 Okay, I'm going to go ahead and call to order tonight's meeting of the City of Santa Rosa Planning Commission and ask for roll call please Let the record reflect that all commissioners are present except Commissioner Peterson Okay And with that we'll move on to the approval of our August 8th draft minutes any Changes Corrections on that then those will stand as printed Next we'll move on to our public comments time Which is a time for any member of the public to address the Commission on matters of interest to the Commission that are not on tonight's Public hearing agenda So I am going to go ahead and open public comments You can go up to a microphone up there if you'd like and if you would state your name for the record and you have three minutes Hello my name is Linda Sheehan and I've been trying to figure out the meetings and when things are happening by using the city site and This meeting is not on your agenda list So I don't know how the community finds out about things but walking across the street saying one sign up It's not exactly my idea of a great way to find out about things It should be listed on your community site when you're having a meeting that affect the community Thank you We'll look into that any other individuals wishing to Make comments under public comments Not seeing anybody rise to do that. So go ahead and close public comments and move on to planning commissioners report Yes, Christian Carter I'm not sure if this rises to the level of the report, but I'd like my colleagues in the staff to know I've obtained a copy of the 1967 General plan the 75 update if you're interested in it for archival purposes Okay, any any other reports by commissioners, okay department reports Good afternoon Just want to give an update on the item that the Commission worked on for quite a while at the last meeting which is the the city's Attempt at looking at our inclusionary housing ordinance and also the opportunity for commercial linkage fee And so just that's continuing on in its public process and we're still collecting public comments a couple more our public meeting Opportunities one is a study session that's scheduled for Before the housing authority and that's on Monday August 26 that study session starts at 1 30 In addition August 27th Tuesday at the city council will be holding our study session with them and that study sessions at 2 p.m See other than that upcoming meetings We will have several items at our upcoming planning Commission meeting. We're still finalizing those but looks like to be a full agenda and There's a the Fox den dispensary that is on Montgomery. It's still under review, but Soon as it's scheduled for City Council, I'll let you know when that is but it had already been acted on by the planning Commission Appealed to the city council heard by the city council and then continued to a data uncertain to work on some items and the applicant Still working on items So just wanted you know that's still in the process of being worked on and ultimately would get scheduled back before the city council And that's it Miss Hartman, could could you speak to? Miss fans concern about This meeting not being listed on the side or not findable on the side. Do you know anything about that? I think miss Murray is going to go over the notification of what we did do in terms of our website for public meetings We can look into if there was any defect. I was unaware of a defect And so that's the first of her that this meeting would not be on there It may be that our website can be challenging for some to get to the meeting agendas We've had some updates and so I'm happy to work with her on so that she has more success navigating that But I'm not aware of any deficiencies in the notice Okay, and it's a typically the agenda would be posted in on the on the website as well as Notifications being sent out and all okay great. Thanks Okay statements of abstention by commissioners Nobody's abstaining that's good We have no study session tonight nor consent items So with that we're going to go ahead and move on to item 10.1, which is a public hearing for the R&B dispensary in South Park rezoning It is an ex parte disclosure Krishna Carter anything to disclose? I did meet at the site with the applicant as well as visited one of the applicants Krishna Kalyan I've died and met with the applicant can't remember when a few months ago and have nothing further to disclose Krishna Karpke I met with the applicant visited the site and I'm nothing further to disclose And I also visited the site and have no new information to disclose So with that we'll go ahead and move on to our staff presentation Susie Miriam Murray sees senior planner will be giving that presentation You chair Cisco and members of the commission we get this closer to me Sorry, so the project before you today is the R&B dispensary and the proposed South Park rezoning Project involves the dispensary involves a conditional use permit and a rezoning rezoning the site from the plan development Zoning district to the general commercial zoning district Staff sees the opportunity to grab another 33 parcels and and we're hoping for the commission's support to rezone all 34 parcels from the South Park plan development community into the CG zoning district, which is consistent with the general plan and I'll talk a lot more about that Starting with the conditional