City Council - Regular Meeting

with the city of the library for over 31 years now and we have been in this facility for 16 of those 31 years.

It's a wonderful history for library here in the city of Toary. Our proclamation reads, "Whereas libraries have long been places where people discover new interests, expand their knowledge, and experience the simple joy of exploring books, ideas, and resources that enrich their lives. And whereas today's libraries are dynamic centers of learning and connection, offering welcoming environments where residents can engage with technology, attend educational programs, participate in community events, and access trusted information. And whereas libraries ensure free and equitable access to a wide range of materials and services, print, digital, and beyond, so that individuals of every age, background, and ability have the opportunity to learn, grow, and succeed. And whereas libraries and library staff dedicate themselves to creating inclusive, inspiring spaces where people can connect, discover new passions, and find the sense of belonging. And whereas this year, libraries nationwide celebrate National Library Week with the theme, find your joy, highlighting the many ways libraries can help individuals uncover the stories, activities, and experiences that spark happiness and curiosity. Now, therefore, we the city council of the city of Toeri do hereby proclaim the week of April 19th through the 25th, 2026 as National Library Week. And with that as well, Heidi, to you and your staff, we give our utmost appreciation and thank you for all that you do for the city of Toled.

And if you'd like to give a speech, talk about your library.

Thank you. I mean, as many of you know, I have been doing this a really long time and it it is a passion and it is a joy and to do it here in the city of Teriy has has been really good for me and it's been really an amazing journey. Um, we have a lot of really amazing stuff that happens at the library for those of you who don't come very often. Um, so you should check it out. One of the things that we're doing right now is called One Book, One Coast. It's a program that was put out by um, County of Los Angeles Public Library and they have this dream of creating a book club for the entire coast. So, California, Washington, and Oregon. And over the next two months, so April 1st to May 31st, the libraries in that area who are participating, everybody is going to read the same book and offer programming on the same theme, which is um Dorch Dai's book, They Called Us Enemy, which is his experiences in the incarceration camps during World War II. And as many of you may know, there were was a distribution center here at Teriy at the fairgrounds. there were many centers across California and the west coast. Um, but one of the things that's really exciting is that on May 31st, which is the final day of the program, there is going to be a live stream with Mr. Takai and we are planning to present that live streaming in here with snack. So, if you are interested, we have a display going on out there. Um, we have done one art project already and we have a book club coming up, but there are a lot of activities and events that are not related to that program that are going on that all of you are welcome to attend. So, I hope to see you sometime soon.

Thank you. All right, moving forward on our agenda is item number four, public comment. Members of the public wishing to comment on any item not appearing on the agenda may address the city council at this time. State law prevents council from acting on any matter not on the agenda. However, your comments may be referred to staff for follow-up. This is also the time for the public to comment on items listed under the consent calendar or to request an item from the consent calendar be pulled for discussion purposes. Comments related to public hearing and general business items will be heard at the time those items are discussed. In fairness to all who wish to speak, public comment is limited to a total of 15 minutes with each speaker allowed three minutes unless otherwise extended by the city council. Please begin your comments by stating your name and providing just your city of residence. For those who wish to provide public comment while viewing the meeting online, you may call 559-3661849 and when you call in, the clerk will assist you with your call. I do have a few yellow cards, but the yellow cards um have specifically noted for item 9.3. So when 9.3 comes up on the agenda, I will go back to the yellow cards and I'll surely call each uh of you uh for public comment at that period. So for items that are not in in the the general or public hearings, if there's anyone in chambers who'd like to make public comment. Yes.

Go ahead. Good evening, gentlemen. Hello. My name is Lacy. Uh good evening. On behalf of the Delago neighborhood, we just want to give a heartfelt thank you for your help with the group home. Uh the only noise we hear these days are the kids playing in the neighborhood and that's a wonderful thing. Music to our ears and we'd like to extend an extra thank you to our police department. Uh knowing you guys were a phone call away gave us a huge sense of relief and safety. We'll keep it short and sweet, but thank you all again for taking us seriously and looking out for us. We'll never be able to say enough from all of us in the RCierro and Delago neighborhood. Thank you very very much. Thank you, Lacy.

Thank you. Thank you.

Good evening. Welcome.

Hi. Thank you. My name is Courtney Nolan and I'm here representing our business, Soul Goodtown. I am just in awe and thank you for um the opportunity that does grow here, the grant that we were um approved for for the downtown taste program. And I know that our application was a little bit different than everybody else's. So, we want to thank you guys um for taking that into consideration and approving our loan. Our kitchen is up and running. It is beautiful. Thank you. And I also do want to like they stated with the police um just the area downtown that any problems that we have, they are just a phone call away and they come and they handle the business and it's just been clean. It's been better. Um it's just been so much so much goodness downtown. So, I just want to thank you guys specifically for the taste program. Um just come enjoy. And if you guys um let us know that you're with the city council, we got you on your food. So, we just appreciate that. And hopefully next time um for the downtown, whoever is coming through that you guys will take in consideration kind of like our um application was um I'm not sure if you guys are aware, but if you guys go back that um we did a PO, a purchase order instead of just having the money up front. And so um we just want to thank you for small business. It was very hard to have that much money um in us to be able to get the equipment before. So, I want to thank you guys for allowing that to happen for us. Thank you so much.

Can Can you share a little bit about your business, like who you are? I Oh, yeah. I don't know what business you have. Oh, yes. So, um we're soul good downtown, my husband and myself and my daughter, and we are soul food restaurant. We are on in the alley behind um used treasure or in front of used treasures and um off in between Kern and Inyo off of K Street. And we also do other events um that are safe for the youth to come down. We do open mics. We do worship open mics and we just try to keep it a safe place for a lot of youth to come because there isn't a lot of places for them to go to just to have a good Friday night or Saturday afternoon. So, um yeah, we're soul food restaurant, but we also are communitydriven. So, thank you.

And and a question for staff. Uh were they part of the smaller grant, smaller loan program? Yes, that's correct. Good. I'm glad. I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anyone else in chambers who'd like to make public comment?

Good evening and welcome.

My name is Ariani. And my name is Michaela. I'm Veronica Torres. Ruben Torres, Eugina Perez, Marcos Garcia.

We are Inquisitive Bike Club. Um, this last Saturday we had our first annual autism awareness show. We were able to use the Zoom Walt Park. Um, we wanted to come and say thank you. We had a very good turnout with the community coming out. We had informational. We had KC24 come out, two radio stations um that came out and covered it. Uh we just wanted to say thank you for the opportunity. We wanted to make this an annual event. Um we had a lot of the community come out and was able to get information. We had police officers come out. They came and did raffles and got food and and it was, you know, it it felt really committed with the community coming out. You know, we had people come out asking different questions. we had churches. Um, and we just wanted to come out and say thank you. We appreciated the opportunity and we hope to work more with the community and with the city to be able to keep this going as as an annual thing for for Tillary. Thank you.

Thank you for your comments. Is anyone else in chambers who'd like to make public comment? Madam clerk, do we have anyone on the phone? Jacqueline. Yes, you may proceed with your comments.

Uh, yes. Good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Jacqueline Beian. I was born and raised in the great state of California, but calling in from Tennessee this evening. Uh what I'm about to say is truly disheartening to me as my grandfather was a respected California Highway Patrol officer for many years. A missing person's advocate representing Judy Alvarez, the mother of Michael Hernandez, who has been a missing uh from since February 14th, 2026. I am calling to put this council on notice regarding the gross negligence and dangerous failure of duty within the Teriy Police Department despite credible evidence of a potential kidnapping with proof of life photos and a ransom demand that were sent to Michael's mother and brother. Officer Robert Vazquez has insisted on classifying Michael's case as voluntarily missing. The mclassification violates California Penal Code 14211, which mandates that at risk cases receive immediate priority. Because of this, the department bypassed the mandatory 2-hour state reporting window. Even more alarming, when Michael's mother provided the names of other potential persons of interest that were last known to be with the missing person at the time of disappearance. Officer Vasquez explicitly told her today over the phone there was no need to interview them as there isn't any reason to believe they're connected even though they are people that were last seen with Michael Hernandez. This is a direct refusal to follow the law and a blatant sabotage of a search for a missing citizen. We are demanding that the council intervene to ensure Michael's case is reclassified as at risk/kidnapping and transferred immediately to the appropriate investigations division. We are also calling for an internal affairs investigation into Officer Vasquez's refusal to interview persons of interest and his failure to preserve or secure evidence with urgency. The public needs to know that right now, if your child or somebody you love goes missing in Larry,

the police may simply choose not to look for them. Michael Hernandez is a human being, not a secondary priority. We are not going away until there is accountability and until Michael is brought home. We ask the council to act before another family suffers the same neglect. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you for your comments, Jacqueline. Clerk, do you have the the contact information for the caller? Council, this is the first I've heard of this item, so I'll have a conversation with our police chief and make sure I report back to you.

Okay. Do we have any other callers? Okay. Anyone else in chambers who wishes to speak? Public comment. All right. I'm going to move forward on our agenda to item five which is presentations. Taller Chamber of Commerce update on the Taller Business Innovation Zone.

Good evening, Donette. If I figure this out on the first go around.

Good evening, Mayor Isherwood, members of council. Thank you for the opportunity to bring an update on the Taller Business Innovation Zone, coined TBIZ. So, we first did our grand opening July 31st. there was still a good bit of punch list that we had to work our way through over the next period of time. And so we're excited that we've been fairly operational for about six months now. And we've had a lot of interest in the facility and brought a lot of people through us as well as our partners. So we're going to provide a bit of an overview here. Of course, the TBIZ is business workshops. We know that we're providing we are here to help our local emerging entrepreneurs and also existing entrepreneurs to be able to either launch, grow, flourish, the whole bit from the very beginning of that concept that they come up with. We have the opportunity for our emerging entrepreneurs to meet with our on-site partners that we brought in with small business development center. And in a minute here, I think it's the next slide. I just want to call your attention to for SBDC, our assistance level is 103 businesses. That number is much higher at the TBIS than what we had at the Tiller Chamber of Commerce office. We've always been a partner for many years with SBDC, but we're excited that the number has increased and there's a lot of activity happening. Our business counselors that we utilize at SBDC are both Spanish-sp speakaking which is key in our community and they one of them has been with SBDC for quite some time another one is newer for the I think the last three four years and the other one has over 10 years experience in business assistance. So just a little bit of an overview, we have been able to

offer 26 training workshops in that period of time and that does include variety of different types of offerings and we also have our cohorts that we offer which is an opportunity through our partnerships with those speakers we bring in. We have groups of folks who can come in together and create a cohort so they also can learn from each other. They're all in the same situation with being a business startup. And we think that it's so important for them to have that opportunity to learn from each other along the way or to also just have that support network that you need when you're going through the same kind of situation. Maybe it's not the best day with your business that you're planning, but you need to, you know, roll something off somebody else or just talk to somebody who feels the same as you do that there are frustrations because as we know, uh, business, uh, frustrations happen not just at the startup, but pretty much I think all the way through even with our most successful businesses. So, a lot of workshops and trainings that we have been offering and we have had a lot of outside partner meetings. Those are to bring other people into the facility so they can see what's happening with the T-Biz here in our community. It's really a nice showcase for the city of Toary. And we have other groups that we are courting to come in. We are looking at doing a Caled workshop here as well as others. We did also have county planners that came in from all over California. So an opportunity to really share the information on what's happening within tbiz mixers and trade shows. We have been doing these uh since the very beginning. So we have had six of those where we're trying to build those businessto business networking opportunities and also the trade shows. So bringing in all the CDFIs that's the access to capital that our emerging

entrepreneurs need as well as our other businesses. So I do want to note that while we are focusing on our smallest emerging entrepreneurs, we do have a lot of existing businesses who are also taking advantage of the opportunities to come to these trainings. Everyone wants to have that opportunity at some point in time to refine what they're doing with their business plan or maybe they need additional access to capital, they need to refresh their marketing plan. So we offer all of those services at the T-Biz. The chamber has held various different meetings there as well in order to bring in people from throughout Tiller County. That's part of the goal too because we are happy to have people start their businesses into if they can get into the TBIS and and learn about it. City meetings, okay, the city is a high user of the facility as you can see. And in addition to this, we also have the police department that uses it on a regular basis. So, a lot of activity in the last six months. I wanted to show you some of the workshops that we offer there. And I want to make sure I call your attention to the fact that Deanna Salana is here with me. Deanna is our T-Biz facility manager. She has done a great job of navigating the facility and also helping us during the extensive planning portion. So, marketing fundamentals, we're looking at just the basics. That was probably one of our first workshops. Networking with a purpose. We've actually done two of these. Teach people how to network. I think some people just assume everybody knows how to go into a room and shake hands and that is not the truth. There are people who are terrified and they may be successful business folks and so they need a little helping hand. Ready set launch. We have done couple of cohorts already at the facility. We also did this a year ago in anticipation of

TBIS coming. We would did the first program at the chamber office. We are a Google partner. The chamber has been for gosh probably at least 15 years if not longer. And so we have Google trained presenters that come in. And this is one of the sessions that we did on Google My Business. business owners and taxes. Probably everything you didn't want to need to have to know, but you need to know in order to operate your business and AI, of course, uh business boot camp, which is moving your business forward. This was a one-day session that we did. Can see there some of the different kinds of courses that were offered. all essential elements to successful business management. And we also have found that our nonprofits in the area have a lot of questions on nonprofit operation. What kind of nonprofit should we be? How do we set everything up? So, we provided an opportunity to bring our nonprofits together. And we'll be doing more of this as well. E-commerce workshops. Business foundations at the very basics. What do I need to do? U just a workshop on with a focus on your business plan a money map because we know that money is necessary. And we also have T-Biz. Um, you know, it's nice to have the police department. They have our back. Um, and it's nice to know that if we need a partner because we have some questions that may a business may have that we can pick up the phone, we can call the police department, we can call the fire department, we can get answers. We have

the city's economic development team sitting right there. And we also have very easy access to business licensing. Again, um, just kind of showing partnership. uh we ended up uh taking over the coordination of the business watch program and trying to grow that program. Still, of course, we have our police department and our police department staff team that are involved with it, but we were looking for opportunities to help them to grow the business watch program. So, it's now housed at TBIS. And we want to let the general public who may be listening in today or some other day. I really want to push these sessions because a lot of times people say, "Hey, I have no access to um ask my questions that I have and this is a place to get access. Come to this meeting. Uh we hold them on a regular basis and you're going to have police and fire there and the opportunity to ask all the questions you want. You know, we encourage you at any given time, of course, to reach out to those agencies, but this is a great opportunity with focus on certain specific topics, but you have those folks available sitting right in front of you to answer questions. And we also have a new partnership. This is with Civic, which is the Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative, and we are offering training series. So the cohort that you saw that we did um for English speaking folks, we have that coming up this month. We are launching it for Spanish speaking as well as other workshops. So here's some information on these programs. And then of course um Avono was there too with one of their meetings at T-Biz. So, we know the goal um for our EDA grant is expressed to be at 25%

for um immigrant population, Latino population. So, we are at 75% right now. Um we do have a small population at this point in time, but we are at 75% as well as with all of our workshops and trainings. So, I really think we have absolutely exceeded that goal of making sure that we're reaching out to a significant community within Tallery. And we also have one of our tenants um that is in um T-Biz as our hub member is also uh an immigrant from China and so and has been a partner with us and coming in there. So, open to everybody and all types of opportunities for those who want to work within our community. And these are just just some pictures because pictures tell a story. You could see some of the workshops and meetings that we have had at TBIS. Plus, we always like to show off the building and we do have a lot of folks who pop in to get tours. So there you can obviously some of the trade shows that we have had there, trade shows, workshops. Well, I'm trying really hard here, Melissa. I don't know what I'm doing. There you go. Thanks. So, we have a lot of next steps uh that we're working on. We continue to refine what we're doing. We continue to expand our marketing in general as well as targeted marketing for our targeted populations. Um outreach to new and existing citylic licensed businesses. So that's one of our next steps that we're going to be doing. Somebody pulls a license as a new business. We understand they probably have a lot of questions on business operations. So we're developing our

outreach plan to do that. We are going to host multil- language businessto business businessto business gatherings both onsite and offsite. We've already reached out as part of tbis and the chamber. We have already reached out to a couple of our members who are on the west side that we feel have the capacity at their businesses uh to host mixers on that um side of the community. So, we want to put a focus point there. We're going to launch the accelerator program officially. All of the workshops, everything we've been doing has been the prelude to the accelerator program. They will be a part of it as we move forward with people actually being a part of that program. And um we also um will look forward to assisting the city in the opening and operating of the maker space. So that's really the next big thing for our community. And then we're going to continue to offer, you know, our multil- language workshops, the um training sessions that we're doing, also that counseling end. Of course, I think at some point in time, we're probably going to look at how we expand with SBDC to bring in more counselors because I think at times we feel like we're a little bit lean with two. uh we continue to build relationships and create that synergy that is needed for growth for the businesses in the center, the businesses who access the center because not everybody is there, you know, as a tenant or as a co-orker. We're going to share out a lot more information on co-working. really seems to be something that has not caught on that well in our region per se that people just aren't familiar with what the benefits are of taking maybe your homebased business to its next step entering a co-work environment and having all of the resources that are available especially through the teiz and then going in maybe to rented space and then to space within the community itself. So, lot of

services and um opportunity for our small businesses as well as continuing to support those that are in business within our community. So, we as we were putting our original plans together and I was talking with our city manager, we knew that it was going to be at least two years to really get the mojo going and get enough people into the center. So, we're about technically six months of operations into it. We're feeling good about where we are and looking forward to where the next steps are and the assistance that will partner with others within the community to get us where we want to be. That's it. Thank you.

Council members, any questions for Donette? Great. And uh thank you again for entrusting this project with the chamber. We appreciate your confidence and all that you have done to make this happen within our community. It definitely is a showpiece for the city of Tary and it and I share with you as you touched on it's been nice because specifically very specific examples community members have contacted me and asked I've heard about this business resource. I've sent them to Kurt Hardcastle. I've talked with him and others. So it's it's really wonderful. A lot of times when people ask a question you can directly send them there's a person walk through attended the workshop. So appreciate that team's ability to help Mr. Mayor. Yes.

