Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisibley and justice for all. Agenda item six is for public comment periods for items not on the agenda. Are there any members of the public present that would like to comment on an item not on the agenda? No chair. Anybody on teleconference or Zoom?

No. Okay, moving on to the approval of the minutes from our March 7, 2026 planning commission meeting. Does commission have any comments or corrections? Do not have any comments or correction. Okay. May I ask for a motion? A motion uh to approve the minutes of planning commission of March 17, 2026.

I'll second. Okay. And we go to votes. And that passes 40. Good. We now move on to item 6A. That is for sorry 88. [clears throat] Yes. There's a typo there. So, we'll now move on to item AA with Palm Valley Mobile. And we have staff approach podium, please. [snorts] Good evening, Mr. Chairman, members of the commission. Uh, my name is Jordan Walton, associate planner with the community development department, and this will be a presentation for Palm Valley Mobile, which is a conditional use permit for a ABC license. One second. We're having technical difficulties. All right. I would prefer not to have to take this presentation uh hunched over, but uh thank you, Noah. [laughter]

All right. As I was saying, this is for conditional use permit uh for Palm Valley Mobile. Uh the applicant uh for the applicant and owner for this project is Amad Mut and the project location is at 903 West Florida Avenue. As mentioned previously, this is an application uh requesting approval for a type 20 ABC license at a convenience store and making findings a public convenience and necessity to allow for the off sale of beer wine at at this location. The planning commission has the authority to approve conditional use permits within uh the C2 zone of the project which uh this uh project does fall under. Um at the previous meeting at the 8 March 17th 2026 meeting uh we conducted a pre uh staff prepared a presentation and a recommendation for a denial of the project. Um, after a brief uh after a brief discussion with the planning commission, it was uh advised to direct staff to prepare a resolution for approval and denial of the project and bring it back to this uh duly notice hearing at April 7th, 2026. Here is the aerial photo of the project. This is for Palm Valley Mobile. And then here is the floor plan as well. Uh part of the discussion was uh the up the uh concerning the upgrade to the existing trash enclosure. Uh for this project, uh we did take a a staff visit to this project and we were able to see that the project does need a minor upgrade and after consultation with the public works department, uh staff uh evaluated and uh decided that in order to meet the requirements under our municipal code that they would need a

upgrade to the roof and uh security bars around surrounding the uh near the top of the property to prevent from illegal dumping. And uh this was information was relayed to the applicant and they uh they advise uh staff that they would they would be um acceptable of this condition for SQA compliance. If this project is approved uh this project would be exempt uh from the provisions of SQA under CLA uh section 15301 existing facilities. Uh if this project is denied, uh the project would still fall under the provisions of SQA under 15270, which uh SQA does not apply to projects that are uh not approved by the public agency. And then on March 7th, 2026, uh the staff uh gave public notice of this uh of this public meeting on the press enterprise and the surrounding property owners within uh 500 ft. And at the March 17th, 2026 meeting, uh the planning commission uh uh the planning commission uh continued the item to a date certain uh to this date, which is April 7th, 2026. So um that being said, it is uh respectfully recommended that the planning commission take one of the following actions, which is approve the project subject to the res resolution for approval and the uh conditions conditions of approval that was crafted for this project and to direct staff to file a notice of exemption with the county clerk for SQL purposes. Or you can take option two to deny the project and adopt planning commission attachment number two which denies the project or option three which is which is provide staff additional input or alternative direction. And that concludes my presentation. I am available to answer any questions and we do have the applicant in the audience today. Thank you.

Thank you very much Jordan for that presentation. Does commission have a question for staff? Yes. [clears throat] Hey Jordan, thank you for that. Um, I have a quick question. Um, on the staff report, uh, page 59, um, why is it that the I guess the area where this is zoned for or the section um, that it's in, it almost looks like it's out of place. Why does it go all the way and like cut through half of Hammet Valley Mall and then come back? Is that just the way that it is? This is this the map you're referring to. I'm sorry. Yeah, that map.

So, this is this is the United States Census track. Um, it's not I'm not entirely too sure what recording in progress. Okay. I'm not entirely too sure what goes into the to the how they design their map their their map boundaries but um this is the the census track is how we use to evaluate and find if a project does uh requires a public convenience and necessity. So this is the information that that staff is required to use. Gotcha. Okay. Thank you. I have no further questions for staff. Do I have to request to speak? [laughter] Hi Jordan,

how you doing? Um, [clears throat] so you originally wanted to deny this project. Can you kind of give us the summary version of why staff wants to deny this project?

Yeah. So that I just want to make it clear that that is still staff's position is the recommendation for denial as a strict interpretation of the municipal code. Um we had our city attorneys prepare the recommendation uh for approval or the the resolution for approval based on the discussion at the last uh planning commission public hearing. But to go over uh the point that about why staff is uh recommending denial. It is a strict interpretation of the municipal code as far as the boundaries from the sensitive receptors. In this case, it being a church and the over as well as the over concent over overconentration within the census track where three are allowed in the census track. There are five currently within the census track and this would allow for a sixth one and the recommendation from the police department as far as the calls for service within uh this service area.

Okay. And then [clears throat] can you kind of give me a strategy on how you plan on getting the five down to three? There isn't a strategy uh to get them from five to three. Uh one way typically a way when you implement a new ordinance or you reszone a property it's more of like a I can classify it as a waiting game um for the use to uh dissipate. uh the any new use must uh adhere to the new zoning restrictions. So in this case, that would be something a strategy if you would that you would implement is that any new use that stops at one of the existing ABC license locations um would have to if years later they wanted to apply for something similar, they would have to apply uh go through the conditional use permit process or any other process that's established at the time to be able to so to speak renew the use.

But until that happens, we have five in that C2 zone. Yes. Okay. And that and the timing of that could be years. Yes. Gotcha. Okay. Do you believe that that's an unfair advantage to this applicant?

That I cannot comment on. I just uh we I just staff has to evaluate it as far as the interpretation of the municipal code as adopted by city council back in 2013. uh city council can at any time if they would wish to could re-evaluate the section of the code that we were referring to which in this case is 90-90 and revise the uh revise the criteria uh to to meet whatever their goals and objectives are at the time. As the ordinance stands right now, especially when it concerns the sensitive receptors, it does give the uh approval body the uh authority to re-evaluate or evaluate a project um outside of the uh outside of the requirements that are outlined within the municipal code, which is right now property line to property line boundaries.

Okay, I think uh that's all the questions I have for now.

Thank you, Mr. Word. Do I have No, I didn't have to request a speaker. Okay. Thank you, Jordan. Uh quick question on that 600 foot. Um so finding 1A um it you know it is within 485 feet um boundary to bound uh boundary but the finding of fact goes through you know a a rationale uh and and justification for why the 485 ft is is meets the intent. um you know everything from the intervening roadways, path of travel, the separation of with highway 74. Uh ha have we done that um in the past where where um where where we've we've exercised that discretion uh in terms of those strict interpretations of the code. Yes, that was that was most recently done last year with the Lola market project that was brought before you July 15th of 2025 uh where we evaluated it similarly to the re uh to the to the resolution before you today for approval. We've also done it for a uh for a tobacco use under section 90-91 a couple of years ago. Uh so there is uh that that that's been something that has been done for projects in the past. Gotcha. Uh and then so the only other um uh uh component that is driving um staff's uh recommendation you mentioned strict adherence to our municipal code is the concentration

is the concentration and the recommendation from the police department. uh not only do we have you uh to evaluate it based on how many the number of ABC licenses within a census track, but we also have to uh evaluate it from a safety standpoint of view, which in this case uh the police department assist us with evaluating those findings for for safety and recommended uh that we do not approve the project based off of the the the trouble that they have within this area of the city. Thank you. No other questions. Thank you, Jordan. Uh, couple of questions. The trash enclosure was a me general plan in 2026. Correct.

Uh, the the zoning ordinance did address the trash enclosures and it was expected that all commercial uh all commercial uses within the city would adhere to the trash enclosure standards by January 2026. Okay. And applicant agrees to somewhat update the trash enclosure with the bar and the roof. Yes. my last communication with the applicant uh they were receptive to the conditions of approval within the staff report with besides one modification which they would be able to address when they come when it's their time to come up and speak. Okay. Uh the other question is is that the word overconentrated is this this is citywide in general isn't it?

This is uh you could say it's citywide. I I did review the census data around the city. There's very few census tracks where it's not overconentrated. Counted maybe one or two census tracks that weren't overconentrated. And the ones that weren't overconentrated were were strictly just residential areas uh within the within the city. So they they wouldn't qualify for something like this because there's not residentially zoned property within that area. So yes, this is uh this is more more some census tracks are overconentrated than others, but yes, this is an ongoing problem within the city. So mainly going down the Florida corridors and Stson for the most part it's all overconentrated. Yes.

So I just think as city councils to maybe revise your own plan about the number because anytime we run into anybody trying to type apply for a type 20 or 21 is going to hit back as overconentrated. And I just think maybe the city council should come back to drawing board on that because it's going to be a problem every time somebody applies. But okay, I don't have any other questions for you. Uh, thank you so much, Jordan. Thank you. And, uh, with that, we're going to go ahead and, uh, open up to public comment. Are there any members present that would like to speak on this item? Public hearing. Yeah.

Um, chair, if I may, um, before we begin, um, a public hearing,

I just wanted to note for the record that tonight, as you know, we have four commissioners seated. So under the city's adopted rules, any motion before the commission requires a three affirmative votes to carry. So that being said, a two two tie vote would not cons be considered a majority. So that motion essentially would fail if there is a 22 tie vote. I also wanted to note for the record that a tie vote is deemed a denial of the application. So the applicant would have the opportunity to appeal to city council pursuant to the Hemet Municipal Code. I believe it's 2-38 if I'm not mistaken. So, I just wanted to put that out there on the outset. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Anybody have any questions as city attorney about that? Okay. Uh any uh members of the public? No, chair.

