Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to the City of Red Bluff Planning Commission regular meeting of August 25th, 2026. This is a hybrid meeting and will be conducted via teleconference and in person. Will you all stand and please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? Ready, pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, at this time is for public comment or citizens' comment. This time is set aside for citizens to address the Planning Commission on any item of interest to the public that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Planning Commission. For items that are on the agenda, public comment will be heard when the item is discussed. If your comments concern an item that is noted as a public hearing, please address the Planning Commission after the public hearing is open for testimony. Right now I'm opening the 531, the citizens comment section. Is there anybody present that wishes to speak? Hello, Pastor Scott. I haven't seen you in a long time.

Well, I don't come to planning commissions. This is my first time. I never miss a chance to pray. So I'll do that. Father, we thank you for this life that we have and this life you've given us in this country. So we thank you that we do live in a country where we can come freely and express our concerns. Thank you for this board or this commission and the sacrifice they make both to themselves and their families to serve. I ask you might bless them for that. Bless their families as well. As folks come in and out to this commission over the meetings that they have, I pray that the folks would be respectful as they come. I pray you would bless this commission as they do spend their time here. Pray they would make wise decisions. Pray, Father, that as we see what occurs this evening and at other times, that this community would be blessed by the decisions this commission makes. I pray that this city might be blessed by every commission, by every board that does meet. And I pray particularly, Father, that you might bless us as we're here tonight. I ask this all, Father, in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Thank you, Pastor Scott. Is there anyone else present that wishes to speak? Anita, is there anybody online with that? I will close the citizens' comment at 5.32. Are there any commissioners that have a conflict of interest with any items on the agenda this evening? I do not. Seeing none, move on to agenda corrections. Are there any agenda corrections?

There are not.

There are no minutes to approve at this time. So I will move on to the first item. First item is conditional use permit number 2026-02, amendment to use permit number 310 to allow an additional use consisting of a nonprofit regional food warehouse administration office and charitable distribution logistics facility at 345 David Avenue. At this time, I will turn it over to the community development director, Beth.

Good evening, commissioners. The request before you tonight is to amend an existing use permit that was established in 1998 for the property of 345 David Avenue, also known as Bridgeway Community Church. The existing use permit allows a community serving activity in a residentially zoned property. The operation that is being prescribed in this request is to establish a regional food warehouse administrative office and charitable distribution facility. There is a already established pre-built accessory building on the property that is unfinished. So it is the desire of the church to finish the build out of that facility and use it for the purposes presented to you tonight. The operation would primarily be focused on storing food and other supplies, coordinating their redistribution to partner organizations. This is not proposed to be a retail food store, a manufacturing operation, or an industrial processing facility. Furthermore, food distribution to individuals of the public is not requested. The applicant anticipates up to 20 employees on site, operating hours generally between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. and one to three commercial deliveries per week consisting mainly of box trucks. We've also included conditions intended to ensure the use remains compatible with the surrounding area. We've also put in a requirement in the conditions that after six months Planning Commission will conduct another public hearing to have a conversation with the neighbors to ensure that the use is being followed as it has been potentially approved. Based on the proposed intensity of the operation, anticipated impacts of traffic, parking, noise in the surrounding neighborhood are believed to be minimal. Overall, staff finds the use to be a reasonable addition to the existing community serving activities of the property. And with the proposed conditions, it is expected to operate compatibly with the surrounding area. We also ask that the church hold an open house event for the neighboring properties to better understand the proposed use. And they did do so at the beginning of this month, and they did hear concerns as well as we have heard concerns from neighboring properties. The number one concern heard was of foot traffic by potential individuals seeking food distribution. I think it's important to put emphasis on this is a mass distribution intent. It will be pallets of food going out to food banks and organizations that will then be the parties serving individuals. So this use will not encourage foot traffic to the property. we do have representatives here tonight from bridgeway and representing the project so tonight i request that you conduct a public hearing consider any public testimony and adopt resolution 2026-21 approving conditional use permit 2026-02 i am available for any additional questions as well as tom and project representatives

I just had one thing I wanted to add for the Commission that Beth mentioned, but I just wanted to make sure we understood the intent of the condition. Beth spoke about a condition of a re-look at this after six months of operation. So we wouldn't have that if this is approved by the Planning Commission tonight. That wouldn't be six months from now. The building is in an unfinished state. They would need to get a tenant improvement and some building permits. And so that process may take six to nine months. So it's really six months from when they start operating. You may ask yourself, well, how are we gonna let the residents know? We would send them a public hearing notice. And so whenever it's time, if the planning commission moves forward with this use permit and leaves that condition in, which we would recommend, we would send notice to the residents so they have an opportunity to come back and speak at a future meeting. That's all I had to add.

