Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Let me call the meeting to order. This is the August 13th, 2026 regular session of the Marina Planning Commission. And we have a roll call vote.

Commissioner Baron. Commissioner Rana.

chair st john here commissioner chang yeah commissioner simmons here you have quorum thank you hey it's going to be followed by a moment of silence and the pledge of allegiance i have a volunteer for the pledge you volunteer okay okay Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. any special announcements and communications from the floor uh the floor communications would be limited to any new information and not currently on the agenda for tonight okay exportate communications for quayside judicial matters from the commissioners from outside okay the approval of the minutes from the July 23rd 2026 meeting if the commissioners had a chance to review any corrections or omissions I have a motion. The minutes of the meeting, they're attached to your package under draft minutes of July 23rd. Do I hear a motion to approve as written?

I second.

Commissioner Barron?

Yeah.

Commissioner Rana? Yes. Chair St. John? Yes. Commissioner Chang?

Yes.

Commissioner Simmons? Yes. Motion passes.

Item seven on our agenda tonight is public hearings. We have one public hearing, the California Redemption Value Recycle Facility located 150 Beach Road. And Phil Angelo will make the presentation for us.

Good evening, commissioners. I'm Phil Angelo. I'm a senior planner. I'm joined by Hadi, who's going to be giving the presentation.

Good evening, Chair St. John and members of the Planning Commission. This is Hadi, Urban Planner and Designer. I'm pleased to present you this permit for mobile recycling facility. Next slide, please. As shown in the slide, The property is situated in the Marina Landing Shopping Center in the coastal zone at the southeast corner of Beach Road and Reservation Road. Currently, the Marina Landing Shopping Center has four unoccupied properties, a cell tower, a 7-Eleven, convenience store, and gas station, a quick car wash, and a Walmart In 1992, the Marina Landing Shopping Center obtained its initial planning approvals, which included a zoning permit, site and architectural review, and coastal development permits. The proposed project is for placement of a California redemption value CRV mobile recycling plant in the Wall Market parking lot. Next slide, please. subject site is located on this slide as proposed the parking facility would be located in the northwest corner of the parking lot which is bounded by beach the drive to the north reservation road to the west and the mountable ward to the east next slide please the applicant proposes to operate the california redemption value crv mobile recycling facility for consistency with the requirements of CalRecycle, a division of the California Environmental Protection Agency, which oversees the state's CRV program. Recycling facilities must be made available to customers by beverage distributors like Walmart. The facility would contain a box truck and canopy tent, which would occupy six spaces in the Walmart parking lot two days a week. When a beverage is purchased, the consumer must pay a CRA fee and deposit. The deposit is then reimbursed upon redemption of the beverage container at an approved recycling site. One of the questions staff received was how the facility would prevent litter from being deposited during non-business hours. As the facility is mobile, the truck and canopy would both be removed during non-business hours, and there wouldn't be any area for recyclables to be deposited. Those stalls would return to typical parking lot use. Next slide, please. location within the city's portion of the coastal zone, any activity that falls under the broad definition of development in Marina Municipal Code MMC Section 174110B must obtain a coastal development permit before being used, unless MMC 1714200G exempts it. This includes any change in the density or intensity of use of land. The city has mandated a CDP for prior comparable temporary uses of the parking lot, even though the proposed recycling facility will be ongoing. This occurred in 2004, when the city required a CDP for one-time motor vehicle sale, and again in 2011, when the city considered the CDP for temporary containers on the site. Next slide, please. The proposed use would be consistent with the general commercial designation of the LUP, which permits retail services within a building, public utility uses, and other uses with comparable characteristics. The site has a permitted supermarket. Incidental uses such as temporary events, fireworks, sales, Christmas tree sales, etc. are usually utilized in supermarket parking lots. The proposed use would also not impact any sensitive coastal resources such as major rio corridors, coastal access, or sensitive habitat areas. Now I'm handing to our senior planner. He's going to further some details and information regarding signage.

Thank you. Staff received a couple of questions about the signage, particularly the necessity for a sign permit and how the square footage for the signage was calculated. The city sign ordinance serves to minimize visual nuisance from signs by regulating the size, quantity, and manner of signage. The code defines a sign quite broadly to include any graphics or lettering intended to attract attention, which would include the graphics and lettering on both the box truck and the tent canopy. In this case, because the code also has language addressing both vehicle and awning signs, and the graphics seem to meet the definition of a sign, the staff determined it'd be appropriate to require the permit. For the truck, the way the code reads is that vehicle signs are prohibited unless they're primarily for the use, to identify the use of the vehicle or the ownership of the vehicle. In this case, the signs are to identify the use of the vehicle as a recycling depot. Therefore, they're allowed. And the code doesn't specify any other further restrictions on vehicle signs. So we didn't include the square footage of the vehicle sign on the box truck. It's similar to like a delivery truck or like the city owned operated city loco vehicles. It didn't seem to effectuate the purpose of the sign ordinance. um for the canopy the applicant indicated the graphics are customizable so we didn't request that they provide the dimensions for each of the graphics on the canopy at the time of submittal the way condition 12 was drafted was it was an attempt to limit the square footage of the sign to what's allowed by the code as well as the number of the signs um kind of this is your sandbox of signage, do as you will. However, the proposed signage primarily serves to direct patrons to the location of the facility. So a case could also be made that it's exempt from a signed permit per Marina Municipal Code 1740210F3, which exempts directional signage. Also, the use is infrequent, only two days a week, which is different than the signage that the sign ordinance really focuses on, which is building signs and advertisement. The Marina Municipal Code 17.40.290.Q.15 allows the Planning Commission to determine whether a sign is allowed when it clearly doesn't fit into the listed permit categories. So it would be within the Commission's discretion to approve the sign as it's proposed and substitute condition 12 with something that doesn't explicitly state the quantities or square footage and just says the signage should be in substantial conformance to what's shown in the photos, like the photos there. And that's what staff's going to be recommending later in this presentation. Thanks, Phil.

Condition number 13 states that in accordance with Marina Municipal Code section 174210F3 parking areas must be maintained to the satisfaction of the city engineer. The condition further requires conformance to the operation plan, which calls for daily site inspections before and after service, prompt cleanup of any unintentional beverage spills, and restoration of the parking space to its pre-operational state. Next slide, please. and staff have found that the proposed project fulfills the necessary findings for all applicable permits and recommends approval of the proposal consistent with the language included on this slide thank you

We did have a few more slides to address the questions that we received by the commission. So they've been printed out and are in front of you. And I'm just going to kind of try and quickly go through and address each question. The first was regarding unsightly dumping. And while as explained in the presentation, the use wouldn't be present outside of business hours, staff are also recommending the addition of this condition number 15 on the screen. which essentially states the property owner would ensure that recyclables and waste aren't dumped on the site, which would constitute a public nuisance.