Would the applicant like to come up to the podium? Good evening, commissioners. Brett Instrom. On behalf of the applicant, thank you for having us back. Um, we'd also like to play uh thank planning staff again for all the hard work they've done in bringing this to a hearing. I do have the property owner, business owner slash here with me tonight. Um, we have read the conditions. Uh, we appreciate all the work and and thought that went into these and we agree with those conditions. Um, we would love to operate continue to operate in the in the city of Hammet. uh he's been here 40 years at that same location and would like to continue as such. Uh so maybe I'll turn it over to him just for a brief hello.

Hello, I'm Ahmad. I'm the owner of Palm Valley Mobile. Like you said, I've been there for 40 years. Um to go back to one of your questions, uh you were talking about advantage disadvantage uh position for my gas station without that license. It's a serious disadvantage for my gas station because people go to a gas station to buy certain things. One of them is beer and wine and if they don't have it there, they'll just go somewhere else. So that is bringing a big disadvantage to my gas station. And um that's all I'm asking is to get that that managed back and operate normally like everybody else around me. And that's all I have to say basically. Thank you for your time. And you do agree to the trash enclosure agreement with the city.

I've already agreed with it with Jordan. So, all right. Thank you very much. All all his conditions are exactly what I was going to do anyway except for that one. So, thank you. All right. Thank you very much. With that, we'll go ahead and uh anybody on Zoom or teleconference? I see no one on Zoom or teleconference. Sure.

With that, we're going to go and close public hearing and go to discussion. Yeah. [clears throat] So, I uh over the last couple weeks, I went to this bought a lot of Coke Zeros there. I went four different times. And um I also went to the Shell, to the Lions Market, and that Walgreens. And I would say that Palmo definitely is the nicest, cleanest looking, you know, gas station, convenience store there was there. Looking at the census track, I mean, I feel like it they don't know our community. You know, it's it's somebody sitting at a federal level that made the census track. If you really pick it apart, I feel like it should just go straight down line. And if you do that now, it reduces the number to five. One of them is a Walgreens. Nobody's stopping in there. I mean, I don't know. I mean, I wouldn't stop in there for an alcoholic beverage. I feel initially last time I was for sure no denying denying denying. The police department is not here. Also, I know last time the police department said it goes all the way down Florida. I would say by far the Lions and Florida intersection is way sketchier than the intersection that Palm in Florida since there's a vacant lot right across the street. Um, of the four times, I didn't see really any like, you know, transient people standing outside or waiting around. And it's not a type 21. So it's not liquor. So in order I mean no thinking you probably need a lot of beer in order to get rowdy like that. And you know it's I don't I think that my position has changed. Um especially because he's put so much to the community and he's also done a bunch of improvements, been here for 40 years. He's going to improve his trash that, you know, that's expensive. And right now in this economy, um, somebody in that position, it really speaks highly that they want this. And,

um, I wasn't I couldn't remember what were the times, if any of you guys remember, the times that he was going to allow alcohol to be sold. I believe it was going to close early like at 10:00, right? 10 or 11. I mean, 10, I believe. Yeah. I mean, that's I would say that 90% of the violent crimes happen at night and he's stopped selling at 10:00. Sun goes down at 700. and I feel like, you know, my position has definitely changed on this on this matter. Um, but that's all I really have to say. Commissioner Hill, you request to speak.

I did. [laughter] [clears throat] Yeah. I just can't get past the fact that there's an aotment of three in C2 zone for this and we have five currently and there's no real strategy to get it back into three. Um so this I I I just can't get past the fact that it's an unfair advantage for this applicant. And um so I as far as the police department goes, I understand where they're coming from, but I don't if you want to get rid of alcohol being the catalyst for crime, then you got to make it a dry city. You got to take alcohol away from everybody, not just one little place. So um to me that's kind of negated. Um so for me the heartburn is there's five in a allocation zone of three and this would make six and I think we had six in this zone at one time and they moved out and I I I don't think that there's an appreciable difference here. And I think I I I like the fact I like to be supportive of our business owners and not drive them out of the city for something as trivial. I don't want to say trivial, but um for for this kind of conditional use permit that, you know, hanging in the balance. So, um that's kind of where I'm coming from.

Thank you very much. Commissioner Worth, do you request to speak?

I still have to press that button. Um I guess there's kind of there's three things for me. Um the and and it is all it's two of them are the strict um adherence to our code and one is the distance. Um I I it's pretty close to the 600 and I and I really uh appreciate um the the rationale and justification for as to why 485 is sufficient and knowing that area I I I would I tend to agree with that if the 600 somewhat does that just mean that you won't you won't cause a problem if you're 602 feet versus 485 I don't know. Um, second is the overconentration and and I I I tend to agree with some of the comments that we probably should have some the the overconentration along Florida Avenue, Sanderson, and Stson makes sense. That's the commercial corridors where where the other areas are not. And it's and that there's a it's based on based on population. it's not based on on the um the the the the consumer patterns of the community. Um the third is in regards to the police department and I agree also that there's it's kind of hard to prove counterfactual. I think frankly that the trash enclosure enclosure will do more to reduce crime in the back than than any impact associated with selling beer. Um, but that's that's tough a little bit because as our as we had our planning commission work session with the city manager, we there was, you know, that was some of the feedback that I got from

my friends and neighbors was just how unsafe the city is. And I I I I want to respect that. And um and and if the police department are are are finding that correlation then then that that's something that needs to be considered. But I do agree that that crime is coming from a lot of different sources and I think it is hard to put that responsibility and requirement on the single business o owner who's just trying to stay in in business. And to me that that is a higher priority than the potential that selling beer would increase crime. And I think one of the things that stuck out to me was uh last meeting the applicant um said that, you know, part of their partnership with the police department was to call on everything. And uh and so I think um I I I personally um initially when I read the staff report prior to the last planning commission meeting, I was I was just I agreed with the staff um recommendation of the Nile. Um at this point, I would um support um approving this uh CU.

Thank you very much. Uh, Vermont Montes, you want to request to speak?

Yeah. Um, I also believe last time, uh, Jordan had mentioned that some of these, uh, type 20s were grandfathered in or they were there before they we even had to go through this process. Um, you know, I also took that in consideration. And then I looked up or I'm looking up the uh the schedule for the church and because every time I drove by the church was closed. Um, you know, I understand it's a set a sensitive receptor, but they operate less than I mean, their busiest day obviously is Sunday and that looks like maybe two hours. They're open a day. I also went on Google Earth and I did it was 586 to an exit. Again, it's property line property line, but not like to the entrance. I don't know if that makes a huge difference. It's also gated. Um, has a huge like iron fence around it. Um, I don't know if that should be the biggest concern or, you know, a concern at all since the, you know, this gentleman operates his gas station, I would say, 24 hours a day versus two hours a day. Um, yeah, that I would say we should also consider things like that. Well, I don't have much to say. Uh, the trash enclosure being updated is is a good thing. I'm happy that the applicant's willing to do that. um being told to call him pity on everything and then you that kind of backfires on you is like a bit of a flip narrative. So you know he's trying to do a good thing and then it backfires on him by doing a good thing. So I it's kind of unfair for him at the first meeting uh of him not having the opportunity just because he was told to call on everything and then we start seeing all these numbers and we start putting that against him. Uh the other other thing is um you know that the citywide overconentrated I think city council needs to come back to drawing board on the general plan on that because anybody wants to open up a restaurant it's going to come back as overconentrated and then we have to look and review it and you know something

that needs to change because times are changing population getting bigger and you know and like commission vice chair wor said it's Florida Avenue and Stson are our main corridors and that's where all the commercial is. Of course, it's going to be oversaturated, every one of them. So, it just wasn't planned right, I don't think, with the whole five per district, per zone or three per zone, wherever it was. So, um with that being said, I think anybody want to entertain motion?

Yeah, I'll entertain a motion. [clears throat and cough] Uh I am recommending option number one to approve the project. Adopt Planning Commission resolution attachment number one approving conditional use permit CUP25- Z004 subject to conditions of approval exhibit 1A and make a determination of public convenience or necessity PCN25-3 and direct staff to file a notice of exemption with the county clerk for SQUA purposes. [clears throat] I second that motion. Have roll call. City clerk. Okay.

Can I get a roll call? Commissioner Commissioner Vermont. Yes. Commissioner Hill. Yes. Vice Chair W. Yes. Chair Beamstuffer. Yes. That motion passes four to zero. Thank you very much. Yes. Thank you very much for your 40 years of business in our community. We appreciate you. Thank you. Uh before moving to the next item on the agenda, community development director Monnique, would you please read the following appeal procedures into record?

Yes, chair. An appeal of the planning commission's decision may be made by an agrieved party to the city council subject to the Hemet Municipal Code sections 2-38 through 2-43. Any such appeal shall be filed within 10 calendar days of the planning commission decision by completing an appeal application on forms provided by the community development department. The appeal application shall include all of the following specific action appealed from specific grounds of the appeal. Relief for action sought from the city council address where notice can be sent to the appellant and payment of required appeal fee established by city council resolution. Note incomplete applications will not be accepted. A maximum of five additional days may be allowed to correct deficiencies. The community development director shall schedule the appeal for a denovo public hearing before the city council within 30 calendar days. The council may affirm, modify or reverse the planning commission decision making findings required by the HMT municipal code or state law. The decision of the city council shall be final.

Thank you for that. We'll now move on to action item 9A for public hearing item for the extension of time. community. Is your microphone on? Yeah, it's on. There you go.

