Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Evening. On behalf of the commissioners and staff, I'd like to welcome you to the 09/25/2025 City of Roseville Planning Commission meeting. Please put all electronic devices on silent at this time. Agendas are available at the end of the staff table and if you plan to speak at tonight's meeting, please complete a blue speaker card and return it to a staff member. As a reminder, Planning Commission meetings are broadcast live, replayed on Comcast fourteen, and available on the city's YouTube channel. I will now call the meeting to order. Lupi, may I please have a roll call?

Yes. Commissioner Hagler? Here. Commissioner Jensen? Here. Commissioner Meisch?

Here.

Commissioner Pryor? Here. Commissioner Unidad?

Here.

Vice Chair Berkshires? Here. And Chair Hagen Dazs?

Here. I invite us all to please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Lupi, please begin staff introductions.

Yes. Good evening Chair Hagen Josephs and Commissioners Lupi Nelson, Recording Secretary.

Good evening Commissioners Joe Speaker, Assistant City Attorney.

Good evening Chair Hagen Djos and Commissioners Greg Bitter, Planning Manager.

Good evening Chair Hagen Djos and Commissioners Derek Ogden, Senior Planner. Good evening Commissioners, Sean Morales, Associate Planner.

And good evening Commissioners, Matt Todd, Principal Engineer.

Thank you. The public comment period is a time for anyone who'd like to address the commission on any item not on tonight's agenda. When addressing the commission, please state your name for the record and limit your comments to three minutes. Is there anyone who would like to address the commission on any item not on tonight's agenda? Seeing none and hearing none, I will close the public comment period.

Next, we have the consent calendar, which consists of routine items that may be approved under one motion as recommended in the staff report. However, each item may be considered separately upon a request of the audience, planning commission or staff. Tonight's consent calendar consists of two items, Item five point one minutes from the 08/28/2025 planning commission meeting and Item 5.2 the Northeast Roseville Specific Plan Parcel 13A, Roseville Automall Master Use Permit Modification, 400 Automall Drive, file number PL25-four zero eight. Is there anyone on the commission or in the audience who would like to pull an item off the consent calendar for separate discussion? Mr.

Chair? Yes. I need to recuse myself from the minutes. So if we could take that separately, I would appreciate it. Do you need to wouldn't recuse. What you can do is when we go to vote, you can say you abstain. Yeah. Wanna abstain on the minutes, but I wanna vote on the other. Yeah. That's fine. That's fine. Okay. Hearing none, may I have a motion to approve the consent calendar as listed. I'll make the

motion. I second.

Commissioner Breshears has made motion and Commissioner Unidad has seconded the motion. There's a ten day appeal period for item 5.2. Roll call please.

Commissioner Unidad? Yes. Commissioner Maesch?

Yes. As modified earlier correct?

Yes. Commissioner Hagler? Yes. Vice Chair Brashears? Yes. Commissioner Pryor? Yes. Commissioner Jensen? Yes. And Chair Hagenjoes?

Yes. The motion is approved. And yes just to repeat there's a ten day appeal period for item 5.2. Next on the agenda are requests and presentations. But before I begin I want to review the meeting procedures. First, we will hear the staff presentation, then I will take questions from the commission, then I will open the public hearing,

then the

applicant will make a presentation, then I will open the public comment and the public will have an opportunity to speak, Then I will close public comment. And if needed, the applicant will be given an opportunity to provide a rebuttal. Then I will close the public hearing. The commission may ask questions of staff. And then finally, the commission will consider this item and make a decision based on the information provided in the report from staff and the testimony presented during tonight's hearing.

Item 6.1 is a request to approve a small lot tentative subdivision map, administrative permit and design review permit for 5331 Green Feather Way. For the record, it is file number PL25-two63. Sean, may we have your presentation, please?

Yes, you may. Wait for it to come up. Good evening again, Commissioners. I am Sean Morales. I'm here to present the Amaruso Ranch Phase one sub phase B1 project.

