Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening. It's now 06:30PM. Welcome to the 10/28/2025 meeting of the Ontario Planning and Historic Preservation Commission. Agendas for meeting are in the back of the chambers and contain the procedures we will follow tonight. Please turn off all electronic devices and put them in or put them in non audible 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 is absent. Ms. Diedemeyer? Present. Mr. Gage?

Here.

Mr. Lampkin?

Present.

Mr. Marks is absent and Chairman Ritchie?

Present. And now please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance which will be led by Commissioner Lemkin.

Chairwoman please place your right hand over your heart. Ready begin. I

Play well. Thank you Commissioner Lampkin. Director Ngo, are there any changes to tonight's agenda?

Yeah, thank you Chairman. There are a few announcements. Item A01, the consent calendar, we're gonna go ahead and continue that item. And items B and C will also be continued. We'll go ahead and open the public hearings for items B and C and then the Planning Commission can make a motion at that time. With that, I'll turn it back to you.

Thank you. Commissioner items, do any commissioners have any general announcement not related to an item on the agenda? Okay, seeing as there are none, we'll now move on to the public comment period. This is the time where anyone in the audience wishing 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?

As there is no one who wishes to speak we will now consider the consent calendar. Because the consent calendar is being continued can I entertain a motion to continue the consent calendar meeting minutes from the September 23 meeting to the next meeting?

Mr. Chairman.

Yes, Commissioner Dedemar.

I move that the consent calendar be continued to the next meeting.

Okay, do I have a second?

I second. So we

have a motion by Commissioner Dedemeyer and a second by Commissioner Lamkin to continue the minutes to the next meeting. Madam Secretary please call the roll.

Mr. Lampkin.

Yes.

Ms. Dedemar. Yes. Mr. Gage.

Yes.

Chairman Ritchie.

Yes.

It is continued four to zero.

Okay we'll move on to public hearing now. We will now consider the public hearing items. The procedure for the public hearing will be as follows. We'll first hear a report on the matter followed by the questions of the staff by the Planning Commission. I will then open the public hearing for comments from the public.

I will provide the applicant or the 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 reputtal 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 final action. If anyone is aggrieved by a decision of the Planning Commission, an appeal may be filed within ten days to the Ontario Planning Department. The appeal must be in writing. And Director Ngo, item B.

Thank you, chairman. Item B is environmental assessment and development plan review for file number PDV25Dash001. A public hearing to consider a development plan to construct a 139,605 square foot self storage facility on 2.5 acres of land located at 936 East Holt Boulevard within the industrial IP zoning district. The project is categorically exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to section fifteen three three two infill developments of the CEQA guidelines. The application introduces no new significant environmental impacts and the application is submitted by Cherry Mao Public Storage and the applicant has requested that the item be continued to the November.

Very well because this agenda item will be continued to November 25, the Planning Commission, I'll now open the public comment to the audience. Is there anyone wishing to speak on this item? You can come forward now or reserve your comments for November 25. And it doesn't look like there 's anyone. So the public comment period will remain open and I'll ask the commission for a motion to continue file number PDV25-one to the 11/25/2025 Planning Commission meeting.

Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion to continue development plan file number PDV two five dash zero zero one to the 11/25/2005 planning commission meeting.

Okay. I second.

Okay. So we have a motion by Commissioner Lampkin and a second by Commissioner Dedemeyer. Madam Secretary please call the roll.

Ms. Dedemeyer? Yes. Mr. Gage?

Yes.

Mr. Lampkin?

Yes.

Chairman Ricci?

Yes.

The item is continued four to zero.

Thank you. File number PDEV 20 five-one is continued to the 11/25/2025 Planning Commission meeting. Item C, Director Null.

