Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Alrighty. Good evening everyone and welcome to the planning commission of the city of Marina Valley. I now call this meeting to order. May 26, 2026 at 6:03 p.m. I like to invite Commissioner Baker to lead us in the pledge of

allegiance. Stand over again. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Uh, can we have a roll call, please? Commissioner Zites, present. Commissioner Terrell, here. Commissioner Taylor, here. Commissioner Stefen here. Vice Chairperson Baker here. Chairperson DJ Jane

here. Okay, we're now going to move to the approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda? I'll move to approve the agenda submitted. Second.

Okay, we have a motion in a second. Do we have a There we go. Okay. And the motion does carry. All right. Before we hear comments this evening, I ask and encourage everyone participating to keep their comments respectful towards other especially towards individuals speaking. I embrace and support the first amendment right to free speech including everyone's right to speak at this meeting and share his or her views about issues concerning our city. Any person wishing to speak either under the public comment sections of the agenda uh scheduled items or public hearings must fill out a request to speak um form available at the door. They're right at the door when you when you walk in. Uh the completed form must submit must be submitted to the secretary prior to the end of the public comment period. During public comments period for each item, including the items not in the agenda, each member of the public who has signed up to speak will have a maximum of three minutes to speak. The public must direct their comments to the chairman of the commission. Okay. Now, we'll move on to public comments on any item that is not on the agenda. Are there any speakers?

Yes, chair. We have one speaker, Ishmael Gonzalez. Okay. Hello and good evening uh chairman uh uh commissioners. My name is Asan Gonzalez. I'm a member of the local Box Springs group of the Sierra Club and the Marina Valley Historical Society. I'm uh coming to you to plea for your assistance, your advocate, you know, your advocacy, your your legislative weight, influence if you have any uh to to consider what I'm about to tell you and even um advocate uh with the city council. Um, I'm here to advocate for no more warehouses, no AI data centers, uh, no detention centers, and no more flock cameras. Why? These are all interrelated. Uh, these are environmental catastrophes, uh, that that perpetuate each other's uh, hazards. AI data centers are housed in warehouses. We have so many here. Uh Ed Delgato and and Erland Gonzalez have said that we're built out. Um you guys can easily reszone land away from commercial and residents, but that's not acting proactive uh towards your constituents. Um if you house if you are able to house AI data centers in the warehouses that we already have, allow them to come in. They're all around us. They're encroaching on our uh city. There's one in um Ponta Hills. Uh there's one in city of ind industry. Um the Imperial Valley. They're all coming closer and closer to us. You need to put a stop, an ordinance, a moratorium on these things because they extract a lot of energy, a lot of water. They pollute

everything, even the air, even the water with forever chemicals. And that just goes right back to us. And no one no one asked for this. It's not worth having AI uh data um in these warehouses. Um the flaw cameras, they collect everybody's data off the streets and of of course it's going to go to police, but the police don't have complete security over it. It is uh infactual to say that it's secure. Other countries, other uh agents can access that data even uh for detention centers. That's how pe That's how I is hunting their um targets. Please put a moratorium on on all of these. We just had considered a moratorum for warehouses, but it needs to come back up because the votes that the city council had uh it flipped and flopped. I'm not sure if it if they were in um leading in the best interest of the city. So, please do something about this. Use your legislative weight on these matters. Lastly, I want to uh just say uh please consider what's happening with the donkeys uh in Richie Canyon. See if you could do anything to advocate for that. I was there.

Thank you, sir. Appreciate your time. Are there any other speakers? We have no more speaker cars.

All right. The next item on the agenda is the approval of the consent calendar. All items on the consent calendars are considered to be routine and non-controversial and may be enacted by a motion unless a member of the the commission requests that an item be removed for separate action. Items withdrawn from for report or discussion will be heard for before action on the consent calendar. Questions or comments from the public on the consent calendar matter must pertain to the subject under consideration. At this time, would any commissioner like to pull an item from the consent calendar for a separate vote or discussion? Okay. Do we have any uh comments for items on the consent calendar?

We have no speaker cards. All right. Then can we have a motion and a second for the consent calendar? Move that we accept the consent calendar submitted. I'll second.

Okay. Motion and a second. Okay, there it goes. The motion does carry. Uh we have no public hearing items at this time. So, we're going to move right into item number one. Uh item number one is a continuence request for a PL plan 220215. That's in district one. Do we have a staff report?

