Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Commissioner Williams, you lead us in our pledge. Okay. Okay. Good evening, everyone. We're going to get started with our meeting. Uh we're going to have Commissioner SH Williams lead us in our pledge. Please stand for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Madam Secretary, could we have a roll call, please? Yes. Commissioner Fowler present. Commissioner Rice here. Commissioner Tjo here. Commissioner Shaw Williams here. Chairman Springs here.

Any communications from staff? Yes, chairman. How you doing tonight? Um, first and foremost, we would like to uh congratulate um Faith Smith and Brian Espinosa um for their recent promotions from planning texts to assistant planners. Congratulations. [Applause] [Music] And um I know you probably remember Faith from a few years ago as an intern. Um and she's uh diligently worked her way up and is um doing really well. So she'll have her first presentation a little bit later. So you'll get to see her at work.

Okay. Very good. Um, next, uh, staff is requesting by way of the applicant, um, for item 6A to be continued to the October 1st meeting. And, um, we received two in in association with items 6 C and 6D, the general plan amendment and the zone change. Um we received two letters um today um in opposition. Um and we also received response letters from the environmental consultants um in response to the first letter received um this afternoon. We we received one um about maybe an hour and a half ago. So um that's the the letter from Michael Sai. Um, and then there was another letter received this morning from a group called Safer. Um, and that letter was responded to by the applicant, which you have a copy of um, this evening. We will also address some of those concerns in tonight's presentation. Um, next, we would like to announce that uh, the planning division will be hosting um, our first general plan community open house. Um, as you know, we've recently launched uh a comprehensive general plan update um that will be updating all um elements of our general plan and adding an economic development element. Um, this general plan openhouse will be focusing on um some land use um potential land use changes and uh gaining some community input in regards to um some things that this the community would like to see. um preserved areas preserved andor um

opportunities for change. So um that community meeting will be held at the Center of Hope um on Saturday, September 6. Um the address to the Center of Hope is 9550 Krenshaw Boulevard. And I would also like to also announce that we have relaunched our website. Um,

so if you go to www.nextlevelinglewood.com, next levelinglewood.com. You will be able to get all the information related to um our comprehensive general plan update and also sign up for our mailing list for any future uh updates andor announcements related to opportunities to get involved and let your voice be heard. Um we absolutely want to hear from the community um as we move forward with uh some of with this historic change on this historic project and undertaking. So um please visit our website and that concludes um oh the meeting times will be from 1 to 5 I believe. There are flyers outside. um on our uh the table outside. Um we've also provided uh flyers to the planning commissioners as well. Um all right, and that concludes staff's presentation.

Okay. Thank you very much. Um is there any is there a motion that we need to make on the movement of the item 6A? Excuse me, chairman. 10 to 2 is the time of the flyer of the community meeting. You said 10 to two and I said one to five so forgive me. Okay, I got it. Do we need to make a motion on the changing of uh 6A? We do. Okay. Yes,

we'll do that after. We'll do that after and congratulations. So at this particular point, um the commissioners are asking for lunch since you your salary has gone up. So you can take us to lunch. Just pick a day and we'll be there.

Okay. Public comments regarding agenda items. Persons wishing to address the planning commission on any items on the agenda other than the public hearing may do so at this time. There's a microphone in the back. Just go there and state your reasoning. Give us your name. It has to It can't be on the public hearing. Just want to let you know that. They catch it last. It's not on the public hearing. Has to be something other than the public hearing. But this is agenda item.

Not the agenda item, sir. It has to be something other than the public hearing on the agenda. Seeing hearing none, we're going to close that segment. I need an approval on the minutes for July 2nd, 2025. So move, Mr. Chair. Second. Okay. It's been properly moved and second that the approval for minutes for July 2nd, 2025. Call for any questions. Hearing none, we'll call for a vote. Commissioner Fowler, I. Commissioner Rice I. Commissioner Tjo abstain. I was not in attendance. Commissioner Shaw Williams. I.

Chairman Springs. I. Okay. Public hearing six B. 6A. Chairman. I'm sorry. Thank you. I'd like is there a motion for us to do 6A to be postponed and moved to October 1st, 2025? Motion for item 6A to be postponed for today and move to October 1st, 2025. Second. Been properly moved and second. Call for any questions. Hearing no questions, we'll call for a vote. Commissioner Fowler. I Commissioner Rice. Hi, Commissioner Tjo. I Commissioner Shaw Williams. I

and Chairman Springs.

I, Madam Secretary, the 6B. Item 6B, a public hearing to consider an application by Sohal Basherian representing the owner for special use permit number 25-000016 to allow the on-site sale of distilled spirits for an existing restaurant on a C2 zone property at 1122 Sentinel Avenue. Chairman Fowl is present and notice has been given in the time and form as required by law. Assistant planner Faith Smith is present to give her first planning presentation.

Good evening, Chairman Springs and the members of the commission. In July 2019, the planning staff approved a business license for Sunday gravy. The business currently operates as a restaurant with the on-site sale of beer and wine. The property is located on the north side of Centinella Avenue with commercial uses to the south, east, and west, and residential uses to the north. The applicant is seeking approval for type 47 license for the on-site sale of distilled spirits for the existing restaurant. The subject site is an existing one-story single tenant commercial building. The primary entrance is along the east side of the building and a second entrance is at the rear of the building. Both entrances are accessible from the parking lot. All parking is situated on site at the rear of the property. The proposed use does not require additional parking. The restaurant consists of an approximately 502 square ft dining area, a 303 ft kitchen, two restrooms, and an office. The proposed hours of operations are 11:00 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. The restaurant specializes in Italian and American food. The menu includes pastas, salads, sandwiches, desserts, and beverages, including drink options of beer and wine. The restaurant will provide waiter service over two shifts throughout the business hours with a total of 18 employees per shift. If approved, the applicant will provide a full range of beverage options to

customers. Drinks will be ordered from a menu, prepared in the kitchen, and served to the customer. The applicant will provide security cameras. Cameras will be included in plans to the satisfaction of the planning division. The state department of alcoholic beverage control allows two on-site sale licenses for the census census tract. There are currently two on-site cell license. No PCN letter is required. The applicant currently holds an active type 41 license that allows the on-site sale of beer and wine. As conditioned, the proposed project will serve as an enhancement to its neighborhood setting and will be compatible with the surrounding area. The proposed project is consistent with the general plan and supports the Englewood Municipal Code. If the planning commission approves the request, the applicant may be required to complete an over-the-counter application. A categoral exemption has been filed and the project ex is exempt from further um environmental review. No letters were received for or against this request. This con concludes my presentation and I am available to answer any questions um the commission might have. The applicant is also here for tonight to answer your questions. Okay.

Okay. Thank you Faith. There's very good presentation. We're going to start off question is for you. We're going to start off with Commissioner Fowler. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh congratulations, Faith. Thank you. Um just one question for you. Was there a uh report from Englewood Police on the crime in the area? Um there there were um was not a formal report um from IPD. However, through our conversations um with them, there were um no crime um reports at the subject site um that currently has an existing beer and wine license.

Thank you, Commissioner Rice. Excellent presentation, Faith. Thank you so much. My questions will be for the applicant. Mr. Sh. Sorry. Okay. Great job, Faith. At this time, I don't have any questions. I'll reserve my questions for the applicant.

I'm going blank real quickly here. Commissioner Commissioner Tjo. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Faith, good job. Great presentation. Congratulations on your promotion. Um, I don't have any questions at this point. Thank you.

I have no questions. Thank you very much. If the applicant is here, you can go to the back mic and tell us about your particular project and why we should approve this. Good evening and thank you for allowing me to speak today. My name is So Basherian. Oh,

is the sound coming through? All right. Yes. All right. Um, thank you for allowing me to speak today. My name is So Basherian. I'm the chef and the owner of Sunday Gravy here in Englewood, California. Uh my sister and I uh took over the space from our father who owned Gino's Pizza in the same location. He opened it um I would say 1970 19 five decades. Uh, we're about to have our um Mike's going in and out

from the Um, yes, from right here.

Okay. Um we were very fortunate enough to to win the lottery to uh receive this type of license. Um we feel that uh it would allow us to continue to grow and flourish our business. Um as we we have been doing uh for the past six years. Um, never would we have imagined that we would be able to take our dad's business from the point that it was at and grow it into a business that's operating this the at the capacity that it's doing. Um, employing people from our city. Um, you know, serving people of our city and our community proudly. Um, you know, we've been able to just sort of open doors for ourselves and and the people that work for us through this space and allowing us to be able to further enhance our business through the approval of this license um would just allow us to continue to flourish within the city and even uh expand upon plans to be able to expand our business. uh you know uh we have several ideas in in place for sister businesses uh that we want to open in Englewood and um we feel that with having this type of license um and the sort of revenue and income that it would allow us to generate uh it would allow us to put those plans into fruition. And so we um you know uh graciously ask for your approval uh to allow us to do that.

Okay. Thank you, sir. We're going to open up questions for you. Just hang tight. We're going to start off with Commissioner Fowler. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um thank you for telling us about your business. It's obviously been here a legacy business as we call it since you've been here a while. Uh I wanted to uh commend you. I heard you say that you're hiring employees that live in the city. So, thank you for that. Um, my question has to do with security. I probably maybe needed to understand the access and egress. Is there more than one entrance to your business?

Um, as far as an an access into the business, we have one general main access. Um, right at the front of our business, there's a entrance towards the back which is mainly used as a service uh entrance for our kitchen staff to be able to access the trash area. Um, it's not generally used by the the public other than if they if there are diners that are eating outside that they would go around that way to uh enter into where the bathroom is at. So securitywise about how many people do you employ for these hours from you said 11 to 10

I would say on a uh usually throughout the day we have about 18 to 20 folks working for us um as we uh we start the day uh you know uh at the time of business uh right at at 11:00 when we open there's generally about 10 people and then as the day progresses it grows to about 18 to 20 folks depending on the day uh if it's a weekday or versus a weekend. But specifically, do you hire security personnel?

Uh security security personnel? No, because we've never really had the need to to hire security personnel. You know, we have cameras on site. Um and generally, uh we've never really felt that there was a a need for for security personnel to be on site. It's a very, you know, just fun, family, lively atmosphere. and and we've we've never felt that there was a situation that would require us to to feel the need for security on site. So I saw the Thank you. I saw the one camera. So is that for the parking area? Is that for the ent what is it?

We have a camera that is set up that will that overlooks uh out in the the main area of the parking lot. um that uh that oversees the entrance, the main entrance and then cars entering in. Um we have a camera set up on both sides of our restaurant to cover um uh facing one direction of the restaurant, another camera facing the other direction, and then we have one in our kitchen as well. Um and then there are plans uh just uh since you know to to have one that is also facing into our office uh for that reason and we feel that uh uh we will also be installing one right at that back entrance as well so that we can have complete 100% coverage of every square inch of that restaurant.

