Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

all right everyone uh the time is now 7:30 p.m  on wednesday june 11th 2025 and this meeting   is now called to order please stand and follow  commissioner rose in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of america and to the stands nation all right thank you commissioner rose can  we have a roll call please yes commissioner   austin here brown here rose here sheffler  here she here vashani here chair sahara   here all right uh the next item on the  agenda is the approval of the minutes   from the last two regular meetings um do we  have any corrections or errors or omissions all right seeing none sure would you  like two motions or a sweet motion   uh can we vote on them all at the same  time i would do them separately let's do   them separately uh so for the first set  of minutes the ones from march 12th 2025   uh do i have a motion i'll move to approve i'll  i'll second that all right we have a motion in a   second um we'll we can take a voice vote uh all  in favor say i i i any opposed any abstensions all right with that the motion carries uh  let's vote on the next set of minutes i'll   move to approve april 9th uh minutes  from regular meeting second all right   i have a motion and a second are  there any corrections omissions

all right uh we can do a voice vote uh all  in favor say i i any opposed any abstensions no abstensions all right with that the motion  carries um now we're going to proceed to the   public input portion of tonight's meeting  um this is the time and place to discuss   any items that are not on the agenda um  just as a reminder uh we can't discuss   these items uh but we can use those to inform  our decision about what goes on future agendas   uh does anyone wish to speak uh during  this public input portion of the meeting no all right seeing none the public input  portion of the meeting is now closed and we   can proceed to the public hearing portion  for public hearings we have one public   hearing item on the agenda today uh first  up is ph1 uh which is an application for   a conditional use permit cup 2025- 0004 uh the  subject property is 939 west huntington drive   uh with kincow thai eery uh as the applicant um  it's for a type 41 state alcohol and beverage   control license uh to serve beer and wine at an  existing restaurant um i believe uh brenda you   have the staff report go ahead yes thank you so  much chair and good evening commission members   so the first item tonight is a conditional use  permit for a state alcohol beverage control   um type 41 license to allow the incidental  sale and on-site service of beer and wine for  

on-site consumption at an existing sitdown  restaurant called kin cow thai ethery and the site is located at 939  west huntington drive within a   freestanding multi-tenant building  located within the monrovia gateway   shopping center and is zoned as  regional subregional commercial so food service will be offered  throughout all hours of operation   the restaurant provides a wide range  of thai cuisine options including   noodles and curry dishes various sides and  non-alcoholic beverages state approval is   also required for the sale and consumption  of alcohol on site this includes that the   restaurant have a full service kitchen during  operating hours and certification be obtained   by managers and services through the abc's  responsible beverage service training program staff conducted a site visit to the  restaurant and confirmed that the   layout of the business reflects an  operating bonafide eating establishment   uh as we can see the floor plan shows  a total of 10 tables and 18 chairs staff also obtained some pictures  of the restaurant on the day of   the site inspection as we can see here now standard conditions include that any changes  or intensifications done to the floor plan be an   amendment to the cup and window signs be placed  so that there is a clear and unobstructed view   of the interior and with that staff is  recommending approval of the conditional   use permit for incidental sale and service of beer  and wine for on-site consumption at this location  

um that concludes my presentation and the  applicants are here in the audience thank   you thank you very much uh do we have any  questions from the commission for staff uh just one from me uh is this uh in line  uh or different in any way from the recent   um type 41 cups that we've approved it's pretty  standard uh there's nothing different uh about   this application i believe there's been previous  uh approved cups for beer and wine service for   other restaurants at this site great all right um  if there's no more questions from the commission   at this time this is the time and place for public  input regarding ph1 uh we'll accept testimony in   the following order the applicant if they wish  to speak then persons in favor then anyone with   concerns and then the applicant will have a chance  to respond and uh just some reminders please come   to the podium and just state your name if you  would like to speak um uh would the applicant like   to speak sure okay please go ahead like this so  proud of me by doing something wrong anyway chayen   dangich i'm part of the owner of the uh kingo thai  i only have one questions when are you guys going   to visit us that's all i have thank you thank  you very much uh do we have anybody uh opposed   or persons with concerns assuming the answer is no  uh with that we don't uh need to rebut anything so  