I do not have it.

Regarding the signage, staff are recommending that the condition 12 I mentioned before be swapped out with the one on the screen, which would just state that the signage be installed and maintained in substantial conformance with the photos attached to the resolution. And then... There's a question about how only one CEQA exemption is listed on the agenda while three are referenced in the staff report. All three CEQA exemptions are applicable in this case. It's a common agency practice to detail out all the exemptions that could potentially apply to a project, which is called layering. And that's what the city did here. um there's also a question on condition number 10 the permit authorization signature which is shown on this slide here the language here included reference to a conditional use permit that's actually a mistake from because it's using standard language so we're recommending that the phrase conditional use be struck there so it would just be um uh as it's written there condition of approval require modification of the permit um There was a question related to the size of the property. Staff believe 7.29 acres is the correct size because that's from a parcel map that we identified. Another was related to the characterization of the uses temporary. While the use is not temporary in our analysis, we did kind of compare it to temporary uses because it's similar in that it's like on an intermittent basis and there's no permanent physical structures or physical changes to the site. However, that distinction didn't affect the conclusion or recommendation. And finally, there was a question on who would be responsible for the permit. There would be two entities, the operator, Santa Cruz Recycling, as well as Walmart, who are the property owner and who provided permission for the applicant to submit the permit. And that concludes staff's presentation. Would you mind going back to the recommendation slide? So we're going to recommend that the Planning Commission adopt this motion with the changes to the conditions of approval that we've discussed.

Thank you, Phil. Thank you, Heidi. Very complete presentation. I appreciate all of the internal review by staff of the questions and getting pretty much all a proposal and resolution of those before we even start. Okay. So the next phase will be any discussions, questions or comments by commissioners. We'll start Commissioner.

Thank you, chair. I have one concern and also one question to the staff. My concern is that the proposed location for this facility There's already traffic congestion in this area because sometimes they spill over from the quick quack car wash. And also, apart from the truck, some space is going to be utilized where the recycling material is going to be processed. And also, if there are no more number of vehicles coming in at one time, there will be more traffic in that area. So what is being done to mitigate that impact? That's the question.

Can you put the slide up that shows the plot plan of the parking lot and the actual proposed location of the truck? Yeah. And is this the spillover area for the car wash?

My wash is actually to the It's the other side of the lot.

Yeah, it's far away from the car washes over here.

Okay, okay. I think I took it wrong. But still, my concern continues that you need more space apart from the vehicle. And also, if more vehicles are coming into the area, still there will be some congestion. So how is that being addressed?

So the overall, I believe, it's only taken up six parking spaces. Is that correct?

That's correct.

And it's a pretty large parcel. We could certainly monitor the situation. And if it does become something, we can talk to the vendor in terms of what we can do to help address any. But from a staff perspective, it's only there a couple days a week.

So it seems not as impactful. Just a follow-up. The parking requirements are specified in the municipal code based on the square footage of the Walmart facility. And they require, staff has already highlighted how many parking spaces are required and that there was an excess of quite a few. And so these six spaces, do not encroach at all on the municipal code requirements of parking but can you highlight the code numbers uh i mean it would just be our parking ordinance but um no it's in the report i i remember reading it

unless i was left over from my previous i mean it's it's referenced in 174210 that that's the code section that they're referencing for parking but sufficient to say it's it's a large larcel parcel with probably venturing to guess 300 parking spaces at least probably more so i mean if you're taking away six it's not gonna get anywhere near the minimum for for the site

uh we included the calculation for the parking and the resolution on page four of the resolution the walmart would require approximately 380 parking spaces based on the size and the site plan has a little bit over 420 spaces so even when the six spaces are occupied there would be over 40 spaces above what the municipal code requires

I don't remember ever seeing the Walmart parking lot as chock-a-block full. This is two days and one day is a partial day. So anyway, I hope we don't need to modify the resolution for parking. That's okay.

Yeah. And the next question is that other cities also like Salinas and we have similar facilities. And is the proposed facility that is coming up any different from what other cities are doing? If staff has done some analysis on this subject?

We can certainly ask the applicant. I'm sure they do this in a couple other places, but the chair needs to open up the public testimony first, and then we can address those questions to the applicant.

Commissioner Chang.

Thank you, Chair. Thank you for presenting this, Phil. You mentioned earlier this is not a temporary project. It's ongoing, correct? That is correct. But that is in the package report. It says warm-up temporary mobile beverage container collections. The temporary is used. And there's a blue highlight writing.

Do you want to highlight in the staff report, Commissioner Chang, what you're referencing?

This page.

I can't see that.

Oh, that is the title of the operations plan.

So can you clarify that? Is it temporary or is it ongoing? It is ongoing. So that temporary should be crossed out?

Yes.

Okay. So it's ongoing, then does that mean indefinite or will be review after 12 months?

If the commission gives approval, it stays there as long as they maintain it in accordance with the conditions of approval.

Shouldn't we have a period of revisions and then we can review it after a certain period of time?

uh i mean for this small of a permit probably not for maybe a larger maybe a liquor license or you know a dance club or something but for this it's it's only a couple days a week and uh it's of such a small nature but certainly if the commission wants to do that you can add that but that's not something staff would recommend no well because the canopy and the big truck is parking that occupies six space right and also we do not know the traffic flow the um

in the parking lot and also is there a disabled lot assigned next to the six spaces in case people who are disabled coming want to, you know?

I'm sure they'll work with any customers that bring stuff, but we can certainly, I mean, if the commission wants, we could add a condition that says after a year, the staff could evaluate if there's any traffic issues or parking issues on the site. That's certainly within the commission's right.

All right. We'll bring it up later. Then the other thing is on the report, the owner applicants, who is the applicants? Yeah, the applicant in front of us. Yeah. So you all will be the one responsible for this program. And it's not Walmart. It's not the recycling depot, right?

Yeah, Commissioner Chang, this is the applicant applying for the permit.

Because on the general site information, you put owner and applicants there. I just want to know who is legally responsible for this. So it would be Santa Cruz.

That's correct.

The other question I had is the cash. There will be cash transactions at the site. So I know the police and fire department has seen this and didn't say anything about it, but I'm just wondering, is there any security measurements, you know, when there's the cash involved?

um once again once the chair opens up public comment the applicant can ask those but it says in their operational letter it's a crv refund payments so i don't they can clarify i don't think it's all cash is that correct well chair if you want to open up public comments so they can uh let's do it let me let commissioner chang finish and then i've got a

a couple of more entries from the other commissioners, and then I will open up public comments. So if you have any more questions.

