Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Okay. All right. Good evening, everybody. It's now 06:30 p. M.

Welcome to the 05/27/2025 meeting of the Ontario Planning and Historic Preservation Commission. Agendas for the meeting are in the back of the chambers and contain the procedures we will follow tonight. Please turn off all electronic communication devices or put them in a nonaudible mode. Please do not engage in private conversations during the meeting. If you wish to speak during public comment or on a particular matter, please fill out a green card and submit it to the secretary at the end of the dais. Thank you for your cooperation. Madam secretary, please call the roll.

Ms. Anderson?

Present.

Ms. Dedemar? Present. Mr. Gage?

Here.

Mr. Lamkin is absent. Mr. Marks?

Present.

Chairman Ritchie?

Present. Thank you. And now if you'll, please stand as to join us with the pledge that will be led by Commissioner Marx.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. On to announcements. Any agenda items? Director Ngo, are there any changes to tonight's agenda?

Thank you, chairman. There's a couple announcements. First, we're gonna pull item a zero one, the meeting minutes of 04/22/2025 and continue that to the next meeting. And second, we will present b and c together tonight. With that, I'll turn it back to you, mister chairman.

Sure. Thank you, Director Ngo. Commissioner items, do any commissioners have a general announcement not related to an item on the agenda? Okay. Seeing none, we will now move on to public comment.

This is the time for anyone in the audience to speak on any topic that is not on tonight's Planning Commission agenda. Is there anyone in the audience who wishes to speak on a non agenda item? Okay. Seeing none as there is no one who wishes to speak, we will now have a historic preservation presentation for the 20. Mr. Director.

Yes, our associate planner, Ms. Centuno will provide the presentation. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Ngo. Good evening Chair, members of the Commission. In the year 2000, the City Council adopted the Model Colony Awards Program to recognize outstanding efforts to restore, rehabilitate, and preserve Ontario's historic places. This year marks the twenty fifth year that the city will recognize achievements in historic preservation.

Over the past twenty five years, the city has recognized schools, churches, residences, commercial buildings, and joint public private preservation projects. This milestone year is being celebrated with a theme of people saving places. This theme not only showcases historic places, but the people that are committed to doing the work of saving these places. Preservation requires efforts from individual property owners, architects, developers, and even entire neighborhoods. It is through these efforts that Ontario has such a diverse collection of well maintained historic resources.

There are four nominations this year, two for single family residences, one for a local history teller, and for the first time in Model Colony Awards history, a historic neighborhood. The first nomination is an award of merit for the Charles E. Meade House. This one story single family residence was constructed in 1920 in the Craftsman architectural style. The home is located on the Northeast corner of Euclid Avenue and J Street and is a contributor to the Euclid Avenue Historic District.

The home features a wraparound stone porch supported by stone piers and square wood post. The home is clad in wood shingles arranged in a custom coarse pattern, features large overhanging beads with exposed rafter tails and decorative beams at the gable ends. The current owner purchased the home in 1992 and has completed numerous projects including electrical and plumbing upgrades, window repairs, and a seismic retrofit. And in the year 2000, we constructed an eight fifty square foot addition at the north end of the residence. So pictured here on the right, you can see the addition and then on the left, the original residence.

The owner made every effort to achieve maximum compatibility with the existing single family residence which even involved hand cut composite wood shingles to replicate the original course pattern. The front and rear yards are landscape with a mix of mature trees, native landscaping, and rose bushes. The interior of the home features the original built ins, multi pane doors, tile fireplace, and wall sconces. The kitchen features the original cabinets and what are believed to be the original light fixtures. The owner has an appreciation for the craftsman architectural style and the arts and crafts movement and has lovingly cared for this historic home, ensuring it remains one of the city's most authentic examples of the craftsman architectural style.

The next nomination is a rehabilitation award for 1125 North Campus Avenue. This craftsman style single family residence is located at the Southwest corner of Campus Avenue and Harvard Place. The home features a cross gabled roof with wide overhanging eaves, exposed rafters, and decorative triangular braces at the gable ends. The home is framed by two mature carob trees believed to be at least 60 years old. The residence sits on a stone foundation, is clad in horizontal wood siding, has a wraparound stone porch and stone fireplace.

In 2017, the home was purchased by the current owner with the understanding that the home needed numerous repairs. One of the much needed upgrades included connecting the home to the public sewer system, abandoning the original septic system. This included a partial closure of Campus Avenue to facilitate the project. Other improvements include new electrical and plumbing, new roof and new footings and foundation. Exterior work included paint, landscaping and the installation of a new pool in the rear yard.

The owner designed the pool using river rock and concrete to complement the craftsman style of the residence. The property owner intentionally sought out a historic property and has made significant investment to uncover this previously hidden gem. The next nomination is a George Chaffee Memorial Award for Joe Blackstock. Joe Blackstock has spent forty eight years as a news journalist and retired from the Inland Empire's Daily Bulletin in 2015. Over the past twenty six years, Mr.

Blackstock has written over nine fifty columns, many involving Ontario, and continues to write a twice monthly freelance local history column. Mr. Blackstock is co author of The Witness to a Century, the Inland Valley, a book that examines the history of Inland Valley communities and the elements that contributed to Southern California's growth. Mr. Blackstock is an active member of Ontario Heritage serving as a character actor in the on the annual Ontario Heritage Cemetery Tour and has been on the Ontario Museum Associates volunteer board since 2016.

The media can play a vital role in preserving a community's history in several meaningful ways including documenting current events for future generations to reference and highlighting past events that may have otherwise been forgotten. Joe Blackstock is a leader in preservation and his contributions have ensured that countless stories are documented, preserved and shared with current and future generations. The final nomination is the first of its kind in this award category. This year an entire block has been nominated for an award of merit. This includes 19 single family residences fronting Harvard Place between Euclid And Columbia Avenues.

