Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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Okay. Ready, guys? Good evening. I would like to call the November 18th, 2025 planning commission meeting to order. Please note this meeting being hosted through live stream on the city website and by teleconference via Zoom. I would like to remind the planning commissioners to have their microphones turned on and position so the audience can hear. Director Monnique, when we have roll call, please. Commissioner Worth is absent with notice.

Commissioner Vermont here. Commissioner Hill here. Commissioner Barona here. Chair Beanster here. Commissioner Barona, can you do invocation flag salute, please? Sure. We'll start with the flag salute. Ready? Begin. I aliance 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.

Please stay standing. Dear heavenly father, guide our thoughts and decisions tonight. Grant us wisdom, unity, fairness for our community and bless this meeting in your name we pray. Amen. Agenda item four is the public comment period for items not on the agenda. Are there any members of the public present that would like to comment on an item not on the agenda? City clear. Chair, there are no public comments. Any e comments? No e comments.

Okay. And now we're going to move on to the approval of the minutes. Agenda item 5A is the approval minutes of the meeting of October 7th, 2025. Does the commission have any comments or corrections? No, I reviewed them. [clears throat] Uh make make a recommendation to approve the minutes of the planning commission meeting of November 4, 2025. I second that.

I have a motion by Commissioner Hill and a second by uh Commissioner Vermont. And I do want to point out for the record that there was one um slight administrative fix to the minutes. Um under page two, excuse me, page two of the minutes, uh there there needed to be a an abstension and an absence noted into the record. So I just wanted to make that note for the record that there was a small correction. We'll do a roll call. Uh, Commissioner Vermont here. Or yes. Commissioner uh Hill, yes. Commissioner Barona, yes. Chair Beamster, yes.

That motion passes four to zero.

Okay. Next, we have agenda item six, public hearing item beginning with 6A, the extension of time for the site development SDR modification. Staff, can we get presentation? Good evening, chair. Good evening, commissioners, staff, members of the community. My name is Nathan Morren. I'm the assistant planner here at the city of Hemtt in the community development department. Tonight, I will be presenting the extension of time 25-001 for the Laam project. This is an extension of time for a site development review modification number 21-018 which is a modification to number uh 20-002. This project meets the strategic plan.

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Thank you guys. So this project meets the strate strategic plan integration goals one and two for quality of life and as well as economic opportunity. The applicant for this project is Mr. Twen Ma. He is here with us this evening. The property owner for this project is US Pacific Capital. Uh, this project is located on the south side of Laam Avenue, just to the east of Lion Avenue and just to the west of Elk Street, parcel number 4426046. Uh, little bit of a brief background on this project. This project was last at planning commission on January the 4th, 2022 uh when it was approved for a for a site development review modification 21-018. Um the entitlement was set to expire July 4th of this year, which is why we are here this evening. The applicant has requested an extension of time uh for extension of time 25-001. And as I mentioned previously, being that this was here prior, this gives the authority to the planning commission per section 90-48.8. And I'd like to note as well that the planning commission does have the authority, if they choose so, to grant this a three-year extension instead of just a two-year extension. Uh for the record, this item was publicly noticed in the newspaper in the press enterprise on November the 6th. Um shown before you is the proof of publication as well as the publication that was in the newspaper as well. In addition, there was also mailed out

to 619 recipients within 500 foot radius of the project site to occupants and owners. This was the mailing that the occupants and owners would have received in their mail. Albeit it was a black and white version, but it was this mailing that they received. And this is the certification of the mailing that was sent. [clears throat] Uh shown before you is the aerial view of the project site. Uh just to the south of it is located uh a C2 commercial corridor. You have businesses such as the Salvation Army, the Autozone, the Coach Light Motel. Just to the east of it, you have C1 zone properties which is a mobile home park. Albeit it's residential, it is zoned commercial. Uh to the north of it is another mobile home park which is zoned R3. And just to the west of it is a vacant lot as well that is zoned as a C1 parcel. The land use for this site is very high density residential. For this site location, the proposed density is 36 dwelling units per acre. Uh the range for this would be 30 to 45 dwelling units per acre, which this project meets within that range. The zoning of this location is R4, which is also multif family residential but at a higher density. Uh just like the land use was very high density, this R4 is a bit more dense than the R3. Um as you see to the north of it there shown before you is mainly for purposes of context. Uh some of the planning commissioners were not on this um public hearing on the January the 4th of 2022.

So this is more forformational purposes. This project tonight is not open for any kind of modifications. Only we are doing tonight is an extension of time for what was already approved previously. U shown before you is a 107,267 foot development site, 111 units, three stories, there's ball courts, 19,957 feet of landscaping, uh as well as 136 parking spaces. The difference from the original STR that was approved in 2020 was that this project has 111 units versus the first one had 120 units. So, it's just a decrease slightly. Otherwise, everything else, all the amenities are still the same as they were before. Shown before you is the architectural renderings of this building. Uh, as you see, it's a three-story building. The colors that are chosen are mostly kind of desert colors. Yellow, orange, kind of reddish colors, tannanish colors for the color that they will be painting this building. Units uh plans are shown on the screen before you showing studios, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments. Shown before you is the first floor plan which has 29 units. I'd also like to note that the indoor recreation area where they can have opportunities to like play cards and socializes on the first floor of this um proposed development. And there are three elevators and stairways of course to access the multiple floors. Second floor has 41 units and the third floor is identical to the second floor as well with the same amount of units.

Uh shown before you is the landscaping plan. This is what they provided is it's a grading plan, but they provided the landscaping on top of this. But they do have a very wide array of landscaping that they're putting in from trees to bushes, flowers, ground cover as well. Um, just a brief history on this. This project originally started in with SDR14-002 known as pension deloul and then in with EOT16-05 there was an extension of time for three years under AB561 this applied due to the CO 19 pandemic it met the requirements for projects that were approved and set to expire within a set time range this project qualified that and gave him an extension of time under SDR R20 that's where this project becomes the laam um essentially at this point in time the project had had provided 120 units uh everything I mentioned before with the the landscaping the parking all of that was the same with SDR21-018 they then provided 111 units as a difference for this project under AB 2729 this was another extension of time. Uh, this is what brings us here tonight. This extended the project until July the 4th of this year. The project originally would have expired on January the 4th of 2024, but because of this legislation, they were granted an 18-month extension of time. Uh, which brings us here to tonight, EOT2-001. The applicant requested extension of time 26 days prior to the expiration.

