Planning Commission - Special Meeting

All right, everybody ready? Yes.

Okay. Good morning, everybody. I'm going to call to order the meeting of April 1st, 2026. This is not an April Fool's joke. This is serious. Let's uh begin with the pledge of allegiance. And begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

And if we could have our TV coverage announcement, please. Yes. Uh, thank you, Mr. Chair, and good morning to the commission. Good morning. Good morning. Monosito planning commission hearings are in televised live on Santa Barbara County uh television CSBTV channel 20 uh 9:00 a.m. in the south coast Lok Sinz Valley Samria Sam and Orca areas rebroadcast of Monito Planning Commission hearings are on Fridays at 5:00 p.m. on CSPV channel 20 today's hearing will also be streamed live on the county's website as well as county's YouTube channel and will be a available for download in a day or two. Should I continue on with the roll call? with a roll call, please. Yes. Great. Uh, Commissioner Kupak, here. Uh, Commissioner Karns,

present. Commissioner Rockenbuck, present. And Chair Mar Connor here. And for the record, Commissioner Miller will be absent today. Thank you. The agenda status report, please. Good morning, commissioners. Today, we have one item for you that is the Builtmore Hotel Development Plan Amendment Project. Very good. Thank you. Item six, the projection report.

Great. Um, looks like we only have one item upcoming for you all that is on May 20th and that is a lot line adjustment project and nothing scheduled for June at this time. Very good. Thank you. Public comment. The public comment period is set aside to allow public testimony on items not on today's agenda. The time allocated to each speaker will be set at the direct uh discretion of the chair. Total time allocated for public comment is 15 minutes. When testifying before the Monaceto Planning Commission, personal attacks and other disruptive behavior are not appropriate. Do we have any requests to speak? Uh we have no requests online and seeing no one stand in the room I believe we have no public comment.

All right the public comment period is closed. Item seven the planning commissioners informational reports in individual commissioners may present brief reports on planning issues such as seminars, meetings and literature that would be of interest to the public and or the commission as a whole. Do any of the commissioners have reports? No. No. All right. Item eight. The minutes of February 18th, 2026 will be considered. Those were distributed along with the agenda for today's meeting. Are there any corrections to the minutes? No. No.

None. Motion would be in order to approve the minutes. I'll move to approve the minutes. I'll second that. Motion made and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say no. Minutes are approved. Item nine, the director's report and board of supervisors hearing summary. The director of planning and development is here with us this morning. Good morning.

Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the commission. Happy April. Um, I have a little duck on my screen that they've provided me. Isn't that nice? the miracle of computers. Um, so I have a few things to report to you. We haven't met since February. Um, the board has taken some actions uh that you'll be interested in. The Ara Haiduck appeal uh which was about the wall um in Monaceto along Santo Creek that was denied by the board. Um we they had tried to work it out just in advance of the hearing, but ultimately one of the appellants wanted to have an opportunity to just express some of their concerns and so they did, but the uh board upheld the decision by the PC. And then on the 10th of March, the board adopted the environmental justice element. They made a few minor modifications um related to some areas in North County, particularly around Gary uh in the Sysquac area and um they also we had a hearing on cannabis odor abatement in the Carpa Valley. Um there was a request for extensions from eight of the growers to get an extension um on regarding the requirement to install odor abatement equipment which is like carbon filtration or photoc catalytic oxidation those types of things that help reduce the odor in the interior of the green houses. Um the board denied all of those extensions and so we are working with the growers now um to uh with notices of violation and they're going to be working on getting that equipment installed. Um there's the potential for some of the growers to lose their license if they

don't take action and rather rapidly. Future board items include our three-year work program for the long range planning division. Um, and that's going to the board next week on the 7th of April. Um, so if you're interested, you can watch the hearing or watch the tape. Um, we have our budget workshops that are the week of the 13th um through the 17th. Planning and development is on the 13th. Uh so if you're interested in watching that, we will be probably late morning on the 13th of of April. Um we also have uh a local preference package going to the board of supervisors for housing on the 5th of May. And it's a it's sort of a a joint uh hearing in that um community services department which oversees the um capital A affordable or deed restricted affordable housing units is going to be taking changes to their inclusionary housing program. uh and uh regarding many things but one of them is establishing a um a tiered system for local preference. It's it we have been able to find other jurisdictions that have incorporated local preference for deed restricted units. We have not been able to locate a jurisdiction that successfully adopted one for market rate units. So what we are doing with the market rate units because this was a policy in our housing element uh for implementation was to look at the creation of a program because most people feel like if we're going to build a lot of housing we'd like to see our local employees get

