Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to the July 23rd, 2026 meeting of the City of Clovis Planning Commission. Members of the public are encouraged to participate in the meeting by accessing and listening to the webcast on the city's website, providing written comment at the same website or coming in person and attending the meeting. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Please join me as Commissioner Abarer leads us in the flag salute.

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.

Commission Secretary, if you can call roll.

Commissioner Hatcher?

Here.

Commissioner Hebert?

Here.

Commissioner Bedstead?

Here.

Commissioner Hinkle? Here. Chair Antuna? Here. All are present and voting.

I'd like to call for a motion to approve the minutes for the June 25th, 2026 planning commission meeting.

I'll make a motion.

I'll second.

I have a motion from Commissioner Hatcher and a second from Commissioner Hebert to approve last month's minutes. Commissioner Hatcher?

Yes.

Commissioner Hebert? Yes. Commissioner Hinkle? Yes. Commissioner Bedstead?

I'll abstain.

And Chair Antuna?

Yes.

Minutes are approved 4-1 with Bedstead abstaining.

Do we have any Commission Secretary comments today?

yes just one quick one um our next general plan advisory committee meeting is next week on thursday um july 30th from six to eight at the transit center and we will be going over utilities and public services at that meeting after that we'll have a break in august and then we'll come back for our next meeting in september very good thank you are there any comments from commission members

Seeing none. Moving on to public comment now. This is an opportunity for the members of the public to address the Planning Commission on any matter within the Planning Commission jurisdiction. This is that is not listed already on the agenda. In order for everyone to be heard please limit your comment to three minutes. Do we have anyone in the room that would like to address the commission today. Seeing none, we will now move on to the public hearing portion of this meeting. Item two, consider approval of CUP 2026-004 adopting a class 32 categorical exemption from further environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act and approving a conditional use permit to allow an adult daycare center located at 1750 Shaw Avenue Moss Lane Ventures LLC owner and social vocational services and central line design LLC applicant and representative Eric Garcia assistant planner will be presenting.

Good afternoon chair good afternoon commissioners. As you mentioned this is for CEP 2026-004. The project will be located and it's highlighted here in red. The project will be located on the southwestern area of Shaw Avenue and Fowler Avenue. Within the Shaw Avenue Plaza shopping center the land use designation for this is a general commercial and it is zoned C2. Some of the surrounding uses around that project are it's commercial to the north east and west and there is a senior living facility to the south of the project. So the CUP request is from Social Vocational Services to construct a new 7,278 square foot adult daycare center. Social Vocational Services already has an existing location here in Clovis, and they have multiple locations here in the state of California. For the site here, they have two existing vehicle access points that will remain. One is on Shaw Avenue, and the other is on Fowler Avenue. Parking for this site is for it's calculated cumulatively for the entire site it requires 149 stalls and they will have 151 stalls therefore exceeding the parking requirements Operationally, social vocational services will provide vocational training to adults with developmental disabilities. They plan to operate Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Their state license does allow them to have a maximum of 90 participants. They typically only see 35 to 40 participants at one time. They are anticipating to have 12 to 15 members per shift. Social vocational services will also provide transportation to all of its participants. So therefore they're going to have 15 company vehicles or vans that will be parked there overnight. This item was published to the Business Journal on July 3rd, 2026. Notices were mailed also to property owners within 525 feet of the subject property. Staff did not receive any opposing or comments in favor of the project. The city has determined that this project is exempt from CEQA through a class 32 exemption. And with that being said, this CEP was able to meet all of the required findings. It is consistent with the general planned land use. And we did not receive any opposing comments from external or outside agencies. And staff is recommending that the Planning Commission adopt a resolution approving this conditional use permit subject to the conditions of approval as listed in the staff report and attachment 1A. I am available for any questions if you have any.

does the Commission have any questions of staff I have one question and it's in regards to the parking mm-hmm so there's not going to be any additional parking correct it's just existing parking that's there now they are adding some parking in total they'll gonna have 151 parking yeah okay so they are going to they are adding parking yeah very good thank you thank you for that clarification yeah Very well now we're going to go ahead and open the public hearing. Is the applicant present. If you'd like to step in and speak please state your name and address for the record.

Good evening. My name is Chris Ward owner of Centerline Design where the architectural firm assisting sets social vocational services with the application. I'm here for any questions you guys have.

No questions of the applicant. Thank you very much. Thank you. Now we'll move on to invite public comment. Is there anyone present that would like to speak in support of this project. Seeing none is there anyone that would like to speak in opposition of this project. Seeing none, we're going to go ahead and close the public hearing portion of this and bring it back to the commission to deliberate and for a motion.

I have a question. Is there any possibility that they're going to be doing some type of activity after 4 PM in the afternoon?

I am not sure but if the applicant wishes to clarify that Hi to answer your question at four o'clock it's cut off and they drive everybody home There's no possibility ever of anything. That's all their facilities are like that all over, California Everybody in that age group wants to get home typically by five o'clock.

Okay. Thank you.

Yep. I

Any further discussion? Are we ready for a motion?

