 Okay, I'm going to call to order tonight's meeting of the city of Santa Rosa Planning Commission and ask for roll call, please Let the record reflect that all commissioners are present except for commissioner weeks Great. Thanks. Next. We'll move on to the approval of our March 14 Draft minutes any comments or corrections on those Those are going to stand as printed Next is a time for public comments That's a time for any member of the public to address the Commission on matters of interest to the Commission that are not listed tonight as a public hearing I'm going to go ahead and open public comments and if you choose to speak you can go to one of the two microphones and on Okay, so you'll I'll call you when that time comes up Okay, I'll call you when that time comes up. So I'm not seeing anybody rise just for the public comments time So I'm going to go ahead and close that And move on to planning commissioners report any Reports tonight not sitting any then we'll move on to department reports Just a Reminder that next Tuesday April 2nd the Planning Commission will have a joint Planning Commission City Council study session. It's at 1 30 p.m. Because there's a couple of study sessions. I think so 1 30 is our start time and I believe the agenda for that meeting posts later tonight but the topic will be For the public's you know information is it's one of our Best presentations in terms of the interdepartmental effort that it takes to implement the city's general plan And so we'll be providing our annual review on its elements how we've done in the last annual year also providing an update on Where we're at in terms of planning the city's general plan comprehensive update which which is kicking off this year as and we're gearing up for its kickoff Also, I think very exciting since the Commission plays such a big role in This part of the process is the status of our housing action plan and all the various elements within it there's a You know I encourage the public to access this agenda item and take a look at the Reports that we are presenting because we've made quite a bit of progress on our housing action plan We still have a lot of work to do particularly in this year But we have a part of our presentation will indicate Which elements are we are working on this year and then which ones will be ongoing or forthcoming? and then lastly a Update on how we're doing with the downtown specific plan update. So it's a great item Probably only have an hour and half to get through it. It's a lot of information But there's a lot to that item. So I encourage everybody to take a look at it Also, we have some appeals headed to city council that are decisions from the Commission and just Heads up on when those are scheduled. So are the next appeal before the council that on a commission Decision for a use permit is April 9th. That's for the Fox Den cannabis dispensary on Montgomery Rosalind Village has been appealed We're looking at May 7th for that appeal hearing And that meadows has been appealed We're probably looking in into June for that item and that's That's all I have for that I do want to also provide a heads up on the Cannabis program for the city and where the public can access new information about the cannabis program our city's website SRCity.org slash cannabis is the one place to go for everything in terms of policy or activities that are related to the city's policies on cannabis and couple of new items that were posted today is a status chart map of The 38 applications that came into the city last year and kind of where they are in terms of status what meetings they had been tagged to and Also with that and this is on the front page of that website Also on that front page you can click on a link and this was just made today But it's a corresponding map that shows where they have landed in the city in terms of whether Whether they're in review or already have been approved or are in operation So we're going to continue to map the progress of those applications and then also We are having a special cannabis policy subcommittee meeting We couldn't make usually today is our regular scheduled meeting and couldn't make that work But because it's a time-sensitive topic of when and how the city will be opening up to new cannabis retail applications We're holding a special meeting next Thursday April 4th and that agenda has posted so there you can see the draft proposal for the how and when That will take place and it's a public meeting. It's at 10 a.m. And it's in the chambers Okay, and miss Hartman just to be clear for the study session next week when it posts on iLegislate Will there be a separate planning commission section or should we all look to the city council? iLegislate agenda items to read the report No, I don't know It's it will be on the council's agenda, and you would just click on the agenda Yeah, just go there. Okay. I think so make sure everybody knows where to look. Yeah, that's correct. It'll be under council on me I'm sorry. What was that Mike? It'll be under the council's. Okay. Great. Great. So we know what to do Okay So with that we'll move on to statements of abstention by commissioners No extensions tonight No study session or consent items. So with that we're going to go ahead and move on to our first public hearing tonight Which is item 10.1 the Ron Kelly rezone and that is not an ex parte disclosure Cristinae to me and says our senior planner will be giving the staff presentation Thank You chair Cisco members of the planning commission The Ron Kelly re-zoning proposes to rezone a property located at 1250 Mendocino Avenue from its sure The Ron Kelly re-zoning proposes to rezone a property located at 1250 Mendocino Avenue from its current dual zoning of CG general commercial and our 315 zoning districts to the CG commercial zoning district This is an aerial of the parcel You see it has a dual frontage on to Mendocino Avenue and Slater Street it was developed with a commercial building in the late 60s and With a surface lot the most recent use was a vacuum and sowing shop and it's just south of McDonald's to the north along Mendocino and to duplexes Facing Slater Street to the north and then multi-family to the south facing Slater Street and Just south along Mendocino is another retail Building I think a video store Here is the current general plan and zoning you see the general plan designation is retail and business services for the whole parcel The majority of the parcels lady facing Slater States Slater Street are Designated a medium residential in the general plan while properties facing Mendocino are generally commercial or and Within the retail business service general plan designation The proposed zoning would bring the zoning and general plan into alignment You can see that dark line separating the front half from the back half The front half is zoned CG and the back half is zoned R3 15 which is meant for single-family density residential pursuant to sequel guidelines section 15183 I Know additional environmental reviews are required when rezoning for general plan consistency And with that the planning and economic development department recommends that the Planning Commission by resolution recommend that council adopt an ordinance to rezone a property located at 1250 Mendocino Avenue a Sensor parcel number 180590 004 from the CG general commercial and R3 15 single-family residential zoning districts to the CG general commercial zoning district Staff is available for comment or questions and Comments from the Commission any questions right now. Yeah, come here Dougan Yeah, I know that the the planning document that covers this parcel is part of the whole junior college neighborhood indicates R3 15 for the parcel that was fronts on to Slater streets and I'm wondering Has the general plan designation always been for commercial general for the entire parcel or Was that changed sometime in the past? So staff conducted extensive research into our records and we had a difficult time figuring out when exactly it changed from The back half changed from R3 15 PD to just R3 15 We think it happened around early 2000s because we had some Permit clearances for for example a fireworks stand what that identified the zoning as straight R3 15 without the PD designation and the property was developed as you can see with the buildings to Mac in the middle and My guess is that the general plan designation Was selected to match the existing land use on the site But we can't say definitively when that occurred Okay, any other questions, okay Is the applicant here wanting to make a presentation? You're the applicant Yeah, oh, yeah, please go up to one of the microphones and if you I'll I'll get to you in a minute Yeah, any reasons we're trying to change the entire Designation to a CG designation sir, can you talk into the microphone please sure one of the reasons we're trying to change The zoning designation to general commercial is we found that the general commercial zoning ordinance actually allows for a more lenient Thank You allows for a more lenient multi Family development and that's one of the challenges we Faced in trying to sell the property is the R3 15 zoning is pretty restrictive to what can be built on that back half of the parcel So we are looking at changing this for potential multifamily development in the future Okay great Any questions of the applicant before I open the public hearing? Okay, great. Thanks This is a public hearing tonight. I'm gonna hit it go ahead and open the public hearing You do not have to have filled out a card if you choose to speak If you'd like to speak now you can yet go up to the microphone at the top And if you wouldn't mind just give us your name for the record and you have my name is my name is Beth Wettergreen Beth Wettergreen I live I have lived for six years at 1135 Slater Street Which is an apartment complex Adjacent to the property that is under discussion and I want I would like to first of all thank you Mike for letting me know what the intended use of this Property is and the reason is because without my knowledge Three months ago an eight pod car wash was put into construction 250 feet from my bedroom window when I came to the Planning Commission office