 Good morning, everyone. Are we ready to go? Is everyone on that needs to be? I'm going to assume that's a yes. Good morning, everyone. I'm Sherry Mead, zoning administrator for the city of Santa Rosa. And I'd like to call to order the December 15, 2022 meeting of the zoning administrator. Pursuant to government code section 5495, oh, and it's 1030. Pursuant to government code section 54953 E and the recommendation of the Sonoma County Health Officer. This meeting will be held via zoom webinar. Members of the public can participate virtually at www.zoom.us forward slash join. Or by calling in toll free 877-853-5257. In both cases, you will need the meeting ID number, which is 860-7495-6335. Members of the public accessing the meeting through zoom can provide comments during the public comment periods. If you need additional information related to our meeting participation participation, please visit www.srcity.org forward slash zoning admin. The meeting is also being live streamed at on YouTube at youtube.com forward slash city of Santa Rosa. So the first thing we're going to do is open up public comment. This is a public comment period for anything that is not on today's agenda as a regularly scheduled item, but that is within the purview of the zoning administrator. So let's go ahead and open public comment for non agenda items. If you wish to make a public comment, you can do so by selecting the raise your hand icon at the bottom of your zoom screen. If you're calling in, please press star nine, and that'll enable the raise your hand feature. Thank you recording secretary for. And I do not see any hands raised. Let's go ahead and close the public comment period for non agenda items and move on to item three, which is zoning administrator business. This includes the zoning administrator statement of purpose, which I will read. 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 the decision. So there are no zoning administrator reports or consent items today. So we're going to get to move on to item five on the agenda, which is our regularly scheduled items. The first item item 5.1 is a residential fence conditional use permit for 2000 and two zero zero two clear view circle. City file number is CUP 22 dash I have two numbers here so it's either 22 dash 064 or 044 and Sheila or planner will clarify that. And the presenting planner is Sheila will ski. If you could give me just a moment I'm going to start the share screen mode. Of course. Okay, zoning administrator means if you could let me know if you could see my PowerPoint presentation. It looks beautiful. Thank you. Okay, wonderful. Thanks. Let me move something around on my screen that's blocking something. Okay, great. So good morning zoning administrator needs. I'm Sheila will ski with the city's planning and economic development department. The item before you is a residential fence located at two zero zero two clear view circle. The applicant and owner is requesting construction of a six foot tall metal rail fence in the corner side setback area of his property. The applicant should not extend to the intersections or there there are no sight line issues with this request. The reason for this hearing and the conditional use permit is that only a 36 inch tall fence is allowed in this area. Unless the conditional use permit is approved for greater height. Here's an aerial of the property. As you can see it's bounded on three sides by streets. This is a neighborhood context so you're able to see where this property is located in one of the fountain grab subdivisions. And there's a red pin on this slide identifying the property. The general plan and lane use designation for this property are identified on the slide and they are PD 72001 L RC and low density residential and it looks like I reversed those so the zoning is on top and the general plan is on the bottom. The fence that's proposed in the corner side setback is a metal rail fence at six feet tall. Here's an example of what the fence would look like. The applicant is proposing the fence on the south ridge side of the property and the location identified in red marker on this slide. The reason for the additional fence height is to provide additional security to better define the backyard space and as vines are proposed to be planted to grow on the fence to provide some privacy for residents while they're in the backyard. This project is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act under a class three exemption sequel guidelines section 15303 which provides for the construction of small structures such as this fence. There are no unresolved issues as a result of staff review and no public comments have been received after noticing was sent to residents within 600 feet of the site. It's recommended by the Planning and Economic Development Department that the zoning administrator approve a minor conditional use permit to allow a six foot tall metal residential fence within the corner side setback at 2002 Clearview Circle. This concludes my report and here's my contact information. It didn't look like anyone was calling in. So my email is swalski at srcity.org and in case anyone just popped on and needs my phone number at 707-543-4705. The applicant and owner Barron Navi I believe is in attendance today. If there are any questions for him and with that, I'll conclude this item. Excellent. So just to clarify the applicant does not have a presentation or want to say any words are just here if necessary. Perfect. Now let's go ahead and open up the public comment period for this item and recording secretary Burr will provide instructions on how to participate. If you wish to make a public comment, you can do so by selecting the raise your hand icon at the bottom of your zoom screen. The zoning administrator means I do not see any hands raised. Great. I just have a quick question that just popped into my mind. Are the lots adjacent to this property? Unfortunately, the aerial obviously is a site. Sorry. Can you officially close the public comment? Yes. Let's go ahead and close the public comment