use permit the subject site 900 Santa Rosa Avenue is bordered by Rutledge Avenue Bennett Valley Road and Santa Rosa Avenue Here's a site plan of the existing well, I should say the site that's under construction right now and Here is a rendering of that building. I went by today. I should have taken a picture for you, but I didn't It looks a lot like this With no parking lot right now Mm-hmm The here's an aerial of the site obviously before the construction began the sub the dispenser Dispensary will be located in the on the parcel that's bordered in gold and across the street and the the parcel that's bordered in red the applicant has Secured Intent for lease for eight spaces of off-site parking I'll discuss that a little bit more as as we move forward, but this is an aerial to show where the Identify the location of that conditional use permits for the cannabis dispensaries Require six findings through staffs review We've found that all all findings can be met and they are detailed on the the draft resolution The proposed use is allowed within the CG zoning district. So this it is not located or allowed in the policy statement for the South Park plan development, which was the trigger for the rezoning for that site so The with that Assuming approval of the rezoning it will be consistent with the general plan the design location Operating characteristics of the activity or the proposed use is also compatible with existing and future land uses it's surrounded by similar commercial uses and the senior community the senior center to the east which is Currently undergoing some other considerations The site I'm not gonna go through all these individually unless you want me to but We found that all the findings can be met. It was not considered a nuisance It's physically suitable for the site and it is in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act and that I will discuss later The arrow on the screen is pointing to 900 Santa Rosa Avenue Which is the property that's furthest north in the area that's proposed for rezoning the rezoning boundary goes all the way down and just for Kind of to familiarize everybody if you know where Lola's Grocery store is it's everything north of that. It does not include the Lola's grocery store site As you can see here the general plan land use all that red Is identifies retail and business services again R&B dispensary site 900 Santa Rosa Avenue as at the top And as you can see all the way down Petaluma Hill Road, it's that it's consistent with the red the current the current area as I said is within the South Park Plan development area one of the closet or the requirements in the South Park policy statement is that all new uses that are Allowed within that policy statement area require a conditional use permit. That's on residential properties That's on a commercial property. So some of the benefits of rezoning this site or these sites these properties to the proposed general plan or Commercial zoning district is that uses that would be permitted by right will no longer require a Conditional use permit some of those uses include and it's there's a long list of them But some of them health clubs general retail Stores up to 50,000 square feet Restaurants those are those are permitted by right. There's there's a lot of other uses Which if we left it in the South Park would require some level of conditional use permit conditional use permits Take anywhere from three to four months to This one is I've had the application for a year. So it takes a long time to process these So it certainly Retentating these these buildings as much quicker. It also promotes uses that are consistent with this general general plan land use designation so it gets a lot of those retail public serving uses and it doesn't necessarily promote a lot of the uses that are currently there specifically a lot of the the automotive industry uses, however It grandfather's those uses in so those uses will be allowed to continue to operate Until they they cease to operate for a period of six months or more at that point They lose that that non-conforming status or legal non-conforming status so here is a list and I'd like to call out a special thanks to the folks at Larson Auto Care who helped me make this list of all of the Automotive uses in the area that are proposed for the Resoning all those stars and I think there are 11 of them that Represent and I don't think they're all major uses. So in general commercial you can get some of the minor Automotive repair uses and I think there's one or two up there all the others are major and they Wouldn't otherwise be allowed except they'll be allowed to stay And just for reference since I turned the orientation of the map here The arrow is pointing to 900 San Rosa Avenue and then of course Petaluma Avenue South on Petaluma Avenue is to the right of on the screen So the project in site history Back in July of 2015 an automotive Facility repair facility and design review a use permit and design review were approved at that site And that's the building that you see under construction now And we saw the rendering and there are some very minor modifications mostly mostly to the interior of the building that are being done by the applicant in order to modify it for this use in December or I'm sorry September 2017 we received the rezoning application and would have had