Okay. Thank you. That's my questions. Mr. Chair Commissioner Rice. Thank you for clearing up some of my questions. I was concerned about the name. There's Gino's Pizza on the top and Sunday gravy on the bottom. I couldn't understand what that was, but correct. Uh, now that was your dad's business, Gino's Pizza. I used to patronize probably 20 years ago or so before my system became u pizza intolerant. Thank you for the support through the years. So now um explain the activation of Sunday gravy. What do what do you do? You have 20 employees. What What's going on there?

Well, funny enough, we started just me and my sister in the kitchen. I was in the kitchen. She was in the in the in the uh front of house. Um and we've really just grown this business so organically and so naturally. I I believe people are drawn to us. Um because we're we're a business that we tr we show that we truly care about the folks that walk into our establishment. Um we've made wonderful relationships with with so many of our guests and um the food also, you know, we keep it simple, but we keep it delicious. We're we're we're very honest about what we do there. And it's generated a following um throughout the entire city. We've been written about um by multiple publications. We're one of the top rated Italian restaurants in all of Los Angeles. Um, we've been in the LA Times. Um, lucky enough that we were we were the first restaurant that the Inuit Dome um recognized as a partner that they wanted in their neighborhood eats location at the Inuit Dome. Um, we're continuing that partnership with them next season where we'll be serving uh Sunday gravy to the VIP guests that are in the suit. Um, you know, so, so really this is just a family business that my sister and I took over from our dad and and really just brought it into the next generation uh through hard work and consistency and we're able to um maintain our staff and grow our staff uh because we're genuinely a place where they love to work at. Um there's a you know they're they're very well compensated. I I believe our our average staff uh member um you know even if they come in

at a minimum wage uh uh you know hourly rate with tips uh everybody walks at a minimum of uh 28 to 27 to $28 an hour. I can I can appreciate that but I'm trying to send you on a different direction. I mean, Sunday gravy, I don't know what the activation is and how it might be impacted by selling distilled spirits if you have I mean, most businesses that size. How many square feet is the building? Uh, 500. Uh, well, the the entire building's roughly 900. 900 ft. The size of two garages, correct? You got 20 employees in there. You're serving more than gravy. What's What's the draw?

Uh, it's it's wonderful food, wonderful atmosphere. Um, you know, we we've been What type of food? Italian. Yes, sir. What type of food? Italian-American. Italian American. Must great Italian-American food.

Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, uh um for us being able to to to offer, you know, u I guess new beverages on our menu. It's really more just to sort of enhance and compliment um beyond beyond the beer and wine. We have no intention of being a um you know cocktail lounge. We have no intention of being a you know but but we feel that like you know there there's you know to be able to serve like a you know so it's Italian food so you still have pizza on the menu.

We we're we're actually fresh pasta focused. Um and we we source our pasta locally from uh Florentino's Fresh Pasta which is also a business in Englewood. Uh we get our bread from another local bakery in uh Englewood called Cadoro. Um you know, so we're very much a local local business. This is not a dance hall or entertainment center or anything. You said to allow on-site sales in the sealed spirits in an existing restaurant. That's all you're asking for, right? The no no dance hall, no dancing, nothing. Just just no further questions. Sure. Mr. Trio,

thank you. Um, I thought I read somewhere that Sunday gravy is like a term for like homemade Italian food on Sundays, isn't it? I don't know where I read that.

The the the the Sunday gravy is a sort of East Coast uh tradition in the New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut. It It's, you know, the Sunday meal that you have at your grandma's house and the meal that she's been cooking all day. I'm sorry. The the sauce that she's been cooking all day is called the Sunday gravy and it sort of goes on everything that she cooks. But for us, you know, we're not Italian. We're we're actually Iranian American. Um, but we also had that tradition as well in our family. We would go to my grandma's house on Sundays, but instead of, you know, red sauce and pasta, it was a stew over some rice. And I believe every culture has something very similar to that. So for us, the idea of Sunday gravy is just family and coming together. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I had read and and somewhere. I don't recall where, but that it just like signifies more of a family type sitting down for dinner. So, I can understand you're wanting to expand the beverage offerings much like a lot of the restaurants that have come in and are coming into Englewood. Um, beer, wine, and distilled spirits. And uh you know I think it's I think it's okay to kind of allow restaurants that have a good reputation no crime to have the ability to serve more uh than just beer and wine because I think we are getting more people coming into Englewood and I like the diversity again of having different kinds of food. Italian even though you're did you say Iranian?

U my family's Yes. from Iran. Yeah. So the different variety. So I think it's uh again I think it's a good uh a good request that that you're asking for your restaurant much like we have had with others that have come in. We always ask for a one-year review again because we have a number of establishments that have come in asking for distilled spirits. So if this gets approved, you know, more than likely we'll impose a one-year review. So you can come back and and uh see how everything is going. Uh I would also I was happy to hear that uh that you are going to install a camera on the north side to for where the parking area is. Uh so that would be put in as a condition again if you get approved. You mentioned eating outside that sometimes people if they're eating outside they use that entrance on the north side. Do you have eating tables outside?

Uh currently along our along our walkway uh there's a there's a walkway where we have tables that are that are set up from time to time. Um Fridays we set up we have valet parking for our guests. Um and so because of that we we do have uh one or two tables for guests. Now when I say that this is these are takeout uh these are takeout guests. So they're you know if somebody's coming for a concert, they don't have a lot of time to wait for a table. They will order food that's eaten takeout and we offer them a space uh that they're able to enjoy their meal um without having to leave the venue um or have to eat it in their car.

Okay. Uh Mr. city attorney, they can't drink outside if they decide to sit outside and eat, right?

So, the business license is for onsite. They are not able to leave the premises um with the alcoholic beverages. Okay. So, alcoholic beverages would just be in the restaurant or on site. The walkway is part of on-site. Mhm. Yes. I mean, they theoretically they would be sitting down at a table um consuming the the drink um not roaming around the parking lot and or the the the premises. Okay. All the more reason to put in that second uh security camera. Right. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Shaw Williams.

Hi. I also agree that to elevate your business, it's important to have distilled spirits. Um, what is your signature dish? Because a lot of restaurants such as yours have a signature uh dish that draws people to your restaurant. So, what is that? It's It's so tough to say because it's changed uh through the years, but when we first opened it was our short rib ragu. Um, it's braced short rib that we serve over uh homemade rietoni noodles. Oh,

goodness. and um it was sort of our uh way of elevating a traditional bolognese and so that quickly became the most popular item. But um lately it's the lasagna. Folks come for the lasagna. It's it's been written about um and then we have a spicy lemon dish that was inspired by a trip that I had to Italy. Uh and that's been very popular. I think with social media, we we kind of have waves of popularity of some of our items and there's never been one specific item and it just depends on whoever makes the most viral video and that's what what everyone comes in for, right? I like sweets. So, what about sweets?

You got it. We So, our our big big like draw as far as a dessert goes is we do a Hawaiian bread um a Hawaiian bread pudding that we make in house and we top that with um with ice cream, pistachio, and like a homemade uh Marsala caramel. Wow. So, yeah, everything we do in house is is homemade. We we we keep everything fresh and and simple. And how many cooks are there? Oh man. Cooks. So me Maria roughly seven to eight back of house staff members. Mhm. Reservations. You do reservations?

Absolutely. That's great. That's good to know. Absolutely. That's good to know. Yeah, we do close to 300 covers uh each day on the on a on the weekends, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. I'm definitely going to visit. Um I have no further questions. Chair, thank you. Um I have a few questions. Number one is it was Gino's Pizza at one point is and the building was um constructed in 1973 and your dad came in sometime after that because he's he's been around for close to 40 some years. Am I correct in saying that?

Correct. My dad actually from the story that he told us, the the family that had originally constructed the building um as they were nearing completion, they got cold feet regarding opening the restaurant and my dad sort of was right place, right time and uh purchased the building from them. Um funny enough, he sold his he sold his car and used the proceeds to to buy the building uh and buy the property from from the family and then he opened it up as a sandwich stand. um by himself and uh you know worked there bringing his family over and eventually they worked for him and through the years we he opened about 12 locations throughout Los Angeles.

So when did you take over the building? When did you take over the restaurant? What? We took over in uh August of 2019. 2019. At that time you were just doing beer and wine and you were actually still doing pizza. Is that correct? Uh no. Once my sister and I took over, we uh completely moved away from pizza and uh went straight to uh becoming a fresh pasta focused restaurant. I'm not too good at making pizza. So for me, pasta was the passion. So your father, is he still with you? He is. Yes. So what did he say about the idea that you changed from pizza to pasta?

My dad said, "Don't get into the restaurant business. cuz I worked I worked hard all my life so that you guys wouldn't have to suffer the way that I did. Um but he so proudly comes to the restaurant and he's just blown away by by what we've been able to transform it to. Okay. So this um if we if this is approved, how would that affect your business? If we if it's not approved, would that affect your business? Would that affect your the amount of uh income that you're going to receive? Would it reflect on your customers that come in? tell us why it's so important for you to get a um absolutely

spirits. You know, as as we've been able to grow and and and gain um uh you know, prominence within the city and within the food community, um you know, one of the things that uh we've been approached by by, you know, with with with everything that's been happening in the city. So when you when you have let's say for example like Nike uh coming to do an event or uh you know they approach us and they're like well we want to throw a party and we want to throw an event at your place. Um and then once it gets to the question of okay can we you know do cocktails? No I'm sorry beer and wine only that usually puts the end that that that stamps the end of the conversation at that point with them.

But you were doing well with just a beer and wine license at one point. Am I correct in saying that

we we you know alcohol is not our uh you know we we take pride in what we're we're able to do. We we sort of as a as a business have our our whole idea has just been you know make the best out of every situation that we we have. You know we're um we've been blessed that with with just beer and wine we've been able to take it where we're at. But we feel that, you know, where we need to continue to take our business, and that's being able to do special events with all these great companies that are coming to do business in Englewood. Um, we don't want to be overlooked, uh, just because, um, we don't have the capability of, you know, uh, offering a cocktail for a party that, you know, a large business wants to to, you know, uh, you know, throw an event at our at our space, for example.

Okay. Very good. Thank you very much. I'm going to have a few more questions for you and then we're going to turn it over to something else. I'm opening up for any final questions from the commissioners. Commissioner Fer, you have any final questions?

Just a comment. Um Mr. Chair, uh I would like to make sure since this is clearly your first event should this be uh voted on uh with alcohol. Um, I hope you're prepared to do the training that'll be required of your staff or you're going to hire some people who've been in this business to checking proper IDs and so forth because that is going to be critical. So, that's my comment on that. And then you mentioned an anniversary coming up and I didn't hear the number. Uh, six years as as Sunday gravy. Yeah. Six years.

