Citrus Heights Planning Commission Meetings - Regular Meeting

Good evening everyone. It is 6 o'clock on Tuesday, December 9th and I'd like to call this meeting of the Citrus Heights Planning Commission to order. Would you call the role please? Black loop first. Okay, Marcel, would you please It's on. Hello. Hello. Destiny. Hello.

Hello. It's but it's for the recording, not necessarily for the people.

Hello. Okay, please join me for the pledge of allegiance. Commissioner Kinderwater present. Commissioner Kaufman here. Commissioner Al Rawi here. Commissioner USK Commissioner Van Duker here. Vice Chair Flowers

present. Chair Sheieler here. Thank you. On the consent calendar, we have the uh minutes from the September 9th meeting. Presume all the commissioners have overlooked those. Any comments or changes to those minutes? Can I have a motion? I move we accept the minutes of the September 9th meeting. I second. All those in favor? I I I thank you.

Public comment. This portion of the agenda is available for the public to access the planning commission on any issue. This is not on the It is not on the agenda. There will be a limit of three minutes per speaker. If anyone wishes to address the commission regarding a topic or issue that is not on the agenda this evening, please approach the podium. Seeing no people on regular agenda.

Regular calendar. We're ready to read the regular cal calendar item 5A for 7859 Cabella. Sorry. Hi. Um, my name is Stephanie and I will be doing a presentation on a determination of general plan consistency for Cassaway property. Um, and so tonight's action is uh just to make findings required under government code section 65402 to support the disposition of one vacant single family home located at 7859 Cababella Way. Um, so what is government code section 65402? Uh so this section basically ensures that any disposition of land that's publicly owned by a local agency is consistent with the agency's general plan. So in this process the planning commission must determine that the disposition of the property will not conflict with uh the goals, policies or land use designations that are listed in our general plan. And what this does is that ensures that the property is disposed of in a way that furthers community planning objectives. Um, and on the screen, this is just a location of the current property. So, with this location, there is no identified need for the property within our general plan. Um, the property used to be a former safe house uh that helped women and children experiencing domestic violence. And then when the organization dissolved, the city obtained this property. Um, and so basically just with this uh we're determining the planning commission is determining that this property and uh the city disposing of this property is consistent and so staff finds that the transfer of the property

is consistent with our general plan goals and policies. Uh land use designation will remain at very low density residential. Uh the transfer will remain um with the transfer it will remain a single family home and the disposition is not associated with any development plans. Um, in the future, if there are any development plans after the sale, um, it'll be reviewed with the appropriate entitlement process if needed. And when that time comes, it's pretty simple. Just um, if it's a recommended motion and if you have questions about this, uh, we're here to to answer them. Commissioners, any questions. Seeing none, do I have a motion? I motion that we adopt I have to read the whole thing, right? I I uh I make the motion that we adopt resolution number 2025-04, a resolution of the Citrus Heights Planning Commission uh of the city of Citrus Heights, California, adopting its report and certain findings required in California Government Code section 65402 for the disposition of existing single family residential property on Cassabella Way.

I'll second you want to Roll call. You can. Yep. You can just take them all at once. Um, thank you. Um, those in favor? I I oppose. I passes. Thank you. Thank you. City staff will provide an overview of the local hazard mitigation plan with principal civil engineer and Noah expert Daniel Kher.

Well, thank you very much for the introduction. Good to see you all planning commissioners at our last meeting of 2025. Um again, as as stated, I'm Daniel K for uh principal civil engineer in the general services department. Um one of the three design um as a stakeholder for the city of Citrasites for the county uh Sacramento County 2026 local hazard mitigation plan update. We also have uh stakeholders from the city including our operations manager Mary P and uh one of our uh planning associates Stephanie Lut. So I'm here just to provide information of the update that is ongoing. We do plan um as a region in Sacramento County all the jurisdictions districts and um special interest parties within the county join together for one mitigation plan. We update these every five years and I will explain a little bit more on the reasons in the process. So as I mentioned um it is a multi-jurisdiction plan. There's actually 32 agencies involved in this um hazard mitigation plan for our region which is enclosed within Sacramento Countyy's borders. The lead agency on this is Sacramento County itself and brings along all of its cities obviously including Citrus Heights, fire districts, reclamation districts, water districts, school districts, flood control districts, and a few homeowners associations. This is a five-year update to our existing and published 2021 local hazard mitigation plan. So this would be updating for any new hazards experienced since 2020 2021 time frame to today. Uh we do plan on bringing this forward to California Office of Emergency Services in 2026. That's why it is dated 2026 plan update. Um what I have here is the link to the current plan for any of those interested in reviewing the existing document that we plan on

updating. And in particular, I highlighted um on the left here annex, which is specific to the city of Citrus Heights. Some of the um environmental hazards that are in our county don't particularly exist in Citrus Heights. So each jurisdiction gets its own annex. Um and then here in the the middle kind of bottom portion of the screen is all of the participating jurisdictions identified so far. And we are very early in the planning process. Uh this is again a five-year update to the existing plan. Each stakeholder is assigned a specific annex. Um this is regional planning for hazard mitigation. So that means any sustained action taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk of human life, property, and the environment from hazards. We are looking for measures that reduce the chance of a disaster or reduces the damaging effects of unavoidable disasters. And I do want to clarify these are natural hazard focus. So something that would be um environment based and not directly human-caused. You'll see later on we do have like global warming um and and climate change as as one of those items. But um for instance, cyber attacks or um a lone gunman or a rogue driver of a vehicle would not qualify for this particular plans. There are other mitigation plans available and is not the focus of this particular document. Overall, our goal is to reduce the loss of life, property damage, and economic hardship. Um, it promotes disaster resilient and sustainable communities within its borders. Um, and the listed mitigation projects allow for FEMA pre and post- disaster funding. So, if we didn't have this plan after a disaster, we could not apply for FEMA funding. And, uh, we actually have ongoing pre- disaster applications for some FEMA grant funding. So, this is a really critical plan we do utilize here locally. Um, and then it is a major part