There we go. So, good evening. My name is Nathan Morren, um, assistant planner here at the city of Hemmet. Uh, tonight we'll be presenting to you, uh, extension of time, uh, 26001 for the palm villas at state. So per our strate strategic plan intera in integrate the integration [laughter] uh this meets the goal one quality of life and goal two economic opportunity. The applicant for this project is Palm Communities as well as the owner of the uh properties of question. Uh, and the project location is at the northwest corner of State Street and Menllo Avenue at the following parcel number shown on the screen before you. [clears throat] A little bit of background on this project. On February 26 of 2024, the planning commission approved site development review number 23-008, tenative partial map number 38450, and variance number 23-002. Uh some of you were on that planning commission um for this approval. Uh this this approval allowed for a 157 unit affordable housing community on a 7.84 acre site uh in the city of Hemtt. Uh the site review application included the development of five three-story family apartment buildings for phase one and two more for phase two. Uh allowing up to 35 ft in height uh a two-story community building uh as well as including a manager's unit as part of

that building um and a singlestory maintenance room uh that also acts as a laundry facility which I will go into more detail as we move along further. The apartment buildings will also consist of two and threebedroom dwellings ranging in size from 753 to 103 square ft of living area. And the amenities included would be things such as outdoor recreation areas like a multisport ball court as well as a tot lot. The project also includes a tenative parcel map to create two parcels uh threelettered parcels from six parcels with a dedication to the county riverside of 469 square feet due to a an encroachment onto the project site for the Riverside County Workforce Development Building and and a variance application as well um for an increase in height of the perimeter fencing from 6 feet to 8 feet. Um, so this entitlement expired on February the 26th of 2026 and the applicant requested an extension of time uh prior to the expiration date which makes this project eligible to be heard tonight and they again are they're requesting a two-year extension of time. The planning commission authority pursuant to sections 90-48.8 8 70-1 and 70-167A and 90-44.8 is that a site development review tended to partial map uh and variances expire after 24 months of final approval unless construction has commenced at this point in time. Construction has not commenced uh which is why we're requesting an extension of time. Um, and this project again is also eligible because it was requested prior to February the 26th, which was February 9th was the actual request date for this.

This item was publicly noticed in the newspaper on the press enterprise on Friday, March 27th, 2026. Um, I personally placed it into the newspaper through the ad process. Um, as well as noticing for for mailing, I also personally mailed these out on March 27th, placed in the mail on March 26th, and this was what the owners and occupants would have received in their mail. Um, shown on the screen now is the aerial map location of the project site. It is on the northwest corner of State Street and Melo Avenue. Uh there are addresses already assigned at 761 and 785 North Street as well as 160, 260 and 320 West Menllo Avenue. The general plan land use designation for this property is mixed use and this type of proposed project fits uh into this kind of land use. The zoning for this pro project is R3 multif family residential which allows from 18.1 to 30 dwelling units per acre. This project is proposing 24.5 dwelling units per acre. Uh a little more information about the project. Um this project will include a resident services coordinator that will provide some on-site services. Um, and we'll be reaching out to nonprofits and agencies to help provide the residents in the future with programs uh such as English as a second language, computer training, uh, nutrition and wellness programs. And moving into the future, if this project is approved for extension, um, the resident services coordinator would also be able to change some of these programs over time uh, at the request of the residents. This project uh does qualify as a density bonus type project per government code se section 65915F.

Uh and with that, this type of project can request uh incentives or concessions to essentially modify the project that don't meet the the currently approved zoning code requirements. Um and this is per uh state government code that allows them to like change such things as parking requirements. Um but more extensive list is they're they're doing reductions of private open space, covered parking. Um they're doing building modifications to like the building length and some of the entry features. Um just to name a few. Uh shown before you is site plan for phase one. There are five residential uh buildings proposed. Uh R2 uh buildings are proposed to the north and the south end of this project. R1 type buildings are in the middle between the R2 buildings. And then R3 is proposed to the east extent just beneath the tot. And then the gray building towards State Street is the community building which will also be the manager's unit as well. Phase two uh will have 48 units. will include two additional buildings. Uh it will also include uh R2 and R1 type buildings as part of this project. So R2 will face Menllo and R1 will be the one that faces behind the um the workforce center or workforce development center off State Street. U prepared some of the unit plans. We'll I'll keep this brief. Uh essentially this project would be bringing forth 753 square ft up to 778 square ft for two units. The variations between these are are very subtle. Uh it's mainly just additional areas for storage and some slightly area slightly larger areas for some of the living spaces.

Uh there will also be three-bedroom apartments proposed for this development uh starting at 984 square feet and up to 1,03 square feet. Uh the manager's unit will be the exception which will be a bit larger at 1,145 square ft. And there will be two of these for one for phase one and one for phase two. And again, these these are very subtle in terms of what's the differences between them are. It's really just additional storage space. Less storage space is the differences. Uh these are the architectural renderings of type build of building type R1. Again, these are the ones that are in the center surrounded by the R2 buildings on site. Um floor plan one. Uh essentially, it's all um two-bedroom predominantly and a few threebedroom on the first floor and then the second floor mirrors that and the third floor mirrors that as well. R2, these are the ones that are far north and south. um the one facing Menllo, the one facing um the Palm Palm Villas to the north. Uh this these will be the renderings as proposed and floor plans very similar as well. Two twobedroom, threebedroom and they they mirror each other as you move up the floors. R3 is a little different than the R2 and R1's. These have um less units per floor. Uh but these are predominantly two two bedrooms and a a three bedroomedroom. Um for those of the R3 type building shown as your community building, this will be also your designated mail room and a secured mail room area for residents. They will be able to come in here and they'll have opportunities for some of those classes I was mentioning earlier. Uh there'll be office spaces, restrooms, um as well as space for them to it looks like host parties. It says there's a wet bar. So, I assume that's like a sink and an area for them to host guests. And then the manager's unit would be

there. Essentially, a three-bedroom, which just a little more square footage. Uh C2 would be the laundry building. Uh this would have 11 washers and dryers. Uh and it meets the minimum requirements for the amount of units proposed. This would be the trash enclosure. And the trash enclosure does meet the current standard requirements for public works. and there will be six of those. A little bit of the conceptual landscaping um shown before you, they do have seven different types of proposed trees and about a dozen different types of shrubs and uh grasses um surrounding this property uh proposed project rather. Um zoom in shot there's your community area between buildings R1. Um if you if you look in the grayish area in the middle of the buildings, those six um orang-ish bluish color things are um umbrellas for tables um and the well is a grassy area. And these are lion trees and they're they're trees that are kind of have yellowish color leaves and purple flowers. So it's it's very vibrant in color. Uh recreation open space. Uh this would be next to the community building about when you come into this project. Um you'll have a tot lot there in the kind of oblong color with the circles in it with the playground as well as tables and umbrellas. And then to the right you'll have a multisport ball court as well. And then here would be between essentially between the southern portion of phase one and would be the northern portion of phase two where you have the two R2 buildings. This is a a pathway. There are some more tables and umbrellas. It's lined with trees and more grasses and shrubs as well. Um the applicant is requesting also to extension of time for the tenative parcel map as shown right here on the

screen. Um, part of what came about with this extension of time is the applicant has been in the process of redesonating this area shown before you in red uh to get it out of the FEMA a flood zone uh in it in hopes to actually add additional units on top of what they're already proposing. Uh the variance is showing you the the fence the in the purplish color is going to be a masonry wall. Uh to the east which would be screen left that would be all single family residential. So it will have an 8ft wall separation and then to the north uh would be also an 8ft wall separation from another um multif family development that's been existing. And uh the entrance points will be the the tubular steel rod iron Um, so kind of getting back to about the extension time, this was approved on February 26 of 2024 for the SDR, the parcel map, and the variance. And the applicant has requested an extension of time prior to the expiration of the previous approval. Um so with this the extension of time request um is being requested because in the process the applicant has been working on trying to receive additional tax credits and bonds to finance and modify the site plan to fund phase two as mentioned about the redesonating of the flood zone area. Uh use alliance has been established for this project. Um uh the applicant has applied for tax credit and bonds as early as February 2026 and they're they are projected to win. Um this is one of the last key steps for funding this project. Uh and since the original project since the original approval date rather the the project has the applicant has also secured 27 project based vouchers from the housing authority of K County Riverside. They've secured

permanent local housing allocation grant funding with uh $5,500,000. And they have also received uh ASIC or affordable housing sustainable communities uh funding or $22 million for 157 units and grant funding as well for 15,924 uh,000 for transportation infrastructure improvements. um uh per city council resolution uh number 2025-091 which was an amendment to the original approval which I'll go into a little more detail here. Um, so findings in support of this request. After the original approval of February 26, 2024, the city and the applicant as well as with RCTC, Riverside County Transportation Commission and Riverside Transit Agency uh made a joint application to the Housing and Community Development Department um for an application um to receive loan and grant funding. As I had mentioned previously, uh on August 23rd of 2024, that same year after the approval, the applicant secured $22 million and for the funding of 157 units, as well as the grant funding. Um uh with this, they were able to get $969,000 to go towards workplace development, apprentichip programs, uh Wi-Fi on site, and bus passes for future residents. um as well as the sustainable transportation infrastructure with 13,239,000 for a proposed downtown HMT mobility hub, a bike pedestrian path from Menllo and Palm along the rail corridor, a class 4 bikeway um between Palm and Santa Fe along Menllo Avenue as well as sidewalk improvements along Menllo Avenue between Palm and Santa Fe and additionally translated transit related amenities at 1,715,000 for five new bus stop shelters in the area that are to RTA's uh standards also towards the mobility hub. But a little

more detail on that. The mobility hub was shown in the red there. This is essentially just north of the library just past the Simpson Center in the big vacant lot um across the street on Devonshshire in red. Um shown in green is the is the bike and pedestrian path going from Menllo to Palm going along the rail corridor. Um, and this could be activated with like some trails. Um, you know, landscaping, public art potentially could be in the future for that as well. Um, as well as the sidewalk improvements along Menllo Avenue as shown to you in the orange. Um, and all this being would actually connect to Palm Avenue where there's an existing bike pathway. So, it actually connect with active transportation which would be an excellent thing for our community. Um and showing our downtown he specific plan bike circulation. You can see along the rail corridor. There is uh intention in our specific plan adopted in 2016 to also include the rail corridor as an activation space for for trail space. And these are the additional u bike pathways as well. And as you can see just to the left of that yellow and grayish line there's a proposed transit hub there. Um, this transit hub has actually been in the process, uh, as far as my knowledge, as back as 2017, there were workshops that were held, um, trying to get ideas on how we're going to develop this space. And part of that funding that this application that this applicant has secured with this grant funding with the city and with the outside agencies, um, this extension time, um, would allow for these infrastructure improvements to happen. Um if we don't extend this project then these and some of these projects shown would not be funded. Um as for SQA the project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act uh pursuant to public resources code section 211080.40

under assembly bill 18 assembly bill 1449. Uh and it is respectfully recommended that the planning commission determine that this project is proposed to be exempt under SQA. adopt the planning commission resolution approving extension time 260001 for the site development review application tenative parcel map and the variance and to direct staff to file a notice of exemption with the state clearing house and county clerk. Uh one last little item I wanted to clarify that I did have to update the resolution. And there was a little error on my part in the section numbering where I called it section one, section two, and went to section five as you might have seen in the staff report. That has been updated to be now section one, section two, section three as it should be. But that is my presentation and thank you.

