Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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Good evening, Chair Vang, members of the Planning Commission. I'm Israel Trejo with the Planning and Development Department. There are no changes to the agenda. Thank you.

Alright. Thank you. Do we have any comments or motion from the commissioners to approve the agenda?

Approve the agenda. Okay.

Alright. We have a motion by commissioner Diaz. We have a second by commissioner Calandra. All in favor, aye. Aye. All opposed,

say no. Agenda is approved. Next, do we

have any reports from the commissioners? None. We'll go ahead and move forward to new matters. This is new matter item ID two six one. CUP application number P2404504. And for the record, please note that we have commissioner Schergo in attendance.

Alright. Good evening, commissioners. Chris Lang with the planning and development department. I just wanted to take a moment to ask you to welcome Diego Sinclair. He is a planner who's been with the city for four years, and this is his first opportunity to present a project to you. Diego's a native a Fresno native as well as a Fresno State graduate study planning. So we're excited to have him on the team, and hopefully he'll have more opportunities in the future to present to you. Thank you.

Good evening, chair Ving and members of the commission. I am Diego St. Clair of planning and development. Here tonight to present for your consideration conditional use permit number P24Dash04504 and the related environmental document. The project before us this evening is located in District 1 at 3484 West Shields Avenue between North Valentine And North Brawley Avenues.

This is a multiunit housing project proposing 36 units within its 2.23 acres of land. An affordable housing component is also included in the proposal. The subject property can be seen in the center of this map outlined in red. It is zoned RS 5, which is a single unit residential designation. As you can see, there are a mix of zone districts in the vicinity.

While properties immediately adjacent to the subject property are all residential uses of different types. To the north, east, and south of the subject property, there are mobile home communities, while to the west, there are single unit residences. This property, being zoned single unit residential, may only be granted a multiunit housing, a multiunit housing use subject to the approval of a conditional use permit. In the Fresno Municipal Code section fifteen nine zero six, duplex and multiunit residential standards, the Planning Commission is listed as the review authority for such projects. Here we see the site plan as proposed by the applicant.

36 units and a community building will be spread across the seven buildings on-site with 73 parking stalls to accommodate both residents and guests. Additionally, these residential structures are two story stall. To mitigate high concerns, the project is conditioned to provide screening along the west side of the property. Furthermore, the project has been conditioned to comply with all relevant sections of the development code. Partner agencies have reviewed and conditioned the project as well.

Of particular note, the Department of Public Works has conditioned the project to dedicate a 52 foot easement for public street purposes in front of the property, which includes a sidewalk, curb, gutter, and paving for additional travel lanes. 35% of the total units on-site have been proposed by the applicant to be affordable for lower income households. A covenant will be entered as part of the conditions of approval to ensure that these units stay affordable for a minimum of thirty years. This proposal grants the property several incentives. Prior to this, the maximum number of units allowed on-site would have been 27.

With this 35% bonus, however, the property is allowed a maximum of 36 units, which is the current proposal. A meeting was held late twenty twenty three for the benefit of introducing neighbors to the project. Notices were sent to all property owners within 1,000 feet of the subject property, and the meeting was held at a nearby public location. Seven members of the community were in attendance that night, and the property owners presented the project to them in detail. A notice was sent on December to both property owners and tenants within 1,000 feet of the subject property to inform them of tonight's hearing.

No letters of opposition were received, but one letter in support of the project was received. Staff's recommendation tonight is to, one, adopt environmental assessment number P24DashO4504, a determination that the proposed project is categorically exempt from the provisions of CEQA pursuant to a class 32 infill development environmental assessment. And two, we recommend that conditional use permit application number P24DashO4504 be approved subject to compliance with the conditions of approval dated 01/07/2026. With that, that that concludes my presentation. Staff is available at this moment to answer any questions, and we also have the property owner here to answer any questions.

Thank you. Do we have any questions from the commission? Go ahead.

