Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

work planning commission meeting. Please stand with me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance

to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. And annually under minutes, we're not going to um where shows I'm sorry, it shows the elections of officers because annually the planning commission elects a new chair and vice chair. And I would like to entertain for a motion. I'd like a mo motion make a motion to elect uh John Becker as the chairman for next year.

Please let for a second. I'll second that. Okay. So, let the record show that Commissioner Fitz has made the motion and Commissioner Angular has seconded. Yes. Now we take a vote. All those in favor say I. I. Okay. And we also need to elect for vice chair. I would like to nominate um Bill Fitz, Commissioner Fitz for vice chair for this coming year. And Dylan, did you want to second it? Yes.

Oh, okay. Just checking, making sure. Okay. So, let the record show that Commissioner Becker has nominated Commissioner Fitz. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, Becker. Yeah. Nominated fitz for vice chair and Dylan seconded the motion. Thank you. We'll vote on that one. All those in favor? I. Let the record show it was a unanimous vote. Now I will turn it over to the chair. Thank you very much and thank you for your service this past year. We think you've done a fabulous job. Yes. Thank you very much. I confer.

Okay. That brings us to um item B, which is um B2, approval of minutes of the regular uh planning commission meeting of December 9th, 2025. Can I have a motion to approve the minutes? I will make a motion to approve. Okay, Commissioner Bogusich. And can I have a second, please? I'll second. Commissioner Aguilar, all those in favor say I or raise. I. Anybody opposed? Okay, motion passes. Five eyes. Brings us to item C, written communications. Do we have any written communications this evening? There are no written communications this evening.

Thank you. Brings us to item D, which is oral communications. And this is the opportunity for anybody out in the audience to speak on anything that is not on tonight's agenda. And just please note that um state law prohibits the commissioner from acting on any non-aggendaized item. Do we have anybody that would like to speak under oral communications tonight? Okay, seeing not'll bring us to item E, public hearings. We have item E1, which is a hearing to consider U-21-03. It's a resolution approving a conditional use permit for a temporary special event from Butler Amusements Carnival at the New Park Mall located at 1100 New Park Mall with an APN of 901-111-19. And the subject site is zoned RC, which is regional commercial with a new uh new parkplace specific plan overlay district. And it also has a general plan land designation of regional commercial. and I'd like to turn it over to staff for the staff report.

Good evening, chairperson and commissioners. The applicant has requested that this item be continued to the next scheduled planning commission meeting on March 24th, 2026. The request is to allow additional time for the applicant to finalize the date of their proposed event. Um, the applicant is considering holding the event in October instead of the originally proposed dates in March, but has not confirmed the specific dates yet. Based on this request, staff recommends that the planning commission continue the item to the next meeting.

Okay. Does anybody have any questions for staff before I open the public hearing? And because this was properly noticed, we do want to open up the public hearing, allow anybody that may have come tonight to uh address the commission on this item. Um, so if there are no questions from the commission, I'm going to go ahead and open up the public hearing and allow anyone in the audience who wishes to speak on this item to do so. Okay, seeing not, I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing and bring it back to the commission. I'll make a motion to continue the item to next meeting. I'll second it.

All right. That would be March 24th. So, we have a motion from Commissioner Fitz, a second by Commissioner Bokeasich. I'd like to take a vote. All those in favor, just raise your hand or say I. I. Anybody opposed?

Okay. The motion passes unanimously. This item will be heard on the 24th of March. Okay. Okay, we do have a second public hearing. It's item E2. This is a hearing to consider TPM 20224-00001 and V2025-00001. This is a resolution approving a tenative parcel map and a variance to subdivide the existing lot into two lots located at 784. The APN number is 92-125-2-2 and the subject site is currently zoned residential low density or RL and has a general plan designation of low to medium density residential. So, I'd like to turn it over to staff for the staff report.

Thank you. Uh, thank you chairperson and commissioners. U, my name is Joseph Blapad. the associate planner with the community development department. And this item you will be hearing tonight is a project that consists of subdividing the existing lot into two lots at the property at 7848 Thornton Avenue. Uh the applicant is Dilip Kishnani and the property owners are Santoshula and Swati Uram. For tonight's agenda, I will provide an overview of the project. uh discuss the tenative parcel map and variance, briefly go over the California Environmental Quality Act SQA exemption, provide the staff analysis and recommendation, and lastly going over any questions you may have. The project site is zoned RL, residential low density, and has a general plan designation of low medium density residential. The site is approximately 18,25 gross square feet. It consists of the existing main home, accessory dwelling unit, driveway, hardscape areas, and landscape areas. The site is surrounded by other residential uses. The requested entitlements for this project includes a tenative parcel map to subdivide the existing lot into two lots and a variance for parcel one to allow for a reduced front setback for the existing home and to exceed the maximum amount of paving in the street facing yards. Typically an application for a tenant parcel map is subject to community development director review and an application for a variance is subject to planning commission review. However, since this is a since a variance is being requested, the project is referred to the higher reviewing body for which is the planning commission. So for the tenant parcel map, the

