Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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Good evening, and welcome to tonight's Planning Commission meeting for Tuesday, September 23. I'd like to go ahead and call this meeting to order, and I'd like to begin 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.

Roll call, please.

Commissioner Marlow? Here. Commissioner Connolly? Here. Commissioner Roden? Here. Commissioner Kobler? Here. Commissioner Neal? Here. Commissioner Christensen? Here. Chairperson Cov Rubius? Here. All present.

Thank you. Staff introductions, please.

Marci Reynoso and Jessica Ferguson, permit technicians.

Warren Fraes, Community Development Director.

Piper Smith, Assistant Planner.

On the phone, it's Sarah Lachlan from BBK.

Thank you. Okay. Moving on to next item. Are there any general public comments regarding matters not on the agenda? Seeing none in the off in the audience, Marcy, any callers?

No. No callers.

No callers. Okay. Thank you very much. Moving on then. Are there any agenda items proposed to be tabled or rescheduled?

Yes. Item G 2, which is the subdivision on 2340 Park Street, We need to continue that date certain, so we need a motion to move that to the 10/14/2025 planning commission agenda.

Okay. Warren, thank you very much. Can I get a motion to continue, item g 2, to the date of 10/14/2025? I'll make that motion. We got a motion first.

Second.

We got a second on the table. Roll call. Who is the second? Ty Christianson.

Commissioner Neil? Aye. Commissioner Christensen? Aye. Commissioner Kogler? Aye. Commissioner Roden? Aye. Commissioner Connolly? Aye. Commissioner Marley? Marlow? Aye. Chairperson Covarubias? I love it. Aye. Pass

the seven He didn't mess up Covarubias, but Marlow

I guess now I'm chair versus Marlowe.

That's awesome. That's awesome. Thank you. Alright. Let's move it on then to the public hearing portion of our agenda then. Item g one, Nutwood

Storage Facility Refile P25-sixty3.

Staff presentation, please.

Good evening, Chairperson and Commissioners. One, I'm gonna be presenting a refile for the Nutwood Self Storage over on 65 Nutwood Circle Drive. The new entitlement numbers are P250063, PD2512, and CUP2503. This project is located right off of Nutwood Circle. It is zoned highway commercial in the planned development overlay zone, so C 2 P D.

As you can see in the yellow, the ABI is, developed across the street, and there was a recently approved, time extension for the Peterbilt entitlement to the right. So the project request is for a refile of the entitlement to construct an RV and self storage facility of approximately a 155 to 131 square feet located within four separate buildings on about 5.35 acres. Down at the bottom, we have one of the elevations just demonstrating what it would look like from Nutwood Drive. So to recap in the current definition we have in our code of self storage facilities, They are to offer an enclosed storage with individual access for personal effects, household goods. On a focus, there is no commercial use allowed, so they should be limited to storage, minor maintenance, cleaning, opposed to operating any sort of, business out of them.

Taking a look at the site plan and materials. So highlighted in the red, you have that elevation you saw previously. The materials are very natural, neutral, blended with the environment. You have some stones, some wood, some soft stucco. And then on the internal, you have highlighted in yellow is precision CMU block.

And on the eastern side, you have some split face block with a little bit more texture integrated. So looking at parking, this is a standard that did change. The previous entitlement required a modification, whereas, in current code, it does meet the parking requirement of two spaces plus the one space per 30 storage units. With the approximate 1,200 units, it would require 42 parking spots. There's six located at the front primarily for office employees, visitors, registration, and then the intent of the gated internal ways.

They are made to be about 30 to 35 feet in width. This allows occupants or owners of said storage units to pull up, provide their maintenance, use their storage unit, and then proceed to exit the facility. I'm capitalizing on that. There's no commercial use that would have any intended long term parking or long term need to be at that unit. So it's very quick and easy to drive up right by your storage unit and exit.