I found many many letters protesting that car wash but For ID it went through. Okay. Now. It's on Mendocino Avenue. It's right behind my apartment I think I'm pretty typical of what's going on in Santa Rosa right now I'm I am an online college professor. I'm a teacher and I am being priced out of Santa Rosa I pay $1,600 a month for a two-bedroom apartment in Santa Rosa Now I find that I am being surrounded by construction I Have to listen to the construction behind my house every single day My fear was that there would be some kind of a strip mall being put in now It looks like there's going to be some other kind kind of construction Immediately adjacent to my apartment. I want to point out the following factors Number one. I have to pay $1,600 a month for a two-bedroom apartment That's too much for me to afford and so I'm going to have to move number two I am chemically sensitive We are going to have a car wash immediately behind my house which the construction itself Generates a lot of chemicals and then according to Mike what he's proposing is that we have a multiple Dwelling Mike, what did you say multiple per purpose dwelling that we're going to have Perhaps I don't know what we're going to have maybe he didn't really say he didn't really say I think that maybe they're thinking about putting in another apartment complex Directly next to my apartment complex and of course all of this construction Creates a lot of disruption. It creates a lot of chemical Activity of once that is done, then there's the noise level and so Okay, okay. Thank you. Miss. Wettergreen. I think we I think we get your concerns. So thank you Okay, your three minutes up. Thanks We're having an odd no one always trying to figure out what that is. Okay Anybody else wishing to speak on this item? I'm not seeing anyone else rise. So I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing and Staff I think maybe you can be helpful in Responding to miss Wettergreen's concerns first of all our purpose here. We're bringing this The zoning into re and a consistency with the general plan Can you talk about there right now there aren't any The process when somebody does bring forward a construction project or a project in general Right so the if the property if the entire property were to be zoned CG It would bring it into consistency with underlying general plan designation of retail and business service And a wide variety of uses could potentially go on that property Depending on what types of uses if it's a permitted use there would be notification of a designer of use application If it's a conditional use there would be a conditional use permit and designer of you Project proposed and those would require appropriate noticing To the surrounding property owners as well as on-site signs and newspaper notices There's no development development currently proposed on the property. So it's hard for staff to To guess what would go there, but a wide variety of uses could potentially go on the property Right now. It's currently developed as a commercial lot. So It's hard to say things currently proposed right, but at some point there would be a way to get notices about that Yes, and do you have any idea? I'm sorry. Do you have any? I'm sorry. Do you have any ideas about what the process was for the car wash that Mrs. Wettergreen is talking about? I Do okay that car wash went through a minor use permit with action by the zoning administrator It was controversial. There was a public hearing with a lot of people in attendance But the findings were made and the action moved forward Okay, I wanted to follow up on the land use We have a catchment for has the land use table for the commercial district So you can see that it's the proposal is to CG general commercial and just as a supplement to what Miss Tumions has outlined in terms of commercial uses I just wanted to hit the item straight on since it was brought up multifamily residential is allowed But with a minor use permit So that's a discretionary process that involves noticing okay And just I wanted to just say one more time for the Commenter and anyone else in the public that there is no project proposed at this time and Miss Tumion said that but I just Wanted to say it again to make sure that our public heard that clearly. Thank you Okay, any other questions of staff I'm sorry You can you can talk with staff after the meeting but right now we can't have call outs right now from the audience Please okay. Thank you Any other questions of staff Yeah commissioner Dangan Yeah, the applicants representative mentioned that right now with the r315 designation. It's More restrictive than what kind of housing product could be Developed on the site is if we do this rezoning So can you describe like what could potentially be there it could it be more dense than our 315 or? okay, yes Attachment four has the land use tables, but it also has the development standards now this attachment for just covers The commercial district so I don't we can look up the r315 district but r315 I'm sorry. I'll speak into the microphone Attachment four covers the land use tables, but it also covers the development standards for CG for the commercial districts We don't have in your packet the r315 development standards, but I can explain what the difference would be in terms of general commercial it does allow for a Density of up to 30 units per acre Because this is based on retail business service where residential is allowed with a minor use permit It does allow up to 30 units per acre And then it sets development standards that in commercial districts are More flexible than your multifamily residential districts in terms of yard setbacks So that's all I can speak to since I only have that in front of me But if that answers your your question there is more opportunity with the CG district for multifamily housing in this situation any other questions of staff Okay So with that I'm going to go ahead and bring it back to the commission with somebody like to move the resolution for the purposes of discussion I'll move a resolution of the planning commission of the city of santa roza recommending to city council re-zoning of a property located at One two five zero medicinal Avenue to the CG commercial general zoning district Assessors parcel number 180-590-004 File number are easy one nine dash zero zero two and wait for the reading Do I have a second all seconds? Okay, so that was moved by commissioner Duggan seconded by commissioner Peterson Commissioner Duggan you want to start? I'm very familiar with this property I live out of the 500 foot range, but I lived on down the street from here and I've walked by it for many many years I'm Excited to hear that there's some plan for some kind of future development because it's like the ISO property on the street And it's just now been it's been used for overflow parking for as long as I've lived in the neighborhood, which is 23 years I Would love to see housing there. There's only housing along Slater Street So I don't want to see any commercial driveways or the back of commercial buildings So I would love to see it split. So there's a commercial property on the Mendocino side and Housing on the Slater side, but otherwise I'm in favor of the rezoning and I can make all the findings Okay because you're calling it I Just want to echo my fellow commissioner. I can make all of the necessary findings and I support this Rezoning and it'll be great to see some housing in that area and commissioner quarter No comments. Okay. Yeah, commissioner Pearson. I Don't think there's much I can add other than that I can make all the necessary findings and again It's just sort of to laser focus on what we're doing here, which is bringing Zoning into sort of compliance with the general plan. We're not dealing with a proposed project and while I echo the the Desire to see housing on As part of any project and particularly hopefully on the Slater Street side of it What I'm focused on is is just the specific findings in this which is bringing it in in compliance with the General plan and making things internally consistent. So I will be voting in favor Great commissioner crepe key Yeah, as it's consistent with the general plan and it would be inappropriate for us to speculate as no project has been Proposed I can make all the findings for rezoning and I'll be supporting the project. Okay, great Yeah, I think this is really, you know a housekeeping measure to bring it into consistency with the general plan And so I also can make all of the findings And we'll be voting in favor of that So with that that was moved by commissioner Duggan seconded by commissioner Pearson and your votes, please And that passes with six eyes vice chair weeks being absent That concludes that item Yeah, so next we're going to go ahead and move on to Item number ten point two which is the Bellevue Ranch seven rezoning conditional use permit and tentative map That is an expartee disclosure Commissioner Carter anything to disclose? I did visit the site. I've not met with the applicant though Commissioner Kaya I also visit the site and have nothing further to disclose. I Visited the site and have nothing further to disclose Mr. Peterson. I visited the site and have no new information to disclose And commissioner Krepke. I have nothing to disclose And I also visited the site and have no new information to disclose and with that Susie Murray is our senior planner will be giving our staff presentation Good evening chair Cisco and members of the commission the project before you is the bell vent Bellevue Ranch seven Small lot subdivision. I've been running up We've seen it Anyways Sorry Let's see so the Proposal is to Develop a small lot subdivision which will construct 34 plus units that it would be 30 single-family residential units for accessory dwelling units and possibly three more accessory dwelling units So it's up to seven definitely for The sub the project proposes to subdivide a five point seven five acre parcel into 30 individual residential lots The required actions include a negative negative gated negative Declaration a rezoning a conditional use permit and a tentative map Here's an aerial view of the site and the area around the