 So, Julie, this project has a farm thing on it, so they put in this huge, like, functional... It's $10,000 in water tank. All right, promptly at 7 o'clock, I will call this meeting of the City of Santa Cruz Planning Commission to order. Tess, can we have a roll call please? Mr. Conway? Here. Dawson? Here. All right. Here. Maxwell? Here. McKelvie? Here. Paul Hemis? Here. Kennedy? Here. Are there any statements of disqualification tonight? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and open the oral communications. Anybody from the public here? No. Moving on. So, let's go through the approval of minutes, and I'd like to do one vote per, because I know that some people are here and some weren't. So, Tess, would you like to lead us through those approvals of the minutes? Sure. Do I have a motion for approval of the minutes of March 16, 2023? I would like to make a motion to approve the minutes for March 16, 2023. I'll second. Thanks, guys. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstentions? The motion passes. Approval of the special meeting minutes of March 30, 2023? I'll move the approval of the minutes for March 30, 2023. I'll second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstentions? Is there a motion for the approval of the minutes of April 20, 2023? I'll move the minutes for April 20, 2023. I'll second it. All in favor to approve the minutes of April 20, 2023? A quick point of order. I wasn't at the 30th. Okay, cool. Never mind. I abstain. I abstain as well. I'll abstain also. Three abstentions. We have some more all in favor. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. The minutes pass. Thank you. Was I supposed to abstain from the 30th then if I wasn't here? Sorry. I think she took another. Okay. I'm going to go ahead and vote. It just goes by who was there. I said roll call vote, but I meant voice vote. All right. So tonight we have general business. Is this a public hearing? I don't think so. We're just going to talk about it and give input. So the capital improvement program is great. I've been doing this a long time. I've literally seen projects go from the bottom of the list to the top of the list. And I'm very excited to get this started. I'm a little bit excited to get this started. I didn't watch the administration's advisory, but I really want to encourage everyone to like ask your questions be like, hey, what about I'm going to ask about the softball field lights? You know, but this is a really good opportunity for us to understand kind of budget priorities and things like that. So don't be shy. We start the staff presentation please. All right. Thank you commissioners. the new capital investment program. We're going to go into 2020 capital investment program consistency with our general plan 2030. So there's a state law requirement. That states that all new capital improvement programs projects need to go planning body of that city for to be found consistent with a general the city of Santa Cruz. There's really a lot of things that we're talking about in the capital investment program. So just really briefly general plan 2030 it's a city's blueprint and includes the 10 elements and 7 of which are highlighted in yellow here and those 7 are touched upon tonight through the consistency finance of these projects that we're talking about tonight. So the capital investment program for the city of Santa Cruz there's really a lot of things that we're talking about in the city of Santa Cruz. So we're talking about that 2, 3 years ago in our ongoing and are continuing into this new capital investment program. And then there's maintenance and improvements to existing facilities. And those are projects larger projects that have previously been reviewed by this commission that have other minor improvements or maintenance happening to them in as part of the planning process. So really what we're here for tonight is to find consistency with the general plan for new projects. That have not yet been analyzed. And specifically we're looking only tonight at the 9 projects that will begin in FY 24. So while there are many, many CIP projects. That you'll you'll see in the list and in the attachments to the agenda that we're talking about tonight to find consistency with. And you're certain and I'll go over those 9 projects now, but you're certainly welcome to ask me questions about other projects, but I likely won't know the answers to them. And I'm I'm I'm certainly happy to reach out to our folks in parks, public works and whoever and get back to you if you have a specific question on a project, but we we're here tonight really as you know about it check it out. So we're going to start with the parks and rec projects. We have like that consistency finding with these 9 new projects that are beginning in beginning work in 2024 fiscal year. So I'll start with the parks and rec projects. We have parks facility security improvements. These were really done. This is a high because of the arson that happened at the parking lot. So we're going to start with the park design for those those park facilities. And then the Harvey West Park redesign. That's a larger one they're looking at doing a master plan for this park is there there really has never been one. And a lot of the facilities in this park are kind of nearing the end of their lifespan. So it's a really good opportunity for parks to kind of think bigger about this about this area. So we're going to start with the park design. And then we're going to have a special interest in the pool. And figuring out the programming capacity of that how to make it even better community facility. And is currently. There's a sergeant Derby playground renovation. And this is really part of the community parks replacement program. Whether they're going around park by park to improve the design of the park. So we're going to start with the water conservation irrigation system in this park and. If you want an example of this program, you can look to the recent Garfield Park improvements that were done. This will be a very similar project to that. And then the water conservation irrigation system. This is really centered around. Park and golf course and this is a very similar project. So we're going to go beyond just. Simple