period. And now I will ask my questions. I'm wondering what the rebuild status is and this may be a question for the applicant actually and I apologize. I hadn't thought of this earlier. Are there homes around the area to where the notice was sent to people rather than just potentially open the box? Yeah, this is Baram Navi. Hi. Hi. And I thank you all for, you know, taking care of this issue for my family. And, you know, right now around the house, you know, where the fence is going to be it is street, but on the south side of it, there is no construction at all. But on the left one, the house is completed. And the status of our construction at this time is that yesterday I received temporary occupancy permit. And I have a list of the things that we should finish like, you know, trees around the house and in order to get the final permit to complete this project completely. That's wonderful news. Congratulations. I'm sure it's been a long haul. Thank you. Yeah, it is more than five years, five years and two months. And my family, I promised them to be able to bring them in before Christmas and New Year. So we have a schedule to move in next Thursday, December 22nd. And hopefully, we are going to celebrate a normal life, at least after five years, you know, after the fire. Well, that that makes me super happy. So I'll just end this with kind of a maybe somewhat humorous thing when I looked at the site plan originally. I saw a red metal fence. I at first thought, oh my gosh, are they going to paint the fence red? And then I realized, obviously you were just indicating where the new fence would be and I felt much better about that. So I will absolutely be proving this project. I totally understand wanting to have a little privacy in your backyard and the lot is, you know, bounded by three streets. And I will be very happy to approve this resolution once I'll sign it once it comes across my desk and congratulations and happy holidays to you and your family. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. You know, I just, I have iterated this issue, you know, this comment many, many times so far, whenever I have interacted with employee of, you know, the city of Santa Rosa. I want to iterate it again here and let you all know that this project wouldn't be here with the help of so many people that they worked very, very hard and they were very helpful to, you know, to help us to get this project to start and going to get to this point that we can move in now. And I am sure that I dealt only with few people that they are in the front line and this well run machine wouldn't be only with few people and I'm 100% sure there are so many other people behind the scene that I don't know, but, but I thank them so much. I wish you were the last item and we could wrap up the year with your comments. You are such a wonderful person. Thank you so much for sharing that. And again, I know I'm speaking for the entire city, when we say congratulations and welcome home. Sure. Sure. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, that's going to be a hard act to follow item 5.2. I do want to mention that this side of the, the, I'm all choked up so I apologize. The action is final unless an appeal is filed within the department within 10 calendar days of today's decision, which is I think December 26. Yes, Monday December 26. I will move on to item 5.2, which is a minor hillside development permit application for 5360 Stow Circle. City file number is hillside development, HDP 22-012 and Sheila Wolski is once again our presenting planner. Okay, great. Thank you, zoning administrator needs. Can you let me know if you could see my PowerPoint. Yes, looks great. Thank you. Good job. Thank you. Today you'll be considering the Seward residents minor hillside development permit application at 5360 Stow Circle. I'm sorry, I'm still that last one was going to get it together. It's why we do our jobs. So I totally understand. Thank you. Okay, moving on. This slide details the extent of the project which includes construction of a new 2,557 square foot single story dwelling, a new 515, 515 square foot garage and a 465 square foot art studio and workshop. This is also a rebuild within the resilient city combining district expanding the original footprint of the home. The original home was 2,315 square feet. The zoning of the parcel is OSC Resilient City and the general plan language designation is very low density residential. To give you an idea of where the parcel is located it's in the Northeast quadrant of the city off Calistoga Road and Hoyle Drive. It's a large property at almost 13 acres. It's a unique property and how it interacts with the neighborhood. I wanted to share the slide to give you some context. This is a rebuild of a home that was lost in the 2020 glass fire. Here's some street views of the conditions prefire and you can see what it looked like. The proposed home was two stories and was most visible at the start of so so circle you could see that I've outlined it in green. The proposed home is only one story. At the driveway entrance to the property, you'll see that you can barely see what was once a two story home. So that was taken last month as you can see some of the screening and backdrop of vegetation has survived. And this slide shows the slope analysis the project is proposing development of the home and accessory structures on slopes that are 10% or less. In my plan I've outlined the project components in green at the top is the proposed carport in the middle is the proposed home and at the bottom is the art studio and workshop. Here are some elevations of the home. It's a single story plan with a contemporary design that's low profile with varying roof lines. You can see here you can see those varying roof lines when you look at the west elevation at the bottom of this slide, and it will be 15 feet it's highest elevation. The next two slides demonstrate how the accessory structures are consistent in design and in this case how the carport meets the covered parking requirements for the residents. This is the art studio