site and Then at the planning commission's request, I've included this graphic which shows other development either proposed approved In those that status along Dutton Avenue The numbers that you see or I'm sorry Dutton Meadow The numbers that you see in those those on top of those blue sites blue highlighted sites Are the number of units proposed in each one of those subdivisions either proposed or approved And here is a close-up aerial of the actual Subject site. There's not a whole lot going on out there The project has kind of a long history the original applications came in in 2013 The the project was revised There was a lot to do about getting some easements in place a long common way to the to the west of the site and the that common way really accommodates the development of that entire Western portion of the southern half of Dutton Meadow, so Once that that occurred those easements the plans were finalized then we were able to move forward with the project in conditioning We actually in May of 2017 had a second neighborhood meeting Because of the amount of time that had lapsed since the first since the initial application and nobody attended The application was deemed complete we received a mitigated negative declaration and I'll talk a little bit more about that further in the presentation Here is a view of the actual tentative map It will take access directly off of Dutton Meadow on the east side of the subdivision and It's set up in a very standard grid grid pattern and here is a copy of the development plan which is a little bit clearer and Again, you can see that each street has five units on either side The stars that just came on are the seven locations where the floor plan that includes the second dwelling unit or the Accessory dwelling unit can be placed The general plan land use designation for the site is low density residential and open Low low density open space Both of which have allowed density or development at a density of two to eight units per acre The project implements several general plan goals including I'm probably first and foremost meeting some of our housing needs The project site is also Within the recently adopted Sebastopol Road Roseland area specific plan And also further several goals in that plan Encouraging attractive and diverse neighborhoods we have with those second dwelling units. We have a different We yeah a more affordable home And then of course improving connectivity and traffic flow Ensuring safe routes to school. This will have a safe route, you know going right through the development to the to the west and over to L. C. Allen And it will also install several you know sidewalk and street frontage by a Bike lane is it class 2 bike lane along the frontage in Dutton Meadow So the the surrounding properties are Almost I guess 100% single-family residential that that's that's That's the air what the area is targeted for in terms of the California Environmental Quality Act the project has been found In compliance a couple of ways when the project was submitted the station or the Sebastopol Road Roseland area station area had not been approved yet or the specific plan had not been approved yet And in fact, I'm not even quite sure it was being worked on at that point But it since went into effect. So at the get-go they stood early in the project We started the the process of the initial study which eventually Resulted in a mitigated negative declaration During that time or once once the specific plan area was approved and that EIR associated was was certified The area became Eligible for a statutory exemption pursuant to Government code section which is outside of the normal the normal realm of Sequa review so really the project qualifies for a Statutory exemption which and that is further supported by a mitigated negative declaration The mitigated negative declaration was circulated for a period of 30 days Commencing I think February 22nd not 30-day period since it ended on a weekend it closed on Monday the 25th staff received no comments regarding the mitigated negative declaration at the initial neighborhood meeting back in 2013 there were comments received people were concerned about Parking requirements, they were concerned about circulation and they were worried about stormwater and flooding The this in the area. I understand the parking concern and I'll talk a little bit more about that as well But this particular project not only meets but exceeds the parking requirements Which was discussed in the staff report? Circulation it's the the project we the Applicant was asked to provide a trip generation Circulation is consistent with what was reviewed as part of the circulation a portion of the EIR adopted for these I will keep wanting to say station area the Sebastopol Road Roseland area specific plan area, so Let's see and then stormwater all projects that come through are required to comply with our LID requirements and Basically, it's to to treat storm runoff generated by a one-inch storm over a 24-hour period And if anybody needs any clarification on that there is an engineer in the room that can do that I Was also asked to include this graphic for the the circulation Which is actually a enlargement of the of a general plan exhibit. I think it's I want to say it's five two But the area in question is shown by the yellow arrow and It's pointing to some Dutton Meadow, there's some planned circulation that Connects kind of a loop that connects the Herne Avenue and and what have you it this This is planned. This is the the project that was before you or there was another project before you a few weeks ago I think on February 14th, and I don't know that or there was another project, and I don't think it was I think it was denied So and it would have done away with this there was a great deal of work that went into the the planning of this Bypass if you will so there are no unresolved issues with this project. However, we did receive some late correspondence and if I'd like to take a moment just to go through that since I passed the slide where I was talking about that There the the person who wrote this I don't don't believe she's tend to attending the meeting tonight But she brought up several issues. She brought up the traffic the circulation along Dutton Meadow And was concerned about both Herne Avenue and Bellevue Avenue being in disrepair Herne Avenue is scheduled. There is a funding source and likely will be repaired in the next couple of years Bellevue Avenue is also in need of repair and We've acknowledged that but that has not been scheduled yet Another Point that was brought up was the lack of adequate sidewalks and bike lanes, and I really want to take a moment to not Inform all of you but for anybody who's listening to this meeting that Development is the tool to get our roads widened to get our sidewalks in and to get our bike paths in And so the plan for development includes Do it making those improvements and improving circulation so bit by bit it is being completed and So I wanted to address that I Will also I went back the the author of this letter also brought up the development and on Pebble Creek, which was Amarosa Village and What was it? No, yeah, Amarosa. Well Amarosa Village. It was adopted back in 2008 and it was a mix of housing And it was affordable housing That project was found to in compliance with the parking Ornance it I Looked up the numbers and I did not print out my notes So it was actually in excess it had 12 excess parking or 10 excess parking spaces It required 412 and provided 422 I Have driven down that meadow I I have seen the parking congestion several times in the evening on in that area And it's a result of people storing things in their garages rather than parking cars I'm sure I haven't seen the inside of people's garages, but I've I've seen the problem occur before so Another item that was brought up was the noticing The zoning code requires us to notice property owners within 300 feet of the parcel our practice has always been since I've been here That's about 12 years to notice for 400 feet for property owners and It's if staff staff's discretion to include Occupants as well That ordinance or that regulation is about to change the Planning Commission has already reviewed it It's going before the City Council next Tuesday, and it will expand that noticing Area to 600 feet. It's not in effect yet. If approved. It'll be 31 days after the second reading of that ordinance So we're looking at probably May There was some discussion about a park down on the southeast southern southeast corner of Dutton Meadow and yeah of Dutton Meadow and And I am gonna I'm gonna invite Jesus Mckag up to help me answer that because he did some research It was kind of a last-minute Response so Now it's on chair Cisco and members of the Commission I'm Jesus Mckag and I'm happy to answer any questions that I was able to determine in my researches There was a project that it's called in the letter as Burbank project and the name of it is as my research has shown Colgan Meadows it's just two parcels north of Bellevue Avenue and there was a Is a park parcel that has yet to be developed that was dedicated to the city as part of that and the complaint Appears to be that it has not yet been developed But as far as I can tell it is intended to be a park at some point in the future Could you say a little bit more about what the city's process is and getting those things developed again for it? So the public understands that well, it's taking so long. Okay. I was not able to determine exactly how This was obtained it seems to have been Dedicated and they're developed in different ways often they're developed actually by the developer in this case that it was apparently not the case it was just deeded to the city and Given the short amount of time I had I wasn't able to find a development agreement There is probably one somewhere and it may shed a little bit more light upon this But in this instance it appears that it was just dedicated to the city for a future park And that's how it was shown in the improvement plans Sorry, I don't have more information on it. Okay, and then There was also a comment about trees being cut down that were designated to Remain