property owner in one of the regional shopping centers can get, at the lower end of the scale, the 0.3 buy right. But if they want to progress towards the higher end of the scale, they would need to provide community amenities such as outdoor dining spaces, possibly a kid's play lot, something that can activate the space as well. So the concept is to allow for greater non-residential FAR in exchange for community benefits that can enliven the space. And along with this, the code includes development standards with requirements for ground floor transparency, for the orientation of entrances to promote walkability and visual interest in the development. It allows for varied roof lines, for facade articulation, and it requires the installation of shade structures, walkways, and trees, all in the interest of making these desirable places to be. And then the second new district is the Boulevard Mixed Use, BMU. Again, this is implementing the BMU designation from the general plan. And it applies on some centrally located segments to shopping centers on centrally located segments of Riverside Drive and Central Avenue south of the 60 freeway. The intent here is to promote a Main Street mixed use, if you will, and allow for a range of uses including retail, restaurants, commercial recreational uses, museums, clinics, professional offices. Again, Multifamily residential is allowed on some parcels, but only where the city has already adopted the mixed use and affordable housing overlays. No additional application of the overlays here. Similarly, the permitted FAR ranges from 0.3 to 1.0. for smaller parcels and 0.3 to 0.7 for the larger parcels, and the same process would occur. A property owner could get at the lower end of the scale by right, but in order to get towards the higher end, they would need to provide those community amenities intended to enliven the spaces and make them desirable places to be.

And again, the symbol is incorrect.

Correct. Yes, unfortunately. And for the associated development standards here again, they provide for non-residential ground floor transparency, the orientation of entrances to promote walkability and visual interest within the development. They allow for varied roof lines and facade articulation for visual interest so you don't get big boxy developments. And they require the installation of shade structures, walkways, and trees. And along with this, there's a series of zoning map amendments that implement these changes. This map is showing the former designation and what it's been changed to. And so that brings us to the recommended action, if appropriate. Staff recommends tonight that the council adopt an ordinance implementing the text changes and then another ordinance making the map change, the associated map changes as well. And so tonight would be the first reading of the zoning and then second reading would be on July 21st. And if adopted, the code would go into effect 30 days after that on August 20th.

And before we get into public comment, as mentioned in the staff report, staff had received some email correspondence and phone conversations with various property and business owners, most related to the map changes. I spoke with them to clarify how the map changes would impact their property. During those interactions, their information was clarified with them. In addition, three letters were presented to the Planning Commission. Those are attached to your staff report. One from the Sierra Club slash Freight Communities Action Coalition regarding truck routes and the general plan. That was presented to the City Council back with the general plan, and that's already been adopted, that new truck route map. If there are any questions related to that, our traffic engineer is here to answer any questions. In additional hours received from the City of Pomona, Ada Khan, the Deputy Director of Office and Economic and Business Affairs for the City of Pomona, addressed those comments to the Planning Commission, as well as Pomona Councilmember Nora Garcia. Both appreciated staff efforts to minimize the impacts of industrial development to the residents of the City of Pomona and wanted to make sure that both cities continue to work together in the future. Ms. Garcia also submitted a letter to you tonight, the follow-up letter that is at your dais. The letter indicates that the City of Chimino and Pomona have a good relationship and wishes for the City of Chimino to take the residents of Pomona into consideration when working with developers on projects on their shared boundaries. of the two cities to minimize the impact to those residents. As you saw, at least for logistics, many of those AB98 standards would apply to our border properties on the border of the City of Pomona and Chino. An opposition letter was also received from a resident, Robert Nigg, primarily related to affordable housing overlays and other code revisions that was presented to the Planning Commission. Mr. Nigg also submitted a follow-up letter to the City Council with a summary and clarification of issues raised at the Planning Commission hearing. There were a few issues of concern raised by Mr. Nigg in the past, as you may recall, related to the mixed-use overlay district standards. One was related to the allowance of public storage buildings to be constructed in the mixed-use overlay districts. This proposed amendment has removed that allowance so public storage will no longer be allowed in the mixed use overlays. Another was to reduce the minimum density for affordable housing projects in the overlay districts from the required 26 units to the acre to 20 units to the acre. This change would require discussion and consultation with the state's Department of Housing and Community Development, HCD. As mentioned, it's very difficult to get them to discuss this with us. We've tried continually as well as our housing element consultant. And today we have not received a response on that. A third request was for the reduction of building height in the mixed-use overlay district. The updated ordinance did include a reduction of height from 50 to 45 feet with the allowance of an increase in height to 50 feet if the building was to have a sloped roof. Talking about a vertical mixed-use building. These heights would be needed if there was a commercial use on the first floor of a vertical building. In recent correspondence with Mr. Nigg, he had brought up a valid point that if a purely residential building was to have no retail component, It should match the height of the building in the affordable housing overlay, which is 40 feet, up to 45 feet with a sloped roof. This is a reasonable reduction for consistency. Staff is asking that the council, when action is taken on the ordinance, that this amendment be included, reducing the height of residential-only buildings in the mixed-use overlay to 40 feet with the allowance of 45 feet designed with a sloped roof. Staff will make those amendments and bring that with the revised ordinance at the second reading. A third letter was also received late this afternoon from Cal HDF, a nonprofit housing advocacy group, with some concerns related to the accessory dwelling units, the ADUs, portions of the proposed amendment. They had mentioned that they appreciate the city's efforts in updating the code to be consistent with state law, but have made some interpretations that they believe need additional amending. Stats have reviewed the recommendations and do not fully agree with their interpretations. Stats have been in correspondence and meeting with HCD regarding various required amendments to the zoning code, including ADUs. and was asked by ACD to, once we revise the ordinance, to send that to them for review. It seems best to let ACD weigh on the code amendments to inform the city if any additional amendments are needed. One important note is that 20.503.010 of the ADU section indicates that this section is intended to be consistent with state law, but in the case of any ambiguity, state law would apply in the interim. If HCD was to find that the amendments are needed, we will make those amendments next year, along with likely other housing legislation that require code amendments. A one-eighth page ad was placed in the Chino Champion on June 27th, 2026, and the city sent out information on social media platforms. Additionally, a 10-day notice was mailed to all property owners who are subject to the proposed zoning map change. This notice exceeds the legal notification requirements and is adequate in scope for this project. As far as the environmental is concerned, the city of 2045 general plan was previously prepared and the IR should say for the 2045 general plan was previously prepared for this project pursuant to section one five zero eight zero through one five zero nine seven of the California environmental call quality act sequa. The guidelines were certified. This guy was certified by the Chino city council on September 2nd, 2025. The proposed zoning ordinance, amendment, and zone change do not include any changes to the project, and no new significant impacts were identified. Therefore, the project was within the scope of the EIR adopted in connection with the city's 2045 general plan, which adequately describes the activity for the purpose of CEQA. So additional environment review is not required. And as mentioned, staff recommends that the council adopt the 2026 ordinance 008, I'm sorry, ordinance number 2026-008 for PL 24-0146 and approve the introduction of ordinance number 2026-009 for PL 25-0108 for the zone change, the map amendments. That includes staff report. We are here to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you, Michael and Andrew. As noted, we have received a couple of written correspondence, one from Mr. Robert Nigg and another from the California Housing Defense Fund. I do have two written requests to speak. Bob Nigg did also ask to speak. Bob, do you still want to speak? Of course.

Okay, of course.

I was hoping you'd say your written was enough, but that's okay.

No, and I understand. The state doesn't allow congestion to be a safety standard for traffic, but it does allow line of sights, crosswalks, signals. Those are the things that we need better objective standards in the code. They're not there. And I understand, you have a 1,619-page packet tonight. There's no way you can go through the details that are necessary. However, there are some very important issues I wanted to discuss, and I'll try to go through it as quick as possible. I think it's a little bit premature, and until you really understand the effect of these things, I think it should be continued. The reduction of parking from up to 50 to 75% insured parking is unrealistic. That should never be allowed. It's too subjective. You need better objective standards. You can't accept a parking study from the developer. That's how we've gotten into these messes. The parking. There was a state standard under 65915P. It's only applicable if there's a 10% low income or a 5% very low income. The Eden development was developed with 9%. The city did not need to and there was no state mandate for reduced parking for that development as it currently stands. Under the Bankers Hill 150 case, if they hit 10%, they're going to get unlimited waivers. So half the zoning code that we have now is out the window. But that's why these objective safety standards become critical. And I went through and listed as many as I could that should be, not all of them are going to fly. There's a very high standard bar that the state has set, but we could enforce some of them. The zoning code, you said they contacted HCD to reduce it to 20. That was what HCD approved when we had the housing element submitted. We changed it in a two week period. Why? Developers. They won't respond. What you do is you put it in a draft zoning code, send it to them under law that's required under 65585, and demand that they give you a written finding. That's the law. Verbal contact has no legal bearing. If you send it up to them, you gotta go through a process. But all they can do is say no and we're where we're at. What if they say yes? We can reduce the density in some of these developments because there's 91 of these overrides districts, 47 are mixed use. It could happen any place else. The California Supreme Court ruled against the city who joined in the appeal on the Redondo Beach case. There's a very strong argument that allowing a developer to subdivide the property and put 100% commercial on those other lots would be unlawful. That's another issue that should be put into the zoning code. Make our HCD give you a written finding. There's no need to hide behind it. Well, they won't answer. We have technical reasons and laws we could have HCD enforce. The density, why we exclude residential density from the FAR, the four area ratio, from these developments, that's not what the state requires. There's no mandate by the state. You can't blame it on the state. That's the city's choice. We should put the residential back into the FAR. That's what the state normally has. An aggrieved person, this is what really gets me upset. Unless you live within 300 feet of a project, you don't have the right to appeal under your change in the zoning code. I've cited numerous state cases, even the Supreme Court, that's unrealistic. It's too subjective. When you put in a high density development in the city, the whole city, blocks around it could be affected. Every citizen should have the right and that should be stricken out of there as quick as you can do it. The RMU, the regional mixed use and the Boulevard mixed use, they're combined with are mixed-use overlays. About 50% of our 47 mixed-use overlays are now within the regional and the boulevard mixed-use. That's another issue. The regional has a five-story, 60-foot, five-foot tall thing. But if it's on a property that's already zoned under our regional housing needs, You gotta put a minimum of 26 should be 20, or if it's just residential, 26. Bob, you're almost out of time. Okay, one last thing is the state does 65585 is what you can use to have the state give you written findings. You shouldn't be passing this ordinance and then submitting it to the state for approval. If it's denied, you're subject to all kinds of penalties. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer. Thank you, Bob.

