Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

All right, we're gonna go ahead and call this meeting to order. It's 6.30 in the afternoon. Welcome, staff, members of the public joining us virtually. Can we get a roll call, please?

Thank you so much. Next item of business is to do the Pledge of Allegiance. Can we please stand?

Thank you so much. Next item is corrections to the agenda.

Thank you so much. Next item is a public comment. Director Pellomi, can you help me with the statement, please?

Thank you so much. Our next item is staff communications.

Thank you so much. The following item is to approve the planning commission minutes from September 1st, 2026.

Thank you so much. Can we get a roll call, please?

Thank you so much. Our next item is the public hearing. Can we get a staff report?

Thank you so much. Any questions for staff?

Just a point of clarification for maybe some folks watching from home because there is nobody here besides us. To clarify, the first couple of items in regards to the development standards for ADUs and junior ADUs and also the water conservation standards are basically to update our local municipal code to match those existing standards and to be consistent with the state.

Okay. And then some of the definitions that are also not consistent with the way our current code language exist in the municipal code is to also update that information that is correct and then to outlaw the or not allow the data centers that's correct and that's not with state law but the the first two are consistent with state law yes thank you for clarifying that yes okay just want to clarify because there was a lot of information and even when I first got here I was like oh my god this is a lot And I had read some of it when I was home, but it was still a lot, but that really helped. Than

Thank you so much. I have a quick sort of follow-up question to that. So these updates that we're doing to our municipal code, do they supersede state law or does the state law still stay in effect? Or in other words, do we have both state law and ordinances that relate to ADU?

Is establishing an ordinance part of the state law? I guess I'm trying to understand why the redundancy. Why do we need state law and local ordinance if they're both saying the same thing?

I GUESS JUST ONE MORE QUESTION ON THE DATA CENTERS. SO WE ARE ADOPTING OR WOULD POTENTIALLY BE ADOPTING A RESOLUTION THAT WOULD not necessarily prohibit, but not allow data centers or AI data centers in any zone in the city. That is correct. The prohibition is citywide. Gotcha. But that wouldn't stop, say, a potential applicant to apply through a CUP to be able to establish such a facility.

Thank you so much Any more questions from or to for staff?

Thank you so much. Any questions or comments for staff? No? Okay. So in that case, I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing. Close the public hearing. WERE THERE ANY COMMENTS OR LETTERS OR ARE THEY IN OPPOSITION OR?

THANK YOU SO MUCH. SO I GUESS THAT BRINGS IT BACK UP TO THE COMMISSION. I AGREE WITH COMMISSIONERS HERE ON THANKING STAFF FOR SORT OF BEING PROACTIVE WITH THIS SUBJECT. I'M REFERRING TO THE WHOLE SUBJECT OF DATA CENTERS. IT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN IN THE NEWS LATELY. I THINK IT IS WE HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT IS THE FUTURE AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING NOW. But I don't think anybody can disagree that we have to be careful on how we address that. And as a city, I think we're on the right track in giving us that opportunity to think about how these data centers could potentially af

Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Any other points of discussion?

Thank you so much. Can we get a roll call, please?

Thank you so much. There are no other items. Sorry, no other public hearing items. Our next item is the Planning Commission Orals. Any Planning Commission Orals? No. Maybe a quick thank you again for staff for being proactive with stuff like this. Again, I recognize that this is sort of the future, but I want to say that the burden is on the developers to make sure that not only the users, but the communities that engage in these AI data centers are safe. And until they can prove that to us, I think we're in the right spot. So thank you.