The Davis Planning Commission met on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, at 7:00 PM in Community Chambers. The meeting began with a welcome to new alternate commissioner Rachael Fulp-Cook, unanimous approval of the agenda, staff announcements on various development projects, and a brief public comment period. The consent calendar was approved en masse. The main agenda item was a presentation and discussion on the 2025 General Plan Update (GPU), focused on land use and community design issues.
Davis Planning Commission of Wednesday, September 10th. Before we do anything on the agenda, I'd like to welcome our newest commissioner and put her on the spot for a minute just to introduce herself to all of you. Say a few words. Hi, everyone. Happy to be here. My name is Rachel Fulp Cook. I've been a Davis resident for 14 years now. Served on the Social Services Commission for four and a half years as chair for two. And my background is in public health. I actually I work for UCD and I do research in the School of Nursing around family caregiving. So that is the lens that I will apply here. It's not just you know health as the absence of disease, but a holistic version of health and well-being in Davis. So very happy to be here. Thanks so much. Welcome. We're excited to have you. And you will be voting. We're not too many things to well. There's a few things to vote on this evening. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, but it's it's an easier transition than when there's like this massive important vote, and you're like, oh, but we've all been there. I'm looking at Linda, I'm looking at Donna, we've all been there. Yeah. Okay. So with that, um, want to make a motion but approve the agenda. People want to change the agenda. Motion to approve. Okay. Unanimous consent here. Okay, thank you. All right. And with that, let's move on to any brief announcements. Staff. Thank you, Madam Chair. Derrett Dunworth, Principal Planner. Um, I just have some project updates that I can go over as briefly as possible now, or we can save it till the long-range calendar at your preference. Now's fine. Go ahead. Uh Village Farms. The update there is that development agreement negotiations are proceeding, and we will get more in to scheduling and talk about the other commissions that they have yet to go before with the long range calendar, so splitting our splitting it up there a little bit. Similarly, with Willow Grove, um, commission meetings are scheduled for the next several months, so be watching for those. Um, the draft EIR environmental impact report is expected to be out for the 45-day public review period uh later this month, so please be watching for that. Uh if you drive along Covell, you may have noticed that Palomino Place has commenced construction. Um, and I can have more detailed information at our next meeting, but um they've broken ground officially. Um had asked about Bretton Woods and the Riesling Shasta and Covell intersection improvements that had been a topic of conversation when we were looking at the URC project design review. And um just wanted to let you all know that through the last development agreement amendment when de novo de Nova took took over the project, um, those improvements were deferred until the 175th building permit. And um that being the case, staff is still working with the developer to hopefully have that work started sooner, but that is the obligation at this point in time. Uh Child's Ranch, also known now as Harvest Glen. Um, the developer century of the home builder century has been working with the neighbors to minimize their construction off-site impacts as much as possible.