Thank you, Tom. Before I open the public hearing, do the commissioners have any questions or comments?

Beth, on your introduction, you said 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The agenda says 10 to 4.

I apologize. That was an oversight. I do have it as 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. as the operating hours of the facility.

If there is foot traffic, would those folks be turned away or would they be served the food?

So it is our understanding that those individuals would be turned away. Because there are administrative staff on site, there would be plenty of people to monitor that type of activity. And I'm sure also having the neighboring church, they would have some help with that.

There would be no signage that would promote anybody walking up. It would be offices only. There's no waiting room. There's no walk-up window. There would be no publicity advertising it as a public food bank. I cannot imagine that that would occur. They would probably come to our church door, and we would say, no, that's a warehouse. That's not a public facility.

Thank you, Scott. Did the neighbors have to be notified for this, or were they notified?

Yeah. So in addition to an open house event that the church put on for anybody within 300 feet of the property, we also sent the public hearing notice to those same individuals. And I did receive phone calls with, again, the questions of the foot traffic and the concern about the population it may bring into the neighborhood. I did make sure to discuss traffic, delivery trucks, the intended use, and again 100% of the concern seemed to be related to that foot traffic.

Are there any other similar facilities within the city limits?

There are other food banks that have walk up traffic. But to my knowledge, there is no other large warehouse that is acting as a distribution center to other food banks.

Thank you. No further questions from the commissioners. I will open the public hearing at 5.42 PM. Is there anyone present that wishes to speak on this issue? Seeing none, is there anybody online? None. With that, I will close the public hearing. Go ahead, Scott. Yeah, absolutely, Scott.

There are several points to make. There will be a large financial boon to the community. The payroll will be about $600,000 annually. To give you an idea of the other benefit to the community, this will serve about 12,000 families. The anticipated amount of storage is about a million and a half pounds annually that will be kept there, that will be distributed to other food banks that do serve individual families. Some of the folks are here that manage those food banks, and I think you may have pulled the trigger quickly because I think they're here to speak about that, but there is a expectation of 15 to 20 employees that are likely to be hired out of Tehama County residents that would be hired when that operation does become functional. But the anticipation is that the, as I think Tom or Beth mentioned, It will be probably six to eight months before all of the procedures can be handled that would actually get it open.

I have a quick question for you, Scott. Once it becomes fully functional, I know you'll be using box trucks, they say, no 18-wheelers?

There is likely to be a couple or three 18-wheelers a month, but it's not likely that there would be a constant stream of that. Until they get it open, it's difficult to predict exactly what the traffic would be. But in similar functions where they've operated these kind of warehouses down south, it's usually been two to three 18-wheelers a month.

Okay.

So.

I'm David Blythe, pastor at High Point Church, and we are one of those food distribution points where the people come. We're serving approximately 500 families on a month on average, and it would be really nice to not have to drive so far to get. We have three places we obtain food from currently. This would be a nice addition for us because we do spend a lot of money on gas to gather our food, and we help a lot of people in this community, and I really believe that this is an awesome opportunity for our city to help those who need the help.

Thank you. Anyone else wish to speak? Please come up.

I'm Gail Locke and I'm with St. Peter's Church and we host the Lord's Table who feeds five, four noons a week and so Each place that serves people, I mean, it's kind of a ripple effect, so it would be very nice to have the food more locally to help those of us that then serve others. Do you have any questions about how it, how it would happen? Do you picture it as a warehouse and the food would be picked up and then taken to the smaller nonprofits to be used to feed the people? Yeah.

And I would assume that you are well located because we are a hub of many different highways and access routes besides I-5 and 36 and 99, so we're well located for that.

Is there anyone else present that wishes to speak upon this?