Yes. And if I may add to that uh prior comment, um as a condition of our current license, uh our staff already does have to go through RBS training. Um Okay. And so they they are um uh anybody we do hire, we we do make them do the RBS training. Uh that that is required. our general manager who has um extensive years working in hospitality um and specifically in uh in in uh you know the beverage industry. Um he's very very uh adept at at that training part part and refresher doesn't hurt either. No no absolutely not. I also uh agree with the one-year review. So

okay very good. Thank you Commissioner Rice. No further questions. Mr. trail. No further questions. Thank you, Commissioner Shaw Williams. No further questions. Thank you, Chair. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you very much. We'd like to open it up for those individuals who are for or against this particular project. You can go up to the mic, give us your name, and tell us about for or against. Hearing none, seeing none, we're going to close that segment. Okay. Any final comments? Is there a motion?

There's a motion. Chairman, I move that we affirm category exemption EAC 2025-8 I'm sorry-085 and adopt a resolution approving SUP 250016 with a condition that interior and exterior cameras totally saturate interior and exterior spaces. Uh this is a small place with a lot of activity and we want to make sure that we can certainly witness everything that goes on within that facility. And I also want to uh add a one-year review. Second. Okay, it's been properly moved and second. We call for any questions. Hearing none, we'll call for a vote. Commissioner Fowler,

I. Commissioner Rice, I. Commissioner Tjo, I. Commissioner Shaw Williams, I. Chairman Springs, I. Now, you mentioned you had a six-y year anniversary coming up. Is that what you said? And when is that coming? September 27th. September 27th. So, you're sending out invitations to the city of Ingwood staff and city of staff always. [Laughter] Congratulations, sir.

Okay. Is there any um appealing process? Yes, chairman. According to the IMC, anyone may appeal the decision of the planning commission on this matter. The appeal must be filed within 20 days of the notice of decision and shall be made by filing a written notice accompanied with the appeal fee.

Okay. Thank you. Good job, F. 6 C. Item 6 C, a public hearing to consider an application by Megan Divine representing HAS I NWD Property Owner LLC for general plan amendment number 24-0000 I'm sorry 00002 to allow a request to amend the land use element map of the Inglewood General Plan from low density to medium density for an approximately 68 acre site. Morningside High School and Monroe Middle School with approximately 22.87 acres designated for a proposed multiple family residential development. Chairman the file is present. Um and notice has been given in a manner and form required by law. a planner Angel Leon Martell is uh prepared to give a short staff presentation. Um before he does so would like just to make a couple of quick points of clarification um at the beginning of uh said presentation if you don't mind chairman.

Yes.

Okay. Um the as you all know the the city of Inglewood is undergoing a comprehensive general plan update. Um, as a part of that general plan update, there were going to be some land use um, designation changes um, throughout the city. Um, and some of those would have to deal with some of the Inglewood Unified School District sites that um, have been closed. Um this is one of the sites and one thing that I want to um before Angel begins his presentation make as a point of clarification is um the original application came in for 22 acres. Um the total site including the all of the Morningside High School campus, the closed and demolished Woodworth Elementary campus and the Monroe Middle School campus encompassed 68 acres. Okay. Um, for purposes of, as you can see on the map, for the purposes of general plan land use designation consistency, um, we elected to include the total Morning Side and Monroe um, ele Monroe Middle School sites um, as a part of this general plan amendment and zone change, which would have been a part of our current general plan amendment um, as it's under the early stages of development right now. Um, in most situations when cities are in the process of going through a comprehensive general plan update, they would uh stay um any um future or any current general plan applications. However, this application came in prior to the commencement of our comprehensive

general plan update, which is why we needed to move forward with it. um as it came in from an from the applicant's um request. So um so there were so just want to make a couple of points those points of clarification. I know that in in one of the letters that was received that was brought up. Um I just would like to say that any um future developments outside of the 22 acres that were analyzed in the Skia would require its own environmental analysis. Okay. So I just want to repeat that. any um environ any project that happens outside of the 22 acres that encompassed the 57 the the proposed develop the future development should this GPA be um recommended to city council for approve approval would require its own environmental analysis. Um furthermore, a programmatic EIR is going to be conducted um citywide that would also look at the future development capacity for any land use changes that are made by way of the uh general plan amendment and our comprehensive general plan update. So I just wanted to make that point of clarification. Um the school sites are remaining as they currently are. There there is an active Morningside High School is an active school campus. There is no development plans right now for anything to happen on that campus. Monroe Middle School is a current is currently an active school campus. There are no development plans for anything to happen on that site. Um and so the changes and the incorporation of those two parcels or those two properties um or sites in this general plan amendment um were strictly um to provide some consistency from a land use perspective. So I hope that clarifies some things moving forward and now Angel

can begin his presentation. Thank you for excuse me. It did for me it did clarify because I had questions on that. Thank you. So did I.

All right. Thank you Bernard. Uh good evening Chairman Springs and members of the commission. The subject site for the general plan amendment is located on three parcels that make up the Morningside High School and Monroe Middle School site and they're zoned R1 or one family residential with low density general plan with a low density general plan land use designation. The site is located south of 104th Street between Yukon Avenue and 10th a and 10th Avenue. The Morningside High School and Monroe Middle School site encompasses 68 acres which comprise Morningside High School, Woodworth Monroe uh school, and the Child Development Center. The Woodworth Elementary School campus has been demolished. The applicant is proposing a general plan amendment for the 68 acre site to amend the land use element map of the Inglewood General Plan from low density to medium density. The city of Englewood general plan was first adopted in 1968. When the general plan was adopted, the site had a public semi-public civic center designation. The land use element was completely revised in 1980 and in 1990, the land use designation was changed to low density. Should the planning commission approve this general plan amendment, this would create an opportunity to develop to develop 571 town homestyle residences with 10% reserved for affordable dwellings, one dog park, two pocket parks, and two residential clubouses. The proposed gated development would provide approximately 375,000 square ft of open space, 20,799

ft of private open space, and 354,000 square ft of common open space. Also proposed are 1,122 parking spaces. That's two for each unit and then 124 guest parking spaces um and 66 bicycle parking spaces. This section of the general plan land use element map depicts the existing general plan designation and the site is marked by the red star. The existing low density designation is presented by the color in yellow. There are properties to the north and east that are designated m medium density. Just as a serve as a reminder, the California government code requires that every city maintain a land use element as part of its general plan. The planning commission must determine that a proposed general plan amendment is consistent with the framework of the general plan land use map and its elements. Staff is currently working on the general plan update which is expected to be completed in 2027. This aerial view of the neighborhood depicts the residential uses north of 104th Street, east of 10th Avenue and also to the north are commercial uses or Costco. To the west are the resident are residences. To the east are residences and there are also residences along the south side of the site. The approval of the request of the general plan amendment would change the general plan land use element map for the subject site to a medium density designation. The general plan medium density

designation allows 23 to 43 dwelling units per acre. The medium density designation is consistent with uses on two sides of the site. uses north of 104th Street which include multiple family residential and use as well as AC as as well as to the east across 10th Avenue also multiple family residential. The general plan amendment will also remove inconsistencies between the general plan and zoning designations. Findings have been made in accordance with the general plan standards. The proposed general plan amendment removes inconsistencies because it will align with the site's land use designation with its zoning and future residential development plans. The amendment is consistent with neighboring uses. The site is adjacent to properties with medium density designation and supports a logical extension of that land use pattern. The proposed amendment is of adequate size and shape because the site meets spatial requirements for development consistent with the Englewood municipal code. The proposed general plan amendment is able to meet infrastructure demands because the project includes on-site parking and access improvements ensuring traffic and infrastructure compatibility. The proposed general plan amendment promotes economic and job growth because the development will create construction jobs and long-term economic activity from new residents. These are the medium land uh medium density land use objectives. They're stated as follows. Access to major shopping facilities, residential land use, and transition to more intense development.

Uh first off, the site is located adjacent to Costco and nearby Century Plaza along Yukon Avenue. Both recognized as major shopping centers within the city and broader region. The site's proximity to these retail destinations ex yeah exemplifies the type of land use efficiency encouraged by the general plan. Residential land use. According to the general plan, optimal locations for residential development are those that offer convenient access to commercial, industrial, and other employment centers. The proposed general plan amendment supports this objective by allowing residential development near major shopping centers along Century Boulevard and within close proximity to hightra entertainment v venues that also function as job hubs. At the proposed density, the development is expected to promote economic activity, improve community safety through increased presence, and support local businesses. Transition to more intense development. The proposed multifamily housing development would serve as a transitional land use, providing a buffer between lower density residential neighborhood and adjacent commercial usage and other retail centers. Medium density development in this location supports thoughtful land use transitions by reducing abrupt changes in scale and intensity. It also places a greater number of residents within walking distance of shopping and services which can reduce the frequency and distance of vehicle trips and limit through traffic in low density neighborhoods. The proposed project is consistent with the housing and open space elements of the general plan. The project The proposed project is consistent with the active transportation plan and the

environmental climate action plan. If the planning commission approves the request, the applicant will be required to complete the site plan review, parcel map, and sign permit processes. A sustainable communities environmental assessment has been prepared in accordance with SQUA. One letter was received at the time the staff report was completed and two comment letters were received this afternoon which you have copies of. This concludes my presentation. I'm available to answer the any questions the commission might have. The applicant is also here tonight to answer your questions. Thank you.

Thank you, Angel. Good, good presentation. We're going to open up questions for you, Commissioner Fowler. Uh, yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um, I do have one question regarding Oh, thank you for the explanation about the fact that um both Monroe and uh morning middle school. Monroe Middle School and now Inglewood High School. Oh, and now Inglewood High School. Um that makes a big difference as far as so the rest anything they do here will have to deal with SQA the remaining yes

I was going to ask what's the timeline for this project and then this is my question what's the timeline for this project and how would the updated land use uh impact that I think the audience would probably want to understand that

right so the um just to cover what you started off Yeah, the high school's going to remain. Um, so is the child care center and then the middle school. The only thing that was demolished was the uh was that yes, the elementary school. And so they'll be they'll be, you know, demoing or removing some of the uh fields and courts in order to pave basically for the residential development. Um it looks like they have a timeline of two years approximately. Yes. Okay. So the land use upgrades that we're proposing uh would require them to do certain things because of the timeline of that project. They would be within that scope. Correct.

Right. And then yeah, just to clarify, so you you know tonight uh if you agree, you'll be proposing recommendation for city council and so um that can't happen until like at least a month because what we're doing is we're actually recirculating the the Skia doc the environmental documents. Okay. All right. Thank you. The rest of my would be for the applicant. Okay. Thank you, Commissioner Rice. Just for clarity, u the high school, Morningside High School is going to stay and then at some point Inglewood High School will be demolished and the students will go there and attend.