and workshop both the carport and art studio workshop are both under 16 feet tall and comply with the hillside development standards for setbacks. This slide depicts the required findings that must be made in order to approve the hillside development permit and all of these findings have been made. The project is exempt from CEQA under a class two exemption CEQA guidelines sections one, let's say class three, 15303 a any which provide for the exemption of structures such as single family dwellings and accessory structures. There are no unresolved issues as a result of staff review and no comments have been received after this project was noticed to residents within 600 feet of the site. It's recommended by the planning and economic development department that the zoning administrator approved by resolution a minor hillside development permit to allow the construction of a 2557 square foot single family dwelling. A new 515 square foot garage and a 465 square foot art studio and workshop at 5360 Stone Circle. And this concludes my report. This is my contact information as Walski at SRCity.org or 707-543-4705. That concludes my report and I believe Daniel Byrne may be here from Hogan land services. Who's the applicant for this project if there are any questions of him but he does not have a presentation. Okay, great. Thanks for that presentation planner Walski. Let's go ahead and open up a public comment period for this item and recording secretary bird will once again provide instructions. If you wish to make a public comment you can do so by selecting the raise your hand icon at the bottom of your zoom screen zoning administrator means I don't see any answering. Right, let's go ahead and close that public comment period and I will just move on to the questions that I had when I, when I looked at this proposal I first I want to say that I appreciate how the roof lines are angled to complement the slope of the hillside and that the home and accessory structure of low profile. I was wondering if there are any tree removals and proposed with this I it was heartbreaking to see the before and after pictures, but I do see that there are some trees left on the lot and I'm just wondering. Okay, so the general scape that is a consideration. Yes zoning administrator means there was no tree inventory done. I did visit the site and notice that in the area where they're proposed construction is planned to take place. There unfortunately, but I can add a condition to this resolution if it's approved that any trees that may need to be removed as a result of construction would be subject to the tree ordinance the city's tree ordinance and that that sounds perfectly adequate to cover that just in case and hopefully there will be future growth on that site because it was so lush and beautiful prior to the fire so again I will be approving this. I'll sign that resolution with that added condition. This project is is wonderful and welcomed as we rebuild from these devastating fires that we've had. Please note this action is final unless an appeal is filed with the department within 10 calendar days of today's decision, which is month which would be Monday December 26 2022. So thank you for that. Our last item of the day and year is item 5.3 a minor landmark alteration permit for a new garage at 212 Benton Street file numbers LMA 22 dash 011 and the presenting planner is Sheila Wolski. Again, thank you. Okay, again, if zoning administrator means if you can confirm that oh wait, yes, that is the right one, but you can see the PowerPoint presentation for this item. We can thank you. Okay, great. So the item before you today is a minor landmark alteration permit application for the property located at 212 Benton Street. The applicants are proposing a new 400 square foot garage with a 408 square foot accessory dwelling unit located above the garage. The total height of the garage and ADU, which is how I would refer to an accessory dwelling unit would be 20 feet tall. The project is proposed at the front of the property and I'll discuss a little more about why this is being requested. The reason we're here today is that although the garage is considered an accessory structure it's visible from the public right of way and therefore subject to minor landmark alteration permit process. The ADU is exempt from entitlements per state law. This aerial view shows you where the property is located in the Ridgeway historic neighborhood. And this is a more zoomed in view of the property I'd like to point out why this property is so unique. The primary home which is visible back here is located over 80 feet behind the front property line. The parcel is narrow and long and this is in part while the applicant is proposing the garage and ADU at the front of the property. This map reflects the general plan language designation and zoning district which are low density residential and R318H respectively, and the parcel is outlined in blue. Here's the site plan which shows you the proposed configuration of the garage and ADU. Again, the existing home is located in the rear of the property. So here's the existing home actually this shows it at 86 feet behind the front property line. And this is where the garage on the bottom plus ADU on the top would be located and this is where the porch would be. The ADU is proposed to be set back 15 feet from the front property line and the porch element would be a little over 12 feet set back. Here are the proposed elevations the north elevation on the left side of the screen is what would be facing Benton Street. The garage would be on the first floor and as you can see the facade has been designed to resemble the appearance of the first story of the home. The garage door would be facing the interior side setback and as shown in the west or right elevation. Here are two more elevations showing the south elevation which will face the primary home and the east or left elevation which will face an interior side setback. The setbacks meet the requirements for the zoning district and for accessory structures and for accessory