uh any questions oh uh the the public uh testimony  portion of uh of this um public hearing item is   closed uh do we have any more questions from  the commission for staff or the applicant all right seeing none um if there's no further  discussion uh do i have a motion i move to   approve c2025-004 with conditions as presented  in the staff report we have a motion do i have   a second i'll second all right we have a motion  and a second uh let's please proceed to a roll   call vote yes commissioner austin yes brown  yes rose yes sheffller yes she yes pashani   yes chair stira yes with that the motion carries  um is there appeal language yes thank you um all   items of the all public hearings of the planning  commission may be um appealed if filed in writing   to the city council and there is a 10-day appeal  period thank you all right thank you very much   thank you brenda uh with that we have completed  the public hearing portion of tonight's meeting   uh we have no administrative report items on the  agenda so i think we can move right along to the   community development director's report yes  uh thank you very much um so this next item   i just wanted to report to the commission  on is our u monrovia's annual report on the   status of the general plan this is a standard  report that monrovia files every year as well   as every other city here in california it is a  requirement um and there's two purposes this this  

uh report really covers the status of the housing  element our implementation are we implementing   the housing plan that's adopted as well as  tracking our reena progress on attaining units   um and from a it get so it gets submitted to hcd  um every year generally it's in april this year we   got a little extension because of the wind and  fire event we had earlier this year that's why   you're getting it a little bit later this year um  but it also goes to the state office of planning   and research and that really helps them track um  you know public planning policies um so it it's   it's a planning tool as well and it also covers  other portions of the general plan not just the   housing element um this report was um submitted  to the city council at their meeting um in may may   6 um and it was accepted by the city council and  then later sent up to the state um so real briefly   i think the commission has seen this table um many  times um this is the most current table though   this is the all of the numbers for the uh 24 uh  2024 uh calendar year for housing development um   what it shows is our goal for the reena and that's  an 8-year cycle we're about halfway through it and   we've already already closely achieved almost  all of those units so our goal was 16 is 1670   we're halfway through and we have a total of um  1,168 units um the second piece of the story by   looking at this table um as you can see is the  majority of the units that monrovia is capturing   are all in the above moderate and that's one  of the reasons why we've um are doing a lot of   work on inclusionary housing and other uh policies  and and municipal code amendments to you know get  

um affordable housing in our community um the  the annual report used to be a very simple   report um it has become now this monster excel  spreadsheet that our april kia extraordinaire   helps help helps us with every year um it tracks  the development of housing at each phase of the   development process and it also looks to see are  there any issues in the planning process that   could be delaying the approval of a of a project  or the issuance of a permit or the inspection   process are we issuing the final certificates of  occupancy um i think monrovia is in a very good   uh um point you can see the trend over the last  couple of years um we're still seeing um a good   amount of units that are being applied for that  are being approved and entitled and then this in   2024 you can see we issued a cfo for 497 units the  majority of those units were the alexen project do do you want to uh entertain questions while  you're doing this or should we wait to the end   yeah we can go for it yeah so the so the ones  like for the uh election or the like the election   marmmont or those other those uh would show up  much earlier in the applied and entitled and then   the the cfo would come a lot later right that  is correct so so like 2020 probably right well   the election if i were yeah was a 2020 approval  project and i think co added some delay there   was some uncertainty um and that's why we saw  them submitting into i think building plan check   um 2021 2022 um and that's why you don't see them  in well actually it was probably in 20 maybe they  

got right in and then they paused and they wait  and they do a plan check extension and then they   proceed so is that a blip or is that a typical  timeline of it's hard to know what's typical   because of the way the markets have been um the  things that happen in life like covid those are   all factors and and how things move but for the  most part when you're looking at a big project   those are the ones that get impacted easily um  for the most part when we look at other types   of housing like adus for example those have been  continuous steady um hcd when we were doing our   housing element had this concern that we would  tap out we were doing really good numbers early   on but they felt oh you know you're not going to  be able to keep up that rate um our goal for our   housing element was 232 again that's for the full  eight years and we're you know we're making good   progress on getting there um so another question  so looking at the total number of units and the   affordability so we're real heavy on the moderate  what's hcd's position on that like we're making   our numbers but not at the affordability levels  that they've prescribed so how does that does   that that's a great question are they like  "we're fine you're doing anything or well   so part of the initial housing element process  is looking at everything the city does what are   our governmental constraints internally what are  our what might be external constraints what are   what are code provisions that may be influencing  the development of housing and then we develop a   housing plan and that's part of the that's part of  the housing element um as long as we're showing as   monroia is showing that we are doing everything  within our capacity to um process housing to  