Thank you. I also have a written request to speak from Mr. Curtis Nixon. Something about zoning change lighting timing.

Thank you for giving me the time. I'm the business property owner for the corner of Central and El Prado, three and a half acres. We have four buildings there, and I'm addressing the changes. I don't see that it's been addressed for our availability of continued use with the current usage. We have medical centers on my property. I have two-story office centers there. We employ a lot of people. My own business is there. I employ about 70 people there. My tenants, I have 10 separate tenants. And that property continued use under the current stipulations or definition is really not addressed properly. It's being rezoned as M1. and our current use could be affected in the future. I did send in a letter. I got that addressed. They did not give me an adequate response to say that that would be addressed as either continued usage, modification for continue. It could impact my financial investment there. I got about $14 million invested into that property. It's the first property of the entrance to the city. I take a lot of pride in that property. I make sure that it is at the highest level of condition. We also have excellent parking there, which leads to my next problem. You guys made approval of the changes on Central heading south to add two turn signals or turn lanes. That impact has put families and lives at risk. To exit our property at the end of the day, it's almost impossible because of adding the additional lanes turning in from heading south on Central, on Del Prado, my employees, my tenants' employees, and the individuals that are using the businesses there are at risk every single day.

That's the southeast corner, correct?

Correct.

And I think it's supposed to be right turn only coming out of those driveways, correct?

No. We have right to make a left turn. It's the only way that we can exit and head to the north side of the city. It's always been that way. What got changed was The adding two turn lanes from the left side as you're heading south on Central, so that extenuated the traffic condition. The other thing is the traffic timing for the lights was changed. I addressed that with the traffic individuals who managed that. They said that had not changed and it's absolutely been changed since the car wash and the gas station was there. There is no gap in the lighting for a right turn lane coming from the north side to the two lanes coming in. It's consistent. The traffic... is just constant. There's no way to exit that property. And we did a study with our tenants, and roughly 50% of our employees, my employees or my tenants' employees, have and were always making left-hand turns So it's not we've changed It's the design changed. So those are my concerns I did ask and we looked at it if the timing of the traffic was of the traffic lights just had a gap in between and allowed for spaces in between but it's not being addressed and we've already had in the last three Roughly about three months, we've had three traffic accidents coming out of our property there. It needs to be addressed. It's putting my family's at risk, my tenant's family's at risk, my tenant's herself, and so I would like that to be addressed. It does not require a major change.

Linda, would you please look into that? We will have Steph look into that.

All right. Thank you. I appreciate you guys hearing me.

Those are the two written requests I have to speak. Is there anyone else in the audience that would like to talk to us about item number 17? Okay, seeing none, I'll close the public hearing. Oh, come on up, sir. I didn't see you.

Hi there. I'm Daniel McDonnell. I wanted to talk to you a little bit about what you guys were talking about with the state, how they have your hands tied on everything regarding the developments. And part of that I see is that they're taking away your discretion as a governing body. You represent, and we voted to bring you here to do what's best for Chino, and I know that's everything you guys are trying. But one of the issues I run into is the fact that we go to the Planning Commission meetings, we come to these meetings, and everyone's hands are tied. So what's the point of having all this if it just basically becomes a rubber stamp? to do everything, allow any developer to do whatever he wants in our city. And to me, one of the big problems is you lose your discretion as a governing body. There has to be something in the law that allows you to say, well, then what's the purpose of having our city council if they could not reject the project because our attorney says that there's very minimal, narrow guidelines. Well, What's the point of doing all this? Why don't we just tell developers, come in, here's the prize. Go ahead, build whatever you want.

Welcome to our frustration, Mr. Medrano. We wish we could change the legislation in Sacramento, and that's up to the voters to do, is to find out how your representatives are voting and change it. Right, but it's not just that.

I think part of it has to do with the fact that you guys as a governing body have some legal... uh requirements or obligations to people i remember when i worked in la county the board of supervisors was trying they were trying to take something away from them and they said that is our discretion you can't take away our discretion so i don't know they're drastically changing our ability they do not want us to have power and they're little by little taking away all local control Right.

It's horrible. It's heartbreaking. It is. Changing communities. Yeah.

But that's all I have to say. I just think that it's a travesty that, you know, we elect all of you. We understand you want what's best for Chino, just like all the rest of us do. But, you know, to have all that taken away, I mean, let's just not have these meetings or anything. Let's just... Whatever they want, put it in.

Well, we believe in continuing to fight, but we're not going to get the city sued for millions and millions of dollars either.

I understand that.

We need to appeal to people like you and other residents to help us appeal to Sacramento and get other people in office that will listen to the people.

Yeah, well. So I'll give you an example. I went up to Washington D.C. and I met with some of our legislators on the federal level. And I asked them, why is it so different when it comes to the state of California government as opposed to the federal side? And they said the reason for it is because it's so close between the control of the House, the control of the Senate. And it comes down to if you have so many assembly members that are on the House of Representatives side that do things that the community doesn't want, and they lose their seat, they lose the majority of that, which means they don't have twice the budget, they don't have twice the people, and they lose power and prestige and committees. So that's why you'll see people like Maxine Waters, who during 2020 was defunding the police, and now she's turning around giving money to LAPD because it was unpopular. but she doesn't want to lose her seat. So then I asked them, well, what's wrong with California? And they said, well, California has a super majority. The majority of the people in the legislature are Democrats, so they can't lose. So they'll pass whatever they want because it's a one-party system, whether it's popular with the people or not, but they have no way of losing because everybody continues to vote for them. So there's no reason for them to change what they're doing. They just continue on even if you don't like it. So that's the majority. So that's why it's important that if you voted for those people, then you need to go there and you need to talk to them and you need to tell them how upset you are. And if they continue to not vote in the direction that you want them to vote, then you vote them out of office. But they've rigged the system so much that there's really nothing we can do, unfortunately.

I would also add, Mr. Medrano, that I can assure you that if we just set up here as a body and just said, hey, developers, do whatever you want, you really wouldn't like the developments they would bring to our community. And you don't have to go very far to see. I mean, you can just go Benson Avenue between Phillips and Mission and look at some of the developments going in there, you know, the lack of setbacks, the lack of some amenities that are happening to some of those projects and I think that is this governing body's responsibility is to make sure that we're holding people, even that those are the rules right now, that we're holding them accountable, that they are obeying what few rules that we have left to make sure that we can get the best development possible. And there are opportunities with our developers where when we come to the table, they have made changes for us. Now, probably not all the changes that we would like to have, but to Mark's point, there is... so much housing law that's changed at the local level. It's so hard for us, but we do have a responsibility up here, like you said, to be at the table and still fight and try to get changes to go in the opposite direction sometimes, and that's the responsibility of the people here, our staff, and our local lobbies and legislators. That's why I'm also involved with Cal City's because that's one of our largest lobbies at the state level is for local control. It's very frustrating. That pendulum has swung a long way, and we can hope at one point that it will start to swing back the opposite way. But we do need help from people to state their frustration with the changes in the laws, particularly to housing. So, no, you don't want us to disappear because we want to try.

But according to the attorney, they're almost impossible.

Well, some of the things are impossible, but there are things in our code that we can still do. There are certain requirements that if they're going to build in this direction, amenities and different things, landscaping and... One of the things we have to deal with is like the Surplus Land Act, and we have a lot of surplus land here with the state, right? And we are actively, that's one of the reasons, to Mark's point, that we've tried to take control over that area and master plan it, because we don't certainly want the state to come in and just say, hey, we're just going to build what we want down there. So that's one of the things that we're up here fighting for every week, every night, and listening to other people to give us suggestions for ways for us to get the best development that we can.

Thank you. I appreciate all that. Thank you.

Yes, sir.

My name is Mike Gutierrez. Just a quick question. Have we sent a written request to the state to get us a response for these approvals?

We have made many, many written requests to the state for many different things when it comes to housing issues. Okay. I don't know if there's a particular packet or not. Building issues? Well, different building issues we have written, and we've applied, we've appealed to the regional housing issues. You want to address that a little bit?

So I just want to clarify that the opportunity to make those requests really pertain to the housing element, not the zoning code. So requesting HCD to weigh in, that's when it applies when you're considering approval of a housing element per the government code section that Mr. Nix cited.

which we've done several times.

