 Oh, good morning and welcome to the zoning administrator meeting of August 3rd 2023. My name is Susie Murray. I am the zoning administrator. I am also a senior planner here with the city of Santa Rosa, and I've worked for the city since 2006. So with that, I'm going to call the meeting to order. The second item on the agenda is public comment period. This is a time when any person may address matters that are not listed on the agenda, but are within the subject matter of the jurisdiction. The public may comment on agenda items when the item is called. Each speaker will be given three minutes to provide comments. So anybody in the room want to provide any comments now? Nope. Anybody online? If you wish to make a public comment via zoom, please raise your hand. You may find the raise your hand button at the bottom of the screen. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand and star six once unmuted once called or to unmute once called upon zoning administrator. There are no hands raised. Thank you very much. Moving on to item three, zoning administrator business and the statement of purpose. The zoning administrator is appointed by the director of planning and economic development and has the responsibility and authority to conduct public meetings and hearings and to act on applications for minor or reduced review authority projects or entitlements. Land use permits. Determination or decision by the zoning administrator may be appealed to the appropriate appeal body, including the design review board, cultural heritage board planning commission or city council, depending on the entitlement. All actions taken today are appealable within 10 calendar days because the 10th calendar day falls on a Sunday. It's extended to Monday, August 14, 2023. So if there's a decision made that you don't agree with, contact Suzanne for our planning counter and get your appeal application. Let's see. I zoning administrator reports. I am going to give a plug. We're doing our general plan update. And oftentimes we hear people that say these projects have already been approved when they're going through. Well, the uses have been approved. It's part of the general plan update. If you are concerned at all about what's going on in your neighborhood, please, please get involved now. You can contact you go to the city. Let's see. I think it's SR city. What is it? Santa Rosa backslash forward is where you'll find the general plan update. How's that working on memory issues here? So it's Santa Rosa slash forward and you can contact anybody in the planning department. We will shoot you a link upon request. So that's the zoning administrator reports today. That process will be going and going on all during the month of August. There are four workshop scheduled. I know two dates. Do you know all four dates? I know the 15th, 30th, and I think 31st, 31st. There's something earlier in the month, too. So again, reach out to planning staff. We will be more than happy to get you that link. Okay, so now moving on to item four consent items. We have none. This is going to be a very quick agenda today. Then we're moving on to item five, our scheduled items. Item 5.1 is a public meeting. This meeting has been continued from the July 20th agenda. This is for Sonoma Strength Academy. It's a minor conditional use permit and the site address is 1215 Briggs Avenue. City file number is CUP 23-018. Suzanne Hartman is the planner and I'm going to hand it over to her for a presentation. Thank you, Zoning Administrator Murray. My name is Suzanne Hartman. I'm a city planner here with the City of Santa Rosa and I am presenting today's project for Sonoma Strength Academy, located at 1215 Briggs Avenue. This is a minor conditional use permit approval for a health slash fitness facility, also known as Sonoma Strength Academy, and for extended business hours of operation, which would be Monday through Thursday, 5.30am to 7pm, located again at 1215 Briggs Avenue. This is an aerial view of the project site. As you can see here, it is slightly adjacent to Highway 101. The general plan land use designation is light industry and the zoning district is light industrial north station area. The light industrial zoning district is applied to areas appropriate for some light industrial uses, as well as commercial service uses and activities that may be incompatible with residential, retail, and or office uses. Residential uses may also be accommodated as part of work with projects. The north station area combining district is intended to enhance and reinforce distinctive characteristics within the north Santa Rosa station area, specific plan area and create environments that are comfortable to walk in. And as you can see from this visual that the surrounding uses also include light industrial as well as business park and medium density residential and retail and business services. These are elevations of the project site. This is the project site plan. These are the required findings that must be determined by staff as well as the zoning administrator for approval of a minor conditional use permit. The proposed use is allowed within the light industrial zoning district and complies with all other applicable provisions of the zoning code. And that the health and the health fitness facility is permitted within the light industry zone light industrial zoning district by by obtaining a minor conditional use permit. It is also intended for services with large space needs and it provides new employment opportunities in the area. And the project site is located within an area predominantly used for industrial and commercial uses. These are the required findings continued. This project is physically suited for the type density and intensity of the proposed location and that the, and that the, sorry. Lost my place here and that the project complies with zoning code section. Oh my gosh, sorry, losing my place here. I will just say that this site is located and provides adequate onsite parking from its employees and customers and the proposed use shall be held within the existing building and no exterior modifications are proposed at this time. The project has been found in compliance with the California environmental quality act and qualifies for class one exemption under sequel guidelines section 15301 and that the use is entirely developed. And the proposed use would involve a negligible expansion of the previous industrial use. There have been no arm resolved issues as a result of staff review, as well as no comments