Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

And release it. Okay. Let's turn the other direction. Okay. Extending that leg behind you as much as you can. Toes on the floor. Press the heel down. Holding it there. Chest is lifted. You should feel that stretch come right down the front of your leg. Good. And release. Coming back, sitting square on your chair. Gonna lift one knee up. Rotate the ankles. Rotate the wrists. Great. And rotate the other way now. Same foot lifted. Sitting up tall, practicing our neutral spine, and release.

Let's lift the other foot up. Ankle rotation, add the wrist, and let's rotate the other direction.

This is good for fall prevention too if

you need Absolutely. That's right. Keeping the ankles mobile. Alright. We're on our ankles all day, aren't we? Yeah. That's right.

We use them when you walk. I've seen some people with really stiff That's right. Ankles, and that's

Fall. That's right. We wanna prevent those

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evening, I'd like to call the planning commission meeting of 11/12/2025 to order. Please join me in the salute to the flag.

Ready to begin. 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.

Could I get a roll call please?

Yes sir. Commissioner Vu? Here. Commissioner Brothers? Here. Commissioner Huber? Here. Commissioner Ascona?

Here.

Vice Chair Lopez? Here. Chair Langer? Here. We have a quorum, sir.

Thank you. Are there any supplemental communications tonight?

Yes, sir. There a few red folder items, some minor changes to the resolutions, and minor change to the minutes as well.

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Speakers on items scheduled for public hearing or nonpublic hearing items will be invited to speak when those items are heard. All public comments are allowed up to three minutes to speak. Onto our consent calendar, we have the 10/08/2025 Planning Commission meeting minutes. Can I get a motion for approval on the consent item?

Motion to move.

Second.

And so that will be on the revised minutes.

Yes. Thank you.

Yes. As amended.

Yes. As amended.

Good. Alright. So I have a motion from vice chair Lopez and a second from commissioner Huber. We're gonna do voice votes today. All in favor? Yes. Yes. Alright.

Alright. Post? Motion passes five zero.

K. On to our public hearings. Before we start, I must note that it is customary for commissioners to visit applicant sites. Unless any commissioner has further disclosure statements at this time, it may be stated that no contact was made during the visit with the applicant, his or her agent, or neighbors of the proposed project. So now we are at item two, Arwa physical therapy conditional use permit 1939. Petition submitted by Resin Alhifi to establish and operate a physical therapy clinic at 17720 excuse me New Hope Suite Number 120. This item is categorically exempt from CEQUA class one section fifteen three zero one. I will now open the public hearing. Staff report please.

Hi good evening commissioners. The following project is a request for a conditional use permit to establish and operate a new physical therapy clinic at 17220 New Hope Street, Suite Number 120. The project is located at the address 17220 New Hope Street here in Fountain Valley. Here's a site plan showing the approximate location of the unit where the facility is to be located. That's located in the Los Caballeros Sports Complex area, in the Plaza Del Lago Building.

You can see there it's in Building 2. The proposed physical therapy clinic will occupy approximately 1,200 square feet of office space. It'll operate as a health care office offering outpatient physical therapy services. Hours of operation will be 9AM to 5PM, Monday through Friday. The project is in planning area c of the Warner New Hope specific plan.

In this planning area, medical offices are allowed to occupy approximately 25% of the floor area of the Plaza Del Lago Building. Currently, medical offices occupy 22% of that 25 maximum area allowed. Based on these figures, parking will not be impacted in planning area c as the percentage of medical offices falls below that maximum 25% that is outlined in the Warner New Hope specific plan. Additionally, a parking study is not required for this project because it does not propose any new structures or expansions to buildings. Staff recommends adopting alternative number one to adopt resolution twenty five dash seventeen, adopting a notice of exemption in accordance with CEQUA and approved conditional use permit number 1939 for a physical physical therapy clinic located at 17220 New Hope Street, Suite Number 120.

And I'm available to answer any questions that you might have on this item. Thank you.

Commissioners, do we have any questions for

staff? No.

I have a question. Just a clarification on the hours of operation because I noticed tonight you said it was no weekends, no Saturdays, Monday through Friday. But then in the project description submitted by the applicant, it was regular operating hours Monday through Saturday. In the response to the permit number 1939 by the applicant, it was Monday through Friday, nine to five, excluding holidays and weekends. And then in the exhibit one to resolution number 2517 for the conditions of the approval, it lists hours of operation, eight to five Monday through Friday and eight to five on Saturday. So are they open on Saturday or not open on Saturday?