As well, I did wanna note the graphic on the bottom right shows for the RV storage, there's a couple different entryways on how to get in and out of said, aisleways with larger RVs. Looking at the landscaping and fencing, so it is landscaped on all four sides, that complement the kind of natural use of materials, but also provide just that general screening on all adjacent sides of that building. And this does comply with our current landscaping requirements. So looking at the adjacent parcel, as previously mentioned, there's the Peterbilt sales and service center just to demonstrate kind of the compatible uses adjacent to each other. They're relatively spread out.

They're both landscaped very well, and they kind of suit each other in context. So for CEQA, the initial entitlements did have an initial study and an MND. There was no significant effects found on the environment with the incorporation of mitigation measures outlined in MMRP. These were adopted 04/18/2023 when those initial entitlements were approved. This included air quality emissions, and then they did do some they're scheduled to do some biological surveys on the site, and those have not changed since.

And that was adopted resolution twenty three zero four o. Being a refile, there are no substantial changes or increase in previous identified effects or projects. There are no, identified changes to the project. And so, it is found that the refile is within the scope of the MND and MMRP, so no additional environmental review is required. It'll still have to abide by those conditions and by the outlined mitigation measures in that, reporting program.

So the required findings for self storage facilities, design aesthetically pleasing, good use of materials. So, again, it is screened with landscaping along with just those natural kind of diverse mix of materials. Same materials that were previously seen during the initial approval. There were no changes to those. The project, does not have any fiscal impact associated to it, so it does meet finding number two.

And the project will not diminish any community character, critical gateways of the downtown. So it is zone c two p d, that is an allowed use in that zone, and, again, goes very well with the adjacent uses on Nutwood. It's not in the Uptown Town Center specific plan nor is it located in the gateway plan. So here are the options for the planning commission tonight. You can approve, approve with modifications, or for the project back to staff for additional analysis, or you can deny the project by adopting the findings of denial.

Staff's recommendation is to approve the refile of the expired project entitlements by adopting draft resolution PC 25 XXX for planned development PD twenty five twelve and CUP twenty five zero three based on the findings and subjects subject to conditions of approval. And with that, I'll conclude the presentation. We do have one just final rendering, to show you what that view of NetWood would look like with, the intended materials, landscaping. It's a just good graphic to kind of represent what it would look like from that public view. Thank you.

Thank you, Piper. Well done. Just before we go on to questions, anybody here representing the project that wanted to speak to or anything? Do you know Piper? Any caller on the project? No? Yeah?

We do have Doug Ayers here.

He'd like to speak. Yep.

Go ahead and state your name,

Douglas Ayers, president of Paso Robles. And, I have no other comments unless you have any questions.

Perfect. Thank you, Douglas. Stand stand by quick just in case. Thank you, sir. Standing by. Yeah. Alright. We'll bring it back to the commission. I'll start on my left. Any questions on my left? Seeing nothing on my left. Anything on my right? Commissioner Christensen?

I just had a question, Piper, just a clarification. Has anything changed? I know they were securing an agreement on the private road for Nutwood. Has anything changed in that regard? Or maybe the applicant might want to answer that if there's anything that's changed since this was approved?

Set in stone, not that I'm aware of unless like you're mentioning the applicant may have some additional information on anything kind of in the works on the private side.

Okay. Would you happen to have any additional information? Has anything changed from that agreement?

Have you guys solidified nothing's changed at this time.

Okay. Yeah. Thanks. Appreciate that.

Thank you, Brent.

Thank you. That's it. No other questions.

The delay in this case is that, looking at the economic model and the current cost of construction, we are looking at the the best way to get it done and and be profitable.

Yeah.

All the all the above.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yep. Navigating through that. Yes. Okay. Can I make just one other comment? It's not regarding the project. It's just when I called in today, to the office, it's just really nice being in the hospitality business. It's just really nice that your staff is just really, good and they take care of us and and it it just it's really appreciated when I ask you a simple question and and it it's it's really nice. That's all. That's all. Just thank you. Yeah.

No. No collars.

I could like to make a motion. Mister Marlowe?

