 Zoning administrator Nicholson, can you test your audio and video for me, please? Good morning, Lonnie You're good to go. Thank you Planner means I see you. Do you want to test your audio for me? Good morning all so I I refer to you Amy as zoning administrator Nicholson good to know I gotta get my camera Never straight. Can you hear me? Yes I'll turn myself off Perfect planner Rago. Sorry if I pronounced your last name wrong, but can you test your audio and video for me, please? Yes You are good to go Hey, Amy, can you hear me? Planner means were you addressing me? I'm sorry. I stepped out of the room for a moment. Are we recording? Yes, okay. This question can wait. Thank you. Sure Planner McKay, can you test your audio and video for me, please? Hey there. Can you hear and see me? Yes, you are good to go. Thanks Planner to me ends. Can you test your audio and video for me, please? Good morning. Good morning. You're good to go Good morning. I'm gonna call to order this April 21st city of Santa Rosa zoning administrator meeting Which is scheduled to begin at or after 10 30 a.m Pursuant to government code section five four nine five three e and the recommendation of the health officer of the county of Sonoma This meeting will be conducted by zoom webinar Members of the public can participate virtually at zoom.us slash join or toll-free Telephone by dialing eight seven seven eight five three five two five seven And the meeting ID number is eight two nine five two three seven Eight six five two and this meeting is also being live streamed at youtube.com slash city of Santa Rosa Today's meeting is a regular session meeting and the zoning administrator typically holds two meetings per month on the first and third Thursdays This is the second regular session meeting of this month and our next regular meeting will be held on May 5th Members of the public accessing this meeting through zoom can participate By providing comments during the public comment periods and additional information related to meeting participation is available at srcity.org slash zoning admin The next we'll move on to item number two, which is general public comment. This is a time that members of the public can speak for three minutes on any matters that are not included on today's agenda. So I'll go ahead and open general public comment. If you wish to make a comment, please raise your hand by clicking on that hand icon at the bottom of your zoom screen. If you're dialing in, please press star nine to raise your hand and then star six to unmute once you are called upon. Zoning administrator Nicholson, it doesn't look like any hands are raised at this time. Okay, thank you. With that, we will conclude general public comment and move on to item number three, which is zoning administrator business. The zoning administrator is appointed by the planning and economic development director and has the responsibility and authority to conduct public hearings and take action on applications for all administrative permits and approvals issued by the department. Any determination or decision made by the zoning administrator may be appealed and I have no zoning administrator reports today. So we will move on to item four on today's agenda, which is for consent items. We do have one consent item, which is a zoning code interpretation number 22001 and this pertains to zoning code section 20-48040 subsection C5 and this relates to application requirements. And also zoning code section 20-48040L, which relates to appeals and this is related to the short term rental ordinance. Planner Meads, can you provide a brief summary of the zoning code interpretation, please? Yes. Good morning, zoning administrator Nicholson. Thank you for that introduction. So zoning code interpretation number 22-001 is to clarify that the planner of economic The director of planning and economic development department is the review authority for short term rental permit review and that the planning commission is the review authority for the appeal of any director determinations on short term rental permits. Okay, thank you so much. And can you explain a bit about the process after this is acted on? Just how it will pertain to projects moving forward and how it gets incorporated into the city's zoning code? Certainly. So this zoning code interpretation is circulated to all the review authorities of the city and throughout the department so that any appeals moving forward towards short term rental permit decisions by the director would then be heard by the planning commission. Okay, great. Thank you. I don't believe I have any questions. It's very straightforward and I understand the necessity of this, this interpretation so I will be signing it and it will become effective so thank you for providing that background today. I just wanted to provide an opportunity if anyone has any public comments on the zoning code interpretation. The zoning administrator Nicholson, it doesn't look like there are any hands raised at this time. Okay, thank you, Secretary Bucke. That concludes item number four. Thank you so much planner meets. Okay, moving on to item five which includes our scheduled items. We do have four meeting items today. So for each item I will ask the project planner for a staff presentation and an applicant can provide a presentation as well or any comments are fine. In these presentations, I may ask clarifying