 please have a roll call commissioner Conway here Dawson here spellman here i can't hear you peter but i see you speaking low greenberg here maxwell here nielson here chair shifrin here we now move on to uh and no one's absent are there any statements of disqualification is anybody in the audience does anybody want to do oral communications is there anybody in the audience who um wants to speak during oral communications chair there are two members of the public on the line if any member of the public wishes to address the board at oral communications please press star nine to raise your hand i don't see any raised hands okay let's move on to approval of the minutes uh from october 14th 2020 are there any comments on the minutes chair we're requesting maybe continued by me staff is requesting that you continue approval of the minutes to the next regular meeting oh okay um any objection to continuing the minutes would somebody like to move to continue the minutes to the next meeting i'll make a motion to continue the meeting minutes until the next planning commission hearing there's a second all second i need any discussion can we have a roll call vote please commissioner conway hi dawson hi spellman hi greenberg hi maxwell nielson hi shifrin the motion to continue the minutes to the next meeting passes unanimously we now move on to public hearings 238 carbon arrow drive uh file number cp 19 0111 slope variation design permanent invariance to construct a single family dwelling on a slope exceeding 30 percent to the second floor that exceeds the maximum floor area permitted on a substandard lot can we have a staff report please yes good evening this is ryan bayne senior planner um let's see so this proposal is for a design permit slope variance and variance to allow for the development of a 3273 square foot single family home and attached garage on a vacant site zone for a single family home project was last heard the planning commission on june 4th of 2020 the project was continued indefinitely due to a concern about the proposed categorical exemption from sika that was being proposed as part of the project although the site is not mapped for a sensitive habitat the site is within a mile or so of known habitats for several listed species and is adjacent to an open space open space area so based on that proximity the majority of the commission at that meeting determined that the project um could not be considered exempt from sika without a biotic investigation ruling out the impact of the project on the potential presence of of species and that a biotic review should be required a biotic report was completed by albion environmental in june of 2020 the report indicated the presence of the san francisco dusky footed wood rat nest within the project area and this is a species that is listed as a species of special concern by the california department of fish and wildlife so an initial study and mitigated negative decks were prepared confirming that the project would result in an impact to the nest but that mitigation measures would reduce that impact to a less than significant level so the mitigation measures require a pre construction survey delineation of a buffer zone around those nests and development and implementation of a wood rat relocation plan in consultation with the california department of fish and wildlife if it is not possible to avoid one or more nests during construction so the environmental review um has also included standard mitigation measures regarding the timing of tree pruning and removal in order to avoid impacts to nesting birds and bats and all these mitigation measures um that were presented as part of the mitigated neg deck have been included as conditions of approval as conditioned the project meets all the required site area standards and the findings uh for the approval of the design permit variance and slope variance the staff is recommending approval based on the findings and the conditions of approval provided with your staff report that concludes my presentation i'm available for any questions thank you very much to any commissioners have quite uh questions of staff none i'm going to open the public hearing are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this matter you have up to three minutes again if any member of the public wishes to address the board on this matter please press star nine to indicate that you want to be recognized i don't see anyone's raised their hand chair okay i'll give another few seconds and then i will close the public hearing no members of the public who want to testify i'm going to bring back the item i'm going to close the public hearing bringing the item back to the commission for discussion consideration and action do any commissioners want to uh comment on on this project help if the uh screen was turned back to the commission i could see hands uh commission and dawson there we go sorry couldn't find my mute um i i just wanted to just have a couple brief comments about this um and i want to thank my fellow commissioners and staff um for um supporting this project going back um for the environmental review i think as as the planning commission i think one of our charges is is really to be thoughtful um about all projects but certainly projects um in the wild land sort of urban interface and um i think going having this go through the process i think this is just a great example of the process working right went back to environmental review there were were concerns and now that is integrated into this project going forward so i just want to thank the commissioners who supported this going back for the full secret review and just encourage us all to be especially thoughtful moving forward when there's these projects in these wild land urban interface and have them go through the process like this one so that they can move forward so um thank you other commissioners want to comment on the make any comments on the on this project or its analysis you know and i'm just going to say if um say if you were along the lines of what commission and dawson said i think for me this is a reason why it's important that these kinds of projects that need um that you know have potential effects on the environment either through slopes or through the urban wildland interface come before the commission and have an independent review and not simply have the staff determining whether there are issues or not not that the staff doesn't have a significant interest in these issues but that it's important to have an independent analysis as well from people who haven't worked with the staff through the process so i um want to appreciate the work that the staff did and i i think it has made for a better project and i'm happy to be supportive of it at this time is there are there any other comments if not would somebody like to make a motion to take action on this on the staff recommendation sure i would move to accept the staff recommendation second that it's been moved and seconded to prove the recommendation that the planning commission acknowledged the environment of determination approved the design permits slope variants and variants based on the findings listed below and the conditions of approval listed in exhibit a uh russia spellman did you want to say something before we vote on the motion no i was just seconding the motion i thought your eye got that so it's been moved and seconded is there any further discussion all in favor i will have a roll call vote please mr conway aye dawson spellman aye greenberg aye max welch mielson aye shifrin motion passes unanimously we now move on to information items are there any information items hi chair shifrin this is samantha from the planning department they do have a couple information items just want to let you know some items that are coming up thank you um oh okay um so since your last meeting we actually had a first and second reading at the council um and they approved changes to the beekeeping ordinance the parking ordinance and then the streamlining and cleanup uh cleanup changes to the ordinance that you had heard previously so those were all approved um and then coming up on the next agenda you'll hear a presentation on um a resilient coastline from uh tiffany-wide west and you'll also hear a project um at 119 coral which is housing manner matters and it's um 120 studio units better to be used as permanent supportive housing and then that includes ground floor space for supportive care services and some residential amenities um so those are some upcoming projects can i ask uh when the uh council is going to hear the commission recommendation on the section 8 option under the inclusionary ordinance uh yeah let me look that up for you um see yeah i look like that is scheduled for november 24th great thank you any questions of staff on um information items are there any subcommittee advisory body oral reports i i could do just an update on the um affordable housing committee great so um we've concluded our work and um i understand that the report is being noticed i haven't heard exactly what the date is it'll be returning but it's sometime after i think it's the first meeting december um was the estimate when we concluded our work could i ask whether the subcommittee considered the later uh one of the recent bills that was passed by the state legislature having to do with school district housing yes you did okay um thank you very much there is no report on the west cliff tack because um things are happening but we'll be hearing about it at our next meeting from uh disney wise west are there any items that commissioners would like to refer to future agendas none i want to thank you all for this 15 minute meeting and uh i'll say we're adjourned and i'll see you about our next release case of meeting have a great day