All right. Thank you very much Nathan for that presentation. Uh just for clarity though is the extension of time is just extension of time. Nothing has been added or changed. We're just extension of time. Okay. Commissioners, any questions for staff? Uh thank you for that presentation, Nathan. Um just a couple of questions. Um [clears throat] um has the applicant done anything to move the process forward other than looking for for loans and and grants and stuff like that? Uh yes. So that would be as I mentioned about the transportation related amenities um going into a a application with us and RTA RCTC for the funding for their 157 units as well as for the uh transportation amenities.

Gotcha. Okay. Okay. And then my second question is um does the city see a problem if they if they end up getting that FEMA flood uh zone taken out with more units with adding more units? I'm sorry. Can you repeat that? Yeah. So, you said that they want to basically they were reaching out to FEMA because that's a their flood zone is in a FEMA a flood zone and they're trying to get that eliminated. Yes. And they have already done so. Oh, okay. And they're adding more units there. Their their plan is to uh at a later public meeting bring a site development review modification to add additional 48 units. Oh, okay. Gotcha. And the city doesn't see a problem with that. No.

No. It's good to see like these modern looking apartments, you know, coming to him. I think it's a pretty cool You see them in every major city now and I don't see any around here. So, that's that's cool to see. Uh, no further questions. Uh, Commissioner, you request to speak. Thank you. Hi, Nathan. Thank you for that. [clears throat] Remind me again why this is SQA exempt. Uh, so per the government resources code, uh, an assembly bill that was passed in 2023, affordable housing projects such as this one are considered to be exempt. Affordable housing. Okay, got it.

Yeah. And just to also let you know, I do have the applicant live with us on Zoom as well. Thank you, Nathan. Um, in regards to the contributions and funding towards the uh city's mobility hub, is that is that how is that going to be benefited by the city? Is that just funding going into an account that the city is going to have to build later or or those construction some of those construction activities part of the responsibility of of this applicant? Uh it would not be on the applicant to to construct those. It would be working with RCTC and RTA.

The sidewalks as well. City sidewalks. I my understanding would be with public works. Okay. So, but that but that'd be a city-led project partially funded by fund by grant funds that this applicant has secured as associated with the project. Correct. Gotcha. Uh and then also the uh so it's affordable housing. Is there a is there a rent subsidy component here um for the future residents?

There is. Uh so far they've secured 27 projectbased vouchers. Um to my understanding what that is is essentially the applicant would be required to pay a percentage of their overall income and then the rest of that would be taken care of by the voucher. Is that similar to the exist there's a apartment complex just kind of to the north of this. Is that a similar um the hemmed vistas? Yes. Thank you. Um I'm not as familiar with those ones. I do believe those are 100% affordable. I can't say for their record. Yes or no? But to my understanding with affordable housing and project based vouchers, yeah, that would probably be the case, too.

And I think that's a that's kind of a good a good model or or at least a a good real experience on on these. Um, you know, that that that community, at least from the outside, uh, still looks looks very nice. Um, do you know if that if we've had any concerns from city staff on that existing facility? heard. And I believe if I'm correct on this, I think the same applicant for this project constructed those ones as well.

Gotcha. Gotcha. Um and then the the only only other question was just confirmation of the 8 foot wall. Is that is that on all uh per um per the entire per per excuse me perimeter? Correct. Yes. So, anything that's not an access point, obviously it would it would be um rod iron, but everything else surrounding the property would be an 8ft block wall surrounding. Okay. And there's been no no comments or concerns from the single family residential that that 8ft wall would be they might like it. I don't know. I haven't received any directly uh specifically for this extension.

Okay, that's all I have. Thank you, Nathan. Thank you, Nathan. Just a couple quick questions. The applicant also do they have another apartment complex here in town? I believe. Yes. And like I said, if I am correct on this, I believe they did built Hemet Vista apartments just to the north of this development. Okay. That um border this property. That's what I remember back few years ago. The other question uh two questions is for arena numbers. Uh if they do the additional 46 or 48 units on top of that 205 units, what category would that go in the arena? Low income, very low income. What what what number are we targeting with arenas for these?

Uh for this project as proposed for the 2024 approval, it was a range of believe it was 30 to 60% AMI and that would be for a family of four uh with which would be approximately $56,000 for annual income. Okay, chair. So that in translating that it is is in the low income range. The low income. Yes. And very low. And you did say with the tax credit that was projected to win. Correct. That's so that's still gray area. What what if is it guaranteed or are we still what if?

Um based upon what the applicant has relayed to me. That's what they had determined and that's what they told me prior to this evening was that they were projected to win that. but they are here uh on Zoom and they could probably speak more to that. Okay, thank you very much. Any other questions for staff before we open the public hearing? Nope. All right. Thank you, Nathan. We're going to go ahead and open up a public hearing. Is there any members present that would like to comment on this item or on Zoom? Chair, I have no one here in person. However, the applicant is online if the commission would like to speak with them.

Absolutely. when we know he's ready. Hi, my name is Hi, my name is David Abrams with Palm Communities. Can uh everyone hear me? I can hear you. All right, [clears throat] great. [snorts] We're just giving you the podium if you'd like to say anything. Oh, um I have no comments at this time.

Uh what about your tax credit? Are you guaranteed that or is it projected?

It's projected. I can't tell you that that's guaranteed. Um we are projected to win. Um there's a simulation that comes out from a company called Kingdom Development that's pretty reliable. Um, but I can't tell you it's guaranteed, but everything's pointing to us winning. Uh, we would know for sure uh on on May 12th. Um, but we're already getting going on uh our design documents. Um, so that's that's where we are. So, if we do win uh May 12th, we would be starting construction in November of 2026. Uh tax credits and bonds are the last step in the affordable housing uh financing process. Um you know with with the gap financing that Nathan mentioned such as the 22 million and the affordable housing uh sustainable communities um PHA funding from the county and also the 27 vouchers from the county. That's considered gap finance sending in and they and um at the end you get your tax credits and bonds. So, we're at the we're at the last step here and we just need uh some more time.

Okay. Any questions for the applicant commissioners? Nope. All right. Well, thank you for your time and we wish you the best on Oh, I sure. Can can you confirm uh are you the same u uh applicant and that built the project to the north? Uh, I think Nathan was referring to Hemet Vistas. Was that correct, Nathan? Yes, that's that's Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And how is that how is that going? Are you still involved in that or do you just build it and then and then uh it's operated?

No, we're um so I wasn't [clears throat] working at Palm Communities uh when that was built, so I don't can't really speak to a lot of it. Um but we do keep these projects long term uh for at least 15 years. Um, so we're still in that project. I would uh I'd have to talk to asset management uh more about the details of um everything about how the the day-to-day is going at the project. Um I don't have those details for you. Um but I can tell you that, you know, we don't we're not a merchant builder. We don't we don't build and sell. We hold these long term. Um so we really care about the operations. What's what's the what's the 15-year mark represent? Is that is there a

it's a it's a compliance period um that the state mandates and also our investors mandate um so we really need to stay in these these projects for that long um you know that's kind of basically the minimum all right thank you no further questions all right thank you very much good luck in May we hope you hear some good news thank you very much appreciate uh staff's efforts here especially Nathan and always Monnique. Thank you. With that, we're going to go ahead and uh close public hearing and discussion or if not entertain motion.

Well, this is just for an extension, so I don't want to get into any other details. So, you know what I'm saying? I know what you're saying. Okay.

Make that motion. I motion to determine that the proposed project is exempt from California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to Public Resources Code section 211080.40 40 under Assembly Bill AB1449 signed into law on October 11th, 2023 and adopt the attached planning commission resolution approving a 2-year extension of time for the site development review number 23-008, tenative parcel map 38450, map number 23-009, and a variance number 23002 and direct staff to file notice of exemption with the state clearing house and county clerk. I'll

second. All right. Now it's time to vote if we can have a voting. Screen goes dark and that passes four to zero. We doing a roll call. We still need to do a verbal roll call. Do we still need to do verbal roll call on that or is if you like chair, we can. If if it's not legally required, we don't need to. Okay. Okay. It's not legally required. It's just whatever commission's discretion.

Okay. Good. Perfect. We'll move on to our 10A work study item. May we have staff approach the podium, please?

