Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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All right. All right, folks. We're seven minutes over and I don't want to run too late tonight. So, let's go ahead and get started. Okay, we're going to stand for the pledge. Please raise the flag. Commissioner Shaw Williams is going to lead us in the pledge. Right hand over your heart. Ready, begin. And justice for all. Roll call.

Commissioner Fowler present. Commissioner Sha Williams here. Acting chair Rice here. communication with staff. Yes, chairman. Um I would like to announce um that we officially kicked off phase two of our next level uh general plan update with an interdep departmental kickoff meeting held today. Um phase one concluded with over,200 comments received from the community and com was culminated by the development of an existing conditions report, a community profile and a vision statement with guiding principles which are a direct result of the community feedback that we received during the engagement process. This video that we're going to show is a representation of that effort and speaks and is written narrated by the mayor but is written in the voice of the residents of Inglewood. I hope everyone enjoys the city of Ingwood with our rich history and diverse culture owes our return to success to our residents, small businesses, and economic partners. Community pride in the city's resurgent national brand as a premier place to live, work, prosper, and play is both tangible and visible. Ingwood's vibrant residential neighborhoods and our diverse range of local services accented by our state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venues attract regional and international visitors throughout the year. Inglewood is an inclusive community where people walk, run, recreate, and actively participate in community events, both large and small. Ingwood is a city that cherishes the concept of being good neighbors. Ingwood's next level will be defined by our ability to provide residents and visitors with a variety of housing choices, both market rate and affordable, alongside desirable shopping and services. The Inglewood resurrection

will continue to manifest itself in the abundant generation of well-paying jobs for residents and surrounding cities along with improved access to healthcare. The next level of Ingwood is not just a vision is a continued manifestation resulting from the combination of intricate strategy, planning and implementation processes both broad and intricate. These have resulted in the current Ingwood reality. This reality has birthed a thriving local economy where big and small businesses for the most part blend seamlessly to serve both local residents and visitors from all over the world. Ingwood's next level will be defined by our commitment to develop practices grounded in environmental sustainability, small business economic incubation, and the promotion of high levels of public safety. All along with a continued recognition of the need to promote social equity. We will leave no residents behind as we embrace our self-imposed mandate of social and economic self-determination. The city of Inger will continue to be a municipal leader, setting the example for other cities to follow. And that was a video representation of um our general plans vision statement. And um we are um excited to um invite the community to go to our website nextlevelinglewood.com um and sign up to be a part of our mailing list um so that you can participate and become active members in the process of our general plan update. Um next up chairman is that we received two letters of opposition um for um items

6B and 6 C. Um all both of which are provided for you on the dis. Um copies have been made available um at the uh public counter and at the public table and then they have also been updated on our agenda um online. And lastly, um staff is uh requesting that item 6A be continued to the June 4th meeting. Um as um acting chairman tonight, um Rice has recused himself from this item. Um and it will need to be continued due to lack of quorum. Um and so that would need to be done by motion, right? And so uh that would need to be done by motion at at that time. All right. And that concludes um staff's presentation. We have did we have clarity there with a motion required or no? There is a there is a motion that is required. Oh, we won't have quorum. So, we just continue. We'll just continue it. No, no motion required. Okay. Thank you. And um last item, I apologize, is that items uh 6B and 6 C um staff is requesting that they be presented together. Um however, the actions associated with the uh request be made in separate motions and with a separate vote. Understood. Any other comments from staff? That officially concludes staff's presentation. Thank you very much. Comment. Okay, we're going to have public comment at this point. Um, anyone who wants to address the planning commission with reference to any items that are on the agenda but that are not public hearings, be it that you're here uh in the council chambers or you're downstairs in room A, you can come up at this time. He's line up behind the uh nectar

there. Give us your name and where you from. You said you said Mark Liieber. Sorry about that. Um, good evening. Uh, my name is Mark Iver. I am a professor of architecture planning and sustainable design from El Camino College. and I'm here with about 10 students who are here simply to observe. Um so I just wanted to announce our presence. Uh we won't be participating. They're here students are here um to understand the process. The class that I teach is zoning and site planning and so they're they are very interested in how this process works and we deal with zoning. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. Mark, can you spell your last name for me? Yes. Y E B as in boy E R. Thank you. Mark with a C. Thank you. Continue. You're next. Oh, sorry. Didn't read the sign first. It says do not touch. Should I get closer to the Good evening, uh, planning commissioners and those of you who have gathered today. And of course, professor to Can I have your Can I have your name first? Oh, I'm sorry you called it out. I didn't realize. Diane Sbrano. Thank you so much. longtime resident of district 4. I am here for two purposes later on to discuss the item on the public hearing. But first of all, because uh how opportune I didn't know that we were going to have students here, the historical site that is often not considered important in the city of Englewood will be having its annual

barbecue on Sunday, June 8th. Then of course I'm here to invite each and every one of the residents of our community and anywhere else to come and discover how is that is that an item that's on the agenda? You said non-aggenda. Is that correct? No, I items that are on the agenda but are not public that are on agenda. Well, in that case, let me go ahead and segue and let you know that one of the important things that used to be on the site that you're considering changing on um items BC was the I think you're talking about items that are public hearing now. Yes. And we're not going to we're we can't talk about you can talk about any items on the agenda that are not public hearings. Okay. at the at the end of the meeting if you want to discuss. All right. You got it. Are or there'll be a time when that item comes up when you will have an opportunity to discuss it. Anyone else? Going once, going twice. Opportunity gone. Okay. Um we're going to go on move on to the first public hearing. Item 6A, please. Uh chairman, minutes first. June 7th. Oh, I'm sorry. Let me scratch that. I had lots of questions about that one, too. So, we move on to 6B. Chairman, we have to approve the minutes. Item number five. Oh, you're right. A motion to approve the minutes from uh April 2nd, 2025. A motion to approve the minutes for April 2nd, 2025. Second. I'm first and second. Call for the vote. Commissioner Fowler. I. Commissioner Sha Williams. I. Acting Chair Rice.

I. Now we'll move on to item 6B, please. Item 6B, a public hearing to consider an application by Alchemy Planning Plus land use for zone change number 23-0000002 ZC23-00002 to allow a zone change of two parcels from MU-1 mixeduse one to M1 1 light manufacturing and a portion of three parcels from M1 light manufacturing to MU-1 mixeduse 1. The zone change request encompasses 3.99 acres address consisting of 200 through 308 East Avenue. No specific development application has been submitted associated with the zone change request. So just really quick chairman for clarity sake um we're going to do one presentation but we can read into the um allow for public hearing I mean for the public comment for both items separate. So chairman the foul is present and um senior planner Christine Rivera is available to do a short staff presentation. Good evening. Acting chairman Rice and members of the commission. The subject site for both zone changes are located at lots 200 to 308 East Beach Avenue shown here and zoned MU1 and

M1 and lots 326 to 366 East Beach Avenue and 333 to 375 La Kina Drive shown here and zoned M1 and R2. Both sites are in or near the north station designation of the TOD. On the screen, you'll see the existing TOD zoning designation for the sites. The black and white dotted outline represents the entire site for the zone change. So, this is 200 to 3008 East Beach and 333 uh beach and La Kalina as well. The black uh oh the yellow outline represents the Donley farm site. The orange outline represents the vacant lots that are for that are proposed for development. The downtown TOD is in place to transform and enhance the quality of the environment in and around the downtown area. It is in place partially to maximize the utilization of the downtown Englewood Metro line and highquality transit options. This is the proposed zoning and then I'm going to change it once more. This is an aerial view of the Donley farm site. Part of the reason for the zone change request is to bring an existing legal non-conforming industrial use back into compliance. The Donley farm site was M1 light manufacturing, but with the adoption of the 2016 TOD, it changed to MU1, making it legal non-conforming. Changing it back to M1 would allow the business to expand. The

