Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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Warren. Alright. Good evening, and welcome to the Planning Commission, 09/09/2025. I'd like to call to order and start with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Alright. Roll call, please. Commissioner Koehler? Here. Commissioner Neal? Here. Commissioner Roden? Here. Commissioner Covarubias? Commissioner Connolly? Commissioner Christensen? Chairperson Marlow? Present. So the record will reflect Christensen, Covarubias, and Connolly are absent.

Great. Staff introductions, please.

Marcy Reynoso and Jessica Ferguson, permit technicians.

Warren Fraes, community development director.

Katie Bannister, associate planner.

Also, economic development manager.

And we'd like to introduce our new deputy city attorney tonight. Sarah, you wanna introduce yourself?

Yes. Thank you. And apologies for the awkwardness of being on Teams. I'm not used to covering these meetings, but it is great to meet you all virtually. I met the team earlier today. My name is Sarah Laughlin. I'm with Best Best and Krieger, the city attorney's office, and I will be stepping in to cover these planning commission meetings moving forward. So great to have you all on the call today and looking forward to working with you.

Great. Thanks. Welcome. Alright. General public comments regarding matters not on the agenda. Marcy, any callers?

No. No callers.

Great. Any agenda items proposed to be tabled or rescheduled? There are none. Alright. Moving on to public hearings. Item number one, Peter Sales and Service Center and Outfront Media Highway oriented sign. There a staff presentation?

Yes. Thank you, chairperson, pro tem, mister Marlowe. So, as you said, this is a a project for Peterbilt at the sales and service center, and there is an alphabet soup list of entitlements there at the bottom. There are two time extensions under consideration this evening and one new conditional use permit for the Peterbilt project. And so let's jump in and look at the particulars.

So looking at the location, this is at the Southeast corner of the city. So we're just South of Target here to the west is a proposed mini storage. You'll actually be hearing about that again at the next planning commission meeting, I believe. There's a contractor's yard that's, just been built recently for ABI across this oh, and so in red is the the site, where Peterbilt would like to look relocate their business. The site plan and the project that was approved several years ago will only take up the area in orange here, so it's a little bit more than half the site, but won't there'll there'll still be some developable area to the south where the owner could potentially sell off, you know, with a subdivision.

Anyway, future development possible in the south part of the lot. There is an existing Peterbilt sales and service business across the street in blue, so this, in red would replace the, the Peterbilt project that's or the Peterbilt business that's on the east side of the freeway. And I should have said this project is in the commercial highway zoning district. It does have a PD overlay. It is also now in the highway oriented sign overlay.

So, the the council did approve the project back in 2023. It included a a sequel document, a mitigated negative declaration, a rezoning to include the highway oriented sign overlay district. There was a development plan and then two conditional use permits, one for Peterbilt for a highway oriented sign and then a second conditional use permit out front. Media has a billboard currently on the site, and, a conditional use permit was approved to allow them to replace with a new billboard that would meet the standards of our zoning ordinance. At the time in 2023, vehicle sales were an allowed use in the C 2 zoning district.

They are now, with adoption of the new zoning ordinance in 2024. They are now conditionally allowed in the C 2 zone. In order for the planning commission to approve a time extension, one of the findings you must make is that nothing has changed in the zoning. Unfortunately, that is not the case. And so, tonight, you will also be, considering a new conditional use permit, conditional use permit 25Dash06 to allow, the vehicle sales portion of the project to proceed.

There are no changes actually proposed to the project. It's the same site plan, the same elevations, the same operations that were proposed. It's just that the zoning got ahead of or, you know, the the zoning got ahead of them. So here's a look at the site plan. There are some existing oak trees on the site.

There's three pretty large oak trees on the south portion of the lot and then three really small oak trees in the middle of the lot. The three oak trees, that are in the middle of the lot are all less than six inches in diameter, and, those will be removed. They do not require oak tree removal permits, because of their size. And so the building would be where those oak trees are currently located and towards the center of the the portion of the lot to be developed. They're and it it's at the corner.

It's a really small little marker, so I'll go back, and then I'll come back. At the top of the the the Northeast corner of the lot, there is a highway oriented sign that's a 35 foot tall sign that's meant to be read from the freeway, but it's for Peterbilt. It's not for off it's not for off off-site products as the billboard is. And then in hot pink, in the Southeast corner of the site, is where that bill the replacement billboard would be located. So the difference between and I've already kind of indicated some of it.