Good evening, chair and commissioners. Uh my name is Jelene Ferris. I'm the deputy public works director, assistant city engineer. Um, this is a work study item to consider an amendment of condition of approval number 69 for tract uh 33825 and 33825-1. All right. And this is consistent with strategic plan uh item for organizational effectiveness. All right. This is a map of um Mweeny Farms and track uh 33825 and 33825-1 are located in planning area 8 which is on the northwesterly side there between State Street and um that long green corridor which is Cactus Valley Channel. So, a little bit of history. Uh, the Mixweeni Farms development started under the ownership of Suncal and Suncal went bankrupt back in 2008. Uh, Rainree then purchased the Mixweeny Farms project and subsequently Richmond American then purchased tracks 33825 and 33825-1. Um, and they they developed those tracks and the Cactus Valley Channel and State Street Crossing were to be constructed as part of the phase 2 development which included the Richmond American tracks. Um, and currently as it sits, and I'll show an exhibit that will kind of tie this in. Um, probably should have put it between them, but that's okay. Uh, there's currently 16 lots out of track 33825 and five lots from track 3825-1 um that are located within the zone A flood plane from Cactus Valley Channel, and that's due to the State Street crossing that hasn't been constructed yet. Uh Richmond American currently has addendums to their sales contracts in which they're providing an additional 10 years or they're providing 10 years of flood insurance uh for the homeowners that are located within that flood plane and after the 10 years uh the homeowners will be responsible for that if the flood plane has not been removed due to

the improvements. Um the existing condition of approval states that the builder shall provide flood insurance until a letter of map revision is approved. um it doesn't have a time limit specified on that and so Richmond American would like to modify that condition of approval to require flood insurance for a period of up to 10 years which is what they're currently doing right now. Um this is a figure right now that kind of shows um where Cactus Valley channel is um State Street and then the dash lines. Uh I thought I'd labeled the tracks. Sorry. But uh those are the two tracks um in question. Uh 33825 and 33825-1. And you can see how the flood plane comes into those tracks right now. And um if you can see where the dark blue line crosses uh the yellow line or crosses state street, that's where the state street crossing is to be constructed. And once that is constructed, it will remove um the tracks out of the flood plane. So right now a revised ma uh lomar was done to to rem because the flood plane was actually much larger than this in the beginning. So they reduced it to just this now with the construction of the channel without having an out an outlet. Um so COA 69 also required the builder to enter into an agreement with the city stating that they will provide this flood insurance to the homes that are still located in the flood flood plane. We included a draft of that agreement that is proposed to go to council um next week on the 14th. And uh currently Cactus Valley Channel is a developer-led project and it's going through uh plan check right now with flood control. It's uh gone through one plan check already. We received plan check comments back on January 27th, 2025 and we are currently waiting for the developer to resubmit to flood control. Uh so that's all that I have. I'm here for any questions that you may have.

All right. Thank you very much for that presentation. Commissioners, do you have any questions for staff? Yes. Um that 10-year mark, um does is that is that when the house is first sold or does it transfer over? Like if I go and buy that house, does the 10ear start there? Uh no, it's from the date of original sale. So be for 10 years from the So if the homeowner sells it between that time, um I would assume that the new owner would resume the let's say there's five years remaining, they would have the remaining five years. Gotcha. Okay. Okay. And so it's a total of 21 homes. Uh correct. Yeah. The Yes. Mhm. Okay. Um Okay. I have no further questions at this time.

I I have one question. Hi Janine. Um can you go back to slide six? I think it's the shows. Yeah. Uhu. So [clears throat] where is the flood plane channel being built? So where I pointed to there with Cactus Valley channel that's currently graded. It's just not completely constructed. And the crossing that will convey the water under State Street has not been constructed either. So, it's kind of graded. It's it's been massgraded and graded. Um the city originally was constructing that channel and crossing um with a uh another builder or another uh contractor and that uh they did not finish the work. So, it's kind of you know

is this is to finish this is that on us this No, it's developer rainree to finish it. Okay. Mhm. And what are they saying? So, we got plan check comments back from flood control in 2025. Um, and they we're waiting for them to resubmit back to flood control. That's quite a long time to wait. It is quite a long time. Yes. Yeah. What's their excuse? Do you know? Um, well, I mean, they've phase two is almost completed construction and phase three hasn't started yet. So, there I I think it's a money money issue.

Okay, I gotcha. Thank you, Janine. So the original contract with Leonita Builders um portions of that what that that was a was that funded from bonds was that what what was what was pay CFD yeah there's a CFD for mix we need for infrastructure improvements

okay so it was it was from labor shortages COVID seen those those types of things caused it to to to um to stop it. At some point, you know, if if we get into a recession or something like that, um would the city consider um pulling bonds and com and completing that so that uh you know there's it's not just those ones in the flood zone. It's also you know additional maintenance um cost associated with having to pump that out. you know, potential impacts even upstream in the cactus wash. [clears throat]

Is is there at some point that, you know, if if we're not getting movement from rainree uh on advancing it that we could pull a trigger on our own and and get that completed. I mean, I I suppose it's always an option obviously. I mean, we want the developer to to finish it and construct it and we are in the process of trying to turn it over to flood control for ownership and maintenance. Um, so I would assume flood control won't want it till it's done. Correct. Correct. Yeah. That's why they're in plan check right now and and making sure it's per their standards, which was part of the original development agreement anyways was that it would be per flood control standards. So So in the in the interim, who's maintaining that? Uh, Rain Tree is Okay.

Okay. Yeah, it it u the there's some other projects in the city. one um comes to mind over on um Cen the the uh Seattle Basin Pepper Tree, you know, that that we get caught with uh with with with uh long-term issues because the you know just the timing of of the markets and such. So yeah, um hopefully they hopefully the economy continues to allow them to move into the next phase and and uh and complete those improvements. Thank you.

Pretty much most of the questions got I just wanted clarity. Is it 16 homes that are in the flood control or is there 21? I thought you mentioned 21. So it's 16. There was 16 I think in one. It's uh 16 in track 3825 and then five lots in 3825-1. So a total of 21 lots. Okay. I don't really vice chair work kind of answered the questions I was asked the question I was looking for so I don't have any other questions for you. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you.

And with that we're going to go ahead and uh open up. Yes. With that we're going to go ahead and open up public hearing. Are there any members present that would like to comment on this? No chair. Okay. And nobody on Zoom. No.

All right. With that, we're going to go ahead and close. Discussion or motion. Okay. I'll make a motion [clears throat] uh to determine that the proposed project is consistent with previously adopted environmental impact report state clearing house number 200011217 for the MWINY farm specific plan in pursuant to section 15162 of the California Environmental Quality Act SQA and SQUA guidelines. No further analysis is required. And two, review and discuss the merits of amending conditions of approval COA number 69 in the proposed agreement between the city of Hemet and Richmond American Homes. and three recommend that the city council adopt the proposed amendment of COA number 69 for site development review number 2120 and model home complex MHC number 21-07 and authorize the city manager to execute all related documents approved as to final form by the city attorney.

I second that motion. Everybody confirmed their votes and that passes four to zero. Okay, moving on to item 10B, work study item with director Noah on the HMT roadway comprehensive safety action plan. Yes, good evening, chair, vice chair, and commissioners. Noah, public works director and city engineer. There's our presentation. We're going to be switching gears now. We can get excited about roadway safety. So, I'll be kicking off uh this presentation portion of our second public workshop for our comprehensive citywide roadway safety action plan. Our first public workshop was held at the library on November 13th, 2025. Um, and I did see that some of flyers got out before we got the location set here. Um, so hopefully nobody's over there looking for us, but um, we did get it fixed and everyone should know that it's here tonight. All right, our agenda this evening, um, the presentation will cover an overview of the project, the public outreach and engagement that we've held to date, a summary of the collision analysis, the countermeasure toolbox that's in development, um, the project identification, uh, pri project prioritization criteria, and then next steps.

So, I'll start um going over the project overview and then I'll be turning it over to Mon'nique uh midway through here and she'll continue through the pres presentation. Mon'nique is uh our consultant from Shen Ryan Associates. All right. So, in order for the city to qualify for certain state and federal competitive funding opportunities, the city must have a qualified data-driven roadway safety action plan in place. Hemtt previously completed a systemic safety analysis report known as an SSR back in 2019. Uh it is necessary to have an updated plan at least every five years. And so that plan essentially uh expired in 2024. So, federal funding became available [clears throat] for initiatives that will prevent roadway deaths and severe injuries through the bipartisan infrastructure law and the safe streets for all program known as SS4A. Uh there was $5 billion allocated to the program over five years uh which was from 2022 through 2026. Uh before a regional, local or tribal entity is eligible for SS4A implementation funds, a datadriven comprehensive safety action plan must be in place. Therefore, public works applied for the planning grant back in June of 2023. Uh this plan uh the intent of this plan would be to guide future implementation projects and obtain funding for those. Uh the city was notified of an award in December of 2023 and then after working through the federal process uh an agreement for this grant was approved by the city council in June of 2024. Then we did a thorough uh procurement process in which we selected Shen Ryan

and Associates to conduct this project for the city. Um the city council awarded that professional services agreement to CRA in April 2025. Uh the safety action plan that the city envisioned um on getting through this process is going to be a framework that the city will be able to maintain and keep updated in the years in between where the major updates are made to the plan. So we're going to have you know G GIS dashboard and a systemic countermeasure measure toolbox that will be at our disposal after this plan is completed. Right. The project uh vision and goals were set at the beginning of the project um right after the first task force meeting. The vision statement reads uh a HEMT where everyone can travel safely walking, biking, driving or taking transit without fear of serious injury or loss of life. It's a very simple and straight to the point. The five project goals are to reduce fatal and serious injury crashes. That's to be accomplished by implementing datadriven strategies and targeted improvements to eliminate severe crashes with a focus on high injury locations and systemic safety needs. uh to build safe and connected infrastructure for all users. And that will be by enhancing streets to safely uh accommodate all modes of travel through improved crosswalks, bikeways, lighting, intersection design, and access to schools, neighborhoods, and commercial areas. Um third goal will be to manage speed and improve operations by advancing contextsensitive speed management strategies, improving traffic signal coordination in key corridors such as Stson and Sanderson and upgrading

traffic control devices to reduce conflicts and improve safety. Uh the fourth one there is to advance ready to implement projects and funding. This means developing a pipeline of prioritized shovel ready projects and pursue grant opportunities to accelerate implementation particularly in high need and underserved areas. Last one is to promote education partnerships and accountability. The goal will expand safety education programs for all roadway users including youth and ebike users. uh strengthen partnerships with local schools, businesses, establish measurable performance targets to track progress. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Mon'nique to continue through the presentation.