um uh incentivize affordable housing or  require it through an inclusionary housing   um they we're in good shape we won't be penalized  for that so monrovia is not required to build   these units we're just required to make  sure we have a framework so that they can be   um submitted for approved and and built so uh um  and you might uh sum this up at the end so if i'm   getting ahead of you let me know on a scale of  you know giant pat on the back to we're going   to revoke your housing element oh uh where are we  on that spectrum well i i think we're really i'm   feeling very good i mean hcd is they are looking  at they're they have a whole housing unit that   looks at compliance um and they do check in and  i think they're they're reviewing each year's   apr a little bit more carefully there's a lot of  information you can look in june we'll be able to   look at the state's website and see kind of the  results of all the cities and how they kind of   um compare to each other so i'm looking forward  to to looking at that that'll be released i think   at the end of june um but i think we're doing  a phenomenal job so thank you sher just before   you go on we would see an influx in our um you  know occupancy load or or permitted to occupy   because we have two if not a third project  going so our 2025 number should look look   substantially increased from some other years  because those kind of go in cycles am i correct   on that you're absolutely correct so we have one  we have two projects right now in station square   that are still under construction um station  square south has 296 units they're going to be  

releasing this year their first phase probably  within the next two months and we have the 127   pomona and that one is do you remember how many  units um 232 and they're also doing very well so   we're feeling good potential of like 500 this year  yeah potentially can i really and for those what   percentage would be very low low um or extremely  i don't know how deep the affordability is but   like so for station square south the city did not  have an inclusionary housing requirement on that   project um there all their units were proposed  market rate but there are other benefits that   we built into that that we negotiated into that  project like the new access southern access to   the metro uh 127 pomona john do you recall  there's 13 very low and 12 low income units yeah and that project um we we were able to  capture those units through the density bonus   um that site wasn't two acres they wanted to  do a mixeduse project on less than two acres   that required they needed a waiver or concession  so they offered affordable housing to get that um and then aside from just the the number of  units that are being uh produced um and that   tracking the state again looks at what is the  city do what else is the city doing and that's   the housing plan so since we've adopted the  housing element there's been you know a lot   of new ordinances that have come before  the commission in the last couple of years   removing the cup requirement updating um this  year the the accessory dwelling unit ordinance   um building in um rem yeah yes approving  objective development design standards for  

multifamily housing um creating this adu  web page that's now up and running and um   will in continue to get better as um we get more  submitts um at the last city council meeting on   um june 3rd the city council approved on first  hearing the inclusionary housing ordinance that's   going to be moving on to second reading um  next week and the city's currently still   working under the density bonus ordinance and we  hope to have that this summer to the commission um but in addition to just the housing plan the  the items that the city said we're going to do   i think you'll find that city staff not only in  the community development department but in the   city manager's office are looking for ways to  complement and bring in affordable housing to   the city um one really um um i think important  project that the city manager's office took the   lead on was their partnership with la county um  um it was la county homelessness authority in in   um coordinating the effort to convert a  hotel to the interim housing shelter with 35   um beds that was the pathway home project um  our community development department is still   actively working through that entitlement at 701  south myrtle avenue i suspect that one will likely   come before the commission this year um the  city also has in our neighborhood and business   services division um this we run the cdbg program  community block development block grant program   um in recent years we've increased the  number of projects to um uh that really   are help towards the preservation of existing  affordable units in the city and there are more  