Yeah. I move that we approve the refile of expired project entitlements by adopting draft resolution p c 25 x it is on. P c 25 x x x for planned development p d 25 dash 12 and c u p 25 dash o three based on findings and subject to conditions of approval.

We got a first by commissioner Marlowe.

I'll second.

And we've got a second by commissioner Connolly. Roll call, please.

Commissioner Marlowe. Aye. Commissioner Connolly. Aye. Commissioner Roden. Aye. Commissioner Christensen? Aye. Commissioner O'Neill? Aye. Commissioner Kogler? Aye. Chairperson Kovarubias? Aye. Motion passes seven zero. Thank

you.

Alright. Moving on to then discussion items. Consent calendar. We've got the, June, August, two for August, DRC committee minutes, and the September 9 planning commission minutes. If there are no changes, I would entertain a motion to approve those.

I move approval of that. Consent calendar.

I'll second.

We got a first by commissioner Neil, seconded by commissioner Christensen. Roll call.

Commissioner Neil? Aye. Commissioner Christensen? Aye. Commissioner Kochler? Aye. Commissioner Roden? Aye. Commissioner Connolly? Aye. Commissioner Marlow? Aye. Chairperson Covrubius? Aye. Motion passes. Seven zero.

Thank you. Other reports. Item j, Pass Robles Streetscape ad hoc committee.

No report on the, Paso Robles Street ad hoc. Okay.

How about the housing constraints and opportunities committee?

Yeah. Currently, we are recruiting for three open seats on the housing constraints committee. Those are seats to be appointed or recommended by the Central Coast Home Builders Association, Paso Robles Chamber of Commerce, and what was the last one? Oh, and a local real estate professional. So we that closes on Thursday this week. We'll be interviewing on October 22. Once we have all the seats filled, we'll be scheduling a housing constraints meeting.

Okay. Thank you for that. Development review committee rotation schedule. Are there any changes, concerns, rotation? Everybody's good? Let's see who's coming in.

I think well, she's got it down here. I'll be absent on the twenty ninth.

Of October? September. September.

Next Monday.

Next Monday. So are you are you looking for somebody to fill that void?

That would be lovely if they

Twenty ninth.

Would like to.

Anybody available for the twenty ninth?

Let's see. I could do it.

I can do it.

We got two that are willing. I mean, one. Christian? Oh, okay. We'll give that one to commissioner Connolly if that's okay with you. Yeah. So commissioner Connolly will fill in for commissioner Roden on the twenty ninth.

On the twenty ninth.

Alright. Only thing I have is is further out, but November 3, I I'll need somebody to cover for me. That's quite a ways out. November 3. So.

Okay. And for the record, October late in October, October 20, I will be in Georgia. So if somebody's able I can remind people as we get closer, but if somebody's able to cover me on the twentieth, that would be appreciated. So if somebody doesn't know now, we can revisit that.

In time, when it gets closer in November, we can take a look at that too. I I don't have any plans of leak going anywhere.

Okay. Thank you.

I do have concerns in December the last two weeks, so I'll be away. But, yeah, we can get to that at some other meeting.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we'll get If

guys if you guys just wanna send me an email with dates, and that way I can make sure we plug everything in correctly, that'd probably be Yeah.

Great idea. Okay. We can do that. Thank you, Marcy. Okay.

Then I guess we're on to final planning commissioner comments. Any comments? Commissioner Roden.

So, I'm sure you guys have been entertained by some of the emails that have been received, since I've been appointed to the planning commission. And I just wanted to address them once and for all. They're absent of any substance and the things that they allege are just not true, given the flights of fancy and drama in an attempt to really damage my reputation. This is how I'm going to handle it from now on. I don't intend to respond to the emails.

If any of you ever have any questions or comments, contact me. I'm more than happy to talk to you about it, but I'm not going to continue to debate items that just don't exist. Thank you.

Thank you, commissioner Roden. Any other commissioner comments? I had a quick question. Go ahead. Commissioner Christensen, go ahead.

Just had a question. Warren, for the people for the housing restraints, is there, when did you say the application process was for that?