The difference between a highway oriented sign and a billboard sign really is about what is being advertised on it. So the highway oriented sign is advertising the on-site business, whereas the billboard is changing copy where you, you know, you'll see for six months, you'll see a a, you know, a real estate sign, and then six months later, you'll see a bank or something that's not actually on this sign. So or on this site, I should say. And so that's the distinction. As I've said before, the project would only use the the northern two thirds of the lot, and so that yellow line is just showing that that to the south of that yellow line, no changes are proposed.

I did superimpose the composites. This is a composite site plan. So here is Peterbilt's landscape plan there on the, the right side of the screen, and then to the rear is that mini storage project that was approved several years ago, and you will be hearing about that again soon. Here's the proposed building. It's using the Peterbilt has, you know, brand standards that they that they're using.

And so it's a a large metal building, with some features that are similar to other car dealers that are along Theater Drive. A quick look at the elevations. This is the front elevation looking straight on, and then in the rear, it's a pretty basic building. Along the sides, there are repair bays at the at the rear of the building. This is intended to be both sales and service of Peterbilt trucks.

As I've indicated before, there is a highway oriented sign. This is at the corner with Nutwood And Theater Drive. It's a 35 foot tall Peterbilt sign that that would be there at that corner. In addition, there is a billboard on the site. The existing sign is 22 feet tall with several signs that face north and then one sign that faces south.

The proposed, billboard would be a total of 30 feet tall. The sign face would be 10 feet tall, 30 feet wide. So it'd be a taller sign, but overall less sign area. There are some existing signs that meet this standard as you come, north on Highway 101, as you're just approaching the city, on the, the east side of the freeway. There's often, like, the the fair, often advertises, and and Travel Paso has some advertisements.

So, this is the sign that is allowed by the municipal code, both in the old municipal code and the new. Standards were carried forward. As I stated before, there was a a mitigated negative declaration process for the project, and this is largely why, staff is recommending you approve a new conditional use permit even though one wasn't required in 2023. The impacts of the of a of a vehicle sales lot were, mitigated through this mitigated negative declaration. So you can see, some of the the requirements.

A lot of them really do have to do with the auto repair, the noise that is potential. There's some requirements that they keep the service bay doors closed and not use air hammers or hydraulic lifts outdoors. And then there's some hazardous material requirements, as well. So, there are two resolutions for the Planning Commission to consider this evening. The first one, resolution a, is for Peterbilt, essentially.

It's a time extension for the development plan, which is for all those physical changes that are proposed to the site, the grading and the landscape plan, the building, parking, and so forth. And then conditional use permit 2216 was for the, the freeway oriented sign, and so that's the time extension portion. And then this resolution also, you would be approving a new conditional use permit to allow vehicle sales as was approved in 2023. There are, you know, a list of of conditions of approval that were included in the resolutions that, in the resolutions approved by the city council back in '23. The rooftop roof mounted, equipment has to be screened.

No temporary signs or banners are allowed on the front fence. There's some, last, details that would still need to go to the DRC. There's no storage or stock piling or other use of the southern remainder area. The applicant does have significant frontage and water and sewer, improvements that need to occur before they can build the project. And then, there was some concern back a few years ago about, road maintenance on Netwood Circle, they would have to participate in any road maintenance agreement.

The second resolution is for the the billboard, and this is just a time extension. So no changes are needed or proposed for the the billboard. So just a time extension for that conditional use permit. Conditions of approval include, the billboard needs to get all the the appropriate Caltrans permits. They do need to provide landscaping at the base of the sign, and they have to set that sign back 10 feet from the front property line.

Today, there is electricity that's brought over 3 Theater Drive overhead, and so this future billboard would have to have underground utilities, and the overhead line would need to be removed. Staff's recommendation is to approve these two resolutions. Resolution a would approve the time extension and this new and the new conditional use permit for Peterbilt. And the second resolution, resolution b, would approve the time extension for the, out front media billboard. That does conclude staff's report, and I welcome your questions.

Okay. Great. Thanks. Bring it to the planning commission for any questions. To the right, seeing none. Nope, you do? Okay. Great.

Just to refresh my memory, outside of the landscaped areas, is everything within their site either by tubeless or concrete paving?

