Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

We will be conducting ing tonight's meeting in person as well as in virtual setting using Zoom. Members of the public may view and listen to the meeting tonight on Wave Channel 18 and online through the city's YouTube channel. If you would like to participate in live public comment via the Zoom platform, please refer to the agenda for instructions. Chair Eric Johnson will begin the meeting momentarily. All right. Seeing at 6 o'clock, we'll go ahead and call this meeting to order. So, I call the March 18th, 2026 City of Lincoln Planning Commission meeting to order. Roll call, please.

Commissioner Gilbert, here. Commissioner Hutchinson here. Commissioner Jackson here. Commissioner Jerry Johnson here. Vice Chair Manning here. And Chair Eric Johnson here. Look like we have a quorum for sure. Next item uh three, pledge of allegiance. And I've asked Commissioner and Manning to please lead us in that. One nation under God, indivisible.

Thank you. Now, item number four, agenda modifications. Do we have any agenda modifications this evening? All right, seeing none, we'll move on to item number five. Public comment on non-aggenda items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. Citizens may address the planning commission on any item on the agenda when the item is considered. Citizens wishing to speak may request to speak by raising your hand when requested to do so. So, currently, this is an opportunity to speak on non-aggenda items. Please limit your comments to three minutes. So, I'll go ahead and o open a public comment. And secretary, do we have any hands raised online or do we have anyone in the chambers that wishes to speak?

I did not receive any comment cards before the meeting for the public comment section. Um, I do not see any any hands raised on Zoom and no hands raised in the room. Okay. Uh, seeing none, I'll go ahead and close the public comment period and we'll move to item number six,formational items from the staff. Do does the staff have anyformational items? Not at this time. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Item number seven, disclosure of exparte communication. Do any of my fellow commissioners have any communication to disclose? And I'll start at my right with Commissioner Gilbert, please.

Oh, there it is. Uh, Mr. Chairman, I have none. Mr. Chairman, I have uh exchanged emails with uh John Jwitt and with uh Mr. Bar and that those are the only two. Nothing at this time. Nothing. And um I did exchange emails and have conversations with Amir Sid who and John Jwitt as well.

Excellent. Thank you. And I I as well exchange emails and phone call with Air Sidu and email with Steve Bur and email with John Jwitt. All right, we'll move on to item number eight. Uh consent agenda. All matters on the consent agenda are considered routine business and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of the items unless a request to move remove a specific item for separate action received. Uh any items will be removed and considered after the remainder of the consent agenda. Do any of my colleagues wish to remove an item which I believe we only have one um for discussion and uh do we have any anyone want to discuss anything on that?

Motion to the consent calendar. Consent calendar. Second. I think that was a tie. Okay. Jerry beat me to that. Okay. It was close. Second. Okay. Got it. Okay. Would you like to voice call or a roll call? Yes, we'll do a voice call, please. All those in favor say I. I no. Right. Chair Eric Johnson, if you could ask for abstension, um that would be wonderful. Okay. Any abstensions? Thank you.

And then the um vote would be 6 0 0 and zero. All right. So that takes us to item number nine, public hearings. So we'll start with item 9A, freedom rentals condition use use permit CDP modification. And looks like we have Ephine Sanchez, senior planner, that will give the staff report tonight. Please Ephine.

Good evening, planning commissioners. Ephine Sanchez, senior planner with community development department. The project we have before you is a conditional use permit application to operate a U-Haul service business within an existing building and parking lot. The project submitted by Odia Yala, who is both the applicant and the property owner. The project site is located at 5617th Street in downtown Lincoln near the southeast corner of 7th and F Street. The property has a general plan land use designation of community commercial and in zoning of commercial. The project site is surrounded by light industrial mcbeen factory to the north, duplex residential R2 to the east, commercial city parking lot to the south, and commercial far west rent and ready mix to the west. It's approximately 220 ft from this building. The proposed project will share office space with the existing Allstate Insurance Office and Barberh Shop. On July 19th, 2024, planning commission adopted a resolution 2024-17 which approved a cup to operate a rented car service business known as Freedom Rent Carar. This original CUP conditionally authorized the applicant to accept and reservations and process returns with a fleet of three midsize sedans uh which were permitted to park on site. After several months of operation, the applicant placed the car rental business on hold after incurring um significant losses due to customer related vehicle damages. And therefore on September 15, 2025, the applicant submitted the current request to modify the CUP to operate a U-Haul rental service business. Chapter 18.44 parking and loading indicates commercial use buildings shall provide one parking

space per 250 ft of floor area. Therefore, the 1,700 ft building is required to provide seven off streetet parking spaces. Currently, the site provides nine off- streetet parking spaces, which exceeds the required parking require requirement for commercial buildings. It is anticipated that the applicant will use an off-site RV storage facility under a separate paid agreement as to park a fleet of six U-Haul vehicles rather than park on-site or along public streets. The day-to-day operations are managed as follows. Reservation pickup. When a reservation is received through the U-Haul reservation system, the operator retrieves the assigned U-Haul vehicle from the off-site storage facility and brings it to the designated on-site parking space for customer dispatch capable of fitting the large 22 foot long U-Haul trucks. The on-site activity is limited to providing the keys and releasing the vehicle to the customer and typically takes approximately 5 to 10 minutes. Vehicle drop off. In some cases, U-Haul vehicles may be scheduled to be dropped off at the business location. When a vehicle is returned, the customer provides the operator with the keys and within approximately 10 minutes, the operator personally drives the vehicle back to the offsite RV storage facility for staging. This process is designed to minimize on-site street parking demands with vehicles not remaining on site beyond the brief customer 10-minute pickup or drop off uh window. It is anticipated that using the one parking space at the U-Haul rental service as a loading zone will not reduce parking spaces for the primary all-state office and barber shop below the required minimum. The Freedom Rental Business operates will operate between 8 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Uh the site plan, as you can see here,

uh this is a site this is a site plan. Here's the eight vehicle parking stalls. um the ninth one over here. And then this is the one the parking stall that's is 22 feet long and that's the proposed loading zone for the U-Haul vehicle. Oh, there it goes. I was seeing a mouse on my end. Apologies. Okay. Eight parking stalls here. The ninth one there. Um and then this parking stall 22 ft long which has the capacity to fit the larger um U-Haul um vehicle which you can see the specs here of the of the U-Haul and then the lower one u or the shorter U-Haul is 19 ft long.

Mr. Sure, if I could um I'm not sure I'm clear. I'm not clear um on which are the truck parking spots and what are the customer parking spots? So, the U-Haul vehicles will be parked off site at a separate No, I understand that. But when they come onto the site, where will the trucks park in this uh loading zone? The parking stall to the north right here. It's a parallel parking. Parallel parking. Well, people drive here on the satellite image if they drive up F Street, they park in here and then just go into that stall.

Commissioner, so this uh location, they're proposing to have a drop off at pickup only. So, uh, as someone comes into their business and has the, uh, arranged time to pick up a U-Haul, as as they do now, the U-Haul will be driven down from an alternate location, parked in that spot by the operator, and then the keys will be checked out by the customer, and then taken from that spot and moved off site if that helps a bit. So, there will only be one one place, one truck parked at a time.

Correct. So they will have to manage their reservation system to accommodate that. Um the proposed U-Haul rental service is consistent with the economic development policy 6.1 as it adds another commercial use to commercial property that complements the existing insurance company. The existing commercial building will house three separate businesses. The proposed U-Haul rental service does not trigger the need for providing additional parking spaces as there is no proposed expansion to the building. Both general plan policy T uh 3.2 and chapter 18.44 of the Lincoln Municipal Code are requirements for new development. According to the project site plan, the parallel parking stall at the northwest corner has the dimension capacity to serve as a loading zone for the larger U-Haul trucks. Supported by the analysis provided in the staff report, the CUP application requesting to operate U-Haul rental service at 5617th Street has been found to be consistent with the applicable general plan and zoning standards. This leads us to our recommendation. staff recommends that the planning commission conduct a public hearing, consider the information contained in the staff report and testimony of the public, and take the following action. One, determine that the project is exempt from SQA. And two, adopt a resolution revoking the existing conditional use permit previously approved under resolution 2024-17 and approve a conditional use permit application for freedom rentals based on the findings and subject to the conditions of approval as presented. Um, so that concludes my presentation. if the planning commission has any questions. Uh we also have the applicant here in uh the room if you have any questions for them.

Thank you. So I'll bring it to my colleagues um for the moment. Do you does anybody have any questions or comments? All right. So with no current questions or comments, we'll have another opportunity. I'll uh now open the public hearing. Citizens wishing to speak on this item may request to speak by raising their hand when requested to do so. Uh, please limit your comments to three minutes. Secretary, do we have any hands raised online or anyone in the chambers wishes to speak?

Chair Eric Johnson, I did not receive any cards before this agenda item. I did not I do not see any hands raised in Zoom and I do not see any hands raised here in the room. Thank you. I will now close the public hearing and bring back to my colleagues. Does anyone have any additional comments? And if none would like to make a motion Gilbert, please.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh I intend to uh vote for this. However, uh I want to make it clear to our staff that um converting from rent a car to rent a trucks and um accepting a plan that basically says there's only going to be one truck at a time is is you know I think is pennywise and pound foolish. There will be times where for whatever reason there'll be multiple trucks and it's going to cause some problems in that area if we allow that to affect the other merchants. I went by there the other day and uh specifically looked at the area. I sat my car for about 10 minutes. I watched the traffic and um on the good days this plan may work. on the bad days. I don't know about that. So, I'd like to caution staff that uh you be very sensitive to the other merchants in that area who could be impacted by trucks blocking their parking place and that we let the applicant know that we are very sensitive about whether that used permit will continue on in the future if it starts to impact the other merchants significantly. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you, Commissioner Gilbert. Anyone else have any comments or I I share Peter's concerns. Um, but the comments were well made.

Yeah, I share the same concerns. So, I'd like to pass it on to staff and just ask some questions on um it is hard to uh conceptualize the idea of one truck at a time in a parking spot. I also saw those those parking spots below um on the bottom half of your image. That's the city parking lot, right? Okay. So, um are they allowed to park the trucks down there? Um yeah, the on the site plan the adjacent parking lot that's city parking lot and so there is a condition of approval that states that no U-Hauls can be parked on that parking lot.

Okay. Um so how who monitors this and how do we make sure that that these these are being followed?

