Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening.

On behalf of the commissioners and staff, I'd like to welcome you to the May 28th, 2026 City of Roseville Planning Commission meeting. We ask you to please put all electronic devices on silent at this time. Agendas are on the back counter. If you plan to speak at tonight's meeting, complete a blue speaker card and return it to a staff member such as this. As a reminder, Planning Commission meetings are broadcast live, replayed on Comcast 14, and available on the city's YouTube channel. I will now call the meeting to order. Lupe, may I please have a roll call? Yes.

Commissioner Hagler?

Here.

Commissioner Kriz is absent. Excused. Commissioner Meish?

Here.

Commissioner Pryor? Here. Commissioner Unidad?

Here.

Vice Chair Brashears is absent. Excused. And Chair Hagan-Jones?

Here. Lupe, please begin staff introductions. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge 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. Thank you. Now can you please introduce the staff? Thank you.

Good evening, Commissioners. Luthi Nelson, Recording Secretary.

Good evening, Commissioners. Joe Speaker, Assistant City Attorney.

Good evening, Commissioners. Lauren Hawker, Planning Manager.

Good evening, Chair Hagenos and Commissioners. Derek Ogden, Senior Planner. Good evening, Commissioners. Eric Singer, Associate Planner.

Good evening, Commissioners. Kenny Shalago, Associate Planner. Thank you. Thank you.

The public comment period is a time for anyone who'd like to address the Commission on any item not on tonight's agenda. When addressing the Commission, please state your name for the record. and limit your comment to three minutes. Is there anyone who would like to address the Commission on any item not on tonight's agenda? Hearing none, I will close the public comment period. Next, we have the consent calendar, which consists of routine items that may be approved under one motion as recommended in the staff reports. However, since each routine item requires a public hearing, each and every one may be considered separately upon request by the audience, the planning commission, or the staff. Action on the Consent Calendar shall be considered a public hearing. Tonight's Consent Calendar consists of one item, item 5.1, the minutes from the April 23rd, 2026 Planning Commission meeting. Is there anyone on the Commission or in the audience who'd like to pull this item off the Consent Calendar for discussion? Hearing none, may I have a motion to approve the Consent Calendar as listed?

I'll make a motion to approve. I second.

Commissioner Pryor has made the motion, and Commissioner Unidad has seconded the motion. Roll call, please.

Commissioner Meish? Yes. Commissioner Pryor?

Yes.

Commissioner Unidad? Yes. Commissioner Hagler? Yes. And Chair Hagan-Jost?

Yes. The motion is approved. Thank you. Next on the agenda is requests and presentations. Before we begin, I want to review the meeting procedures. We will hear the staff presentation, then I will take questions from the Commission, then I will open the public hearing, the applicant will make a presentation, then I will open the public comment, and the public will have an opportunity to speak. Then I will close the public comment. If needed, the applicant will be given an opportunity to provide a rebuttal, and then I will close the public hearing. The Commission may ask questions of staff. Finally, the Commission will consider this item and make a decision based on the information provided in the report from the staff and the testimony presented during tonight's hearing. Item 6.1 is a request to approve a conditional use permit for 5750 Baseline Road for the record file number PL25-0335. And, Mr. Speaker, I understand that we have an issue with this. Yes, that's correct.

So staff is requesting that we pull this item and continue it to the meeting of June 11th.

Okay.

And so there's a public hearing notice, and so pursuant to that, it's being continued to that meeting date just for anybody watching at home that they have notice of that particular date.

Can I inform the public of why this is happening or not?

You can.

Just so everybody understands, there are two members of the commission today that have to accuse themselves because of some potential conflict of interest with this. That leaves only three members able to hear this. That is not a quorum of the full commission, and so we have to pull this and bring it back in June. Okay, thank you. So let's move on to item 6.2. which is a request to approve an administrative permit for 161 South Lincoln Street for the record file number PL26-0173. Kinney, may we have your presentation, please?