Just wanted to add a com couple things. First of all just want to uh note of gratitude to Danette and the chamber for them taking on this project. You'll recall this is really a project that was driven by the city and city administration in particular. And so we asked the chamber if they'd be interested in it. They weren't begging us to take this on. Uh and and so, you know, it's a pretty big lift for them. Uh and they've done a great job. You know, I as Danette mentioned, they've been open for six months. They're not really obligated to come until after a year to give a report, but they're happy to be here. Council had asked that they come and give you an update. So again, thank you to Dette for that. The last thing I would say is I I think it's really only fair to the chamber that once the maker space is opened, then they'll have all the tools available, right? Uh and the and the great thing about the maker space hopefully will be there are literally a bunch of tools in that space that people and businesses can use to make stuff. And so beyond just business counseling um and networking and help with understanding, you know, the laws and how does permitting work and all those paper things. Now there'll be actual tools that people can use and I hope that that will also help the chamber and their recruitment of businesses and individuals into the into the center. And so for me it's kind of like once the incub once the maker space is done, okay, for me that's when my personal time clock starts for the chamber. This is all the prep work building up to getting the entire facility completed. So thank you so much to

Oh, you're very welcome. And I and I want to note I did talk with a person the other day and who is an inventor and um she is so excited to get to go into this space. She goes, "I need to be in a space like this where creations happen." And um so we're excited for that. And I think Jennifer will agree. When we went to ICS, we were able to talk about what we're doing for businesses within our community. And it really is a feather in the cap, you know, the hat, excuse me, for Tillery. So, thank you.

Moving forward on our agenda is item six, uh, communications. And Mr. Mandell, any city communications? No communications. Moving forward, item seven, council reports and items of interest. And I'll start with the fine gentleman to my left, Vice Mayor Harold. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. U, this time I have nothing. Mr. Sagala, Council Member Shar,

um on the 13th, I was able to attend the government affairs committee where the FFA issues team presented their um what they're the topic that they're doing this year, which was really interesting. And I don't know how many of you have an opportunity to see that, but it's the FFA students from all three high schools and they develop a topic and present that and they go to a a regional, a state, and a national uh level with their with their it's kind of like a debate. Uh it's really interesting to watch. I appreciated that. On the 14th, I attended the T-Biz graduation for the uh Ready Set Launch Group, which was really a pleasure to see those individuals that have gone through the program and are thriving in building their business. So, that was really interesting. And then just on a personal note, um Tiller now has an NFL cheerleader. My granddaughter is now a Seahawk girl.

All right. Official. Official.

Official. Fantastic. Um, a couple things to touch on. One, so council Monday, I did attend the Ter County Association of Governments uh, meeting kind of getting uh, introduced to the materials and projects that are taking place of for many and those in the audience. We have an incredible partnership with with which is formerly known as TAG, but that's the partner agency that works with us on transportation funding of projects. or overpasses, highway improvement, uh major arterial roadways. It's a key uh collaborative of uh nucleus to funding that helps our our major roadway projects. Um the other part I think touch on which I really appreciate uh staff and the presentations is it's we're in our budget time. We're drafting and building our budget for the next fiscal year 2627. And thank you to staff for the April 6th, which I did attend that uh budget presentation. They had one on April 12th. But I share as many of us, we attend groups and and we go out and we we attend events and we talk to agencies and being out with neighbors and folks and to kind of share with council a bit is the feedback that I get around budget um get messages on Facebook and text messages really is a focus on expansion of our police department. Um I know we all know this to share of needs of what we need what can we do to of course uh support our police uh traffic monitoring is an issue everything's out in the community and it's really I want to share that message of here of hey public safety is a top issue for us and of course um uh roads roads and roads is a topic um I'm gonna I kind of gonna start a video series of called fix my street which is detailing and going through road projects. And I've I've heard from a lot of neighbors

and people in the community on that. And it really follows a theme of just community improvements overall um from all corners all around our city. Um hey that that overall just community improvement from you know brighter better streets, sidewalks, light pools, just general maintenance which I know we we are all aware of. So, it's it's good to get that feedback and I share with uh folks in the chamber tonight. We're going through that budget process. There are some surveys that are posted on the city website and check out the city's website and complete those surveys. We we want to hear from you. Moving forward, item eight is consent calendar. All matters listed under the consent calendar are considered by the council to be routine and will be enacted in one motion without discussion. If discussion is desired, that item may be removed and considered separately. Council members, do we have anybody have actions for the consent count? Mr. Mayor, Council like to ask 8.6 and 8.9 uh to be removed from the consent calendar for further discussion. If uh there are no others, then I'd make a motion to approve the consent calendar 8.1, 8.2, 2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.7, and 8.8.

Second. Okay. We have a motion for approval of the consent calendar withdrawing 8.9 and 8.6. All in favor? I. Any further discussion? Consent calendar approved. We'll go to 8.6. Mr. Sagala.

Uh, Mr. Mayor Council, uh, this particular item, um, deals with the issue of yard sales, citywide yard sales. I believe it's the topic. Uh but it uh references a request that the council had made at a previous council meeting to uh move forward an item that I had proposed to declare um a weekend in May, May 16th in particular to have a citywide yard sale in the city of Toary. Um whereas um any requests or any requirements for uh permits or a fee be waved for that particular weekend in order for the city to or in order for residents who put together a citywide yard sale like they do uh in other cities around the the region. And uh I guess the report came back in a more general discussion about whether uh in the future there would be a need to have that uh permit and and fee. Um and so one of the things that I wanted to find out was um I mean there are folks that have been kind of organizing over the last week uh in anticipation that the that the council would be supportive of the item um to go ahead and and and do it organically communitydriven. there was some discussion about having the Chamber of Commerce involved or other types of things, but um or if it was going to take staff time to do this. And so my my um my intent is not to have the Chamber of Commerce involved uh and that it would not take um staff time. In other words, this would be something that uh community folks can organize and and organically grow. Um there is the intent to put the word out that if someone

wants to have a yard sale that weekend that it would be put on a map uh so that people could come to the city of Tallery and find out that on Blackstone on you know Beachwood on you know whatever street there was going to be a yard sale. And the idea was to have people make a little bit of money, uh, get rid of some of their stuff that other people would want, of course, and also generate a little bit of economic development in regards to people coming to the city, um, to maybe eat here while they're looking around at yard sales. Definitely get sticker shock, sticker shock at our local gas stations when they pump gas and all that kind of stuff. So, um, I was hoping that tonight's item would be related to that, but it instead is sort of the general topic. So, I'm hoping that there's a way for us to direct staff as the agenda allows that on the weekend of May 16th, there would be no enforcement. In other words, code enforcement is not going to go out there and hey, you have a yard sale. Do you have your permit and your fee? because the way the agenda item came back doesn't deal with it. So, I'm just trying to understand what what happened in between last council meeting and this council meeting where it's kind of a whole different discussion. We can always have the discussion later on whether we want to get rid of that process which I'm for, but I just want to find out if we can kind of the spread of what I requested at the last meeting move forward.

Sure. Let's let's go to staff. So I have this one. Um,

so what staff would recommend in that case, I didn't see them the May 16th date in the the initial request. What I would recommend then is if we can get direction from the dis staff can bring back on consent on the 5th a reszo to wave the permit and fee for that weekend of the 16th. Um, and then you'd be good for that um, community activity on the 16th. And maybe a question with that is and yeah so I think the intend is is it more of really about the permit cost and I look towards the exemption it would take like you said direction from the dis council that we would provide perhaps just a fee exemption compared to an exemption to the complete ordinance. Well, I I think the part the only I get it and I think the part I speak for myself is more of a Z um a Z for the permit. The the part I'm a little concerned and we can do is if we make an overall enforcement exemption because then groups in the community can say, well, if you exempt this this day, uh can we have an exemption so we can wash our cars on certain days? Can we have some other things? and so forth and so on. So I'm just kind of curious if maybe Sagala your thought or council's thought or Thomas to that is it more is it or is it just our direction let's make it zero but the the ordinance is and process is still intact or is it just an overall exemption for those three days staff can look into that are when you set the fee at zero that implies in the ordinance that you still need a permit. So now the $7 fee doesn't cover processing costs to begin with. Now we're going to have an even larger line of people coming in for permits and that kind of stuff, but so staff can look through the sections of the ordinance and bring a recommendation for the 5th.

So the event could then happen on the 16th because I I understand your point mayor and my question is is this something that's going to happen one time or are we looking to make this a by month you know a bimonthly activity have it more than once on a regular schedule? Well, my my understanding from the folks that I uh it's sort of a we came together where I had this idea then I saw it on Facebook and then we kind of came together on this idea, but I think one the idea is once a year

so it'd be once a year. Next year probably be in February and March where the weather, you know, they there was concerns about having it past May because it'd be too hot. So, uh, we're look, at least the organizers that are that I'm working with are looking at once a year how they do it in other communities. Then if it works, well, maybe bianely

that's that's definitely a possibility, but I think the first one is May 16th. So, I'm okay with with the assistant city manager proposing is that because people need time to put out a flyer and flyer will be generated by the community. The idea is to not involve his staff as much as possible in regards of concern for their staff time. But if there is a flyer, I definitely would ask that, you know, if it's approved that it be put on our social media. I mean, the city is a partner in the sense that we're kind of creating the space for this, but it would be communitydriven. In other words, there's already three or four I don't know if anybody's here from the audience, but there's there's already three or four people that are already planning this. Uh they're getting the word out through Craigslist. They're going to be, you know, talking to Exiter. They're going to be talking to the communities out along the coast that do this. Actually, my brother's father-in-law the other day when I was visiting told me, "Hey, I just, you know, we just went to the coast and we came back with a trailer full of stuff, you know, so we're hoping that happens here in Terrii as well." So the perhaps the quick summary and I think part of this which which I I as well with this recommendation endorse this is I think the timing crunch because our next city council meeting wouldn't be until what the 6th the first week of May. Is it is there maybe direction from council if it's appropriate that if first we approved the dates being Saturday the 16th and Sunday the 17th and that it is an annual look at it's an annual exemption um of the of the fee and I think the part what you're wanting staff feedback is to come back on an exemption completely a weekend and I think staff your caution is in in case of any other issues you need to look at for ordinance clearance. Is that what we would need to wait till the 6th perhaps?

Well, I just there's no action on the agenda right now because this item was brought forward um as a count as a council request last one. So, it's not agendaized for any action. It was just for the discussion. This one this G if this is the direction we have that's enough certainty for setting the date and so on. We just bring a resolution to codify it next meeting. Okay. Um and then uh Saturday, Sunday or Friday, Saturday, Sunday?

Well, my understanding I think they work Friday, Saturday, Sunday, but the particular days would be Saturday and Sunday because I know I understand the permit because I I think I taking out a few. They're for three days. My understanding that they're good for three days. So that's where the Friday, Saturday, Sunday, but the event would be Saturday and Sunday officially in regards to the, you know, Terary City yard sale, whatever the name of the whatever the final name of the event is. And then the only partnership that I see the city would be obviously creating the the space by doing the exemption and then helping maybe promote it once a flyer is out through our social media. So that would be the only city

participation. and and a bit of Sydney's review for that it's it's not just the fee but to Thomas's point to where it's the processing it's an a weekend exemption is what it's for. Okay. Right. And and I think from what Thomas is looking at is more of a general discussion in general whether we should continue this for whatever reason staff has. So I just kind of two separate discussions but similar topic. Yeah I think we're on the same page. We can we can move on is but it's not completely open-ended. We're talking about a date. We're kind of a there's a consensus of what we're looking at and then there's uh it's more grounded as we come back into May.

And the timelines, I know you concerned about them just a little bit. Could council essentially give a consensus that we support this project and uh it's moving forward to give the people some idea that they can start maybe making flyers and things like that. I think it it's fair part of what he's saying and I think legal staff are reading this as a consensus and the direction and then we'll codify the direction. So I think vice mayor what you're saying we're all

I think I I feel comfortable with that. You know, I'm hoping the public, the organizers that are listening feel comfortable that the the weekend of May 16th and 17th, the city of Tiller will have a citywide yard sale and then we will just on May the 5th when our next meeting is just go through the formal formalities of that, but I feel comfortable with my colleagues being supported of that. So, thank you. Okay. Um item 8.9. Did you want to make That's mine as well. Did you want to make a motion on six? Um, I don't do I don't think I need a Do I need to make a motion because you guys have I got consent direction. We're good. Um, Mr. Mayor, council. Well, then I'll move to approve 8.8, I guess, if that's technically what we have to do. Correct. Do we need

8.6 was an update? No, excuse me. 8.6. Do do we technically have to No, we're not because that's really just a discussion. You've given us direction. Okay. Uh, well, the next one that I had requested, Mr. Mayor, council was 8.9. Um, this is just a what I'd like to do is just have staff report what it is. In all my tenure on council, almost 10 years, I've never really seen something like this. So, I'm just curious to see what this about and how this works. Um, sure. So, just if if there's a staff report on this or

Yes. Um, so as um I'll I'll summarize the staff report. So um in when a developer is developing a project, you know, sometimes they're paying development impact fees, other times they are constructing those improvements and um receiving fee credits. And so in the case of this particular situation, um, one of the developers has fee credits available and our zoning ordinance allows the developer to assign those fee credits to another developer or project um, since it's their asset, if you will, in a way. And so in the municipal code, it requires that the city is also a party to that agreement. So council approves the assignment of the impact fee credits from one developer to another. So that's this process. You're correct. It's it's not something that I understand has been seen

um before. Um I don't know. I don't know if it's the first time in the city's history. I I've been involved in these types of things in every city I've worked in. I I don't know, Michael, if you've been involved in any of the city of Yes, we we have. It's typically in the past been when there's an original developer that constructs the improvements and then they they sell the project off to a home builder and so they'll transfer the rights um for the reimbursements they receive to the to the home builder so they can get fee credits on the building permits. This is the first on the same on the same

on the same project. This is the first one where it's actually two separate projects. Now, I just curious because I um like I said, I I've never seen that before and and it's if it's in our ordinance, of course, it's in our ordinance, but um so the alternative would be that the developer requesting the transfer in those credits, if they cashed them in, would they would that be cash? I mean, how are those what are those credit are those credits only for developing housing or like if I have $100,000 in credits, I go to the city finance department and cash in $100,000? Are credits equal to money?

No, we we basically have two ways of reimbursing developers for oversized improvements. One are issuing uh fee credits on building permits. Um, the other is through oversized reimbursement payments, which would be issuing checks.

It's it's good for the city to be able to issue fee credits because, right, so if the developer builds this oversized water man, let's say, because it's now going to serve all these other properties, the city would be obligated to give them a check for that difference, right? The difference between what they were obligated to pay and what they installed, that upgraded improvement. But if we offer developer fee credits instead, that's just a ledger, a ledger, you know, it's on the books, right? And so, uh, we're not issuing any cash to the developer. And when the developer comes, whoever has those fee credits, when they come to pull a building permit, instead of them writing a check for that impact fee, they show us the fee credit. And so, it wipes that out, right? It's a it's a transaction on paper,

right? Because I guess the the one thing is maybe uh I don't know if if in the future uh because I know we're going to be talking about our housing element and our lack of progress in terms of certain types of housing that maybe those particular fees be looked at in a different way. In other words, so you'll get, let's say, for example, you know, you get $100,000 in fee credits, but if you kind of put them towards building some housing, we'll add another 20% or we'll add another 10% or something to incentivize housing being built versus just, hey, I got some kind of real cash, but it's not cash, but I'll give it to you over here so you don't have to pay for a particular project. Right. in this case. So maybe in the future we can look at

yeah different way to yeah we have falling behind we owe you guys a workshop on how do we implement our housing element. We first have to adopt our housing element which happens to be on the agenda tonight and then we have in the near future here um a workshop with you guys that we're going to be scheduling to talk about how do we implement the housing element and part of that discussion will be what are the tools that we could develop to help us right and I and I and I hope that this this particular kind of fee swap is maybe a a conversation so um but thank you for the explanation and uh if there are no other questions then I'll move to approve uh 8.9 second okay we A motion and second for approval of 8.9. All in favor? I

I. All opposed? Motion carries. So, moving forward on our agenda, uh did have a request from a council member if we would uh bring up on the agenda item 10.3, which is honoring Radio Louie Agular. Um the request for that. We might have some attendees in the crowd on this item. So I will move that up and next will be the 10.3 and this was and with that I will look to Mr. Mandell and Vice Mayor Herold on this item. Well I'll defer to the vice mayor if he would like to speak to it or I can certainly take it if he would prefer.

You have the microphone Steve.

Thanks Mr. Mayor. Do we have any u Louis family here in attendance? Um I was approached probably month and month ago something like that about honoring Louie. Anybody that's been in Florida for any length of time knows Louie. Uh he was about a year ahead of me in high school. He was our ambassador to all the children here in Delari. You could see him at Zumal Park. You could see him uh walking all over town with his radio, his transistor radio, over Garden School, playing with the kids. Uh Louie Louie played a mean mean game of tag and I've seen him many times in Zumal Park playing tag with the kids. The historical society has honored him uh there in their establishment. I thought it was no more than pretty that proper that we also maybe recognize him for his contributions to the kids of Tallery with either a some kind of a plaque at Zumo Park either on the on the band stand or on the corner entrance or u I had one other place I was thinking of but now it's has slipped my mind completely. So, the Zuma Park I think would probably be the best location. I put together some different along with the family things that possibly could go on a plaque uh for council's consideration. And I think I'd like to open up to the family if they'd like to to say something if that's all right with you, Mr. Mayor.

If a member of the family would like to speak towards Mr. Harold's uh suggestions, recommendations regarding uh Louis Aguular.

Good evening.

Good evening. My name is Loren Eperson and I am a Louis great niece and my grandmother Mary Vosquez is over there. Um she took care of him um the last few, you know, years of his life. Um but um when I talked to you I just you know and you you knew him so I just thought gosh that's awesome um and everything that you had written and then we kind of you know got together with it. So however you guys want to you know put it put whatever on on the plaque um and I I would like it at Zumalt Park if that's possible. Um just because he would go there walk downtown go there and kind of hang out. Um, so yeah, I just think it's really special that you guys are able to to do this for for him and um our family. So, Miss Epson, she supplied me with some ideas of what the family would like and then I just sat down and started writing on my own with several because I think council Maduros had asked if there were any ideas of what we could possibly put. So, that's why I came up with these and I think it'd be up to council at this point. this is a project they want to take on.

Sure. I heard some discussion a bit of of kind of plaques and um the uh I always called it the the John Souza the pavilion John Phil Soua

Soua pavilion but the pavilion of some plaques honoring folk to kind of on the outside perimeter like a plaque could go on that wall. So if it was this one or some other community recognitions, but that way it it's kind of I heard this in chat or discussion that it's more of a central spot and then that way it's um recognized, but with this one and then it also allows um this special recognition, but there might be another special recognition that comes up and it's a good space like you said your desire for Zumalt Park. It kind of meets all of those elements was an idea.

