Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

We are ready, yes. Thank you.

Good evening. I declare open the ordinary meeting of the Urbanism Commission of September 15, 2026. Please note that this meeting is broadcast live on the site of the city and by teleconference via Zoom. I remind the urbanism commissioner to activate their microphones so that the public can hear them. Director Monique, can we proceed with the presentation?

Commissaire Viramont.

Present.

Commissaire Hill.

Present.

Vice-President Wirth.

Present.

Vice-President Blimster.

Vice-President, can we move on to the invocation of the Sermon of Allegiance?

I swear allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic which represents a nation under the aegis of God, indivisible, with freedom and justice for all. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to meet and serve our community. Thank you for allowing the community to be present and to participate in this event. You continue to give us wise advice on the subjects we are dealing with here and that you continue to help our community and the citizens who live there.

We pray. Y a-t-il des personnes présentes ou en ligne qui souhaitent commenter un point hors ordre du jour?

Nous avons Laurie Jacobs.

Voulez-vous vous approcher du pupitre, s'il vous plaît? C'est bien un point qui ne figure pas à l'ordre du jour, n'est-ce pas? Ce n'est pas à l'ordre du jour. Assurez-vous simplement que le voyant vert est allumé en appuyant sur le bouton devant le micro.

Pardon, comment ?

J'entends ici. Ce n'est pas grave. Il y a devant le micro, vérifiez juste que le voyant passe au vert et vous pouvez commencer. Ça commence-t-il ? Vous pouvez commencer quand vous voulez.

D'accord, je suis ici au sujet du projet immobilier Montego Bay et nous avons des questions dans le quartier et au complexe pour Seigneur Boukteres. Nous nous interrogeons sur l'exemption CEQA. Vous avez fourni un rapport d'impact environnemental pour le plan général. Et vous avez obtenu une exemption pour cela. And we are wondering how months of soil projection, dust, chemical products, pollen and leaves lifted by leveling and digging can not affect the receptors sensitive to special categories, the seniors concerned by CEQA, and cause respiratory or existing or new problems. There will also be a lot of smoke coming from their barbecue. And also during the 2024 meeting, you said that you had carried out a traffic study. When at the beginning, in 2024, you said that no traffic study was necessary. And then I was in your offices last week to get information and I was told that a study had been done. There will be between 96 and 192 cars that will try to get out of this real estate complex, once built, without any road improvements. Il n'y aura aucun marquage ou changement sur les lignes des routes au niveau de la petite intersection du quartier au moins deux ou trois fois par jour aux heures de pointe avec des gens essayant de traverser Devonshire et Sanderson. Il n'y aura plus d'accident car il n'y a pas de séparateur ou quoi que ce soit là-bas. To come back to the CEQA, I would like to get a copy of your environmental impact report. And I would also like to get a copy of your traffic study, if it has been carried out and if not, to know why. I asked how many buildings there were of three and four floors in the city of Emet. And we found only four, including the hospital of Metz, which has more floors. Montego Bay builds six three-story buildings on a small field of less than five acres. They are 40 feet and 4 inches high. We at Brook Terrace are a complex of one floor. Okay, regarding the Montego Bay sewage, a water basin has been used, the plot C, to the city and to the taxpayers so that they can take the costs. The city proposed to take it on its own. The sewage goes into the basin rather than into the street.

Okay, thank you very much. Are there any other comments from the public for points not in the order of the day?

To other speakers.

On this note, we will close the public hearing. Let us now move on to the approval of the Verbal Procedure of the Réunion on August 18, 2026. Does the Commission have any comments or corrections?

May I have a proposal? I propose to approve the Verbal Procedure of the Réunion on August 18, 2026.

For questions submitted to the public audience, Good evening, Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, the commissioners, the staff and members of the public present in the room and online today.