The properties within this block are contributors to the College Park Historic District. This section of Harvard Place is one of the most unaltered neighborhoods in the city. Each residence on this block would be worthy of recognition individually, and four properties have previously received a Model Colony award recognizing the stewardship of the individual property owner. However,

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the collective effort of each property owner that has made this neighborhood truly remarkable. Each individual residence is largely unaltered retaining their original exterior features such as doors, windows, trim, siding, and overall form. The parkways are landscaped with the original alternating street tree pattern of Canary Island palms and cedar Diodors. The original King Standard streetlights, scored sidewalks, curbs remain intact. Harvard Place is one of the most sought after neighborhoods in the city with one current property owner claiming that they approached several owners on the street to see if they were interested in selling.

It is stories like these that make it evident that historic neighborhoods attract a very specific owner that is committed to maintaining the neighborhood's character, creating a sense of pride and identity among This year's nominees for the commission's consideration represent excellence and preservation and exemplify this year's theme of people saving places. The twenty twenty five Model Colony Awards will be presented to award recipients by the City Council during a special ceremony scheduled for June 17. This concludes staff's presentation and I can answer any questions the Commission may have at this time.

Thank you, Ms. Antuna. Any questions of the commission of staff on the Model Colony Awards? Okay, seeing none, we'll now take a roll call vote to approve the Model Colony Awards to be presented by City Council at the June 17 meeting. Madam Secretary, please call the roll.

Mr. Marks.

Oh, hold on just a second. Do we need to open public hearing on this or just it's just a we're just moving it to city council. It's not an actual it's just approving it to city council so that they can present the awards. So thank you. Okay. May I speak?

Mr. Marks?

I do.

Miss Anderson.

Yes.

Miss Dedeman. Approved. Mr. Gage.

Yes.

Chairman Ritchie.

Yes.

It is recommended to City Council five to zero.

Excellent. So, these will be presented at the City Council meeting on June 17. So, if anybody wishes to attend, that would be an opportunity to meet these people and congratulate them on the reception of the Model Colony award. And now, we'll move on to the consent calendar. All matters listed on the consent calendar will be enacted by one summary motion in the order listed below.

There will be no separate discussion on these items prior to the time the commission votes on them unless a member of the commission or the public requests a specific item to be removed from the consent calendar for a separate vote. In that case, the balance of the items on the consent calendar will be voted on in summary motion and then those items removed for a separate vote will be heard. So we're removing item A01, the minutes and we're going to put that to the next meeting. So do I have a motion to adopt the consent calendar as presented with the exception of A01?

So moved.

Okay. We have a motion by commissioner Didemeyer. Do we have a second? Second. Second by commissioner Anderson. Madam secretary, please call the roll.

Miss Dietermar?

Yes.

Mister Gage?

Yes.

Mister Marks?

Yes.

Miss Anderson?

Yes.

Chairman Ritchie?

Yes.

The consent calendar is approved, five to zero.

Alright. And now we'll move on to the public hearing items. The procedure for the public hearing will be as follows. We will first hear a staff report on the matter, followed by questions of staff by the Planning Commission. I will then open the hearing for comments from the public. I will provide the applicant or their representative three minutes to make a presentation. After the applicant, I will open the meeting to comments by anyone in the audience who wishes to speak on the matter. Each person will be given three minutes for this purpose. After all persons have spoken on the matter, the applicant will be given three minutes for the purpose of rebuttal or clarification if necessary. Once all persons have spoken, I will close the public portion of the hearing and turn it over to the Planning Commission for discussion.

And the final and final action. If anyone is aggrieved by the decision of the Commission, an appeal may be filed within ten days to the Ontario Planning Department. The appeal must be in writing. And now, items B and C. Director Ngo.

Thank you, Chairman. Items B and C is environmental assessment, development agreement, and tentative track map review for file numbers PDA24Dash004 and PMTT24Dash005. A public hearing to consider a development agreement between the city of Ontario and Warm Springs Investments Ltd, LHC Ontario Holdings LLC, and Richland Ontario Developers LLC. To establish the terms and conditions associated with tentative park track map two zero seven two four. In addition, tentative track map to subdivide 55.2 acres of land into 16 letter lots and five numbered lots on property located at the Southeast corner of Eucalyptus Avenue and Mill Creek Avenue within Planning Area 33 of the Sub Area 29 specific plan.

The environmental impacts of this project were previously reviewed in conjunction with an amendment to the February 29 specific plan for which a subsequent environmental impact report was adopted by the city council on 11/21/2023. This application introduces no new significant environmental impacts, and the applications were submitted by Richland Developers Incorporated. And the DEA is a recommendation to city council. And associate planner, miss Aguilo, will provide the presentation.

Thank you, Mr. Nguyen. Good evening, Chairman and members of the Planning Commission. The project site is located within the Sub Area 29 specific plan situated towards the Southeast Portion of Ontario Ranch. SubArea 29 is outlined in yellow below with the tentative track map project highlighted in red towards east of the specific plan.

Planning Area 33 is located to the easternmost portion of February 29 Pacific Plan. The site is bounded by vacant lands and future residential to the West, vacant land to the North, residential to the East within the Esperanza Pacific Plan, and residential development to the South within the city of Eastvale. The tentative track map will subdivide the existing two parcels into five numbered lots and 16 lettered lots to facilitate the future land uses and backbone infrastructure improvements. There will be three points of access along Mill Creek Avenue, Eucalyptus Avenue and Belgrave Avenue. The development agreement outlines the requirements for infrastructure improvements, diff CFD and associated in lieu fees.

All major backbone and interior site improvements will be constructed consistent with the proposed tentative track map and development agreement. The development advisory board recommended approval of the development plan with a vote of eight to zero and with that staff recommends the approval of the tentative track map with conditions set forth and that the Planning Commission recommend that the City Council approve the development agreement. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer. Thank you.

Thank you, Ms. Aguilo. Are there any questions of staff by the commissioners? This is not typical. Okay. As there are no questions, I will now open the public hearing and ask the applicant to please step forward. And please state your name and address for the record.

Derek Barber, Richland, 3161 Michelson, Irvine, California. Good evening, Chair.

Okay, good evening. Do you agree with the conditions of approval We do. Presented by Okay, go ahead. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you very much and thanks to staff too.

Okay, I'll now open the public hearing to the audience. Is there anyone wishing to speak on this or make any comments? Okay. Seeing as there are none, I will now close-up of the comment period and turn the matter over to the Planning Commission for discussion and action.