So, my understanding is Inglewood High School is actually going to be remodeled. So, what's going to happen is that they're going to be taking students from Morningside to Inglewood and vice versa because uh the Morningside High School is being completely revamped and they're adding technological um equipment. Right. I was trying to understand how they were going to remodel both high schools at the same time. Yeah. Let me let me clarify. So, so what's what's happening is that right now, um, as you all know, Morning Side graduated its last official class at Morningside. I'm sorry, Commissioner Shaw Williams. Um, and what and Rice,

I'm sorry. Um, and so what what's happening is that all of all of the students from Inglewood High School and any any students that were at Morningside would all be on the current now Englewood High School campus that's located at Morningside High School. All right. So that there's only one public high school outside of City Honors that will be Inglewood High School on on the Morningside campus that will remain and the students will will be going to school there until the construction for the new Inglewood High School across the street is completed. Um and and so then at that point um the school district um will decide what would happen with the remaining portion of the campus. Um, and just so you know that there will be some some as we're going through our general plan update um some communication with the school district to ensure that there is um some collaboration in regards to future land uses and what would happen so that we could have some community input on what what they would like to see at at that uh at that site. So um you know so you know it's it's a little definitely a little convoluted and a little complicated but um you know one thing that I want to make clear similarly to the previous general plan amendment that we had a few months back um that any additional um units um massing scale height increases that were not previously analyzed in the um under this current IA would could potentially trigger additional environmental review. Um, one of one of the um reasons why this project had taken so long to come before you today was because of the environmental analysis. Um there were a number of months um and back and forth with city

staff, our traffic division um and the like to look at um traffic to analyze traffic patterns and to ensure that mitigation was included to um meet um or improve uh traffic conditions um along 104th along Yukon um Krenshaw all the way through Prairie. Um and so there there was a lot of back and forth um a lot of time spent working through some of those um um issues. And so, um, as it as it relates to just kind of the environmental component, um, you know, we we are going to you're recommending, um, should you decide to do so, you would be recommending that the city council affirms that environmental document, in which time the applicant will, uh, we will take the, uh, environmental document, post the responses to the comments that were received today, um, and allow time for necessary time for that to be reviewed in order for the city council to make um uh uh an affirmation or not right to uh the environmental andor the the what's before you today.

So there is a land density that we're approving or entitling today for 68 acres although immediately there are 22 acres that are going to be worked on or built. We're going to build 500 some 571 town homes. Correct. However, this at this point, will this body be entitling the entire 68 acres at some point for No, it have to come back

at some at some point you this body would work towards the entitlement of some uh f of future land use there on the remaining um portions other than Monroe Middle School because to my knowledge, Monroe Middle School is not slated for closure. So um um and so the the other area the the current Inglewood High School location which is encompasses 28 or almost 30 acres or something like that um would eventually become another land use. Um I would also um want to make this point and I think Angel can um the the what's being proposed um through and what was analyzed is well under what the maximum density would be maximum allowed density for the said 22 acres. So, um the the the density allowance um for the general plan amendment goes between 23 to 43 acres, I mean units per acre. Uh I believe they're they're proposing about 24 units per acre. Um and so, you know, they're well below what the the the maximum allowable density um per acre would be on on the said uh site. Um and once we and and so just wanted to make that point as well.

Okay. Thank you. No further questions. Commissioner Fo. Um well I'm requesting additional clarification. Um the proposed site for the 5 71 units that's owned by a private entity. Is that correct?

So yes. So the the the um proposed the 22acre site is on under a ground lease. Um the the developer is uh would be Heritage Development, the same group that built the Grace Park um homes. And I would also like to to mention um that what is being proposed is is a gated community, right? One of my other questions.

And so so it's a it's a gated community with 57 affordable units. Um and the rest the remainder of those units would be market rate, right? And so um I ideally suited for um you know city employees to maybe potentially move in there andor school district employees and things of that nature. Can I slow you down? Sorry. Appreciate the information. No problem. Okay. So the the portion that is going to have the 571 units is leased by a developer,

right? And the other portion where the high school is, that is still owned by the school district, including the Woodrow Elementary School campus, [Music] Monroe, and actually the um child development center there at the northwest corner or southwest. So

Woodworth I would let me and I and just a point of clarification it's my understanding that that Woodworth and Monroe have combined campuses. So I just want to I want to clarify that. So originally if you look at the flag the flag lot and and there's the blue my eyes are bad but that says demolished. Yeah. So demolished that area used to was the former Woodworth Elementary School campus. Okay. that that campus now is is completely demolished. Okay. So that's part of the project. That's correct. So the every the area outlined in red is are the limits to the 571 unit proposed development which by the way can't happen

if we don't make yeah recom make the recommendation. So that's that's the property that we're looking at right now. Although the general plan amendment includes both the high school portion, the school portion and the proposed site portion. Correct. Correct. Okay. And you did answer my question as far as gated community. Yes. Rental or they are they are rental. All rental. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Commissioner Shaw Williams.

Um I really don't have any questions. It's more of a comment and update. uh particularly since I have my monarch brother doc I mean Commissioner Rice uh just to let him know that um we made sure that we uh gathered as much memorabilia as possible from Morningside. It's being housed at Ingwood Unified School District and one of their buildings. I had the honor of seeing some of the things that uh we uh put there and cataloged everything. There's two books that uh outline everything that's in this storage facility. I have one and the district has one. Uh they have items dating back from 1951. They have every year book from 1951 to current. We have the playbooks. We have lion roar newspapers. We have uniforms. Um, it's really something to see and he and I will have to get together. So, uh, we can go together and check this out. That's it.

One side as well. Okay. Um, my question has to do with the the land lease. You indicated that it was a land lease. Is there a time limit on that land lease? Is it 99 years or what is it? Yeah. Not not 100% sure the specifics of of the ground lease um just because that was between the school district and the um the applicant. So um you know we we weren't pre privy to those details, but the applicant may be able to speak to that.

Okay. Very good. Thank you. If the applicant is here, take the mic in the back and tell us about this particular project. And I understand you guys did the Grace Park development as well. Am I correct in saying that? Take pick up the mic. There you go. Pretend you're a rock star and hold it in your hand. No. No. No. I can't hear you. Can you hear me? Yes. Can you hear me now? Yes. Thank you.

Okay. Hi. Uh my name is Kendra Casper and I represent the applicant. Uh yes, this applicant is the same developer that developed Grace Park and yes, the ground lease is a 99-year ground lease with the school district. Okay. So, tell us about the particular project, how you guys got involved. Sure. What the plans are. So, basically, uh, we responded to an RFP from the school district and the school district awarded us the property as a ground lease to move forward, uh, to request the development that we're requesting today. So, there was no bidding on this particular project. Is am I correct in saying that? What?

There was no bidding on this particular project. They just contacted you and said, "We would like you guys to put this together." Is that No, it was a request for proposal. RS request for proposal. Thank you.

So, there was there was a process from the school district and we were selected as the developer to take the 99-year ground lease to propose the project. So, yes, there was a bidding process under the RFP. Okay. Is that it? Okay. We have questions for you. We're going to start our questions off with uh Commissioner Fowler. Uh, yes. I'd like to hear more about how you see the project, the vision for the project, why it's going to be a great enhancement to the city. Thank you. Wasn't Hi. Can you hear me?

Yes.

Okay. I feel like I'm behind a cage or something. So, uh, hi, I'm David Schwarzman. I'm the, uh, president and founder of Heritage Development Group. Um, yes. So, no. So we have started there's a new trend called build for rent housing. You know people not everybody can buy a house. People want to rent but not everybody wants to rent an apartment. People have families. So across the country I would say in the last 10 years there's been a a a switch slightly where there are planned rental communities that are built as to look like forale homes but they're built to rent. They mainly cater to families. I'm doing one right now in San Pedro called Sunrust. It's part of a master plan I developed called Paneav Vista, which was 700 homes. Uh we're doing 212 homes as built- to rent town houses. It's renting very well. I think we've rented about 75 units in about a year. Uh we're building another 125 as we're renting. So, it's a little bit of a construction zone. It didn't lay out as well phasing as this site. We have another one in um Silver Lake called the Lillian along the LA River. That's a 100 units. We opened a month ago. We've rented 30 homes in one month. And so there's a big demand for this. Part of it, I think, maybe was attributed to COVID, but uh in the sense of people don't want to live where there's common areas, common elevators. You drive into your own two-car garage. You have your own little yard. You have your own We have a wide raft of amenity areas. We have two different amenity areas. So, the project can be split. Oh, there it is. Sorry. It can be split. Um there's an amenity area here, and there's an amenity area here. There's also a pocket park here. And I believe there's another pocket park somewhere, but I'm not seeing it right now. Oh, right there. So, we have two pocket parks and two recommeners. What's that?

Well, it's on I'm sorry. It's on the screen. I'm sorry. You're directing your questions and answering to us. So, you're out of order. You're directing your questions and answers to the staff here. Sorry. So, there are two rec center amenity areas with pools, weight rooms, basketball court, and then there's two pocket parks within the community that are gated. But the vision of the project is it's mostly a three-story townhouse, all twocar garages. There might be, yuri, some of the units have a onecar garage. I believe we have some carriage units that are smaller, 2 to four bedroomedroom units, average size from 800 square ft to about 1,700 square f feet on the biggest unit. It's mainly rental housing for people with families.

Okay, very good. And just uh what is the average rent? Uh it'll be different. You'll probably start units there. Well, the affordables will be at what the affordable rates are, the low income rates, but the market rate units will probably go from for an 800T unit from $2,500 a month. Okay. To up to on the high range 4,500 bucks, somewhere in that range for a 1,700T unit. Thank you, sir. My pleasure. I have no further question. Okay, Commissioner Rice. Mr. Swman, I need to just kind of cut to it. Love your energy. I try. Hope the community loves your project as well. Thank you.

Um your um all things being equal, everything going your way, um how soon do you think you could start development of these units?

Well, I think we have improvement drawings in process with Henrik, our engineer, right here. So, I I would hoping if we got approved that we could probably realistically start grading probably I wouldn't want to grade in the rainy season. Maybe start grading in in March of next year, March, April. We're already processing improvement drawings. probably have it's pretty extensive land development here. Uh you probably have 10 months of land development. While we're doing that, we would be uh processing our building plans and probably start building probably like January of 27 actually doing like framing and foundation work, but we have about 9 to 10 months of land development before we got to that point. First phase completion and how many units?

Well, we're going to build it in four phases. That's one of the mistakes I've learned from doing this is when I did a project in San Pedro, I did 212 in one shot. So, it's a little hard to lease up. So, what's really nice about this project is that we have three or four different what I call quadrants that we could develop. So, we'll probably build this in four phases, but when we go out and build, we'll build probably just basically build I mean, I can't point. I'm sorry, but I wish I could like uh along 104th Street, those units up there probably be the first phase along there. And then we'd probably go through the entrance down to the back going all the way down to the bottom. That'd be phase two. And then phase three would probably be going back from the bottom up to 104th Street. Probably three to four phases of building realistically.