have been provided to staff. As of noticing that was sent out 10 days prior to this meeting. There is going to be a change in the final resolution. It was for the date of approval being changed from July. I believe I think it was July 20th to August 3rd. Thank you. So therefore it is recommended by the planning and economic development department that the zoning administrator by resolution approve a minor conditional use permit to allow a health fitness facility with extended business hours of operation located at 1215 Bricks Avenue. This is my contact information. If you have any questions, we also have the applicants in the room with us today. If you have any questions for them specifically know other presentation is plant. Thank you. Thank you. And do you guys want to add anything to Suzanne's presentation. I think she nailed it. Good to hear. I think she did too. And I'd like to open the public comment period. Any public comments. I know we've got the applicant team in the room. If you wish to make a comment via zoom please raise your hand. You may find the raise your hand button at the bottom of the screen. If you're dialing in via telephone please dial nine star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute once called upon zoning administrator we have no hands raised. Great. Thank you. So I do have some questions. Oh, and I'm going to close public comment. Once again, I needed that reminder. Thank you. Anyways, I do have some questions. I have a couple of questions about one that just came up now and that is, and I don't think you're making any building changes but what about lighting for anybody that is there, you know, after dark is their lighting adequate lighting for people to get from their car to the building. There's currently light packs on the building. Okay. Some light lighting in the rear. Okay, we want to make sure that yeah anybody that's that's coming from their car to the front door there is doing it safely so that that lighting. It needs to be, it needs, it needs to be well lit. So I'm going to add a condition that just says that the lighting for, you know, for people traveling from the parking lot to the front door be maintained and in good condition and compliance with our, our lighting ordinance so in the zoning code. The other one that I have is about your hours of operation and I understand the no problem with the extended hours of operation here. What I'm concerned about is you limiting your hours to from 530 to 7pm by right, you can stay open until 11 and I understand you don't see that on the horizon right now. At this time, you might want to stay open. I mean, I'm hoping it's a booming successful business. And maybe you'll have other trainers that want to take on a later shift so I would propose that we not limit the hours to 7pm. Maybe do it from 530 to 11, which is the 11 that 530 anything before 6am requires that extra extended hours but so I'm going to change that condition number two to 11pm. So we have three changes that will be modified or memorialized after the meeting and that's the condition to comply with lighting requirements to provide a safe path of travel for, for, yeah, for anybody not just not just people who are coming to work out but and then extending the hours from 530 to 11 and then as, as Suzanne mentioned, changing the approval date on the resolution to August 3rd. I'm sorry. That's somebody who can bust through my silence. My mother's caregiver. So anyway, so there you go. And with that, if you accept. And the same vein of extending the hours to be allowable to extend the days as well in case you wanted to flex into more days. Right now it's noted it's Monday to Thursday. Absolutely. Absolutely. I didn't notice that. Yeah, so I, if we can just change hours of operation shall be 530am to 11pm. Perfect. That works. I'm going to add to that. Yeah, it's fully contained inside right like you're not going to do a boot camp out in the car parking lot during during at 530am. Yeah, so I'm going to say interior activities. Can we limit them are the exterior activities limit them to reasonable like so we're not waking anybody up. Is that okay. Yeah. Okay, so we'll go ahead and we'll say exterior activities. Can we show be allowed between 8 and 8. How does 8am to 8pm. Great. Yeah, so that was exterior not interior interior good at 530. And with that, and you've reviewed all the conditions of approval, and you agree with them. So you know, if you do anything outside any, any cosmetic improvements planting or whatever you may trigger, you may trigger additional review through our design review process so. Okay then with that, you accept the conditions congratulations I'm going to approve your resolution as soon as I see the revisions come through and Suzanne or Mark will be sending a signed copy. I don't know somebody you'll get to one Suzanne will send you a signed copy. So thank you very much for for coming and you're welcome to stay for the next item but you're also welcome to leave if you want. I won't be offended. Thank you so much for all your help. Thank you. You take care. Thanks for asking that question by the way on the days. Yeah, good luck. I'm looking forward to seeing a success story. Bye bye. I don't know about that. Certainly not at 530. Anyways moving on to item number two, another public meeting. This is for a new three foot tall wood fence, which triggered a minor landmark alteration. The property located at 229 West 16th Street, city file number LMA 23-004. And I believe we're looking for a continuance. Yes, zoning administrator Murray planning staff is requesting that the item be moved to a date certain which would be August 17 2023. I'm also be re noticing it for anybody who's interested. So, so I am going to say, okay, I agree to that continuance. Is there any but there's nobody else in the room now is there anybody that's attending publicly in case we're here for that item. I'm just opening public comments just in case if you wish to make a public comment via zoom please raise your hand if you may find the raise your hand button at the bottom of the screen. If you're dialing in via telephone please dial star nine to raise your hand and star six to unmute once called upon. And we have no attendees. Thank you very much and I'm going to close the public comment period, and we'll go ahead and continue that item to August 17 and again for the one item we did take action on today. The appeal period will expire on August 14. And with that, I'm going to adjourn the meeting. Thank you.