 Good morning and welcome to the zoning administrator meeting of July 20th Sorry, we're a couple minutes late here It's 10 33 and I'm gonna go ahead and call the meeting to order first I want to introduce myself. My name is Susie Murray and I'm the zoning administrator for the city of Santa Rosa I am also a senior planner here with the city and I've been here since 2006. So I've been around a while So let's see the second item on the agenda is public comment And this is a time when any person may address matters that are not listed on the agenda Which are within the subject matter of the jurisdiction if you have questions ask The public may comment on agenda items when the item is called Each speaker will be allowed three minutes And since we don't have anybody in the room yet, I'm gonna ask if anybody is attending If you wait if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand You may find the raise hand button at the bottom of the screen If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute once called upon We do have a hand raised Caller go ahead and say your name and your And go ahead Hello You need to unmute please Yes We can hear you Yes, we're at nineteen forty eight Cooper drive And am I supposed to say what you want to talk about now No, you know what that's going to be the first item this is a time when you can comment on anything that's not on the agenda But you'll have an opportunity and I know you're there now so I'm I'm interested to hear from you Okay After you hear the planners presentation, okay Hey, thank you You bet. Thank you Are there any other hands raised There are no other hands raised Great Then moving on to item three point one The statement of purpose And the zoning administrator is appointed by the director of planning and economic development And has the responsibility and authority to conduct public meetings and hearings and to act on applications for minor or reduced review authority entitlements These are basically land use permits A determination or decision by the zoning administrator may be appealed to the appropriate appeal appeal body including the design review board Cultural heritage board planning commission or city council as applicable to the decision The Every day or any action taken today is Maybe appealed within 10 calendar days and since the 10th calendar day actually will fall on a Sunday It'll bump out to the following Monday which Have a mental block against finding this in advance will be July 31st So the appeal period for any actions today will be July 31st So the next item 3.2 on the agenda are zoning administrator reports I'd like to point out Say that we have just released the general plan update draft It's available for public review and comment and I want to encourage everybody to anybody listening tell your family tell your friends This is the time to get involved if you are concerned about What's going to happen around your home or your business your neighborhood This is the time to understand what's allowed So you can you can review that draft at the URL address or what some of us know is the address bar Santa Rosa forward just type that in Santa Rosa forward all one word and you should get there You can also Google Santa Rosa forward and you'll get there that way as well So moving on now to our scheduled items the first item on the agenda 5.1 This is a public meeting for a single family residence and attached accessory dwelling unit This project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act It's a hillside development and it's proposed at 1964 Cooper Drive file number HDP 22-009 The planner is Mike Janusek and Mike I'm going to let you go ahead and give you a presentation Thank you zoning administrator Murray good morning everyone I'll go ahead and share my screen and then begin my presentation Okay, so my name is Mike Janusek I'm a contract planner with them group and this morning I'll be presenting the staff report for the proposed single family residence and attached to you at 1964 Cooper Drive And this is file number HDP 22-009 So the request before you this morning is a hillside development permit to allow a single family home and attached ADU The reason a hillside development permit is required is because zoning code section 20-32028 stipulates that any new development on a lot with a slope of 10% or greater requires the hillside development permit and the zoning administrator has the authority to approve this permit pursuant to zoning code section 20-32060D2A Here's an aerial view of the site. You can see it's one of the, the last two remaining parcels in the Gordon Ranch subdivision, which was approved as a PD district in 2003. The project site is approximately a quarter acre. It's located along a private drive that sort of meanders up the hill. And there is fire access only. There's a gate at the top and there's fire access that connects to Gordon Lane. But otherwise it's a private road within the subdivision that was constructed as part of the public improvement plan for the subdivision. And it's the site as you can see is completely surrounded by single family residential uses. Here's a view of the property looking Northwest across the site from the top of the slope, you can see it, it falls front to back. And generally the lot exhibits slopes between 10 and 25% grade. And you can see there's two existing oak trees. Those are not on the site. Those are beyond the property line to the lot to the West. Here's the view looking in the opposite direction to the Southeast. You can see there's mature trees to the neighboring parcel to the rear. And then again this oak is is on the adjacent