We did, and HCD ultimately responded, and that's how you received certification of your housing element.

Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else who would like to address the council before I close the public hearing? Can I close the public hearing and ask for any other council comments? Curtis?

Mike, I do have a question in reference to HDF's, Cal HDF's letter to us regarding ADUs. You had mentioned that we don't fully agree with what they're citing as far as the law is concerned. Can you talk a little bit more about that as far as did we do some research on what they're saying versus what the law actually states?

I'm happy to respond.

I know you directed that to...

to Mike Hitz, but I've reviewed the letter. Obviously it just came to all of us this afternoon, but I totally disagree with them. Legally they're wrong. They are saying that we cannot impose any size limitations on ADUs. That's inconsistent with the very wording of the government code, if you look at section, well, just as a reference, government code section 66321 specifically allows public agencies to impose limitations just so long as it doesn't exceed the amount that's stated in state laws. 850 feet is an authorized amount. So they mentioned that our charted Proposed section 20.503.030 somehow violates that. I'm sorry, 20.503-1 imposes these impermissible size limitations. That's directly contrary to the government code. They also say that the city can allow two ADUs and a JDU. That's inconsistent with government code section 66.3.23 that says on a single family lot, state law guarantees the right to at least one ADU plus one junior accessory dwelling unit. That's exactly what your code is proposed to do. there's a different numerical standard if it's a multi-family property, but your code seems entirely consistent with that government code provision, so I disagree with it.

Okay. Thank you. And in reference to our zoning code, I believe Mr. Nigg had brought up something about a a traffic report over in the area of Mountain and Riverside. Mike, can we do an amendment to that? He cited something about SB 330 that would allow us to go in and tweak that a little bit. Can we do that? Can we go out and revisit that?

I don't know if that's necessarily related specifically to the zoning code amendment. That request seems to be related to the project that went before the planning commission. I think we'd have to reevaluate that. My understanding of SB 330, it's kind of a point in time when they submit that application. So when they did the analysis, that was the point in time when that becomes the standard of what they review. Traffic studies aren't necessarily an objective standard. They can be very subjective, because there's a lot of interpretation in there. So with that particular, that's really with that particular project. I'm not sure how that relates, ties in directly to the zoning code amendment. I believe the developer could be asked to do that change, but I don't believe they're required to.

All right, thank you very much.

I don't have any further questions.

I have a couple of questions. Mike, when it comes to the borders between us and Pomona, I know we've got some meandering lines that split lots. How did you address that within the zoning?

Well, anything that was brought in, so something that was brought in with the recent annexation that we did up in that area, The line is a little wonky because some of it does go into the middle of some buildings on the east side of the channel. That's a whole process that we need to coordinate. We've already spoke with the county about in the future working through how we move that property line probably to the center line of the channel at some point and then we have to transfer those properties both to the county of, Los Angeles and to the city of Pomona.

So that still has to be done.

That's something that has to be done in the future down the road. More likely that would be applicant driven from the property owner himself who has desired to do that. Speaking with, this has come up a little bit, speaking with LAFCO, that's something that would likely have to start with the city of Pomona. They have to go both left, goes right from both counties. Right, right. It's complicated. Yeah. As you can imagine. But why that happened, who knows?

Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, you have a building that physically is in two different counties. It makes no sense.

But we did coordinate when we went through that with the police department that because all of the buildings are served by the city of Pomona, Pomona PD responds, Pomona Fire responds. If for some reason something is on the Chino side, And later down the road, there's an investigation that our PDMA had to get involved. But the initial emergency response would be from Pomona.

So we're still working on cleaning up that boundary. Right, right. That might take some time. Question also on your slide on AB 98. The zones near the manufacturing industrial zones near residential, those hashed areas, obviously you can't comply with the 900 feet setback.

So how do you? Well, it's a 900 foot. The residence is within 900 feet. But there's additional setbacks. There's landscape buffering. But you can't change what's already there.

So how do you address those older areas? It's just the area that is encompassed within the protections of the new rules are those sensitive uses, including residential, within 900 feet.

So if something changes, then you comply with the 900 feet, but on existing...

No, but it's not a setback, it's just, it's a measurement to figure out which of those properties are subject to the additional protection.

Right, so if someone was to come in in those properties office, say Philadelphia, there's a larger building, I think it's like industrial equipment right now. If they were to build a brand new building, they would have to apply with all these AB 898 requirements if they did logistics. If there's something new. If there's something new.

But right now, current, there is no changes. Correct.

Those would be considered legal non-conforming. They could remain as they currently operate.

Okay. Any other questions from Council?

Yeah. In reviewing Council Member Nora Garcia's letter, she talks about 9th Street and East End on the border of Chino. And she says... She talks about us doing a data center. I don't think we've ever talked about no data center going in that area.

We've not received any applications that I'm aware of for any data centers coming in. We did, in fact, add in our code that if a data center was to come in, it would require a development agreement. And we had to go through a whole process with that. But as of today, there's no data center that I'm aware of that's come to looking into the city.

And then she talks about the trucking that she wants the trucks that start in Pomona to be able to travel through Pomona, but for any of our trucks that they want to charge up $1,000. I mean, do we impose a $1,000 fine on Pomona trucks coming through? No. Is that even realistic, what she's saying?

I think all we would do is when they have to have a trucking congestion management plan, we would put that information in there that, hey, by the way, Pomona may charge you if you go through their city, but I'm not aware of how that would actually be implemented on their side.

I don't know how you could implement that.

Yeah, I don't think we can enforce something that's a requirement in another city.

And then... I think it was Bob Nick that brought up that we're now imposing a fee for somebody to appeal a project.

Yeah, that's for the appeal from going from Planning Commission appeal to City Council. That was added with the fee schedule last year.

We didn't use to charge residents for appealing. That might be something the council wants to come back in the future. Because that doesn't make any sense that our own residents would have to pay a penalty. I agree.

I believe that's contained in the user fee resolution so the council could revisit that.

Then do we need to have that brought back?

And that's all I have.

OK. Chris, do you have anything?

Yes. Thank you, Mayor. So a couple of questions. Another issue that was brought up was the aggrieved person definition at 300 foot. Is that?

No. I can respond to that. The code section that I just had up doesn't leave it to just, yeah, it's section 20.602.130. It says any applicant or any interested person may appeal. There's nothing that limits that appeal to those within 300 feet.

I don't believe the issue was regarding appeals. It was regarding notices when there's community

I think what he's referring to is the legal requirement that you have to notify people within 300 feet of a project. That's always been objected to. And our dilemma is then how far do you go out? Do you go out one mile, two miles, the whole city? 300 feet doesn't seem to be... in a lot of issues, but then again, who makes the decision on how far do you send the notification out?

I would think that you would just do it within that neighborhood. I mean, if the neighborhood goes beyond 300 feet, but it's geographically within a couple of major streets, you should notice those folks.

Well, but then if it's like down on Schaefer, you'd go all the way north probably to the 60 freeway. Then I think we should do it. So what do you call a neighborhood? I don't know how you define that and be objective.

If I'm not mistaken, though, when the projects came up from Riverside and both of them, the one on Mountain and the one on, I think, what is that, Magnolia, they had community meetings, correct? So they noticed people. We put it on our website. on our Instagram accounts and our city websites, there was gonna be a community meeting regarding these projects. So I mean, it wasn't like they showed up on the planning commission, with these projects, it was actually community outreach where the developer came out to meet with the communities on both projects. Correct. And to have dialogue with the community. So I don't know if somehow or another we need to message that better or if we need to advertise that in the Champion or if we'd already do that, but I think the developers, before they bring projects like that, they generally meet with the community, just like they did with any major project that I've seen so far.

Incidentally, I'll say the 300 feet requirement is consistent with state planning law. Can we go beyond that? Certainly. I know the city has with certain projects. There's obviously a significant added cost because you have to then produce and mail out several more pieces of mail.

Maybe that should be the subject of a workshop. that we can just openly discuss it and figure things out and look at examples and see what would better suit the community. Because we're not gonna decide it tonight, obviously. So Linda, can you put that on a future workshop? Anything else, Chris?

Sure, one last question. And I believe you addressed this already, Fred, and to our team. But another issue that was raised regarding the health and safety Were traffic thresholds, signals, and visibility requirements, none of those are health and safety?

Andy B. Yeah, so I know the speaker, I believe it was Mr. Medrano, mentioned that the city's hands are totally tied. My comment earlier was that the city's hands are tied in not being able to disapprove a project unless there are those very narrow findings that are required under state law, but all of these other issues, traffic mitigation to the extent that a traffic study shows that certain mitigation measures are appropriate that are normal public works conditions, turn lanes, et cetera, landscaping, design, color, those kind of things are fair game. So my comment was simply on the ability to fully deny a project.

We can make changes, obviously, or requests to have developers change certain things.

Correct.

If they're reasonable and we can apply certain standards.

The orientation of the building, so long as you're not asking them to remove allowable residential units, a lot of the other components are fair game on design.

Can I just add, I thought the question was congestion, crosswalks, line of sight are health and safety concerns.

Right?

So that's what he's asking. And are those health and safety concerns? According to everything that Fred is telling us and HCD, those are not health and safety concerns. So that's where it's hard for us to say, OK, yeah, line of sight, we believe, yeah, that's a health and safety concern. But they don't consider that a health and safety concern.

