Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Hi. Good evening. I'd like to welcome everybody to the Fontana City of Fontana's Regular Planning Commission meeting. Today's date, 02/17/2026, here at the Stiller Auditorium. I would like to remind the audience that this is a meeting of is a business meeting.

And as such, while the commission welcomes all members of the public to participate in open discussion regarding matters on this 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 the agenda item and deliberate on the item in a context that allows them all viewpoints to be heard and respected. Please remember that disturbing the public meeting is a criminal offense and the City of Fontana is authorized by law to ensure an orderly conduct of this meeting. Engaging in the conduct that disrupts this meeting may result in your microphone being muted or disruption continue a request for you to leave the meeting if the disruptive conduct persists after a warning. Disruptive behavior, including verbal and nonverbal outbursts that prohibit this meeting from continuing in an orderly fashion. I would like to call to order this meeting of the Fontana Planning Commission.

Will the city clerk please call for the attendance?

Yes, chair. I will commissioner Sanchez, I'll start with you.

Present.

Commissioner Kietel.

Present.

Secretary Lozano.

Present.

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

I am here. Okay. So for invocation and the pledge, I would like to that we can all stand for the invocation and pledge of the allegiance. Invocation will be given by chaplain Daniel Vasquez, the pledge will be led by commissioner secretary Lozano.

Let us pray. Heavenly father, we come together, lord, tonight, and we just wanna thank you, father, for the for just all the wonderful things you're doing in the city of Fontana, lord. We know that your hand is is over the city, Lord, and you have you have tremendously prospered us and blessed us, Lord. But, Lord, in that process, Lord, you you choose to use, Lord, us, Father God. Those that are in these seats here tonight, Lord, our our our police department, lord, our fire department, our public officials, lord, just a community, working together, 230,000 people.

Lord, there's a lot going on in this city, lord, and a lot of that goes to the planning commission, lord, future projects, lower projects that are going on now. Yet, Lord, there's there's life, father. There's marriages. There's children. There's there's all kinds of things going on in our homes. And so we just pray for our leaders, Lord, our planning commission team, Lord, as they're as they're making decisions, give them wisdom, father, Lord, to make the best ones for for this community, Lord. We we ask, Lord, that you would bless this this gathering, Lord, tonight, this meeting. And, Lord, continue to keep this city safe and prosperous. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen.

Put your right hand over your heart. 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. For States members of the public for to address the Planning Commission on items not on the agenda. City Clerk, do we have any public communication request?

Chair, we do have one from Ferdinand, and I hope this is correct. Deitres? Okay. From Hilton Inn in Fontana.

Good evening, My name is, Ferdinand Dietrichs. I'm a public information officer with the Small Business Administration office of disaster recovery and resilience. And the reason I'm here this evening is because of floodings that happened in San Bernardino County, December 16 through December 26, floods and mudslides affecting the area. Because of that, the agency has declared a disaster declaration for this, county. And what with that declaration, that allows, businesses who might have incurred, damages to their property or suffered economic injury, they could apply for disaster loans, up to $2,000,000.

And these are fixed thirty year loans with interest rates as low as 4%. Payments are not due once funds are dispersed for twelve months, and no interest is incurred within those twelve months as well. For homeowners who've suffered property damages, they are eligible for loans up to $500,000 and the same terms apply, thirty year fixed rates, and those are as low as 2.875%. This directly helps those who might be uninsured or uninsured. If they are insured, they could apply as well.

The only thing is if they receive insurance payouts, then those payouts will be offset to pay those SBA loans that they took out. Also, with the declaration, homeowners and renters that incurred personal property losses are eligible to receive loans up to $100,000 And the same thing, those same terms apply, and interest rates are as low as 2.875%. Currently, right now, we have a disaster location outreach center open in Oak Hills, California, Fire Station 40, and that's open Monday through Friday from 9AM to 6PM. If, residents are not, for any reason, able to make or attend that location to, do applications in person, we ask that they call the customer service center at 50955, and they could do their application through there. Or they could visit sb.gov/disaster as well and submit their applications that way.

