 are waiting on Commissioner Houlton. Commissioner Carter, you might wanna leave the meeting and rejoin and we'll promote you again, but we are not getting any audio from you at this time. Commissioner Houlton, Commissioner Carter has come back in. Yes, it's still showing that he's on our panel, so we got a video from you, Commissioner Carter. Do you have audio? Commissioner Carter, can you raise your hand if you can hear me? Commissioner Carter, are you able to hear me? I don't believe you can, Commissioner Week, or Chair Week, sorry. I'm gonna send him a direct message one moment. Mike, I, Commissioner Carter, that he cannot hear you. Okay, are you willing to respond and let him know to log out and log back in or potentially turn back his speakers, or turn on his speakers, excuse me, just to check the volume level. I don't, I don't have anything I can do on my side to troubleshoot, unfortunately. I just like to let everyone know out there that we are trying to get one commissioner set up having some Zoom issues, so please be patient with us. Commissioner Carter, thanks for rejoining us. Are you able to hear me now? I can hear you now, yes. Perfect, loud and clear on our end. And it looks like we still do not have Commissioner Houlton. Just so you're aware, Chair Week, we do have a quorum. Mr. Maloney, I just got a text from Commissioner Houlton that he's having trouble as well, but he's in using his personal email account and the meeting ID. All right, we found him. We just started promoting him right now. Wonderful, thank you all. Thank you for joining us. We can troubleshoot later what was going on with your city. Exactly. Let me go ahead and rename you before we start and we'll take a long time. Okay, let me know, Mike, when you want to start. I'm going to press start on a few things here. Thank you, Mike. Okay, this is Patty, the host checking one more time, trying to eliminate some echoing. Can everybody hear me okay? Any weird echoing? Okay, good, thank you, Chair Weeks. All right, Chair Weeks, with that, we are ready to go at your discretion. Are we ready to go, Mike? Yes, we are, thank you. Okay, thank you. Thank you, everybody. I would like to call to order the May 13th meeting of the Planning Commission and read the typical verbiage that we've been doing now for over a year. And that is due to the provisions of the governor's executive orders, N-25-20 and N-29-20, which has spent certain requirements of the Brown Act and the order of the health officer of the County of Sonoma, the shelter in place to minimize the spread of COVID-19. The planning commissioners will be conducting today's meeting in a virtual setting using Zoom webinar. Commissioners and staff are participating from remote locations and or practicing appropriate social distancing. Members of the public may view and listen to this meeting as noted on the city's website and as noted on the agenda. Members of the public wishing to speak during item four, the public comment period, or during our public hearing items, we'll be able to do so by raising their hand and we'll be given the ability to address the commission. Can you do roll call, please? Yes, let the record reflect that all commissioners are present. Great, thank you. Item two is study session of which we have none. Item three, approval of minutes. Are there any questions or comments or changes to the minutes? Seeing none, they would be approved as submitted. Item four is public comments and we now open the public comment period for any item not included in this meeting's agenda. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please select the raised hand button. If you are dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. Each speaker has three minutes. The countdown timer will appear for the convenience of the speaker and viewers. Please make sure to unmute yourself when you're invited to do so by the host. Your microphone will be muted at the end of that countdown. Do we have any public comments? Thank you, Chair Weeks. It does not look like anyone's raising their hand at this time. We do have one phone caller and they are also not raising their hand. Okay, so then a minute or more and if nobody else raises their hands. Okay, so we will go ahead and close the public comment period and planning commissioners report. So I'd like to start off item five by reading the statement of purpose of the planning commission. The planning commission is charged with carrying out the California planning zoning laws in the city of Santa Rosa. Duties include implementing of plans ordinances and policies related to land use matters, assisting in writing and implementing the general plan and area plans, holding public hearings and acting on proposed changes to the zoning code, zoning map, general plan, tentative map, I'm sorry, tentative subdivision maps and undertaking special planning studies as needed. And then item 5.2, our committee reports are there, Commissioner Carter, do you have a waterways advisory committee report? I do not. Thank you. I do have a subdivision committee report which myself and Commissioner Collier attended and Commissioner Collier will be taking over from now on as the chair of that advisory committee. And we review two items. One was a subdivision of a parcel on Orange Road into four residential lots. And then the second item had to do with creating two legally separate duet homes in place of a duplex building that contained the units. And that was on, I can't remember the date it was on. It was, don't tell me, don't tell me. It was on the 28th, I believe. Yes, the 28th of April. Thank you. Are there any other, are there any commissioner