Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

We'll do that. Good evening. Welcome to the Planning Commission for 04/15/2026. Right now, if I could have our clerk do the I'll just go and first do the Pledge of Allegiance. Terry, why don't you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, and we'll get started.

Yeah, sorry my bad. Okay. Let's go ahead and do the roll call, please.

Chair Greg

Stewart. Here.

Vice Chair Jerry. Commissioner Espender.

Present.

Commissioner Corral.

He's present.

Commissioner Schneider. Present. Commissioner Thompson.

Present.

Commissioner Avalos Vialobos. Here. One absent six present.

Very good, thank you. Alright, so we're gonna move on to oral communication from the audience and items that are not on the agenda. So if anyone has anyone completed anything to speak to the Commission about items not on the agenda?

No, Sir. Okay, very good. Alright, so we'll move

on to the approval of the minutes.

They approve 02/18/2026 Planning Commission meeting.

Yeah, motion by Commissioner Esteban, a second by Commissioner Thompson. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed? Hearing none, the motion carries. Now we're gonna move into the public hearings that'll be on for the following items. General plan amendment number twenty twenty two zero zero one. Specific plan amendment number 20220002. Conditional development permit number 20220019. Precise plan design number 20220031 and then environmental assessment review number 20220033.

Think Daniel Rosa, you're be doing the presentation tonight? Okay, sir. Thank you so much.

Alright. Good evening, chair, planning commissioners. So tonight, before you consideration, master case twenty twenty two dash thirty four encompassing all applications said read off by the chair. Thank you very much for that. So we'll go ahead and start off with the location of the project site.

This location is actually in the gateway specific plan near the 10 Freeway. More specifically, it's the Northeast Corner Of Valley Boulevard in Willow. The site consists of three parcels today totaling about 6.02 acres. Today, the site is about half or a little bit more than half percent developed with an existing industrial building with its associated parking and paving. And then

the other remainder of the site is vacant.

So the proposal before you tonight is the general plan land use designation to change that to a business park with this SP overlay, to change the specific plan zoning designation to an industrial park within the gateway specific plan. To reconfigure those three parcels into two to facilitate this development. Construct two warehouse buildings, one with 46,758 square foot and the other at 73,210. And then, you know, once these buildings are constructed, they can accommodate the various industrial uses for storage and distribution. So the specifics on the general plan amendment.

If you look at the left side will be the existing and then the proposed is on the right. So today the project site is the red area there. Everything to the west and south, those are all in the business park. But the site itself today is in a general commercial. So the proposal there is to make this more consistent and compatible with the industrial use and its neighboring properties to the west and south.

So change that also to a business park. The specific plan in order to maintain consistency with the general plan would be to change the designation to an industrial park within that gateway specific plan. And this is kind of what that would look like. Very similar to the west, Southwest, and south. We're gonna go ahead and propose matching the industrial park.

There is also a little, you know, obviously to the northeast there, there's a geographical site plan is tweaked a little bit. So elongated where north is the left side of your slide or the page in front of you. You can see that the buildings are located on the site more towards the east property boundaries so that the parking for vehicles will be along the south, east, and north with the landscaping throughout. The underground basin will be used for or underground filtration will be used for water quality. This one has about a 111 parking spaces.

They're proposing four driveways. Today's site does have three. There are already two on Willow and one on Valley, but those will be reconstructed and adjusted as needed to facilitate the new development. Little bit of detail on the floor plan. This just kind of gives you the breakdowns for Building 1 and Building 2. Those square footages we discussed, how they break down into warehouse area for storage, those office areas as well as mezzanine and the doors

to

And the about

next next and includes a variation of exterior finishes. It is a concrete tilt up construction, but they will incorporate all of glazing reveals, eyebrow metal accents and paint colors as well. Landscaping. This does exceed the minimum 10% by the guidelines. So at 19.6% coverage that comes from the setbacks along Willow And Valley for the most part.

Also parkways, all the landscape throughout is going to make sure it meets the city's requirements for drought tolerant trees at 30 linear foot at a minimum and then ground cover and shrubs throughout the site as well. So this project, when it first started, completed a scoping agreement that was done by Dudec. That was reviewed by the city engineer's transportation engineer. And the trip generation looked like this, about 152 net new trips. And what that looks like on the breakdown for truck vehicles as well as regular passenger vehicles.

And after that was analyzed it was all sections for the road and intersections nearby will maintain their level of service. And it did not warrant any further studies for the transportation. With that, the initial study due deck prepared, mitigated negative declaration was prepared. A thirty day comment period was held, February 11 through March 12. And the city during that period did receive two comment letters, pretty standard from the Department of Toxic Substance Control as well as the neighboring flood control, San Bernardino County Public Works.