other portion of the site towards the east is proposed to be MU1 zoning to allow for a mixeduse development. I'm going to go back to the proposed zoning and you'll see the the bright blue area would be proposed zoning for Donley Farms to change it back to M1 light manufacturing. And then the red would be the MU1 zoning designation. There are four zone chain findings in place that the planning commission must make and that the project must meet. These findings have been thought through, discussed, and met based on the project details. Findings include number one, consistency with the general plan and applicable designations. Both properties are ideally suited for the MU1 designation due to being located immediately adjacent to the Metro K-ine. Extending the MU1 zone eastward supports the city's long-term vision for a vibrant, walkable, and transit connected urban environment. Returning two parcels to M1, the Donley farm site, supports the expansion of an existing legal non-conforming industrial use, bringing it into compliance with the general plan and supporting continued economic activity. The second finding is appropriateness of the site for for the proposed zoning. The sites are appropriate for the zone change because they are located immediately adjacent to the metro kine. This offers a strategic opportunity to implement the tod framework by concentrating housing density near transit infrastructure. MU1 was established to promote this type of development of

walkable sustainable communities that leverage transit accessibility. Finding three, no special privilege granted. The zone change request adheres to the city standard public review and entitlement processes. Any future development must comply with the MU1 and M1 zoning regulations. The proposed zone change aligns the zoning map with existing planning policies rather than offering an exception or variance. And number four, no detriment to the community or establishment of unique standards. The zone change supports established community planning goals by facilitating development patterns envisioned in the general plan and the TOD. The zone change and future development will foster cohesive urban design and promote equitable access to TOD housing consistent with citywide efforts to address the housing crisis. The return of two parcels to M1 supports the continued industrial use with appropriate mitigation and does not conflict with community welfare proposed development. Um this is on the screen you'll see the existing site condition for the Donley farm site. So parcel one um is zoned MU1 currently and parcel 2 is zoned M1 light by manufacturing. So the zone change for 200 to 3008 East Beach Avenue would change two parcels from MU1 to M1 and change a portion of three parcels from M1 to MU1. The change from MU1 to M1 would allow for the city to address an oversight in the original TOD plan by restoring an appropriate industrial zone and

essentially essentially allowing an existing business to expand. And this is the conceptual plan. As you'll see, parcel one would now become M1 light manufacturing, which allows Donley Farms to Donley Farms to expand, and parcel 2 would become MU1 zoning. So, it conceptually includes the expansion of the Donley Farms warehouses as well as 24 town homes. Donley Farms currently has 20 parking spaces. The proposed expansion will provide 59 additional spaces for a total of 79 spaces, improving on-site parking conditions and reducing overflow parking on public streets. The expanded cold dry storage will also reduce daily truck trips, improving traffic and air quality. The town homes conceptual plan proposes 22 parking spaces for residential and commercial uses on the MU1 portion consistent with zoning requirements and transit proximity. The zone change for 326 to 366 East Beach Avenue and Lalina Drive would change 14 parcels from M1 and R2 to MU1. There are currently three vacant lots within the zone change area and on the screen you'll see the development is proposed within those vacant lots. A conceptual plan envisions utilizing the vacant lots with the fivestory 115 unit residential development. 10 affordable units are proposed. 69 parking spaces are envisioned in a split basement. Similar site developments are

being considered on Florist on Florence and Locust Street. The zone change that is before you is proof of work that the developers have done with city staff and with feedback from residents and constituents of past iterations of the project. I will address a few concerns that we heard from residents during this current iteration of the project. So one concern has been disregard for the TOD planning process. The TOD was adopted in 2016. Research and stakeholder participation began a few years before. So, so essentially the TOD is based on community feedback that is more than 10 years old. Since the adoption, there have been significant changes to state law, including Senate bills to curtail the housing crisis. S Senate Bill 330, known as the Housing Crisis Act of 2019, was adopted by the state and removes the barriers of local government to allow new housing, especially in urban areas. The California density bonus law is another law that would allow a 50% density bonus when a development provides a significant number of affordable units. Assembly Bill 1287 has since updated the California density bonus law where essentially the density bonus can be stackable and there can be a 100% density bonus. The zone change would allow for future development that would help Englewood in the arena of housing and comply with the MU1 and M1 zoning designations. Um per our housing element, the arena required for our housing needs is over 7,000 um housing units. So the proposed

development would help um with that number. Uh another concern has been lack of transparency and community engagement. Staff learned from past iterations of the project the major concerns that that neighbors had. Those major concerns included ingress and egress, traffic, building massing, and the width of the street. Staff worked with the developers to make sure that this zone change and conceptual development included responses to those concerns. This uh lesson learned on this fourth iteration um are shown on the conceptual plans. Another concern has been uh is inappropriate zoning and height impact. The decision to change the zone to MU1 was made in order to maximize the TOD potential and help the city get closer to its housing arena for the state. TOD was put in place to concentrate housing density near transit infrastructure. The MU1 zone was established to promote this type of development. The residential development on the vacant lot will be five stories. The topography of the of the land of this section of Beach Avenue and La Kalina Drive includes a slope differential of 40 ft from Beach to La Kalina. Here is um a section showing the conceptual plan for the five-story residential development. Um looking at the conceptual plan on Beach Avenue, the site can be seen as five stories.

um on Log Kina Drive, which would be on your I think on your right hand side. It is three stories with a roof deck and there is a fourth story that's pushed back on the on that side of La Kalina Drive. The development will also include a 13t sideyard setbacks in order create to create distance from the existing houses that are not part of the development. And you might be able to see that on this plan there's a 13 foot sideyard setback. Um, and I'll go back to this plan as well. It may seem that the conceptual development looms over the adjacent buildings, but that is because of the topography and the slope on Beach and Lalina. Even if the conceptual developments did not go through a zone change and were built by Wright, with a density bonus, the development could be over 40 ft in height without input from the neighborhood. The MU1 zone allows for a maximum of nine stories and no setbacks. The developers did not want to drastically change the neighborhood and took into consideration the previous iterations and feedback from the community. Another concern has been traffic and safety. Traffic was a major concern for the residents. Currently, trucks go down Beach Avenue. La Kalina Drive is a dead end and there is not a lot of public parking on Beach or La Kalina. The conceptual plans for the Donley Farms expansion would provide 59 additional parking spaces for a total of 79 parking spaces. Donley Farms is

expanding their warehouses, but not adding more employees. The new parking would help to alleviate street parking on Beach Avenue. There would also be less truck trips from the Los Angeles warehouse to the Englewood warehouse due to the expansion for the cold and dry storage. The mixeduse town home component proposes 22 parking spaces for the development. The conceptual plans for the residential development on beach and lalina proposes 69 parking spaces. This would alleviate some parking for the development. It may also cater to residents that do not have cars and need to live near transit. Based on previous iterations, we learned that ingress and egress from L Kalina Drive would create a negative impact for the residents. The developers revised their conceptual plans to show ingress and egress for parking on Beach Avenue only. The development would include a turnaround for the LA County Fire Department, but no vehicular access into the residential development from La Kolina Drive. Beach Avenue is 40 ft in width. Per the city's right-of-way master plan, Beach Avenue must be 50 ft in width. We've received confirmation from public works that a 5-ft dedication must be made on Beach Avenue for the developments. As a reminder, the conceptual plans shown are what was analyzed in the EIR addendum. Previous iterations of the zone change did not include any plans at all. I'll go a little bit into the EIR addendum. Based on the conceptual plans, the construction is scheduled to be complete by 2030. Construction noise

would not exceed the thresholds of the existing EIR. The environmental impact does not go beyond the existing to require additional mitigation. The EIR addendum confirms that the conceptual developments comply with the existing thresholds. There are a few benefits to the zone change. Benefits of the zone change would be that non-conforming residential uses would be brought into conformance. Existing residential uses would be able to maximize building potential for any additions to their lots. And there are a few um there are a few residential units currently in the M1 zone that would be brought into conformance. Okay. As condition, the proposed project will serve as an enhancement to its neighborhood setting, will fully comply with the general plan and and to the proposed project is consistent with the general plan by promoting the maintenance, rehabilitation, and modernization modernization of the city's housing stock. The proposed project is consistent with the active transportation plan and environmental climate action plan. If the planning commission approves the request, the zone change will go to the city council for approval. If approved by the city council, the applicant must submit for design review, which would come back to planning commission for review and approval. Um, they would have to submit for a parcel map and site plan review. A draft EIR addendum has been prepared indicating that the project complies with the requirements of SQUA. Two letters were received for the zone changes. This concludes my presentation and I'm available to answer any questions. The applicant is also here

