Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Welcome to the meeting of the Thursday, 04/23/2026, Planning and Design Commission. The meeting is now called to order. Will the clerk please call the roll to establish a quorum?

Thank you, chair. Commissioners, please unmute. Commissioner Lee? Here. Commissioner Tao?

Here.

Commissioner Nybo?

Here.

Vice chair Kaden?

Here.

Commissioner Hernandez is absent. Commissioner Moses Reed? Here. Commissioner Gors?

Here.

Commissioner Ortiz? Here. Commissioner Blunt? Here. Commissioner Rischke? Is absent. Commissioner Thompson is absent. And chair Chase?

We have a quorum? Yes. Okay. Oh, here. Sorry.

Thank you. We have a quorum.

Alright. Before we begin, I'd like to announce that public hearing item four, an ordinance amending various provisions of title 17 of the Sacramento City Code relating to off street bicycle and vehicle parking requirements has been withdrawn from tonight's agenda. Those who wish to speak on remaining items, please turn in a speaker slip before the items begin. You'll have three minutes to speak once you are called on after the first speaker. You'll no longer be able to fill out a split. I should mention too, there's no future date set for the Item four agenda. Okay. We will now proceed with the land acknowledgment. Follow to the pledge of allegiance. Please stand.

To the original people of this land, the Nisenan people, the Southern Maidu Valley and Plains Miwok, Patwin Winton peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the native people came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather today in the active practice of acknowledgment and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous people's history, contributions, and lives. Thank you. Please remain standing for 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

All right. Alright. Before we proceed, I'd like to take a moment to introduce the newest member of our commission. Please join me in welcoming commissioner Jose Goras junior. We're very happy to have you on board, Commissioner. I look forward to working with you

on the Commission. Would you like to introduce yourself?

Hello, everyone. Good evening. Jose Goris Jr, known as Junior. I live in the District 88 in South Sacramento. Happy to be here transitioning over from Measure U. I'm excited about the work. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Gorse. We'll now proceed to the recognition of dedication and service for Commissioner Kendra Mascias Reed. Commissioner, on behalf of the entire Commission, I want to thank you for your dedicated service to the Planning and Design Commission for all you have done for our city. At this time, I'd love to open the floor to anyone who would love to share a few final thoughts. Vice chair, Caden.

Yeah. I just wanted to just thank you for your leadership for all of these years. I think particularly on the issue of housing, I think you've been an absolute leader on this commission. And genuinely, this is, I think, a more affordable city because of your service. And we're so all just so appreciative, I think, for your perspective. We're going to miss you, but looking forward to your next chapter.

Thank you, Vice Chair. I'd like to say I'm going to miss you, too. You have just been so valuable. I always look forward to your comments when it comes time for you to speak on an item. You just are so thorough in your analysis of a project and dig in and you bring valuable insight.

And it's going to be sorely missed here. So But as Vice Chair said, wish you good fortune in your future if it moves here. But thank you very much for your service. I'd like to present you with a certificate, if I may. All right. We'll now proceed to the well, actually I should ask, do you want to have anything to say, Commissioner? To put

you I on I've been serving for over seven years, so I actually do have a little bit to say. I will promise you all I will not take too long. I really quickly wanted to say thank you to a couple of people who I people who got for me to where I am today. Allison Joe and former council member Jay Cheniere who, originally point appointed me to this seat when it was the former District 5, and also council member Rick Jennings who represents District 7. I currently serve and represent District 7, and so I just wanna thank him for the opportunity to serve our district.

I I wanna thank the planning staff. I think we've can all agree that we have a really fantastic planning staff. You guys are awesome. The amount of work that you put in is just immeasurable. So I'm really excited to see, what we continue to do.

I'm still here in the city, I will still be around, watching you do the work, so I'm excited to see that. I really wanted to specifically call out Stacia Cosgrove and Greg Sandlin and Matt Hertel who used to be here, but he is still at the city. Matt Hertel actually used to be my mentor many moons ago. The three of you have sort of been mentors to myself. And the city, I think, would be lost without you.

So thank you. And, Stacia, thank you for sitting here with us and managing us through through COVID and, you know, just through everything. Commissioner Hernandez, she could not be here this evening. She's traveling for work. She's our most senior commissioner.

She's been on the commission for even longer than I have. And she I I just wanted to recognize her contributions serving as my vice chair when I was the chair of the commission during the COVID-nineteen pandemic. That was a very interesting time, I will say, and really, really difficult. But we got through it together, I think she did a great job. She also served she set the bar very high on what it meant to be a chair, and she served for two terms after that to transition us over back over to the dais. So, again, I just wanna recognize her for that as well. So thank you all very much.

Thank you for your comments. And again, thank you for your service as well. You did make a good tag team for sure. Anyway, moving on, we'll, we'll now move on to the director's report.

Thank you, chair. I have just one staffing update to share with the commission. If you hadn't heard, our community development director, Tom Pace, is retired as of last week. So as of this week, we're transitioning over to the leadership of our interim director, Matt Hertel, who will, go ahead and take over those reins while the recruitment occurs for a permanent replacement. And that's all I have. Thank you, chair.

Yeah. Thank you, Stacia. We'll now proceed to the approval of the count consent calendar. Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the consent calendar?

Thank you, chair. I have no speaker slips for this item.

Thank you. Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on the consent calendar? Seeing none, is there a motion and a second for approval of the consent calendar? Oh, I'm sorry. I missed the vice chair.

No. I was just gonna move the item.

Okay. We have a motion. Is there a second?

Second.

Motion and a second. Clerk, can you take the roll?

Thank you, chair. Commissioner Lee? Aye. Commissioner Tao?

Aye.

Commissioner Nybo?

Aye.

Vice chair Kaden? Aye. Commissioner Hernandez is absent. Commissioner Masas Reid. Aye. Commissioner Gors. Aye. Commissioner Ortiz. Aye. Commissioner Blunt. Aye. Commissioner Rischke. Aye. Commissioner Thompson is absent. And chair Chase.

Aye.

Thank you. The motion passes.

Yeah. Thank you. We'll now proceed with the public hearing calendar. Item two, raising canes at, Cosumnes River Boulevard. Before staff presents, I'd like to ask if any, ask the commission if there are any disclosures and or recusals.

Commissioner Caden, was that from before? No. Commissioner Goers.

Yes. Mr. Chair, item two, I'll be recusing myself before becoming a commissioner. I've had some conversations in the community and just for transparency and everything I'm going to retire to the anti rule.

You. Commissioner Marcias Reed.

Yes, chair. I had a conversation with the applicant's representative consistent with the staff report.

Commissioner Breschke.

I had a conversation with the applicant consistent with the staff report.

Commissioner Ortiz.

I too had a conversation with the applicant consistent with the staff report.

Commissioner Tull.

I've also had a conversation with the applicant in consistency with staff report.

And Commissioner Nybo.

Same.

And the same for myself. I also had a meeting with applicant. With that, let's proceed with the presentation.

Good evening, chair, members of the Planning and Design Commission. I am Danny Abbas and the planner for this item. It is a request to establish a raising canes drive thru restaurant at Cosumnes River Boulevard near Delta Shore Circle South, and the Delta Shores planned unit development. The PUD originally planned a retail pad at this location. Now proposed as a drive through restaurant, the project requires approval of a conditional use permit in addition to site plan and design review.

The site is immediately adjacent to a residential parcel at the south planned for 232 apartments and existing single unit dwellings at the east. Staff have heard directly from four homeowners immediately east of the site, including two who submitted letters and two others who spoke at community meetings. All expressed concern about late night operation and disturbance. The Delta Shores Community Association also submitted a letter with this concern. The applicants request a 03:30AM closing time.

The commission would need to approve any allowed drive through operating hours beyond 10PM. The 10PM regulation applies to drive thrus adjacent to residential uses or zones. In this case, there are private yards directly behind the required wall at the east and houses approximately 15 feet from the east property line. The intent of the standard is to protect nearby residences from late night noise nuisance, including noises generated from guests and their vehicles. Occasional excessive or erratic sound or vibration from car stereo volume and bass, engines, amplified exhaust pipes, horns, and etcetera can be unpleasant and disruptive to surrounding neighbors.

For these reasons and because of the close proximity of neighbors, staff recommend that an approval of the restaurant uphold the 10PM regulation of drive thru operation hours. That ends staff presentation. The applicant team would also like to make Afterward, both staff and the applicant could be available for any questions. Thank you.

Doesn't wish to speak?

Good evening, Chair Chase and members of the Planning and Design Commission. Ryan Hooper with Thatchen Hooper. Pleased to be here this evening to present the Raising Cane's restaurant at Delta Shores. With me tonight, I have Lou Aaron Foster with Raising Cane's, Kelly Agnor with Bison Permitting, Alex Jewell, noise engineer with Kimley Horn, Grace Siekman, project manager with Kimley Horn, and Leticia Ramirez from our office. It's very special to be here tonight to present this in part because our office was the original firm to handle the approvals of Delta Shores back in 2009.

It's been some time since then. There have been numerous subsequent entitlements. This project area was always represented envisioned as a regional commercial center with a mix of entertainment, restaurant, service, and hospitality uses. Because of its logical place next to I 5 and the six lane Cosumnes River Boulevard, four lane Delta Shore Circle, it's ideal for these types of uses. To put it in some context, the site for the proposed project not only it also includes the Arco Station next door.

Across the street to the north is called the North satellite site. That was specifically planned for auto oriented uses, including an existing twenty four hour operation for a Del Taco Bell, a seven Eleven, and a Chevron station. Those gas stations operate on a twenty four hour basis. The North site and the South site that we're part of were envisioned as auto oriented uses to serve the the greater region as well as the Delta Shores community. The project site has always been zone c two.

