Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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All right, just calling the meeting to order. This is a regular hearing. Welcome, everyone. Good evening, my name is Chuck Cantrell. I am the chair of the Planning Commission. Welcome to the Planning Commission meeting. Please remember to turn off your cell phones. The parking validation machine for the garage under City Hall is located at the entrance up at the top of the stairs. Please join in the Pledge of Allegiance. All right, thank you. Let's do a roll call. I am Chuck Canchel, and I am here. Michael Young is, I know, on his way up. There's no elevator, evidently. Luis Arguello.

Present.

Dilpreet Bandal. Melissa Bickford.

Here.

Daniel Kao. Lawrence Casey.

Here.

Amy Escobar. Here. Koi Nguyen. Perluigi Olivero.

Here.

And Carlos Rosario.

Here.

All right, we do have quorum. Oh, we do. We'd actually like to welcome our new commissioner. Luis, welcome. We're glad to have you.

Thank you.

Would you like to say anything?

Well, not really. Excited to be here. Looking forward to serving the body. And I thank everyone, including the chair and my colleagues. Look forward to learning from each and every single one of you. Thank you.

Welcome. All right. So summary of the hearing procedures. If you want to address the commission, please fill out a speaker card located on the table near the audio visual technician and deposit the completed card in the basket. There are also speaker cards in the back of the chamber and at the side entrance. The procedure for this hearing is as follows. After staff's presentation, applicants and or appellants may make up to a five-minute presentation. During the public comment period, the chair will call out names on the submitted speaker cards in the order received. As your name is called, line up in front of the microphone at the front of the chamber. Generally, each speaker will be given up to two minutes for public testimony, and speakers using a translator will have up to four minutes. At the discretion of the chair, the time allotted to each speaker may be changed depending on the number of items on the agenda, number of speakers, and other factors. Speakers using a translator will have double the time allotted. After public testimony, the applicant and or appellant may make closing remarks for up to an additional five minutes. Planning Commissioners may ask questions of the speakers. Response to Commissioner's questions will not reduce the speaker's time allowance. The public hearing will then be closed and the Planning Commission will take questions on the item We'll take action on the item. The Planning Commission may request staff to respond to the public testimony, ask staff questions, and discuss the item. If you challenge these land use decisions in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised in this public hearing or in written correspondence delivered to the city at or prior to the public hearing. The Planning Commission action on rezoning, prezoning, general plan amendments, and code amendments is only advisory to the City Council. The City Council will hold public hearings on these items. Section 120.400 of the Municipal Code provides the procedures for legal protest to the City Council or rezoning or prezonings. on rezonings and prezonings. The Planning Commission's actions on conditional use permits is appealable to the City Council in accordance with Section 20.100.220 of the Municipal Code. Agendas of all staff reports for this meeting may be accessed on the City's website. All right, I call this meeting to order. And in order today, before we begin, I want to remind the Planning Commission members and members of the public to follow our code of conduct at meetings. This includes commenting on the specific agenda item only and addressing the full body. Public speakers will not engage in conversation with the commissioners or staff. All members of the Planning Commission staff and public are expected to refrain from abusive language. Repeated failure to comply with the code of conduct, which will disturb, disrupt, or impede orderly conduct in this meeting may result in removal from the meeting. This meeting of the Planning Commission will now come to order. All right. On public comments to the Planning Commission on non-agendized items, please fill out a speaker card and give to the technician. Each member of the public may address the commission for up to two minutes. The commission cannot take any formal action without it being properly noticed and placed on an agenda. In response to public comment, the Planning Commission is limited to the following options. Responding to statements made or questions posed by members of the public or requesting staff to report back on a matter at a subsequent meeting or directing staff to place the item on a future agenda. Staff, do we have any public comment? Yes, we do.

That might not be for this.

Okay, so is this, Sharad Lin, is this for any item on the agenda, or is this just off the agenda? Okay, great. Come forward, please. Can you state your first and last name, and you have two minutes.