Yes, I do.

If they're directly related to answers from the applicant, can you hold those until the applicant's made his presentation? Because I will reopen the comment period and questions from the commissioners. So you can have another bite of the apple in a few minutes.

Okay. Let me see. Okay, I'll wait for the applicants to do a presentation.

Commissioner Simons, you have the floor.

Chair, I will hold because I think some of my questions will be answered.

That's fine. Commissioner Barron, if they would interface with the applicant, that's good. If they're specifically for staff, then we can do it right now.

I just saw in two places that it says that the site will be inspected before and after operation, but it doesn't say by whom.

Which condition have approval?

In page three, it says the site would be inspected before and after the service each day. And there's another document at the end of the packet that says it will be inspected, but it doesn't say by whom.

Okay. We can certainly clarify that.

Okay, thanks.

all right let me open public comments and we'll start with the applicant and then we'll go from there yes we come to the microphone there's a switch somewhere to turn it on there we go the name in your organization

Okay, so my name is Julio de la Cruz. I'm the owner of Santa Cruz Recycling, Inc. And regarding any questions that Mr. Rana had first, can you repeat the question so I could clarify any point that you have for me?

Yeah, this question... What about traffic congestion? Although it's been answered that the six spaces, but I think this is going to need more spaces because when the there is space required for processing before it is put into the truck. So it is going to take some more space as compared to what has been mentioned here, six spaces. So that is one question. And other is that in other cities, if the similar facilities are there. Is this proposal anywhere different than what is happening in Salinas, Monterey, Santa Cruz?

Yeah, so about the space, we've been working with something similar in Santa Cruz. We have the same amount of parking spaces there and we've been working really good. We don't need more space to process and whatever space is needed is just for people. They use our regular parking space. Like if they were, they would go to buy something inside of Walmart. That's a parking space that is already being used. And we go there, we help people to, it's a very quick operation. They just arrive, they dump their whatever small bag they have in a bucket. We just weigh it and we pay it. It's a one minute transaction or operation thing. And about the facilities open in Salinas, those are permanent. Those are not mobile. They are there six days a week or open from Mondays to Saturdays and over eight hours every day. You mean that there are no mobile facilities? There's there's no mobile facilities. Yeah. Actually, this mobile thing is something new that our cycle is trying to test out just to do something new with with recycling. So all the facilities that we have that I mean, not not us, but that car recycle has right now in this area is all permanent. There's no no mobile. The first mobile one is the one that we are operating in Santa Cruz.

Yeah, so my question was not your facilities. If somebody else is also.

No, our facility is going to be mobile. The ones that are in Salinas, they're not ours. They're just not the same thing as we are.

So then this would be your second site or mobile facility. You have an operating site on some days.

On Costco in Santa Cruz.

Costco in Santa Cruz that operates how many days?

We operate two days as well. It's Sundays and Mondays. The same hours on Sundays we operate from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays from 7 to 3 p.m. It would be the same thing here. Just instead of those two days, it would be Friday and Saturday.

So this is... How long have you been operating in Santa Cruz?

This is our first month operating. It's a new thing, but it's a month.

Okay. So this facility is almost similar to what you're already doing in Santa Cruz. And it also includes the signage and everything.

Yeah, it would be exactly the same. Exactly the same. Same truck, same canopy, same signage, basically the same thing. Don't leave. I'll stay.

Commissioner Barron, you had questions? Oh, okay. Let me turn you off. Commissioner Simon has been waiting.

Talks about you cleaning up the site during business hours while you're there for spills, technically. I'm familiar with recycling sites like this used to take a lot for a job that I had in Seaside, which I don't know if they're temporary or not. I believe they rent six days a week there, but I do know that their truck and everything would leave at the end of the day and the lot would be empty at the end. So it's a similar, maybe more days, but similar type operation. I witnessed a lot of spillage there. So how is it that you guys go about cleaning up the parking lot with there's there's going to be spillage and it's going to be a sticky mess, whether if it's sodas or beer or anything else. I mean, water is not a I don't think it's a big problem, but everything else is. So how would you how do you facilitate cleaning that up?

So how we're working right now in Santa Cruz is that us, the two guys that are working, we go and we personally help the person that arrives to recycle. We have containers to dump any type of beverage that the bottles or cans could have inside. and in case something drops to the floor we have uh spill kits like industrial spill kits they will remove like the the whole the whole stain from the from the ground we tried it before and it really works actually in my personal experience in the past i used to work on one of these uh permanent things and you're right the the floor is always sticky it's it's a mess and we noticed that that uh The difference between a mobile and a permanent thing is in terms of maintaining the area clean, it's way different. So whatever happens and if something spills, we'll clean it at the moment.

Also, at the other sites that I've visited, you mentioned that a vehicle will drive in and you'll help them unload it and it's usually not much, but I've noticed or witnessed the. Large loads, I know that there's a weight maximum that a person can get in a day. I believe it's somewhere like a 100 pounds or it's a weird number on that. So, when that vehicle pulls in, which I can certainly foresee. How's that going to be handled? I mean, you're going to have somebody that might have 100 pounds of glass, 100 pounds of plastic. I don't know what else. How is that going to be handled?

So how this works is when we see like big loads, it's something not too usual. It does happen. But the average is around, I would say, five pounds of each thing. It's a very quick thing. So whenever this happens. or the first thing that we ask to people is to bring their material pre-sorted so we don't have them like a lot of time in the parking lot sorting their stuff so people usually just brings their their bags or whatever they have on their truck we have like huge sacks we just uh instead of taking in some some 32 gallon buckets we just take a big bag and uh we it's it's something It's really quick. Yeah. So having people, making people bring their material pre-sorted is going to make this, it makes it just very quick. So for big loads, it's exactly the same thing. Just instead of them pouring their stuff in our small containers, we just fill up like a complete bag. The bag is tight. It just, we weigh it and we place it right to the truck.

That's all I have for him. Thank you.

And also Commissioner Chang, right?

Thank you, Chang. Well, thank you for coming here and presenting. And based on your experience, how many customers and vehicles are expected per day, per hour?

Per hour? Yeah. I would say 10 per hour, less than 10. So we, right now at the Santa Cruz facility that we have, it's one client every, I would say every 20 minutes. We take them out in less than two minutes. So the parking lots are, most of the time they are empty.

Okay. Because according to your report, it takes only a few minutes to do it, right?

Yeah, it will take only a couple minutes to do the whole operation.

And your operation now is starting from 7 a.m. in the morning, correct?

Yeah, that's what we requested.

And according to your experience, I mean, would that create any noise with the glass container, them moving around?

It would be, no, the noise is not too loud. Okay.