No rezone has occurred. This has always been c two. The proposed project is permitted by right with a use permit. The project site has been vacant since 2009 despite numerous proposals along the way to develop shop office built uses, pharmacy, and the like. None of them have taken root.

The site has sat vacant. It's it's had the struggles that a lot of projects have a lot of sites vacant sites have in the city with people dumping, trespassing, camping, etcetera. It's been a challenge to keep that clean, and this would provide a great deal of eyes and ears and activate that site dealing with a lot of those issues. The project itself is an acre and a quarter. It would provide similar to other Raising Cane's about 55 to 75 jobs.

The building's 25 2,800 square feet with indoor and outdoor dining opportunities. Raising Cane's is an ever increasing popular restaurant. The community the broader community is very excited to have this. In addition, the project is is designed to have dual service lanes, drive through lanes in order to ensure that customers are able to place their order and get their food and move on in a very expeditious manner. As with every project our office is involved with, community outreach is a critical piece of it.

We did some very targeted narrow outreach to the adjacent neighbors that were referenced by staff. We have had numerous, direct in person meetings with, with those folks three or four times. We have answered their questions. We have made significant changes, which I'll detail momentarily. We also met with the Delta Shores Community Association.

And in addition to that, we reached out to the broader Delta Shores and surrounding area. The issues that that came up were pretty focused on noise, light and hours of operation. I think it's important as we talk about this to address fact versus fear. I think that there's fact demonstrated in the environmental documents before you that show the project is indeed below the city standards for noise and light and all of that. But I do very much we understand the neighbors' concerns, and they're very legitimate.

And we're hopeful that all of the things that we have done to change make modifications to the project will help ameliorate those concerns. With respect to the specific modifications, after talking to the neighbors, we embarked on an internal effort to plan for a much denser and taller landscaping plan, particularly around the east and south property lines to mitigate the potential impacts to the neighbors. We've also incorporated into this project what's called automatic voice control. It's a component of the ordering board that automatically adjusts the sound in order to be below the ambient noise. With respect to landscaping and this this AVC, the automatic voice control, we determined through our supplemental noise analysis that was commissioned by Kimley Horn that it, in fact, had up to 12 and a half decibels less impact, 12 and a half half less decibels below the city's maximum standard.

I'm told by the noise analysis the engineers that that is a rather substantial decrease well below the standard. In addition, out of deference to the neighbors, trying to be respectful neighbors, we have eliminated speakers on the east side of the project so that there's no autumn there's no PA or any kind of speaker system on the east side. There's an existing eight foot masonry wall that was put in originally by the Delta Shores project because they knew that there was going to be residential abutting commercial uses here and wanted to make sure that there was adequate buffering between the uses. With respect to the lighting, the project meets the city's lighting ordinance. We have downward facing, downward shielding lights in addition to the landscape that further buffers any light concerns.

With respect to noise mitigation, we also are entering into a noise mitigation plan with the neighbors that does two things. One, it provides signage to the customers that says, please be respectful of the neighbors. Please roll up your window. Please turn down your music. I think to order anyway, you have to turn down, you know, the volume.

And to help just, you know granted it's voluntary, but kind of appealing to people's good side, we have that. But I think the more prominent feature of this noise mitigation plan is that we will provide the neighbors next door with direct contact and phone number and email for the store manager, and well as a process that identifies a process whereby the neighbors can provide a a comment to the manager of the store. The manager then has to deal with it, and then get back to the neighbors and let them know how their their concerns were were dealt with and resolved. Additionally, the project has agreed to do a traffic flow plan. Like a lot of the drive more auto oriented uses, we have worked with staff here to try and come up with a way through cones and other methods to help deal with any kind of additional stacking issues that might be creating conflicts as well as as queuing and spill back into the right of way should help mitigate any of those circumstances.

I think the primary issue here is the hours of operation. As indicated, we're fortunate to have staff support on this project. We're very happy about that. But I have to tell you that much like the last Raising Canes that came before you earlier this year, the the, the 10PM simply equates to a denial of the project. The project is not feasible.

They can't be competitive with their adjacent neighbors, whether it be the Taco Bell, whether it be raising or, Chick fil A, or primarily their their number one competitor in and out across the street, all open till 01:30 or later. As I mentioned to you last time, Raising Cane's was founded by somebody who was trying to fill a need, somebody who is working overnight hours, graveyard shifts, and realized there's no place to eat at those hours. And I think that, really, the society's caught up to that that that idea because of the number of sort of twenty four seven operations we have these days, whether they be health care related, other people that work in the the environment there that are seeking a place to eat. What I did talk to my client about ahead of this hearing was that the three thirty request is likely not to enjoy a lot of support. And what could we do in order to come up with maybe a sweet spot, a compromise on ours?

And so what we are willing to do, and I'm telling you this now officially is that, we would, raising canes would be, agreeable to the same hours that were approved for the, Natomas site, which was 1AM on weekdays, 01:30 on weekends. I think that is fair. It sets them up for success. The last thing anybody wants is to have this approved and get shuttered because they can't make it with all of their competition being open significantly later hours. It's a huge economic detriment to the project.

Sacrifice. It's not something they want to do, but it's something they understand they need to do in order to be a good neighbor here in particular. With respect to the project, as I mentioned, this area was designed for this type of lifestyle. Delta Shores is a regional commercial center with movie theaters open till midnight and 01:00 in the morning, twenty four hour gas stations, a multitude of other restaurants and drive throughs. It truly is a lifestyle center.

And this project is in keeping with that that type of inspiration. And I think we cannot put Raising Cane's at a competitive disadvantage to all of the adjacent drive through uses. It simply does not set them up for success. With respect to infill, it everybody says they want infill. We talk about that as a city.

We talk about that as a policy, and it's incredibly difficult to do. It's a lofty goal, but you end up in situations like we have here where you've got neighbors, you've got one little postage size, you know, remnant parcel and you can't fill it. There have been numerous proposals for this site over the year over the years, whether it be office or a a twenty four hour drive through pharmacy on the South satellite site. It's just it's it's tough to do infill. Here, have the long vacant property.

I think it provides the city with a great opportunity to pursue economic development of the site and activate the site. We understand and do not diminish the neighbors' concerns. What I'm here to tell you is we've taken it seriously. We've met with them multiple times. We've made rather significant and costly changes to the project in order to address those concerns.

From an objective standpoint, this project meets all the city standards. It better than beats them. We're significantly less below the city threshold on noise, which is the critical component here. And we urge you to approve the project consistent with staff's recommendation with the modification to the hours of 1AM weekdays, 01:30AM on weekends. That is my presentation. I have the whole team here to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you.

Thank you, Ryan. Before we go to commissioners, are there members of the public that wish to speak?

Thank you, chair. I have five speaker slips. Our first speaker is Gurpreet.

Good evening, members of City Council. My name is Kupreet. I live at 2011 Greville Barway, which sits directly behind the proposed Raising Cain development. I'm here tonight to formally oppose this project due to significant negative impact it will have on my home and my family, family's quality of life and our property value. While I understand the desire of bringing a new business to our city, this specific location is fundamentally incompatible with surrounding neighborhood.

I a high volume late night drive through creates major environment pollutants, Light pollution, high intensity parking lot lights, and digital menu board will shine directly into my backyard and and the window disrupting my sleep and my privacy. Noise pollution, the noise generated by the drive through, including car engines, loudspeaker, and the customer conversation will disrupt disturb the peace of trans quality of our neighborhood, especially during late hours. Particularly worry about the potential of loud music, disruptive behavior from customers, which will further exacerbate the noise pollution. I'm concerned about the potential order emanating from the restaurant, which could negatively impact our daily living. Cooking and garbage smell can be unpleasant and even harmful.

Additionally, I am in my research of 17 Raising Cane locations throughout Northern California spanning Bay Area, Central Valley, and Sacramento. I found striking apparent this is the only proposed location that would sit directly adjacent to the residential home. In every other instant, these restaurants are buffered by commercial zones, major intersection, large parking lots. Choosing to build here would be an unprecedented move that ignores the established standard of keeping high traffic, fast food separate from quiet residential living. A home is the largest residential investment most people ever entered this the home is the largest investment most people ever make.

Introducing a twenty four twenty four hour or even, until 01:00 or three 3AM, a restaurant, a late night commercial operation just fell from my property will decrease my property value too. Prospective homebuyers seeking a quiet and safety, they do not seek a backyard view of drive thru, drive thru lines at midnight. I urge you to carefully consider the negative impact of this proposed development on my property and the surrounding neighborhood. I believe there there is there is alternate relocation for this restaurant that would be a more suitable and less destructive for residents. Thank you for your time in protecting our neighborhood.

Thank you for your comment. Our next speaker is RJ.

Good evening, Clinton Commissioners. My name is RJ. Couple of things about this. I believe the developer stated that This meets the city standards. If it did, they wouldn't be asking for modification of time. So obviously a modification of time is because it doesn't comply with the current city standards. Second thing, it's allowed to have a decibel level of 55 decibels. If I was outside my house playing music at 55 decibels after 10PM, I would have the cops called on me. So why can't someone in my backyard have a dust bowl reading of greater than 55 or up to 55? Couple other things.

It was pointed out that there's a gas station, Taco Bell, and other drive throughs. Neither of those businesses are directly adjacent to the residential homes. They're all separate. They are you know, during the meeting, it was stated, hey. You have an In N Out here. Well, the In N Out's all the way over on the other side where there's no homes next to it. You can't compare yourself to an in and out when you're building next to our homes. And a couple of things is if if this is going to be approved, right, the biggest thing is it should not exceed 10PM. Again, if they're saying they're to build to the standard that's currently there, then why ask for a modification in time? The standard is there for a reason. It's to protect the neighborhood and protect the residents.

Thank you for your comment. Our next speaker is Stacy.