This evening, the Planning Division of the Community Development Department requests to report this point to the next meeting scheduled by the Urbanism Commission, which will be held on October 6, 2026 at 6 p.m. here, in the Municipal Council Room, located at 450 East Latham Avenue. Although comments have been sent by mail to the neighboring owners for this file, the publication in the Press Enterprise has unfortunately not taken place. As a result, the opinion is irregular, which forces us to re-edit the opinion of the audience in its entirety and we cannot hold the audience today. If a person in the audience wants to make a comment, since the point is in the order of the day, she is allowed to do so. Consequently, the staff recommends that the Commission of Urbanism take the following measures. 1. Open the public audience for the conditional use permit number CEUP 26004 concerning the implementation of the type 21 ABC license for the UNOCAL 76 service station. 2. Receive the testimonies of the public limited to this particular point of the public audience. 3. Finally, report the public audience to a fixed date on October 20, sorry, on October 6, 2026. Ceci conclut ma présentation. Je serai heureux de répondre à vos questions.

Merci pour votre présentation.

Des questions ?

Très bien. Sur ce, nous allons procéder à l'ouverture de l'audience publique.

Nous n'aurons pas d'audience publique puisque ce point va être reporté. We could leave it open. I would also like to note for the verbal trial that, since this case has not been heard, any comment from the public will not be allowed. However, members of the public are invited to make comments if they wish, but they can also do so during the next meeting scheduled for October 6.

Okay, would it be better to close the public hearing since there is no one to make a statement or to leave it open?

Vous pouvez la clore, puis nous la republierons pour émettre un nouvel avis. Nous devrons donc recommencer tout le processus lors de la prochaine réunion de la commission d'urbanisme.

Nous allons la clore. Et les commissaires, faites une proposition pour le report.

Je vais recommander l'ensemble des points au seulement numéro 2.

Tous les 1, 2 et 3.

I recommend opening the public hearing for the conditional use permit n° 26004 concerning the implementation of the type 21 ABC license for Inokal 76. Receive the testimonies of the limited public at this point of the public hearing and report the public hearing on a fixed date on October 6, 2026 at 6 p.m. in the room of the municipal council in order to allow staff to correct a gap in public life and to publish the opinion again in accordance with the law of the state and the municipal code of MS.

Let's proceed.

The motion is adopted by four members. Let's move on to point 6B. Montegobay. Can we have the presentation of the personnel?

It is the director.

Thank you, Mr. Commissioner. And Commissioner, once again, unfortunately, the Urbanism Service must ask you to report this point as well. Although this particular point is the subject of an appropriate opinion published in the Press-Enterprise newspaper and sent by mail, the staff made a minor procedural error in the treatment of the request, which prevents us from continuing the public audience tonight. Nous vous demandons de reporter ce point à une date fixe lors de la prochaine réunion ordinaire de la commission d'urbanisme le 6 octobre. Nous pouvons recevoir les témoignages de toute personne présente dans le public ou sur l'appel Zoom aujourd'hui, aujourd'hui. Le personnel recommande que la commission d'urbanisme prenne les mesures suivantes. Il s'agirait d'ouvrir l'audience publique pour la prolongation de délai numéro 26 004 pour FB Montego Bay HMTL LLC SC. that you received the testimonies of the public limited to this point of the public audience and thirdly, that you reported the audience to a fixed date on October 6, 2026. This concludes my presentation. I would be happy to answer your questions. Commissioner, do you have any questions?

No, but I have a comment.

J'ai un commentaire à l'attention du personnel. Nous avons eu un commentaire du public ce soir au sujet de Montego Bay concernant la CQA et la circulation. Donc, lorsque cela reviendra à l'ordre du jour lors de la prochaine réunion, pourrons-nous aborder ces questions demain? Je sais que le public est préoccupé par la CQA et l'étude de circulation. Je sais que cela a été étudié en profondeur, mais si nous pouvions le souligner afin que le public soit conscient de ce que nous avons fait

Yes, we will make sure that the personnel report contains this information in detail. It will be a delay extension request. However, it is not a question of re-examining the habilitation. But yes, we will put absolutely all the information necessary to clarify these two points.

