Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

pledge of allegiance. Please stand. I pledge algiance 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. Thank you. Roll call. Commissioners George Seljen here. Deborah Van Essen present. David Collins here.

Jeff Au here. Steven Ber here. Lori Bennell here. Okay. Time for public discussion. Anyone from the public wishes to speak in the planning commission? Um, the state law prohibits the commission from taking action on any of these items. Each person will be limited to no more than five minutes of discussion time and the total time allotted for this discussion shall not exceed 30 minutes. Any questions, comments on the minutes from our September 15th meeting? Do I have a motion to approve? I have a move to approve.

Second. There it is. Okay. Five. Uh we have a major site review uh SR25-53 on 50504 Colony Road. Ken, what do you have for us?

Yes, thank you uh Mr. Chairman, fellow commissioners. Um I just go through the staff report a little bit here for you. The the applicant here tonight is requesting approval of a major site plan permit to develop an unattended electric vehicle charging facility on about a 27,400 square foot parcel located at 1504 uh Colony Road. So it's the um parcel that's actually up there on the screen or on your screens. That's the uh undeveloped parcel that's kind of located behind Lintita and Starbucks over there um by the Jackone interchange. Um the state of California is strongly encouraging um and supporting the development of these electric vehicle charging facilities to advance its clean energy and air quality goals. Um these types of projects are becoming increasingly common um along major travel routes as well and within commercial service uh areas. Um, city staff believes this site, uh, located on a primarily commercial corridor with convenient access to Highway 99 is suitable and appropriate location for an EV charging facility. Um, it is undeveloped, an undeveloped site, and it does pose a a little bit of a challenge for site access. If you've been in the drive-thru to get into Starbucks there, sometimes it it extends past where the site access would be um, for for this uh, site. But uh with the careful design that was been proposed uh we think that it it would address be safe and functional and operational with the the site layout that it has.

Let's see any questions for the from the commissioners. There we go. I'm sorry.

Sorry. Uh the project does propose to install a new unattended electric vehicle charging station at the site. Again, at six, they proposing to put in six chargers that are dual-sided. So, there'd be 12 charging stations. Uh we would have a uh canopy covering the uh charging stations. Uh the site would be paved uh with asphalt. Um there would be a trash enclosure on the site as well, meeting city standards. There is site lighting also meeting city standards. and they have uh um approximately 20% of the site being landscaped which exceeds our city minimum for that zone of 15%. As you can see the site layout and circulation the project will utilize the existing shared driveway coming into that whole development area from Colony Road um and will provide efficient internal vehicle circulation. Uh the layout accommodates 12 charging stalls um including including a required ADA accessible space. Uh the site design promotes safe ingress and egress and movement throughout the facility uh without affecting adjacent parcels or the public rideway. The Ripen Consolidated Fire Department did review the site plan and they didn't have any uh issues with the emergency response uh with the site layout. Just going backwards there I guess. There we go. Um there, as mentioned earlier, there will be a canopy uh covering the charging stations. This is just an image of a typical design of the canopies that they use would be placed over the site. And then uh this is the landscaping plan that they provided. It is like you said 20% of the site being landscaped. There's just a whole host of different plants and trees uh on the site there.

Might be a little difficult to read, but they have a whole um selection over there on the on the right of what they are planning to put in. Um all the new utilities for the site will be placed underground. Uh the project does include storm water facilities designed to comply with the city's storm water development standards. And um although the facility will be unattended, it will be equipped with adequate lighting and signage and visibility to ensure user safety. Um as a condition of approval, the Ribbon Police Department uh will require the applicant to provide an emergency contact for any potential um incidents and to purchase and install security camera compatible with the city's wireless mesh system that we have throughout the city installed installed throughout the city. Um the applicant will be responsible for maintaining the site, landscaping and all charging equipment in a clean, safe and operable condition at all times. Um there is a whole host of findings in here in the staff report for you that uh explain that this project does meet all the required findings and there is some conditions of approval in the back. I won't go through all those, but at this time I'll turn it over to you, Mr. Chairman, and I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Are there any questions? I I do have a question. It's probably

Ken, this is just curiosity on the landscape plan. What is the PUG PU? It's a line around the the perimeter. I don't know what that stands for. Sorry. Uh maybe the AB might be able to answer that question. Okay. That is underground electrical.