Thank you, chair. And just to clarify, this is a non-public hearing um item that you are correct. We had no non-public hearing items and this item is actually being continued at the request of the applicant and um the request is to continue the item to a planning commission meeting on a date to be determined. Thank you. Okay. All right. Do we have a motion and a second? A motion. Second.

If we could take a roll call vote, please. Commissioner Zites, yes. Commissioner Terrell, yes. Commissioner Taylor, yes. Commissioner Stefen, yes. Vice Chair Baker, yes. Chairperson DJ, yes. Motion carries. Okay. Let's move on to item number two which is a plot plan PN230149 which is in district 1. Do we have a staff report? Thank you chair and the staff um associate planner Gabriel Diaz will be presenting on this item.

Thank you chairman and commissioners. The project is located at 24804 Dracia Avenue uh just uh west of Paris Boulevard and east of Indian Street. The project site is currently vacant and approximately 1.9 uh acres. The applicant is requesting the approval of a plot plan for the development of a 13-unit two-story multi-family residential project with two attached ADUs and associated common open space parking landscaping improvements with 30 garage parking spaces and seven open parking spaces. The project is within the village specific plan 204 village residential zoning district. There will be one driveway access for the project. Uh a 6 foot high decorative block wall is required and proposed around the project to the north, west, and east property lines. The project as proposed is consistent with the municipal code uh requirements. The proposed elevations features a modern residential design featuring a mix of high quality materials and distinctive architectural elements. The building height is approximately 24 ft and the end units include balconies. The exterior finishes include stucco, cedar textured siding and a slate roof. The project also includes decorative windows and doors and temper framed end gables uh detailing resulting in a visually appealing building. We have two buildings

on the floor plan. All units are three bedrooms with twocar garages approximately 1,272 square feet. Uh the there is one bedroom on the first floor and two bedrooms on the second floor. The proposed project has been evaluated in compliance with the criteria set forth in the environmental in the California Environmental Quality Act SQUA. The proposed project is categorically exempt from the provisions of SQA under SQA guidelines section 15332 for infield development projects class 32 exemption. The proposed project is consistent with the applicable general plan designation and policies and all applicable zoning designations and regulations and applicable policies. The project site is no more than five acres in size, substantially surrounded by urban uses. The project is actually less than one acre, 1.9 acres. The project site has no value as habitat for rare, threatened, or endangered species. The project is currently vacant. No studies were required. The the proposed project will not result in any significant effect related to traffic, air, noise, air quality, or water quality. The project site can be adequately served by all required utilities and public services. Staff recommends that the plan commission approved plot plan for the proposed uh project and attached conditions of approval. subject to the attached conditions of approval. There has been a public comment. I did

meet with a neighbor at the counter uh and I believe and we did review the plans and I I believe he is here and uh submitted a a letter for everyone. This concludes staff presentation. Thank you. All right. Are there any commissioner questions for staff? with only one entrance and exit. Um what is the designated fire is a high fire rating, low fire rating in that area.

Good evening everybody. Edgar Gonzalez, fire marshall with the city. Uh the currently the uh site is not in a fire hazard severity zone and does not exceed the unit count for an additional fire department access route into the site.

Any other commissioner questions for staff?

Let me take this in here. All right. All right. Well, if there's no more commissioner questions for staff, we now open the public hearing at 6:18 p.m. Would the applicant like to speak? Am

you're the applicant, sir. Uh yes, I'm I'm the project architect. Okay.

Yeah. Good evening, uh, ladies and gentlemen, commissioners. My name is Darien Ratic. I'm project architect with No Architecture. Um, I, uh, just wanted to thank everybody for allowing us to be here before you, to be here before the, uh, the neighborhood as well. Um, uh, we are excited to be here. Um, we have a really nice project. Um, a couple of things. We we usually tend to design our projects with um uh with without the need for variance. So, uh we're not requesting for any additional units besides what's allowed per code, per the zoning requirements. Uh we're not really requesting for any additional height in volume. Um we're parking the site per the municipal code, per the regulations. Uh we have um all of our parking is uh within the private garages. Uh building setbacks. We're abiding by the local codes and regulations as well. Uh we'd like to be a good neighbor and uh we've designed our project. Um taking that into consideration, um my client, uh Jesse is not here right now, but I'm here on his behalf. Uh just once again, I just want to say thank you for the presentation. Um, I'm here to answer any questions that you guys may have.