tonight to answer any questions and the SQA consultant is here to answer any EIR addendum questions. All right. Well, you gave us a real mixed bag there. Wow. Yeah. Nice presentation though. Thank you so much. Questions for staff. Um, Commissioner. Uh, yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, yeah, that's a lot to eat take in, but I did take notes. Um, I just wanted to make sure that I heard correctly. Um, as far as the parking there, it's a fivetory unit, 115 a five-story building, 115 units, but there's only 59 parking spaces. Uh, 69 parking spaces. Yes. Okay. 69. And these are conceptual plans. Okay. So, I guess well that that'll I'll ask the uh applicant about that. Um, I heard the traffic I want to confirm that about the width of the street for traffic because I think I heard or read one of the complaints was not enough space to go back and forth and that was addressed. Yes. So, yes. So, the street is 40 feet in width. Um but the city's um right-of-way master plan um the street avenue must be 50 feet in width. So there is going to be a 5 foot dedication. Define dedication to me. Does that mean it's going to happen? Yes. Thank you. Um microphone please. Yeah. Let me see my notes closer. Thank you. Um, I also saw there was a a question in terms of you said the traffic that so right

now trucks go through there and that's a big traffic problem I'm sure. Yes. And so now they won't be going through there. There will still be trucks, but I believe it's 40% less than what is currently 40% less truck trips than what is current because so they're expanding the warehouse. Um, so right now they have a warehouse in Los Angeles. So most of the truck trips are from Los Angeles to Englewood. So there there will still be truck trips. That might be a question for I got it. Yeah, but there'll be less structure. I'll ask the applicant about that. Um, okay. And so some of these questions that and concerns that the community had were probably I don't see it in the letter. I don't want to make any assumption, but because the laws have changed, these things are now appropriate. I I I'm familiar with SP 330. I just left Sacramento yesterday. And so that density bonus is going to be applied here, right? Because it could, you're right, it could be taller and it could be more. Yeah. Okay. I just want to make sure I understood you correctly. Thank you. That's all for you. Thank you so much. Great presentation. Yes. So, you're saying that it could have been nine stories, but um the developers took in consideration the residents and neighborhood and decided to go with five. Is that correct? Yes. So, the well in the MU1 zone, it can be a maximum of nine stories, 116 ft. Um but through past iterations, you know, this being the fourth time they're coming to the planning commission, um they knew that this five stories would probably be the maximum of what they should do in the

neighborhood. And you also addressed that it was going to improve uh the traffic in that area as well as parking. Is that um based on Yeah. the Don for the Donley Farm site because they would be adding more parking with the expansion. Um, so it would alleviate some parking that's happening on the streets from employees. Will residents be able to use any of that parking, additional parking that's coming in? Um, that would just be for Donley Farms employees. Okay. I'll save my other questions for the applicant. Thank you. Okay. I just wanted to make sure I'm going to go over the same thing. It sounds like you said more than nine stories could potentially by right be built here. Nine stories 116 or 116 ft. 116 ft. nine stores. Yeah. Okay. And the additional they're going to have additional parking at Downey Farms, but no additional employees. How do you guarantee that? Something like that. I can't guarantee that. How many additional parking spaces? Uh 59. Yeah, you said that. Additional spaces, right? Yes. So, right now there's 20 and they will be adding 59 parking spaces. And then they're doing town homes on that same lot. And how many town homes? 24 town homes based on the conceptual plans. Okay. And then the partial two, how many residences? So the um the five-story development? Five. So 115 units and uh parking. Yeah. 69 uh 69 spaces. Okay. And that's by right because we can't regulate any parking as a result of AB 2097. Right. Right. really got a got a hand dealt here. Um just just a couple of quick quick uh points of clarification. Um the

expansion of the code dry storage for the Donley farm site is a would become um would allow them to consolidate their um uses from the downtown area, downtown Los Angeles location to Inglewood. Um, that's what right now they have to on once they're they're packaging their food, and I'm sure they can speak to their operations better than I could, but I'm going to give it a college try. Um, they right now are shipping um their products once it's completed down to their their downtown location and vice versa and bringing things back. And so their ability now to provide this additional storage area would reduce the number of truck trips that are generated on a day-to-day basis from downtown to Los Angeles, from downtown to Inglewood and Inglewood to downtown. And so the numbers right now conservatively are about 40%. Could be more right um depending on what their operations model their business operation model looks like at the completion of the construction. Um but but that's what the EIR kind of the addendum evaluated. Um and so one one other point of note is that um in the previous iterations of of this zone change it and I'm speaking specifically to the beach and La Kalina site there were not any um plans conceptually presented to the public and the commission right and so the concern was that there would at some point in time once the zone change was approved that there would be a bait and switch right now we were graphic we were detailing kind of what they were conceptualizing, but there was no visual representation to demonstrate that. And so, as a part of the city's effort to be transparent

with the the community and allow them to see what what is possible, um we required the applicant in this iteration to provide us with some conceptual plans. Now, that's what was reviewed and analyzed in the EIR addendum. It should also be noted that that environmental document, what was what was conceived um from a development standpoint um throughout the downtown TOD was analyzed in the original programmatic EIR. There were over 6,000 units that were um thought to be potentially developed in the downtown um to area. We're well below that threshold right now, right? But we wanted to confirm with the EI addendum that with the con with the construction of these new projects that there would it would not exceed the threshold that would require additional mitigation. So these projects are still required to meet the mitigation measures that were set forth by the original EIR. Um and we knew at that time that traffic was an issue. Um, we knew at that time that, you know, there were going to be some other requirements that the that the the city were going to implement to help to mitigate that, right? The dedication um, which now provides five additional feet on the uh, development side of the property, which will um, aid in providing additional on street parking while not obstructing kind of an already um, kind of a bottleneck. I think there was a one a bottleneck at Edgewood and Beach and Right. And so so now we're kind of expand the expansion of that street would kind of help to to allow traffic flow to move a little bit better in that area. It's not perfect, right? But we're also in this generation shift right now philosophically where we're trying to promote um active um

transit usage, right? While still be being a car dependent community. at some point we have to flip the switch and begin to put in programming and develop pro projects that encourage the type of um transit writership that we're looking to that was intended with the adoption of our TOD. So just wanted to provide a little bit of of uh backbone to an amazing presentation um that Christine had given but hope that provides a little bit more um substance and clarity. Yes, it was. And I think what happens in we're we're voting primarily here on for a zoning change, right? Um however, now I mean we kind of got what we asked for. We we have a rendering of a proposed development. However, the applicants aren't locked into this particular development going this this direction, but based on what we're Well, they they will they will have to return. So, two things. They will have to return to this body for the design review approval once the final version of those plans are are um uh applied for or submitted to the city. Right. And then second is that if they elect to um substantially deviate from what was analyzed in the EIR addendum, then it would trigger and it would invalidate the addendum and trigger additional environmental review, right? And so so while while the the the result may not change, right, that's additional time, it's additional cost, right? Um and and that's you know there's just added time to this this already um you know pretty intensive process. So our vote today is an entitlement for what's in this package. Um well not for the not

not for the development of no but something of this level this magnitude. Right. And what you're essentially doing is you're allow you're now allowing the developer to you're paving the way for that to happen, right? Without without your recommendation to city council, it can't. Mr. Chair, yes. So, I just wanted to clarify then because one of the things that supposedly was helping the traffic was that it's beach only for the ent for the to go in and out. Right. Right. And then that that we really are disapproving the zoning and I I heard the word conceptual several times. So I picked up on that. Uh and this would then just allow them they would have to come back. Right. So you're right. If they didn't stick to these things, right? Right. the the the initial the initial um thought in the in the previous iterations um and by a number of parties was that the developer was being disingenuous with their request, right? And and that they wanted to do something that um the community had no input in or no idea was coming. Um you know, those times are are shifting. There's a there's a a different um mindset. there's more of a collaborative spirit with the development community and their trust in the city's process, their trust in our staff and your trust as a body in the community with the work that we do as a planning staff. And so, um, we, you know, we, while we understand that, um, we can't please everybody, we do know that there was an intentional effort to make sure that we are, um, addressing some of the concerns. Lalina for the the the the um, Lalina site is a very small street and um, previous, you know, there were some some discussion about having an