incremental changes that improve the efficiency of the park in its water use this. They're looking at a much more comprehensive way to really decrease the water use in the park. This project. And then West Cliff design and improvement in the water conservation system. The park's interest in also doing design and standardization of all the new improvements that are happening there whether it's like railings and benches. Things things of that nature. In public works projects. We have a traffic calming program and again this is actually tied a bit to West Cliff. Public works is looking to use it as a public engagement tool kit. We're both this neighborhood and then for it to be used also citywide. So it'll it'll initially be tied into this West Cliff work. And. They'll likely be going to City Council in August kind of begin this work if this. Cip is approved. A lot of. A lot of public engagement projects. Citywide. And then the food waste preprocessing system improvement. This actually probably could have been one where it's it's kind of a. Ongoing maintenance kind of project this. This larger project was completed in 2020 just before the pandemic. But they are looking to come back and do additional. Additional improvements to it to cover it and better protect it. And the facilities. And then the. Stream bank restoration which was to improve the erosion protection. To the branch of 40 drive bridge. And branch 40 drive. And then the belts water treatment plant upgrades. There's a well at the one at the. Belts water treatment facility. That needs that needs a modern modernization. And that needs to be improved. And that needs to be improved. And you'll see in the in the commission agenda tonight that we we have a. A spreadsheet that goes through all the various consistency findings for each of the general plan goals and policies. That these 9 projects. And so with that staff is evaluated these projects are consistent with the general plan. With that a recommendation is that. Planning Commission make a motion to find the following that. These are consistent with the general plan 2030. That concludes my presentation. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Commissioner questions. Focused on these 9 projects. And where would those be for the new projects? Says new to the budget document this year are fact sheets. For each of the new projects. I guess I didn't see a fact sheet. I think they were supposed to be separated out from the capital investment program. The larger document I think we're supposed to separate them out. And provide them as another document. I think we're going to do that with the new project. I think we're going to do that with the new document. And I think that's a good attachment. I'll double check on that language and see if I can provide those to. Yeah, I would have been really helpful just to see like you said we're just considering these 9 projects. I also found that the table pretty confusing. constructive feedback that you know just if we're if we're focused on these 9 projects. And I think that's a good point. I think that's a good point to end with the consistency findings for the general plan which was very helpful. But I just found it a little confusing and then I was looking all over for the back sheets. Because I wanted to the details on the fact sheets would have been really really helpful. So I'll probably have some more comments around that later. But thank you. Yeah, I think those fact sheets would have really just centered around the amount of funding. And the timing of those. You know if they're available we could take a look at the number of the items that we want to given the attendance tonight. I don't know are they readily I don't I don't have them separated out from the yeah, no problem. I did have one question. When I read through the tables in the report. If something if there is no expenditure shown for fiscal year 2024 in the column that means that there's nothing slated for the project going forward in this. So that would be the number of CIP items that are new this year, but aren't starting until 2025 or 2026 and they're not included in this review. If if something did have fiscal year 2025. Expenditures. Anticipated would that be in here or is that sort of in the future? Yeah, that would be that would be in the the following year. So they had new new projects but then also new projects that are just starting in this this fiscal year. Questions. Comments. Yeah, and I just was going through the budget sheets and for the most part, I thought that they, you know, pretty much made sense, but some of them do raise some questions. So some of the things that I was curious about is the Coral Street project. It was budgeted at 710,000 and just 99 five was spent and I wondered if there was a change of plans. Or has there been a work plan change? I was curious about that. And then about that. And then there was another in that same category. There was a million seventy three thousand. This is project number C102 three three zero two. There's no EA at all. And I think it's for shelter. And just because it is in the you know, homeless response category, I was just curious about especially when there when there's a budget no EA. What was that number again? It was C102 302. And I believe it was a homeless response. Item and then. Okay. I believe for that one that that's that's an ongoing. Yeah. Amount that we typically give to the housing authority and things like that for shelter services and visions. Okay. So it's a it's a budgeted amount. I hadn't noticed before that there was no EA at all. Yeah. So something's changed. Okay. I'll double check on that. Just curious. It's not it's not one of our consistency findings, but. And then there were a couple of other similar things that just looked like the, you know, expenditures aren't quite going as fast as possible. And you know, it's been a wet winter. So I attributed that to most of those. Yeah. For for coral in particular. There was a lot set aside for that, but we've only used a certain amount for this. Visiting exercise first. And there there will be additional. Money's spent on that in the future is in the next phases of that project. Whether it's hiring architects and developers and things like that. To refine that work. Okay. And I'll look in the budget and see what the sources of those funds are. I am curious. Yeah. I think I think a lot of that came from the federal, the federal funding and the state funding. Which often doesn't work for that stage. So, okay. Thanks. Well, I get my out of the scope question off my chest right now. I feel it's related to planning, but I have a broad definition sometimes. I'm so stoked to see the LED lights going in over at Harvey West field. I play softball there. My kid now plays little league there. And it's great they're doing, you know, supervision lights with solar panels that shade the bleachers, which are super hot all the time. So thank you. My question like from a planning perspective is light spillage. That's actually a pretty cool question. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know about the region, but. Was that addressed on that project? Do you remember like, you know, our scope would intersect with that? I'm pretty sure they're shielded and all that. But that was my question. Yeah. I can't speak to that project in particular. Okay. I know through our objective standards work. In the past couple of years, we've worked a lot with. The night sky folks. The dark sky. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. So people don't know exactly what it is. Um, I don't know. But who knows how well. Okay. So I'm not sure how they're incorporated now, right. Like maybe parks or. Yeah. I think I think that would be parks. Follow up all aspects directly. Um, a lot of times in a tuition lights that everyone's like, Hi, they're so bright and there's a little back and forth there. That we're constantly hear about at these meetings. Yeah. One one plus with those LEDs as they, they can usually be directed really. Yeah. might remember Rod Cortararo who sat up here for many years. This was like his pet peeve and he's happily retired in Hawaii many years ago, so it's nice to see that done. Second question is on point, West Cliff Drive, like it's so rapidly evolving the situation out there and I understand the city's awesome approach is to just like get as much state and federal funding as possible, as quickly as possible. But are we thinking about, I don't know, would it be capital funding to have a planning element to respond to that, you know, from the planning department side, specifically changing streets really quickly, adjusting traffic flows through neighborhoods. Is that something we should start putting at the bottom of the list because it seems like we may need it soon? Yes, as far as the the planning, planning side from from my work, thankfully a lot of a lot of that's already started even before these really specific resiliency and recovery efforts came about due to the winter storms this past year. We're currently working on updating our our LCP, our local coastal program, and that that's been an ongoing effort to bring that into consistency with our general plan 2030, which is actually now we're still still currently technically using our our 1990s LCP. And so it's long been a desire of ours to bring that into consistency with our new general plan. And then also it gives us the opportunity when this documents open to open it up and make sure that it's talking about modern things that are that are happening and not just what was in our, you know, what was talked about in 2012 when our general plan was adopted, you know, language around, you know, climate change and things like that and resiliency has changed since then that conversation and both what's and what's happening on the ground too. So really making sure it's the most up-to-date document possible. We've been working with Coastal Commission on it for a few years now and there's been changes to it and refinements in the back and forth. But it is moving forward now, especially because of these new efforts and just making sure that this work aligns with all the other recovery work that various departments are working on throughout the city. So there's definitely new energy around it, but it's something we've been working on and thinking about for a while from a planning perspective. And we're we're kind of ready to build a lot of this other work that's happening into this effort. That's a great answer. So continued already in budget and then like as grants come as we've already done, you all hold those up for extra work. That's a good answer. Thank you. I'm ready for a motion unless others have questions. So I just was wondering if you talk a little bit more about the re-design of Harveyville West Park. It looks like we have $250,000 slated for that, which is a new project we're considering. So one of it's like a pool feasibility study. So is this for the design and does that include community input? I'm assuming this is a consultant fee to do the re-design and is there a community input part of that or what's that look like? I do imagine so. I think parks tend to work with the community quite a bit on a lot of this, but I don't know specifically what their plan is for that input. Okay, I can follow up with them. Thank you. Mm-hmm. I know with Garfield Park, they did a really good job into that little booth and the kids got to vote on the colors of the equipment. It was a good process, I thought. All right. Anybody ready to make a motion? I have one more question. I'm just curious. This is a little bit out of our scope and this is about the food waste pre-processing system because it is up on here. May I read the little flyers that come with the bills, but how is that program going, the little brown boxes that are going out? I do not know. I will have to talk with our public works person on that one. Okay. I am curious. I see more and more of them being used, but I'm wondering how it's going. Yeah, I can follow with you on that. I'm curious too now. Yeah. You can report back if you wanted a future meeting if it's convenient. Other reckons got ours like last week, so that's how it's going for us. I think it's interesting with that program. The other modes are so automated, but this is literally one of the big brown bins in the back of a pickup truck. I'm like, I walk over, fix up the little bucket and I'm sitting in the big bucket. It's really different to see the whole