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So just a little more information for the general public. They can read this on the screen if they're observing this from home and for yourselves as well. Much of this is already stuff I've already shared already mentioned. Uh this project has established use and reliance in that this project was already in the process of trying to get grading permits as well as building permits and up until September 25th of 2024 they were already applying for their fifth sorry for their fourth revision to their grading permit. Um it was only at this time that the project was denied further as meeting its uh time limits to develop because it was under the understanding that this project had expired on time. It was unaware to the staff, however, that the state law had applied to this project and which is what brings us here tonight. I'd like to point out that projects typically will have over 100 more conditions. Um, this project had several several conditions and they were still in the process of meeting those conditions so they can get their building permits issued to move forward with their project. Findings in support of this request show that the legislation that passed extended granted them the extension of time being that the staff city staff was under the impression that this project had expired. It had carried this on longer. So the applicant was not able to apply for their next steps to get their building revisions, their grading permit revisions. Um but as we later discovered that there wasn't a piece of legislation that allowed this to continue it was near the ex the time of um expiration. So the applicant had reached out and requested an extension of time days prior to the rather weeks prior to the actual extension of July 4th of this year. And being that they were in the process

of trying to get their permits this is what establishes their findings to support this request. This project previously already had a SQA exemption under a class 32 for infill development. This project does meet all the listed above. It meets all the land use, the zoning requirements. Utilities can be served. This project doesn't have any impacts on the any significant impacts rather on the traffic, the noise, the air quality. Um as well as utilities can be served to this project. It's respectfully recommended that the planning commission adopt planning commission resolution approving extension of time for 25-001 for a two-year extension for site development review modification to 21-018 to site development review 20-002 and to direct staff to file a notice of exemption with the state clearing house and county clerk for this project. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you very much for that presentation. We'll start with the commission. Do you have questions for staff? Yeah, I have a couple questions. Um, this process started back in 2014, correct? Correct. Yes. Um, has it been the same applicant the whole time? No, it has not been the same applicant. Okay. Um, do we know when the applicant started their time frame or like when they started since it wasn't back in 2014? Was it that in 2020? For the record, I can't say the exact year specifically to date, but it would have been by the by 2022, I believe. But the applicant is here tonight to be able to speak more on that specifically.

Okay. And then um what happens if we don't approve an extension of time? Then the project ends tonight. The project ends tonight. Um on the staff report, I didn't see um how many trash enclosures because it was kind of blurry. Um, do you know how many trash enclosures there were? I did not look at that detail. No. Okay. Because if I did see, I only saw one and I feel like one isn't enough for 111, but I guess this isn't about that, right? This is just extension of time. This was already previously approved for asis. Okay. All right. I have no other questions.

I have [clears throat] Nathan, thank you for that. Uh, few few questions. Um, I'm a little confused. When you were talking about the issue of the latest laws that caused this request, I'm not understanding what the correlation is there. So, essentially what happened is, let me look at my staff report here to give you the specifics on that one.

Okay. Okay. So, under the assembly bill, it was approved in the fall of 2024. With that approval, it was given the the extension of time if the project was entitled before a beginning date and an end date to expire being that this project met that requirement, the minimum requirement for that assembly bill. It was granted an 18th month expansion.

That's where the 18 months comes in. Yes. Gotcha. And so what happened was along the way staff was not aware that there was an assembly bill that was passed really close to the time this was expiring but it expanded the range beyond just this year was months several and so being that this project qualified it later became aware that this project actually was still an active project because of this assembly bill but it was at a later point in time when it was near the actual new ex expiration date of July 4th Earth towards the end of spring, beginning of summer, that the applicant requested an extension of time, which would have been June 9th,

26 days prior to the actual expiration date. Okay. Do you know what AB bill that was? That would have been, let me see, 2729 assembly bill. Okay. All right, that clears that up. Thank you. Um, [clears throat] you mentioned that you did a public uh mailing out and I didn't hear about any responses or was there a response? I didn't get any. No, none directly. So, no response from the public. Okay. And then two or threeear extension is what we're looking at here tonight.

Yes. Does it does two or three years mean anything different to staff? just allows the applicant more time to to process with the permitting process. So you're you're indifferent to whether it's two or three years. Personally, yes, I'm indifferent, too. Okay. Appreciate it. Thank you, Nathan. Um, so I just wanted to clarify. So it's a project that started in 2014, but due to like COVID and other Yeah. reasons, but it wasn't the same applicant. It was another applicant. Correct. But with this same applicant. Um I mean do you think that that will be sufficient time? Two or three years is that reasonable with two years should be sufficient.

Okay. The applicant is here this evening. They can respond to um the timeline that the commission um is expressing concern with. Okay. Thank you.

Just a couple clarifications. I know uh there was a a date error that's been fixed when it comes to uh the planning commission. It was a November I think the date was originally uh 2022 when it should have been 2025. Uh on page four it says uh approval DOT number 25-00 shall be between uh shall be become effective November 29th, 2022 unless appealed by city council on November 28, 2022 after planning commission, but it should be shouldn't be November 18, 2025 instead of 2022. I think there's just uh there's a typo date in there and I'm trying to remember exactly what page it was.

Chair, are are you referring to the resolution, the planning commission resolution? Okay. Um okay. Uh yes, you are correct. So on page number two of the planning commission uh oh yes the second page of the planning commission whereas we'll just correct the date to reflect November 18th 2025. Okay. And then uh just another clarity it's is is it independent senior living or assisted senior living? Because there is on printed assisted assistant senior living. Yes. Assisted senior living active senior living 62 and older.

Okay. And just to kind of follow up on what Commissioner Hill said and what the what the city is saying is is this condition this issue we ran into is more of a city fault error that they didn't they weren't aware of the assembly bill. So therefore it's nobody's perfect. So we do make mistakes and they file for an EOT extension of time which I'm sure costs a fee to file. Yes.

And so I'm just going to kind of go off what Commissioner Hill said about three years. I think three years would be at least fair to give them a little extra time for a city error since they're still paying for the the extension of time. At least give them that little extra time as an apology on our behalf. Uh I think three years would be if you say not really that impactful between two and three at least give them three years. Um let me see if there's any other questions I have real quick. Yeah. And I and I'd like to hear what the applicant has to say about that.

Yeah. And more the applicant I'll have a question for the applicant. I'm just curious as what it costs for senior living per square foot. I'm just curious about that if they know that answer. But I have no other questions for staff. Anybody else have questions before we have open up public hearing? No, I'm good. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. With that, we are going to go ahead and open up public hearing. I guess we can start with the applicant if you'd like to approach the podium and if you can state your name please.