projects underway that i believe will be coming  before the commission sherry is the funding for   the cdgb is that a federal funding block that  is federal funding how is that going to be are   we excited how that's coming along well um  we are having a a a conversation tomorrow   yeah so there's still some uncertainty but um we  haven't been told we are not going to receive it   so that's positive better than no but you  have prior funds from prior years or have   you guys already exhausted all your we've based  on our current program we we get our allocation   and we we've been using them on projects on a  year-to-year ba basis so we so you've exhausted   it so you're waiting for like the next award  yes we we use it on on a year-to-year basis one thing i don't see on this list is was it  35 affordable units no i think it was oh that   was the 35 beds the um uh converting what was  going to be the oak park oak park yeah so the   oak park um project was originally looking to  redevelop that entire site um they've actually   pulled that project from their entitlement and  began working with um a developer to convert   their market rate units to affordable housing  units it would be 100% affordable um and the   city council did adopt a resolution for the issu  the bond issuance to support that earlier this   year um and one of the the you know one of the  concerns of of staff and the council were was   the preservation of this existing senior homes  housing units that were deed restricted and those   would be preserved as well which was a huge  win um what i also didn't include here which  

um you know we'll be giving updates and it will  also be in next year's apr report is what we're   what comes to be with that property at 222  east cypress we're currently working with   the san gabriel valley council of governments on  doing some feasibility studies and um to see if   that site can support additional housing um  so we're excited to see what that um brings um and then moving away from just housing in  general i think the city's done a great you   know job of using our planned development um  zoning strategies to preserve existing units   doing adaptive reuse um last year we issued the  approvals for 508 uh through 512 south ivy avenue   that's the baker homes across the street that  we'll convert to a hotel um that zoning though   did preserve um the residential use should the  hotel use not be viable at any point in the   future um part of our land use element does focus  on um historic preservation and last year we did   uh four new historic landmarks with milzac  contracts um we have been working alongside   the fire department they are taking the heavy  doing the heavy lifting on preparing a local   hazard mitigation plan that's underway think we'll  probably be seeing that later this year and then   um if the commission remembers we had a new  environmental justice element in 2022 and that um   the community services department has been really  taking a very you know close look at other park   parks and they have several park projects now that  are all underway i think last week um um myself   and i think i saw a few of the commissioners  at the at the satro tsunishi park development  

uh kickoff so that one's a new park by the  chick-fil-a that's under development um so with   that i'd like to conclude uh staff's report um  and i'm happy to answer any additional questions thank you director burmejo do we have any  other sure i do got a quick the um local hazard   mitigation plan does that ever come through  us um call anything like that ever but i i i   don't i it may at at this point i'll say it may  because we may be actually amending our safety   element concurrently with with it to update the  local hazard fire maps so um fire chief and i are   still working through those details if not that  would be a good brick and mortar oh absolutely   something like that to incorporate absolutely  absolutely would there be any impacts on the   building code potentially well the building code  following um there we are going to be starting a   new building cycle in june um well right around  this time is when we start our building team   starts looking at our codes and um preparing for  the new cycle um so and it's not just building   but also fire codes um and so that will come to  the city council either december because to have   it in effect by by january so adoption of a new  uniform building code right yeah so we'll have   some other things to to keep us busy and bring  to the commission to report on that's not housing just circling back to the reena and  the fact that you know most of the  

units that are being produced are in the above  moderate category like commissioner brown said   um at the end of a housing cycle uh when we may  not uh reach our arena allocation for the very low   and low um income levels of what happens at that  point um i don't foresee any penalty so in prior   years as long as the city is producing housing we  the city cannot force development right we have   to rely there's so many factors there's there's  the economy there's land prices there's the cost   of construction um when we do our housing cycle  when we're preparing for the next housing cycle   um we'll be looking at we we're first going to  figure out what we're they're first we're going   to be allocated a new number and we're going to  have to evaluate can we still capture housing   in our existing sites inventory so one of the the  things the planners do with our housing consultant   is we look at where in the city do we think we  can capture more development um monrovia has been   very lucky because we haven't had to reszone  um increased density in any areas we've we've   been able to sustain enough land uh zoning to to  accommodate our arena um we'll see i mean these   are things that that we follow with the state and  um it's hard to it's hard to say midcycle what's   what we're going to be where we're going to be in  four years oh i was just going to suggestion and   i'm sure your consultant is helping you with this  but you can also buy affordability right so some   cities do that you offer them i don't know you  wave a fee here and there and then you can record   covenants so you can still capture units that have  already been built that we may have missed during  

