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Thank you.

I'd like to welcome everybody to the Monday, July 12th, 2021 regular meeting of the planning board.

As it is, we rotate through the flag salute.

This time it's my turn.

So if everyone would please carry forward with me on the flag sloop.

I pledge elegance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for who which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

May I have a roll call, please?

Yes, good evening.

Board Member Cisneros.

Here.

Curtis.

Here.

Here.

Rothenberg.

Here.

Teague.

Present.

And let the record uh document that board members Saheba and Ruiz have excused absences.

And we have a quorum.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Do we have agenda changes?

Yes.

I'd like to make a note that item 7B, we would like staff would like to uh request that that be converted to a study session.

There was an issue with the public noticing where the wrong address was published.

So since there are likely um folks in the audience who would like to speak on the item, um staff would recommend the board uh take the public testimony um and give staff direction and what we will do is re-notice and come back with this item for formal action at the next meeting.

Okay, thank you very much.

Next section is oral communications.

Anyone may address the board on a topic not on the agenda by clicking the raise hand button.

Limited to three minutes.

If you would like to speak on an item not on the agenda, please click the raise hand button and you will get to speak.

Last call.

Seeing no raised hands, I am going to close uh oral communications.

We have no items on the consent calendar, so we'll be moving on to the first regular agenda item 7A, 1215 Park Street, use permit for use of an outdoor rear patio and yard.

I believe staff has a short presentation.

Yes, um, President Teague.

Uh my name is Andrew Thomas.

I'm the planning director for City of Alameda.

I'll just be introducing this item.

Um the item, as you said, tonight is a request for conditional use permit.

This is a request for a permit to use the rear patio and yard behind the clubhouse bar for the use by their customers.

So it would be part of the commercial operation in uh Alameda.

The use of outdoor spaces for commercial use associated with a permitted use is requires a conditional use permit.

Um the the planning board's options tonight with a conditional use permit could go anywhere from denying the use permit, essentially saying, and what that would mean is the bar can operate indoors, as it has for almost, I believe a hundred years in that location, but it cannot use the rear yard to serve for customers or the rear patio.

To the other extreme would be yes, you can have a use permit um for that rear patio and that rear yard with no conditions at all.

You whenever the bar is open, it can be open.

What city staff is recommending is that the planning board approve a use permit with that allows for the use of the rear patio and the rear yard with conditions.

And the conditions that we have proposed are in the staff report and in the resolution of recommending approval.

And what they are essentially designed to do is to mitigate the potential noise impacts of that use, the use of the rear patio and the rear yard, um, to mitigate to mitigate and reduce the potential noise impacts of that use to the surrounding neighbors.

So the the back patio and the rear yard are surrounded by residential use on the back side.

There's also residents who live above the bar um on the second floor of the building on Park Street.

So the idea of our uh recommended use permit is to sort of strike a compromise for the ability for the bar to use that patio and yard on for limited periods on limited days and limited hours and but to do it under certain conditions.

Um so that hopefully we minimize the impacts to the adjacent residential residents.

Um I think with that I will conclude our my presentation.

Of course, we're staff is available to answer any questions.

Um the planning board is uh options are everything as I said from you can deny the use permit, you can approve the use permit as recommended by staff.

Um the planning board can also modify conditions tonight if you feel that there's a better way to strike that balance between the residential surrounding residential uses and the the commercial use um of the bar on Park Street.

With that, I will end my presentation and turn it back over to the board.