Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

June 4th at 6 p.m. And we'll start with the land acknowledgement. We honor, respect, and acknowledge the first inhabitants, the Plain Miwok, who lived and so were caretakers of this land and these waterways since the time in memorial. We commemorate and advocate for the descendants, the Wilton Rattaria Tribe, the only federally recognized tribe in Sacramento County who endure because of the bravery, resilience, and determination of their ancestors, tribal members, and leaders. Please silence your electronics and your cell phones. And clerk, will you read the customary greeting, please?

The Elk Grove Planning Commission welcomes, appreciates, and encourages participation in the meetings. The commission reserves the right to reasonably limit the total time for public comment on any particular noticed agenda item, as it may deem necessary. If you wish to address the commission during the meeting, please complete a speaker card and give it to the clerk prior to consideration of the agenda item.

Thank you. Can you please call, roll call please.

Commissioner Sandra Poole. Present. Juan Fernandez.

Present.

Suman Singha. Present. Vice Chair Varenda Singh.

Present.

Chair Oscar Ocon.

Present. This time I would like to invite Commissioner Singer to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Would you please join us in a moment of silence? Thank you. And we'll start with the approval of the agenda.

Chair Kahn, I move to approve the agenda for tonight, June 4th.

Second.

Thank you, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstentions? Thank you. Members of the audience may comment on any item not in the agenda that is of interest of the public and within the jurisdiction of the Planning Commission. The Planning Commission cannot take any actions on non-agendized items raised under this public comment and to the matter has been specifically included in an agenda as an action item. So at this time, I will open the general public comment opportunity. Do we have any speakers? No. So close it. And if there are no consent calendar items on the agenda, I'll go through that. And the clerk will please call the hearing item, please.

Item 5.1, 10660 Calvin Road Map, PLNG 25-011. Good evening, Mr.

Chair and Commissioners. My name is Kira Killingsworth, and I'm the project planner for the 10660 Calvin Road Map. The applicant is proposing a tentative parcel map to split one parcel into two. Each parcel will have a minimum of two acres to meet the density. The property is located at Calvine Road. It's about 1,900 feet east of Excelsior Road. It's currently five acres. It has two existing homes and two driveways. It's within the rural community area and is surrounded by other rural residential. It's zoned AR2, agriculture residential, two-acre minimum. and to the north is Sacramento County. The property complies with the development standards for AR2. Parcel one after the split will be two gross acres, and parcel two will be three gross acres. However, due to the existing floodway in the south end, it will have a buildable area of 1.35. Again, the existing homes will remain and the parcel two will be vacant and no trees will be removed and will continue to be on the well and septic. A new driveway will be on by Calvin Road and it has been reviewed by our engineering division team as well as fire district. Staff finds that the map is exempt from CEQA per 15315, minor land division. And with that, staff recommends that the Planning Commission adopt the resolution finding the project exempt from CEQA and approve the tenant parcel map for 10660 Calvin Road. Staff is available for any questions. Thank you.

Thank you. Any questions to staff? Thank you.

Well, they have to say.

At this time, I would like to invite the applicant to come and speak if you need to. I'm sorry, yeah, declare the public comment open and invite the applicant to speak.

Good evening. My name is Omar Siddiqui. I'm with JTS Engineering. We're the engineering consultants for the project. And then the applicant also is here as well if we need to answer any questions. Thank you.

At this time, I'll open the public comment opportunity. Do we have any speakers? None. Thank you. So I'll call, I'll close the public comment.

We have someone.

You need to fill out a form over there, please, and bring it over.

So my name is . I own the property behind the property in question. My concern is the driveway that's in question. Currently, myself and a neighbor that I have, we sit a quarter mile off of the main highway or the main road of Calvin. This property sits in the front. Over the last 10 years, I've had issues with people driving off of my driveway to get access to this property, which is causing my driveway to fail. And I want to make sure that this driveway that is being spoke of is completely not involving my driveway. as they're gonna invade my driveway now, excuse me, have an easement. They have two houses, two entrances, and plenty of room for a driveway that they don't need to be using my driveway. So I wanna make sure that my driveway is not gonna be encroached on for whatever they decide to do with their property.

That's all I have. Thank you, thank you. Would the applicant like to respond?