Good evening, planning and design, design commission. I strongly support Raising Cain and Delta Shore and at the this location, but I want to I want to the drive the the drive through to stay open until 01:30AM. Raising Cain will share a driveway off Kasuma River, a boulevard with twenty four hour a m p AM PM that is right next door. As you all know, Delta Shore is the next is next to the Interstate 5. The later hours make sense.

Delta Shore is a regional shopping area. The theater has showings that do not start until 09:30 and 10PM, and Walmart Walmart does not close until 11PM. I live in District 8 and know this area very well. We see the addition of Raising Cain as a benefit. Please approve with a 01:30AM drive through. Thank you, and thank you, planning staff, for your hard work.

Thank you for your comment. Our next speaker is Darlene. Good evening.

Before I begin my formal comments, I want to thank the planning staff for your hard work. Thank you. I strongly support this project, but I do have a question for staff. I represent the hundreds of residents who invested time, not time in hours, weeks, or months, but more than four decades into making 800 acres into what is now called Delta Shores. Delta Shores is a master planned community, planning that included the participation of dozens of neighborhoods that expand the entire city of Sacramento, not just District 7 And 8.

Tonight, I want to provide the commission context for four components before you. One, the homes located to the East. Two, the multi family housing behind services. The homes that border the commercial parcel on the East are there because the collective wisdom and feedback of city residents put residential housing there. The first major change to the original Delta Shores map moved multifamily housing off Kasumnes River Boulevard and behind commercial pads because residents did not want another MAC Road.

The commercial pads for convenience services were placed on Kasumnes River, a six lane boulevard instead. One of these pads is where Raising Canes is proposed. Next to a twenty four hour AMPM drive throughs at this location were planned. Residents also understood that single family housing lots would border both a commercial pad and multifamily housing that is south of this project. The number of lots bordering the commercial pads is significantly less than the number of lots bordering the multifamily housing, which has more considerable footprint because it includes more parking, a clubhouse with activities, a pool, and the increased use of, excuse me, municipal services such as trash removal, police, and fire.

The main menu board and speakers are adjacent to the multi family housing, not the homes. Doctor. Ernie Leer and the residents from Golf Course Terrace neighborhood whose homes are immediately adjacent to the Sacramento Executive Airport provided spirited oversight to the Delta Shores design to limit noise and lighting impacts. Thank you for your comment.

Your time is now up. Our next speaker is Raymond.

Evening, chair, people, and commission. I'm one of the residents involved in Delta Shores planning. I've attended over a dozen of the meetings across the five years of this project. And, I spoke at a lot of the entitlement hearings, including the final council session. Drive thrus have always been a plan for this design, and the residents like me rely on them, especially during the COVID flu season.

It's fully supported I fully support, excuse me, this application and staff recommendation except exceed except the proposal drive thru hours. I do have questions for the staff. What is the city's excessive what is their generic drive through regulations? Is it, the 1AM Monday through Thursday, 01:30 on the weekends? The four area commission on aging, Joyce Whitaker, advised drive thrus as, essential for this for seniors, residents with limited mobility and disabilities, and families, excessive families with small children, seniors, families, services, staff workers, and all eat past 10PM.

And as we said before, there is a twenty four hour AMPM next to the site to across the twenty four hour, the Commission, the River Commission, excuse me, I messed that up. Consumers River has go, must go past the Rising Raising Cane site closed at 10AM seems unreasonable given the neighborhood's business operation hours. This project is located on the 6 Lane Boulevard that connects into this, 5 Highway 99, the site less than 10 miles from the Interstate Of 5, so 10PM closure seems accessible, unreasonable. Only six houses border the property noises for six lane, concern Consumers River exceeds the standard. The staff report shows the application meets city nor standards all time.

So temporary enclosure is unwarranted at this time. We do feel that the raising canes would be a great addition to the Delta Shores project, being that they're gonna come and take some dirt and take it into a positive use for the community. So I would really like to have it brought aboard as one of the residents in the area. And I've worked on this for years, so let's get it done. Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your comment, Cherry. I have no more speaker slips.

Thank you, clerk. Are there, members of the commission that have any questions for staff, and or any of the speakers? Commissioner Ortiz.

Thank you. I guess my question of staff is, a couple questions. The applicant refers to the Nostromis site that we approved in which we allowed extended hours to 01:30, not to the three well, weekends, not to the three a. M. As requested. Was the Natomas site adjacent to housing?

It was adjacent to multi apartments. The commission at this time, at the time of the approval considered the fact that there was a significant setback, a great distance between where the apartments were actually located on property. So, yeah.

So I do recall that now. And it wasn't single family housing, was indeed multifamily. And it may not be a fair question, but can you share what the distance was of the multi family to the drive thru relative to these single family properties, look to

be

abutting immediately adjacent to the drive thru? And it may not be a fair question, or if you could need to research and get back, that would be helpful.

I should have saw that question come in. But from what I do recall, it was approximately I want to

say 200 feet at least, 200 feet away.

Of the multi family

Right.

Project versus this project? Correct. And this project

is Well, how

on the on the other side of the wall is private yard space. So immediately there's a private yard space and then the homes are about 15 feet from the property line.

So much closer, single family. So the other question I had, so the applicant referencing the other fast food drive throughs in that area. Are any of those immediately adjacent to single family housing?

No. The Taco Bell is adjacent to high density residential land that is not yet developed. So when high density like apartment complexes typically for high density residential development, there's parking spaces, there's landscaping, there's a drive aisle, there's probably a lot of times like parking spaces on both sides of the drive aisle, a walkway. And so there's a pretty significant difference in terms of the typical setbacks between a multi unit residential development and a single unit residential.

I do appreciate that. So the distinction here is you have single family versus multi family. It's much closer to the proposed drive through than the other projects, not only the one in Natomas, but certainly the ones in the adjacent area, this project. So, is a distinction. And I don't know that and I appreciate the community coming out and speaking in favor of it. I just don't get a sense of how many of those in favor of it that live right there in those single family housing units. And I don't know that's fair to ask you all because you don't know. But if indeed

staff has spoken to four of the five homeowners that well, there's there's really four that are completely that share a complete property line. And all staff has spoken with all four of them. So

And can you speak as to what all four of those immediately adjacent property owners, what their position is on this? Are they yeah.

All of them have concerns about the noise and the hours of operation.

Got it. All right. I appreciate that, because I do want to just make sure we understand that when we compare it to the Natomas site and or other immediately adjacent drive thrus, that there are some distinctions here. Because these are single family. They're immediately backed up to, as I recall, that sound wall. So there is a distinction here versus not only the Natomas, but the other immediately adjacent drive thru projects. So thank you for clarifying that.

Thank you, Commissioner. Are there any other Commissioners with questions? I do have one. Having designed many, many retail projects over my architectural career, The issues that are before us, light and sound are always top of the list of concerns. Light, know we have ordinances that prevent any spillage beyond the property line, if I'm not mistaken.

So I think from a light standpoint, just to let people know, light cannot go outside of the property here. My question though is related to sound and perhaps the applicant can address this. You know, what what for a lot of people don't know, what does a 55 decibel, rating mean? And what's low? What's high? If you mentioned the sound consultant was, noise consultant was there. I think if we could get a if I could get a perspective on that noise issue.

Good evening, Mr. Chairman, Commissioners. For the record, my name is Alex Jewell with Kimley Horn Consulting. Yes. So when you're measuring sound, you're measuring on a decibel scale.

It's a logarithmic scale. For perspective, a conversation of two people standing a few feet apart, that's typically referenced at about a 60 to a 65 decibel level. So that that gives you the the sort of comparison of that. Now when you're measuring sound, it it has for every doubling of distance that you're away from the noise source, you have a decrease in six five to six decibels. So in these particular cases, you know, the the concern is the drive thru, the noise there.

When we measure this, the sound, we're looking at the ambient noise levels. And so we did a twenty four hour noise reading for the site on the Eastern property line where the single family residences are. And so the ambient noise level at the project site is 55 decibels. And so when we look at that, we're looking at that, and we also look at the city's noise standard. And in all cases, for the project operations, the project would be below not only the city's noise ordinance limits, but also below the existing ambient noise level.

Okay. Yeah. Thank you very much for that clarification. Again, any other speakers? Commission? With that said, any any commissioners, anybody going to make a motion? Anyone? Commissioner Lee.

I just had a question for staff. So if we were to approve staff's recommendation, the drive through would cease operations at 10PM, but the lobby can still open past 10PM. Right?

Okay.

Yeah. Thank you for clarifying about the Natomas one because I actually I did support that that project knowing that there's a wide separation between the drive through and the multifamily. Obviously, this one, the Raising Canes would be right next door behind those backyards. Thanks to the community for everyone submitting letters and comments. Appreciate the feedback.

Don't have any other questions at this time. I yield my time. Thank you.

Thank you, commissioner. I think I'd like to call the applicant up. We we had the applicant was looking for a three 3AM closure. 10AM is 10PM is what's been kicked around. Could the applicant comment on what would be acceptable?

If it was necessary in order to get an approval of the project with hours of operation that is not a death sentence to the project, my client would be willing to agree to a midnight closing. That's significantly less than what we'd like. It's it it comes with a lot of pain, and it's a lot less than some of our adjacent competitors, albeit them, not next to residential. So that would be something that we would be willing to to entertain. Yep.

Thank you. Thank you very much. With that, any any motion?

If the applicant spoke, can we speak back up?

I'm sorry?

If the

applicant spoke, can we make a comment?

Yes. You can come up.