this before you accept Shortly while we are in the processing mode. We received the conditional use permit application Which was received in April of 2018 and we had to process them together. So it kind of delayed that a Building permit has been issued and I think they're nearing completion for the structure that's down there and There was a neighborhood meeting that was relatively well attended by a lot of surrounding businesses This is a little bit premature. Sorry. I'm but I'm going to talk about the Environmental Quality Act The the project in its entirety the rezoning as well as the conditional use permit and been found in compliance with CEQA And it involves a change of use. So that's important to acknowledge it was it was Approved and is being constructed as one use that use is at this point So the only approved use and so at this point it is being treated as a change of use And that's important to consider when we get into the parking discussion That's also infill development and it's consistent with the general plan Excuse me We received a lot of public comments Related to the cannabis actually let me rephrase that we did not receive a lot of public comments Related to either it but what we did hear from the cannabis retail facility was Concerned that that it would attract more homeless activity the there was some concern that the site security would be Adequate and of course parking is is a big consideration over there They I think that for the most part the Applicant that many of these comments were made during the the neighborhood meeting the applicant addressed those those Really well talking about you know the security and their their history down in Qatadi with the mercy wellness Facility and I think that in your public correspondence There was a letter from the chief of police of Qatadi really Acknowledging how good the security is at this site that site this site will have very similar security As far as parking The the project because it's a change of use The zoning code has a provision that allows Reuse of a structure if there is not 25% or if there's if the parking is not less than 25% of what would otherwise be required by the zoning code or 10 spaces This project meets the parking requirements The the applicant has also taken it upon themselves to provide additional parking for off-site parking for their employees To allow the 11 spaces on site to be used for For for their customers and minimize the the need for you know public street parking along What's the street to the Rutledge Rutledge Avenue? So Comments related to the rezoning How would affect the the businesses specifically auto repair facilities and again? I just want to really drive that that home is that if they're operating legally now They will be grandfathered in and continue to operate I've met with a few of the auto Business operators and property owners and they they seem quite comfortable to me that they're confident about that at this point The other question that I've I've been asked is what effect it will have on property values And I'm going to give the same response that I gave to everybody else I have no idea that is not my area of expertise nor is it anything that we really consider However, I'd also like to point out that there have been a few real estate agents that have been calling me consistent see since last year when the rezoning began and Really chomping at the bit to get this done and I suspect it has something to do with property values and and the retenant ing benefits During a staff review of the of the Of the dispensary the two issues that did come up were parking and site circulation All of all of the staff issues were addressed The the applicant providing the additional off-site spaces It was their choice and it was a welcome choice because I think it made people a lot more comfortable. So There are no unresolved issues so with that it's recommended by the Planning and Economic Development Department that the Planning Commission approved the R&B Dispensary to be located at 900 Santa Rosa Avenue Including a conditional use permit for the cannabis retail facility and a rezoning for 34 Properties from the PD zoning district into the CG zoning district, which is consistent with the general plan And that concludes my presentation. I believe the applicant would also like to make a presentation Okay, any questions of staff right now Okay, great. So Applicant you're up Let's see Hi For those of you that don't know me. I'm Brandon Levine From Mercy Wellness of Katahdi and I have Ryan O. Kelly here as my business partner and active Managing director is there where to make this thing go up? Sorry. I don't want to bend over All right, maybe like that so Thank you for the presentation that you guys have just given it does cover a lot of what we're going to go over So I don't want to waste too much of your time, but I will go back over it for you Obviously the sites right there on 900 Santa Rosa Avenue We're not changing the appearance of the building at all It's going to remain the same as far as the architecture and the appearance as you come up to the building The only thing that will change obviously is the use so we have A picture of both Ryan and I this is Ryan right here So we've been here before you guys may have Understanding of I've been pretty involved in the cannabis community for quite some time the