Within the site, north of that yellow line. Yes, it is intended to be paved unless it's landscaped. Okay. Thank you.

Yeah. I just want a little bit more clarification on the secondary sign that I think you referred to that it changes with advertisements. Is that a digital sign?

No. As as those words were coming out of my mouth, was hoping that wasn't how it sounded. No. You you as you drive down the highway, you'll see a billboard. It'll be there for two months, three months. It this is not a changing copy sign in that in that Okay.

So it's not lit. It's not Thank you.

Okay. Seeing no other questions, open it up for public comment. Seeing none, any callers?

No. No callers.

Alright. Bringing it back to the commission for any more comments or if one of my commissioners would like to make a motion. Commissioner Neal?

I'd like to make a motion.

Okay.

I'd like to move approval of the conditional use permit 2506 for vehicle sales and time extension 2504 for development plan 22Dash02 and conditional use permit 22Dash16 for the Peterbilt sales and service center.

Okay. Second. Motion by Neil. Second by Second. Roden. Any comments? Commissioner comments? Roll call, please.

Commissioner Neal? Aye. Commissioner Roden? Aye. Commissioner Kogler? Aye. Chairperson Marlow? Aye. Resolution a passes four zero. Okay. Commissioner Neal?

I'd like

to make a motion. Alright. I'd like to move approval of the time extension 2505 for conditional use permit 23Dash03 for an out front media billboard. Second.

Motion by Neil, second by commissioner Roden. Roll call. Any additional comments? Roll call, please.

Commissioner Neil? Aye. Commissioner Roden? Aye. Commissioner Koehler?

Aye.

Chairperson Marlow? Aye. Motion for a resolution b passes four zero. Great.

Thank you. Moving on to discussion items. Item number one is the spaceport update. Mister Sloan?

Good evening, commissioner, chairperson, Marlowe, and commissioners. My name is Paul Sloan, economic development manager. Thank you for the opportunity to present before you this evening. The last time I was here in front of the commission was in January, so I have a few things to update you on. Just a little bit of background on the screen there, you see the cover of the city's five year economic development strategic plan.

The images on the cover represent all the various elements that go into making up a local economy. We have tourism and ag, retail, and a vibrant downtown. We have construction, both residential and commercial, airport spaceport project, and, of course, the very important quality of life for our local residents. The previous economic strategy was published in 2006, nearly twenty years ago, so it's definitely time for a fresh look. And to do that, we cast a wide net, to stakeholders and local professionals in a broad range of professional categories for focus groups and one on ones.

And we took all of that data. We condensed it down to five specific key initiatives and 75 specific action items to be completed over the course of five years. One of the 75 action items is the spaceport project that we're gonna talk about tonight. As a quick side note, the city, received the prestigious award of merit, for its economic development strategic plan from the California Association for Local Economic Development, and a representative from CALID came down from Sacramento and presented the award to, mayor Hammond in council chambers, couple months ago. Quick refresher.

Today, there are currently 14 commercial spaceports in The US. There were 12 when we started. Two more have gotten their licenses in the process. This is the, timeline along our parallel tracks of licensing, for getting a spaceport license as well as developing a tech corridor. We've worked with a number of partners, including Cal Poly and specialized consultants and engineers.

We're about we're about halfway through the process when the FAA informed us that before we could continue in the process of, applying for the spaceport license, we would need to first have an updated airport master plan, which is supposed to be updated normally every seven to ten years, but ours had not been updated in twenty. So that's why you see the little detour there on the timeline. So that's a costly and lengthy process. Cost about half $1,000,000 to do. As you may have seen in the media, congressman Panetta was able to secure funding to help, fund that over $500,000, and, the process, to update airport master plan kicked off in March.

This is the timeline for updating the airport master master plan. As you can see by the green arrow, we're sort of in the first half of phase two. It's approximately eighteen month process. As you can see, there's 11 different elements that go into the airport master plan, and the blue arrow shows the spaceport part of that is toward the end. So we will probably be getting to that sometime in the middle of next year, and the process will be likely completed in about a year from now.