More noise from loading your trunk with your groceries.

I'm not sure about that.

Yeah, I could say like traffic would do more noise than whatever noise we could do.

But you do have a kind of stormwater protection measurements ready, right? In case anything, what would you do?

Like we said, we don't let people to dump anything like in the ground. We don't spill anything like on any, how do you call this? like the drainage we every every like any liquid that we have at the end of the day after day we take it with us all right do you have any kind of uh preparation for washing in case if everything is spilled on the parking lot yeah like like i mentioned that we have a spill kit

Because the state parking space is away from Walmart. You know, there's no water supply in that area. So how are they going to do it?

Oh, so what we expect as a, you know, when somebody spills something, we're talking about this of a bottle. It's never like a lot of, you know, liquid. It's always just a very little amount when something spills. If it happens, it doesn't happen. Okay.

So earlier I asked about the cash management, you know, for safety precautions. I believe you must have already had some measurements to prevent any.

So the first thing is that with cash, the transactions are very small transactions. People takes around, the average is around $10. So it's not a very big amount of cash where we manage. We've never had any trouble handling cash. but we're open to do you know something different in the future if we have any any problem with with cash we've never never had any not even on the the this a new mobile thing or in the past and the permanent ones that i used to work we also handled cash there it's a business that has like over 15 years running and they never had any any trouble with cash okay

So the last one is, would you have any problem with one year administrative review after the operation?

If that's something that you guys would like to add, I mean, we don't have a problem to do a one year administrative review. We can definitely work with that.

Thank you.

Of course. Any other questions? Okay.

Commissioner Barron.

Yeah, I just want to say I looked online and it seems that people in Santa Cruz are very happy about this recycling, mobile recycling in Costco. So we can maybe rely on their feedback.

To be honest, people are just in love with this new way to redeem the CRV. For example, in Santa Cruz, it's been like 10 years since the last CRV facility closed. So they didn't have where to redeem their material. They were getting charged at the store, and they didn't have a place to take back their beverage containers so they could get their money back. So now that we are there, it's just more organized, more clean, and it's something that people are really loving. So I have good expectations here too. I think people are going to like it too.

Thank you. Thank you. Let me continue the open session from the floor. Please come up and I think it's still on.

I believe so. So I'm Ana Lu. I'm Ana Luz Acevedo Cabrera, and I really support this. I do think it's going to be good for our community. I would actually go as far as asking if there's a possibility of having this at other locations, such as, I'm thinking Target is a good spot as well in the future. And if there's any considerations down the line, if this proof of concept works out for our community, if there's a consideration for something more long-term down the line. TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. NEW SPEAKER THANK YOU.

ANY OTHER? OKAY. LET ME CLOSE PUBLIC ANYONE ONLINE?

NEW SPEAKER NO ONE? NEW SPEAKER NO ONE ONLINE HAS RAISED HER HAND CHAIR.

Okay. And at this time we will close public comments and reopen commissioner comments and questions.

I had something to say.

I just want to say, and I honestly don't think this is really going to be an issue, but the after business hours, Walmart is responsible for the cleanup, as I understand this proposal. Walmart becomes the responsible party for cleanup. Is that correct?

That is correct. They would be responsible as the property owner.

Okay. So do we know how that's going to be monitored?

I mean, it could be complaint driven or we could have, you know, staff go by periodically. I mean, there's different ways to do that.

And again, I really wouldn't anticipate that it would be much of an issue. I don't understand why people would collect their recyclables just to drop them off in a parking lot and drive away. Right. But it's just something I was. Okay.

Okay. Thank you, Commissioner Summons.

I don't think I didn't say something Commissioner Rana you're like can we have a condition of approval a time-bound review of the process in terms of traffic congestion cleanliness and spillovers that after about a year we review and if everything is working out well then we continue

Yeah, I think Commissioner Chang and the applicant agreed to it that a year after if we get approval tonight, the applicant gets approval tonight, then we would do an administrative review of the permit. So that seems like an appropriate condition.

Thank you.

I would suggest that if we have formal complaints that they be entered into a file. are this permit and so when does will this permit review uh re renew uh well as long as they're operational it'll remain but it sounds like the commission wants staff to do a review after a year which is that's appropriate okay and i think uh Any formal complaints would be included in that review.

Absolutely. And then if a business becomes a major issue, we're not going to wait a year to follow up. That will initiate code enforcement, and that's something that we do on a regular basis. Okay. All right. so can you add another condition that will initiate this or codify the review request yes i've tried uh i just put up on the screen so uh so i think the request is uh phil is recommending adding conditional approval 15 about ensuring recyclables or waste are not dumped on the premise um there was a request to remove a verbiage from condition of approval 10 because it references a cup which there is no cup for this project and then condition of approval 16 would be the one-year administrative review the commission is asking for okay and confirm that you have modified

condition of approval number 12 to be no longer required or something to that effect. The signage as proposed by the permit application photos of the trucks and the canopy tent are adequate for our signage and we do not need a separate signage permit.

so the modified condition of approval 12 uh the signage shall be installed and maintained in conformance with the pictures shown okay so we're talking about two permits now one for the coastal zone and the other for the marina zoning uh phil if you want to elaborate on the cdp

It's three permits. One is the coastal development permit, one is the zoning permit, and one is the sign permit.

No, the signage permit doesn't, we don't need to issue a signage permit. Why? Okay. This is certainly not a permanent installation. And it's the signs that leave twice a week and arrive twice a week and hook to the truck or the tent. So it's not like a permit is needed for that type of operation.

Yeah. If that's the planning commission's desire to modify the project description that way and consider it exempt, I think the result would be the same approval.

Okay, so I propose that the signage as proposed by the applicant is sufficient and to be exempt from the sign permit.

We understand the direction of the commission.

Another question.

Thank you, Chair. Phil, could you clarify again on condition 12? The signs, you say they are not parallel to the designated as part of the face of the canopy. And then in the report saying that it's parallel. So which one is correct?

The report

was correct that not should have been struck but we're removing and replacing that condition so it no longer would okay that's good okay and also i just want to reinstate that one year review i think is good for both parties since um one of the uh the lady brought out maybe consider target another place so your performance is good then of course your chances will be good all right thank you

Okay, so we have no further questions. Can we have a motion? The Commission?

Okay, make a motion. I move to adopt PC resolution 2026-09, approving a coastal development permit, zoning permit amendment, and sign permit to allow a mobile California redemption value recycling facility to operate within the existing parking lot of the Marine Atlantic Shopping Center, subject to attached findings. Condition of approval and categorical exemption from CEQA pursuant to CEQA guidelines section 15301, 15304 and 15311. Condition one, remove verbiage from CUP from COA number 10. Two, remove COA number 12 and replace with a revised COA 12. The signage shall be installed and maintained in substantial performance to the photo attached to the resolution. Three, potential edit condition number 15. During both business and non-business hours, the property owner shall be responsible for ensuring that recyclables or waste are not dumped on the premises, such as to create a public nuisance as defined by Manila Municipal Code Section 8.70.050. and for COA 16, one-year administrative review of the permit.

