Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Thursday, May 7, 2026
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Government Body
Planning Commission
Meeting Type
Planning Commission
Location
Riverside, CA
Meeting Date
May 7, 2026

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122 sections (from 139 segments)

1:350

Fully caffeinated today. All right, good morning. Welcome to the Planning Commission meeting for May 7. The meeting is officially called to order.

1:49 – 2:241

Pursuant to the City Council rules of procedure and order of business resolution, the members of all boards and commissions and the public are reminded that they must preserve order and decorum throughout the meeting. In that regard, members of the boards and commissions and the public are advised that any delay or disruption in the proceedings or a refusal to obey the orders of the board or commission where the presiding officer constitutes a violation of these rules. The City of Riverside is committed to fostering a workplace that provides dignity, respect, and civility to our employees, customers, and the public they serve.

2:24 – 2:520

Thank you. Commissioner Singh, sir, will you please lead us in the pledge? Thank you. Alright. We'll go ahead and open it up for general public comment.

2:53 – 3:111

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.

3:13 – 3:570

Any callers? Nobody online? Nobody here? Literally nobody here. We'll go ahead and move forward to our consent calendar. Does anybody wish to pull any item from the consent calendar for discussion? Seeing none, may I have a motion? Motion to approve the consent calendar. I'll second. We have a motion and a second to approve the consent calendar. Please vote. Thank you. Motion carries. Moving us forward to the discussion calendar. Determine the absence of commissioner Singh from the April 23 meeting.

3:580

We have to open this up for public comment? Okay.

4:011

Public comment is now open for this item. Call (951) 826-8688, and follow the prompts to access the meeting. To request

4:210

So since we didn't have to open it, do we have to move to close it?

4:30 – 5:030

So may I have a motion to approve? Thank you. We have a motion and a second, please vote. All right, discussion calendar. Moving forward, thank you. The next item on our agenda is the Community and Economic development, assistant planner Clarissa, to discuss with us planning case PC 2026Dash00366. Good morning.

5:03 – 5:293

Alright. Good morning, honorable chair and members of the commission. I am Clarissa Mangus, assistant planner with the planning division's advanced planning team. The case before you today is a review of general plan consistency for the twenty twenty six to twenty twenty seven and twenty twenty seven to twenty twenty eight fiscal year capital improvement program.

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We have the wrong presentation.

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Should I start over? Okay. Okay. The capital improvement program is a long range plan that identifies needed projects to construct or update public city owned infrastructure. It also identifies funding sources for those projects.

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By law, the Planning Commission is required to review new or modified projects within the program for general plan consistency on an annual basis. As shown in the timeline on the screen, the finance department usually requests this review around February or March. Subsequently, planning division staff makes a recommendation on the consistency and brings it to Planning Commission for review around April or May. This is where we are today. The process concludes in June when the City Council reviews and approves the capital improvement program alongside the fiscal year budget.

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The Commission's role today is only to make the findings that the new or modified projects are consistent with the city's general plan. The Commission isn't endorsing, approving or selecting any of the projects. Final discretion in project design is ultimately the responsibility of the City Council. Furthermore, planning division staff are unable to answer specific questions regarding project particulars. Last year, this commission reviewed 18 projects and determined that the projects were consistent with the general plan.

7:36 – 8:193

This year, the commission is tasked with review of 34 new projects for the fiscal year twenty twenty six to twenty twenty seven and twenty twenty seven to twenty twenty eight capital improvement program. Please note that while the slide indicates 33 new projects, the correct number is 34. Each project was organized into different categories and aligns with various general plan element policies and objectives. There are eight categories of projects, and I will run through each briefly. In the first category, airport, there are four new projects, three of which involve runway repairs and one of which is development of the airport master plan.

8:19 – 10:113

Staff determine that these projects are consistent with circulation and community mobility, land use, and public safety objectives and policies regarding the airport's viability and minimization of hazards. Projects in the second category, municipal buildings and facilities, involve repairing the flood damaged basement, modernizing the elevators, and renovating the lobby of City Hall. These projects are consistent with objectives and policies from the open space and conservation public facilities and public safety elements on the provision of services and reduction of risk from hazards to the public, as well as those encouraging energy efficient local government facilities and equipment. For the third category, parks, recreation and community services, there are six new projects that include improvements to Fairmount and Orange Terrace Park and Hole Lake and include the switch of city paratransit vehicles to a green fuel source. These projects met several objectives and policies from the air quality, arts and culture, circulation and community mobility, historic preservation, land use, and open space and conservation elements pertaining to the promotion and preservation of cultural attractions and resources, highlighting of gateways to downtown and the Santa Ana River, improvement of water features, and those encouraging energy efficient local government facilities and equipment, as well as objectives and policies from the parks and recreation, public facilities, and public safety element pertaining to the design of equitable park facilities and minimization of risk from hazards.