Part of the process includes public information workshops. We've had one so far. There will be others coming up. If anybody wants to just follow the project and see the documents as they are produced, they can go to prb.airportstudy.net, and they can see all the documents as they are produced, going through this process. When I was here in January, I gave you, told you about the upcoming, event in February, which was the Spaceport Conference, the city in partnership with Cal Poly, which was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

The event was held in February at the Allegretto Resort here in town, and the two day conference was very successful. We had participants from seven states and six universities at the event. It was very, very well attended. One of the presenters at the conference was Don Aerospace, which is a market leader in the space plane sector for horizontal launch. They're in foreground in front of the crowded folks.

You see an example of their horizontal launch vehicle space plane called the Aurora, which is about half the size of a Cessna one fifty two, for those of you familiar with airplanes. The bottom two right images are just screen captures I took from some of the videos they have on the YouTube channel. So you can go look up DON Aerospace. They got lots of great pictures about their, their craft flying around. In April, DON Aerospace announced their collaboration with three top universities, US universities in, aerospace to fly student projects on their space plane down in New Zealand.

And the three, universities to see there was Arizona State University, Johns Hopkins applied physics lab, and our own Cal Poly. About eight weeks ago it's working? Me again? There we go. About eight weeks ago, the the flights were all concluded and successfully down in New Zealand.

The student projects were all shipped down there for them to fly. And, of the three, Cal Poly was the first and then marked a great milestone. It was the first American university in this partnership with Dawn Aerospace, which is great. I'll come back to this in just a little bit later in the presentation. Senator Padilla, one of our two US senators, put in an appropriation request, for $1,000,000, and, our senators can each put in 35 appropriation requests for a total of 70.

The of the 70 potential appropriation requests between the two US senators, the senate appropriations committee, approved four for California, and ours is one of the four. And, on the photo on the right, you see Justin Welner, is the director of government affairs for Cal Poly. The middle is our airport manager, mister Mark Scandalous, and on the right is Margaret Arashita from Senator Padilla's office who came over to meet with us on the, million dollar appropriation and as well as tour the facilities at the airport and our our test site, etcetera. As you can see in the text there, it says funding will be used by the Passerable Spaceport Training and Research Center to invest in equipment to establish a state of the art laboratory complex tied to the commercial space industry and feature educational programs, research facilities, and collaborative partnerships. As I understand it, there's still a couple steps to go, but we are 80% there to get the funding, which is really an awesome step forward.

As background of this project, the reason we're working on it is to try and attract higher paying head of household jobs to the area, and one of the tenants of doing business attraction is having a place to attract businesses to, which was always a bit of a conundrum because we didn't have much of any existing space. However, that has changed very recently, as the wine industry wrestles with the constriction that's going through right now, contraction. And so space has become available. In the upper left hand corner, it's a 40,000 square foot warehouse that was built purpose built for wine storage. It's got an amazing climate control system for storing wine, and it is currently empty and available.

Down in the middle, which these are buildings I'm sure you all are familiar with, seeing them on the planning commission, that's 86,000 square foot space with a ceiling height of 32 feet, which is amazing, and it is likewise completely empty on the market. In the upper right hand corner just on Airport Road across the airport is a 10 acre parcel, fully entitled for a 157,000 square feet of industrial space. This was originally a project for one of our major wineries. However, the building is not going to be built, and it is now on the market. And the brokers have reached out to us to see if we might be able to attract a tech company that might want to purchase that and build a facility.

Around the airport, the green areas highlight a number of other areas for potential developments, most of which are bare land, but you're all familiar with the landing project off to the left, the old Boy Scope project, which is a 140 acre project, including substantial 250,000 square feet of office space and 250,000 square feet of industrial makerspace and warehouses, etcetera. So that's gonna be amazing big project out there. On the far east side, there's a green rectangle. That area right there just at the border of the city limits that shares a fence line with the airport. A couple of city councils ago, they approved an easement, and you see that blue line, and the easement basically connects two parts of the blue line, making that now something that can be more potentially developed.

That rectangle, I believe, is about 70 acres that already is subdivided, so that becomes an area for potential development as well. On airport proper, Tartaglia Engineering, has identified nearly 300 acres of land on the airport property city owns for potential spaceport activity related development as well. So there's lots of opportunity out there in the Northeast quadrant of the city. The city is a member of the Global Spaceport Alliance, which is an organization which gives us a chance to interact with, people from space ports, not just in The US, but from all around the world. And they also have really great seminars.