dwelling units. This slide shows the floor plans for both the garage and ADU. Again, the ADU is proposed at 408 square feet and the garage is proposed at 400 square feet. In order to demonstrate the uniqueness of the property here is the street view image of 212 Benton Street. The property line is actually right here so where you see this detached garage and white vehicle all of this belongs to the property on the right. There is no fence in between these two properties. And you can just see the primary house in the back. The proposed garage and ADU would be located approximately here 15 foot setback and this gravel driveway would be paved to the garage door entrance. The project would also provide required cover parking for the residents where currently there is none. So while this project is not considered for planning review as the primary home it would effectively engage with the street as a primary home would. This is a zoom view of the portion of the primary home that is somewhat visible from Benton Street. This project received concept design review before the cultural heritage board on May 18 2022. Here are some of the considerations and non binding comments that the cultural heritage board forwarded to the applicant. The project should incorporate similar but slightly different lap sighting to differentiate between the primary historic home and the new structure. Incorporate wood frame and trim around the windows. Consider moving the ADU and garage closer to the primary home and providing a greater front setback. There was also discussion about doing each element separately is one story structures and ADU at one story and the garage at one story and separate locations on the parcel. And one or two of the commissioners were more interested in a bungalow design for this project. In response the proposed project would incorporate horizontal lap sighting similar to the primary home. Instead of the five inch sighting that's on the primary home, the applicant is proposing a six and one quarter inch sighting to differentiate between the age of the historic structure and the proposed project. The applicant has provided wood framing and wood trim around the windows as requested. The applicant has moved this project closer to the home by five feet to a 15 foot setback. This project was proposed to the cultural heritage board at a 10 foot setback. The applicant worked with planning staff to determine existing primary home setbacks in the neighborhood which were typically 15 feet or less and incorporated porches. The two story nature of the project of 15 foot setback was determined to be more appropriate than the originally proposed 10 foot setback. The applicant is proceeding with the two story design of the project versus proposing a single story garage and single story ADU. The purpose of stacking the garage and ADU was to leave space in the middle of the property to preserve what will serve as a yard and play space for the family. And as the applicant conveyed to the cultural heritage board, they're hoping to fill the void at the front of the property with a structure that engages with the street as a typical home wood and as their primary home does not. The height proposed is seven feet under the maximum allowed for a garage with ADU above at 20 feet versus the maximum allowed 27 feet. And as I mentioned before, one or two cultural heritage board members indicated a preference for a bungalow design. However, the applicants have provided a historic resource project evaluation from a licensed architect to demonstrate how the design is consistent with historic district aesthetics and massing. This slide includes the conclusion of the historic resource project evaluation prepared by architect Mark Perry and included in the agenda packet materials. It references other two story residences in the district and how the project is consistent with the scale, materiality and basic style of the district. Mr Perry included three additional design recommendations since this project was reviewed by the cultural heritage board. And those aren't also included in this slide. These design recommendations have been incorporated into the project design. These recommendations serve to improve the appearance of the porch element. Windows and doors and are responsive to the cultural heritage boards comments regarding elevated window trim. These are the findings that are required and have been made to approve a landmark, in this case a minor landmark alteration permit. The proposed project has been reviewed in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act and qualifies for a class three exemption under sequel guidelines sections 15303 A&E. And that the project consists of new construction of small structures including an accessory dwelling unit and an accessory structure in this case a garage. There are no unresolved issues as of staff review. I'll make a little note to that and no public comments have been received after this project was noticed to residents within 600 feet of the project site. I think zoning administrator means we were going to revise the condition for hours of construction to something more suitable for a residential neighborhood and that would be Monday through Friday 8am to 6pm and Saturday 9 to 5. I've checked with the applicant and they're okay with that change in condition. I'm limited by the planning and economic development department that the zoning administrator approve a minor landmark alteration permit to allow the construction of a new garage and accessory dwelling unit at 212 Benton Street. Here's my contact information. My name is Sheila Walski. My email is swalski at hasarcity.org and phone number is 707-543-4705. This concludes my report. I did notice that the applicant and homeowner Ben Williams was in the audience. I at the start of this presentation I had not yet seen if the architect Mark Perry had joined us. And they do not have a presentation. Oh wait I do see Mark Perry is here so that's great. But they are here for questions. I'm sorry. Would it be good for me to make a comment? You