Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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All right. Good afternoon, everybody. You all good? All right. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the 11/07/2024, Regular Planning Commission meeting. I'd like to start off with the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand. Thank you all. Ariana, can I get a report on posting the agenda and roll call,

The agenda was posted on Friday, November 1, at 09:17 a? M. Roll call. Commissioner Eli? Here. Commissioner Lingard? Absent. Commissioner Lewis? Here. Commissioner Ramirez? Here. Commissioner Valdez? Here. Vice Chair Kushner?

Here.

Chair Bandel?

Here.

Thank

you, Ariana. Are there any public comments for items not on the agenda?

There are no speakers.

Thank you. I'll move on to consent agenda, 09/19/2024 Planning Commission meeting minutes. Commissioners, any questions, comments, concerns?

I move that the be approved as written.

I second.

Roll call vote please.

Commissioner Ellie?

Yes.

Commissioner Lewis?

Yes.

Commissioner Ramirez? Yes. Commissioner Valdez?

Yes.

Vice Chair Kushner? Yes. Chair Bondo?

Yes. Moving on to public hearings 6.1, Ark and Site Review for a contractor's yard located at 230 And 260 Las Animas Avenue, application AS 20 Three-eighteen. Erin?

Thank you. Good evening, Chair Bondle, commissioners and members of the public. The item tonight before you is for an architectural review and, site review permit at 230 And 260 Los Animas Avenue for a new contractor's yard for O'Neill Lath and Plastering Corporation in the M1 Limited Industrial Zoning District, Murray Los Animas Overlay District, and the Industrial Park General Plan Land Use designation. This site includes two undeveloped parcels for a total of 3.6 acres located on the South Side Of Los Animas Avenue between Monterey Road and Murray Avenue. It is bordered to the south and east by offices, a vacant parcel to the north, and a currently vacant parcel to the west which was approved last year and is in building plan check for a new light industrial warehouse.

The business has been in operations for the past twenty years, providing scaffolding and plastering materials in the Bay Area. The materials will be stored at this location and then transported to job sites. They will operate Monday through Friday from 7AM to 5PM. They expect a maximum of 18 daily truck trips, nine in the morning and nine in the PM, and two employees to maintain the storage, load and unload the trucks, and minor maintenance of vehicles. The site improvements would include installing aggregate base rock for the ground cover, outdoor storage of materials such as scaffolds, stucco equipment, debris boxes, and trucks.

The outdoor storage would be limited to a maximum height of 10 feet to ensure landscape screening would be able to be sufficient. There will be six parking stalls and bicycle racks provided. The site will have two access driveways from Los Santos Avenue with a loop driveway and that will be, fire truck accessible and a new fire hydrant installed to the rear of the site. There will also be a six foot tall chain link fence around the perimeter and the off-site improvements will include installing a class two bike lane. The only building that will be constructed is a 120 square foot 11 foot tall restroom.

It will be in stucco with a bronze metal roof. The landscape screening includes 31 new street tree trees planted along the entire perimeter. The tree species will include California buckeye, Chinese pistach, California sycamore, and Bay Laurel. So in summary, the proposal is consistent with the M one limited industrial zoning district development standards and the by right use of a contractor's yard. It meets the Murray Los Animas Overlay District with enhanced landscaping and neutral building tones.

It meets the industrial design guidelines with an attractive streetscape, smooth on-site circulation, and screening around the outdoor storage. And it is consistent with the general plan land designation, which intends for low intensity industrial developments in this area. Staff finds this project to be exempt under CEQA per section 15,332 for infill development due to the site being less than five acres, consistent with the general plan and zoning, has adequate utility infrastructure, and no other environmentally sensitive characteristics. Staff received one public comment, excuse me, after the agenda was published from a community group called the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, which provided some recommendations to consider, including EV charging stations, methods for a VMT analysis, shower locker and dressing facilities, bike fix at station and to promote transit ridership. The project will be required to comply with the green building code in regards to EV charging stations.

A VMT analysis is exempt from this project pursuant to the governor's technical advisory which exempts projects that are less than 110 daily trips. It's called a small project exemption. And it offers offering showers or a bike fix it station is not a requirement currently. That would be voluntary on the applicant to provide that. And the site is within a quarter mile of the bus stop Route 68 on Monterey and Los Animas.

And the project will be promoting transit ridership with the connection to that bus stop by including a new bike lane. So in conclusion, staff has analyzed the proposed project and recommends that the Planning Commission based on its independent analysis determine the project is exempt from further environmental review pursuant to state CEQA guidelines section 15,332 and adopt a resolution approving the proposed architectural on-site review permit AS 20. And that concludes my presentation, and I'm available and the applicant is also here for questions.

Great. Thank you, Erin. Commissioner, any questions?

I am not sure if you received the questions I had just minor. I wanted to know, should I just list them?

Sure. Yeah.

The 18 trips per day, it looked like this was based on the current use and not the future use, which that looks like they want to expand down and have a nice office and things like that too. Is that correct?

That's correct. And I did ask the applicant if this does include or what would be an anticipated maximum in the future and they said that, this would be the maximum maximum amount of trips in the day at the most.

And then, I was very happy to see the deep root tree root barriers. Those are great, to keep the roots from not pulling up any hard structures like, you know, sidewalks, things like that. Mhmm. And then I've asked this before that Chinese Pistache, it's a species that's usually classified as invasive. I know we have it on our list, but, it's it propagates with male and female. So, I don't know, is there another species that we can use or maybe make sure that it's one sex? Sure.

Yeah. I understand. I mean, I think the applicant is open to another species. That is an option or I think on other projects, we have limited it to a male species.

I think I think for that project that they picked another tree because of yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. We can It's kind of definitely say that the Chinese pistach should to be removed, replaced with, a native tree.