first legal dispensary in Sonoma County that I opened was in 2010 in Katahdi and then from there we We've gone through every hurdle that I think that you could go through as including a Full-blown IRS audit early on with the tax code 280 triggering that audit so we've learned quite a bit from this process and We're actually thankful that we went through that audit early on and it kind of helped us out understanding what the Local and federal government was looking for as far as operating a cannabis business We've applied for and I think received eight different uses and licenses so far Maybe seven this hopefully will be Arranging from cultivation all the way to retail dispensary everything except for the testing our SOPs are extremely well documented we Break down everything down into some a flowchart first and then each part of that process is broken down into Every use and every job title and duty Including and especially the security processes with our security system It matches that of a casino we have Geofencing facial recognition technology and it's Literally better than the city of Katahdi's police department Surveillance system because that's what the chief told us And that goes along with with all the Metric training and everything that we're required to do moving forward. It's a pretty intense Transition into complete compliance, but I feel we have we have a really good team to be able to make that happen As far as taxes goes we love doing that that's something that is required by Any business operator especially in the cannabis business and I feel like we're kind of the first ones to really move forward on that especially Paying our sales tax in cash because we didn't have a bank account and we're the first ones to be allowed by the state of California to move our tax payment into a cash Cash payment here at the local office, but that's changed. Luckily when now we have a bank account That is a 100% transparent bank account that they know exactly what we're doing We're not trying to hide anything behind any Shell corporation which a lot of the other operators may or may not do But it's taken us quite some time to get to this point where the banks actually have accepted our account Think it took like 18 months for them to vet us into their system We'll skip to the next one. We do a lot of educational Pieces as far as trying to educate anybody from our employees all the way to other operators I spent some time trying to educate cultivators manufacturers pretty much anybody on the supply chain so that they can operate in legal compliant format and We've had some pretty good success with that we Get to the next I think I've skipped a few ahead, but Customers in particular so that they understand where their products coming from you you could pretty much Assume that most consumers don't know exactly where their product comes from so it's up to us to relay that information and It has to be very clear and it has to be something that's a definite Clarity and that there was There's a lot of misunderstanding and people are selling a lot of black market products on the street So it's up to us to educate them on that and what their risk is by consuming black market products Just the other day I got to take these pictures at the JC with their Non-thc plants that they're growing they've asked me to sit on the board for the apprenticeship program through the JC and I've sat on many advisory boards as you can see some of these ones here. They've really helped with Shaping up with the way that the industry is now especially locally here because Sonoma County kind of is a first mover especially Santa Rosa being one of the first ones to implement their Legalization and moving moving forward and I'm excited that We get to keep on moving forward with it and be the first movers as well as I've Recently been able to sit down with the head of highway patrol and helping them understand how the Manifest works and how What we're doing as far as compliance and moving into the legal or complying with the legal framework that The state has created as regulation and they don't really have an idea of what they're looking at sometimes when they get a Do they call them a manifest and so it's up to us to kind of share with them What we're being guided by the state and what they're looking at because they're getting a lot of false information So we've sat down and worked with them hand-in-hand as well as we're working with them to try and create marketing material to educate the customer as well on The safety of them consuming cannabis and driving a lot of people don't really think about it's they think it's legal to smoke cannabis But it's not legal for you to have a cartridge in your driver's seat or in your center console And they think oh, it's no big deal Well, it is because it's an open container and people consume and it's not really Safe and I've come to conclusion highway patrols. They're just to make sure people are safe And that's we're trying to help them with that We have a another educational program that we go and meet up with senior centers where We I think I don't know how many people we bring along But people from within the industry and outside the industry and we go and do seminars To educate seniors on the benefits of cannabis and the difference between some of the medicines that they have and what we can do for them