Yes. So practically speaking and this was actually initially bought to us as a result of some uh concerns from citizens that were put forward to code enforcement. And so code enforcement would be the one of the agents that would be utilized uh should there be should there be issues. Uh and this we have been had lots of communications with the applicant about these concerns, right? The size of the lot, the uh limited parking as well as issues of getting in and out of the lot, parking on the street, so many so many things, all the things. And so the applicant is aware that staff also is attentive to this and that we shall continue to be attentive to this. Our code enforcement department, as you know, is one person and we do not uh engage in like actively seeking issues. She doesn't drive around looking for things to sight on. But for uh a property that has received a previous complaint, that makes it more sensitive and more interesting. And so close to city hall, all of all of us walking out of the building for lunch, we will know if there are trucks parked in places where they're not supposed to be. And so the applicant is aware of all of that. You mentioned that the properties had a previous complaint. What was that

about the trucks? Oh, so they've been there. U-Haul trucks have been there. They were they were parked on the street. They were parked on the street. Sir, excuse me. Could I ask my colleague to mic up a little better so we could hear you? You're asking you're asking some good questions. All right. Okay. So, um All right. So, so there has been a complaint because they were on and that is that what brought us here today? For the most part,

it was quickly resolved and we did uh communicate with the applicant and just educate them on the proper way to go about getting an amendment to their CUP, which they were dutiful in coming forward and cooperating and communicating with us, their plan, their desires, their needs. And so staff, as we do, you know, assisted them through this pro process, which is what brings us here this evening. Okay. I'm okay for now. Okay. Maybe if there's some other questions, I might have follow-ups on those. Okay. I do have one followup. Yes. Um, so I just out of curiosity, where are the trucks located that are going to be brought in?

Um, yeah. So, the applicant has identified that um the offsite parking is at the RV storage near the airport. Near the airport. Okay. So, it's here in Lincoln. Yeah. Okay. Very good. Thank you. Just one comment. I just wanted to make sure that uh under the uh conditions of approval, the trucks are barred from parking on the street. Correct. I mean, isn't that the whole purpose behind this? Yes. Yeah. There's a condition of approval that states um no U-Haul vehicles will be parked in the u on the street in the vicinity of the site. All right. just to confirm that

remaining question maybe maybe a comment. This sounds pretty problematic. How would how does a renter know that they can't drop it off on the street? Yeah, that is the obligation of the operator to inform just like when you pick up a rental vehicle or you pick up any U-Haul truck, right? They let you know when you're returning the vehicle, this is when and where and how you return it. And so that it that does fall on them. And just to remind uh the plan commission the applicants here in in the room. So if you have any questions for them too.

Um I guess does anyone have any questions of the applicant? I'd like to just indicate, you know, I've made the first comment and apparently there's a lot of my colleagues that have the same kind of thoughts and that's why I said and reminded everybody that uh this will be done with a conditional use permit and we have uh at the city council level revoked these in the past where someone did not comply high and was impacting the community in a negative way. And that's why I I I want it to be public that our staff is on notice to monitor this and if it starts causing problems uh for the city hall employees, for the business neighbors, the people that live around there uh that we will uh immediately be able to take action. So, I think by forewarning the applicant, uh, they're they're going to, if they're smart, they're going to take all caution to make sure that they don't get a phone call from the staff. Thank you.

Something to say, comments. I mean, my I'll make some comments like I I really want to see businesses thrive in Lincoln and I want this business owner to thrive as well. I empathize with them. I see it's going to be a challenge. Um, and uh I mean I guess I um I'm a business owner and like you said you said what's that pennywise uh right? I mean things sometimes seem like they're going to be okay but it's going to be tough. I I empathize. I I don't see how that's going to work. Um but uh all the power to them and I wish them luck.

All right. Uh, thanks for those comments and questions. Do we have anything else from the commission? Um, yeah, great reminder. Um, it's a conditional use permit, so if there are any issues, that's, you know, enforceable. Uh, so I'll entertain a motion. Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion that we approve the applicant. I will second. All right. We have a motion, a second. Secretary, may we have roll call, please? And I'm assuming this is a motion and a second to find the item exempt from SQA and adopt the resolution. Yes, ma'am.

Thank you, Nita. I was about to do that. Uh, roll call. Commissioner Gilbert, yes. Commissioner Hudson, yes. Commissioner Jackson, yes. Commissioner Jerry Johnson, yes. Vice Chair Manning, no. And Chair Eric Johnson,

yes. So motion passes 51 0 0. Thank you. So now we'll move on to item 9B. This is the BAR pre-anexation proceedings and we'll have uh Mel PO Pollanis, planning manager give the staff report, please. Good evening, Mel Pavalinas. Um um this item before you is a request by Steve Bar of SSB Ventures for the BAR granexation proceedings. Um just a brief PowerPoint presentation summarizing what your commissions already received last week for review. Um the applicant is here for if you have any questions for them and as well as myself. Um as well as we did receive one public comment today about an hour ago. So hopefully you have a copy of that. Um I've met with the commenter uh Chris Davis um this morning and she followed up with this letter um said about an hour ago. So I haven't had a chance to review the comment but um we'll continue on with with any um coordination following um this meeting. You know, I apologize, Mel. Um, is that the one you were asking me about earlier? Because the only one that I have is what Tom gave me. I do not have

We're happy to uh either read that comment into the record if the commission would so choose at the time when we asked for public comment. Okay. Yes, please.

My my apologies. It came in about an hour ago, so I just sort through my emails and everything. So before you is a request by Steve Bar Ventures for an approval or preaxation request uh to formally file an application for annexation with Pl County LFCO. Steve's property is 115 acre property incorporated area of Lincoln within Pler County. It's part of an island B uh area encompassing five and seven specific plan areas. There's no development proposed with this pranexation request and as I mentioned this is proposed by Steve Bra of SSB Ventures. So the property uh that Steve owns is this in red dashes south of 65. uh existing Lson Lane borders the property on the west side. More road which kind of meanders east to west as well as to the north borders more road borders on the south side of the property and then partially on the on the east side of the property. Um and I me as I mentioned earlier this property is in the unincorporated area of Lincoln. it is subject to and not within the city of Lincoln and um in other words and it's subject to the rules and regulation of plaster county it is within the village five specific plan area which I'll have another slide that shows the area so this is the village five adopted village five specific plan um this this property the entire plan has not been annexed in completely um as discussed in the staff report part of It has been annexed as as village 5A which I'll cover here in a few minutes. The

property Steve Brock's property again is in red dash lines more road Nelson Lane and Highway 65 to the north. The property has a language designation under the the uh the specific plan of VRR or village rural residential uh with a density of to two to 51 units to an acre uh units per acre if it develops. As discussed in the staff report, um village 5 in its entirety tried to annex um a few years ago. Um it failed annexation in its entirety uh back in 2023. Uh in 24 u village 5A uh did annex and 5A is the one outlined in red area. But as a result of that village 5A annexation, it created islands. Um, in particular, island A and island B in blue. Um, for context, Steve Br's property again is in red dash line right there. And these islands are not property as I mentioned. It's not it's not part of the city as it would have to they elected not to be part of the city as part of the annexations in the past. But village 5A is is been annexed and of course uh the request before here before before you tonight is to be considered for pre-annexation. Detailed analysis is provided in the staff report including um the process for this is essentially your commission will make a recommendation to the city council um which the city council could consider and then authorize the city manager to formally file initiating an acco if approved. Uh more of the Allen B

would get filled in and potentially develop such as uh Mr. bars property. Um and and the more of these islands get filled, the better for an order growth of the the city can be can be can be achieved and then therefore promote policies and uh within the specific plan as well as the general plan. Next steps uh after your commission makes an action tonight, it would then go to the city council with with a positive recommendation by your commission. uh then the city council will consider that action and um make it render its own action of potentially authorizing the city manager to file to initiate application with Lavco. Um there's concerns of course uh there's a process that we'll have to go through. the city will be will be the applicant for the annexation but we'll be in collaboration with the applicant to get all the materials submitted with for with LAFCO as um summarized in in in the slide and detailed in the staff report. Uh staff recommends the plan commission deem the project exempt from further environmental analysis under SQA section 15183 and forward approval of the bar annexation proceedings to the city council for formal annexation uh application pass county lavco that's all that I have if you have any questions for me um let me know uh unfortunately the comment wasn't forwarded to you that's my bad but I will get that over to you for your um consideration, but I could read it also if if you'd like me to and that way um I have our copyright here.

Yeah. Yeah, I'll have you do that. Um maybe in one sec when we open it for public comment. Um,

and prior to commissioner comments, I just, if I may, would just like to share that, you know, the city believes in orderly annexation, and we did make a verbal commitment to an to LFCO when these islands were created to attempt to fill them in as possible. But I think it's also important to note that the city is not interested in attempting to annex any parcel or any piece of land or any home that is not interested in coming in. That there are sections that have expressed that they are not interested in being part of the city that they wish to retain their property rights under uh the county. And we respect that. You you have seen me defend property rights in front of this commission. we respect it strongly. And so I think that's important for this commission to hear and for the members of the audience here and listening to know as well that uh that this has to be something that you want in order to annex into the city. That said, this particular project, we really prefer to see projects that are fully baked uh that have a de development plan that can demonstrate a true value to the city. Uh this project does not do that in my humble opinion. It is the annexation of raw land. Uh going through the process this way will actually preclude this uh piece of land from being reszoned for two years after it's annexed in should it be successful. There is a large portion of it that is in the overfly plan of the airport which places significant restrictions on on a piece of a big piece of it. Does solve part of the island but not fully baked. and I'll turn it over to you, Commissioner.

Thank you for the presentation, additional information. I'll bring it back to uh my colleagues. Uh does anyone have any comments or questions? Commissioner Johnson, I'm I'm a little con confused. Um is staff recommending approval of the annex? We are recommending approval. However, we just want to make it clear that this is not the ideal project that we would normally like to see. Thank you. I'm not confused anymore. Good question. Any other questions or comments for now? All right.

Okay. With that, I will now open the public hearing for this item. Uh, citizens wishing to speak on this item may request to speak by raising their hand when requested to do so. Please limit your comments to three minutes. Uh secret or I guess before we get to that part, I'll uh turn it over to Mel to uh please read that letter as part of public comment right now. Yes, please.

So, um dear Mr. Pabalinas, thank you for taking the time this morning to discuss the upcoming public hearing this evening related to the proposed property annexation of the bar ventures property located directly across Moore Road. Um, just for the record, her her property, let me got a map here. Miss Dave's property is there's four properties here within village 7. The the third one from the from the right, but the second this one right here is our property. It's a 10acre property. Um this one right here where my shaking arrow is. All right. You can see it.

Sorry. We can't see the arrow on our side. Just the just the circle. Okay. But you're saying it's the it's the green one. Yeah. More green one. So second from the left. From the left. Yeah. Going. Yeah.

Although considered to be within village 7 specific plan, we ourselves remain unincorporated. We have not been annexed within the city limits. We have as we have discussed with myself. Um my parents built my home here almost 50 years ago. I have live I have lived here in this home for over 35 years. Our family has raised livestocks on this property for four generations. I have seen many changes since graduating from Lincoln High School. But but it has always been our wish to continue tradition in agricultural here on this place. With the annexation of property around us, I wonder when it would I wonder when or if we might be required to be annexed within the city limits. Is there a protection in place that guarantees us the right to continue to be involved in agricultural to raise cattle, horses, chickens, goats, and other various livestock work and mow in our fields, maintain, repair or build new barns and fences as we have for close to 50 years? Is that right transferable to another family member down the road? Additionally, will we be required to connect to the city sewer and sewage? Oh, water and sewage. How will traffic be addressed on these local connecting county roads? How will they be maintained? Not only as it relates to this annexation, but to the proposed development on Nelson Lane. Several years ago when they proposed the installation of the landfill facilities on Athens road one road over we were pro we were promised constant monitoring and pickup of the connecting roads as well as regular maintenance of the connecting roads themselves. Moore road has become one of the most traveled roads for the landfill trucks both private and city-owned and unfortunately it is rarely monitored for garbage dumping and is notably one of the worst maintained. Again, I want to thank you for your time this morning and the opportunity to

voice my concerns. I appreciate your offer to forward this letter to the commission, council members, and any related staff. Sincerely, Chris Davis, 2775 Moore Road. Thank you for uh reading that in for the record. And I'd like to just ask I assume it'll be made an attachment um on there, too. So, thank you. Uh, Secretary, do we have any Have you received any cards or any hands raised online? Anyone in the chambers?