questions of the project planner or the applicant. I will then open the meeting for public comment about the item being reviewed and members of the public are invited to provide comments about each project. After public comment is concluded. I may ask additional questions, and then we'll issue a decision to approve deny or continue the item for further review. Just as a reminder today's decisions by the zoning administrator are appealable to the planning commission design review board or cultural heritage board. And those appeal bodies depend on the type of entitlement being acted upon. If you have any questions about the appeal process, please contact the project planner, but know that appeals must be filed within 10 calendar days after the date of the decision. And if that falls on a weekend then that would be the Monday following that weekend date. So our first item which is item 5.1. This is a public hearing to consider minor design review for dish wireless which is located at 4415 highway 12. And the staff presentation today will be given by planner to me. Next item is Nicholson. Let me share my PowerPoint here. So as you stated this is a collocation request at 4415 highway 12. And it's to the applicant is requesting to collocate three new antennas on a privately owned rooftop, where there is existing wireless equipment already located. The property is off of highway 12 not too far from mission Boulevard on top of a the roof of an office building. The applicant has provided three photo simulations from different views of the rooftop. This is existing and proposed looking northeast along highway 12. There is a parapet along the roof. The existing wireless towers are visible from public right of way but it's an existing, it's an existing situation. This is the view looking west along highway 12 and you can see where the those antennas would be located. The right plan showing where the three antennas would be installed and the associated equipment here elevations showing the antennas. There were no public comments, no inquiries and no interest at all from the public on this project. And this project was reviewed in compliance with sequa and qualifies for a class three exemption under 15301 in that the proposed change does not substantially change the physical dimensions of the tower or base station. And the roof is acting as the base station. And that's why this is considered a co location. The Planning and Economic Development Department recommends that the zoning administrator by resolution approve a minor design review permit for the property located at 4415 highway 12. And my contact information is listed, that bottom corner there. If the public has any comments or questions. Thank you miss to me and does the applicant wish to make any comments or provide a presentation. I don't think they are present. Okay. Thank you. Okay, so I have two questions. One is that this was noticed as a public hearing which is not what we typically do for zoning administrator meetings but it is, it is an option so I was just hoping you might be able to explain why this was noticed as a public hearing instead of a public meeting. Yes, the city, the government jurisdictions are required to act on these co location requests in a timely manner. And the way the zoning administrator meeting is is held it can either be a public meeting or a public hearing. If we, we were running against a shot clock issue with this project. And if I had scheduled this as a public meeting and someone requested a hearing. It would add an additional delay that we couldn't really afford in this case. So I proactively scheduled this for a public hearing to avoid that. And it just so happens that there is very little interest in this project so. Thank you for that explanation. And then my other question is, I noticed that there's residential uses nearby. And this, the distance is adequate for what's required in the zoning code from a residential use. And it appears, you know, that the building is set as far forward or as far away from the residential units as possible and the antennas are set in such a way that they do provide adequate distance. Great. Thank you. And I guess I have one additional question that applicant has reviewed the resolution and accepted the conditions. Yes. Okay. Thank you for those responses. I go ahead and open public comment for this item. If you're interested in providing a comment, please go ahead and raise your hand on zoom zoning administrator nickel said there are no hands raised at this time. Thank you. Okay. In reviewing the resolution, I don't have any concerns. I think all the findings can be made I realized that these aren't screened. However, you know, based on the dimensions of the equipment, it doesn't appear that extending a parapet and a solid feature would really, I think be helpful. It seems like it would detract more and make a much larger appearing building. So I do find the change to be negligible and not the, you know, the existing antennas are of the same size essentially and and the view shown in the photo Sims makes that pretty clear so I will be approving this, although I did want to just ask you planner to means on the resolution if we can. There's a whereas statement related to public hearing. We can just correct it to say that it was noticed as a public hearing and maybe add in something about the shot clock just so if we look back