can absolutely will consider it part of a presentation. Feel free. Thank you. I just wanted to qualify. I am a historic architect and preservation architect according to the secretary of the interior standards federally qualified as such lived in that neighborhood for a while. I lived in that neighborhood all my life. I bought my house. The residents from my aunt down at the end of Benton Street sold it over the last summer. The building works. I was actually rather surprised at how well it works when I first saw the plans. I've been looking for as an architectural historical historian the integrity of the district not particular projects that really is the important point is that additions to the neighborhood maintain the fabric of the sense of scale materiality, etc. I am sensitive to the cultural heritage boards concerns and recommendations about the separating the garage and building I do not think in this case that is actually a superior solution. Although that would give the cultural heritage board authority over the garage. They don't have review authority over the ADU according to state legislature it has to be sensitive I've I see that it has been sensitive. And I guess I'm actually just kind of disagree with the board members that suggested two buildings on the site would be more effective I actually do not think they would. And this, this unit surprise me at how effective it actually work in the district they're probably four or five other two story units similar to this. One of them is one of the most historic, and they've emulated that so I, I surprised myself to be so supportive of this, but I am. Excellent, thank you I appreciate that added little impromptu presentation very much. And it looks like the applicant also has their hand raised if they want to be considered part of the presentation they're very welcome to do so. Secretary Burke, can you let the applicant know how to unmute. Absolutely. So I gave you permissions to unmute yourself. You should be able to just click on the mic to unmute. Do you see where that is Mr Williams. There should be a somewhere in your square or rectangle I guess I should say, right is that where they would see it. Secretary Burke. You hear me now. Yes, sorry about that. Okay, Mr Williams go right. I just wanted to say thank you to everybody that's been involved in this project. It's been a two year experience with permit process and that we're very grateful for everyone's help and anxious to get this project built. And like Mark Perry said, you know we chose this design because we really wanted something bespoke for the neighborhood and the home. And I think we've gotten there. After some serious time. So yeah I just want to say thanks everyone involved, especially to Sheila. Thanks for working with us and Mark and everybody else that's really helping us out so we're excited to be at this point and just want to say thank you. Excellent thank you. Well that sounds like the conclusion of the presentation so let's go ahead and open this item up for public comment. If anybody would like to comment recording secretary Burr will let you know how. If you would like to make a public comment you could do so by selecting the razor hand icon at the bottom of your zoom screen Sony administrator means I don't see any hands raised at this time. Okay, great. Well thank you for the, the thorough presentation planner will ski I appreciate how you did clarify that the adu is not subject to this review it is simply the garage. Okay, can we go back to slide for which provides an aerial view of Benton Street and Ripley. Yes, just one moment. And I will say not that I'm claiming to be an architectural historian but I do I do have a fondness for historic preservation that I agree personally that I think that utilizing a two story. is much better so I'm wondering if you can maybe give us an idea in this view where in comparison to the two neighboring properties this will sit on. Yes, Sony administrator means if you would like me to do that. Just just a quick idea would you share it's similar to closer to the street or further back even. Yeah, it will be approximately where this one this one is actually I did a whole list of setbacks for this neighborhood but it will be in keeping with these properties this is a, you know this is a corner side setback this one's right at the street. But it will be in keeping with the other homes in the neighborhood I think I did a survey of Mark was it essentially the list of about 15 homes in the neighborhood so we could kind of work towards a better setback. Yeah, there, there were at least 15 homes at exactly the 15 to 15 three and three on this block were at the 15 feet. And four on the previous block the preceding Benton street blocks I think at least three, I know it lines up fairly close with the building next door. Just kind of fills in to the left of the driveway to within about where you see those trees line up that's about 10 feet off the property line. And with, you know, consistent with 30 or 40% of the buildings around it. And that's what I just, I just wanted to put that out there that was the impression I had to because when I first looked at the project I thought gosh why don't they move it back more. I don't see any reasons for aesthetic reasons but I also understand wanting to keep that open area for for whatever use they decide to do in the future and since it is as proposed, you know consistent with several other homes and the two right next to it. I don't see any reason and the Culver heritage or obviously didn't mandate that they make that change it was just a suggestion and they already did some in response to that so. I will be happy to approve this project and I'll sign that revised resolution to the construction hours that you mentioned planner will ski. So, please note that this action is final, unless an appeal is filed with the department within 10 calendar days of today's decision, which is Monday December 26 2022. That concludes today's business and this meeting is now adjourned. Happy holidays and I'll see everyone in 2023.