Mr. Chairman.

Commissioner Diedemeyer.

I move to recommend approval of development agreement file number PDA24-four subject to the resolution and attached agreement. Okay. Recommend approval of city council, sorry.

Right, okay. And do I have a second?

Second.

Okay, So we have a motion by commissioner Diedemeyer and a second by commissioner Anderson. Madam secretary, please call the roll.

Mister Gage? Yes. Mister Marks?

Yes.

Miss Anderson?

Yes.

Miss Diedemeyer? Yes. Chairman Ritchie?

Yes.

It is recommended to city council five to zero.

Okay. So, thank you. The PDA two four Dash004, the development agreement has been recommended to city council. And now, can we have a motion to approve or deny the tentative track map?

Mister chairman?

Commissioner Anderson.

Yes. I'd like to motion to approve the tentative track map file number PMTT24Dash0 zero five subject to the resolution and attached conditions of approval.

Thank you. Do I have a second?

I second.

Okay. We have a motion by Commissioner Anderson and Commissioner Marks makes his mark. Giving us a second.

I'm sorry, I just couldn't help myself. It just came to me.

Anyway, Madam Secretary, please call the roll.

Mr. Marks?

Yes.

Ms. Anderson?

Yes.

Ms. Dedemar? Yes. Mr. Gage?

Yes.

Chairman Ritchie? Yes. It is approved five to zero.

Okay, thank you. So, file number PMTT 24Dash005, the tentative track map has been approved. And now, No, item D.

Thank you, chairman. Item d is environmental assessment, tentative track map and development plan review for file numbers PMTT 23Dash007 and PDV 23Dash028. A public hearing to consider a tentative track map for 02/06/1957 for continuity purposes in conjunction with a development plan to construct 309 multiple family dwelling units on 11.1 acres of land located at the Southwest corner of 4th Street and ViaSatie within the residential land use district of the Pia Monte Overlay in the Ontario center specific plan. The environmental impacts of this project were previously reviewed in conjunction with an amendment to the Pia Monte overlay of the Ontario Center specific plan for which an addendum to the Ontario Center specific plan environmental impact report was adopted by the city council on 04/19/2022. This application introduces no new significant environmental impacts, and the applications were submitted by Lewis Management Corporation, and our associate planner, miss Torres, will provide the presentation.

Thank you, mister Ngo, and good evening chairperson and members of the Planning Commission. The project site is located at the Southwest Corner Of 4th Street and Via Aussie within the residential land use district of the Piomonte Overlay in the Ontario Center specific plan. The Piomonte Overlay consists of a total of 19 subareas, and the project proposes to develop subareas five and seven as shown on this figure. The subject property is an l shaped lot with street frontage along 4th Street and Via Villa Jo to the North and Via Aussie to the East. The site is currently vacant and surrounded by a business park and residential uses to the North, vacant parcels to the East, and office building and an ancillary parking lot to the South, and multifamily residential to the West.

The proposed tentative track map will be for condominium purposes and will subdivide the project site into two number lots. Lot one will be 10.93 acres which encompasses the majority of the project sites that will be developed with the proposed multifamily residential project. Lot 2 will be 0.17 acres and is located at the southeast corner of the site and it's currently shaded in blue. And this lot is currently developed with about 20 parking spaces which are part of a larger parking lot that serves the surrounding commercial uses and the Toyota Arena. The tentative track map will essentially separate the proposed project from the existing parking lot to the south.

The project proposes the construction of 11 detached residential buildings for a total of 309 units and the construction of 11 detached enclosed garage buildings. The site is comprised of three quadrants with pedestrian and vehicular access provided from Via Austi and Via Villagio. The site will have two vehicular access points from Via Villagio and two vehicular access points from Via Villagio as shown with the red circles on the screen. The buildings comply with the required setback requirements and are set back approximately 30 feet from 4th Street, 14 feet from Viosi, and approximately 20 feet from Via Villaggio. The site will be gated and a total of three color schemes are proposed, one for each community.

The purple color on the site plan will be for color scheme one. The dark yellow will be scheme two, and the green will be color scheme three. The clubhouse is outlined in orange, and the northwest quadrant of the site provides the majority of the common recreational amenities including the clubhouse, a pool, spa, and an outdoor plaza. A total of 446 parking spaces are required, and the project provides a total of 601 stalls exceeding the minimum parking requirements for this site. The floor plan for the 21 plex is shown on the screen to show the typical floor plan layouts for the unit.

The buildings will consist of one twenty one plex, four twenty three plex, two twenty four plex, and four thirty seven plex buildings. The proposed buildings will be three stories as shown on the screen. The front entry doors for the 21 plex are shown with the yellow arrows,

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lead into the hallway, the stairs, and the units. The units are outlined in orange and consist of a combination of studio one bedroom and two bedroom units. The area highlighted in blue shows the attached garages, which are located at the rear of the unit. The attached garages will have exterior access only. Additionally, each unit occupies the same floor, and all units will have private balconies, which are a minimum of 50 square feet in area.

Here we have an elevation of the 21 plaques with color scheme one, which incorporates a wide and beige circle finish. Each community will have its own color scheme. The proposed buildings have been designed with a Spanish adaptive architectural style. The proposed buildings will be three stories with an overall height of 38 feet to the top of the parapet wall and will include simulated wood at the railings, concrete as tile roof, decorated tile below the windows and at the building entrances, metal awnings above some of the windows, foam siding between the windows, and enhanced cornice treatments for the elevations that face the public right away. Here we have an elevation of the 20 Fourplex with color scheme two.

Color scheme two has a gray and white circle finish. The residential buildings have been designed with similar architectural features and include design elements such as the decorative arches with ceramic tiles for the building entrances, carriage lights, tubular steel gates, and rear cantilevers for the attached garages. And the attached garage for this 24 plex is located at the rear of the unit as shown on the screen. The elevation for the 23 plex with color scheme three is shown on the screen on the screen. Scheme three has a creamy stucco color with some accent beige colors.