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For the fourth category, public parking, the one new project is to update public parking pay stations. It is consistent with circulation and community mobility and public facilities element objectives regarding the provision of services to the public. There is also one new project for the fifth category railroad to demolish a building as part of the Third Street Grade Separation Project. The project is consistent with air quality, circulation and community mobility, and public safety element objectives and policies regarding the construction of grade separated rail crossings and minimization of hazards. In the sixth category sewer, there are five new projects, one of which is to replace existing sewer pipes along 3rd Street as part of the 3rd Street grade separation project and the rest of which are to make various improvements to the Riverside Water Quality Control Plant.

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They are consistent with air quality, open space and conservation, and public facilities element objectives and policies regarding the energy efficient design of city facilities and equipment and provision of sufficient wastewater collection facilities. There are six projects in the seventh category, storm drain, to improverepair various storm drains throughout the city and construct the 14th Street Underpass pump station. These projects are consistent with the public facilities and public safety element objectives and policies on mitigating flood hazards and improving the storm drain network. Lastly, there were eight projects in the eighth category, transportation, to improve transportation, particularly for pedestrians and bicyclists and to increase the safety of parking lots. These projects met several air quality and circulation and community mobility element objectives and policies on improving connectivity of transportation networks and encouraging non motorized transit use for its health and air quality benefits as well as education, open space and conservation and public safety element policies focused on encouraging safe routes between school, work, and home, minimizing the use of nonrenewable energy, and improving public safety.

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With that, staff recommends that the Planning Commission, one, determine that the city's review of the capital improvement projects for fiscal year 2026 to 2027 and 2027 to 2028 is exempt from CEQA as it is not considered a project, two, find that projects added for fiscal year twenty twenty six to twenty twenty seven and twenty twenty seven to twenty twenty eight are consistent with the city's general plan 2025 three, report to City Council that the capital improvement projects added for fiscal year 2026 to 2027 and 2027 to 2028 are consistent with the City's General Plan 2025. That concludes my presentation, and I'm available for questions. Thank you.

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Thank you. I also want to say thank you so much for watching your pace. You usually talk really fast, and it was noticeably better this morning. So thank you. All right. We'll go ahead and open it up for public comment.

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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,

14:04 – 14:350

to ask Commissioner me you Tunisin? Ask All right, thank you. Motion carries. Are there any comments or questions from the Commission? Commissioner Wilder, please go ahead.

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Yes, just have a quick question. What criteria was used to identify the different projects that was on the list? Was it a group of staff that, a committee of staff that did that or how was those particular projects identified?

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So I believe that those that the heads of the departments that of various city departments send the list of projects to to our finance department who kind of who assembles that list for our for our capital improvement program.

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And this becomes part of the biannual budgeting process, is determining the list of projects to include in the capital improvements program. So as the budget is being developed, for the two year budget cycle, the finance department collects the list of projects from every department and, and prepares this list and and making this determination of capital improvement program consistency is a part of the overall biannual budgeting process.

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Yes. They so they do also in addition to the list of projects, they did also include a list of the costs as well as, I think, in the funding sources for those projects.

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Any other questions or comments from the commission? Go ahead. The

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parking downtown now, is that going to be strictly by QR code or app? I believe that that's a question that would need to be routed to our We'd parking

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be happy to follow-up with you on that question, though, at a future meeting. In fact, I was going to suggest, because we are not the responsible department for many of these projects, if you have specific questions about certain ones, what we can do is take a list of your questions and at the next time we meet, we can provide a verbal update for those specific responses. So that's one that we're happy to look into for you.

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Thank you. All right, any further questions or comments from the Commission? No? All right, may I have a motion to approve the staff's recommendations? Motion to approve the staff recommendations. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Please vote. Alright, motion carries. Thank you very moving into our workshop, Brown Act Training. And miss Clarissa is not going to be doing that for us. It's gonna be you, sir.

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Alrighty. Here it is. Thank you. Good morning, members of the planning commission and staff. I am deputy city attorney Anthony Beaumont.