Hi, good evening. Thank you. Yeah. Uh my name is 20wm my ma I'm the project architect also represent the developer. uh I took over uh this uh project uh 2020 straight prepared the construction documents and I work with a structure engineer MVP engineer landscape engineer architect and the c engineer he's a local uh we formally submitted plan check paid planting fees in end of 2023 one thing I wasn't learned the expiration of uh 20 January 4th, 2024. We need an extension uh not talking about this assembly bill is is by miss calendar. We received the first plan check uh comments. We prepare resubmit uh and then we received the second plan comment. We resubmitted at that time. Uh Monnique remind me Mr. S. 20 you have to make expansion uh extension because of the case the intellment uh get expired of that day. Uh immediately notified the developer uh we we must uh apply extension for that. Uh yes, there was a COVID 19 period and uh the plan check is pretty much ready uh to to get a review approved and the financials in place. The the money is there. So I I told them I need to tell uh tell the commissioners are you ready to start construction? They say yes immediately. We put uh grading permit, building permit, we start construction

right away. Uh and so this is where we are and uh that's that's why we are here and thank you Nathan, thank you Monique reminding of this uh situation. Yeah. And uh we're looking forward to build a a good project for the community for the seniors. Uh I think one of you mentioned about the cost. Uh it's about $190 square feet to build this uh uh complex at this time. We I got the number from the general contractor. Yeah. Uh plus fees we need to pay of course. Yeah. Uh so that's where we are. And this is rental and it should be healthy financially for operations and the the trash uh we should have sufficient trash uh space. We can have like every two or three days pick up the trashes with the local trash company that can be handled smoothly. Yeah, we we want the seniors to live here in in good conditions. It feels good about it. It's a very good climate here too for them.

Thank you. Thank you. We definitely need more senior communities here. So, do you have any questions for the applicant? Yes. Yes. Go ahead. Um, [clears throat] so would you say if granted this time extension you'd break ground? What's your timeline on breaking ground? I would say once the raining season stopped next year most likely like February or March then we start. It's easier to do the underground works the trenches after the rains. Sure. And the construction would take about uh 16 months to complete.

16 months to complete. So do you think you need three years or two years? Uh beginning uh say next uh March or April. Uh you add how many months is that? 16 months. Yeah. 26 or 27. Uh that's 22 months. It's it's one year before the Olympics. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. [laughter] You know, my clients are always talk about Olympics. They're looking for the good market. Um, so what's the what's been the biggest reason for the time extension? Like what's been slowing you guys down? Just the resubmitting of the the permits and things like that. Um, financing.

Oh, financing. Yeah, it's okay. COVID 19 is the financing agencies are slow. Uh, they don't know about the market. Uh, It's getting normal. But you said you're good to go now, right? The fund is there. It's set. I asked him specifically because I will be asked this question in this political arena. So, Gotcha. Okay. So, you pretty much said that you're good to go. So, yes. All you really need is just the building permit and then you can start breaking ground in almost approved. Yeah. All right. Sweet. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead. I'm good. All right. Um, twins. [clears throat] So the question to you is do you want two or three years extension?

Two is good. Two is good. You sure? Because once we start construction inspections automatically valid, right? That's correct. Okay. I think that's the definition. All right. Yeah. Two years. Yeah. Because next spring it's it's it's very fast. Okay. It's approaching. Yeah. Uh that's all I got. There's no financial troubles, right? [snorts] It's better place safe than sorry. You never know what we may encounter next year economywise. You know, I I if it doesn't hurt anything, I just think three years will be safe to say just a piece of mind for everybody.

You could be done under two years and quick as you want, but at least you have for our mistake give you that extra year. three years. My wife said [laughter] shouting three years so that times. Okay. Oh, okay. Any other questions for the applicant? No. Nope. Okay. Uh any Thank you very much. Any public comments or e-comments? Chair, there are no public comments. Okay. With that, we're going to go ahead and close the public hearing discussion or entertain a motion or change it to three years. to entertain a motion. Uh I think I I think you're right. I think we should just give him the three years and

just in case. Yeah, I think three years because he said April that's 6 months away. 6 + 16 22 anything could happen. Couple week delay here and there. Now you're at another two years or now you're at two years. So I think maybe a three year is pretty good. I agree. Yeah.

Okay. Um with that chair, I'd like to make a recommendation. Is that okay? Um, I'll make a recommendation to one adopt the attached planning commission resolution approving a three-year extension of time for site development review modification number 21-0182 direct staff to file a notice of exemption with the state clearing house in county clerk. I will second that motion. I have a motion by Commissioner Hill, second by Commissioner Vera Montes. We'll do a roll call. Commissioner Ver Montes, yes. Commissioner Hill, yes. Commissioner Barona, yes. Chair Beamster,

yes. That motion passes four to zero. Now we'll we will move on to item 6B, Tris Shritos West Pacific Plan amendment number four. Can we have presentation from Deputy Director Pap, please?

Yes. Thank you, Mr. chairman, commissioners, uh staff, and community, uh the applicant who came out this evening. Uh thankfully we had good weather today. It's my pleasure to present to you a proposed project for the Trace Certo specific plan. It would be amendment number four along with several associated uh entitlement applications. The applicant is Dr. Horton, Los Angeles Holding Company, Inc. and the property owner is also Dr. Horton. The property is located at the northeast corner of or old old Warren Road and Rose Road aka Celeste Road. The entitlement applications that are being sought include the specific plan amendment, a tenative track map, a site development review, a model home complex, and an amendment to the existing development agreement. In terms of the planning commission authority, the planning commission has authority to review and make a recommendation to the city council regarding the specific plan amendment. Uh the same for the tenative track map because it is associated with a legislative action. Uh in terms of the site development review, normally the planning commission would have uh the approval authority for that application, but again because it's connected to a legislative action, uh we recommend that you advise the city council on that action as well as the model home complex and the development agreement amendment. Uh this exhibit is an aerial map that shows the rough location of the properties in question. Uh there are 10 parcels currently involved. Um the project site is located near the northwestern corner of the city limits uh adjacent to uh near near uh the city of Sosino uh Riverside County across Warren Road. That's also near Takitz