Yeah. Originally, Louisie spent a lot of his time sitting on a bench, which was just a little bit north east of the pavilion, which is no longer there, but that's where he spent a lot of his time, and that's where he played played tag with the kids and things like that. Council members,

I particularly like this one dedication that ends up tag, you're it just kind of brings in the fun that he brought. uh you know to the community all of my children really appreciated him. Okay. So, is there a consensus of a um like a a metal plaque? Something like uh like we do for on something that we constructed. It's got the council members bronze something we can do like that.

Yep. So, council if if that's your direction, I just have a little bit more to clarify. So, our thinking I think would be we can certainly work to develop a plaque and identify locations. Uh the vice mayor already provided a couple. I think it might make sense if you're agreeable to it that we would take that to the commission so that the parks commission can weigh in on it and think through some of the other variables and come back with a recommendation. Is that acceptable to council that if we go that route with it? Okay. Yeah. All right. Sagala, anything to add? I think the mayor vice mayor would quote Yes. I think there's consistencies with that. So it would be the

the first one dedicated. I just think that one's fun and it kind of takes in his just his whole demeanor. Yeah, that's that's the longest one of all of them that didn't know. you write little letters and it's u the city I know throughout its history has done such recognitions and plaques of individuals and um it did go through the parks and recreation mark which is uh past president past president was um the arbors actually that the elk bayou park uh went through parks and recreation are dedicated in the honor of Darnney Jensen and so uh those actions were taken so I think a plaque here and just kind of summarizing now there's a consensus you you have one picked out

number one number one and then Mark you'll take this to the parks and recommend parks and recreation uh board for other suggestions thoughts or kind of the placement uh with that and we'll come back ultimately to council okay all right I'll keep you advised thank you thank you Mr. Thank you.

All right, returning back to our agenda for public hearings. Comments related to public hearing items are limited to three minutes per speaker for a maximum of 30 minutes per item unless otherwise extended by council. For those that wish to provide public comment while viewing on the meeting online, just as before our meeting, you can call in at 5593661849 and the clerk will assist you with your call. So, we have 9.1, which is general plan amendment number 20206-1 and zone amendment number 771, Mr. Steve Saw. Good evening, Mayor Isherwood, members of the council. Uh the request tonight uh is a request from Summit Home Developer to change the general plan land use designation and zoning designation on an approximately 2 point or 7.2 2 acre area in order to accommodate the establishment of 209 single family residential lots and 19 multiple family residential lots on a total uh parcel size of 59.3 acres. The development is proposed to be located on the northeast corner of Enterprise Street and Barsley Avenue. The existing general plan land use designation for the site is lowdensity residential within the city of Terry's adopted 2035 general plan. And the applicant is proposing to change the land use designation from lowdensity residential to medium density residential for approximately 7.2 acres of this project site. The existing zoning designation for the

project site is R14, which is a low density residential zone district, which provides a minimum lot size of 4,000 square ft. The applicant is proposing to change the existing zoning to RM, which is a medium density residential zone district for again approximately 7.2 acres of the project site. If approved, the proposed general plan land use designation and the proposed zoning would be consistent with one another. The applicant is proposing to develop 209 single family residential lots and 19 multiple family residential lots. Uh the applicant is proposing to establish two duplexes on each of the multiple family uh residential lots for a total of four units on each parcel which would result in the construction of 76 total units um within those multif family parcels. Uh when you add up all of the duplexes, um entry access to the development would be provided um through a new point of access from Enterprise Street and as well as off of Barsley Avenue. Access will also be extended to the subdivision through existing development from the north and east from Alpine Avenue, Gemini Street, and Justice Avenue. The de developer is proposing to establish a a 2.76 acre park space on the east side of the development. Storm water collection would be provided on the west side of the development with the establishment of a new uh basin. The proposed development would be required to provide connections to city water, sewer and would provide improvements related to streets, curb, gutter, sidewalk, block walls, landscaping, etc. An initial study was prepared for the project consistent with the California Environmental Quality Act and the

initial study proposed a mitigated negative declaration and evaluated the potential environmental impacts associated with the project's implementation. It was found that the project would not result in significant results to the environment with the incorporation of mitigation measures and those mitigation measures have been included within the agenda materials provided to you within a mitigation monitoring and reporting program and are proposed as conditions of approval of the project. A 30-day public notice was published on January 13, 2026 for the proposed discretionary approvals. Uh, comment letters were received during the 30-day public review from the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, the California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection, the California Department of Conservation Geological Energy Management Division, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The applicant's consultant along with city staff worked to prepare responses to each of the comment letters that were received and those comments have been provided within for your review within the agenda materials provided as well as within the final draft of the initial study mitigated negative declaration that was attached. uh planning commission reviewed the subdivision um and associated amendments on March 10th and recommended to the city council that the council approved the proposed amendments 3 to zero with two members that were absent. So in conclusion, staff is recommending approval of general plan amendment number 202601 and zone amendment number 771 as well as adoption of the mitigated negative declaration that was prepared for the Sherwood South tenative subdivision map. That concludes my presentation. Be happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Making some notes here. So, thank you staff for the presentation. I'm going to open the public hearing for PUB 9.1, general plan amendment number 202601 and zone amendment number 771. Do we have anyone in chambers who'd like to speak on this uh general plan amendment? Mer, do we have anyone on the on the phone? All right, with that I will close the public hearing for 9.1. Uh staff, any additional uh followup or presentation or I'll go to council members for questions. Okay, Mr. Herrell, Mr. Sagala.

Yes, had a couple questions. I don't know if the developer's here representative of the developer, but um first of all, I wanted to appreciate um the commitment. I don't know if you can go back, Stephen, to the map that kind of shows the general area and how it fits in with the other developments um that are being built. So, um east of there where we said the little park is at, there's a whole other development. I think it's about almost 400 homes that are being built as well. So, it's a big big chunk of that area being developed. Um, I did attend the planning commission when this came up before the planning commission and I brought up two items that I was hoping the commission would have some discussion on, but uh, they kind of move forward and just approve the project. One of them was an idea of what some of that um, multifamily housing was going to be like. I mean, I think that's something that we definitely need and and and more developments, but just curious to see if there was going to be any partnership with um um with nonprofits or it was going to be totally market driven apartments or they were going to be some set aides for farmworker housing type of things. So, I was just curious to see what the developer had in mind in terms of those particular units um on the on the west north part of the development. The ones that are kind of like lined up. I don't if you have your little pointer, Stephen, but for the public to see those that'll be on the uh on the I don't know how that pointer work exactly.

Yeah, those that'll be there. All those housing there. All that housing. Yeah. Sure. Uh good evening um city council, mayor, members of council, staff. Uh Tracy Myers representing Four Creeks. We represent the uh applicant in this project. Um according in talking with the the applicant, those are going to be market rate driven at this current time. As far as I know, the developer doesn't have any um um current plans to to partner with any type of an of a nonprofit organization at the time. So, so, so to be totally market driven, so whatever. Okay. Yes.

So, you know, these are kind of the council is kind of the example of how um you know, sometimes when these things come to council, they're already pretty much done in regards to the project is done and it's you know, there's timelines with construction, with financing, a number of things that need to happen for this development to be built. So often times whatever we provide it's kind of too late. I mean, I try to attend the even going to the planning commission. it's already down the road in terms of the development, but I'm trying to figure out, you know, we're having a big discussion as the city manager talked about our housing element, our affordable housing goals and things like that that maybe uh through the planning process. There may be some check offs that could be asked of developers when they come with these types of projects or incentives, maybe some fee credits or some other types of things to try to incentivize the housing that we're trying to do some mixed use. I know from my experience working um in the LA city council years ago, there were a lot of different incentives and bonuses, density bonuses, other types of things that were offered to developers. In other words, to build more affordable housing, in this case, apartments, right? Because those houses are going to be market rated, you know, just east of their homes are 500,000. So, I would imagine these homes are going to be 500,000 as well. 400 500,000. So that's what drives the sales of those homes. But uh I just want to make sure that I don't want to put pressure or on a developer once they come to council when they're like 95% plus of the way home and you know to ask them to go think about making these affordable units and all that is is a big task. So I just wanted to to get that answer. Preferably

I'd love for them to be affordable units and not market driven but that's the case. So, I'll switch over to the park. I did also bring up the park. I'm glad to see there's a dedicated land. I'm not a big supporter of basin parks, but that's what we have a lot throughout the city. So, I'm glad to see the the dedication of the 2.6 2.76 acres of parkland. Now, this particular park is not going to hold soccer fields, baseball fields. It's just going to be some nice green space for the community to to enjoy. One of the things that that I've been advocating for um uh is is there is there a plan to put like a total kids playground and things like that on there? Yes, I did go back um to the developer after the planning commission meeting and spoke with him a little bit about the exercise equipment or some type of interactive equipment and um he is amendable to looking at that to putting that type of equipment in that.

Right. And and I would hope maybe with the staff. So what I did another thing I brought up in in the planning commission council was to see if the developer would be open to putting in exercise equipment um you know for for the community. not like gyms but not like gyms that sustain your own weight and they're sort of uh maintenancefree. You know, you can you can pull up your own body weight and start exercising. So, the idea was for the developer to be open to that. Um there's plenty of uh vendors who supply those that you and I have been to different uh conferences where that's the case. So, I really appreciate the the developer looking into that because the idea is to have some sort of exercise equipment next to your where your kids playing. So, while your kids playing on the playground, you can talk to your comm or your friend and do a little bit of exercise, right? So, I'm hoping that that's the case and I'm hoping that if there's any grants that are available, if if the city needs to apply that our staff is open to that. So, so those were the um two main Oh, and then the final thing which I didn't bring up in planning commission, but um I hope that there's some some idea maybe someday through the um what is it? The Mr. City Manager, the the the thing that we're dealing with uh bicycle lanes. What is that process? The

the ATP ATP to see if one day we can connect this particular development to the Santa Fe Trail. you know, it would run along Enterprise or somewhere to connect to the Santa Fe Trail for there to be an option for people to be able to, you know, bike to work or whatever. I if you look at the bigger map, it's not too far from the Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe Trail at the end point of the Santa Fe Trail. So, but that's nothing to do with the developer. That's something we would look at down the road. But, um, I do appreciate the investment and, uh, once appropriate, Mr. Mayor, I'll make the motion to adopt uh item what was it? 9.1 or Okay. So, that's correct. So, thank you very much for

Thank you, Council Member Sarah. You want me to second it? No. If you had any comments or the uh the only couple questions that I had with this was one just understanding coming to us for a general plan amendment. This is the this went through planning commission. This is the first time council seeing the actual site map. So the actions are the general plan amendment, the approval of the site map and by those actions are all coming bundled together. Not that that happens often, but I'm just confirming this project hasn't been in front of us before.

Correct. It has not been in front of your council before. The way that approvals generally happen with subdivisions is that the council through the zoning ordinance has deferred to planning commission the authority to approve a subdivision map. And so technically right now you're only being asked to approve the general plan amendment and the zone amendment. The map itself has technically already been approved by planning commission subject to your approval of the general plan amendment and zone amendment. So technically you're not being asked to approve the map. Um we're just providing it forformational purposes in your decision.

But thank you Steve because that's kind of the clarification that I wanted. It went through the process. I know Councilman Sagala touched on that goes to planning commission. They approved the map. The other question this is I think a good time to touch on is I think the items that Councilman Seagala had mentioned and I looked to staff. It's our development standards. Is that correct? So if if for example with this map or comes in front of us that development standards of aesthetics to the corner lots. So if we didn't want just sidewalk and a cinder block, there's overlapping standards that says x amount of side the sidewalk needs to be x amount of feet wide. We'd like uh planter boxes, something along those lines, aesthetics for the corners. Those are in development standards. Is that right?

Yeah. So there would be tech handled within our engineering standards out in our subdivision ordinance and within our zoning ordinance. Those kind of the places where those kinds of things are found. And uh because you are going for an approval of a subdivision map, the planning commission would have authority to add conditions of approval to a map. Um but in general we staff is looking at those uh codified uh standards when we are asking a developer to make changes to the map or to plan for improvements. Uh it can become somewhat difficult to ask a developer to do things that we haven't codified and we haven't asked anyone else to do.

Okay. And and with that I think city manager we've talked about development standards. That's an important issue because I I think it comes in front of community concern. There's this development. Why wasn't this built at the corner or why wasn't a walkway? Why weren't those considered? And it comes to development standards as Mr. Soft just said that that's on our agenda of addressing development standards in the future.

Yeah, it is. I I don't have the exact timeline for that yet, but we've been talking about it. you know, we have a city engineer that is choosing to abandon us some point here and and so um sorry, Michael, if I talk that way, it could be sooner than later. Um and so, you know, he has has a a a long history of understanding all our standards and so we are talking about bringing on a consultant to help us in that process. Um, and we've brought in some new staff as well. Hopefully that will be able to help. And you know, whether Michael can play a role in any of that going future after he retires, I don't know. I recently had a conversation with him about that. But that's coming sometime this year. That will be on the the docket for you guys to to vote on.

Okay. And the last part have with this is in some of our learning curve that we've went with development that the city is expanding uh subdivision maps these type of projects in front of us at all four corners of the of the community. One of the things that has come up is speeding down straightaways. Um, so when I look at this map, Lincoln Avenue, and I look at long corridor straightaways, um, neighborhoods always vent about their concerns of people coming off main streets like Enterprise and potentially speeding down and and for the lack of a better way to say it, rip roaring through residential streets. and and with that is we don't have speed bumps or speed humps or others, but we've as council had presentations about striping some other uh uh palming uh measures which this is off the main road but these are still public streets. Would that be in development standards as well that since we don't have those currently on the books and as you had said it's really the best to get it in the books to get it published developers know those standards at what point would be best for that to happen or should that happen in the process we already talked about for development standards

I'm unfortunately going to defer this to Michael engineering typically is who reviews these part uh things as part of a subdivision map yes and We we have uh for couple years now we've included engineering conditions of approval that any street that exceeds 1,000 linear feet and length of uninterrupted so in other words no stops um has to incorporate some form of traffic calming measures. Okay.

And ju just to know Mr. Mayor, I I would believe that that comes out of discussion we've had in the past years where we've brought up those issues and how to amend the development standards and staff has because I when I look through the the what 400 pages of this particular item, I did find the check off box traffic calming requirements. So, that's a perfect example of how we've been well at least the council's brought something up and staff has uh kind of um reacted to that and put that in there

and and thank you. And that's this gives a chance to walk through that process and I think especially so the public hears this. I didn't catch that I knew we had had the discussion in the past. I didn't catch in this that there was the box checked of the thousand foot uh with that wood the developers to come back with those items for which I just said of the traffic calming. So the box is checked but as they're doing the development project they present to staff what those items are or did this packet specifically mention what it was? So at this point they haven't been identified at this point when the the next step assuming approval the applicant would be filing final maps and improvement plans. And as part of the improvement plan process we would expect the applicant to show those improvements on the improvement plans of how they intend to address those traffic calming measures for staff to review and approve.

Okay. Thank you. Uh so this is following all the process for which we have cross the tees dot our eyes and I just want to use this moment to reinforce uh our timeline of of how important those development standards coming in front of us. We have subdivisions in southoutheast southwest these issues and consistency. I know um our neighbors want consistency of neighborhood standards from east west north south but those are the type of improvements we as you said and I appreciate you walking through that Steve. You need to have those on the books so developers know the rules and it's fair rules uh for all ahead of time. Um that's my my further comments. Thank you for walking through that. Mr. Sagalis, you said you would be open to making the motion.

Yes, Mr. Mayor. Appreciate the conversation uh that we just had about the development standards and I think that's a place where the council can kind of weigh in more on as you explain what some of the concerns from the public are. With that in mind, then I'll move to approve item point uh 9 as as presented in staff report, general plan amendments. And uh do I don't know if I need to read off the whole thing. I'll second it.

We have a motion and a second for the general plan amendment number 20261-01 and zone amendment number 771. Madam clerk, remind me of these items. Can it be just does do we need a roll call vote for these? Just called motion. All right. Uh all in favor. Any oppose? This carried 40. Okay. Moving forward to item 9.2, the 2025 housing element and general plan annual progress reports. Mr. Sa, good evening.