That's correct. It doesn't meet that specific criteria the specific adverse finding criteria Sufficient to deny a project because there are potentially blind spots and things of that nature Chris I mean Curtis Mike I'm looking at our Chino zoning code update Chapter

20-202, specifically 040 development standards. I thought you had mentioned that our maximum height now, and this may be in a different zoning district, but this is our mixed use zoning district. It shows that our maximum is 65 feet. Can you explain? Because that sounded like that was higher. You had mentioned 40 and 45 feet. Correct. Yeah.

So, no. So the regional mixed use is a purely commercial designation. So that would be, and it's pretty consistent with what was previously in our code. That would be like a five-story office building could go in there. When you bring in the overlays, you either choose to do the regional mixed use and build that design commercial, retail, restaurants, and all that, or if you come in with, say, the mixed use overlay, then you have to comply those standards. You can't conflate the two. So if you're doing a mixed use overlay, the maximum height, if it has a first for retail, for example, would be 45 feet, up to potentially 50 feet. Not 65 feet, because that's tied specifically to the regional mixed use zoning. Okay. You kind of have to pick and choose. You can do one or the other, but you can't conflate those things. Okay.

Is there any other questions? Karen?

Thank you, Mayor. So the issue with the appeal fee, I think, will come back to the council. I guess my question on that as part of the presentation when it comes back to the council is I think when our residents appeal, they're already paying their taxes for the public service, so we should reconsider that. I agree. I just don't know. I don't know that I agree with it at the developer level because I think the intent, the legislative intent of charging that fee for the developer is... the staff work and time that it comes into for that that's appealed by a development project versus a resident where a resident is already living here and paying taxes for their council and their staff to perform their jobs. I guess my question would also be, With the issues that were brought forward by Mr. Nigg, it's hard for me to articulate up here without taking a closer look to the things he's stated, which truly are, because I think what we're trying to accomplish is that most of our zoning mirrors state law in our housing element. but which are more properly addressed in housing element issues, which will, because we just certified ours, will be coming up here in the next probably two years again or so, or really zoning issues. So I guess my question is, how do we distinguish between the things that he's brought forward? Do we articulate that no, this is a housing issue, a housing element issue that should be brought forward to HCD? Or do we say no, this is a zoning issue, an ordinance issue in our general plan that we should reconsider? How do we do that? Or is that just inartfully stated? Do I need to be more articulate about how?

Well, I think some of the questions that Mr. Nigg brought up related to like building, like fire access and corner cutoffs and some of those things we tried to address through the design review to make sure those projects aren't going to be.

Yeah, and I was going to say, I do know that we try to take that line of sight stuff and different things in design review, right? I know that that occurs.

So my point is that we do our best to work with the developer to try to get the best project out of them that we believe is consistent with all those safety issues.

Yeah, but let me give you an example. And they're mitigatable. Yeah, let me give you an example, like the parking. This is a double-edged sword here. A lot of people... because of our own street sweeping ordinance, because of density now, are going to enjoy being able to get like an extra car into their driveway, like you gave the example in the 6300 block of Ortega. Because of our standard at the time, when we built differently, they have a lot of grass, so if we were to allow them to pave that one side of it, to keep them into that 65 percentile range or 55 percentile range, they can now add another car there, because they probably have another driver there, because people are living multi-generationally in homes, and not have to water as much grass. So there's time where this can benefit us as a community, but there's times where it could also be frustrating and exasperate it, so I don't know how we best implement some of those things moving forward. Like on Ortega, it would probably be great for those guys, because they're gonna be able to widen their driveway and put another car in there, but in certain areas it could also be very frustrating. I guess what I'm saying is, is that something that's the general plan issue or is that a housing element issue, like something of that nature?

I think some of the challenges that have been mentioned is that, you know, with the waivers and the other things that the developer can come in with that can really kind of minimize our objective standards that we've tried to apply.

Okay, so at this point, I guess I say, do we wait and look at all these things? And you say, you come back to us and say, okay, council, like all these things that we're talking about, like when it comes to parking this and that, these really are things best dealt at our next review of the housing element, right? And these things, like, these things that he's addressed because we're asking ourselves the same thing. Like, no, these are things that are now best dealt with in our, our ordinance, right? Our general plan, right? So that, that, that's my suggestion.

It seems quite likely with, you know, the next cycle ends in 2029. We're going to send an RFP at some point probably next year to start soliciting, uh, consultants to help us with that. We have no idea what SCAG is going to do when they send us numbers out to us. So we want the public to get greatly engaged in that process and, so that they can chime in on the challenges that we currently face related to the mandates that are put on by the state and those allocations that are put down on us. So some of those will likely have to readdress development standards, the objective standards in those overlays, or we may not even have an overlay, maybe something completely different. that would require us to address those specific standards that, you know, because of the mandates from the state.

So Mike, I'm asking for your help right now. I'm asking like, hey, you say no council, like some of the things that he's brought up tonight, these are probably, some of them are probably best addressed in like the housing element, but do we take a look at some of the things he's also said and go back and say, are these also before we adopt the ordinance, do we look at the ordinance? And you're shaking your head no, Fred, but I'm just having a conversation with my staff member. I know you can chime in just a second. Like, you know.

I think it's important to always remember that the zoning code is a living, breathing document. You know, we amended tonight. In three, four months, we say, you know what, something's not working here. Let's come back and look at that again. Let's readdress that. It's a very intense, trust me, I've looked at this a million times, complicated, A CODE AMENDMENT. WE BELIEVE THAT IT'S GOING TO WORK WELL IN THE FUTURE. THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT ARE UNTESTED, SOME OF THE RACIAL SHARING AND SOME OTHER THINGS. BUT WE ALWAYS BELIEVE THAT WE TRY TO WRITE A CODE THAT WORKS BEST FOR THE COMMUNITY.

There's no perfect code, right? It's the interpretation, the application of it, right? You know, that's why I gave the example of parking. In some places, to his point, it's going to exasperate a bit. In some places, it's actually going to help it, right? I think it just depends on where you're at and what you're doing. I'm sorry, Fred, if you want to chime in now, feel free to.

No, I think the only thing I was going to just emphasize, which I think has already been stated, is that The predominant purpose of the zoning code is to make it consistent with that housing element that you have had, that you've approved and have had certified by HCD. There is also reorganization and some updating and fine tuning, but that is the predominant purpose of the zoning code. Long-winded way of saying really that those wholesale changes that Mr. is raising, I think can be discussed.

I can get my mind around that. I mean, because a lot of general department policy, like at the police department is based off of state law, right? So that we can stay in compliance with state law and different things. I can't get my mind around that explanation of it. I was just asking where it's best addressed. Either is it best addressed now in the ordinance, or is it best addressed some of these concerns at the next cycle of the housing element? So that really, I guess, probably is a better stated question. That I could agree with.

Thank you, Mayor. Okay. With that, I'm going to close the public hearing.

You know, Mayor, since the Council's already started to deliberate, reopening the public hearing, I think, really creates a procedural problem.

Okay.

No, Bob.

All right. So I would request a motion and a second verbally. Hello, Council. Hello.

I'll make the motion.

Okay, there's a motion from Council Member Lucille. Is there a second? This is weird. Okay, I'll make the second. And then we need to ask our attorney to read the ordinance by number and title only. Also, we have the noted amendments that Mr. Hitz brought up.

Yes. Matters before the council are two ordinances beginning with ordinance number 2026-008 entitled an ordinance of the city council of the city of Chino, California amending provisions of the zoning code title 20 of the municipal code of the city of Chino, PL 24-0146 zone ordinance amendment and ordinance 2026-009 entitled an ordinance of the city council of the City of Chino, California, approving Zone Change PL25-0108, amending Ordinance 2010-06, which established the zoning map by changing the designation of the properties identified herein, and that those are being read by title only and waiving further reading. Thank you.

Okay, please vote. We're missing two. Okay, the item passed is for yes, one no being Chris Flores. We're gonna have a short five minute recess for necessities. So we'll reconvene in five minutes. We're back in our marathon. We're now on item number 18, Introduction of Ordinance 2026-005, Subdivision Ordinance Amendment PL 26-0001 and Ordinance 2026-006, Preserve Specific Plan Amendment PL 25-0032. declare the public hearing open and ask for a staff report from our senior planning, Kim Lee, and our assistant city engineer, Jesus Placencia.