ingress and egress on Lalina. um that has then since been removed. And so um one thing that I want you to think about is and I'm I apologize for not having this visually represented, but the the limits of the project would essentially provide a 5-ft dedication for about 50% of beach on the south side of the street, right? And that's a pretty significant um improvement to the the ability to park for off- streetet parking for on street parking and for um traffic flow up and down um that that collector street. So would this be the first time that the public really got to hear how these things were addressed? Is that your statement? Yes. This is Yes. Okay. Okay. We have both of these projects six B and 6 C presented at the same time. Do we have the applicants for both 6B and 6 uh C here? Can you go back to the lecture so that we can ask some questions please? And for clarification purposes uh we're discussing right now only six uh B. This is would be the the ZCA 23002. Okay. So Donley farm site. Okay. So we'll talk about that one. Okay. I hope I'm not confused now. on her end. Start with her. You have a presentation too. I think a slideshow that we prepared. Is that available to us? Okay. We're going to watch your presentation. You have it. Christine, would you flip slides? It just it's just a slideshow. There we are. So, first of all, hello to our neighbors. Hello to the commissioners and staff. Your name, sir. Please. Pardon me. Your name. Your name. I'm sorry. Donald Goodman. Don Lee Farms.

Thank you. Sure. So, I hope I've see checked my eyes here. See if I can read that too at the same time. There we are. Thank you. So, just to introduce myself, um, I bought the property 42 42 years ago where we currently are. um and have been there for 42 years, been neighbors. Uh many of them are here. I see I see I know we have some of our employees here. Uh but we're familyowned uh and operated in Englewood. U after two years of being in Marina del Rey, I moved to Englewood and saw it as a city with a future. I didn't think it would be this good of a future to tell you the truth, but but we're glad it is. Um and we if you could swip the next slide, we kind of tell you a little bit of what we do uh over there. As I mentioned, we're familyowned. um headquartered manufacturer over 40 years. We produced uh right in that factory and I don't know if some of you have maybe been the office, not in the factory, but we produce burgers and tacos and meals that are really enjoyed nationwide by various retailers, which I think I'll show you in the next next slide. Uh yeah, we we sell at Trader Joe's and Costco and Sam's, Target, Walmart, Albertson's, and maybe we hope to be good, quiet neighbors that that does all this stuff and and and and uh are proud of what we do. Uh so we we we want to expand and I'll get into that in a minute and the reason why and the the the uh staff presented a good presentation. Um our impact with Englewood, as I say, we're proud to be here. Um, we provide over 250 quality local jobs. Uh, we supply healthy meals not only to those retailers that you saw, but school districts all around this area, Englewood School District, LA school district, and all across the country. Um, we are involved in regular community events, uh, the annual turkey giveaway. I hate to break the bad news, but Snoop Dogg hands them out. We're the ones that that supply all the turkeys.

I like Snoop Dog, though. Uh we also provide scholarships for for uh students in Englewood uh and have done so for the last uh several years. So we we love this community. We like it even more now as it's such a thriving uh great area. So uh next slide if you don't mind. Uh just some areas of engagement that we're in. We're involved with the Rams um and Maxine Waters recognized us uh present us with a with a congressional certificate of special award there. Um we are involved in philanthropy. the turkey giveaway I mentioned. We also did the um the uh meals that were all supplied during the pandemic. We were the the largest uh producer across the country of those meals, too. So, little facts that you may not know. Uh and next slide. Is that maybe the last one there? Um oh, and then we're going to actually have some of our uh employees that are local residents of England want to speak if that's possible. I know when that's appropriate to do so, but uh rather than me uh talk about that, we'll let them speak um when when the the appropriate time is. Thank you very much. Is it good for them to come up and speak now or is that No, just hold on one moment. Sure. Uh we we may have some questions for you. Okay. Okay. Mr. Fowler. Yes. I think now that I realize the entire process, I'll withhold any comments for later. I think I'm clear on the commitment and what's going on. And since you would be coming back, I'm a little feel better about it. Sure. Commissioner Commissioner Shaw Williams, how many uh employees do you have? There's about 250. And you say you supply burgers. We do

cooked hamburgers. I don't know if you shop in Costco or or Trader Joe's. Trader Joe's. Well, that's their own label, but we do a a a green chili bowl in there. We do a little mini hamburger slider in there and and soon to be a breakfast sandwich uh is going in there, too. So, that's under under their label. You wouldn't know it's ours, but it is ours. Wow. until you showed the slide. I did recognize who you guys were because I helped with the turkey giveaway, too. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Thank you for that. You bet. No further questions. Thanks. Okay. No further questions for you from myself either. We have anyone who wants to speak who's for against this project? You guys can come back. You can line up at the lecture there so you can speak. Excuse me, chairman. Thanks. Um, just given the um amount of people who are here tonight, you may want to limit the time for public comment. We're going to limit it to one minute. Um, I'm Gina Lamb. I have building that I've owned for 30 years at 321. Make sure you speak nice and loud. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm Gina Lamb. I have a building I've owned at 321 East Beach Avenue um for 30 years. Um I'm writing in support um just saying that I support the project with Don Lee. He's been a good neighbor. He's always available to talk to. I think increased housing for his people and increased parking will alleviate the parking situation somewhat on Beach Avenue because that has been a problem. So, I'm happy to hear that and I'm happy to hear that there will be some reduced trucks, but it's not just Don Lee trucks on our street. So, but um I'm just going to say that I'm in support of this project for housing, especially for his employees. That's that's fantastic. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else?

My name is Amber Tugerson and I'm also in favor of the Don Lee project. I think it will help improve and live work for the employees would be a great thing. Thank you. Anyone else? Craig Ricker. What is your name again? Craiger. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Been at Lolina like 32 years and I I've got a lot of faith in Don Don Lee. Can you get a little closer to the mic? Yeah. Uh so the speak nice and loud, please. The agenda the agenda report for this project calls out the zoning changes that were discussed only. But then suddenly they're mixing zoning the property to the east along with it. I thought it was two standalone projects. The way it's written up in the report, it only mentions it only mentions zoning changes here and then C is the other project. So, I'm not sure why they're why they're combining the zoning change with with the two projects. It it should be one one standalone each one. They have nothing to do with each other. So, and and traffic is still going to be a problem. There's still plenty other cars in truck traffic and it's semis of of ferris chloride every day, twice a day. So, it's not going to go away. It's still a narrow street even with a 5ft setback for part of it. Thanks. Okay. Thank you. Uh I'm Steve Herd, 321 East Beach. Uh I'm a neighbor. I've been there for uh 40 years on an owner occupied. Um uh to pick up on what Craig was saying, um it it's interesting because you're going to vote twice and the Don Lee project he's they're only changing the zoning on the on the property he owns. I don't see a problem with that. He owns

the property, you want to change the zoning. The other project is going to change zoning on all the surrounding um residents and um and then they can build nine stories up. It's going to be the wild wild west and there's two acres there and if you're going to change the zoning I say you keep it on that property alone. I I'm well we'll I hopefully we get to talk about that project. I think it's too big. It's too much and it was very confusing with the with the uh putting them combining them together. You'll get a chance to talk about that project a little bit later. Anyone else? Hello. Hi. Um, good evening. My name is Jasmine and I'm the homeowner at 333 L Kolina Drive. And hi to Donald of Don Lee. I don't know where you are, but it's nice to put a face to the a face to the company that has ignored my noise concerns for over 5 years. So, I'm here to voice my strong opposition to the proposed zoning change. The lot in question has been a long source of danger and disruption to our community. We've dealt with loitering, drug activity, prostitution, and even serious fire risk that forced the owners to cut down over 50 trees in the lot. This lot has been neglected for years and now suddenly there's a proposed change with huge implications not just for the neighborhood but for my specific property. This proposal doesn't just involve the empty lot. It directly affects my home. It gives Don Lee Farms the ability to expand right up to my kitchen window. So where is all the new parking going to go? Because cars already park near my house and make noise at all hours. And it echoes because we live on a hill. And now we're talking about construction through 2030. that five plus years of dust, trucks, block streets, and safety risks for what? Okay. Your time. Thank you very much. Okay. Well, just so you know, it's a bad idea. Yes, sir. My name is Clark Ferrar. I own