So, this item is regarding the 2025 housing element and general plan annual progress reports. Tonight, staff is requesting that council accept the Clary housing element and general plan annual progress reports for the 2025 calendar year and authorize staff to submit the reports to the governor's office of planning research and the department of housing and community development. um government code requires that the APRs be prepared each year and that they be considered at a public meeting and that public comment be allowed for what is presented. So the housing element annual progress report consists of se several spreadsheets that are provided by the California Department of Housing and Community Development and required for cities and jurisdictions to complete. they have lots of uh rows and columns and uh it is difficult to read. Um those rows and columns for most of those spreadsheets are reporting every individual building permit for a residential unit that was issued within the city of Tary giving you giving information to the state such as the building permit number, the address, the APN number, the um all of the information relating to that building permit and they use that to track it for their purposes. Um but ultimately it boils down to some um information that's provided within the summary table um within the tables provided and uh they show that in 2025 the city approved entitlement applications to allow the future construction of 1,289 single family residential units. Uh so that would be subdivisions that were taken in 2025 and approved by either the planning commission or uh many ultimately that came to the city council uh needing some form of entitlement for

general plan amendment as we just heard or an annexation into the city limits. Uh the city also approved building permits for the construction of 468 residential units of which 362 were single family residential detached units. 31 were multifamily units that consisted of two to four units within a building. So, a duplex to a forplex. Uh 40 were multif family units that consisted of buildings that had five or more units in them. And 31 were uh accessory dwelling units. The city also issued certificates of occupancy or finals um where a resident the unit is considered complete and a resident is able to move in. Uh for 421 residential units, uh 407 of these were single family detached units. Only two units were considered uh multifamily consisting of a single duplex and then 12 were accessory dwelling units. So the state is most interested in uh kind of converting this to our uh tracking of our implementation of the regional housing needs allocation. Um so again the state is um equating affordability to density and and also of course affordability to affordability. Um but they're use we're we're taking um units that were we'll say our single family residential subdivisions. Those would equate to above moderate income units on this table for tracking purposes. An apartment complex that is built at a a significant density such as 20 units or per acre or more would equate to more of your low income category. And so you can see on this

table that when equating it to those housing needs um in 2025 the city can count 71 units towards its moderate income need and 397 units towards its above moderate income need. Um 2025 was the second full year of the reporting peri per period for the six cycle housing element and uh the reena allocation. Uh the planning period for the sixth cycle, it goes through 2031. And the city has a remaining RENA allocation or need of uh for very low income for 1435 units for low income uh 884 units, moderate income 568 units and above moderate of 748 units. So essentially the city is required to have vacant land that is zoned appropriately to where if a developer wanted to build uh at a density that corresponds to each of those units that they would be able to come and do so. So the um there are several other tables that are provided within the housing element annual progress report. Many of those the city did not have any actions to report for those tables. However, table D provides a status update on the city's progress on implementation activities of the six cycle housing element. This is a little bit awkward because the city hasn't adopted its six cycle housing element yet. It's uh on your agenda next. Um but the we have put the implementation programs that are proposed within that housing element and we've provided an update on any activities that have uh occurred so far that would implement those programs. Um table L within the report uh provides

sites that were added to a national, state or local registry of historical places within the reporting year of 2025. So in 2025, six sites were added to the city's local registry and are reported within that table. And then lastly, there's a table that provides uh information on the city's LEAP grant. There were no updates to report in the 2025. The city used its LEAP grant funds to prepare its comprehensive zoning ordinance update. Um I'm not quite sure why they continue to have us report that as the funds have been were required to be and were uh exhausted in 2024. So the remainder of the report uh gets into the general plan um annual progress report. Uh this is kind of two segments. The um most of the tables are your annual pro uh housing element annual progress report and then the rest is the general plan annual progress report. within the general plan uh annual progress report. It provides all of the general plan uh amendments that have occurred within the um since the adoption of the general plan in 2025. There was one general plan amendment that was adopted and that was associated with the FNC farming development that was an annexation project that is now under construction of a single family residential development uh with Sanwalkin Valley Homes. The report also provides uh just updates on significant projects that broke ground or continued to uh be constructed in 2025. The projects include the grand opening of the T-Biz that you heard about today. um the continued construction and progress of the homeless shelter, the beginning of construction of the of commercial development on Cart Mill and 99, including the construction of a Chick-fil-A restaurant that they called

for a final today and it should be opening very soon. And then lastly, the beginning of construction of the Sequoia Marketplace Shopping Center with the announcement of a SaveMark grocery store and construction of Chipotle and a car wash and a service station there. It also provides updates regarding uh housing developments and several of the home developments throughout the city um that are provided. And then lastly, the general plan annual progress report also provides a similar update to the housing element update where it goes through all of the implementation programs of the general plan and what occurred in 2025 in order to up implement the general plan. Each implementation program of the general plan in bold is any new action that was taken in 2025. Um, our general plan is nearing the end of its expected life. And so I think it's staff's intent to to bring a proposal to uh start the update of a general plan in the near future. But these implementation programs um staff continues to work to implement and provide updates as they are available. Um this action tonight is not subject to SQA as it is not considered a project. And so tonight staff is asking that the council authorize staff to submit uh the annual progress reports to uh again OPR and HCD as well as open um provide an opportunity for public comment on what has been provided. And that concludes my report. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, Mr. Sop, for the presentation. With that, I will open the public hearing regarding the city of Tiller's housing element general plan annual progress

reports for the 2025 calendar year. Is there anyone in council chambers who wishes to speak um on this item for the housing element progress report? Cler, do we have anyone on the phone? Okay. I will close the public hearing and look to uh comments or questions from council members and I'll start with Vice Mayor Herrell. Nothing. Council member Sagala.

Um yes, I had a couple of questions. Um so we have two two big items before us tonight. If you combine there are almost a thousand pages of documentation and reports and tables and maps and a number of things. Um I guess the question is I know we have to submit these but do we have to submit them at the same time? Is there in the future where we well obviously these are every six years aren't they? Or is that the period that we have to submit them?

Good evening council. Um we did not do this on purpose. I promise. Um so the annual progress reports that Stephen presented are due every year. They're due by April 1st, so we're overdue. Unfortunately, the state keeps adding new requirements every every year. Um, and makes it longer to update these. Um, the uh housing element, which is next on the agenda, is every eight years, and that is taken a number of years to update. Um, we only received kind of a go-ahhead from the state to finish going through the process in the fall. I'll talk about that during that presentation, but um they're typically not submitted together like intentionally.

I just want to add to that the assumption based on this statement might be well what's city staff doing? They're taking a long time doing this. Why can't you do it faster? I'm not saying anyone's saying that. Just could be the assumption. The reality is how many rounds do we have going back and forth with the state on these things, right? And I'm not trying to say it's the state's fault. I'm saying these documents especially the next one we work on them for months and we submit the state takes months then they come back and say change all these things then we take months we submit it back to the state says takes months says come back and change so this process has been grueling we would have loved to have brought this to you last March

no understand and and I appreciate the work is just that I think for me what what the clarification is is this particular agenda item is an annual report to the governor's office and the Department of uh of Housing and Community Development. The next agenda item is more of a long-term plan that kind of stimulates this for years to come. Right. So, um as you mentioned, we're we're trying to adopt this before we drop the other one. Um because I think one of the things that that you know, I I looked at a lot of pages. I read a lot of and I have a lot of questions for the next agenda item, but I think for me it's just like, you know, this gives progress to the governor and the public in regards to where we're at on our housing goals. Correct. And in that particular that particular um spreadsheet, you know, since I've been on the council, we just haven't been able to make a dent on the lowest type of housing that that the city could provide. We incentivize, we we we designate land where things could be built. You know, I do appreciate this council spreading spreading the love so that all the, you know, affordable lowincome housing isn't built on the west side. It's just as pretty on the other side of Mooney so we can build some nice housing over there. So, I do appreciate that we spread it around, but what do we do to incentivize, you know, to try to that's always been the thing. We can you guys can make the the the most investment in months and maybe even years putting these documents together, but if we don't have an incentivized plan, how could we move forward? Because one of the questions I have is,

is it worth the time to analyze all the GPA that we've approved to see what the outcomes have been? Right? So, I see them listed from 2016 to now, you know, GPA here, GPA there, and all that. There are there's housing being built, but what about the other ones we approved? Whatever happened to them? Did they go anywhere? and where can we incentivize that kind of affordable housing. So, I don't know. I mean, not to add more stuff to to the plate of the city staff and city manager, but that would be something like, hey, we did approve this GPA in 2018, and 2020, 2022. What came out of it? Did it help us towards our arena goals? Did it help us towards that? I mean, I think that to me is something that that moving forward, if someone comes with a GPA, I like to ask those questions. Hey, how can we, you know, where can you develop in your in your development some affordable housing? So, so that's just something that I just wanted to bring up, but I know that the once I was reading the documents, they started blurring into each other in terms of the tables and all the data, but but I think the more pressing questions I'll have for the second item, but just wanted to ask that to see if if there's been any analysis of those have worked at all. I would say there hasn't been any analysis of the general plan amendments as you're discussing. The whole purpose of the preparation of the housing element is to identify impediments to housing and then create actions in order to remove those impediments. And I we'll get into the next item here in a minute. Um where that is the whole purpose of preparing a housing element is to remove those impediments and encourage more housing to be built. Council member S the uh uh Councilman S doesn't have comments, but I I just don't want people

to think I cut you off. You said you don't you don't have comments. Steve, I appreciate your report and uh if I can kind of extract a few things that you had said is one of the things you had said early in your presentation was uh the state is most interested and I think is what our city manager had said is this process goes through a rigorous review from the state of California. Um with that is council as well can have ideas elements of direction. we go into our general plan. But again, this housing element, which this is the progress report and then we get into is the state is most interested because it involves the regional housing needs assessment as you touched on. It's looking at how we're doing implementation of such elements of 20 units per acre um and goals with that. So, um I think part of that is as you said, it's really an overview as well to vacant land and and is you'd said is that vacant land zoned appropriately and so with that is um we're we're working through that and a lot of it is compliance um and being compliant because if I'm correct, we're not one of the jurisdictions being sued by the governor's office. Is that correct?

Not yet. not on this item uh the attorney general's office on a different matter but not on this related matter

I because I walk through that because we are seeing where the governor's office and other districts are being very engaged and very involved in watching housing elements uh watching you know those reports how you're doing with those housing elements and you walk through that process be and because this is a progress report but yes our next item is the meat and potatoes behind those dynamics how we have vacant land, how we zone that, how that's being reviewed, what goals and measures that we are being oversight to by the state of Kalan to do. Now, there's mission behind it and there's objectives and there's populations to be served, but that process is very rigorous and also very much mandated and and has that series of review. One of another question that I have and I think this comes up for the public a lot is we talked about entitlements. So the city is entitled the city entitled 1,289 single family residential units. Is it is it a true understanding that that's entitled but that doesn't mean a they were built and two that's just in entitlement also doesn't guarantee water that that needs to be delivered through a a will surf through our our enterprise water district. So if you get entitled doesn't guarantee you water. Is that a fair statement or not true?

I I say it's somewhat fair. However, when an applicant is coming in, they are submitting a site plan to us for review and going through our site plan review committee and part of that committee does include our engineering and our public works divisions. And they're looking at this from the point of view of can we serve this in the future. And so we're at least taking an initial look of before we approve this entitlement, is this something that we're not going to be able to serve in the future? If that makes sense.

Yeah. And in our our meetings, uh, I met Thomas does an awesome job. And Thomas, as I often do, my apologies, I didn't put some of these questions in front of you when we met to have staff be prepared, uh, for it. But walking I think through that process is the point I'm just trying to kind of walk through is we had 1289 single family residents but that doesn't mean they were built. You had said we about 485 permits. That is accurate. So through this you're showing the steps of development. The first step to development

um from the city's standpoint is is the entitlement process. Um, the entitlement process is getting a subdivision map approved or getting some sort of other action that requires a discretionary action from planning commission or city council to occur in order to move the the process forward. And then as you're reporting in these documents, the next step of course is getting a building permit to be issued. So, if you have an entitlement, you've gotten that discretionary action from council uh approved in order to build something, but you have not yet necessarily applied for a building permit, gone through building permit plan check or recorded a map or submitted improvement plans or gotten all those kinds of things approved. uh you've just simply applied for that subdivision map or or um general plan amendment or whatever that was needed to get approved from city council. You've taken that first step

and you can get those approvals all of them and still not build a project, right? I mean a developer might not have the capital to build a project or they might go, you know, they might go bankrupt or so there's all kinds of things outside the city's control that can happen. Subdivision maps expire. Yeah. somewhat regularly for just a maybe layman's way of saying it's just it's an on paper process. Yes. Essentially, you now have a a paper approval and you're working towards then a paper lot and then a an actual construction of something. So,

and with that and perhaps if the staff it's Trish or others is the city does have an established amount of willerves that could be issued. So, it's not open-ended, right? the city comes and says we have capacity for 1712 or something along those lines. It's not open-ended, right?

No, it was that way gosh probably 8 to 10 years ago. We were applicants would go to the board of public utilities. They would ask for a will serve. We'd have Corollo run it through the model. Um we have since made quite a bit of improvements to our water system. So that was when our water system we couldn't provide like our max um hourly pressures and so we have gotten away from that. So um really as long as they're within city limits we really don't have a limit on will serves.

I mean we we do of course you know think about whether or not we have the infrastructure in place to serve them or whether as a condition of their approval they have to extend the infrastructure. Um, and you know, we do consider whether or not our our facilities like our wastewater treatment plant or our water system has the capacity. Um, but it's not as formalized as you say. We don't have like the set number that we're like checking off and ticking down with each permit we issue. We're not in that uh state right now,

which is why we do our master plans, right, which project our needs for the next 30 years and we design and build towards that. The other thing I'll I would just comment on this topic is um many many times, especially when we're talking about subdivisions, you're talking about taking land that was previously used for or most recently used for agricultural purposes. When land converts from agricultural purposes and goes to a subdivision, most of the time it's using less water,

right? It used more water when it was an agriculture use than it is when it goes to a single family subdivision. Now, yes, they're coming on the city's water system versus probably their own well system when they're in agricultural use, right? But most time people assume the opposite, but it's it's not the opposite. We're also during site plan review when a subdivision comes in, we're discussing with the developer whether or not it's envisioned that a well site is going to need to be established on the property or purchased from the property owner or whether or not tanks would be needed to be established in order to serve the overall developer. Ensure that uh there's sufficient water and a sufficient pressure. And so those things are being ma uh communicated to the the developer, the property owner that the city will be engaging with them if there's a need and engaging with them to try to do a test well if needed and and those kinds of things to to make sure that the system continues to provide the capacity that's needed. So walking through that as you said you do the you come in you have the vacant land we start with zoning you get entitlements but entitlements when that process there's entitlements which is there's a proposed project but zoning doesn't need a project it doesn't mean building permits have been issued or anything's been submitted or or as I was saying there's not entitlements issued at that point so they're not having water sewer and access The the reason why I want to walk through that is we have actions where we're going to have vacant land in front of us. And as we take vacant land in those steps and you look at zoning, doesn't mean that there's a project to be built on that site yet. It doesn't mean entitlements have been provided to that site yet. It's just one of it's one of those steps for which this is a summary of of how we're zoning that land to be compliant general plan housing elements and and so forth. Okay,

that is accurate. And with that is we entitled 1,289 single family units to which you just over 400 which were built and then other entitlements uh we're in 2026 now. We don't have an issue at least at this stage. It's been analyzed and confirmed. There's not an issue of water supply for all the titlements for which we have issued.

No, we don't believe so. Okay. All right. So, um, as we I think hope I hope that information is helpful as a lot of I know residents will ask questions about water supply. How does that process work? When does it happen and how does it happen? I I hope Steve, thank you for walking through that and it's helpful for folks to know that process. Council members, um, I've taken up enough mic time. Any other questions, comments, or actions? Okay. Well, Mr. Mayor, I'll move that we receive and accept the city of Tiller's housing element and general plan annual progress reports for the 2025 calendar year and authorize staff to submit to the governor's office of planning and research and the department of housing and community development uh or report.

We have a motion. I'll second. We have a motion and a second to receive and accept the city of Terary's housing element general plan annual progress reports for the 2025 calendar year. All in favor?

I. Any opposed? Carries 40. Thank you, Mr. Saw. Okay, moving forward. Item 9.3, the 2024 2032 6th cycle housing element. Mr. Annayia Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, councel, while the PowerPoint is pulled up. There we go. So, this item before you is indeed the sixth cycle housing element. Um, you have show the years there of the planning period. So, just a quick refresher, what is a housing element? It's one of the eight mandatory elements that's required in a city's general plan. It's governed by the government code shown on the screen there. It's required to be updated every eight years in accordance with ARA or Arena. You'll hear that term used a lot. It's regional housing needs allocation. And I'll explain what that is. It's essentially the fair share of housing that each jurisdiction's assigned uh for each 8-year housing cycle that needs to be produced in the region to meet the housing needs. So, housing needs at various income levels for each uh community. Um and that is reviewed and approved by HCD another acronym which is uh the state department of housing and community development. So this is for uh this sixth cycle um the regional housing needs allocation for Terary County. You'll see the various cities noted there uh the total number of units and then broken down by um what they equate as the different income levels. and you'll see another acronym. Um, planning is filled with acronym soup, but I'll do my best to define those and welcome questions. So, AMI is area median income. And so, the very low is is for households that make uh less than 50% of that area median income figure for the region. You have

low, which is 50 to 80% of that amount. Moderate's 80 to 120%. And generally above moderate means any household that makes over 120% of that area median income for the for the region. So Talleria actually participated in a multi-jurisdictional housing development update. So it was the city of Tallaria as well as all the other cities in Tallery County um except for Vicelia. Uh they're much larger, a lot of resources and they started early. Uh they they finished before us. Um, Tallery County was a part of this and dropped out and did their own approval as well. But you'll see there we participated with Dauba, Exer, Farmersville, Lindsay, Borderville, uh, City of Taller and Woodlick. And so the way the housing was put together when it's multi-jurisdictional is we have a regional analysis that looks at the housing needs um, and a housing plan for the region as a whole. And then every city has its own local uh, analysis in each appendix. were appendix F as it pertains to Tari specifically and these are the components that are found in in the housing element um is there's housing needs housing constraints resources and inventory there's a fire housing assessment that's conducted and ultimately a housing plan which is how are you going to address the aforementioned identified housing needs in the community and throughout uh this process there's workshops surveys uh stakeholder interviews that are held to inform formed this information as well as a lot of census data and other uh sources of data that are compiled. And so the timeline for this project, it's gone on a long time. Started way back winter 2022 when I had a lot less gray hair and was just a a city planner. Um and that's when we kicked off the project. Um and each year they they seem to add more requirements. And this sixth cycle, if you ask any planner in California that's worked on it, it was

really a gauntlet. Um it took a lot of effort, a lot of years to put together. In hindsight, we would have started earlier, right? Because here we are uh kind of behind the um so we should have had the new one adopted in 2024 around this time 2024. So we're about two years late. Um but essentially what what occurred during that time, we kicked off the project 2022 2023. In 2023, we spent a lot of time gathering information and data, having those community engagement workshops, uh stakeholder interviews with different developers, uh different community groups. In the summer of 2024, uh we actually had our first public review and draft of the housing element released and reviewed by um HCD as July 2024. Um there were a number of uh back and forth uh where they'd provide comments, we'd have to make revisions. So that all occurred fall 2024 through winter uh 2025. Just this past November into December is when we finally received notification from the state HCD that okay your housing element is finally we don't have any more substantive comments. Now you need to uh adopt it, take it through the adoption process, including the reasonzoning um adoption of the SQL document. And so that brings us to where we are today, which is in the spring. So the public participation that I mentioned, uh these are some of the engagement methods that were used. There's a project website set up. We had a a number of community workshops, stakeholder interviews with different stakeholders, like I said, from uh different um developers, even um market rate developers, affordable housing developers, nonprofits in our region. Um, we've had online surveys conducted and then the public review period. So, there was an initial 30-day public review when we had the first draft released, received one comment email during that time, submitted to the state. And so, you'll see there's sub