Got it. Thank you, Noah.

Yeah. Before I get before I get started, I just want to thank everybody for sticking uh to the end because we're going to have some snacks out there. We're going to have um actions that we need your feedback. So before you leave, we're going to walk through some different stations that kind of walk you through the life of the project and then at the end we would like for you to select your top three priority projects and that's going to go through the um go into our prioritization process. But good evening, Mr. Chair and the commissioners. My name is Monique Chen. I'm just going to continue what Noah uh started. So there are eight required components to a comprehensive safety action plan. The first one is the leadership commitment and goal setting. You can see here I checked 50% and so this is something you know Noah talk about the visions the goals but one of the things we also need in order to self-certify this plan is to have our leadership body to make a commitment to vision zero to reduce fatality and severe injuries in the city of Hammond. And so something that we're hoping to get your support in today and then Noah will take it to city council shortly after. And the second piece is planning structure. And you heard Nova mention a task force that we established. So the task force is the various department, the city uh emergency response, police and fire. We got the county involved, the school district, and some of the nonprofit as well as your uh some long-term local residents. So together, we were able to work through and about 60 70% of the project. Now we're looking to uh get to the the prioritization and start developing solutions for the high priority projects. And the next one safety analysis and this task has been completed and uh there's a safety

assessment report as posted on Hammet CSAP on the city's website. So we welcome your uh read and providing feedback if if you'd like. And the next one is collaboration engagement. This involves, you know, working with the community members and we've had two out of the three. This is our second of the three workshop and then uh we're going to have a final workshop uh in the summer of this year and so we can wrap up the project. So we'll likely come back to you um uh to get your feedback on the final plan. And the next one is equity consideration. That's one of the eight requirements and that's also completed. The only thing we want to really circle back to is that we want to make sure the equity plays into the high priority uh uh projects in that in that evaluation selection process. And the next one is policy and uh uh process changes. We've reviewed all of the city's uh safety related policies, standards, ordinance, and so we're going to be making some best practice recommendations as part of the plan. And and OA can decide where to put that. But the best ways probably go into the general plan circulation element at some point and the next one strategy and the priority uh and the project selections and this is very much so in process. We're hoping after today's meeting we can take the next two to three weeks to wrap that up and start developing uh concepts and and do some cat drawings for the plan. And last is progress and transparency. So at the end of the plan, we'll have a monitoring plan to sort of set standards and targets as when we would like to achieve what so that everybody is going to be accountable as we're implementing the recommendations. And quickly on the project schedule, um we started in late spring um 2025. And so in the summer and fall of 2025, we uh did extensive data collection uh

collision data assessment from January 20, January 1st, 2020 to December 31st, 2024. And then we also conduct the equity assessment and this is when we also had our first task force meeting and then the first workshop. Along the way, we had four popup event popup events in the summertime and it was a lot of fun. And I'll get into a little bit of that later. And we're currently at the end of phase two, which is winter and spring 2026. Uh we're in the process of developing and prioritized projects. So we've already had a second task force meeting. And this is our second uh workshop here. And by the way, thank you for having us here tonight. And the next phase is the spring and summer of 2026, which is coming up very soon. And we're hoping to finalize and priorit prioritize projects drafting and finalize the safety action plan creating the monitoring uh framework and also uh conduct the last set of the task force meeting as well as the the last workshop and that's going to be uh hopefully sometimes in August this uh this summer and then going through the project adoption process. One thing I do want to point out here is that we are planning a prepare one grant application for the SS4A implementation grant. The call for project is already out. Uh so the project deadline uh application deadline is May 26th 2020 2020 May 26 2026. So we have our work cut out for us and we want to really roll up our sleeves and start working and hard and and getting to that project. And I mentioned earlier uh in the summer of 2025 we conducted four popups and we brought our 360 cameras out there and then we had snacks. Uh kids are out there had a great time. Here are some photos on movie nights. Uh

Chotober events and then also the Rancho Delo event. Um along the way we received fantastic feedback from our community members. uh things like certain areas of concern, lighting is a concern, certain intersections, lack of sidewalk in certain neighborhoods. So, we've documented them all as we're developing solutions. All these uh uh recommendations or concern areas are being addressed and we've had we are having all together three task force meetings. As I mentioned, we've completed two. We're going to have the third one uh coming in the summer. This is a second workshop. The last and third workshop is coming up. I do want to encourage everybody to visit our project website and as we're posting uh task force meeting summaries, presentations, workshop meeting summaries, presentations as well as deliverables to date on the website. So feel free and the summary of this meeting would also be posted on the project website. Um so quickly on the collision analysis giving the time constraints I'm not going to go into too much detail but we do have very large boards there to talk about collision locations and counter measures and projects but quickly I want to do provide some highlight on uh some observations here. Um so the in the past in the five years we analyzed January 1st 2020 to December 31st 2024 um we've noticed that Hammet has almost 2,000 injury collisions. These do not include property damage only collisions. So injury whether it's complaint of pain whether it's visibly injured whether it's severe or fatal. So there's 1960 of those in the past in the years five years that we uh analyzed of which 85% are vehicular only collisions and about 10% are pedestrian involved and then 5%

are bicycle involved and then we also looked at where do these collisions happen? Are they within the intersection footprint or are they on the uh in the midblock. So here you can see in the chart and you know for vehicle only you're seeing more in the intersection as there's more movements more signal control more confusion more conflicts and very similarly for for uh cyclists for for pedestrians both intersection and uh midblock uh come out about break even. One of the things I want to point out here is, you know, we talked about vehicular only collisions takes about 85% of the citywide uh injury collisions. But if you're really looking at fatal and severe collisions, I have it written down here. So for pedestrians, out of all pedestrian collisions, 13.5% result in fatality and about 12% resulted in severe injury. um and a little bit less less significant for the cyclist. You got 2% resulted in death and then 12% uh resulted in severe injury. So altogether we're looking at 6.5% of vehicular only injury that kind of occupies uh the the severe and fatal of the total vehicular uh vehicular only injuries. But for pedestrians we're looking at 25.5% and for cyclists we're looking at 14%. So needless to say, you know, our pedestrians and our cyclists are certainly a lot more vulnerable and we really want to highlight on improving their safety um in the future for for our city here. And here is the high injury network. Uh what you see here is all of the injury collisions. The three modes got overlap together and then the blue lines really uh designated as the high injury network. we used the an SS4A

or actually the FHWA sliding window method to get there. And what I really want to point out here, if you look at the table, um the total mileage, the blue lines you see here, covers about 13% of the total city roadway mileage, but then that covers 80% of the high injury network. So if we can gradually taking care of our 13% of roads, we are going to eliminate 80% of those injuries. And so we talk about not only reacting to areas where collisions have already occurred, we want to look at systemically what are the environments that could cause collisions or likely have a high potential for certain collisions. So you see here two matrix here. The first one is for intersection and you'll see for the various type of collisions and what are the environment. So the first one's intersection. Are they at signalized intersections? Are they at always stop controlled intersections? Are they at side street controlled intersections? What are the size of the intersections? 2x two, 4x4, 4x2. So we really kind of look through and trying to highlight and see what are some of the environments that are mostly pot having the potential to have collisions even though the collisions has not occurred in the past. So as you can see here the first row uh we're looking at signal controlled intersections usually four lane cross two lane and the violation is failure to stop at red light right and then the next one you look at the size tree stop control the 106 here is red um you're looking at a small 2x two intersection failure to stop at a stop control so those are the things we want to really looking at and then the next one I just want to point to the rear end collision and happens on at the intersections 4x2 and safe speed. So we looked at these collisions and diagnose and try to

figure out what the right counter measures may be to help to mitigate these collisions in the future. I'm not going to dive into this too much. This is very similar treatments but it's about midb block. So you're looking more like the post speed limits and the number of travel lengths we see. And then we get into the counter measure development. you know, how do we handle, you know, almost 2,000 collisions on top of the potential collision areas is that we really looking at the approach. Let's look at the crash types and then look at the national, state, and local resources on what are the most effective counter measures to mitigate these kind of collision or crash types. And then we create a massive database which I'm going to show a little bit here and on you know what kind of treatment uh what kind so sorry what kind of d what kind of treatment what kind of location can be taken care by you know what kind of counter measures so it's a matching mix and matching game. Um so quickly we look at the sort of the crash type and there's really five major crash types we see here on the vehicle-tovehicle collisions broadside I want to show some pictures here so everybody understand what broadside collisions are that takes about 48% of the total injury collisions uh in the city rear end talk about speeding and uh there are other treatments obvious happens about 27% and hit object 9% that could be, you know, driving under the influence or speeding or not paying attention. Uh head-on collisions and these are usually happening intersections. Um somebody's driving or driving on the wrong lane and the two car collided. That's about 7%. And then the next one is side swipe and that happens could happen intersection could happen to lane change. Uh that's about 6%.