Yes. Good evening. Again, my name is Kinney Shalago, here to present the Pleiss edition. So the project site is a .23-acre parcel located within the infill planning area at 161 South Lincoln Street. It is Zone 2 family residential, or R2, and has land use of low-density residential. The property is developed in an approximate 1,600-square-foot two-story home and a 380-square-foot detached garage, and it's surrounded by other single-family residences. The applicant is requesting an administrative permit to add an approximate 1,300 square foot two-story addition to the north side of the property in the area highlighted on this slide. The existing detached garage will be demolished and replaced with an attached garage as part of the addition. In 2024, the Planning Commission approved a similar sized addition for this property, but that administrative permit has since expired and was never constructed. The current addition will include a mudroom on the first floor and two new bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor. The addition meets the R2 development standards, including setbacks, height, and lot coverage, and the required two parking spaces will be provided in the attached garage as tandem spaces. There is also an existing driveway on the right side of the property that is long enough to provide additional parking outside of the front yard setback. The existing front and rear elevations are shown at the top of this slide, and the proposed elevations with the addition are shown on the bottom. The addition will raise the overall height by eight feet to an overall height of approximately 28 feet. This is in scale with other homes in the neighborhood, as several of them are also two-story, including the homes across the street and to the right of the property. The addition will use the same colors and materials of the existing home, which include a smooth stucco finish, painted beige, white wood trim, and gray comp shingle roofing. To visually tie in the addition with the existing roof line, two new dormer elements will be added on the roof to the front elevation. The nearest residence to the addition is the property located to the north at 159 South Lincoln Street. This property is developed with a single-story home and is set back approximately 12 feet from the shared property line and 17 feet from the proposed addition. As shown in the street view, there is existing mature landscaping on this property that will provide a visual buffer of the addition. The combination of landscaping and setbacks will minimize visual impacts. Early notification of the project was posted on the ARCONA website, and administrative permits are typically approved at staff level, but in this case, a public hearing was requested by Della Tubbs, owner of 159 South Lincoln Street. Ms. Tubbs believes the plans not accurately depict the property lines and the shared fence encroaches on her property, so she's requesting the hearing on the claims that finding number three cannot be met. That finding is listed on this slide for reference. All the information on record, including the assessor's map, demonstrates the property lines are drawn accurately and the proposed setbacks meet the standards. Ms. Tubbs has not provided any evidence proving otherwise. Ultimately, it would be a civil matter between the property owners to have a private land surveyor confirm the exact location of the property lines, as the City does not require a survey. As mentioned in the previous slides and evaluated in the staff report, the addition meets the zoning ordinance development standards and the mature landscaping and setbacks will reduce visual impacts. Notice of tonight's hearing was published in the Press Tribune, distributed to a 300-foot radius, and posted on the ARCONA website. In conclusion, staff finds the addition is compatible with the existing character of the property in the neighborhood. The project is consistent with the goals, policies, and standards of the zoning ordinance and general plan. and the required findings for approval can be made. At this time, staff recommends the Planning Commission adopt the three findings of fact and approve the administrative permit subject to four conditions of approval. That concludes our presentation. I'm available for any questions. Thank you.

Commissioners, are there any questions for staff at this time? I will now open the public hearing, and I would like to invite the project representative for this item to address the Commission.

Hi, my name is Jacob Pleiss. We agree with the findings of the Planning Commission and have nothing else to add.

Are there any questions for the project representative at this time?

Well, actually, I have one.

Go ahead.

What was the reason why the last permit expired? That is a great question. We scaled back the design, trying to make it smaller to save cost. We were ambitious with how large it was and just putting together the financing. So ultimately, it was the finance reason that we waited and have changed the design a little to scale things back. So you think? It'll be completed in this permit? Yes. Yes. Yes. We hope so. Yes. Yes. That's the plan. Okay. Thank you. Yeah.

Anything else? So now I will open the public comment period. Is there anyone from the public who would like to come forward and address the Commission on this item? I do have... You, Ms. Tubbs? Please.

Hi. I'm sorry. I'm not used to speaking in public, so... Okay. Take your time. I've lived here 30 years. I specifically was going through a divorce when I came here. So when I researched where I wanted to take my kids and live, I came to Roseville with the objective of finding a house to leave my kids because I was a single mom. And I've always been poor, always been struggling to make ends meet. I just turned 65, and I'm retired. And I thought this was over with. I thought maybe in his good grace, he decided that after all the conversations we had about this, that he would, you know, do somewhere else. He has alternatives. I have none. If you look at my property, that's the yard that we're talking about. You're talking about the greenery. I have an orange tree, and I have another plant. And everything's going to die, because when you're talking about the structure going up, The first thing is it's not going to look like the neighborhood. Like I said before, it's going to look like something from Granite Bay. It's not going to fit in. It's going to be an eyesore. And he tried to tell me it was going to raise the value of my home. No, it's not. No, it's not. It's going to devaluate because now I have no sunshine. We're talking five feet. There's no sunshine. My house sets just like his, rises in the back of the sun, sets in the front. There's an axis. So there's no sunshine. I get little sunshine as it is. If this happens, I get no sunshine in my bedrooms or my living room. No south facing sun. Nothing. It's gone. My privacy in my yard is gone. He changes it from a bedroom in the middle of it facing out to my yard into my windows. So now I have to cover my windows because Otherwise, I take a chance of him standing there because he puts not one window over the shower, but three windows in the bathroom. Looking down into my space. The fourth thing, the five feet. That's what I called about. Does my fence not count as my land? That's what I bought 16 years ago when I bought this house was that fence and the fence on the other side. And when I had it inspected, they told me, yeah, you're okay. You may be off in the front, a couple of feet going that way towards his house, not mine. You just said I had 12 feet or 13 feet. You're taking his measurements and they're off because it starts off and I left it alone. I'm not going to fight over two feet. But my fence in the front, because this was the same problem I had when they allowed him to start to put in the driveway that he put in the last time, it was two feet off of what is presumed to be my mark. They made him move it over three feet, so now it's five feet. So when you go back to the post where the fence starts, it veers. And it veers about three feet. So when I decided to do this tonight, to come in here and try one more time to get a little bit of something from you guys telling me that I'm cared about, I measured. My back is fine. The front's off a couple of feet. Going that way. I can't go the other way. There's buildings. I have two houses sitting on my driveway.

