Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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Great. Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the city of Montana regular planning commission meeting dated 01/20/2026 here. The eighty four thirty that this meeting is a business meeting. And as such, while the commission welcomes all members of the public to participate in open discussions regarding matters on the set the session's meeting agenda, speakers must conduct themselves appropriately so that the commission has the ability to listen and to consider all of the information and comments related to an agenda item and deliberate on that item in the context that allows for viewpoints to be heard and respected.

Please remember that disturbing a public meeting is a criminal offense. The city of Fontana is authorized by law to ensure that the orderly conduct of this meeting. Engaging in conduct that disrupts this meeting may result in your microphone being muted if disruptions continue, and a request to leave this meeting if the disruptive conduct persist after a warning. Disruptive behavior includes verbal, nonverbal outbursts that prohibits the meeting from the continuing in orderly fashion. Before we begin tonight's meeting, I would like to note for the record that the swearing in of the planning commissioners was originally was originally scheduled on the agenda has already taken place.

City clerk Key has sworn in all five planning commissioner members. Commissioner Dito Sanchez, Ricardo Quintana, Dylan Quito, Tori Lozano, and Joe Armanderes to their respective one year term. With with that, we will proceed with the meeting. I would like to call the order the meeting of the Fontana Planning Commission. Madam Clerk, can you please call for attendance?

Yes, chair. I'll start with commissioner Lozano. Present. Commissioner Kietel. Present. Secretary Armanderes.

Present.

Vice chair Quintana. Present. And chair, you are here.

Thank you. And now we'll pause for a second and begin with the invocation and fought with pastor Danny and the pledge of allegiance with vice chair Quintana. Can we please stand for the invocation and the pledge of allegiance?

Let us pray. Heavenly father, we thank you for an amazing 2025, Lord, and, here we are in 2026. First planning commission meeting, Lord, and we thank you, Lord, for this opportunity we have. There's a lot going on in Fontana, Lord, this year. And, Lord, so we wanna pray.

We wanna lift all these things up to you, father. Lord, we just pray that your favor continue his favor to be with our leaders. Father, our groups, our our homeowners, Lord, our police department, fire department, and as our planning commission gathers, may you continue to give them wisdom, Lord, our leaders wisdom, father, to continue to make right choices for right living in this great city. Father, we're gonna see a lot of changes this year, a lot of demolition, Lord, but we're looking forward to, the forge project in the inner city and all the other great things that you're doing through, our leaders through this planning commission and and, Lord, through the city of Fontana and the people, Lord. We ask for your hands of blessing, Lord, and mercy to be upon us, Lord, and that you would continue to, find favor upon the city of Fontana.

In the name of Jesus, we pray, and all God's children said. Amen.

Thank you, chaplain Daniel Vecchis. Vice chair Quintana will lead us now with the pledge of allegiance.

Yep. Repeat after me.

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 just for all.

You. Okay. This brings us to public communication. This is an opportunity for members of the public to address the companion commission on items not on the agenda. City clerk, do you have any public communication?

Chair, we have no request to speak during public communications.

Great. Thank you. And then we'll move right along to the consent calendar. All matters listed in the consent calendar will be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. Do I get a a motion to approve the consent consent calendar?

Motion to approve consent calendar.

We have a we have a motion by commissioner Quintana mean, I'm sorry, Armanderes. Do I have a second?

Second.

We have a second by commissioner Quito. Please cast your votes. And do we have anybody who'd like to speak any on the consent calendar?

It was all in favor. I'm sorry. Five zero.

Motion passes.

That would be thank you. Do we have anybody who'd like to speak on on the consent calendar?

Sorry. It took so long.

No. We don't share.

Great. Thank you very much. Okay, so this brings us to our public hearing. Public hearing items, next item on the public hearing item A, master case number 24Dash30Dash0037, design review number 24Dash0013. And for this item, we have Rena Lyon. Good f good evening, mister Lyon. Where you at? Good evening. It's a weird setup, guys. Sorry.

Thank you. Thank you for your patience. This, item before you is for the ProLogistix Industrial Commerce Center project. The applicant is Prologix. I'm presenting the project on behalf of Alex Alejandro Rico, and the project site is located at 14970 Jurupa Avenue.

Before you is the review a design review of a development of an industrial commerce center building with a total square footage of about 492,000 square feet along with associated site improvements on the site that's comprised of about 22 acres. I apologize. I can't click. Oh, there we go. Sorry.

So the project site is north on Haripa Avenue between Live Oak Avenue and Hemlock Avenue. It's about 22 acres. It's currently occupied by Brown Strouse Steel, who is a storage inventory business of steel products. They have steel beams and other structural steel products. Here is a photo of Harupa Avenue looking north.

This is what the project site currently looks like right now. Here is the project site looking on Live Oak looking east. Before you is the review of a design review for a building of approximately 492,000 square feet. The building will be located along the south portion of the site with a landscape buffer, all along the south, west, as well as the east. The loading docks will be located to the north where there's a separate driveways for trucks, and then the driveways to the south on both Live Oak and Hemlock, there's, they're they're for the smaller passenger cars.

The design is a modern design, help incorporate white colors, gray colors, and then dark green accents. The applicant provided glazed windows, reveals, and metal canopies along with cornices and varied heights and different pop outs along the different facades. Here is a nighttime rendering view looking at the southwest corner of the project site along Haroopa Avenue. Here's a daytime view looking at the southwest corner of the project building along Harupa Avenue. Here's a nighttime view looking at the southeast corner of the project

No? Okay. Thank you, ma'am. Appreciate it. At this time, I'll close the public hearing and bring it back to to the Commissioner's Room. We have one speaker? I'm sorry. We have one speaker.