and requirement of FEMA's community rating system or the flood insurance discount program that I briefly touched on in a previous presentation on our storm water management policies here at the city. Um, a really interesting tidbit of fact um that came out of the National Institute of Building Science Multihazard Mitigation Council in 2019 is for every dollar spent on mitigation, it saved society an average of $6 in avoided losses in addition to saving those lives and property in the first place. Um, and I understand about six years before this 2019 report came out, it was $3 uh in value. So, we just see a a continued increased benefit this type of planning activity. So, listed here are the current um types of natural hazards in our region that we're particularly looking at countywide, including climate change, sea level rise, saltwater intrusion, dam failures, drought and water shortage, which does affect our urban forestry or tree mortality, earthquakes, and associated subhazards such as liquefaction and destabilizing of buildings. flooding, localized flooding that isn't necessarily involved with creeks and waterways, landslides, mudslides, levy failures, that's one of those that won't particularly impact citrus heights, but is prevalent within the county. Uh severe weather, very cold, very hot, high winds, high rain. Um we are seeing more frequency of tornadoes in the state of California. So we are keeping an eye on that. uh general subsidance from groundwater depletion, wildfires, associated smoke and air quality that comes from that and aquatic nuisance species such as algae or those golden muscles we're hearing a lot about in the news today. Um and then just a side note, power outages and public public safety power shut offs from PG& um will all be discussed and kind of captured within some of these other hazards.

Um I did want to provide you an update. Last time I talked about the city's storm water management program, we were being evaluated for the community rating system. I am happy to state that we have been confirmed as our first time ever, a class uh seven community. Um we are one of three in the entire region that actually have decided to join this community rating system. As you can see, nationwide, there are over 22,000 jurisdictions within the National Flood Insurance Program, but only a hundred uh 1,500 participate in this flood insurance discount program. So, um you know, some of our local efforts here are seeing some benefits to all of our residents. Uh notably, um there's only two class ones in the entire country. Tulsa, Oklahoma, which recently obtained class one, and the city of Roseville. And as you can see by the the chart here on the right, it's really really hard to get above that kind of class six and seven level. Um each of those red lines indicated on the table there um denotes a a specific prerequisite. Um whether that be local flood plane modeling or enhanced um standards or or um mitigation projects established by the jurisdiction. So that was one of our two limiting factors from jumping into class six, but um staff here in Citrus Heights are planning to improve our scores over the years and hopefully our residents will see more than a 15% discount. But now we can confirm for at least the next five years all of our residents will be receiving a 15% flood insurance discount. No action needed. All right. The real reason I'm here today is to inform you as the purpose of the mitigation plan and get some public interest and um participation is encouraged. So when we update these mitigation plans, we have two major groups. We have our stakeholders and the

general public. The stakeholders obviously include the government, the agencies, districts that I showed you on that list, but it also includes very interested private stakeholders that would want to join our steering committee. Um joining that steering committee obviously comes with some responsibility. We expect attendance at the majority if not all of our steering committee meetings. Um direct input on identifying hazards and mitigations to those hazards, potential projects down the line. Um and then providing comments on the draft local hazard mitigation plan before it does reach the public eyes. Um you can see here we do have um five planned steering committee meeting dates. one unfortunately did happen last week um and we did not have a planning commission meeting otherwise I would have told you before um and then we are scheduling a flood specific stakeholder meeting that the date has yet to be determined. I will say that the locations uh the dates have been selected but the locations of these meetings have not been picked. If you are interested in joining our steering committee please reach out to me. Contact information is down here and I'm sure you're able to get a hold of me otherwise. Um otherwise all um residents within Sacramento County will be receiving notices. I did get confirmation beyond the press releases um social media blast that the county and city of Citra Heights is putting out for this plan update. Um you should have received a notice within your Cubs utility building billings. Um so keep an eye out for those coming up and those will definitely have those specific locations of the date for the general public. There are only two left um on this update to the general public, but definitely want to encourage all those interested to attend. And uh just an overview of the schedule moving forward for this mitigation plan update. In um is it August, we will have the draft mitigation plan to the

stakeholders and steering committee. A couple of months there in October, it will be routed to the public for comment and circulation. Depending on the level of comments received and the difficulty in addressing those comments, um sometime in December of next year, we do plan to submit to California Office of Emergency Services for approval. Once the plan is approved and deemed complete, meeting all of FEMA's requirements, we will be bringing it back to our city council for adoption. And then the sheet here shown on the right of the screen is an example um the preferred method of how we would like to document any known events that happened basically from 2021 to present day to be able to categorize some of these risk and identify some of these potential projects moving forward. Thank you very much for hearing me out. I hope you enjoyed and have some interest. No questions.

Thank you. Appreciate it.

Next item. Uh that would be general correspondence and I don't believe there Casey. Did you have anything? I just uh want to wish the commission happy holidays and hopefully get some time off to hang out with your family and friends and enjoy the season. Thank you very much. Very good. Therefore, I call this meeting to a close at 68 on Tuesday, December 9th. Merry Christmas. Thank you.