Before I leave today, I would like to leave some information and contact information as well, some fact sheets and flyers with you guys, if that's okay. And that's all I have. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. Alright. So that brings us to our consent calendar. All matters listed under the consent calendar will be enacted by one motion in the form listed below consent calendar a approval of the minutes for 02/03/2026.

Motion to approve all items on the consent calendar.

All right, so

I got a motion from Commissioner Ketto. I'll second. A second from Vice Chair Quintana.

Place your votes.

Five in favor, the motion passes.

Alright. Well, I didn't miss one thing. Are there any rent communications or requests for public speaking on the cassette calendar item?

We had neither, Chair. Okay.

Still learning, still learning. Go easy on me. All right. So now that brings us to new business. So new business, Alpha Master Case MCN number 20Six-three, miscellaneous projects number 26Dash003, review of the 2025 general plan annual progress report. Cecilie Sessions Goines, associate planner, is to present this item.

Good evening commissioners and members of the public. I will be presenting a short presentation, to go along with the staff report and the report that was attached. Next slide please. So we as a jurisdiction are required to do both a general plan annual progress report as well as the housing element annual progress report and those documents show or illustrate our progress towards implementing our goals and our policies both in the general plan for the general plan progress report and in the housing element for that annual progress report. So that document is required to go before you and then the city council and once there's been a recommendation or an approval to submit those documents, we will do that to the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and the Department of Housing and Community Development.

Our deadline for that is 04/01/2026. We're here now in order to kind of progress to the endpoint and be able to submit the documents. Next slide please. So I'm gonna just give you some highlights that were mentioned in the general plan annual progress report. We are required to go general plan element by element and illustrate goals and policies that were identified and then what actions we took to meet those goals.

So I'm gonna give you some highlights from 2025 here, many of which you probably recall. There was the establishment of the entertainment center overlay district over some key intersections with tailored land uses and development standards. Also, the completion of phase one of the San Savane Trail. So that was actually phase one was constructed in 2025. There was the entitlement of the first development project using the minor planned unit development standards which you reviewed that code amendment and recommended approval.

So we've had one developer so far use those standards. And then we've done other zoning and development code amendments for downtown development standards and land uses to push our downtown forward and to make that development and the new land uses happen. Next slide please. So at a glance for residential units that were permitted, six twenty two single family homes were issued building permits, two forty two accessory dwelling units and 160 multi family units. For the entitlements, 90 planning entitlement projects were submitted last year and 54 of those projects came before you or the director and were approved.

You can see just some highlight photos of some of the projects such as the Water Of Life City Link Phase two. There's also the development that was approved on baseline and Lyme. So a good variety of types residential in 2025. Next slide, please. So staff recommends that you, as the Planning Commission, forward a recommendation to the City Council to direct us as staff to send the report to the Governor's Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation and the State Department of Housing and Community Development prior to the 04/01/2026 due date.

That concludes my presentation but staff's available if you have any questions. Thank you.

Alright. Thank you very much, Chesley. Can I have a motion to recommend that the Planning Commission recommend that the city council direct staff to submit the 2025 general plan annual progress report to the governor's office of land and use and climate innovation and the state of the Department of Housing and Community Development?

So moved.

K. So I got a motion by commissioner Sanchez.

A second.

Second by Secretary Lozano.

Chair, I just had a question. Yes. That was okay before we

Yeah.

Thank you for your presentation. I was just curious. Out of the I think you said 54 approvals out of 90 projects. Obviously, of those came at the end of year, they're not going to are all of those still in progress or have some dropped off for various reasons? Was just kind of curious what the status of those unapproved projects were.

So some of the projects that were approved last year had begun in other calendar years such as 2024 and 2023. And some of the projects that were submitted, the 90 projects, did move forward already for approval. Some are still in process. I don't have that exact number on me, but I could get that information for you. We are pushing projects forward as quickly as possible, so I foresee you seeing many of the twenty twenty five submittals coming up in this calendar year.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it. You guys are amazing. I was just curious.

Thank you. Thank you, sir.

Alright. Legal, I have to redo the motion now since we had a question or am I fine? Fine. Okay. Alright. So we got a motion by commissioner Sanchez and a second by Secretary Lozano. Place your votes.

