Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Kings County
Tuesday, August 11, 2026Official site

The Planning Commission unanimously approved Zone Text Amendment No. 0013-26, establishing an expedited permitting process for electric vehicle charging stations to comply with state mandates.

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning Commission
Meeting Type
Planning Commission
Location
Hanford, CA
Meeting Date
August 11, 2026

Published excerpts

Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.

13 sections (from 14 segments)

0:01 – 0:56•Dennis Ham

Waited long enough for public comment the only person who was in the audience for public comment is left So you do not will not have public comment chose on the agenda is consent calendar And we do not have anything on the consent calendar to vote on so we'll move on And so first item of business tonight will be public hearing and it's going to be his own text amendment numbers zero zero thirteen dash twenty six request to amend title fifteen buildings and construction of the hatred municipal code by adding chapter fifteen point five seven in order to implement a new expedited electric vehicle

2:58 – 3:12•Dennis Ham

Thank you. Also, before we get on with questions, I want to note that we received a three page reprint of chapter 15.57 by email this afternoon. So hopefully everybody got to see it. I believe it's because of some typos.

3:32•Dennis Ham

All right. We'll try to remember to do that Okay. Are there any questions of staff?

4:50 – 5:19•Dennis Ham

Any other questions? I have a question for clarification. On page 5 of the report that we received in paragraph B of 15.57.060, it says the building official shall administratively approve the application. Is there clarification as to who the building official will be? Is it the person out in the van doing the field work, or does it go to the office, or who's the building official?

5:30 – 5:49•Dennis Ham

Okay, so everything will go through him as of today anyway? Okay. And then any design standards are going to be outside this document, right? This is just the application, and any official standards will be through a different document? Is that correct?

7:07 – 7:30•Dennis Ham

I notice this also applies to both residential and commercial. On a commercial project, will there be any limitation to the number of charging stations that will be approved at any one time? Specifically, like some of the hotels right now, almost every stall has an EV charging port, and so that would be a very large scale. Are you going to have any limitation as to the numbers of charging ports at any one location?

8:20 – 8:58•Dennis Ham

Okay, I don't have any more questions. We don't have any in the audience, but I have to do this. And I'll open the floor for public input. First, those in favor of the project. Seeing none, I'll switch over to anybody opposed to the project. Seeing none, I'll close the public input portion of the public hearing and bring it back to the Commission for any further discussion or motion. Remember, we need to have an amendment to accept the change. CHAIR WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION IF THERE'S NO FURTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS.

9:13 – 9:49•Dennis Ham

Second we need also men to this too. I'll go ahead if that's everybody first, okay I'll clarify the motion it should say I recommend the adoption of resolution number 20 26 14 recommending the approval of zone text amendment number 0 0 1 3 2 6 along with accepting the record the amendment or the reprinting of chapter 15 point 5 7 Commissioner Sparza?

9:55 – 10:08•Dennis Ham

Yes. Mr. Hamm? Yes. That's a order and approved. We'll close the public hearing. That was easy. Okay, let's see. Next on the agenda will be Director's Comments.

10:47 – 11:01•Dennis Ham

So, clarification, there was an approved cannabis facility across the street from the bus center, but I believe that has fallen through. Correct. This is not going to be an additional one. It may be more of a replacement of that.

11:41•Dennis Ham

I received mine on Friday. Yeah. We have plenty. At least I did. That's been pretty much the norm.

12:11 – 12:37•Dennis Ham

Any other items from the commission? I will not be available on the next meeting date. I will be out of the country. So the chair position will be vacant. I hope the vice chair will be here, but I would suggest that maybe we have a little bit of a briefing just in case our vice chair cannot make it so that we can still have a meeting. I'm not sure how you want to do that, but I think it's necessary.

12:56•Dennis Ham

Wow. 14 minutes. If there's nothing else, meeting adjourned.

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