process take place. I don't know if that's something that's evolving or still kind of in the early stages, but it's a very different process. Yeah, I've had a hard time wrapping my head around it too, and I don't use it a lot because I can just use compost. I don't have much to go in there, so I've just been really curious. Good for cooked food though. Keeps a ton of methane out of landfills. One question. I'm curious, I don't know if you're going to be able to answer this, but you can tell me who to talk to you. With the downtown recovery budget that's in here, it's not something we're voting on tonight, but it's in the 2023, and I'm curious, it says begin implementation of downtown design standards to key amenities, such as plantings, bike racks, trash cans, benches, and aspects of hardscaping curbs and parking meters. And it seems like with all the big changes, I'm curious that they're happy in downtown if there's a coordination with the changes that are coming in addition to what I guess we're calling a recovery, which means fixing something that wasn't working, and so I'm just curious if you know anything about that particular. Yeah, great question. So until recently our downtown plan was called the downtown recovery plan because it started, you know, after the earthquake, and I think that's why that language is still used here and not just downtown plan phase four. But it's a really good question though, because yeah, this work has been, was started last year by Public Works and they brought someone in to do kind of like what I mentioned about what Parks is doing on West Cliff, like all the standardization of amenities and doing really significant detailed design work on how and what everything will look like downtown. That's been really beneficial work because it's not only going to help our current downtown, but it's a lot of work we can coordinate with them on to bring down into the expansion area as well as we're talking about that. So kind of the next phase of our downtown expansion work is to go back to the community and talk a lot about design and streetscape and circulation, design of buildings, things like that. And this work definitely, you know, helps inform that part of the discussion and certainly something we want to, you know, make sure that there's a lot of work that went into it and we want there to be consistency between the two. Yeah, because departments and I mean, we know how it all works a little bit separately. Everybody's got their own budgets and their own teams and their own vision and all the things. So it would be a missed opportunity to not be thinking bigger picture in that way. And then also I would just maybe suggest to somebody that we look to the future rather than recovering even though there's some serious work that needs to be done down there. But okay, well, thanks for that. And that recovery plan was a huge success. So it needs to get its name taken away before the next recession comes. I'll go ahead and make a motion for the 2024-2028 CIP that it is consistent with the general plan 2030. Moved by Commissioner Dawson, second by Commissioner Maxwell. We have a roll call vote, please. Commissioner Conway. Hi. Dawson. Hi. Gordon. Hi. Maxwell. Hi. Calvi. Hi. Columbus. Hi. Kennedy. Hi. The motion passes seven to zero. Staff, do you have any informational items this evening? We do, yeah. I have a few items to report. There's no items going to the next Planning Commission meeting for you on the first, but on June 15th, there is one item currently scheduled. That's a 1811-1815 Mission Street. It's a 27-unit, three-story SRO project, taking the place of two existing single-family homes in Mission Street there. That's the only other item currently on the Planning Commission schedule. And three other items. Coral Street that we mentioned, the vision plan went to Council last week and was adopted. One major change, one minor change is that three parcels under private control were removed from the vision plan. So those, the references to those and how we think about those parcels is taken out. So that's the one change Council made from this commission. The Oversize Vehicle Ordinance, which this commission saw last year, was approved by Coastal Commission last week for a one-year pilot program. So that was a big success getting that approved there. And then another thing that happened last week, we had a big week last week in planning. Our first draft of our housing element was submitted to HCD. And so that was a very big lift. And I thank your commission for all the feedback and support on that one. So thank you very much. And congratulations. Thank you. Yeah. It's a good document so far. And it's really important just to let everyone at this commission and anyone listening that comments from the state are due in August. But we would really love for anyone the public to provide us additional comments on that submittal that that draft is now available online on our on our web page. It's city of Santa Cruz dot com slash housing element. And you can find our newest submittal to the state. And we're certainly going to be refining it over the summer. In addition to then once we get the state comments back. So whatever comments we get sooner than later is really beneficial because we can work on them now before we get a ton of comments from the state dropped on us in August. So just to just letting everyone know we would love to receive more feedback on that. I'm so proud of that plan. Continuing our leadership. And you got my comment about the mapping of the district. So that's already in the hopper. Good. I have one informational item to add. I know everyone has to work 314 Jesse Street groundbreaking is tomorrow at 11 o'clock. I know me and Julie will be there. If anyone can squeeze an hour out and come by you should. It's an incredible project. And it's the one that completed our arena targets when it finally got through plan check after many, many rounds. So it's going to be a good day for Santa Cruz tomorrow if you can make it. We don't have any subcommittees nor advisory body oral reports nor items referred to future agendas. So with that I will adjourn the meeting. Thank you everybody for coming out and for your time. Thank you. Thank you. I think it's 11.