Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Are we are you ready up there? It still says you in practice session. Yes. We can start at 07:00. Great. Sounds good. Okay. The Zoom says it's in practice session. Do we need to do anything about that? Oh, there it goes.

It started. Recording in progress. Welcome to the Saratoga Planning Commission regular meeting on October 8. Can we please stand for Pledge of Allegiance?

Allegiance the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. I would like now to ask Chris to explain the meeting process so we can proceed, and then proceed with roll call.

Pursuant to Saratoga City Council's Remote Public Participation Policy, Members of the public may participate in this meeting in person at the location listed on the agenda or via remote attendance using the Zoom information listed on the agenda. Public attendees participating by Zoom are automatically muted and not viewable on camera. I will now call the roll. Commissioners Sreedharan? Hassan? Present. Brownlee? Present. Zeng? Present.

Zhenrod? Present. Vice Chair Lee? Chair Kauser? Present.

Five zero.

Thank you. Approval of minutes. Are there any additions or corrections to the minutes? Seeing I

move we accept the minutes as presented.

And a second?

I'll second it.

Thank you. Can we have a roll call vote, please?

Mr. Sreedharan? Hassan? Aye. Brownlee? Aye. Zeng? Aye. Jimmaraud? Aye. Vice Chair Lee? Chair Causer?

Aye. Motion passes, five zero.

So the motion was done by Paul and seconded by Herman, just for the record. Oral communication on non agendized items. Any member of the public will be allowed to address the Planning Commission for up to three minutes on matters not on this agenda. The law generally prohibits the Planning Commission from discussing or taking action on such items. However, the Planning Commission may instruct staff accordingly regarding oral communications. At this point, I would like to open public comment on non agendized items. Staff, can you please explain the public comment process and announce our first speaker?

Thank you, Chair Kassler. Now is the time for those in person, if you want to comment on any of the items, approach the stage, fill out a speaker card, give it to the staff. If you're online, please raise your hand in Zoom if you would like to speak on this item or a feature item.

We have no one in the audience. Do you have anyone online?

No.

Thus, we close public hearing for not sorry, oral communications for non agendized items. Moving on to item number

Chancellor, I'd the record to reflect that commissioner Shiderman is now present.

Thank you. No. No worries. Thank you. Moving on to the agenda of public hearings. Any interested person objecting to the whole or any portion of the decision on this agenda may file an appeal application with the city clerk within fifteen calendar days of the date of the decision. The city council conducts de novo review of appeals. Moving on to 2.1 application FER '20 five-five. Can we please have the staff report?

Thank you. For this project at 19518 Glenuna Drive, the applicant is requesting a fence exception approval for a fence taller than three feet within the property's front setback. So the project site is approximately 80,000 square feet and is located at 19518 Glenuna Drive in the R 140000 zoning district. The site contains an existing residence and related site improvements. Surrounding uses include primarily single family homes, many of which have similar fences.

The site, as you can see, is on the boundary of the city, and no protected trees are proposed for removal. Here's the site plan. The fence they are seeking approval on, which is currently present, is located along the front of the property, along Glenuna Drive, encroaching into the required 30 foot front setback. The fence would not be located within any 50 foot required site triangles for street intersections. And while it will encroach slightly into the 12 foot site triangle for the property zone driveway.

The excessive width of the driveway and the open design of the fence would keep it from posing sight line or ingress and egress issues for the driveway. Here are the fence elevations. The fence is about four feet two inches, open metal, black metal, with the white stucco columns being four feet four inches, and then the driveway columns further up of five feet eight inches. And then here's another view. Outside the front setback, there will be or there is an existing driveway gate that also attaches to the fence.

And this isn't part of the approval because it is outside the front setback and therefore doesn't need the exception. And these are the required findings that the commission must make to approve the fence exception. And more details on these findings are also included in the staff report. So staff recommends that the Planning Commission adopt Resolution Number 20 five-seventeen, approving the project subject to conditions of approval. And that concludes staff presentation.

Thank you. Any questions for staff? Seeing none, do we have the applicant here to present our talk?

Unless they changed their mind. They weren't looking to make an introductory statement. Okay.

So then that leads us to public comments. Do we have there's no one in the audience. Is there anybody online who would like to speak, Frances?

Francesca there is none.

Thank you. So we close public comments and bring it back to Commission to discuss or to present motion.

I can make all the findings.

Do you move it? Yeah.

Move we accept application 2505505, as provided by staff.

Thank you. Do I have a second? Thank you, Badri. Roll call, please.

Yes. Commissioners Truderman? Aye. Hassan? Aye. Brownlee?

Aye.

Zeng? Aye. Zimmermanod? Aye. Vice Chair Lee? Chair Kauser? Yes. Motion passes six-zero, with Vice Chair Lee absent.

Thank you. That moves us to director items. Is there anything

that There's no items.

None items. Commissioner items. Seeing none, I guess we can wish everybody a happy Halloween and we'll see you all in November. Thank you.

Thank you.