I believe the applicant is here to to address that question. What I had listed in the report was the most recent data that I had received from the applicant, which was in that response letter that they would be closed on weekends.

Okay.

Yeah. But I I also believe that the applicant is here to address that.

Any other questions for staff?

Alright. Is the applicant present? Would they like to speak? Please state your name for the record. Sorry? Please state your name for the record.

My name is Resen Alhelfi. Excuse me. My English is not perfect. So can you talk with my friend translation to me, please?

Of course. Okay.

I'm sorry about that.

No problem. Yeah.

This is Arwa.

Hi. Hello. Welcome. Okay. First of is there anything you wanted to say in general or otherwise we may have questions?

For me, no.

Okay. No. Question for the applicant.

Are you gonna be open on Saturdays or is it just Monday through Friday?

Just from Monday to Friday. Okay.

Yeah. Thanks.

Any other questions for the applicant? No. Alright. Thank you. Thank you, sir.

Do we have any request to speak on this item?

I have no request to speak, sir.

Okay. I will close the public hearing. Any discussion from the commissioners?

I got a quick question for mybioma. Last month, I think we approved another chiropractic office in this area too. Is that LCD plan to push some physical therapy chiropractor into that loss cap area?

No. Not necessarily. I think that area is just becoming more of a medical office building. And so the ownership group has approached us about eliminating the 25% requirement and eliminating the CUP requirement for these uses as well. I think it made sense many, many years ago when the specific plan was adopted, but I think we may be open. I think the restriction may have been because of parking or some other issues that no longer exist out there. So we have an application before the the city that will make its way towards you to amend a specific plan in general to to address some of these issues and not require the conditional use permit in the future.

Gotcha. Thanks.

But at this point in time that 25% threshold has not been met presently correct

correct, according to the slides, I think it was at twenty three percent. Yeah and just a fresh excuse me to address Commissioner Esco on the hours with the condition number five does have some hours on Saturday permitted you can leave it in or if you wanted to amend it, you could as well.

Anyone have thoughts on that or not? It's okay if we wanna leave it.

I'm gonna leave it.

I'm okay with it as

as Yeah.

Mean, it was made clear that it's not a good Friday.

Yeah. Alright. If there's no other comments or discussion, I'd be happy to entertain a motion. I'll move to approve,

please. I'll second.

Okay. I have a motion from commissioner Vu and a second from commissioner Humira. All in favor? Yes. Yes. Oh.

Opposed?

We can bump this way again.

Oh, are we going to the the screen or

Yeah. Any opposed? Motion passes five zero. Thank

you. Alright. On to our next item, revision to Euclid And Heil residential project, 16300 Euclid Street, tentative track map number 19448. Petition submitted by EPD Solutions to revise the type of map to be processed from a tentative parcel map to a tentative track map for Euclid And Heil project located at 16300 Euclid Street that was was approved by the Planning Commission on 06/05/2025 staff report please.

Thank you, mister chair. Commission, tonight before you is a application for a tentative track map for the Euclid, Ohio project at 1616300 Euclid Street. The proposal is to revise the type of map to be processed for this project from a tentative parcel map to a tentative track map. Other than the wording on the type of the map to be processed, no other changes to the approved project are proposed. The applicant submitted a parcel map because the project included three parcels, senior apartments, market rate apartments, and the townhomes triplex portion of the project.

But upon their maps milled to the county, they found out that the lettered lots counted as well. There's two letter lots. So in total, there are five separate lots. Therefore, the project would include five or more lots and would require a tentative track map. Other than this change to the map, the wording of the map, the project is the same that was proposed and approved by the Planning Commission on June 25 and includes the same density, same number of parcels, same parcel sizes, same number of units, layout, parking stalls, landscape percentage, building coverage, everything's exactly the same.

And I'll go through a couple of pages here to kind of prove that to you. The

this

is the cover sheet for the plans for the parcel map. I've underlined the word parcel and the number 2024 Dash 103. This is the proposed track map. We're basically changing the word parcel to track and the number from 2024103 to 19448. This is the approved sorry.