parcel. The general plan land use designation is low density residential. While the zoning, again as PD district and that that's the Gordon Ranch subdivision. It's PD 0304. Here's the site plan, which shows the layout of the home and and the sighting setbacks. It's a 2,530 square foot single family dwelling with an attached 750 square foot ADU. The project is accessible from the private road via a 15 foot driveway that leads to an attached to car garage. There's also two additional parking spaces in the driveway. And you can see there's there's a stairwell that leads to a little lower level deck that wraps around to a separate entry for the lower level ADU. And there's no required parking space for the ADU because the zoning code allows no parking requirement for an ADU that's that's submitted in conjunction with a single family dwelling. The site plan also shows the setbacks the applicable setbacks are the specific hillside setbacks, which is required as 20, 20 foot front yard setback 15 foot side setback and 15 foot rear setback 21 is provided in the front. It's also a 19 foot required garage setback. So the project exceeds both of the front and the garage setback. It meets the side setback of 15 here and 15 at the rear and it exceeds the setback on the left hand side of the screen with a 20, 28 foot side setback. Grading is generally limited to the building pad and the other development areas adjacent and the home is cited on the flattest portion of the lot. The PD requires 40% max lot coverage and 32 is proposed. Here's a look at the front and the rear elevations. As you can see, they're from looking at the front of the home only the upper level is visible. And that's because it's a split level foundation. And so then you see as the home steps down the hill then then both levels and a bit of the understory are visible at the rear elevation. And there's a differentiation of finished material so there's hardy panel on the upper story and then hardy shingle at the lower story. And the massing is further broken up along the rear elevation through the use of both an upper and lower story deck. You can also tell by the particularly the rear elevation that the hip reform is oriented in the direction of the slope. Here's the the side elevations the east and the west and profile you can see the staircase leading down to the separate entrance for the ad you. And you can also see a color swatch earth tone moss green is proposed. The project also complies with the 35 foot maximum height limit. Here's a look at the landscape plan. You can see a variety of shrubs trees and ground cover are proposed and clustered in the front yard and at the building corners. And then there's also a row of sight obscuring screening at the along the exterior wall at the rear of the house and that will effectively screen that exposed understory stem wall or pony wall. And so that'll meet certain design guidelines in the hillside considerations chapter. And here's that screening in in section view, and you can see us bit of a sight line exhibit. There's a six foot wood fence and then the, the screening plants selected would grow to about twice that height at a height of 8 to 12 feet. No public comments were received during the noticing period. And staff is able to make all applicable findings that all PD district development standards are met including lot coverage. The ad you meets all ministerial standards, such as a separate exterior entrance. And then all hillside development permit findings and approval criteria can be met. And I won't go into great depth but I tried to integrate those findings throughout the project description and exhibits and the roof of note, it's the home is cited on the flat portion of the lot. It's a split level foundation that steps with the terrain and will not create a silhouette above the ridge line. The roof forms are oriented in the general direction of the natural slope. The home will blend into the hillside setting through the use of earth tone finishes. The rear, the rear elevation is visually broken up with decks, and it's also screened and softened with the use of vegetation. And the project is eligible for a class three exemption as a single family home is proposed in a single family zoning district. And with that, the staff is able to recommend to the zoning administrator by resolution to approve the hillside development permit to allow a single family residence and attached to you for the property located at 1964 Cooper Drive. That concludes my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions. First, I want to apologize for mispronouncing your last name. I see it. We've got somebody Mike's I just referred you as Mike Jay usually my bad. Thank you for a great presentation. I have some questions but I know there's some public comments out there so let's go ahead and listen to public comment if we could. Are you. Okay, good, good, good. So nobody in the room. If you wish to make a public comment via zoom please raise your hand you may find the raise your hand button at the bottom of the screen. If you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute what once called upon. And the person on the phone, you're available to go ahead and say your name and go ahead and give your public comment for three minutes. This is Bill and Julie Kay at 1948 Cooper. So our backyard would but up to the new development. And our main concern is any hillside. Coming down on us, after the older part of Cooper has with all the rain from the Jewish synagogue has, you know, devastated a couple of homes so was wondering that far big concern is damaged to our house and who's