The project site consists of approximately 95 acres of undeveloped land in the Amaruges So Ranch specific plan in the Northwest corner of the city and includes three entitlement requests, a tentative subdivision map to create three twelve lots, residential lots, an administrative permit to allow minor unit transfers among parcels, and a designer view for residential subdivision or DERs to review the floor plans and elevations for two of the subdivisions. The applicant proposes six new subdivisions that will create a total of three twelve lots with the residential small lot or RS zoning designation in both low density and medium density land use designations. Four of the subdivisions AR 91017 And 18 contain lots that do not meet the minimum size requirements of the RS Zone. AR 9 And 10 requested DERs to modify the development standards and a condition has been placed on AR 17 And 18 to obtain a DERs at a later time. Adequate access and circulation is provided to each parcel and all single family lots are oriented with frontage on public streets or alleyways.

The subdivision layout and street design were reviewed by the engineering division and fire department to ensure there is adequate access and street widths for circulation and emergency response. And the proposal retains the connectivity envisioned in the specific plan with the Paseo network shown in green on your slide that provides connections throughout sub phase b one and the rest this specific plan, and there are five water quality lots situated throughout the project area that will be attractively landscaped. Mapping of the project area resulted in 45 fewer lots than was anticipated in the specific plan for this area, so the applicant requests an administrative permit to retain those units by transferring them to other parcels, which will be developed in future phases. The specific plan allows for minor unit transfers if no parcel allocations are increased or decreased by more than 20% and the original land use designation is retained. Four of the 45 units could not be transferred while meeting that requirement and will no longer be available for development.

The floor plans and elevations for two subdivisions were reviewed for DER's approval. AR nine requests a minimum lot size 4,275 square feet, which is below the 4,500 square feet minimum in the RS zone. The product type proposed is front loaded homes in four floor plans with four different architectural styles available in multiple color scheme options to push to create a varied streetscape as shown on the slide. AR 10 features alley loaded homes on smaller lots of approximately 2,000 square feet, access to the homes front entry is via a landscape pedestrian walkway easement. There are three floor plans offered and three architectural styles per plan with decorative trim applied to all elevations and enhanced detail on those side elevations facing a street.

Early notification of the project was posted on the Arcona website and the public hearing notice was mailed to a 300 foot radius, published in the Press Tribune and on the Arcona website as well. No comments were received in response to the notice, and the project is exempt from CECORE review under section one five one eight two for residential projects consistent with the specific plan EIR. In conclusion, staff finds the project is consistent with the goals, policies, and standards of the general plan, specific plan, and zoning ordinance, and the required findings for each entitlement can be made. Therefore, staff recommends the commission adopt the required findings of fact and approve the entitlements as listed on the slide and I'm available for any questions.

Thank you. Commissioners, are there any questions for staff at this time? So now I'll open the public hearing. I would like to invite the project representative for this item to address the commission.

Mr. Chairman, members of the commission, Loduca, 1508 Eureka Road here in Roseville. On behalf of Brookfield Residential, I'm pleased to be before you tonight with the recommendation from your staff for the phase one sub phase b one small lot map and related entitlements in the Amarusa Ranch specific plan. As a staff report and staff's presentation tonight show the tentative map before you proposes a range of densities in the low density residential parcels while the with a slightly higher density in the medium density residential parcel. As shown in your exhibits for the design review, there are a range of both architectural styles and floor plans that are proposed for home buyers to choose from, which is particularly critical for builders seeking to attract young families here to Roseville.

Our project team would like to express our appreciation to all members of your staff who have worked very hard to bring this package of entitlements to you, especially Sean Morales. We've asked tonight for your approval on our entitlements as presented and as recommended and conditioned by your staff. Our project team is here to answer any questions that you or members of the public may have. Thank you, mister chairman.

Commissioners, are there any questions for the project representative at this time?

Thank you. Thank you. You may be seated.

I will now open the public comment period. Is there anyone from the public who'd like to come forward and address the commission on this time? Seeing none, I will now close the comment period. Commissioners, do we have any additional questions? I will now close the public hearing. Would anyone like to make a motion?

I'll make a motion that we adopt the three findings of fact and approve the tentative subdivision map subject to 64 conditions of approval. We adopt the three findings of fact and approve the administrative permit subject to two conditions of approval. And we adopt the two findings of fact and approve the design review for residential subdivision subject to 26 conditions of approval. That's for item 6.1, and it's file number PLDash0263.