reports which is item 5.3? I have a couple. One is that the Emeritus Awards which I believe I mentioned last time nominations are now open. They will close July 10th. If you go to the Emeritus Awards site on the city's webpage, you can find all the information and it's a great way to nominate people. And actually, I think what I will do is ask Mr. Maloney to send the link out to the commissioners just so you have it. And then the other item had to do with the draft EIR that's coming up. I believe that's May 27th and it's the ELNOCA project. If you haven't received your reading material and want a hard copy, please make arrangements with the staff to pick that up at the front counter at room 3. So any questions on that item? Okay. So we don't have any other items under that, under item 5. So item 6, our department reports. And I believe Mr. Rose is our person tonight. That's correct. Thanks, Chair Weeks. I will be your liaison tonight. Andrew has the night off. Although he did just message me and he is working. He just doesn't want to take a day off. So he's here if we need him as well. But well, welcome everyone. It's nice to see you. And I just had two quick announcements. One, I hope that you all saw an email that was sent earlier today from Supervising Planner Amy Lyle. It's about the general plan community workshops. We're going to be ramping those up here shortly. She sent out some background information. Those are done by district, by council member district. Welcome to go to any of them though, if there are scheduling conflicts, if you're interested, certainly be great to have you go for your respective districts. And also we'll be monitoring those. So if there are any potential Brown Act conflicts, we'll make sure we watch those and we can alert you. If anything like that happens, if you're picking dates that work and we have too many commissioners at any one meeting. So that was one item. The other is we definitely have not lost track of the need for a social get together for this group. We always like to do that when we have incoming new members. So commissioner Holton, we'd like to give you a proper introduction to the commission at a social gathering. Also say goodbye to outgoing members. Former chair Cisco is who I'm referencing. And we definitely want to say goodbye to her as well. So as we all start inching closer to some more normal get togethers with in terms of the distancing and the regulations we'll be watching for a time that works for everyone. Give you plenty of lead time and we'll put something nice together for that. So just wanted to mention it and that's all I have. Thank you, Mr. Rose. The next item is item seven and that is statements of abstentions by commissioners. Is there any commissioners that need to say commissioner Kropke? Yeah, I'm going to be standing from item 9.1 because of a possible perception of a financial bias. Thank you. Okay, item eight consent items. There are nothing under the consent item. So we move on to item nine, which is our scheduled item. So what we will, so the first item is public hearing Sunstone Advisors Inc. Mitigated negative declaration, conditional use permit and it is at 330 Yolanda Avenue, conditional use permit 18-070 and City Planner Shikali will be leaving us off. Thank you, Chair Weeks. Pardon me, Chair Weeks and Planner Monet High. This is Ashley Kropke, I'm sorry. I believe this is a ex parte disposal item. Yes, you're right. I'm sorry. Thank you, no problem. This is an ex parte hearing. So let me look at my verbiage. So if there are, I will go through the commissioners and if there are any items you would like to announce, we'll go from there, Commissioner Carter. I did visit the site, but I have nothing further to disclose. Thank you, Commissioner Duggan. I have nothing to disclose. Thank you, Commissioner Holton. I did visit the site and I have nothing to disclose. Thank you, Commissioner Kahlia. I visited the site and I have nothing further to disclose. Thank you, Vice Chair Peterson. So I visited the site and I have nothing further to disclose. Thank you, and I also visited the site and have nothing further to disclose. Okay, so now Ms. Shikali, if you would like to leave us off. Sure, I'm going to share my screen in a few seconds. Can you confirm that you can see my screen? Yes. Monet, you are muted at this time. Okay, sorry about that. Good afternoon, Chair Wicks and members of the Planning Commission. The project before you today is a conditional use permit for Sunstone advisors, located at 330 350 and 358 Yolanda Avenue. The applicant is proposing to operate a cannabis facility that includes cannabis cultivation, distribution, manufacturing and dispensary with delivery and on-site consumption within a proposed new building. The dispensary hours of operation will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and three other users have varying hours from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. The rendering here in the slide shows the elevation of the proposed building that will be reviewed by the zoning administrator at a later date. And the project site is located in the southeast quadrant and will span two parcels located on the south side of the Yolanda Avenue. The site is zoned like industrial, consistent with the general plan land designation. And the project is located in an area that is primarily developed with industrial and commercial uses along Yolanda Avenue. And a brief summary of the project history. This conditional use permit application was submitted in 2018. And the project was located in an area of high concentration. The Cannabis Policy Subcommittee selected the project