 Good morning, everyone. I'm Sherry Mead, Zoning Administrator for the City of Santa Rosa, and I'd like to call to order the January 5th, 2023 Zoning Administrator public meeting at 10.30. Pursuant to Government Code Section 54953E and the recommendation of the Sonoma County Health Officer, this meeting will be facilitated via Zoom webinar. Members of the public can participate virtually at www.zoom.us forward slash join or by calling toll-free 877-853-5257. For either option, you will need to use meeting ID 817-6083-9456. Members of the public who are accessing the meeting through Zoom can provide comments during the public comment periods. Additional information related to meeting participation is available at www.srcity.org forward slash zoning admin. Note that our recording secretary will provide instructions before each public comment period, so you don't have to go to that link unless you really want to get into it. This meeting is also being live-streamed on YouTube at www.youtube.com forward slash city of Santa Rosa. So first thing we're going to do is open up a public comment period for non-agenda items, and this is a public comment period for items that are not on the agenda today, but are within the purview of the Zoning Administrator. Public comment periods will also be offered after each agenda item, so each speaker will be allowed three minutes to speak, and recording secretary Palmer is now going to provide instructions on how to make a comment if you would like to do so. If you wish to make a public comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. The raise your hand icon is located at the bottom of the Zoom screen. If you are dialing in via telephone, please dial star 9 to raise your hand, and star 6 to unmute once called upon. Thank you, Sik. Zoning Administrator Meads. Does it appear that anyone is raising their hand recording secretary Palmer? It appears no one is raising their hands at this time. Okay, so we're going to go ahead and close that public comment period and move on to item three on the agenda, which is the Zoning Administrator Business. Included in that is the Zoning Administrator Statement of Purpose, which is the Zoning Administrator is appointed by the Planning and Economic Development Director and has the authority to conduct public hearings and to take action on applications for minor discretionary projects. Any determination or decision by the Zoning Administrator may be appealed to the Design Review Board, Cultural Heritage Board, Planning Commission, or City Council as applicable to this decision. There are no zoning administrator reports or consent items today, so I'm going to go ahead and move on to item five on the agenda, which is our regularly scheduled items. Our first item, item 5.1, is a minor conditional use permit for an indoor commercial entertainment facility to be located at 2061 Santa Rosa Plaza, Suite B. City file number is CUP 22-058 and the presenting planner is Mr. Connor McKay. Thank you, Zoning Administrator Meads. I will now share my screen. It doesn't appear like it wants to go into full screen mode. Oh, maybe because I need to stop editing. Take your time. We can see it as is if we need to go that route, but take it. There we go. There you go. Excellent. Thank you. So as was mentioned, this is the Hop Hop Playground file number CUP 22-058 proposed to be located at 2061 Santa Rosa Plaza, Suite B. So this is a minor conditional use permit request for a commercial entertainment facility indoor land use. The proposed operation would consist of the installation of inflatable bounce houses and indoor playground, and this would combine two existing suites in the Santa Rosa Plaza Mall. So like I said, this is located at an existing shopping mall in downtown Santa Rosa. The zoning is core mixed use with the downtown station area combining district, combining zoning overlay, and the general plan land use designation is core mixed use. Both of the zoning district and the general plan land use designation envision this type of land use with the approval of a minor conditional use permit, hence the request for such approval for this operation. Here we have a floor plan, which roughly outlines the location of each piece of equipment or area within the proposed existing suites. The bottom of the slide shows the entrance, and the top of the slide shows the exterior wall of the mall. The proposed project has been reviewed and complied with the California Environmental Quality Act and qualifies for a Class 1 categorical exemption under CEQA guidelines 15301 in that the project is located within an existing structure involving minor interior modifications, and the proposed reoccupancy would involve a negligible or no expansion of the previous use. Staff can make all the required findings as is described in the resolution. Basically, this commercial entertainment facility indoor would provide a fun entertaining opportunity for the community in an existing suite and is not anticipated to result in a nuisance or a public safety hazard, and has been reviewed and complied with CEQA as described in the previous slide. The suite is also serviced with all utilities that would be required to safely operate the proposed land use. Staff has not received any public comments related to this proposal, and it is recommended by the Planning and Economic Development Department that the zoning administrator approve a minor conditional use permit to allow the operation of Hop Hop Playground at 2061 Santa Rosa Plaza Suite B, city file number CUP 22-058, with a modification to the resolution to remove the required construction hours that included prohibition of construction on Sundays, that is a standard condition that is included in most minor condition use permit resolutions, but seeing as this is a fully developed suite and the only minor modifications would take place and there are no surrounding residential uses, staff is opting to strike that resolution and recommends approval with that minor modification. And I'm available to answer any questions. My name is Connor McKay. I do not believe the applicant is here to respond to any questions, but I can field the questions and do my best to respond. Excellent. Well, before I get to anything else, let's go ahead and open a public comment period for this item, and if Recording Secretary Palmer could let folks know how to participate if they would like, please. If you wish to make a public comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. The raise your hand icon is located at the bottom of the Zoom screen. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute once you're called upon. Secretary Meads, it appears there's no hands raised. Excellent. Thank you so much. So let's go ahead and close the public comment period for this item. I just thought of a question and it's okay if you don't have an answer to this, but you probably do since you're the planner for the project. How was this noticed? Were adjoining suites noticed or just the owner and around, you know what I mean? It doesn't matter. This is a great project. I just was actually curious. That is a great question. So my understanding is the zoning code requires property owners within 600 feet to be notified of the public meeting. And let me see what happens when I generate the mail labels. If it's difficult, please don't bother. I'm sure it was noticed for zoning code. I just, it just made me curious in a situation where the suites are all within, did the suites get noticed or just the actual owner of the actual parcel? And it's okay, honestly. It has no effect on my decision whatsoever. Yeah, no, it's a great curiosity question that I had not heard or thought of previously. I didn't either. So I apologize for that. No, it's okay. So I don't believe that we consider occupants of suites within the mall the same as we would occupants of residential properties, which is typically what we see for other projects throughout the city where there's, it's a commercial development with individual tenants. So I believe that the noticing would be sent to the owner, the property owner of the mall. And that approval is also required as part of the property owner consent form. So certainly. Excellent. Thank you. Yeah, I apologize for that off the wall question. But I was thinking about that when you talked about it. I was like, Oh, wow, what does that even mean? So I apologize and thank you. So I appreciate that you're striking that construction hour. I think that's a perfect great decision by staff on that. I think it's a great project. It's a it's downtown where there, you know, isn't as many necessarily active uses. And this will give folks a place to be able to go in and be out of the weather if needed and still remain active. So I will be approving this project and sign the resolution with that minor change as soon as it comes across my desk. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay. Okay, so what's next? Next on the agenda is item 5. Oh, first this item, this action is final unless an appeal is filed with the department within 10 days of today's decision, which falls on Monday, January 16 2023. Item 5.2 is a minor conditional use permit for a personal services restricted land use to be located at 105 Montgomery Drive. City file number is CUP 22-065. And Janden Briscoe is the presenting planner for this item. Welcome, Janden. Good morning. I was on administrative meetings and everyone else was attendance. So let me share my screen real quickly. Can y'all see the full screen? We see it in not exactly presenter mode. We see your next slides as well. Take your time. And if we need to go this way, that's okay. We can still see it. Yeah, I don't know why it's the only like this. Okay. Well, like I said, we can see it. So let's just go ahead and move on. No worries. Okay. Well, okay. I'm the project planner. I'm Janden Briscoe and I'm presenting to you today NAMI Blood Tattoo Gallery located at 105 Montgomery Drive. And I'm Janden Briscoe City Planning Training. So NAMI Blood Tattoo Gallery will operate between 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. by appointment only or limited walk-ins. The applicant anticipates one or two visitors at a time, two to four times a week. And since this is a personal service restricted use, a minor condition use permit is required. Planner Briscoe, if you are expecting the slides to advance, I think we're not seeing that. We're still seeing your lead slide. Oh, okay. Can y'all see the slide now? No. Go ahead and click on slide number two. It could be that you're having connection difficulties because I also see what looks like that little thinking circle. Planner Briscoe, if you stop sharing your screen, I can help you. Okay. Thank you, Recording Secretary, co-host Burr. Great. Now we can see your second screen. Feel free to move on when you're ready, Planner Briscoe. Take your time. Thank y'all for y'all's patience. I'm sorry about that. Okay. So here, can y'all see the Neighborhood Context Map? Right now we're seeing your project description. You may want to go over that again since that wasn't visible when you went over it the first time. And then if Lonnie is sharing your screens, you'll want to, when you finish, tell her next slide. Okay. Lonnie, can you go back to the previous slide? Thank you. Perfect. Thank you. So Name and Blood Tattoo Gallery will operate between 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. by appointment only or through limited walk-ins. The applicant anticipates one or two visitors at a time, two to four times a week. And since this is a personal service restricted use, a minor conditional use permit is required. Next slide, please. And here, the zoning is general commercial and general plan destination is retailer business services. Thus, both the general plan, I mean, the zoning and the general plan destinations are consistent. And here, one can see that on-street parking is available on Montgomery Dr. and on Second Street. Next slide, please. So this is where the use is located now. And the previous use was a salon. And hence the use is similar. So staff doesn't anticipate an increase of intensity. And according to zoning code section 20-36.040C subsection two, a change you use does not require any additional parking. Because the code anticipates structures are built and changes and built and uses are changed. And here, this is the site plan. And one can see that the space is only able to accommodate one or two visitors at a time and the owner himself. Next slide, please. It