responsible if anything happens. Is that it. Is that it. You have three minutes and I'll respond to comments after I hear from everybody. That's our main concern. Yeah, I mean obviously because our house is also on a hillside. I saw your house yesterday I was out there. Oh, you were okay. Yeah, if you is so you're this that is do you have any other concerns. I know that's your main concern. Like I said, obviously we're happy about it but you know, and them looking down and you know so. But right, you know, basically is any damage after what we've seen from, you know, the other hillside and when it's done to them. So yeah, we'll leave it at that. Thank you very much. Are there any other hands out there. Zoning Minister I do not see any additional hands. Great. So thank you very much. I appreciate you, you folks calling in. I did a site visit yesterday and also heard from a neighbor who saw us out there stomping around that the neighbor above I don't know the address but it's directly across the street and above the development site. And she was in favor of the project. I do under can understand the concerns of sliding I can assure you that hillside development these plans have been reviewed by both our building engineers and our engineering development services team and conditioned in a way that it will be a very secure home. Any new construction has much. Construction's gotten the demand on safety is much greater now I don't want to say demand on safety is greater but we know more now so we sink those posts deeper and secure those homes better so I don't think that should be a concern. I've heard though that there was some concern about privacy as how I interpreted that second comment, and I was kind of hoping to hear from that so I'm going to start at the top and first I want to say, I read the findings I read the conditions and I want to thank Mike J for adding in the, the condition to for tree protection on properties off site, because there are that bit there's that big beautiful oak tree on the envelope parcel and there are several trees. I think it's next door to 1948 that our neighboring properties that could be affected by grading. And so I, it's in the conditions but I want to highlight and point out that any protective measures apply to off site trees as well. We don't see that we don't see a lot of, or we see some developers that kind of disregard that and we want I want to make sure that that is very clear. So I would like to, I agree with conditions I oops, and I need to poke. I just got the note to close public comment and I just I'm super blurry to there I am to close the public comment period. So my bad. I'm going to continue with my comments now. Let's see. Got that that I would like to ask the applicant about what I looked at the landscaping plan and the legend called out two trees. And for the life of me all I could find was one tree. I didn't find two different variables and it's, I don't what I would like, even if they're not on there yet I would like to add not I'd like to add some cylindrical trees on the property line or close to the that fence near 1948. I agree when I stood up there. That was one of my comments I was concerned about privacy going into that yard and so most people who know me know that I usually, I usually say value value value but I'm not going to say value because that is definitely not cylindrical. I was thinking, you know, I can throw out some suggestions, red oak, which is not my personal favorite but it's cylindrical, and or a juniper that are the you know the Italian junipers which I have never recommended before. Something along those lines, please work with the out the resident at 1948 to determine a species that will work to screen their yard and not become a maintenance issue for either property. So, the condition that I will add in will be work with the neighbor at 1948 Cooper to determine an appropriate species for screening, a species of tree for screening along the southern or the northern property line. Right. Okay, and then the next one. And yeah, the next one I'd like to add I didn't see any landscaping on the. East, the east side right north. Yeah, to the east I didn't see any landscaping and landscaping plan. Mike, can you pull up your presentation again and go back to the landscaping plan because I think that might be easier. Yeah, I'll share it right now. Thank you very much so to the to the right of the screen I don't see much landscaping as it as it gets down towards the bottom and I am concerned about just the massing of that wall on that side. And I think it would be very helpful to put some some of that shrubbery continue continue it along the east side. Well, it doesn't it doesn't have to be the exact same. The, it just needs to be something that will screen the base of that building and make it just so it doesn't look so massive on that backside. So I appreciate adding in an accessory dwelling unit I wish we'd see more of those and. And so I understand why there's some massing issues here but they can very very well be treated with this and by the way the porch also breaks that up so I do appreciate that very much. So, so Mike if you can add that second condition as well into the resolution and ask that that some shrubs planting happen along that east elevation to break up the massing that would be great as well. Okay, that sounds. Yeah, it's clear zoning administrator Murray so you would and east you mean the right hand side of the site, just the oriented the right hand side of the site plan. Yes. Okay, and you would you would sort of suggest a continuation of what's along the rear elevation, but it