existing lot would be subdivided into two lots, parcel one and parcel two. As part of the review of the attended parcel map, we do check to see if both parcels meet the zone code development standards such as lot size, lot width, lot depth, setbacks, lot coverage, and landscaping. Other departments like engineering would analyze easements on the lots. All in all, both parcels would meet the lot standards. The existing home and accessory dwelling unit would remain on parcel one. There wouldn't be any new improvements to the existing home except for the removal of the existing front porch cover. As for parcel two, that lot would be vacant. However, it would serve for future residential development. The property owner's intentions for parcel 2 would be to reserve it for a new single family home in the future. Although a formal application for the new home has not been submitted, the applicant has provided conceptual plans for reference. The new home would require designer view approval, which is typically reviewed at the director level. As part of the conditions of approval, an application for design review will need to be submitted to the planning division. As for easements, new easements would be created at the front of the property along Thornton Avenue that includes a 10-ft public utility easement and landscape easement and a dedicated 12-t wide rideway area. The dedicated rideway area is required in order to comply with the city's general plan. The general plan requires property owners developing along main roads to dedicate rights away to the city for future road improvements such as widening the streets or sidewalks. The municipal code includes specific

rightaway standards which states that a four-lane divided artiller road shall have the full street rideway width to be 104t and the half streetet rideaway width to be 52 feet. Currently, the full street rideway width on Thornton Avenue uh between Willow Street and Olive Street is 80 feet and the half streetet rideway width is 40 feet. To comply with the required 52 feet half streetet rideway width, the project would need to dedicate 12 feet of rideway along the site's frontage. The incorporation of the dedicated rideway does change the layout of the lots where the overall lot size would be reduced from 18,25 ft to 16,625 square ft. Also, the depth of the lot would change which brings us to the variance request. The first part of the variance request is to allow for a reduced front setback for the existing home on parcel one. This slide shows the front setback dimensions for the variance request. The red line represents the property line. The green shaded area represents the 12t wide rideway area. The black bolded line represents the front building wall of the existing home. And the purple shaded area represents the roof eve of the existing home. The minimum front setback requirement for the RL zoning district is 20 ft. Currently, the existing home has a non-conforming front setback of 14.86 ft. Because the property would be required to dedicate a 12t wide rideway area at the front, the depth of the parcels would decrease. This would result in the front setback to be measured from the edge of the new rideway line instead of the property line. Since the existing home would continue

to remain on parcel one, the existing non-conforming front setback would be further reduced. Therefore, the front setback of the existing home would be 2.86 ft from the edge of the rideway line. Additionally, the setback of the roof eve of the existing home would be 2.36 ft from the edge of the rideway line. The other part of the variance request is to exceed the maximum amount of paving and street facing yards for parcel one. As stated in the zoning code, the maximum amount of paving and street facing yards is 50% of the required yard. In this case, the required yard is the front setback area. Because the project would be required to dedicate the rideway area, it would result in parcel one having a reduced front yard area. The maximum amount of paving allowed in the front setback area for parcel one is approximately 600 square f feet. And as proposed, the total amount of paving at the front setback area for parcel one is approximately 623 square ft, which is 23 square feet more than the requirement. So those are the details of the requested entitlements for the SQA exemption. Uh the project is calculally exempt from SQA uh pursuant to article 19 section 15332 which applies to infield development projects. For the staff analysis uh overall uh the project would substantially comply with the applicable visions of the zoning code uh and would continue to be compatible with the existing site conditions and neighborhood patterns. Uh the tenant parcel map and variance findings for the project can be made in the affirmative and are provided in the draft resolution. Uh with that said, staff request the planning commission to adopt a draft resolution approving the

tenant parcel mapping variance for the project based on the findings provided. That is the end of my presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions. We do have the property owner Santosh here um and is available to answer any questions too. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you Mr. all that. Um, does anybody on the commission have any questions? I have one question. Commissioner Aguular. So, just to confirm, we're tonight we're reviewing the tenative map. The variance, the architecture isn't for review. The architecture will be another step in the future. Is that correct? Correct. The arch

correct. The architecture for the uh future development of new single family home is not reviewed at this time. It's going to be reviewed later on when a formal application has been submitted. Okay. Thank you. Only question. Okay. Does anybody Is the both lots owned by the same person or it's a different It's part of this project. It would be owned by the same uh property owners. Okay, that's all. Uh the other thing I was going to ask is uh the address for that uh if you're going to divide one is 7848 what will be the other one?

That's a great question. I believe uh since the lot is vacant um that's a question if an address would be created. I think that's something that we could discuss with the building division because usually they handle address assignments but something that we could take a look into to see if an address would need to be created for that vacant lot. The Lord one is a little bit longer than the other one, but the Lord two is a little bit wider than the Lord one. Is both houses going to be built by the same or a different same owner? The same owner is going to build both or it's going to be a different

I believe uh it would still be developed um or proposed by the same owner. Uh, and we do have the property owner here uh to confirm uh on the lot one. I don't mean I don't Can you excuse me? Maybe we can have we can bring him up uh in a moment to perhaps answer that question. So, Commissioner Dylan, is your question um is the new um house, the house that's going to be proposed in the future, is that going to be owned by the same uh owner? It's going to be built by the same owner because the lot is owned by the same. Yes.