in the record it it shows that it was noticed as a public hearing. I think that would be helpful but I will be signing the resolution after we make that adjustment. And thank you for your presentation. Thanks, I can do that. Great. Okay, that concludes our first item. So let's move on to item 5.2. This is a public meeting to consider a minor conditional use permit for the lay Ellen manner community care facility located at 597 Granville court and our project planner is Miss to me and again. Thank you again is Nicholson. This is a proposed minor conditional use permit at 597 Granville or like Lee Ellen manner. And it's a residential care facility for 12 disabled adults and it's been continuously operated at this location since 1990, and it's a licensed facility licensed by the state of California. This is a proposed use permit is requested to recognize the use. And there are no changes to the use proposed. This is an aerial of the facility. You can see it's got three buildings. There would be two caretaker one character caretaker living residing each of the buildings that will house the disabled adults. This is a parking for guests. The residents will not be driving. The parking would be for staff and any guests that visit the site. So it's a zone plan development, and the general plan is a medium load density residential. And this is a site plan is allowed with the minor use permit. And here's a site plan showing a site plan and it also shows the floor plans of the buildings. So there's a staff housing at the front. And I believe the applicant has added a handicap parking stall. I'll let the applicant clarify, but I think that's the only exterior change that's occurring. That's occurred on the site. There were no public comments I got an inquiry requesting to see the plans and the project narrative and those are provided to the person requesting it but there were no comments or concerns related to staff about this project. The project was reviewed in compliance with sequence staff has determined that the project qualifies for class one exemption under section 15301, and that the project is located within existing structures, and involves negligible expansion of the existing structures and will not result in significant impacts. So with that the planning and economic development department recommends that the zoning administrator by resolution, approve a minor use permit for Lee Ellen manner, located at 597 Grandburg court bound number to be 17097. Again my contact information is in the bottom corner. If the public would like to reach out the applicant is present. I don't believe he has a separate presentation but is available for any specific questions you might have on their operations. Thank you. Thank you miss to me and it looks like the applicant is raising his hand. Mr sharp if you want to provide any comments that would be great. Thank you, Senator Nicholson. Planner comments. Thanks. Steve sharp representing the applicant. Anthony, go out today is. We've reviewed the staff report and the resolution we agree. We agree with all the, with all the conditions there a little more history. This has existed pretty much there since 1990. And then, and then annexed after exhaustive review, we couldn't find any, and find any permits for this, you know, to remedy the code violation here. Code violation began as part of a fire repair. There was a fire in one of the kitchens in 2017 resulted in some updates to, to building codes and fire codes for the buildings. And the kind of the final piece of this was to get the zoning permit, the zoning permit, the, the minor use permit. So that's where we are now. There's no changes to the use the, the residents are mentally disabled, totally ambulatory. They don't drive. It's a real clean facility. No other changes proposed this time. I know the applicant is once he gets this permit would like to go through the process to hook up to city water. It's the only thing I know that's coming down the line, but that's a totally separate thing. But this is just to recognize what's already there quiet use no complaints. The building permits have all been final repair work. Be glad to answer any questions. Thank you so much I appreciate that that background and what you answered one of my questions I was curious about sort of the history as to, you know, the use being in operation since the 90s but that makes sense. And just a question as it relates to the number of employees on site at any given time so it sounds like there are four people or four employees and, and to live on site. Is that accurate? There are, there are two employees that live in each of the units. Okay, structures, and then the owner of the property was also the operator lives in the single penis in his wife live in the single family dwelling. Okay. Okay. The only history that I could put together on this was, I'm guessing under the county jurisdiction, there was, they were allowed as six or fewer without. Without without permits, and it grew and subsequent to that but they've been licensed by the state since 1993 for, for 12 people I think it originally said 14 rather than 12 but it's been amended to say 12. That's one thing I didn't notice in your resolution, the title and the resolution list 14 residents I think it would be amended to 12. Great, thank you. Miss two means, please correct me if I'm wrong, I think that the reason it, it says 14 is just based on the city zoning code and how it breaks out the number of individuals in various community care facilities is that why it says 14. Yes, I believe that's the maximum. Okay. Yeah, great. I'm not sure if it's okay maybe we can keep keep it in the resolution just because it mimics the language that's within the zoning code. Okay, great. So let's see I don't have any further questions at this time so let's move into public comment. If anyone has any comments on this item. Please go ahead and click the raise hand feature on your screen. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we'll go ahead and close public comment for this item. I did take a look at the resolution and I agree with the findings I, it's, it's great to know that this facility has been in operation for as long as it has been in there have not been any issues, certainly is a compatible use it's a residential area and certainly a need for our community. So I, I don't have any, any concerns and I appreciate the applicant being present to answer questions and miss to me and presentation. I'll go ahead and be approving this item today and members of the public please note that this action is is appealable and if you have any questions about that process you can contact miss to me and with that we will move on to our next item. This is a public meeting for Sonoma County piercing company. This project is located at 601 Mendocino Avenue, and we have the city's planning intern miss raco giving the staff presentation today. Thank you zoning administrator Nicholson let me share my screen. So the project, the project applicant is requesting a minor conditional use permit for their business Sonoma County piercing company, looking at 601 Mendocino Avenue. Sonoma County piercing company is a new business that aims to bring safe and professional piercing and high end body jewelry to Santa Rosa. They will be Sonoma County's only piercing studio following guidelines for membership of the association of professional piercers. They will not offer tattooing. They will only offer body piercing. The location at 601 Mendocino Avenue is 2300 square feet and will be broken up into a showroom floor slash waiting area and private piercing rooms, along with sterilization offices. They will be open seven days a week from 12 to 7pm. They will have between four to six employees working at a time and nine on site parking spaces in the parking lot including a designated handy cat parking. They look forward to bringing Santa Rosa a friendly and inviting experience for a wide selection of high end jewelry. This shows the project site highlighted in blue at the corner of Mendocino Avenue and Haldsburg Avenue. The parcel is zoned core mixed use the principal objectives of the core mixed use designation are to strengthen the role of this area as a business government governmental and retail and entertainment hub for this region and accommodate significant new residential development that will extend the hours of activity and create a built in market for retail service and entertainment use. There have been no public comments made for this project. The proposed project has been reviewed in compliance with the California environmental Environmental Equality Act and satisfies the provisions of CEQA in that this business qualifies for exemption under section 515301 and that the project is located within an existing structure involving a negligible expansion of an existing use that will not result in significant impacts. The Planning and Economic Department Development Department recommends that the zoning administrator by resolution approve a minor use permit for the property located at 601 Mendocino Avenue file number CEP 22-005. If you have any questions, please feel free to share them now. Thank you. Thank you so much for that presentation. Is the applicant for this project present and if so you can raise your hand if you'd like to make any comments. Do not think the applicant is present for this project. Okay, thank you. Okay, I have one question. Just did the applicant receive the draft resolution and review the conditions? Yes. Okay, great. Okay. With that, I will go ahead and open public comment for this item. If members of the public wish to make a comment, please use the raise hand button. Zoning administrator Nicholson, there are no hands raised at this time. Great, thank you. Okay. Looking back at the resolution, I have reviewed it. I agree. Sorry. Zoning administrator Nicholson. I need to close public comment. Yes. And with that, I will close public comment. I thank you for the reminder. I have reviewed the resolution. I agree with the findings. I think that the, you know, we want to see more retail businesses within our downtown station area. It's great that this business will be operating and just activating the area generally during a large portion of the day and hopefully bring more activity to that area. I appreciate the conditions added to the resolution just related to loitering and also cleanup and the requirement to obtain the necessary approvals from the county environmental health department. So I do think that this project, as it's conditioned, will be a good addition to our downtown area and I will be approving it. So thank you, Ms. Rago, for your work in your presentation and a note to the public. This approval is appealable. And if you have any questions, you can reach