Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Alright. Good evening, and welcome to the July 24 meeting of the City of Clovis Planning Commission. Members of the public are encouraged to participate in the meetings by attending the Planning Commission meeting here in person, submitting written comments at least two hours before the meeting, and viewing the meeting, which is webcasted and accessible at the city's website. Wanted to call this meeting to order. If you all join me, commissioner O'Hinco will lead us in the flag salute.

Allegiance I 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 could please call roll.

Commissioner Bedstead?

Here.

Commissioner Hatcher?

Here.

Commissioner Abert?

Here.

Commissioner Hinkle?

Here.

And Chair Antuna?

Here.

Thank you.

I'd like to open a motion to approve the minutes for the 06/26/2025 Planning Commission meeting.

I'll make the motion to approve the minutes from the meeting of 06/26/2025. I'll second.

I have a motion from commissioner Hebert and a second from commissioner Bedstead to approve the minutes of the Thursday, 06/26/2025 meeting. Commissioner Hebert? Yes. Commissioner Bedstead?

Yes.

Commissioner Hatcher?

Yes.

Commissioner Hinkle? Yes. And Chair Antuna?

Yes.

Commission secretary, are there any comments?

Excuse me. One second. City attorney, do does Alma need to abstain if she was absent from the last meeting?

No. If she's reviewed the minutes and and reviewed the previous meeting information, it wouldn't be a it's not an issue. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you.

Approval of minutes carries 50.

Okay. Are there any secretary comments?

Yes. I'll have one, and I'll pass it to Mackenzie. She'll have one as well. Just a reminder for the target solutions, I think I heard from personnel there are a couple of you that still need to get some done. And if you need any help accessing that, I can get you on there.

Alright. And then I just have one introduction. I think George mentioned it at a prior meeting, but Tiffany Williams in the in the audience has joined our planning division. So she comes with us with four years experience in planning. Recently, she was with the County of Madera. So she's joining us as an associate planner. So you'll be seeing her in the next coming months. So welcome. Welcome, Tiffany.

Very well. Are there any comments from planning commission members?

Yes. I have something. I've noticed

on Sierra Avenue at Clovis Avenue going westbound. There is no speed limit sign. And it's 35 there. I've seen people going 40 and higher than 40 in that section going through Old Town. Then on the other end, it's a 40 miles an hour. But we should probably put a sign because of the trail and stuff to slow the cars down. But something you might wanna have the city look into.

Which direction was that again on Sierra?

It's going westbound on Sierra at Sierra and Clovis across from Treasure Igmeyer Park at the head of the trail there. And a couple times, I've had people pass me because I'm only going thirty, thirty two miles an hour.

Okay. Noted. I'll take a look at that. Thank you.

Okay.

Very well. Now we will be moving on to the planning to the public comments. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the planning commission on any matter that is planning commission jurisdiction that is not listed on the agenda. In order, that everyone be heard, please limit your comments to three minutes. Do we have anyone, from the floor?

Seeing none, we now move on to the public hearing. Item two, consider approval CUP twenty twenty five dash zero zero three adopting a class 32 categorical exemption from further environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act and approving a conditional use permit to allow a quick service restaurant with a drive through located on 498 West Shaw Avenue, ANA Trazana Plaza LP owner and Alina Cricaccio, applicant and representative. Marissa, associate planner, city staff presenting.

Thank you, chair. Good evening, planning commission. So this item is for a new habit burger with the drive through, proposed for a point six five acre site. You can see it on the screen there in red. It is located South Of Shaw Avenue between Peach And Helm Avenues.

It is located within the larger Shaw Village shopping center. And currently, on the subject site is a vacant office building. The building was built back in the seventies, and it has been a variety of different office uses. But most recently, it was a Title Max that became vacant in 2020, and it has been vacant since then. So the applicant is proposing a 2,500 square foot Habit Burger restaurant with a drive through.

And on the screen, you can see the proposed design. There are a couple points of access into the site, and there are two directly off of Shaw Avenue in the closest vicinity to the restaurant, as you can see with the arrows. And then parking for the center and access is reciprocal. So the overall parking ratio is 4.7 stalls for each thousand square foot of gross building area. With the Habit, they would be required 399 stalls, and they are providing 404, which meets that standard.

The Habit Burger's drive thru would be required to have stacking provided in their drive thru for 13 cars. And as you can see on the screen, there's a little exhibit. They are meeting that standard by providing stacking for 13 cars. Operationally, the restaurant will operate seven days a week from 10AM to 10PM. They plan to employ 25 to 30 individuals who will rotate their hours, and there will be about five to seven employees per shift.

And the deliveries for the restaurant will be very typical of other restaurants and drive throughs, and they have been conditioned to have those deliveries occur in the morning as to not interfere with any of the adjacent businesses or the circulation along Shaw. So staff is recommending approval of this CUP subject to the conditions of approval listed in the staff report. Not only does the project meet the findings for the CUP as listed in the staff report, it is an adaptive reuse of a commercial space along the Shaw Avenue corridor, and no issues or concerns were raised by any of the departments within the city or any of our external agencies. So thank you. I am happy to answer any questions you may have.

Are there any clarifying questions of staff? Okay. Seeing none, we're going to go ahead and move on to open the public hearing. Is the applicant present? Would you like to step up to the mic?

Nope. One more time. There you go.

Okay. Good evening, everybody. I'm Tom Wong with CDR. We work as consultants to Happy Burger. And Alona filed the application for us, and very happy to be here. Any do I need to state my address or anything like that?

Yes, please. Your name and your address as well. Thank you.

Tom Huang with CDR, and the address is 695 Center Drive In Costa Mesa, California 92626.

Thank you. Does the Commission have any questions for the applicant? Thank you. Okay. May have a seat.

Okay, moving on. Is there anyone in the public 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? Okay. Seeing none, we're gonna go ahead and close, the public hearing.

Is there any clarifying questions, for staff before we bring it back for, discussion? Very well. We're good? Alright. No discussion. Very good. Very glad that you're here and that you're coming in and filling you're an infill project for us. So that's really fantastic. And you're gonna build a looks what looks to be a very beautiful building. So we're excited to to have you here. So thank you. We're ready for a motion.

I will make the motion. I'll make a motion to approve conditional use permit CUP twenty twenty five, tack zero zero

three. I second.

I have a motion from commissioner Bedstead and a second from commissioner Hinkle, I believe. Commissioner Betzid? Yes. Commissioner Hinkle? Yes. Commissioner Hatcher? Yes. Commissioner Hebert? Yes. And Chair Antuna?

Yes.

Okay. CUP twenty twenty five zero zero three is approved. 50.

Very well. You. Alba? Yes. Really quick.

I did wanna add one more item Of course. Related to the general plan. So the GPAC, I think George mentioned at our last meeting went to the council on July 7, so they did approve the GPAC committee. There's 15 members and then two youth members that are part of the committee. There will be a meeting, their first meeting in the September. That information will be posted on our website but we don't have that on there yet but it will show up on there but it'll be posted once we schedule that date.

Very well. Are there any additional comments? Okay. That concludes our meeting. We're gonna go ahead and adjourn until the next Planning Commission meeting scheduled for 08/28/2025 at 6PM here in Council Chambers.