Good evening, Mayor and members of the City Council. The Preserve Specific Plan was originally adopted in March 2003. The applicant, Chino Preserve Development Corporation, is requesting amendments to the preserve-specific plan, including private street sections to better facilitate single-family residential development, development standards for self-storage and RV storage facilities, and various cleanup revisions. The request also includes an amendment to Chapter... 19.06.040 of the subdivision ordinance to allow private streets within single family residential areas in the preserve specific plan. The proposed amendments do not change land uses, densities, or the maximum numbers of permitted dwelling units. On May 20th, 2026, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on the preserve specific plan amendment. While the preserve specific amendment requires a recommendation by the Planning Commission, the subdivision amendment does not, as it is a legislative action. It was presented to the Planning Commission for informational purposes only. The Planning Commission voted seven to zero. to recommend approval of the preserve specific plan amendment to the City Council. The first component of the amendment relates to private street sections. Gated communities are permitted through the applicants development agreement. However, the city's current subdivision ordinance does not allow gated single-family subdivisions with private streets. To address this, the applicant is requesting an amendment to the subdivision ordinance to allow private streets within single family neighborhoods in the preserve specific plan area. On March 23rd, 2026, two private street sections were presented to the city streets and infrastructure committee. The first street section includes parkways, sidewalks, and parking on both sides of the street, as shown in the street section on the left. The second street section allows for the removal of the parkway and sidewalk on one side when lots side or rear onto the street, while still maintaining parking on both sides, as shown in the street section on the right. As initially proposed, both street sections were intended to apply citywide. The committee supported the first option, emphasizing the importance of sidewalks on both sides of the street. due to concerns from past projects. While the second option was reviewed, the committee did not support applying it citywide. Instead, the committee specified that if these street sections were to move forward to city council, that these sections only be permitted in the preserve specific plan area. noting that the preserve specific plan is a master plan community with design characteristics distinct from the rest of the city. To implement this, amendment to the subdivision ordinance is required as private streets are currently limited to commercial, industrial, and multifamily developments with limited exceptions. The proposed amendment would allow private streets within single family residential areas in the preserve specific plan. In addition, the preserve specific plan is being amended to incorporate the two private street sections that are before you to be used in single family residential areas. The second component of the amendment relates to development standards for self storage and RV storage facilities. As part of the applicant's development agreement, these uses would be permitted with the approval of a special conditional use permit within the low density residential land use designation at a specific location along Chino Corner Road across from the California Institute for Women as shown in the map before you. Because the preserve specific plan does not currently include development standards for these uses, the amendment establishes development standards for these uses consistent with the city's zoning code as shown in table four before you. The amendment also includes minor cleanup and clarification updates throughout this specific plan. Staff has determined that the project is within the scope of the previously certified environmental impact report and does not result in any new or more severe impacts. Staff recommends the City Council approve the amendments to the subdivision ordinance and the preserve specific plan. That concludes my presentation. I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Heather, we did have a written request to speak for Mr. Stubby Bar, but I see he's no longer here. Is there anyone in the audience that would like to address the council on item number 18?

Good evening, Madam Mayor and members of the council. I'm Pat Loy, here tonight representing the applicant, Chino Preserve Development Corporation, and we've been working with staff for months on both these matters and reviewing the specific plan. There's a number of cleanup items and items for implementation that are also being done as well, but I'd be happy to answer any questions of either matter in front of you tonight. Okay, thank you, Pat.

Are there any questions of Mr. Lohan? No. Thank you. Well, regular comments we'll do after the public hearing. Thank you.

Thank you.

Anyone else in the audience want to address the council on this item? Okay, seen. Then I'll close the public hearing. Mark?

I think when this came, I think what the concern was was the elimination of a sidewalk on one side of the street because of the... The feasibility and the ADA component is what Mr. Barr was talking about. If you only limit a sidewalk on one side and not have sidewalks on both sides, then you're limiting the individual from having access. So I think that was one of his big concerns. And really, All our streets that we currently are trying to develop have sidewalks to make it accessible for everybody to walk, not just on one side of the street. So I think that's, you know, I don't know why we would accept in certain areas to only allow one sidewalk. I think sidewalks need to be implemented on both sides. And if gating this makes the streets smaller, then I think that's something that we need to look at, because I think we need to keep the streets big enough, especially in lots that big. you're gonna have people that are gonna wanna have boats and RVs and what have you and when the streets are that small, it's gonna make it more difficult for those people to maneuver within those streets to try to back up their boats or their RVs and you're gonna make it really difficult for people, the only people that in the preserve are gonna have estate-sized lots and you're going to curtail their ability to utilize those lots to store, because the RV parking is really not designed for them. The RV parking is designed for the other folks with smaller lots, but you're gonna hamstring these people. So that's my only concern about making these streets smaller and eliminating sidewalks in certain areas. I think if that's what we're gonna be looking at, then I think we should probably look at not gating those streets.

Do you have any comments about that?

MR. I think the typical section without the sidewalk on one side, as Kim mentioned in her report, it's a limited exception, so staff has the discretion to determine whether it's allowed in certain areas, and I think the idea is to look at how the site is going to be laid out once they have subdivisions moving forward and determine if there's a particular situation along a certain street where there really isn't like a public benefit to having a sidewalk on the opposite side of the street, such as when there's no homes fronting that side of the street. So I think it's something that we would look at on a case by case basis. So that's kind of the idea behind having that typical section.

So you would not do the no sidewalks on anything fronting a house? Is that what you're saying? Correct. Or businesses?

Correct.

So it would only be like vacant property or next to a storm drain or something like that?

Right. I think that's the idea. There's no reason for anybody to walk to that opposite side of the street if it doesn't affect walkability and the whole pedestrian network. then that's when it would apply. But again, we would have to look at what they're gonna submit in terms of how the streets are gonna be laid out to determine whether that particular street section would apply.

Could that be a requirement that they not be adjacent to homes or businesses? Could that be written into it? That it would be mandatory, you would have to have sidewalks by homes and businesses?

Well, I think, so when we first got on the council, I think Karen's first ask was, there was a walkway that we had no sidewalk on. And staff said, well, there's no homes there, so people don't walk there. And then we ended up doing a capital improvement project, and the city had to pay for it, because we didn't make the developer pay for it. And there was walkability there, but just we decided not to put sidewalks in. So this is one of those things that we're trying to get away from. And I'll give you an example in my homes. I have a horse trail, which is all dirt. And there is no ADA component to that because the dirt drops and the driveways are a little higher. And so it's not complying with ADA. And eventually we're gonna have to go in and fix that. Unlike my previous home, I had both a sidewalk and a horse trail. So only one side of the street has a righteous sidewalk and the other one has a horse trail. So I think we need to get away from saying that, well, it's not feasible, people aren't gonna walk there, and we start making that determination instead of just always implementing sidewalks and not forcing people to only be on one side of the street.

So, Mayor, I'll repeat what I said in the meeting. I am not a fan of this. I can point out several areas right now, and Mark is correct. That project was actually on Norton, south of Philadelphia, where we actually took out a sidewalk and just left it. without a sidewalk during a development. Every place we've done this, I can point out, even to the south side of Ayala Park, where we probably could have put a sidewalk where there's people walking on the north side of College Park Drive, any time we do this, we say to ourselves later, hey, how come we didn't put the sidewalk in there? Or if we go down, we're trying to get connectivity of a sidewalk all the way from East End and Schaefer all the way to Central Avenue. So what I did say in this meeting was I don't like it. Any place we've done it, I think we regret it later on. But if you guys want to go, and this is where your infrastructure committee is looking out for the rest of the council, hey, I'm not a fan of it, but if you want to bring it to the council and let the council decide as a governing body about what we should do. We will bring it, but I think we should construct sidewalks, particularly in this development. I don't think it's a good idea to make it just specific to here. In any place that we have done it in the past, I think we have regretted it. So I think it's just kind of us reliving something we've tried to get away from, as Mark had said. In good faith, I said, hey, it's just the two of us. My preference would be this, but we should ask the council.

Chris, input?

Thank you for the presentation. I tend to agree with what Karen and Mark are saying. This is almost seems like we've been here before, right? And I just don't want to see us running into, again, the situations that were brought up earlier and Yeah, I don't know I I guess I would want to hear what you know curtain the mayor have to say but at this point yeah again, this is not something that Has served the city well in the past So I've seen several areas throughout the city and

THAT ONLY HAVE ONE SIDEWALK ON ONE SIDE OF THE STREET AND NOTHING ON THE OTHER, AND THEN A DEVELOPMENT SOUTH OF AN AREA THAT DOESN'T HAVE A SIDEWALK. WHY WE ALLOWED THAT TO HAPPEN, I DON'T KNOW. IT MAKES NO SENSE BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE TO GO BACK IN AND PUT IN SIDEWALKS TO ALLOW THAT WALKABILITY. IN THIS PARTICULAR INSTANCE THAT I'M THINKING ABOUT IS THERE'S A SCHOOL THE KIDS HAD TO CROSS THE STREET AND THEY WALKED DOWN A COUPLE OF BLOCKS AND THEN IT WOULD TURN INTO AN AREA THAT DIDN'T HAVE A SIDEWALK SO THEY'D HAVE TO CROSS BACK OVER AGAIN. And walk down that side of the site was a major safety issue. We've corrected that. But I think right now we need to get ahead of the problem and require a couple of sidewalks on each side of the street. It if something goes on with one side that you still have the other side open. And we're not going to have to deal with it later.

Well, it sounds to me that this is not going to get council support. So rather than just voted down, I would recommend that we send it back to staff.

If I may, I think, um, when we were at the infrastructure committee, we heard the concerns about the typical, uh, section without the sidewalk. Uh, but I think it wasn't necessarily clear to us whether or not when we brought it before the council, to omit it, and I think from staff's perspective, we would be okay with omitting it and passing it without that being included, but with having the rest of the specific plan amendment approved along with the ordinance revision.

This isn't the only issue. This is the issue presented on the specific plan amendment. There are other issues here to the amendment, right?

So what he's recommending is just to separate out this issue with the sidewalk on one side.

So the other issue is how much smaller are the streets going to be? And since these are now going to be estate-sized lots, are we going to have issues with homeowners trying to park large vehicles, RVs, or back boats up as a result of us allowing these streets to be smaller?

So the private street section on the left has the same dimensions as a public local street with 60 feet of total right-of-way and 40 feet of roadway pavement.

So then my question would be, are all the streets in this private community going to be that size? That would be the idea, yes.

Can we get up here?

Yeah, reopen the public hearing.