to move forward through the conditional use permit review process. However, it was appealed and then city council upheld the subdivision, the subcommittee decision. And the project was approved to move forward on March 2019 for conditional use permit process review. Also to add to this list, before you that this project, this site was also included in the general plan amendment last year. And the land use was amended from commercial to light industry. Here is the site for the proposed project. The red square in this slide shows the location for the proposed new building. And the size of the proposed building is approximately 8,400 square feet. The project has adequate parking with the inclusion of a parking covenant. And this slide shows the interior square footages allocated for each use. And here, the reds rectangular is the area selected for onsite consumption. Person to city code no smoking or vaping is permitted onsite. And the project has been noticed and the sign has been posted onsite. I have received a late notice, late comment this morning. I'm gonna just give you a brief summary of what the email was. I have received email from a person named Mike Raymond. He has included in this email that he's opposing. He's not agree with this project. His concerns were regarding the traffic in this area. And he stated in his email that the proposed projects in the area will make a traffic force on the overpass where the Heron Avenue is. And if there are no improvements being made to make that Heron Avenue overpass for four lines. And he asked that he mentioned that traffic infrastructure should be addressed in the projects like this. And the planning and economic development, I mean, I'm sorry. The proposed project has been reviewed in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act. And the proposed project is between the scope of the previously adopted mitigated negative declaration for the Yolanda Industrial Project certified by the city council on December 8, 2020. City staff requested additional information regarding traffic and the original traffic impact study was prepared for the Yolanda Industrial Project general plan amendment and rezoning and was included in the appendices of the mitigated negative declaration which was approved by the city council. WTrans provided an addendum to respond to questions raised by the staff during the review of this conditional use permit and concluded the previously conducted traffic impact study remains valid and it is anticipated that all study for the intersections in that area will operate at an acceptable service levels. And with that, the planning and economic development department recommends that the planning commission by resolution approved the conditional use permit to allow a cannabis retail dispensary and delivery with onsite consumption, cannabis manufacturing level one non-volatile, cannabis cultivation and cannabis distribution between a 5,893 square foot area of a proposed new 8,441 square foot commercial building located at 330 and 350 358 Yolanda Avenue. And that was my presentation. Staff is available to answer questions. Here's my contact information. If anyone wants to contact me, I know Alicia Rose is the applicant and she has a brief presentation, a verbal presentation today to give it to you. And that was my presentation. Thank you. Thank you so much. Lester, any questions for staff? We can go ahead with the applicant's presentation. So, okay, so let's go ahead with the applicant's presentation if you could promote the applicant. Yes, if they can please raise their hand. We have quite a few people in here. Yes. Thank you. Okay, the applicant has been given the ability to go ahead and unmute whenever you're ready. Hi, my name is Alicia Rose Kelly. I'm so pleased to be here. And let me know, are we ready to go? Yes. Okay, great. Well, thank you so much. It is an incredible moment for me. We've been waiting for three very long years and are thrilled to finally be at this place in the process. I know that a lot of us throughout the city have expended a great deal of time and effort to get to this point. And I'm grateful for everyone who's had a hand in bringing this exceptional project to light so far. Together, I believe we're creating something important that will define a new standard for an entire industry while solidifying Santa Rosa as the cultural hub around our county's most highly prized agricultural products through the construction of a world-class immersive destination that supports holistic health and wellness. In 2018, City Council unanimously supported this project because of its merit to renew and redevelop a long underutilized corridor at the gateway to our city while also creating a focal point for community development, education and health, all while meeting and exceeding the city's general plan provisions. This project has also had unanimous support because of its vision, innovation and timeliness for developing a world-class destination to serve the wants and needs of our community as well as the 15 million wine country tourists who come to our region each year, looking for new experiences and ways to learn about cannabis in a guided and educational setting. I've crafted this vision for a winery-like experience for sacred plant medicine, bringing together 20 years of experience in developing profitable wineries in both Napa and Sonoma counties and six years running a vertically integrated, direct-to-consumer, retail-focused, conscious cannabis company. I know people are hungry for this type of experience because we've been contributing these experiences for people and consumers and patients for years now and interest is only growing. We have an incredibly talented, informed and experienced team, including the landowner, Alan Henderson, to help bring this vision to life in the best way possible. I had prepared some beautiful photos to give you a sense of how the project is being developed from the interior look and feel. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to present them today, but imagine, if you will, walking through the large welcoming front doors of this facility, checking in at a registration desk to ensure that you're over the age of 21 and then entering a thoughtfully curated retail storefront designed around your needs and desires as a consumer. Walk up to the bar for a quick purchase as you glance through the windows and watch the process of how we create the perfect free roll or handcraft, one of our award-winning elixirs, or wander through the beautiful display tables that showcase products based on effect for easy shopping, tables that identify products for sleep, pain, stress, or anxiety. Or perhaps you arrive at check-in with your group of friends and family for your 90-minute tasting experience. Just like a winery tasting, you'll enter this beautiful bright courtyard space, feeling both excited and comfortable, surrounded by plants and natural elements as your sensibilier or bud tender guides you to gaze through the glass greenhouse at the end of the courtyard, a botanical garden featuring educational placards that offer foundational knowledge about this important plant and things like sun-grown and living soil cultivation. Seated at your table, your guided educational experience will begin with CBD as you learn about the difference between things like hemp and cannabis and the fact that CBD is the antidote to the high of THC. You'll learn about the difference between distillate and broad spectrum, terpenes and cannabinoids and the different dosing and delivery methods of the myriad of products available to you on the market today. Your experience will end with another helping of CBD to ensure you're sober and not at all impaired before you finalize your purchase and head on your way. Not only a thoughtful, intentionally designed building with comprehensive odor, security, safety and operational plans were fully prepared to comply with all the conditions that the staff has presented to ensure a safe facility with sustainable operations. This project ensures that the city of Santa Rosa will continue to be seen at the forefront of the Northern California's multi-trillion dollar ag-based tourism economy and we're thrilled to bring innovative and thoughtful project to fruition. Thank you so much for your interest and support. Thank you. And I'm happy to answer any questions, of course. I just have questions of Ms. Kelly before we open the public. I see none. I will go ahead and open the public hearing. If you wish to make a comment in the Zoom, please select the raised hand feature. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. The speaker has three minutes. A countdown timer will appear to the convenience of the speaker and the viewers. Please make sure to unmute yourself and you're invited to do so. Your microphone will be muted at the end of that countdown. Do we have anybody wishing to make a public comment? Chair Weeks, no one is raising their hand at this time. And do we have any, okay. We'll wait just a minute or so. Okay, so with that, I will go ahead and close the public hearing portion and bring it back to the commission. And do any of the commissioners have questions of either staff or the applicant? Vice Chair Peterson? So I don't know if this is for staff necessarily. I did have a question about the traffic study, specifically related. I'm having a hard time sort of piecing together the explanation of the baseline plus that would incorporate the three additional projects. So I know that's a very non-specific question, but the sort of the math on that is alluding me at this point if someone can walk me through that. Okay, I know that we have Barry from WTrans available. He's the one who prepared that document and he can explain that to you. Also, we have from city staff that work in traffic division and they can go over that. But I would suggest that Barry from WTrans to start and answer that question. Thank you. Thank you, Barry. Can you please raise your hand? Thank you. It just brings you to the top of our list so I can find you. Can you now have permission to speak? You just need to unmute at your leisure. Thank you. Okay, Barry Bergman. I'm a senior planner with WTrans. So I'll start as the question, but let me know if you have anything else. So with the baseline analysis that we did, we worked with city staff to come up with a list of projects that are approved in the near term and to analyze those without and with the project. And then as far as this most recent addendum, there were three projects that were recently identified that were not included in that analysis. So what we did was we looked at the level of service with the baseline as we studied it, but then we considered what was the trip generation associated with those three projects and then the trip distribution to see which intersections that traffic would be routed to. And it was determined that given the number of trips that the intersection that was closest to being not acceptable operations was Yolanda and Paddlema Hill Road, but given the number of trips that would be routed through that intersection, it would not have affected the overall conclusion. Okay, thank you. Questions of the applicant or staff, Commissioner Carter? Yeah, I noted that there's a vacant 2280 