Yes, item C is environmental assessment and specific plan amendment review for file number PSPA 20 five-six. A public hearing to consider an amendment to the South Ontario Logistics Center specific plan to reintroduce 71.6 acres of land into the specific plan area including exhibits and text updates throughout the document to support the change for land located at the Southeast corner of Eucalyptus Avenue and Campus Avenue currently within this this specific plan. Specific plan agricultural overlay zoning district. The environmental impacts of this project were previously reviewed in conjunction with file number PSP19Dash001, the South Ontario Logistics Center specific plan for which an environmental impact report was certified by the city council on 03/01/2022 per the technical memo to the original EIR prepared for the project. This application introduces no new significant environmental impacts.

The application is city initiated and we are requesting that this item be continued indefinitely.

Okay. So because this agenda item will be continued, I'll now open the public comment period to the audience. Is there anyone wishing to speak on this item? Okay. Seeing none, I'll now close the public comment period and turn the matter over to the Planning Commission for a motion to continue.

Mr. Chairman.

Commissioner Gage.

I'd like to make a motion to continue specific plan amendment file number PSPA 20 five-six indefinitely.

Okay. Do I have a second?

I second.

So we have a motion by commissioner Gage and a second by commissioner Didemer to continue the specific plan amendment file number PSPA two five dash zero zero six indefinitely. Madam Secretary please call the roll.

Mr. Gage?

Yes.

Mr. Lampkin?

Yes.

Ms. Dedemar? Yes. Chairman Ritchie? Yes. It is continued four to zero.

Thank you. So file number PSPA 20 five -six is continued. And now Director Ngo, item D.

Yes, thank you Chairman. Item D is environmental assessment and general plan amendment review for file number PGPA 20 five-one. A public hearing to consider updates to the Ontario Plan 2050 policy plan that includes the mobility, safety, environmental resources, and parks and recreation elements and as further described within the agenda. An amend an addendum has been prepared to the Ontario Plan 2050 supplemental environmental impact report that was certified by the city council on 08/16/2022. This application introduces no new significant environmental impacts.

The application is city initiated and city council action is required and our associate planner Mr. Morales will provide the presentation.

Thank you Mr. Ngo. Good evening chairman and members of the Planning Commission. Tonight we'll be presenting a technical amendment to the Ontario plan 2050 policy plan, which is also the city's general plan. There are no proposed land use changes nor development applications for this application.

Updates related to general plan policies are mobility, safety, environmental resources, and parks and recreation elements. These are the state laws that are driving the technical amendment of the general plan. As a proactive approach, the city will be amending various elements to address the state laws on the slide. Starting from truck planning, environmental, evacuation planning and environmental justice. We'll begin with the mobility element.

Back in September 2024, Gavin Newsom adopted AB 98, which requires cities to evaluate their truck route planning and revise them to avoid sensor receptors such as homes, schools, parks, daycares, hospitals and etcetera. The routes must be clearly mapped, made public and shared with warehouse and fleet operators and the public. The City Of Ontario is located within the warehouse region concentration area, which is required to adopt these changes prior to 01/01/2026. As listed on the slide, you can see the various neighbor cities are also within the WCR. We are required to do this by 01/01/2026 while other cities in California are required to amend their circulation elements before 2028.

Staff's recommendations is to revise the mobility element and trucks exhibit to remove two existing truck route segments. Starting from Philadelphia Street from Grove to Euclid Avenue and Euclid Avenue starting from Mission to I-ten Freeway. During our outreach process, we implemented several outreach initiatives, inputs and surveys. And these are areas where we wanted to focus based on the public input where there was conflicts within neighboring truck routes, homes and schools. In addition, and to comply with existing state mandates AB seven forty seven requires cities to look into their policies and address evacuation planning.

As part of our amendment, we're adding new policies to address more interregional collaboration with our neighboring cities and state agencies, as well providing opportunities for evacuation planning for citizens or residents that don't have access to independent vehicles. Figure M04 shows our existing truck groups networks. Starting with the purple are state or federal designated routes and the orange routes are local city routes. These routes have been with the entire plan since 2010. These revisions show that we're removing the Eclipse Avenue from the truck routes map and as well as Philadelphia Street.

