Planning and Housing Commission - Regular Meeting

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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh that monitor [Music] welcome to tonight's planet and Housing Commission meeting um commissioner sukulen will lead us in tonight's Pledge of Allegiance ready 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 I would like to call this meeting to order individuals wishing to address the planning and Housing Commission are requested to complete uh a speaker card and deliver it to the secretary prior to the item being heard by the commission please observe a three-minute limit for

communications once called upon and what called upon to speak please state your name and city of residence for the record moving to meeting minutes Miss Capia are there any speakers cards for from the public for meeting minutes no chair Longwell do we have a motion I'll go ahead and move to approve I'll second a motion was made by commissioner Alexander and second in by commissioner sand motion is passed was that a yes from commissioner San yes thank you moving to Communications from the public this portion of the agenda is intended for general public comment on items within the commission jurisdiction that are not listed Elsewhere on the agenda please note that state law prohibits the planning and Housing Commission from discussing or talking uh or taking action on these items please observe a 3 minute time limit for comments Miss Kia are there any speakers cards from the public no chair moving to the consent agenda there's one item on the consent calendar consent items are not heard as public hearings and can be improved without discussion um do any Commissioners have any questions or

otherwise wish to pull the item from the consent calendar no Miss Kia did we receive any requests from the public to discuss the consent calendar item we did not chair then we'll go to make a motion uh I'll motion for approval of the consent calendar and I'll second can we read the motion into the record yes um gpcd 2025 d002 requ for a general plan consistent consistency determination regarding the vacation of City easements generally located on the west side of Sherman Avenue south of State Route 91 and I am motion for approval of the gpcd 20252 so it was so I'm just clarifying so it was do I need to state that it has passed and read it for record just that it passed okay motion has passed moving to public hearings public hearings are items that have been publicly advertised for review and consideration by the planning and

Housing Commission public hearing item on tonight's agenda is z ta2024 d004 a Zone text Amendment for title 17 of the corona Municipal Code amending chapter 1785 to add certain regulations for accessory dwelling units consistent with state law applicant is the city of Corona U Miss Keta the planning and development director will present this item good evening and thank you so we are back here once again to have a discussion on a accessory dwelling units which we call adus as this commission already knows um adus are permitted by state law and they do have certain development standards that local jurisdictions need to follow in addition to that state law further states that a local agency needs to also adopt an ordinance that is consistent with state law when it comes to governing adus the city of Corona governs adus in chapter 1785 of the the corona Municipal Code the last time this ordinance was amended was in 2020 and we had to amend it in 2020 to address legislation that was passed at that time this proposed amendment once again will be addressing recently adopted State legislation under Senate Bill 1211 and assembly Bill 2533 both of those laws went into effect on January 1st of this year therefore in order for our ordinance to remain valid and compant we need to make these changes to our Municipal Cod so according to state law the amendment will be doing the following it will add a definition of livable space

to the ordinance and basically what that means it is a space within a dwelling unit that is used for human habitation and that means for living cooking sleeping and sanitation that was not previously described and for some reason that needed to be added so that is added with this law so we are adding it to our ordinates it will also increase the number of detached adus on properties that contain existing multifam properties from 2 to8 and you only get that provided that the number of adus does not exceed the number of existing multifam dwelling units on the property so if you have seven multif family dwelling units on the property you're only going to get seven adus you will not get the maximum of eight and then the also provision of the law talks about properties that contain proposed multifam so if there is property that is proposing to build multifam they are allowed no more than two detached adus so what this law did which does not currently exist in the current law is that it distinguishes between existing and proposed multi- Family Properties so what it's also doing it is also adding that an uncovered parking space on a property is not required to be replaced if that space is being converted to an Adu or if it's demolished to accommodate the construction of an Adu right now the ordinance states that we do not have to replace a garage carport or covered parking this law now specifies that this also includes uncovered parking so that no longer needs to be replaced and then it's also adding a provision that really local jurisdictions need to be making accommodations to permit

previously constructed adus that were not previously permitted and those are for adus that were constructed prior to January 1st of 2020 so the intent with this is that local jurisdictions need to get those non-permitted adus in conformance so that is to make you know a pathway for those that have may have went out on their property constructed an Adu but never got a building permit and they were cited for it it's really for us to be working with them on to get that Adu permitted so what we're doing this evening is recommending that this be forwarded to the city council for considerations so our Adu ordinance remains valid and I'm here to answer any questions that you may have thank you do any Commissioners have questions for staff I do I have a question Miss Keta and this and it's pertaining to this slide here so that's perfect so if for example the Parkwood Apartments multifam uh multiple uh units per building and it's not it's not dwelling units per building it's within the complex correct so there's obviously more than uh eight so if they want and they have uh covered parking uh mostly covered parking in the parking lot so if let's say uh Parkwood Apartments wanted to add eight adus uh they could tear down the current parking and an Adu is up to 1100 1200 square foot let's say and let's say they take out six parking spaces for each Adu so doing math that's almost 100 that's almost 50 parking spaces that would not need need to be uh planned for or made