The 23 plex has the garages located at the rear and side of the building, and the 23 plex embodies the same architectural features as the other two buildings we just saw. The proposed clubhouse has also been designed to complement the proposed buildings and incorporate a Spanish adaptive architectural style. The clubhouse will be two stories and has a large fort storefront at the entrance of the clubhouse, wood like slats above the storefront, stone veneer, decorative ceramic tile, foam siding, decorative breeze blocks, and arch windows. The right elevation is also shown on the screen, and this elevation will be visible from via Aussie. The right elevation has the same architectural features as the front elevation and includes the storefront glazing, the stone veneer, the wood like slacks, and trim around all the windows.

The left and rear elevations of the clubhouse are shown here. The left elevation incorporates breeze blocks, circle the concrete as tile roof, and we can also see a glimpse of the deck proposed for features as the front of the clubhouse and includes stone veneer, ceramic tile, store glazing, overhead glazed doors, trim around the windows, and decorative arches. The garage the garages have been designed to complement the buildings in which they are located and include the same color scheme as the building. The garages include the tile hib roof design, stucco with matching trim, decorative light fixtures, decorative garage doors with windows, and two murals. The two murals are proposed to enhance the garage walls that front two of the community paseos, and these murals will be located inside the community and will not be visible from the public right away.

Here we have a building perspective and a key map that shows the location of these perspective. The first view is a view of the Southeast corner of 4th Street and Viosi, and these buildings incorporate color scheme one. View number two, which is the bottom right picture, is a view along the Aussie, and this is a perspective of the 37 Plex Building. And we can see some of the features that this building incorporates. View number seven is a view of a clubhouse from Via Austi, and we can see some of the features of the clubhouse such as the stone veneer, the decorative awnings, the glass storefront, and the decorative trim around the windows.

The bottom right image is a view of the clubhouse from Via Villaggio. Landscaping is proposed throughout the project site, and a total of 18.3% of the site will be landscape. The landscaping plan includes a combination of 24 inch, 36 inch, and 48 inch box trees as well as a variety of tree shrubs, ground cover, and accent plants. The project exceeds the common and private open space requirements and has provided a total of approximately a 132,000 square feet of common open space and has provided approximately 15,000 square feet of private open space. The landscaping plan outlines some of the features that the project site incorporates such as the clubhouse and plaza located at the Northwest corner of Via Assi and Via Villaggio, a south plaza located south of a clubhouse, a dog park located north of Building 7, a pet relief station located south of Building 11, and the landscaping plan also outlines the location of the Buechler Gates which are along Via Villaggio and one is along Via Aussie.

Here we have an enlarged exhibit of Building 11 and the eastern edge condition proposed. Building 11 is next to Adept, which will have a 14 foot high podium wall built on the property line. The applicant has worked with staff to help soften this eastern edge condition and has revised the walkway design to allow the planting of screening shrubs, which will be located along the eastern edge with additional trees planted in the front of the unit's private patio areas. The walkways have been revised and are now six feet and eight feet, and the building is set back 16 feet and 17 feet. The elevation view, which is the bottom picture, shows the adjacent podium wall at 14 feet and the row of trees with a grow height of three to five years after planting.

Once the trees do mature, they will grow grow anywhere from 30 to 80 feet tall and will be taller than the building, which is at 38 feet to top of the parapet. An enlarged exhibit of the clubhouse showing the amenities that will be that will be provided is shown on the screen. The clubhouse will provide a fitness area, leasing office, study rooms, and other amenities. An outdoor fitness area is proposed north of the clubhouse, lounge chairs and tables, outdoor showers, a 75 foot lap pool, a spa, pool cabanas, barbecue counters, and shade trellises. A plaza area is proposed adjacent to the clubhouse and will include shade trellis, concrete chairs, and a low seat wall.

The exhibit on the right shows an enlarged exhibit of the South Plaza, which is proposed south of the clubhouse, and this area would include olive trees, decorative concrete pavers, seats, and tables. An enlarged exhibit of the dog park is shown on the screen. The dog park is located north of Building 7 and includes shade structures, synthetic turf, palm trees, and a dog washing station with an accent wall. Along the eastern and western portion of the dog park, shade trees, barbecue counter, and built in benches are proposed. And with that, staff is recommending that the planning commission adopt a resolution approving file numbers PMTT23Dash007 for tentative track map number 20657 and adopt a resolution approving file numbers PDev23Dash028 for the development plan.

And with that, that concludes my presentation. We're available for any questions. Thank you.

Thank you, miss Torres. Are there any questions staffed by the commissioners? Commissioner Gage?

Yes. Regarding parking, I see there's like four different kinds of parking. One being garage parking and then there's driveway parking and then there's on-site gated parking. What is on-site gated parking?

Yes. So the on-site gated parking is the parking that's located within the project site. So we do have on street parking spaces that are long Via Aussie and Via Villagio and those will be for the guests and the on-site gated parking is a parking space located within the community.

I see. So in the streets of the community and it's labeled gated because the community is gated.

Correct. Yes.

I see.

So on the screen here along Via Osi and Via Villagio, the areas with the pink dots are the guest parking spaces and then the ones that are with the yellow circle, that's the on-site gated parking.

Yes.

Are there any other questions from any of the commissioners of staff? As there are no further questions, I'll now open a public hearing and ask the applicant to please step forward. And please state your name and address for the record.

Good evening, chair and members of the planning mission. My name is James Kim. My address is 1156 North Mountain Avenue, Upland, California 91786.

And do you agree with the conditions of approval? Yes. I do. Thank you. So go ahead. Oh, If you want to say anything.

I'd like to share like I want to thank the staff for helping us with the club and also sharing the conditions approval prior to this meeting.

Are there any questions of the applicant from commissioners? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Carey. Thank you. I will now open the public hearing to the audience. Is there anyone wishing to speak on this item from the audience? Okay. As there is no one. Oh, please step to the podium. State your name and address for the record.

Laurie Masonis and I'm a resident of Ontario. I My home is off 4th And Vineyard, I'm going to be pretty close to this. I'm just curious, do they have any idea what the size of these different condominiums, You know, know they mentioned the three different buildings, but any differences as far as sizes, the square footage?

Square footage, we'll direct that to staff.

