The Planning Commission held a public hearing and unanimously approved The Lumberyard Project, a five-story mixed-use development at 500-512 G Street with 227 residential units and ground-floor commercial uses. The commission also heard public comments on a proposed merger of the Historic Resources Management Commission with the Planning Commission and approved consent calendar items.
Back of the room says our collective watches up here all say it's seven o'clock, so I think it's time to call the meeting to order. I will uh first welcome everybody and say happy Valentine's Day. For purposes of the record, it does appear that we have everybody here tonight. I would also like to welcome our council liaison, Councilmember Nebel. Thank you for being here. If I may have a motion to approve the agenda. So moved. Any dissenters from that? Let the record show it was approved unanimously. So do we have any brief announcements from our council liaison or commissioners or staff? I will turn first to Councilmember Neville. Do you have any announcements? I do not, but thank you for asking. Okay. Any other commissioners have announcements? How about staff? Thank you, Mr. Chair. We do have a few this evening. First of all, I wanted to give you a quick update on the pre-designed ADU plans. That program is having a soft launch on Friday. So it's it's here, just about here. We've got some folks who are willing to be the first few through the process. So we're gonna let them be our guinea pigs and ask them for some critiques back and try and get them through the process before we go out very publicly and announce it. So there's that. Other than that, I've got project updates and things like that, so I can hold those until the end of the meeting with the long range calendar if you prefer. The thing I discussed with you earlier about the long range calendar, that you can forget that. We're gonna go to the regular order. I'll go ahead then. So you've all probably heard one way or the other that we got the letter from HCD certifying the housing elements. So that was good news that came in late Thursday last week, so the news is is I think pretty well spread by now. Um the Palomino settlement was announced, so we're making progress there. Um we are looking at opening up the um notice of preparation and the comment period very soon. Eric's working on getting the scoping meeting scheduled, probably the third week in March, once we have the room and people's availability lined up, so we're working on that. Uh shriners, we've had some project comment meetings. Yeah. Not according to the settlement. No, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, so it's um a builders remedy project that was uh submitted under state laws that would um preclude the city from requiring a general plan amendment and zone change. Measure JRD is triggered when there's a general plan amendment that changes the land use designation of a property. And so therefore, since there's no general plan amendment as part of the project, there will not be no uh measure JRD vote. One less controversial thing for us to deal with. It simplifies the project, which is the idea, right? So with respect to shriners, we're uh working on some project comments, follow-up with them. Um, and their NOP will be coming along shortly as well. Uh Village Farms is uh working through uh project comments, and uh we have kind of the we're down to the last deadline for getting technical reports in, and Rainey has started drafting the EIR, so that's moving forward. Um, and then just quickly a couple of updates on the downtown projects, the ones that you won't get to see. Um 400G Street has elected to allow their SB 330 application to expire, so we aren't processing that project any longer. Uh 240G Street, Eric is working on and getting really close to having conditions drafted and have that one be the first one that goes through the staff approval process. Uh and then tapestry is working on redesigning their site to comply with the downtown code, and then we've got a couple other smaller projects that we're working on as well.