as part of that bourbon project. Do you know anything about that that I was not able to find anything out about? Okay Okay, I think that'll probably take a little bit more research and I I believe the The author yeah, yeah, the the resident that has voiced or brought raised these issues is is here So I will be sure to give her my business card and she can contact me And if the commission would like us to report back on that we'd be happy to I don't know the status of the trees Okay, that would be great I think that would be helpful to have to have us have that information since the question was raised at whatever point you Get it appreciate that Absolutely, and there was one other point that I neglected to touch on and that was there was some concern about the number of sidewalks and just doing that from the Aerial view we counted five crosswalks along her and along her and so I know that there is there are There's at least one more planned But it's if it were as easy as going out and painting those stripes. I'm guessing it would be done already So there's a little bit more to it. So with that for this project. There are no unresolved issues So it's recommended by the Planning and Economic Development Department that the Planning Commission adopt a mitigated negative Declaration recommend to the Council approval of requests to rezone from the PD plan development Zoning district to the R16 zoning district approve a conditional use permit for the development of a small lot subdivision and Approved the Bellevue Ranch 7 tentative map and that concludes my presentation The applicant and the applicants engineer are here if you have questions Okay, any questions right now staff Okay, great. So with the applicant like to give their presentation. Thank you our microphone is not on or something There we go. Thank you Is that okay? Yes. Yeah. Hi. This is Jay writer with writer homes. We are the applicant and Thank you Suzy for doing a great job of presenting the project I really don't have much further to add to that But I'm here as well as my project engineer and our sequel consultant was also here. So Any questions you might have of me? Okay We may have some after the public hearing I can bring you up if there are other questions unless somebody has something pressing right now Okay, great. Thanks, mr. Rider. Thank you Okay This is a public hearing tonight. I'm gonna go ahead and open the public hearing I don't have any cards on this matter if you'd like to speak please go up to the microphone up at top and State your name for the record You have three minutes Watch the little light bar. It'll start at green and end at red when you need to stop Hi, I'm Esther Peru and I live across Dutton Meadow on boron Avenue and Well Susan did address my concerns about traffic. I have two other concerns one is One will be done to mitigate The burden on our water system our overtaxed water system With more housing and the other Someone more pressing one is we saw during the terrible wildfires we had that some people got out Just ahead of the flames and of course some didn't so There'd be a lot of cars pouring out of both developments Onto very narrow Dutton Meadow in case of such an emergency again And I'm wondering what will be done to mitigate that and I would request of the Commission that they make approval contingent upon a showing of mitigation of the congestion and gridlock that could result Okay, anything else Great. Thank you Anyone else wishing to speak on this item? Not seeing anyone rise. I'm gonna go ahead and close the public hearing and I think the questions that were raised are best addressed by staff Miss Murray if you wouldn't mind explaining how it is that we account For water and development I don't mind at all. So the the homes that are constructed are required to comply with the California Building Code tier Cal Green tier one you'll hear that it's Used to be a little bit more restrictive on the flow rates for some of the interior appliances But I think now that the the building code has been updated to so that everybody has to construct to those standards Building building homes. There are fees associated with building homes permit fees and development fees And those development fees fund programs to make other Areas of the city more efficient. There are several older homes that have for example a Toilet that flushes with seven gallons of water Current toilets are flushing anywhere from point eight gallons to you know 1.25 I think gallons or 1.27. So there's a substantial While you're putting in more toilets you're replacing some other ones It's actually reducing the demand and those replacements those programs are funded by Partially by development fees and then also by ratepayers So that's just one example Again, you know that those programs also provide aerators and hose nozzles and shower heads and Education for rainwater harvesting systems and education for gray water systems and and what have you So and then how do we account in the general plan process for how? How much water there is to accommodate the developments that are proposed it is help I know that's a complex one. We it is a complex one And I don't know that I can explain it in great detail But I know that we do water supply assessments that were required to do water supply assessments and when there's Development proposed that exceeds the number was considered in that water supply assessment a new one is required this the development at this property was was I mean it was considered in the general plan and the specific plan EIRs which considered water needs, but more so this development will also Do its fair share of installing the necessary Infrastructure the pipes sewer pipes water pipes to get to get Get transport the the potable and the wastewater The as I explained a little bit earlier the project has to also comply With sue some requirements. So we have three water systems in the city. We have the wastewater We have the potable water and we have the stormwater our creek systems This that we have measures in place now to make sure that Each project doesn't certainly doesn't worsen that problem, but in fact better is it As far as that also, let's see new development also requires Dedicated water meters For fire sprinklers, right We believe so so they all knew to all new homes require fire sprinklers. So addressing the fire concerns That's one as far as the evacuation routes again. These roads are being approved Improved to meet the requirements of the developed community as the community develops. That's our mechanism for doing it Another thing to to also consider is that Dutton Meadow I have traveled Dutton Meadow. It's several times of the day I know that I've spoken to our traffic engineer Rob sprinkle who has also done that several times The only time that it's really congested my experience is in the morning drop-off system for time period for school I don't know of a an area with an elementary or yeah, well Especially an elementary school in this day and age. It's true people want to deliver their children to school rather than have them walk And i'm not aware of any area where it doesn't become a little bit of a congestion problem with cars in the morning. So Um, I I haven't experienced the same thing. I don't doubt that it does happen during pickup time especially on a wet and rainy day, but um, so And then if you wouldn't mind just Describing when development is proposed how it is that both the fire department and the police department weigh in on emergency services when uh developments proposed Several people complained. There are several sets of plans that are required Um, and develop those plans are forwarded out. In fact, I think there were I want to say, uh, 30 31 sets of plans required for this if I go back it was 29 or 31 and went out to the fire department to the police department to the transit Transportation and public works several city departments engineering building water and then the Additional plans were forwarded out to to various other agencies the water agency and that was by the way one of the things We had to talk about was the way The the basin worked had to be ironed out over there for You know which way traffic or uh water would flow off the site and into Into the the creeks and what have you so it was a collaborative effort. It's not just up to the city It did require some uh Sonoma county water agency review But everybody works together to review these plans I think the plans went through in this case. They probably went through I would say Once we knew what was going on probably four iterations until we got everything that we needed onto those plans And that includes water Where the pipes are laid that includes Yeah, and a lot of eyes were on those plans the fire department did not raise any issues They saw what was there and once I take that back there were issues with the street design Um on on the interior streets There was concern that if there was parking on both sides of the streets that the fire trucks would not be able to get down There should there be an emergency We had a crafty engineer that came up with an alternative. We actually there There were several opposing views. There was uh park Um The project met the parking requirements by um limiting the parking on one side There were uh That was a concern because of the parking demand down in the area. There was um the concern about covering up Much needed permeable space In the planner boxes So what we finally ended up with was a reduced size sidewalk that meets the the ADA requirements Americans with disabilities a reduced size planner strip and um, which widened the street by two feet on either side and gave enough room for parking on both sides and the uh fire truck access and Everybody agreed on it. So it was actually a really nice resolution to that problem, but It is a collaborative effort Great. Thank you. Um, um, yeah, and I'd just like to add one thing in addition to miss murray's explanation Just with regard to the impacts to the water system specifically the mitigated negative declaration did look at impacts to water supply And found that the impacts were less than significant Water supply assessment is only required at a project level if