Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Next item on the agenda is public comment. And this is a time for citizens to comment on subject matters not on the agenda and that are within jurisdiction of the commission. This is also the public's opportunity to request an item from the consent calendar be pulled for discussion purposes or to comment on any item on the agenda. Comments related to public hearing items will be heard at the time the item is discussed. Maximum of three minutes is allowed for each speaker. Please begin your comments by stating your name and providing your city of residence. Would anyone like to speak under public comment? Seeing none. Next item on the agenda's consent calendar. However, there is nothing on the consent calendar.

We will skip that and move on to the public hearing. We have two public hearings this evening. First one is a continuation from the March 24 meeting, and it's regarding a tentative track nine forty nine and its request by N and M Capital LLC to subdivide 30.9 acre site into two eleven unit single family subdivision with a 0.66 acre open space site with a planned unit development overlay in the RL5 low density residential district. We'll also be doing a planned unit development number 40 seven -twenty 5, and it's a request to deviate from the standards of the RL5 low density residential zone district in order to reduce lot sizes, width, depth, setbacks, and deviation from the standards of open space dimensions for the proposed subdivision. The third part the next part of this is also mitigated negative declaration number twenty twenty six-twelve, and it is a request to certify that the project will have less than significant impact on the environmental with the incorporation of mitigation measures.

And the location is located South Of Lacey Boulevard, West Of 12 0.5 Avenue off of Aquifer Drive and its assessor parcel number 11010Dash010. I'll now open the public hearing and request a staff report.

Thank you, chair Ham. Prior to the close of the agency review period for the mitigated negative declaration, a comment was received and incorporated into the ISMND. However, upon further review, staff and the applicant have, requested some additional time to further address the comment and provide response. So for that reason, staff is going to request continuance of this item to the Planning Commission's next meeting on April 28.

After I read all that.

After you read all that, sorry.

Okay. So we need then a motion to continue to the next scheduled meeting. That correct? Correct. Would entertain a motion? Yes,

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Yes, I second that. Okay. It's been moved and seconded to continue public hearing item A to the next scheduled planning commission meeting. Roll call vote please.

Mrs. Esparza? Commissioner Gill?

Yes.

Commissioner Norris?

Yes.

And Chair Ham?

Yes. It's ordered. We'll continue to our next scheduled meeting.

Thank you. And

we move on to the second item that we have on the agenda then. And it's for a conditional use permit number 606. And it's a request to allow a mobile vending unit, in parentheses it says food truck, to operate at Superior Dairy in the MXD Downtown Mixed Use Zone District. And the project is located at 325 North Dowdy Street, assessor parcel number Ten-two 70 Six-one. Open the public hearing very pleased

the we've supposed to operate on the same property as their storefront during the remodeling of their storefront. The general plan designation for the site is downtown mixed use and the zone designation is also MXD Downtown Mixed Use. So a food truck or food trucks proposed to operate on private property in this zone district require approval of either a temporary use permit or a conditional use permit. A temporary use permit is required to operate on a property for a maximum of six months while conditional use permit is required to operate on a property for more than six months. Since construction is expected to take longer than six months, a conditional use permit application was submitted for this request.

As shown on the site plan, vending operations will occur in the back of the existing building where construction will not be taking place. A restroom for staff will be provided within the building. Customers will be able to stand inside the building only near the food truck. A wall will be provided between the food truck and the portion of the building under construction under renovations with no public access permitted beyond the food truck area. The sliding door to access this portion of the building will remain open during business hours.

The proposed operating hours would be 11AM to 8PM, which is consistent with the business's current operating hours. Listed at the zoning requirements for the Downtown Mixed Use Zone District evaluated for compliance. All requirements of the Downtown Mixed Use Zone District have been met. While the site is undergoing renovations, none of the construction will affect the stated zoning requirements. Also listed are the operating standards for food trucks parked on private property that were evaluated for this project.

The proposal complies with the stated operating standards. Certain standards were evaluated against zoning requirements for downtown mixed use for this property, such as setbacks and parking. Based on zoning requirements, there is a zero foot setback from all property lines that would be required. Since no parking exists on the site, operations will not encroach into any existing parking areas. Additionally, there are no other restaurants within two fifty feet of the property excluding Superior Dairy itself.

