Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Okay, good evening. Welcome to the meeting of the City of Goleta Planning Commission for September 14th, 2026. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. 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. Could we get a roll call of the Planning Commission, please? Yes, thank you.

Here. At this time, we will have the public forum for anyone who wants to comment on any non-agenda item. Do we have any speaker slips?

Thank you. Do we have any other hands raised on the Zoom webinar?

Thank you. Let's move to, are there any amendments or adjustments to the agenda?

OK. We can now go to the administrative agenda. And could you please read the item into the record?

And do we have any discussion? Do we have any public comments?

OK. Do we have any discussion with the commissioners? Seeing none, can someone make a motion, please?

OK. Can we get the roll call vote, please?

Yes. I was not here for the meeting, but I did watch the video, so I'm voting yes.

OK, we now go to the next item. And if you could please read that into the record.

Do we have a staff presentation? Go ahead.

Okay. Do you have any questions from the commissioners?

Yeah, I think you answered my question about why is this so late in the game, this approval, but I think you answered that and I appreciate the extra diagram showing where that is, the relationship. Looks like it's all in the parking lot. Really wouldn't disturb anything if they have to cut through. Do you have any concerns with the easement?

No worries. No worries. And who's on the hook if they do need to dig it up and maintain that infrastructure? Would they put it back, or would it be up to the city to put it back?

Anybody else? Yeah, I have a question related to that. So city owns the property. They're going to have an easement for... Really, just for in terms of if there's a fire. Is that correct? I mean, or to access the water for fire safety or for everything?

Okay. So will there be a fire hydrant on top of that?

Yeah, so it'll be something that's visible to folks.

So is this just a written contractual agreement easement, or was there any money changing hands for this easement? Was there any consideration given in monetary funds?

OK. I'm just trying to get a handle on, you know, For the public to understand why it's necessary and just not something that's adding to the cost of the train station and that sort of thing.

It's similar then. OK. OK, great. Thank you. And do we have any public comment on this item?

Thank you. Okay, so we can go into deliberations now. Who would like to begin? Anybody?

Oh, I would like to close public comment. Thank you very much, Commissioner Fullerton, for that reminder. So we can now go on with our deliberations, or we can look for a motion.

Thank you. Could we get a roll call vote, please?

Yes. Okay. There we have it. A vote. Planning Director's comments. Thank you.

OK, thank you, Director Imhoff. Do we have any comments by any of the planning commissioners? Any final comments from anyone?

Okay. Can we get a motion to adjourn the meeting? I'll second.