Yes, chair. One request to speak from Western States Carpenters.

Okay.

Would you approach the phone? Thank you.

Can you state your name for the record please, sir?

To approve master case number 25Dash0080 and municipal code amendment number 25Dash0011.

Second.

We have a motion by vice chair Quintana and a second by commissioner Quito. Please cast your votes.

All in favor, motion passes.

Okay. Great. Now this brings us now to the election of planning commissioner officers, chair, vice chair, and secretary. And do I have a motion for anybody to elect an official?

An official.

I recommend you first accept nominations. So please ask if there's a nomination for the chair position. Position.

I thought I'd just ask for nominations. Okay.

I'd like to nominate Gerard Menderes for chair.

Okay. We have a nomination for Gerard Menderes for chair.

Second.

Second. The

second is not needed, but you can ask whether there is a second nomination.

Is there a second nomination? Okay. So we have on the floor now Joe Mondarius.

And a vote would be in order.

Yes. Let's cast your votes. Are we doing verbal?

Chair, you're gonna have to take a verbal Okay.

Let's make a vote. Commissioner Quito. Aye. Commissioner Lozano? Aye. Vice Chair Quitano? Aye. I vote aye. And Joe Armanderes?

Aye. Congratulations.

New Chair, Joe Armanderes. Now do I have a nomination for vice chair?

I'd like to nominate Ricky Quintana for vice chair.

Okay. I'll make a motion one nomination for vice chair. For Quintana. Do we have, cast your votes. Actually, verbal

Chair, you can ask for any second nomination if you wish.

Any second nominations? None? Okay. So then we'll go to, cash revolts, please. Mister Quito? Aye. Ricky Quintana? Aye. Torresano? Aye. And I'm aye. So congratulations. Are you Aye. You already ordered. You already ordered. Yeah. That was cute. Who? Oh, my bad. Okay.

So now congratulations. We have our vice chair again, commissioner vice chair Quintana. K. Now next, we're gonna vote for secretary, and I will nominate Tori Lozano. Do I have a second nomination for secretary?

Seeing none, can I cast your votes, please? Mister Quito? Aye. Mister Armanderes? Aye. Mister Quintana? Aye. Miss Lozano? Missus Lozano? Aye. And I vote aye. Congratulations. Our new secretary is Tore Lozano, and our new slate is chair, Joe Mondarius. Congratulations. Vice chair, Quintana, and our secretary is Tore Lozano.

Anything else you need to hit? Hit the gavel, hit the rock. Making sure Okay. It Now we're gonna go to director communications.

Thank you, chair. Congratulations, everyone. And it's been a pleasure working

with you. So we're really looking forward to another year. And thank you in advance for actually for the patience you've already displayed with our new setup as we all get used to it. Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, great. So that's now we're gonna have planning commission remarks. Commissioner King Chair Quintana. I mean, I'm sorry, Chair Armanderes.

I just wanna thank everybody for their support and thank my cohorts for the support and allowing me to be next year's chair or this year's chair. Also wanna just thank staff for all their hard work, dedication, making these meetings as easy as possible for us to be able to understand what we have in front of us, allowing us to ask questions and be able to move the meeting forward with a full knowledge of everything we need to do. So appreciate all you guys do, and look forward to our next meeting. Everybody have a blessed day.

Great. Thank you. Vice chair Quintana.

Thank you for the nomination and and the reappointment to this fabulous commission and and this this seat. So thank you. I do wanna thank staff for the fabulous presentations as always. Also wanna thank IT for setting this all up for us. It is our first meeting here at Sterile Workers Auditorium because our home is being is under construction.

So I think it'll take about two years for that to be done. And, we've seen the plans. We we reviewed them here, in this meeting or and, it's gonna look beautiful. So I can't wait for that to to start, and that's it for me. Thank you.

Thank you.

Oh, last thing. Sorry. Congratulations to Tore Lozano and Gerard Medeiros for, the nominations and appointments.

Congratulations. Secretary Lozano.

I first wanna say, like always, thank you to the staff for the awesome presentation today. Also, Patty and Steven for your support alongside us every every meeting. Also, to chair Amanderes and vice chair Quintana and thank you for the nomination and appointment. Happy New Year to everyone out there and have a great evening. Thanks.

Congratulations. Commissioner Kittle.

Just wanna thank the city council for reappointing me and the rest of us to this commission. I think we work really well together, and I think we have a really good team here. So I appreciate their support. I appreciate everybody on this commission. You guys are amazing. Congratulations to the three of you on your nominations. I support you wholeheartedly. You guys are great. Thank you to director Nevins and your staff. You guys are amazing as always. Always taking my phone calls and and helping throughout the city. So you guys are absolutely amazing. I appreciate all of you. Looking forward to another great year on the commission and, to see Fontana continue to move forward. Thank you.

Great. Thank you. So I'd like to say thank you to the opportunity of me being having an opportunity of being chair on the commission now. I appreciate the opportunity, but I really appreciate being on the commission. I'm looking forward to our new leadership on our commission, and I just wanna say thank you. Thank you to staff for what you do for us, make our jobs a lot easier. I remember when these meetings used to last two and three hours with just two items on the agenda. I want to say thank you, good night, and God bless everybody. And at this point, we will adjourn our next regular planning commission meeting on Tuesday, 02/03/2026 at 6PM right here at the Steelworkers Auditorium, 6437 Sierra Avenue, Fontana, California. Good night, and god bless.