Well, thank you, sir. At that with that said. Oh, there's Is that Jesse? That's Jesse. What? Jesse like to add anything additional? They say Mexicans always late, but uh there must be a reason for it. Sorry about that. Anyway, traffic was bad. Real bad. I'm sorry being late. It's okay, sir. Any means whatsoever. Uh, by the way, I'm the applicant, Jesse Whizzer. I'm sure you you already introduce yourself. Yes, sir.

Okay. This is the architect. Uh, we have somebody online to answer the questions on the report if it's necessary. Uh, the EQA report by the way. So, I don't know where we at right now. Initial phase, huh? Initial phase. Yeah.

Uh, basically um I have done quite a few projects similar to this one. And usually what we do, we trying to do mainly housing for families. If you notice, those units are threebedroom, two bath, and everything is mainly for family oriented type of thing with a two-car garage. People loves that. And that's basically what I what I do. I don't do one bedrooms. I don't do two bedrooms. Everything is family oriented type of project. That's basically what it is. Uh we just finished uh 38 units in uh Fontana similar to this type of things. Same type of design, same type of layout. Uh and it works perfect. We have less turnaround. Usually when you have a one-bedroom, uh you have a lot of people coming in coming out and this and that, but when you have a family, a family usually sits and it stays this for for a long time. So that's basically what we do. Any questions?

Well, with that said, are there any commissioner questions for the applicant? I have one. Is there going to be any street parking in this street parking? Like visitors or Yeah, there is a total of seven open parking spaces on the site. On site on site. On site. Uh I'm sorry about my English. But anyway, so yeah, there are seven parking spaces and each unit has its own two parking spaces which is a twocar garage. Yes, including the ADU units, they have their own parking garages as well. That is correct.

And we're also providing for additional parking for the accessible handicap parking stalls and the guest parking stalls as well. Any other commissioner questions for the applicant?

Um, I'm sure you've already addressed it, but because I have a letter here from a resident, I keep seeing the word drainage. Is there any kind of like issues with the water drainage on the streets or anywhere else that he's concerned with the fact that water might be draining into his property at some point in that area? Is there a drainage issue? Well, if there's a problem with drainage, it it will be solved because uh we do have a chambers which is the water will be hold on site. The whole site will drain into one area and it will percolate into the ground. It's a big chambers. So when it rains all the water goes into that area, those chambers. So actually there will be no more no water going outside the site whatsoever.

Okay. Yeah. because in the letter I I I keep seeing that in his letter and it seems to me when it's said more than once it's a concern. So and I'm sure like I said I'm sure you addressed it but sometimes you have to vis you know verbally state it so that way at least maybe the concerns will be uh actually those chambers already being designed by the civil engineer

on your grading plans. You will see those chambers uh the size of them and how deep they are. It will have all the uh data of that on the grading plans and that will be probably on sheet uh three or four it would show a section of it.

Uh sheet three shows the chambers how deep they are and sheet two of four shows the location of the chambers. Okay. Are there any other Okay, that's about it. No, if there aren't any other commissioner questions for the applicant. Thank you, sir. Appreciate your time. No, I can restroom. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

Thank you, guys. Okay, we will now move into public comments. Um, the clerk will call upon each person who was requested to speak on this item. Do we have any speakers?

Yes, chair. I have uh three speaker cards. Our first speaker is Brett Nunali, followed by Seth Cox, who is then followed by Ishmael Gonzalez. Good evening. My name is Brett Nunley. I have the property on the west side of this project. And my concerns to this to the planning staff is I have uh several things on it. It's a two-story complex. It is going to be shading my solar panels on it. They also the sewage lines that are going down there. These are old lines out there. What d what are they going to do to prevent any damage to them? Uh the drainage I understand what he had said there, but if you put a block wall, it's going to stop water going through the two properties that they have. Uh emergency vehicle access the road that they have showed there. If somebody parks in there, the fire department's not going to be able to get up in there to to service the people. Uh my other comment was water and sewage. Is there enough water being pumped in there? Originally, when this was Edgemont Gardens, they were having problems putting water out to uh Sunnyme Boulevard to the businesses. Uh now that Eastern Municipal's taken over, I can't really refer to that. uh setbacks. They're looking into my property. I would like something to help restrain from that of having park, you know, having them looking into my property. I realize it's two stories. I've looked at

the project, what they had, talked to Mr. Gabriel on it. It looks beautiful, but as I say, I worry about what damages can happen to my house as far as my solar panels, water view, and everything else. I do love the idea of having a project put there. I hope you understand with my notes that I sent there that I really appreciate talking to you. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Our next speaker is Seth Cox followed by Ishmael Gonzalez.