A recent one was the business case for spaceports unlocking economic development opportunities. What many folks don't know or realize is that 90% of the economic impact from a spaceport has nothing to do with launch. It's research and development. It's design. It's testing. It's manufacturing. It's payload processing, those types of things. So that's why we're very interested. And on our side, we have opportunities for all of that plus with the academic aspect or the partnership with Cal Poly. It really is a great opportunity for us to explore.

On this webinar, they had representatives from several different, spaceports, including Houston Spaceport in the Upper Anacorna there. And the Houston Spaceport is a spaceport that we've been told to sort of try to pattern ourselves afterwards. They are a general aviation airport just like Pastoral was a general aviation airport. They have private planes and private pilots based there just like we have here. They have flight schools where you can learn flying and get a license just like we have here, and there are also a space port for horizontal launch.

So space port license is a complement to what you already have, and it's not the only example. We have a 197 planes, big private planes based out of our airport. The Colorado Air and Spaceport has 500 planes, and so it's something that exists spaceports and airports can coexist quite easily. Another example, the Midland Spaceport. It's not a general aviation airport.

It's an FAA part one thirty nine commercial airport or spaceport airport and spaceport, and it has, American, United, and Southwest all fly into that, into Midland Spaceport. And they have currently 20 flights a day scheduled, and it's also a space port. So it's just showing how it's, it's something that's a complement in addition to what you may already have as we work on these things. What's interesting about Houston, in particular, they were the tenth space port in The US. They got their license in 2015, so ten years ago.

And in the ten years since, they have generated $5,000,000,000 in economic impact. Billion with a b. Granted, it's Houston, and they already have a huge aerospace industry down there, so it's sort of a given. But what is interesting is that the tech park at the Houston Space Port where that was generated sits on 50 acres. So just some context, the San Luis Obispo Airport is 340 acres.

The Paso Robles Airport is 1,300 acres. And anyone who drives out there or looks it up on Google Earth can see it's largely undeveloped, has potential for other development. So that's just indications of sort of the types of things we can work forward to doing. Coming up, in January is their annual summit. It'll be held in Orlando, and, the city will be attending along with Cal Poly as we did last year.

The theme this year is spaceports catalysts for economic growth. You can see there's a very strong theme, between space and economic development. And next to last, about a week and a half ago, our city manager received an email from none other than NASA, and they asked if we might be available or open to having a call with them. And when NASA asked if you're available, the answer is yes. So I even asked them on the call.

I said, is that even a thing? Do people ever say no? We don't wanna take a call from NASA. They said they just didn't want to presume. So we had a great call with several folks from NASA Ames Research Center, and they told us that they had been reading about what we're doing in Paso, our focus on research, and our partnership with Cal Poly, etcetera, and they were interested just to discuss the opportunities for potential alignment, going forward. So great call. The next steps, they're looking at their calendars. They're gonna pick some dates to come and visit us here to tour the facilities, show them our test site, etcetera, and discuss ideas and and opportunities. So that was kind of exciting for us. That just happened recently.

And now, lastly, very lastly, thing, going back to the Don Aerospace folks, about a week and a half ago, we received a bit of surprise from them, and they told us that because of the partnership and collaboration with Cal Poly and flying their student project down in New Zealand, they're going they're, have put together a whole PR campaign around press releases, some speaking engagements, and and such. It all officially launches tomorrow, you so guys are getting a bit of a sneak peek, but they also put together a really cool little video. It's not very long at all. And, basically, this was a surprise. We didn't know they're gonna do this, but this is a little story that Don is telling about the partnership with Cal Poly that's gonna go live for the rest of the world tomorrow morning.

So with that, I would ask mister Frace to press play.

Cal Poly's payload is essentially a data acquisition system. So it's a tool that they can use to understand the flight, understand what's happening in flight, understand how their payload was performing and so on. And this is such a great experience for students to pick the academics and bring that into the real world. Aurora is so transformative for students and researchers because there's a huge difference between a hypothesis into a lab test and then lab tests to real world functioning. Often university can be quite stuck in those first phases, but by flying something on Aurora, you can go from your hypothesis all the way through to a flight group. That's just totally transformative.

Countdown. Let's go. Five, four, three, two, one. By prop.

It's great to be able to fly payloads for students and help them learn about aerospace and understand how to really get something from the academic side of things and the theory to actually building it and flying it and actually making something work in the real world.