doesn't have to be the same species. It doesn't have to be the same species and it can be just so long as it accomplishes the screening like putting a skinny vine there or ground cover isn't going to do the trick it needs to be a shrub that'll grow and they already have one. Yeah, they can be more creative where they can continue the same one around the site it's entirely up to them there. Okay, just so long as it screened. Thank you. I think are those have you had an opportunity to review all the conditions and you agree condition for fine. Thank you. Great then and you're good with those two additions. Yeah, absolutely. And just to address the neighbors concern there is civil engineers and soils and years involved to address on site drainage control as well as site stability. And you know, I'm just going to throw a comment out to the neighbor I hope you're still listening. You can contact the project planner, and she can or he can put you in touch with our, our engineers. If you want to have a clearer understanding of what exactly we're looking at, we're happy to talk to you and explain the process so with that I'm going to go ahead and approve the project. Congratulations. Thank you so much for coming down in person. And may I ask which architect Paul or so. Hi, I'm Cindy. We've talked on the phone and I thought it might be. Thank you very much. Thank you. Take care. Okay, moving on to item. Thank you, Mike, if you're still out there. Moving on to item 5.2. This is a public meeting for the Tesla vehicles sales location. This project is exempt from the California environmental quality act. It's a minor conditional use permit, and the site is located at 3286 airway drive city file number CUP 23 dash 002. And Hartman, one I can pronounce. And Suzanne, I'll ask you to give your presentation now. Definitely helps me have some more names. Just present school. I just locked my screen by accident. One moments technical difficulties. Sorry about that. No worries. All right, I will go ahead and presents. All right. I'm going to go ahead and show you the windows. That's what I'm wrong. All right. All right, so I am the project planner for the minor conditional use permit application, which is located at 3286 airway drive. This is a minor conditional use permit application to allow for an auto gallery and minor vehicle repair services again located located at 3286 airway drive. This is an aerial view of the city's parking requirements, which can be found in section 20 dash 36.040 of the city code. This is an aerial view of the property. It has frontage on airway court as well as airway drive. The general plan land use designation of this property is light industry and the zoning district is light industrial. The light industrial zoning district is applied to areas appropriate for some light industrial uses, as well as commercial service uses and activities that may be incompatible with residential retail and or office uses. The surrounding properties are also light industrial as well as some general commercial and to the west and east and the mobile home park to the east as well. These are some photos of the site from all angles of the building. This is the project site plan and all improvements have already gone through the building permit process. Staff must make the following findings for the conditional use permit approval. I have found that the proposed use is allowed within the light industrial zoning district and complies with all other applicable provisions of the zoning code, city code, the general plan to land use designation, and is also composed, or it is also proposed to be compatible with the existing and future land uses because the area is located in predominantly light industrial use area. These are the required findings continued. And again, further detail of staff findings can be found in the resolution that is attached to the agenda that has been posted online to the public. The project has been found in compliance with the California environmental quality acts and qualifies for class 1 exemption under SQL guidelines section 15301 and that the site is entirely developed and the proposed use would involve a negligible expansion of the existing use. No public comments have been received since the noticing period which was sent out 10 days prior to this meeting. I therefore recommended by the planning and economic development department that the zoning administrator by resolution approve a minor conditional use permit to allow an auto gallery and minor vehicle repair services at the property located at 32 is 32 86 airway drive. And the applicant representative is also on owns over zoom. If you have any questions for the applicant. Please contact information on the screen if anyone has any questions for the staff as well. Thank you very much. I'm going to ask if the applicant if you're out there if you have anything you'd like to add to Suzanne's presentation. If so, raise your hand. You are on mute to go ahead. No, we don't have anything else that we'd like to to answer presentation and presentation hit the points that we had submitted so I believe myself and our client should be good in satisfactory with what was presented. Can you state your name so we know who you're talking we're talking to. Oh, sorry, this is the umbers. Hi Dion, I spoke to you a long time ago. I didn't I didn't know for sure but I wanted to say hi. So, thank you. Thank you and if I do I will have some questions but I want to see if there's any public comments out there. I wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand. You may find the raise your hand button at the bottom of the screen. If