I second.

Sounds good. Commissioner Baird? Yes. Commissioner Rana?

Yes.

Chair St. John? Yes. Commissioner Chang?

Yes.

Commissioner Simmons?

Yes. Motion passes. Okay, thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay. All right. I don't think we have any other items for public hearing tonight. So item eight, informational items. I don't know if there's a trade committee update.

um the tree committee that's for you chair you're the rep for the tree committee so that's not for staff the commission had asked that you whoever's on the tree committee give an update if there is none then you just say there is none so okay let me there is one update and i'm not ready to the

propose a date of a site review for Seahaven phase maybe 5B for removal of a large quantum of trees? What is the date of that?

Yes, on, let me double check.

It's the year. It's August the year.

I think it's August 31st. One second while I pull up the correct date. On Monday, August 31st at 5.30 p.m., the city is tentatively planning to have a site visit at the Seahaven Phase 5B development to review their proposed tree removal application. which is approximately removal of approximately 380 trees for the last phase of the Seahaven development. There is a website on our active development projects website that includes the arborist report and some additional information on the project. After that site visit, the city has tentatively scheduled that to be considered by the tree committee at a special meeting on September 28th. which is also Monday at 5.30 p.m. And once those agenda dates are confirmed, they'll be posted on our agenda center.

Guido, I will not be in attendance because I live too close to that Phase 5B development. And so I have to, uh, recuse myself, but in my absence, uh, commissioner Chang is my alternate. So is it, is it acceptable for my alternate to represent the planning commission for those meetings in my absence?

Yes, but Commissioner Chang is out of the country on August 30th, is that correct?

Correct, yes.

And you can recuse yourself from the vote, just so we're clear, but as a resident, if you want to come and listen, you can certainly do that. You just can't formally vote on the item. So if you recall, Council Member McCarthy had to recuse himself from the short-term rental item, but he still came to all the Planning Commission meetings. And then when it went to Council, he stepped down from the dais, said, I'm not speaking as a Council Member. I'm here as a concerned citizen. And then he voiced his opinion about the matter. So you have that right as well.

Okay.

All right.

So I will attend the site visit and recuse from any voting or participation other than a private citizen.

That's correct. Okay.

Right. That's it for tree committee update. CSUMB master plan update.

Good evening chair and commissioners. My name is Matthew McClooney and I'm the director of campus planning and development at California State University Monterey Bay. Thank you so much for having us tonight. My colleagues and I are happy to be here this evening at your request to share more information about the university's campus master plan following our presence here two months ago with our stadium EIR discussion. Our University Master Plan is our high-level strategy for physical development of the university's facilities and properties. Joining me in this presentation are several close colleagues that I'd like to introduce briefly and then they'll speak in a moment. Isabel Meza, our Director of Government Relations and Strategic Engagement. and Ilse Lopez-Narvaez, our campus planner. And now with us tonight is Stacey Hadland, associate director of campus planning, and our newest hire, Ali Shukair, our senior campus planner that makes up our campus planning team at the university. We have a presentation for you tonight, and I have a few comments I'd like to read to you to provide some context and overview of our university master plan. So next slide, please. We'd like to begin by sharing some basic facts about CSUMB that you may know. The university is 32 years old and was founded to fill a critical employment and community gap left by the closure of the former Fort Ord Army Base. The campus community spans approximately 1,400 acres and is a mixture of areas previously developed by the Army as well as wild oak woodland. CSUMB has developed a strong reputation for serving the region and particularly for providing an affordable and accessible education. Over half of CSUMB students are first generation in their families to attend college. The student population also reflects the local area demographics as a proudly Hispanic serving institution. As of last fall, 2025, CSUMB had a head count enrollment of 8,233 students. We will not have final numbers for this fall until October, until after students add, drop courses or enrollment and we have a final census count. We are confident that our recent enrollment gains are holding and that the new numbers will reflect last year's. Over 4,000 of our students will be living on campus this semester. which makes CSUNB a uniquely residential university among the California State University System. We recognize the challenges that come with finding affordable housing in this area, and we have focused attention and resources over the last few years to match our enrollment growth with student housing options. Our highest enrollment programs for our academics include psychology, business administration, and marine science. Two years ago, we started our first ever engineering program called Mechatronics. And last spring, we formally named our Montage Health Helen Pazuki School of Nursing and are currently developing additional nursing programs. Our most recent exciting news is the start of our interim president, Dr. Carlos Vargas, that you can see a picture of here on the screen. President Vargas comes to us from Southeast Missouri State University and has several decades of experience in higher education. This information is a snapshot of the context that informs how we have built a vision for the future in our campus master plan. Next slide. This slide shows the master plan development through a bird's eye view of the primary 640 acres of what we call our main campus. The campus boundaries outlined in a light red line that you can see that separates most of the green and the gray. The white shapes on the screen are the existing buildings on the campus, and the yellow are the proposed new buildings. As one of the 22 CSU system campuses, Cal State Monterey Bay acts on behalf of the Board of Trustees to manage the facilities and property as a state entity. This means that our University Campus Master Plan has the responsibility to develop its own land use plans, These plans take on similar elements to a city's general plan, such as addressing housing needs, transportation, energy and utilities, among other needs. CCRMB has two prior master plans in 1998 and 2004 slash seven. We had a slight revision. Campus master plans are often started under new administrations. either or when enrollment goals are reached or there are significant shifts in development strategies. This most recent plan update started back in 2015, just two years after former President Eduardo Ochoa arrived at CSUMB. Several public forums were held with design charrette activities to gather input from the campus community. And our team sat down with local jurisdictions to ensure campus development complemented local development plans. The plan was approved in 2022 by the CSU Board of Trustees. There are a few basic summary facts from the plan that help convey its vision and direction. Enrollment is expected to grow. The plan outlines facilities needed to accommodate sustainable enrollment growth and allows us to serve the region and the state. A goal of providing housing to 60% of students is carried forward from our previous master plan. We also intentionally focused development in an urban pattern to infill and remove blight leftover from the Army facilities. The plan also reduces conflict points between pedestrians and cross-campus regional traffic and preserves open space from near-term development. During the preparation of this plan and since its adoption in 2022, several facilities have come online. And that has begun to make this plan a reality. In 2019, we opened a 50,000 square foot academic building for the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. In 2021, we opened the Otter Student Union, which has become the heartbeat of campus and host to campus tours and many internal and external community events. The campus master plan is a guide for every new project. We consult the strategy first before we embark on specific planning and design processes. That said, the master plan can change and adapt as needed by adopting revisions approved by our system chancellor's office. Each major capital project follows the CSU project review and approval processes, which include our System Chancellor's Office, the Office of Fire Safety, State Fire Marshal, and to a limited degree, the Division of State Architect. The campus self-permits most minor capital and deferred maintenance work. I'm now going to let our campus planner, Ilse Lopez Narvaez, explain more about projects we're working on now.