Ferrar Grinding Company across the street. All right. Nice and loud, Clark. Pardon me. Okay. Closer to the mic, please. Okay. Can I touch the mic? Well, thank you. Bring it up. There you go. Break the rules there. Anyway, uh Don Lee is an excellent I think I I think they're a good neighbor. I have a problem uh on the beach with their uh mostly those big trucks. They have a big problem which they could easily solve, I think. But Don Lee is an excellent uh neighbor and I think they're good for the community, but we need to do something about those trucks when they have semis going both ways and the streets not narrow, not wide enough for two trucks going both ways. Plus, they they park their trucks on beach where you're talking about parking these cars. They park trucks now and they have they I don't know if the drivers just sleeping there or what they're doing, but when the trucks are not in their yard, they're parking on beach and they're taking it up. And when they're going both ways, it's it's really scary. There's no sidewalks on beach. No sidewalks. So pedestrians, even their employees, have to walk in the street where the trucks are. And so it's a public safety thing. But I think they they can fix that. That's not the big issue. I just wanted to say that. Thank you, sir. Okay. You're welcome. Hello, sir. My name is Brian. I live on 381 L Kolina. Um, I just had a question on the the claim of 40% reduction in semi-truck. Um, I work in technology and data science, but making a claim like that 40% without any sort of, you know, was there how how did you get that number? How did you get 40% like that? that doesn't make any sense to me was that actually estimate based on you know this projection cannot be relied upon as a fact. Um the potential for persistent truck traffic combined with new residential density raises serious concerns about the safety noise and emergency access. This project should

not be perceived without clear enforceable measures by the city to limit industrial traffic on this shared use corridor. Uh a safety hazard. You know we live on on lock cleaner drive. Uh yes, the the turnaround was mentioned in the on the Ashawa property of for the fire for for the firemen, but I would like to hear more about the 50 foot um which I believe sorry is the next item, but yeah, I'm just cla I'm just questioning that claim of 40% reduction, how they could potentially prove that as a more subjective data points instead of subjective. Thank you. My name is Diane Sbrano and I want to thank Mr. Lee for bringing out that obvious truth that you have been supporting our community that we sometimes give other persons credit for doing. And I also want to thank you, Mr. Lee, for being a if my memory serves me, you're like the fifth largest or maybe fourth largest employer in the city. Is that correct? So, I think we need to keep that in mind. He has served our community for many, many, many years. And it really upsets me that we're putting two completely different projects together. That is very unfair to Mr. Lee. Yes. Because they are not related and that's unfortunate and I'm sorry that that happened. But thank you, Mr. Lee, for your many years of commitment to our community. Anyone else? Is that okay if I hold on to it? All right. Well, I guess everyone knows that Don Lee is a great person, right? We all agree. All right. Good. Hey, good evening, uh, commissioners. My name is Salvador George and I'm a representative with the Western States Regional Council of Carpenters. I speak for union carpenters and for non-UN workers who often stay

silent out of fear, especially due to immigration status. Earlier we heard about uh good paying jobs and and not leaving residents behind. And that's what's at stake with the project. Anglewood Carpenters built the Sofi Stadium, the Inuit Dome, the K Line projects that paid fair wages and kept workers safe. But when there's uh no labor standards, we see exploitation. We found workers living in unfinished buildings with no water, no heat, including one father with two kids. One of them had to head to school from the job site. This project will create profit, but will it create opportunity? I urge this commission to add labor standards as a your time. Your time. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Good evening. My name is Monica Rojas and I have had the privilege of working for Donley Farms for over 20 years and I want to apologize to you if you have reached out to Donley Farms and nobody has responded to. Please address the DIS, please. I'm sorry. Please address the DAS. I'm sorry. Thank you. Um, we care for our community. We listen. We respond. I have neighbors here that have communicated to me there is a heronet outside just as an example cuz we wear PPEs at our facility and Mr. Goodman makes sure that our staff, our team, myself, we ensure that we our property clean. Over the years, I have witnessed

the positive impact that our company has done in the neighborhood. I have heard comments. Can you hear me? I have heard comments from our neighbors indicating that they actually feel safer because we're a 24. So there's the facility is never empty. There's always someone on site. And if anything, I've only heard positive comments. So I invite I invite time please. Okay. So thank you. Okay. Anyone else? Hearing none. No one in room A. Everyone came up. Okay. Hearing none. Seeing none. Uh that's it. Any further questions? Any further questions from the DAC? No, sir. Any further questions? No, sir. No, sir. Okay. Questions? No. Okay. Do we have a motion on this project? Find it. It's a 6B, right? 6B. Okay. Um, I move that the planning commission approve affirm the categorical exemption EAC 2025 038. Wrong one. Wrong one. Yeah. B. Oh, wrong page. Pardon me. Uh, I move that the planning commission approve and affirm the addendum to the EIR E AIRIR

2016-44 and adopt the resolution approving [Music] ZC. The recommendation, it doesn't say that here, but okay. ZC23-00002 second. Okay, we have a motion. We have it. Second. Call for a vote. Commissioner Fowler I. Commissioner Sha Williams. I. Acting chair Rice. I. Okay, we have that portion of the project um approved. Now we're going to move over to uh 6C. Um six C. Yes. So we had the presentation for 6C. Do is the the applicant present for 6C? We do U. Brian Moran from Arrow Collective. We are the uh architects on the project and uh we do not have a presentation. Okay. Can you can you speak on the project more than I can I can speak to the architectural elements or any questions that you might have on behalf please do so yes can you tell us anything about the architecture without before we ask any questions of you we recall it right other than what's been presented already yeah I mean I think staff did a wonderful job kind of chairman do you want the secretary to announce item the conceptual drawings uh this project right now has been, you know, for years been kind of back and forth. But hold on one second. Yes. Want me to read? Yes, please. All right. Item 6 C, a public hearing to consider an application by East Beach Inglewood LLC for zone change number 23-00003

ZCA23-00003 to allow a zone change of 14 parcels from M1 light manufacturing and R2 limited multiple family residential to MU-1 mixed use 1. The zone change request encompasses 2.93 acres with addresses 326 to 366 East Beach Avenue and 333 through 375 Lina Drive. There is no specific development application associated with the zone change request. Thank you very much. Okay, we've had the presentation from Christine on this project. So, we're going to continue with the applicant and any questions we may have of the applicant on this project. Um, your parcel probably um has the most questions. So, um if we have questions from the DAS here, I want you to hear those and then uh we'll hear from members of the community and questions they may have. Okay. Shall we? I mean, um, thank you. I think I wanted to hear his position on the project. His description of the project is it's really just zoning is all we're doing, right? Correct. Correct. I mean, as what was analyzed in the EIR was a 115 unit building. What was analyzed in the EIR was a 115 unit building with 69 parking stalls. But you're correct that this is really a hearing about changing the zoning from the existing to the mixeduse one. I may have comments. I'll reserve them later. I may have something later. Very good. Commission Shaw Williams. I don't have any questions. Thank you.