Okay. Thank you. Any other questions for Ken? No. Okay.

Looks clean. apologize for not um starting earlier by stating that uh the meeting procedure uh which is uh to announce each item to be heard uh which Ken has already presented the report and um I did not open the public hearing as I should have. Um the public hearing is open now. Uh if you wish to testify as an applicant, um just need to approach the podium, state your name and address, present your testimony, and also please sign in at the back if you haven't already. Um if there are those that are in favor may also speak, those that are opposed, and you may have a chance to rebuttal if there's a chance for that. Once testimony is given, uh the public hearing and discussion will be closed on each item. And then if there is additional further discussion uh by the uh planning commission or any additional questions, these actions are final uh for uh the decisions that are made and they may be appealed to the city council. You also do have uh if you do disagree, you have the right um or decision of the commission, you have the right to appeal. Only persons who participated in this review by submitting written or written or oral testimony or by attending the public hearing may appeal. To preserve your appeal rights, be sure to print your name and address as we stated earlier. Would you like to come up applicant and present your testimony? Yes, please. Right up here. State your name and your address, please. Hey everyone. Uh, my name is Marl Gonzalez. I come representing Ayanna. We're based, we're a company based out of North Carolina, 4022 Sur Creek Drive in Raleigh, North Carolina. Um, I come representing Ayanna. So, Ayanna is a

fairly new Charge Point operator. We were founded about a year and a half ago by seven automakers including um Toyota, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, um Hyundai to mention a few. Um to date we've launched a total of 34 stations live across the US um with believe currently under construction. Um our goal is to be one of the biggest by the year 2030 by launching 30,000 stalls. And really um the problem we're trying to solve is range anxiety. I think a lot of the existing charge point operators have focused on the big cities and haven't necessarily connected the points like from point uh the the rule points essentially. So we're we're trying to fix that. So when you are driving electric vehicle you never have a fear of hey where am I going to charge next? Also your vehicle is at a nice station. A lot of these stations they put them at a back of a Walmart, back of a Chick-fil-A. They don't really get attended. We're buying the land and we're maintaining and operating. So that's kind of one of the big things that differentiates us from like that America that exist.

Thank you. Any questions? Couple. Thanks for coming. Um C3, it looks like on the um west and north side there may be a lowlying wall designated as C3. Is that correct? Is it cinder block or concrete or

Got it. Perfect. So, I look at this project. I see all the restaurants close by. Where How long does it take to charge a vehicle? Uh, typically it's 25 to 35 minutes depending on the vehicle and the amount of battery you have when you arrive to the station. Yeah. And so I went by, I see restaurants right there, coffee shops right there where people pull over and wait. Y and they look around and somebody's going to get hungry or thirsty. I see a transformer on site. It's a small piece of land. How do you guys find these things? Because it seems like such a natural fit.

Um we were very fortunate in this instance oftentimes that we have to bring the infrastructure on site. Um even though they're relatively small stations, we require significant amount of power. This instance, it's about two megawws. So, you can think about like a small industrial plant um type of load. So, in this instance, it worked out that it was already there, but oftentimes we have to bring um from the public right away and service to the site. Thank you. That first time I've been asked that. Great, great question. So, I have a couple questions. So, you do own the land already. Your company owns the land already? Um I believe so.

Okay. Um, now it's it this is going to be an unattended charging station and how often will somebody come around and check on it? For for example, I I own a commercial building in Mantika and and and I rent to I have a couple tenants and we have a constant problem with trash. Yes. In that parking lot, people leave their trash behind. So, I had to hire someone to go there every day to pick up trash. is that how how are you going to handle that?