They have obtained a mobile vendor permit from the city as required for food trucks, which included the submission of a valid food vending permit issued by Kings County Health The project has been conditioned as shown in the resolution to ensure compliance with all applicable City Of Hanford food vendor regulations. The appropriate findings to approve a conditional use permit have been made in accordance with Section 17.80.030 of the Hanford Municipal Code. The project is categorically exempt from further environmental review per Section 15,311 accessory structures of CEQA. A notice exemption has been prepared for the project. The staff recommends that the Planning Commission adopt resolution number 2026Dash05 approving conditional use permit number 0064Dash26.

And with that, I invite any questions the commissioners may have at this time. Thank you.

Are there any questions from the commissioners? I have question. I see that there is a trailer over by the Bastille. Is that going to be the facility or is that going be will it be replaced with something?

It's the same one.

Another question I have is I see that there's power, how is the water going to be provided? Is it going be holding tanks for water so that they can wash it?

I

guess I'll wait until you can answer those questions when I just want to throw those questions out.

Can you specify exactly what you mean for the water requirement?

Okay. Well, since it is a food vending facility, typically there's a requirement to have water to at least wash your utensils and also the people who are serving to be able to wash their hands periodically. And I think it might even need hot water. So are you gonna have some kind of holding tanks and stuff?

Yeah. So the vending facility that's currently out there has hot water and all the requirements for the mobile food vending permit. That requires that already, so that will be available.

Okay, that's my question, does it have the facilities?

Yes, it does.

Okay, great. That's all questions I have at the moment. Guess, why don't you wait, if you're gonna come back up here, next I'm gonna go ahead and ask for public comment for those in favor of it.

Yeah. Can I make a few comments?

Sure. Yes.

So, yeah. I appreciate working with the city and the availability they've made at Civic Park for this. It does hamper just the efficiency of operations a little bit being this far away from the facility because we do have requirements for cleanliness and quality. And we do have a CDFA approved facility already that allows for washing of utensils and ice cream manufacturing. So this will allow us to work more in tandem with that facility.

And there's also events where, like the Renaissance Fair and stuff, that won't allow us to park across the street. So we're just looking for flexibility to be able to bend in our facility as well as where we're at currently, and that's why we're asking for approval for the CUP.

Another question I have is, are you also going to be able to provide the prepackaged ice cream in there or how is that going to work?

Yeah, it's available right now if you want to go walk over and you'll

Right after the meeting. Okay, that's all the questions. Anybody else have any

I just have one question. Is there any additional parking requirements for that or everything is within the No, so we had talked about that originally. There's no encroachment permit required for what we're doing currently. We'll have an ADA restroom available for staff on-site so that they have a bathroom to get to during their work shift. But all other requirements for the mobile vendor permits and mobile facilities are already met within the trailer itself.

Okay. That's all. Thank you. Anybody else out there? I still have to ask if there's anybody else that wishes to speak in favor of the project.

Seeing none, then I'll switch and ask anybody who is opposed to the project. Seeing none, I'll go ahead and close the public comment portion and bring it back to the Commission for further discussion. I second. Been moved and seconded to adopt resolution number 2026Dash05, approving the conditional use permit number 0064Dash26. Please.

This is Esparza? Yes. Commissioner Norris?

Yes.

Commissioner Gill?

Yes.

And Chair Ham?

Yes. Order. Close the public hearing. All yours. There's nothing else on the agenda for us to work on. The next item is Director's comments.

Just one item for tonight or this afternoon. If you follow the news a little bit, I don't know if you follow the news as it relates to housing elements, but the city of Hanford is currently working on updating our housing elements. So just to provide the commission with some background on that, is we're part of a regional housing element. So every jurisdiction in Kings County has a single housing element. It's currently being managed by Kings County.

So we are currently past the due date that was assigned to us. We recently resubmitted, got notification from the state that we needed to expedite as much as we possibly could. It's been all hands on deck for Gabrielle on this one. Spent a lot of time working on it. Resubmitted, has it been two weeks ago, week and half ago?

Yeah, so we have resubmitted, so we did resubmit to the state. The hope and the expectation is that we're back to the Planning Commission at one of our second meeting in May, hopefully, for approval of first meeting in May, second meeting for council. I got a first meeting in May for the Planning Commission, so that we will have an adopted housing element and be in full compliance. So just wanted to provide the commission with an update on that.

Thank you. Yeah. Are there any items from the commission?

I would just like the commission staff to know I my wife took a job in Yellow County. We'll be moving this summer. So I'm gonna continue to sit on the board through May. Second meeting in May will be my one.

Anything else? Seeing none, before meeting. In that case, meeting adjourned.