And if you have 571 units, that's about 120 some units per phase. Yes. That's what we did in in in our project along Blake Avenue along the LA River. We built 101 shot. We're doing another one right now in Granada Hills. That's 140 that we're doing right now. We're getting ready to open that depending on the Department of Water and Power probably in the next 60 days. And you're going vertical with um January 2027. That's what my hope is, assuming my grading plans are approved by March of 26. Yes. Meanwhile, you'll be working on the infrastructure for Yeah, we're already working. We're already drawing the infrastructure. We've already started pre-engineering on that. Now

projected completion after on phase one if you if you were fortunate enough to start January 2027. What's that? Sorry I did hear your question. At the completion uh you from a completion standpoint if you're building 100 it probably about 15 months to build a phase 16 months from start from foundation pores for the whole phase. You have a do you have a team out that's gone out in the community and talked to members of the community to let

Jason Lombard who works with us is our partner in the deal. So Jason has talked to some people in the community and we've talked to some people and we've obviously done a lot of talking with the school district who we mainly had a talk with. And to answer some questions too, the the school district hired CBRE as a broker. There's a broker here tonight who's with CBRE. They hired CBRE. CBRE did a solicitation where they went they advertised for three months to get bids for an RFP. We responded to an RFP. There was then probably a four to six month interview process and during that time we were selected. I don't know how many people bid. I have no idea. I know two people that bid besides me that I do know that bid, but I don't know how many biders there were. We were selected and then over a period of about 6 months or so, we negotiated the ground lease, which is a 99-year ground lease.

Okay. Grace Park project came out very well. Yes. Congratulations. I was the land developer that I didn't build the homes. I actually um was the land developer. I'm mainly a land developer. I've been a home builder. Uh I do a lot of build for rent now, but I'm we're a pretty large land developer. We specialize in doing a lot of infrastructure development. Thank you. No further questions. Chair Commissioner Trail.

Um well, one of my questions was are these rental units? And yes, they are. Another question was, is it a gated community? Yes, it is. A third one is since it's a rental project are there homeowners association fees and I asked that because common grounds like some of the common some of the common common areas who will be we take care of it. Okay. So the residents will not will not be part of your operational cost of the project for the developer the owner. Okay. Uh that's it for my questions right now. Thank you. My pleasure. Mr. Shaw Williams, what's the name of uh the development? What is

I haven't come up. We have to hire a whole marketing team and branding team. That that's you're you're ahead of me, but we we'll have something. Um our project in San Pedro is called Sunrest. Honestly, I have no idea why, but we're near the harbor. Uh our project on the LA River is called Lillian. Uh Yuri, what are we calling Granada Hills? Solitaerra. So I it'll be I don't know. Maybe City of Champions. I don't know. of championship lane or something like that. Maybe something to honor Englewood properly, but I I really we haven't we hire a marketing team and that's what we'll come up with at that point. Okay. And how many guest spaces again? I'm sorry.

Uh well, we have every unit is two uh every unit except the carriage units are twocar parked, but I think guest spaces are parked 124. So, without even guessing, on top of your own garage parking, which is,00 and something. Yeah, 1125 something like that. I'm not very good at math, but yes. Okay. So, that open field that separates the three schools is where you're going to be at. It will live like a like a your own home, but that you're renting.

So, you're getting what I what I really like about, and I've said this, I've talked on panels about this, but people that are renters are somewhat discriminated against because they're always forced into apartments. So, you're giving a renter a better choice of a better product to raise his family. Not everybody has the credit or the down payment, but they might have the income, but they could have a credit history in the past, something like that. So, you're giving people a chance to live in a home, but not have to buy the home to rent because it's very hard to find that in a community that where you're not the renter on the block living with 30 other people that own their house. You're in a a community of renters. You're all together. You're not stigmatized because you're the one renter on the block with the 30 homeowners. The plus to this is that uh Monroe Woodworth, if there's families uh there, they can send their children right in the backyard.

There's there's there's a huge plus to this on a few levels. So, one is the school district's getting a lot of money. Two, on top of that, the school district gets paid by the state for enrollment. So, if you're building a housing project that caters to family, think of all the kids that are going to go there that are then going to actually go and help Inglewood USD and are actually going to save the school district because the school district's been having a lot of financial issues and they're having to close schools. So, by us bringing people to the area, we are helping the school district. So, anybody that would oppose this project is basically saying, "I don't care about the Englewood schools."

And that's what it's really saying. So, at the end of the day, we're doing a good service here. We're bringing affordable housing and housing, workforce housing to an area and we're helping the school district in the process. Not just by paying the ground lease, but by the money the state pays to the school districts for enrolling students. And Englewood right now has a slipping enrollment. I've been to hearings with people in my office and the school, if you look at a 10-year pattern of the attendance of England schools, it's very sad. And this is a way to help rebolster and re-energize the school district. So on top of the school district getting money, they're getting I think they get like 11 or$13,000 a year a child. So all of a sudden if you bring four or 500 kids into the district, that's five six million a year that the state is now paying to help educate. And you're not closing schools.

Well, and I think that's very important. Well, I'm very familiar with the enrollment. I went to Woodworth from kindergarten. and I went to Monroe and I graduated from Morningside. So I know what the enrollment looked like when I was going which was very high and my dad also served on the board of education so I'm very familiar with the numbers and how it transitioned to where we are now. No further questions. Thank you. Okay. Very good. I have a uh one question. You indicated that that you the community is aware of what's going on. You've already spoken to the community. You've been to um block club meetings, district one meetings. J, can I have Jason answer that? I'll have him answer the question, sir.

Perfect. Thank you. Go to the mic. Jason, I'm sorry. District four. District four. Sorry, I said one. Yeah. My question would be that particular development is going to be in district four. So, is district 4 aware of this particular project coming up? Have you gone out in district 4? Have you gone to any black club meetings? Have you gone to any district meetings? Have you consulted with the city council person in that district to make sure that this development is well suited and well invited to the community?

We have had the discussions within district 4. Um, as I think you you all know with projects and and construction, what happens is you end up having ongoing conversations. So, we've been having ongoing conversations from the beginning. Uh, block clubs, HOAs, whichever, you know, if if there are ever any HOAs that wanted to have a conversation. Uh, when it comes to me, I go everywhere. So, uh, there's been the the offline conversations and then the online conversations. Uh, to be able to talk about this there. You know, the I think the first thing that we've had to do was uh eliminate some of the confusion that was there around the high schools being able to know let people know as as you've seen in this meeting uh let people know and clarify that it's not this project is not the high school because what came through was uh conversations and information that said Morning Side. So they look at Morning Side and they think of this as being a closure of the high schools. That's been what's come from the community and we've been able to uh correct that sentiment.

Okay. So the council person for that particular district is uh Dion Faul. So my I do know she had a district block club meeting recently. Mhm. I was there. Okay. I'm not sure if I didn't see you guys there. I was not at that at the the recent meeting. No,

I had gone to the previous meeting as well. So my point is that we want the community be we want the community to know what's going on in the area. We want you to come to the community and say, "Hey, this is what we're going to do. We want your input on what we want to do here." Absolutely. I I think that's the way that we we operate as a team. Um what we do is we will go to the places that we know people are and then when we find out about uh places where people are that we haven't been able to reach, we will also go there. So uh with that meeting I can come by that meeting for the next month uh and the months you know proceeding after that to be able to have those conversations. Uh we have a very open team. We have a very open communication communitywise. Uh and we want to be able to be a community partner as we come in. Uh as you can see just energy-wise from the developing team. Uh that's the way that we operate.

Okay. I have no further questions. Could I get your name as well? My name is Jason Lumbard with the Lumbard Circle. Okay, I'm going to find out any last questions from our commissioners. Commissioner, no further questions. Commissioner Rice, one more question for Mr. Schwartzman. Thank you. Make it a brief question. It's going to be quite sometimes a long question. A brief answer. I wouldn't do that to you, chairman. 500 571 homes being built. Assuming you're going to put this in four phases,

four to five potentially four to five phases with 120 to 140 houses being built per phase. Each phase as you build them, are you putting the affordable housing components in with each phase, mixing those in, or are you putting affordable housing in one area? No, you're you're you're spreading equally within the project. Equally. Yeah. Okay. No further questions, Commissioner Tra. Um I don't have any more. I think my questions have been answered. Thank you, Mr. Shaw. Williams.

Yes. I want to connect with um Jason. We're having a street fair. I'm going to give you my card and I would like your information because I want you to be present at that street fair Century Heights 104th, 108th and 102nd. And like I said, I I can't recall the date. So I need to give you my card and I need to get your information so I can send you a invitation so you can come speak to the residents. Okay.

Okay. I have no further questions. Thank you very much. Uh, at this time we're going to open it up for those who are in favor or against this particular project. Please take the mic and state your reasoning. You only have one minute. You're going to be time, please. It's a lot of us, so we want to make sure everybody has an opportunity to speak, but you only have one minute. Thank you. My name is Salvador George, and I'll Hold on, sir. Hold on just one second. Stop the time, please. I don't want people to come up after one gets finished. So, if you go and line up, that way we can get through this as quickly as we possibly can. Sir, you have an additional five minutes, sir. Thank you. I'll take the five minutes. Thank you. Five seconds.

My name is Salvador George. I'm a member of the Western States Regional Council of Carpenters. I live in the local area and live and work and recreate in the vicinity of the project. I believe that I will be impacted by the environmental impacts of the project. The city should require the project to be built by contractors that will hire locally, pay prevailing wage, and utilize apprentices from state certified apprentichip programs. Workforce requirements reduce construction related environmental impacts while benefiting the local economy and workforce development. In a recent 2020 report titled Putting California on the High Road, a jobs and climate action plan for 2030, the California Workforce Development Board concluded that investments in growing, diversifying, and upskinning California workforce can positively affect returns on climate mitigation efforts. The South Coast's Air Quality Management District recently found that the local high requirements can result in air pollutant reductions. And I will

take your five seconds. Recently, the state of California reiterated its commitment towards encouraging workforce development and housing affordability through affordable housing and high roads jobs act of 2022, otherwise known as Assembly Bill AB 2011, which requires projects to pay workers a prevailing wage and hire from state certified apprentichip programs for projects meeting certain sighting affordability and development standards. Okay, thank you. We oppose this project. Thank you. Next. Can y'all hear me? Yes.