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I represent the planning department and also keep you on track for the Brown Act. So today's Brown Act training is similar to what you have received in the past, but with some 2026 Brown Act and SB senate bill seven zero seven updates. So the Brown Act purpose is transparency. It's the people's business. The legislature finds and declares that the public commissions, boards, councils, and other public agencies in the state exist to aid in the conduct of the people's business.

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It is the intent of the law that their actions be taken openly and that their deliberations be conducted openly. The Brown Act came out of a series of newspaper articles in the, I think, late sixties or early seventies where apparently there were actual backroom meetings that were quiet. I'm talking cigars, the whole bit. It was just as bad as you can imagine. And after a series of newspaper articles, which I have been unable to find, the state legislator at legislature acted and created the Brown Act.

19:24 – 19:592

All meetings of the legislative body of a local agency shall be open and public, and all persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting of the legislative body of a local agency except as otherwise provided by law. And the exceptions are usually things like closed sessions. If we're gonna be discussing litigation strategy, we really can't be doing that publicly in the open with the opposition attorney sitting in the audience. Thing goes for security installations, we can't be saying we're we're vulnerable. Certain employment negotiations, certain personnel issues, and real estate negotiations.

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That's another common one. We can't be bargaining in the open. So the 2026 update says that Riverside must provide two way telephonic or AV public access beginning 07/01/2026. Not only do we currently provide this, but we've been doing it for a while. So the Brown Act applies to city councils, commissions, committees, and boards, and entities created by a city council or over which a city council retains authority.

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And it also applies to those agencies which the council says it applies to. For the update, under the new government code section five four nine five two point seven, Riverside and all cities must provide a copy of the Brown Act to any person appointed to serve as a commissioner. I guess that's so you can enjoy reading statutes. The Brown Act creates certain minimum minimum procedural requirements for conducting meetings. One of these rules requires the commission to adopt rules for the conduct of its business, including the time and place for holding regular meetings.

21:01 – 21:222

The public has to know when and where you're going to meet. That's also why we have agendas. For the update, Riverside must adopt a written policy on handling disruptions, including from remote participants, ensuring clearing the room is a last resort and that non disruptors can stay or join remotely. And what happens if the AAV system fails? And we have done that.

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Came up with contingency plan. And we really don't have that many disruptions. We're pretty fortunate. So a meeting includes any congregation of a majority of the members of the planning commission at the same time and place to hear, discuss, or deliberate on any item that is within the subject matter of the planning commission, but that includes intentionally and unintentionally. Nobody really violates the Brown Act intentionally.

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What happens is you may find yourself at a city council presentation and somebody mentions something interesting, and the next thing you know, you have a serial meeting. So that's why we Brown Act violations are usually unintentional. Except as part of an open and notice meeting, the Brown Act prohibits any use of direct communication by personal intermediaries or technological devices by a majority of the CPC, Planning Commission, to develop a collective concurrence to the action to be taken on an item. That can include even liking Facebook posts. If somebody puts something up on a Facebook post and a majority of the planning commission says, I like it.

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I like it. I like it. Arguably, you're developing a consensus. We have to be very, careful with our technological and online behavior. A majority of the planning commission may not email each other to develop a collective concurrence or text as an action to be taken by the planning commission.

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It all has to be done here so the public can see how, what, and why you do it. So a serial meeting is when you don't all meet together, but you effectively do. It's a series of communications, each of which involves less than a quorum of the planning commission, but which taken as a whole, involves a majority of the members. It does not require a collective concurrence to occur in order for there to be a violation. However, city staff is allowed to engage in separate communications outside of a public meeting with members of the planning commission in order to answer questions or provide information regarding a matter that is within the subject matter of the planning commission, provided that staff does not communicate to members of this planning commission the comments or position of any of the other members.

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So planning staff can send you one way communications. They can ping you on individual questions, but they can't and they don't say, well, board member Tennyson thinks this. What do you think, mister Singh? They can't do that, and they don't. But staff has to be able to, outside of regular meeting hours, give you guys information, and you can individually contact staff.

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Hey. I'm not gonna be in today. As long as it's just one at a time and not a collective concurrence, that's okay. So there are some clarifications having to do with social media. One way distribution of factual information on social media is allowed to answer questions, provide information to the public, or to solicit information from the public provided that a majority do not use the platform to discuss amongst themselves business of a specific nature that is within your jurisdiction.