Actually, Chair Eric Johnson, I did receive a card from Chris Davis. So, is Chris Davis here? If you would like to make a personal comment, um, you could step to the podium. After, uh, Miss Davis will be Albert Shriber.

Yeah. Uh Mel did a a great job of reading the letter. The only thing I might add that is not in this letter is you talked a little bit about the flight plan uh there. Like I said, I've lived there for many years. And uh and there's more and more airport uh traffic, you know, uh planes that fly over the house than there ever were before. And that that's understandable. But when you get to talking about the the uh noise and whatnot, I literally can sit in my living room and I can watch the plates in my kitchen rattle when the you know the planes fly over. So um I I would think that that'd be something for you to consider in all of this and I don't think that's going to change or get any better. Um so that would be the only thing I would comment. We, my husband and I, um we fought against the annexation for years and um because we wanted to continue to have animals there and even though there might be some type of protection whether it was grandfathered in or in some kind of overlay, uh I know that that could definitely change things as as things progress. So those would just be my concerns. I when I read the paperwork, it said if my voice wasn't heard or uh concerns weren't raised that basically we were out of luck. So I'm I'm saying it now. Thank you.

Thank you, Chris. Have a next one. Uh if we can call Albert Triber to the podium.

Uh good evening Albert Shber. Uh more road. Uh, first I'd like to make it clear that I'm not opposed to this uh project. Uh, to elaborate, I'm not opposed to anybody doing what they want on their own property as long as it doesn't uh it's not illegal or doesn't uh drastically affect somebody next to them or around them. That being said, um I do have some uh comments and questions. I um only learned about this being on the agenda uh yesterday morning. I was coming to this meeting for uh one of the following agenda items. Thought I'd read through the agenda and there it was. So my property is contiguous to Mr. Bars. Um normally um because we have so many parcels and land owners on our property, we get multiple notices. we got no notice for this. And so that was frustrating to just find out about it yesterday. Uh so then I um you know going through the staff report um I I I found the public comment section and there was only two comments on this whole thing which seems a little surprising. Uh but I was reading through the LAFCO one and uh Alfco's um recommendation is that this annexation gets tied into two other annexations and one of those was the um uh Moore Ranch East project uh which I've never heard of. I know where the property is. Um, but when I I'm not very techy, but when I tried to find it on the city's website, I could find nothing about it. I I've got no notice about it either. And when I talked to some of my neighbors, uh, they didn't hadn't got

any notice for either the BAR project or the more Ranch East project. So, that's kind of concerning. How much time do I got? Minute left. Perfect. So, um, as I said, not opposed to this project. Um, I would like clarification that, um, if not only the Davis property, but the property next to it, the Hansen's, if they get sucked into this, um, unwilling, um, does the egg overlay that covers village 5 cover them as well? It should. I believe it does, but I think there should be clarification for that. Um, and the other thing that Miss Davis brought up is that um, uh, you know, there was a lot of back and forth when the whole village 5 thing went through about whether you would have to tie into city sewer and city water. And so because it's not their choice, they shouldn't have to now, tomorrow, or anywhere down the road. And if they do, it shouldn't be at their cost because it's not their choice to be in this mess. Their choice is to stay out. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Albert. Did you state your name? I don't I did not receive any other cards. Us more cards, no hands raised online. And if you could please state your name.

Sure. Uh Mr. Chairman, members of the commission, Marcus Loduka, 1508 Eureka Road, uh land use council for PR Ventures. I just wanted to clarify a couple things. one um in terms of the comment about this is not fully baked. Um this property has both uh general development plan and village five specific plan land use designations just like other properties have come in without specific development projects um but with a specific plan uh land use designation and general development plan designation under that specific plan. we are going to be subject to um all the uh provisions of the specific plan as are all other properties that have already been annexed to the city. Um the other thing relative to overflight if you look at what that land use designation is it's village rural residential very very very low density um in terms of the um number of units that can be placed on the property and that was done during the specific plan process in recognition of that overflight. So, it wasn't like that was ignored. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been able to have that plan um move forward uh through the LFCO process and get annexed. Um as to Miss Davis and Mr. Shyber, um we will absolutely be in contact with them. There is no intention whatsoever to uh um bring along in this annexation request anyone who would not want to be annexed. Um consistent with city policy and the city standing on this and I know Mr. Shberers's long efforts to ensure that was the case. That's why this property is one of the larger properties left in all the islands. In fact, it may be the largest property left in all in the islands uh to be able to come forward. And it's one owner. So there isn't like saying, well, we need all these other people to join us in order to be able to get access or get have be adjacent to a road or anything else.

This property can stand alone. Um but again, we do have land use. Thank you. Thank you, Marcus. Secretary, do we have any additional hands raised or anyone? Oh, uh, we do hear out in the audience if you could please state your name.

Hi, uh, Steve Bra. I am the property owner and, um, I had sent emails to, uh, all of the commissioners. I just wanted to introduce myself. Um, I just wanted to also echo that, uh, with the original village 5 annexation, this property was part of that proposal. um it was taken out uh I think primarily in large part because there was some opposition from the neighbors in my area and at that time I still wanted to be annexed but to you know uh assist the city staff and allow the other annexation to go through I was willing to wait and now I want to move forward u and that's why I put brought this forward my property as Marcus mentioned you know it's already part of the specific plan has a land use designation it's not raw and um as was described earlier and it's no different than many of the other parcels that were already annexed in terms of where it is in the development cycle um and for a variety of reasons there's there's a purpose and why I want to have it annexed now before I have you know a map or other things to come along with it so I just wanted to share those comments thank you

all right thank you Steve have any other hands raised or there are none online and I do not see any hands raised in in the room. Okay. Okay. We probably need to tag team some of these questions if you wanted responses to any of the comments. Yeah. Do you want to um do that now before closing public comment or uh No, we have to close public comment first, sir. All right. I'll uh close public hearing is now closed and uh I guess I'll bring it to the city staff to address anything.

Okay. So, just addressing some of the general comments of the uh community members that aren't being annexed in. Again, the city as as we've stated has no intent of forcing anyone to annex in. Uh and if you in fact, city council uh provided direction to staff about a year and a half ago that if you are not annexed into the city, we won't be providing you water and sewer. So there's not an avenue for us to require you to have water and sewer. It's there aren't lines that go out there and so there isn't a function or a way or a method or a desire by the city to have these properties connect to our system. It's an additional burden and without them being annexed into the system, they're not really contributing to the system. So they don't want it, we don't want it. Uh and as far as uh road maintenance for the roads that are in the county, we don't have a lot of control of those roads that are in the county. So Athens Road, the part of Mo Road that's not currently annexed in, those are all can county roads. Once roads are annexed into the city, then neither uh the city or andor the developer depending on the community and how it's developed in becomes responsible for that road maintenance. Uh, and um, I think I hopefully made it clear uh, regarding the property lights. Um, Mel, I don't know if you can respond to the A overlay for this particular property.

Yes. Um, I was in talking to Miss um, Miss Davis this morning. There is and there's many documents related to the annexation of village five or attempt two of village 5a that involves right to farm provisions or some some sort of of regulations or requirements that if you're in a county you can continue to be to do your your farming um and other activities that that you're being part of the county and um but of course once development happens and then if you decide to annex then you're subject to the rules of the village five specific plan there. I believe there's also one. It's a pretty standard documentation. There was also one in village 7, but I know village five there is one. I've seen it myself. I just needed to coordinate that with Miss Davis so she'll feel comfortable and assured about her concerns and maintaining um her livelihood being part of the county. um regarding the the u the noising that um

oh yes I actually have an update on that as well. Apologies I wrote that down and didn't make a comment on it. So in fact at the airport committee this morning uh they have been discussing noise over a different area of Lincoln but still noise nonetheless. Uh and the committee is currently considering how to move forward uh if there is something to move forward on. Uh but we did uh they did touch on what could be uh considered a a simple solution where uh pilots are notified to use I believe it's called noiseabatement uh procedures where the way they take off and land uh ends up being a bit quieter than than now. And so that is uh something that they are currently looking at and considering.

Um thank thank you for that. U regarding the noticing for projects, our standard noticing uh is 400 ft radius from the property line. So it's in excess of about 100 ft beyond the state regulation. So we exceed that. And the projects that were referenced earlier were pre-applications. They're not formal development application. And it's just more a the way I describe it as like a a physibility test to see what could be um what what could be had at that property. Somebody has to apply for the pre-application and get feedback from from staff, but it's not a formal application. There's no so there's no noticing required for those types of application just just for the formal applications that are in process with the city. Um, so those and there were there are pre-lications. Uh, the properties that are east of east of Miss Davis property were the ones that were um that went through the process. Um, and again the normally designated is more of an informal review by staff and but the benefit of of the applicant to get more comments or input on the potential to develop the site those sites. Um, a overlay as I mentioned there are over a overlays they will remain within a in village five at least and I'll coordinate that with Miss Davis further. Uh, and I'll also double check to see if there's any village 7 um a overlay zones as well as any protection provisions uh as it relates to properties that are maintaining within the county. So I'll coordinate that further with Miss Davis. Uh lastly, with regards to her comment about how will traffic be addressed uh to these local connecting county roads when development happens there's um it it goes to a slew of of traffic analysis um within as as with regard to how they're impacting um the areas around them. And of course the the baseline

information in these cases uh is the village five analysis and it's EIR. So that's always the the the the baseline of where we start from and from there we we analyze it further to see what what what needs to be uh ensured that county standards are being met uh to ensure safety and um uh along those roads and but maintenance. Yes, there will be coordination at times with with with county with regards to who's doing what portions of of the road because they there are these instances in which development stops at a certain point and then um but its impacts could go beyond that and then in some cases uh emergency services needs to be coordinated and collaborated with county make sure make sure that there's no there's no uh confusion on who goes when and which which entity which jurisdiction is responsible to doing what. So there's always that coordination that happens. Uh in some cases there's agreements entered into between the county and the city to um to that way it's all coordinated and um and ensured that there's no um safety is ensured.