You know, I'm very familiar with that area. Actually, that's West Of 99 and the 93722. Is the infrastructure being improved? Because Shield Avenue, there are like so many potholes, especially in that area. I mean, there's a trailer park right there, multiple apartments. And now we also have a new elementary which just about half a mile from there. And yes, know this is amazing. Know we do need more housing. Is infrastructure for the street itself since you know we're bringing in more traffic, Is it being improved?

Yes. The project has, been conditioned to repair any damage to existing street improvements, as well as providing additional lanes of travel for vehicles in front of the property, and, they are conditioned to construct a sidewalk and a curb.

Thank you.

Any other questions or comments? Thank you. Thanks. Alright. Do we have the advocate here?

Good evening. Good evening, everybody. My name is Prabhdeep Prad. Actually, I'm, Harris Madara. He's the main applicant.

I'll be speaking on behalf of him. I just really wanna thank you the opportunity for letting me speak tonight in front of you. So I just wanted to pretty much go over briefly why would why it would be the the best idea for the Fresno to build this first 36 unit apartments. Fresno is growing, and with the growth comes of really really need for more housing options and well maintained property, professionally managed and rental housing for workers, families, and professional individuals who live who want to live close by to their jobs and schools and their services that they perform. This project is not about overbuilding.

It's it is about responsibly adding housing where it's needed in a way that fine that fits the neighborhood, complies with the zoning, and meets all the city standards. Every part of the project is designed with a long term impact. It's not just about five year, ten year, five years, six years, seven years. We're thinking about next thirty years. So pretty much was what is gonna happen when we build this project?

We're gonna increase the housing supply, and we'll be able to give more affordable housing to the low income people. And it's gonna provide a modern, safe, and court compliant homes, especially a lot of homes in those areas are really old. Not a lot of homes are newly built. Lot this construction is gonna be new, so it this would be a really big attraction. And it's also gonna generate, obviously, the tax revenue for the local community, and it would be better for all over.

And we have operated our businesses. We own our trucking business in Fresno. I've lived my whole life in Fresno. So every business that we have operated is gonna be family owned. So we'll be managing this business as a family, and we'll make sure everybody who rents out or who's living in this apartment is well taken care of. But, yeah, that's pretty much about it.

Thank you. Of the 36 units, how many of them will be lower income?

I believe 35% as stated earlier.

Roughly about eight. Any questions? I do. Any

of the residents that were present in the meeting, did any of them have any concerns?

Not that I know of.

I do have a comment actually in looking at the legend and your plans. I I really can appreciate all of the use of the plants that you're using.

Mhmm.

And you felt the need to describe what those plants were. And and just seeing this, I can tell that not only will you have a lot of units, but you have the privacy for those units. So I did notate that, and that's that's great.

Thank you so much.

Aniyah, go ahead.

I know traveling around Fresno, I do see a lot of like apartments like landlords. Sometimes, you know, they they do not take care of their like grass landscaping because beautification is very important

Mhmm.

To the area. So can you ensure that the landscaping, the look for the area will be maintained?

100% it will be.

Will you have like a landscaper hired or how are gonna handle that?

Pretty much in our personal properties too. If the property not well maintained, it's not a property that you care about. So we'll make sure if landscapers are assigned and everything is getting taken care of. If something is damaged or something that's near repairs or that something needs to be planted or maybe the grass is growing old, we need to regrow the grass or whatever needs to be done, it will get done.

So it will show a product ownership?

100%, it will be.

Amazing. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Chair, if I may, I just wanna clarify one comment relative to the amount of affordable housing units. So, the the developer can propose as many as they want. But in order to get the number the the 35% bonus density bonus, they're only required to have eight units that are affordable. So if he wants to do more than that, that's fine. But eight minimum is required. Okay. Just wanna clarify that.

Perfect. Thank you. Alright. We'll go ahead and go to the public. Do we have any individuals who would like to speak in support?