And we also as I mentioned have 10% of pedestrian involved collisions and 5% of of bicycle involved collisions. So here are the a list of references we've looked at. There's lots lots of research has been done over the years and so each one of these reference present different value as we were going through our counter measure selection process and some of them more focus on you know what counter measures best suit for what kind of collisions some of them are talking about crash reduction factors sometimes and they some of them talk about the lifespan of uh these counter measures or how systemic they can be and how costly they may be and then two Other things I want to point out actually three and the the one we also looked very heavily is the CALR uh uh local roadway safety manual before this generation uh our our state have the local uh roadway safety plan LRSP. So the LRSM really was developed to accompany to accompany the RSP. So it had great references and and uh resources for us to to utilize. And we also Noah mentioned the 2019 SSR that city conducted here. We definitely looked at those and look at what the counter measures they they use and look at the collision trend over time. And then uh the county of Riverside is also conducting aviation zero action plan. So we are in coordination with them and they're a little bit ahead of us. So we want to make sure as we're developing the projects u we don't conflict with their recommendations. So here's a massive database. I don't expect you to read it but what I wanted to share is as you can see there's the counter measures in one column and the the kind of the uh counter measure settings whether is in intersection whether is in the signal issue whether is in segments and then we the next sets

you looked at are the various crash types that I talked about and then the cost of these uh collisions and crash types and then the to the right of the screen you see are the the various of uh uh resources that we utilize and kind of justify on what are the most effective uh measures may be. So there are altogether about 68 counter measures we identified that can be suitable uh for the city of Hammond. And here are just a quick uh example. I mentioned there are 60 plus and here just one per I would say location. The first one is high visibility crosswalks with advanced stop bars. And this really alert drivers to see pedestrians are going to be crossing their their uh presence. And the advanced stop bar, as you can see, creates a little bit separation space between uh a stop vehicle and the pedestrian crossing. You see that at Bunova Vista in Florida just right down the street here. And the second one is a bicycle treatment. It's a class 4 separated bikeways. And you see here are sort of the the softer part of the physical separation, but you can do planters, you can do wreath, curbs, there's also the treatments you can go in to provide that physical separation and to pro protect cyclists. I heard I here earlier uh for the housing project. You know, the city got uh the developer got the uh 134 million of uh the affordable housing and sustainability grants. And so one of the things I saw was a class 4 cycle track. So really good to to hear and I took photos of that. So we want to make sure we incorporate those into our recommendations if it happens to fall on our high injury network. And then the third one I think city's already done a very good job on is the traffic signal backflate with the reflective uh borders and this really helps to improve the visibility both during the day at night or on those cloudy days and help drivers

to recognize their traffic signals coming up. And then last one speed homes. I see this happening in some of the neighborhoods here already. And so that could be really a traffic calming devices and trying to slow down uh traffic within uh neighborhood streets here. Again, just a quick example. Later on, you'll see the boards. We'll probably showing two dozens of those, but again, we have about 60 plus of counter measures that can be applicable. And as part of the plan, what we'll do is for each counter measure we recommended, you're going to see a description. You're going to see uh what crash type this counter measure would address and the reduction the crash reduction factor the systemic opportunity uh the lifespan of these counter measures and how costly they are in the range of $1 sign and $3 sign. The goal here is when we are done with this project Noah and team can continue update the the collisions and and trying to implement this. And so this is really hopefully is a menu and guide when when the project team is gone, the city can continue to implement uh these high priority projects. Okay, we're almost there. Um project identification. So here's a high level approach on how did we, you know, address this 30 13.8 8 miles of uh uh 38.1 miles of roads in uh yeah 38.1 miles of roads in Hammet. Uh first thing we wanted to do is really we cover the entire high injury network because there's a reason why they're called high injury network and these are the blue lines on there. And then we took a step back saying, "Okay, well, we do want to identify projects that that are manageable, implementable, because if we have a 10 mile road, guess what? We're not going to be able to implement all at once." So, we broke them down to

manageable sizes. They're ranging from uh 0.5 to about 1.5 miles. And as a result, we have 40 plus projects identified. And in addition, we also had some uh fatal and severe collisions that were falling off of the high injury network. And that those are the dots you see with the black uh dash lines around it. So what we really want to do is through this high pri high priority prioritization process uh we're going to identify 20 projects and and study them more in the as the plan move forward. And these project could include a sight specific project or a group of not not on the lines but in the dashed uh dashed blue sorry dash black circles and there could be corridor updates and there could be uh systemic improvements like a signal type of improvements. There could be neighborhood enhancements, trafficcoming type that would apply to certain types of neighborhood and there also could be programmatic improvements. These are non-infrastructure uh educational or enforcement type of improvements. Uh so quickly on prioritization, this is really where we're at today and we're hoping to get feedback from our community members as well. Uh you see here there's six there's six altogether criteria, four of which are quantifiable, you know, data driven based on our analysis and then the resources that we researched. So that's the high injury network score. That's the systemic systemic environment uh and also injury collision history. We talk about the equity needs and also our vulnerable users. We saw the severity of how vulnerable our pedestrians and cyclists are. So those are the four things that are data driven. That's analytics. But then we also have two more human input because everybody knows

Hammet better the res than the residents here and the city staff. So we want to give some points uh to get some feedback from our community members and then we'll work with uh uh the team here with at the city to identify what the staff input may be. Um so with that I can touch on the next next steps real quick. So with that we're going to after next steps we're going to move to the um the actual workshop that we're going to have staff managing the stations. Feel free to stop by asking lots of questions. Uh but the next step here is that we really want to refine and finalize the countermeasure toolbox. We want to refine strategies and counter measures and projects. We want to finalize the project prioritization, start developing project sheets for those uh high priority projects like I mentioned 20 projects and then we're going to do our third set of our task force meeting and uh and the public workshop. And the next workshop and and the meeting will be reviewing these high priority projects and then looking at the draft plan. Uh actually before we uh move on we we understand there are people participating online and so feel free get your phone and use the QR code and you will see sort of following uh the inperson uh workshop that we're having. For those of you here we highly encourage you to uh participate in person. There's snacks out there. So, don't leave until you take some cookies and eat some cuties. Uh, there's also water out there. Uh, with that, we thank you for your time. Thank you very much, Monnique, for that presentation and director Noah. Um, commissioners, you have questions for staff in this?

Yeah. Um, I guess when you get the data analysis, does it tell you like time of day when most accidents happen? Is it during rush hour, morning rush hour, afternoon, late at night? Yes, all that data is included. Where do you think the biggest uh where all the problems lie? Oh, spread out is all over the place.

Yeah. Okay. And why do you think what do you think the cause is for um because I saw during the um it said the the the pedestrian is very equal on accidents that happen on an intersection and mid block. Why do you think that is or do you know you have a guess? Yeah, I mean sometimes, you know, when we consider midblock is so the intersection is is really looking at the intersection footprint and maybe 25 to 50 feet above and you know we see people walking across the street without you know midblock crossing type. So they're showing up as a midblock and you know and that's why we need to do some traffic coming. We need to allow people to cross. We may put some RFBs to provide crossing opportunities. Yeah.

Like jaywalking. Yeah. Well, jaywalking, by the way, is legal now. There's no such thing called jaywalking. So, we would have as engineers and planners, we would have to come up with recommendations to, you know, to really trying to prevent those, you know, the safe systems approach is it doesn't matter whose fault it is, nobody should die or or severely getting hurt. Yeah. Gotcha. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. Of course. Hi, Mon'nique. Um, I'm [clears throat] just curious. It probably has no bearing on the output here, but did you look into data that talks about people on the cell phone while getting in an accident or breaking it down into demographics of age?

Yeah. So, we we do know the demographics of the age. Uh we know driving under the influence, but unfortunately when people are using their cell phone, it's hard to tell, right? If you get into a collision, police come, you're not going to tell them, "Hey, I was not looking." So that's why that is not really well documented. Sorry. Yeah, I understand. Thank you. Yeah, this seems like a really cool uh opportunity for application of AI in terms of the analysis is is it all being done manually at this point? Is there any is there any AI

uh for for our project? No, no AI because we've collected data from the crossroad uh from this the police department as well as TIMS which is you know a state cap data uh we do what we do have and Noah talked about GS viewer we collect we uh put all of the collisions putting the years of the collision you know the type of a collision the violation codes everything else the travel speed the bike length you name it we create a database for the city uh so something you can toggle on and off and to see you know okay well we implemented if Noah keeps the the viewer going we implemented such counter measure uh so you know the next year do we still see collisions at those counter measures right and so you know it's a good way to track collision trend over time but so far we have not used AI to do that

um is there so there's been some discussion on uh the truck route um study or or re revisiting um what is the appropriate truck routes. Is is [clears throat] are there any that as well as um some of the input uh from planning commission in in our work session with city manager a couple months ago was about um signal uh operation integration smart signals. You referenced it a little bit on some key corridors. Is there a reason why we're limiting it to key key corridors? is just a cost issue. Maybe that maybe with that that part of it as well as different truck routes and what what what are the safe the appropriate streets for certain types of of traffic maybe that ultimately changes and maybe there's some some

You want to take it first? Yeah. first I mean I guess I think most of the if you look at the high injury network most of those are within those corridors those highly traveled corridors like Sanderson and Stson and of course Florida A which is not the city's jurisdiction um but um I think you know we would want to focus on those that's where I think a lot of the traffic and you know they need to be coordinated I think that would be safer for for everyone on the roads um but I mean of course once you know those are all done and we can continue, you know, finding funding and we could definitely look at some of the other collector and um the some of the smaller streets as well. Yeah.

Yeah. Um I was thank you Noah. I was just going to add you will see signal recommendations that could be coordination that could be hardware software. Um so that is part of the counter measures and that could be systemic meaning that we're going to apply to all of the intersections. For example, uh do we still want to see permissive life turns meaning right how a vehicle turning left on a green ball and then through a vehicle coming that's when the head-on could happen. So those are the things we are looking at and then we will be uh I guess uh arrange those uh into the order of high priority but either way even if you don't make to the top 20 you know these projects going to be identified and city can slowly implement over time.

Did that answer your question? Yeah, I mean it it's it's uh it gets very complex when you start adding all of the different causal elements. That's why it's fun of it. Yeah, I I could that's why I was like, "Oh, the AI that that would be a neat application for it." And so so keep the keep the GIS uh link there because that that's that's scalable and buildable through like a like a PowerBI kind of a application. But very cool. That's all.