those units rather than having people come in from the outside. Um, so what we discovered and what we are proposing is really requiring the developers to do a marketing plan that's targeted to locals. And so they're going to have to submit a plan to us laying out all the steps they'll be taking to reach out to the local businesses and um um families that are living in the community so they can have access to these units as quickly as possible. And that's kind of as far as we think we can go legally at this point. Um it's not what we had hoped, but we think it's better than nothing. Um and hopefully we can, you know, work with the state to get some laws uh in place that will allow us to do a little bit more, but it's it's particularly challenged because there's federal fair housing laws and we want to make sure we're not resulting in some kind of discriminatory action. And we are going to the board also on the 5th of May with um I'm sorry the local preference is going on the 21st not on the if I said the 5th it's going on the 21st of April. Um we have a briefing that we're taking to the board on the 5th of May regarding creating new ministerial permits. That means following like most of the jurisdictions that we are comparable to having permits that now are currently land use permits or coastal development permits that are appealable no longer be appealable. They will be truly ministerial permits for things like pools or fences and some single family homes. And so we are very unusual county in the number of appeals that we allow on certain types of development. and the board has given us direction to downshift some of those permits to truly ministerial permits.

So, we're going to the board with a briefing to make sure we're following the board's direction. They think that we're going in the right um right direction with the changes we're proposing and then we expect to be coming back to the planning commissions uh in fall and we want to get to the board before the end of the year on that. And that's all I have to report. So, I'm happy to answer any questions. Well, thank you, Miss Plowman. Any questions for the director? No. I have one question. Of course. Is the uh board of supervisors um uh decision on the Sanro Creek wall uh was that the wall fronting Jameson?

Like which which decision was that? That was for um the Promised Land property. Uh Laurel Perez was representing that property. Right. Right. Okay. So that means they overrode the Monaceto Planning Commission. They they upheld your decision. So the the wall is approved. Thank you. Yeah. Thank goodness for that homeowner. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Any other questions? Thank you. And nice to see you. Nice to see you, too. All right. Moving on to item 10, wave public hearing.

So this item is on your agenda as a supplemental noticing. There's no action for the commission to take today.

All right, moving on to item 11, the standard agenda. Uh item one is our is the public hearing on the 1260B property LLC development plan amendment. All right, I'll read that into the record. The following is a hearing on the request of 126 CBB property LLC property owner and applicant to consider case the following case numbers uh 25 AMD11 as well as 26 CDP24 and to determine the project is exempt from SQA pursuant to state SQA guidelines sections 153015303.

All right. And the staff report will be presented by Henry Wakamia. Very good. Welcome. Nice to see you, Mr. Wakamir. Mr. Chair, I'm sorry for interrupting. Before Mr. Wakamia starts, council's reminding me that we uh ought to um uh do expparte declarations and site visit declarations before we start. I'm sorry, say that again. Um before we staff begins this presentation, it might be best to uh if we go over exparte declarations.

Very good. All right. Do any of the commissioners have any exparte disclosures that they wish to share with the uh uh other commissioners and the public? None. No. None. No. All right. We just walked by. Okay. Well, yes. I think we've all walked by. We've all walked by the site.

All right. Anything else before we begin with the uh staff report? All right, you're on.