there are 500 new residential units or equivalent Which is not the case here And in addition the mitigated negative declaration addressed the traffic impacts including emergency Access and found that there were no impacts to traffic congestion or emergency access as well So all impacts were found to be less than significant after analysis. So I just wanted to add that Great. Thanks for that Okay, um any questions of staff? Yeah, commissioner peterson I just wanted to to pick up on one of Your comments miss murray about The parking and when you've traveled through there your your suspicion that people are filling their garages with Stuff and not cars When we're looking at a project like this, we've we've got a parking standard. This meets the the required amount of parking Are there alternatives even outside of the planning commission route to address parking concerns whether it's enforcement Creating special parking zones or something to deal with sort of the quality of life aspects of parking for local residents There are parking zones. I don't know that it's necessarily appropriate here for a place like downtown and the college district or South a street. There's a conflict during business hours. This is all you know residents um And in the times that there's a conflict out there. There's no enforcement staff working. So the weekend and nighttime hours We we looked at that as you know, just a Can we offer that to people? It didn't seem to make sense as far as I mean this this This project has meets its parking requirements with off street parking every unit has two Two garage spaces and two tandem spaces outside the garage And so all of the street parking is really excess and I I don't know what the answer is. I think to Sure, you could try to enforce that people Park in their garage that I think it would be opening pandora's box I like to think that eventually people will get sick of walking Quite a ways because their garage is full and unload their garage and start parking their car So I I don't know what the answer is there, but I'm sure there are several Thank you Any other questions of staff Sure dug in This is sort of touches on circulation. You mentioned common way, which I guess is on the western side of the parcel What is that going to connect to? Eventually is that going to provide another way out of this development that won't won't require the use of dutton meadow No, it'll loop off dutton meadow. It'll enter and access it on to dutton meadow Let me see if I can't Bring because it looked like it was going north south and that it might connect to rain dance To the north. I'm calling in the the help. Okay. I don't I don't Good afternoon commissioners. My name is rob sprinkles city center as a traffic engineer My understanding is that it does connect not only to Up to rain dance common way does connect to rain dance, but it also connects through The other developments over to Burgess. So it will provide quite a A large amount of different connectivity for the subdivision once those are constructed as well. Okay. Thank you Any other questions of staff right now I have just a general one I know There's a potential that this project might require a homeowners association or special tax district and I think oakmont has this but if there were a homeowners association I believe the ccnr's could be written in such a way that require homeowners to park inside their garages so just Throwing it out. There's something to think about If that's the option that you take for the project Okay Any other questions of that or the applicant? Yeah For the applicant and I might might have missed it, but uh, will any of the below market rate units have ad use? Are those all market rate units? Yeah, okay. Thank you Okay, uh, anybody We've got a number of resolutions. So i'm gonna recommend That we start off Yeah, just a quick supplement to that answer Uh, as the you can see from slide two We do call out the 30 units the base units our market rate as the applicants stated But the city is Able to count the second units. They're Affordable by design because they're smaller And they do count to our our regional housing need Um target. So as you can see we're counting the second units as moderate But yet so that helps in our our goals, but they're not all considered market rate The reasoning for my question was possibly to make it even more affordable to buy having someone of lower income Be able to afford it using that as a residual income. It was why I was asking Okay Yeah, commissioner car I had You have to use the microphone. Thanks. I do have a follow-on question on some of the circulation issues. Okay So It was helpful to have the diagram from the area plan or the The general plan about the local circulation, but I found myself having to go back and forth between the The roseland area plan and the project specific and the and the pending projects to better understand How the the streets and the sidewalks and the bike lanes are phased in around here I'm still not completely clear. For instance, there's a statement that there will be direct pedestrian access to the high school From the the local streets in this proposal When there's a another project between this proposal in the high school Am I correct in assuming that that other project will be implemented by the time this one is Is built so that there will be continuous sidewalks between here and the high school That's a good question for the developer. He's he has both projects. Okay Well, the answer to that is that the project to the west that was on one of those diagrams Called southwest of states We have a recorded final map now and we are planning to start development of that this year. So That will proceed The subject project so there will be connectivity all the way to the high school Thank you. I think and as a follow on I think more for staff in this case. There's also a good explanation of the Phasing of the the larger regional improvements in the in the roseland area plan I think it might be useful to have some of that information Integrated into the the reports for these individual projects So we could understand when her and avenue improvements might be taking place and when intersection improvements that could have some bearing on access to the site are Are planned because it was It was not easy to tell working back and forth between the area plan and the project to understand how the phasing worked in tireless Thank you Okay, any other questions of staff or the applicant? Okay, so Is someone willing to move our first resolution for purposes of Discussion And what i'm going to ask you to do is when I ask for your comments We'll just discuss the the project in general if there's some place we need to change one of the other resolutions. We'll I'll figure that out Okay, would somebody like to move the resolution I'll move I'll move resolution of the planning commission of the city of santa rosa adopting a mitigated negative declaration and mitigated Monitoring and reporting program for the belvi ranch seven subdivision located at two nine zero three dot meadow Assessors parcel number zero four three dash one one one dash zero zero seven file number mjp one three dash zero zero nine and wait for the reading And do I have a second Okay, so that was moved by commissioner olcrapki seconded by commissioner duggin commissioner olcrapki. Would you like to start? So we're taking everything on at once, right? Yes. Okay Spill it Yeah, I think this is A great project. I understand some of the concerns about traffic. I understand some of the concerns about the resources but As the planner pointed out houses cause demand for resources Whether that be improvements in infrastructure or resources to or bus stops or the plan smart train station or stores or whatever I think it's great. There's a there's a distinct need for some of these smaller single family detached homes for young professionals for growing families The the four thousand to six thousand square foot lots and the elevations in the four plans are fantastic in my opinion and Looking at everything I can make all the required findings to support the project Okay, commissioner peterson Uh, well, I I'd start my comment by saying that you will absolutely get no argument from me that Parking and traffic in that area at at any of the peak hours is just absolutely horrendous I mean, you know, if you if you don't time it right, you will Get a good chance to spend some time thinking in your car while you wait to make a left turn And so so with that kind of in the back of my mind there's also the other issue That came up in the other item 10.1 from the public comment, which is the number of people in this city that are rent burned the number of people That are looking for housing that can't find it the number of people that are stuck in substandard housing that can't move into better housing and Not only the knock on effects of you know things like homelessness, but also you know attracting and retaining talent for business and You know maintaining sort of the economic engine of santa rosa as we Move forward and we've got the sort of growing cannabis industry and and all of those issues Kind of color my my views of this thing Along with the upcoming deadline that Is I've discussed before in a similar development in this area Which is october 2019 marks two years from the fire Which means a lot of people are going to be running out of additional living expense insurance and if You know, we don't make real progress on on building housing and getting things moving in santa rosa Um, I think we're going to be facing a real crisis come the fall So with with all those sort of general Comments I think that this project much like the other developments we've seen on done meadow Is not necessarily my ideal development project I think it's it's good to have the ad use. I think that's a very nice sort of missing middle kind of housing to To add to the santa rosa housing stock, but You know, i'm always going to be in favor of centrally located dense walkable neighborhoods with lots of services grocery stores Dry cleaners everything that you can get to on foot However, you know, we've We've got a project in front of us that Meets housing