It's not directly geared towards mercy. Wellness. It's just cannabis in general and trying to help them out This was the compliance conference that we put on especially after we had been audited by the IRS We are able to share quite a bit of information As far as legally moving forward with the rest of the industry and trying to Get other operators to at least go in that direction Part of it was a personal goal We had a really great team working on that think we had like five or six hundred attendees As you can see Jim Wood was one of our keynote speakers. I think we had like 40 speakers there Was really fun and stressful at the same time I Guess I'm on the front of dispensary magazine. It's a really good article. It's all about me I Mean I think it's good And we've done multiple interviews with the different news stations and All that but the next one here. This was the fun one The Sonoma County Museum asked us to help with their cannabis exhibit We are not the only ones in there. They were they reach out to many other operators and people from within the industry from 20 30 40 50 years ago, and they've created one of the coolest displays of history. I think that I've seen We got to they let us build a few different of the exhibits and You can see some plants in there. We're not actually growing them in there is We got to do a radio show Recently, I think we've done. I don't know six seven or eight I Don't know how many episodes we've done, but it's been really great It's that kind of an educational thing where we bring other people from within the industry on share a little bit about their experience and How things might help the other cannabis users as well as the legality of it And with that I would like to pass it off to Ryan O'Kelly. It was also my business partner and Managing director Thank you as Brandon said my name is Ryan O'Kelly Is this how you advance it? So we had a great opportunity for our team to meet many of our surrounding neighbors by delivering donuts and mom's apple pies as well as a Small booklet to introduce ourselves These meetings actually resulted in our parking incentive plan that Susie spoke about We mailed the booklet and the letter to each occupant detailed on the map right there Included in that letter was our personal contact information And we actually have extras with us today if anyone in the audience Would like to see that or members of staff We received 275 letters of support that were forwarded on to the commission in addition to any more that may have been sent directly Some notable authors of those letters include members of our local community such as go local the four to two one group The city of Katahdi staff and landlords that we have maintained a good working relationship with We've always enjoyed a tradition of giving back to the community And some of these recipients include dogma animal rescue the redwood empire food bank Be a Santa to a senior police and fire fundraisers Daily acts and victims of the lake county and tubs fires Back when we were allowed to still gift medicine to people prior to 2018 We believe approving this project will provide a lot of benefits to Santa Rosa that will accomplish the goals of the general plan That mr. Carter has down there The this project is transforming what was an empty lot with trash and abandoned vehicles into a thriving commercial business Generating revenue for the city the neighborhood is being revitalized with our project as well as some other new projects going in Particularly down by the old Rosenberg's building The increased security presence in the neighborhood will be a benefit to the safety of all residents business owners and Patrons of the surrounding businesses We think our site might quite possibly be the most accessible site in Santa Rosa That's going in due to the closeness to the downtown corridor and service from six different bus lines We pay all starting positions above minimum wage and in our Including benefits at the fourth quarter of this year, which will be enacted before this dispensary goes live In closing this project is a diverse use with proven operators in a well-suited location And we would ask you for your approval to move forward Thank you Thank you commissioners any questions of the applicant right now yeah vice chair weeks Can you tell me how many employees you'd be looking at and whether they'd be part-timer full-time We're looking at a little over 20 full-time employees We typically plan to have about eight on site at all times question commissioner car Can you speak to the approximate lag time between obtaining your local permits and state permits if there's a standard answer to that Yeah, I wish there was a standard answer. We will have our Ti work for the interior of the building submitted within two to four weeks of this so pending Any comments back that may come back from the city the construction is pretty fast Maybe a ten-week construction job Or we can fast-track our building permits so we can hurry up and get building and then we can open up But a good guess would be about six months from now to have the doors open Is your state license pending? No, it can't be applied for prior to this license being issued from the city the in the rest of the projects that we have really the big hang-up is Building department and we understand that that is a process that has to go the way that