Mine's gone. Mine's not available to cast a vote.

Verbal? Come here. Four. It's a yes.

Aye. Okay.

Thank you. It shows up though. Five in favor, motion passes.

It showed up. It showed up. Got a flower.

All right next is director communications. Are there any communications?

Yes there are chair. As we did in previous years we have a recap of all the wonderful projects the Planning Commission has approved over 2025. With that I'll turn it over to Cecily who will be providing that overview.

Okay, thank you everyone. So as you see, on the screen, we're just kind of reviewing those projects that came before you in 2025 that you approved. And as you can see, it's a good variety of land uses. We have some industrial, some commercial, quite a bit of residential. These are in order by planning commission date and not all projects are featured here because we didn't want to be sitting here, you know, all night to show all of them so we just kind of took the highlights of the projects that were approved.

Know, staff is loves working on these projects. We do our best to bring you projects that we believe meet your standards and the things that you look to see and we feel fortunate that you have communicated so well to us so that we can then communicate to our applicants. So 2025 was a great year and we look forward to 2026.

Alright. Thank you very much. Now moving on to DAB upcoming cases scheduled for city council and planning commission. So after that, we'll do a alright. I just did that. Yeah. Do you have any other communications?

No no further communications.

Alright. And then we just did the recap with Cecily and after that, next is commission comments. So let's start off with Commissioner Sanchez.

It might be your record. Thank you, Chair. When you see the video of all those projects we approved, there's a large variety of projects that we couldn't have done, like Ms. Goin said, we couldn't have done without you guys. And we appreciate that you guys listened to our feedback and we're actually able to get the applicants in line and all the developers to help us with our request.

So I want to appreciate everything you guys have done for us. And also I want to say I'm going to be a grandfather. I'm going have my first boy, Idilio number three, coming probably either coming near you, coming either the end of this month or early March. And I just wanna say thank you. Good night and god bless. Alright.

Alright. Commissioner Kito.

Just wanna thank the staff. You guys are always amazing. Appreciate your presentations. It's great to see the recap of last year. I appreciate your your guys' office doing that. I'm I'm so excited to see what Fontana is gonna continue to build into. It's such a great city. Been here twenty five of my twenty nine years, so, I absolutely love it here. It's such a great city, and it's amazing to see these projects and kinda because you kinda forget as you go from meeting to meeting. It's great. I appreciate you guys doing that. Appreciate, the city council for trusting me to be here and just, pray that everybody will be safe through the weather that we're dealing with, and, everybody have a blessed night. Thank you.

Alright. Secretary Lozano.

Thank you, chair. I just wanna say thank you to the planning staff. I appreciate all the presentations and answering our questions throughout the year and it was awesome as well to see just a recap of all of the projects that came across our desk and also it's an honor to work along side the my peers here and us come to agreement or not agreement, but vote on such awesome projects that are going on in the city of Fontana. Also, wanted to give a shout out to my husband for our twenty fifth anniversary on Thursday. Just wanna say I love you and thank you for being my support and my rock and supporting my wanting to be in public service.

Thank you everyone. Have a great evening.

All right and Vice Chair Quintana.

Thank you, Chair. Just want to thank the city staff for planning staff for all of the presentations throughout the year and the ones coming up. You always make our jobs easier. So thank you for that. Also,

I

want to congratulate Commissioner Sanchez on another Adilio. So that's awesome. And it's always a pleasure serving on this commission. I appreciate having the opportunity to do so. And thank you and good night.

Alright. And I just wanna thank again the commission, the the planning team for all the hard work and dedication that you guys do to make these meetings possible. Appreciate you guys working with with me through learning the new script and the role that I'm been honored to to assume and just want to, as somebody else stated, make sure that everybody knows just to be careful out there. Know there's there's programs out there for some reason you do have issues or concerns and just be safe with these storms. Take care of your loved ones.

Be safe out there while you're driving. May God bless everyone and have a great day. So that's have all to say. So now moving on to the adjournment. Commission will be adjourning to the next regular planning commission meeting, which will be 03/03/2026 at 6PM at the Still Workers Auditorium, 8437 Sierra Avenue, Fontana, California. This meeting is now adjourned.