whatever cycle oh absolutely so once we get our  um part of the inclusionary housing ordinance is   um a component of that is establishing the  fee setting up this fund where we can start   collecting money to um assist with other  affordable housing um maintain affordable   housing um those are definitely things that  we are um keeping our eye on sherry because   i know the state doesn't understand every little  city there's so many cities in the state does it   ever come to a point especially with small cities  that only have so much land that you can tell the   state "we have no more land to build on to meet  the requirements that you're requiring of us that   you pull out of a hat." i mean right does that  does that ever happen well i mean i'm sure yes   there's a lot of people who are constantly you  know there's so much land there's only so much   we can do and i and again the measurement is  really even if we don't get all those units in   those categories right are we trying and i think  that's the measurement that's the measurement go ahead gary sure you you do you  ever foresee a anything coming out of   um um the state based on what we used to have  as far as these redevelop yeah i mean i know   that was taken away by the yeah but anything  that's based on on redevelopment standpoint   that was a huge yeah yeah i i not at this time  i mean i haven't heard of anything that that's  

you you're talking about sources of funding to  funding taking yeah to support the production   of the they were a huge fund yeah no they've  you know they've come up with some alternatives   but they're not taking off the way you know our  old redevelopment model as we know it took off   um they've tried but nothing that i can think of  has been as successful as that as that model one   more question just about the um the things that  we are doing to try to motivate production of   the these lower income level housings um are we  collecting the right data to know if the things   that we're doing are working so we are starting  to what impact they're having yeah so absolutely   so i think what we're a lot of the policies that  we've done this year and last year it might be   too soon to know what's going to happen we have to  wait even with the inclusionary housing ordinance   we got to give it some time to understand whether  it's working or not i can say that um our team is   still getting a lot of um uh calls we're talking  with prospective uh project proponents who are   interested in doing housing still interested in  doing affordable housing so i don't feel like   we're we're drying up without you know housing  projects um our team works closely with the san   gabriel valley cog there's a planning um meeting  we do once a month the cog has this um incubator   program where they are using state funds to um  do various programs to to help local cities who   don't have a lot of staff to work on um regional  you know um efforts that we all can benefit from  

um i think i i lost my train of thought but um uh  i was one of the things i was thinking about was   uh like i believe you made a comment in the past  about adus how we weren't gathering the rent that   uh that piece of data uh about you know rent that  would be charged for an adu but we started doing   that a little while ago we have a yeah last year  we've we've re we rer redid our adu application   this year um so that that application we request  for that information sometimes we get it sometimes   we don't this year we went a step further and  actually had staff on the phone following up um   doing phone calls and that's one example but you  know there's a lot of things that we're doing here   with inclusionary housing with the density bonus  so knowing how well things are working i think   is important yeah and there's other state laws  that are also working alongside what the city's   doing one of them is sb 330 and that's housing  replacement so if you have a multif family housing   uh that's ex project that exists today developer  comes in and wants to demolish those units they   have to actually evaluate um the in the incomes of  the residents of the multif family housing develop   development for the last 5 years to determine if  any of those units were occupied by someone of an   affordable income level and if they were then  those units have to be preserved as affordable   units um so we're not lose and that's an effort  so we don't lose and that was that was kind of   what the oak park project was up against because  they're that was an existing housing project that   had a requirement i want to say like in the 86  units would have had to be rebuilt into that   and i think you know the cost of building that  new project out it wasn't worth it in the end  

and they were able to sell the property to  someone who could make them all affordable   through other different programs and funding  so oh go ahead one last quick the long longer   you keep this we change the slide to the thank  you slide because you guys are talking and i'm   looking so i'm noticing that these are not deed  restricted many of them are nondeed restricted   so in essence it's kind of a false all of the  units and then once there's turnover there's   no obligation for them to keep these so the units  that are um maybe the 13 from those are all deed   restricted low that's dee deed restricted so those  are the only deed restricted that we have the 10   years the 10 is non yeah so 2024 is not 20 all  the 2024s are non-deed restricted okay yeah so   those 10 non-deed restricted are adus and state  law doesn't allow it oh okay so we don't get to   the nuance okay so some of these okay so these  include adus correct not multif family that is   every housing type oh it's every oh okay okay so  we don't all of the 47 this year could be adus   yes right arguably yes okay okay okay well i guess  for purposes of hcd it doesn't matter right so   hcd is like we don't care the form of housing it  could be any form of housing absolutely and they   view adus as an affordable housing type which  is why we've done so much work to update our   ordinance to streamline adu production so can i  ask how do you know the affordability of an adu   typically they're not rented they're they're  um the majority with a lease or how does how   do you how do you then come up with this so so we  do a phone call to the to the property owner if  