High School and um one of the elementary schools. Forget the name off the top of my head. I'm sorry about that. Uh here's sort of a a community context view of the location of the project. It's nestled in between the three uh the trace certos um just north of Devonshire Avenue. The zoning for the property is SP 09 or 90-009. uh that was adopted sever decades ago now actually and has gone through a few trans transitions over time. The general plan land use designation for the site is lowdensity residential which allows up to five dwelling units per acre. At this time I'm going to turn the presentation over to the representative from Dr. Horton uh Parker Chich. He's going to review the details of the of the project for you and then I'll take it over after he's done to uh wrap up the presentation. Mr. George, your name's Your name's Parker George. Uh no, uh it's Parker Chich. C H O R I C H. Okay. Thank you for putting the presentation back on the screen. Uh good evening, Mr. Chair and the and the members of planning commission. My name is Parker Chich, a project manager with Dr. Horton here to uh present Trace Certo's track map 31513. First, I would like to thank city staff who I've been working with uh to move this project forward to to tonight. Um I also want to mention that this is my first planning uh commission presentation. So very excited to be here and thank you for the opportunity. uh to support this presentation. Uh members of my team are also here in attendance for any experience or uh

questions. We have reviewed the resolutions and conditions and accept them as proposed. To begin and to reiterate uh Mr. perhaps presentation as well. Tracertos is located at the northeast corner of Old Warren Road and Rose Avenue or sorry Old Warren Road and Rose Road um just north of Devonshshire. The project history uh is does have a long history. Originally approved in 1991 as Trace Cerrito's Country Club uh it was later amended three times in 1999, 2005 and 2011. Uh in response to the uh evolving market conditions and uh community needs, we've reimagined the plan. Our proposal includes 269 single family homes with a broader range of lot sizes to appeal to diverse uh home buyers. The exhibit on the [clears throat] the exhibit on the screen also highlights the updates to the lamp plan. I can pause here for a second. U moving on to this exhibit to highlight the proposed land plan changes. We're proposing three planning areas with lot sizes ranging from 3600 ft², 4,500, and 5,000 foot minimums. Most of the lots in planning areas two and three do exceed these lot minimums. Overall, the project has a grow gross density of 1.42 dwelling units per acre and a net density of 6.6 dwelling units per acre. and Tracertos remains SQL compliant. An addendum to the originally approved M andD was prepared and confirming that the impacts remain within previously anal an analyzed thresholds.

Moving on to a site plan overview. Our site plan includes 269 units. Uh just under five acres of usual park and open space along with an extra just over 3 acres of sloped open space, 3 and a half acres of vernal pole reserve and just under 60 acres of conservation area. to highlight the parks shown here. This first part shown on the screen is um the primary park which is centrally located. This will be an HOA park that provides uh connected walkways and a variety of amenities and for all the residents. The secondary park is an additional recreational space uh which includes through the um supporting [clears throat] sorry additional recreational space is included through the secondary park supporting outdoor activities and recreational activities. Um this site plan does highlight a lot of open space connectivity. I'm sorry actually going to go back for a second. The open space connectivity is highlighted through these three areas. The first one I would like to show you is a centrallylo uh double po with an upper and lower trail system to uh convert or to walk through the topography of the site. This allows connection to the primary park that is uh located in the middle.

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The area two represents a typical PO section. There are three of these that offer connection between interior streets. These are all located through the uh middle of the homes as well. Uh section three that I've highlighted is our Celeste Road streetscape. Uh Celeste is also known as Rose Road. Uh we are uh proposing uh walkways and also a fence 8 foot po that provides connectivity through the entire frontage of our project and also to the poos that lead north to our parks. [clears throat] We worked very closely with city staff to remain in compliance for fire prevention. We have provided a fuel modification plan, a fire protection plan, and also [clears throat] and also a fire access plan. Here on the screen as well is a fuel modification plan with each of the zones highlighted in their depicted color. We have zone 0, 1 A, and 1B all captured within the residents rear lots. There is zone two and three which are an irrigated slopes. in that zone three I mentioned is a thinning zone along the hillsides. Tracertos is compliant with CFC section 503 along with chapter 7A of the California building code. We are also proposing that all of the public streets are available for fire access. There are additional measures as well for maintenance paths along the hillside uh drainage dish ditches and perimeter rear wall or rear wall walls. [clears throat] Our housing product has seven diverse floor plans. Uh you will see that there is a package delivered to you. Uh you can take a look at it at a later time. Just wanted to provide that for additional support. Uh but I will go through those in the next slides as

well. Uh there are seven divers floor plans to meet various family needs. Uh the home sizes range from just over 1300 square feet to just over 2500 square feet. Uh one highlight that I would like to make to the floor plans are that they include a multi-gen product which is includes an attached junior ADU for separate living. uh 25% of the sing uh of the of the units are all single story which complies with uh planning standards. Now to show you each of our elevations. Uh we can go through these quickly and you can let me know if you would like to stop on any. Uh this highlights the uh specific plan elevations that were provided to you as well. There's the Santa Barbara Craftsman and American Country. And that concludes my presentation. Uh, thank you for your time and your consideration today.

Thank you. Thank you. [clears throat]

[clears throat] Commissioners, I hope there was enough reading material in your packet this uh this week. No, not not at all. [laughter] [clears throat]

Okay. I'm going to there's going to be a mild amount of overlap on on some of these slides, but I'll go through those fairly quickly. So as uh Mr. George pointed out this diagram shows the on the left side is the existing uh land use plan from the current iteration of the trace specific plan and the one on the right is indicating the proposed changes which are indicated in the staff report. You had all the details related to that. In order to approve the amend amendments to the traceto west specific plan you must make these following three findings. Uh these findings were ident were um we had justification the findings of fact both in the staff report and in the resolution. Staff believes that uh the planning commission can make all of these findings in the affirmative. And as you know with findings um all of the findings not just the majority every finding must be made in the affirmative in order to approve each of these planning entitlement applications. Uh the the next uh entitlement application is for the track map. So this this exhibit is an overview of the entire map, but because it's at such a small scale, went ahead and uh loaded up the other two uh for you. This would be the southerntherly twothirds of the project. All of the all of the lots have been viewed by by planning staff, community develop community development staff and public works engineering staff and determined that per the specific plan uh requirements for lot sizes. All of these lots meet the the minimum depth, the minimum width, the the setback requirements, all of the requirements as established in in this specific plan as amended. This map would meet all of those requirements. This would be the northerly one-third section getting up into the hilly areas. And then here's a fire access plan which indicates that there are two points of access into the tract along Rose or