Thank you, Matt, and good evening, Commissioners. CSUMB is currently working on a few development projects on campus. Sorry, next slide please. First, we have the Edward Taylor Science and Engineering Building, a project that is supported through key philanthropic support as well as federal and state funding. The project will include state-of-the-art learning, teaching, and research facilities for marine science and megatronics engineering. This project will include approximately 4,400 assignable square feet of space developed in partnership with the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. By co-locating the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary offices on campus, we strengthen opportunities for partnership and collaboration. The Edward Taylor Science and Engineering Building is currently under construction and is scheduled to be completed by fall 2027. Next we have the renovation of Gavilan Hall. Located on the northeast end of campus, the former 47,000 square foot building has been remodeled from office spaces into a residence hall that accommodates up to 200 students. Students shared thoughts during the design phase of the project on what they wanted for modern residential space. The renovation includes upgrades to plumbing, heating, and ventilation systems, as well as the creation of pods that include two bedroom spaces, a bathroom, and a common living room for each suite. Student living spaces will be ready for moving next week. Lastly, we have the Stadium Environmental Impact Report Expanded Use Project. The proposed project includes two components at the existing CSUMB Stadium. First, it's the expansion of existing programming at the CSUMB Stadium by Cal State Monterey Bay and the Monterey Bay Football Club. And two, the construction and operation of two new locker rooms and shower facilities. two new permanent restroom facilities, and a gate event storage and staging area just north of the stadium. The project is currently responding to public comments and is expected to go for final approval at the Board of Trustees meeting in September. In addition to current development, the campus also continues to invest in deferred maintenance projects across campus. These projects focus on maintaining and extending the life of our existing facilities and infrastructure, and work includes improvements to building systems, roofing, HVAC, electrical and plumbing infrastructure, accessibility, paving, and other site improvements. The campus has also invested in other projects around campus that you might see soon. This includes new gateway monument signs at major entrances. I'm going to pass this along now to Isabel Mesa-Cuellar, Director of Government Relations and Strategic Engagement, to talk about our ongoing community collaboration efforts.

Thank you, Elsie. Good afternoon. Next slide, sorry. There we go. CSUMB is simply not an institution located in the community. We are an active member of the community and are committed to creating shared opportunities throughout the region. Let me highlight a few examples of how CSUMB is building an impactful and meaningful partnerships across the Central Coast. Our partnership with Pebble Beach Company creates pathways for student success, professional development, mentorship, and career opportunities. We are especially grateful to have established the Pebble Beach Scholars Program at CSUMB, which offers a competitive, experience-rich pathway for students preparing for careers in hospitality and tourism. As you know, we also have a unique partnership with the Monterey Bay Football Club, which calls Cardinale Stadium on the CSUMB campus home. Having a professional soccer club on campus creates opportunities for our students while also contributing to the local economy, tourism, and the vibrancy of the Monterey Peninsula. And lastly, our $15 million partnership with Montauk Health that established the Montauk Health Helen Bazuki School of Nursing demonstrates what is possible when major community institutions come together around the shared commitment to improve health care and strengthen the well-being of our region. These are just a few examples of the partnership we have established. Ultimately, our goal is to ensure that CSUMB continues to be a good neighbor, a strong community partner, an institution that contributes to the vitality and future of the Central Coast. With that being said, I'll kick it back to Elsie to share more about our coming developments. Thank you.

Thank you, Isabel. Next slide, please. In addition to current development and ongoing community collaboration efforts, CSUMB is also working on future development projects, including the Robert Darwin Black Box Cabaret, the Greenhouse Complex and Teaching and Research Farm, the Nursing Program Simulation and Skills Lab, and a new academic building to support our growing portfolio of healthcare-related degrees. The Robert Darwin Black Box Cabaret is a donor-funded major renovation project that will transform a former venue, once used as a gathering space for arts and music during the early decades of the university, into a student-driven hub for arts, music, and campus life. The Black Box Cabaret closed in 2020 but has since received donations to reopen and refresh the space for students and community use. The project will require extensive renovations, including updates to the infrastructure, flooring, and audiovisual systems. The project is currently in its programming stage and will move into design within the next two months. It is anticipated to open in late 2028. The Greenhouse Complex and Teaching and Research Farm, that's a big one, is a major capital project that includes four greenhouses and a teaching and research farm on about seven acres on campus. The facility will support hands-on student learning, technological innovation, and regional crop research for students in the Agricultural Plant and Social Sciences program, the Megatronics Engineering program, and other areas of study related to ag technology. The research from this facility will center on sustainable irrigation, fertility, plant growth solutions, and regional Salinas Valley specialty crop innovations. A feasibility study has been completed and the greenhouse portion of the project will move into the design within the next two months. Fundraising continues for the full complex with gifts from Chipotle and the greenhouses are anticipated to be open in late 2028. As mentioned, the Montage Health Helen Buzuki School of Nursing will have a newly created simulation and skills lab as part of the 15 million gift from Montage Health, which is also supporting development of a pre-licensure program and a master's in nursing. The upgraded lab will feature high fidelity patient mannequins, virtual reality tools, and an interactive observation area. This new lab is currently in the design phase with construction scheduled for this winter. Lastly, we are also focusing on our next academic building, one that will serve the needs of our growing number of health related degree programs. A feasibility study has been completed to analyze three options, a small nursing-focused facility, a medium-sized hybrid model combining new construction and renovation, and a comprehensive large-scale facility to support all allied health and human services programming. Now I'd like to pass this back to Matt to discuss upcoming events happening on campus.