First of all, thank you for the presentation. I I us being planning commission and traffic commission. It's good to see something like this come to the table once in a while for us to talk about traffic. Um vision zero, is this a a grant program that we are trying to obtain? What what's vision zero? What what's what's the I know we're trying to reduce fatalities

and some of them intersections we're going to require construction to produ reduce these fatalities such as a left turn on a green uh like Bu Vista and Stson. You're lucky to get one car through there going south on Bua make a left on Stson. It's just ridiculous there. And then there's other places like by West Valley High School that has a lot of reports as well. But intersections are very visible, very clear. It just would require more him PD presence there to give citations and tickets. And with enough of those, people will start to have word of mouth and slow down and go through those intersections. So those don't require construction. They just require maybe more police presence. So with this vision zero what is this a grant program that we are trying to obtain and submit to the state or

yeah so vision zero is actually a term come from Europe right and but we actually in the states we start calling them safe systems because a lot of agencies be like oh my gosh vision zero you know that's not possible ever uh so the idea is really to achieve the safe system approach meaning as I mentioned it doesn't matter whether it's a driver's fault the pedestrian's fault fault a cyclist fault at collision could not end up become a fatal or severe injury collision. So meaning you know speed slows down then your collision is going to be less severe. Uh you had better uh dedications for each modes like cyclists being in the bike lanes, pedestrians on the sidewalks, you have crosswalks highly marked. So those are the things we can do to really help uh to improve safety. I agree with you. Not everything's going to be capital and that's why you're seeing that I mentioned on the top 20 project could be programmatic. You know, it could be programmatic improvements that could be enforcement or education. But the goal here is to reduce all severe and fatal collisions. And some cities that I work with, I've been working at this for more than 10 years now. Some cities set a goal say, "Hey, we want a vision zero by 2026." We're in 2026. I'm sure they have not achieved vision zero but it's a goal. We want to have targets get there. We may not you know when we come back for resolution we may not say okay we want a vision zero or no fatal and and severe by x amount a year but what we want to do is implement that monitoring program year after year and hopefully we see the the collisions reduce.

So when we again is it for grants? Yeah, it is it is a grant program as Noah was saying is $5 billion was uh allocated back in 2022. This is the last year of the of the grant cycle and there's still about $1 billion left for this last cycle. So there you're going to see both planning and implementation uh funding funded project and it is a national is a federal program. So like we have like rea numbers for housing we have to give a projection

and so with this particular one do we give like a five-year projection to them with this grant program is it a 10-year are we breaking it down year 0 to two we want to reduce it by 10% or how are we projecting this to the state

so I I would kind of separate the uh the plan from being a grant program because it's more of like kind of a um a framework and a uh something that we can implement as a city. And it's not just one grant. There's multiple programs we can use this plan to chase grant money. It's going to be we're going to look at ATP and HSIP and SS4A is just one of those and SS4A is the grant that we got to pay for for for preparing this plan. Um so I wouldn't say that there and the vision zero is, you know, it's a goal. It could be a lofty goal, but I think it's, you know, kind of just the the commitment of the leaders to say we want no fatalities and no severe injuries in our city. Um, and you know, you may get there, you may not, but that's just that's the goal.

Okay. And one other weird question because it was in one of the statistics here and we only I think we only have one in our valley but roundabouts. What in your knowledge roundabouts are they typically a safer approach? Should we be looking more into roundabouts when we when we develop communities or is there more accidents being caused by roundabouts?

Perfect question. Uh it depends on how the roundabout is designed. You know if you have to design where the entry or my firm does a lot of roundabout design and so you want to make sure the entry speed if you design right it cannot exceed 15 20 miles per hour. So the cars has to slow down have to slow down in order to traverse through the roundabout. So if designed correctly it definitely is a very much so effective uh traffic coming and collision reduced uh device and plasma the roundabout smaller pedestrian crossing distance is much shorter. Okay. I was just curious and [clears throat] you'll see on one of the boards sometime later you'll see a roundabout there because it definitely is on the table here as well.

I know there's a lot of communities here doing them and I've been through them and it's easy to navigate, you know. So, okay. [clears throat] Any other questions for staff? Except the two-lane roundabouts. Those things are awful. [laughter] I've been in one lane. There's one like right in front of Morango when you get off the freeway. It's tough. Oh, yeah. That's right. I remember that. Yeah. I don't think we're going to propose any of those. Okay, just baby steps.

Thank you very much. Any other questions for staff? Okay. Well, thank you very much guys for the presentation and uh let's see here. Just receive and file. So, we don't need to vote this. Just receive and file it. So, thank you very much. And for you know anyone in the public uh we will have uh stations set up and we would love to receive feedback. Thank you. Thank you Noah. And now we'll take department reports. City attorney Leo Sari. Good to have you back.

Thank you chair. I have nothing to One moment. Uh city attorney. We do have a public comment for this item. Uh a e comment. Let me open up for public hearing. Uh, it was submitted by an anonymous resident. Uh, and would you like for me to read it so that we can have it on record? I It's a longer public comment, but I believe you probably should read it, we read it here, but she needs to make that public. Yes, you could make it. It's up to the commission's discretion. or we keep it as um a file for the record. So,

well, we'll go ahead and have you read it, unfortunately. I mean, just for public record, just make sure that that person's voice is heard.

Okay. The comment states, item 10B, the safety analyst report makes one thing obvious. Our current approach is not working. The data shows nearly 2,000 injury related crashes in 5 years, but that number does not capture what happens on our streets every day. The report notes that darkness is a major factor in fatal pedestrian crashes with almost 80% happening at night. But here is the reality. If a road is designed like a highway, people will drive it like a highway, no matter how many lights you add. I hope the commission will look beyond just lighting improvements. We need real traffic calming as part of the safe system approach and we need to take a hard look at our intersections. The report highlights how dangerous permissive left turns are, especially on high-speed roads like Sanderson. A more straightforward fix would be converting more of those to protected left turn signals so drivers have a dedicated green arrow instead of guessing when it is safe to go. Right turn on red is also a real problem. A statewide study from 2011 to 2022 found over 39,000 crashes and 217 fatalities from it in California. and more than half of those involved a pedestrian or cyclist. The commission should look into that. And then the sidewalks. I've lived here long enough to know that in the high need areas, the report identifies the sidewalks are a mess. You've got people in wheelchairs and families with strollers forced into the street to avoid broken or non-existent sidewalks. You cannot walk down a street like Florida Avenue for too long without walking on an unmarked path or needing

to cross the highway to get to a slightly better path on the other side. This happens not just on Florida Avenue, but all over town. That is not only a safety problem, it is a long-standing gap in basic infra infrastructure. Using the federal SS4A grant to build a continuous, reliable sidewalk network will make this a more functional city. I understand this is a work study item, so the commission is not taking a final vote tonight, but as you develop your input and prepare to recommend a vision zero policy to the city council, please prioritize consistency and predictability over raw speed. Let us stop designing our streets mainly for through traffic and start building a city that is safe, acceptable, and efficient for every resident. Thank you very much for that, Sharice. And with that, we're going to go ahead and close public comment. And receive and file.

All right. Uh, city attorney reports. Thank you, chair. I have nothing to report. Okay. Thank you very much. Community development reports. Director Monnique. Chair, I have nothing to report. Thank you. How about future agenda items?

Yes. Uh, future agenda items include Palm Communities. They'll be coming back with a site development review modification um at at a U upcoming planning commission meeting. We do have the Devonshshire Avenue skilled nursing facility conditional use permit working its way through the the review pipeline. There will be a hemmet presentation provided to the planning commission at an upcoming meeting. Um also uh we will be bringing back a pro housing designation program um upon um completion with working with WCOG and place works on um a draft before presenting it to the city council. have a viados stressoritos tenative track map uh 38979 coming before you for new residential development. The 2025 code cycle updates in pursuant to AB306 in residential construction will be presented to you um at an upcoming planning commission meeting as well as the pre-approved U ADU plans we are um that is on the work plan for to bring that back also to the planning commission at a future agenda. This uh concludes my uh future agenda items.

Thank you very much for that. And final 11C f uh commissioners reports 11D from commissioner reports. Yes, director Monique. Commissioner Vermont. I have nothing to report. Commissioner Hill. Yeah, I'd just like to say Monique, uh you know, that staff presentations are really looking good and thorough. Appreciate that from you and your staff. It's uh really good to see. Thank you. Thank you. That's all. Thank you, Vice Chair. Worth

ditto on that and also appreciate the very comprehensive uh meeting minutes. Um it's it's uh it's good to see that that it's getting documented what we what we talk about. So, thank you.

Thank you. Oh, and then just one other note to Noah's is not here anymore, but on State Street, the Mixweeni Farm signals are missing the reflective and it be we had a power outage recently and it was extremely obvious that they were not there because or that the reflective was was missing. So, that is a very um important uh Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see you. Uh so uh but yeah just as a it that those are relatively new as well. So I don't know if there's uh something that can be done on that but

noted. Yes. When we actually received the grant to put the reflective back plates on all the other ones those weren't the cities yet so they weren't included in the grant. Gotcha. Gotcha. Thank you for that. Chair beam stripper.

It's great to be back here again. And let me tell you, the sound system sounds amazing. I can hear everybody up here. So, I'm really happy with the updates we have here. Um, let's see here. Riverside County Board of Supervisors approve a apartment complex building to be built on Colombia uh in between Florida and Acacia. It is going to contain I believe it is 60ome units or 70ome units but uh so we do have some newer apartments coming in as well. Uh let's see here. April 15th is tax day. Just a friendly reminder. Uh April 18th is the 12th annual vintage trailer and car show at the Golden Village RV. On April 30th, we have our second annual HIMT Regional Economic Summit at the public library. Ticks are available on the on Eventbrite. And then on May the 9th, we of course have our murder mixer at the HIMT library. And we see vice oh we see Mayor Kupa back there. She can be one of the actors there. And tickets are available on events bright events bright as well. Um, see I had my ribbon cutting here on the 27th and I I want to thank everybody, Commissioner Hill and Commissioner Worth and Mayor Kupa to show up and and uh show support as well as uh Jackie and Valerie and Joe. It was good to have everybody there to support. So I appreciate that everybody showing up. And with that, I have nothing else to report. And with there being no further business to discuss, this meeting is being adjourned to next planning commission meeting scheduled for April 21st at 6 PM right here in our chambers.