Thank you. Is there a second? I'll second.

Just clarify. This is for me. I apologize. Make sure I heard the motion correctly. Is the recommendation as to the design review permit two findings effect?

Staff report have two findings effect? Think that's right.

It's two findings. I think the agenda maybe. I believe it's two

findings. The slide I believe is different than the agenda.

I think the slide got didn't get corrected.

That's correct. Three findings? Two. Two. Exactly. So just you said it correctly. I saw it different on and I want to make sure we did it accurately. So thank you for bearing with me.

Okay. Commissioner Pryor has made the motion and Commissioner Hagler has seconded the motion. Roll call please.

Vice Chair Bashirs? Yes. Commissioner Pryor? Yes. Commissioner Jensen? Yes. Commissioner Meish?

Yes.

Commissioner Unidad? Yes. Commissioner Hegler? Yes. And Chair Hagen Dazs?

Yes. The motion is approved. There is a ten day appeal period for this item. Next on the agenda is commissioner and staff reports. Are there any reports from staff?

Yeah. I have just a couple quick items. There will be no meeting on October 9. We do have a few items on October 23 related to zoning ordinance amendments, another little batch of zoning ordinance amendments due to some state law changes. And I apparently will be saying goodbye to Commissioner Jensen on the twenty third as well.

Maybe, we'll see. I did want to reiterate and remind everybody that this will be our last meeting in this room for nine months maybe, supposedly. We'll be meeting at 116 South Grant in the Solar Room. That's the utilities department room at the corner of Grant And Oak. So as we get closer to that time, we'll make sure to give you guys some information.

I think you just walk in the front door, we'll be waiting for you for the first couple of meetings as we figure that out together. We will they closed this room on the October 22. So the Planning Commission is the very first body that gets to meet in that room. So we're going to be the guinea pigs on trying to figure out how that room is going to be set up and how we're going to operate in there. I mentioned that the last meeting that we were getting ready to do a workshop regarding the pro housing designation that the city has currently has.

It's a three year designation from the State Department of Housing and Community Development. And the reapplication process included this very robust public outreach process. So we had to have a workshop, public hearing workshop. We had that at the council two weeks ago. It went well. There weren't really any questions. I think the council is supportive. It's there's been a monetary benefit to the city to have that designation. So we will be completing that application and getting it back to the city council, I think by December. I think we're targeting December right now to get that in.

And I would try and filibuster a little more for the students in the audience so they can get some more time on their meeting. Apologize for being so short. But that's all I have for tonight. Unless you have any questions to me. Oh, well, I'm sorry. Welcome Commissioner Einar Mesh to the Planning Commission. We're glad that for at least one more month, have a full seven member Planning Commission, and we're glad to have you. I know he has a lot of experience on boards, commissions, working in the government. So we're really happy that he's taken the open slot until the next open slot occurs. Yeah, welcome aboard.

Yes, welcome.

Thank you, Greg.

Glad to have you. Pleasure to be here. So should I read the rest of the agenda items very slowly to give our students a

I think you should let students vote for how long they want to stay here. Some of us are more generous when we sign your forms, I'll just let you know that as parents of high school students.

Are there any questions or comments from the commission?

I have a comment. I will address the youth that are in here so that we can so I want to explain to you guys what just happened because probably in your point of view, you just saw us read some the staff read some papers and gave data, and then we just said yes or no here. So the process is a week ago, we get all the information about this file or project. And when it comes to the actual day of the meeting, it's just decision time or question time. So I just want to let you know that we are not just here to say yes or no.

We actually read the file and study it before we make a decision. That's it. Thank you. Thank you.

Yes, that's a good point. If anybody wants to go back and look at the agenda, you'll see that there's probably several 100 pages of information that go along with that item.

And in fact, I'm just going to take the chair's prerogative and just ask, are there anybody is there anybody who has any questions about what goes on here? No, you just want your paper signed. I get it. I gave you an opportunity. Okay. May I have a motion to adjourn?

I'll make a motion. Second.

Commissioner Bashiris has made the motion and who was the second? Commissioner Pryor has seconded the motion. All those in favor? Aye. We are adjourned.