Yes, thank you. My suggestion, to answer your question, Council Member Lucille, yes, the width of the streets are actually wider than your typical public street. It's 40 feet curb to curb. 36 feet is typical in the city. And initially we were tasked by the city to go meet with the fire agency to talk about private street. And that was one of the requests, that we have a wider street so that we can allow two cars to park, get the fire engines through. Even though it's larger than the pavement width of a local public street. So those are wider in this. My suggestion would be is just drop out that one section with the sidewalks one side. Our only thought as planners, sometimes when you lay out communities, you always try to get streets, we call them double-loaded, where you've got houses on both sides. Sometimes you end up with a parcel and you don't have a house on one side. So that was the thought. But if it's concerning, I just say just scratch that out. And if the other proposal is acceptable, then adopt that one private street standard.

So on the display, you would delete the one on the right, where it's the sidewalk on one side?

Is that what you're suggesting? Yes.

Yes. Yeah. So you would have the reduced parkway, but you would have sidewalks on both sides? Correct. You'd have the picture on the left, but not the one on the right?

But can somebody in the staff report refresh my memory about the gating in the RV parking with the general cleanup? So if we're making it with the sidewalks and the gating, I can't remember, Mark, what we talked about in the gating in the infrastructure committee with the gating of the private streets. I can't remember the issue.

Do you guys recall our concerns that we had on that particular meeting.

I think it was related to, are you referring to concerns over safety access?

Yes.

Because I think the gating, did we determine with the safety access that the gating would actually create a little, I think a safety concern that's worth discussing as to entry, ingress and egress to the development? Wasn't that one of the things we talked about?

I'd also like to mention that the applicant's development agreement allows for gated communities. So this is just one of the mechanisms for them to move forward to be able to do private streets and be able to gate the community.

Well, I think the development agreement allowed for gated communities and the ones we've already built. But I think this requires us to say that this community can be gated. I don't believe the old DA said that this community was going to be gated. So although it allows it, our ordinance after the fact changed it to where no private streets were allowed, so that's why it's before us. So that's some of the concerns that I think we had was because of the emergency response, the in and outs and those kind of things.

And I agree with you, Kim. I think one of the things that came up in that meeting was by us gating it I thought we were changing emergency ingress and egress to the location somehow that we talked about in that meeting. I just can't remember the specifics of it. Do you remember the specifics of it?

I do not.

Because I did say, I'm like, hey, I'm not so sure I'm a fan of that gating if it creates a response issue. I do remember talking about that. I just don't remember the specifics of it.

Mayor, council members, so what I remember from the meeting, I believe it had to do with because of the block was down there, the assurance that it wasn't one big gated community. You were concerned and recommend that Pat and his team put a roadway public street in the middle and have it not one it would have access from. a centralized spine, so to speak. And I believe, I don't recall what you said after that, but I remember it was explained.

Yes, that's exactly it. We talked about it have... Two different gates. Two different gates, yeah, two different communities, yeah. So is that part of the design still?

Is it broken up into two communities with different entry points?

That would be, when we come back in with the design, a concept that we had, yes, there would be two different... communities, but we would look at that with staff. You might have multiple gates depending on the number of homes and access points and so forth. But part of the reason I think we're here is that staff's right. We did have the ability to gate communities subject to city's approval on the projects in our DA. And then in 2019, the code changed, which said you can't do private streets in single family neighborhoods. Well, if you gate a community, it's got to have a private street. So that's what's brought us back here. And discussion with the staff, they said, well, what you really ought to do is come back and amend the municipal code and see if council's okay with that and then that led to why don't we get approved in our specific plan amendment a street section a private street section that we know we could design with rather than so i recall that now pat and my question was to the city attorney

can we do the privatized streets only specific to the preserve and the specific plan? When we do it to the preserve, will it automatically apply if another developer in the city, if you remember this, now wants to gate another community? And I do remember us talking about that, like, hey, are we sure that by changing the specific plan that we won't automatically be required to do it in another section of the city now? That was one of the issues.

That is correct because you're not amending the zoning code. You're amending the specific plan that only applies within the boundaries of the preserve.

Okay.

I also will note that, pardon me, the development agreement states that future authorizations for gated communities or private streets for single family residential development shall be governed by the then applicable provision of the Chino Municipal Code. required you to adopt this code, but that the concept was we were going to leave it up to the discretion of the council as to whether or not you would permit it.

So that's what it was. It was those three things.

And then I might add.

The access from the middle of the community mayor, the sidewalks, and then whether or not the gating of the private street would require us to do it for developers in other areas, which we said, hey, is worthy of discussion with the council.

And I think that's, so I think initially when we looked at it, it was one gate in and then one gate out. And then when we talked about it, they talked about two separate, basically two separate neighborhoods, both with different entry points with a public street giving access. So I just want to make sure that if we approved this ordinance and it is gated, that for some reason it doesn't go back to the original plan where it was just all one neighborhood with one way in, one way out, that it is approved, but it's approved to make sure that there's a public street that gives access to both neighborhoods like we discussed.

Well, I don't think we're approving an ordinance, right? We're approving a specific plan amendment so we don't have to change our ordinance to do that, right? Is that correct?

No.

We're not changing our ordinance.

There are ordinances, but they're specific. No, we do have.

Council Member, Council Member.

One second, Pat. We do have private street areas where there are issues. Right. The Hampshire Village off of Riverside Drive has a horrible problem with their private streets, getting anything enacted when it comes to illegal parking and that kind of stuff.

Which is what brought us here, Mayor, which is why we said, hey, listen, I think we should be careful with this or have been, you know, but.

I should clarify, you're also changing the subdivision ordinance, not the zoning code, but that is the component.

But that was restricted just to the preserve, correct, on the code amendment?

Correct. That was the question we had in the infrastructure .

So yeah, the way the subdivision ordinance works with the specific plan is the ordinance, subdivision ordinance says private streets may also be permitted within single family residential zones of the preserve specific plan area. provided the adopted preserve-specific plan authorizes them.

My only other question, Pat, why do you guys want to gate this particular community?

And why private streets?

Well, because we think there's a market for that, people that want larger homes. Part of it is the proximity of the parcel close to the California Institute for Women. So that's something we've been studying. We think there's a marketplace of people that would like a gated home on a larger lot. And so that's what's brought this up in the future areas.

Well, I know in Hampshire Village, they have a horrible problem with enforcing towing cars and stuff like that because it's private. I know they have a real issue with that.

That being said, I mean, you guys are developers. You know better than we do. We presently have houses in different parts of town that actually are bordering a much higher level yard than the women's facility. But the women's facility is, I don't think, poses as much of a threat to the community. I just don't feel that way. That being said, I guess I would make the motion to adopt the specific plan amendment with the caveat that the sidewalks are paved on both sides of the street through the community. You have no problem with the private streets? I was conflicted about it in the meeting. That's why I said, hey, I think you need to bring this to the rest of the council. Not that we don't anyway. We bring everything. But I said, I think this is a subject for larger discussion with the council. We went down this path before again with privatized streets. This is why we said, hey, it hasn't been good for us in the past.

And to be honest, all our half-acre homes that we have are larger. None of them are gated.

I can't think of one that is. There's one in the county in Sullivan's Ranch outside of the city.

Okay, I'll reclose the public hearing. Any other council comments? Any other council comments or questions, Chris? No? Okay, so you have a motion that modifies. I'm going to rescind my motion. Okay, so before us, we have actually an ordinance that allows sidewalks on one side. and the other changes. Is there, are there, is there a motion and a second to approve the ordinance as it stands?

No.

So this item is not going to pass. So do we send it back to staff to rework it? I'd recommend that.

So I guess the question is, you could simply remove the diagram that authorizes no sidewalks on one side tonight. You can send it back with perhaps some direction or I'm not sure it's clear what staff is supposed to do.

Well, I don't think we are either. The mayor's trying to prevent the applicant from having to start over if there's an opportunity for them to go back and maybe articulate more clearly the need and bring it back. I think that's the option the mayor is offering to the staff and the applicant, but maybe I'm wrong.

unless the council wants to take an action to remove the option of having a sidewalk on one side and then pass this item. If there's not support for that, I would recommend sending it back and letting staff work with the applicant to see if they can come up with something that I would say the infrastructure committee would support coming back to the council.

And if that's a recommendation, I'm assuming not continuing it to a date certain, but actually re-noticing it?

Yes.

Okay.

Is that clear as mud? Okay, we will move on then.

Is there, I'm sorry, so is that a motion to direct staff to do?

Do we need a motion to direct staff to do that?

Yeah, I would recommend it.

Okay. There's a motion from Mayor Pro Tem Burton. Is there a second from Councilman Lucio to send it back to staff for rework and also coming back to the infrastructure committee before coming back to the council? Okay. Yes? Okay. Please vote.

Oops, if I change it.

Okay, and that item passes unanimously, so it goes back to staff. Item number 19, City of Chino Public Financing Authority, 2026 Lease Revenue Bond. Staff report this, or I first want to open the public hearing, and our staff report will be provided by our Director of Finance, Kim Sowell.

Should I open the public hearing, Mayor? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am, I will. Thank you, Mayor. Mayor, I announced that the Chino Public Finance Authority meeting is now called to order. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you very much.

Okay, and the public hearing is open. Kim?

Thank you.