Thank you Mel for all that and all right with uh with that I'll bring it back to my colleagues. Uh, does anyone have any additional questions or comments at this time or we consider a motion? We did. We closed it. Yep. Yep. Yeah. So, we closed public hearing and uh anyone has any comments or questions,

please. See, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, you know, the city went to a lot of effort in several of our areas, including this one, uh, to form an egg overlay so that certain people could be protected. And we made it very very clear uh when we did the first one when I was on the city council that that you know we could not protect the future. They can change laws. They can do all kinds of things. But as far as the city's position at that time, and the staff bought in completely because they were the ones that had to document it and bring it before us, uh that we would protect the rights of Alberts when he did not want to be part of the city. And uh we found that as time went on, in some cases, the next generation took over. Uh I think of one in particular in another part of the city when the next generation took over when unfortunately the father who wanted to do certain things passed away. The family wanted to become part of the city and so the city then worked and incorporated them into another area. So, I think we've we've got a history here, at least as far as I I can go back about 15 years, of being very sensitive to what people want, even though it costs us a lot of time and extra money and extra staff time. Um, I think we owe it also to the people like the applicant that's here tonight, uh, that if they're ready to move forward,

we should be supportive of it. And so I will move to determine that no additional environmental analysis pursuant to SQA is required and to adopt a resolution recommending city council authorize the city manager to formally file an application with LFCO for this prop project's property. I second it. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Uh, Secretary, may I have a roll call, please? Commissioner Gilbert, yes. Commissioner Hutchinson, yes. Commissioner Jackson, yes. Commissioner Cherry Johnson,

yes. Vice Chair Manning, with a a motion with such a long comment should allow other commissioners to comment. in my opinion. Um, and so, uh, I agree with this project, but I but I I do have comments after that, after his comment, but based on the rules of order, um, a motion's a motion with a second and meeting goes on. So, you can you can make your comment. You can make your comment.

Yeah. I mean, I I was part of the the uh planning commission when this project when the overall project came came forward, and one of my big concerns at that point was um because I'm very sensitive to the land owners and the legacy of families that are out there to allow them to do what they want to do. And I had a yeah I had a real problem with the uh with the a overlay at the time and I don't know if it's different because I stepped away from from the planning commission for a term but the a overlay at the time the way I understood it was a city ordinance that could be changed based on a city council that that wanted to change it by a majority vote. And um I just feel like that's that's uh I would that concerns me especially when I talk about when people talk about these islands and you have a family that wants to do what they want to do and as that island starts closing in on them it becomes inevitable and you have council people and past council people like Mr. Gilbert and um who may have been sensitive at the time and that was the spirit of that a overlay, but as time goes on, you could have a new council that votes in favor to just abolish the a overlay and um that is a concern of mine. I I appreciate Nita your sensitivity to it too and I believe it completely but as we all know this commission is going to look a whole lot different in years to come and in years to come these islands are going to get smaller and smaller. Um I think that was a major mistake of the city. I had a problem with it at the time. I think it was done like that probably strategically and I think that was wrong. Um, and uh, I appreciate that this project has even that everybody agrees that I we didn't see anybody that's stepping up and saying no to it, but that they have concerns and I have those same concerns.

Um, I will vote yes on it, but I want those concerns to be on the record. Thank you for that. Um, I guess as a matter of comments, do we need to reconsider anything or No, just move forward. Okay. And your vote, Chair Eric Johnson. Uh, yes. So, motion passes. Uh, six. Yes. Uh, zero zero and zero.

And zero. Thank you. 600 Z00. All right. Thank you. So, we'll move on to item 9 C. This is the Stardust 12 project. So, I'll turn the time over to again at Mel Pavalinus uh planning manager who will introduce a consultant.

Yes, thank you, Commissioner. Um Mel Pavalinas. Um uh both Adrian and I, Adrian primarily will be um um stepping in for um on behalf of um Michaela. Um Adrienne Graham has been um involved with village one since the beginning 2013 I believe even even maybe earlier. So and um she had written um authored the EIR for the for the one specific plan. uh even helped me out in um in moving forward with a couple of projects uh the waterfront project uh the amendment to the specific plan back in 22 and a couple of the projects and she um Adrian has assisted the city Michaela in particular on several projects uh uh mainly um Level Ranch Parkwood um and Stardust. So starters 12 will be the next one in line and before you uh Adrien um we have a presentation for you and Adrian will take the lead here and then uh staff myself and um and engineering staff will be will be available for any questions in support of Adrian. Thank you. Good evening, planning commissioners. My name, as Mel said, is Adrien Graham. I'm a planning consultant uh assisting community development department on a number of village one's projects and we'll be standing in for Michaela this evening. Um the project you have before you is the Stardust 12 project. Uh this presentation will be fairly summary, but there is quite a bit of detail provided to you in the staff report. So the um ah two-fisted um so tonight we'll be discussing a number of items the uh entitlements that are requested by the applicant uh

various components of the project staff findings the environmental determination and the staff recommendations. Um the applicant Jen California 28 uh has oh sorry going here I apologize um has requested several entitlements uh including an amendment to the zoning and land use designations of the project site in the specific plan amendment to the general development plan uh approval of a small lot tenative map and then as part of that um we're also asking for adoption of the addendum um the the SQUA addendum. Of course, the role this evening for the planning commission is to make recommendations to the city council with respect to these entitlement requests. So, the Stardust 12 project site is located here in the eastern most edge of the village one site. It is just south of Mc Mine Park Drive and east of Stardust Drive which is in the county. Um and it is north of the recently approved Stardust project. The as you know there have been a number of projects that have been approved. Mel just listed some of them in the village one specific plan area. Um most recently the Parkwood project which we'll be also be discussing a bit this evening. So the um small lot tenative map for the Stardust 12 project provides for 84 residential units. Um it also includes two open space lots, a utility and pedestrian parcel and an emergency vehicle access parcel. All of the residential units would be village

medium density residential um VMDR and they would be uh single family homes. The lot sizes would range from 3,200 square ft to about 8,900 square ft. The average lot size is about 4,000 square feet. And as you can see, um, that's those lots in the center of the site are fairly uniform in, um, size. The larger residential lots, whoops, are cur on the, um, eastern edge. Access would be provided via an offsite connection here to uh, Level Ranch Road. Level Ranch Road has previously been known as Oak Tree Lane. Um so that is how veh vehicular access would be provided to the site. Um also included in the project are improvements along here along Mcbine Park Drive essentially widening the pavement to the um south to the project boundary and providing lane striping. Uh let's see.

Mr. Chairman, could we interrupt with questions or you want to have questions retain until the end of the presentation? Um maybe we'll wait till then. Yeah. Thanks.

Um in addition, an emergency vehicle access is provided here. Um this would EDA would connect to Stardust Lane. Um which then connects up to Mcbine Park Drive. This would be an EDA only. There would not be regular access allowed through this. I'm gonna I pretty much covered that. So I think I'll skip that slide. So one of the uh components of the approvals tonight is a request to redesate and reszone the land uses in the project site. Currently the um about half of the site is zoned for village country estates and about half for village lowdensity residential. Um the project as proposed with the 84 units would have a density of se average density of 7.6 units per acre which is higher than is allowed under either the VCE or the VLDR zones. So therefore the project applicant proposes to rezone and redesate the site to VD um those portions of the site to village medium density residential. So you would essentially have then 11 acres of VMDR and 1.8 8 acres of open space that would be the open space would be unchanged. Now this exhibit illustrates how that would be achieved. So on the left you see that um the east westernmost portion of the project site is currently zoned for lowdensity residential while the eastern portion is zoned village country estates which is a transitional zone. The specific plan intended for it to provide both a buffer and a transition between the more urban uses within the um within the village one site and the rural uh uses out in the county which

occurs immediately east of the project site. Um so I actually I think the conversations that went on just about uh the village one annexation issues previously are also pertinent here. Uh one of the concerns when you're next to the rural residential areas is that they um actually allow farming activities. Those can be considered nuisances when you have bring in by by residents of more urban uses. Um and so this VCE zone was going to provide a bit of a transition there so that you'd reduce the likelihood that people would um consider the rural residential uses a problem. Uh the applicant has proposed several ways to incorporate the some of the elements of the VCE zoning into their project um to minimize the potential for conflicts with the rural development to the east. That includes, as I um indicated earlier, you have larger lots on the eastern boundary. They're wider and deeper which gives you more flexibility with respect to um citing your residences and other improvements. In addition to that, there are only six lots that residential lots that would occur on the eastern boundary and that density along that edge is similar to the um density provided on the recently approved Stardust project immediately south. Um they are also proposing an amendment to the general development plan that would increase the rear yard setback to 20 feet for the parcels that are adjacent to the county boundary. And so that will give you again more separation between those rural um areas to the east and the homes in the um Stardust 12 project. Finally, um there is mitigation in the environmental impact report that the

project would have to comply with that states that any homeowners that are located adjacent to county the county boundary have to be provided with the county's right to farm ordinance so that they're aware of what could take place essentially across the street. Um so another consideration um with respect to this reszoning and redesignation is that under the VMDR um zoning you can develop more units than you would be able to develop under VCE or um low density. And in fact here um the 84 units that the applicant is proposing it's about 36 units more than the specific plan and the EI anticipated under the existing um zoning as it happens. Gen California 28 which is the property owner um they also developed the Parkwood project which was just recently approved. That project came in at 42 units less than had been anticipated. So if you consider Parkwood and Stardust 12 together um then you would see that the net number of units would actually be would drop some. So the applicant is proposing that the units that they um didn't develop on Parkwood apply to Stardust 12. Um what that means from a um practical standpoint really is that there would not be an increase in the village one specific plan in the number of residences or um the population um relative to what the specific plan anticipated and the EI analyzed. Um so staff did analyze the project for consistency with the general plan with the spe uh village one specific plan um

with the general development plan as well as the count um city's u subdivision ordinance and found that with the amendments that are proposed with respect to zoning etc that the project would be consistent with these plans. Um in addition, city has prepared uh draft conditions of approval. They're attached to your staff report. And the um intent of these conditions is to ensure orderly and timely implementation of the project. Um you will see both standard conditions of approval as well as some that are project specific. Uh they also include all of the applicable mitigation measures from the EIR. These conditions are subject to um verification of compliance by the city and the applicant has reviewed all of the conditions and agreed to them. Um so with respect to the environmental determination under SQA, anytime you have a discretionary action like this, you have to determine if there's impacts that here we have a a specific plan EIR that's already been prepared. So we're asking are there any aspects of this project that would increase the severity of impacts previously identified or create new significant impacts. We prepared an addendum to the EIR that concluded that in fact that would not occur. Um and that is because as in large part because as I said there's no increase in population or traffic or anything like that with respect to village one as a whole um because there were fewer units developed elsewhere. So the increase in units on this site doesn't have that effect. Um and in addition the ER assumed that the 11 acres would be developed. So um as a result there's no additional analysis that needs to be done from a SQL perspective. Um

and finally the uh so the recommendations of staff tonight are that you adopt several resolutions. first to um adopt the addendum that um concludes that the village one EIR adequately addresses the impacts of the project. Second to um amend the specific plan regarding the land use designations and zoning. Third to amend the general development plan and finally to approve the small lot tenative map. So that is the end of my presentation. Uh, as I understand it, there were no comments, public comments received on the project. Um, and also I just want to point out the applicant team is here tonight to answer any questions you might have specific to the project.