And the responses to those comments were incorporated into the final MND. So to summarize of this project would be consistent with the IP zone, this development. Also, the indoor storage facilities ordinance chapter eighteen one one two as well as the design guidelines and the uses in the area. Environmental studies, the project concluded the impacts for this project were less than significant. And at the end of the day, the warehouses that are being proposed the highest and best use for that zone in this area.

The economic development committee did review this or take a look at this several years back. And as far as the public hearing notices, this project was noticed for a thousand foot radius. So those notices did go out. It was published in the local newspapers required. And think last slide here just has staff's recommendation.

So staff recommends that the Planning Commission adopt the attached resolutions exhibit KL, MN and O. Forwarding a recommendation to the city council for approving the general plan amendment, specific plan amendment, conditional development permit, and PPD as stated herein with the associated MND based on the subjects findings therein. That's all staff has. I do know that some of the consultants and applicant are available in case there are any questions. That's the presentation for you.

Very good. Thank you, Daniel. Good job. Commission, do you have any questions for staff right now? Thank you for staff. Do you have any questions for consultants or staff which? Yeah, go ahead. Daniel. Yes, sir. Going to page if you

can go into page six of presentation. I'm looking at that driveway. It's thirty two feet wide that exits and enters out off of Valley Boulevard. Is that gonna be for semi ingress and egress?

No, sir. So what you see on the plan, it does show a little path that's cross hatched. That is for fire access only. So that shows the fire department that they can get their vehicles maneuvering in there. In the staff report, it indicates that that Valley Driveway will be for vehicle passenger vehicles. So that's why it has a little bit more narrower, 32 foot wide. But there will be no trucks on that that access right there.

Okay. Very good. Thank you.

Any other questions of staff or consultant team that they have here? If not, this is time and the place we'll open the public hearing. Is there anybody that has requested to speak to the item? Go ahead. Mister chair,

if I before we open the public hearing, be appropriate to give the applicant an opportunity to make a presentation.

Okay. Does the applicant wanna make a presentation or talk to us? Do you wanna make that take that risk? No, just kidding. Go ahead.

Go ahead, sorry. The

name is Brian Bargeman. I'm with Investment Building Group. It's the general partner for the partnership that purchased the property several years ago now. And thank you for having me here. Thank you for reviewing the plans.

We just want to reassert our intention to do this redevelopment in a first class way in the city of Rialto and make the full investment. And we have been in business for forty five years. We do just a real thumbs up job on everything we do first class. You could go to any of our projects, you'll just see well kept projects, well kept buildings and great tenants, which takes some training to keep them that way. But looking forward to this project. Thank you.

Thank you. Real quick question. Is this a built end user or rebuilding spec right now? Do you have anybody in line that you can think of or have thought about or?

Well, I always have people in mind. I do have a broker who has a lot of people in mind, but we have about 27 tenants of our own that continue to now they're expanding. Expanding. And they are interested in this project. Actually they called me about this project. However, I cannot negotiate with them in any way because they're on leases with us and I don't have a timeframe I could produce the building. But they are interested for sure.

Great. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay.

Alright, so we'll open the public hearing now. Do we have anybody that's requested to speak on the the public hearing portion of this?

No, sir.

Okay, no no one public hearing Commission. What's your pleasure? Motion by Commissioner Estebaner close the public hearing. Is there a second? Seconded by Commissioner Corral. All those in favor closing the public hearing signify by saying I. I. Opposed hearing none. Public hearing is closed. What's the Commission's pleasure on these five items?

Move to adopt the attached resolution exhibit K l, m, n, and o, thereby following to the city council a recommendation to approve GPA number two zero two two Dash0 zero zero one, SPA number s, 20 two two Dash0 002. CDP number 2022Dash0019. PPD number 2022Dash0031, and the associated mitigated negative declaration based upon the findings and subjects of the conditions therein.

I have a motion. Do we have a

second to that motion? Second. Seconded by Ray.

Okay. Any final comments or anything before we do a roll call vote?

Okay. Let's go ahead. Clerk, we'll go ahead and do a roll call. Commissioner Avalos Villalos. Aye. Commissioner Schneider. Aye. Commissioner, Chair Story. Aye. Commissioner Espander. Aye. Commissioner Thompson.

Aye.

Commissioner Corrat.

Aye.

Right. Motion carries. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Looking forward to it. So moving on the agenda, we have no action items, but we do have we don't have our community development director here tonight, but we do have the manager. So let's let Daniel cut loose on this. What do you got for us?

Thank you very

much, chair. Make it short.

Short. Only one thing to report. The next planning commission meeting will be held on May 6, and we do have three items ready to go for that meeting. Alright. That's it. Thank you. All right.

Thank you so much and everything. Any comments from any of our commissioners who you'd like to bring up per se this evening?

Move adjourn.

Okay. Is there a second? Second. Okay. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Hearing none. Meeting's adjourned. Thank you so much.