Celeste Road. And then they that road connects to both or to Meyers to Warren Road and also uh extends westerly easterly and connects to um all of the north south roads going towards Sanderson. So there's adequate fire department access and turning radi at all the the knuckles. As stated with the findings for the specific plan amendment, there are a multitude of findings of fact that must be made in order to support the track map. So, uh, staff has prepared findings of fact that are in your staff report in your resolution and staff believes that all of the findings can be made in the affirmative. Um, and again, they must all be made uh in order for you to approve the tenative or recommend approval of the tenative track map. Uh here's the the site development review summary. Uh you've seen all of the elevations and floor plans in Mr. Torch's presentation. So I'm not going to present those again. What I would like to present is the product placement map. So this map, it's a little hard to see at this scale, but it was provided in in your packet. Um it shows the distribution of the seven different floor plans as well as the different elevations. uh so that you can you can take a look at this diagram and see that there's no clustering of any certain type of architectural style or size or model. There's a very good distribution of all of those homes. So for the site development review again there are mandatory findings that must be made. Staff uh believes that all of these findings can be made in the affirmative. With respect to the model home complex uh Dr. Horton proposes to build uh three model homes, one in each style. These would be on lots, I believe it's 110 through 113 of the proposed track map.

Lot 110 would contain a parking lot that has five spaces that all meet current uh municipal code requirements for the size. They will have a portable restroom with a wa handwashing station as well as meeting all AC accessibility requirements uh throughout the model home complex. Uh there are five mandatory findings uh in order to approve the model home complex and staff believes that all of these findings can be made in the affirmative. With respect to the development agreement, uh this is a draft amendment to the existing development agreement. There the only there are no new deal terms or deal points uh proposed as part of this amendment. The the main focus of this is just to uh formally trans uh transfer ownership to Dr. Horton and to extend the time frame of the development agreement for five more years which would also extend the tenative map for up to those uh up to those five years. So that would be a total of 25 years from the original date of approval and would expire in 2029. Again, there are mandatory findings that must be made to support approval of the development agreement amendment and staff uh believes that all of those findings can be made in the positive terms of the SQA analysis. Um the project because it changed there are more units than there were originally approved but the applicant prepared a consistency analysis for the previously adopted mitigated negative declaration. This included uh the attachments to that uh which were about 4,300 pages of your of your staff report. U some of those were existing documents and many of

those were new uh special studies that had to be created for this project. Uh they completed an initial study checklist. Part of the um part of the addendum that they prepared includes the that checklist all of the original mitigation measures that were approved for the project and determined that there is no new significant impact related to the proposed changes to the development. In fact, in some areas like greenhouse gas emissions and other things, it's actually less with this proposal than the original proposal from 30 plus years ago due to uh many changes in technology regarding emissions on vehicles and uh construction equipment. Sorry, that one got duplicated. So therefore, staff recommends that the the planning commission recommend that the city council adopt an addendum to the existing mitigated negative declaration. When you adopt an addendum, that is strict strictly filed with the previously approved mitigated negative declaration and there are no no further action would be required. Uh no notices of any kind would need to be filed with the state of California or the county recorders office. In terms of the public notice for this project, uh because it's a legislative action, staff provided a 20-day public notice period, uh notices were mailed out and uh the item was published in the press enterprise newspaper on October 29th, which gives us exactly 20 days uh prior to hearing. And on the screen is the example of the mailer that went out. I have a couple of housekeeping items to go over. Um post publication it was discovered that there were two minor errors in the packet. Um the packet incorrectly uh I call it sorry Shrek fat fat finger syndrome or um I hit a a

seven instead of a six. So the correct unit count should be 269 units not 279 units. We will make that correction as it appears throughout all of the documents. And then prior to publication, staff had agreed to delete a condition of approval that was errantly left in the conditions in your packet. That condition of approval is number 161, and it's related to a 20 foot wide fire access road that is not required per our fire chief. Uh he reviewed the fuel modification plan, the fire access plan, the fire prevention plan and determined that that would not that that road would not be needed that sufficient access uh to have 150 ft hose pole can be achieved from the primary residential streets. Therefore, staff requests that should the commission uh recommend approval or whatever whatever your decision happens to be today that you take those corrections into consideration prior to deliberating. With that, staff uh respectfully recommends that the planning commission adopt both resolutions before you today. One would be for the addendum to the mitigated negative declaration and in support of all of the entitlement applications and the other being for recommending approval of the draft development agreement amendment. This concludes my presentation this evening. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. The applicant and their consulting team is either here or on the Zoom call if you have any specific questions for them.

Okay. Thank you very much, Deputy Director Pap. Does the commission have question for staff? Yes. Yes. Okay. Um, when the sequel was done originally, was that for the 170 that was for 176 homes? Correct. Um, can staff further explain how adding 82 more homes is a minor change to the SQUA?

Yes. Um, there are several reasons why we came to that conclusion. one is that the density allowance still fits the zoning, what would have been the underlying zoning originally and the general plan designation. Now, um all of the I I I hesitate to use the word impacts because they're not impacts, but perceived impacts that are reviewed through the SQA checklist and and discussed in all the technical studies. All of those are under thresholds of significance that are adopted by agencies such as the South Coast Air Quality Management District. Uh for VMT analysis, the analysis screens out, meaning that the imp that the number of vehicle trips or the number of vehicle miles traveled are below what would normally be expected for a development of this size. So all of those technical studies point that they're that all of the um areas that are reviewed under the SQA checklist um are below all thresholds for significance.

Okay, gotcha. Thank you for that. Um also, so what is do the does the city itself have any plans to like mitigate traffic, adding bike lanes, improving doone? I'm sorry, Devonshshire. Um, that is my commute every day. And on Devonshshire, there's no sidewalk. There's no bike lane. And I'm assuming 269 homes or yeah, 269 homes, like you mentioned, close to an elementary school, middle school, high school. Kids are going to be walking, biking to school. There's no way to get there unless they're on a onelane highway. Yes. I would normally take a stab at answering that for you, but we have our resident expert, deputy uh public works director, Jelene.

Hello. Yeah. Um, so typically projects are conditioned to build those uh [clears throat] improvements along their frontage. So right now um I think there might be sidewalk along the south side of Devonshshire where there's those residential homes and then where it's all undeveloped. There is none right now. So when those projects come in and develop that's when they're conditioned to build the full width street improvement sidewalk landscaping and all that kind of stuff. So that's typically when it would be done even though when it's a whole parcel in between their street and Devonshshire because I think there's like a ranch there. It's like it's being used for a agricultural I believe. So yeah once those once that vacant parcel comes in and develops then it would do all the frontage improvements along its boundary.