feet in the proposed structure. And the first part is for the applicant, is there an intended future use of that vacant area? And the second part is for staff. The question is, would that require a revision to the use permit, should it be granted to activate that portion of the building? Sorry, I was on mute. This is Alicia, the applicant. We had originally intended to utilize that space for something like a lifestyle market to showcase other local artisan goods from our county and region. If we do decide to proceed with that, we will probably have a secondary operator because we will certainly have enough to do on the cannabis commercial cannabis side. And that will not need a separate use permit. Commissioner, I'll just tag onto that answer and just to expand your question for staff. Yeah, it really depends. I think what we would do clearly, we would look at what the proposal would be if in any way it touches on a conditionally permitted use, then certainly we would direct the applicant that an amendment would be necessary, but we would have to evaluate exactly what that is when they come in. Okay, oops, hold on here. I've got to call up the resolution. I'll move a resolution of the planning commission of the city of Santa Rosa, approving a conditional use permit for Sunstone advisors incorporated to operate a commercial cannabis retail dispensary with delivery and onsite consumption cannabis manufacturing level one non-volatile cannabis cultivation and cannabis distribution within 5,893 square feet of a proposed new 8,441 square foot building located at 358 Yolanda Avenue, assessor's parcels numbers 044-072-007 and 044-072-008 file number CUP18-070 and waive for the reading. Thank you. Is there a second? I'll come to you. I'll call you. So that was moved by Dr. Duggan, seconded by Commissioner Collier. Any comments, Commissioner Duggan? Do you have any other comments you would like to make? No, I can make all the findings that are required. I think we sort of anticipated this project would come forward when the general plan was amended last year and I think it seems fine and I'm happy for the expanded traffic study. The information that was provided there was very helpful. So I'm in favor of the project. Thank you. Commissioner Carter? I too can make all the required findings and find the staff analysis and the supplemental traffic information to support the proposal and I'll be supporting the project. Thank you. Commissioner Holton? I too, with my fellow commissioners, can support all the findings and I also support this project. Thank you, Commissioner Collier. I can make all the required findings and do support the project. I also think that this is a very interesting model of the dispensary and it's interesting to see how it plays out by the design. It looks really quite nice. Vice-Chair Peter? So I think that there's kind of two things that stick out to me with this project and then sort of the general area with this project and a lot of these projects that we see, I do struggle with the traffic study. I mean, I am not a traffic engineer but some of the findings don't seem to jive with reality based on what we're seeing in terms of the development along this corridor. I think especially with the plans, housing developments, we know the in and out's gonna be going in. I will accept it as adequate. I think I can't find any flaws with it. So on that sense, I can make the finding. But again, I am a little skeptical about what this will look like before these improvements that are cited in the traffic study are made. And then relatedly, I know that this has come up before and the issue is over-concentration. So currently in the ordinance, my understanding is that over-concentration concepts really only applies to retail dispensaries. So while this does have a retail dispensary, the other cannabis uses along the Yolanda Avenue corridor are production, manufacturing, things like that. So that the over-concentration doesn't apply but we're seeing in one sort of street, one area of town, a really high concentration of cannabis businesses of various kinds. I think anyone who's watched more than one of these meetings knows that I am certainly not against cannabis businesses coming to Santa Rosa. I am a little concerned about the concentration in this one area. And it seems a little contrary to the purpose of the cannabis ordinance, but as written does not violate the cannabis ordinance. So with those sort of hesitations on the record, I can make all the required findings to support this project. Thank you. I also can make all the required findings and like Commissioner Colley, I'm interested to see how this concept plays out. One of the things I would like to mention is I know that we've been looking at cannabis items for a few years now. And so comments like Commissioner Peterson had are things that we need to perhaps look at addressing in the future with the ordinance, with the council. So, but that's for another day. And I probably said more than I should have, Ashley Crocker. Anyway, so if we could go ahead and call the roll, call vote please. Sure thing. Thank you, Commissioner Chair. We would go alphabetical order starting with Commissioner Carter. Aye. Commissioner Devin. Aye. Commissioner Holton. Aye. Commissioner Callie. Aye. Commissioner Krepke is abstained. Vice Chair Peterson. Aye. And Chair Weeks. Aye. So that passed with six ayes and one abstention. Commissioner Krepke abstaining. So we can move on to our second item, which is Stony Point Wellness. So we'll bring Commissioner Krepke back and this item is item 8.2. It is an exparte item. So if we could go ahead and make any