Thank you, Adrian, for that report. Um, before we do public hearing, I know I have a colleagues um that would like to say some comments or questions, please.

All right. Um, I'd like to um ask if you could bring up the attachment for project layout. I'm not sure it was your chart for, but it was this staff report. That's it. Um, on the um our left hand side, there are some topography uh contour lines. Unfortunately, they don't, I believe, extend or at least if they do extend into the project site itself, I can't read them. Um, but a couple things raised my eyebrows uh in the staff report that would cause concern. One was that slopes within the project um varied from 5 to 10%. A 10% slope is one heck of a slope. Um I can tell you riding a bicycle up 10%. It's uh a large effort. Um and I see some contour. Well, and and then uh also in the staff report, but not mentioned in your report, was the um off-site improvements of uh two uh storm drain retention basins. Um again that raises concerns um perhaps of major alterations to the site um and redirecting water uh in some fashion other than the natural flow of things. Um can you go into some depth on what we're looking at here? And is this a a massive grading

project that goes from steep contours to dead flat? Well, I would suggest perhaps the applicant could address specifically how they anticipate grading the site. I mean, it's typical to have some cut and fill in these kinds of projects. Um,

well, let me just jump to a general plan concern. Um the general plan uh says that uh under land use policies that whenever practical, the city will encourage new development to be oriented towards adjacent creeks and wetland areas and provide visual access to these areas. I'm thinking that's not the case in this situation. So that's the concern I the overall concern that I'd like addressed by the applicant.

Okay. And I would point out that the open space is the area they do have water quality basins. That's pretty common within the village one projects. And the um that this the area that the 11 acres to be developed is consistent with the specific plan and fits in with the overall um concept for the specific plan with respect to open space. My real concern is general plan consistency here and well and I would just the specific plan was found to be consistent with the general plan. So I think that might have been a mistake little piece of it but um if you'd like I could ask the applicant to address the grading question please.

Good evening. Jason Reed, Wood Rogers, civil engineer, principal in charge on the project. Uh, regarding the grading, the existing slopes are 5 to 10%. You are correct on that. But the proposed grading varies from a half percent to 3% which is typical for uh single family detached residential projects. There is a grade break that if I can get you work.

Okay. So there is a natural grade break that uh bisects the site running generally from the southeast to generally the middle on the western boundary. Uh that grade break directs water in a natural manner south towards the southwest corner which is where we've placed this lot B water quality basin. And then on the northern side there are two existing coververts that extend under Mcbine Park Drive and convey water to the north. One is located roughly here and the second uh occurs over here a little bit further to the east. Uh those are in existing localized depressions. Uh it's not something where these basins are anticipating to cut further than existing. So those are plenty deep as they are now. The site immediately south of Mcbine Park Drive is generally going to be filled from existing condition. Uh so it'll be more level with the road. There is a a little swale as it sits today. Uh, regarding the general billion, there are no no creeks or wetlands at the site currently. Okay. Um to continue a a little more on that the the that same um exhibit showed on it the cross-section for um for 193 and there's a swale uh shown on that. Um you're correct the uh grading section B I believe it is on the grading exhibit associated with the tenative map package.

Yeah the bio retention basin.

It shows a a swale there a drainage swale I assume. Um, why is there a drainage swell and and not um a uh a buried u culvert or um conduit? So the existing uh the cross-section for Mcbine Park Drive does not include curbon gutter. It's an open shoulder. The drainage will convey uh into the open space landscape corridor. The treatment that or the soil you're seeing there is part of the bio retention basin for storm water quality treatment. From there it will be a piped system to go underneath McBain Park Drive and continue north.

Okay. Who um maintains the swale? Uh that's part of the city public drainage system. I believe it's a 2018-1 or 2018-2 CFD that the project will ultimately be required to annex into for maintenance -1 maintenance as well. Yes. Yeah. And if I could just remind Commissioner Johnson to stick close to your mic when you lean towards your computer for telling me they can't hear you. Thank you.

You have any additional comments? Um well it has to do with housing diversity. Um Mr. Reid probably Thank you for your um usually housing diversity refers to affordability. um different kinds of home ownership or rental circumstances such as uh apartments or condos as well as housing. But so far I've seen all the only housing I've seen on um Village One is uh single family homes of not exactly affordable housing. Am I missing something?

No, you are correct. You are correct. Yeah. That in in this, you know, the that this village says, and um I'll probably lean on Mel for the specific plan, but I don't believe that it identifies any of the higher density or the like apartment style uh type dwellings uh within it. Um please. Actually, there is the water the waterfront development.

Oh, that's right. Waterfront. It has an approved design review at the corner of southeast corner of Ochi Lane and um Mc Bean Park Drive. It was approved by Brier Commission three years ago is for 271 unit apartment complex on the top and then um offices and retail at the bottom. Yeah. And there's also there's the high density residential and mixed use zones which both provide are anticipated to be those higher residential densities such as water. Okay. I don't mean to monopolize this thing. Let me step back. Oh. Um I just I also wanted to make one point about the the drainage.

You're asking so many great questions. I mean, honestly, um, just with respect to drainage, I also wanted to make the point that that the drainage, um, systems been reviewed by city staff and there are conditions of approval that address the, um, drainage system as well. Okay. Actually, let me ask one more.

Go for it. The the back lot line on the northernmost series of lots, what does what's going on there? Uh, are is there a some kind of a sound buffer? Is there um a picket fence? Uh, is there a stone fence? Uh, how does how does all that play in? I believe fencing along Stardust Lane. Correct. Adrienne, if you could remain fencing along Stardust Lane. I don't mean Stardust Lane. I mean 193. Oh, I'm sorry.

Yeah. McBanine Park Drive at the north. Yes. So, Mcbine Park Drive has that is I'd have to go back and look at the specific line cross-section. I I think that's open. Yeah. But with the um bike path uh you know um it's Yeah, there's that large easement between the homes and 193. But I I have a feeling you're inquiring if there's going to be some sort of a soundwall or something like that there. Yeah. Or whatever. I mean, what do what what do they see from the backyard? What do what do we see as we drive by?

They're going to see fencing. Yeah. So, it's just your your standard six foot tall, right? But wood fencing set back. I mean, Yeah. Yeah. From from the road with landscaping and sidewalks. But there there is some landscaping in that easement.

I do have a follow-up question now on that. Um, you know, when you see Sun City and you see the other developments that are off of 193, it is more of a sound wall. It is more of a brick wall. Why isn't it that we're actually doing that for this subdivision as well? Just to show the continuity. it would look kind of chopped up if you started, you know, with something that's a little bit more sturdy, more of a sound barrier, and then all of a sudden, well, here, brand new subdivision, and we're going to go ahead and just put a, you know, a wood fence in which doesn't have a lot of sound properties. And I'll tell you right now, also, since city has that easement as well. Yeah.

I think that it should be a continuation personally, and it would give more sound buffering. And I don't know, Mel, if you have access to the specific plan which shows the cross-section for the road. I would point out that for this project, um, for example, the, um, you've got quite a bit of area between the roadway and the units themselves. Um, and separation is an important part of noise reduction. Um, I don't have a Well, I can't use it for my computer anyway. You have wonder

193 is going to get busier and busier. Yeah. I'm wondering if if Jason Reed um do you have any exhibits that shows the perhaps a grading plan or the cross-section? This has a cross-section on it, but it doesn't show on on the map on the bottom. Oh, at the um That's true.

Okay. Good evening, Jason Reed. I'm pulling up the specific plan on my tablet here currently. Bear with me for just one second while I get that cross-section. Um, based upon the circulation exhibit 4.1 of the specific plan amendment uh, village one, it is following cross-section D. Cross-section D. One second. point. My cross-section D does call for a wall at the property line at the rear. So, there would be a 6ft block wall.

Appreciate that. Thank you. I love it when I'm corrected. Thank you for finding that to clarify. Um, do any of my fellow commissioners have any other comments or questions at this time?

Make a comment. I'd like to make a comment if I can. Um so like I I support this project but um my comments more on a bigger scale and it's to to the commission and also to the planning department and the rest of the city is I'm now in this is my second term on the planning commission and um in my first term I there's a consistent pattern that I really think we all should look out for and we love to pound our chest and tout our award-winning master plan in our city but Um we're consistently seeing amendments to that plan with zoning changes and there's and one of the big consistent changes is lowering density and while I'm sensitive to that especially developers because developers are going to build what is popular at the time or what is in demand which is a little bit or higher density. I said lower I meant higher density. You guys knew what I meant. Um, so I I understand that that those products are more in demand today versus lower density projects. But when we keep changing small projects in big developments and we do a little one here and we think, "Oh, that's just a little change. It's not going to do much to it." I mean, let's face it, this is 90s something homes. It's not going to change a whole lot. But when we start adding all those up because we see these things over time, we change the overall development which is no longer that award-winning development. It maybe it might not have the same feel or desire from the professionals that planned that development in the first place. I look at what we did in Bella Breeze. We changed several of the developments to a higher density, right? Um, and I' I think this is at least our second one in village one, if not more, where we've done the same thing. So, I don't know what the what what the solution to this is other than maybe a review of our master plan, which we've

talked about, which is extremely costly. But what I see is I see this commission approving these projects one after another. And what those are doing is those are changing the overall development from its intended um desire. And that intended desire was done by professionals at the time that we all that we all agreed to. And I don't think when you do it one by one, we get that comprehensive look of the entire thing. We're just looking at one little chunk. And this is the best example of that. And I think we need to start considering that a little bit more moving forward.

That's a very fair point. It is. And uh I would I would remind the commission that uh the the change in the density of this project is a subtraction of a density in another project. So there's this particular uh developer has two projects within village one. They had a certain number of lots and or homes allocated on that project and they under they're underbuilding. So they're not building all the ones they said they were going to. And so they have asked to transfer those number of units to this area instead. And so the total overall between those two projects is not is unchanged and unchanges the unit count for the overall village. And it certainly is is more challenging, right, when you have a village that has multiple developers, multiple projects coming in over periods of time. But we do remain cognizant of the total number of units within the general plan. It does sometimes like in this case end up in specific plan amendments where we're asking to change the types of the makeup and etc. And you know the general plan is a document that was what year? Remind me please. 2008 2008

2008 2008 2026 and it is intended to be a 50-year document. But a 50-year time frame for a general plan is a very long period of time. As you say, times change, needs change, the views of the community changes, and it it's not something that we're blind or ignorant to the length and the age of that general plan, and it may be something that we consider to move forward and re-evaluate.

50-year plan, I I understand that we're what are we now uh 18 years into a 50-year plan. So, if it's a 50-year plan and we're 18 years, I think there we should have some concern. I do in this specific plan. I I said it at this at the beginning that I I support this project and my overall concern is not about this project and I and I recognize that they underbuilt yes one area and they have this other one. It's the overall what we're doing, right? I'm agreeing with you.