And with that, I'd be happy to try and answer any questions you may have.

Cal Poly's payload is essentially a data requisition system.

So Or we could watch the video again. It's up to you.

Thank you, mister Sloan. Did any of my commissioners have any questions? Commissioner Kobler?

Paul, I don't know that it's Houston, but do any of these serve as a model that has any validity of projecting how much commercial space might be needed? You just highlighted a couple of empty buildings and a size of parcel of land. Are you seeing that others ahead of us have taken down those kinds of square footages and more? Any way you could project land demand needs?

Well, the in the case of Houston, their entire tech park sits on 50 acres, as I as I said. We just have a lot more than that that's potentially available here. We're not our goal is not even to try and be like that or be another Silicon Valley. The fact is we just have lots of space that's available. People are always you can see that picture right there.

They're always amazed the open space, which doesn't happen in a lot of areas. And whether it's a spaceport or other tech that wants to take advantage of that, we're open to any of it. We're looking to grow organically, you know, start with a little footprint with Cal Poly on the academic side and see where it goes. The spaceport license is pretty key for business attraction, but, no, there's not a particular footprint we're going for. We're just looking to try and attract we have one tenant out there, Stellar Exploration, which uses our test site.

They've been out there for two years, and they have, I believe, about 30 engineers, something like that, maybe a little bit more. They've been growing. And so looking at those types of small engineering firms and just see how we can grow and keep some of the Cal Poly talent that comes out of that school every year then leaves the area and see if we can keep some of it here.

Great. Thank you.

Man, I know Paul and I have talked about this. Yeah, we have a lot of a lot of space out there, but of course, our the the part that's really hindering us, I think, out there is the ability to get to and fro, the road system out there, and housing for people that we do want to retain here in this area, just as an aside.

I I would I would make one comment on that. The people that's due there's a lot of housing being built on the East Side of town. The people that have these jobs can afford those homes. So that's an advantage. Those single family homes that are being built, these engineers are making 6 figure incomes straight out of school, and there's technicians that are doing very well as well. And so there's a lot of opportunity for homeownership. A lot of the multifamily projects that we're working on, the apartments is in support of hospitality sectors and the wine sectors. But in the parts of the higher paid tech sectors, the fact they can afford at least some of those homes.

Great. I do not have any questions. Appreciate it. That was a great presentation. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

And, moving on here to the consent calendar. Any comments regarding the consent calendar?

I move approval of the consent calendar.

Okay. Motion by Kovler.

I will second.

Second by Commissioner Neal. Can I get a roll call, please?

Commissioner Koehler? Aye. Commissioner Neil? Aye. Commissioner Roden? Aye. Chairperson Marlow? Aye. Motion passes four zero.

K. Other reports? Past Robo Street Streetscape ad hoc committee report?

No report.

Housing constraints and opportunity HCOC zoning code update report?

Couple items there. We're right now in the recruitment phase for three additional members to the housing constraints committee. We're recruiting for a member, from the Central Coast House Home Builders Association, one from the Chamber of Commerce, and one from the local real estate, industry. So the those applications are open right now. Council will be interviewing and appointing those seats in October.

And then in terms of zoning code updates, it's kind of related to that food trucks. The council has created an ad hoc committee to review our food truck regulations that were adopted, late last year. So our first ad hoc meeting will be September 22 here in the chamber. That's a Monday night. That's basically a stakeholder meeting where anybody, involved in the food truck industry or restaurant industry in general would be invited to come and let the ad hoc kind of know their issues and concerns. Great.

Sorry. What time did you say? What time was that?

Six. We think it's at six. We'll confirm.

And members of the ad hoc?

It is, council members Gregory and Bausch. Great.

Development review rotation schedule. Did any commissioners have any comments, challenges? Seeing none. Planning commissioner's comments? Commissioner Kotler?

Thank you, mister chair. Probably a couple months ago at least now, had thrown out the idea, I think probably in a similar portion of the agenda of convening an effort to look more at Norma's Alley and exploring development potential of that and exploring how maybe that could be highlighted as even a stronger resource than it is today. And I would request that and perhaps the process is to agendize that for future discussion before this group may begin to think about, some ideas as to how that might begin to unfold and what that might look like.

Great. Thank you. So if the a request to agendize an item, we we look for consensus. So if we have consensus from the commission to agendize an item like that, then we can move that forward.