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A commissioner cannot respond directly to any communication on social media regarding a matter within your subject matter jurisdiction that is made, posted, or shared by any other commissioner, including communication by using digital icons or reactions, emojis, thumbs up, whatever. So we should be cautioned that our planning commission members should continue to treat social media interactions as high risk for inadvertent serial meetings. Public speech. The public has a right to address the planning commission at any meeting on any subject that is within your subject matter jurisdiction, including participation through a two way remote access. The Planning Commission may impose reasonable restrictions on public comment at meetings so long as such restrictions are not too broad and do not constitute prior restraints.

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You may ask a member of the public oh, to refrain from speaking on a matter not within the planning commission subject matter jurisdiction or from addressing their comments to one member rather than the planning commission as a whole. As a tip, sometimes it's easier to on the side of caution and allow public the chance to speak. If they go off the rails a little bit, you want to spend five minutes arguing or thirty seconds ignoring. The Planning Commission may require members of the public wishing to address the Planning Commission to fill out a speaker's card. The public cannot be required to give their names or to sign a register as a condition of attendance.

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Many cities do ask for names and addresses during oral communications in order to facilitate staff responses or the preparation of minutes. This practice is certainly allowable if it is identified as being voluntary. And the 2026 update is the rule applies equally to in person and remote attendees. The planning commission may regulate the total amount of time on particular issues and for each individual speaker subject to the requirements of due process. Time limits of three to five minutes are most common.

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And the chair is responsible for enforcing the time limit and depending on the border commission may also monitor the time. If you're gonna have sometimes there will be a meeting and the audience is packed and they all wanna speak and at 6PM at night, nobody wants to be there until three in

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the morning.

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So sometimes they'll say, look, given all these speaker cards we have, everybody gets two minutes or everybody gets one minute. You can do that because that gives people due process. You can't say, well, there's more yeses than no, so only the yeses, only half of the yeses get to speak. That's not due process because you're favoring or reflecting one viewpoint more than the other. But this is all actually pretty intuitive.

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So we have to have an agenda. The public has to know whether they wanna show up or not and whether or not they need to prepare. The agenda must specify the time and location of each meeting and a brief general description of each item of bins to be transacted or discussed. If a matter is not on the agenda, it generally may not be discussed or acted upon, not substantively. For the 2026 update, when remote participation is offered, agendas must include instructions for remote access, and we must provide language appropriate agenda translations based on the community's needs.

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So exceptions on the agenda requirement are these, brief responses by members of the body and staff to statements or questions posed by the public. Remember the public comes up here and asks you a question not on the agenda, you're still allowed to answer. You just can't have substantive discussion to make a decision upon it. Questions for clarification are allowed. References to staff or other resources for factual information.

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You can request staff to report back on an issue at a subsequent meeting because that'll be agendized. A request to agendize a matter of business for some future meeting, similar, and brief announcements by members of the body or staff and brief reports on their activities. Those don't have to be agendized at that meeting. Riverside also adopted a sunshine ordinance. It was adopted in 2015.

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As amended in 2025, it can be found in title four of the municipal code. It requires posting a copy or image of the planning commission agenda and city council and other departments of all reports and presentations in a location freely accessible to the public no later than twelve days before the date of the meeting. The Brown Act default is seventy two hours or three days. But there are excuses from it. If there's a need to immediate action on an item to avoid a substantial impact that would occur if the matter is deferred, or if the matter is an emergency to avoid a work stoppage, crippling disaster, or other activity which exists that could severely impair public health, safety, or both.

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And there are other exceptions in section four zero five zero five o. Those are all pretty common sense. Supplemental materials. So the planning commission can supplement the agenda or agenda related materials no later than seventy two hours before a regular meeting, but only if to add an item due to an emergency. And a last minute time crunch is not an emergency.

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It has to be an emergency. To delete a matter from the agenda, you can do that. You can provide additional information or materials that were not known to staff or considered relevant at the time. You can correct errors or omissions or change a stated financial amount, but not too terribly much. And you can continue an item to a future agenda within seventy two hours.

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The new rules, Senate Bill seven zero seven establishes establishes a a new new participation participation rule. Rule. We have to have reasonable accommodation for disabilities, I think we do, and it expands to just cause for remote attendance. So commissioners with a statutory disability may participate remotely. They must use two way audio and video, and they must disclose any adults over 18 present in the remote location.

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I'm sure they have a good reason for that. I can't figure it out, but it's there. It's the law. So just cause for remote attendance. It may be used for childcare, caregiving, contagious illness, we all agree with that, a physical or mental condition, if you're on travel or official business, an immunocompromised family member, military service obligations, or physical or medical emergency. There's a limit of five per year. You must notify as soon as possible. The commissioner must disclose the reason, and it requires audio and video. Are there any questions that I can answer?