I know you are. I know you are, but but kind of. And it's the overall right of what we're doing when when they develop these projects. You look at 12 bridges, it has a little bit of everything, right? And that project was built at the beginning or closer to the beginning of our master plan. And it has a little bit of everything. Medium density, high density, lower density. And that's that is viewed as kind of how a community would be would be planned. And what we're doing is we're getting rid of a lot of this low density housing. And I've seen that as a consistent pattern going to more of a medium and high density. And um I think I think I think we're on a problematic path. That's my comment.

I'm agreeing with you completely, sir. And I think this is something that council has discussed lightly and they're the ultimately the ones that would tell us move forward with this.

I have a comment please. just uh for many years I was involved with the League of California Cities uh on a regional level and they have a tremendous amount of data about how cities develop from going back to the first cities when gold was discovered, you know, etc. up to the relatively recent past. And if you would do a little research or have somebody do it for you, you'll find that uh typically a uh city, new cities, and in a great to a great ex I grew up in a new city, raised my family in it, but to a great degree, Lincoln is kind of a new city because it's been around since the 1800s, but it remained a very small city. And now it will grow from the first 10,000 people which were in the first 50 years or so. It will now grow to over 100,000. And the history is that as cities grow and the economic value of the community grows, as the commercial development and industrial development comes in, higher price jobs etc. you start finding that they do build on bigger lots at the end of the project and the League of Cities has done s that's that's not going to satisfy us here in little old Lincoln but it is something that has happened here in California over the last 50 60 years. So you might want to take a look at those and may make make it may make you feel a little more comfortable with what's going on in our town.

Thank you for your comment. Do you have any additional comments at this moment? We'll come back again. All right. With that, I'll now uh let's see open the public hearing. Citizens wishing to speak on this item may request to speak by raising their hand when requested to do so. Please limit your comments to three minutes. Secretary, do we have any hands raised online or anyone in the chambers that wishes to speak? I did not receive any cards. I do not see any hands raised online and I do not see any hands raised here in the room.

Okay, thank you. With that, I will now close the public hearing and bring it back to my colleagues. Does anyone else have any additional comments? Okay, I appreciate the comments raised. Um, I too agree with Commissioner Manning, Vice Chair Manning. Thank you for that. Um, I just want to uh comment. Um, I appreciate that there was some um, you know, thought put into that transition zone, the buffer to make those a little larger to maintain um, some of that on that east side. Uh, one of the things that I noticed uh, with with the map there, the EVA access, um, not a dealbreaker for me, but just wanted to throw that out there for the engineering or fire department to maybe consider. Um, I know it's going to be closed off, but if there's a way to design the gate to allow just pedestrian or bicycles to pass through that section.

Yeah, it's been it's been indicated to either be bullards or a gate. And so, it's not determined at this time which of the others it will be. We do have to be sensitive of our of the residents within the county, which this this is on the county line, of their concerns and not wanting people to cross into their property from either this development or from their property into this development. So, it's it's a balance.

Sure. Okay. Yeah. Just something I noticed to maybe consider um if if it makes sense or not. Uh so, with that, uh would anyone like to make a motion? I'll go ahead and make a motion for the Stardust 12 project to move to adopt the resolution recommending city council adopt the proposed amendment to the 2012 village one specific plan EIR. Approve village one specific plan amendment. Approve village one D uh general development plan amendment and approve a small lot tenative subdivision map. Second a motion. All right, we have a motion and a second.

So, so just to be clear, um couple things. Number one, just to make sure the motion reflects, as mentioned in staff's recommendation in the um in the agenda, read word for word. Yep. And um secondly, you can take them all at once as long as nobody's going to vote differently on any one of the items. So, we would just ask whether or not anyone is going to vote any different on any one of the items. If not, it can be taken uh all in one vote. So, we have a motion and a second to take all in one all in one vote on this. Secretary, please. Commissioner Jackson, yes. Commissioner Gilbert, yes.

Commissioner Hudson. Commissioner Jerry Johnson. No. I I find that this plan is not consistent with the general plan that uh I helped bring forward 20 years ago. Uh and so I'm voting no. Vice Chair Manning. Yes. and chair Eric Johnson. Yes. So, this uh passes 51 0.

All right. Thank you for that. all of them at one time or would they want to know whether the council the commissioner who voted against it want the record should reflect what it is about the project that which of the different items that we approve. So part of the motion was um it included all four of the items that's uh in staff's recommendation. So the no would be reflected on all four of them uh for the for the reasons that was stated by Commissioner Johnson. Very good. Um that would be reflected in the minutes.

Thank you. Thank you for the clarification. Thank you for clarifying that.

All right, I'll move on to item 9D, West Lincoln Square commercial project. Uh Thomas Kruchank, associate planner will uh please give this afternoon report. And if you would indulge me, I just uh offer actually beg Thomas to let me lead him in. So this is a a a really nice project. So the the one thing that Lincoln lacks I think that we can all agree on is commercial commercial development. Uh the availability for people to shop locally and that is very evident. Uh we recently uh received some information and I think we had a gut feeling that our sales tax leakage was a significant percentage. So there's like an estimated amount that everyone is assumed to spend on sales taxable items throughout a year. They place a dollar figure based on your income, the makeup of your household, etc. And then they say, "All right, if this household is going to be spending X dollars on sales taxable items resulting in X dollars of sales taxable amounts, how much of that is being spent within Lincoln?" And uh we recently received some information that our sales tax loss as a reduc lack of commercial is almost 50%. It's about 43 46%. That is pretty darn significant. Pretty darn significant. This particular area that West Lincoln Square is in is also an area of the city that is severely un underserved by commercial uh type enterprise and the ability to provide just your basic amenities to the residents. Uh and so one of the reasons that we're very excited to bring this project forward. Also, I'll say when

Sean and I started with the city about four years ago, uh I would have given uh you my shoes because I can't give you my shirt because that's, you know, lead to all sorts of problems. But I would have given you my shoes for a commercial project and and my purses, which I have a few of. And uh we couldn't there was just no interest. We were talking to commercial developers and like yes, yes, yes, but not yet, not yet. We're not ready. We're not ready. And now suddenly within the last six months uh there is tremendous movement within the city that we are very grateful for. I'm sure you're hopefully aware that Ferrari Pavilion did break down break ground just recently and they have a very aggressive schedule with wanting to have sticks up within what's it summer of 2027. uh the 12 Bridges Retail Center is uh uh is uh moving forward uh full steam ahead and now we have uh this particular project Lincoln Square West. We've also received uh um some beginning uh information on Lincoln Square. And so we have now four commercial projects that are moving forward with it looks like good speed and well-intentioned and well financed and the ability to actually bring these things to fruition to help reduce the losses to the city which helps us keep our firefighters and our police officers employed. And with that I'll turn it over to Thomas.

Thank you Nita. Good evening planning commissioners. Thomas Crookshank, associate planner with the community development department. Project before you tonight is West Lincoln Square commercial. This presentation is a summary of the project. More detailed project information is available and outlined in the staff report provided. Uh lastly, as of this meeting, we have received public comments which are included both as a memo here tonight and in the staff report with response. Tonight I will discuss the project location, requested entitlements, findings and environmental determination and staff recommendations. This project is loaded located located in the northwestern portion of the city Lincoln within the special use district B or SUBB specific plan and general development plan area. Specifically, this site is a 40acre commercial zone parcel at the northeast corner of Highway 65 in Nelson Lane. The application proposes 15 commercial buildings of varying size and use totaling approximately 245,000 square ft of development. The requested entitlements are as follows. A zone text amendment to the SUBB general development plan. Specific development pan plan development permit design review. A ten amended commercial portion of an approved tenative parcel map and conditional use permits for oil change facility fuel stations with extended hours alcohol sales and consumption and drive-through uses. The first entitlement request is for a zone text amendment to the SUBB general development plan to change the automobile service station from not permitted to allowed only with the approval of a conditional use permit. The second entitlement request is an

amendment to the commercial portion of the approved PI araga large lot tentative subdivision map. The approved commercial portion of the map contains seven commercial lots, three landscape and open space lots. The amendment to the commercial portion of the map proposes 15 commercial parcels, seven landscape infrastructure and drainage parcels. The rightway dedic dedication for Oakbrook Drive which is located on the north. Select abdoped conditions of approval and other features of the approved large lot map would remain in effect. Oakrook Drive um on the north side of the project site is constructed as a separate project, not as a part of the West Lincoln Square. The third entitlement request for a specific development plan development permit. On November 20th, the design review board reviewed the primary components of the project excluding the major retail tenant. The board expressed their overall support for the project's design and architectural direction while recommending refinements to some architectural elements and paint colors. The board also requested that the major retail tenant portion be brought forward for review at a future meeting. On January 30th, 2026, the DRB evaluated the major retail um tenant component along with the previously requested design updates. Following this review, the DRB issued a recommendation for approval to the planning commission. The West Lincoln Square project site will be anchored by an approximately 181,000 square foot major retailer with associated fuel station. The proposal also includes banks, an oil change facility, a tire center, a second standalone fuel station, six quick quick service restaurants with drive-through, a multi-use tenant commercial retail

building, a sit-down restaurant, a car wash, and some electrical vehicle charging area. The major retail would be positioned in the southeastern portion of the site along with a bank, automotive, retail, and dining uses located along Nelson Lane and Oakrook Drive. The d the design includes uh select tree species, shrubs and ground cover which provide natural appearance visual screenings along the site perimeter. A master sign program has been included with the entitlement submitt which proposes a 70 foot internally illuminated pylon sign along the southern portion of the site adjacent to 65 and that is letter A here. internally illumini illuminated monument signs um B are located at entrances along Nelson and Oakbrook Drive. And then there's a logo sign C which is also proposed to be located along Nelson Lane and Oakbrook Drive here and here. For context, the Lincoln Crossing Target Shopping Center pylon sign is 65 ft tall. The approved 12 Bridges Retail Center pylon sign is 81 feet tall and Rockland's Whitney Ranch Shopping Center further south on Highway 65 is 70 feet tall. The final entitlement request is for conditional use permits. The project proposes drive-thrus at the pad 1 major anchor pharmacy pickup oil change facility at pad 4, car wash pad 5, banks at pad 3 and 10, quick service restaurants at pads 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, and

14. The SUBB general development plan does allow two drive-throughs by right without a conditional use permit. A conditional you use use permit for alcohol sales and or consumption is required by the Lincoln municipal code for the two proposed fuel stations at pad 2 and 11 and pad 15 the sitdown restaurant. A conditional use permit for fuel stations with extended hours is also required by the Sudb general development plan at pad 2 and 11 with recommendation of approval of the zone text amendment. A conditional use permit is required for automobile service station the oil change facility at pad 4. The West Lincoln Square commercial project has been found to be consistent with the city of Lincoln general plan, the airport land use compatibility plan as this is in the overlay zone, the SUBB specific plan and general development plan, Lincoln municipal code title 17 subdivisions and title 18 zoning pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act or SQA, an addendum to the Sudbe specific plan certified environmental impact report was prepared as part of the project's evaluation. The project site had previously undergone environmental review for commercial development and the analysis um determined that the West Lincoln Square commercial project would not result in any new or substantially more severe environmental impacts beyond those previously identified. As previously stated, public comments have been received by staff. The staff report discusses comments received during public review. Staff have responded to those comments in the staff report. After the agenda was published, the same commenters sent an additional comment letter provided as a memo here tonight. The memo does contain staff responses. Staff recommends that the planning

condition commission conduct a public hearing, consider the information contained in the staff report, testimony of the public, and make the following outline following actions outlined here. Adopt resolutions determining the addendum satisfies the SQA requirements. Recommend city council approve a zone tech zone text amendment. Recommend city council approve an amended tenative parcel map. and a resolution to approve the specific development plan design review and adopt conditional use permits for alcohol sales and consumption fuel station with extended hours, automobile drive-throughs, and automobile service station use with the drive-thru. This concludes my presentation. Members of the applicant team are here and present and able to answer questions along with staff.