Appreciate that. All right. Uh good morning, commissioners. My name is Henry Wakamia and today I am presenting the proposed Builtmore Hotel development plan amendment. This slide shows an aerial image of the Builtmore Hotel which is located at 1260 Channel Drive in the coastal zone of the Monaceto Community Plan area. The Builtmore Hotel is located on three separate properties as shown in red and is zoned resort visitor serving commercial. The Builtmore Hotel is operated in its current location since 1927. The site is fully developed for resort visitor serving commercial use and has a variety of incidental uses such as pools, spas, dining facilities, retail spaces, and more. Since it was established, the Builtmore Hotel property has been altered and improved through various entitlements and currently operates under a development plan. The hotel property is currently under construction for improvements approved by the Monaceto Planning Commission in October of 2024. In September 2025, the applicant submitted an application for an amendment to the development plan to allow physical improvements, including minor changes to existing facilities and the construction of new small structures and improvements within the Hill Road rideway. The following slides will describe the improvements in greater detail. This slide shows the Builtmore Hotel with the area outlined in red showing the extent of where the proposed project is located. The proposed project is for improvements at the Builtmore Hotel and within the Hill Road rideway. This includes construction of six new gated driveways shown in red. The driveways will provide access to 20 total new parking spaces. This includes 16 uncovered parking spaces shown in green and the conversion of one guest room in both cottage G and cottage H into twocar garages shown in yellow.

The project also proposes improvements within the Hill rideway shown in blue. This includes the construction of new sidewalk, curb, and gutter along the south side of Hill Road and the relocation of 32 existing on street parking spaces from the south side of Hill Road to the north side, as well as the realignment of the travel lanes. The proposed project is consistent with all applicable comprehensive plan policies including the Monaceto community plan and coastal land use plan. Additionally, it is compliant with all applicable standards in the article 2 coastal zoning ordinance. In the next few slides, I will discuss some of the key issue areas and policy consistency. Policies related to aesthetics and visual resources require that the project is consistent with the scale and character of the community and that coastal views are protected. The project is consistent with these policies as the project includes minor alterations to existing cottages which will not alter the existing footprint or roof line. Proposed gates are less than 6 ft in height and landscaping will sufficiently screen the proposed parking areas. The project is located toward the rear of the property where there are no coastal views. The project is cited appropriately and will not uh significantly alter any landforms and uh and the site is flat and fully developed. The project was reviewed by the Monaceto board of architectural review where they stated that they are supportive of the project and can return for preliminary and final review. Policies related to historic resources require that projects avoid impacts to cultural sites and to protect and preserve sensitive historic resources. The project is consistent with these policies as the proposed improvements are consist uh consistent with standard um requirements for protection of historic resources. Policies related to traffic require that adequate services and resources are

available to serve the project and it must be consistent with roadway and intersection standards. The project is consistent with these policies because there will be no significant impacts to traffic or parking. County Public Works Transportation Division uh has reviewed the project and approved a design exception to approve driveway locations, widths, uh number of access points and gate locations. Design exceptions are only approved if it is determined that the proposed exceptions will not result in any roadway hazards. The project is for minor physical improvements that will not alter the hotel's traffic demand. Additionally, the project increases the number of uh on-site built more hotel parking spaces and retains the same number of on- street public parking spaces. The project is categorically exempt from environmental review pursuant to SQA guideline sections for existing facilities and for the con uh new construction or conversion of small structures. The project qualifies as it as it consists of minor changes to existing facilities and the construction of new small structures including gated driveways, parking areas, sidewalk, curb, gutter, and landscaping improvements. In summary, the proposed project is for a development plan amendment to allow minor physical improvements to the Builtmore Hotel and within the Hill Road rideway. The project is consistent with all applicable policies and is compliant with all applicable standards. Additionally, the project is exempt from SQA and will not result in any significant impacts. With that, staff recommends that the commission take action to make the required findings for approval of the project, including SQA findings, determine the project is exempt from SQA, and approve the project subject to the conditions of approval as modified by the memorandum dated March 31st, 2026. Uh, thank you for your time and staff is

available to answer any questions you may have. Are there questions from the commission? I do not have no I have one question and that's regarding moving the on street parking from the south side of the street basically across the street. Has there been any feedback from homeowners that are adjacent to or near the B Builmore regarding those changed parking spots?

Commissioner Karns through the chair. Uh we did our standard noticing on this project. And so it went out to homeowners in the uh nearby vicinity of the hotel and I spoke with a few property owners um but none had any negative feedback regarding the pros project uh or anything specific in relation to the relocation of parking spaces from the southside to the north side of Hill Road. Excellent. And will this uh change in parking affect any of the sightelines? There's a lot of sighteline issues on Hill Road. Have those all been considered?