Good evening. My name is Marianne Heathcote. I'm a resident. My back fence actually backs up to the property. And I just have a few questions, not necessarily comment, but I wanted to see what kind of security measures will be in place. Will there be security or cameras or anything like that to monitor any activity if it does come to the fact that people are under the impression that there is food stored there and they are in need. The other questions I have were Will there be people who are working there? What kind of background checks or things like that will occur? Or if they have any kind of criminal records, if they're volunteering their time or if they're doing exchange for food, those kind of things. And then with the six month time review, what happens at that time? Those would be my questions for that.

So I will answer the third question and then I will defer to Jason who can speak more to the first two questions. So after six months of operation has occurred, we will send out a public hearing notice for the Planning Commission. inviting back at that time to revisit the use permit just as we are tonight. We'll review the conditions that are approved and in place under this use permit. And we will invite the public for any type of comment, questions or concerns as it relates to those six months worth of operation. And if there's amendments that need to occur, then staff will receive direction from Planning Commission for those updates.

And then I'd like to answer the other two questions. And to introduce myself, I'm Pastor Jason McMullen. I lead the Ministerial Association of California. We are the organization that are proposing to use this space. And to answer the public questions, when it comes to cameras, we like to be part of Neighborhood Watch. So our intent is to have outside cameras, as well as inside. The inside is to protect what we have inside, as opposed to what people could get if they broke in. And then from the outside, that's going to be the key where I guess it could happen. We have several other warehouses that store food. We don't have public distributions. So the public really doesn't know that it exists other than the people that need to get the food to give it away themselves. So very rarely will we have that situation. But that could happen. And so we'll have cameras on the outside to protect what we have around because we would need to store trucks and et cetera. So there will be property and assets to protect. The other question I think I recall was in terms of background checks. So we adhere to all applicable state laws. When there's a requirement for a background check, we follow that rule. We don't do unnecessary background checks. So not everyone in our entire organization is background checked. It depends on the rule specifically. This is a very common approach of any other business or nonprofit. And so there are requirements. So if they're working with sensitive populations, which we won't have there, but if they were, they would have to be background checked. So for volunteers, our volunteers, if they come, they will be part of, so if an organization wants to come out on a special day and bring their staff out on their work schedule and put together boxes. So we'll have those. In those situations, those are not necessarily things that we go through fingerprinting for all of their volunteers, because they're usually on site for like one to three hours, or at lunch time to pack some boxes, take a nice picture, and post on social media. We usually don't do community service roles at a food bank. So example, us churches, we will have people come over and work on the church and get 20 hours of community service for some sort of misdemeanor infraction. That's not an approach of our food bank because we have to wear hard hats. I mean, there's a serious warehouse. You have to go through that training, and we don't have enough wherewithal to send someone that needs 20 hours through an entire training And if they don't complete the hours, then it was a waste of the training. So usually we'll have a safe space for one to three hours for employees from other companies. And then we don't employ, we don't use volunteers that wouldn't be background checked. I hope that answers any public questions, but I'm happy to answer more. And are there any for me from the commission?

Yeah, how many of these distribution centers do you oversee? That's a great question.

So we are a Feeding America food bank. So Feeding America is a national program contracting with the top, you know, like the Fortune 500 grocers, Walmart, Raley's, Target, things like that. And they give, the Feeding America gives us a range of counties that we have that territory. So our territory is Colusa, Glen, Tehama counties and so we have exclusive right and access to the food from Feeding America partners in those areas. We collect food in those areas. In other territories, they just have one, maybe two warehouses. That's usually in a more condensed urban area where people are very – it's very accessible. In the rural area, it's easier and better for us to have one in each county. that also allows for a more local approach. Most folks from Colusa Glen have no interest in coming to Tehama County to get food, but also vice versa. Right now, our only warehouses are in Colusa Glen County. This will afford us the local opportunity for local, as Pastor Dave said, be able to go to one place in a local community and get the food for your local folks and sourced from your local stores. So I hope that helps. Right now, we have one in Colusa, one in Glen. This will be a third one, because in rural areas, you need one in each county.

So do you expect that there will be volunteers that are doing it? The people doing work there that are doing community service, doing sentencing?