subsequent rounds of review. Every time we submit to the state, we have a a shortened kind of public review period as well and highlighting just the changes that occurred from the last iteration. So um housing needs so housing needs is at the very beginning uh right what are the housing needs for the community um and so this came out of the surveys the stakeholder interviews the data that was gathered these are the general themes that came uh came to the forefront so there seemed to be a need for more housing options for both renters and buyers at all income levels that was an identified need as part of this process uh there's also identified need for finan financial assistance for low-income families that rent alone and need for housing close to services and jobs, needs for housing for large families too was identified. And these are just priorities that were identified. Um, we talk about affordability. I have this table here that kind of talks about how those things are determined. So, you mentioned I you you heard me mention area median income earlier. Um, and it depends on the household, I said. So there's different household sizes depending on the household size. There's different threshold of limits of what's considered um affordable monthly housing costs, rent costs, home prices as well. And so really kind of the baseline to keep in mind with all of this uh is 30% of your income. If you're spending over 30% of your income on housing, uh you're considered rent burdened or housing burdened in general, whether you own or you rent your home. And that's kind of the threshold we use nationally uh to to evaluate uh housing cost burden. And so you'll see here uh the tables and for the different income categories, right? So low income as you go up the income scales, median, moderate, you see that what what's the threshold to be considered affordable for rental prices

or home prices? Um and so you know in a region like ours where our area median income is is lower um but we see the cost of housing continue to increase um that gap continues to widen between what the needs are in our community and what is being uh supplied even just by the market. We also evaluate our housing stock. What what does the housing stock in look like? And so again, this is a very large document. Um, as council member Sagala mentioned, um, these are I'm providing kind of the highlights and some of the tables that discuss this. All the information of course has been included in your staff report, but this includes so to total housing units in Tallery by type. Um, and so we have a comparison. You'll see the city of Taller is the top and the percentage of that of our total housing stock. Then we have Tary County as a reference, how it compares to the county and how we compare to the state of California as a whole. And so generally speaking, we tend to produce a lot of three-bedroom uh units um or I'm sorry, single family uh detached single family homes, right? So we have a lot of a large percentage. You'll see 77.4% of the city's housing stock is single family detached homes. And as you look at multif family um I mean we only have 3.4 attached. So that's uh your town homes, condos, single family uh attached would be considered that duplexes 2.8% of our housing stock. Uh three or four units 5%. Right? So you kind of see and if you compare to Terry County or the state we're overproducing single family detached uh for sure, but it's really stark when you kind of see uh some of it makes sense, right? If you go to bigger cities, they do have more apartments, especially more smaller apartments like uh studios or uh or even larger apartments. So, you see it goes 20 to 49 units, 50 or more units. Those are big

apartment complexes. We don't have a ton of those in Tallery. Um about 2.6% of our housing stock statewide, that's over 7%. Um so, this is just kind of it's a survey of what the housing stock looks like in the state generally compared to the county and then compared to the city of Larry. And then the uh the size of the unit. So, this is what I was talking about. Three bedrooms. Uh, 52.7% of the housing units in the city of Tallery are three-bedroom units. And that's not it's it's higher certainly. It's right there on the county. Um, substantially higher than the state. Fourbedroom units, we're kind of right in line with with kind of what the state average is for those. Uh, one-bedroom units, we're way under. Uh so somebody, you know, if someone just needs a studio apartment or a one-bedroom apartment, one-bedroom house, we just don't have a lot of that in the city. Um and interestingly enough, you saw in the previous slide, folks identified a need for housing for large families, for larger families. Five or more bedrooms, we're actually underproducing by about half of what the state average is even for larger houses. And so you'll see that uh kind of shown in the data. And so kind of the the overall takeaway and and you'll see me mention this theme as we move forward is we don't have a great variety in our housing stock. We kind of produce a lot of the same type um and the needs in our in our households have changed right over the over the decades. And so we're kind of seeing that bear out a little bit with the data. Um maybe some parts of the state have produced, but I'm not going to put too much stock in this. This is kind of a snapshot in time. Um kind of where we are today. Uh population trends. This is also uh really good information to share. We're three times higher than what the if you look at the census data from 2010 2020 the city of Taller's uh housing growth compared to the state uh compared to the county even. Um so we're a rapidly growing community. I don't think anyone

surprised anyone that grew up here I mean can see just how much the city has grown over the years. Um but especially in that decade and especially again snapshot in time but you look at that decade 2010 2020 consider we're also coming out of the recession during that time but we still grew at a much faster clip and there's you know a variety of reasons for that than the state for sure but even at the county um and remember the county includes a lot of our unincorporated communities our rural communities um we're the second largest city in the county so some of this kind of bears out um housing constraints um so these are the things we have look at in the housing almond as well. You heard Stephen mention in the previous presentation, are there any constraints we can identify that are unique to Tallery? Why we're not producing more affordable housing or more housing responsive to the needs in the community? And so these are the types of things that we look for. Uh what are governmental constraints? Those are things that the government has some, you know, handle on or can control to some extent. So like your zoning, your permitting processes, you know, does the city adopt any specific building codes that go beyond kind of what state building codes require. SQA, that's, you know, I would say that's more of a statewide uh constraint. Market uh market constraints are your impact fees, construction costs, the complexity of financing for projects, um land, labor, materials, right? some of those are are what they are but they they have an effect on the production of housing. Uh and then environmental which fortunately we don't have too much of um in in Tiller. We don't have I mean California has fault zones but thankfully we're not right on San Andreas or some of these other places in the state where it's it's much more of an issue. We do have drought and we we had a conversation around water. I would say that and and probably the extreme heat are are the closest things we have here. Fortunately, as we saw in 2023 with the floods, we're just out of the the worst parts of the flood kind of zones in our in our region. Um, you know, we're not on the ocean, so we

don't have a lot of like cliff erosion or sea level rise considerations. Wildfires, of course, is the big one. Um, so here's a summary of the local constraints that were identified that are kind of specific to to um and these were found. The cost of developing housing, including land cost, construction costs, is rising rapidly. There's a lack of federal, state, and local funding, and the funding that is available is increasingly competitive. The time and effort needed to identify, compete for, and layer affordable housing funds can be considered a major constraint to development of affordable housing specifically, which is more reliant on these different funding sources. Uh, Taller generally has higher loan approval rates in the county. However, there were found to be disparities between racial and ethnic groups in terms of loan applications and the approval percentages. Um, we all know discrimination in mortgage lending has been illegal uh by the under the federal fair housing act for a number of years, decades really. But um there could be other factors that contribute to this, right? Some of it a lack of financial education, accessibility, maybe language barriers, uh credit history, uh savings uh issues. these are things that we would look into that are included kind of in the housing plan of things we can do to kind of uh help with those numbers or those disparities. And then um it was also found that although Till's development regulations allow for a variety of densities throughout the city, the development standards may not be sufficiently flexible to po that maybe it does pose a constraint on development. So again, uh lack of variety in the housing that we produce. Um so that's something to look into as well. Um, one thing that was identified by the state HCD, our emergency shelter requirements previously in our zoning code were frankly illegal. Um, we're not conforming with state law. Uh, there's a number of other special housing types that the state state law does not allow us to constrain. So, we had to make revisions to our zoning code to allow

those. And then, um, sites inventory and reena. So, the reena is the amount of housing that we have to produce during that 8year cycle. And how do we accomplish that is um through the what's considered the sites inventory. So we have to identify sites that will provide land to develop that the housing responsive to arena. Um ADUs is something accessory dwelling units that the state's uh gone pretty uh you know invested heavily in in trying to loosen regulations to allow people to build second units on their properties much much more easily. Uh historically in Teriy, ever since the state loosened those rules, we probably produced about only 10 units a year to 10 ADUs, that's gone up considerably in the last couple of years. Uh as the states continue to loosen restrictions, um we also have pre-approved ADU plans at the city. So there are we've worked with designers that have if you want to build a second unit, there are plans that if they fit on your lot, you can utilize and that cuts a little bit of the upfront cost and time. Um the biggest barrier is still you know you still have to fund the construction of these units. And so um without kind of dedicated sources of funding that does that that you know um limits how many can be built obviously. And so the other way we can meet our arena is what are considered opportunity sites or reszone sites. So opportunity sites are places that are already zoned at the appropriate densities to meet the various types of lower unit lower income units, moderate, above moderate, so on and so on. So reszone sites are sites that have been identified by the state that the city has proposed and the state has to accept uh to meet the um wherever we have a lack right of well we don't have enough sites that are already zoned to meet all of our need. We have to find other sites

to reszone to meet that that that requirement. And so you'll see the only place we had to do that is uh for lower income units. you you heard Stephen mention earlier the state equates density with affordability. Um that is just the way it is. Um it it pans out in kind of the larger metro areas in the state where real estate land costs are so high that you must build up. You know that frankly they're built out here. Land costs are much much less but nonetheless we do have these mandates from the state. Um, I would argue some of the denser housing we have sometimes is luxury apartments, which I would not consider to be affordable. But nonetheless, that is the requirement is we just have to have land at appropriate densities. And we don't have much of a leg to stand on to argue with the state when almost 80% of our housing stock is only single family. And so really what the state is saying to you, you don't have enough land zoned for multifamily development, especially at the higher density uh limits. Fortunately, this goound we only had to find um as a total I think ended up being about 10 acres. Um prior housing cycles were much less and I'll get into that in a little bit why that was. Um but but we've we've caught up a little bit and that's not enough. So even if you have enough land zone, the state wants you to have a surplus and so you'll see the surpluses at the bottom. Um so it's a bit of a gauntlet to to to gather this uh to get through this approval process with the state. Um why? Well, there's a lot of criteria involved. Um I mentioned some, but the state wants infield development that meets HCD's requirements. So, a lot of times they're not going to accept the site if it's less than half an acre and they start questioning you when it's more more than 10 acres in size uh to count towards the lower income obligations. vacant or underutilized sites are typically what are preferred um over kind of redevelopment sites. But a lot of this ends up being a negot

a negotiation right with with the state and trying to get them to understand kind of the local context because remember they're reviewing these plans for cities all over the state. So this is our our site inventory map. So this is a an inventory of all the sites that we are counting on that are available for development in the city in the city limits and just outside the city limits but within the city's urban development boundary sphere of influence and it's the different colors are different zoning designations. But really what the state is looking at they're looking at a couple of things. One they want to see these sites spread out. They don't want all the sites like council member Sagala mentioned to all be whether it's the west side or all on the east side or all in one part of town. They want to see that every uh that they're spread out throughout the community that there's different densities in different locations. So yes, even though a community may be primarily low density residential, the state is essentially forcing cities to say those are the places we want you to put higher density residential. and they're going to places that have a lot of higher density residential and say we want to see low density here to provide a mix of different income types of or housing of that supports different income levels um because we I mean historically some of it's historic some of it's cities blatantly doing this and now you know it's one or two cities got in trouble for this and now it applies to all cities where cities were purposely putting all their low high density housing in one neighborhood you end up building all these affordable housing complexes all in one neighborhood and then everyone complains and blames the affordable housing or high density for crime and all these things. Well, it might not be the density. It might not be that they're apartments. It's that they're all located in this one area and guess what? They're probably not close to a lot of the resources that folks need to get to, right? So that's these are the types of things the state is is really pushing on

cities to make sure that they this is one thing that they did com commend us on to see that wow okay the city is growing in all directions in terms of single family and you're providing opportunities for multifamily throughout the city. Um you'll see we have one reszone site uh that is located um in northeast affirmatively further furthering fair housing. This is a um I'll try to keep this brief, but this is something the state really is hammering home, especially with the six cycle. Um they're really looking at kind of what I mentioned earlier. Are is the city are the actions of the city creating patterns of segregation or integration or are they worsening segregation if it's already there? Um, and so they they have us look at those patterns in our existing uh housing stock and then see how that previous uh slide I showed with the different housing opportunity sites, how do they play into this? And so there's an analysis of contributing factors that can contribute to this. So for example, exclusionary government policy that restricts certain type of housing only to one part of town. Uh discriminatory lending practices. Historically, as a nation, we we've had a we've had a history of that. Those are illegal now. concentrations of poverty or racial and ethnic segregation. Those are all things uh you know historically have been there, but with all the laws on the books now, they are making sure cities are not finding loopholes or ways to kind of get around federal laws and state laws uh to kind of continue to produce those results. So really the charge to cities is you have a duty to affirmatively further fair housing and that extends to the city's site inventory and our ultimately our housing plan. AB686. This was a new requirement this cycle um which really kind of emphasized these core principles of making sure that you're affirmatively furthering fair housing through outreach and how we're conducting outreach uh for this

process. uh that our site inventory analysis is fair uh balanced that we're identifying and pri prioritizing the contributing factors that could create these patterns of segregation or integration that we're focusing on the on integration rather segregation and that we have a list of actions where we do find these places uh right of of segregation and so these were the findings as part of the regional analysis and then the one specific to so regionally if we're talking about tari county in tari county there are differences in population and demographics between urban and rural parts of the county. Some of this is not surprising. Rural parts of the of Tallery County um were found to have a wider population than the urban areas in the county. Um there did did tend to be a f um higher um incidence of older residents as well as folks with disabilities in the rural areas. and then racially concentrated areas of affluence which is a mouthful but pockets of highincome earners that live were found to be in the cities of Tallery Vicelia and northwest of Woodlake. One thing that was common that binds all of Tallery County together and those of us that are grew up here or from here, we know Tallery County is one of the poor counties in the state. And so whether you're in the rural parts of the county or in the cities, we do have higher rates of poverty whether you're rural or urban. Um we also breathe the same dirty air unfortunately in western Tallery County. Eastern Ter County is the mountains where you're above kind of the the smog layer and then the fog layer in the winter. Um but yeah uh no matter where you live that that affects everyone pollution exposure, air quality and other hazards uh environmental hazards. And then specific to the city of Taller um there were differences found in educational outcomes, health outcomes and economic opportunities between eastern Terary and western Teraryi. Uh higher poverty and segregation patterns were found in historic West Taller and portions of southwest Tallery.

However, Tary in general is predominantly Hispanic Latino. no matter what side of town you're on. And it has a higher percentage of non-white residents as well as higher percentage of low-income residents when you compare it to the state average. Um, large portions of the city on all sides have a rate of low and moderate income residents. Specifically, those folks that are at or below 50 to 80% of the area median income. Um, so generally speaking, we have a, you know, a population that has those needs. We have large portions of the city on all sides that have high rates of households considered cost burden where the households are spending over 30% of their income on housing and overcrowded households. Um though renters are affected at a higher rate than home than owner occupied households. All right. So I just went over a lot of data a lot of different needs um that were found through this process. So the end result in this is the city's housing plan. What's the city going to do to address some of these needs that were identified? So we have seven goals which you which you see on the screen there to address these and I'll I'll briefly go over those. So we have um different programs. So you have the housing plan has different programs to address these needs. Um and these also have to be reviewed and approved by the state. So we have a program that emphasizes regional collaboration um to further the city's housing goals. We do a fantastic job. You you heard the mayor mention earlier our great partnership with TAG. TKG is our metropolitan planning organization that uh funds a lot of the transportation funding, measure our funding and so we already are doing quite a bit of coordination at the regional level around transit funding around transportation funding around homelessness. We have the homelessness task force at the regional level. One of the things that was identified as this effort is hey could we be doing something more as a region bringing the cities together in the region around housing and meeting the region's housing needs um housing development. So we have

programs that say we have to maintain adequate sites at various types of densities throughout the city to meet our renal obligation. We have to have byite approval um on how this is also a new requirement the state added this this goound. If we if we used a vacant site last cycle and nothing got built in those eight years and we want to use it again, we have to extra justify and prove to the state that hey, if somebody comes to us and actually wants to build on this site, it's by right. They don't we're not going to require any any other um discretionary approvals. And so they made us codify that even though we have that already, that's the way we process it. We're adding a section to the code that that specifies that. And also uh removing constraints. So, we have programs that remove constraints, uh, zoning code amendments that we have to make to comply with state law, transparency in government, making sure that our fee processes, our development processes, our development standards, which we talked about earlier, are are uh, predictable and they're transparent. And then affordable housing programs. So, continuing to focus, how do we get folks that want to build a second unit um, the ability to do so? How do we facilitate more affordable housing development? It's been the theme of the night so far. that is the big challenge not just in Tallery throughout the state. Uh almost no city is meeting the arena. Um so it is not it's it's a major issue. It's something we're going to continue to tackle as we move hopefully from housing element adoption to when we move into housing plan implementation. Um and then identifying lower income and special needs housing programs and how we can continue to provide those because we have a very high need in our community. And then how do we preserve what we have? Um whether it's replacement housing, uh preservation of what we consider at risk housing. So there's a term in in the housing uh space called naturally occurring affordable housing. What does that mean? So a lot of our older housing stock is naturally

affordable. It may not have a deed restriction on it, but because it's older housing stock, um it it probably commands less it does command less rent than, you know, newer apartments or homes that were built. And so continuing to invest, we do have programs, owner occupied rehab programs, um first-time home buyer programs as well that help folks get in, but also to preserve with owner occupied rehab and um folks to stay in their homes, right, and to make repairs like if they have a failing roof and it's a senior on a fixed income. We have programs through the funding that we receive from the state and the federal government to help folks stay in their homes and and and upkeep the condition of those homes. housing for persons with special needs. So, um we have certain several zoning code amendments that we've had to make to make sure we're not discriminating against residential care facilities, emergency shelters, low barrier navigation centers, farmworker housing, that we're providing the ability for folks, no matter the need they have a place for them to live in our community. Um and so we have programs around that. And then what are we doing around resource conservation and sustainable development? making sure we provide incentives for energy conservation, efficient and efficiency and residential development. Although we're in California, so a lot of that's mandated already by code, Greek code, solar, mandatory solar. We have a lot of things on the books as well. And then a whole slew of things. I'm not going to read these one by one, but to affirmatively further fair housing, right? To address things like fair h making sure we're doing maximizing fair housing um enforcement and outreach, housing mobility. We're providing new housing opportunities for high opportunity areas and then placebased strategies for neighborhood revitalization, tenant protection, and anti-displacement. Um, and actually just real quick on this, so we actually only have one high opportunity area. What is a high opportunity area? Almost all affordable