So as everyone keeps mentioning, the gas station is not next door. Nothing is next door. 17 locations, Northern California. Look them up on Google Maps. None of them next to a residential neighborhood. None of them. The other one, two hundred feet offset. So why is this one still 12:00 does not work if the city ordinance is saying 10PM? 10PM? That okay. That's something that could possibly work, but it should not be 12:00. 01:30, 12:00. People are drinking, going to get food, making noise. It doesn't work right next door to the house. If you're gonna try to say that you shouldn't have bought the house going there was a residential pad, at that residential pad, don't know what's gonna be there.

It could be a dentist's office. It could be like a a pizza twist right across the street. It doesn't have to be something that makes a lot of noise. You go to any Raising Kings at 2AM, I've been there before, it's loud. Even one it's loud. In N Out's loud at 01:00, but In N Out didn't decide to build right next to residential homes like they're trying to decide.

Commissioner Nureski.

I have a question for the for the well, first of all, thank you, yeah, to all the speakers who came out and shared into the applicant and and the staff. This has been really helpful to hear all this. But for the speakers who who live near the the site, are are you opposed to the project in general or opposed to the extending the hours?

So you're the residents as well. That's me. Right? So I'm just making sure. So the ten the time. As long as it's till 10PM.

As long as it's till ten? Okay. Yeah. I guess I I'm pretty uncomfortable with extending the hours past the city recommendation. This is very close to those homes, probably about 20 feet away.

And, this is a really difficult area for for pedestrians or or someone not using an automobile to get around, and I think this is moving even further in that direction. If you live in one of the houses that are only 20 feet away from this site, it would be a half a mile walk. I measured it on the map to there, which is kind of ridiculous if it's right in your backyard, but you have to walk all the way around because there isn't pedestrian connectivity in this area, which isn't the fault of raising canes. And, you know, they're they're going with what is in the area. I I can see that, but, you know, it's it's, like, further exacerbating that difficulty.

And then, you know, while they're providing a lot of jobs, it's not like someone from Sacramento is owning this. This is an out of state company. So while this is, like, hurting our pedestrian experience, it's just sending money out of state. And so so, yeah, I definitely wouldn't wanna extend the hours, and and I would rather we move away from this type of of development. And let's see.

There's also even for a car driver, you know, coming from one of those homes, if they wanted to drive their car here, it's, like, only a it looks like it's only a right in and right out. So it would be even longer than a half a mile. If you live, you know, just 20 feet, you could throw a baseball to this. You still couldn't drive there without going probably three quarters of a mile or more. So there's just a lot of lack of connectivity here, which again is not raising Kane's fault, but I think that adding a drive through is definitely exacerbating that. Thank you. That's all.

Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Lee?

Yeah. And I just want to add more to that as well. You know, Doctor. Shores, I think that that's a wonderful neighborhood into what, you know, what it is now. I grew up not too far from there. And, actually, I used to play in the in the fields before Delta Shores became Delta Shores as a kid. So, I mean, I know that area pretty well. I know that the neighborhood has also been experiencing issues with car meets, a lot of other late night activities as well. And I'm not sure that we wanna add more to it with with something like this. And, obviously, you know, we saw it in the comments here, and we it in the staff report.

You know, there is a lot of concerns about sleep quality. You know, I think we I think I mentioned it before in Thomas Raising Cane's project. You know, we really have to think about the kind of projects that we're approving here. You know, we got people, children who have school the next morning, parents who have to go to work, you know, ten p. M. Is, you know, bedtime. And so I think that we really need to take that into consideration here. And I have a question for staff. You know, when the applicant went into this, I mean, they understood that by default, there's a 10PM cutoff time for the drive through. Right? And they still went ahead with it.

Correct. Okay.

You know, with that, I'm gonna make a motion to, approve staff's recommendation.

Okay. We have a motion. We have, commissioner Kaden or vice chair Kaden.

Yeah. I'll second the motion.

We have a motion and a second. I think I'd like to offer a few comments just from my forty plus years of planning and architecture experience. I I think the the the items that the applicant has gone through in terms of the noise generation, putting that on the South Side, which is really, will to speak, would be and using the automated bottom volume control, I think, you know, is is a big plus here. Plus the fact that really on the West Side, there will be no noise generation on East Side, sorry, toward the houses there. Just a matter of, I guess, paying and picking up your food.

No speaker boxes needed. So with that, I think, again, any site is difficult. And there's no perfect site and perfect location for anything. But I think I do think this is a good solution to this site. So I would agree with the motion and the second. Any other comments on the motion and or the second? If not, clerk, can you take a vote?

Thank you, chair. Commissioners, please unmute. Commissioner Lee? Aye. Commissioner Tao?

Aye.

Commissioner Nybo?

Aye.

Vice chair Kaden?

Aye.

Commissioner Hernandez is absent. Commissioner Masasri? Aye. Commissioner Goras has been recused. Commissioner Ortiz? Aye. Commissioner Blunt? Aye. Commissioner Rischke? Aye. Commissioner Thompson is absent. And Chair Chase?

Aye.

Thank you. The motion passes. Alright.

Thank you. Okay. The next item in the public hearing is item three, the Backstage Cafe and Bar. Before staff presents, I'd like to ask commissioners if there's any disclosures and or recusals. Seeing none, let's have the staff presentation.

Thank you, chair, members of the commission. My name is Carlo Felix, senior planner with community development. I'm here on behalf of Michael Crampton who's not able to attend tonight's hearing. P25Dash019 is a request for a conditional use permit and site plan and design review to authorize alcohol sales at a new tap room and cafe located at 1812 D Street. The property is located within the C 4 zone and the central city SPD within the neighborhood with a mix of residential heavy commercial and industrial uses.

The applicant proposes to establish a tap room and cafe within an existing 2,600 square foot building currently being utilized as a recording studio. New awnings and roll of doors are proposed on the front elevation of the building and the front parking lot will be converted to an outdoor dining area with seating and landscaping. The site does not put excuse me. The site does not have potentially incompatible uses such as schools, parks, and childcare centers, but it does a button a multiunit residential property to the west. And staff has imposed conditions of approval to address potential noise issues.

Additionally, the police department has also reviewed the proposal as and has imposed conditions related to, reducing the potential for crime and say, safety issues. Staff recommends approval of the project based on consistency with the city's with city goals and policies, including those related to diverse mix of neighborhoods oriented commercial services. And as conditioned, it is compatible with the neighborhood and will not negatively impact surrounding properties. That concludes my presentation. And the applicant, Dave Herrera, is also available and would like to make some brief statements.

Thank you, Carlo. Would the applicant wish to speak?

Thank you for everything all of you do here on the commission. Really, really appreciate it and all your dedication here to the City Of Sacramento. I've been born and raised here in the City Of Sacramento. My my mother was born and raised in the City Of Sacramento. I spent a lot of time here in Downtown Midtown, so most of my life is dedicated here too. We've owned the building, my wife and I, at 1812 D Street since

2018.

We bought it from a local band who owned it for ten to twelve years, prior to that. It's been a recording studio since early two thousand. And over the last couple years, I mean, we make good use of it, but we thought we can make better use of it. We've had lots of neighbors stop by when I'm outside asking for us to activate the space, the parking lot since it's very quietly used when we come in and out of the building. So my wife and I sat back and we said, hey, what can we do here to really activate it and open it up to the public and allow people to know what we've been doing here over the last many years and how some of the local bands and national bands have recorded here and really just expose it to the public.

So we thought since it has an existing bar inside and a lounge and a recording area for the bands and people who visit, We can open it up and utilize the infrastructure inside, while converting the outdoor parking lot into a beer garden, into a cafe serving coffee, focusing on beer, and also serving wine. We have a brewery right now at 24th And Broadway. We are newer. But we find that there are a lot of people that don't drink alcohol, so we offer mocktails. We offer nonalcoholic beers here in Nevada, Trail Passes, Budweiser Zeroes, all sorts of other options when we have them available.

And we're going to do the same thing here. Right now, when we're talking about hours, we're we started our brewery out with Friday, Saturday, Sundays, and we're doing 04:30 to 08:30 on Fridays. We did twelve to 08:30 on Saturdays and twelve to 07:30 on Sundays, and we've scaled that back just a little bit to try to adapt to the neighborhood and the patrons that visit our brewery. So we would be doing the same thing here. We would be open and based on what type of response we get from the neighborhood, and we would we want to cater to those that ride bicycles from the bike trails.

We have a lot of people that visit our brewery that ride bikes, and we allow them to bring the bikes in and park them inside safe locations. And when if it gets too busy, then they obviously lock them up outside. But we're going do the same thing here. We're gonna cater to some of the bike clubs since it's right, like, two blocks literally from the end of the bike trail there. We're directly across the street from Blue Diamond, Almond. We stare at it. It's a twenty four hour manufacturing facility. Obviously, they're talking about selling it and doing other things. One side of us to the east is Kinesel's auto body with a large 22 foot concrete wall. On the west of us is a seven or eight unit multifamily apartment complex separated into two buildings.

To the south of us are two warehouses, a print shop and a it's an art studio. That building, I think, just sold recently, and they've converted to an art studio slash event space. But we really want to activate it and keep the theme on the inside of it as as going backstage. And we kind of incorporated that into our brewery, by having a stage, and, we wanna do that here. So you can come in. We have our drum set set up as they normally are. We have microphones. We have some equipment. And the way our studio is laid out is we have a glass main engineering room. And when you're sitting at the bar area, you can see into that area with the mixing boards and other things.

So we thought the experience would be different than what anybody else is doing in here in Sacramento. So we wanted to showcase some of the bands that have recorded there. We have a piano that a very famous song from a local musicians and bands have it was actually recorded with that piano. So we're going to highlight that. We're going to have some gold stars on the floors with other bands that are from Sacramento that have recorded there to show their successes and really incorporate and ingrain ourselves in with the city and the public.

I was concerned about some of the noise with the multifamily tenants next door. Reached out to Nate Cunningham who owns the building, the new project that he built a couple years ago in the corner 18th Street in D. And he said he has no problem with it. The the group right next door to us, I hadn't talked to him, but I heard that he might have some concerns with it. But we we haven't talked directly.