So we we start off on a weekly basis the service stations but based on usage we do ramp that up or ramp that down as needed. A great example is is one of our projects in Apex. Um we started weekly. We saw that there was significant traffic. We actually had to bump it up to uh every other day have it surface. Again, it's it's hard to tell because we don't know exactly how much going to be is right now, but if we we notice problem with crash, we own it. We care for it. Um we will ramp that up. Um the other question too is it is unmanned. Um but we do have install cameras. Um I just heard about a new requirement that has it is mesh. So we'll talk through that. Right now we're using cameras and we have a in our HQ in North Carolina we have people live monitor it's 247

so it's not like there's no one looking at them we are looking at the stations but they're in North Carolina so who's going to be here picking up the trash? We we contract that out. Okay. Okay. Okay. And then this will um this will service any electrical vehicle like it's not like like Tesla you have to have a special I as I understand I don't have one but have to have a special attachment but this is not that way. That's correct. So it's might be a little hard to see in our plans but we have chargers specifically for Teslas and we have chargers specifically for non-Tesla vehicles. So it comes natively integrated. So any car you bring you can just charge up and charge. Okay. Okay. Thank you.

Question app. What is your estimated start date and how long until completion? Uh, our construction timeline is probably anywhere from six to eight weeks. So, they're relatively small builds. They're really quick. Um, we still have to make it through the building process. Um, so typically after we get our building permit, it's about a week or two to on board a contractor, get their crew lined up, and come out and do the actual construction. We'll finish relatively quick and then we might wait four or five weeks for utility to actually come out and energize us. Is it is it PGE or is it is it MID? Uh MID. Okay.

We we actually did a sidewalk with them I believe a month ago and they're they're ready to move. Okay. Do you expect that all all the power necessary to be um served directly from MID or do you have any battery storage on the site? No battery storage. All power served by MI. As much as I'm a San Francisco Giants fan, I'm not sure I like the orange. Is that Is that a hard Is it going to be orange? Is it going to be orange? Um there will be some orange shirt. He's got orange shirt. Yeah, you go back image. There is some orange on our canopy. Yes.

Have we looked at that as to how it fits into the surrounding area? The colors of um everybody's got their own kind of style or or architectural themes that they want to use for their um businesses. So, it's up to the commission if you guys want to discuss that more. Well, it's it's by some fast food restaurants which are are brightly colored as well. So, you know, yeah, there is that. I'll bite my tongue if nobody else is has a problem. I'm okay with you, fine. Okay.

Um, signage. Uh, I noticed there's a massive billboard right next on the property actually that's filled. Are you guys anticipating in putting a large sign or it's got great freeway visibility already, but I'm sure you need some form of signage.

Um, so we do It's kind of hard to on this rendering, but we do have a small signage on the fascia, the canopy. Um, on the billboard itself, not really. So, since we are founded by the OEMs, we have the benefit of being integrated into the vehicles system. So, when people type in an address and they need to charge, they're going to automatically be routed to the station. Um to answer your first question, no we haven't considered like putting something is fire suppression required on the canopy. has not been black as it is. It's not been

I I will say our canopies are all steel and even the material we use on our fasia is um I don't want to say fireproof but fire rated question for you. How many vehicles per day would you expect given the 24 different charging stations and given the location where it's at? There's a obviously a lot of traffic as we discussed earlier coming through there. You see it being pretty full daily or I that's a hard question to answer. Um if I were to I just don't think I have the data to answer that to be honest. I I wouldn't expect more than 40 45 vehicles a day to start maybe during peak travel seasons significantly higher but on average not not an extreme number.

Thank you. the the egress because again it does line up with the um the the entry and coming out of there lines up with the u Starbucks line and I see you're you're starting the to be able to make that rightand turn coming in further back from there is that um current pavement and maybe Ken you could even answer that the current pavement that's there and the curb from the hotel next door is that the existing curb curb there. Is it already that wide? Are they widening that? I'm looking at Well, even the one that you've got up on the board here. I guess what I'm saying is this is the line for Starbucks, right?

Mhm. So, this curve that comes here, is that already in place or is that coming back to make this wider? That's the one that's in place. Yeah. I just didn't realize it was like, you know, wide enough to have a couple of lanes there. I just want to make sure. Thank you.

Any other questions? None here. Right. Thank you for your time. Appreciate it. I don't see anyone else. might be opposed. So, good to go. Okay. Do we have a motion? Close discussion. Close the discussion and then Yeah, discussion. I like the project. I think it's a brilliant use of property. I can't think of anything better. EVs are coming, you know. Yeah, they're probably getting a very reasonable value out of property.

Freeway exposure, restaurants, they can only you know, driving in. I was curious about the low wall because it is right adjacent to the freeway. I don't know what the hazards are, but we haven't seen any vehicles come off of the freeway into our our lots any and then the positioning is all good. I look at it, I wonder could anything better?