No. Okay. So our intent is to not. No, and forgive me, I may not have been clear. I like the idea, I will probably approach the city and say, if you want to bring some employees over, we can show you how you can pack 400 boxes for this weekend for churches to give out. And then they can come for like a lunch period or a two-hour period or so to build those. Those are great volunteers that have come out. They want to be there. Then there's other folks that usually churches are more in line with community service for an infraction or a misdemeanor and that need to get those hours. That's more appropriate churches, not at a site like a food bank. And again, that's because if they're doing that many hours, they need that much of training. I need to put that much training in them, and they may not even complete their 20 hours that they need. And so on a practical level, it doesn't work. And then there's probably safety precautions as well.

Any other questions or comments, commissioners?

One of the things I heard you say was there's going to be vehicles on site?

Well, there can be. So we have food bank trucks. So on the part that we would have our property, we might have a box truck. We don't have an 18-wheeler. We'll get those from, like, big stores. But we have a box truck and then a frozen refrigerated truck, a reefer truck.

Okay, so those are going to be secured in fencing?

We haven't got to that point yet, but it could be, very well could be, but we would need to secure it.

Okay, because that wasn't part of the original, that I read in the document that you said you were going to have trucks on site.

Okay. I think we would probably need to have trucks on site if that was a mistake on my part. I apologize. We can figure that out. Yes, absolutely. But we would have nowhere else to store a vehicle when we need a food bank truck to take food to partner agencies. And so very possibly we would need to have a truck on site. I think you explained it very well. Thank you very much.

Are some of the other places in a similar location? is what we're about to kind of see here.

That's a good question. So one is in an industrial park zoned M3, I think M1, something like that. The other one that we have is we actually had one in a residential area that was not working for the zoning. And so we are moving that one to an M1 as well. And so it's usually in mixed use or meant for storage facilities. This one, we've looked over at Dama County. We could not find anything that would fit that bill for the size. Those other facilities are small ones. And that worked out for us, but not a county this large.

And then the one that was in a residential area, did you have any complaints from neighbors in the area?

No, questions. Like, what is this? What are you doing? It was a former church. And so what are you doing? And so for us, it became a PR initiative of explaining why this is beneficial. And no, we don't bring folks into the neighborhood to get food from us.

Yeah, thank you. Of course.

What is the zoning for the building that's being completed now? R1.

It's R1.

I have no further questions. Commissioners?

Thank you. Thank you.

Is there anybody online, Anita? Is there anybody here that wishes to speak? Seeing none, I will close the public hearing at 5.56 p.m. and bring it back to the commission for comment. I think it was explained pretty well.

I think it was explained well. concerns were that there were going to be foot traffic. That seems like it's been explained well. And my concern was that this was going to be put into a building that wasn't completed without a certificate of occupancy. And it sounds like that's not going to happen either, that it will be a completed building. So that's where my concerns have been alleviated.

I think I was questioning the possible foot traffic and how that would affect the neighbors. But it sounds like that's not even really an option. They would end up guiding people the other direction if that was. So do you have any other questions?

No, do I?

And it sounds like they're listening to the neighbors should there be any complications or things that aren't desirable, which is nice when any facility goes in, regardless of what they do for business, that they listen to their neighbors. So with that, do I have a motion for use permit number 2026-02?

Just wanted to add one thing about this benchmark of the six months after they operate. That's when we're going to formally do it. If there was somebody that had a concern from the neighborhood after the first month of operation, they could come down and they could see Beth and I. They can communicate that to us either over the phone, in person, or through an email, and we're certainly going to pass that along to them so that they know about it and they can get it addressed. So it's not like we're just going to wait and kind of plug our ears for six months. I mean, if there's some challenges with the operations, we want to make sure that they're aware of those and can get them addressed right away. So I didn't want to imply that we wouldn't do anything for six months. I mean, if there's an operational challenge, we can address that immediately.

Very good. Do I have a motion for conditional use permit number 2026-02?

I'll make a motion.

We have a motion. Do we have a second?

I'd second.

Anita?

Commissioner Pifferell?

Yes.

Commissioner Yates? Yes. Commissioner Quigley?

Yes.

Vice Chair Miranda? Yes. Chairperson Laterelle?

Yes. Moving on to item number two, food truck, park, and court concept. This is a discussion and possible direction to staff. Thank you for attending.

Thank you.