I would be grateful. Thank you. Other questions? Very well.

On this, I will open the public period. We had a comment from the public. Other members? I would like to ask the commissioner to make a recommendation. One, two, three.

I recommend to open the public audience for a length of time, A new delay extension request for the CUP n° 26004, FB Montego Bay, HMT LLC, to receive the testimonies of the limited public at this point of the public audience at a fixed date, October 6, 2026, at 6 p.m. in the room of the municipal council, in order to allow staff to correct a minor procedural error related to the treatment of the project.

Thank you, Mr. President.

I would like to briefly talk about a bill in progress in the Assembly. It has not yet been approved, but it is useful to know what to expect. This is Abbé de Miclac 69. It concerns the dissemination of water consumption in data centers. Essentially, this bill prevents all cities in the county of California from approving a permit for a new data center or an extension that increases the consumption of water, unless the applicant... does not meet certain conditions... The applicant must submit prescribed information, including a water shortage management plan and an evaluation of water supply, and must cover the entire cost of improving the hydraulic infrastructure necessary to serve the project, as determined by the water supplier. Le projet de loi est divisible et ses conclusions déclarent qu'il s'agit d'une question d'intérêt général à l'échelle de l'État. Il s'applique donc à tous, y compris aux Villachartes. Et bien qu'il crée un programme local mandaté par l'État en élargissant les devoirs des agences locales, le projet de loi stipule qu'aucun remboursement n'est requis pour une raison spécifiée. So I'm going to keep that in mind on my list. What is the number of this project? AB-2000-CLAS-1469, and it is entitled Water consumption dissemination of data centers.

So, given that we are in the desert and that there is a shortage of water here, I imagine that we could ask for an exemption.

I guess so, up to here. a moins qu'il n'y apporte certains amendements ou dispositions.

D'accord, merci pour cela.

Absolument.

D'accord, 7B, rapport sur le développement communautaire.

D'accord, merci, Monsieur le Président.