So my name is Sharad Lin, and I represent the community and human agenda and a few other organizations. So I'm here today to talk to you about a site development proposal, which is PD25-013. And this is the development proposal for the block that is bounded by San Carlos Street, San Salvador Street, Second Street, and First Street. And the proposal, the development proposal, option B in particular, calls for the construction of three high rises, residential towers of 29 to 30 stories. It also calls for the construction of a data center, a massive data center. So this data center will be eight stories high, but because the stories are, the floors are very high, The building will be almost as tall as the 30-story buildings. The power consumption of the data center is 22 megawatts, so it's going to have 22 one-megawatt backup generators. It's going to have a cooling complex on the roof that will be able to dissipate those 22 megawatts of thermal power. It's just inappropriate to locate this data center next to these residential towers because the separation between the data center and the nearest tower is only 43 feet. There's noise. There's pollution. I mean, when the generators are on, they're not on all the time. And also, it creates an empty area. in downtown, which I think is inappropriate for downtown, which is really for high-density shopping people.

Thank you, sir. Okay. Deferrals and removals from calendar. Any items scheduled for hearing this evening? Are there any deferrals?

No, there are no deferrals. Thank you.

All right. Consent calendar. There will be no separate discussion on individual consent calendar items, as they are considered to be routine and will be adopted by one motion. If a member of the commission requests debate, separate vote, or recusal on a particular item, that item may be removed from the consent calendar by the chair and considered separately. The public may comment on the entire consent calendar and any item removed from consent by the chair. Okay.

Continue.

All right. Staff will provide an update on the consent calendar. If you wish to speak on one of these items individually, please come to the podium at this time. Are there any public speakers for this item? or any item on a consent calendar. Okay.

Motion to approve the consent agenda. Second.

Okay, motion to approve by Commissioner Oliverio, second by Commissioner Rosario. Sorry about that. Great, no, I guess no other input, we good? All right, let's take a vote then. Starting with Vice Chair Young.

Yes.

Commissioner Arguello.

Arguello, yes.

Arguello, thank you so much. My apologies. Commissioner Bondal. Commissioner Bickford.

Yes.

Commissioner Cowell. Commissioner Casey?

Yes.

Commissioner Escobar? Yes. Commissioner Nguyen? Commissioner Oliverio?

Yes.

Commissioner Rosario?

Yes.

All right. So we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight yeses. Two, three absence, no, two. I didn't vote myself, yes. Is it only two, one, two, oh, you're right, sorry. Three absence. Motion carries. Great, all right. Yeah, this is easy. Let's tee them up. All right. There are no public hearing items today, so let's go to referrals from city council.

Good evening, Manira Sandhir, Deputy Director for Planning, Building, and Code Enforcement. There are no referrals from City Council, Boards, Commissions, or other agencies. However, I can go right into Item 7a, Good and Welfare, and provide a report from City Council. So council will be on recess in July. However, their next meeting on August 11th will include two land use items, one for an appeal of an eight unit project at Kirtner and Cottle, and that went directly to council because their environmental analysis was appealed. And there will also be a conforming rezoning considered by the council that day. from industrial park use to combined industrial commercial use to convert an office building into a church use. So those are the two items scheduled for August 11th. And then August 18th will be the big one before council when they will take up consideration of the planning commission's recommendation on the general plan for your review.

Great. Okay. Any study sessions or...

None at this time. We do have, in terms of the commission calendar, we are expecting the next meeting on July 22nd being canceled as well. But we do have a few items lining up for the first meeting in August. So please hold your calendars for that. We will now be more on a regular schedule now that the task force process is completed. So we will continue with the two meetings a month.

That means there will be no birthday cake for my birthday on the 22nd. Okay. Got it. There you go. All right. My birthday is actually 25th for the record. All right. Are there any commissioners, any statements for public record? All right. It just keeps getting easier. All right. Well, this is a wrap. Thank you.

Thank you.