disclosures, we'll start with Commissioner Carter. Yes, I visited the site as I do on many Wednesday mornings and had nothing further to disclose. Thank you. Commissioner Duggan. Well, even though I'm just Commissioner Carter I too visited the site and have nothing further to disclose. Commissioner Holton. I also visited the site and I have nothing further to disclose. Commissioner Callie. I visited the site and have nothing further to disclose. My Chair Krepke. I have nothing to disclose. Vice Chair Peterson. I also visited the site and have nothing further to disclose. And I also visited the site and have nothing further to disclose. So our presenter, I believe is Adam Ross. Yes, thank you chair weeks members of the planning commission. I'm Adam Ross project planner for this item before you I'm going to go ahead and share my screen and pull up the PowerPoint. Okay, do you hear me. Great. So the item before you is stony point wellness located at 411 stony point road. Again I'm Adam Ross acting senior planner with the city Santa Rosa. It is a commercial. I'm sorry it is a cannabis retail facility with delivery. The stony point wellness is a dispensary which proposes to operate a cannabis retail facility with delivery. It's within a 2200 70, 2200 70 square foot tenant space of an existing 7,866 square foot building in the stony point shopping center. The proposed hours of operation are 9am to 9pm seven days a week. Again proposed delivery service. They do not propose on site consumption that and there are no exterior modifications proposed with the project. The location is in the northwest quadrant of the city, your highway 12 as you can see the star indicates the general location. This is a retail image. As you can see stony point road knocks dental road, the blue outline signifies the, the parcel within the shopping center and the yellow outline indicates the approximate outline of the retail space tenant space. The zoning plan and zoning for the site it's the general plan is retail and business service with an overlay of medium density residential. The zoning is CG general commercial, which allows cannabis retail facilities. Cannabis retail businesses when approved by a conditional use permit for this project. It is not within 600 feet of any schools the closest is 1300 feet as the curl flies away from parcel line. So that's not just from the, the tenant space. And it's not within the 600 foot setback requirement for other cannabis retail facilities project history. The application neighborhood meeting held on June 10. And they're then at shortly after in on November 16. The application was submitted to planning and economic development department. There was a notice of application associated with this project and there was also a notice for this planning, the planning commission meeting here tonight in accordance with zoning 20-66. There's the overall site plan here, as you can see, if you follow my cursor, there's the kind of shaded area indicating the location of dispensary within the Stony Oak shopping center. And there's an existing the use next door is an existing drive through facility just for clarification that is an existing or a drive through retail service, not associated with this use at all. Here's the site plan. There's an entrance in the back, which I'll show on the next stage, the next slide. But the customer entrance will be on the front. The rear will be for the rear will be for you can see here will be for employees only and deliveries as they're pre scheduled for for the site. As you can see, there's the, this is the area where the public will be everything else supports the business operation. This stairway goes up to a separate office use for the site so there's an entrance here, and then here's the actual entrance to the to the dispensary for again limited access on this backside for for employees and schedule deliveries. Here's elevations for reference. We've got the entrances in the middle there's no exterior modifications proposed for the site. And again, here's that office above, which is accessed through the through the rear. The trip analysis indicated that this dispensary by itself is 48pm peak hour trips there as you may be aware of am peak hour trips are very low for these because they are not allowed to open before. Which then contributes to a very low am peak hour trips. This, this table also indicates that when considering the previous use and subtracting it to from the. I'm sorry, this one indicates the pass by pass by trips reduces it well below the 50 peak hour trips, which would trigger a traffic impact study. So net new trips with pass by our 24pm peak hour trips and net new trips without pass by our 39 peak hour trips. The parking for the site is needs zoning code standards. The site was developed comprehensively as a commercial shopping center. The total parking space for all uses, no matter what our subject to 201 space per 250 gross leasable square feet with a total of just under 95,000 square feet requirement is 379 and the total provided on site in the shopping center is 381. There are parking spaces here and here around the site, but anyone is allowed to use any parking space on the site for this use. So same thing with everyone else during the pre application neighborhood this is sorry public correspondence. There were six members of the public and attendance all were in support of the project. Since that time since notice of application and noticing of this public hearing there was only one email received in opposition for the project. I should clarify there was a lot of concern with the concern resident about the proposed use. They were encouraged