Yes. So, as I mentioned, County Public Works has reviewed uh the proposal and approved a design exception. And in that, they review sight lines and things of that nature. Um, and a design exception can only be approved if there are no potential hazards associated with the project. Um, I believe uh is he available? Will Robertson's not quite on yet, but this was most important part of that design exception was looking at these sight lines because of the way the road turns and all adding all the cutouts. So, public works thoroughly reviewed this. Yep.

And to add on to that as well, landscaping within um those sight lines can only be a certain height and things of that nature so that uh everything can be appropriately seen and u safe for the travel. I appreciate your uh explanation. Questions? Just a couple of questions. Um are all 32 of the parking spaces that are being relocated within the stretch that sort of runs between the two pieces of the Builtmore property or are there any residential homes on that back side where the parking will be relocated?

Uh Commissioner Rockenbach through the chair. Um, as you can see on the screen, so the parking is that on the north side that's being relocated and it's adjacent only to Builtmore owned properties. Uh, it is not adjacent to any private um, homeowner uh, properties.

Okay. And then um one additional question, what is the variance that's being requested for the distance from the uh middle of the street for the driveways? Um, so to clarify or just to clarify, uh, a modification is being requested, uh, as is allowed by an amendment to a development plan to allow some of the parking shown in green and yellow

to be located within the front setback uh, of Hill Road. And that is consistent with other parking on the property. Um, so it is at your at the commission's discretion to make a decision on that. Um but as described in the staff reports um the project is consistent with standards and policies. Um and it will be appropriately screened from public view. Um but that's not a separate action that needs to be taken. It's just part of the project as a whole. Okay. And the setback is the red dotted line. Correct. Other questions?

All right. I think there are no others. So the uh thank you for your report. We have uh the applicant who wishes to speak. I have a speaker slip from Mark Lloyd. Welcome Mr. Lloyd. Thank you.

My name is Mark My name is Mark Lloyd of LMP Consultants and I have with me uh Miss Jesse Richardson's from Appleton Associates as the architectural team. Uh Ginger Anderson from the Brownstein firm and owner representative Sean Lavell. Um due to Henry's uh thorough presentation and respecting your time, I'll make a brief but hopefully informative presentation for you. Um David, next slide, please. Um so here's an overall um look at the um preliminary grading plan which generally shows all the improvements that we're proposing to do. Next slide please, David. Um as Henry pointed out, uh the project consists of widening or reconstructing parts of the south side of Hill Road, generally removing a concrete gutter and installing new curb, gutter, standard sidewalk, driveway aprons, and on-site parking. Uh um pursuant to Commissioner Rokenbach's question to Henry, I think I'd clarify that a little bit more. Um the setback I believe that you were talking about is the setback for the driveway depth and um technically we are seeking a modification for that. Um there is a commercial zone requirement that that driveway depth be 30 ft. that that uh requirement is basically um constructed around the need to have commercial truck traffic and access. Um as you can see here, we have a wide commercial driveway that goes into the site. This is our so-called back of house. This is where all our commercial trucks enter and exit the property and make deliveries. And these driveways here meet the residential 25- ft standard. uh and they are to be um restricted to the use of um automobiles and other um guest vehicles

and not any commercial trucks. I think that's more uh addressing your concern. Moving on, um we do not have that depth problem for these two driveways. These are conversions of existing guest rooms. These two guest rooms on building G and H were originally um garages were later converted to guest rooms and we're converting them back in order to have two two garage parking for both of those units. Next slide please, David. And again going through um the improvements. We have these open parking spaces here. The blue line is the rideway line. The uh dash line is the setback line. And our project request includes includes a modification for parking in that front setback. Uh moving on, David and and here's the last slide here of our parking between units N and P or bungalows N and P. And we're also making some additional improvements to this intersection here uh for better street circulation. As you can see, the parking spaces are all aligned in the street here. Um, these are standard parking spaces that have the nominal design standard width and length versus the somewhat informal parking that's on the south side. Um, moving on, David. So, I thought that a photographic uh montage that I prepared here would be very informative. So, let's go through this quickly, David. So, this gives you an idea of the street. Here is our back of house entry that I just described to you. You can see the street scene here. red red curbs, uh improved sidewalk and curb and gutter on this side. Uh built more parking lot back here. Next slide, please. Um continuing on, you can see the street improvements here. We're not proposing much changes here. We're reconstructing this catch basin to make it a little larger to take in the new storm water uh calculations that we need to adhere to. See on the south side um the the concrete gutter we're going to