My name is Brianna Dorsy. I am a sixth period carpenter apprentice and I as a carpenter we oppose this project for multiple reasons. But before I get into that, as a human, as a single mother, as a person who frequents, lives in and have worked in Englewood in the past, I want to say that um how many is it like 50 something low income 1% of those units that they are trying to build is affordable housing or low income. It doesn't make sense. So out of 571 units, only 1% 10%

10%. It's still It's still nothing to be honest. It's still nothing. But also, as a union carpenter, if you're not using union carpenters that live and work and and have students in that area, why would you build there? You're putting money into other people's pockets who's not really in the city. Okay. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you.

My name is Lee Williams and I'm a journeyman carpenter at Western States. Um, I grew up in the city. I'm from LA. I'm from Englewood. played football on those fields that morning side and u we all know what it is. You know what's really going on and it sounds good. The presentation was great but what is the how is the community benefiting? Are the workers on that job going to be able to make a wage to live in those buildings the 10% that is being put up for affordable housing or is the is it really about the potential of making $3 million a year in rent and allowing no one else to own around the area the main goal? the my my concern and why we're opposing it because it's not really going to benefit the community. And if so, I feel that in implementing the labor standards so that we can make sure that the community benefits from this project and the people that live here can work here and spend here and and continue to expand on community economics and community wealth because it seems like this is one entity that's going to benefit from this project.

Thank you, sir. Anyone else?

Good afternoon. My name is Isaiah Jamerson. I've been a resident of Ingua for 30 years. Um to say honestly, uh standing in high school, I wouldn't see myself standing here in front of the council fighting for something. Uh I'm a part of the union Southwestern. I'm a second stage apprentice and uh we oppose this uh this project as as a group because it's not benefiting what we stand for as a community. Um, like I said, standing here is uh, you know, I'm sorry. I'm kind of nervous, but uh, yeah. I'm sorry. [Applause]

Let me advise you that this is not a an arena. This is a a meeting for a business meeting. So, there will be no clapping of any sorts at this particular meeting. We understand your your concerns about it and I do understand what you're talking about, but we're not going to have any of this uproar and clapping and stuff. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Verene Scholes and I am a resident of Inglewood right at Krenshaw and uh 4th Street. And I am opposed to this project because number one, number one, first and foremost, I take offense for your stats about the decline of the Inglewood uh area, the school district, and how much one student is bringing in. I take offense to it because we are a community here. I've been I'm a home owner here and I feel that it's not the investors are making money and not the community. Build something that's going to entitle all of our community but not something who can afford working every single day to pay upward of $4,000 per rent. People cannot afford that. Now investors may you can but I can't. I work every single day. I own my home but I can't afford for $4,500 for a rental.

Thank you ma'am. That's what's happening and thank you for listening.

Um good evening. Uh my name is Kaisha Williams and my family and I have reside in um for over 40 years over 50 years. Can you hear me?

Oh, sorry. Um I am also too an alumni from Morningside High School. However, I have some concerns. Um for one, I'm on the south side of 108th Street. So my concerns are parking, which I know you guys said you have 124 parkings, but there is no parking at all on our block. we can't even have company um come to our home. Also, um I'm also concerned about a gate maybe being put up. I'm on the back side of Monroe. So, um when they were doing the construction to Monroe, it caused a lot of rodents and gophers to come over to the other side. So, I'm wondering if this do goes if this pass um will there be a gate put up for the um residents along the side of 10th Street? Um, also Leoli, which is a street that's blocked off where I believe the 22 acres will be for these um, rental homes. Would that street be opened up? Um, we already have a problem where we cannot make a left 108. We have to go all the way around just to go on the side of Sentry Shopping Area or Costco and all that area there. So, I do have those concerns there. Um, which I believe is going to affect the um, community and the residents on the south side.

All right. Thank you, ma'am.

Yeah. My name is Vivian Hedler. This is my daughter and we've I've owned the property on 108 Street, which on the north back side of Morning Side Monroe. It's a big field there. So, I'm concerned about if they're building apartments that's going to be three stories high, that's going to affect a lot on that back end because that's my yard back there. And also I just want to piggy back on one of the ladies said earlier about the price of these apartments being 25 to 4500 a month. Who can afford that? And uh someone commented on the uh the schools that the kids will be right there. People can't afford to pay that who have kids that will be going to any schools in that area. So that's not going to increase enrollment. Not at all because their parents can't afford to pay that. Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

Good evening. My name is Nidia Melgar. I live on 104 in Yukon, two like two houses from Yukon. So, right where the building uh my biggest concern is traffic. I work at Sentinel Hospital. I've been there for 30 years working at Sentinella. And uh I work on a shift for on call for uh emergency surgeries and it take me 45 minutes to go to to 104 to Sentinel Hospital when I have to go to a surgery for emergency surgery and it happened last couple of weeks probably a couple of weeks that there was a patient having emergency surgery from the sofa stadium that had a a an incident in there. So it took me 45 minutes to get there. So, we have all this traffic already and with this construction, it's going to get worse, not going to get better. And I was thinking what she was saying, the same thing. People who come and are able to pay this much, they're not going to send their kids to Morningside. And we all know it. There's nothing new. Even we're trying to get our kids outside when we can. So, I know fridge people are not going to have their kids in England. That's for sure. So, traffic is my biggest concern.

Right. Thank you, ma'am. Hello, my name is Ladonna Hamilton. I live across the street from Morningside High School and I've been living there now for over 30 years. I am very also concerned about traffic, but I'm also concerned about lack of community input and information about this project to the community. I've heard nothing about what would be a benefit to the community besides what would benefit the people inside of that small community that are going to be a part of that small community. I'm also very concerned that more than likely this project will continue to encompass most of Morningside High School. That's a lot of traffic. Not much has been done to mitigate or to deal with the traffic that's already problematic within the area. Those of us who live there do not come out on Saturdays and Sundays when there's football games. We definitely love the fact that there's things that are happening, but there aren't very many things that are actually happening for residents within the area that have lived there and have been a part of this thriving community that people are now trying to be part of.

Thank you. Anyone else? Okay, we're going to close this segment here and I need um final comments from my commissioners um because I see a lot of individuals in the audience that are opposing this particular project and some valid reasons as well. I do know that um the city council this is going to go to the city council and either we approve it or disapprove it. We actually they're requesting an amendment to the land use element map for the city of Inglewood's general plan. That's what our job is. So what we're doing here on the DAS here is there we are approving or disapproving the um the general plan

for low and density and medium and density. And let me finish before you you go. Um that's what our job is here. So when I talked to this um city attorney, he indicated that what we can do is you would have to talk to your you can come to the city council's meeting and you can express your opinion at that particular point. I do understand what your feelings are. I I highly recommend that that the community is aware of what's going on, that they come out and express what they're going to do and ask for input. Also, you indicated about jobs in the area. That has to be something that the city council um you have to go to city council for that to happen. We can't do that here. Um I think our city planner has something you want to say, so please help me out. Yes, just a quick point of clarification for the record. Um, the action that you will be taking tonight would not be an approval. Um, it would be a recommendation. So, you would be um adopting a resolution that would recommend um that the city council um make a decision whe to either affirm or deny the the general plan amendment. So I just wanted just wanted to make that clarification for the records for the people in the audience.

Well, thank you very much for saying that. So you heard what he had to say. It's this is a recommendation. So once it goes to the city council, then you have an opportunity to go to the city council like you're doing now and the city council listens to you. In each district, district 4 especially, you have an opportunity to talk to your city council person and she will be able to go over everything with you. You also have an opportunity to go to the district for district meetings so you can display what your information that you want to do. The community, we want our community to be involved in each aspect of our community because they're the ones who live here and they're the ones who's going to be affected. So, we want them to get involved in what you want to do. You just It's not coming into a community and taking over. is coming into community and help build the community so they can be a part of it. By saying that, um, any last comments from our commissioners?

Uh, yes, Mr. Chair. Um, I don't want the, uh, community to think we haven't heard what you're saying. Um, I did see the staff take notes about the traffic and the parking. So don't think things are not being heard. Uh remember this is just the proposal or the recommendation. Uh they still have to pass design and a whole lot of other things should this even go forward. Uh I'm hoping that the developers can share with you other projects where they've used uh the people that are paid in the community, their labor projects, their who they're using. And I think I would suggest to them that they might want to talk about that and share that uh with the community uh because uh we're here to to build housing. I mean, the state has almost mandated housing, just so you know. The beauty of this though, this does take into the case for renters who can't own. And so there are some pluses to it, but like anything else. But if I lived in District 4, I would not miss any District 4 meetings. I would not miss Yeah. I You do You don't have to live in Century Parkies to go to that meeting and hear Mr. Lumbar's presentation. So, the key is to make your concerns known and how they react and respond. Uh, I'm sure there Mr. Schwarzman will listen. I think he heard you. So, let's see.

Commissioner Rice, I can curve my colleague. We absolutely hear the community. We're stakeholders here also and we certainly don't want to approve anything from this das that negatively impacts the community. So, we're going to take as much time as we need to make sure we get all the right answers that we need and make the right decisions. But, no further questions, no further statements. Mr. Chair, Mr. Tra,

well, one of the things I like about this is that we get a lot of people from the the community that come out to let us know how they're feeling and what they want to see. One of the thing and and that's really refreshing because we don't always have that when we're when we're uh considering a project. But one of the things that we also have to look at is that the state pretty much tells us what we need to do in in a lot of things. One of them is housing. We're supposed to come up with ways to have uh to provide additional housing in the city of Englewood. There's a number of 7,000 and some units that the state is requiring us to provide and in many respects our hands are tied and we have to look at ways to uh provide that housing that is being required of the m of the municipality. This is one of the ways and probably one of the bigger projects that we've had in a while that provides a large number of units. And like the chairman said, we have a developer coming in with a type of uh project that we don't normally see in Englewood, particularly with this large number of units. Maybe not everyone can can afford it, but I think you as parents, grandparents have encouraged your children to go to university to get either trade jobs that pay pretty well or doctors, lawyers, tradesmen, plumbers, whatever. They're maybe in a little higher income bracket. So, we're looking at keeping those individuals in the city of

Englewood. So, their parents, grandparents, I can see some of the individuals. I I don't know whether everybody agrees with me, but that's how I see it. We're trying to keep um younger generation in Englewood also um and provide housing for them, provide housing for family type of housing that maybe have two bedrooms, three bedrooms that they may normally not get if something like this isn't provided. So I think again I I know that there is a lot of concerns, but I see a lot of positives. But the main thing we have to keep in mind is that the state is requiring us to provide 7,000 and some units. This is only really a drop in the bucket and we have to look at other places. But this is a project that I think is well thought out. maybe needs to be tweaked some. Uh maybe with additional input that the community provides. Um you'll have something that will maybe not satisfy everything that you want, but at least some of it. So um I think that that they do want to be a part of the community. I know Grace Project has been very successful and I think that this will be very successful in the community if approved. again with your additional input on it. Thank you,

Commissioner Shaw Williams. You know, it's very important that you get involved with the meetings, the town hall meetings that we have in District 4. I believe the next one's coming up, September 17th. So, uh if if you have concerns and questions at that time, that's when you should come out and and address your concerns. Also, um, if you have concerns with parking and traffic, there is a commission and they meet once a month. I don't, uh, Bernard, do you know when they meet? The parking and traffic commission. Believe it's the fourth Wednesday of the month.