So when you look at that map, and if you really look at it, you see.

I'm going this way. So he starts off at 24 feet and some inches. He gives me five. That's 19 feet he has to work with. But as he goes back with the building, he gets closer to my fence, right around four, maybe four and a half feet by the time the building ends. Where's my five feet? And then I get told to go hire somebody to do an excavation to tell me why. Why do I have to do anything? Why? He should be doing it. Because I noticed on here the red lines is two feet over on my property. He lost two feet on the other side due to some shit he was doing on that side with the fence on the other neighbors. He lost two feet. He came to me and said, do you have any excavations for your property? I said, I just have the written one that the guy gave me. I couldn't afford. to pay for a real excavation and put it on file, I went with the fence. That's what I bought. The property in between those two fences. And now I'm being told, it doesn't matter. And then if you don't inspect it beforehand and stop him and say, no, take it back, because I know I'm going to lose. He's going to put the building up. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. I'm going to lose.

I'm going to lose my sunlight. I'm going to lose my privacy. And I'm just starting my retirement. So this is really weighing on me. Because I can't afford now to find an attorney. And I did. I've talked to them. And I will. I'll start playing the lotto. Because this is really upsetting me. I thought this was going to be a great place to live. So not only do I have to put up with four or five kids screaming in the backyard all the time, which is fine. I love children. But now I've got to put up with no light in my backyard. I have an orange tree. Sure, it'll get the morning, but I won't get any more midday or afternoon light. And that's not right. He has alternatives. He has plenty of property to do something else. I don't. I have nowhere to go. The back unit that was built on in the 60s has a little yard in the back. I have pecan trees surrounding the property. I thought this was going to be great. But since this guy moved in, it's been horrible. It has seriously been horrible. I get up one Sunday morning at 7, 7.30. He's out over the fence with his ladder, chopping at my bushes. Another time, I go out, and him and his buddy are putting up a fence finally across the front between my post and his house. And he's attaching it to the post but not putting any support anywhere all the way over 20 feet to his building. And I said, no, you'll stop right now. You have to dig up some holes and put some posts to support your fence. Otherwise you'll pull my fence over. It goes on and on. His kids throw rocks and shit over the fence. The mother's never around. She's inside. And if she is outside, she's doing this because I've had to look to see where the hell is their mother.

We're not here to hear.

You're here to hear my struggle with this.

And we have, we've heard this.

I guess we're done. And I'll have to get an attorney. Is anybody going to come out and inspect this before it starts? Does my fence count for anything? Does it?

Just for the record, in public comment, they're not allowed to comment. It's for you to provide, not comment. It's not a record.

I want an inspector out to look at where he's doing this. Because what he's telling you is bullshit. It's not what's there. And my fence should count. Because I know there's state laws that says, after five years, that fence is permanent. Am I wrong? Somebody, am I wrong? Fine, I'll sit down. Thank you.

Is there anyone else from the public that would like to come forward and speak? It's not okay. We'll now close the public comment period. Commissioners, are there any additional questions or comments for the applicant? Please.

I have a question. Not for the applicant, for Lauren. Lauren, is there any liability on the part of the city, any potential liability on the city's behalf if it turns out that the fence is not the property line?