remove and that pavement. Uh, next slide, please. Again, a better view of this southside improvement. So, what the improvements are going to do here, it's going to remove pavement and this concrete and this pavement out to here. Remove this IV fence and IV coverage here. And then we're going to widen the street, have new curbon gutter here, new concrete sidewalk, and then we'll come out and put a new overlay on the street here as we move this stripe over a little bit. As we put the park into the south, the stripe moves about 8 feet. We would cap this area so that you get a ridge or a high point along the stripe here so it meets all um county public roadway standards. Next slide, please. And again, we're just coming down the street here. Um this is um into the tennis court area. We're starting to get into that. Next slide, please. Into the tennis court crossing area. Our first entry there. I believe those are pickle ball now. Next slide, please. And this goes down to we're starting to hit the tennis courts here. You can see the meandering sidewalk coming through. Next slide, please. Here we start showing you sort of the irregular condition here. And although there's 32 parking spaces down there, they're quite irregular. They're quite a mish mash of sizes and whatnot. Um you can see they're very informal, not to any standards at all. Next slide, please. Again, another replication of that. These are not standard sizes. And this is the end of our improvement. this tree will come out. We have a curb uh return that transitions to our new curb and gutter back like this. Next slide, please. This shows you where our driveway entries are going to go in. And as you saw from the grading plan, there's six of them. Next slide, please. Again, another entry there. Next slide, please. Another entry here. Quite overgrown. Next slide, please. And again, and these are our parking entry. This shows you the on-site parking spaces as they exist now.

And so we're going to move to the uh the residential side, but I wanted to point out some what we think are benefits of this project. Number one, you know, we're we're moving uh the parking to the north side. And again, those are going to be more standard spaces. And in fact, I think they're not going to be striped, but they'll allow probably more parking than we have now. We think that benefits the coastal policies for um coastal access purposes. Um you have a a curb and sidewalk that's along the north side. We are going to install curb and sidewalk along the south side. So we're actually increasing uh public access um to coastal resources with that. Um another thing that we think is a benefit is obviously we have our 20 on-site parking spaces. We have found that as visitors have um occupied the bungalow structures, as they um start understanding they're over on that side of the resort, they don't necessarily all check into the to the valet parking and they end up perhaps parking along this area and cannibalizing what would be otherwise public spots. So, our on-site parking we think is going to alleviate that where people will have parking just right at their units and it'll be very much more convenient for them. Another positive aspect we think of this design here is that it is reminiscent and characteristic of the residential neighborhoods that are further to the west. You know, with driveway openings and the bungalows become very much of a single family look, which Jesse will get into a little bit more. Um, so we think that we're complementing and actually enhancing uh public access, coastal access for the public, creating a better parking situation, creating a more safe um, driving and traffic situation. As Henry mentioned, we went through a design exemption of which all of the site angles were studied very very much in detail. Um, and Je and Jesse will go over the landscaping part of that. So with that, I will turn this over to Jesse to go through the landscaping elements.

Thank you, commissioners and chair. Uh David, this is one of the slides where I might need your help zooming in. If we could start on the upper right hand side, we'll briefly um uh right hand side, other side. Thank you. Um we'll just briefly pan through this. So, this is a rendering showing the proposed landscape improvements um to accommodate the view triangles, the new curb cuts for the driveways and those new gates. So, starting on the far right, that um open space is that existing commercial drive for the back of house. And then just panning on um to the left, you'll see the proposed gates at each of the bungalows. Um E, G, H. Uh G and H are the two that we're proposing to convert a guest room to a garage. And then David, if we could just continue slowly moving. Um as was mentioned in the view triangles, all fencing is limited to 42 in in height and all planting is limited to 36 in in height. Trees are exempt but must be limbmed up to accommodate those view triangles. So, this rendering shows the proposed layering of the landscape to both maintain privacy for these bungalow units, but also accommodate those view site triangles as you approach or exit these new driveways. Here you see the existing fire lane access that will be maintained. And then just continuing on to the east, the parking at bungalows N and P. And then the eastern most bungalow here, Q, is where we approach all of Mil Road as it turns into Channel Drive. Uh, I think we can go back to full screen. So, in working with the Monaceto Board of Architectural Review, they requested that we also take a closer look at some of the landscaping on the north side of Hill Road. This rendering represents uh