You know, I think this I mean I'm a stakeholder in district 2. So to also so this means a lot to me and I think um what happens we have the state that's potentially created an entitlement that would be um far more challenging for us to endure uh than what's being proposed here. So I think it's kind of a well we have a decision to take the lesser of two evils and um right now it looks as if the applicant is doing what they should do as opposed to what they can do and that's to be commended. um they're taking the community into consideration because before they came with this project kind of blind and they could have basically done anything and now at least they're putting something on the table and saying hey this is what we're proposing to do and um we can work together as a community and in das to try and hold them to that. Um, at this point I don't have any more questions for you, but if we have members of the community who have questions and want to talk about this project, please go back to you can ask. You can go back and No, no, no, hold on one second. Any questions that you have you want to ask, you're going to ask from electro and back. Can you can you walk to the back and address the diet, please? Well, I'm just confused why the uh the zone change includes other properties that aren't owned by the applicant. Um and last month there was um I saw the

map and they were uh going to change the zones residents, but this time they added three more on L Cleana. The these are residents that are not they're they're privately owned and they're going to be changed for this project to M whatever M1 where specially I I I was wondering if the applicant asked this or can or how how that happened please. Okay. Thank you for your question. Anyone else? Hold on. Hold on one second. Oh, okay. He's telling. Can you guys give me a clock, please? One minute. Have a question. It was said earlier that hold on one second. Okay. Okay. Stand close to the mic and try not to touch it if you can. So earlier it was said that concessions were made from previous comments. This project was seen before by the public and specifically, you know, they there sections through the building. They cherrypicked the one on top of the hill instead of the one like there's nothing on the east side has the tallest elevations. It would show the true size next to the existing homes. Likewise, the existing homes are way out of scale and moved as far away as possible from the from the building. So, so it's it's inaccurate and it's not it's not it's on purpose. It's not an accident. That doesn't happen by accident. If you look in the photographs, you see the real houses. So, that was never addressed. And public uh public parking was always a huge concern and and I don't putting in 69 parking stalls for 115 units makes no sense. That's that's nuts. It's going to

kill the neighborhood. Okay, you're at time. Thanks. Thank you. Anyone else? Comments? I mean, I don't want to test the integrity, Gina Lamigan. I don't want to test the integrity of the group that's proposing the LLC, but we don't really have a guarantee. If for some reason this plan fails and the zone change happens, then we have no guarantee that a ninestory building can't go in as of right with the zone change. That concerns me. Also, the the street is not 40t wide along Beach Avenue. Part portions of it up by Sentinel are, but right at the blind curve where this propos proposal is going in, it's only 28t wide. I have photos and have witnessed many uh mirror um mirrors getting taken off of trucks and cars as they pass at that corner and I don't think that's really been addressed in the change that we saw in the presentation. So there's a lot of concerns um about this and I just feel like we feel unsure and if there was more communication with the developers and what their plan is but we just want to guarantee that it's not going to change you know from the proposal that is is being put forward. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Good evening, commissioners. It's Salvador George again from the Carpenters Union. So, a couple of things I want to bring up to the community. Number one, once the zone is changed, the LLC can simply say, "Hey, now it's worth a lot of money. Let's sell it to another developer and they're going to build whatever they want because they can build by right." So, if anyone says that they're going to limit it to those five stories, it's probably not going to happen. What can be done here today is that it can be approved with conditions. One of those conditions could be limit

the height. So the second condition can be labor standards. The people that are going to build this project should be paid fairly. They should be able to go home safely at the end of the day. There's nothing uh uh keeping you off from doing that here today. Approve it with conditions, limit the height, cut labor standards, and that's somewhat of being transparent with the community. Thank you again. Thank you, Nick. Thank you. Let me speak again. Um, it's my concern is the safety of people on beach. Uh, if you look at that picture of the building and where the people come in and out of the building with their cars, they're going to come in and out from a blind spot and they're not going to see those big trucks coming up and down. And people drive down that street 30, 40, 50 miles an hour. My concern is somebody's going to get seriously hurt. And plus, I wish we had some sidewalks because anybody from this building who wants to walk down the beach, they're going to have to walk in the street between the cars and the trucks. And it's just not it's just not safe. And I'm sure they can come up with some better solutions for this project. And I wish they'd get the project approved before we do the zoning change where this building is going to be because it they're just trying to pull hide hide some stuff from us real quick here. and and and do some things behind her back. And thank you for letting me speak. Thank you. Hi, my name is Sean O'Shea and I live on uh 375 Kolina Drive. I've lived there for over 19 years. That's included in the zoning change for some reason. We just I just found that out. Um I'm reading parts of a letter that came from Martina Gilfoil. She lives at 367 Lina Drive. She lived there um 32 years and she's adjacent to the property. Um basically I'm read a couple

bullet points. Uh disregard for the todd planning process. Um the 2016 to plan was a 20month plan. Uh resoning was not needed, explicitly not recommended. Lack of transparency. Inappropriate zoning and height impact. um misrepresentation of her house in the uh page 3 through 15. You were all given these letters. Please please read them. Tra in safety violation of planning principles. Um she called in. Okay, I'm out of time. Thank you. Back. Hi. Um, you've heard my neighbors today and you've heard our concerns for years. Traffic, parking, dangerous, narrow streets, and so on. It's one party, the developer. Meanwhile, we get years of construction, noise bouncing off the hill, blocked access, and traffic on a one-lane street that can barely even handle an Amazon delivery. And sorry, but this law was never meant for city anything. You keep going back and forth to the drawing board because it doesn't work. That's not on us. the developer made a bad buy. Don't shove the consequences onto the people who actually live here. So, please vote no and maybe next time lead with transparency. Anyone else? My name is Terry Newsen. I'm 26 years old and today I come down here to talk to y'all because I'm frustrated. I'm frustrated because I followed the path that y'all generation provided for me. Y'all told me to stay out of trouble, go to school. I went to UCSD. I graduated at the top of my class. I got a good job

working at UCLA as an academic adviser. And I cannot afford the city that I was born and raised in because we're in the housing crisis. No matter if y'all recognize it or not. Y'all mentioned earlier that we need 7,000 units of housing and this is only a step in that direction and y'all still want to block it. And then y'all get mad or y'all get angry when people like us move to Houston, Ohio or Florida because we can't afford the city we were born in and this is just resoning and y'all want to block that. I'm done. Thank you. Anyone else? Commissioners, I think you have seen in the past how people get their little zoning approved and then they go on and do something that they should and then we go back and we correct the zoning for their needs. As someone very clearly pointed out, this is one developer who will be impacting longterm residents. If you don't want it next door to you, you shouldn't put it next door to anyone. And the bottom line is when we come up with these transit ideas and think that everybody's going to get on them, you're seriously mistaken. I'm not. No, I'd go somewhere where I can find a horse first. That is unrealistic. And keep in mind, when we're bulldozing schools, where do you think those kids will be going? Are we going to emnant domain everybody else to create a schoolyard? We need to consider residents. Thank you. Joyce Dal at 313 East Beach. Um, I just

want to say that I am uncomfortable with the idea of reszoning properties for people that are not involved in this project and didn't even know that they were being reszoned. Um, and there's other properties there besides this uh lady who who spoke. Do they even know that they're up for resoning? That feels very just very odd to me. Um, I can understand if the property owner wants to reszone, but to have somebody else reszone their property without their knowledge just seems very wrong. And um I also just want to say that um there are other trucks on the street besides Don Lee. My neighbor has lots of trucks. My in um driveway is blocked all the time and it is a very narrow street. Um, as my neighbor told you 28. Thank you so much. Anyone else? Okay, that's it. Go right ahead. Commissioners Krice Frierson, uh, Laquina resident. I'd like to uh also just piggyback on all my neighbors and like to oppose the uh request to reszone our street to allow uh affordable housing to uh be implemented. And we already can't even afford like the young man said it's it's hard to afford the Astra and the the new place right there on um Florence and Labraa. Focus on maybe Market Street. develop something on Market Street. Get some restaurants. Um, we only have Kiokia and and the hunt the pot place that are good uh