And then the last thing is this is completely, if they would like to do it, it would be fantastic because they're gonna have the bike lockers there and as someone who used to commute on bike, you always knew where the repair stations were, where you could get, air and if something should happen, there's really nothing else around there. It's completely up to them, but they do have the lockers and if they had a repair station for someone like me rather than saying, hey, can you come pick me up, they could lock their bikes up, maybe do a minor repair and get back on the road, but it's up to them. That would be a nice oasis for bicyclists. Okay. That's it. Okay. Thank you.

I had a question regarding I know they're not doing any maintenance currently. For future uses, once they build out a complete terminal there, is there going to be maintenance?

The maintenance I've heard is just minor on the vehicles to get them ready for pre inspections on the highway.

I don't think their expansion would include more than that. Yeah. I do have one more that just popped up. So when they if they build out, an office, would outside lighting be added? Because I know it's not in there now. It's not

I'd have to check. I don't think that's an actual requirement on their part.

Just wondering. It's fine.

Yeah. But if they do, if they do want to include an office in the future, it would go through an architectural and site review permit again and come back to the Planning Commission because it being under the Murray Los Angeles overlay district requires them to come to the Planning Commission again.

Wonderful. Thank you.

Commissioners, any more questions? All right. I'm going to open it to public comment.

There are no speakers.

Would the applicant like to speak? Totally up to you. Commissioners, any questions for the applicant? We're good. All right.

I'm going to close public hearing. All right. The floor is open for a motion or further discussion. All right. I will go ahead and make a motion based on its independent analysis to determine this project is exempt from further environmental review pursuant to state CEQA guidelines, Section 15,332 Class 32 and adopt a resolution approving the Arc and Site Review Permanent Application AS 20 three-eighteen.

I'll second.

Do you want me to

just Yeah.

Just Okay. Is it on now?

Yes.

Okay. So do you want to make a friendly amendment and add the bike, the repair station or the change to trees. So that should be in the motion.

Yes. I do want to add a friendly amendment for the trees. I guess I really want to leave it up to the applicant on whether they want to do the bike, repair.

All right. So do I read it? You want me to read it again?

No. It just just approved the motion as with the friendly. Do you accept the friendly amendment?

I do. Okay.

You.

You.

Volkl? Commissioner Eli? Yes. Commissioner Lewis? Yes. Commissioner Ramirez? Yes. Commissioner Valdez?

Yes.

Vice Chair Kushner?

Yes.

Chair Bondle?

Yes. That was unanimous. Congratulations and thank you.

Thank you.

Do you have to read number B as well?

You read A. Yes,

together. These ones we could have done together. All right, moving on to seven, seven point one, approval of the twenty twenty five Planning Commission and meeting agenda.

Chairman? Good evening, Chair and Planning Commissioners. As you saw in the general report, similar to last year, we developed a 2025 Planning Commission meeting schedule. And for the January meeting, since the first Thursday, it's going to be on January 2, and staff have proposed rescheduling that to the following Thursday because it was very close to the winter holidays right after January 1. And then for the March meeting, the same thing as last year too.

That first Thursday falls in the middle of the League of California City's Planning Commissioners Academy, and we want to be able to provide commissioners opportunities to attend that academy. So we propose to reschedule that meeting to March 13, the following Thursday. So you can see the schedule in your packet and see if you have any questions.

I have a question about July 3.

I did too.

Yes, we did look at that. And last year, it actually was on July 4, this year it's on July 3. So we did not propose to move that.

Yeah. I think it might be a good idea to move that. People do like to leave town.

Yeah. If that's a proposal

Yes. I'd like to propose. Yes. That we make an amendment to change that date from the third to I believe the tenth or would we?

I don't know if the room is available on the tenth. I guess we could just use the seventeenth as the meeting.

We could do that.

Yeah. The seventeenth is on our schedule.

Yes. So it would be make sure we had the room.

Reserved for a special meeting.

Okay. Would be if that's acceptable to everybody here.

Okay. So it's basically then canceling July 3. Yes. Mean that's on the schedule. Okay.

So just for clarity, the, the secondary meeting would become the regular meeting.

It'd still be a special meeting.

It's a It's

still a special meeting. Okay. Do I need to do anything?

I don't think so. Do we need to make a motion and

Well, recommendations for you to approve it, but if you want to make a motion to approve with that amendment

I would

like that would be great.

Yes. I would like to if if if we're all okay. I would like to make a motion to approve the 2025 Planning Commission meeting schedule with the amendment to remove the July 3 meeting and keep July 17 as a special meeting.

I'll second that.

Roll call. Commissioner Alley?

Yes.

Commissioner Lewis?

Yes.

Commissioner Ramirez? Yes. Commissioner Valdez? Yes. Vice Chair Kushner?

Yes.

And Chair Bondo?

Yes. All right. Thank you very much, everybody. Moving on to 8.1, Planning Division Staff Approvals. Everybody have a chance to look at that? Sharon, the 94 unit, I think it's affordable housing complex, that one went through just a ministerial review?

Correct. It's an architectural design review permit.

Any questions for staff? No. All right. We're going to move on to Planning Division report.

I know several commissioners will be attending the commission appreciation dinner. So just a reminder, this next Thursday night from six to 07:30PM at the Old City Hall restaurant. So we look forward to seeing you there. And then just early Happy Thanksgiving, since we won't see you till December.

Great. Thank you. Julie, Assistant City Attorney Report.

Just a future item, we're planning on doing some CEQUA training maybe after the new people are sworn in and we've got a full commission again. But it's one training we haven't done yet. So just stay tuned, I guess I can say.

Thank you. And with that, I'm going to adjourn the meeting to 12/05/2024 at 6PM. Thank you, everybody.