it does but it does take some time I've been and I've been a contractor since I was 22 years old Cannabis projects seem to take twice as long. They're a little bit more Caution taken with some of these projects, especially with some of the inspectors But that was to be expected But it does take us about twice as long to move one of these projects through the building department I have one. I don't know if you have a visual for this, but could you Explain how the across the street parking is going to work and the pathway to your employees safely crossing over to your facility Yes, there is a crosswalk from Santa Rosa Avenue going across that street At an already lighted intersection for them to safely get across into the building And the parking lot is Significantly, well, it's a little bit below where your project is About how many feet up to that project? I'm just I think it's about a under 200 foot walk. Okay. Okay. Great. Thanks Okay, any other questions? The applicant oh, yeah Okay, so that's the you're crossing Earl and then you're crossing up over there Okay, and no cross no crosswalk is required across Earl That makes sense. Yeah. Okay. Great Anything else of the applicant before we go into the public hearing? Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you Okay, this is a public hearing Tonight I'm gonna open the public hearing I don't have any cards on this but you don't have to have filled out a card And if you would like to speak just go up to the microphone and again give your name And you have three minutes I'm deaf and I'm having a little hard time with this so bear with me. I'm not the best speaker in the world And I wasn't given much time to really figure out this whole Plan of the rezoning of an area that's right in my neighborhood. I Went back over it took me a while to find those plans that He hides the beginning one of what it means to be South Park and One of the things that I meant one of the things I noticed that it said in the older documents in 1992 1993 19 2007 and 2008 he said that it would not affect the basic core of what was going on When they wrote the plan The interesting part is the very first almost first line of the plan of what? The park Santa Rosa South Park is it says to retain and develop the division South Park school as a community center, which we're already losing To develop a full complimentary of activity and passive Recreational perpetuity for the needs of the young children and senior citizens, and I don't see much there Is there to encourage convenient shopping and neighborhood services establishment in the commercial areas for the convenience of residents of the neighborhood Well, I don't see That this part place is for the neighborhood When you look at the plans look at the definition of commercial a General commercial zoning is this category provides sites for intent commercial use which serves a mix of business Activities and the residential and business community as a whole rather than the local residents Bring the effect everybody in the neighborhood And you give them no input really take away their voice that has the Japanese Food place and the little taco place and the whatever It's the sale right now, and you're telling me you don't know what will happen to the property values Well, I'll tell you a competitor will come up and say I can pay twice or three times with these little folks They're paying to get this big piece of property got plenty of parking And I will kick these guys all out and put in one of your big buildings Moving the community at all And I don't think the community realizes what you're planning because I had a hard time figuring it out Great. Thank you miss fan. Thank you very much for your your comments Anyone else wishing to speak right now? Yes, go ahead and please state your name Yes, my name is Karen Mantelli And I would ask you to support and not only the re-zoning of this lot But the other parcels that front Santa Rosa Avenue This is going to be a benefit to allowing future Commercial uses that will be in concert with what is there currently the PDs that are set in place back in the 70s probably don't Speak to what should be allowed today So I I feel that the re-zoning of the use this property and other properties along that Santa Rosa Avenue will bring a big benefit to to the commercial properties in the area and then lastly I Asked for your support in this conditional use permit This project will bring revenue to the area to the city and yet is allowed after the council and Commission and all the staff went through a lot of work and public appearances and public hearings to allow this type of use so the applicant has Maintained and done everything according to the code the application and all of the submittals do meet those codes and they do Help to implement the general plan policies that are in place for the city So I ask for your support and agreeing to approve this use permit. Thank you. Thank you Anyone else from the public wishing to speak? Not seeing anyone else rise so I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing and Gonna ask miss Murray could you go through the notification process both for this project and for the re-zoning how that was Accomplished in the businesses and residences that were included in that When the project Applications originally came in a notice of application Neighborhood