restaurants. Focus on uh making the city thrive in that way. We have enough housing that we already can afford. So, leave our street alone and go somewhere else. Thank you. Okay. Anyone else? Um I would just like to say that um while a 50 my concern around street safety while a 50- foot street with meets technical minimums real real world conditions present significant risks. Um the street already accommodates semi-truck parking from an adjacent industrial zone and a proposed increase in residential density will add vehicles deliveries and way services. Um another thing to consider uh combined with the street's dead-end layout and limited egress this creates a substantial risk of blocked emergency access. One thing I would ask is could the city perhaps require a comprehensive traffic and safety impact assessment before approving legislation? That way we we kind of just do our due diligence, right? Do some research on what if whether this is actually a safe proposal or not. Okay, thank you. Anyone else? Hi, Chris Abbott. Uh reside at 377 L Kalina Drive. Uh you know to the developer, you know, you're talking about putting 115 units on La Kalina. Where do all these people go to? You know, they're not just going to stay on on on entrance or or egress onto beach. They're going to walk into on Lo Kalina Drive. Where does the overflow go? Where's the safety? We have families here. We have children. I think look at my neighbor with Ryan who has a one-year-old. I have two new grandbabies that that are 18 months and and other children. So, you're talking about now increasing one the traffic, but also the safety factor now. and these families who've been here for years and and so, you know, to to the developer, I I can understand it. However, at the at the end of the day, it's the plan doesn't make sense. It's 100 You're talking

about 115 units and 69 parking spaces. Where does all where do all these additional people go? It's going to come down the street where there's already congested parking and not not not enough uh uh space right now. So, find another location. Okay. Hey, anyone else? Hi everyone. Uh Kevin Culligan at 333 L Kolina off. I think this is super deceptive. Um you come in here with two different uh zoning ideas and there's no concrete plans. We haven't seen anything till right now. Um 69 parking spaces for 115 spots. That's saying there's one person per, right? But that's not that's not the that's not what it's going to be. that you're talking about over 200 people. Where are we going to put these people? Where are they gonna they're going to try to park on the streets? It's it doesn't make any sense. I mean, this is unbelievable. You have homes from 1920 and you're going to put up these highrises. It's it makes absolutely no sense. And that's not to say they're not just going to put up a nine-tory building. They're coming up with this deceitful plan to say, "Oh, it's five stories and it's not going to impact the community." Well, it's going to impact everyone. Thank you. Okay. Anyone else? Commissioner Fer, any questions for staff comments? Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, I think staff should address the some of the comments that were made. Perhaps it wasn't clear um that this is just a zoning and that cuz I heard a comment that well it doesn't mean it won't go to 9 but that the public gets to come back when they ever they come. I think that the process perhaps would help them to

understand. Okay. So before us is the zone change. Um and basically the five stories that you're seeing now on the conceptual plans were analyzed in the EIR addendum. So if the developers were to come back and try to do a ninestory building, they would have to go through the the EI addendum is now a void for that project. they would have to come back um for a more environmental review on you know the change of the development. So I know that was one of the big uh concerns major concerns. Um all property owners received notice of the zone change. That was the other one. Thank you. So I think all property owners within 500 ft received notice of the zone change. Um, and I believe the change for the whole site to M MU1 is for the cohesiveness of the zone around the TOD plan. And then perhaps I'll just make this comment. It it was a little disturbing to hear this, but one one comment was about prostitution. So, make sure I know it doesn't impact this, but I guess the um police report for the area would probably be good to avo for the other if they come back. And then to the uh owners or the developers, uh labor standards, you might want to think about that when you come back, if you come back. All right, Commissioner Shaw Williams, I have no further comments or questions. Well, folks, we're in

a perplexing and very difficult place. I don't know how many of you have researched uh AB 2097, state law that says uh we can't regulate any parking for commercial residential units. We can't require any parking if it's within one mile of uh major transit. So having 65 parking spaces forund and some odd units 69 it could be zero forund and some odd units. It could be um we're in a tough space. The applicant can potentially come in and build a nstory unit. I think um we probably have to work together and watch this project very diligently and um hopefully um the applicant will come up with some type of development at some point on their project. Uh that's a happy medium for everyone. Good performer for the developer and that show that they're a good neighbor for the community. Uh any further questions? No. Thank you, Mr. Okay. Okay. We're going to and it's difficult for all of us, but at this point we're going to um request a motion. Motion. It is recommended that the planning commission affirm the addendum to the EIR ei644 and adopt the resolution approving ZC23-00003. Second. We have a motion. We have a second. Call for a vote. Commissioner Shaw Williams. I. Commissioner Fowler. I. Acting Chair Rice. Hi.

Okay. All right. All right. We're going to All right. We're going to have some order. Everyone was going, anyone who wants to stay for the next hearing, stay in. If not, everyone else, if you're going to exit, exit quietly, please. Chairman. Yes. One more step. Hold hold on. Hold on. Hold on. One more step. Just uh just according Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Hold on, folks. This is important. Hold on one second. Really important. Just uh according to the IMC, um your recommendation tonight will be forwarded to the city council for their consideration. Is that okay? Thank you. All right, that's it. Thank you folks. Now talk to your assembly member. Take a recess. We're going to take a break for about 10 minutes, folks, and then we'll come back for our last uh agenda item. Thank you. Yeah.

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Okay folks, welcome back. Welcome back. We are now going to what's this project? Uh was it 6D? Ma'am. A public hearing to consider an application by Plymouth Plymouth Inglewood Development LLC for special use permit number 25- 00009 SUP25 00009 to amend the amenity area and architectural treatments approved under a planned assembly development P A SP. P 2018008 on an R3/P1 multiple family residential automobile parking zone property located at 113 through 133 West Plymouth Street. Chairman and file is present and notice has been given in a time and form as required by law. Planner Shawn May is present to do a short staff presentation. Good evening, Acting Chairman Rice and members of the commission. The subject site for this amendment to a special use permit is located at 113 West Plymouth Street and is zoned R3P1 or multiple family residential and automobile parking. The property is located on the east side of North Eucalyptus Avenue between Sentinella Avenue and West Plymouth Street. The property is surrounded by commercial and residential uses to the north, south, and east. There is a residential use located to the west of this

property. This project has been in front of the planning commission and received approval for preliminary and final planned assembly development and vesting track map in 2020. The applicant is requesting amendments to the following: the amenity area, exterior architectural treatments, landscaping, and visitor parking. Under the revised plans, there are no changes proposed to the site design previously approved. The project was approved to contain 20 single family town homestyle dwellings with individual lots ranging from 940 ft to 3,465 ft. The proposed dwellings are three-bedroom and 3 and 1 halfb units ranging from 1,673 to 1,746 square ft with heights between 30 and 35 ft. The proposed amenities include the replacement of the pool and spa with a barbecue area and changing a children's play area into a sports court. These are the amenity renderings. The ex applicant previously proposed a facade containing primarily of ribbed metal sighting with a zinc gray finish. The sighting extends across all three floors and was accented by white PVC paneling and a warm cherry finished wood sighting. The design also included metal overhangs over all entries and balcony areas. The applicant proposes replacing the ribbed metal siding with a smooth white and gray stucco finish. The metal overhang remains on the street facade but is removed from the rear facade as seen on the bottom picture. The rear facades are now

proposed to be entirely composed of white and gray stucco. There is also a sophet attached to the facade above each unit's garage entrance. The applicant has also added wing walls to the front of the units to provide screening for the new location of the electrical meters. These are the side elevations as seen from the neighboring uh properties to the east and west. And these are the proposed renderings uh with the changes uh incorporated as well. The existing landscaping plan provides a wide variety of trees throughout the property, including blue Italian cyprus, African sumac, and Australian willow. Shrubs on the property included grey rush, California grey rush, black rose aeonium, kiwi aeonium, and toagatees lemon lemonai. The applicant proposes to change the landscaping plan to be surrounded only at the proposed amenity area. The applicant proposes blue Italian cypress trees, California grey rush shrubs, and toyon bushes around the proposed barbecue area. The applicant also proposes an artificial green wall located along the fence abuing the alley. As you can see, right where the property goes north, um that is where the green wall is proposed. The applicant proposes no other on-site landscaping. The previously approved plans showed guest park five guest parking spaces located next to the trash and recycling enclosure area. The proposed changes only provide four visitor spaces uh to provide access to the trash and refu enclosure area.