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Commissioner Singh, go ahead. So I have a question about the communities.

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Well, we do. Right? And you can't have a translation for every single different mode of communication or language. So typically, have to wait until somebody makes a request, and there has to be, I presume, a substantial number of people. So hearing impairment is pretty common. So we have sign language, American Sign Language interpreters. Spanish, of course, in this area is pretty prevalent. So we offer for the city council, we have Spanish interpreters. Others would be on a case by case basis. I presume that there would have to be, you know, a request.

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We can't we have a lot of things, but we don't have crystal balls. Thanks. You're welcome.

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So I have a couple of questions. Sure. How are You mentioned disruptions and how There must be a policy on how to handle disruptions. I know we don't have it often, but we have had disruptive folks in the audience. What is our policy on how to handle that?

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So there's a cheat sheet I have in my binder in the drawer, which I don't have memorized, but you ask the person to behave themselves and if they won't, you ask them again. You can take a break from the dais and come back in a few minutes and see if they've regained their composure or at a last resort you can empty the chambers except for members of the press.

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So you can't just tell that person they need to be removed? We can't have anyone removed?

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You can but that's a tough one. We actually had a person who was being deliberately disruptive and they were removed and they sued. They actually got money from the city.

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Wow, okay. Well, that's good to know. Serial meetings is a thing that I'm always a little bit worried about. We all know people, we know a lot of people including those us that are on the diets, you know. So can you like walk us through that a little bit more closely on how that happened, how a serial meeting happens?

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So it would happen if, say, there's an upcoming project, Fairmount Park, and I only say that because it was brought up during the last presentation, and you really like it and you really want this to be built. So you would talk to Commissioner Baird and say, hey. I really like this Fairmont Park thing. What do you think? Yeah. I like it too. And then mister Baird might ping mister Wilder. Hey. What do you think about that? Because me and another commissioner, really like it. Do you support it? Mister Wilder would say, yeah. I really do. Then mister Wilder would ping miss Mooney and as soon as you get to a quorum, that's been a serial meeting and you may not even mean to do it.

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So do we I guess where I'm getting stuck is okay. So let's real real life. Me and Judy and Rico have lunch frequently, and we might talk about something that's coming before us. And then we leave, and I'm not calling anybody else, but if Judy were to call Baird, and then Baird calls Mooney, then that's a problem.

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Once she

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But how are we supposed to know? I guess that's the part. There's no way to know and so I guess the practice should be keep your mouth shut.

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Yeah, the practice, the best practice is always you know Don't

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talk to anybody about anything.

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Off the dais you don't discuss it. But if you do, my best advice is imagine that you're a member of the public and you're deeply suspicious of the city. What would they think about what you're doing? If whatever you do would pass muster for that person, you're probably clear.

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Okay, thank you for that. Restrictions on public speech. I missed there was a slide that said reasons why restrictions might happen. Is that when you limit the number of minutes that you give No. For public not

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somebody might come up here, say, the Ukraine war. Somebody feels feels very passionately about it, they get up here and they start discussing about the Ukraine war, you can say, you know, we really can't do much about that. That's not in our And it's not in our purview. Now sometimes you just let the person go on for three minutes, but what if there's a whole bunch of people wearing blue and yellow? Mhmm.

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So you have to decide what's the best way to deal with it. You know, you want to respect people, you want to respect their opinions, but really if it's completely not within your jurisdiction and it's gonna burn up time and if you let one person do it, have to let the next person do it, but it's not that often that you see it. Sometimes people go a little bit off tangent, you just let them go because maybe they didn't mean to.

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Yeah. Sorry friends, I have one more question. Supplemental materials, does that not also apply to the written public comment? Because sometimes on a big project, why we show up at the meeting and there's a stack of comments that came in overnight.

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The Brown Act applies to you, not the public. No.

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That's dumb. Okay. I just always feel bad when we have these public that come in overnight. Don't have any time to read them.

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Nope. Nope. And sometimes it's a calculation by people opposing a project that they'll drop their CEQA comments and they'll say, There's no way you can read these. How can you make a good decision? They do that intentionally. You know what, if the people really want their comments to be taken seriously, they can submit them earlier. And most people do. Yeah.

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Okay. That's all my questions. Thanks for your patience, everybody. Anybody else? Oh, Commander Wilder.

