 Okay, by my watch, I think we're at 430, so with that, if staff is ready to go, we are ready. Thank you. So it's great to see everybody. It's been a while. So I'd like to call the June 22, 2022 meeting of the Santa Rosa Planning Commission to order. And as we've been saying for the last two plus years, due to the provisions of the Governor's Executive Orders N-25-20 and N-29-20, which should spend certain requirements of the Brown Act and the order of the Health Officer of the County of Sonoma to 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 are practicing appropriate social distancing. Members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and on the agenda. And you may speak during item four, the public comment period for items that are not on the agenda tonight. And if you also wish to speak during our public hearing, please do so by raising your hand and you will be given the ability to address the commission. So with that, if we could have roll. Yes, thank you. Let the record reflect that all commissioners are present. Thank you. Item two is approval of minutes and we have four sets of minutes. So are there changes or corrections on any of the four sets? Okay, not seeing anybody. Then those will stand approved as noted. And then I'll move on to item three, public comments. So now is the time for the public comment period on this 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 will have 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 and your microphone will be muted at the end of that countdown. So with that. And sure weeks, I am seeing no hands at this time. Thank you. So I will go ahead and close a public comment portion of the meeting and moving on to item four, planning commissioners reports. So our statement of purpose as a planning commission is that we are charged with carrying out the California planning and zoning laws in the city of Santa Rosa. Duties include implementing of plans, ordinances and policies relating 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 subdivision maps and undertaking any special planning studies as needed. So item 4.2, are there any reports on either subdivision or waterways? Okay. Let's see any. So item 4.3, commissioner reports. Are there any reports by my fellow commissioners? Okay. I would like to mention that at the council meeting on Tuesday, the council heard the appeal of the Flora Terra cannabis dispensary on 4th street and the council did not approve the appeal. So upheld the commission's actions. So I wanted to pass that on. So with that, item 5, Ms. Hartman. All right. And it's good to see everybody. I like a full house. Also on Tuesday, the council heard our draft housing element and we also forwarded the feedback that the commission and the housing authority had provided on that as well as feedback from the community. And so they're moving forward. We're moving forward on that. We'll be submitting to the state. We still have an open comment period for I think for the next couple of weeks. But we'll be submitting our first draft to the state. There's a lot for them to review. There'll be additional opportunities to one get feedback from the state and then to resubmit before it comes back for full adoption. Other things to see on a staffing level because we had such a change in our staffing level for current planning, which interacts with this commission quite a bit. You interact with advanced planning as well. So this has really affected the whole division. But as most of you know, we've been recruiting for five city planners for the city of Santa Rosa. And so I'm pleased to say that we have been able to make offers and have start dates. In fact, we already have one of our city planners already on board. I think we're getting two more next week and then another one the week after that. So you'll start to see some new faces. Probably won't send them to the commission right off the bat, but they'll be here soon enough. In addition, we had two vacancies in our admin secretaries that support a lot of our planning work. And so we are looking at filling those vacancies. It's taken a little bit longer to do that. But we've been looking for every opportunity and think we found some. And that's an important thing to note because they stand up our boards and commission meetings. And as you know, we've been meeting virtually. And we were with the idea that we would get to hybrid meetings like the council does. And we want to do that. But then we had some of these staffing issues and whatnot. So we're still going to move to hybrid meetings at some point. But I'm looking to make sure I have our administrative staff is ready to do that. So I'm still hoping to do that by the end of summer. And I'll continue to communicate with you about that opportunity. And then just lastly, just to report out something I had the pleasure of participating in that I thought was pretty special was last Thursday, I had the opportunity to participate on a event that was for the California Planning Roundtable. And so what that is is a is a group that is compiled of planning leaders throughout the state of California, who are interested into a deeper conversation about strategies for all things planning. And we brought them to Sonoma County. We brought them to our city, Santa Rosa. And we presented our experience and the wildfires and our resiliency planning and the community building that happened with that. So we started off and this was a collective effort between many people. But the day that I participated in most directly, I was with Tennis Wick from the County PRMD and then Pamela Van Helselma, who was the former director for Coffee Strong. And so we started the tour at the EOC at the county to talk about the two fires that hit our city since 2017 and everything that happened in between. And then we moved to Coffee Park and really got to hear a lot from Pamela about the community building that rallied and really was