housing that's developed relies on something called um tax credits. And so we have uh TCAC which is the tax credit allocation committee that issues those tax credits which are a source of financing major source of financing. Well, there's a whole other several capital stacks to to have a an affordable housing project come to fruition. And you get rewarded extra points if you're building housing in what are considered these high resource areas, which are areas that have the better schools, that have access to retail, that have access to services. Um, again, the state is really trying to make sure you're not putting all of the affordable housing or special needs housing in the most inconvenient parts of the city or in the places that don't have access to these other resources that maybe the other parts of town do. And so, that's something that we're mandated to provide. Um, under SQUA, so the general plan ER that was prepared, you heard me say the housing element is one of the mandated elements. So, there's an ER prepared for the entire general plan, including the housing element. And every time we update the housing element, we have to look and see if the findings in that general plan ER still hold or do we need to prepare a new SQA document. In this case, we prepared what's called an addendum to the EIR that just looked at, hey, what did we assume in the housing element before? What's changed? And you look at the delta. Um, generally speaking, you saw the high growth rates of our city over between 2010 and 2020. So, we had very um high uh projections for growth. Um and so we're within uh you know the lines of we're within the confines of that growth still even with uh the changes we're making. So this evening in summary what staff is recommending is that the city council adopt an amendment to city zoning ordinance to add chapter 10.83. That's the byite approvals we're required to explicitly adopt by state law. And then we have only one uh reszone site uh which is a request to reszone from medium density residential to

highdensity residential. This is the former winery property that we have um included and this goound we that's the only property we have to reszone. Uh so when I started working here in 2018 the city was in a real bind because we didn't have the fifth cycle housing element adopted. We had a conditional approval from the state because we were 95 acres short where we did not have enough land zoned at the appropriate density for the state to certify our housing element. We had lost access to state funds at that time. So one of the first things that we worked on is finding 95 acres of land to reszone to gain compliance and the state was I mean we were about to get sued uh by by the state at that point. We were able to find we were barely able to find 95 acres. We try we try to build it a cushion. Um but uh the previous council uh didn't approve several sites. Several of the sites frankly we didn't have a willing land owner that was interested in in reszoning their site. And so we just cruised through where this goound we only have one because we caught up last cycle. But if we still have to find so it's 10 acres of a 28 acre parcel that was already zoned medium density is being increased to high density to meet the the reena um allocation as identified this go around we have a willing property owner that is interested in pursuing that we don't have a project on the books um but essentially we just have to show that we have the land zoned at that density to meet our reena uh requirement to gain approval by the state. Um, the other adoption is an addendum to the certified environmental impact report prepared for the city's 2014 general plan. And finally, the adoption of the 2024 2032 six cycle housing element and the actions proposed in the housing plan. Um, I will say uh before I conclude, there will be a public hearing. I'll be available to answer any questions or discussions, but just as a point of disclosure, the city

did receive comments on the draft which was available for review this last couple months. So, we received uh six comments um unique comment letters um mostly from residents um near or adjacent to the proposed reason site with concerns about what that would mean to their neighborhood. understandably in terms of is this going to increase traffic, you know, uh are there crime, would it increase crime, those types of things, I'm able to address those questions or concerns as needed. Um I kind of mentioned the justification for why we picked the sites and what the state requires. We also received a letter from Leadership Council for Justice and Accountability, um stating that the city is not complying with its SB24 um requirement, which is a a state law that requires that the city complete an analysis of the disadvantaged unincorporated communities that are outside the city limits but um within the city's sphere of influence. And so that's that's a requirement. It's not required to be included in the housing element and the only requirement is that we update it upon the approval of our housing element. Since we haven't adopted our housing element, we haven't conducted the analysis, but staff's intent is to conduct that analysis should we achieve adoption of the housing element um over the next year. In fact, in response to that comment, we have an action that's been added that says by the end of the year, should we adopt the housing element, staff will work with the consult to complete the analysis. But I will mention in regard to those disadvantaged communities, the whole purpose of the analysis is to identify uh infrastructure uh deficiencies in those communities and how what the city's how the city is going to work with its partners to identify those. The city's well aware of those deficiencies. Um the city actually provides city water to most of those which are mathemat uh east villas is on kell water but the city is a backup water source. We also

are currently working with Tallery County as well as with leadership council on a state grant-f funded project to provide sewer service to these disadvantaged communities. So even though we haven't conducted that analysis, we're actively working to provide those for those infrastructure needs. Nonetheless, the analysis will be completed. We have to update our municipal services review. So one thing just in conclusion, this adoption of the housing element is kind of the start there. it's going to trigger a bunch of other work that we have to do in terms of long range planning that the city's prepared to do, but it's taken us these past gosh four years to get to this point. And so, um, in conclusion, I'm available for any questions, of course, after the public hearing. That that concludes my presentation. Thank you.

All right. Thank you, Mario. Thank you for the very uh detailed explanation. It goes in hand with what Councilman Sagala said of 500 pages of review um charts, stats, and compliance elements to read through. With that, this is a public hearing and I will open the public hearing for the 2024 2032 6th cycle housing element. I do have some yellow cards regarding 9.3 and I will start with that for the public comment. Uh Devin Tucker, good evening. If you have comments for public comment, you're you're welcome to come forward. Yes.

Uh good evening. Uh my name is Devin Tucker. I live in that neighborhood. Um all I am asking is to maintain it the way it is regardless of what Sacramento is trying to push on us. Sacramento will be changing soon because we have an election coming up. So the policies that are in place now may not be in place in the future. Um the low the medium density is perfect. High density means more traffic. When we moved I moved my family there. We liked it because it was a quiet neighborhood. The only thing we still had the the winery there. The winery was quiet. It didn't throw loud parties. It didn't cause problems. And now 9 years later, they're talking about building multi-level apartments and adding a lot more population to a neighborhood. And that's just not something we're interested in. I don't think that's a good move. But I'm just asking that we leave it as is and find somewhere else. That's all I have to say. Thank you, Mr. Tucker. I have another yellow card from Trisha Dean. Good evening, Trisha. Welcome.

I'm not the public speaker, so please don't hate me for that. I don't have a 500page book of stuff, but I do have some opposition that's about 10 pages long. If anybody would like to read that, I'll give that to Melissa. Good evening, mayor and city council members. My name is Trisha Dean, and I live directly behind the property being considered for resoning. I want to begin by saying this clearly and respectfully. I am not against housing and I'm not against affordable housing. I came from that neighborhood a long time ago and I'm not here tonight to make this personal even though my voice is shaking. I'm here because I believe that the decision matters deeply for the families who already live here and because once this resoning is approved, the neighborhood may never get another chance to come before you because of the bite right clause. The city has the city has said there is no specific project proposed at this time, but that exactly why this matters so much. Residents are being asked to approve the intensity now before we ever see a real project. If the reasonzoning goes through, a future project that fits the zoning could move forward by right without any other public hearing. So tonight may be the only meaningful opportunity families get to speak before something that much m much larger and more intense is placed directly behind our homes. This is a big ask of us. My family moved to because we wanted a safe and stable neighborhood for our child. We worked hard to leave behind an area that no longer felt the right fit for our family. And we invested in this neighborhood that we currently live in because we felt it was quiet, already

established, and very family oriented. This is not just a parcel switch in zoning. This is our lives and this is where our children sleep. This is where we sleep. This is where we walk. We ride our bikes. This is where we feel safe and we're settled. We've been there for 9 years. There's an elementary school that's right nearby. And families choose this area because it's residential in character, close to schools and parks. We love Delago Park. And designated for family life. Those things matter to us. My concerns are practical and specific. There have been no sightsp specific traffic study for the neighborhood streets, no clear project level review of emergency services. I'm an ET for 20 years. I know that multi-level housing brings kind of a slew of other issues and no meaning at full analysis of privacy impacts our families whose homes back right up to that site, which ours is one of those. I loved it when the winery was there. I used to project things on that winery silo and now I don't get to because they're torn down. But we loved it because it was quiet. I believe careful sightspecific environmental review matters before dense residential development is ever allowed there. What makes this especially hard to understand is that Toeri already has other spaces seemed better suited for this kind of growth. The city itself talks about smart growth and infrastructure, community health and community engagement. If high density housing is needed, then it should be placed where infrastructure and planning have already supported it, not imposing directly behind an already established neighborhood without full review. I support housing, but support for housing

does not mean every location is the right one. And it does not mean that the public should lose its voice before a real project is ever shown. So I respectfully ask that you deny the reasonzoning. But if you choose to, then at the very least remove the buy right path and require full sightsp specific environmental review and discretionary public review before any further project can move forward. My question to council is that we've already have the number of units needed specifically 217, but we do have like he said a an extra few units. It's hard for me to swallow that there's no projected plans for this land. And I have 24 unanswered questions at a particular parcel, which is the one behind us. All the neighborhood asks is for transparency and input on a life-changing zone change. Please do vote await our neighbors voice before the public has even seen a real project. Thank you.

Thank you, Trisha. The next yellow card that I have is Daisy Zawaski. Did I say that right, Daisy? Y.

Good evening. Welcome. So, I'm just basically going to read my note that I wrote to you guys. So, my name is Daisy Sawski. I am too concerned about the reszoning of the 10 acres behind our property because that is the that's actually our backyard. So, I understand and support why Tiller City wants to address California housing shortage, but we believe the reasoning is the wrong approach for the neighborhood that has already been established. When we purchased our home, we chose to live in a neighborhood in which there were no plans for highdensity multifamily housing. The highdensity multif family housing should be planned in new developments from the start and not imposed on established neighborhoods like ours. From my understanding, Tiller has other options. They already zoned, approved, and ready for development. These sites can meet state housing requirements without imposing these changes to our established community. Reszoning the tenant acre parcel behind our home will not only continue to impact the volume of traffic in our neighborhood, but it will affect the safety of our kids playing outside. The traffic in our area is already a significant concern and by reszoning the property behind our home would only aggravate the congestion and the chaos we are already experiencing. Additionally, I'm concerned that the high volume housing would place strain on our local school Mission Valley both in terms of capacity and resources. It could negatively affect the quality of education. Respectfully, I would like you, the council, to reconsider the resoning proposal as it could significantly alter the increased traffic density and activity of our community that we deeply value. We hope you will take this into account in your decision.

Thank you, Daisy. Thank you.

All right, so with that other items um with the public hearing, is there anyone in chambers? You didn't have to submit a yellow card who'd like to speak on this item. Okay, Madame Clerk, do we have anyone on the phone? All right. Yes.

Welcome.

Good evening, council. Um, my name is Christa Cunningham. I also live in the community that Daisy, Trisha, and the first gentleman uh were referring to. I don't have anything new to add. I think they covered it very well, so I don't want to take up too much of everyone's time, but I would like to reiterate exactly what they said. Um, we purchased a home in that neighborhood for the neighborhood itself um for the quiet environment, the family oriented environment. So, we would like to respectfully ask that you reconsider the reasonzoning and keep it as it is currently. Thank you. Right. Anyone else in chambers wish to speak?

Good evening. Um my name is Luis Ruvulkaba and a lot of my neighbors we also live on that same um street right behind where we're tending to reszone and we just reiterate the same concerns that they've brought. One of the biggest ones I think is traffic. Um since the new businesses right down the street from us have opened which is like the Dutch coffee, the Circle K gas station, McDonald's. Um at least I personally seen an increase in the amount of traffic through our streets. Um it's a little congested sometimes. A lot of speeding. We are a lot of families who there are kids who play on the street. Um it's become kind of a norm at least for me. I see um a police officer usually parked there kind of monitoring the streets especially cuz cars speed through when they're turning um sharp turns. There's been instances where I've had to veer off closer to the sidewalk as cars turn and they go into where the stop signs are. But it's just increase in traffic. So, I think um if we were to reszone it and increase the amount of population that I don't think there's the infrastructure to support that amount of traffic there, which I think is one of our biggest concerns,

but that's I would just hope that you would all reconsider. Thank you. Thank you for your comments.

Okay, just checking back in if there's anyone else on phone. All right. You have a welcome. Yes.

My name is Sha Dean. I live in the area. Actually, the backyard where you guys are trying to resone is that's our backyard. Um I've worked in four or five story apartment complexes. Our employer doesn't let us go in there at night for certain reasons. We can't do internet installs. We can't do repairs for certain reasons. It's going to bring more issues traffic-wise especially. I like to let my kid ride around like I used to do when I was a kid, but I have to go with them all the time because there's cars going crazy already. You add something like that, you're going to have a lot more cars going all over the place. You're going to have a lot more people going back and forth to that store. The store is open 24/7. Places that are open 24/7 have issues. transient crime, it all makes a difference on those kind of apartments. So, I just prefer if you guys had your other places that you can build and just use those instead of putting it in our backyard.

Thank you for your comments. With that, I'm going to close the public hearing. We have one more. All right. You're welcome to come up.

Hello. Um, I'm Gabriella. I'm 16 years old and I didn't think I was going to do this, but um, me and my family have recently moved to to Larry from the LA county. Um, and we chose this specific neighborhood because we liked that it was a quiet residence. Um, and honestly, me personally, I love looking through my window out into that field. Um, I just think it would be inconvenient to put condos on there. I see if you guys would like to put single house like single family homes, but I've heard you guys and that we have too many of those already. But I think it would be an invasion of privacy, especially for those of us who live right behind it because they would be seeping into our lives. Um, and an environmental aspect too. Um, I just think making places more high density and allowing more innovation would lead to more pollution. And I know that to Larry already like struggles with it since they're in the middle of California. Um, and I would just ask that you guys don't don't like reconsider and that's it.

All right. Thank you for your comments. All right, seeing nobody else approach uh the microphone. With that, I will close the public hearing for item 9.3. Um I and with that and I think some of the comments or perhaps staff uh we did receive um couple of letters, inquires if there was also anything uh of which staff or legal counsel wanted to touch on with this project. Um, and maybe Mark, if I know you're aware of some of the outstanding questions, kind of what we received from the public. Um, if maybe you'd walk through that or staff has responses to some of those.

Yeah, definitely. Um, I have a few comments. I think Thomas probably has some, but before either of us speak. Mario, are there any other additional comments or things that you'd like to address either that was spoken here this evening or in the letters that you have received?

Yeah, the the letters received other than the one I mentioned from leadership council were from uh residents I think in that neighborhood. generally speaking. Um, and they're all fairly commenting on the same concerns. The increase in traffic, um, perceptions of increased, uh, crime or maybe safety. Um, some mention noise. Um, you know, there are there are things in our development code or even the lack of privacy, right? If it's going to be multiple stories, I can understand logically if you have a backup a backyard up against the property, why that would be a concern. But there's things uh one thing the public should note and that was addressed earlier. So there's no specific project now and even though there's not a discretionary process in the future if this resoning is approved project still have to go through site plan review and site plan review while not discretionary is essentially when anyone anyone submits a project city staff from various departments review it to make sure it meets all the city's development requirements. And there are things in there like screening and like if you have a big air condition air handling units, those have to be screened to block noise from adjacent land uses, things like that. That's a very kind of in the weeds example. But there's also design considerations. We look at access and circulation to make sure I mean the this property is right on Mooney Boulevard. So, you would imagine when we come through site plan review with a project, if someone were to propose one, that we'd be looking to maximize access there and not putting those types of trips all through that neighborhood to the south. Um, you could also design a building so it's not hovering over the backyard so that you could have windows or balconies facing a different way and not towards the single family residences. There's a lot of things in the code that would require if a project were to move forward to address those concerns. I think that's where staff felt those are not necessarily hindrances because those are handled

through the development review process and the plan review process. Um and you know and some of it too that so this is all part of the uh specific plan. Um when the specific plan was was developed it's been changed a number of times. Um other than the winery property everything around it was was well planned out. It started out as a golf course, you know, that was changed to a school site. Um, but there were a number of apartments proposed. It's ironic. I'm not, please don't hate me for this, but this is just the truth. The resident, the neighborhood where the residents live now, that was all proposed to be apartments, multif family or condos. Um, that was downzoned. It was changed. That also happened f further to the north in the north uh I would say northeast corner of where a lot of that was going to be multif family it was changed to large single family so we actually have the capacity through the city's general plan where we've looked at hey we already analyzed infrastructure if if the logo would have built out the way it was originally envisioned but since then it's been downzone so we kind of find ourselves in this bind because and it's not just the logo other parts of the city where we had um higher density zoning. In years prior, the city allowed it to be downzoned to lower density zoning. So, we lost that capacity and now we're playing catch-up. And that's kind of kind of how we ended up where we are. But I'll pause there and I can address specific questions or comments.

I'll uh add a couple additional comments. Um you know, these are always challenging issues. Um you know, I've worked in three cities and and these issues show up in every city. Um, you know, there's always the question of where does affordable housing go and where does density, you know, multif family housing go and you just heard our community development director say that this community has struggled with that issue uh for a number of years and councils in the past have down zone in certain cases and certain locations and relocated. And you also heard a community development director talk earlier about we have a deficit of multif family in this city. Um, I came here four and a half years ago. was one of the first things I noticed just driving through the city that we need more multifamily for the city to be healthy. We need more multifamily housing. Um, one of the things I wanted to mention is people always assume or often assume when you talk about multifamily, especially if you're talking about affordable multif family, is they think naturally people may think we're talking about homeless individuals. And the reality is no. when you look at the income levels that Mario showed previously, um often not not necessarily at the lowest level of affordability, like 30% AMI, but when you're at the 50 to 80% AMI levels, um you're talking about entry level firefighters, police officers, teachers, like those are the salaries that you're talking about are the people who can afford to live in those facilities. And so I just don't want people to assume you know these are going to be criminals or um I mean I'm not saying that when you have multif family you and you have density that there can't be parties and there can't be you know disruptions and there's you know there could be you know because you have height right sound can travel and you can have lighting which is why Mario talked about design standards right we have regulations that try to address those issues but one of the other comments I'd like people to think about

is you know I get it. You you have in the behind your wall or your fence on your property, you have this big field, but this was never going to be a big field forever, right? It's it's it's was always going to be developed. Um the only way it could stay a big field is if somebody buys it and turns it into a big field, right? But that's not going to happen. And so, and I don't think anyone here is saying, "Well, we don't want any development." I get that and I appreciate that. But it could be worse. Um, it could be all commercial development. And why commercial development would be worse is because the sound, I mean, think about that. 5 in the morning, all the garbage trucks that are coming through there and making clam, you know, big noise, right? And and the activity that goes on late at night in a commercial development. And so I I'm just trying to provide a different perspective for you guys to think about. And that comes from years of experience. I was in a community before I came here where the citizens like we don't want multif family there and they got commercial development and every one of those citizens wishes it was now multifamily in that community. Um so that's one of the things I want people to think about. Um, the other thing is and this and I I'm not trying to scare anyone here, but I I want council understand and no one's not talking about adopting the housing element, I don't think, but I do want everyone to understand the consequences that are potentially involved here, right? So, as a community, if you don't adopt your housing element, it doesn't happen tomorrow, but soon. If you don't adopt your housing element, what happens at the state level is, and it doesn't even matter if there's a change, let's say in the governor's seat, because we're talking about longstanding state law, um, you don't get state grants. So, a lot of the grants we require that

we rely on for a lot of the things we do, you don't get state funding. Like, that's the first pressure valve they push on you, right? the the next one that's even worse than that, and it takes probably a couple years before you get to this point, they will issue an order that says you don't get to issue any building permits. So, when people show up to the city and say, "Hey, I want to replace my water heater. I need to replace my roof." We can't issue a b building permit for that. So, we're not at that point. I'm just saying there are consequences to decisions and and and hopefully we're not talking about that. we do need to make some adoptions and make some changes, but there are ultimately consequences that cities face. So, I I just wanted to share some of those thoughts and then I know our assistant city manager also had a few comments.