Yeah, and I'm happy to jump in on that. So the answer to that would be no, because what's happening tonight is approval of a set of plans, right, which calls for a particular setback based on the property lines. There's obviously an allegation of dispute as to the property lines, which is entirely civil matter between the two. But at the end of the day, the plans are still set up based on a required setback from the property line, whatever that property line ends up being. And so it's not something that the approval would impact, because the property right that's being asserted is an entirely private one, which, to this point, unfortunately, there's the allegation, which I don't deny, but we have records that don't reflect what's being stated, and a survey would clarify that, but we don't have that survey. It hasn't been produced. So at this point, there's no information whatsoever that we have to contradict what we've seen on the maps. And again, the plans are based on the... the existing or the property lines, whatever they may end up being, the property lines. And ultimately, if there does end up being an issue with the property lines, that would impact perhaps the engineering and perhaps what availability there is in a setback, but it wouldn't change the approval from Planning Commission whether it's actually constructible at the end of the day, if that makes some sense.

Thank you. Can I get clarification on that? Yeah. So if, for example, there isn't sufficient width between the two houses and there isn't a sufficient setback, due to it being proven that the property line is closer to the applicant's property, does that not avoid the application?

The nearing would have to be redone to account for the property.

Yeah. So to be clear, the plans show five feet, right? What we are looking at tonight, what you would choose to approve or not, shows that the building edge is five feet from the property line. That is what you would be acting on. So if a surveyor went out and determined that actually the physical, where the line is on paper and where the line is on the ground are out of alignment, then they might have to redo their plans. They might have to have their architect go back and redo some engineering. Our documentation is it's five feet. That is what you would be acting on.

What is the minimum setback for the height of building that's proposed?

It's five feet is the setback for a single-family residence from the property line.

And the burden is on someone objecting to the application to come in with evidence of a survey that would show something different.

Correct. That doesn't make any sense. I'm not the one making the change. He is. Shouldn't he be burdened with bringing in proof that he can build there? Why do I have to pay out $5,000 when I'm not doing anything? I just want to retire. I want to garden in that yard, and now I can't. Just because he can't make a plan for the back of the house instead of up my fucking ass.

Ma'am, I'm going to ask you.

I'm leaving.

to offer any comments.

Then I will close the public hearing. Commissioners, are there any further questions? Is there anyone who would like to make a motion?

I move that we adopt three findings of fact and approve the administrative permit for 161 South Lincoln Street, file number PL26-0173, subject to four conditions of approval.

Is there a second? I'll second.

Commissioner Meish has made the motion, and Commissioner Hagler has seconded the motion. Roll call, please.

Yes. Commissioner Hagler?

Yes.

Commissioner Linadad? Yes. Commissioner Mayesh? Yes. Commissioner Pryor?

Yes.

Chair Hagan-Jones?

Yes. And I would like to offer some comments about my yes, if that's OK. I understand Ms. Tubbs' frustrations. But we have a fiduciary responsibility in the role that we have as commissioners, that responsibility is to the city. When someone comes in with an application that meets all of the requirements that are in effect, whether they be state, whether they be county, whether they be city requirements, and everything fits within that realm, We cannot just simply not approve a project because we don't like it. We need to recommend that this happens because based on the evidence that's before us, everything meets the regulations that are set forth on a project like this. I understand her frustration. These kinds of things happen in my own life. I enjoyed for about a decade a beautiful, beautiful tree that provided amazing shade and birds and all of that for our front of our property. The problem was it was on my neighbor's property. And when my neighbor decided, for whatever reason, to cut that tree down, our home changed. Our life changed. There's nothing I could do about it. This is part of who we are. It's what we do respect. All of us, as long as we're following what the laws are, are entitled to do, live, and make decisions for ourselves. And so I just wanted to explain that in terms of this vote. My heart goes out. I understand. the painfulness of this change, but the law directs us to approve this based upon the evidence that we have. I just wanted to explain. The motion is approved. There is a 10-day appeal period for this item. Thank you. Next on the agenda is commissioner and staff reports. Are there any reports from staff?

Yeah, so just to let you know, we currently don't have any items so far for June 25th. I'm not going to say that for certain at this point, but right now it's looking like we might not have a meeting. We will be having a meeting on June 11th, the telecommunications project that got continued to that date. And just to let you know what's gone on at City Council, there's an item that went straight to City Council because it was an abandonment. It was the Campo Street abandonment. I don't know if you're aware, but Roseville High School, Campo Street has sort of divided part of that campus for a long time. They finally went through the abandonment process at City Council, and so now it will be like a cohesive campus there. And then the ADU ordinance amendments that you all saw earlier on was adopted by Council on May 6th. So that will be in effect at the end of the month. And that's all I have for you. Thank you. Thank you.

Are there any questions or comments from the Commission? Design Review Committee? Not as far as I know. May I have a motion to adjourn? I'll make a motion to adjourn. Commissioner Mace has made the motion. Commissioner Pryor has seconded the motion. All in favor? Aye. We are adjourned.