So the square footages of the units vary in size. The studios range anywhere from approximately five ten square feet in area and then we have the two bedroom units that are approximately a thousand square feet.

Thank you Ms. Into. Any other questions ma'am?

Another building plans, there's usually area for green, walking, bicycles, stuff like that. They're going to have that too. Now I'm just curious because that's usually brought up in a lot of these planning communities.

Okay. Thank you, ma'am. The staff wanna comment on that?

Within the community, we do have community paseos located throughout the community, which do connect to 4th Street and to Via Austin and Via Vilagio. We do have internal connection to the public streets.

For pedestrians walking?

For pedestrian connectivity.

Alright, thank you. Okay, is there anyone else wishing to speak on this matter Or does the applicant wish to add anything else? Okay. Thank you. And so with that, as there is no one else wishing to speak, I will now close the public comment period and turn the matter over to the Planning Commission for discussion and action.

Mr. Chairman? Commissioner Gage.

Yes, this seems like a really nice project in a really important nice area of our community, Pia Monte area, and really happy with the results of this. Glad the applicant came up with this and worked with staff. Love all the amenities with the clubhouse and so forth. There's a lot for people to do even that dog park. So it seems like it's gonna be a really nice community.

One thing that really helps nice communities are enough parking and I'm glad to see that it actually has more parking than we require. Maybe we should require more to coincide with what developers want and think is important to have. But of course, it includes a lot of different kinds of parking. So I understand that. But there's actually over 300 garage parking also. So that's quite a bit. With that, I see this as a really great project, and I'd be glad to be for it. And I'll let other people talk if

you can. Any other comments? In that case, Commissioner Gage, would you like to make the motion?

I'd like to make a motion to approve tentative TrackMac file PMTT23-seven and the development plan file number PDEV23-twenty eight, subject to the resolutions and attached conditions of approval.

Thank you, commissioner Gage. Do I have a second? And we have a second by commissioner Anderson. Madam secretary, call the rule.

Miss Anderson?

Yes. Miss

Diedemeyer? Yes. Mister Gage?

Yes.

Mister Marks?

Yes.

Chairman Ritchie?

Yes.

It is approved, five to zero.

Thank you. So, file number PMTT 20 three-seven, the tentative track map and PDEV 20 three-twenty eight, the development plan have been approved. And now, Null, item E.

Thank you, chairman. Item e is environmental assessment and development code amendment for file number PDCA 25 dash zero zero one. A public hearing to consider a development code amendment to the chapters as described within the agenda. The proposed development code amendment is exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to section fifteen zero six one b three of the CECO guidelines. This application is city initiated and City Council action is required and senior planner mister Gron will provide the presentation.

Thank you mister Ngo. Good evening chairman and members of the Planning Commission. I'm really pleased to present to you tonight the first development code amendment of the year 2025. There's five primary areas we're gonna actually four primaries we're going to focus on. There's revising and amending chapters two and six to address changes to not changes, but to address state density bonus law as a result of correspondence from the State Office of Housing and Community Development.

We revise chapters five and nine to address housing program number 20, That's part of our housing element which was adopted back in 2016. There are about 30 programs in within the housing element. Program 20 deals with a lot of updates to transitional housing, supportive housing, emergency shelters. So it's addressing changes in state law relative to those and also refining definitions pertaining to those sections. And then revising chapter five to update our requirements for hookah establishments and cigar lounges, and then adding a section to Chapter six addressing open space amenities for development, residential development within Ontario Ranch area.

So to start off, we'll go by chapter as it proceeds to the development code. So chapter two deals with administration procedures of the development code. The review matrix, which is the first item on here sort of identifies different types of applications and the review process for that, which department or who has review authority, who has appeal authority, and because of a contact that we had from HCD regarding one of the existing mobile home parks in the city where this mobile home park wanted to expand and we said oh it needed a development agreement because of this. They respond and said that an application to respond to expand in and of itself doesn't require a development agreement. There's no corresponding discretionary applications.

So the idea is to update our review matrix to identify that the planning director has ministerial approval of development agreements when there's an expansion in and of itself under state density bonus law. We're also proposing to revise our notifications consistent with the change in straight law where if there's a development proposal or if there's a modification that affects interest in real property, it changes from a ten day to a twenty day notice. So it's revising that criteria. Also differentiating between discretionary applications and legislative applications and our noticing boundaries and how far and what level of notification would provide to residents within a certain boundary of those projects either 300 feet or a 600 foot boundary. And lastly, the section, revising our criteria for large public notification signs where currently along a street fund is we require them to be 300 feet apart, but it seemed to be kind of an overabundance abundance of signs.

It's more to have them on a mid block and on project corners, but also at the discretion of the planning director. Chapter five deals with zoning and land use. The first two comments here, again, goes back to the comment from HCD and the mobile home park expansion. Our code currently limits mobile home parks from a density of 5.1 to 8.1 units per acre. This would change this so that within the mobile home park zoning district, it'll be consistent with the low medium residential district of the general plan, which permits a density from eight, I mean five to 11 units per acre.

So therefore these mobile home parks then be consistent with that. I think that was yeah, that's the only one on that page. On this page is changing the land use matrix, the development code. So land use matrix identifies different uses that are permitted citywide. Uses are either permitted a P by a P means it's a permitted use, excuse me, C as a conditionally permitted use, A as an administratively permitted use, or it's blank which means it's an exclusionary code.

It's not listed, it's not permitted. So first off, there's a lot of things on this page there, this section that deal with updates to chapter program 20. For instance, addressing our requirements for employee farmworker housing. We currently didn't differentiate between a smaller facility which should have six or less residents or one that had seven or more and where those could go. So now we're differentiating what you what zones those are permitted in and where they can go in the city.

Also adding under supportive housing, allow that as a conditionally permitted use within the mixed use zoning districts. The acupuncture, I mispronounced that, that's beekeeping, and it allows it as a permitted use within the ag zoning district. Makes sense. Alcoholic beverage sales, they're currently within the M1 Zoning District, is primarily the downtown zoning mixed use district. Those are Alcoholic beverage sales are currently conditionally permitted use.