That's a good question. It does seem kind of ideal for this type of usage. Well, if you Yeah, if you look at what the other stations that we have, I think we have three other EV stations now that are sort of off and that one seems to be right kind of in the middle. It's right off the freeway. Um, there's a lot of commerce that happens in that vicinity. I would see that one, that's why I asked about the question about traffic. What they anticipate is additional vehicles coming through there as more EVs come up into into play. But I think right across that parking lot, the hotel has a couple of hotel.

I don't know. I I thought the hotel did too, like on the far side of it. A couple of them over here. I could be wrong, but they're I'm pretty sure because a buddy of mine had a car in town that needed to be charged, but they were going to take four hours to charge. So, we went across the freeway and he he did it in about 40 minutes at uh over by the new car wash on that side. Was much faster. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. There is there only one more site that could be developed on from where we have the driveway into that?

Uh yeah, it's that would be the the corner of um Jack Tone and and Colony. There's a small pad that's over there by um Twisted Tulip. So it's the only one remaining. I can't see this causing any real traffic issues. What do you guys think? I'll make a motion.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Well, I got to get to the page where the motion is. Let's see. Let's see. Uh, planning commission approves a major site plan permit SR25-53 to allow construction of an unattended electric vehicle charging facility at 1504 Colony Road based on the findings and subject to the conditions of approval contained in this staff report. Second. My computer's off. Can I vote manually?

Good. I'm just going to do a voice vote then. Mr. Verber, yes. Miss Vaness, yes. Mr. Veu, yes. Mr. Seljen, yes. Mr. Collins, yes. 50. This motion passes. Congratulations. Thank you. appreciate your presentation.

Continuing on, thank you for your time. Appreciate it. Uh, zoning text amendment TAZ25-126 for electric vehicle charging station amendment. Kim, what do you have?

Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, fellow commissioners. Um, this is a kind of a timely um ordinance here in front of you tonight. Um, basically over the past several years, the state of California has adopted legislation requiring local jurisdictions uh to streamline the permitting process of electrical vehicle charging stations um in accordance with uh certain government code sections. Uh the laws are intended to uh accelerate the availability of EV infrastructure statewide by requiring cities to adopt uh the ordinance here that's proposed in front of you this evening uh for a ministerial review and expedited approval of qualifying EV charging station applications. Um so that what that would mean is uh some of these sites that are developed, they were going on an undeveloped site, but some of these sites that are developed um a EV charging station company could come in and propose EV charging stations on site and they could walk directly into the building department with their plans and submit them. Uh not coming in front of the planning commission or going through a minor site process at all. So it's not a discretionary permit. It's more ministerial nature. Um basically currently the city does process most of our EV charging station installations um through minor site plans. Uh we have had a few in town that have gone through a minor site review which is is done at staff level that allows us to put conditions on the project or in some instances if it's a big enough uh EV charging station it would be a major site review which would come in front of the planning commission. Um basically uh while this approach ensures thoughtful site design and traffic safety and aesthetic compatibility, it does not meet the new statemandated requirement for ministerial or non-discretion non-discretionary review of of EV charging station applicate applications. Therefore, what's in front of you tonight is the proposed ordinance that actually complies with state law. Um,

basically staff has taken care in drafting this ordinance uh to balance the state's requirement for the streamlining. Um, but also to keep in mind the city's long-standing commitment to preserving Ripon's small town character, public safety, and high quality of life for the residents here. Um, the ordinance here in front of you uh tonight um goes through a bunch of different provisions. Um, basically the purpose again is to establish uh this chapter to comply with state law. That's the whole reason we're here in front of you this evening. Um, the applicability it would apply to all new EV charging station installations whether in residential, commercial, industrial, public settings. Um, it does do the per permit streamlining requirements. Uh there are certain timelines within uh this ordinance that we have to respond back to applicants on and either approve or deny a project. We have to adopt a checklist that was part of the submitt uh was in your packet as well. Um we have to outline what's required for a submittal to the building department. So that's what the checklist is there for. We do have to publish that on the city's website. and um basically uh local oversight and quality of life considerations. While the city is preempted by state law from imposing any discretionary design review on these EV charging stations, um we have included provisions uh that continue to safeguard Ripen's community standards to the greatest extent allowed. Um, basically it uh it has to go through the administrative process uh much like I said and if the applicant doesn't agree with staff's or the building department the building officials determination that a a pro uh a project submitted uh does not meet all the requirements