Right. Thank you, uh, Thomas. Um, let's see. Do we have a I guess uh applicant would like to share some information, please?

I'm Amar Sidu. I'm the owner and the developer of this project and I primarily wanted to thank the design review board for their professionalism. We came with a we thought an excellent design multi-generational stone stucco beautiful buildings and they added and enhanced with their comments and their professionalism. We went back and uh I just wanted to share with you that we spared no expense to make it into an absolutely beautiful and impressive and I hope some of the uh elevations are in there. The only other thing I want to mention is that four or five buildings that I will build of course will be to that standard. But all the other buildings that I may ground lease or sell will have to adhere to the same design standards that we have developed for this whole shopping center. And I'm very proud that you know this being next to the freeway will be uh multi-generational. You know some buildings last for 40 years. We all see buildings that were 40 years old and they still look beautiful. That was our intent. And my whole team is here. Greg Bardini with civil engineer Tom Murphy, architect, uh, traffic consultant and landscape designer Kevini. We're here to answer any questions or amilarate any concerns the commission may have. Thank you.

Thank you, Amar. Uh, so let's see. With that, I'll bring it back to my colleagues to see if there's any comments. Please. Thank you. Um, serving on the design review board, I can certainly concur with your comments. I especially appreciated the fact that you had taken our comments from the first meeting, brought back uh, and addressed those concerns. I thought the landscaping um recommendations were excellent and I just wanted to have that on record that we did go over colors and concepts and landscaping very very thoroughly with this project because uh speaking to uh Nita's concerns, this is a needed commercial uh development on the west side and uh we'd like to make it a win for Lincoln if if possible. Yes.

Yes. All right. Uh, Commissioner Gilbert, please. Welcome to Lincoln, please.

Uh, as a resident who lives in this area, uh, we are very excited for this groundbreaking. uh our services, we need to go quite a bit away, you know, ways to, you know, go grocery shopping, go to a pharmacy. So, to have it in our area with all of these uh these different types of services is going to be wonderful for our neighbors. And it's uh I think I I mentioned to this commission that my neighbors come to me all the time now and ask me when is this going to happen? Well, I guess I can start saying that uh the reality is here. Um, one thing I wanted to add too, and Anita, you did say something about a shortage, you know, or at least, you know, a very large percentage of our population that are going outside of our city to do most of their shopping, which, you know, that's going to happen when the services are not here. But the services being here, not only is it going to actually entice the folks here, our residents of Lincoln to do that, but I see our neighbors in Sheridan and Wheatland who do not have the services that we do. So I think that is going to also be a very boon for us for people that are actually commuting back and forth through Lincoln back home. So I'm very very excited about this uh this project. Thank you very much.

How about this side? Any comments or questions at this time? I was uh sitting in a chairlift uh on a a slope of uh Mammoth Mountain last week and uh was approached uh from someone that knew I was on the planning commission in Lincoln. And she says, "When the heck are you going to get a grocery store on the west end of town?" And I says, "Well, you'll be happy to learn that it's on our agenda." So, um there's a lot of people interested in this development and um I certainly am pleased that you're going forward with it. Um a question though on the uh circulation, traffic circulation, particularly u pedestrian and bicycle. Can you show us how that how that works?

Yeah, I can from neighboring residential areas. I'll pull up the diagram. For clarification, you're looking for the circulation within the commercial development itself. How people get to the commercial development.

Okay. So the Sudb general or sorry specific plan does list a very loose diagram showing detached sidewalks um bike trails etc. So this is what is provided in that subb plan. However, the site plan for the the West Lincoln Square does contain connections to if you see the uh I can't um point while I while I have my thumb drive in, but I'll zoom in here. The um traffic circle here serves as a connection to neighborhoods. That's where the the sort of busy boulevards down and goes into the neighborhood. This is where there are detached um sidewalks that come out of here. bike trails are along this road here on the north side of the the project site. And uh D, if you give me a sec, I'll pull up the uh site plan back here. And the main pedestrian connections to the neighborhoods come in from this northeast side. There is an approved small lot uh residential subdivision map to the north on this portion uh you can't see the mouse uh directly north on the right half essentially of this property. The left half here where it

says future commercial that would be commercial on that side. Uh but there are required pedestrian connections to the neighborhood. And the general development plan describes uh a method that all of these neighborhoods should be connected by foot and/or bike trail to to this development to encourage it. The general development plan uh additionally requires uh bike bike parking at each um business and it's hard to see on this plan, but there is a symbol indicating that that will be included on every single parcel here. Very cool. Well, thanks, Tom. You're welcome. And I apologize for uh bringing that on you. I try not to do that. No problem.

We're ready. We're ready for the questions. Apparently, nice job. Thank you. And I guess you're recognized everywhere as a planning commissioner, so that's exciting. Mammoth Mountain. Yeah. Commissioner Manning.

Yeah. Um, aside from getting uh grocery and shopping up on the west end of town, I know that's been said a lot. I'm really excited about the fact that we're we're doing things along Highway 65. I call that highway commercial. Um, I feel like that's huge for the city. I think we've missed some opportunities in the past 12 bridges. We got a high school on the on where the freeways at and we've got medical buildings. We we soon just changed some zoning there to to get something that resembles a bit of highway commercial, but the highway commercial is huge. Capture all the the traffic going up and down 65. I think it'll be great for us. You have another comment?

Just one more comment. It's a question, but my question is u what percentage are you at least wise? Um if you could please please come to the microphone. are with non-disclosure agreement. I can't disclose everything until the leases are signed, but I will tell you

that we are talking to we think within the next 60 days to 90 days and we're going to go with Oakbrook um drawing submittal next week and uh we think literally 70 or 80% of the shopping center will be filled. We're getting a lot of interest. Um we think it's primarily the location and exactly what all of you mentioned but also we think that the quality of design that we have is attracting very high quality tenants. That's the best I can tell you. Um we have probably six or seven LOIs already and we think there are three or four coming. Um and a lot of these retail tenants don't have a presence in Lincoln right now. So I think residents of Lincoln would be happy to get exactly like they don't have to go to, you know, 15 miles, 20 miles or half an hour to some of these tenants. That's the best I can share with you. Um, until we have a signed lease, nobody wants to me to disclose that.

No, no. Yeah, completely understand. That was a very good answer. Thank you. Yes. Yes. No, we we're very very pleased with the interest we are getting, Amomar. Uh, Omar, sorry. While you're up there, um, one of my questions was I'm just curious, you kind of answered it. Um, sounds like there's a lot of interest. So, the intent, I guess, would be to Can you speak up a little? Sorry. Um, yeah. So, sounds like there's a lot of in intent to move forward, I guess. Um, is there like a time frame of when you're looking to Yes. start like breaking ground?

Exactly. Yeah, I can answer that. Um, next week, uh, we're going to submit the drawings for Oakbrook and the roundabout. It's fully designed. Uh, SP man and Van have been very, very helpful to get us to a point where we think landscape design is being done. Kevin is here. So, we anticipate within the next week to submit those drawings. As soon as those drawings are approved, we intend to go and hire a contractor to start construction. We actually want to break ground this year. You know, we always like to start construction before the rainy season and get as much of dirt work done because it's very difficult to do dirt work and grading in December and January. So our desire is that if we get these drawings approved within four to six weeks that we'll we'll start construction within two weeks after that because like I mentioned we have so many tenants that are already there that um at least four buildings out of all of these we can start as soon as we get the drawings done you know with Greg and Tom. Um, of course we need to get the entitlement first before we can submit it, but there's not going to be a single week wasted. As soon as we get the things approved, we start construction.

Excellent. Well, thank you. Sure. Thanks for sharing that. All right. Uh, no further comments at the moment. Um, I'll now open to the public hearing. Uh, citizens wishing to speak on this item may request to speak by raising their hand. when requested to do so. Please limit your comments to three minutes. Secretary, do we have any hands raised online or anyone in the chambers that wishes to speak? I did receive one card. If Albert Shyber can come to the podium,

how we doing? Good afternoon, evening. Albert Shyber. The gentleman to my left is uh Mr. Steve Hackett. Um his son-in-law was not able to be here tonight, so you're stuck with me again. Um so, um Mr. Hackett uh lives uh directly across uh from this project on uh 240. Is that better?

Yeah. Thanks. Okay. Okay. So, Mr. Hackett lives directly across from the proposed Oakbook Drive um street. Um I um went to the city and asked for some clarification on stuff. I'm still not clear as to whether Oak's going to be built now or not. Um so, uh I need to back up a little bit for a little history. Um when Nelson Lane was a narrow two-lane back road, uh there was a probably give or take 14inch cover that ran under Nelson Lane towards Mr. Hackett's house. Uh when the when Nelson Lane was expanded to to what it is currently, that one covert um went to I think it's like five coverts now. And some of those are multiple size larger than what was there. So the result is Mr. Hackett's house is flooded. Um so when this not this project but this area was annexed um we were at LFCco and we raised the point that that that drainage needs to be corrected. And so because we're unclear as to whether Oakbrook's going to be built now or not, we just need to be on record that um at LFCco the city assured Mr. Hacket that it would be taken care of. So that's the first concern. The the the next concern is uh right at the end of uh Oakbrook in front of Mr. Hackett's house is a proposed stoplight and it's unclear is the stoplight going to be put in now is it down the road and how does it affect u Mr. Hackett's property which is directly across from

Oakbrook Lane and where the stop light is is on the map. Um so um one additional comment is that uh Mr. Haget son-in-law has been working with somebody at the city. I'm not I'm not sure who it is, but they're happy with the conversations they've had and uh they they wish to continue having those good conversations. Um, anything else I missed? Still put me in the hole.

So, so what Mr. Haget said was the he big concern is his house flooding again. So uh Nelson Lane is was raised and like I said a lot of water. I wish I could show you the picture I have on my phone of the culberts but it's crazy. I I don't know why they did that but um we're not opposed to the project. Just want to get all this on record so that Mr. Hackett's house doesn't flood again. Good. Yeah, thank you.