Evening commission staff. Um just a few details. Um I'm neither for or against its progress, but there Mr. Nelly has some great points. Okay, that's an older area. Okay. So, uh, my questions are more in the detail. The staff report called it 1.9 acres. The paperwork says 0 91 acres. Which is it? You know, building 13 units plus 2 ADUs on less than an acre. Um, and the reason I asked that, um, it's referring to a Sunnyme corridor plan that was actually set up in 1994, 30 years ago. Um, and it said back then or earlier, it said SP204 VR for the zoning. Supposedly the current one says now R15. So we may not have an issue there, but it's in the details. People need to start putting things correctly for you to consider. There's a lot of difference between N1 acres and 1.9 acres. Um I would also comment on I drove through there. Um they're all singlestory homes that people have built over the last 30 plus years. I'm I'm sure they built them because they had the open space and they like their open space. And now you're coming in here and dropping in 13 units behind a six-foot wall. Um that looks like rowousing. All right. If you don't know what rowousing is, look it up. Um so if I again it's not my district, so I can't speak from the district itself, but I'm speaking from Marino Valley resident. I don't

think it's appropriate for the area. Um, even though it might meet all the requirements and all the things that were applicable 30 years ago, somebody saw I think saw a loophole to build what they want to build there. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Our last speaker is Ishmael Gonzalez.

Hello again, commissioners. Um uh I am on the fence. Uh I am pro- affordable housing, but this project in the limited time that I've uh gotten to know it seems a little bit inconsistent. Just like Mr. Cox said, um it's in the details. I think there is uh inconsistencies in this plan uh that needs to be revised before adoption or approval. Um I am all for residential homes, right? Affordable homes. It's we are in a crisis. But this project does share one commonality with the warehouses. It is tall. You are robbing the the neighbors of uh their horizon on one side, right? And uh sunlight. You know, a gentleman just said he had solar panels on his property. He's trying to, you know, save energy, be a a good citizen, right? Um, how are you going to deny him that with this project? Especially because this project is inconsistent with the neighborhood. Just like Mr. Cox said, all the homes nearby are singlestory homes. It's right across uh Mart's High School. Uh I am concerned about the uh categorically exemp exemption of SQA with this project. Uh anytime S squa is uh you know uh dismissed that should raise red flags for anyone who is breathing breathing in uh air, drinking water or living in a uh natural area, right? um you are allowing a project to come in with heavy vehicles, machinery right next to a high school, right next to residents, um you should consider that. That should be um you know, considered with the lens of SQA, a state law that was voted by all Californians, including Mareno Valley residents. So, I'm not saying I oppose this, but I think it

should be revised. It should be uh rethought. I'm for affordable housing, but maybe not a two-story uh uh structure with this high density and a rural older neighborhood. Thank you so much. Thank you. Do we have any other speakers? We have no more speaker cards, sir.

Okay. At this time, if there's no more speakers uh for public testimony, then we can close at public testimony at 6:32 p.m. and move into deliberations. Or do we have a motion in a second? A few more questions. I actually had some questions for staff point. Yeah, I got I want to clarify that. Um and I guess this question will go to Stephen. We're going to move back into questions. Are we moving back into public? No. Testimony because I want to ask the staff. I understand.

Right. It's just a simple question. It's listed two different ways on the plan. Sounds looks like a typo. Well, we got to find out. Okay. Are you asking the acreage? The acreage is 0.91. The staff report is correct. Oh, it's not 1.9. The um the verbal was incorrect. It's 0.91. Okay. Not quite an acre. Is that what it is?

Deliberations. Anyone

or do we have a motion in a second? Okay. Um, I move that we adopt resolution 2026-04 determining that the plot plan PN230149 is categorically exempt from the uh provisions of California Environmental Act. SQUA and SQA guidelines in in class 32 exempt from the infill development projects in in accordance with the SQA guidelines in section number 15332 and then also approving the U plot plan PN23-0149 project uh I'm sorry subject to the um attached uh conditions of approval and included in exhibit A and also resolution number 2026-04 and and as shown in the uh approved plans.

Do you have a second? A second. Okay. Looks like an electronic I didn't have a speaker on.