Alright. Any individuals who would like to speak in opposition? Go ahead. Do we need a thank you. Good evening, sir. Please state your name, address, and you have three minutes.

Good evening. Thank you for hearing me. My name is Robert Garcia. I live at 3094 North Sellen, approximately, on the would be the western northwestern corner of proposed project. I've lived in that area since 1986.

In my present residence since 2022, I attended the meeting at the pizza business, three years ago when they sent out notices to, bite the public to talk about the proposed project. The proposed project, what would be the, hopefully, the back of the units that are gonna be built there. And I'm I'm here to just voice my opposition to the said 36 units that are proposed to being built there because I think it'll bring, unwanted congestion. Three years ago, the representatives for the developer actually said that the value of the already 40 year old homes actually goes up when they put a project in like that. And I have to vehemently disagree with that because, you know, anytime and I'm not I'm not picking on people that live in apartments.

I started out living in an apartment. But whenever you plunk down a large scale project like that next to single home dwellings, they go down in value. There's gonna be even more congestion on shields. There are several lots in the vicinity that would more than accommodate a large apartment complex than something squeezed into that area. Sorry. So, mainly, I just oppose it because of the congestion it's gonna bring in the devalue of the existing homes. Thank you for hearing me.

Thank you, sir. Do we have any other individuals who would like to speak in opposition? Alright. We'll go ahead and close all public comments. Applicant, may I please have you address some of these concerns?

Being a property owner, I totally respect all the conditions. I mean, if you're living in a neighborhood that's gonna be more congested than what it used to be. Definitely, I would say then it would be a drawback. Right? But I don't think that it's gonna increase the condition at all because all the apartments, all the people living in the apartments, they're gonna have their own parking spaces. We have almost 73 parking spaces. Right? And the housing, if the house is right next to it, I believe we have trees. They're gonna have their own privacy. I don't really see this too much of a big concern because either way, Shield is pretty the area where there is there are a lot of empty lots as the individual said.

Right? So if there are a lot of individual losses, I don't I go down there pretty much every day, every other day down the road, and I don't see too much traffic condition over there as of right now. And being close to 99, it does give access to a lot of people to go to their jobs And there are a lot of space there there are gonna be a lot of parking spaces built into a whole apartment project that's gonna let the people park their cars. There's not gonna be any condition on the roads. And to be frankly, I have never seen any apartment where there any apartment if there are apartment built somewhere, I have never seen too much condition just because of condition just because of apartment itself.

Maybe if it was a commercial land, if there was a business conducting getting conducted over there daily, then I would see the problem coming in.

Can I ask

you a question? Mhmm. What is the setback on the back of the apartments from this gentleman's, back fence or his house?

Setback? I didn't get the question.

That's how much land is Diego maybe you Diego probably has it.

That would be on the rear of the property?

I I believe that's what he said.

20 feet.

20 feet from the fence or so the apartments are 20 feet from the fence of his home.

Along the rear. Yes. I think they're talking

about the West property line. Okay.

The setback is currently 10 feet for a portion and currently six feet for another portion. However, the project is conditioned to comply with all setbacks, which will make it at least 10 feet for the entirety of the portion.

The back of the apartment is 10 feet from his fence. That's what I'm trying to

Yes.

Commissioner Bray. So the the person the gentleman that came up earlier is lives along the West Property line. And so the the project is conditioned to have a 10 foot setback along that that West property line. Additionally, the conditions of approval include a a six foot block wall, as well as dense landscaping along along that property line, along the West property

And so when you say perhaps Zach, when you say dense landscape, if if I were him, I would be concerned about the second story, you know, looking into my yard. So you would put tree trees, not just bushes, that as they grew would help to block the the vision into his backyard?

Yes. Yes. Trees are required along that that West Park line. Correct. Yes.