Yeah, I I just wanted to expand on the objective design standards for multifamily and kind of characterize that um for folks who don't work in that field. So, one of the implementation steps after a housing element adopted is moving forward with other ordinance updates, including objective design standards. And what that means is it's a yes or no type thing. And so things that we've seen successful in other jurisdictions when um regulating multif family are things such as you have to have landscape buffering between single family and multif family on the multif family parcel. You have to have a block wall. Some have required singlestory buildings at a certain distance from those um single family homes or required that it's just a travel lane there. And as Mario said, orientation of windows, orientation of patios, there's a lot of things that if they can be created in an objective way of yes, no, um then it's something the city still does have the ability to um regulate. Um, and I I will add, you know, one of the other things about multif family is is this idea of, you know, you know, this motto of opportunity grows here and being able to create an entire community. And that means folks that are living here and working here and that kind of thing. And we've talked to new employees who have relocated outside of the area. And in the conversation, it's where are you living? Oh, well, Vicelia. Vicelia. Well, yeah, that's all I could find. So again, that that is happening here where folks can't that are relocating the area have a hard time finding housing initially.

All right. Thank you staff for the further details. So go around to our council members. Uh Vice Mayor Harrell, I'll start with you. Okay. Council member Sagala.

Yes. Um thank you. Um first of all, I wanted to thank all of you for coming. And I know that uh you know I can hear the passion. I can hear the concern that you have over the what's before us today. Um you know it's it's some decisions that we as council need to make to have our city move forward. As city manager said, there are a lot of uh external factors that require us as as our city planner talked about or city planning department talked about certain responsibilities we have for to me for housing. You know, someone references the election. You know, we have a candidate who says if he gets elected, he wants to build a million homes, right? Okay, great. How do we do that? And who's going to be asked to do that? Who's going to be tasked to do that? Um, I have a lot of my constituents, you know, I represent the west side. I have a lot of my constituents that say, "Hey, why don't we build these types of houses over off of Mooney? Why is it always on the west side? Why is it always apartments over there or low income? That's that's place is just as pretty as it is on the west side." So, I have a lot of my constituents who are just as passionate as as the speakers today saying, "Hey, build it over there." because there aren't that many of those types of projects on that side of town. So, I know these are some tough tough decisions we need to make. Um, you know, actually as before we started the discussion, I had a couple of things uh questions I wanted to ask staff regarding regarding the housing element which, you know, I definitely plan to support for us to adopt this evening. Um, we talked a little bit about the different types of housing, um, I guess bedrooms that were needed, that type of housing. And I know that one of them was for large some of it was for large families, five bedrooms. We don't have that many, but I think we have basically in the past couple of

years have gone in the direction of of reszoning parcels to be small, right? In other words, we've eliminated some like 6,000 foot square parcels and you know earlier today we had the the 4,000 minimum but the developers building a little bit bigger but so we reduced some parcels. Does that force development to go up? In other words, if if you wanted to build a five- bedroomedroom apartment in a smaller parcel, you're going to go up. And I sympathize with the young lady. If you come to my house and go to my backyard, they just built a house that can see my backyard. The bedroom windows are facing to my backyard. So I'm in that situation where, you know, I can hang out in my backyard. But now I got literally from here that wall, a new house is two stories and is looking into my house. It's down at the Liberty Hill 400 homes being built. So I understand that and but that's progress, right? But the question is on parcels like the one that we've just been talking about that are multif family, is there an expectation that they they be multi-story? Yeah, that's a great question to get to the density. So the the state requires a minimum density of 20 units an acre. Generally, you're talking three stories. Um, but to your point, you brought up a very good point about where the market has has evolved, I guess, or um gone to where we're seeing single family residential now. Almost all the new single family homes built are two stories. Some are even three um a few of them. And in fact, we had neighbors complaining about that very same thing about the development on the other opposite side of of where there's twotory homes being built up against a single family backyard. And there's I hadn't thought of that, but there is a lot in our

current development standards, there's much less buffering. In other words, if somebody were to build single family homes, not high density, they can go up to two stories and and those have tiny yards nowadays. And so they're right up against the other properties. Whereas with apartments, we have these development standards that push and require more buffering and you have to include parking that's single level and things like that. So um but that's that is where the market is has headed. So I mean for example I mean I would invite any of the people here today to go to West in O Lima and see an affordable housing project that's three stories tall and how you know it's it was built on the west side uh with with partnership through self-help enterprises and it's a great development. So I would a community center it's clean. The only problem I got is a bunch of tractor trailers parked right on west but that's something we'll try to fix down the road. But I would invite you to go see a development like that just to check it out. But with that, Mario, in in in regards to that, does a particular um recommendation by the byite or by the byite ordinance, does that allow for multi-story by right? So it's it's based on development standards. So we have height restrictions. It's more the density that dictates that, right? And so I think to get to 20 units an acre just practically speaking by default you're at multi-story. Um the byite ordinance though just to clarify it doesn't relate to this reszoning. The by right ordinance is for any property that we're reusing in our sites inventory this cycle that was included last cycle that those sites are now by default by right.

Right. So, I guess for me it's in general because I I remember I don't know it was six I don't know who was around but six eight years ago we had some other property uh east of the 99 that one particular street that we wanted to reszone led to the city manager's argument about what we decided not to and we fell back in regards to having to have that acreage. I I don't want us to kind of fall back either if something needed to happen. But um because I think I think there might be a time where multi-story is starting to come in will need to come in to for us as a tool to kind of reach some of those numbers right but again it depends on the parcel. So, so, so those were some questions I had regarding this particular conversation, but um I wanted to if I don't know if you can go back to that map. I the one thing that really kind of took me by surprise was the maps that are in the in in the report starting like at page 520 through 550 or whatever. Just a bunch of maps. I'm curious to understand how we created a new part of the city called Northwest Taller because by all means, West Taller has always been J Street or pretty much the railroad track, but now we have a new part of the city called Northwest Taller that goes all the way to Blackstone. And so I'm curious in the sense of how that was developed, who who created it, because it throws off a lot of the figures. it throws off a lot of the stats in my mind as to the stats you talked about poverty, housing, and so forth. So, I'm curious to see how that map or who decided to create a new neighborhood in Taller called Northwest Taller. That's pretty much between J Street and Blackstone, north of downtown.

I think it was the image that showed all the different Yeah. The zoning the zoning out multif family units, I think it No, if you go back Yeah. Oh, yeah. in terms of what's available. 70. Yeah. It's in power. Yeah. No. Yeah, it's in the PowerPoint. There's one map, but there's like 30 of them in the in the report that,

by the way, the report has amazing data. If anybody wants to Yeah, that one. So you see that little section that's called Northwest Taller which um oh it basically includes West Taller which I I said J Street the railroad track and then now we have northwest Taller going to I believe that black line on east is black as part of it is Blackstone. So, um, it just threw me off in regards to like does that impact the data or, you know, who came up with that sort of map? Excellent question, council member. You can blame me. Okay.

These are informal design neighborhood designations that we were required to create to designate the different parts of the city. They don't follow council boundaries. they don't follow. It's essentially a way to capture the differences in the housing stock and in the development patterns in the city. And Northwest Taller includes is largely single family residential. It includes kind of the area north of Prosperity up there up towards Cartill, but it includes some of the housing built in like the 90s uh west of what is that East Street there. um versus if you compare it to historic West Hillary or Southwest Hillary for that matter, the demographics and the data that's collected is substantially different. The housing stock is much older. There's more multifamily. There's more mixed single family and multif family. Quick planning nerdism tidbit is that uh before essentially World War II, we didn't really have, you know, single family zoning, multif family zoning. it was kind of mixed mixed in together. So the older parts of town naturally have a different makeup of housing. Uh the demographics, right? You you heard me mention where the older housing stock tends to be lower rents, lower property values. Um and so south and then if you look on the other side of town, we have northeast which encompasses by and large the logo. It encompasses kind of going up towards 99 and then we have southeast. So there are different development patterns, different demographic data is collected in each in each one. Um this was something that working with the consultant, we were asked to split the city up this way into a variety. Now I chose the names, so you can blame me for those, but essentially it was to show kind of the differences um in the city. Uh, and so that was

really the intent is just to and the reason I bring it up is because my concern if you look at Northwest Taller and and you consider the J Street boundary the the expanded uh zone kind of in my mind dilutes what's really happening on the west side. you see a lot of little brown, a lot of little more density as people are talking about housing and things like that that it kind of just basically dilutes it by expanding the area to say, well, we have this amount where in reality if you if you really use the west side boundary, that part of the northwest taller really has a lot of that type of housing that you know uh you know people object to or want to object to. So, I mean I I so that was just kind of what really hit me was that, you know, instead of it saying, "Hey, it's it's tucked here," now it's tucked here in regards to expanding that zone. So, um, but like I said, I was just curious to see how that came about. And, uh, so, Mr. Mayor, I had a couple other questions. I don't know if you wanted just to go around to see if anybody else and then I'll come back or leave it up to how you want to proceed on that.

Sure. I think coming and I don't Well, before I go, generally go last. Council member Sarah. Sure.

Um, I do want to thank all of you for being here. I hear what you're saying. You've been heard tonight. Um, I think there is some misconception about whether you still have opportunity to make changes, that this isn't set in stone, that there's ways to create um, answers to your questions about traffic, about noise, about some of some of the issues that that have been brought up. Um I also represent the west side. So I'm uh aware of some of the feelings that are are traditional in Tiller about the difference between west and east side. I don't think the I don't think that tracks actually uh delineate people's worthiness or people, you know, it's just it's a it's a mindset, right, that's been in Larry for a long time. Um, so I think that after listening to to both the city manager and Mario that there and I think Thomas as well, there will be opportunities to address those issues that you've brought up tonight. If a project comes forth and that project is a three-story building or a two-story building that there will be opportunities to look at buffers, to look at ways to keep people from looking in your backyard. Um, just, you know, so so it's not over. It's not over tonight. even if we were to approve that it's not over that you still have a voice, you still have an opportunity to um bring forth your concerns and that those are concerns that we all have as well. So I just again I appreciate you being here. It's the only way we ever know anything is when people come forth and talk about it and so we really appreciate you coming and sharing your your thoughts, your concerns for your families and for for your quality of life. So thank you for coming. Yes. is I think to piggyback on that quickly was in the public hearing of

neighbors when that process comes out and I think it was a comment that Trisha Dean had noted that was that in that public process in the public hearing to get the neighborhood that's a time to do that in that public process to voice those concerns and to walk through that in that process and we you know um it helps to have letters and neighbors and it helps to be here absolutely of coming and speaking and taking part in the public comment. Yes, very much so. And endorse I've been there too, but being in the in the public, participating in public comments, wanting to run for city council, getting elected, and and here I am through the issues throughout the years similar with this and many others. um hearing that and I think the breakdown which I'm taking notes tonight as the speakers have and my evaluation of reading the materials there was a lot of materials this is the packet we get you heard staff walk through that knowing where our maps are as the council member said in going through this issue um one of the things that I looked in evaluating this is one of the things that I think Mario touched on was also the history of Delago go um care very much for the sanctity of your home and the creed of your neighborhood. Um I myself at one time lived in Delago officially back when it very first started um in 2000. Um I lived there, moved Delago was part of my district when I initially uh was elected and the part of taking neighbors concerns uh forward of the importance of what that creed and community is of Delago is very important with that is I looked at the history of Delago and its master development back from those time periods and

crossexamined to some of the points for which staff touched on some of the concerns what we have in our talk in what we have in our packet and Delago um does have Delago currently does have apartments. It has apartment complexes along PO Delago that were part of uh division as it built out. Um Delago does currently have twotory units. I'm not aware of threetory but of of two units. Uh Delago is also a bit of a cornucopia that has many commercial lots. Um, it does have a 24-hour gas station and a spot for a grocery store and other commercial sites to be built. One of the items that we have, which is a master developer and and staff touched on this too, was it's a willing property owner. So the current property owner which is um Cesus for did not you know oppose this or provide the the opposition with that's it's a willing property owner and with that and the overall Delago master development um just amongst Tauri um amongst the first houses that were built on uh Chardonnay um that came in off PO my my point that I looked at is a bit of the puzzle pieces for which Delago um encompasses. The other part some of the concerns by all means a careful environmental review and so with that as the development standards and development projects even by right that was touch touched on still have an environmental review process that has to go into the development of a project. Uh the other part which was traffic absolutely and I think the part that I'd look at is that we have an exit that goes out to Mooney Boulevard

ingress egress issues that will uh come into this you know l 10 acres. What does that look like in the future going out towards the commercial development to the south? Does it penetrate specifically into neighborhoods the ingress and ingress but at the end I think it matches the fabric that um has been developed in Delago um the market is still the driver and a willing property owner and taking this zone and this isn't absolute and I think coming back is one of the comments is our voice you know being taken away and there's two elements which is there's the byright provision which the state has we mentioned a couple assembly bills, senate bills. What does that mean for our our development? But at the same time, the state does not dominate. I'd like I want to be a bit rebellious um and speak of what what does that mean for coming back to that is you have this by provision of specific developments but not all developments. So only there are a few by right, but that doesn't mean everything coming in by right. That's just one of the options for u some specific delements. We still have development standards. I touched on this earlier before is that when we have vacant lot, we do a zoning overlay and the process to go through is those other steps still all have to be executed with it. And I think as council member s of of engaged and what do those steps look like? I'm conscientious. Uh, is Taller gonna have five story or six story or what does that look like? I, as Don Learon, pardon Don as I quote you on this, I don't have a crystal ball. I'm not the only one to steal that quote. Granted, I don't have a crystal ball, but it's taking these puzzle pieces to what it does that mean to the Delago and the city of Talleria as a whole. By right is only specific part.

We still have our development standards and um as the staff touched on just so I don't repeat myself, we'll walk through that process. I'm just looking over my notes of some of the concerns and what I had with this as well. Um I I absolutely respect I think the overall view of leaving this this out or leaving portions of it out. Um, as we heard in putting these overlays, a lot of it is compliance with the housing element, compliance towards this cycle and compliance with the state. How do we fabric that in compared to a sledgehammer? I was concerned is this a sledgehammer? And I think it brings me back to it. It's bits and pieces with that on on um Hillman to these we have uh market apartments as well different develop the development standards. Um I think one of the things that we need to and I say this and push is we heard the city manager say come back with development standards and get that updated that that plays such a huge role of future development. This isn't in front of us today. this is zoning. There's a future part. What does that look like? We need to have those development standards on our agenda in our schedule. So, um tried to have a wide view with this and incorporate the residents concern. What does the state want? What did our staff do? And uh all things considered with that and surely absorb other comments from council members. So, Mr. Harold, I'll come back to you if you had anything at this time. You just mentioned my one big concern, development standards. What I've heard is we could require this to be done. We could require that

to be done or this could be done or that could be done. I would be more comfortable with something that was concrete that you know that we're going to protect these people's privacy. uh do something about traffic control, traffic calming measures and things like that. Uh I be perfectly honest at this point I cannot support this council. What I will be happy to do by the way is um I will we already we have development standards. We have a lot of them and we have a number of them that address this specific issue that is being discussed tonight. Mario in general talked about some of them. One of the things we will do is I will put in the weekly report. I don't know if we can get it done for you for this Friday, but we'll put in the weekly report an example of a variety of development standards simplified for you so you can see how they apply to existing pro or proposed potential projects like this. And then of course, you know, we will start moving forward with the process of of hiring the engineer to help us uh come back and revisit our development standards because there may be other ones you want to add. And so we'll get that process going.

So Mr. Mayor, I had a couple other questions. Um, but on that particular issue, we're kind of in a pickle, right, where we keep saying we don't want to put too much hindrance on developers with a bunch of things they got to do, but then we also got to balance what we think are important community needs. So that's that's going to be definitely uh something we have to deal with. You know, we have the building industry association that wants to build build and they want to do they don't want regulations. They want to build and then we have community folks that have situations as explained tonight. But Mario, I um I had a question for you in terms of the AFH. Is there any reason why the council couldn't take that as a standalone conversation? I know it's part of the the the housing element. we have to adopt tonight or want to adopt tonight. But is there any way to pull that out and deal with it in the future? You know, like a study session or really tackle that or is it just has to be in the element process?

No, it's it's a mandated requirement. Um, no, no. I'm just saying I know it's mandated, but can we as a council take it and even further discuss it more as sort of a topic to see what can we do through through legislative, you know, recommendations or policy ordinance changes. So, I think to to to mark that similar be the question, there's nothing precluding us from making that a standalone conversation in the future. Oh, 100%. So everything in the housing plan, all the actions and the programs including those around AFH, this you heard me mention as much work and as exhausting as it is to get to this point,

this is just the policy document that would be getting adopted. There's a whole slew of implementation measures, right,

that now the state's like, great, you have it adopted, now what are you doing to address these things? And so we would have a whole conversation around different city policies. Um, you heard Mark mention we have, you know, in in the coming months here before too long, we're going to have a workshop around housing implementation. How do we increase affordable housing? How do we increase housing of different types or senior housing? What are, you know, and there's going to be policy tools that we'll be working with council on what are the right tools for Teriy? Because something that might work in the Bay or in LA may not be right for Tallery. So what are the things that can help us meet those goals with the local context? And so absolutely it'll be.