needs, you know 30 units plus four to seven eighty use is is nothing to sneeze at and I think that Taking the project on The findings we are required to make if you if we look at What's in the resolutions I can Make those findings. I I think it's it's not an easy call and I think we see that with The feedback we've gotten from the public You know, this is really an area in transition and right now I think it's bearing the brunt of a lot of development But you know, the the project meets the requirements that the city has set out and Like I said, I think I can make the findings. I'm interested to hear You know, my fellow commissioners comments before I Sort of fully commit one way or the other. Um, so I'd like to hear sort of a debate about what Other commissioners are thinking and the pros and cons commissioner dug in I too can make the findings. I know it's The nature of our development Processed these days that you don't get the improved streets. You don't get the improved sidewalks You don't get all that until you have the houses and that all that all of those things are provided by the developer And after all the time we've spent planning and looking forward to housing in this area And I've been on the commission 12 and a half years now to see things move forward is really exciting in this area because we've been talking about this for a long time and I think Once these projects go through and like the connectivity to the high school and to rain down sway And hopefully we can put in a plug for maybe having the street traffic signal at um belview and that in meadow I don't think one exists there now. I think that's probably overdue I think it's going to be a nice neighborhood But I think I know that the people who live there now are bearing the burden of what's going on But I think it's only going to get better so I can make the findings and I'm in support of the project Because she'll call you I can also make all the required findings and we'll be supporting this product. I agree with commissioner duggin Just the way the development process works that The developer will be doing a lot of the improvements that will help the the traffic and sidewalks and the connectivity in that area and I think we've been working on This you know this area has been planned for single-family homes for a very long time and this project is consistent with that And I can make all the required findings Commissioner Carter I too can support the project Because of the type and quantity of housing it's providing. We all have heard all the stories about why we need housing And they're all true I think the roseland area plan provides a good guideline for development and in this area, but I I don't My own personal experience and I'm new to the commission is that it's not clear to me how each project is Implementing the plan are It could be made clear how the plan How the projects fit into the plan and and where they occur in the phasing of the plan And I think that would help the neighbors understand how the future Development in the area might alleviate some of the problems that we all see when we go out there now But I am generally in support of the project um Well, I have a lot of history with this area I'm you know live in the area and I've been on the commission now for over 17 years and The history really it goes back to The southwest area plan It goes back to we master plan this area. There was a dentin meadow master plan Back in 2002, which was part of what I brought up when we were dealing with the potential general plan amendment to this Circulation plan and in terms of a regional plan So it's there's this area has had a lot of focus and the infrastructure I really appreciate the The educational piece of how development does provide the the important infrastructure You know in the past when redevelopment existed This was this whole area was the focus of a joint city county Redevelopment project area and so every development kicked in some extra tax increment And it was going to be going to fixing These infrastructure problems while that got taken away So we're back to it's the it's the development as it occurs That will improve the infrastructure and it and it is but it's well It's been planned many times and focused on in in terms of plans and And it's an important area and the circulation piece is really important as we've seen So that we're not always going down Dutton meadow to get to Bellevue and that that will come The other part about making it walkable is part of the the Dutton Dutton meadow master plan there is a shopping area in there And we can't get commercial Services until you get enough density to support the commercial services. So we're always walking this tension of Yeah, this ultimately that's what we're aiming for is where every neighborhood can walk to The services that they need However, you need to have enough neighborhoods in order to support that and I I think we're going to get to a tipping point very soon here with with as much as It's actually starting to finally be built, but it's been Planned for years. So I'm excited to see these projects actually come forward. I'll be really excited to see them built I think this is a good project. I appreciate the The ad use as affordable by design. It's definitely something that the city is encouraging So I appreciate the inclusion of those in here But I can make the findings and I'm excited to see this project go forward I'm excited to see The slow moving improvements to to Dutton meadow because I I get it that it's that it's an issue But this is the only way that we can get it So with that I'm going to go ahead and ask for votes That resolute do you want have anything else you'd like to say commissioner peterson? No, other than that, I think my fellow commissioners comments were very helpful. I think I think it is a good reminder of the Where the cart goes either before or after the horse when it comes to these kinds of Developments and I particular agree with commissioner carters Comment about sort of getting that 30 000 foot view of You know, where are we now and where are we trying to go in a really easily Digestible way so that you know affected residents and residents in the area can really you know participate in a in a small d democratic kind of way and and As easy as possible, so Thank you Okay So with that the mnd resolution was moved by commissioner o'crepkey seconded by commissioner duggan and your votes, please Then that passes with six eyes vice chair weeks being absent And resolution number two the rezoning someone like to do that It's good if we keep it consistent I think there's enough resolutions for everyone to participate Let's see where am I sorry about that. All right, um I I will move a resolution of the planning commission of the city of san aroza recommending the city council rezoning of property located at 2903 dot minnow Assessors parcel number 043 dash 111 dash 007 to the r-1-6 single family residential zoning district dash Or excuse me. Sorry file number mjp 13 dash 009 And do I have a second? I'll second. Okay, so that was moved by commissioner o'crepkey seconded by commissioner duggan That's our rezoning resolution your votes, please And that passes with six eyes vice chair weeks being absent Next is our conditional use permit I will move a resolution of the planning commission of the city of san aroza making findings and determinations And approving a conditional use permit for belview ranch 7 a 30 parcel small-out subdivision located at 2903 dot meadow Assessors parcel number 043 dash 111 dash 007 file number mjp 13 dash 009 I'll second So the conditional use permit resolution was moved by commissioner o'crepkey seconded by commissioner duggan and your votes, please That passes with six eyes vice chair weeks being absent And next is our tentative map I will move a resolution of the planning commission of the city of san aroza Approving the belview ranch 7 tentative map located at 2903 dot meadow assessors parcel number 043 dash 111 dash 007 file number mjp 13 dash 009 And I'll second And the tentative map resolution was moved by commissioner o'crepkey seconded by commissioner duggan and your votes, please And that passes with six eyes vice chair weeks being absent I believe that concludes this item and I really want to again thank miss murray Thank you for being so complete and and helping describe for us and for the public how this process Kind of comes together. Yeah, so thank you for that And with that We'll end the item on why don't we take a five minute break? Okay, we're going to go ahead and call back to order our meeting and move on to item 10.3 Which is the dubi night's conditional use permit it is an ex parte disclosure commissioner carter anything to disclose I did visit the site and meet with the applicant. Okay I also visited the site and met with the applicant I also visited the site and met with the applicant and wanted to disclose My cousin is part owner of the building, but he's my third cousin and we have no social relationship And no money interest Mr. Peterson I also visited the site and met with the applicant and took a tour of the internal space And commissioner o'crepkey I briefly met with a representative of the applicant. I have nothing further to disclose And I visited the site and have no new information to disclose With that susie murray gets to do the staff presentation for us And the project this project before you dubi night's is a cannabis retail dispensary use Located at 3011 santa rosa avenue in suite eight Here we go again. It's like a heat wave in here Let's see it's a conditional use permit To allow a 5,280 square foot cannabis retail business to operate out of an existing commercial structure that Is currently up two-thirds of the building has other commercial uses in it right now down on santa rosa avenue Here is an aerial of the site The arrow points at the the northern most suite of the building and that's that's where the project is proposed A much shorter project history on this there was a neighborhood meeting held back in uh, february of 2018 prior to the The onslaught of conditional use permit applications for cannabis uses dispensaries And they're uh, then noticing all noticing was done