So I I do have a question too, because I'm actually looking at the map, and the West is not where the parking lot is, but on the other side where the apartments line up? Just to confirm. Okay. Yes. So I do see on the legend, one of them is like a crepe myrtle tree, and we have lantana. I don't know what that is, but it says it's a plant. It doesn't say it's a tree. Would it be possible just for privacy purposes if we made them all trees? Because it looks like it's about like, 55, sixty, forty, like, 60% plants, 40% trees along different areas

of the building

if we're looking at the at the legend, is it possible to make them all trees so that they have more privacy?

Yes. The the planning commission can can recommend that as a conditional approval that they they state the the the species of trees along that West property line.

Can we find out how tall these crape myrtle trees are? I can tell you. Okay.

My old house had a crape myrtle tree that almost went to that top the bottom of the balcony. So they can get very big, you know, a lantana is just a low growing shrub. Okay. So

So replace the lantanas with the myrtle trees along.

If we wanna do that, yeah, as a condition.

I don't think we have to specify the kind of tree. Think we just say the height of a tree. Okay. And and the applicant can, you know, fill what we say is the height of the trees.

Yes. You can say say something, you know, a a tree at full growth that's, you know, 30 feet, something like that. Just that way, there's some options on on the type of tree. I see.

Alright. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Alright. We'll go ahead and bring it back to the commission. Do we have any final questions, comments, motions from the commission?

I just have a comment. You know in city of Fresno, we I actually saw the meeting in the council last couple of weeks ago. There were like so many community members and it was all about housing. How are we gonna house all the people? And filling in the infills of the city is very important.

And like I said, I I have shared with you, I am very familiar with this area. This this area has been neglected, redlined, forgotten for a long time. And and I think it is it is now our chance as a city, the mistakes that we have made in the past to correct them. And, we do need to infill those empty lots. I mean, you know, city of Fresno is so unique especially like when you go outward.

Like there's a city, then you got a county, you got city. Especially the people who live in those areas, you know, they understand how it is. So, I would say that I do support this project, and I But I do appreciate the trees because our air is getting bad. I think having more tree, that just adds more beautification to the project. I think it's it's more appealing for people to walk under the trees, sit under the trees. So, I'm open to recommend approval of this project with the trees.

Thank you. Can we say approval with that type of tree along the replacing the legend?

Yes.

Okay. Alright. I just wanna say

I'll approve that. Yes. So I mean we definitely need to support the housing projects because a lot of people you know they need affordability. And I think it and plus it'll bring more tax revenue to our city. It just I think it's it's it's better for the city to especially infill the inside of the city. So yes. I'm Yeah. I would I would recommend the project to be approved with with what you said, with the trees.

And I I share the same sentiment too. Think especially the fact that it is an infill project. You have this piece of property that is in a elongated more like a rectangle. Right? And the fact that you're willing to build on this, I think that's gonna go a long way in really trying to support that area and the fact that you're gonna have affordable housing in there. I mean, I just hope that you do communicate with these neighbors and provide your provide your information to them too just so in case they have any kind of issues, they can reach out to you directly if you guys are truly going to manage this manage this by yourself as a family too. Definitely try to be good neighbors to those neighbors too. Okay. Any other additional comments or motion? Jennifer?

Sure. The one thing that I would encourage the commission, so is to instead of specifying a specific cultivar is to specify a type of tree. So obviously because of the sustainable groundwater management act, are required to have trees that are drought tolerant. There is another tree that's also called out on the site plan, is Mexican redbud. It grows 10 to 25 feet tall, but it is a wider footprint tree.

The specific, Natchez crepe myrtle grows, up to, 20 to 30 feet, but they're both specifically one, drought tolerant and two, fast growing. So what you really want to specify is the height that you're expecting. Is it 25 feet? Is it 30 feet? What is the height that you would like the tree to achieve and that it be drought tolerant and fast growing because that allows for a little bit of flexibility to ensure that we're meeting sigma, but, also to achieve the separation of uses that you're looking for. Thank you.

I think the the best look would be to have a combination of fast growing trees that are drought tolerant that can grow 25 to 30 feet. If they do a combination instead of all one kind, it'd be prettier. Fair.