This would change it to an administrative permitted use. It's same procedures, there's just not a public hearing for it. It's approved by the planning director rather than by yourselves as planning commission, but same procedures, same conditions. The next three are residential care facilities, low barrier navigation centers and transitional housing. Again, those are a result of program 20 requirements.

The residential care facility, there's a variety of sections that deal with different levels of care and different facilities, and identifying that person, if there's more than six persons in a household, where those units are then conditionally permitted, and it added added to some of the lower density residential designations. Low barrier navigation centers, those are facilities to reduce the barriers for people getting into them for either providing areas for them to store their belongings on-site, areas for couples to be housed in, areas to keep facilities that can keep their pets. It just makes them more accessible to get people off the street. Transitional housing is to add it as a permitted use in mixed use zoning districts. And then the last one on this page is the city is will be developing an animal shelter in that one Ontario ranch area, and then this would allow so that as within the open space recreation land use or zoning district to allow animal shelters as a permitted use.

But there's a caveat to that. They're publicly operated animal shelters, not a privately operated shelter. On this page, this is, let's see, revising boarding, lodging and rooming houses. There's currently some standards in our code that address restrictions on parolees boarding in these facilities. We're also then we require them to signs a crime free lease addendum before they can access the facility and state of opposition of those.

So we're deleting those from this requirement. We're also addressing how we look at farm worker housing. Again, it's for units where there's six or fewer households, it's treated as a single family structure. If there's between seven and thirty six beds, it's considered a multifamily structure and it's only allowed in certain ag zones. Deleting the minimum lot size for them from this, there's no longer 10 acre minimum requirement, and then also deleting the setback requirement for them.

Also revising standards for single room occupancy and temporary shelters and supportive housing. The last one on this page has to deal with revising the number of client beds for a public or privately operated emergency shelter. Specifically as it rates to the city's intake facility that'd be located in On Mission. We currently restrict them to just specifically to 20 client beds for our tenants for an emergency shelter, but because the city's facility we have up to 50 beds, revising it so that a privately operated facility could only have 20 beds, where a publicly operator could have up to 50 or as planning director could exceed that with their approval. The next one has to do with hookah establishments, specifically how we looked at cigar lounges.

So one of the last code amendments we looked at last year had to do with revising our hookah standards to allow cigar lounges, specifically to incorporate them because they were not permitted. So we added them to what we looked at as a hookah establishment. But within that, there are other restrictions on hookahception. It cannot be operated in a facility that sells food or alcohol. So we had to revise those standards to lead that permission.

So they could be standalone facilities, but they can't be in combination with any bonafide food or beverage sales. We also looked at adding if they had an outside patio. We don't have any provisions for that. Excuse me, we do have a provision for that, but it doesn't really specify where it can go. We have a standard that says they have to be, I believe it's a thousand feet for many sensitive land use, which would be, I can't think with the top of my head, but sensitive landings.

It could be a elderly facility, it could be a daycare, it could be a school, something like that. But the distance of a thousand feet, if you think about it, from the parking lot on the East Side Of City Hall over to Euclid is a thousand feet. That's pretty extreme. I think we can reduce that. The idea is that if it has a hookah establishment or a cigar lounge with an outside patio, I reduce that setback to 500 feet.

So it's still a significant setback from sensitive uses, but it reduces significantly. And also looking at that thousand foot setback, if we looked at areas in our mixed use districts where it could go, because of the size of those facilities and the setbacks adjacent to residential uses, There isn't a facility or a big city where one could be located. So by reducing that setback to those uses, it gives more opportunity where they could go. We're also adding standards so that if there's a hookah establishment, whereas there's a mixed use facility that is a vertical separation of use is not a horizontal, but say you have a commercial on the 1st Floor that has hookah facility or cigar lounge and residential above it that couldn't have an outside patio. So an inside use, but not an outside patio.

Also identifying that a hookah establishment that has that meets air filtration standards for Cal OSHA, that there's no setback requirement from sensitive uses. Reducing the setback from between hookah between adjacent hookah establishments from 1,000 to 500 feet and then established a separation for setback for hook establishments to smoking and vaping retailers. We currently have a standard that says those retailers couldn't be located that close to a hook establishment, nothing that restricted the hook establishment from how they could be, how far they could be from those facilities. So make them relate to one another. Next, adding facilities for temporary truck parking facilities within the Ontario Ranch.

So it specifically identifies the different TOP land use designations could be industrial, business park or general commercial, but also specifically within the agricultural zoning district. So we established permitted uses for the procedures for operating a temporary facility and what procedures they have to go to to establish. And then also revising wireless communication facilities, excuse me, for tier one facilities to address an expansion of an existing either a colocation or an expansion of an existing and also address the number of cabinets they could have for that facility, either what would be needed for that facility or up to four, whichever is less. And then on Chapter six, it's looking at adding we currently have open space requirements for generally for how they're addressed in the city, but nothing specific to Ontario Ranch development. And so this will add a standards to for recreation facilities within the Ontario Ranch.

And then again, the next one here on density bonus and other incentives. This goes back to the very first thing we talked about with the comment from state addressing density bonus expansion for a mobile home park, where in and of itself, it's not it's a ministerial action. Under changes to the sign regulations, it's make it so that on-site directional signs for our consistent in size and height. So they're four feet high, four square feet in area generally because we had different standards. Some could be up to six, some could be five square feet.

Just make them consistent citywide. And lastly, amending our definition sections to include to address all the requirements from program 20 so that uses that were established, we define those uses. So there wasn't any ambiguity between what those uses actually were. And then there's minor changes throughout. There's corrections, spelling errors and things like that. So with that, that concludes my presentation. Staff is recommending that the Planning Commission recommend to City Council approval of this development code amendment and if you have any questions, I'm available to answer them.

Thank you, mister Gron. Any questions of the staff by the commissioner? Any clarifications? Commissioner Gage. Yes,

I had a question that comes up regarding the residential care facilities. Getting to be historically they've been up to six people in a residential area. And now this change makes it more than six. Is there?

No, we're not changing the amount of people that can reside in it because I believe by state law, a residential facility is still up to six persons would be permitted in any residential zone. But we're revising that so that within a couple others that it could be established. No, it's

still I saw six six plus the graphic.