Are we still experiencing a frozen screen? Yeah, it won't switch from We can move to a roll call vote. Commissioner Zites. Yes. Commissioner Terrell. Yes. Commissioner Taylor. Yes. Commissioner Stefen. Yes. Vice Chair Baker. Yes. Represent Jane. Yes. Motion carries. Do we have a staff rep?

Thank you, Chair. Yes. The action on this item is final by the planning commission unless an appeal is filed within 10 days to the community development director with the appropriate fee. Thank you. All righty. Let's move on to item number three. We have adoption of resolution for a full street vacation of a portion of Alisander Boulevard west of Marino Beach Drive. Um do we have a staff report? The staff report will be given by um Larry Gonzalez, the um principal engineer.

Good evening, chair and members of the commission. As mentioned, my name's Larry Gonzalez, land development principal engineer. The item before you this evening is to adopt resolution 2026-03 recommending that the city council approve application LGL25-000010 a full vacation of a portion of Alisandra Boulevard located west of Marino Beach Drive and finding the vacation is in conformance with the general plan. The developer is required per the conditions of approval to vacate said portion as part of the project. The vacation the vacated area is approximately 200 f feet in length with an area of 835 square ft. Staff prepared the exhibit shown on the screen. On the left hand side is the project location. The existing right ofway is 60 feet and the proposed right ofway is 55 ft which is consistent with the divided arterial designation for Alisandra Boulevard again per the city's circulation plan. The 5- foot wide vacation strip is being vacated and returned to the underlying property owner. This action also serves to reduce city maintenance costs and liability. The recommendation is that the planning commission adopt resolution number 2026-03. Find the proposed street vacation is exempt from SQA. Find that the proposed street vacation of Allesandro Boulevard is in conformance with the general plan. And C, and this there's a misprint I want to note on the uh staff report. It it should say recommend approval of the

street vacation to the city council subject to the legal and plat descriptions exhibits A and B to the resolution. Thank you. And that concludes my report and I would be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Are there any commissioner questions for staff? This is He wants to Yeah, I'm gonna hold on to this.

All right. All right. We'll now open the public uh hearing at 6:39 p.m. Uh we'll move into public comments and the clerk will call up on each person who has requested to speak. Do we have any public speakers? We have no speaker cards. Okay, where am I? Okay, at this time if there's no no speakers, uh then we'll close the public testimony and move into deliberations unless there is a motion and in a second.

Second question forward. Yeah, we're Yep. Yeah, it's pretty straightforward.

If you'd like. Okay. I'm going to move that we adopt resolution 2026-04 determining that the plot plan in PN23-0149 is categorically exempt from the uh California Environmental Act, SQA. And I'll seek also guidelines of uh class 32 exemption and infill. Am I reading from that's wrong one? Wrong one. I'm sorry. I thought that was did before. Give me the other. Okay, we're on here. I'm sorry. Excuse me. That just seems familiar. Right here. Right. Click your button. I'll get it together here in a minute. There you go.

Okay. Sorry about that. Just seeing if you guys are staying away. Okay. Got it. Got it. Uh, get me here. That's what I got. Okay, we're going to do it again. Sorry about that. We're going to adopt resolution 2026-03 and that and thereby u find that the proposed street vacation is exempt from the California environment or SQA and also the SQL guidelines. And then we find that the um proposed street vadication or of Alisandre Boulevard is uh in conformance of the uh general plan and then also approve the uh street vacation or uh vacation of um GL25-000010 subject to the U legal and plan exemptions exhibit A and B to the uh resolution. I'll second

that, guys. I'll second. You missed the L on that LG. You're still frozen. Yes. We'll we'll do a roll call vote. Okay. Commissioner Zites, yes. Commissioner Terrell, yes. Commissioner Taylor, yes. Commissioner Stefen, yes. Vice Chair Baker, yes. Chairperson DJ, yes. Motion carries. All right. I do have a staff wrap-up. Thank you, chair. Yes. The planning commission's recommendation of approval will be agendaized at an upcoming city council meeting. Thank you.

Okay. The next item on the agenda is other commissioner business. Uh we have no other commissioner business. Staff comments. Um do we have any staff comments?

Um thank you, chair. Uh I I do want to u mention that we've continued to um work with the uh attorney general's office on the general plan update and we are looking at scheduling it for April 21st at the city council meeting. Um and uh that's all I have. Also just uh wish you all a happy spring and Easter for those who celebrate.