you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute once called upon zoning administrator we do not have any hands raised. Thank you very much. Okay, so I do have I have I'm going to full disclosure I own a Tesla and I actually had it serviced at this location earlier this week. I need to close public comments. Anyway, at least I've remembered to open them. So it's a step in the right direction. Anyways, I have a question about a comment not actually I'm going to add a condition, because it's very much has to do with operational operations around there. The way finding signage is not easy to navigate. So I think that you guys need to work on your way finding with boulder signs for identifying the direction of the service department. I will add that as a condition of approval. I have a recommendation. It's not necessarily a qualified recommendation so it won't be a condition but I encourage you to explore it and making that first driveway on airway court. For the gallery and making exclusive use of the second driveway on airway court for service. That is not a condition of approval I would check with your traffic engineer but it's certainly something I would look into if I were you I I mean I was familiar with the site and I had difficulty figuring out where I was supposed to check my car in the gallery space is real easy to figure out and it'll be beautiful up there and we're looking forward to having you guys open that so that are you okay with that condition to work on your improve your way finding signs. Yes, we can we can navigate that and discuss that with the client to see if they can make it more accessible to the customers as they approach the the service center. It will be a condition of approval so your clients will need to work with you and and you can work with Suzanne to to go ahead and make sure it works so she can do that over the counter and make sure that the condition is met way finding signs to keep them under five square feet. And I believe they're exempt from any additional sign permits, and then I have a recommendation I'm not going to add this as a condition of approval although if it were design review I would, and that is the landscaping along the street frontage airway drive should really be cleaned up a little bit those trees the street trees are dropping a lot of SAP on the sidewalk and people shoes get real sticky when they're walking on so and with that I have read the findings I agree with them all thank you Suzanne for a great presentation and I'm going to approve the project so looking forward to the showroom opening up. Awesome thank you so much we appreciate your help with this. You bet you take care. Okay, moving on to the next item 5.3. And this is a public meeting for Sonoma Strength Academy. This is another project that isn't exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. It's a minor conditional use permit proposed at 1215 Briggs Avenue city file number CUP 23-018 and I will turn it over to Suzanne Hartman who is also the planner on this one. Zoning Ministeria Murray staff is requesting that this item be continued to a date certain of Thursday, August 3 2023. Okay, and I'd like to open it up for the public comment period just to see if anybody's attended for that I'm aware that we had some some issues with us and was expecting that continuous request so but. Sure we have no attendees right now, but I'll go ahead and read it as per. Yeah, if you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand you may find the raise your hand button at the bottom of the screen if you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute once called upon. But there are still no participants. Perfect well thank you very much. Thank you. And I'm going to grant the continuance and we'll see you again on August 3. Okay, and then moving on to our next oh wait, I didn't close the public comment period and three for three right now. Now I'm moving on to item 5.4. This is yet another public meeting. The property is located at 3019 Santa Rosa Avenue. This is an exempt project exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act. It's a minor conditional use permit, and I will hand it off to Suzanne Hartman to explain could you also explain what what it's for. It's just the overall usage it's so this project is for a what's a minor modification from a previous permit because they are changed slightly changing the use of the garage that is existing at that parcel, and then they are also requesting they are also proposing a vehicle and rental vehicle rental and sales. Sorry, I'm saying that correctly vehicle sales and rentals, as well as RV motor homes and boat sales as well. Got it. Okay, so now I'm going to hand it off to Suzanne for a presentation. Staff is requesting that we continue that this item that we are requesting that this item be continued to a date certain of August 17 2023. Okay, I was kind of anticipating that one too. So, because we're here I'm going to go ahead and open up the public comment period. In case there's anybody willing to make a comment on this. If you wish to make a comment via zoom these raise your hand. You may find the raise your hand button at the bottom of the screen. If you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute once called upon. But we have no attendees in the zoom room. Okay, great that I'm going to close the public hearing. And with that and grant the public comment period. And I'm going to grant the continuance to August 17. And look forward to seeing you back again. Okay, and with that, I'm going to go ahead and adjourn the meeting at 11 12 on July 20. Have a great day.