So we did do a sound analysis on the property where c four heavy industrial or zoning, I believe. But we did a sound analysis because we had concerns about sound and what can we do personally to help mitigate that. So if we have some outdoor music, we would face the speakers down and keep it at a decimal level that's comfortable, kind of like the Weatherstone Old Stool group has on 21st Street. I spend quite a bit of time there in their outdoor beer garden or their outdoor garden. I love the atmosphere.

I go there with my laptop and work, grab lunch or whatever. It's just a great atmosphere. So we want to have something similar to that. Here at 1812 D Street, we've also been asked to convert the driveway entrance into a curb area, and our thought was to put some bike racks out there and just to get more space for people that are either coming in, riding their bikes or if they have large strollers or something like that. But we just are trying to activate that building. It just sits there and it's not doing anything for the public. So we're just asking for your consideration on it. Thank you.

Could I ask you a quick question before you go too far? So there's going to be indoor bar area in addition to the patio, outside?

Yes. Correct.

Okay. Alright. Thank you. Any questions? Any miss members of the public?

Thank you, chair. Have no speaker slips for this item.

Okay. Thank you. Commissioner Blunt.

Yeah. I used to live in this area and one of the things that troubled me well, two things that troubled me was number one, it seemed like there kept being more residential, like multifamily that was popping up and no parking that was going along with those things. But I think that that's part of the deal with Midtown. Right? Like, if you're going to live in Midtown, then that's kind of what you're signing up for.

And it's moving more and more towards that. My other gripe that I had with that area at the time was that there wasn't these types of places. Right? There weren't there weren't a lot of places that you could just walk to and and, like, actually commune with your neighbors and and and share share a beer and get to know people. That it's a place where so much, awesome history happened, is and it's it was right down the street from me. It kinda makes me upset that I didn't get to, experience it at the time. I'm I'm I'm supportive of this, and I'm I'm making a motion to, pass it because I I think that this is, great, and I wanna see it happen.

Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner Ortiz, and so we we do have a, motion on the floor.

I don't wanna get Well, I guess my question was just, understanding, it is it fair to say that the outdoor area will be essentially fronting Democracy Alley? Because I'm I can't see the front of the building. So I'm assuming it will open into in that that little gated area will be the outdoors.

You you are correct. The building is set back quite a distance, so that area that's behind the gate, which is currently parking, will be the outdoor dining component.

Got it. And I and I agree, with commissioner Blunt that it is a pedestrian focused community, and the more we can have activities in the alleys is a good thing. And I believe you said that you were the owner of the project that we already approved next to the original pie company. Got it. So you'll brew there and then serve at this site. Okay. Thank you for that clarification. I'm happy to second the motion of my colleague. Thank you.

Thank you, commissioner. So we we have a motion and a second. Vice chair Caden.

I was gonna do one of those things, but we're good. I would just say, had a chance to check out your other establishment on twenty fourth and it's fantastic. I mean, I think these types of things, I think when we look at the staff report and it talks about over concentration, it makes it seem this is a potential nuisance. And I think people lose sight of the fact that these are amenities. This is something that's actually generating demand. This is something we should be encouraging. This is a neighborhood that you mentioned Blue Diamond. Who knows what's going happen with that site? But this is a ton of potential in this part of town, potentially a totally new node of activity in the city. And so I think projects like this are what help create demand for that type of thing.

We should be encouraging them. So thank you.

Thank you, Vice Chair. I also went by the site today and drove by and I think the area is, I think as you mentioned, essentially it's kind of a social desert right now and in need of place to hang out and meet up. I think that courtyard out front seems to be ideal. A quick question. So is the idea when that is courtyard is being used, the garage door would be open and people would flow back and forth?

Yes, that's the idea. Depends on weather and just the conditions and if people are outside versus inside. But yes, that would be the idea.

Okay. I do want to compliment your whoever did your work to on the nighttime rendering indicating the lighting in there. Very well done. Nice rendering. I too support both of the motion and the second. With that said, any other comments? Clerk, can you take a vote?

Thank you, chair. Commissioners, please unmute. Commissioner Lee?

Aye.

Commissioner Tao? Aye. Commissioner Nybo? Aye. Vice chair Kaden?

Aye.

Commissioner Hernandez is absent. Commissioner Massasri? Aye. Commissioner Goras?

Aye.

Commissioner Ortiz? Aye. Commissioner Blunt?

Aye.

Commissioner Rischke? Aye. Commissioner Thompson is absent. And Chair Chase?

Aye.

Thank you. The motion passes.

Thank you. I look forward to that opening. We'll now proceed with discussion calendar item 05/2026 Climate Action and Adaptation Plan Annual Progress Report. Is there a staff presentation? Peer service.

Good evening, chair and commissioners. My name is Laura Teller, and I'm an associate planner from the community development department. I'm pleased to be with you this evening to share our second annual climate action and adaptation plan annual progress report. Before I get started, I wanna thank and acknowledge my colleagues who are here with me this evening. Mick Randall, senior planner from the community development department Rachel Patten, sustainability manager Sarah Kilarick, sustainability specialist and Ariana Hernandez, sustainability analyst from the department of public works.

This team and many others have contributed immeasurably to both our implementation efforts and the report we're sharing you this evening. So I'll start with a quick overview of how our report is structured. We'll talk across or talk about key progress across major sectors, including buildings, transportation, and water. I'll also briefly touch on climate trends driving this work and why it's incredibly urgent. And finally, I'll close with some of the main opportunities and challenges we're facing, and then we'll open it up for questions.

So the CAP annual progress report provides a brief background on the CAP document, including our greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and key climate impacts facing Sacramento. This report is designed as a snapshot of implementation progress. The cap includes 12 greenhouse gas reduction measures supported by 74 specific actions. It also includes six adaptation goals supported by 80 actions. So this is a fairly comprehensive framework.

The report is organized around those measures to track how we're doing. It is important to note that this is a narrative update. A more comprehensive quantitative update is planned for 2027 when we initiate work to update the cap. So before getting into specific sectors, I wanna briefly ground this and what we're seeing locally. Sacramento is already experiencing more frequent and intense heat waves, increasing drought conditions, and more extreme storm events.

These trends are consistent with global patterns, but they have real local impact, including stress on our energy systems, risks to public health, and damage to infrastructure in the urban forest. So while much of our cap focuses on reducing emissions, adaptation is equally important. We're planning not just for greenhouse gas emission reduction, but also for resilience. In 2025, we achieved several key milestones in planning efforts that support capital implementation. We adopted the urban forest plan in June 2025.

We adopted the streets for people active transportation plan in December 2025. We also completed the council approved SAC Adapt transportation infrastructure adaptation plan, which was funded by a Caltrans grant, and participated in collaboration with Sacramento County in the Urban Land Institute technical assistance leadership exchange program focused on extreme heat mitigation in September 2025. These plans are interconnected and guide staff in prioritizing cap implementation efforts. The report is organized by cap measures starting with the built environment. One of the biggest drivers of progress here is SMUD's 2030 carbon plan.

In 2025, SMUD made significant progress in advancing utility scale renewable energy, including bringing the 50 megawatt slow house solar project online and adding 101 megawatts of wind generation from the Hatchet Ridge Wind Project in in Shasta County. Since 2021, SMUD has added roughly 440 megawatts of renewable energy and storage with significantly more planned by 2030. Due to ongoing preemption concerns, the city formally repealed electrification ordinance when we adopted the 2025 California building standards code. However, we continue to see strong trend toward all electric new construction, and the code update made significant progress in encouraging electric buildings, including a two heat pump baseline for residential buildings. In 2025, over 80% of new single family homes and more than 90% of ADUs were built all electric.

Existing buildings are a bit more of a challenge. Most water heater replacements are still gas to gas, although electrification is gaining some traction, and 39% of permitted HVAC installations were for heat pumps in 2025. SMUD continues to provide strong support for electric retrofits in both residential and commercial space. The photograph on the right shows an electric kitchen retrofit that was completed at the Capital City Oaks Lodge. Transportation continues to be the largest source of emissions in Sacramento.

We are seeing meaningful progress in the zero emission vehicle space. In 2025, about 25% of new vehicle sales were zero emission, which, as you can see in the graph on the left, was a significant increase from just a few years ago. That said, adoption did slow slightly last year due to likely due to the expiration of federal incentives. The city also completed significant work in the zero emission vehicle sphere, including completing the grant funded EV blueprint project, which focused on expanding charging infrastructure, increasing EV access in underserved communities, and supporting car share and ebike lending programs. In addition to vehicle electrification, we're also investing in infrastructure that supports alternative modes of travel.

The completion of the Del Rio Trail is a major milestone, creating a continuous connection between South Sacramento and downtown. We also completed Ninos Parkway phase two, improving access and safety in North Sacramento neighborhoods. And as I mentioned, the city adopted the Streets for People active transportation plan, which outlines hundreds of miles of future improvements for walking and biking infrastructure. These improvements are critical for reducing vehicle miles traveled and improving overall mobility. In the water sector, we're making progress on both conservation and system resilience.

Since 2018, 95 commercial projects have implemented low impact development measures, covering approximately 393 acres across the city. These features help manage storm water, reduce runoff, improve groundwater recharge. The map on the left shows the location of these LID features. The Department of Utilities Water Conservation Office also administers myriad residential and commercial programs that support citywide water conservation, including grass conversion, irrigation efficiency upgrades, leak inspections, leak repair, WaterWise house calls, and upgrades to high efficiency water fixtures. In addition, over the past two years, the office has been updating the department's water efficiency and conservation plan, which will help the department meet future water demands and achieve citywide targets through refinement of programs and services.