says this is a minor conditional use permit. You are required to find six findings. But I just want to emphasize number four and number five. The site is physically suitable for the tight density and intensity of use being proposed, including access, utilities, and the absence of physical constraints. Running the permit would not constitute a no sense nor be injurious or detrimental to the public interest, health, safety, convenience, or welfare, materially injurious to person's property, improvements in the vicinity and zoning district in which the property is located. I will add a condition for the owner to enforce a no loader policy. And police revealed this project and they didn't have identified any issues with this use at this location. The applicant is also following the noise ordinance. Next slide, please. The proposed project has been reviewed and complied with the California Environmental Quality Act and qualifies for class one categorical exemptions under SQL guidelines 15301 and that the project is located with an existing structure involving a minor interior modifications to an existing structure that will not result in significant impacts. Next slide, please. There are no unresolved issues as a result of staff review and no public comments have been received. Next slide, please. It is recommended by the Planning and Economic Development Department that the zoning administrator approve a minor condition use permit to allow the operation of naming blood tattoo at 105 Montgomery Drive. Next slide, please. Here's my contact information and if you have any questions, the applicant is also here. If there are questions that need to be answered. Thank you. Great. Thank you for that presentation, Senator Briscoe. Let's go ahead and open up a public comment period for this item and once again, Recording Secretary Palmer will explain how to participate. Please. If you wish to make a public comment via zoom, please raise your hand. The raise your hand icon is located at the bottom of the zoom screen. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute once called upon. Zoning administrator meets. It appears there are no hands raised at this time. Great. Let's go ahead and close that public comment period. Great presentation. You answered any questions I had about the site and the parking and I did a site visit. Feel very comfortable with your analysis of the zoning code and how that applies here. So I am absolutely happy to approve this project and we'll sign the resolution with that added condition, which is it seems to be something that we considered standard on these types of land uses. So thanks for considering that and I will sign that resolution and as soon as it comes across my desk. Great job. Thank you. Thank you. So this item is this action is final unless an appeal is filed with the department within 10 calendar days of today's decision, which is Monday, January 16, 2023. So our next item is item 5.3, a minor conditional use permit for again, a personal services restrict restricted land use at 490 Mendocino Avenue, suite 107. City file number is CUP 22-068 and the presenting planner is Sheila Wolski. Good morning, Ms. Wolski. Good morning. If you could let me know zoning administrator means if you can see my screen. Perfect. Yes, thank you. Okay, great. I move some things around on my screen. Okay, so good morning, zoning administrator means I'm Sheila Wolski, a planner with the city of Santa Rosa. The item before you is a minor conditional use permit for Ravens Pallet Studios, which is a tattoo studio. The reason for the minor conditional use permit request is the city's zoning code identifies tattoo studios as a personal services restricted use, which requires minor conditional use permit approval to operate in the core mixed use zoning district. The project description is identified on this slide. The applicant is proposing to operate a tattoo studio at this location with one chair and one tattoo artist. The hours of operation would be Wednesday through Saturday from 12pm to 8pm and the studio would be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. There would be no walk in customers allowed, work would be performed by appointment only. This slide provides information on the zoning, which is core mixed use downtown station area and the general planned land use designation, which is core mixed use. The project site is outlined in orange and an orange star identifies where the tattoo studio would operate in the building. And on the right is an aerial same, same view. This slide shows a closer view of the project's location. This is currently a vacant suite in the building that was most recently occupied by a coffee shop. There is a subway shop adjacent, which fronts Mendocino Avenue and a city owned surface parking lot is located next to this building. This is a floor plan for the proposed project. There isn't too much planned for improvements the applicant proposes to paint the interior and apply epoxy to the floors. The required findings for a minor conditional use permit are displayed on this slide. Each of these findings have been made for this project. The proposed project has been reviewed in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act and qualifies for a class one categorical exemption under SQL guidelines section 15301 in that the project is located within an existing structure involving minor interior modifications to an existing structure that will not result in significant impacts. There are no unresolved issues as a result of staff review. And actually I have a change to this next part. I did receive one comment after this PowerPoint was posted and that was from someone who did receive a notice. Her comments the gist of them was that the city should not be wasting resources, time and postage for such a minor use and that tattoo studios and locations such as this should not require a minor conditional use permit. It is recommended by the Planning Economic Development Department that the zoning administrator approve a minor conditional use permit to allow the operation of Raven's Pallet Studios at 490 Mendocino Avenue, Suite 107. Again, my name is Sheila Balsky and my contact information is phone number 707-543-4705 or swalsky at srcity.org. This concludes my report and if needed, I believe the applicant Drew Thomas is in the audience. He does not have a presentation that can be available for any questions. Thank you. Great, thank you. Let's go ahead and open a public comment period for this item. Please. If you wish to make a public comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. The raise your hand icon is located at the bottom of the Zoom screen. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute once called upon. Zoning administrator needs, it appears there's no hands raised at this time. Great, let's go ahead and close the public comment period for this item. I have absolutely no questions. You did a very thorough presentation. Parking is available and even if it wasn't, it's downtown. We can't require it. Suite's in a great location. I have no questions or no qualms about this project and it's very easy to make all the findings and we'll be approving it. I'll sign that resolution once it comes across my desk. So again, this action is final unless an appeal is filed with the department, preferably working with your planner, within 10 days of today's decision, which falls on Monday, January 16th, 2023. So let's move on to our last item, which is item 5.3 for Assign Variance at 2705 Santa Rosa Avenue. The file number is SI 22-043 and our presenting planner today is Monet Ciccoli. Thank you, Miss Smith and good morning. Good morning. I will start shooting my screen and go over this project. Let's give me a second. There you go. Okay. Okay. As you mentioned, this is Assign Variance for a property located at 2705 Santa Rosa Avenue. Assign Variance is for two tenants that are going to be located in the building next to half. So I will give you a quick background also about this project. But first, let me tell you what is happening. As you may know, our sign ordinance regulates the number of sign and total area allowed for each sign for each tenant, which is maximum 100 square feet. We have two tenants here. One is Planet Fitness, which is proposing two signs with a total sign area being 213 square feet and 0.24 inches, and then three signs for total wide and more with a total of 218 square foot total sign areas. And again, the maximum allowed sign for each one is hundreds, but the applicant has submitted an application for Assign Variance requesting for additional area for their sign. Here is where the sign is located. It is within a commercial area. And as you can see, it's further back within the commercial center from Santa Rosa Avenue and facing Highway 101, which there is also a wall along Highway 101. And here is where the building is located. Recently, the building was split into half. Two tenants are going to occupy the building. It was vacant for a while. It used to be tercerized and now is split to be used by Planet Fitness and wide and more. So each one of those, they need a sign, and the sign has to be in a way that could help for patrons or whoever is going there to find the location and direct them toward the use. And this is the building. So I'm going to show you where the location of signs are going to be placed. Two signs are going to be facing the parking lot and two signs going to be placed on the west side facing the highway. This is the face that is toward the highway. As you can see currently, there's going to be some exterior changes that was approved to a design review permit. And on top, you see the picture of the previous building. And below is the proposed signs on that side of the wall. One for Planet Fitness, one for Total and Wine. And here is the three signs for Total Wine. Each one of the one facing on the wall is going to be 105 square feet. And there's also a monument sign that signs can be swapped and placed there. And only Total and Wine will use that. And here is the sign for Planet Fitness. So for CQA, the project is exempt from CQA because the accessory structure is a sign for existing building. Regarding the public comments, I have not received any comments or questions for the proposed signs. And there are specific findings for sign variants that staff was able to make it and support it. And with that, the Planning and Economic Development Department recommends that the zoning administrator by resolution approve a sign variance permit for the property located at 2705 Santa Rosa Avenue. And the applicant representative is available if you have any questions. He does not have any presentation but available to answer questions. And that was my presentation. I'm also available to answer questions if there are any. Thank you. Great. Thanks so much, Planner Shikali. Let's go ahead and open up a public comment period for this item. And again, Recording Secretary Palmer will explain how to participate. If you wish to make a public comment via Zoom, please raise your hand. The raise your hand icon is located at the bottom of the Zoom screen. If you are dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand. And star six unmute once called upon. Zoning administrator meets. It appears there's no hands raised at this time. Great. Let's go ahead and close the public comment period for this item. Thank you again for that presentation, Planner Shikali. And I took, I've been to that site many times, especially when it was Toys R Us. However, I did take a drive by again recently on my way to Otakaria. And it is very clear that these signs are not going to overwhelm the buildings. They are very similar to what's already present in that commercial center and throughout that area. There used to be a sign on the West facing side for Toys R Us. So this will basically be replacing that they are, you know, perfectly scaled and in size with anything that excuse me that is existing and that was there before. So the zoning code does not, it doesn't, it allows for businesses to advertise effectively. And this, this definitely fits that, fits that. So I'll be approving this project as is. Again, this action is final, unless an appeal is filed with the department within 10 days of today's decision, which is Monday, January 16, 2023. And that was our last item. So I am going to go ahead and conclude today's business and adjourn this meeting. Thank you all so much. Great job everybody that was their first time today. Appreciate you all.