This is the approved overall map site plan for the parcel map, 202414 I'm sorry. 103, not 143. And this is the proposed track map. Again, literally nothing has changed on the map. It's just the name of the map and the number.

With the map change revisions to the resolutions that the Planning Commission approved twenty five-ten and twenty five-eleven, replacing tentative parcel map 2020 four-one Hundred 3 with tentative track map 19401944 eight are necessary. So staff's recommendation is to adopt a revised resolution for resolution number 25 dash 10 with one reference to 10 of parcel map and adopt a revised resolution 20 five-eleven, replacing tentative track alternative parcel map to tentative track map and to change the number. That concludes staff report.

Thank you. Do we have questions from commissioners?

Not really questions, just a point of clarification. So the whole purpose of this exercise is just to conform to the county's naming standards. Correct?

The county's naming stand well, the the naming standards for a map for a project like this.

And so nothing else has changed? It's just the name and the number? Yes. Perfect. Thank you.

And city staff and the city engineers went over every page of the of the map, analyzing the length of the parcels, the square footages, the acreage, everything is exactly the same. And,

well, the reason why they changed it is because they have to be compliant with the subdivision map

act. Yes, sir.

So you can only have four parcels and a parcel map. Anything over that, it has to be a track map, and it's just written out in the law. So all they're doing is they're they're being they're being compliant with the law. Mhmm. So they had to change it from a parcel map to a track map. And, yeah, there's no changes to it whatsoever. It's just that now it's just a different different map. Precisely.

I think it's an interpretation of the subdivision map back in terms of those lettered lots and where they're now they count towards that five. And so, the county came back with that interpretation, so that's where we are.

That that actually gets to the question I had. So is that what the crux of the issue of, like, how we ended up on the wrong side of this with the original map? We thought that letter lots didn't count to the five or

I would say

more general oversight.

Or Steven, I would say that the applicant submitted a parcel map. Steven indicated that he thought it would be a track map. The applicant was persistent that they believe it was a parcel map, and so we processed it as a parcel map. Turns out Steven's intuition was correct, so we're back with a track map.

Other questions for staff? This end. Thank you. Do we have an applicant to speak today? I please state your name for the record.

Yes. Good evening commissioners. My name is Selena Kelleher. I am with the EPD Solutions. We also have Blair Ruffner here with Shop Off. We were before you in June and are back at here as staff explained to change the name of a map from a parcel map to a track map and Celia agree with everything that staff has said tonight, review the conditions of approval and have no further comments unless you have any questions for us.

Any questions for the applicant? I don't think so. Thank you.

Thank you.

Do we have any public comments today? No, sir. Alright. Anyone on Zoom? Okay. With that, close the public hearing. Any discussion or comments from the commissioners?

Hey, got one question for Omar. So I remember last time when the our city council meeting, we consider the West Bar Of Euclid going to be convert option to convert from two land to three land, eliminate the parking on the street in that area. How is that going right now?

That's a great question. And my memory is fading right now, so I will come back to you at your next meeting and get back to you on where we landed with that discussion. I believe we're looking into that further, but let me come back you.

Yes, because this is mainly not related, but today I go through the packet and I saw the plan, the typical session repair by Kim Lee and Han. They show that they have option to go to three lands. I just wonder how it's going.

Thank you. We have Tomo here. Tomo can address that. Thank you. Tomo Galvez? That's good.

Good

to know that.

I was hiding.

Members of the commission, good evening. And that that's a great question. So the direction from the city council was to have staff, evaluate, the options of putting together a study to to to look at the impacts of the proposed third lane, and we were gonna come back to the council with that. But but at this time, we're we've been asked so we're we're soliciting, and we're looking at actual cost of what it would look like to study that, and we'll bring that back.

Thanks, Timo. Thank you.

Alright. I will entertain a motion including the updated pages if we have one.

Move the item.

I'll second.

Alright. I have a motion from Commissioner Hubner and a second from Commissioner Brothers. Voice vote, please, on both

items one and two.

All in favor? Yes.

Aye. Opposed? Motion passes five

zero. Thank you everyone. Alright. Do we have any comments from staff? No, sir. Do we have any comments from the commissioners? Okay. That was pretty quick. I will now adjourn to the next regular planning commission meeting scheduled for December 10 at 6PM. Thank you, everybody.

We're changing it now.

Yes. I think that is the one we should be doing more often because