You should attend that meeting and address your parking and uh, traffic concerns at that meeting. Again, we are all here. We're looking out for the best interest of the community. Um, my family moved to Ninglewood in 1966. So, uh, I'm def always looking out for the best interests of my neighbors and my community. Thank you. No further statements or questions or concerns. I have no other person. So, is there a motion on the floor?

Motion. I recommend that the planning commission adopt a resolution recommending approval to city council of GPA 24-00002. I recommend that the city council affirm the sustainability community environmental assessment ES ca 2000 2025-035 second.

Okay. Is properly moved and second. We call for any questions. I do have a question. My question and statement is this this approval will go to the next step to the city council. So once it goes to the city council then at that particular point they'll have an opportunity to approve it or disapprove it. So the community you have to get with your council person. I suggest talk to your council person first and then I don't know when it's coming to the city council but you have to go on site go online and then you'll know when it's going going to be part of the agenda. That's my question and statement. Call for the vote. It's been properly moved and second. I hear I I did the question. Now we call for the vote.

Commissioner Fowler I. Commissioner Rice I. Commissioner Tjo. Hi, Commissioner Shaw Williams. Hi, Sharon Springs. I So again, please take advantage of the of your political activist that you have. Your council person is Don Vault Dion Faulk. She's your council person. Make sure that you get in contact with her. There is a meeting on September, believe September 17th, the town meeting at Hollywood Park. Okay, chairman. Uh, yes. Thank you.

Um, before I read the appeal or the next steps, just a shameless plug. Um, Next Level Inglewood, please come and be heard at the community meeting on September 6. Another opportunity to make your voices heard. Um, and uh, to that point, chairman, according to the IMC, your recommendation will be forwarded to uh, the city council for their consideration. Okay. Okay. We have uh 6D. Item 6D, a public hearing to consider an application by Megan Divine. Represent.

Madam Secretary, can you hold on just a minute for me, please? We're going to take a um five minute break. So those individuals that want to leave, they can do that. that we want to quiet. So, we'll take a 5 minute. We're going to revine at 8:55. 8:55. is Thank you.

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Meeting. Okay. Are we calling our meeting back to order, please? We're going to convene our meeting now.

Please take your seats. We're going to start our meeting, please. Our meeting starts in 30 seconds. Our meeting starts in 15 seconds, please. Thank you, Madam Secretary. Could we go to the next item? LLC for zone change number 24-00001 to allow a request to change the zoning from R1 one family residential to R3 multiple family residential for an approximately 68 acre site Morningside High School and Monroe middle school with approximately 22.87 acres designated for a proposed multiple family residential development. Chairman, the file is present and notice and notice and time has been given in a manner as required by law. Um, planner Angel Leon Martell is available to do a brief staff presentation.

Thank you, Bernard. Good evening, Chairman Springs and members of the commission. So, the subject site for this zone change request is the same as the previous general plan amendment uh which is on Morningside High School and Monroe Middle School site uh and is zoned R1. Um same aerial, same project location. Uh these are the findings for the zone change. The applicant is requesting to change the zone change uh the zoning designation from R1 to R3. Uh there's four zone change findings in place that the planning commission must make and the project must meet. These findings have been uh discussed thoroughly and met based on the project details and the findings as following. The first one is the consistency with the general plan. Um, the proposed zone change will create consistency with the general plan land use element designation of the medium density if approved, extending the R3 zone westward along 10th Avenue and south along 104th Street. Number two, the appropriate appropriateness of the site for the proposed zoning. The site is ideally suited for R3 zoning because it is directly adjacent to R3 zoned properties again along 14th and 10th Avenue. Also, the site's proximity to industrial entertainment and retail shopping offers a strategic opportunity to locate residential uses your thriving commercial uh services that provide employment opportunities. Uh number three, no special privileges are granted. The zone change request adheres to the city's standard public review and entitlement processes and does not grant the applicant any special privileges. Any further development on

the site must comply fully with the R3 zoning and affordability regulations uh with development standards that may include height, density, parking and so on uh including objective design standards. Number four, no detriment to the community or establishment of unique standards. The resoning supports established community planning goals facilitated by patterns already envisioned in the general plan. The transition to R3 zoning will not result in adverse impacts or the establishment of incompatible standards. So here on the map, um, shows the general vicinity of the site with the current zoning designation. As you can see, it's kind of an island there, uh, with the R1 zoning. And here is the what the proposed map would look like. Um the brown is accentuated a little bit more, but to the north, as I've mentioned, we have R3 zoning and to the east as well, we have R3 zoning and then R2 zoning uh south as well as west of the property. We also want to highlight the M1L or light industrial zoning, which is where the Costco site is. Again, if approved, um this creates the opportunity for the development of the residential property. So, as conditioned, the proposed project will serve as an enhancement to its neighborhood setting and will fully comply with the general plan. The proposed project is consistent with the general plan. It's also consistent with the city's active transportation plan, environmental climate action plan, and if approved, the this project will also

need to go through parcel map site plan review. Um, it must comply fully with the Englewood municipal code. Uh, the draft ski was prepared as in accordance as well for the zone change. Um, comments were received. You've received those letters. This concludes my presentation. I'm available to answer any questions the commission might have and the applicant is still here to answer your questions. Okay. Thank you, Angel. Questions. Start off with Commissioner Fowler. Rice. Is there a max height of construction in the R3 zone? Yes. Um, let me see. I believe it is right. Three stories. But the

45T 45T That's the number I was looking for. Yeah. Thank you. No further questions. Commissioner Trill,

when you mention height, I don't know where the appropriate uh venue is to mention something that one of the uh community people mentioned that if you have something that's a little bit higher looking down into their yard, is there something that the planning department can look at or recommend or we can recommend that it be included that either frosted some some kind of treatment that uh that would prevent uh that would would allow the the continued privacy of those that uh yes right back up on

we can kind of condition that windows on higher stories be strategically located also the size of the windows as well and I think you also mented frosted frosted windows treatment yes we can definitely do that um the buildings are set back um from from the property line as well. So that was you know something that was I know was developed throughout throughout the process. Um we could look at that further as well.

Yeah, I think that that I think that's important because uh like my house I I live in an R1. My neighbors house is two stories and they look right down into my into my yard into my driveway. So I know how that feels. Yeah. And just a a quick quick uh point a clarification, we wouldn't condition it, but we would make sure that we would note that those corrections be made as a part of their site plan review application. Okay.

So, so we'll that's something that we'll make sure that we pay very close attention to. And I think to to your point about um the thoughtfulness in the layout of the development um those homes that are situated adjacent to that loli entrance and face those R2 properties actually those are the front of those units. So those are set back um a little bit and so we can work on you know some potential step backs on the second floor and the third floor to help um create further uh separation between um and some private and create additional privacy. Okay, that's great. Anywhere where that you know is appropriate, right? And uh what else?

Oh, thank you. Anywhere where that's appropriate. I think um that's the main thing. Mo I think all the questions I had were answered but I think one of the things we really need to stress a little bit more when we have projects like this is the fact that the state requires us to uh to do this housing and that's why sometimes we have to make decisions that that uh you know people don't like. But part of it is because I mean we're required to provide all of this housing and we have very little land in wi in Englewood now. I mean we had you know uh as I was mentioning to the commissioner we had Daniel Freeman Hospital that went away so we were able to build housing there. Sofi Stadium 300 acres there. So we've been able to build housing and now we have this. So, but so much of it is because the state is requiring us and I think that has to be an emphasis in any of the presentations that are made to the community.

Absolutely. Absolutely. And and um we we uh and and we're very intentional too about how it's how we meet that mandate. Um, one one of the points of uh of of of note I think it's important to mention that in this development um when you break down um R3 density standards right um at the the highest density point our code currently allows one unit for every 1100 square feet right um their density based on what's being proposed is 1 to700 So, so they're they're there still um far less than what our code would allow them to build should they have built to the R3 development standard. Um now, I'm not saying that they're going to add more units.

Um but but and if they did, we would have to take another look at the environmental um uh the environmental analysis. But I'm just saying that to say that, you know, there was some thought in not overbuilding

the site, right? And understanding that it is a densely populated area and that there are some some inherent traffic, you know, things that need to be considered that we're examined thoroughly in in this process. And so, um, I just thought that it would be important just to mention that, um, as a part of of of this, um, this this, uh, this time here. One other question that is, I know it's a gated community and a lot of their guest parking is is parking along the interior streets, correct? Um, they're not going to need parking permits, a parking permit area for those, right? because it's gated community and others are not going to be able to come in there.

That's correct. Okay. Thank you. That's all I have. Okay. SH Commissioner Shaw Williams. I have no questions or Okay. I have no questions. Angel. Very good. If the applicant is here, come talk to us about your project.

Sorry. Um, so, uh, a few things. Uh, one of the things I'd like to actually when we bought Daniel Freeman, I want to go back a little step to understand the planning because I think it's very important for everybody to understand. When we actually bought Daniel Freeman, we didn't initially entitle it. We bought it from another developer who entitled the site for I think 300. No, we did 226. He had like 350. We actually took the product and redesigned down because it wasn't very livable. And sometimes in densities, you can get more density, but there's a livability as well. And to have your own separate garage, not tandem, twocar garage to do some of the design elements we do, we actually can get a better product with less density. I mean, we could have gone more, but it just didn't make sense from a livability standpoint for families to create the first floors they wanted to. I personally, there's a product you could, it's called interlocking townhouse where you can build like 32 33 of the acre. I don't want to build that kind of product per se. I I have a little area of it where I'm doing some, but in general, because of different unit mixes, we wanted to make this more of a family style development for families, for children. So, we tried to make it more attainable. Um, we're very excited about the project. One of the other things I heard about what we they made us do in Grace Park, we had some homes behind us. We I I think we planted Italian cypress along the back as a buffer that we did before. We worked with uh Chris Jackson, I think, on that project and um Eddie, I don't remember Eddie. I don't know if he's still at the city. We worked with Eddie and Chris Jackson and we planted a whole row of Italian cyprress along one of the back boundaries of the site. We also had a historic tree on the site. So, I think listen, we're here to work with you. Um we come in, we do it right. Um, we will Jason was outside talking to the homeowners about organizing a meeting for them for their separate block club. We're excited this I think again to understand the product that we're

offering here is really unique. It is being done nationally but Los Angeles because of the cost of land. It's sort of a market that's been forgotten to for this build for rent single family planned housing developments for rent communities just people don't do it here. So, we've had the opportunity now three times. This would be our fourth site. Uh, I invite you guys if you want to come out and tour one of my sites, you can come out to Blake Avenue in Frogtown. It's in Silver Lake. We have a 100 units there built. Uh, like I said, we've rented, we opened for rent uh, in June. I think we have 30 something units leased out of 100 in seven weeks. It's doing very well. um families. We have another one in San Pedro called Pontav Vista which is along Western Avenue. It's the old army barracks. I don't know if people know the palace. We developed that site. Um we came in from another developer that had failed. We bought the site. It was 50% graded and within 12 months we had the site, we did about $35 million of infrastructure work and we had model communities going up with several different home builders that were building communities in the area. We're about ready to open another one in Granada Hills. So, it's we think it's being very wellreceived. It's something that is not offered in the Los Angeles Greater Metro. Um, people talk about rents and affordability. If you go over to Inglewood to the project that Mr. Kronkey's building, he's got apartments that are 1,200 square ft that are $5,000, $6,000 a month. So, as an affordability play to live in an apartment, you're living in a house. We're doing a heavy amenitized community, like I said, with two wreck facilities within the community, two separate wreck facilities, two pocket parks. So, we're veering very much heavily amenizing.