in compliance with the zoning code I'll talk more about that neighborhood meeting when we get further into the the presentation the um General plan land use designation for the site is medium or retail and business services Um, the zoning is cg and is consistent with with the site I'm going to go back up. There's a The general plan land use designation for the property to the north Is mobile home park? The zoning is not consistent, which you'll see down here That that is the zoning is for general commercial So we did consider that it's this is next to The The residential use and parking night time parking has come up in the past for commercial next to Residential and I'll talk a little bit more about that when I get down Into the zoning code section. So, um, dubi knights plans to um, hold or do background checks for all their employees The application pursuant to zoning code chapter 2046 Provided an odor mitigation plan that was stamped by an uh engineer licensed engineer Lighting and security. I guess I should probably put these two next to each other because lighting they're all of these uses are all commercial uses are required to To um, keep their lighting, uh, facing down on site. So it's not spilling onto other Properties, but with a lot of commercial uses. It's it's it's a balance to make sure that you also have enough lighting for your security This the proposal for the security includes Exterior cameras interior cameras. They've got a full security system and for details I'll let you ask the applicant about that but they have submitted a plan Noise that the project is required to comply with The noise ordinance, although it's a retail use in a general commercial area Um, and I don't anticipate that there will be any excessive noise there The project also will provide delivery service the hours for the delivery service are the same as their retail hours And the project parking has been found in compliance with the uh zoning code the The site only 15,000 15,000 square feet of the project site are rented out that there's a mezzanine level that the owners of the building use for storage Regardless, I mean when we do the calculation storage, whether the owners are using it or somebody else that storage area They are in compliance because the zoning code allows A reduction when you're we're reusing a building an existing building Excuse me So do be nice is located or will be located At the yellow star where the that's the project site and the closest school Is greater than 1500 square feet or square one of your feet away And I there We get at this there was a I tried to update this graphic this graphic shows a 600 foot radius There was an inquiry from a commissioner that asked about Signage for the site and I know that the applicant is planning on addressing that inquiry and their presentation as well So this this line Shows the the 600 foot radius for the site and going back up again That just supports the the distance the the 600 foot distance to the school. So Let's see the north here is the the site plan where you can see the parking and It talks about shutter bug and cycle gear the other two Retail uses in the building Um, I've just shown I've kind of superimposed the floor plan Which you'll see in a little bit better detail on the next slide and the graphic on the the side The I'm sorry the lower left hand side Um, as you can see, you know, there's of the 5,820 square feet that's designated for the dispensary Um, the entry area is 1400 square feet The dispensary is 600 square feet and all other supporting uses are about 40 200 square feet. So um The parking of course has to assume the entire use is retail space. So they've met that kind of Yeah, there's just a very small retail space really So these are the the upper photo is the current Elevation of the suite and the conceptual photo is db nights after That's their store frontage that was submitted with the application Public comments during the neighborhood meeting we did receive comments. Um I want to opens by saying that the people that showed up were not um In favor of and they were not opposed to they just had questions. It was more informational than anything um The the things that came up during the meeting will the project will approval of the the business attract more homeless people um It's it's my experience. I don't know that there's any guarantee But when you all of a sudden have business and livelihood around that the homeless Problem isn't certainly isn't resolved, but it's shifted to another location So if there is a homeless problem down there now my guess is it will Shift somewhere else after the business opens Uh, the project plans were also referred out to the police department and the police department did not raise any concerns Um, the same applies with the gang related activities Will it Increase as a result of this business again the project plans were referred out to the police department and they did not raise any concerns so, um Let's see uh subsequent correspondence. I I have not received anything else about other than planning commissioner inquiries There are six Or i'm sorry six findings that are required for these uh conditional use permits um The all findings have been met the project complies with all other applicable Applicable provisions of the zoning code in that signage any signage will be required to comply With the the more strict regulations in the Cannabis ordinance The proposed use is consistent with the general plan It's compatible with existing and future land uses The site is physically suitable for the type and density and intensity of the use It would not constitute a nuisance And it's been found in compliance with the california environmental quality act With three under three categorical uh categorical exemptions See you and with that it is recommended by the planning and economic development department that the planning commission approve a conditional use permit Allowing dubi knights a cannabis retail use to conduct business from three 30 11 santa rosa avenue suite a That concludes my presentation Any questions of staff right now? Okay, let's see um the applicant like to make a presentation Well, thanks, that's great only if you want to I think uh Do we have a clicker a clicker the clicker Sorry Up to one of those top microphones. Yeah, you have to push a button. Okay So we won't waste too much of you guys time because Sure, yeah, you guys have better things to do than sit here and watch our presentation again and again Dubey knights is dispensary that we're looking at opening up here on santa rosa avenue 30 11 santa rosa avenue My name is brand mullivine. I'm executive director of mercy wellness of katati for those of you that don't know me I'm here with my co-applicant game and crane He is um going to be our managing partner and day-to-day operations Damon and I both are a longtime residents of sonoma county. I've lived here my whole life I think he's lived here his whole life as well both business operators and members of the community in many ways Let's skip through Okay We do a lot of community outreach and Um working with different non-profit organizations to give back senior programs We just started a new senior program where we actually go out and educate at senior centers So we have a whole education program put together and dubey knights will implement All these practices that we already do in katati Another one of the things that we do that I do I have to point it Okay That we just um Got put in front of us, which is not a part of our thing here is The museum actually reached out to us to fund a cannabis exhibit here Which i'm super excited about but It's all about for us like education making sure the community knows what we're doing This is why we put elevated on which was a compliance conference I sat on the board of the economic impact task force Katati's information panel and then Many other industry boards This doesn't want to work as good up here Let's see Basically the same thing just different pictures Um, I'll now hand it over to daemon here because he'll give you an idea of how the Security and odor and all that works and Just want to enter to statement to you kind of Just kind of give a little Animation there of the way the deliveries will be taking place We're going to be adding some gates there at those red lines that will be open during business hours And when deliveries and pickups take place They will come to that space and our security guard will close the gates so that they can Make the deliveries and then the gates will reopen for normal traffic for the other businesses there Coming to the next line Oh, there we go. Just wanted to put a Quick slide about our odor. We've been using a industry standard air filtration system for many years of mercy wellness And this is satisfied all of our neighbors and the suites right inside the building also It's never orders never been a problem This is uh all of our businesses in the neighborhood context map And we just want to highlight the ones that we've actually spoke to the owners of the buildings and spoke to the owners of the businesses And um all of these businesses welcomed us with positive feedback and welcome us into the uh neighborhood And one last slide again addressing this potential issue for daycares or children centers or any kind of places where children would be And we did a new research this morning Just doing a google search and looking for anything and the closest one again was The north bay children's center there at the taylor mountain school Which we measured from parcel to parcel at the very closest corners and still came up 1360 feet. So I think we're good there and uh, and that's it Open this for questions Any questions of the applicant right now? Yeah, commissioner pierson Uh, can you tell me about uh, sort of the employment practices you're planning? Specifically sort of the hiring plan Starting hourly wages Things like that Yeah, um, so we have a pretty thorough and extensive education program that we put together As a part of our hiring process We do pay a living wage. We've always paid above what industry standard is So our lowest paid employee We started at like 15 dollars an hour Or we've we've moved that