This final draft is under review and is expected to be finalized this year. As I mentioned, adaptation is also a key component of the CAP. As climate impacts become more pronounced, efforts like heat reduction and long term water supply strategies are becoming increasingly important. Our goal is to ensure that infrastructure, neighborhoods, and essential services remain safe, reliable, and functional under changing climate conditions. This is really about protecting public health and maintaining quality of life as conditions evolve.

On the left, you can see some of the efforts of our youth parks and community enrichment department have made to ensure that landscaping in our parks is climate adapted, and that there's adequate shade to ensure our park facilities are usable year round. On the right, you can see a diagram of the regional water bank, which is a collaborative effort among about 20 local water agencies working through the regional water authority. It functions as a coordinated system of groundwater wells, pumps, pipelines that allow water to be stored underground during wet periods and recovered during dry periods. This approach strengthens regional water reliability and climate resilience by capturing excess surface water when it's available and banking it for use during droughts. This is especially important given projections of reduced snowpack and more frequent drought conditions.

In water year twenty twenty four, twenty five, the region banked about 68,000 acre feet of water, which is nearly 23,000,000,000 gallons. Over time, the system is expected to support up to 65,000 acre feet of recharge and up to 55,000 acre feet of extraction annually. Achieving our climate goals depends on strong collaboration both within the city and across the region. Internally, we've built solid coordination across departments, including planning, utilities, public works, the office of innovation and economic development, and youth parks and community enrichment. This alignment allows us to integrate climate action into daily operations and move initiatives forward more effectively.

We also have strong regional collaboration, including electrification an an electrification focused memorandum memorandum of understanding between the city, Sacramento County, the city of Elk Grove, and SMUD. This partnership helps us align strategies, share best practices, and scale impact. We also meet regularly with climate and sustainability staff from jurisdictions across the region, including YOLO and Sacramento Counties. In addition, we contributed to the development of the Capital Region climate priorities plan facilitated by the Sacramento Metro Air District. Project funding is a significant need for continued progress on cap implementation.

The city currently relies heavily on competitive grants, which require local matching funds and are subject to shifting state and federal priorities. Recent changes to federal priorities have already resulted in nearly $11,000,000 in lost or frozen competitively awarded funding. While many climate solutions, like electrification of buildings and electric vehicles, have the potential to offer great economic benefits, equitable access to those benefits is not guaranteed. Meeting our 2030 and 2045 goals will continue to require local funding and ongoing identification of new reliable funding sources to scale this critical work so that all Sacramento residents, particularly those most impacted by climate and economic burdens, can fully share in the benefits of a cleaner, more affordable future. This concludes my presentation.

I really appreciate the opportunity to share about the progress we've made in 2025. We have a lot more exciting work in process and are committed to the challenge of addressing the city's greenhouse gas emission to meet our climate goals. And we're happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you.

Thank you, Laura, for a very good presentation. Are there any questions or comments? I'd like to remind everyone, this is a review and comment item, so there's no motion necessary. Necessary. Other speakers, anyone wish to speak on this on the public?

Thank you, Chair. I have one speaker slip for Rosie.

Hi. My name is Rosie Yakub. I'm a volunteer with three fifty Sacramento, and I was really happy to see the, you know, the report. We check it out every year. I'm part of the electrification team.

And one thing I I learned earlier this year, I just wanna bring to people's attention as we start to move forward towards, like, the next report, is that in 2025, while everyone was talking about inflation in eggs, the thing that actually increased most in price was energy. And it that was not evenly split. This the increase in electricity was 55% on average nationwide, and for piped gas, was 11%. So electrification is not just greenhouse gases, although that's super important and that's why I'm here. It also is an equity issue.

We pay now or we pay later. And as Laura said, we do need to find ways to make sure that this change happens in a way that is inclusive and is also happens soon. It is disappointing to see, you know, that we had to give up the new building electrification because even though the majority of single family homes are are still going, it's about half and half with the multifamily. And that's disappointing because when I do when I bike around, what I see a lot of is multifamily going up. So knowing that all those are gonna have to be retrofits is something that I think the city should look look to ways to address, kind of stop that gap because, like, you know, that's what I see planned in a lot of areas is we want densification, we want multi family, and we don't want those to have to be retrofits.

Right? And then, the other thing I wanted to address is, like, sure, with existing building electrification, they're gonna be I'm really happy to see the AC to heat pump ordinances going through this year. But there are other ways the cities can facilitate those changes, one of which would be providing wave waivers for per for permits for those items. You know, like, put it in the utility thing. Here's your waiver for for changing out your air conditioner for heat pump, or here's your heat waiver for doing a heat pump water heater.

Like, it makes it, like, exciting and sexy. Like, when you get the 50¢, you know, from Raley's or something like that, you're, yeah, I'm gonna go buy those eggs. You know, it's the same sort of thing. Like, the city can actually help to generate some demand here, but and should. And the other thing is we saw that the city increased the number of public publicly accessible electric vehicle charging, and that's gonna be really important in the future, but we also need to see a build on that to where more of the streets have accessible, like on street parking, especially in some of the older areas where you can't even there's no garage.

Right? So, those issues are things that should be addressed in the future, and and thanks for your time.

Thank you for your comment. Chair, I have no more speakers.

Okay. Thank you, clerk. Commissioner Gors.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Tuller, for your presentation. This is critical work, as you said. I want to kind of just focus in a little bit on your presentation with the adaptation. You said about heat reduction at parks, but what about the city? I really didn't see a component to the tree canopy plan. There are underserved communities like my community in District 8 that we just need trees. And, you know, I really see some of our nonprofits, we're kind of leaning in on them to kind of do this work, and I really want to see the city take more of a lead on this. I know funding is an issue, but we can't rely on our nonprofits that are struggling already. So that's just my comment. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Ortiz.

Thank you.

Sorry. I appreciate the presentation. I've covered a whole series of the landscape. What I heard is that we have some challenges ahead, and several of those challenges are directly related to changes in federal policy and federal tax incentives. Could you go back and sort of give me a bulleted just very specific and sort of share what those loss of incentives as well as essentially outright prohibitions of us to move to all electric.

Could you just highlight federal policy challenges? And I know you mentioned over reliance upon grants, implies perhaps a loss of federal and state funding. If you could go through those points and just allow me to zero it, just understand them more fully, I'd appreciate that.

Yeah, I'll go ahead and jump in and start. Vic Randall, Senior Planner. So locally, we did have conditional award for $10,000,000 for a six year program to stand up a building performance standards program. That funding has not come through at this point. We have not

Is that state or federal?

That's federal. So that's one of our federal

Is it at risk or is it just slow?

This was received in December 2024 and that funding has not come through yet. None of the We other cities nationally never that

hasn't been

Exactly. The funding has not been terminated, but it has not been awarded either. So there's been no And

that's $10,000,000 We've turned

to agreement with the city at this point. And that's true of other cities around the country that received funding through the same programs. So there were, I would guess maybe about two dozen nationally that received funding to stand building performance standards programs up.

When you say stand up buildings, what does that mean?

Develop a building performance standards program. So it involves staffing, it involves ordinance development and developing the functioning program. Feel free to jump in if you'd like Laura.

Thank you.

And so that's one example. But generally, we've seen climate funding a range of climate funding pulled back. We've seen a range of efforts to limit the development of renewable energy, just notably from the federal administration. But I would note that nationally and globally, we are still seeing a trend towards renewables with the so in last year, renewables passed coal as the leading source of electricity globally. About 99% of new electricity produced globally was from renewables in America.

That was about 93%. We're seeing the significant trend. Solar is the most affordable and batteries have scaled in really substantial ways over the last few years, which allow us to access renewables, access solar at a relatively low cost once that upfront investment is made. And then that battery development of battery technology, which last year we saw globally a 45% reduction in the cost of batteries, which is helping us to scale in multiple ways, at multiple scales, at grid scale, at the household scale. And so that's really driving the ability to take that solar then and drive that production and make it functional into the evening, which helps us to avoid curtailing really a lot of solar, which is the in the spring.

But on that point, and I think that's important, I appreciate that. What have we lost federal incentives and perhaps tax credits and incentives to be able to further the technology or acquisition of the batteries?

I'm going

to start with a couple of things and

then pass

it on. And we've got yes, ton of dollars here. So the incentives like I'd say critically $7,500 per vehicle for EVs.

Now gone.

That's gone. That went away in at the September 2025. So that's a big, big loss. And as Laura noted, we've kind of plateaued. We hit close to 25% in 2024, got above 25% in 2025 I'm sorry, 2023, 2024, 2025, been approaching and kind of plateaued at that 25%.

We'll see what happens going forward. The reality is it's much cheaper to fuel an EV in Sacramento, in spud territory, in those parts of California that have more affordable electricity rates, which Sacramento does. So even without the incentives, we'll see there's the cost of used EVs have come down quite a bit, that can help the market adjust even without those incentives. Also, we've had a range of incentives go away for to support the electrification of building space and water heating equipment, which has really been critical. And I'm going to defer to either of you that want to add to that.

Yes. And thank you, Vic. I didn't mean to interrupt. I thought the question was going to come to federal funding that's been taken from the city or revoked. And we did have a million dollars of funding that was terminated. This was not just a conditional award. It was awarded funding. We'd executed a contract. We're about almost a year into execution of that work, and it was terminated. And we're we've gone through an administrative appeal. We've exhausted that pathway. We are the city is in litigation with the EPA on that. But at this point, we are executing closeout of that project.

And tell me what that $1,000,000 project was. What specifically was it?

It was a neighborhood resilience project, kinda multipronged. It focused on greening at two different schools in Meadowview, kind of comprehensive greening for their campuses, greening along walking routes into those schools, focusing on front residential. And then it also included in home air filtration and resident comfort and safety measures as a part of that.