the different design elements that we have incorporated in coordination with them, including proposing some infill trees to maintain a consistent rhythm of treecape along the north side of Hill Road and undulating some of the existing hedging along the existing sidewalk to allow for a layer of lower planting and creating more visual depth as you travel along Hill Road. This is the overall site plan again showing the proposed scope of work which I won't go through in detail because it was so thoroughly covered in the report. This is an enlarged plan showing the proposed design for these new driveway gates at the six bungalow driveways. And then specifically taking a quick look at bungalows G and H. They are twins. They are non-historic. And as Mark mentioned, they were originally constructed with this uh northeast unit as a garage which was then converted to guest room and we are proposing to convert back to garage. So on top photos of the existing conditions on the bottom um just a key of where those images are taken from. On the left here we have the existing plan showing the proposed demo for conversion to a garage. on the right hand side, proposed conversion to a garage. And then here on the left, we have the existing exterior elevations. On the right, the proposed, these are the only two elevations that will be impacted. And then this is the overall landscape plan showing context. And then you can see some of the pops of color towards the north side of the plan where we are doing strategic landscape implementation both on the south side and north side of Hill Road. And these next few slides I'll go through quickly but they are enlarged views of the proposed landscape

strategically placed to accommodate the hill improvements and driveway curb cuts. Bungalow's G&H. Again, these are the two where we're converting guest proposing to convert guest room to garage and the remainder of these are uncovered parking spaces.

And I would just mention that the uh the on-site parking is going to be done in a brick mosaic or a brick pattern to match the the brick thematic you see through the Builtmore. Uh, I believe that is the conclusion of our material presentations here. Um, I would like to encourage the planning commission to adopt the staff recommendations and finding for approval. We're here to answer any questions you want. I'd like to reserve a minute or two to make a closing comment. Thank you. Are there questions for the applicant? No. Yes.

Yes. I have a couple of questions. Will the parking on the north side that's going to be more informal, is that going to be striped? The uh parking on the north side of Hill Road will be standard size spaces. I I don't believe it is striped with um endstripes to define it. It'll be typical parking that you see here, but it it they're 23 feet in length. And so um they are quite substantial and we actually think that as people park there'll actually be more parking than what how many spaces are anticipated. So there we are designing for 32 and I don't want to represent that there's more than 32 parking. Yes.

To say is that as we continue to go to smaller vehicles they'll they'll find a place to beach park. And are hotel guests discouraged from parking on the north side of Hill Road by signage or anything? Um we don't have formal signage for that. We believe the um the provision of parking on site and there is um uh adequate parking for the the guests and but we can have instructions to them and this is where you should park. These are public parking spaces. We have no control over them.

And then um how many parking spaces total are available for you know per the number of rooms. How many total rooms and how many total parking spaces? Um, as you may know, um, in our previous approvals, um, we have over 460 parking spaces that were found to be consistent with policies and standards when the hotel was at 236 hotel room uh, guest rooms. over the couple of projects through the AMD um amendments we've done, that count has come down to now, I believe, 132 spaces. So, we have quite a bit of parking now on site. 132 guest units.

132 guest units, excuse me, with no reduction in parking. And we're in fact increasing parking. So, 400 plus spaces for 132 rooms and employees. Yes. Staff. Okay. and and guests that you would be used restaurant facilities and whatnot. As you know, those are open to the public. Yes. Thank you. Just a couple of additional questions. Um, do the proposed driveway gates slide with each side sliding apart or do they open out or in?