Good evening, Madam Mayor and members of the City Council. I may be the shortest presentation for tonight's meeting. On April 21st, 2026, the City Council authorized staff to acquire a property located on 132726 Street. The acquisition was not previously anticipated and therefore was not included in the budget. Staff had proposed using the general fund balance or exploring other alternative funding sources to reimburse the general fund. Since then, staff has worked diligently over the past few months to bring the 2026 lease revenue bond financing package for council's consideration this evening. We have engaged the following team of professionals as part of this effort. Ansel Galvan as bond council, KNN public finance as municipal advisor, and Raymond James as placement agent. The 2026 lease revenue bonds will be a direct purchase transaction where a single lender will purchase the entire bond, which is the appropriate method of sale for a transaction of this size and repayment term. Raymond James, acting as the city's placement agent, distributed a lender RFP to seven commercial banks that are active in this line of business. and the city received six responses. BMO Bank had the most favorable interest rate and financing terms, which I will talk more about it on the next slide. The Bowery will fund the acquisition of Sixth Street site, fund certain soft costs associated with the effort to develop the site, and fund the cost of issuance for the financing. The revenue bond will be a fixed rate of tax-exempt transaction with a repayment term of 15 years, and the city's senior center will be the facility subject to the financing lease. As you can see on this table to the right, the total sources of $3.2 million equals the total uses and the true interest cost, which is the blended cost, borrowing rate is 4.25%. The average annual payment are approximately 291,000 per fiscal year and total payments are about 4.46 million. The bond is subject to early redemption at the option of the city starting in year three at the various premiums shown below. And then At year six and beyond, there will be no premium. So basically what this is saying is that on year three, the city has the option to pay down, to pay off the debt early. But in doing so in year three, you will see that we have to pay a 3% over the balance of the principal. However, in year six if we wait that long, we can pay off the bond with no premium or no penalty. This table shows the payment schedule. Principal is paid annually starting October 1st, 2027, and interest is paid semi-annually starting October 1, 2026. The interest rate is 4.25 fixed, and although we note here that the transaction contains provisions where the interest rate could be increased upon either an event of default or event of taxability. So both circumstances we think are very unlikely. So if the city defaults for any reason, the interest rate may be increased. This is the timeline, shows the actions we are taking tonight, which is to hold a public hearing and also for the city council to approve the resolution for the bond issuance. And then next week we anticipate that the escrow will close on Thursday, July 16th. This concludes my presentation and our recommendation is that the City Council hold a public hearing and adopt Resolution 2026-048 authorizing the execution and delivery of the various documents that are attached to the staff report and to issue the bond in an amount not to exceed 3.5 million, authorizing the execution of the necessary documents and certificates and related actions. And likewise, that the City of Chino Public Financing Authority Board of Directors adopt Resolution 2026-01, executing this similar action and authorizing the execution of necessary documents, certificates, and related actions. And this concludes my presentation.

I have no written request to address the council or the financing authority on this issue. Is there anyone in the audience that would like to address the council or financing authority on this issue? Seeing none, I'll close the public hearing and open it up to council comments. Chris, do you have any comments?

No comments, Mayor. Thank you.

No comments. Karen? No, thank you. Okay, then I would entertain a motion and a second, please. I'll make the motion, Mayor. Motion from Councilman Flores. I'd like to second, Mayor. And a second from Councilperson Comstock. We don't need city attorney, do we?

No. I just have mine and Chris's screen completely black.

We can do a voice roll call vote.

Okay, voice call vote then.

Councilmember Lucio?

Yes.

Councilmember Flores?

Yes.

Councilmember Comstock? Yes. Mayor Patem-Burton? Yes. Mayor Ulloa?

Yes. Okay. Madam Chair, would you please adjourn the Public Financing Authority?

Yes, thank you, Mayor. The Chino Public Financing Authority meeting is now adjourned. Thank you, Mayor.

Okay, and we will go back to the regular council meeting and on to item number 20. Under new business, issuance of bonds for community facilities, District 2023-1, Sage Cedar. Staff reports this evening, once again, will be from our Director of Finance, Kim Sao, and our consultant, John White.

Thank you Madam Mayor. I will turn this time over to our Municipal Advisor John White from Urban Future to present this item.

Good evening Madam Mayor and City Council. It's my pleasure to present this CFD bond financing. This is for CFD 2023-1. The district was formed in June 6th, 2023. It's part of the specific preserve plan. The bond proceeds will be used for the acquisition and construction of certain public improvements. We'll give you more detail later. The district is not a pay-go district. You may remember we've had this conversation on other developments, which is to say the developer will receive reimbursement from the bond proceeds and will not receive in the future surplus tax revenues. So it's not a pay-go. What they get, the bonds will be sold and what's available out of the bonds will go to the developer and that's it. So it's not pay-go. Any questions on that? There's some other districts where it's a different arrangement. Real quickly on the developer, it's TriPoint Homes, IESD. It's a California corporation. It's an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of TriPoint Homes, a Delaware corporation, and it's incorporated in their stock trades on the stock exchange. This particular development is 188 single family detached condo residential units consisting of two developments, Sage Court and Cedar Row. As of June 1st, 125 of the 188 units had been sold, so that's roughly 66, 67%. Of the remaining units that have not been sold, 63 of those are owned by the developer and 19 are in escrow. We're in July, so I imagine even more in escrow, but that's as of June. So things are the same, if not better, since June 1. Here's a visual of the district. It's bounded by Pine and Bickmore Avenue and the East Preserve Loop. I'm sure you're familiar with the area. Real quickly on the bond structure and financing, the estimated amount of the bonds is $11,295,000. This will be a 30-year bond, which is typical with the other CFD bonds that the district has sold. And there'll be principal payments due in September 26 to 55. The debt service on the bonds are paid from special taxes that are levied on property owners within the district. There's a funded cash reserve. If for some reason there's delinquency and there's inadequate collections in a given year to pay debt service, there's a reserve that's equal to maximum annual debt service. So you always have a year in reserve. I'm not aware that any of your bonds have ever hit the reserve, but it's a security feature that investors like. So that's... Now, while that reserve is in place, you will invest it in an interest earning account, and the interest earnings will be applied towards that payment. So while it's an added cost, it is working for the taxpayers. And the bonds are, I remind you, just like the other CFDs you've done, it's a non-rated CFD. due to the high property owner concentration. You may recall last year we did a PFA refunding. So some of these new money, new construction CFDs, they mature, they sold to a variety of property owners, their security features become stronger and down the road you can refinance them because either interest rates have gone down or they're a higher security and you can get a better rate. So that could be the future for this bond issue. Legal and compliance issues. These bonds are sold pursuant to the Melrose Community Facility Act of 1982. The district's financing team includes Bond Council, which is straddling Yucca. They're not here, but the municipal advisor and the underwriter in the room, and I'm the district, the city's municipal advisor. We do a variety of things. There's a multitude of documents we look at, but one of the really important ones is the preliminary and final official statement. It's an offering document that are provided to investors, and we make sure that it's accurate and allows investors to make an informed investment decision. We also have a continuing disclosure agreement. The OS provides view of the district at a point in time the continued disclosure obligates the city to provide annual information so that investors see how the district evolves and develops over the 30-year life. We had talked about the bonds being secured by special tax revenues. They're levied relevant to a rate and method of apportionment, which was adopted in June 6 of 23. You see the matrix here. Basically, the larger the unit, the more that you pay. If you just look at residential property, less than 1,400 square feet. The rate would be $4,135 per year, going all the way up to greater than $2,600, which would be $4,765 per unit. Any question on that?

Just shocked. I mean, the cost of the unit plus property taxes plus this.

This is a projected use of funds and infrastructure. So this is how the bond proceeds will be applied. This was prepared back in 2023 when the rate and method were being prepared. So these costs have probably gone up. But again, the bonds will be sold, we'll maximize the proceeds, and that and only that will go to the developer. But this is a list of the costs that were done back in 2023 when the CFD report was being prepared by Webb Associates. All right, debt service and financial sustainability. The bonds are secured entirely by special taxes levied in the district. The city's general fund is not pledged to the repayment. It's not pledged, there's no moral or implied obligation. The appraised value of the property, so we, an appraisal assessed the, or valued the property, and they determined, as is right now, it's worth $105 million. So if you look at the $11,295,000 amount of bonds that you would sell, there's a value to lien of 9.32 to one. We're not planning that the bonds won't be paid as scheduled. We're not planning on having to sell the property. But this is an indication that there's sufficient value to secure the bonds. If this was one to one or two to one or three to one, you go, oh, that may be a little aggressive. The higher the coverage, the more secure it is as far as there's sufficient value. And while people don't regularly plan on not making a payment, the higher value you're motivated to pay because you don't want to lose the ownership of that highly valued property. Again, we mentioned there's a reserve fund and there's a foreclosure provision where if property owners don't pay for a while, the city will initiate foreclosure to capture those taxes. The debt service is approximately $710,000 per year for a 30-year life. These are fixed-rate bonds, just like on the other lease revenue bonds. When the bonds are sold, you'll know with certainty what the debt service is. That's not going to change, regardless of what happens to the interest rates. And the repayment ratio is under 2 to 1. It's 1.89. That's taking the $21 million and dividing it by the 11 to 95. So it's a low repayment.

Question.

Yes.

You mentioned if the payment's not made the city would foreclose?

Oh, sorry. So good question. So we would hit the reserve fund so that the investors would get timely paid. What I'm saying is that there's a provision in here that if property owners don't pay their taxes and they go delinquent for a sustained time, you initiate foreclosure proceedings as a way to recoup the delinquent taxes.