Mr.

Chair, so as a, I can, sorry.

So there are two existing driveways on the property currently, and then with this map, they're adding an easement for a new driveway. I guess you would say the east side, it's the east side of the property is the new driveway.

Okay.

They're creating a brand new driveway on their property. On the east side.

Yes.

Thank you. The two driveways are here.

This is the new driveway, and I believe his driveway.

If I can ask the applicant to come and speak, please. Can we put the tentative map up? Sorry.

OK, so I believe The neighboring property, this is a private driveway that he's talking about. That was an IOD for the old map. And so we're not touching that. So what we're doing is we're creating a separate driveway along our easterly side. He's on our westerly side. So that driveway we're completely avoiding. And so we're creating a separate driveway that'll access the resultant parcel to just from Calvin Road along the easterly side of our property. So you will not be affected by it.

Thank you, any questions? With that, I will declare the public hearing closed and commission deliberation in action. I need a motion.

Chair, I move to adopt a resolution finding the project exempt from CEQA pursuant to state CEQA guidelines section 15315 and approving the tentative parcel map for the 10660 Calvine Road map project PLNG25-011 based on the findings and subject to the conditions of approval included in the draft resolution.

Second.

Thank you.

All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstentions? So it passes. Thank you, Chair. And regular... Agenda items?

If there's no regular agenda items, we'll go to the director's report. All right. Good evening, Chair and Commission members. Happy to see you again. So first up, I mentioned at our last meeting, we were trying to target an item for the 18th. Unfortunately, it is not ready. We're still waiting on some fees to come in from the applicant. So we don't have anything for the 18th for you, so are suggesting a cancellation of that. We'll need the Chair's concurrence for that item. And then, of course, our next meeting would normally be July 2nd, which is the week of the 4th of July holiday. So anticipating everyone has more enjoyable places to be, would certainly recommend cancellation of that. We do not have any items queued up for that meeting as well. So unless there's any concerns, Chair?

No.

Okay, so we'll move forward to cancellations. Okay. Thank you. Earlier this week, the new zoning administrator, Jackie Guzman, approved the Survey Road Warehouse Myron Design Review Project. This is down off Survey, coming south from Grant Line near the Special Waste Collection Center, the Household Houses Waste Center. It's a reapproval of a project approved a few years ago that hadn't moved forward to construction. Down on the council matters, we do have one unconfirmed for next week. The agenda will publish tomorrow afternoon. For the Calvine Point Major Three Mixed Use Retail and Storage Project, this is the Calvine Point Shopping Center at Elk Grove, Florin and Calvine. The applicant's proposing a new storage facility with ground floor retail facing out into the center and some other various improvements on the site. And then June 24th council meeting, we are targeting the Sheldon Road rezoning map project, which you saw at the previous meeting. Concludes our report from staff this evening. Happy to answer questions if you have them.

Any questions?

Thank you, CJ. We'll go to planning commission matters. Do I have anything?

I have none.

I have a question. I've had a few people ask me what happened to the trees on Elk Grove Boulevard, that they were cutting them down.

You mean Laguna Boulevard?

Oh, Laguna, I'm sorry.

Yeah, Laguna Boulevard. So that is part of a larger project for reconstruction of Laguna Boulevard. It's in need of some assistance. I think that improvement should date back from the original construction back in the 90s. So it is due for a rehab. The trees themselves, though, what you see mainly taken out are the redwoods that were in the medians. They're not an appropriate species. They were starting to cause problems with the median itself, uplifting and impacting the roadway surface. So rather than simply working around them for the repaving, it was determined removal wasn't the best course of action. They're water hogs. They take a lot of irrigation. We were already going to have to remove the turf that was in that space as well. There's new state regulation kicking in the first of the year that prohibit us from irrigating non-functional turf areas, so basically anything outside of an active park space like a soccer field or a ball diamond or something. We really shouldn't be irrigating those areas anymore as the first of the year. So that re-landscaping needed to happen. So you'll see more work on the road itself happening later this summer as they start going through the grind and reconstruction efforts. The median will get improvements, and there's area, the signalization improvements and other improvements the city is doing along that corridor.

Thank you. Nothing else? Well, having nothing else, I'll adjourn the meeting at 6.15. Thank you, everybody.