Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Thursday, April 23, 2026
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About this meeting

Government Body
Planning Commission
Meeting Type
Planning Commission
Location
Riverside, CA
Meeting Date
April 23, 2026

Transcript

47 sections (from 60 segments)

0:530

To the Planning Commission meeting for today, April 23. This meeting is called to order. You have the recording?

1:17 – 1:461

Public comment is now open for this item. Call (951) 826-8688, and follow the prompts to access the meeting. The rules. To request to speak, press 9. When called to public comment is now open for this item. Call (951) 826-8688, and follow the prompts to access the meeting. To request to speak, press 9. When called to speak, press 6 to unmute. You can also join via Zoom. The meeting ID can be found on the agenda.

1:48 – 2:000

Sorry. That was the wrong recording. Let's can we try this again, or I can just read it? Okay. One moment.

2:04 – 2:381

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2:390

All right. Thank you very much. Commissioner Baird, welcome back. We missed you at our last meeting. Will you please lead us in the pledge?

3:030

Thank you. Alright. At this time, we will go ahead and open up general public comment.

3:14 – 3:321

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3:32 – 3:550

Alright. I have no, speaker cards here in chambers. Is there anybody online? Alright. Seeing no public comments at this time, we'll go ahead and close public comments and open the public hearing. At this time, Planning Commission will open the public hearing to receive public input regarding planning case PC twenty twenty one dash eight ninety four.

4:032

Good morning. Yana Fristette, associate planner. The item the applicant has requested continuance on the item, and the applicant is here and available for any questions.

4:140

Alright. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mister applicant, sir? Good morning.

4:233

Good morning, Kimberly.

4:240

Nice jacket.

4:253

Oh, thank you.

4:260

Snappy. Thanks.

4:293

I I felt like it was a fall coat, but today's weather was a little chilly, so I wore that. Looks don't know that's relevant.

4:360

What's your name, sir?

4:373

Steve Brzanski, Steven Walker Community, 6930 Indiana Avenue.

4:410

Alright. And you're here to request an off calendar continuance?

4:45 – 5:133

Yes, please. So we're working with city staff and our consultants to very thoroughly update the initial study based on revisions that are being required by Calimod changes from the time that we originally submitted our application till now. There are changes if they made have made changes, and that is in an environmental review, not grandfathered in. And so we're being very thorough with that. We appreciate staff working with us. We wanna make sure that we get it we get it we get it done right.

5:140

And so staff, assume, will let us know when it's time to come back.

5:19 – 5:313

We are about to give them the revised initial study in the next couple days. They'll have time to review that, and then they can speak to this, but then we're gonna re advertise.

5:310

Awesome. Thank you, sir.

5:321

That's right. Chair, this one, because it's off calendar, we would need to come back and re advertise for the three hundred three hundred feet Okay. Away from the

5:400

Perfect. So thank you very much. And then I need to open public comment on this. All right. Thank you, sir.

5:470

you. We'll go ahead and open

5:51 – 6:101

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6:10 – 6:480

Alright. I have no com comment cards here in the chambers. Anybody online? Nobody online. May I have a motion to close public comment? Second. Alright. We have a motion and a second. Please vote. Did it take? I know. Our screens aren't even on. Okay. Turn your screen on. Did did motion carry?

6:49 – 7:290

Sorry. Saw okay. Try again. Alright. Thank you so much. Motion carries. Any comments from the commission? Alright. Well, may I please have a motion to continue the item to I'm sorry. To continue the item off calendar. I'll move to continue the item. Thank you. Alright. We have a motion and a second. Please vote. Alright. Motion carries. We'll see you when we see you. Thank you so much. Alright.

7:29 – 7:410

We'll now move to the consent calendar. Anybody wish to pull anything off the consent calendar for discussion? If not, may I please have a motion to approve the consent calendar? Motion to

7:412

approve the consent

7:420

calendar. Second. Alright. We have a motion and a second. Please vote.

7:51 – 8:020

Alright. Motion carries. Thank you. We'll go ahead and open discussion calendar now. Adoption of twenty twenty six rules for transaction of business and conduct of hearings.

8:03 – 8:454

Good morning, madam chair, members of the commission. Your acting city planner, Edgardo Caldera, is under the weather today, so I am filling in for him. I'm also here to present the twenty twenty six rules of procedure for the planning commission for your review and adoption. This is required, an annual review. We haven't done it in a few years. It's been since 2022 since you've actually reviewed your rules, of procedure and conduct of business. So, we have suggested one change which strikes a redundant provision. So that is in the red line version of the rules that were attached to your agenda packet. But we also welcome Planning Commission discussion of recommendations or suggestions for changes to the rules. So I will hand it over to you to have that discussion.

8:450

Do I need to open this up for public comment?

8:474

No, you do not.

8:480

Okay. Because it says so on here. That didn't seem right. So, okay. Any thoughts, friends, on the rules?

9:010

No thoughts, no suggestions, no comments? All right. Thank you very much. It seems like we're all good to go.

9:094

Okay. We will get that cleaned up version, formalized, and we'll be back next year to do it again.

9:14 – 9:260

All right. It is important to review those, so thank you for bringing that forward to us. Very good. Anything else? Do we have any items for future consideration that we need to know about?

9:26 – 10:094

Yes. If we're on to communications, so the meeting of May 7, we will be presenting our capital improvements plan and asking for a determination of consistency with the general plan. So that will be the one item coming on the seventh. May 21 is going be a busy day. We have one public hearing item, which will be a 300 unit project in Ward 1. The Iron Lofts project will be presented for a public hearing. That's a general plan amendment, a zone change, a specific plan amendment, and review of project plans, so big project. Project. We also have a couple of code amendments that are coming before you. We will have, the adaptive reuse ordinance, coming to you.

10:09 – 10:554

This is a grant funded project that we have been working on to streamline the conversion of nonresidential buildings into residential uses, and so we will have a public hearing for adaptive reuse, before that has to go to city council. It is grant funded, so there is an expenditure deadline associated with that at the June. And then the other item that we have, for code cleanup will be an omnibus cleanup of the zoning code. This one's a little bit of a bear, and that is because, the city clerk's office conducted a legal review of the entire municipal code, and suggested cleanup changes, updates to internal references, really truly cleanup stuff, but there's a lot of items, in there to clean that up. So that will be a public hearing to review those code amendments for you.

10:564

The last thing that we will do on the twenty first All

10:580

on the twenty first.

10:594

Yes. Is a workshop on the general plan update. So that will be a fun discussion with you all. And that is what we have for the month coming up in May.

11:08 – 11:210

All right. Bring a lunch on the twenty first, friends. All right. Anybody have any other comments, requests, suggestions? All right. Seeing none, we'll go ahead and adjourn. Shortest meeting ever.

11:224

Thank you. Have

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