So what the mortgage company, though, doesn't have first right, the city would actually foreclose on the property?

Right, in order to get it, yeah.

It wouldn't just lean the property?

No, they would foreclose it. Now, the mortgage company, the bank may intervene and pay it, but we have to get the taxes out, so we foreclose.

Interesting. I would think it would lien the property, not foreclose it.

So does it work like a tax lien, where technically if a person doesn't pay their property taxes, the person that buys the tax lien is the first one, and then the mortgage company is the second, and usually the mortgage company will take possession before that happens so they don't lose their property?

I'm not quite sure. How does... Yeah, that's correct, sir. Okay.

Interesting, okay.

Obviously, it's never happened in this instance, yeah.

Just didn't seem right.

Any other questions? Okay, we're moving on to market conditions and investors' considerations. As you know, interest rates have been, maybe not volatile, but dynamic. They've been going up and down. There was a time, hope that interest rates might decline, but the market and the labor market has been hot, and so we're not expecting that interest rates will be cut by the Federal Reserve. In fact, I think recent talk is maybe even of an INCREASE IN 27. SO WE CAN'T EXPECT ANY RELIEF FROM THE FEDERAL RESERVE AS FAR AS LOWERING THE BORROWING COST. BUT FROM A TECHNICAL STANDPOINT, THERE'S VERY LOW SUPPLY OF MUNICIPAL BONDS. SO SUPPLY-DEMAND, WHEN THERE'S LOW SUPPLY IN A GIVEN LEVEL OF DEMAND, THAT SHOULD HOPEFULLY ALLOW FOR COMPETITIVE INTEREST RATES. AND THERE'S A LOW SUPPLY OF CALIFORNIA CFD BONDS. SO THAT, TOO, LOW SUPPLY, AND THERE'S A SOLID DEMAND. The TIC is estimated to be 4.97, which is right about what it was in November and December of 2025 when we last sold your bond issue. So it's below 5%. So it's a competitive rate. Remember, this is 30 years, and it's non-rated. I think the lease revenue bonds was 15 years, and it was a 425. So this is twice as long. It's not rated. So it's a pretty good rate. The key dates, we're here at the City Council looking for the approval of the resolution. We would have a due diligence call to make sure the preliminary official statement is in substantially final form and would release that to investors on July 8th. No, excuse me, we'd have the due diligence call on the 8th. We release the POS shortly thereafter and price the bonds on the 16th and close. It's August 4th now. We've changed the date a little. So that's the schedule. And here's the recommendation that you adopt this resolution. City Attorney, am I to read this in full? No need. This is a resolution. Okay. Thank you. Any questions?

Do we have any questions from the audience or any comments? Seeing none, any council questions or comments? Karen? No, thank you, Mayor. Okay, then I would entertain a motion and a second.

I'll make the motion, Mayor.

Motion from Councilman Flores.

Second.

Second from Councilman Lucio. Please vote. Item passed is unanimously. Item number 21, introduction of ordinance number 2026-010, adding chapter 9.90 to the Chino Municipal Code. Staff report this evening will be from Lieutenant Jesus Jacquez and Deputy Chief Nick Murata.

Good evening, Madam Mayor and members of City Council. Tonight I'm presenting a proposed ordinance that would add Chapter 9.90 to the Chino Municipal Code. This ordinance addresses public health and safety concerns by restricting the sale of flavored tobacco products, nitrous oxide, kratom substances, and drug paraphernalia associated with illegal drug use. The ordinance aims to reduce general access to these products, establish local enforcement authority, and compliment existing California law. Over the past several years, these products have become increasingly available throughout California, often packaged and marketed to appeal younger consumers. Nationally, 2.8 million minors reported using tobacco products in 2023, many of those preferring flavored tobacco products. Here in Chino, we currently have 14 smoke shops and 17 additional businesses that sell one or more of the products addressed by this ordinance. making local regulations both timely and appropriate. The concerns driving this ordinance are straightforward. They include youth access, marketing that targets younger consumers, recreational misuse, potential for addiction, and long-term health effects associated with these products. Together, these concerns support the need for proactive local response. California has already taken steps to address flavored tobacco products through Senate Bill 793, which passed in 2020. And the Drug Enforcement Administration is moving to classify 7-OH as a Schedule I controlled substance, placing it in the same category as heroin and LSD. However, nitrous oxide and highly concentrated kratom products remain widely available and continue to pose public safety concerns. The proposed ordinance has four primary components. First, it prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products. Second, restricts the sale and distribution of nitrous oxide and related devices while preserving their legal uses. Third, establishes regulations for kratom and highly concentrated 7OH products. And finally, it prohibits the retail sale of oil burners commonly associated with illegal drug use. Flavor tobacco products are a primary driver of youth nicotine addiction, with nearly 90% of youth who vape preferring flavor products. Again, reducing access to these products is a key public health objective of this ordinance. Although nitrous oxide has legal and valuable medical and commercial uses, the statistics show that recreational misuse is rapidly increasing. In Orange County, nitrous oxide related emergency room visits increased by 246% between 2018 and 2023. While nationally, more than 1,200 deaths due to nitrous oxide consumption were reported between the years 2020 and 2023. Kratom and highly concentrated OH substances also present growing public health concerns. Over the past decade, poison centered reports involving Kratom increased by approximately 1200% nationwide, while hospitalizations linked to highly concentrated 7OH substances continue to rise. Finally, oil burners. This ordinance addresses the retail sale of oil burner pipes. Law enforcement widely recognizes this instrument as drug paraphernalia commonly associated with the use of methamphetamine, fentanyl, and other controlled substances. Limiting the retail availability provides another proactive tool to improve public safety within our community. This ordinance provides several important benefits. It reduces youth access to addictive substances, promotes public health, creates a safer retail environment, and gives the city proactive tools to addressing emerging public safety issues before they become larger community problems. But perhaps most importantly, it aligns Chino with many other California jurisdictions that have adopted similar regulations to better protect their communities. If adopted, implementation would begin with retailer education and public outreach. That would include social media messaging, partnerships with local schools, compliance inspections followed with education on the existing laws, and a phased approach that emphasizes voluntary compliance before enforcement actions are taken. Our goal is education first, followed by fair and consistent enforcement. In closing, this ordinance takes a balanced and practical approach. The products covered in this presentation are no longer limited to a handful of specialty retailers. They are widely available throughout our city, making this an appropriate time for the city to establish clear and local standards that protect public health and safety. Staff respectfully recommends that the City Council approve the ordinance so that Chapter 9.90 can be added to the Chino Municipal Code. Thank you for your time and attention. At this point, I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Okay. Prior to questions, I have one written request to speak. Mr. Andrew Hanif.

Good evening, Mayor, Chino City Council, and community. Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to speak. My name is Andrew Haniff, and I'm an outreach specialist at Reach Out. Reach Out is a nonprofit that's been serving the Inland Empire and the city of Chino for over 50 years. My work focuses on substance use prevention. I'm speaking today about the proposed flavor, tobacco, nitrous oxide, and kratom ordinance introduced to the council. This proposed ordinance regulates 70H, a kratom extract. Since the start of the new year, my team has worked to address 70H. We've held monthly community coalition meetings to update community members on 70H developments. We've developed informational materials explaining the new substance, and we've presented on 70H to the County of San Bernardino and a few county supervisors. A part of our work is to check our communities to see if seven is actually there and not just some foreign problem. Um, as the officers mentioned, there's about 14 smoke shops in Chino. We visited most, if not all, and we found seven in most, if not all, um, in front of the council, um, we provided packets. There are pictures of seven and Chino smoke shops. My colleague, Alex Lopez, made a public comment to the council on April 7th discussing the dangers of 7-0-H, and we appreciate the communication we've had not only with the council, but also the police department since that time. We also appreciate the PD for allowing us to distribute informational materials at their sobriety checkpoints. For those in the audience who may be unaware, 70H products are sold in smoke shops as energy or mood enhancers. They're careful to avoid medical claims because then they would have to be approved by the FDA. These 70H products are sold, oh, sorry. Concerningly, the products have opioid-like properties. For that reason, some have begun referring to 70H as gas station heroin, and some people speculate that 70H could be the fourth wave of the opioid crisis. 7-OH products bind to the same opioid receptors in our brains as traditional opioids and provide a sense of euphoria and pain reduction. 7-OH also carries the same risks as prescribed opioids and illicit opioids. This includes addiction, overdose potential, and painful withdrawal symptoms. The Los Angeles and Honolulu medical examiner's offices have linked 7-OH to fatal overdoses in recent months. Chino's neighbor, Ontario, passed their own 7-OH regulations in the last few months. We've actually worked with Ontario PD to develop informational material that assists retailers in understanding the ordinance. That's also in the packet. And we've assisted Ontario PD with their in-person efforts to inform retailers of the law. Additionally, our team has been in contacts with other cities throughout the Inland Empire to assist with their understanding of the relatively unknown 7OH product. The big issue right now is that not that many people know what 7OH is. And if they don't know what the problem is, they're not going to work to address it. Speaking of the community, of course. Our team is more than ready to help the city of Chino in any way we can with its efforts to address 7-0-H. For anyone interested, I have informational material with me, and they're free to contact me. For those interested in learning more about 7-0-H, my team regularly holds community trainings and presentations on 7-0-H in greater. You can reach me at my email address, andrew at we-reachout.org. And thank you for your time and for considering a response to 7LH.