Anyway, can I turn this over to Beth to give us some background on the studious work that she's been doing?

Yes, thank you. So Planning Commission asked staff to look into food truck parks and the parameters having a reoccurring truck events or activities. Based on this direction, the city's position would be to establish a regulatory framework for a permanent or semi-permanent food truck park. Staff reviewed how other jurisdictions approach food trucks. Generally, they are private commercial developments. They are not city operated facilities. The city's role would primarily be establishing appropriate zoning and permitting site development, health, fire, parking, and operational standards. The property owner or operator would be responsible for developing and managing the site. City does already have regulations governing mobile food vendors under the municipal code 25198. In the most recent mobile vendor ordinance update, we did include specific language to allow the accumulation of food trucks into a single area for a special event or activity. So we do already have that language in our current regulations. Depending on the site configuration and nature of the operation, food trucks may already be able to operate in a gathering type under the existing code, as I said. Furthermore, a permanent food truck park would require a property owner to want to designate their property in that way, under that use, and again, depending on the existing operation. So, I think a good place, staff is recommending a good place to start with a food truck park concept would be to encourage a private party to host a special event, whether it be in River Park, down here on Washington Street, similar to the Chili Cook-Off or the Farmer's Market, and get a feel for the public interest as well as truck diversity and involvement. Furthermore, the food trucks that would visit this concept or a special event concept would still fall under all of the same business licensing expectations, sales tax expectations, environmental health permitting, and proper inspection. So at this point staff really would be here to support any type of regulatory framework if an interested party had come forth with an intent to build or develop At this time city has not received interest other than casual conversation or through secondhand information SO I AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS AND WELCOME TO RECEIVE ANY DIRECTION COMMISSION FEELS APPROPRIATE.

ONE THING I'LL ADD THAT BETH COVERED, THE SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT PROCESS, THAT'S THE SIMILAR PROCESS THAT WE PERMIT THE FARMER'S MARKET HAPPENS ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT SO IT HAPPENS EVERY WEDNESDAY THROUGH THE SUMMER. YOU COULD UTILIZE THAT SAME PROCESS FOR SOMETHING OF THIS TYPE, WHETHER IT WAS half a dozen trucks and maybe some music whatever it might be the special event permit is at no cost to the applicant what we do require if it is within a public space ie the street or in our park they do have to provide some insurance coverage for that but there's no real cost to get started and so somebody could see if this is a concept that would work for our community and and other than their insurance requirements and maybe getting some other trucks kind of associated, it wouldn't really cost them a whole bunch. The cities use the special event permit process throughout the years to kind of encourage a number of variation of type of community events and I think that Something like food trucks on Fridays or whatever you wanted to call it could be tried by somebody that was interested, and it wouldn't really cost them too much to get into the market. They wouldn't necessarily need to have a property either for lease or for rent, but they could try a concept to see if it would work before maybe investing in something that would be more permanent.

Any comments or questions, commissioners?

Where did this come from? Joyce generated it. No, I like it.

One of the original intents was, because I brought this to the commission, was not to have a permanent spot. The idea was to use River Park, but now you bring up of Park Street or you bring up Washington Street, et cetera. But the idea is for food trucks to gather to show their wares. Corning has one coming up on the 1st of September on one of their main streets. They just close it down and bring the food trucks in. Anderson does mosquito serenade and they bring food trucks in there as well. That's the intent that I was looking at. So the people come in, mingle, try different types of food because we have all kinds of foods in here, in town, in food trucks. So it would be nice to do that. I think maybe one of the ways to look at it is maybe just about approaching the Chamber of Commerce to say, can you help facilitate this need, our need, or the need for the food truck court?

