Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Is that a check your messages? Yeah. Oh, I'm alive. Uh, the planning commission meeting of April 23rd will please come to order. All rise for the pledge of allegiance. They can rise. Ready, begin. I aliance 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. Uh, the secretary will call roll now. Commissioner Tlson here. Commissioner Man here. Commissioner Rice here. Vice Chairperson Kennedy here. Chairperson Chrisman. Uh, next item is approval of the agenda. But before we do that, uh, we're going to continue 10 A1 to June 4th meeting. May I have a motion for the approval of the agenda? move to approve the agenda. Second. Anyone against? No. Okay. Approved. Okay. Approval of the minutes. We have uh two sets of minutes uh to approve. We have the February 19th and the January 22nd minutes. Do I have a motion for approval? I move to approve of them as amended, please. Second. All in favor? I

uh will the secretary read the declaration of conflict? If any member of the planning commission may have a conflict of interest or any reason why that member must abstain from consideration of any matter on this agenda, he or she should so declare at this time. I don't see anyone. Okay. This is the uh time for public statements. Uh time allotted for public statements or comments on all items other than hearing items. Is there anyone in the chamber wishing to be heard? Any cards? No cards. Okay. Correspondence. Is there any correspondence from the deputy director, city planner? Yes, Vice Chairman Kennedy. There is a supplemental staff report for agenda item 911, the YMCA. Just a clarification of the a correction into the title on the agenda and um the um correction to the name of the not the YMCA project. I apologize. It's the um CIP project on consent 981 which typographical error and clarification of the cemetery district title. That's one from Theresa Jordan. That's correct. Okay. Any other correspondence? That's all we have. Okay. We'll move to the consent calendar. Uh again the uh uh we had pulled uh 9A what's 10 10 A1. So um

uh are there any items on the consent calendar? Yes, that's 911 is the um review of the fiscal year 2526 capital improvement program for conformance with the semi valley general plan and determination that's exempt from squa. If the commission has any questions, they could request poll for discussion. Otherwise, uh you could ask for a motion to approve the consent calendar. May I have a motion to approve the consent calendar? Move to approve the consent calendar. Second. Against? No. All right. All right. Uh now we're on to continued business. Is there any continued business? Yes, vice chairperson. The um as mentioned on the um approval of the agenda, we recommended that the continuence of 101 North Canyons be continued to June 4th, 2025. Additional time is needed to uh prepare the follow-up information. Uh do we need to have a vote on that? No. Okay. Anyone against? Moving to the new date. I think we're good. Anything else under continue business? All right. Okay. Now we're on to new business. Yes. No. Yep. Yes. First time I've done this. You can tell, right? All right. So now we have all right uh new business. This is the time and place uh set for a public hearing on the consideration of

cup-s224-00009 and the determination that that project project is exempt from the cal California environmental quality act. Are there any exparte communications to report? I see none. May we have an oral report on this matter by staff? Yes, vice chairperson Kennedy. This is um the subject project you mentioned. This is the proposed YMCA expansion that we've been waiting for uh to construct a gymnasium, fitness studios, and additional locker rooms to the facility. Um, staff is recommending approval, but before we do that, we will have a brief presentation by our associate planner, Neil Morset. Good evening, planning commissioners. Tonight, we'll be reviewing a request for a conditional use permit modification for the YMCA facility. The modification will include the construction of a new gymnasium, fitness studios, and family accessible locker rooms. The addition will also include site changes to accommodate for the expansion of the parking lot and installation of additional landscaping. The proposed project site is located at the corner of Cochran Street and Galina Avenue. The site is currently developed with a 23,692 ft YMCA facility that has a pool, offices, fitness rooms, classrooms, and a daycare. The YMCA is surrounded by existing residential development to the north, east, and south, and commercial development to the west. A flood control channel also borders the rear of the property. A portion of the proposed site improvements will take place on the adjacent city-owned parcel. The use of this parcel is par part of a license agreement between the YMCA and the city

approved by city council on November 18th, 2024. The proposed project will construct a new detached 10,944 ft gymnasium that will contain new sports courts and a 4,862 foot addition to the existing building for the new fitness studios and family accessible locker rooms. An outdoor child daycare playyard will be added to the north side of the facility, surrounded by a 6-ft tall fence. The parking lot will be reconfigured for new traffic circulation and additional landscaping. A total of 155 parking spaces are required and 250 parking spaces are provided. The large surplus of parking is due to the city's requirement to to fully develop the city-owned parcel. It will contain 112 of the spaces being provided. No changes to the site access are being proposed for this project. This proposed floor plan shows the expansion in yellow and the existing facility in gray. Approximately 953 square ft of existing space will be de will be demolished to accommodate for the addition to the existing facility which will include two of three fitness rooms and the new locker rooms. The new detached building to the west will include the new gymnasium and the third fitness room. The new gymnasium will be approximately 34.5 ft tall, which is 6 in shorter than the existing facility and therefore complements the existing building. The proposed design will follow a modern contemporary theme incorporating elements from the existing building including architectural details on the exterior walls and roof corners.