they're using it for a family member and there's  just no rent they're using it for like their son   and his new wife have moved in then they get that  translates into affordable um and there's also   there's a table in calculations that we collect  rental rates and put them into a calculator that   hcd provides the city so there's a technical  component that qualifies it okay for us okay   okay is it possible that i don't know just for  my edification because i enjoy this kind of stuff   can we get a breakdown of like what are you know  multif family single family adu oh the overall   yeah i'm curious to know like what are we doing in  our city absolutely so for this last are we doing   all adus we are if we are then that's what it is  this last housing cycle 2024 the the majority of   our housing applications were adus i think we had  a few handful of single family homes um in prior   years it has what we see are large multif family  housing developments so station square development   we see very few we've been seeing in recent years  very few um smaller multif family developments um   a typical uh development type that's low density  multif family is like a fourunit planned unit   development i was yeah we've had a few planned  unit developments those are just a handful last   few years the m but the majority of our production  has been adus and then the larger projects okay   and i don't mean to beat this and i'll be done  after this but we have two large multif family   projects which total around 500 units and from 500  units all we got out of it was 12 yes affordable  

units okay and the reason why is because at  the time the city did not have an inclusionary   housing ordinance okay we were um bene we we  we were able to get the units that we did get   um through the developers application of the state  density bonus okay yeah density bonus for one of   the u properties right and then the other one i  think the density bonus didn't exist or or they   didn't take advantage of it they didn't need to  take advantage of it yeah that was it yeah are we   encouraging okay i promise this really is my last  are we encouraging them to possibly apply for like   project based vouchers with the housing authority  because that's another way to kind of get a small   piece of affordable units i mean i understand you  need market rate for the project to be viable but   this is another way where inclusion area or the  city doesn't need to be involved where like the   county can kind of step in and say well you know  here we'll we'll help you pay for like 10 units   so you know maybe we get we could probably supply  that information i don't we wouldn't be able to   put it into a condition of approval yeah um the  only but with the inclusionary housing ordinance   those will be conditioned indeed restricted okay  okay i'm done question but there's also there's a   project on evergreen that hasn't come to fruition  yet and that project if i recall had a number of   affordable or lowinccome or income project  and then they came back when they acquired   and we added some more units and they put some  lowinccome units in there on top of that so but   that thing hasn't come to fruition yet correct  that one was actually doing a good job and kind   of happy when we saw him come back they said we're  they acquired some more property where i'm at and  

we're doing that that was a good thing question  the last question on this scag or cog do they   tabulate or give the cities like a rundown of you  know like the san gabriel valley how everybody's   doing so we can see a comparables i mean we have  some room for improvement but we might not be bad   at all or we where we might be bad i don't know  where we fall on that do they provide that data   so we so the state the state does so the policy  makers the planners planning commission and the   citizens see where we're at comparables because  somebody might be really horrible right so in   previous years monrovia was pretty much at the top  because of our general plan we had really put the   zoning in place um so when the rail arrived  development took off um a lot of the cities   when the rail came they just started assembling  their general plans um the state's uh website   um once these aprs are all loaded then we can  draw some reports and maybe bring those back to   the commission just for additional information but  i'm interested to see how we did in comparison to   our our neighboring cities specifically comparable  size and absolutely social economic things because   i'm not going to compare it well i guess if  you did it per capita the city of la is way   out of whack like if we're using something where  pasadena is a big city compared to monrovia but   if we see our comparables we might be doing good  bad or we can see yes see how we are but i i do   feel that monrovia is doing good based on our  production um and um i i think our teams um you   know working with the commission and the council  were really taking in everyone's input i i think  