If he's going to sell it then uh to me is there are small houses next to that lot. If I build a like triple story and their privacy so that is the different when we get a like blueprint for the house. But right now it's like it's a same owner who's going to build both lots or it's a different owner. Okay, we can turn that back because I know that um the plans would come to the building department and to planning staff and then you folks would then review it to make sure it was in conformance and if there was notification necessary for adjacent properties that would be happening as well. Yes, just like um associate planner Balapot said um when this is just to create the lot um in the future when the property owner comes back and submits his uh design review single family design review application um at that time we'll review it and make a recommendation on that. Um, typically you typically the planning commission will see that when we create the notice of action that you get in those emails and that gives you kind of the um kind of the summary of of the project and the approval by the director um and it also has details on the project. So at that time you know we've already kind of did the analysis you know looked at the different um bulk standards as uh the our planner discussed earlier um and so at that point it would get reviewed and approved.

Me too. Yeah. And I think when we open the public hearing, we can allow the applicant to answer any specific questions regarding that. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Commissioner Dylan. Anybody else on the commission? Okay. At this point, I'm going to go ahead and open up the public hearing to allow anyone in our audience to speak on this item. And as our tradition, I ask the applicant to come forward, and we'll let you be the first person to speak. Thank you so much uh for giving me this opportunity. Um so for the lot one I don't uh intend to make any changes right now. For the lot two I want to build something. Yeah that's the answer for that.

And do you have a timeline for that by any chance? Uh for the lot two the the daughter lot the one which will be created I want to start of ASAP. Okay. As soon as it's approved I want to start uh submitting the formal application. uh as soon as I can. Okay. Yeah. Great. Well, I do have a question that we will typically ask all applicants. Have you read the resolution and the conditions and do you agree to all of them? Yes. Great. It's a good start. Okay. Are there any other questions of the applicant? Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Is there anybody else out in the audience that would like to speak on this item? Okay. Seeing not, I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing, bring it back to the commission. Do we have any further questions or any other clarification that we need? No. Okay. Then I'm going to go ahead and entertain a motion to approve the resolution. And the resolution would be the tended parcel map and the variance for the project based on the findings provided in the resolution. So, I will entertain a motion. I'll make a motion. Commissioner Aguular. Do I have a second?

I'll second. Commissioner Bokeasich. Okay, let's bring it to a vote. All those in favor signify by saying I or raising your hand. I Anybody opposed? Okay, it passes five eyes. Good luck. Thank you very much. Thank you so much.

Okay. Okay. That brings us to item F, which is staff reports. And we have no staff reports agendaized this evening. And that brings us to commission matters. Commission uh matters. Item G1 is a report on city council actions. Do we have any report this evening on city council actions? Uh no specific report on council actions. I will mentioned though that community day at the park. Um if you're not aware of it is on March 28th um at the new work uh community park and community center. Um typically staff or at least our community development department will have a table there informational where um will share a table with planning and we'll have information about programs and other events going on as part of our department um if you're interested in going.

That's it. Thank you very much. Okay, that brings us to item H which is planning commission comments. Do any commissioners have any additional comments this evening? And we'll go ahead and start with Commissioner Fitz. Yes. I just had one uh I guess it's a comment and a question. I know that the city council was looking at the new park mall specific plan and doing some changes to that possibly. I just want to know where the planning commission would fit in that when when that moves forward.

Yeah. No, thank you for that question. Um so at the moment we are uh evaluating the comments and the feedback that we got from the uli group and those professionals. It was very informative. Uh there's good discussion with city council. Um so staff is taking some time to kind of kind of analyze that information. Uh we haven't got an official report from them yet. I believe that usually takes about 30 days or so to come back to us. At that point we'll put together some type of kind of strategy on what to do with that information. And when we do, then I'll come back to the planning commission and I'll let you know what kind of the the road map will be for those um discussions or if any decisions have to be made. Great. Well, thank more to come.

Thank you. Yeah, I would I would encourage uh my fellow commissioners to look at the last council meeting. It's on YouTube. Quite a presentation by a consulting group that was analyzing that and I uh there's some interesting concepts being uh put forward. So, I think it'd be good education to look at that before we get before. That's all I have. Great. Thank you, Commissioner Bogusich. Anything? Nothing. Okay. Commissioner Aguular. I just want to thank Commissioner Bogusich for a wonderful year as chair of the planning commission. Uh we had a big hearing with the Mauy Village and I thought you did a fantastic job. Thank you. Working that meeting. All of your help. You've all helped me a lot all the time.

That's all I have. Thank you, Commissioner Dylan. Oh, thank you. Okay. Well, that brings us to item I, which is agenda. Excuse me, adjournment. And I'll go ahead and just borrow this. We are ajourned. All right. Good piece of business. Very quick.