I appreciate that level of specificity because I just want us all to kind of really understand. You know, there was such so many significant lots of movement in a good way and and we're we're seeing this money either just in this case, you actually relied upon it, entered in it, incurred expense costs, and now you don't even get to recoup versus something that we're relying upon but we didn't embark upon. This is pretty devastating. I mean, it's just I'm just going to say it's pretty profoundly horrific that we're backtracking so much because our state is so innovative. You know, thank you for the report.

I don't want to take all the time, but I just think it's important for us to really get a sense of where why there's so much at risk when we're barely making inroads in our state. Well, we've been progressive, but you know, internationally so much is really collapsing. So I just wanted to get a sense of how much we are in a wait and see mode, and hopefully for changes in federal policy. Meanwhile, you know, we don't have the luxury of waiting or delaying all of this work. But thank you all that overview and that report. I appreciate it.

Thank you Commissioner. Commissioner Blunt.

Thank you. I have a question about the well, I'd like to learn more about the water bank. So is the water bank up and running? Okay.

Yeah. And I might struggle to speak to some of the specifics. Department of Utilities is lead on city's participation in the water bank. It's something that we appreciate and think is critically important to the future of the city and the region. And it is a collaborative effort of a few dozen water agencies, including the city of Sacramento.

And the idea is really just kind of amplifying the conjunctive use of water through our river system. So when we have high flow years, take the surface water and store that underground and drive that into the aquifers. And so and then when we have drought years, you're able to have the water reserves to pull from the aquifers. All in all, it just looks like fantastic work. A lot of credit to the Regional Water Authority and to Brett Euart and the DOU team from the city.

I love that. So how long has this been going on? How long have we had

the water bank? Is it relatively new? Want to say about four years.

Water The

the water bank as well for the water forum?

Yeah.

It's okay. Product of. Okay. So it sounds like it may be 2,000.

Okay. Great. Yeah. I I'm curious about it because I know that there's a massive reservoir being proposed, right, the site's reservoir. And part of a large portion of the water from for for that reservoir, which is going to be, again, huge, they're looking at Sacramento. And it sounds like Sacramento River. And it sounds like it's pretty much, like, exactly the same water that we're using for the water bank. So I'm just kinda curious whether or not, like, is that is that an issue that we should be, like, thinking about? Or

Greg Salmon, planning director. I was involved with the water forums agreement, which they've just renewed. They're gonna have a signing ceremony, I think, this week, coming up real soon or the next couple weeks. But just in terms of groundwater banking, we're one of the few regions in the state where our groundwater levels are going up. So it's been a real successful, like fantastic news for the region.

And my understanding of the site's reservoirs, it would be filled with excess surface water, not diverted so much to where we're it's like a big take from the water levels. It's more of on a heavy year. The excess water would go into the reservoir.

Okay. So the water bank water is actually excess groundwater? Yeah. I'm

yes. And through the what Vic was describing, by being strategic about when we pull groundwater and when we need we pull it when we need it as a region versus when we have a lot of it's kind of common sense, would think. But when you have so many water purveyors to get them on board with this approach, it has helped to increase our bank of groundwater.

Okay. I just I don't want us to be in a bad position because like, know, Metro Water wants to make a bunch of money off of Sacramento River waters and then all of a sudden our rates wind up increasing. So, okay. That was my only question. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner. Just a quick question for either Greg or Vic. How is the aquifer recharged?

I think if you're looking for the specific mechanism, I don't think I could speak to that. That would be a more technical understanding than I have. But to Greg's point, on our heavier flow years, heavier rain years, you're driving more of that surface water to aquifers to recharge them.

I'm just curious how it gets down into the aquifer. Greg, do you know?

I don't know. I think water generally is as long as we don't have too much permeable surfaces, which is a problem with paying big and whatnot. A lot of that is just percolation.

Yeah. Seeps through sand and gravel into And then there's sort of strategic turning off of groundwater wells during wet times and using the surface water instead that helps the aquifer refill.

Okay. Thanks, Laura. Okay. Commissioner Goras.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Sorry, I know I don't want to backtrack too much. I just want to have a quick question regarding the million dollar funding we lost from the federal government. What was the name of that project again?

Yeah. It was a environmental justice government to government grant from the EPA, and it was a neighborhood resilience project. I think Sacramento neighborhood resilience project.

Great. And is it okay to name the school in Meadowview that this affected? Is that is that okay?

It was two different schools. I wanna say John Slote Elementary and John Still.

Okay. Rosa Parks.

Rosa Parks. Okay. Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

Thank you. Quick comment. I just want to mention some years back, my wife and I bought a small industrial building in Midtown. It was a former black and Decker repair shop, a concrete block building. And it was it had a plaque on the outside of one of SMUD's first all all electric buildings. I think it was built in 1971. Very proud of that. And when we did have to replace the roof mounted heat pump, it was quite a thing, seeing the crane come out and pick up that unit, put it up there. But it was great to be in a building like that. No gas.

So anyway, any other comments? If not, I want to thank you very much, Laura and everyone, for the presentation. Okay. So our next item is, Item six, which is the 2040 General Plan annual report, for 2025. Is there a staff presentation?

All right. Good evening. Thank you for your time today, Chair Chase and Commissioners. My name is Amy Yang, and I am a senior planner with the long range planning team in the community development department. In this presentation this evening, I'm looking forward to providing a high level overview of the 2040 general plan annual report for 2025.

We will also be bringing this item to city council for discussion next week on April 28. The twenty four day general plan was adopted in February 2024 and provides high level policy direction for development in the city. And each year, we provide a progress update to the planning design commission as well as city council. So in this presentation, I'll provide an overview of how the annual report is organized, the thematic framework for the report, a brief overview of the projects we have highlighted, as well as how we have reported on implementing actions, as well as sustainability and equity indicators. Body of the 2040 general plan annual report spotlights major projects and city initiatives that exemplify the 2040 vision and guiding principles.

Many of these highlighted projects were also highlighted in the CAP annual report, which I think actually underlines the interconnectedness of both plans, you'll see some similarities. We then have have appendix a, which provides a copy of the said twenty forty vision and guiding principles. In appendix b of the annual report, there is a table of status updates on the general plan's 79 implementing actions. Updates are provided in partnership with multiple departments across the city who have key roles in helping to implement these actions. And finally, in appendix c, we provide updates on the nine sustainability and equity indicators where possible and which help track the city's progress toward a more sustainable and equitable community.

So the vision for this effort was for Sacramento to be a national model of sustainable and equitable growth and community development. The vision is bolstered by a series of guiding principles, which can be grouped into six categories. We have sustainable and responsible growth, resiliency and climate action, safe, equitable, inclusive, and just city, regional economic hub, livability and sense of place, interconnect interconnected accessible city. So the vision and guiding principles were the foundation for the goals, policies, and actions in the 2040 general plan. Because of this, we have highlighted some exciting city projects that align and support these principles.

The annual report also illustrates how programs and projects across all city departments are very aligned with these visionary principles that aim to create a more sustainable and equitable community. So starting off with sustainable and responsible growth, this guiding principle focuses on issues such as promoting a compact development pattern, ensuring a broad mix of housing types, and creating a city that is a model of sustainable living. In this section, we've highlighted a handful of infill development projects, including Channel twenty four, duplexes on 9th 9th And Broadway, Studio thirty, Natomas Fountains Apartments, The Grove at Woodlake, Donnerfield Senior Apartments, and Independence in Natomas. The resiliency and climate action principle also focuses on issues such as working towards carbon neutrality, addressing environmental hazards, and promoting environmental health and resilience, as well as improving our city's tree canopy and green infrastructure. In this section, we 've highlighted the city's participation in the Urban Land Institute technical assistance panel, which you heard about in Laura's presentation, the city's efforts to implement low impact development and 95 new development and redevelopment projects between 2018 and 2025, Water Plus, also known by its full name, Water Plus Treatment Plants Resiliency and Improvement Project, which aims to address the reliability of facilities and meet projected potable water demands.

The draft ER had gone through public review in 2025 and is anticipated for certification this spring. Adoption of the Sacramento urban forest plan, which was also highlighted highlighted in the cap annual report, is also is also exemplified by this, guiding principle. The safe, equitable, inclusive, and just city guiding principle focuses on issues such as providing prioritizing community resources towards historically disadvantaged communities, responsive public services, and care for the homeless. In this section, we've highlighted, the unveiling of city start blueprint, a plan that supports locally tailored equity focused planning and reinforces Sacramento's long term efforts to promote financial stability for all residents, the expansion of Roseville Road service campus, which is pictured here, a shelter in service campus for people experiencing homelessness that now includes a total of 196 tiny homes, and the introduction of the Clear Impact Scorecard through an interjurisdictional convening with the intention of tracking advancements in diversity and equity. The regional economic hub guiding principles focus on issues such as small local businesses, cradle to career pipeline opportunities, and creating a civic and cultural hub.

In this section, we've highlighted Streamline Sacramento, which is an effort in our building division to improve the development approval process with the overarching goal to increase the supply and decrease the cost of housing. We also have the business solution center, which is a new resource hub offering free expert guidance, funding opportunities, and data tools to help local small businesses succeed, as well as the small developer incubator program, which is a program to help build capacity of small local developers in Sacramento. The livability and sense of place guiding principle focuses on issues such as pride of place, access to nature, and supporting the local arts community. In this section, we've highlighted entertainment zones, which was an ordinance that established designated entertainment zones, which aims to support local businesses and economic development and create a festive event atmosphere. The creation of New Helvetia Historic District, which actually stems from an earlier project called the African American experience, which was led by our preservation planning team, as well as the twenty twenty five, twenty twenty seven cultural arts awards program, which has awarded $950,000 in grants to 72 local nonprofit organizations.