uh space for um so not only are the residents of that complex losing parking but they are adding more folks more vehicles supposingly with no parking that's correct that's exactly what this law has been doing it's been slowly eating away at the regulations mhm thank you uh clarifying question on the bullet point two that's on bullet point three so is it two adus per multif family dwelling that's on the parcel or is it two total for the full parcel it says on the property so um most multifam uh complexes are on one lot um because they're managed by one company so it's very rare usually when you have multiple lots you'll see that in a condominium type development so we would have to evaluate but it says on a lot with existing or proposed multifam on the property okay and then the other question was it was interesting in the example you had on the slide of the carport or the uncovered parking lot in that example the could you remind me the square footage of the Apu can be no more than 75% of the it's no more than if it's attached it can be no more I believe than 50% um you cannot exceed 1,200 square feet and if it's 50% of the primary unit if it's attached so it's going to be dependent so if it's attached it could

be no greater than 50% of the primary unit okay so the size is limited and we have to allow accommodations for at least up to 800 square feet but it doesn't mean that somebody can have an Adu that's less than that if they want 500 or 600 okay all right thank you so um I have one other so since we're greatly restricting in some cases or giving the ability for owners to put more adus on a and I believe the um the last phase that we looked at for uh Bedford uh um I think they had multiple Lots within that last approval we had so it would not be per lot it would be per phase it's three andfor so they have one lot but they have it broken down into exclusive use areas for those condominium attached Town hoses those lots are rather small the excl exclusive use area is really not that big I mean their backyards are about 10 or 15 ft so if it may be an interior Junior Adu if they feel like they want to convert something on the inside of the building but attaching something to the condo product in Bedford would be difficult but you do have single family detached homes in Bedford that are on condo lots that may have a little bit more wiggle room if they wanted to add a detached Adu and is there any thought to for example go back to Parkwood and I don't mean to pick on them but it's just uh something I came up with is if if we're restricting their ability to park and that's just through daytoday it doesn't even take into account holidays or influxes to uh their their residents and vehicles are we looking at maybe um parking outside on the main roadways to

give them accommodation for parking I mean what what are what are residents supposed to do exactly and I think that's going to be a call by the owner or the management company number one you want to be able to attract tenants because they do want a place to park I mean it's going to be what is going to be the necessity of the resident living there and if the resident doesn't have a place to park their vehicle they're likely not going to want to lease from that facility so I think it's going to have to this will probably be tied in with someone that wants to also meet their residents needs are they going to get renters versus not and I think that's a decision that these owners are going to have to make because I'm also thinking if you move into a unit sometimes you're actually given an assigned parking spot or a garage and if those are torn down it's breaking a contract in a way correct correct and those are the Civil matters that need to be discussed with um that management company or that property owner absolutely so I can see moving forward um projects that may come forward will less likely have amenities because they're going to need the space for the parking perhaps I'm not sure well we in you know in our ordinance there is a requirement for a certain amount of open space so that just doesn't immediately go away um there's still some requirements on that I can see that coming down from Sacramento next okay thank you I have two questions um the definition that you described as a livable space is that going to then Force adus to have restroom kitchen facilities so all those things okay so yes and almost naturally becomes bigger because you have to have those things and it's defined as an Adu if it has the cooking facility if you do an accessory building on your property but it does not have a

cooking facility it's not considered an Adu it has to be able to stand on its own and you have to have the cooking facility in there and without that it's not automatically approved that's correct you go through our accessory um building ordinance and then you have to meet all the setback requirements and all of the coverage they are not part of this they are excluded from that okay um and then you mentioned that the city has to have some sort of plan almost to get anything that's not currently permitted into compliance what does that look like from a City resource perspective so if we have somebody that we went out there co- compliance went out there and issued you know a notice to them that hey you know you built this structure it's an Adu and you did not come in and get building permits we're asking them to come in and get building permits for that we just cannot be in a position to where we're making it difficult for them or citing violations that would preclude that if in some way the law says that if permitting this would keep the unit at sub standard then we can't we don't have a right to permit it we actually can hold their feet to the fire because it still has to be a standardized unit so we are not here to permit a substandard unit we're here to permit a unit that's going to meet all the minimum qualifications so they still have to come in fix it there have been history that we've read about early on the law that you know where an Adu wasn't allowed and they were going to eventually have to tear it down well now this law protects it and says no they don't have to tear it down they have to bring it into compliance with the law law you're not required we're not required as a city to go proactively no no it's just from the resources of already having Code Compliance to them usually through complaints or we catch them in the ACT yes okay any other questions for staff no Miss Capia did we receive any

speakers cards or written comments from the public regarding this item no chair we did not okay the public hearing is now open if you wish to speak please come to the podium public hearing is now closed are there any questions or comments um from my colleagues no although I'm not a fan of it uh just because of the implications to the uh residents uh I certainly understand how the city has to be into compliance so uh I'll go ahead and make a motion if you want me to read it I will uh I move to approve the Zone text amendment of title 17 of Corona Municipal Code amending chapter 7 1.85 to add certain regulations for accessory dwelling units consistent with state law is there a second I'll move to second the motion has passed written Communications had has planning and Housing Commission secretary received any written communication from persons providing information or seeking action by the planning and Housing Commission no chair any administrative reports I just wanted to let the commission know that the city council at its last meeting did uh take no action on recommending approval of the batter battery energy storage facility that this uh commission reviewed uh over there off of OTA so that did proceed forward and they will be now starting construction perfect do any members of the Planning Commission have any matters to discuss no just uh thank you to uh staff for always doing a great job welcome to

20125 look forward to another great year and to my colleagues and welcome our chair perfect I was going to say the same welcome chair congratulations on your through it first evening with that we will adjourn the meeting next meeting of planning and Housing Commission is scheduled for February 10th 2025 the meeting is adjourned for