We give them the flexibility. Do you you wanna make a motion?

Sure.

Find my alright. I'll make a motion to adopt the environmental assessment, number P2404504, and approve the conditional use permits with ensuring that the criteria for any trees that are drought resistant within the ledger and can grow up to 20 to 30 feet be used for privacy screening to the neighbors up against the the wall of the apartments.

I'll second that.

Okay. So we have a motion by commissioner Laday. We have a second by commissioner Scherger. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. Motion's approved. Alright. So on the next item, we're gonna move to consideration of tentative track map number 6440.

Excuse me. Good evening, Vang and commissioners. My name is John George with the planning and development department. Staff brings forth for your consideration tentative track map number 6440 and associated environmental assessment. This application was submitted by High-tech Home Builders LLC.

The proposed track map is located on the West Side Of North Hayes between West Shaw Avenue and West Gettysburg Avenues. The planned land use for the site is residential medium density. The properties to the north, west, and south are residential medium density, and the properties east are residential medium low density. The general existing land uses surrounding, here we go, the general existing, land uses surrounding the subject property are primarily single unit residential neighborhoods and rural residences. Adjacent west and east of the proposed subdivisions subdivision are single unit residential developments, adjacent north and south are resident rural residences.

The proposed track map will be comprised of 45 single unit residential lots on approximately 8.79 acres of property. The project proposes a resident residential density of 5.12 dwelling units per acre, which is consistent with the medium density residential density range between five and twelve dwelling units per acre. The proposed lots have an average size of 5,023 acres. Project contains a

I think you meant feet, five five thousand twenty three feet, But that you're yeah. You're good.

Oh, did I say acres? You did.

My apologies. I

just wanted to clarify the record, but it you're good. Keep going.

5,023 square feet. My apologies.

Big plot.

Yeah. They're huge. The project contains a trail that runs north south and is located just east of North Sandrine Avenue. Construction of the trail will allow for a future connectivity with the surrounding sites. Per code, there is no open space requirement for the project because it contains less than 50 parcels.

However, the project proposes approximately point four four acres of open space, including the trail. However, excuse me, the project complies with all other development standards of the RS 5 Zone District, subject to the conditions of approval. The council district one project review committee reviewed the project at the regular meeting on 08/10/2023 and provided no recommendation. This slide is a representation of how the proposed track map fits into the existing vacant parcel. In conclusion, it is staff's recommendation for approval of the tentative track map and associated environmental assessment.

This concludes staff's presentation, and we are available for questions.

Alright, thank you.

I note that also the applicant is present.

Thank you. I appreciate it. Any questions, comments? Go ahead Commissioner Schrager.

Was public meeting held for this project? Like when the public for District 1, when the meeting was held, were there any opposition?

No. Okay. No. Thank you. Is the meeting required? I'm sorry? Is the meeting required?

Well, the district project review committee meeting is required.

But like in regards to public notices or?

No. Okay.

Any questions? Comments?

For the it could be a question for the owner when they present. Affordability wise, do they have like price range?

I will defer to the owner.

Okay. Got it. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks so much.

Mhmm. Alright. Thank you. I appreciate it. What we'll do is we'll have the applicant come here. Do we have the applicant here?

Good evening. Hi, my name is Alan Malcolm, the engineer of the project. I'm representing the owner the two owners over there. As far as to answer your question, the price right now, roughly the price range was about from 350,000 to $400,000 range. You know, this project did take quite a while.

I think as we started like three, four years ago when the market was really high, but now things change now. So, yeah. We, you know, we want to we do have three different standard model homes that we want to build out there. And we have some bigger lots, some smaller lots. So, we could have different wide range of different people to be able to purchase purchase and buy property over there.

Also, what's the like square footage of the homes? Do you have that?