instrumental in moving the city forward. Then we took them to Journeys N, which I know the commission had a big hand in moving forward. And it's really just a great example of what when all things come together and including our resiliency ordinances and financing and all that and moving that one forward. And then we went, I took them up the hill, Mountain Grove. And if you haven't been, Coffee Park looks phenomenal. So it's hard for people from out of the area to even feel or sense what it was like. And you can describe and describe and show them a photo. But it's just it's hard to imagine. So I was grateful that there is quite a bit of activity on the backside of Mountain Grove. So I took them up Mountain Grove to Sky Farm and St. Andrews Drive area. And if you haven't been up there lately, it's still it's like phenomenal shot of what's been going on rebuilding right now. Seems like everything's under construction up there. It's kind of what we experienced a lot in Coffee Park just a couple of years ago. And you also get to see the breadth of what the impact on the county lands as well. And we even took them out to, you know, Bennett Ridge so they could see the breath of the fires that hit and that it's not just coming from one area, but we have to look at it in a in a much bigger scale. So anyway, I just share that we obviously shared our rebuild efforts and the tools that we created like like the rebuild tracker. So people are interested in in that the website is srcity.org slash rebuild. And it's just an interesting way you can see how many of units of which type and where you can see our success with ADU units with all the rebuild. And so anyway, I had a lot of fun sharing our story. And they they really liked it. So that's my report. Thank you. And you can send those new planners to us. We aren't too bad. You aren't too mean or nasty. We'll be nice. Okay. Thanks, Claire. So with that, we'll move on to a statement of abstentions. Are there any abstentions by the commissioners? Okay, seeing none. Consent items, which we don't have any. And then we move on to item 8.1 public hearing California Organica Inc. Conditional Use Permit 1825 Ferdinand Court, CUP 21-091. It is an exparte item. So we'll go ahead and start with Commissioner Carter. I did visit the site and have nothing further to disclose. Thank you. And commissioners Disco? I also visited the site and have no new information to disclose. Commissioner Deggan? I have nothing to disclose. Thank you. Commissioner Holton? Visited the site and have nothing further to disclose. Commissioner Krapke? I spoke to a representative of the applicant and have nothing further to disclose. Thank you. And Vice Chair Peterson? I have nothing to disclose. Thank you. And I also visited the site and have nothing further to disclose. So with that, I believe it's Mr. McKay tonight. Hello. Good afternoon, Chair Weeks and members of the commission. Can you all hear me and see me? Yes. I will share my screen and begin my presentation. All right. Can everybody see that? Thank you. Good afternoon. This is Carter McKay, Senior Planner. Happy to present the California Organica Incorporated Cannabis Facility Project, Major Conditional Use Permit Request located at 1825 Ferdinand Court. California Organica Incorporated is a proposed project that includes the operation of a cannabis facility with on-site cannabis uses, including cannabis manufacturing level one, non-volatile, cannabis distribution, and cannabis cultivation within an existing industrial building located at 1825 Ferdinand Court. A bit of project history, so this application was received in late October of 2021. And June 10th, 2022, this Planning Commission hearing was noticed in accordance with all applicable zoning code standards. Here we have a neighborhood context map of the proposed project site, which is outlined in that light blue color. So for general plan zoning district context, the general plan land use designation is light industry and the zoning district is light industrial. Both of these land use designation and zoning districts do allow for the operation of cannabis uses. Here we have a site plan. The project includes a parking surplus, and this site plan shows that the vast majority of the building would be occupied. And for additional detail, here is the floor plan. I understand it's a little bit hard to read, so let me know if we need to revisit this. But just this bottom portion is not in the scope of work. So there are some cannabis operating requirements that are established by the zoning code, including security, odor control, lighting, and noise. The applicant submitted a security plan with their project description in addition to a certified odor control plan. And both of these documents have been reviewed by city departments and have been deemed to be in compliance with our operating standards for cannabis uses. And the project would also be required to comply with the city's lighting ordinance and noise ordinance. And the project applicant has submitted a lighting plan that does comply with our ordinance. The project has been reviewed in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act in that the project qualifies for three exemptions, including class one categorical exemption, class three categorical exemption, and class 32 categorical exemption. There's additional CEQA analysis and discussion present in the staff report, but let me know if you have any questions about any of that information. I can go into greater detail. We did receive some public comments about the notice of application for the project. There was an individual who was concerned about the generation of odor, specifically affecting children residing at nearby residential uses. And I responded that the project operation would be required to contain all cannabis odors within the building. And any generation of odors that exited the building would not be in compliance with the standards