They are two piece that slide to each side. um we can't have them go in because they obstruct parking and we can't have them go out because they um they diminish the the stacking room for vehicles. So that 25 ft depth that I described allows a regular um personal vehicle to be parked and not have its tail sticking out on the sidewalk.

Okay. And then um was there any discussion or consideration in moving the sidewalk to having a material other than concrete for the sidewalk? Um, as you, you know, may know around Monaceto, we have a number of pathways that are not technically sidewalks because the Monaceto community plan talks about, um, pathways rather than sidewalks, but I do recognize that there are already existing concrete sidewalks down there.

Commissioner Roenbach, um, we had originally proposed the, uh, bucket brigade type of DG pathways. um through our design exemption review with public works. They are insisting we do a more uh commercial standard since we are commercial site. Um however, we are proposing that the sidewalk it's concrete be um pvious concrete to help us with our storm water control and clean water requirements. So it is concrete. We we like the other material we're unable to do it. Okay. Thank you. Other questions? No comment. I think it's a very well put together presentation. We'll we'll we'll come to that in a moment. Just want just want to see if they are finished. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you both. Are there any um we can open it up for public comment. Are there any requests to speak either online? I don't see anybody in the room at the moment. I don't have any speaker slips and no requests. All right. Then we will close the public hearing. Mr. Lloyd. Mr. Chair, I I did ask uh that I have some a minute reserve time. Maybe this is appropriate time for that if you would allow. Sure.

Um you know, this project is an important project to the community. I want to recognize the staff for their contributions and efforts on behalf of getting this done. Um they were very helpful and very constructive yet very exacting. Um, Deputy Seawward and Supervisor uh Lou were very helpful in the process, but I really want to point out the efforts of planner Wakamia and his uh diligent efforts here. Um, I know these folks catch a lot of grief all the time and don't get enough praise and I just wanted to share with you uh our experience with your staff. Thank you.

No, thank you very much for those comments. All right, there being no uh um request to speak, we will close the public hearing and uh open the floor for comments from the commission before we move on to action. Are there comments? Yeah, I appreciate the clarity of the presentation. Mostly I think your mic is is your mic on?

I think you did a terrific job at presenting this to the commission. Uh, I do appreciate the the amount of convenience that this will both provide for hotel guests, which I think is important, this off-site parking that really residentializes those units, and the increased number of parking spaces, which is always at a premium for people who want to go to the to the beach, you know, visit other friends that are that are staying at the Builtmore. So, I mean, I all in all, I think this was been carefully thought through. I mean, I've poured through the documents on my own and I I think it's a it's generally a a benefit to the hotel and a benefit to the community. So, I fully support the project.

Thank you for that. Other comments? I too would like to say I appreciate the amount of materials that we were provided by staff and the amount of level of details. Um it took a while to go through but in the end it made this presentation um seamless. So thank you.

All right. I'm going to join with my colleagues in expressing my appreciation both to the applicant and to the staff for a very wellthought through uh both project and presentation. you make uh this job when it comes to a complicated project like this a lot easier than it would otherwise be and we appreciate that uh that effort by you. Is there a uh I think I would ask the staff to put up on the screen the uh specific actions that we're being asked to take. just looking.

So the um for the revision memo uh which is there's copy on the dis for you. Uh that's what we have on the screen and that incorporates the uh revised public works condition. All right. So there are three paragraphs up on the screen which are visible to all. I won't I won't have to read them. Is there a motion with respect to those three items? I would move that we accept the staff recommendations that are listed in items one through three shown on the screen. All right, that's the motion on the floor. Is there a second? I'll second it.

All right, motion made and seconded. Is there discussion on the motion to approve the three paragraph staff recommendation? All right, no discussion. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. The motion is unanimously approved and the staff recommendation the three paragraphs are approved. Anything further to do on this particular agenda item? Uh no, just before we adjourn, I just want to um extend my thank you to the commission for agreeing to come in on a special hearing day. I appreciate that.

We're we're happy to do it, particularly when uh the uh agenda item is as well prepared and presented as this one is. So, thank you for that. And thank you to the applicant and to the staff in particular for your excellent work on this. There being no other business before the commission, the the uh meeting of April 1st, 2026 is adjourned. Thank you all.