This evening, concerning the order of the day, we apologize for the public audience points, but we want to catch up with a report from the director and an update on the situation. The program, the permit software Tyler. As you know, the deployment took place on August 11, 2026. So we would like to give you a point on the permit system. Depuis le déploiement du système de permis, nous avons lancé le logiciel de gestion des permis qui est exclusivement en ligne. Jusqu'à présent, depuis juillet-août, enfin le déploiement d'août, nous avons reçu 207 demandes en ligne et nous en sommes actuellement à 171 demandes et cela continue. Most of our permits, or about 34% of our permits, concern the pre-approved solar demand process, in which there is a simplified process via the solar application to submit the requests. And in this context, they just have to submit a request via our Tyler Permit software and it is delivered automatically and the fees are collected via the solar application process, which currently represents 32 to 34 euros of our volume. Overall, we have delivered 142 permits to be built since deployment and we continue to work on it while educating the public even more. Nous invitons la communauté à assister au rendez-vous mensuel Business Connecting May qui aura lieu le jeudi 24 septembre à 8h00. A QR code is available here. Our Community Development Department will organize this presentation to provide the community with information on how to submit new requests, to follow the exams, to get a real-time permit, as well as to download plans and documents and to plan inspections. Nous invitons donc la communauté à y assister le jeudi 24 septembre. Par ailleurs, nous souhaitons vous informer qu'en raison du déploiement, pour finaliser la conversion du système, les services de permis en ligne seront temporairement indisponibles du lundi 12 octobre au lundi 19 octobre This also includes the old TRACKIT software and our EPNL tailor, which will not be available for access and permit processing. We encourage you to ask your questions. If you have any questions, we encourage community members to contact the construction and security, engineering and urban planning services. We can help you navigate through this transition period. J'aimerais également faire un point sur la croissance des permis de logement. Ce graphique reflète les presque six dernières années au cours desquelles nous avons observé une tendance à la croissance et une augmentation des permis de construire. Ce graphique reflète les permis finaux délivrés pour lesquels des familles ont emménagé. In 2026, at the moment, we have 84 new houses built. They are not all finished, but they are at the stage of authorization or delivery of the permit. And a total of 1,603 new houses have been built in the city since 2020. We are working with the SCAG on their Conexocal 2050 program for long-term planning of the city. Leur prévision de croissance indique qu'en 2035, nous aurions 38,816 foyers, soit une population d'environ 100,16,0 visés habitants. Actuellement, nous comptons 37,270 foyers selon les données de 2025. We also have an estimated population, according to the American Community Survey, over five years of 91,934 inhabitants in the city. Some of our growth areas are located in the four corners of the Metz. These are areas where we observe a model of development, an increase in the population, and opportunities for residential development. Certain of these communities include the specific plan of the Max Winnie Farms area. Some commissioners present this evening participated in several looting projects close to their completion. There is a future phase east of the Cactus Valley Wash which is currently under civil examination. Witness houses are currently open. Some houses are still available for sale within this community. We also have, in the west of the city, the 13 Cerritos project, west of Horton, which will soon arrive. 269 individual houses, the Tissement, 131,113. The Urbanism Commission has also recently approved this. They are currently in the process of verifying construction plans near the city. Également, quelques bonnes nouvelles à signaler. Nous sommes une communauté attractive pour le développement et le nouveau lotissement construit par Bulltex Syntex Homes Baywood à Morgan Crossings est désormais complet. Nous avons aussi des appartements résidentiels pour seniors. Ah, ils sont actuellement en cours de construction. Excusez-moi, pas en cours de construction. Ils sont en cours de délivrance de permis de construire, incluant 120 appartements pour seniors situés à Lyon et au sud de Latham Avenue. Nous avons aussi des communautés qui arrivent bientôt. Nous travaillons actuellement avec le promoteur. Le financement est en place et nous gérons les permis de construire et les plans civils auprès de la ville. Vous vous souvenez peut-être qu'il n'y a pas si longtemps, un permis d'utilisation conditionnelle a été approuvé pour un McDonald's on Go Ecrow. Il est actuellement en construction. C'est un nouveau concept prototype de drive avec une approche numérique. C'est un restaurant sans salle avec une empreinte au sol plus petite qui propose uniquement de la vente à emporter et de la livraison. Il se concentre également sur le retrait ou la livraison, par exemple, pour Uber Eats ou d'autres options de repas. We also have a new commercial construction of Zinn & Farms. They advance in the process. They occupy about 2,538 square meters of installation. It is an adaptive reuse. It is a family producer. He distributes and specializes in culinary herbs and 100% organic specialized products. It is in progress within the Urbanism Service located at 630 West Letham Avenue. Et enfin, j'aimerais partager avec vous le lancement de notre nouveau site web sur le programme et l'ordonnance Art in Public Places UGUR. Le Conseil municipal a adopté le 24 mars 2026 le programme et l'ordonnance Art in Public Places UGUR, incluant les recommandations de la Commission d'urbanisme. Le programme établit des directives, procédures et normes pour intégrer l'art public dans les projets de construction publique et privée à Aimette. Et le programme contribuera à favoriser l'identité communautaire par l'aménagement et la créativité. Il vise également à souligner la diversité de la communauté, son histoire et ses objectifs futurs, soutenant le développement économique par une présence culturelle dynamique. This website provides information to the community. For those who want to know more about the program, we have here the components of the program and the ordinance. We will also include educational videos soon. This concludes my update, the update of the Director.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for this update, Director Monique. Would you like to make a comment on the Vice President?

Do you have any news on the subject? Just to close the subject.

Yes, and I think we could do a follow-up on the exact determinations that were made, but a question was raised concerning the annexation. From what I understand, there was no activity concerning the annexation. There is no annexation or active annexation at the moment. There may have been determinations made by the LAFCO in terms of validity of the request that had been submitted to the LAFCO at the time or that was being studied for the city.