according to the checklist that we have published uh they can appeal that decision according to our municipal code. So that could actually end up in front of the planning commission at some point as an appeal if if an applicant is not satisfied with the building officials determination. Um so I won't go through the whole ordinance tonight. Uh you guys might have some questions on it. I'll kind of leave it at that. Uh there's findings in here. Uh there's no conditions of approval. What we're looking for here this evening is a recommendation from the planning commission. This has to go to the city council. So, it'd be a recommendation from the planning commission that the city council adopt the ordinance as proposed or amended if you guys have any amendments. So, this I'll turn it back over to you, Mr. Chairman.

Thank you. Any questions? Yeah. Comments, Ken. Um, so it says that uh the state is the city is preempted by the state law for imposing discretionary design review. But then you're saying that maintaining existing city authority to review the site designer screening measures for non-qualifying projects that exceed the scope of the state mandates. So it sounds to me like if I put those two things together, is it a limited scope that we can actually come back and and have some discretion over? Sounds like it's very limited. Is that correct?

Yeah, you kind of saw one here this evening. Um, that's one that didn't really meet the intent of the state law. They are going on a vacant undeveloped piece of property. So, that's why it's in front of you this evening. This one was in front of you this evening.

Um, we have been working through another project uh at the Savemart Shopping Center which does comply with this law. So, we have to process that minister. Um, there is some safeguards that we've built into the checklist. We do require um that property owners um have to maintain the original conditions of approval of a project. So state law say a project has 25 parking stalls that were required when it was uh put in um an EV charging project could come in and and wipe out several of those parking spaces. you know, they could eliminate some of them to fit all their equipment in and everything and we really wouldn't have much say with the applicant for the EV charging station. However, we can hold the property owners accountable to their original conditions of approval of the

So, they would still have to meet the number of required parking places. That's what we've built into the checklist. So, the checklist would require a um an agreement that the property owner submits as part of the application that they're agreeing to all the original project conditions. So that seems to make sense on when during construction, but once the once the property is already up and running, they can't make parking places appear out of thin air. So how what do they do in that in a case like that? They just is it that they can't move forward with the project because it's it doesn't meet our minimum parking requirements or is it still mandated that the project moves forward? That's kind of a loaded question. Um,

sorry. No, according to state law with the EV charging station applicant, we cannot deny their project because they're eliminating parking spaces. So, we could not deny their permit to install the project. However, we we are holding the property owners accountable to complying with their original conditions of approval. So if the original original conditions of approval and original um entitlement that they received required 25 spaces, they are now kind of liable for not basically complying with their original conditions of approval. So, this we're looking at what staff would be looking at is is making sure they have enough parking spaces, but also landscaping because they we can't we can't

right deny a project if they want to remove six trees out of a parking lot um to put in their EV charging equipment. We can't say no to the applicant, but we can hold the property owner accountable. So the property owner when they are negotiating with an EV charging company coming in needs to know that information and work with them on a design that does not put them in a position where they are now like not complying with their original condition of approval. It gets into a code enforcement issue at that point.

I don't mean to hog the time, but where at SaveMart where are they thinking of locating charging stations? Um so the owners of the SmartArt shopping center um lease out most of their pads. So SmartArt actually leases the park a good chunk of the parking lot and they control that part. So the owners only have one section that they that they would they control and it's it's basically how would I explain it? Kind of right behind Dutch Bros. that there's a dry that's kind of right behind Dutch Bros there and that's where they'd be thinking of putting some of that. Why not maybe a long good one or something? They don't control that portion of the bargain.

Can I can I do a point of order here? This this is a pending application before the that is um being processed on the staff level that's actually not on the agenda for tonight. So I would I would uh caution the chair to save a more robust discussion about this project for when this project does if it does appear before the planning commission. So I just don't want us to uh venture into areas that are not covered by the Brown Act. Thank you. Sure. That was more curiosity as what they're doing over there. I may or may not have the question whether it is um it says here uh residential and um and uh public properties. Am I allowed to ask that or

Oh, yeah. Absolutely. No, we were just talking about you were you were going specific to Smart, right?