And finally, we have the interconnected accessible city guiding principle, which focuses on issues such as the connection between Sacramento neighborhoods, multimodal transportation system, and prioritization of safety and human life on the streets. In this section, we've highlighted Streets for People, the city's active transportation plan, which was adopted in 2025, the completion of the Del Rio Trail with the completion of the Del Rio Trail Bridge, Franklin Boulevard Complete Streets project, which broke ground in 2025 after years of planning and finally, the digital equity program, which distributed 200 technology kits to community based organizations as well as Sacramento State students. As mentioned earlier, the 2040 general plan includes 79 implementing actions. The general plan provides specific policy guidance for implementation of plan concepts through its goals, policies, and implementing actions. This framework establishes a basis for coordinated actions, between city departments, the county, and regional agencies.

The implementation chapter lists the major actions to be taken by the city to support the goals of the general plan. In many areas, the general plan implementation depends on actions of various departments, other agencies, as well as the private sector. Appendix b of the annual report lists updates for the implementing actions. Some actions have been completed, such as the adoption of the urban forest plan mentioned earlier. Some are in progress, such as our update to the zoning code, and some reflect ongoing city programs, such as office of Innovation and Economic Development's Youth Workforce Experience Program, which continues to implement an action on workforce preparedness, just to list a few examples.

The equity and sustainability indicators help track the city's progress toward a more sustainable and equitable community. They show us where we need improvement as well as where we have seen success. So some areas of improvement include the use of public transit and active transportation. Those have seen a decrease from last year to this year, as well as an increase in renters and homeowners experiencing housing burden, so more than 30 of their income going towards housing costs. However, we do have some good news.

Some metrics that saw improvement include, a decrease in VMT per person per year, an increase in zero emission vehicle registration Sacramento County, an increase in publicly accessible EV charging stations, as well as an increase in healthy food retailer access in disadvantaged areas. I'm not done yet. Improved overall park accessibility score from the chest for public land. This reflects a time frame of September 2024 to March 2025, as well as the majority of residential and nonresidential development occurring in areas where the general plan wants to promote more infill. Alright.

So that's all I have for you today. That concludes my presentation and open to any questions you guys might have. Thank you.

Thank you, Amy. Can I ask you a quick question? The last slide, text to the last slide you had.

That one?

No. Oh, I'm not yes, it's not showing up on my screen.

Forward? Yes,

that one.

Okay. What would you attribute the increase in the VMT per people going back to the office, commuting more?

No, that's a really good question. We work with our partners at SACOG to get a calculation for that. I might have to go back and get an answer for you to see what the experts might say

on that. We may be able to ask that here We have

an expert in the room.

Thank you, Amy. Any other comments? Remind everyone this is review and comment item, so no action taken. But any other questions or comments? Before I direct that question back to Vice Chair, Caden, do you have any sense of that?

Of YVMT per capita? I mean I think it's down relative to 2020, right, Amy, is my understanding.

Well, the the calculations that are program. The calculations that are provided to us should be showing a decrease from last year.

Right. So it's I think it's going down. Yeah. I mean, I think the the larger trend, right, is that the city of Sacramento is well positioned in the region to have lower VMT than the rest of the region because it's where a lot of stuff is and where a lot of people want to go, which is why just to connect the dots, right, it's so critical. Like 59% of our GHG inventory was transportation.

And that largely is coming from the fact that people are driving shorter distances. If we're going to reduce that, it's coming from people driving shorter distances and then people living in places near transit and that allows them to not use a car for some trips. So I think we're in a good position to capitalize on that. And to the extent that it's going down, it's because we're giving people an opportunity to do that.

Yeah. No. That makes sense. I was surprised that it was increased or showed an increase. Anyway, any other okay. Commissioner Amasiast Reed.

Yeah. I'm really excited, of course, to see that Franklin the Franklin Boulevard Complete Street project, was highlighted because we are almost done with that project. I'm really excited because I was driving down Franklin a couple of nights ago in the evening, and it was doing exactly what the intended purpose of it was doing, which is slowing down traffic. Everyone was driving 25 miles, no more than 30 miles per hour. And it was just I mean, it was really exciting to see that.

As someone who has been working on the boulevard for over six years trying to get people to slow down and to see accidents every week and just to see the mess that it was, I'm really, really excited, to to see this project happen and to almost complete. I want to see more of these projects, obviously. I know that there's money is always the issue here. But I want to say this one more time because I know that when you guys do updates, I've said this before, but I really think that our commercial corridors are opportunity centers. They're opportunity areas for us because there is there are so many things that there's so many amenities already existing on the boulevards.

And I think for Franklin in particular, think one of the things now that we have the right infrastructure in place, I think one of the things that we're really missing is that density in housing. And so, of course, we really want to see more of that. And I'm excited with the zoning code updates, know, really what can happen there in the future. And so but I really think, you know, there's this concept I talked about before is fifteen minute communities. And you know, if you can get to everything that you need within fifteen minutes, again, reducing VMT emissions, think that's a real good indicator that you're doing great.

And so, I think we I would really like us to, as we're going through these general plan updates, really, really try to focus our efforts on supporting our commercial corridors and how we can get more housing and more infrastructure in place to get to where we want to be. So thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner. Yeah, I'd like to comment also. I've been active with the AIA local chapter in promoting trying to promote housing on commercial corridors. So, we will continue to do that as well. You're right. Tremendous opportunity. So, any other comments or questions from commissioners? Amy, thank you very much. And I guess you're not going go far.

Chair, just for the record, we have no speaker splits for this Okay.

Will now move on to item seven, which is a review of the city's fiscal year twenty six to thirty one capital improvement program or CIG for consistency with the 2,040 general plan. Amy?

Alright. No slides for this. Good evening, again. I am still Amy Yang. I still am a senior planner with the long range planning team, still in the development department.

So this item pertains to the city's capital improvement program or CIP for short. This is developed annually by the Department of Finance. The CIP is the city's five year financial plan for funding infrastructure and facility needs and is included as part of the city's proposed budget every year. Each year as part of the CIP process and in compliance with city code, planning staff receives a list of new CIP projects proposed by our department of finance in collaboration with other city departments responsible for facilitating and implementing capital improvement projects. Planning staff then reviews and evaluates the new projects for consistency with the goals and policies of the general plan, which which we're all very well acquainted with now.

Since the new projects are added to the CIP every year, the planning and design commission is asked to review staff's analysis and make a finding of consistency on an annual basis. The CIP was last reviewed by the Planning and Design Commission last spring. New CIP projects are typically identified by the various city departments through council approved master plans and programming guides such as the transportation priorities plan and the park project programming guide. Since programming guides and other documents that guide capital investments must be consistent with the city's general plan when adopted, this process supports general plan consistency. This year as part of the twenty twenty six, twenty thirty one CIP, there are 12 new capital improvement projects.

One of the 12 is programmatic, serving a wider area of the city, and provides maintenance and improvements for closed city landfills as part of their post closure maintenance plans to adhere to state regulations and other requirements. The remaining 11 are site specific and relate to the development and improvement of city parks, including the development a site amenities plan, park structure replacement, park improvements such as adding sidewalks, tree plantings, community garden, and futsal court, the conversion of a grass field to an all weather field, installation of shade canopies over playgrounds, renovating sports fields, replacing bathrooms, adding improvements to a community park event space, adding lighting to a sports field, and installing a new playground. Based on the high level project descriptions provided, staff finds that the proposed projects are in are aligned with the general plans, goals, and policies. A detailed and consistency analysis can be found in attachment two of the staff report. And based on this analysis, staff is recommending that the Planning and Design Commission pass a motion to approve forwarding to city council a report on the proposed CIP's consistency with the 2040 general plan.

The budget office will inform council of the commission's consistency finding during council's review and approval of the twenty twenty six twenty thirty one CIP on May 12. So this concludes my presentation, and still happy to take questions.

Thank you, Amy. Clerk, I'm gonna guess since the chamber is empty, but I have to ask, are there any manage of the public that wish to be?

Thank you, chair. I have no speakers list for this item.

Thank you. Commissioners, any, commissioners, questions or comments from the commission or or motions? Vice Chair Kiddan.

I'll move the item.

We have a motion. Do we have a second? Commissioner Blunt.

I'll second.

We have a motion and a second. Any discussion on the item? Clerk, can you take a vote?

Thank you, chair. Commissioners, please unmute. Commissioner Lee? Aye. Commissioner Tao? Aye. Commissioner Nybo?

Aye.

Vice Chair Kaden?

Aye.

Commissioner Hernandez is absent. Commissioner Massasri? Aye. Commissioner Gors? Aye. Commissioner Ortiz? Aye. Commissioner Blunt?

Aye.

Commissioner Rischke? Aye. Commissioner Thompson is absent. And Chair Chase?

Aye.

Thank you. And the motion passes.

Thank you. That concludes our actual items on the agenda. But, we have other commissioner comments, ideas, or questions? Commissioner Goris.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I

sorry, I think I cut your mic off accidentally. Sorry.

I just want to note just note for transparency with the commission that I am the President of the Delta Shores Community Association. So any items that come before us with Delta Shores, will be recusing myself in the future. So I just want to put that out there. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other comments from commissioners? Seeing none, so I'm trying to remember. Did we have a motion? Did we have a motion? Okay. Was anybody I want to make a motion that this would be forward to

I'm happy to make a motion to adjourn. Is that what you're seeking?

No. I'm sorry. I'm back to the previous item. Pardon me. You don't need a motion for that at all. Okay. Thank you very much for offering.

I just wasn't sure you were asking for a motion for since

And again, I'm going to assume there are no public comments, but need to ask. Got it.

Thank you, chair. I have no speaker slips.

Okay. Thank you very much. Well, and at the suggestion of Commissioner Ortiz, we're adjourned.

Thank you.