Yes, I think it would be good to just understand this process. We still have a ring in my neighborhood against addiction and all that, and it just seems to have fallen into oblivion. Some, I don't know, of the conspiracy and other circuits. So it would be wonderful to have an idea of where they were in the process, why it stopped, And maybe it was the role of the city in this process. Because some returns are associated with the city, or some questions concern the city.

And we have our reports that will be presented to you on October 6th. An extension of the deadline, as well as an extension of the deadline for Ramon Acry, which had been reported during a previous public hearing. We have industrial development standards scheduled for the Urbanism Commission on October 6th. Nous avons la mise à jour du cycle du code du bâtiment de 2025 et la mise à jour de la construction résidentielle qui arrive maintenant avec notre nouveau responsable en chef du bâtiment qui a pris ses fonctions ainsi qu'un nouveau chef des pompiers qui a pris ses fonctions cette semaine. Nous avons maintenant l'assistance nécessaire pour nous aider à avancer sur certaines mises à jour du code qui sont nécessaires et conformes à la loi de l'État. Future public audiences will also be included in the provisional leasing plan 31.679 for via de l'Oserito. We are also working with the WRC-OG on the pro-housing designation program. Cela nous prend un peu de temps pour leur envoyer des réponses. Et nous travaillons à naviguer à travers cela afin que nous puissions faire avancer les choses. Les points futurs incluent également le site de l'ancien pépiniériste Cagliaro Figtrigege. We also have some future presentations for pre-approved ADU plans that will be presented by our main urban planner. The zoning code amendment concerning the notification requirements for public audiences and also a future RTA mobility pole.

We have a lot of things in preparation, friends. Very well. Commissars' report on urban planning.

Commissaire Vérumonte.

Je n'ai rien à signaler.

Commissaire Hill.

Je n'ai rien à signaler. Merci.

Vice-président Roy.

Je voulais juste féliciter le commissaire Hill pour son beau titre de retraité. Donc, à part ça, rien à signaler.

Beaucoup de temps libre maintenant.

Félicitations. Merci. Président Bimserfer.

I have some brief community updates. Recently, the staff, including the director of community development and the engineering staff, made a visit with the owner who lives in Florida. Whatever the final result, it is encouraging to see the leaders and the city staff physically present communicate and work in collaboration towards a solution. Le comté de Riverside, par le biais de son conseil de surveillance, a également fait avancer le projet de résidence assistée sur Lake Street, là où se trouve la maison du Dr. Choudry. Une audience publique a eu lieu. J'ai fait un commentaire public à ce sujet. Il n'a pas été lu. Cependant, quelques personnes se sont présentées pour faire un commentaire public. Environ quatre étaient contre. Et une était pour la construction d'un... Je ne suis pas certain si ce sera trois ou quatre étages, mais une résidence assistée derrière la maison du Dr. Choudry. A company owner on Harbour Street raised concerns about the removal of plants in front of his store on the public road. He feared that this was a kind of personal attack because other companies have objects in front of their store, but they have not received an opinion of infringement. The municipal council recently approved a subsidy for a kitchen in the center of the city for a concept of yogurt glazed with a drop of Froyo with a drop cage for the center of the city. So they received $101. And we should always hear from time to time an official announcement concerning the municipal director. I would also like to encourage more educational updates for the Urbanism Commission, in particular during the calendar of lighter meetings, presentations of firefighters, public works, engineering, compliance with the building code and other updates, just to keep us better informed. Finally, there are two community events this weekend. The Paletta Festival, or Paletta, I may have mispronounced this name, no. It will take place on the 19th and 20th at Ramona Ball. This community organization is also part of Coachella. So they have a lot of support. So let's hope that this will go very well for the Ramonabo. And then Science Under the Stars will take place at the Western Center this weekend, on the 19th. The two events can be found on remet365.com. And on this, I have nothing else to report. And having no more topics to discuss, this meeting will be adjourned until the next meeting of the Commission on Urbanism on October 6, 2026 at 6 p.m.