I don't have them handy, but I think they were from 02/2000 of

Good evening, commissioners. My name is Hardeep Sudhoo. Address, 4775 North Torrey Pines Avenue, Fresno. Yes. We have a 2,000 square feet to 2,500 square feet, and some is 1,500 square feet.

So you so you guys are offering like a variety to the people if they want like a smaller or a bigger. That's thank you. That's correct. Thank

you.

Do you guys have any other developments within the City Of Fresno at OSU?

The high-tech development, there's a lot of different type of development. You know, we did with the offices, gas station, truck stop and some housing unit as well.

Got you. Okay. Questions? Comments? No. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you everyone.

Sure, but I just have a comment. I think with the again, you know, with the with the house crisis that we're in, even Washington is making comment about making housing affordable. It is long overdue because the American dream is getting away from people's hand like an average people. So so it's a so it's a good thing. You know, we're blessed to be in Fresno.

Like, Fresno is I think the last city standing. Like in California, would say, very few cities that still has affordability. And when we should be proud that, you know, people are getting an opportunity to call Fresno their home. So yeah. So I think providing multiple square footage, even the even I think that price range, I mean, hearing the price range like in the high 3 hundreds, like that's affordable because like the homes have gone through the roof 500,000 in Fresno. So

Alright. So we'll go ahead and go to the public. Do we have any individuals who would like to speak in support? See none. Any individuals who would like to speak in opposition?

If you wanna speak in opposition, this is your time. Alright. I'm gonna go ahead and close all public comments. We'll bring him back to the commission. Oh, okay. I thought you're gonna bless us with

a okay. So today.

Alright. Do we have any questions, comments?

Anyone? Can you turn on your mic? Sorry.

I'd like to make a motion to approve staff recommendations to adopt the mitigated negative declaration and approve the tentative track map.

Alright. We have a motion by commissioner Calandra. We have a second by commissioner Diaz. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, say no. Motion's approved. Yeah. That's fine. Why don't we we're gonna go ahead and take a quick five minute break, if that's okay with everyone.

It's currently 06:39. We'll resume at 06:45, please. Thank you. Alright, everyone. Thank you for your patience.

We'll go ahead and resume the meeting. Next on the agenda, we have consideration of vesting tentative track map number 6443.

Good evening once again, Chair Vang and Commissioners. My name is John George. With the Planning and Development Department, staff bring forth for your consideration vesting tentative tract map number 6443 and related environmental finding. This application was submitted by G and B Estates LLC. The proposed track map is located on the West Side Of North Hayes between West Shaw and West Gettysburg Avenues.

The planned land use for the site is residential medium density, the property to the north is residential urban neighborhood, the property to the south and much of the property to the west is also residential medium density. The property to the east is residential medium low density. The general existing land use uses surrounding the subject property are primarily single unit residential neighborhoods and and rural residences. Adjacent west and east of the proposed subdivision is a single unit residential neighborhood. Adjacent north and south are rural residences.

The proposed track map will be comprised of 11 single unit residential lots on approximately 1.32 acres. The project proposes a residential density of 8.33 dwelling units per acre, which is consistent with the medium density residential range between five and twelve units per acre. The proposed lots have an average size of 5,346 square feet. The project contains a trail that runs north south and is located just west of Lot Number 11. Construction of the trail will allow for future connectivity with the surrounding sites.

Per code, there is no open space requirement for the project because it contains less than 50 parcels. However, the project proposes approximately 13,534 square feet or 0.31 acres of open space, including the trail. The project complies with all other development standards of the RS5 Zone District, subject to the conditions of approval. The Council one Council District one project review committee reviewed the project at the regular meeting on 09/12/2024 and recommended that staff plan according to public transportation in the area and consider possibilities to direct traffic away from Shaw Avenue. This slide is a representation of how the proposed track map fits into the existing vacant parcel.

And I wanted to just point out real quickly, this project is just two parcels removed from the one you just, we just presented. In conclusion, it is staff's recommendation for approval of the vesting tentative track map and associated environmental assessment. This concludes staff's presentation. We are available for questions. We also have in attendance Philip Lima, engineer representing the applicant, Gurple Baines.