out to Ms. Tumians or Ms. Rago. Thank you so much. All right, let's move on to our last item of the day. This is item 5.4. This is a public meeting for a conditional use permit for bad times tattoo and this project site is located at 626 4th street and our project planner is Mr. McKay. Thank you zone administrator Nicholson I will share my screen. Okay, so good morning everybody this is a minor conditional use permit application for bad times tattoo located at 626 4th street. This is a minor conditional use permit request that would allow the operation of a tattoo studio which is classified as a personal services restricted land use with private appointments for three to five customers per day in hours of operation from 11am to 6pm from Tuesday through Saturday. Property is located in the core mixed use downtown station area combining district zoning district which allows the operation of personal services restricted land uses with the approval of a minor conditional use permit. Here we have a sketch of the site plan of the interior of the building. We have not received any public comments about this project. The proposed project has been reviewed in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act for sequel and satisfied satisfies the provisions of sequel and that the construction. Oh this is not updated I apologize for that. It says the construction of offense but it's actually the operation of this land use qualifies for a class one exemption in that the proposed operation will occur within an existing commercial building with negligible expansion of a former use that would not result in significant damage. With that the planning and economic development department recommends the zoning administrator by resolution approve the minor conditional use permit for the operation of bad times tattoo located at 626 4th street file number CUP 21-078. And the applicant is available to answer any questions but does not have any presentation to make it this time. Thank you, planner McKay. And the applicant doesn't want to provide a presentation but just an opportunity. If they'd like to add in any comments. They can go ahead and raise their hand. Okay. Not saying any hands being raised so I have reviewed the resolution and I agree with the findings. Again, like the previous item, it's, it's a retail business that will help to add some activity to our downtown and so that's, that's definitely appreciated. It seems like it will be like you mentioned with the sequel exemption. There's also a negligible change from, from the previous tenant and also with appointment, just the appointment basis. Seems like activity will be well controlled. And as it relates to parking, this is within our downtown station area specific plans that there's, there's no minimum parking spaces required. And for you planner McKay has the applicant reviewed the resolution. Yeah, so unfortunately I failed to provide the applicant with the resolution until just the previous item when I was reminded, but there are no specific conditions that are related to the project besides the requirement to get an environmental health permit which is a requirement for these types of land uses. And I want to make sure that we don't forget to open the public comment as well. Yes. Thank you. Can that applicant just indicate that they've received the resolution or that they're comfortable with the, what planner McKay has just described. Hello. Hi. I'm sorry, a cut out right while you were speaking. But what were you asking? I'm sorry. No problem. I just wanted to make sure planner McKay had indicated that he recently sent over the resolution. I, the draft resolution, which contains some conditions. I wanted to check to see if, if you've seen it, it sounds like it just came over, but he did describe the, the condition to obtain a an approval from the county environmental health department. So it sounds like the conditions, or I would describe the conditions as straightforward, but just wanted to make sure. I'm looking at the email right now I received it and as soon as we're done with this meeting, my plan was to call the health department and get like the next next thing's moving that I need to get done so. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that. Okay. And with that, we'll go ahead and open up public comment for this item. If you'd like to make a comment, please raise your hand. Administrator Nicholson, there are no hands raised at this time. Thank you so much. Thank you planner McKay for the reminder. Okay, so again, I don't, I don't have any concerns with this project. I think that it, it implements the vision for for downtown. Happy to see any vacant retail spaces be be used. And I think this is conditioned appropriately and it's straightforward. So I will be approving this minor conditional use permit and and wish you luck and getting your permits from the county health department. Just as a reminder, this item is appealable and if you wish to submit an appeal, please contact planner McKay. So that concludes item 5.4, which is our last meeting item for today. So we will move on to item six, which is adjournment and I've been saying this all day but just a reminder, each of these actions or approvals today are appealable within 10 days of the decision so please reach out to the project planner if you have any questions about that. Thank you everyone's attendance today and