I agree. I think it would be really similar to like a farmer's market, but just maybe on a different day, especially when the park gets renovated. You have the splash park there and you have the new amphitheater. You'd have music at the amphitheater, kids playing in the splash park while the food truck's going. It's just they're all complimentary to keep people down at the park. I think on one of the plans that I saw for the park renovation, there was even labeled food truck court, like on the, I believe it was where the roundabout is. At some point, one of the revisions said food truck area. I don't know if that's still on the plans or even a concept. But that's what my thought was. That's why I really like this page here, which everybody has access to over here. It kind of lists the idea of having it at the city park. My thought was that the city could even charge a small fee to each food truck. and it's like they buy a week or they buy a night. They buy a couple nights a year from the city and that would just be, that money could be used to cover administrative costs and to help maintain the park. So if it was, Over summer you had at one, you know Fridays and Saturdays or maybe just on a Saturday night throughout the summer a different night than farmers market would be best Then the city could gather a small income off of it and bring bring people down to the park and

And the focus also is to get some attention back on our river, which isn't really focused on much at all. We have very little commerce that does business on the river, and that could get that ball rolling, which is what my concept was, to try to get the river back into the picture. And it also, once we start to populate our parks ourselves, it helps to make the park belong back to the public, as opposed to people who are not. public, of course, but we're using it other than for what its intention was.

Yeah.

So that in lies a question. Does this then need to go to the Park and Rec Commission for approval?

Anything issued under a special event permit is just issued at staff level. It doesn't require any level of Parks and Rec planning commission or even the city council for that matter.

I've been to a number of these throughout Oregon and California, and they work really well. I don't know if the city wants to get in the business of alcohol sales, but in Bend, Oregon, they have one that has like a It's a booth, and whoever the brewery is that night, rinse it, and then they sell alcohol. And I'm sure there's a fenced-off area where you can drink, and everyone's ID'd and everything.

It's super popular. The Elks also do that at many events. They sell beer and wine, and they have the setup for something like that. And I think they're good participants for this type of event.

Yeah. I don't know how the city would be managing something like that, but that's why there would be an administrative fee.

That's the beauty. Under a special event permit, we don't manage or run anything. The person that applies for the permit does. And so, you know, the speed to market to see if something's going to work and if there's demand for it is really utilizing the process that we already have in place. If there's some level of a success, then maybe we could evaluate some future options. But really to kind of get started, I think that Beth would tell you that we already have really the process in place to make it happen. We just need the person or the persons that have the interest to do an event. it could be the chamber but it could just be a couple of food trucks that decide we want to try this and and it doesn't necessarily have to be the chamber at all it could be a private party I think one of the things I'm looking at is I don't really think

Alcohol would be appropriate because we're trying to get this to be a family oriented type of activity. So you bring in the alcohol, it kind of turns some people off. So I think if we're going to get this started, I think we just need to look at this food trucks first. And then if there is a need down the line for that to happen, then we can look at that down the line. Because I have talked to a number of vendors and they seem to be interested in doing this because it's more money into their pockets as well.

What is the present policy about alcohol use at River Park? Is it prohibited?

Yes. There are limited circumstances that it can be permitted through the chief of police, but there's a lot of hoops you have to run through for the ABC because there needs to be a special license through ABC as well. And so it's a little bit more of a challenge. There has been events in the past that were alcohol-related only. They had fencing. You had to get check ID. You had to get... a wristband before you could go into that event. Those are somewhat cumbersome. So generally, alcohol is not permitted in our parks.

I appreciate Commissioner Pippero's take on this about keeping it family oriented. And since alcohol isn't presently there, I think it'd be more of a draw if there wasn't. I have no further comment. Do we have any comment or direction for staff on this?

Sounds like we already have the ordinances in place. We just have to have somebody come forward with a request to do it.

Is there a place you could put out your feeders that would find people that would be interested in doing this? Is there a publication or something online for food truck vendors associations if there's such a thing? I like the idea of doing this. Anything that would bring our community together where we can co-mingle on a regular basis would be great.

I think it's going to likely need to be an initiative by a private party to initiate more than anything. I mean, I would say have those conversations with those vendors that you know and have them circle the wagons and come fill out a special event permit and I can help navigate options for locations and the minimum liability that would need to be covered for that event we've had a couple people come forward who own property on main street specifically with interest and i always meet them with enthusiasm and encouragement but unfortunately they just don't move forward with it so really i think it's going to be a word of mouth and encouragement and an act of a planning commissioner

One of the statements that was made was you would have to have insurance. Do not the current food truck owners have insurance?

So they would have individual liability insurance, yes. But when you host a special event on public property, there is a minimum liability insurance that is required to cover the entire event.

Okay. Thank you.