Oh, no. I take that back. Yeah. You're right. I take that back. It is. So six or less, it is permitted. Six or more, it's condition permitted consistent with state law. That's the distinction. So

state law and HCD made us revise this to conditionally permit within all residentially zoned properties. So that's why this code amendment is being proposed.

So is there a limit to how much the maximum?

We'll have to take a look at it on a case by case basis. There are certain building code requirements, health code requirements that we would have to look at. And then obviously, parking would be something that we would have to take a look at as well for the conditional use permit. So, don't it depends on the size of the the home that they're converting.

So potentially you could have a three bedroom home and have three bunk beds in each bedroom and have almost 20 people in the home?

I'd have to verify what the building code requirement is as far as the size of rooms for these facilities. But yeah, we would have to look at that and analyze that on a case by case basis.

And this doesn't, this wouldn't require or would it for the Planning Commission or City Council to approve amounts over six?

We currently have that in our code though. Currently states that within certain districts it is permitted. It's just expanding the zones that it could be put into. So we currently permit six or less outright and within two of the residential not not two. I believe it's the single family zones from it is currently conditionally permitted if you go seven and above, but this adds it to the rural residential and the I can tell you which ones exactly. I don't off the top of my head, I don't remember.

If it if it doesn't require a development plan associated with the conditional use permit. It would go to the zoning administrator, which would be myself or Kim.

Because within our I can't see it anymore. There go my eyes. Okay. Within our MDR eleven, eighteen and twenty five and our HDR 45, we currently conditionally permit them. This adds it to the AR two, RE four and LDR five. So it expands the zones that it could be put into, so it's within all residential zones because currently in those and two of them we don't actually in four of them we don't allow it outright. So it's not changing the definition or the occupancy of them, it's just expanding the zones that they can be located into conditionally.

As far as the state guidelines, I've been told that it's two occupants per bedroom. So, yeah. Oh, okay.

Thank you.

Okay. Are there any other questions or clarifications by the Commissioners of staff? Okay. As there are no further questions, I will now open the public hearing. Is there anyone else from the public who wishes to speak or make a comment on this?

Ma'am, please state your name for the record.

Lori Misonis. And, I didn't know what to expect from this. I guess the keyword was development code amendment. Amendment. You started, it sounded rather interesting and helpful, but I want to know, I think you mentioned the term Program 20. What is it and is it government, is it a government program?

It's not a government code. It's one of the programs of our housing element which is part of our general plan which identifies updating our codes to comply with changes in state laws, specifically as it relates to transitional housing, emergency shelters, temporary shelters, single room occupancy.

So, those different variety of levels of programs, the applicant has to apply, correct? Or they have to qualify?

It's not a program you apply for. This is just numbered programs of our documents. There are programs you can apply for through the city, through our housing department that can provide transitional housing or emergency shelters, but this isn't it's not like you applied for this program.

Yeah, it was just when we got our housing element approved through ACD, which is the state governing body for housing element. It was part of like a correction list that we had to correct our development code to abide by state law.

Okay. So do we have anything currently like that? That's an operation like if I wanna see an example of it or I know I've heard of housing needs, but what really threw me off was when you mentioned the hookup lounge. I'm trying to think, here are these people trying to help themselves. Now they're gonna go smoke at a lounge and I'm just Maybe. I don't know. It's confusing to me. Our

housing department does offer a lot of programs to assist people getting into housing, getting different levels of housing. So we have these housing programs currently in operation. This isn't expanding those programs, it just addresses how we comply with state law with how we address them in our standards.

Okay. But you mentioned quite a bit on the hookah I guess, businesses. Is that gonna be part of the housing? Okay. Are different parts. That wasn't very different.

And different altogether.

Threw me off.

And we we shouldn't be having this discussion Yeah.

You should come up and make a statement and then they'll address the statement. So the way it works is this, these are amendments to our existing development plan. They're brought to us. Some of them are standards that we have to comply with state. Other ones are just cleaning up existing development plans as far as I understand. So, not to be confused where everything is all encompassing in one spot. It's gonna be, these are different places, different types of zone uses. Okay. So, we just needed a little clarification. Thank you.

Alright. Anyone else wishing to speak? Seeing as there is no one wishing to speak, I will now close the public comment period and turn the matter over to the Planning Commission for discussion and action. If no one Okay. Was gonna make a comment, but go ahead.

They put the little green light there so

that's I move that that Planning Commission recommend approval to City Council Development Code amendment file number PDACA 25 dash zero zero one subject to the resolution.

Thank you, Commissioner Dinomar. Do I have a second? I second. We have a second by commissioner Marks. I just wanted to make a comment.

I just mister Gron had gone over these changes with the subcommittee with Commissioner Lamkin who's not here but and myself. But yeah, a lot of this is just clean up and and I appreciate all the work that that Mr. Gran has done to to go through and kind of go in compliance but and like I said, it's just to get our development plan in compliance with the state and make everything uniform which we usually do about once a year. So, with that said, Madam Secretary, please call the roll.

Miss Diedemeyer? Yes. Mister Gage?

Yes.

Mister Marks?

Yes.

Miss Anderson? Yes. Chairman Ritchie?

Yes.

It is recommended to City Council five to zero.

Thank you. So file number PDCA 25 dash zero zero one. The development code amendment has been recommended to city council. And with that, we will now move on to matters from the planning Historic Preservation Commission. Old business reports from subcommittee, the historic preservation did meet. Commissioner Yes,

we did and we only had discussion items. And of course, first thing we did was talk about model colony awards that we went over tonight about. We went over downtown streetscape design that the planning department's working on for our whole downtown. There's a lot of exciting changes that could happen now that we own Euclid Avenue as a city instead of Caltrans owning it. I'm told there's a lot of different things that can happen, including speed limit coming down to a navigable, safe speed so people can actually enjoy our downtown and look to park easily.

And so there's a lot going on there as far as the design and streetscape. We went over the California Preservation Conference that I went to and Diane and Ellie went to, And that was very informative. I guess I should give a presentation on that briefly. It was very rewarding. The name of it was Bridging, and it's basically bridging historic preservation with practical modern things and make it happen and have an open mind for these things so development can actually happen with reason and common sense thrown in.