Okay. Uh the next item is planning commissioner comments on items under the preview of the planning commission. Do we have any planning commissioner comments? I'll take a stab at it. Um first I'd like to thank the staff for sending us to another wonderful California League of Cities training. Um it was absolutely fantastic. I got I got a lot out of that. Um, one thing I would encourage uh the planning commission is I I was able to give you guys all a short um

yeah of each one of the some of the things that that I was able to take away from that. One of the things that I did take away is um that there was a overall theme uh encompassing Senate bills and assembly bills which is AB30, SB131, AB3122. Let me back up. S AB30 is the major housing law. S SB131 is new squa exemptions for faster related processing. Um AB 3122 strengthens SB35. We have AB98 a statewide warehousing and logistics standards. um AB186 for housing elements compliance and HAA interaction and AB 1287 density bonus changes. One of the things I did take away from this is that um these laws and assembly bills and Senate bills change and it it is a it is our it's it's a is a not only just a challenge but we should stay apprised of those changes. Um I'd also like to see the city also continue with our training. Um I I do uh really appreciate the times that we've been able to take uh the time to to to collect with all of us and have updates and trainings. One of the general things over theme that I got from this was that um there is it looks like a a a general reduction of discretionary decisions that a planning commission can make um

on some of these things. Um and it looks like some things are starting to shift a paradigm shift towards um the state control over SQA and discretionary um decisions based on housing. Um one of the things that they really really focus on for us is to look at uh ministerial and objective standards for us to make decisions on. So I I gave you guys all that. Just read up on them. get a general um you know understanding of some of the changes that have taken place and also for those of us that are out there watching me on television

also if if if you can think about those bills and and assembly bills and senate bills look them up so that you can also understand um some of the scope that the planning commission has um the lens that we have to look through for the decision makingaking makingings that we do make. And that's that's my uh comments. Oh, and uh I had a great steak. Wow. While I was out there, it was fantastic. I thank Miss Angela from coming out there and and uh spending time with us. It was absolutely a wonderful time.

Um I'd like to thank Alvin for um giving us a synopsis of everything because

I wasn't able to go this time. I've gone everyone, but I wasn't able to go this time for uh family reasons. But that's one thing I love about our commission is we all are in for each other. It's not just a one person deal here. And that's what I like about it. It's almost like a family. We all take care of each other. We always want everybody to be appraised of everything. It's not just a one person. And Elvin, you're a great chair. You've done a great job. And I hope that when we do get the planning commission re-uped that they choose wisely and not because I've been up here for a long time, but because it does take a lot of knowledge and knowhow when you're up here. You can't just make decisions because you want to make them. You have to keep in mind the city at large and also our our city because we can get sued and a lot of people don't realize that. They think that we get up here and we make decisions on our own and we don't. And that's just all I can say is I hope that when we when they do pick the people that are going to sit up here that they choose wisely because the last thing we need is somebody sitting up here that really doesn't know exactly what can be done and not done. And I'm going to read this thoroughly and I always research everything when I do go. So I was so happy to see this. Alvin,

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I I agree. Thank you for taking the time to summarize what we learned at the at the academy. Uh piggybacking off of what Alvin said, that was the one thing that I took away from the conference that um the state is taking a lot of more responsibility um in regards to housing and how much of a risk we take denying um housing developers and plans. And so we can't just be uh denying housing based on our feelings and how we feel. It's more are we in compliance? And so that was one thing that I think both of us were just every session that we had that was the one thing that was talked about the most was housing, housing, housing, housing. They like drilled it into us. The second thing I thought was cool is that we got to network with other planning commissioners in the city. Uh we met some cool um planning commissioners from the city of Fontana. We had lunch with them. We just sat with random people and just started talking to each other and we heard um different things that were going on on their commissions and in their cities and what they would like to see built in different scenarios and situations. So for me that is the most um I don't I don't want to say the most important thing but it was the most informal thing that I took away from it was just seeing other planning commissioners and reading their badges and oh what city are you from and what city are you from? Some were from way far up north cities we had literally never heard of before. I live in California all my life and I've never heard of some of these cities. So, I think that that was kind of cool to just meet and network with other um commissioners in California.

I'll say one more thing. They loved our shirts. We did Did we not get com? Yes. They were You guys got shirts? Those are great. So, they love their shirts. All right. The next item on the agenda is Oh, that's it. Our planning commission meeting is adjourned at 6:51 p.m. to our next regular meeting at April 9th, 2026 at 6 PM. Thank you.