meeting those all of those notices were sent to property owners Within 400 feet of the property site, which is what the requirement was at that point Early this year those noticing requirements were changed and it required us to send notices to property owners and occupants within 600 feet Because of the size of the project in the re-zoning area rather than placing one sign on At 900 Santa Rosa Avenue. We place three signs 32 square foot signs One at 900 Santa Rosa Avenue one down just north of Lola's market and one in in between And we sent notices to property owners Within 600 feet and we posted or we did a we had an alternative when you go over a thousand mailing flyers We can it's we have the option to run the article in the newspaper and an eighth page ad which is what we did But we we kind of doubled up there because the concern was is that there would be owners that wouldn't be in the area receiving the local paper or or seeing the signs along Petaluma Hill Road, so we did notice the owners and Many of the occupants I spoke to many of the business operators, I don't know if it's the same Mexican food restaurant, but I I think that's where one of the signs was posted and they were aware of it and I also spoke to the management company, but There's there's been quite a bit of discussion along the street The the woman who spoke I don't know her name, but I believe she's on the the west side of the street So that is not within the South Park Zoning district, but certainly is affected by it. I mean I did it also include just to address the concerns of how different uses might be affected there One of the attachments to the staff report was a table of what's allowed now and what level of conditional use permit is required Because it's always required and then there are certain uses such as the cannabis dispensary Which was back in the I don't know one of the policy statement was written 80s or 90s or earlier And back in 1973 we didn't have Land use for cannabis dispensary So we had to That's again what triggered the rezoning and that's why we're we're kind of updating it to today's general plan Vision so okay, and then if you wouldn't mind just going over briefly again what the benefit is of Taking these properties out of a plan development document and the benefit of the rezoning to the CG So the plan development Has a policy statement which is kind of like a mini zoning code And it says what uses are allowed and if they're allowed What what type of if they need a conditional use permit and again with South Park every new use requires a use permit So with a use permit one of the findings that has to be made is general plan consistency so for example if a new automotive repair shop wanted to fill or to occupy one of the vacant buildings down on the east side of Petaluma Hill Road while the policy statement says that it requires a use permit You couldn't make the required findings for that use permit So what the the benefits are are one it's real clear what's allowed there and what's not And that is for city staff as well as property owners prospective tenants and so on It it streamlines the process it doesn't require a Conditional use permit which can take quite a bit of time to process for any use that's permitted right by right and any others Jen general commercial zoning district in the city it expedites retenant ing and it Focuses future uses on what the goals of our general plan are and really getting those You know pedestrian oriented types of uses into these areas Okay, great. Thank you Yeah Yeah, just to clarify so the original use for this building was going to be some sort of automotive use and they could have been Into the plan just a planned development district with a use permit and they wouldn't have had to request a rezoning Is that correct that is correct and the reason for that is this because it was a minor vehicle service repair center, so There are minor like a tire shop something like that Some place that does smog I believe are auto detailing those types of businesses can be permitted with a conditional use Permit a minor conditional use permit in the PD zoning district If you wanted to do an auto body shop or a shop that did transmissions major Vehicle repair that would require a major conditional use permit There you wouldn't be able to find the consistency fun make the consistency finding because those types of uses are not allowed And that general plan land use designation Thank you Any other questions of staff commissioner Carter But does the rezoning Capture all of the currently zoned PD parcels or will there be remaining South Park PD? There will be a lot of remaining South Park PD parcels the only ones that we grabbed in this rezoning are the ones that have the same rezoning or the same General plan land use designation and within the South Park PD zoning district So it was it's just those parcels that are contiguous along Petaluma Hill Road, some of them are either they're either one two or three parcels deep and To the east of that there are mostly residential Is that where the remaining PD zone is primarily to the east of primarily primarily yes, I don't know if it's completely Any other questions of staff right now Okay, and then I just have one other question. We have a new copy of the resolution. You want to tell me what that's Sorry about that The there was a typo on there