Thank you, Elsa and Isabel. Next slide, please. So we have several events coming up. It is the beginning of our academic year. It's a very exciting time on campus. We have student housing move-in starting next week, August 18th through 20th. It's going to be a very busy time around the campus. If you do not need to drive through the area, I'd suggest you not. We have a lot of families and their students and supporters coming to the campus, and we're really excited to welcome them. As I mentioned before, over 4,000 students will be living on campus, both on the main campus and our east campus housing area. So that's a very exciting time. Then again, that's next week, August 18th through 20th. The following week is our first week of class. So things are speeding up real quick here. We also have a few project launch events. that have, one of them has a date, the other does not have a date yet. These relate to some of the projects that Ilse was explaining. The first being the Robert Darwin Black Box Cabaret project launch on October 10th, and then the Greenhouse Complex project launch sometime in early November with an exact date to be determined. That October 10th date also happens to be on that third bullet point, our WRAPT weekend. If you're not familiar, we as at CSUMB, our mascot is the otters. And when otters group together, they raft up. A group of otters is called a raft. And so that word is used very commonly on campus. And that word has replaced our homecoming term for the homecoming weekend as we now call raft weekend. as a group of otters is coming together. And so that it will be October 8th through 11th. There's a lot of activities that happen over that weekend, such as our project launch for the Black Box Cabaret. There's also something dear to my heart, the Montes 5K event. It's now on its fourth year. We've made this now a campus tradition. I happen to be one of the co-organizers, so I'm giving it a plug here. But it's a community event, and we've raised close to $10,000 last year for student scholarships through this effort. and had over 500 participants. So we encourage you and your families and anyone you know to come out October 10th on RAF weekend for either the 5k or any of the other events. A couple other events or a couple of dates I want to share real quick and then we can pause and open it up for your questions. Open house for our prospective students is the week after that October 17th. So if you have any either high schoolers or really anyone of any age considering an education at CSUMB, we have the open house on the 17th of October for prospective students. So those are some of the exciting things that are coming up, but I think we've reached the point where we are happy to be here as a resource to help answer your questions.

Okay, thank you, Matt. And your staff, very enlightening presentation for us. Thank you. We'll put it up to Commissioner Chang would like to comment.

Thank you, Chair. Thank you for coming here to present the master plan, and I'm very excited to see CSUM be here. And I always look at Marina to be one of the university towns as well, and like Berkeley or Davis. And you mentioned you have 4,000 new students this year. Congratulations. And what is your capacity? How many new students can you

Yeah, so our recent focus on housing has tried to match our enrollment growth, and that 4,000 reflects close to our capacity. We just now in about five days are opening a new residence hall to make sure that we have plenty of capacity for our new students. We're adding about 200 more beds to our account. don't work in the housing office, so I can't tell you exactly right now what that number is for how many folks. We know over 4,000 have shared their intention to arrive this fall. As you might anticipate with things happening in people's lives and adding more classes, taking more classes off, that number changes over the next few months. So right now we are able to accommodate those who've asked for housing.

I've been very much involved with Unicity for 10 years. I understand throughout the United States, student housing is kind of a shortage. And most of the campus, I mean, Unicity here in California, I know, don't have enough houses down for the students. And you mentioned that you only have 60%. You have to meet 60% of the demand. So what happened to the 40%?

So that 60% is relatively very ambitious for any university campus. I believe I am correct in saying that we are the highest, or if not the highest, the second of all 22 campuses of the CSUs. Portionally of that number have students living on campus. So it's a reflection of our commitment that we want to continue that to be one of our goals, primary goals of our development, that we are maintaining that with our growth. Of course, with new enrollment and new classes, the new engineering program we just started, we have to match that with additional housing. So, so far, we are keeping up with that demand. We have met the demand so far this fall. And as we continue to grow in enrollment, we'll continue to grow the housing as well. I don't know if... The demand is there for 100%. And when I say that, I mean we have students that choose to commute in. We are, a lot of our students come from the three counties around us. And if folks grow up in Salinas, they may choose to commute from Salinas, for example, rather than living on the campus.

Do you think Marina City is able to meet that demand? the shortage and the city of marina able to help yes yes all the surrounding areas contribute um to that additional 40 percent and also i i know that you all now have nursing programs i think that's pretty good i think the uh because you know we shot up nurses and throughout the united states and uh now we have job aviation here so do you all plan to have aviation programs

I can't speak exactly to what the faculty and the mechatronics have longer term plan. Right now, they're only about a year and a half to two years new to the program. But I think that absolutely matches what I've heard as far as their mission to what's been explained to me is that mechatronics is that combination of electrical and mechanical engineering. And so if that's what, you know, Sounds like what Joby is doing as well. I think there's a natural connection there. Any FAA programs? Not that I'm aware of at this time.

Maybe it's good to have that and to support the Joby Aviations. The other question I had is, do you accept international students? We do. And what's the percentage you have?

I don't know that number off the top of my head. We can get to that answer. All over the world, but we can follow up with additional information about that. So you do issue I-20 for international students? I'm not familiar with the details around what sort of visas or others are involved with international students.

That's all right.

Thank you. Thank you.

Commissioner Barron. Thank you. I have a question. You might not have the numbers, but I'm just curious, do you have any open channel with Monterey Peninsula College that feeds into CSUMB? Do they have any preferential?

We have very close connections with all the community colleges around us, MPC, Hartnell, Very much so. Are you asking on as far as degree program connections?

Some kind of priorities for students that come from the area because of the issue of housing so they can go home and not look for very expensive housing in this area.

I'm personally not aware of their community colleges' plans for housing, but it has been a primary focus for us in making sure that we provide housing for our students.

The channel between if the university is a place where students from this area have any preference to get into a local university rather than going in search of universities out of town or out of the region.

So I believe the question relates to, is any of the CSUMB housing allotted for other institutions?

I'm really talking more about not just housing. If somebody goes to MPC with the intention and hope that they will be able to go to CSUMB because they have a family in the area so they don't have to look for housing, rather than looking for a university in San Diego where they have to pay for very expensive housing if they don't get into the dorms.

Yes, we have a really close relationship with Harnault and MPC, given that they're both in the county. So the majority of our students and actually a large portion of our students do come from Salinas and South Monterey County. So and we also know that housing is the issue that they stay here locally. I'm not sure the exact number and we can follow up with that.

Yeah, that would be interesting.

Thank you, Commissioner Renna.

Thank you, and thank you very much for a very enlightening presentation. I have some questions. Apart from the academic programs, do you have any centers of academic excellence in the university?

We do. And I'll be quite honest, as a representative in the facilities department, my focus is more on the buildings and properties. But we can absolutely provide you much more information after tonight with all those centers and all those academic programs. Do you have any in particular in mind? Any subject areas?

Say international studies or national politics, security studies.

We do have the Panetta Institute on the campus, and that has been a long tradition that we partnership with the Panetta Institute to do a lot of those. I recall when I first started about a decade ago, having a lot of officials from the administrations come to do regular talks on the campus through the Panetta Institute. Yeah, so those do exist on campus.