Well, I personally can't think of any further direction for staff unless we find somebody that's interested in, as you say, taking the point on this and moving it forward. But if we have the special event permit process already, I think we have stuff in place where should the event come up, somebody wants to actually do this or sponsor it, I don't have any further direction for staff on this. Yeah, I'm good.

Yeah, I don't know if you want to take any public comments for maybe anybody that's here.

I'd be happy to. I'll open public comment on this item at 6.14 p.m. Is there anybody present that would like to speak on this issue?

I'm Maddie Gates, and I live in the community. I am concerned that this does not affect the day people. The lunch crowd that you see at the different parking lots, they still will function just the way they are. But if anything happens, if it's not, that's one of my questions.

As far as existing permitted mobile are you referring to existing mobile vendors that are already approved or brick and mortar or.

From what I read in the paper I understood that they were going to cluster everybody for every day so that anyone that was

No, I understand. So any pre-approved existing food trucks or mobile vendors in place would stay intact. It would not affect them.

For sociability.

Correct.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else present that would like to speak on this issue?

Come on up.

I'm a local business owner. I'm David Hutchins with Gold Key Inspection Services. So I just came in, so I'm getting caught up. So is there a way to do it, like, besides the river park? Like, the Red Bluff High School, they have a big parking lot. I'm doing it, what, during the weekday or weekends for this type of thing for the food truck?

So the school district is a little bit independent of the city of Red Bluff. Something that happens on the school district property is regulated by the school district. So the city of Red Bluff wouldn't participate in any of the decisions when it happens on the school grounds.

Yeah, and certainly that would be a decision for the district to make We wouldn't regulate what happens on the school districts property but we wouldn't be opposed to it either if somebody said

If the school district or any of the schools within the community said they wanted to do something like that, either on a regular basis or on an infrequent basis, that's up to those districts to make that determination.

Okay, because I figured it would be helpful for the kids, like, just have a little booth out there, too, beside the food truck, but have something out there for, like, the young pioneers to slowly build their business and stuff to show them, show the kids, like, hey, these people are doing food trucks, maybe something that... Just get them out there to learn how to communicate with more people. We're trying to get the high school involved with the community and the community getting more involved with how the kids work and stuff like that.

Kind of the lemonade stand concept.

Yeah. Regardless if they sell anything, but they're not paying for nothing, because I'd sponsor their spot to be there, just to get them out there talking to people. And with the food truck too, would it be just a food truck, or would it be like if other little vendors wants to be there, or just strictly food truck?

Yeah, so I think that the concept through the special event permit, it would be food, but it wouldn't matter if you were a trailer. As long as it was food, it wouldn't be necessarily foods or crafts or anything else.

Kind of like what they do in Corning. They have a food truck thing going on on the street. I think it's once a month or something like that. But there's food trucks plus different other food vendors.

As long as it's food related, it would all just be food.

Oh, okay. So if you have your special temporary permit, you could do it then?

Yeah, through our special event process, yes.

Okay, because my wife and her partner over there, they sell Filipino food at the farmer's market on Saturdays and Wednesdays. That's why I figured this way all the community could be together if you find a good spot and a safe spot. And I agree with you, no alcohol, because it just brings... things we just don't want. I mean, there's enough bars around here anyway to go get the food and take it there. But I agree with that part. So there's a way that we could talk to the school district just to pre-opt just to see how well they would appreciate or like it on a weekend. Because we know, obviously, people are very busy during the weekday down because of school.

Yeah, I think anybody could talk to the school district. The city wouldn't talk on somebody's behalf. You would just directly talk to the school district.

OK. Well, thank you so much. Thank you. As an employee of the district, it would probably be good that you do that. Well, I also have two different jobs.

I do work for the school district as a custodian during the day, but I also run my part-time business as a home inspector. So I'm part of sponsoring the Young Pioneers. And I'm part of the chamber, too. Thank you.

Thank you for your input. Is there anyone else present that would like to speak on this issue? Anita, is there anybody online? Hearing none and seeing none, I'm going to close the public hearing at 620 p.m. I'm going to bring it back to the commission. If there's no further instructions for staff on this item, I'll move to the last few items on the agenda. Are there any additional commission items you want to discuss? Are there any future agenda items that you'd like to bring up and get a consensus on? Seeing none, I will adjourn the meeting at 6.21 p.m. Thank you for coming.