Well, so that was kind of kind of my last point I wanted to talk about on this topic was, you know, I I I perused, can't say I read every single word, but I went through all 500 pages of that document in terms of finding things that worked out of interest. But the one thing that really stood out to me were the tables of the different goals and the different deadlines and the different comments as to where we were as a city on those and there were yes a lot of not yet there not done yet or in progress. So um for me I just it doesn't have to be the answer tonight but if when we do have a session you know we come back on this topic I would like um to get a kind of get an idea of where you guys are at because I know preparing it took a long time as you noted in your in your timeline. I would imagine implementation is also going to take some time and I would hope that that we would have a conversation or or at least council can suggest of those goals what might be some priority because for example um the one that really pops out at me um is farmworker housing a need for farmworker housing we have a couple of projects in the city that provide farmworker housing and from what I read in the report you know we're not quite there yet in terms of even thinking about what steps need to be implemented. But I would hope that as part of that process when the city manager brings this item back that we can kind of help maybe guide as a as a council, hey, well, we want to make farmworker housing a priority or we want to make multi- multitory affordable housing a priority or whatever the case may be. So that that's just a re, you know, my suggestion that that that's a conversation we can have. But other than that, whatever motion needs to be taken, I'm ready to provide that. Mr. Mayor,

sure. One of the things which I was talking to the city manager about and asking, which was talked about is, and I think to what Councilman Harrow had brought up, I touched on those development standards. We have development standards, but there's other concerns and elements perhaps with this project like others in the community that we want to address. So I said if if we have a vote can we also take that vote and then also have the incentive of bringing forth those development standards in front of us. This can we do that in with this vote as well and he was saying that that yes you can.

I would I would just make them separate votes if you find sort of to keep the record pristine in terms of the items that are before you and then you're giving us additional direction to come back with those standards. And part of that is I think one of the things we we are mindful of as council members is unintended consequences. So as we look this and evaluate it that unintended consequences for which staff touched on is um the state will take step number step one step two step three and their overlay with that um and there's consequences that comes from that. a state is very forceful and very integrated into this process as we heard. So part of looking at it is okay how how do we mix that? How do we work with that? And part of I think it comes back to those concerns too is well I think as a community you know there's views of we'd want or would that change if we needed senior housing or we needed veterans housing. Um those type of elements also fit in um as well as well as two and threebedroom and four bedrooms and you had said as the staff did we can use those development housings that a project comes in with this it's a mix 10 acres can have a mix as we're seeing in developments a lot of developments aren't solely one thing they are a mixture of it okay and I think for me it pushes if it comes back to traffic and we're going to do traffic calming measures when a site plan is presented. Uh we might speak for myself, but how can we button that up? How can we address those concerns so that when a project comes in front of us, we have these additional items, you know, further addressed and that so what I understand is as Mark said, you can we can do that. We can work through that. Um,

council, I look to you if we have additional comments or concerns or if you have an action on this item. So, Mr. Mayor,

Mr. Mayor, Council, I'm so sorry to interrupt. I do need to make a correction to the recommended action that's in your staff report. Um, just to make sure that you're taking the appropriate action. It does need to state that your PA that's a pass to print on the ordinance to amend the city's zoning ordinance to add chapter 10.83 byite approvals. Um, you're adopting a resolution for the amendment of the general plan land use designation. And then you're also passing to print an ordinance for the reszone for 10 acres of um, APN49-070-008 and then you're adopting a resolution um, for the amend to the certified environmental impact report. I just wanted to make sure that the appropriate action is being taken. Um it just wasn't reflected correctly on the staff report. Ma

madam clerk, can you uh add I mean let me know what the on number two and amendment. So that would be adopting a resolution. So one and three are pass to print ordinances and two and four are adopting resolutions.

I think I got it. All right. So I'll make the motion. So um so Mr. Mayor Council, I move that we adopt a resolution approving a pass to print an amendment to the ZO city zonings ordinance to add chapter 10.83 83 by right approvals and adopting the resolution uh to amend for an amendment to the general general plan land use designation for medium density residential to high density residential for 10 acres of assessor parcel number 149-070-00008 to meet the housing element adequate sites requirement for the c city's regional housing needs allocation three paths to print to reszone from RM2 to RM4 for 10 acres of assesses parcel APN490708 to meet the housing element site uh for the regional plan. I don't know if that's a duplicate one, but uh Renee. And then uh number four, adopt a resolution for an for an addendum to the certified environmental impact report prepared for the city's 2014 general plan um and the 2024 2032 sixth cycle housing element and actions proposed in the housing plan. So I think I got most of it or all of it. So that made my motion. We have a motion.

I will second the motion. We have a motion and a second for the recommended action. I don't have to repeat all that, do I? Okay. I know I'm going to get tongue tied that uh I'll move to a a vote with that. Again, this does not require a roll call vote or does it require roll? Okay. So, council members, all in favor? I. Council members oppose. Nay.

Okay. This passes 31. And with that, thank you everybody for being here. And as well, I also want to encourage you if you have additional questions, especially what we had talked about tonight or actions, feel free to submit those communications. The other action that we have with this was then what we talked about the development plans. So development standards um does that need a formal vote or is that a consensus which is the discussion of our development standards for these areas? No.

No. I think a consensus is enough for us. I think what we'll do is we will give you like I said in a weekly report um what we currently have so you can chew on that and be thinking about that and then we will schedule something for city council's review of those same items as well as the discussion about what is the timeline for moving forward with a uh modifications to our development standards and that would also give council a chance at that meeting if there are any specific ones they want us to make sure we're reviewing not that that would be your only chance but that'll be your first chance to also say make sure as we're hiring this consultant we're looking at these other items. Okay, thank you.

Sorry, lots of notes. Let me get back to my agenda.

We are in 10.1 general business economic development quarterly and September. September told you I'd get tongue tied. economic development and quarterly and September updates. And I apologize that was a typo. It's supposed to be March, not September. I didn't catch that when I read it. Yeah, it's taken. I didn't notice it until tonight. Right. And so with your um agenda packet um was the economic development bulletin for the month of March. And this is also the time where I have the presentation for your quarterly update that covers the months of January, February, and March.

Okay.

And so, um, first I'm going to just go over a couple of, um, highlights of some development that's, um, been occurring. Um, just specifically regarding commercial projects. uh as part of the downtown revitalization efforts, we did have the 26th hour that opened um in this uh last quarter. And I also wanted to let you know that um Ross is opening a second location here in Talleria and it's going to be located at the shopping complex at Cross and J Street. Um they're in just in the permit stages right now to um they're going to be remodeling and doing some tenant improvements. And so I don't have a um time frame yet as to when they actually plan to open, but it is going to be a second location. Um just a few projects that came um through site plan uh in this last quarter that I wanted to highlight. On Cherry Avenue, there's going to be a mixeduse development that's going to include two apartment buildings uh and one retail building. And then um there's also going to be uh two retail buildings that are being proposed um over at the east end of Prosperity and at Salaria. And then the last item I wanted to just point out is the family healthc care network is um hoping to construct a new u building for a dental clinic um at uh Cherry and Merit Avenue. And then for just um various projects and programs that your staff has been working on, I want to give an update on those things. Um the downtown ped uh the petitions were mailed out to the property owners um back in March. Uh the

deadline was last week uh for those to be received by the city. So I should be able to provide you an update on that shortly. our economic development strategic plan has been going um and moving forward and so at this point um they're just finalizing the plan and that we intend to bring to you on June 2nd for our entertainment district. Uh we did receive three statement of qualifications for a master developer and interviews were held earlier this month and um recommendation for that master developer will be coming to council at the May 5th council meeting. And something new um that the state has implemented as part of their California jobs first is a business ready sites program. Uh this is something that is featuring um ready ready ready to go sites um and parcels throughout California that are entitled zoned properly for various industrial uses. So it'll make it a lot easier for site selectors to go directly to the state's website and look for um potential locations um for their businesses. And so this is something that I submitted a few months back. And right now, um, we do have 13 economic regions throughout California. And so last I had checked from a couple weeks ago, only 33 sites have been identified um throughout the state of California. And our particular region, which is the central Sanwalken Valley region, uh, of those 33 sites, nine of them are in our region. And of those nine sites, we have three qualifying sites here within city limits that I had submitted.

And for the little update for the downtown TA program, we currently have four loans that have been approved, five grants that have been approved, and we currently have two additional applications that um are under review. And just with the regional sports plex, we are currently having a feasibility study um that's begun by our consultant Victus advisors and the maker space at the T-Biz um facility that was brought up at the very beginning of the meeting. So I just wanted to let you know that a lot a lot of equipment has been ordered and delivered u for the maker space. Um there does need to still be some construction um done in that area and so we are expecting that to take place this summer, get everything installed and then so hopefully sometime in the fall time frame we will have that grand opening. Uh back in February we did um have a booth at the World A Expo in the International Business Center. And in the um international business center there were a total of 52 representatives uh or from different countries that through that building. Um so it was a great opportunity for us to meet and network and talk to potential um folks that are interested in locating here in Teriy. And um again like many previous years there were over 100,000 attendees to the a expo. And then last month uh we did attend the ICS at Monterey convention. We partnered with the Chamber of Commerce for a booth there and um there were over 10,000 attendees at this um particular con two-day convention. There were over 75 exhibitors that included multiple

retailers, site selectors, developers. Um, we were just busy the entire time. Um, there were a total of four of us there. Um, myself, Donette, Glattis, and Council Member Sagala. Um it was a it was a great turnout, a lot of followup that we're going to be having um with various um folks that um certainly have a lot of interest here in Tiller and that is it. Thank you. I was thinking if I had any questions uh but that's good to hear. Thank you for the report and thank you for the update. Yeah. So on our agenda, we do have one suggestion. Sorry. Go ahead.

Um in the future, would it be possible to add the tero corridor project? I know that uh even if it's a bullet point that we're seeking a consultant or whatever. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, I can add that one to kind of see where we're at on that. Absolutely. Thank you. I know it's it's starting to get late, so see if we can um get through these next two items we have left. Uh 10.2 city attorney review process. Um yeah, I put this on on the agenda and consents from council. Uh so Mr. Mandel, if you have an update to add on this.

Yeah, just seeking council direction. uh you know essentially there the the thought was that if you decided you wanted to move forward with the city review it'd be similar to how you review the city manager our HR department at your direction would look at other communities and how they do it would develop a form for you and a process bring that back to you at a future meeting for your adoption and you would start the process yeah I think this isn't something that needs to reinvent the wheel so the HR process has that with our city manager and I think if there's a consensus do some research of what other communities do for that prior attorney review. Yeah. Okay.

Well, just real quick, when was the last time we ever did this? I know we've had the I'm trying to think how many city managers we I mean city attorneys we've had since I can step out if this if it was just the direction I was going to stay. But if you guys want to discuss, I can excuse myself. I don't think we're going to get into that detail. I think I'm just curious. I think he's just asking more like a point of order like when was the last time like historical like uh you know I mean I obviously I know the role play maybe better. Sorry.

So I know the role we play in in obviously just for the general public the city council has I don't even want to get oversight but on two individuals the city manager and the city attorney terms of directly hiring and firing whatever you know that's what we have but I was just trying to remember historically. I mean, I've been in I've been in meetings where we've done both on on the city attorney, but we've never had a process. My could be wrong. My understanding is since this city attorney's office has been under contract, they've not been reviewed formally by the city council. Okay. Um I think that direction makes sense and appreciate staff's research. Thank you. Thank you.

Item 10.4 um achieve strategic plan review. Mr. Thomas,

thank you. Um Melissa's going to get the screen up real quick. So, there we go. Um so, as you'd seen the PDF version of kind of that tree view of the strategic plan um previously that kind of has all the layers of detail. Um, we then worked with the consultant because they had have a number of different ways that that can be visualized on a public-f facing web page. And so, um, on the other tab here, u, Melissa has started to build out how this will look now that it becomes kind of, um, deployed and actionable. So you can see here this first category kind of drops down with economic development and it's all of those items that you saw in the tree view previously and then it's the task this aligns to which is what thing it's related to. Right now we haven't put status updates in so that's why the status field is not started and the last update field is not populated. So the unique thing here and what's really going to be the useful part for the public is this field blank field here that says last updates comment. That's actually the staff member that is assigned that particular task when they provide their quarterly or monthly update. what they've put in the achieve it system will then automatically publish here on the web page and show the last and show the date that that information was added um and show the status of it. Is it on track? Is it behind? That type of thing. So, we've just started to build out this

initial framework um with achieve its system. Um and Melissa actually on economic development if you want to scroll down on that one. Um, and you it's kind of hard to see in in this version because we are still building out the page, but that one that you see is the Ino corridor plan and it has a green showing that it's on track. I punched in an edit on the 7th that said the RFP was released and what day it was released. So eventually every single one of these items will have that level of public facing detail of these types of priorities. Um if you like I can provide a detailed presentation line by line on every single one of these. Um

no thank you.

Um council for me the most important thing is and we don't have to do this tonight but sometime soon if you want to reflect back on this we you have it in your packet. I sent it Junior Weekly Report. The top categories, the the strategic priorities, they they really are the same that you saw last time, although we modified the language a little bit in some of them and simplified some of them. But that's to me the most important thing that I need from you. Like those are our priorities. And then all the projects we can, you know, the goals and the projects and the performance measures. I mean, we want your input on those, too, of course, but those we can kind of buff out um and make sure all the things we're working on are fitting in the right categories. The the one other comment I'll share with you is, you know, I've been involved in this a couple times. Um this is probably of any city that I've seen the most comprehensive, most complex. Um I mean, we got a ton of stuff that we're doing, which partly is a reflection in my opinion of how far behind we were. And um I'm I'm almost tempted to like simplify this and pull some of this off. I don't know yet. I I I'm not saying I'm going to do it. I'm probably going to let staff continue to build it out as they see fit and then maybe over time we simplify it. Maybe it's better in the beginning to show everybody everything we're doing and then simplify it later. But that's a thought that I have going through my mind because I I think some people are going to get lost in all of this. But uh we we if you have any comments tonight, please share them. If not, we we intend to just keep proceeding down this path. Thomas, did I interrupt? Did you have other things you wanted to say?

No, no, no. That's perfect. Um, mayor,

I I'll just be quick and I shared this with Thomas. Um, if you're seeing this on the board up there, this might seem the presentation of it might seem odd or walk through. However, I absolutely love what this does. And I shared that with him because what I can follow through at the top is the strategic priorities. Then I go down to goals. I go down to performance measures. I go down to initiatives involved in agencies. I sit on boards involved from my own position at my company. Um having a strategic dashboard that you can walk through and pull some of these measures. I just I really endorsed it and I like it. Now what you're saying, we might clean some of this up and merge some items, but the the other part with this software is you can click and go into these items. Nine times out of ten there's one thing that strategic plans always miss and it's strategy. They call it a strategy plan but it doesn't have the strategy and you work through this. So working through this you know you're leading teams you're leading a large division and others to get all those divisions in here which we have multiple divisions. I just want to say is I like I said we're trying to get done uh here but enjoyed it and look forward to how you kind of just improve on it.

If I could just add one last comment I'm sorry about this. Um what's really important about this as well is not just because of transparency and people understand how one thing how where something sits in the context of the goal or the priority. Yeah. I I often share this with staff. There's an old story um I wasn't there so I don't know if it's true but I heard that when John F. Kennedy was walking through the space center. Um, and of course at that time was the goal was to put a man on the moon. He saw a man mopping the floor and he he went when he went up to the young man, he said, "Excuse me, young man." He's like, "What what what is your job here?" And he said, "My job is to put a man on the moon." And what I like about that is every single person in our organization plays an important role. and they don't always get to see what their role is in the big picture, but this helps them understand because if they're working on a project that's maybe way down at the bottom of this tree somewhere and they're playing an important part in that making that happen or they're the person inputting the data for example, they can understand how that rolls up into the big picture and moves the dial and that's how you ultimately get organizational buyin, community buyin. when everybody starts rowing in the same director direction, the things you can get done are are amazing. And so we're just kind of starting this and so I'm hopeful that that will pan out that way. Thank you.

All right. Anything else, council members? Okay. Moving forward, um I think is I'll go to future agenda items. We don't have any submitted staff updates. The rare and only time I'm going to is is there any anybody of the staff member that has pressing announcement you'd like to make? I have one. Um staff would like to continue close session items 131 and 132 unless there's an objection from council. I think I think we already lost our attorney. The other attorney the special attorney we bringing I think they had to check out at this point. So yeah,

I I tried. Would we would we continue those items to May 5th? No, we would just I'll just I'll just add those to the next agenda. Okay. 131 and two. So we would still do three. Okay. Well, that frees up some time for staff updates. Is there any other uh reports any any staff would like to make? Chief, I see you're reaching for the microphone. Chief and Chief. Okay. All right. I do have one. Okay.

Uh it's just I think a good habit of us to get into. I just want to mention a couple things in the last two weekly reports so the citizens can hear them. Um we have we have issued our RFQ to hire a firm to help us with our corporation yard update. Uh we are working on the Caesar Chavez park renaming committee. We'll be bringing that to council I think on May 5th. Um where we have two council members, two parks commissioners who have already been identified. We went back and did the research and determined that that it is the park is owned by the school district, but um the original planning of the renaming was involved involved the school district in that decision. So, we invited the school district, they've identified two members they'd like to have on the committee and then we're working on the sort of the the time frame and how the committee will work. That'll come back to you on the May 5th. our pavement management study that um that's a big project and I I saw on social media somebody was complaining that we went out and bought a truck and no we didn't buy a truck. We hired a consultant who has a truck and their truck goes out and tests all the roads throughout the entire city. So you see them driving out there. It's important. We didn't buy it. That's just part of their contract. They own it. But we are hoping to have it done in the summer. It's going to get pushed into September. It'll still be done in time for us to be able to use that information this year. But it's just super important that we do that study. Uh, Splash Pad, we've had a lot of folks asking us to open it up sooner. We normally don't open it up until Me Memorial Day, which is May 25th this year, but the parks department has figured out a way to open it up uh the first weekend in May. Is that correct? And we'll be open every weekend in May and then we'll go after Memorial Day to every day. Yep. And we were able to do that without incurring any additional cost, which was our concern. Um, one other thing I wanted to mention was we've saw some chatter on on on uh social media. Um, I don't know why, but all of a sudden everyone was concerned about why did the city change from allowing three days for watering down to

two and we hadn't changed it. That was the case since 2021, I believe it was. Is that correct? Yes, that's correct.

Yeah. So, I just wanted to clarify that for the record. We're doing the same thing we've been doing since 2021, folks. That's all. Thank you. Okay. So, with that, we will move to recess to close session for a conference with legal counsel uh regarding government code 54956.9D4. Is there anything else, council, I need to add to that. All right. Well, recess to close session. Steve and uh and Ken, thank you for staying through. with us and stand for the meeting.

Go ahead.

We'll reconvene from close session. There is nothing to report for close session. And with that, we'll adjourn our Terary City Council meeting at 9 48 p.m.