Oh, got it. So Kenny, what would be some of the uh uses that you would say that's under um uh point 2 applicability? Um says residential or says or public settings. So um basically residential, it would have to be on private property for residential. It's not going to be something you could put out at the street on city property obviously. Um so these are all things that have to that would qualify for the streamlining, right? They would come directly to the building department for a residential application if you're trying to put a EV charging station in your your driveway for your personal use.

Okay. For personal. So, does this open Just curious. Um, can you drop a charging station at the end of Maple Avenue in a residential community? Not if it's on private property. Yeah. Okay. Not. It can't be on It would not be on government property. City owned property. Not on government property. But let's say that I tore down my house and put in an EV charging station there. Could I do that? Uh, I don't believe so. Okay, cool. I don't want you going to monetize your

but I saw residential. I'm trying just trying to quantify where the things could be. And then public land, I would assume that might be parks and stuff like that. Yeah, I'm not sure exactly sure what the public lands part of that or public setting. It's not public lands, it's public setting. So, that would be more of like um parking lots and such uh for different businesses or different like uh different I would think it would include something like maybe the community center, you know, or or a church parking lot or possibly in community center, they'd have to work with the city of Ribbon anyways to be locating something out there

because you do have to obviously you do have to work with the property owner. They're the ones signing the application have to sign the application as well for building permit. So, so I as far as I understand this ordinance, if if someone wants to build a charging station and it's on an undeveloped lot, then it's going to come to the commission. Correct. It doesn't isn't streamlined, right? Okay. It doesn't it doesn't in our opinion our opinion on this, it doesn't meet the qualifications for the streamlining act here. So, they that's kind of why you saw this one this evening,

right? And then and then this is this is another question related to EV charging stations, which really isn't part of the ordinance, but it's a curiosity thing, but I don't think I'm overstepping my balance here. Did does the city make any money on this? No, we don't get any tax money. No. Okay. I have a question about how many could be built. Is it is there even a limit or is it just based on zoning approval?

Um, as far as this ordinance is concerned, there's no limit on it. I mean, not at all. Now, if you're asking about like the project tonight that doesn't meet the streamlining act, we we look at that as like this evening, it's more of like a service station, right? Instead of instead of pumping gasoline in the car, you're putting electricity into the car. So, any zone that would allow a a gas station service station would be eligible for like a project this evening that would be on a vacant piece of property. Got it.

More and more of this I'm ready to make a motion if discussion's done. Um, we I move that we recommend that the city council approve the creation of chapter 16.218 electric vehicle charging stations.

Second. Okay, the uh item has been adopted. We have four yes and one no. The next item is our annual review of the development agreement. Ken, what do you have for us?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Commissioners, this is our annual kind of housekeeping item that we do once a year. Um, for the new commissioners here that might not be familiar with it, um, there is a government code section. Um, that requires us as well as a RIPA municipal code section. Uh, we are required to review all active development agreements. Uh, active ones are are ones that are being uh, currently built or or remaining active. Um there's several of them that have have built out, but the time frame of the development agreement is still um is still going through the time frame. It is a 10-year agreement. Um so those would just still be considered active. Um the master list that is attached here has a total of 57 development agreements over the history of ribbon here. Um out of those 57, there's six that remain active. Um, four of them are residential agreements. Uh, you've got u I think uh two of them that uh basically are fully uh built out. Um but you've got the silver silverstone subdivision which was is located over kind of right behind Rapona School. Um and the vineyards which is out by um Miss Sports Park. Uh you do have one in progress. It's the Meadowwood subdivision here, the 88 homes right off of Fulton Avenue. And then you do have one that's pending construction. It's the Pereira subdivision on along North Ripen Road just uh just north of um Bosch Drive. You do have one agreement which is a mixeduse agreement uh mixeduse zoning. Um it's the Ripen Gardens 2. Um they're almost built out. There's just one commercial property on the corner of um North Ripen and River Road that remains. And then the last agreement is a what we call an institutional agreement. It's a Calvary

the Calvary Reform Church master plan. Um basically that was extended by the city council in 2019. So it runs for an additional 15 years. That one uh is good until 2034. So those are the uh six active quoteunquote active agreements. uh we have read gone through all the agreements and the the developers are have acted in good faith with all the conditions they're in. So um with that I will turn over to you Mr. Chairman. There is a a recommended action in here. You guys would be making a recommendation to um the city council or a you would be um directing a report to the city council that all the active agreements are in good compliance. And so with that, I will answer any questions.