And the next question is that the main economic activity in this area is mainly related to hospitality, agro-based, aviation is coming now, even language is a focus. I do not see very many programs related because graduates, I mean, the students graduating from this program, I mean, from the university, if they have related degrees or qualifications to the economic activity of this area, I think that benefits.

Absolutely. And that's where CCNB is really focused on what are those largest opportunities employers and industries in the county, which really are hospitality, agriculture, and healthcare. And we've focused a lot of our recent development on those areas specifically. and our academic programs. So we heard about the Double Beach Scholars program, which directly relates to the hospitality aspect. We're also very well known for our sustainability and hospitality program. And then we mentioned a couple of projects that we have underway relating to the agricultural component. And then of course, healthcare and allied arts. So those largest employers and industries within the county are really forefront of the development plans for the university.

And lastly, do you have any networking with the other institutions in the area or in the region where faculty can come and deliver courses in your university and your university can teach in others? Any kind of network?

We again, we do the details of some of those academic programs we can follow up with. But absolutely, we know that we are not an island. We are a critical part of the higher ed scene here in Monterey County. And so our presence throughout the county relies on partnerships.

Thank you. So thank you.

Yeah.

Don't see any other Hands raised. Oh, whoop.

One more.

Another bite of your app.

I think Commissioner Rana mentions about tourism. It's one of the things that we have a lot of hotels here and provide internship to the students. So that could be one thing that the CSU can think about it. And just to clarify, also the courses that the student take in CSU is transferable within CSU, right?

You mean to other campuses throughout the state? Yes, other campuses. I want to say yes, but I want to be careful with that yes. As far as transferring, are you familiar with how that works as far as transferring to another campus?

From my understanding, and I guess I don't know too much about it either, but are you talking about from a student traveling from CSUMB to another institution?

Oh, CS. Of the CSU system? Yeah, within the CSU.

Within the CSU. I'm not too familiar about that, but I do know that...

They can take classes in other CSU and then be recognized by your CSU as well, your student. There's recently, I think the California State have...

For the most part, yes. I'm actually taking classes in San Jose State for an urban development program. So I know that those classes, I mean, if I wanted to use those credits in Monterey Bay, I could use them. But it all depends on what program I'm trying to transfer into. Monterey Bay doesn't have that program here. But if you wanted to use those kind of like transferable credits, for the most part, yes. Yeah.

I think it's a good selling point because, I mean, sorry, I take it as a business. You can recruit more students from other states to come over. And I don't see the growth in Marina City, you know, and they have more students here. Of course, you have to solve the housing problems. You know, that's another thing. As a facility person that you have, I believe our planning department has been supporting you guys pretty much. All right?

Yeah, we work very closely together. Yeah.

All right. Thank you.

I don't see any other requests.

So, Matt, we want to thank you and your staff. Oh, someone from the floor.

Yes, we do need public comment.

Thank you. Former civil engineer. I really like the site plans and all the master plans. So thank you for that. But now putting on my current professor hat, I am a professor at Hardin College and I teach business, physical science and engineering. And I do want to, you know, say that I'm very grateful for you guys having the mechatronics department. I oftentimes talk to my students about that being an option, especially with the discovery process of them, you know, not knowing whether they want to do electrical engineering or mechanical engineering. So I always think, you know, in those opportunities, I always tell them that this is an option for them. So I advocate that and I also present as an option for the ones that are interested in aeronautical engineering. This is something that oftentimes I mentioned, it's very similar and it prepares you for those fields. I did have one comment slash question, and this is coming from the fact that some of my students come from South County. And they start out at Harnell and then they transfer on to CSUMB. And so for some of these students, they might not be interested necessarily in some sort of housing option on campus for the whole time because they do have homes in the area. But one thing that does come up and that I know that it's been something that has been a concern is what about the possibility of having I want to call it a student hotel for the times that students do end up staying longer than they intended to, and it might not be safe for them to drive home if this is an option that could be offered potentially in the future. I know that during my time at Berkeley in the engineering department, being there for you can spend hours and hours studying and not realize the time that has already passed. And I know some of the students that were commuting, I grew up here, but I moved out there, but the ones that were living locally to Berkeley, they did have those challenges when they had to stay up really late. So I would ask, if that is currently in the plans and if not if they would consider that just because we do have those students coming from king city soledad um that are you know facing some of those challenges with commuting and i know i i've taught at the soledad campus as well and i've i know what what it means to deal with those commutes so um just wanted to mention that thank you thank you may i respond to that yeah please uh thank you very much for the comment um

That specific idea of a student hotel is not currently in the master plan. It's a very intriguing idea. So I'm definitely going to look into that and see if there's other examples of that elsewhere that we can glean from and learn from. But it does raise that important component of how we support our commuter students. And that is really also been a focus on the campus to provide those amenities that students need when they have hours in between classes to wait for another class. I think, you know, there's a lot of lessons learned from COVID, I think, in every industry. And that was a big one for, I think, all universities of how commuter students are supported online. when they're on the campus uh for do they how do they if they bring their food how do they warm it up how do they or do they have a safe and quiet place to study or even just take a nap those are the sort of elements that we are focused on supporting those commuter student populations as well and i think this is a very interesting idea so thank you

okay I think that'll wrap up the so before we so the commission in January or December will be looking at the draft general plan and there are several key policies in there about what the city can do long term to better integrate with the campus to become more of a app in town. I think that's the term community. And so please look for those and we'll be looking for input from the CSUMB staff to make sure that we're properly integrating in the general plan. And then there is the large parcel that the campus owns that's in Marina. And there are several policies about ways that the city can better interact with the campus to kind of use the energy of the students to help facilitate the city's economic development so yeah so we appreciate the campus staff for being here so thank you okay let's move on to the final informational item uh pc training update The commission got all of its training done. And to celebrate, we have pizza for the commission. So that's that announcement.

All right. Congratulations to all commissioners. You're now legal. And Guido, thank you very much for the pizza reward.

Commissioner Simmons bought for tonight. So I was going to offer it. He beat me to it.

Does anyone remember who was the next in line?

Sure. You guys decide that amongst yourselves. So our next meeting, we will not have a meeting in two weeks. We'll have a meeting September, I think that's the 10th. So. okay and as always you know we appreciate you guys being volunteers but if you are going to travel but still want to participate in a planning commission meeting uh we get the agenda out a week before the meeting usually the thursday prior at 1 pm so the earlier you tell us if you want to participate give us your address we can put it on the agenda. As long as we do that, you're allowed to participate. If you don't tell us, um, and we then you can't participate. So yeah. Okay.

Right. Commissioner Rada is the hospitality volunteer for September the 10th. Okay. And that, in the next last two items correspondence announcements and correspondence none our new city manager starting august 30th so that's the only announcement okay then we will go move on to adjournment 7 41 p.m okay