Continuing Ontario was also required to look into existing policies to see if we were confirming with Senate Bill fourteen twenty five requirements. Just like AB 98, we are required to confirm these policies prior to 01/01/2026. These policies that we need to look into are equitable access to open spaces, climate resilience and rewilding opportunities. City staff is confirming that our existing policies do meet these policies and terms of our existing elements such as the parks and recreation element, safety element, environmental resources and community design elements. Again, we're immediately confirming that our existing policies meet state's requirements and there's no further action to be required.

We are also revising the safety element. We're expanding policies to address evacuation, extreme heat and hazard data. We're adding new policies to combat existing policies by adding or acquiring new projects to have new straight structures or other development applications such as extra installation when building new homes or buildings. We're also revising it to add more evacuation policies to be consistent with AB seven forty seven. In addition, we're updating the safety element to incorporate new data from the state.

We're revising our floodplain and Cal Fire maps. In addition, adding the 2023 local hazard mitigation plan and the evacuation assessment as technical appendices to the Ontario plan 2050 policy plan. Together all these updates make sure that Ontario's safety and proactive for our residents. The map shows the existing floodplain maps in the city of Ontario. So our update is revising this map to meet new state laws.

So the changes here show that the Southern Portion Of Ontario is actually less risk to floods due to new infrastructure improvements down in Ontario Ranch. The fire hazard severity zones map shows existing or current, our current plans fire policies and we're updating it to meet Cal Fire's updated policies and data. So there's nothing that's been added to the city of Ontario, but there has been updates to the region at large. In addition, we're also looking into the environmental resources element while addressing SB 1,000 requirements. So state law requires cities to review their policies This map shows our existing EJ areas within the city.

So based on the new criteria from from our Calendly or Screen and census track data, we are recommending to remove Census Track 19.06 from the EJ map as this area has grown in income, median family income as well as in new investments within the area including new parks, new infrastructure and amenities. In addition, the Center Track is within the top 10% of incomes within the city and no longer meets disadvantage criteria, community criteria. And it's important that we address and put our resources in neighborhoods that need them the So the revised map will show where we're proposing the removal of the EJ area within Ontario. This is our Ontario Ranch area. We are revising our parks and recreation element.

It's more of an administrative cleanup where we're including the Ontario Sports Empire to our existing maps. There's no policy changes required or amendments. So this map shows the current parks map and this one shows a revised one showing the Ontario sports empire. During our initiative and the technical amendment, we did commence and started community outreach. It was within the summer where we hosted different types of input practices where we were out in concert in the park, had open houses, joined national night out.

In addition, we also had different social medias campaign using Facebook, Instagram X and Nextdoor where we can reach more residents within our community. And we also provided the opportunity for our residents to participate in the survey, kind of letting us know their input and helping shape our policies moving forward. And with that, this concludes our presentation. So we are recommending that the Planning Commission recommends city council to approve an addendum to the Ontario plan 2,050 supplemental EIR. In addition, recommend city council to adopt the general plan amendment.

I'm happy to answer any questions. In addition, our consultants place works are also here happy to answer any questions and that concludes my presentation.

Thank you Mr. Morales. Are there any questions of staff by the commissioners? Commissioner Gage. Yes, have

a question on the mobility element where we're revising truck routes, Philadelphia from Grove to Euclid and Euclid Avenue from Mission to the Tan Freeway. I'm curious, how is that enforced? Is it signed? Do you get tickets, etcetera, etcetera?

Yeah, so there's a variety of ways to help regulate that. Two of those items were ones that you just mentioned. We will sign it that there'll be like limit of weight and it's not a truck route. And there'll be I'm assuming there'll be a campaign with OPD or police department just informing truck people once this gets approved and enforcing that this is not a truck route. And then I'm sure that we'll try and provide displays like the reader board displays, just providing information to the public that this is no longer going to be a truck route.

And our drastic engineering team is here if they can provide any other input into that.

Okay, thank you.