that I was just made aware of it's in the very first Whereas on April 17th. It used to read 2019 it now reads 2018 which is when the application was submitted Okay, great Okay, so bringing it back to the Commission somebody willing to read that resolution For the purposes of discussion. Okay, the rezoning one first. Yes Resolution of the Planning Commission of the City of Santa Rosa Recommending to City Council rezoning of properties located at 900 and 910 Santa Rosa Avenue 920 930 940 950 964 972 1014 1026 1038 1110 12 12 1240 1310 1316 1320 1400 1426 1452 1540 1576 and 1580 Petaluma Hill Road 625 where Avenue assessors parcels number 038-155-016 No Street address assigned 612 Frazier Avenue 611 612 and 628 Milton Street 636 and 1341 Rutledge Avenue and 614 618 and 630 Aston Avenue to the general CG general commercial zoning district file number PRJ 18-055 and waive for the reading Wow second Okay, so that was the rezoning resolution was moved by Commissioner Duggan seconded by Commissioner O'Cruppke Vice-chair weeks you want to start on this Sure. Well, I am going to be supporting the project I think it's a good fit for that spot I also appreciate the community outreach that you did and Also the museum exhibit is very cool And I can support and make all the findings Yeah For both the applicant and the rezoning I'll be in support of both those For the applicant the experience is overwhelming as to what you guys have already accomplished and The public comment that we receive or no the public Communication that we received was overwhelming as well And I think it's the first time I've ever seen according to the staff report people Calling to comment on in favor of rezoning I'm not sure that in a vacuum is something I've seen before but All that aside I can make the required findings and I'll be in support of the project of the rezoning and the project Commissioner Duggan I'm in support of rezoning. I think that it makes sense. We're trying to eliminate most of our PDs and in the city and Particularly for this sliver of this Neighborhood PD district it makes total sense to me. So I'm in support of that and I also support of the project I think I can make all the findings I know mercy of wellness and cata is a very well-run operation and they take things very seriously and they're very professional And I think it's going to be great addition to the neighborhood. So I'm in support of the project Can we should call you I Also be supporting the rezoning and the project I can make all the required findings and your reputation You know speaks for itself and I appreciate everything you do for the community I Too I'm in support of the project. I can make the necessary findings for the rezoning I think the staff's done a reasonable a good job of Making the case for the rezoning and it makes sense to me for consistency with the general plan I'm also in support of the general are the conditional use permit and can make all of the necessary findings for that Okay And I'm also in favor of both the rezoning and the project and it's it's just it can't be said enough How important it is to how the city does sees opportunities to? Resone these properties out of these old old PDs You know our zoning code gets updated it advances in time where the PDs don't and you know We can really see that they can become an obstacle to really good types of development that We want along corridors and particularly as we start to change You know with general plan updates and downtown station area plans and all that So I think this was a great opportunity to to take a major chunk and get that rezoned So I'm definitely in favor of that and I'm definitely in favor of the project to one of the it is a neighborhood serving a Facility that's what we're looking for in citing these throughout the city There's an obvious neighborhood very nearby that's walkable One of the things that you can't tell is that if you go down Earl Street and you cross the pedestrian Overcrossing you're in my neighborhood. So we're walkable to to be able to use this facility So I think it's very well-placed. It's certainly a really Obviously experienced Owner and so I appreciate Appreciate the project and you know, Mr. Levine and Mr. O'Kelly you always do a tight application a really really good job Especially on the outreach. That's just really always great for us to see So with that Any other comments on that? Okay, so without the rezoning application Resolution application Has been moved by Commissioner Duggan seconded by Commissioner O'Crepkey and your votes, please and that passes with six eyes Commissioner Peterson being absent and next is our conditional use permit I'll move a resolution of the Planning Commission of the City of Santa Rosa making findings and determinations and approving a conditional use permit for the R&B dispensary a 3550 square foot cannabis retail facility to be located at 900 Santa Rosa Avenue file number PRJ 055 and wave for the reading second Okay, so that was moved by Commissioner Duggan seconded by Commissioner O'Crepkey any other Your votes, please It's not letting me vote That's you okay Okay, do we need to do it again? Okay And that passes with six eyes Commissioner Peterson being absent and I believe that concludes this item Congratulations and concludes our meeting for this evening. We'll adjourn to our I believe it's September 12th meeting