would be subject to enforcement by the code department, code enforcement. Additionally, an issue was raised concerning traffic. And I explained that the project applicant did consult with a traffic engineer who created a study that was submitted with the project application that indicates that an insignificant amount of new traffic would be generated as a result of the proposed project operation. And finally, there were concerns about security and theft from as a result of the proposed operation. And I shared the cannabis operating requirements related to security in addition to the project description that includes the security measures that are designed to deter and manage any potential theft at the location. And I did not receive any follow-up from these individuals about these concerns after sharing these responses. Staff can make all the required findings as described in the staff report and resolutions. And with that, the Planning and Economic Development Department recommends that the commission by resolution approve a major conditional use permit to allow the operation of California Organica Incorporated Cannabis Facility located at 1829, 1825 Ferdinand Court file number CUP 21-091. And the applicant is in attendance would like to make some brief comments, but just not have a PowerPoint to present. And I'm available to answer any questions about city process or city regulations. Thank you, Mr. McKay. Any questions of staff before we hear from the applicant? Okay, seeing none. Then I see a hand raised for the applicant. Hi, good afternoon. My name is Scott Skellinger, and I'm here on behalf of the applicant. I'm a Santa Rosa-based land use consultant. And I don't have a presentation as such. I didn't have a chance to turn on my video, so I'm not hiding from you. We're just technologically disadvantaged at this point. One comment I would like to make is that this application does not contain a retail component. So that, to me, was the real concern with the neighbor who asked about traffic. There's a very limited amount of traffic contemplated with this proposal. Other than that, I don't have much to add other than to thank Connor for his presentation, all of his hard work on the project today, and certainly offered to address any concerns or answer any questions you might have away. Thank you. Are there any questions of Mr. Skellinger before we open the public hearing? Okay, then seeing none. I will go ahead at this point and open the public hearing. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please select the raised hand feature. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star 9 to raise your hand. Each speaker will have three minutes. A countdown timer will appear for your convenience. Please make sure to unmute yourself when asked to do so, and your microphone will be muted at the end of the countdown. So I don't see anybody unless I'm missing somebody. That is correct. There's no hand at this time. Okay, thank you. So with that, I will go ahead and close the public hearing on this item and bring it back to the commission. So does somebody want to read the resolution into the record, and then we can start discussion? I can do that. Thank you. Okay, I move a resolution of the Planning Commission of the City of Santa Rosa making findings and determinations and approving a conditional use permit for California Organica Inc. cannabis facility located at 1825 Ferdinand Court, file number CUP 21-091, and waive for the reading of the text. Thank you. Is there a second? Second. Thank you. It was moved by Commissioner Siscoe and seconded by Commissioner Acrepti. So we'll go and do comments. We'll start with Commissioner Carter. Well, this is a pretty straightforward use permit application for cannabis manufacturing and distribution. I see no irregularities with it. I think staff has done a fine job in their analysis and I'll be supporting the project as proposed. Thank you. Commissioner Siscoe. Yeah, I have no issues with this application. I think it's a perfect place and a well put together application so and I can make all of the findings. Thank you. Commissioner Duggan. I can make all the required findings and I'm in support of the project. Thank you. And Commissioner Holton. I can also make all the required findings and I'm also in support of this project. Thanks. Commissioner Acrepti. I can make all the required findings and I'll be in support of the project. Thank you. Vice Chair Peterson. I can also make all the required findings. I think they've addressed the concerns from the public with regard to the odor and security more eyes can actually make it more secure and to the extent that there's traffic at least there will be parking and it's in fact over parts. So no issues from my end and I'll be in favor of the project. Thank you. And I also can make all the required findings and in favor of the project. It was a tight application and as usual Mr. McKay does a thorough job in the staff report and laying out any issues. So as I said I will be supporting the project. So with that we had a first by Commissioner Cisco a second by Commissioner Acrepti. Ms. Montoya would you like to take the vote please. Yes. Thank you. Commissioner Carter. Hi. Hi. Commissioner Duggan. Hi. Commissioner Holton. Hi. Commissioner Acrepti. Hi. Vice Chair Peterson. Hi. And Chair Weeks. Hi. So that passes with seven eyes and before we leave this item I would like to note that this action is final unless an appeal is filed within 10 calendar days of today's action. The time limit will extend to the following business day if the last day falls on the day that the city is closed. For information on how to submit an appeal form please contact the project planner Mr. McKay. So with that unless there's anything else from Ms. Hartman I do not have anything. Okay. So with that we will go ahead I will go ahead and adjourn the meeting and try and stay cool everybody. Bye. Goodnight.