It's open now? It's open now. It closes Thursday. Thursday. Okay.

Alright. Thank you. Commissioner Kogler, did you have a question? Well, it's not a question. I was

just gonna Katie, which I'll do anyway. On the staff report for the item that got tabled, I'm sure that took as much research as anything you've done in a long time. So nicely done. There you go. And, Warren, taking off my chairperson hat just for a second, I know you still need something somebody from the chamber trying

to Yes.

Trying to get that figured out. So hopefully At two days. Yeah. I know. I thought it had already been handled. So Yeah. I understand. I'll I'll get it figured out. Okay. Seeing no other commissioner comments. Staff comments.

Update on a couple items. So you'll recall that when we updated the zoning ordinance, we adopted, regulations for food truck operations, and we did some reporting back to the council kinda on the implementation. They decided they wanted to hear a little bit more from basically the stakeholders in the mobile food delivery business. So they appointed an ad hoc of the city council. So that's council members Gregory and Bausch. So they held their first ad hoc meeting last night here in the chamber. It was really well attended. We had interpreters here for people, you know, that spoke Spanish. The room was pretty much full. Piper and Katie did a really good job walking everybody through the issues.

So what we've identified is kind of the key issues that kinda still need to be resolved. A lot of them have to do with, like, things like the noise from generators, how many tables and chairs and shade structures you can have, you know, what the permitting process and enforcement process is. So we're gonna be working through, responses to that. Probably sometime in mid October, we'll have a second ad hoc meeting. Not sure if it's gonna be an item that comes back to the commission as some sort of zone change or not, but we'll keep you in the loop on that process.

And then we've kind of mentioned that we're gonna be remodeling City Hall. So we're getting ready to start moving out of City Hall upstairs. So, half of the staff will be moving over to the Sandbox, which is the co working space on 14th And Park Street. So we're gonna start moving over there next Wednesday, which is October 1. We have to be totally out of City Hall by the October.

The permit center kind of front counter is gonna be moving down here into the chamber. They'll be open for business on November 3 down here. So all of October is gonna be a period of kind of transition. So because of that, your next planning commission meeting, which is October 14, is going to be over at Centennial Park. We've set up a temporary kinda hearing chamber over there.

It's in what's called the Norris Room. It's basically on the side of the gymnasium building. So we'll get information out there. So next meeting for planning commission is at the Norris Room, and then DRC will be here at City Hall until October 20. So October 20, the DRC meetings will then shift over to the Norris Room as well.

And then city council will be over there that week of the twentieth as well. And then we'll be there for quite a while because once we're done with the city hall remodel and we move the permit center back upstairs, then this room's gonna get redone. So it'll be an extended period of time that will be kind of over in a remote location. Yes? Did you say October 14

is gonna be our first meeting at Centennial?

Yeah. So your next I just wanna your next planning commission meeting, which is in three weeks because we have a fifth Tuesday in September. So your next meeting's over at the Centennial. So you you get to actually do the test run. You're the guinea pigs in terms of running a meeting over there. Okay. So we got that going on. Let's see. So we continued that map. That'll be on the next agenda, hopefully.

We also have a CUP for an auto body repair. That's likely on the next agenda. And then the commission asked us to bring back an item to discuss Norma's Alley and make some sort of recommendation to counsel. So we're targeting October 14 for that as well. The boys school project, which is the landing project, is moving fairly quickly right now.

The EIR is basically in final form now. We're working on final conditions of approval and the development agreement, which means we could be ready to schedule a meeting within the next thirty days or so. So as I reminded you, you have that really thick EIR. It is time to start dusting that thing off and and working through it. So it'll be, you know, pretty major item when it comes before you, with the EIR and all the other considerations on that project. So just know that that's that's starting to get closer and closer every day. And that'll conclude staff's report.

Thank you for that, Warren. Okay. If there are no final final comments by commissioners. Alright. Six fifty four. I'll take a motion to adjourn.

I move to adjourn.

Motion made to adjourn by commissioner Christensen. All in favor? Aye. We are

adjourned. Sorry.