Are there any other questions of staff by the Planning Commission? Okay. Seeing as there are none, I will now open the public comment period. Is there anyone wishing to speak on this item from the audience? I don't have any green cards. As there is no one wishing to speak, I will now close the public comment period and turn the matter to the Planning Commission for discussion and action. Mr. Chair. Commissioner Lampkin.

I think this presentation is pretty straightforward and even more than being straightforward it's nice to see that we're making updates as the city continues to grow and change in various ways. For example down in South Ontario which is no longer considered there was a mention or a comment about it not being so prone to flood because of all of the developments that are being done down there and infrastructure improvements. And then also anytime we can find an opportunity to eliminate a truck ride, think most residents would be pleased with that. So it just shows that staff as a whole is continuously reevaluating and assessing areas of our city where improvements can be made and where we can make concessions for our residents. So with that said, I'd like to make a motion that we recommend to council approval of the addendum to the SEIR and the general plan amendment file number PGPA25-one subject to the resolution and attached conditions of approval.

Okay, do I have a second? Second. Okay. So we have a motion by Commissioner Lampkin and a second by Commissioner Gage. Madam Secretary please call the roll. Mr. Lampkin?

Yes.

Ms. Didemer? Yes. Mr. Gage?

Yes.

Chairman Ritchie?

Yes.

It is recommended to City Council four to zero.

Thank you. So we recommend to City Council the approval of the addendum to the SEIR and the general plan amendment for file number PGAP, I'm sorry PGPA25-one subject to the resolution and conditions of approval. And now I think that's pretty much it. We move on to old business reports from the subcommittees. I know we had the historic preservation meeting. They met on October 8. Any reports from the subcommittee on historic preservation? Oh, yes. Now you remember, Okay.

Yes, we did meet Chairman.

Any items of significant importance or anything you'd like to bring?

What did we talk

about? That's okay. If there's nothing to report, we'll move on. Yeah, go ahead. The general plan consistency subcommittee met on October 6. I believe the only member here is, oh, I'm sorry, Nancy and Commissioner Lampkin and Commissioner Dedemeyer. Anything to report from that?

We heard the briefing that was just presented and it was very instructive. Okay.

And now we'll move on to new business. Are there any commissioners who have any new business or any other comments?

Mr. Chair, no new business but I do have another report. The members of the commission along with city staff have the opportunity to attend this year's national or California League of Cities conference. It's an annual conference where city officials and different people who play a role in shaping and developing cities get together and talk about new policies and laws. It's definitely educational.

We get a chance to interact with other commissioners. And I have to say that this year's conference was pretty good, pretty well received as most of the presentations focused on some of the disasters that we faced this year throughout California. And we had an opportunity to hear firsthand from some of the cities who were affected and to hear some of the lessons learned and how we can apply those lessons learned to what we do here in this city. And also it provided the staff with an opportunity to really just because we weren't the ones that were necessarily affected just to kind of take their perspective and start looking at how we can be more effective in the event we face similar disasters.

Thank you for that report. Mr. Chairman. Commissioner Gates.

If I can update my previous comments on the historic preservation subcommittee. We did approve a Mills Act and we did go over our mural art event that happened. By the way, if anybody hasn't seen those yet, go and see them. They're beautiful. And thanks to Commissioner DiDemar and all she did regarding this.

It was we have quite a city now with, is it a dozen murals we have out there and they're done by worldwide amazing artists. If Michelangelo was alive, I think he would have done one because they are that good. Go see them.

Yeah, the Mural Fest is wonderful. A lot of beautiful public art on display for everyone to see.

And so is the Arts Festival.

Oh, thank you very much Commissioner Guemer. Yes.

Number eight, seven. Number seven.

Seventh annual. Thank Seventh annual, yeah. With that, are there any nominations for special recognition? Okay, seeing none. We'll move on to the directors report. Director Ngo, do you have the monthly activity report?

Yeah, the monthly activity report is attached to the agenda.

Okay. So thank you, Director Ngo. The next Planning Commission meeting will be November 25 and thank you planning staff. Thank you commissioners and public hearing is now adjourned. Thank you. Good night.

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