to participate in here today as well. Environmental review the project's been reviewed and found in compliance with the California environmental quality act for sequel under section sections 15303, which is a class one categorical exemption. And it's a it's a use structure involving a negligible expansion of an existing use, and it will not result in significant impacts and section 15303, which is a class three categorical exemption, and it involves a change in use of an existing application with that the planning and economic development department recommends that the planning commission by resolution approve a conditional use permit to allow cannabis retail facility with delivery at 411 Stoney Point Road. Again, here's my contact information and I'm here to answer any questions. The applicant is here and they have a brief presentation as well. If we could go ahead and hear from the applicant. All right. Yes, if you could introduce yourself that would be great before you start. My name is Eric used I'm the applicant for Stoney Point Wellness. First off, I wanted to thank Adam for that presentation. I think that was a pretty accurate throw job of explaining sort of how our application fits into the Santa Rosa cannabis and retail cannabis framework. I wanted to thank the commission, not only from for hearing this application, but for also helping to bring cannabis in general, sort of out from underground and into a legal environment, a regulated environment. I think that legal cannabis benefits the community the people of Santa Rosa, because it gives the people of Santa Rosa access to cannabis products that are tested and regulated properly measured properly dosed. And it also, it also helps to generate tax revenue, all of which, which I think is good for Santa Rosa. So with that, my name is Eric used. And I'm excited to present to you the proposal for a new dispensary Santa Rosa Stoney Point Wellness. Okay, so location of the proposed site. If you're familiar with Santa Rosa, you're probably also familiar with the Stoney Point Shopping Center, Oliver's Market is in there CVS Carl's Junior Exchange Bank. In addition, a bunch of other excellent businesses in that shopping center it's actually really, it's a I think it's a really nice active shopping center of Santa Rosa. The proposed use is currently, it's in a, it's in a separate building of that shopping center. And the suite is currently occupied by Joe video, really good video store that's operated there for many, many years. To the left of the suite is KFC. And to the right is CS market and liquor, and up above as Adam was saying is an office use. Next slide. So why we chose this location. We believe that this location will mesh really well with the community with the neighborhood and with the shopping center. We think it fits the cannabis framework or the ordinance and the framework that Santa Rosa has put together for retail cannabis really well. So the property is all commercial. There's no nearby sensitive uses. There's adequate parking. I think in total the shopping center has 381 spaces. I've never seen the parking lot completely full it's it's an active shopping center but there's always some parking. The proposed dispensary it is easily accessed by pedestrians bicycles and vehicles. There's sidewalks that that surround the whole shopping center, some of which are protected protected by landscape strips. There's bicycle lanes on on Occidental Road and Stony Point Road, and vehicles can easily access the shopping center as well there's signalized intersections protected turns. There's also public transportation that potential customers could use to get to the dispensary. I think there's three different bus stops two different bus routes that could drop off a potential customer literally right in front of the dispensary which is which is good because it, it helps to promote alternative means of transportation. I think that should a resident want to use that. In addition, why why why we believe that this site would work well with the community and with Santa Rosa. Is that it's in an area this is important to us it's in an area where shopping already exists. And it sort of represents, I guess, a landmark or a milestone and in cannabis regulation and legalization because no longer do you have to go into, you know, a public area and some place that may not be zoned correctly for commercial retail. Now you can, you know, get your groceries with the approval of this dispensary you could get your groceries. You know, you could go to the bank, maybe get a bite to eat. And in the same area in the same manner you can also get your cannabis products. The proposed dispensary also meets all the requirements of the ordinance, such as the entrance being visible from the public right of way. And all the other requirements. Next slide. Meet the applicant. Just a little bit about myself. My name is Eric used. I was born and raised in Santa Rosa Bennett Valley. I went to you loop us strawberry Slater and then Montgomery. I have a bachelor's of science degree from California State University Chico in civil engineering. I have experience with retail development. And I also have experience with cannabis. I believe cannabis benefits the community, both recreationally and medicinally. And for that reason, that's that's why we're proposing this project. Next slide. I intentionally left the presentation somewhat brief and have decided to make myself available for any members of the public or the commission that may have questions. Questions of the applicant before we open the public hearing. Okay, so none. I will go ahead and open the public hearing. And if you wish to make a comment via zoom, please select the raised hand button. If you are dialing in via telephone, please style star nine to raise your hand. Each speaker has three minutes. A countdown timer will appear for the convenience of the speaker and viewers. Please make sure to unmute yourself when you're invited to do so your microphone will be muted at the end of that. Mr. host, do we have any hands raised. We do not and I will let you know that we have one member of the public and attendance. I will close go ahead and close the public hearing and bring it back to the commission. Do you are there any other questions before we entertain a motion for either the applicant or staff. Seeing none. If somebody would make a motion. And I'll speak at once. Thank you Commissioner Dagan. I'll do it. 