Gotcha. Okay. And then I also saw um a couple cross-sections of improvements to um to Celestial. No, Old War Road and um and Meyers. It didn't It just said improvements. It didn't say like fully paved. Are those going to be fully paved? Yeah, Meyers will be paved from Devon Shshire up to Celesteic Curves though. Um so that'll be improved. And then um Old Warren Road, it will be uh they'll basically repave it because it is paved right now. So any damage that they do during construction and stuff, it will be repaved. Okay, that's cool. Um, and does the city plan on adding any like bus stops to that area? Uh, I don't think there is one right now.

Yeah, that's a great question. That would be an RTA question because all the bus stops are owned and and operated by RTA, so not the city. Okay. Um, thank you. I don't have no question. Absolutely. Okay, Mr. Pap, thank you for that. um presentation. Mr. Hill, before before you uh may I respond to Mr. Monty's question? Sure. Um I would point out that we that a development review committee meeting was held for the project and a transmitt was sent to the RTA. Uh they did not respond stating that they would desire to have a traffic stop there. Okay. Or I'm sorry, a transit stop, not traffic stop. Oh, okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Yes, sir. I'm sorry.

No, that's fine. Um, any response to the mailer from the public? No response? None. None. None whatsoever. Not a phone call, not an email, not a not a response letter. Okay.

And I would point out though, actually, since you brought it up, sir, um, it was mentioned in the staff report. I did not include it in my presentation, though. Uh, Dr. Horton did their own public outreach. They sent a letter out to properties same as us within 500 feet of the project area. They held a meeting here on November 5th, a day after the election, so it wasn't quite so crowded in the parking lot that day. Um, from what I'm told, they had one one person showed up to that meeting that was in favor of the project. They were in support of it. Okay, sounds good. Um, I noticed that in the SQUA appendix D, the cultural report has been redacted. Yes. Any Can you elaborate on that?

Yes. uh cultural reports often contain very sensitive information to the tribes and uh the tribe the tribal elders the tri the tribal historic preservation office prefers that certain information is not made public so there are actually several other agreements uh between Dr. Horton, the Pchanga Band of Lyseno Indians. Um, and and on one of those agreements is a three-party agreement including the city. Uh, but those were not included in the staff report because it's not it's not public record.

Okay. I mean, I did see some correspondence between the the tribes and they didn't have an issue with any cultural uh significance in this area. I believe that's because most of those issues were already resolved in the original mitig mitigated negative declaration that was prepared I believe in 2004. Um so they've already had they just recently completed execution of uh monitoring agreements um excavation agreements. The site has already been massgraded. You can see that from the aerials. But they will have to go in and make some modifications because some of the roadway alignments are going to change slightly. Um some of the configurations of some of the proposed parcels have changed slightly. So they are going to have to do some grading when they do earth uh disturbing activities. They will have to have monitors out there.

Okay. So I take it there's no conflict of interest between what was put in our package from the tribes about cultural and this redacted report. That is correct. In fact, um, one of the emails, uh, I had a, I believe it was attachment number 13 was an email from, uh, the trib's, uh, legal council who stated that, uh, this project, and as I, I asked the question specifically, yeah,

does the these agreements that they've executed with the R Horton, does that conclude the SB18 and AB-52 consultation process? And they said, yes, it does. So they they are perfectly content with all of the agreements that have been executed. All right. So we're clean there. Yes, sir. Okay. Um how are these units meeting our reena numbers? I didn't see anything to that effect at all in the report or anything. Is there

they are all market rate. So they will meet the market rate requirement towards our arena but it will not assist lowering our uh demand on affordable housing or for low income very low income. Okay, that's what I thought. All right. Um the recommendation that you're asking for us to do, you're asking for commission resolution number 2025-XX. Do we have a number here associated with this? I'm going to defer to our developer development director.

Yes, thank you. Typically, if the planning commission approves it, we will assign a planning commission resolution number. Um, I I don't want to misstate anything, but I believe it's going to be planning commission resolution 2516. Do you want us to reference that or no? No, it's not necessary. Okay. We will prepare it and uh for uh the chair's signature if if approved by by the commission. Okay. And are we to include the housekeeping corrections or not?

Yes. And thank you for asking that question in particular because there is actually one other housekeeping item I failed to mention. Okay.

So I would like to bring that up. We would all city staff would like to add a condition. We've already discussed with Dr. Horton. They are willing to accept this condition. uh but you can ask them uh yourself if they come up. Um to the condition of approval would read something to the effect of should Old War and Road be used for construction access then reconstruction of pavement shall be required. So, Old Warren Road is in rough shape as it is. And if they're moving heavy equipment in and out of the site, uh if they're exporting importing or exporting any soil, any anything to that effect, it's going to it's going to tear it up tear up that road. So, they they are in agreement that if they use the road for construction access, they will re they will rebuild it. Should old should old Warren Road be used uh by the applicant? Uh the applicant will rebuild the road

uh specifically for construction access. for construction access. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Pap. You're very welcome, sir. Thank you for the presentation. Um, you've actually answered all my questions in regards to the school access, um, the roads being paved and all of that. So, wonderful. No questions.

Thank you. Good evening. Uh so can you expand back on the the the history we know of this project is the drainage issues and we just had all this rain and uh I just want to make sure that in the project they are they want to use the freeboards uh to be less than roughly right about a feet in the basin one foot and the airport land use commission asked for two feet and so in the squa the original SQUA. Was the original SQA based on the airport land use requirement and then they made changes to that or has it always been one foot on the freeboard where the water drain the basins go?

Honestly, I could I could not answer that question. I I don't know if Aluck provided any comment like that previously. This was a I believe it was a new condition of approval uh that they was added at a on believe it was a hearing in September held at the ALOC um boardroom I sorry and um that they offered up 10 new conditions of approval. So we those were added to planning staff's uh conditions of approval. I'm not aware of there being a previous uh statute or requirement for that. It may very well be that it's a new requirement that's related to air quality.

And is there a reason why they they chose one foot and not two? I mean, I know it's cheaper, but there again, flooding is known for that area. Is there a reason why they didn't go with the two feet? I do not know. Perhaps one of the applicants consultants may have an answer on that question. Um and they they will provide the pumps and if the pump goes out, they'll have backup pumps in case the pump goes out.

Yes, we discussed that uh with the applicant and they're they're willing to either put in a pump and a redundant pump or having a backup pump available on site in a perhaps in a storage shed if they need to bring it out if a pump fails. So they they we will uh work with them to come up with something that's acceptable to Alchett. And uh and from the again I'm going to go back into the original SQA versus the new revised one. Has the basin size changed the water basins and and footage wise? No, I don't believe it has. The the the sheet flow runoff should remain the same. The topography hasn't changed. The water courses haven't changed.