I'm going to stop you just for one moment. Okay. Because I want you to talk about what we're talking about here, the zoning change. That's what we're Oh, I thought you wanted the project. I'm sorry. That is the project, sir. Oh, then I need Kindra. Sorry. She's I need my Sorry. and you

Hi, uh Kendra Casper. Um so yes, we're requesting the zone change to allow for the 571 units and as was mentioned um previously um that is far less than actually what's allowed in the R3 zone. The R3 zone would allow uh one unit per 1100 square ft and we're doing significantly less than that. Um, but we would need the uh zone change to match with the general plan amendment to allow for the 571 town home units. Okay. Very good. So, we have some questions for you. Okay. We're going to start off with Commissioner Fer. Uh, no questions, Mr. Chair. Commissioner Rice.

Want to make sure I understood what you said. The R3 zone was restricting or you're asking for an R3 zone in order to be able to put in 571 houses. No, we're asking for the R3. We're currently in R1, which is a lower much lower density. So to be able to put in 571 units, we are requesting the R3 zone, which would match up with the general plan amendment that we just spoke about. And if it stayed R1, how many units would you be able to put in? Uh, I think that's one unit per six acres. I mean, six units per one acre. Six units per one acre. I'm sorry, it's late. Six units per one acre. So 130 units about 130 133 units.

All right. No further questions. Okay. Commissioner Treyo. No. I uh No more questions or comments. Thank you. Commissioner Shaw Williams. No questions. Thank you, Chair. Okay. I have no questions either. Okay. At this particular point, this is we open it up for comments. Anyone either for or against this particular project, you can go to the mic, give us your name, and state your reasoning. You have one minute. Seeing hearing none, we're going to close this segment. Any final questions or comments from the commissioners on the dis? Commissioner Fer, no. Mr. Chair, thank you. Commissioner Rice,

questions. Commissioner Tjo, no more. Thank you. Commissioner Sha Williams. No. Thank you. Okay. Very good. Is there a motion on the floor, please? Motion. I recommend that the planning commission adopt the resolution recommending approval to the city council of ZC24-00001.

Second. Go ahead. Who seconded? Second. Follow. Commission follow. Okay. We have properly moved and second. We'll call for any questions. Hearing none, we'll call for a vote. Commissioner Fowler, I. Commissioner Rice, I. Commissioner Tjo, I. Commissioner Shaw Williams, I. Chairman Springs, I. Mr. Bernard, uh, chairman, according to the IMC, your recommendation will be forwarded to the city council for their consideration.

Okay. Thank you. That's it for you. All right. At this particular point, public comments. Anyone wishing to address the planning commission on anything in their jurisdiction may do so at this time. Hearing none. Seeing none, we're going to close that segment. Now, we want to have our commissioner's initiatives. We're going to start off with uh Commissioner Fowler.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Um first, I want to reiterate congratulating uh our two new they were texts. What are they now? Planning. Assistant planners.

Assistant planners. Right. Faith and Ryan. So, good luck to you. Welcome to the party. Uh, I also uh at this time uh want to um thank all of the people in the community because it was a huge event. They came out for family unity day at Darby Park last Saturday. I think uh everyone had a good time had by all as they say. Uh so many people were pleased. Uh I think when we said free food, they didn't believe it, but I think uh we had food till three o'clock. We were shocked. But uh it was a a great event and uh Council Member Gray is very appreciative and we look forward to seeing you next year bigger and better. Uh also I wanted to uh congratulate the students that are going to be coming back to school. uh the principles and the staff. Uh there are a lot of back to school uh I understand uh opportunities for those backpacks and other items. So uh I know the website has some at the city. So take advantage of that. Uh it is also August is uh national immunization month. So um believe it or not they say CO is rising again. So, make sure everybody gets their current immunizations. Uh, August is also August 21st is uh National Senior Citizens Day. So, those of us that fit in that category, probably no one here. You have a chance to celebrate. Who knows? Uh, some of the some of the local uh businesses may have a senior citizen treat for you. And then finally, August 26 is Women's

Equality Day. Uh I hope I live to see that, but thank you. Uh have a great great rest of the summer. Thank you so much. All right. Very good, Commissioner Rice. Congratulations to Faith and Brian on your promotions. Um welld deserved. No further comments.

Mr. Trail. Yeah, it's really been fun watching the growth of the very young staff that you have. Uh, Mr. McCri, I was going to say Bernard, but I'm being formal Mr. McCri. Welld deserved Faith Brian. Um, but it's been again my having been on the commission forever, having watched the growth of uh of the planning of the planning department staff and particularly in the last few years, it you've had a turnover and they're all, you know, young, not seasoned like the commissioners, but and they've done a great job. So, it's uh welldeserved promotions and congratulations. Um, beyond that, do you have any information on um on my uh project? Well, not my project, but what the the the spot that I've been asking about that I know I wasn't here last month when you probably had an answer as to what's going on at uh

Yes. Yes, we did. I actually I sent an email um kind of uh that responded to all of the the bevy of of questions. Um I did see that. Thank you. Yes. Um but you know the um car rental there the uh previous um tire shop is now um being finalized as a car rental facility who parked their car on the sidewalk I saw today. Uh oh. There were a couple cars on the sidewalk.

All right. Well, we'll we'll get code enforcement to take a look at that. Um and um to date we have not received any formal applications for the service station. Um but we are they they do have an active uh code enforcement case and we are um diligently making sure that they're um keeping that site clean. Um and so we'll we regularly check in with uh with code enforcement who is no longer on our floor. Um there were there have been some um departmental changes and so uh code enforcement now is uh a part of the housing

um division or department. And so um but we're still in constant communication. There is an arm that is continuing to um ensure uh co- compliance throughout the city and so um we'll make sure that we stay in con constant communication that that um site is cleaned up. Great. Yeah, they've been doing a a good job of keeping it clean and I know they've dug up quite a bit. I'm just curious as to what's going to go in there. Yeah. Yeah. We haven't received any formal applications. I know that, you know, it is it is possible that through through the state they could be doing some some uh remediation um of some underground tanks and things like that. Um but that wouldn't come through the planning division.

Yeah. And then again, just on that uh on the car the car rental place, just let them know that uh we don't want them to start off on the wrong foot and park. They do have a lot of cars there, but there were like two cars on the sidewalk that I saw today. So, okay. Yeah, we we've been uh we've been talking with them uh quite frequently, but my staff is back there laughing because we've had some meetings. So, we'll make sure that we uh talk to them tomorrow about and that somebody is always mentioning them that drives by there quite often. So, they can't get away with it. Okay. Thank you, Commissioner Sha Williams.

Um I do have a question. What's going on with the uh car wash on Imperial and Lo? It's been closed for quite a while. Are they permanently closed? Um we'll look into that. Okay.

I know we did uh approve an upgrade um some time ago. Um and so we'll we'll follow up with the uh property owner to see what the status is on their their development. And congratulations to Faith and Ryan on your promotions. Um, if any monarchs are out there listening, don't forget we're having our annual alumni picnic at Ed Vincent Park on the 16th of August and it starts at 11 a.m. Oh, and our meet and greet is Friday the 15th at Attis, which is right next to the Nile. That's at 700 p.m. That's it.

Okay. You What's the name of your school again? Morning side. Monarch. Thank you. Thank you. What is a monarch? What is that? A lion. You say? No, it's a lion. Lion. Mhm. There are monarchs. Yeah, there are monarchs. Monarch. I never knew that. How come you just couldn't be a lion?

Congratulations to you both on your promotion. Don't forget lunch. Just just kidding. I wanted to ask um Mr. Bernard about the planning commissioners academy. That's one of the things that I wanted to find out. Is it still on? I wanted to thank you for the t-shirt that we have. I think you my size was in the right size, but I I got a extra large. I should have got a double X. Oh. Well, we'll make sure we get you a double X then, but thank you anyway. Appreciate it. I like the color. Like the color way. Yeah, that's awesome. All right. Well,

didn't Englewood color it. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. It was green before. Okay. So, that's cuz he missed you. She made me forget what I was going to say. The commissioner's academy. Uh, so we can put it in our calendar. We're going to be getting some information on that. Yes. Is coming up real soon. Can you give me the city? Sure. So, we're we're going to the uh California APA conference. Um, you all are all registered. It's going to be in Monterey. Monteray

and it's September 28th through October 1st. And uh we'll make sure that we send out uh calendar reminders um by the end of this week to um so that you guys can um make sure that you block out that time. We're finalizing um just the flights um and so we'll be sending out further details as they come within the next couple of weeks. But but we are going um registration is is has been taken care of. Rooms are taken care of and and we'll be having a great time representing the city of Inglewood with our next level swag that you guys have. So you that makes packing. Remind us what to bring. That makes packing easy. Yes, we're wearing our t-shirts,

right? Can we get some polos? You got one. Okay, I do have one. You do have a polo. I can't wear it every day. Well, you know, you're right. We'll work. We'll work on that. Okay. Yeah. If we're going to be there four or five days, we need four or five t-shirts. Here we go. I mean, yeah, I'm just one, a blue one. No, just nothing else. I I've been I wanted to make sure that my commissioners were going to be there because it's going to be a good event. I think the last time we had gone to one, I think we went to Philadelphia

and that was fantastic. It was off the chain. So, I want to make sure all the commissioners are going to be going. I know that Sher Williams got to get her she got to get a hall pass to go. So, we want to make sure we get that hall pass out to her. But that's it. I have nothing else. Uh, this meeting is adjourned. Thank Thank you.