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 stony point wellness to operate a cannabis retail dispensary and delivery business within a 2200 70 square foot tenant space located on stony point road assessors parcel number 146-040-022 file number CUP 20-066 and wave for the reading. Thank you. Is there a second. Mr. Holton seconds. Thank you. So, we'll go bring it back to the commission. And for any comments, Commissioner Carter will start with you. I guess in general, I support the project and can make most of the findings are all of the findings necessary to prove the use permit. I do wish to express a little bit of skepticism about the parking, not based on any parking analysis. I see the analysis that says there are two spaces in excess of what's required by the zoning code. But my experience on Wednesday mornings is that it's really hard to park at the shopping center there. So, I would urge the applicant to think about ways to get people to and from the business without having to park in the shopping center that can become pretty crowded at times. But in general, I do support the project and can make the findings. Thank you. Commissioner Dagan. I also can make the required finding and I sort of share Commissioner Carter's concern about the parking although to when I visited the site. I went to a part of the parking lot that I don't usually visit. I usually visit the park that's near the CVS and Oliver's. And that this area of the parking over near this particular building was pretty empty, which was a surprise. So maybe you just have to drive around a lot a little bit. So I can make all the required findings and are in support of the project. Thank you. I can also make all the findings to support this project, however, tentatively, my concerns are a little different than parking. Actually, my concerns are related to turning in and out of the shopping center. I would definitely recommend that the applicant make sure that you kind of assess what the traffic flow situation looks like turning directly out of that parking lot from KFC. And also turning into that parking lot off of stony point. I see an accident happen almost every 20 to 30 minutes. I mean, it's a very, very high traffic area and where the sidewalk. The grade on the sidewalk is so steep that you get a mixture of either cars flying in there and almost lifting off air or you get people that go so slow that they almost get hit by the oncoming traffic to the other side. So I'm really, really concerned about the potential in the future for the traffic easement. I believe me if everybody went down the stoplight and turned left and turned left into the other side where CVS is no concerns. However, just go down there for a day and see for yourself. But I can make all the findings to support this project and I do support this project. Thank you. Thank you. I can make all the required findings and we'll be supporting the project. I agree with that commissioner Carter and commissioner Dougan. It depends on what time of day that you are in that parking lot, but it is a high use parking lot. It's a high use parking area and it can get a little cramped at times, but it's kind of, I mean, according to the zoning code, there's has it more than enough parking so that would be required. So with that, I will be supporting the product. Thank you. Yeah, I don't have much to add that my fellow commissioners haven't already spoke on so I can make all the required findings and we'll be in support of the project. Mr Peterson. As as the years go on, these types of projects I think get get more and more routine, certainly for for me I think that this is a good application I think it, it's a nice reuse of an existing building in a location that makes sense for this type of use. So, with that, I can make all the required findings. Thank you. And I also am going to be supporting the project and can make all the required findings. I think it is a good location. It's a full service shopping center. I do agree with commissioner Dougan and Carter and colleague about parking, especially on Wednesdays which is senior day at Oliver's. So, anyway, So, with that, it was there. The first was by commissioner Dougan second by commissioner Holton. Mr Maloney. Would you like to call wrong. Thank you chair weeks start with commissioner Carter. Hi. Commissioner Dougan. Hi. Commissioner Holden. Hi. Commissioner Kelly. Hi. Commissioner Kripke. Hi. Vice chair Peterson. Hi chair weeks. Hi. So that concludes our last scheduled item. And unless there's anything by staff. I see Mr Rose coming back. Just came back to say there's nothing further from staff. Thank you all wonderful meeting. Appreciate everything and have a great rest of your night and a great weekend. Great. Thank you. With that, I will go ahead and adjourn the meeting to our next meeting today. Thank you.