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Yeah. If I could get a slight clarification. It was my understanding before that violation of the Brown Act where if there was more than two commissioners discussing a project would constitute the violation.

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Trying to

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get us

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in trouble.

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But now it's

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It's a majority.

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It's now a majority. Did that change or has it always been that way?

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No, no. It's always been a majority. If there, if two of you are joined at the hip, Siamese twins, you're not gonna violate the brown act because you're only gonna be speaking amongst yourselves and that's not consensus and that doesn't impact the overall majority vote.

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Okay. So based on that ruling,

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because there's nine commissioners, more than four would constitute the Well, it depends. So what if there's only five showing up to a meeting? Okay. Now it's three.

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How do you not?

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Yeah. And you don't know.

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So keep your mouth shut basically is the answer again. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's always been a thing that's made me the most nervous about the Brown Act is the serial meeting and the fact that you really don't have a way of knowing and I have a couple of really good friends on the commission and I'm grateful that they're here with me, but it makes me wanna be even that much more careful.

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Yeah. Just remember the suspicious guy. Would he resent We know

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a few of those.

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Presuming he's rational and everything else, would he resent missing out on your conversation? Yeah. Should that have been done up on the dais?

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Right, right.

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Okay, thank you so much. I have

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one point of clarification and it's remote call in. A remote call in is only allowed if we're on there's a lot of medical issues also, but if we're out of town, out of state, if we're out on professional business for the city only. If I'm on vacation, I can't call in?

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You can on vacation, but remember there's a limit of five. You can do it on vacation, you can do it on business travel, personal travel, whatever, but there's a limit of five.

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Absolutely. Okay. Because there's been well, I don't believe it's happening now, but I'm going to be gone during a very important one. And I wanted to call in, so I wanted to clarify that.

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Yes, sure.

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Good to

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know that's an option.

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It depends though where you're going and why did you not invite us.

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Looks like we have a question or comment from Commissioner Montero.

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Yeah. So I just wanted to know, is the ad hoc committees one of the reasons why we're suggested to create that during our training sessions for commissions and boards because that's somewhat exempt from

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the Brown Act to a degree? An ad hoc committee itself, because they have to be made from less than quorum, don't have to publish an agenda and all that other stuff. So they are exempt from certain brown actings. But once the members are back up on the dais. And remember, if two ad hoc committees start discussing, now you've a quorum. Right.

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you. But yeah, there's agenda for the ad hoc committee. There's no public meeting requirement. There's no call in requirement, none of that stuff yet.

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Excellent. Rico? Okay. Anybody else? Alright. Thank you so oh, okay. We're not done. Go ahead, commissioner Singh.

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No. I don't think an absence. I don't think so, though. I don't know if we use Zoom or Teams, but we use one or the other. I think it's a Teams meeting, and you notify the clerk, the clerk will make sure you have the invitation, and then you participate as a Teams meeting.

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But isn't the, so to clarify, is the expectation that we notify in advance or is this a same day notification? No, so, yeah. In advance. Okay.

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So let's make it so it goes as smooth as possible. I'm in the right spot. It's all set up.

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Okay? Yeah. It's good to know we have that option if we need to. Okay, any other questions or comments? Aurelio? Nothing? Okay. Don't talk to anybody about anything. Thank you so much for the update and the training. Appreciate that. All right, do we have any items for future consideration?

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Madam chair, members of the commission. So for the May 21 meeting, we have quite a bit on the agenda. So for starters, we have a proposal by Darren Olson of Iron Lofts to consider entitlements to construct a new mixed use development. The agenda material for that item will be available published tomorrow for your review. We also have a omnibus zoning cleanup to amend title eighteen, nineteen, and 20.

43:51 – 44:288

These will mainly be non substantive changes, corrections, and that sort of thing. We're also presenting a proposed amendment to implement an adaptive reuse ordinance. So that's also coming up. We'll also have an update for you guys on the general plan and climate action and adaptation plan. And, also, on behalf of planning staff, wanna extend our our thanks for those who joined the general plan workshop and be there to support staff.

44:29 – 44:528

There will be a digital version of this workshop activity if you guys are interested in joining. That information, I believe, was in the post thank you email that was sent out. If you didn't receive that, just let me know, and I'll make sure to get that over to you. Mhmm. And then lastly, our city planner is set to start tomorrow so we're looking forward to welcoming her.

44:520

That's great. Yep.

44:548

That was all I had.

44:550

Alright. Thank you. Anybody have anything else? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and adjourn at 09:44. Have a good rest of the day everybody. Thank you.

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