you know working on that inclusionary housing  ordinance i cannot tell you um how how many of our   staff contributed to that um and i i i felt the  commission and the council was very thoughtful to   to you know gather each aspect of of um you know  doing all the surveys what other cities were doing   um what the developers felt about it what the  general public felt about it um so i think it we   we continue to follow the monuria way and that's  has always been brought us success so i'm hopeful   seems like we are sorry i i was just going to say  one of the things that you said um uh triggered   another question in my mind and it's mostly a  rhetorical question but um you said we saw that   the rail development was coming and we said "okay  here's an opportunity to adjust the zoning uh and   you know increase density in a thoughtful way."  um and so all of that was in place uh so we could   hit the ground running when the rail um project  was done what is the next thing that is like that   and not necessarily increasing density but but a  a a thing where our zoning or you know the city's   plan needs to be adjust needs to be adjusted  for a substantial change absolutely so right   now internally we're looking at several areas  don't want to really talk about it publicly yet   um but we are the planners are always thinking and  we're always planning so stay tuned yeah and this   is on the the decades level right not not just  you know maybe in the next couple of years yeah   we we really want to make sure that by the time  we're preparing our next housing element we're   not scrambling yeah great it's good to hear yeah  the oak park housing developments is definitely  

a good development for our city in terms of  our numbers we need because that's a that's   going to definitely add of units that we would not  otherwise have i mean i think in general comparing   our cities other cities this is a continuous issue  absolutely we're actually doing better than most   cities when i've numbers i've seen across across  the state um the oak park housing development will   definitely move that forward do you know how  long that project's going to be to be able to   do that conversion that i'm not sure but we can  we can definitely follow up on that thank you okay now we exhausted our questions thank you  very much for this you're very welcome we're all   very engaged i love it as you can tell uh so we  appreciate this i really yeah high level overview   it's good discussion um so then the next item i  wanted to uh bring up is that our neighborhood   business services monroia area partnership program  will be hosting um a annual block party this is at   julian fischer park on saturday june 21st i have  flyers for each of the commissioners i want to   let anyone at home who's watching come out um  it's going to take place at the park from 5 to   8:00 p.m it's for children adults all are welcome  there'll be food music different activities for   both youth and adults um a lot of fun so we are  looking forward to everyone coming out to that   it's always a great event several times y sure  isn't there a wildfire prevention or talk coming   up or did that happen already i will need to find  out might i don't know yeah there's like a zoom   workshop or something i think not quite sure i saw  something i wanted to say would was farther i'll   find out and send an email to the committee coming  up coming up great great information i assume and  

uh we saw it firsthand very good and then  last but not least very sad to note that our   uh commissioner bill shef will be retiring tonight  is his last commission meeting um it's been a   pleasure working with you it's been an incredible  experience working with you guys i'm so proud a so a well bill started in 2019 i think it  was right before the pandemic um he came   in to replace coulter wyn and you served several  years on the art and public places committee saw   the fruition of several city treasures um  art on the boxes the monrovia bears um you   participated in the route 66 mural um i think  you saw you know when we originally took the   aoyo and station square south projects through  in 2018 we had to bring them back and you got   to you were on the commission when we brought  them back and saw them under with their new   developers sometimes the projects change  developers um just a wonderful experience commission well we apprec we appreciate you so a small town i know we'll see you you have to  come visit us yeah i'm not i'm not totally done   yet but i plan to find other ways to serve  the community okay great yeah thank thank   you very much for your contribution bill and  you you predate my time on the commission but   um i've learned a lot from you while  i've been here and i appreciate it  

likewise thank you so with that that  concludes my report all right thank   you very much sherry um do we have any other  reports or announcements from the commission all right uh this wraps up my year as uh first  year as chair uh of the commission and i've   thoroughly oh thank you uh i've thoroughly enjoyed  uh being chair and uh i hope you all have enjoyed   it as well thank you and back to the back to the  bleacher seats with us yep back to the bleacher   seats exactly all right um so with that um our  next regular meeting is scheduled for july 9th uh   2025 and this meeting is now adjourned at 8:21 p.m  i'll get my last uh gavl oh yeah wrap in all right