I'd like to see it on the agenda. Yes.

I would also be happy to see that on the agenda.

We'll get that agendized for discussion.

Great. Thank you so much. Other commissioner comments? Nope. I just had one because a, resident just asked me, he would ask me today, one of my coworkers, the construction on 24th Street, what is there a I guess, I I don't drive up there, but there was construction going on and it looked like it was gonna be done and it's not. So if you had any updates on what's going on.

Is that the pedestrian crossings at Flampton?

Yeah. That area. I don't know. I don't they just asked me, and I said I would ask tonight. So what what the status is of it and I

Yeah. That's a I believe a safe routes to school project to improve the safety of the pedestrian crossing there at 24th and is it Olive? Oak. Oak. So that's in process right now. It's under construction. It involves curb extensions on both sides of the street. So that's that's the nature of that project. And there'll be restriping of the lanes and, you know, reconfiguration in response to that change.

Any ETA on it? No.

That's a capital it's a capital project. I think probably next week's council report, there's probably gonna be an update on that. But we'll It's supposed to be done the October.

Great. Thank you for that.

Follow-up question with that. I've And you haven't been there, but they they changed the roadway to outcrop where people park in front of the the little the little place right there across Lorena. School. Pardon? Lorena? Yeah. And and which I think is good because you can't see around those cars, so you're able to pull out a little bit further and see it. But it does narrow down that road to a two lane road, and there's been a lot of, questions regarding why that was blocked down to a two lane road in that area other than safety of people coming in and out of at high speed from the lake. I don't know.

So it's pedestrian safety.

Yeah. That's the answer.

That's the answer.

Okay. Great. That's what I made up but I wasn't sure.

I'd fake it till you make it, I guess. Staff comments.

Yes. Couple things for you here. Okay. So speaking of project updates, next Tuesday, which is the sixteenth at 03:30, we're gonna have a ribbon cutting of the Sherwood Road extension. That's part of the Olsen South Chandler specific plan. So you recall, we they built the kind of community building called the Farm Stand. It's kind of up above Sherwood Road and overlooks the whole project. So that will be the location. It's at 03:30. We're hoping that the commission and all the council members can come just to kind of celebrate completion of that road.

That segment of Sherwood Road has been planned since the sixties, so it's kind of a major achievement to finally get it done. And then there's a lot of nice other elements of the project that are moving forward. You'll be able to see the different how housing projects that are under construction. So Shea Homes is currently selling houses. K Hob Navien has model homes open.

And then STG Spyglass has has their first phase of the Courtyard House is about ready to final as well. And then it looks like TrueMark Homes is about to start model homes for kind of a small lot single family product. And then another STG phase, will be another small lot product right next to that, Planning Area 9. So we should potentially have five merchant builders all under construction at the same time this, you know, next year.

Wow. Great.

So other things going on. Next planning commission meeting, looks like we'll probably have a small tentative map on there, a time extension. And then starting in October 14, we're gonna be moving to Centennial Park, for meetings. So that will be a little bit of change, and that's part of our reorganization and remodel upstairs. Creston Auto Repair, 639 Creston Road, it's been on the commission agenda a number of times for, consistency with our original entitlement.

We are scheduled to bring that back. We have some other code enforcement issues on the property right now that have to be resolved before we bring it back to the planning commission. So we won't hit the original date that the commission had asked for just because of this other issue that needs to be resolved first, but we are working on both simultaneously. Voice School is moving forward. There's, internal review drafts of the EIR and the development agreement.

It looks like, you know, potentially around the end of the year, this will be ready for some sort of public hearings. So I encourage you to dust off the EIR and start digging through that. And next week, city council meeting, there's a couple items of interest for the planning commission. One is the recommendation from the planning commission ad hoc on the Niblik Bikeway, design elements. So that redesign of the, features of the bikeway along Niblik Road, that'll be considered by council next week.

And then one of the developers at Olson, TrueMark Homes, they wanna do an all electric track of houses. So they're requesting the council waive the requirement to put natural gas in the local streets there. So that'll be a discussion at the next council meeting. So that'll be kind of an interesting one to track as well. And I think that'll conclude staff's report.

Great. Thank you for that. Okay. Well, I guess if I could get a motion or for adjournment? To move. K. All in favor? Aye. Okay. Thanks.