Any questions from commissioners? I just take it that from your perspective, everybody is in good compliance. Yeah, they are. Okay. Do we have a motion? I'll go ahead and make the motion. Planning Commission finds that the parties each active development agreement in good terms.

I'll second Okay, the item item has been adopted. Five to zero. Mr. Chairman, I do have an issue on the previous vote. Um, mind me, I had a bad twitching finger or something, but I meant to vote yes. Can you um can we have that reflected, please? That is a yes vote. Thank you. I'll work on my hands. I was wondering what your be for.

No, I'm not I'm not trying to be a rebel here, guys. I like the idea. I mean, I know I I don't even know if I like the idea, but I don't think we have a whole lot of choice in that in that matter. Right. It's an ordinance. All right. Our our uh final item is the tenative parcel map PM25-97 for 1297 East Milgio Avenue.

Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, fellow commissioners. Uh basically, uh this application is requesting approval of a tenative parcel map to subdivide uh an an approximately 0.9 acre piece of property at 1297 East Miljo Avenue. Uh within the single family residential um zoning district. Uh the purpose of the subdivision is to split uh the the kind of a rather large lot there. You can see in the in the middle of the screen um into uh two single family parcels uh fully compliant with our zoning district or zoning standards. Um at this point the city has has not received um several outstanding submittals on this um and the technical documents necessary to complete final staff review. Um these materials include agency responses and plan revisions. Uh re required for completeness. Um, accordingly, staff recommends that this item be continued to a future planning commission meeting date to be determined. We don't have a determined date on that yet. Uh, because this is a public hearing item, the public hearing must be opened at the current meeting and then left open until the commission reconsiders the item on a future agenda once all the required materials have been um received and analyzed. So, no decision or recommend recommendation will be made at this meeting. Um the continuation is being requested strictly to ensure that all required submittals um are fully incorporated into the record. So there is a recommended action there for the commission this evening and I'd be happy to answer any questions if you have any.

Doesn't sound like there's a whole lot to do on this. Just read the recommendation. Yeah, this

the planning commission moves to open the public hearing for the tenant of parcel map PM2597 for the property located at 1297 East Milio Avenue. Receive any testimony and continue the item to future meeting date to be determined leaving the public hearing open until such date. That it do have a second. I'll second. Okay, the item has been adopted 5 to zero. Okay, that concludes our public hearing. Any staff reports or any reports from commissioners or our city attorney? Any reports from you, Ken?

Yeah, I just uh we will have a meeting this next month. Um we have a couple items. You have the parallel mini storage that was brought for for the commission probably three plus years ago at the end of Parallel Avenue. Um they their entitlements have lapsed on that project since they hadn't gotten started yet. So, their course of action would be to bring it back in front of you for reentitlement. So, they're going to be coming back in front of you for a decision again if you guys want to review that project uh and make a determination at the meeting in November. Uh that's one of our items. The other one, I don't know if we'll have it ready or not uh for the November agenda, but um state of California loves to keep moving our target on accessory dwelling units here in town. um they tend to um I don't know pass many laws every year to make us redo our ordinance almost yearly. So we are in the process of updating our ordinance which hasn't been updated for several years now. So we're trying to bring it up to up into full compliance with the state law which there's a few new laws coming into effect in January as well that we're trying to make sure are um in the ordinance um covered by the ordinance. So, I've been working on it a lot and uh Tommy's been uh going to be starting to go through it here. If if it goes well, we could have in front of the commission in November, but it might be more like a December um meeting, but that's something we'll be reviewing as well. Am I missing? Oh, yeah. And we do have a reszone application that'll be in front of the commission in November as well, uh for a property at uh 1444 West Main Street. and possibly this tenative parcel map if they get us all the information.

Wonderful. Okay, any other questions for Kim? Okay, this meeting's adjourned. Thank you. Good job. Good job.