up in the more recent months due to how the economy is going and The lack of people that you know, they're the job force availability But there we do have a very thorough and robust hiring process multiple layers And we could get into it more with spreadsheets and stuff, but we don't want to waste too much of your time I was just looking for sort of a general overview. So thank you Any other questions of the applicant? Okay No Okay, thanks. Thank you This is a public hearing tonight I go ahead and open the public hearing. I don't have any cards on the item If anyone would like to speak they can stand and move to one of the top microphones I don't think we have any members of the public here tonight I'll go ahead and close the public hearing and Bring it back to the commission any other questions of staff or the applicant. Yeah, commissioner crepeki Yeah, um for staff, can you I know it's not our purview as it would be the sign When they get their sign permit, but just to give them a little forewarning How is that process done? Um, how is that how is canoes product defined and how is a daycare play Ground or or play area defined and found is it through a google search or is there or how is that done? First first the first question is how will we address the sign there is I've added and I'm sorry I had this in my notes for the presentation and just forgot There's been a condition added to the resolution Which reads plans that submitted with sign permit application shall include an exhibit that it identifies all daycare centers Schools providing education in kindergarten or any grades one first through 12 Playgrounds or youth centers within a thousand feet of the subject site For daycare centers. Those are licensed by the state. There is a state agency in runner park They they're perfectly willing to work as soon as with us and with the applicant Um, it's just a matter of asking for the for the information I would assume, you know, if they're licensed. I if there's somebody that's just doing daycare at their home for friends We may not be able to spot that Schools, of course, we have we have access to that information and then um playgrounds Generally outside. I think we can identify those probably from aerials Um, and youth centers again, it would be a use that we would hopefully know of We'll do the best Best search that we can the applicant will do the initial search and we'll verify it as part of that permit um review process And then there were a couple other parts to that it was that and then how is cannabis product in that defined like I don't Do we have a zoning code? Yeah, we we it's defined in the zoning code. Um And uh, we can look that up, but um, essentially it's marijuana or products of marijuana And or references what i'm getting to is slang terms Right, so if they said marijuana for sale here, that would obviously be against the code Doobie on the other hand is a slang term that is recognized in the dictionary Basically, my my my my question is No one's going to look at doobie knights. I think they're selling doobie brothers albums so My question is would that be an issue for the applicant? If yeah, how do they define themselves in terms of their name? Is that is that easily definable? Yeah, I think uh, we're not prepared to make a determination to tonight and we don't have to Because we're we're looking at the land use which is essentially transferable to different names. So By locking in the use permit tonight, you're not stuck with this name And they don't have to put the sign up that has this name But as susie mentioned when they come in for their sign permit We have advised them that this may be It may it may be determined that doobie knights is too close to a reference to a cannabis product And so that they would need to provide the evidence they can have that But they have to provide the evidence and like susie says they'll it's their burden to provide it And then it's our responsibility to check it And that's how that process will work, but They're aware of this and just to add in that review process and there are some pretty robust regulations in the bureau's Regulations and also found in the business professions code that address all types of marketing and advertising Rather extensively. So we'll review those as well with the applicant during this process Commissioner Peterson Can I just ask a clarifying question on the this? It's zoning code section 2046 about the sign. So is the is the prohibition on Advertising cannabis or cannabis products Blanket prohibition or it's a prohibition Only within a thousand feet of a school Only within a thousand feet of a daycare center K through 12 school playground or youth center and that's found in the business and professions code and also in our cannabis code and zoning ordinance Okay, so so you can potentially have cannabis or cannabis products as long as it's outside that zone So that the condition that was was Put in place is just specifically to identify that thousand foot set back to ensure that there are none of those uses Or if there are then we'll revisit the topic with the applicant during the sign process Thank you Also one more thing just to keep in mind we put it in the city code So it's right up front so they don't get caught later trying to get That they're incompatible with a Fairly clear state law so we Tried to put it explicitly in our ordinance, but if we didn't have it in the city code It's still state law. So they will still have to be responsible for it Any other questions down here of staff? Any other questions of the applicant? Okay So with that would somebody like to move the resolution I'll move a resolution of the planning commission of the city of santa rosa making findings and determinations And approving a conditional use permit for doobie nights a cannabis retail dispensary Located at 30 11 a santa rosa avenue file number c up 18-063 and we further reading All second Okay, so that was moved by commissioner dug in seconded by commissioner peterson Uh commissioner peterson you want to start? well, I think that I had a very good meeting with the applicant. I think that as these projects become a little bit more routine It it becomes a little bit more straightforward to handle The findings and evaluate sort of what specifically we're looking at so in in this particular case um I think it Meets all the findings we would need to make in terms of odor security And everything else the particular things I always think it's important to highlight is that these dispensaries I think can have A positive effect on security. It may be a little counterintuitive, but I think just having You know eyes on the area 24 hours a day can help deter a lot of the Even pre-existing issues that a property may have and I also just like to highlight. I think that again the the cannabis ordinance was I think very well thought out by the city and Incorporated a lot of important input one of which was that it's It's good to have these dispensaries dispersed throughout the city It rather than sort of consigning them to kind of a red light district Um, you know in this case well apparently the the zoning is a little wonky there is there are residential areas right near there and I think that that will go a long way to addressing Some of the traffic inducement issues that we see when these other these projects Come up. So with that I'm in favor of the project and can make all necessary findings Commissioner kipke Yeah, I know it's harping on the sign a little bit, but I think it's important because every as commissioner peterson said like these get kind of To be almost box checking with certain application But every once in a while something comes up where The whether it be planning or the commission or the applicants or the council themselves have to say Oh, wait a second take us and step back for a second to see like how this all works out As we get our sea lakes for this new industry that we're we're embracing And then that was only done. So I just want to make I just want to make it clear that I want to make sure That the applicant was aware of what the process is and what they were facing With that though, I I think that There's nothing out of the ordinary With this application. It's In compliance I can make all the required findings and I'll be supporting the applicant Okay, commissioner dug in I can also make all the required findings and I appreciate a lot of the aspects of the application including the security with the gates at the back of the side I like I like having the deliveries not Having to use the same door as the retail customers So I'm in in support of the project Commissioner call you I can also make all of the required findings. I appreciate the applicant's Energy and keeping the jobs local and playing your paying your employees a living wage I think that's really important and I appreciate the The level of security that you're going to be providing to that area center Avenue because I know that's also very important and I will be supporting the project And commissioner carter I think Given the location of the project the way the The parcel has already developed the surrounding land uses. It's pretty easy to make the findings that it's an appropriate use I'll be supporting the project And I'll also be supporting the project I appreciated the letters of support that you got from the surrounding businesses and while I didn't tour this particular site with you I was able to visit mercy wellness in katari and saw how well run it is and You have very well established resumes and obviously a really good reputation to the you know, the community is supporting You is you have really supported our community So I appreciate the project always appreciate the extra security that you seem to be providing areas and So I can make all of the findings And I just want to clarify that we moved the resolution which includes miss murray's Adjustment to the planning division Section regarding signage So with that that was moved by commissioner dug in seconded by commissioner peterson and your votes please And that passes with six eyes vice chair weeks being absent That concludes this item and concludes our meeting. We'll adjourn to One of our april date is