Okay. Oh, um, actually I'm going to have our deputy director of public works come up and answer that. She has additional information. Sure, absolutely. With the tenative map, uh, they made revisions to some of the lot lines and stuff and so the basins have changed in size. And answer your question about the freeboard. The one foot of freeboard is just typical standard practice um, you know, throughout the industry is to have one foot of freeboard and basins, channels and stuff like that. But the basins have changed in size. Uh yeah, not significantly, but they have they have changed due to the not to trigger a squa a change in squa. That would be that'd be emories. Okay.

Sorry about that. You jump from down. No. So the WQMP was reviewed and it was determined that as long as there's no new impact related to it, it can be modified. It just if there was a if there was a concern that it would create an impact then it might trigger the need to have to do uh recirculate a mitigated negative declaration but all of the technical studies indicate that even though it's being modified there is no ch no uh significant impact related to that.

Okay. I just know from history uh with Dr. important. There's been some did a little homework on Nationwide News and they've had some issues with floodings uh from their projects and I just want to make sure we don't run into these issues. That's why I'm asking all about the flooding questions. Um any other questions for staff before we open up public hearing? No. Nope. All right. [clears throat] Thank you very much, Deputy Director. And with that, we're going to go ahead and open up the public public hearing. And if we could have the representative from DR approach the podium.

Good to be back up here. All right. Hello commissioners. Questions for the upcoming applicant. How you doing Parker? Thank you for your presentation. Thank you very much. Um this is a cool project. I think it's a it's great for that area. Um, you know, there are some concerns with roads and this and that. Um, I have a couple of questions for the applicant here. Um, by junior ADU, do you mean like a cassita? Is it kind of like a cassita?

I wouldn't classify as a cassita. I would, when I do think of cassita, that'd be a detached ADU where it's a separate living space completely that's not attached to the home. A junior ADU is more maybe just like a marketing term of an attached separate living space with a small suite. So, it would have its own like kitchenet, little living room, and also its own uh living quarter or bedroom. How many of the homes are going to have that? Uh that would be listed on our site plan. Uh it is the plan of 2480. Uh there would be don't have it readily available in front of me. Okay. I apologize. It is listed on the site plan as how many homes there would be.

Chair and commissioner. Um it's going to be plan um five as as as Parker mentioned 5.2480 uh approximately 21 units um for the development and this also counts towards our regional housing needs arena. That's what I was going to ask. I ask all the questions. Okay, good. Um, [clears throat] so I noticed that in the southwest corner of this project there's a a VUL pool. Um, what happens when that overflows? Where would that water be going?

Is it just going to be drained into the adjacent neighbors? Because it looks like it butts up against the other neighborhood's backyards. Um, are there plans? Is that where one of those pumps is going or the pumps just going in the basin? Uh, the pumps will be dedicated for the basins. Uh for that vernal pool section uh it is required or not required but it is um us providing it its natural flow of water to provide the vernal pools to actually pull in that area. If there are any over overflows it um would just follow its natural tributary. Okay. Um I couldn't say exactly where it would be going but it is a recommendation that we do keep the vernal pools in place and we do have a long time uh management plan already uh prepared.

Okay. Um so I don't I think that's good. Thank you. Thank you commissioner. I don't have any questions. I think it's a great development for that area. Thank you. I don't think I have any questions.

I don't think I have any questions. I just for example on the vernal pool, your engineering is going to make sure that that water the water gets to it when it needs to in case it doesn't get to it due on based on engineering the city can get in trouble. So would Dr. Horton be picking up that expense if it's on an engineering issue with the vernal pools? I mean I hate to stop bringing up vernal pools but I know we had to change streets. We spent a lot of money on vernal pools. I I completely understand and that is a great question. I would thank you. Yeah, Dan here. Dan Boyd, vice president of Dr. Horton. First of all, I couldn't be more proud of Patrick. He's doing a pretty darn good job. Don't you agree? Excellent.

I've been with the company for 25 years doing what Parker's beginning to do this evening. So, it's a pleasure to see him succeed. With respect to the Vernal pool, it's a little more complicated. It's under complete control with the regulatory agencies and Dr. Horton's been required to comply with each one of those uh department fishing game regulations to restore the vernal pool. We're under annual requirement to go out there, do an assessment, make sure that what we're supposed to be doing, we are doing. And conversely, is it working? And frankly, at some point once this project gets approved, the maps get recorded. The city has already agreed that they're going to take over the maintenance responsibilities for these vernal pools and the financing funds from that will come from CFDs and HOAs. So, it's a very complex issue. It's been with the project for decades and and frankly speaking, we haven't we have not seen measurable success with these vernal pools because there's been no water. They need water to create those vernal pool habitats. So we we are under contract if you will with the agencies to make sure that Horton is complying with each and every regulatory action required. And then uh while I'm up here and I I'll sit down going back to the ADU for just a moment. Those are self-contained living spaces within the existing home. Yes, they will have their own side entrance, but they also have the ability to cook and do those kinds of things. It's not a detached ADU. I just want to make sure that the record was clear on that.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other questions for the applicant? I have one more question. Sure. Um if and when this gets approved, what's your timeline to start breaking ground and start getting those model complex? Uh so our goal with the time frame is to work with city staff on getting the rest of our final engineering plans to get to approval. Uh that may take some time. Um we do have some projections that we're looking at. I can't give any certain dates because I do not want to make any empty promises to planning commissioning tonight. Um, our goal would to be work with city staff as soon as possible so we can start uh getting shovel ready. Okay. Thank you. Of course. I know it's a little vague, but Yeah. Yeah. No worries.

But it's as as soon as possible. We're we're ready to go. Okay. Thank you. Not before the Olympics. Yeah. [laughter] No, this is not tied to the Olympics. I don't have any questions. Okay. Any other questions? No. Thank you very much. You did a great job today. Thank you. I really appreciate it. Great job. You guys went easy on me. All right. [laughter] With that, we're going to go ahead and close the public hearing. Unless there's any public comments.

Chair, I do have uh one member of the public on the Zoom call who's raised their hand. Mr. Dr. Shaw Rosen Ragger, you are now live with the uh planning commission and you will have three minutes to address your comments to the commission.