Okay. I'll make a motion to approve the resolution for CUP 2026, TAC 004.

I'll second.

I apologize. I didn't catch the second. Hinkle.

Yeah, I'll second.

Thank you. I have a motion from Commissioner Bedstead and a second from Commissioner Hinkle. Commissioner Bedstead.

Yes.

Commissioner Hinkle?

Yes.

Commissioner Hebert?

Yes.

Commissioner Hatcher? Yes. Chair Antuna? Yes. CUP is approved 5-0.

Moving on to item three, consider... Approval of CUP 2026-005 adopting a class one categorical exemption from further environmental review under CEQA and approving a conditional use permit to allow for the operation of a tap house with an indoor entertainment center located at 50 West Bullard Avenue Suite 115 Manco Abbott owner Ryan Oldfield applicant. Eric Garcia will be presenting again.

Hello again. Before I begin this item, I do want to say that there is updated revised agenda packet. The only revision on there is condition 24. So I will get started. So the project location here outlined in red is on the southwestern area of West Bullard and Miniwawa Avenue. And this is within the Crossroads Shopping Center. The land use designation is general commercial and it is zoned C2. Some of the uses here are multifamily to the north and to the south of the project. To the east of the project is a post office and to the west is a single family residence. This request is to allow indoor amusement center at 50 West Bullard and it's for an existing 1,700 square foot indoor amusement center. And I will get more into the operational characteristics of it in the next slides. For the site here, there is four vehicular access points. Two are on Bullard and the other two are on Miniwawa. Parking for this site is also calculated commutatively within the entire shopping center. If you may recall in 2023 there was a Starbucks project CEP 2023-010 that memorialized and approved this shopping center to have 275 parking stalls. Since this CUP, there is no expansion of the tenant space, there is no parking modification, and they are operating at different usage hours from other peak users there, this project will meet the center's parking requirements. Operationally, Tilt's Tap House functions primarily as a pinball and classic video game arcade. There will be no cooking or kitchen there. They will serve soft drinks and prepackaged snack foods. They will have a beer-only tap system, which will require a Type 40 alcoholic beverage control license. We did route this to PD, our Clovis Police Department, which handles all of our ABC licensed things, and they're in support of this project at this location. Operationally for hours, they're primarily going to be open in the evening and afternoon, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 3 to 11 p.m., and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. This item was also published to the Business Journal on July 3rd, 2026, and notices were mailed to property owners within 300 feet of the subject property. Staff did not receive any comments in favor or against the project. The city has determined that this project is exempt from CEQA through a class one exemption. And with that as well, the CUP was able to meet all the required findings. It is consistent with the general plan, and staff did not receive any opposing comments from internal or outside agencies. And that concludes my presentation. I am here for any questions, and I also have Corporal Russ Moring from the Clovis Police Department in case you have any ABC-related questions.

Thank you. Any questions? I know you said that parking isn't expected to be an issue. Right next door is the bingo hall, I believe. So you don't think there's going to be any issues on specific nights with that? Because I know that really fills up that lot.

Yeah. We don't foresee any issues. Let me pull up their hours. Sorry.

And I don't know how often they play bingo. I just know that I have no idea.

Yeah. So the bingo hall operates Friday Sundays and Tuesdays and it's from 4 to 10 p.m. on Fridays Sundays from 2 to 8 p.m. and Tuesdays from 4 30 to 11 p.m. So there's going to be minimal overlap of the use of the parking.

OK OK thank you. I do have one question in regards to is there an alcohol license available for that area. of that type of license?

Yeah, I will refer that to Russ.

Good evening. So yes, this is going to be applied for in an unsaturated area, one of the, we don't have very many of them in Clovis, but this is an area that has room for one, and this would be topping it out. Thank you. Yes, ma'am, thank you.

Any further questions? Nope. Okay, thank you. This time we're going to go we're going to go ahead and open the public hearing portion. Is the applicant present. If you'd like to step up please state your name and address for the record.

So there we go. My name is Ryan Oldfield. I'm the owner of Tilt Staff House and I just wanted to show up and answer any questions you guys might have.

Any questions for the applicant. Thank you.

OK. Thank you.

This time we'd like to ask if there's anyone who would like to speak in support of this project. Seeing none, is there anyone who would like to speak in opposition? Seeing none, we're gonna go ahead and close the public portion and bring it back to the Commission for deliberation. No deliberation? All right, very good. Then motion.

I'll make a comment and then I'll make a motion. I think it's a good project I like it and I'm in support of approving the CUP. So I'll make a motion that we approve CUP 2026 to 0 0 5 I'll second I Have a motion from Commissioner bedstead and a second from Commissioner a bear I

Commissioner Bedstead? Yes. Commissioner Hebert? Yes. Commissioner Hatcher? Yes. Commissioner Hinkle? Yes. Chair Antuna? Yes. The permit is approved for 5-0.

Very good. We're going to go ahead and adjourn this meeting at 6, geez, what is that, 17. And we'll see you here next time on August 27th for the next meeting.