Mister George, I mean, this project and the other project are completely different. Correct? Even it's just a coincidence that they're in the same area?

Yes, that's correct. Okay. I

just wanted to clarify that for the record. Any questions or comments?

I just want to know the affordability for those homes and the square footage, the variety of the homes.

Commissioner Scherger, I'm going to

thank you. Let's before we do that, do we have any additional questions or comments for staff? None? Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Hello. My name is Philip Lima. I'm representing Greenwood and Associates to speak about this map. As far as your question, the developer is looking at around 400 to 500,000 in that range, in the range of, like, 2,000 square foot homes. One thing I would like to speak on about this track is there were a few challenges to developing this map.

One being there's a very large flood control pipeline that runs along the northern part of our border, which was part of our reason for the lot layout and and how the the parcels are are developed. The road is basically gonna be going over the top of the pipeline that is already in the ground, and it goes south through the middle of basically near the trail and through the neighboring subdivision that's gonna be going in as well to that local basin. So it's a nice protection for the infrastructure that's already there, you know, and we will be adding to it as well. We've worked with the fire department to ensure what we are putting in is going to help them, you know, meet state and local regulations for access to anything they need and to kind of maximize the open space that we're putting in. Initially, we had considered, having the cul de sac, you know, closer, but we elongated the street a little, made it bigger, easier to turn around, things like that.

K. Great. Questions? Questions? No. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Yep. We'll go ahead and go to the public. Any individuals who would to speak in support? Alright. None. Any individuals who would like to speak in opposition? Alright. We'll close all public comments. We'll bring it back to the commission. Do we have any additional questions, comments or motion?

I'll make a motion to approve it.

Second. Yes, second. Okay. So we have a motion by commissioner Scherger, a second by commissioner the day. All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, say no. Motion's approved. Thank you. Alright. Next. Let's see. Maybe Ports from the secretary.

Good evening, chair and members of the commission. As we start our new year, we are working as a team to ensure that we are, meeting all of our requirements, for state law as well as local code. And, we would like to continue to bring training opportunities to the commission. So, what I would request is that if there are specific topics that you would like covered, to please email me or Carrie or Ashley to let us know, and we will add that into the rotation, for for this upcoming year, but it is our goal to ensure that we're all up to date on all of the current laws and all of the current rules, but also to refresh on topics that are important like conditions of approval and findings of fact. I also know that the commissioners, a couple of commissioners asked if we could have individual individualized training.

We're happy to do that. If you will also reach out to my office, we will set that up. If you wanted specific one on one training, we're happy

to do that. Thank you.

Thank you, and happy New Year.

Thank you. Do we have any unscheduled oral communications?

Yes. I have a just a comment. I was able to attend Mayor Dyer and Chief Casto. They did a, you know, media release where I was very impressed for Fresno community or businesses where our crime is decreasing. So, I just wanna say kudos to our wonderful city of Fresno, our wonderful mayor Dyer, our wonderful council, and our wonderful police department for making sure that people who reside reside in Fresno, the businesses that are run Fresno, and people who visit our beautiful city of Fresno are are made feel welcomed and made feel that they are safe.

So I think that was a very proud moment Just to see the numbers that the crime is decreasing, especially for the business owners. You know, a couple of years ago, a lot of like there was a lot of theft. People were stealing stuff from stores. It just it has decreased. And I have also visited I like to shop local. So, I visited a lot of places during the New Year, our holidays. And I just love the way how people are being treated. How people have smiles on their faces. And and the wonderful customer service that our businesses are providing our community. It was just, I would say, very positive experience beginning of the year.

Wish everybody a a very successful, healthy, and wealthy, and blessed New Year. Thanks so much.

Thank you. Alright. Any other unscheduled oral communications? I see none at 06:55. Media is adjourned. Have a good day.