The additions will be constructed of CMU walls textured and painted to match the existing facilities in shades of white and gray. The north and west facades will have wall-mounted green screen trelluses that will have planted vines to provide additional contrast to the facades. Staff recommends the planning commission adopt a resolution approving the proposed conditional use permit modification and the determination that the project is categorically exempt from SQA. This concludes staff's presentation and we are available for questions. Great. Thank you. U any commissioners do you have any questions of staff? Any questions, Ken? Wow. All right. Uh, in that case, we'll open up the, uh, public testimony portion of the hearing. I'm the exe. Sorry, I'll start over. Um, good evening. Oh, this you're you're you're you're second. I'm sorry. You're you're the uh you're the applicant. Yeah, we're we're looking for public testimony at this time. Sorry. Oh, he's he first. I'm sorry. Like I said, first time here. Come on back. Wait, wait. I have a gavvel. Go ahead, please. Good evening, planning commission. Thank you so much for having us here tonight. My name is Chris Turner. I'm the executive director of the Semi Valley Family YMCA. Uh Neil, thank you for running us through this uh very exciting plan. This has been a long time coming for Seami Valley. We're so

excited for the opportunity to turn our facility facility into a multi-generational uh hub for the community where everyone is welcome to come in. Um, we're so excited to have the full-size gymnasium and be able to offer an indoor basketball court, indoor pickle ball courts, and volleyball courts as well. Uh, we really think that the community is going to benefit greatly from this project, and the community is in full support of this, and um, we our goal at the Seami Valley Family YMCA is to be inclusive for everyone. And by adding a inclusive playground for our kids zone, our child care portion, we really are looking forward to being able to not only develop the children uh socially and emotionally, but also physically as well with that addition. And the the addition of the third locker room is really critical for our aging population here in Seami as well as anyone with special needs or young children to be able to offer more privacy for them. Um, the individual showers will be complete with a shower, a toilet, and a sink and is a complete locker room experience, but just individualized. Um, I could talk on and on about this project, but I want to be sensitive of everyone's time. So, in general, we're looking forward to not only increasing our footprint, but increasing our impact in the community. So, thank you so much for this opportunity to speak and for you to consider our project. Thank you. Thank you so much. We have another person that would like to speak. Lori, is it Parsons or Parsons? It's Larry Personsons. Larry, uh, I'm the chief volunteer officer for the YMCA. U, I'm going to defer to what Neil and Chris said. We're just here to happy to answer any questions you might have. Fantastic.

Okay. So, would the applicant like to present the project? We're done. We're done with that part. That's great. Uh, any questions for the applicants, commissioners? All right. We h we also have 15 other cards in support of the do not wish to speak and no cards in opposition or comment only. Oh, we state the names. Okay, here we go. DeWalt Thompson. Dwit Thompson. Ronnie Stone, Ed Resaw. Okay. MG Cano, Curtis Brown. I like easy names. Connie Maguire, Nicholas Gutierrez, Jamie Gonzalez, Dave Kelly, Andy Dominguez, Vincent. Come on, Kamar. Come on, BJ Anderson, John Manchester, Steve. Say again. Pietro. It looked like an R. Trino, Ray Taylor, I finished strong. All right. Thank Thank you all for that support. It's on record now. Okay. Uh is there anybody is there anybody else that didn't submit a card or would like to speak? All right. Uh, is there anyone else in the chamber wishing to be heard in this matter? Okay. Are there any comments from staff

regarding statements made during the public hearing? This is a script, guys. No comments from staff. Uh, would the applicant like to respond to any comments made during the statements? Oh, there we go. Uh, if there are no further questions, we will close the public testimony portion of the hearing. Are there any comments or questions from members of the planning commission at this time? Ah, may I please have a reading of the resolution? Resolution number SVPC08-2025, a resolution of the planning commission of the city of Seami Valley approving a conditional use permit modification CUPs 2024009 to construct an addition consisting of a gymnasium, fitness studios, and family accessible locker rooms for an existing YMCA facility located at 3200 Cochran Street and a determination that the project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. Okay. The chair will now entertain a motion. I move to adopt a resolution approving CUPS 2024009. The motion I made was by Commissioner Rice. Rice. Yes, I know. By Commissioner Ken. Uh, may I have a second, please? Second. Um, call for the vote.

Vote P passes unanimously. Fantastic. [Applause] Uh okay. The appeal period for CUPS 202400009 is 14 calendar days. Uh proceed to the next item. Yes. All right. Congratulations. Good job. Great job, guys. Thank you very much. Looking forward to it. What's next? I'll go back to your agenda. All right. Okay. Under oral communications and reports, uh, staff, does staff have anything to report? Yes, vice chairperson Kennedy. I'll report that the um planning commission meeting of May 14th is scheduled to be our next meeting. And also I'd like to um officially introduce our news recording secretary Nichollet Bayer to the to the team. She's doing a wonderful job so far. So uh please welcome Nikki. Welcome. Uh do any commissioners have anything to report? Good. Okay. Uh, mobile home rent mediation board. Does staff have any anything to report on that? No items tonight. No items tonight. Three

advisory board. No items tonight. This concludes the meeting of April 23rd. Next schedule meeting May 14th. Wait a second. The meeting is adjourned. Have to use