Also, there is uh bicycle parking that has been added uh in place of the previous uh visitor space. As conditioned, the proposed project will serve as an enhancement to its neighborhood setting and will be compatible with the surrounding area. The g the project is consistent with the goals of the city's housing element and general plan designation. The proposed amendment complies with the mitigated negative uh declaration per the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act. This concludes my presentation and I'm available to answer any questions the commission might have. The applicant is also here tonight to answer any questions. Fowler. Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, these amendments were the what generated these amendments? What did it start? So, previously this was approved under a final PA AD. So, when there are changes to a previously approved PA AD, um they required an amendment to the SUP. So, that's why these changes trigger the So, they eliminated the pool. Yes, they were replacing the pool with the barbecue area. Absolutely. Okay. I don't have any further questions. Thank you for your presentation, Shaw Williams. No questions at this time. Thank you. So, the major change was the pool was eliminated and then we had some landscaping and bicycle racks and parking. Yes. Okay. All right. No other questions from staff. Was the applicant here? You want to tell us about your project and about your changes and what happened? Uh well, we uh we had a bit of a a storm drain issue uh that speak into the

microphone as much as you can, Miss We had a storm drain issue that uh the the county of Los Angeles had a storm drain that ran under the shopping center and into our property that people missed. We all missed it. Um and we had to make a bunch of changes to the whole project. So um the parking was cut down because the storm drain when we moved the easement over to the to the uh east of the property. We needed the space and it's a huge uh storm drain easement that we've had to spend a lot of money to get moved and to continue the project. Uh the pool because of the state requirements. It was a small pool to begin with and with the limitations, the new limitations on the lot, we elected to change the pool into a nice barbecue area uh with a bar and so and and you know with uh television and all that that people can gather and it was more of a safety issue. pool was so small that the the state requires that you have a a lift for someone who's disabled and it was not it wasn't large enough to be able to do that. So, made more sense to eliminate that that issue and go with something that more people could enjoy. Uh, I mean other than that, you know, budget issues. We we're trying to make sure we get the project done and we're quite a bit over budget at this point. Okay. Commissioner F, you have questions for the applicant? No, I like the

project. Um, pool would have been nice, but uh I understand uh the conditions. So, the landscaping changes. What about those? Why were they made? Did you change the landscape? I'll let I'll let uh Corey speak. Okay. Thank you. Hi everyone. My name is Corey Chen. I'm the owner rep and also designer for this project. So there are several reasons that drive the landscape change dramatically. I can't hear you. I apologize. Yes. My name is Corey. I'm the Oh, here we go. My name is Corey Chen. I'm the owner rep designer for this project. I can answer the question about the landscape changes before. Uh we have a pretty large ling design and uh currently the structure for the common deck and the landscape was designed and to be placed at the common deck on the ground level and actually the construction of the deck is metal decking uh with concrete composite and below. So that's really limit the u gravel and u um soil space for to to provide the really healthy landscape above the common ground deck because we have the basement common driveway in the basement. So uh if any and also the putting the landscape on the can delivered metal composite decking is a really a major issue for water leakage later on which will increase the HOA cost which in the end will make it less affordable for the future buyers to own their homes. So that's the actually the most important technical aspect that we eliminate the landscape. And the other thing is that if if you see if we put 20 units in this small lots here and is the is really congested and constrained. We try to assign the space um the the space to the firefighters and all the um egress paths that code requires instead of all these ornamental landscape. We are still trying to provide landscape um around the barbecue area. So when people

use it they can feel the landscape around it. But for the other passageways where where we had the landscape before it's actually really intrusion into our uh egress paths and al the firefighters routing uh for the community. So that's why for the safety reason and building code we are relocating those landscape to be in surrounding the barbecue area so we can have a a better healthier and functional uh landscape for the residents to use. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Shaw Williams. I was just curious, are you going to have uh hours uh designated for your basketball and pickle ball? Because those can both be noisy. There's going to be a homeowners association, so we'll let the uh homeowners kind of decide what's best. Okay. Yeah. So, these are going to be purchased. Yes. Con condos or town homes? Uh they're small lot homes, but uh more in the uh in the town in a townhouse style. So I guess economy. Okay. All right. Thank you. No further questions. Okay. This this item came before the DIS before and I'm not have any objections to the um design uh changes you have here. Um any further questions before we move on to No. Okay. Uh we have anyone here that's for or against this project? Is is it Yes, it's public hearing. Yeah, it says public hearing. Yeah. anyone for or against this project? If so, please go to the back to the lector and let's hear your approvals or things you're concerned about. Seeing none, hearing none. Okay, we're going to move for call for a motion on this particular project. Okay.

Um I uh make a a recommendation that we adopt the resolution approving SUP25-00009. I say enough zeros. Second. Okay, we've had a motion. Had a second. I'm call for a vote. Commissioner Fowler I. Commissioner Schmell Williams. I. Acting Chair Rice. I thank you. Okay, you have your project. Congratulations. And and chair, just uh really quickly, there is an appeal procedure. Um and according to the IMC, anyone may appeal this decision um by file within 20 days of the hearing by filing a written um notice or written letter as well as uh filing a paying an appeal fee of $942. Okay, that's it. Um, well, we've had a long evening. Very interesting. I hope everyone enjoyed it. You have any commissioner initiatives? Start with me. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, I'm I'm sorry. Sorry. Hold on. Oh, [Music] yeah. Do we have any public open for public comments for any items that are not on the agenda? And um any about any other items that are not on the agenda? Open for public comments. Seeing one. Seeing none. Seeing none. Send 10. The one I saw left. So that's it. No one. We're going to have an initiative. Initiative for uh Commissioner Fowler, please. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh first, uh I'd like to welcome the professor. Thank you so much uh for bringing your students from El

Camino. uh very thoughtful. I hope they uh learned a few things, maybe even what not to do. Um but you're welcome to come anytime. Um we're proud of our staff. Um they're very uh anxious for the community to learn what's going on here in Inglewood and the process. So uh I really appreciate the professor thinking of us uh and bringing you here. Hope you learned a few things and I saw your little discussion so I'm sure there'll be more to be said. Um, I want to remind everybody that it is Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, Christina left. She Oh, there she is. Christina, you were not here to get your flowers on your uh promotion to senior planner. She was not here last meeting and she has been promoted to senior planner. Welld deserved. Very welld deserved. I my notes are not necessarily in order. So, uh it is mental health awareness month. Uh so take care of yourselves and others. Uh it's also foster care and youth awareness month. And so um Councilwoman Gray uh wanted me to remind everybody wherever you can support, please do so. Uh we're really concerned with everything that's going on particularly uh at the federal level uh what's going to happen with our our youth not only the foster care but the homeless and unfortunately uh to report that those numbers are growing. So um anything you can do volunteer I know you get credits for volunteering uh please do so. Uh, and with that, uh, I will say

have a safe Memorial Day. Mother's Day. Thank you. Mother's Day. Oh. Oh, yeah. How can I forget Mother's Day? Yeah. Enjoy that, too. Well, I had to at least something for you guys. All right, Commissioner Shaw Williams. Um, welcome, professor and students. Thank you for attending our meeting tonight and I hope you did learn a lot and uh you guys will have a lot to discuss uh when you go back to school. Um congratulations Christina on being promoted to senior planner. And lastly um again I I want to thank the Clippers organization for the donation to the Morningside Monarch Alumni Association. the $117,600 that they donated to the 2025 senior class. Uh we're going to do our presentation tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. 9 to about 10:15 where we gift them um gifts outside of us paying for their prom for prom night. Uh, not prom night, prom, uh, grad night, Universal Studios, um, with senior breakfast yearbook. They got Letterman jackets and a bunch of other nice things that we paid that the donation paid for. So, Clippers from the Clippers Clippers and happy Mother's Day to all. Thank you, chair, co-chair. All right. Thank you guys for coming. I really I mean we're charged as a planning commission with balancing the interests of the community against the interest of developers on things that are not just by right within the city's charter. And

uh sometimes as you can see it gets a little sticky. Um but ultimately I think I was in court once and a judge asked are you satisfied with what you received? I said no I'm not. He asked the other party are you satisfied what you received? He said, "By by no means. Of course not." He said, "I think I made the right decision." So sometimes that's what happens. Everyone doesn't get everything they want, but we balance it. But I'm really appreciate you guys coming out. And Christine, congratulations. I'll see you later. We'll talk. And uh me and