Thank you, Albert and Steve, uh for raising that. Do we have any additional uh hands raised or anyone in the audience? I did not receive any cards in online. Uh Chair Johnson, there are no hands raised. Um anyone in chambers want to speak? I don't see any hands raised in the room. Okay, perfect. Uh, with that, I'll now close public hearing and bring it back to my colleagues. Um, and I also want to ask if, uh, you know, staff has anything to wants to address anything that was brought up.

Good evening, Commissioner Chair. Yeah. So, we're in contact and the city's aware of the issues at that uh subject property and I think we're working uh towards a solution with Amar's engineer uh on that Oakbrook project, Tony Frag. And so, I I believe we're working on a solution and we're we're going to redirect the flows that um get discharged right next to the property to a further north. So yeah, I mean the resident is uh you know I can give him my information off at the meeting so that we can connect and here is the issues and deal with that. Thank you. Okay, go ahead Thomas.

Uh I can answer the timing of Oakbrook Drive that is required when the commercial property develops or the phase 2 residential which is located to the east. That road will be built out in its entirety and that is for this project and for the housing. So, it will be there and it the commercial development is not allowed to build without that.

Okay. Excellent. Thanks for answering that and uh thanks for being in communication with with the family there. Um let's see. The does any of my colleagues have any other additional comments or questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion. And unlike unlike the last project, um given the nature and scope of this particular project, it would be staff's recommendation that this this these resolutions be uh done one by one. Okay. All right. So, we have I'm happy to read the resolution titles one at a time to avoid uh the commissioners from having to read through them or to you know condense them down for you if you

that' be perfect. I believe we have eight correct and yeah. Okay. So uh the first resolution is uh the recommendation to determine the addendum uh certified environmental impact report um for the special use district B northeast quadrant specific plan as the appropriate level documentation satisfies requirements of SQA based on the determination that no new substantially more severe impact would result from the project etc. And so if there is a commissioner who wishes to make a motion approval of the uh as stated second. Okay, we have a motion and a second.

I'm sorry I missed who motioned. Thank you. So roll call vote. Commissioner Gilbert, yes. Commissioner Hutchinson, yes. Commissioner Jackson, yes. Commissioner Jerry Johnson, yes. Vice Chair Manning, yes. and chairman Eric Johnson. Yes. And that one passes 600 0. All right. Mr. Chairman, I would suggest we just go around the uh the dis here to read one. Okay.

All right. Uh the second resolution is to adopt a resolution recommending the city council adopt an ordinance to approve a zone text amendment to the adopted SEB NEQ general development plan amending the zoning category for automotive service station smog centers not including major repair or overhaul from prohibited use to allowed with approval under CUP. I'll make a motion as stated. Second. All right, we're kind of going in order. All right, so we have a motion and a second. Commissioner Jackson, yes. Vice Chair Manning, yes. Commissioner Gilbert, yes. Commissioner Hudson,

yes. Commissioner Jerry Johnson and Chairman Eric Johnson. Yes. That passes 600. Okay. Next resolution recommending city council approve an amendment to the commercial portion of the original approved AMPA Lincoln LLP property large lot tenative parcel map in connection with the proposed West Lincoln Square commercial tenative parcel map etc. I'll second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Did you get who it was? Yeah. Second Jackson. Jackson. Roll call, please.

Okay. Commissioner Jerry Johnson. Yes. Commissioner Jackson. Yes. Commissioner Gilbert. Yes. Commissioner Hudson. Yes. Vice Chair Manning. Yes. And Chair Eric Johnson. Yes. That one passes as well. 600 0. And next up, adopt a resolution approving the specific development plan development permit design review for the proposed West Lincoln Square commercial development in conformance with the design and development standards of the SUB B NEQ specific plan and general development plan. So moved. Second. All right, we have a motion. Hutchinson and Johnson. Come on, Genie. They're

They're stealthy stealthy over here. Okay. Roll call, please. Thank you. Commissioner Hudson, yes. Commissioner Jerry Johnson, yes. Commissioner Gilbert, yes. Vice Chair Oh, Commissioner Jackson, yes. Vice Chair Manning, yes. And Chairman Eric Johnson, yes. So, that one passes as well. 600 0. All right, we're halfway home. The next one is a resolution approving the conditional use permit for alcohol sales and/or consumption consistent with the Lincoln Municipal Code section 1822-30. I'll move that one. Okay, that was Manning and I think it was Manning. Yes.

Our second, Miss Gilbert. Roll call, please. Vice Chair Manning. Yes. Commissioner Gilbert. Yes. Commissioner Hutchinson. Yes. Commissioner Jackson, yes. Commissioner Jerry Johnson, yes. And Chairman Eric Johnson, yes. And that one passes as well. 600 0. And the next one is a resolution approving a conditional use permit for automotive drive-thru consistent with the Lincoln Municipal Code 1822030 for pad 1, pad 3, pad 5, proposed quicks service restaurants at pad 7 through 9, pad 10, uh quick service restaurant at pad 12 through 14. I'll make a motion as stated.

That was Jackson. I'll second it. Seconded by Manning, please. Commissioner Jackson, yes. Vice Chair Manning, yes. Commissioner Gilbert, yes. Commissioner Hudson, yes. Commissioner Jerry Johnson, yes. And Chair Eric Johnson, yes. And that passes as well 600. And the next one is a resolution approving the conditional use permit for automotive service station with an associated automobile drive-through consistent with Lincoln Municipal Code 1218, I'm sorry, 1822030 for PAD 4. I saw a move. That was Jackson. I'm sorry. Johnson. Jerry Johnson is the motion.

I'll second it. Seconded. Manning. It is uh Commissioner Johnson. And then Commissioner Manning. Yeah. Roll call, please. Commissioner Jerry Johnson. Yes. Vice Chair Manning. Yes. Commissioner Gilbert. Yes. Commissioner Hudson. Yes. Commissioner Jackson. Yes. and chairman Eric Johnson. Yes. And that passes well 6000. And the final resolution adopting a conditional use permit for fuel stations with convenience stores at pad 2 and 11 with extended hours. So moved. Second.

Hutchinson and Gilbert. Roll call vote. Commissioner Hutchinson. Yes. Commissioner Gilbert. Yes. Commissioner Jackson. Yes. Commissioner Jerry Johnson. Yes. Vice Chair Manning. Yes. And Chairman Eric Johnson.

Yes. And that passes as well. 600 0. And welcome to Lincoln. Thank you for investing in Lincoln. All right. Thank you, Anita, for reading all those. I'll have to get you a bottle of water or something afterwards. Okay, so that concludes that's right the water fountains. All right, so that concludes the public hearing section. Now we're on item number 10, general business. And I believe we have one item, please.

Uh there is actually nothing under general business, but there is under item 11, community development director reports. Okay, we will move on to item number 11, community development director reports by our interim community development director, Nita. Well, I have some news on that. Commissioners,

uh the city manager has uh recently made a decision and an announcement to staff that he has determined that I shall remain in this role permanently as the community development director uh with a dual role as assistant city manager. And I'm sure you're all wondering, wait, when's she ACM in finance? Yes. And so the city will move forward with a recruitment to uh hire and bring aboard a full-time finance director that will report to this uh assistant city manager in order to ensure consistency and continual continued uh financial stewardship. And so I am grateful for this opportunity to continue to serve with this commission to continue to support this department and uh just wanted to pass that all along. I do also want to pass on my gratitude to the firm of White Brener. Our city attorney Christine Molinkov is out on leave and pinch hitting this evening and very helpful is Doug White, managing partner with White Brener. And to his left, of course, is our junior deputy city attorney, uh, Christy McKenna. And I appreciate their presence here and assistance in getting us through this this very heavy, uh, but important agenda and all the items therein. And with that, I think we just have the planning tracker. If you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer them.

Thank you. Um, is there any presentation on that or just if there's any questions? No, just any questions. You know, if you have something specific that you'd like to hear more about, uh, we're happy to answer those questions. Do any of my fellow commissioners have any questions regarding that? No. All right. Well, thank you for that report and, uh, thank you for the assistance. With that, we'll move to item 12, commissioner comments. I will start to my right if there's any commissioner comments, please.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh first of all, I'd like to thank the staff for the planning staff for uh offering the opportunity for us to meet uh with them offline uh based on the kind of agenda we had this evening. Important and important, not that they're all not important, but this one is was of particular interest for a lot of reasons. And as we could see by the questions that were asked tonight by my fellow commissioners, some of them could have met with staff and had some of those questions answered uh prior to the meeting. And uh I'm going to recommend that everybody when they make that offer, you grab it and take advantage of it because I've I've met with them offline before a meeting and I've come to the meeting as a much better commissioner than without it. So, thank you uh to the planning staff and thank you for the job you did tonight handling a tough agenda. to the entire staff. Welcome to our new attorneys this evening. And uh you helped us get

temporarily temporarily stepping in for the moment. Temporary, but tonight they were permanent. Great. And and and they got us through a different agenda and I appreciate the way you guided us. Thank you, Hutchinson.

I wanted to con concur with Commissioner Gilbert's comments. I felt I felt that the time was very well spent uh when I met with you all last week and I was I was grateful for that. Um and I'd like to wish you Nita congratulations in becoming permanent um as much as whatever permanent means in today's world. But uh I've really I've really enjoyed working with you and I'm glad that will continue. I just want to first of all thank the planning staff. That was very good presentations today. Um really led to I think some great questions by all of us. Um but uh very very job good job well done and Nita congratulations.

Commissioner Johnson like to extend my congratulations to Nita. It's a I'm not sure there's a promotion there, but uh it's technically a demotion going from three jobs to two, but I'll take it. Yeah, I would too. Um and uh I'd echo the comments on staff. I thought the staff reports were well done and presentations tonight were uh were good. I wanted to apologize for not being available. I was um uh had to attend a funeral out of town and uh that kind of messed my schedule up, but otherwise I would certainly take advantage of that. Congratulations, Nita.

And to staff with all the recognition up here with the great meeting, I will second that. But the 500 plus page packet, um don't mean we like that. Don't think that we like that. No, I'm just kidding. But thank you.

Excellent. Yeah. And I just want to echo all those. Um I appreciate the staff being available. I did take advantage of meeting uh beforehand just to learn more about there's so many items on here and a lot of pages. So it was helpful just to kind of be able to have a summary and ask kind of questions in real time. So I appreciate that. Um congrats to Nita as everyone else. Um, I just want to thank um those from the public that came. Uh, public participation's excellent. So, you know, Albert, Steve, Chris, uh, thank you for coming and sharing, uh, your thoughts and, uh, you know, working with us. And, um, I just want to say congratulations to the city as well for being named number three safest in California. That's huge. and um you know it's not lost on us that there's a lot of work that goes into that to achieve number three. So that's pretty impressive especially in California. So just wanted to call that out. Um the excellent work that everyone's doing in the city and you know especially as we're growing so quick going from 10,000 to over 100,000 you know relatively quick. Um that's a lot of change a lot of people in and out and uh you know things happening. So, u just want to commend uh our city and you know fire and police and everyone that uh you know is out there all the time keeping us safe. So with that uh we'll adjourn.