Thank you. Good evening commissioners. My name is Shaul Rosen Raer speaking on behalf of the green coalition of Sanosinto Valley. Um our main concern is uh sustainability which means the viability of this um project in into the future and our future is going to be different than our present. We're looking at a warming world and we're looking at uh different challenges. Uh, one of them we have concern about building so close to wildlands due to fires and um I don't think I need to say much more about that. You've all seen what happened in Los Angeles recently. The other concern is that this is again another community where every little trip requires a car getting into your car. Um, a good strategy for building for the future is walkable communities where people can do some of their errands by walking or a short bike ride to a commercial center. And we think that this, for example, next to the recreation area could be a small commercial center that will offer uh opportunity for some small businesses to be available to the residents. so that they can uh they can walk and not get in into their car. This is u this is a climate mitigation strategy. I also want to comment that uh the green coalition did not get a notice about the public meeting with the developer and uh thank you for your consideration.

Thank you very much. Any other public comments or e-comments? Sure. There are no other registered comments. Okay. With that, we're going to go ahead and close the public hearing, bring it back to commission for any discussion. I have a question for Mon'nique. So, the ADU, Monique, is um like Mr. Boyd talked about is inside the house. It's not a separate u you know, building.

Does it still count towards the arena? Yes, it's considered a junior accessory dwelling unit if it's integral if it's integral to the primary and has its own access separate access from the primary as well as independent um facilities for for habitation. Okay. All right. Very good. I think it's a good project. I like it. It's a great project. It's cool. It kind of reminds me of Summers Bend a little bit in Tmacula because it kind of builds up in a hill, so to speak. Yeah. Um, sorry to see the golf course go, but uh, yeah, that'll be a tough golf course.

Yeah. Okay. Any other discussions? No. No. Do you want me to do it? I can do this one, I think. Okay. If [clears throat] I do I have to say XXX or do I say 016? 016. I believe Mon'nique um indicated not to put a number there.

Okay. Okay. [clears throat] I motion to adopt planning commission resolution number 25 or 2025-XX recommending the city council accept and file addendum to the previous adopted mitigated uh negative declaration for the Tresorto's West specific plan and recommend that city council approve the Tresto's West specific plan. A amendment number four spa 24-003 tenative trackmap number 31513 map 24-006 site development review SDR25-00006 model home complex MHC250001 and condition and add condition should old Warren Road be used as construction Dr. Horton or applicant will rebuild it specifically for construction access and adopt planning commission resolution number 2025-XX recommending that the city council approve development agreement amendment 25-001

to include the corrections that two conditions housekeeping correction and the housekeeping corrections by staff. I'll second [clears throat] My wife can't stop staring at me since I started wearing these pants. I have a motion by Commissioner Vermont. Second by Commissioner Hill. We'll do a roll call. Commissioner Vermont. Yes. Commissioner Hill. Yes. Commissioner Barona. Yes. Chair Beamster. Yes. That motion passes as amended. Four to zero. We will now take department reports. page.

Agenda item seven, city attorney reports. City attorney Leo Sari.

Thank you, chair. I wanted to share two bills that went into effect this year. Um the governor signed AB130 and SB131. These are two major bills that speed up housing production and streamline SQUA. AB130 makes several recent proousing laws permanent. It also expands the permit streamlining act to include ministerial projects with faster deadlines, limits cities from adopting stricter building codes, and creates a new SQA exemption for qualifying infill housing under 20 acres. SB 131, it adds a near miss SQA rule that sharply narrows environmental review when only one disqualifying condition exists. and it exempts certain resoning and farmworker housing. It also provides new homelessness uh funding tied to meeting state housing goals. This is just a very general overview. Um I will be providing a deeper dive into these separate bills in the next coming weeks.

Good. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Uh 7B, Community Development Reports, Director Monnique. Thank you, chair. Um the I did want to report back to the commission. There was a um request to learn a little bit more about what's happening with the uh the HMT theater. Um I do not have any new information to report uh from the from the uh workshop that was held with the with the city council and planning commission. We did receive an application um for review of a marquee sign for the theater. So they are uh requesting approval of a marquee sign. Uh we that is currently under review. Uh but there are no additional updates for the Hemet Theater.

Yeah, I heard that um there's maybe a funding issue here for that. So we'll see. Okay. Uh let's see here. 7C future agenda items. Director Monnique.

Okay. Thank you, Chair. Uh future agenda items will include um the selection of the chair and the vice chair that at the next meeting. Uh a public works water and sewer rate study report will be presented. Uh via deostitos tenative track map that is coming um through um on the horizon. We are working with the applicant now that may be a few months away. uh as well as the Weston Park redesign which is making its way through the uh public process and will be brought to uh the planning commission for review. That concludes my report.

Sounds exciting. All right. And uh last planning commissioner report. Director Mon'nique

Chair Beamster. Well, uh, I just want to kind of again encourage the commission to even after this meeting set appointment, but, um, I went out and talked to Deputy Director Pap, asked him some questions about the meeting, uh, some Q&A, and I really encourage, uh, even the the day before the meeting, a phone call, whatever it may be, I really encourage getting more involved with with the staff and and ask questions before the meeting. And I just really encouraged the involvement on that because it was very helpful for me going to see him the other day and asked some questions. Um the other thing is just a little little catch research. Uh city of Sanel's great banner mixup of 2019. San decided to boost civic pride by hanging large street banners downtown. Simple things like shop local and welcome to Sano. The council approved the design package and public cheer and public works went to work. The banner went up beautifully. However, there was a problem. Halfman spelled Santo as J A C I N I T O. The extra I wondered into the name looking for a new home. Drivers Hong team took selfies under the misspelled banner and residents emailed asking if the city has changed its name for tax reasons. The city manager issued a very calm statement saying the mistake was due to filing version issue which is basically government term of uh a simple copy and paste error. The banners were fixed within a week, but the joke still remains in the city of Sanento as spelled J A C I N I T O. A little fun there. And uh with that, there's nothing to discuss. We will now adjourn the next planning commission next planning commission meeting to December 2nd, 2025 at 6 pm. Uh chair chair if that's okay. We we'll um allow the uh the commissioners um I

know we kind of went out today. I apologize. Yeah, we're we're trying to confuse you. We're just trying to change things up a little bit. Nothing else to report for [laughter] me. Just doing the last one. Thank you. All right. Um Commissioner Barona, do you have anything to report? I don't have anything to report at this time. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner Hill. No, I don't have anything. Thanks. Thank you, Commissioner Vermont. I have nothing to report. [laughter] Okay, with that, we're going to go ahead and adjourn the next meeting to December 2nd, 2025. [laughter]