And so that was the topic, and it kept coming up. One of the sessions talked about how the cost of housing is so amazingly high now. And in regards to buying a house, people with $150,000 income can't even save and buy a house in many areas of California. And so what that does is they do make enough money to pay high rents. So with high rents, so they do pay high rents for nice accommodations, but what it does is it raises the rents for also lower income and middle income peoples.

So it's a real dilemma. And so the idea is we need more housing to bring housing costs down. We just need more supply. And so that was talked a lot about. We had a nice tour of PG And E power plant in Sacramento that had deteriorated and they actually, we had a whole tour of, from the planning departments to contractors to architects, and what it takes to have an abandoned building, historic architecture where it's totally dilapidated and the roof's gone and bird droppings everywhere and to transform that to reuse.

And they really did an amazing job in it, as the tour showed us, as everyone spoke, it was a really hard job. And it kind of reminds us that some of these reuse of historic structures, it takes hard work, and it takes a lot of coordination, and it takes a lot of time, and takes a lot of persistence to make it happen. But this particular project turned this into a child's museum, a science museum, it's called the Science and Curiosity Museum. It was done really well. And there was a lot of tour groups there, kids, elementary schools and school buses coming in.

They got to see this new facility, a historic structure, and it was really beautiful. One of the areas, they had different rooms for different kinds of sciences, and one of the rooms was NASA, and it talked about our space program. And they had a 1950s TV that showed it was a running of the moon landing in 1969, 07/20/1969. And I was standing by it, and they also had the newspaper articles, Man Lands on the Moon, and it was very historic, and here we are in a museum. And these people came up to me

and they go, well, I don't want to

take it for granted or assume anything, but were you old enough to actually have seen the televised moon landing like we're seeing here? And so I had to

tell the host, I told him the whole story about,

yes, it was really exciting when man's first step on the moon and on and on. And I just realized I'm old enough to be a museum piece. I was giving my oral history

There you how go, Nancy. Let's open But the

it was certainly great reuse of a historic building and it was really amazing. And yeah, the last thing we talked about was landscaping of Euclid Avenue from 6th Street to the 10 that needs to be landscaped yet. And they talked about a DG path that could extend all the way to downtown. They also talked about monument signs and Ontario monument signs that were smaller than the ones that we had approved about a year and a half ago, which I didn't quite understand why the signs were smaller. And they also included a circular area with some roses, as we have on Euclid up and down the street, but also a sitting area there.

So we weren't gung ho for the new design by any imagination, but we gave our input and it was just a discussion item. So we did what we can and we'll probably see more of that, about that in the future. And that's about it from the Historic Preservation Committee.

All right, thank you. That was very enlightening, Mr. Gage. Like I said, the development code subcommittee, we did meet and that was Mr. Gron's presentation. It was Mr. Lampkin and myself on that. And so pretty much everything that was covered was what we discussed. So, thank you. So moving forward, new business, we have subcommittee appointments and all the subcommittees of all this basically more just changing two, but I'm gonna go through the list so it's on the record.

For historic preservation, we will continue forward with Commissioner Anderson, Commissioner Gage and Commissioner Diedemeyer. For the airport land use, it will be myself, Commissioner Ritchie, Commissioner Lampkin and Commissioner Marks. The Development Code Review Subcommittee, That will be myself, Commissioner Ritchie, Commissioner Lamkin and Commissioner Marks. And for the rules and procedures, I will have Commissioner Anderson, Commissioner Gage and Commissioner Marks. And then for general plan consistency, it will be Commissioner Anderson, Commissioner Dede Meyer and Commissioner Lampkin.

So those are the appointments for subcommittee for this coming year. So that's it. Now moving on to the director's report.

It's attached to the

Got it.

The agenda.

All right with that, thank you, Director Ngo. Thank you, Planning staff.

Mr. Chairman.

Oh, one more thing, go ahead.

Yeah, I just have one thing to add regarding the Model Colony Awards at the next council meeting. It's June 17.

Oh,

yeah. Not the next one, but the second meeting in June, June 17.

Yeah, June 17. Yeah, I mentioned that, right?

Yes. Yeah, the June meeting is the Model Colony Awards. I encourage the planning commissioners to be there.

Yeah.

It really is in support of historic preservation and a lot of what we do here.

Yeah, it gives us an opportunity to meet those people that have really set themselves apart in our cities and recognize them. It's recommended that you come. Hope to see you guys there. All right. All right, anything? And if that's it?

No, I want to tag on, please. Okay. The Chaffee Community Museum of Art is very pleased to welcome the entire planning department staff to the exhibit in our main gallery which is HMC Architects who are celebrating their eighty fifth anniversary as a business in Ontario, but more importantly as a very important design influencing the design of many parts of the city, schools, San Antonio Hospital, the new Chaffey College campus in Altaloma and many, many other things. I would like to extend an invitation to the commissioners to join the planning department. Gwen has the schedule for that.

There will be a gallery tour and a gallery talk, one about the exhibit itself and one about HMC Architects. It'll take about an hour altogether and I encourage you all to be there or be square.

All right.

And when is that again?

The dates are June, is that right?

I don't have any confirmed dates yet.

Yes, well, it's whatever you suggested, that's I think it's the seventh. Do you know Henry?

Yes, it's just the seventh.

Yeah, seventh seventh and the

twelfth at

10AM.

They're both Wednesdays.

Yeah, and the museum is Will not be open to the public, so it's a really nice chance to

Okay.

Learn something.

We'll keep our eyes open for that email from when?

It's truly a wonderful exhibit.

It's

very unique and very innovative and it's this is a really, really important business in the city Of Ontario affecting a lot of construction that was between 1950 and 1970. But also they're into adaptive reuse and all kinds of other things and eighty five years always in Ontario.

Very nice.

Yeah.

All right. I look forward to that. So with that, I think we're done. So the next Planning Commission hearing public hearing is scheduled for 06/24/2025 at 06:30PM here. Thank you, planning staff. Thank you, commissioners. This public hearing is now adjourned. Good night.