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Good evening.

I will call to order the Elkrow planning commission regular meeting of Thursday, November 21,

2024 at 6 p.m.

Let me start with the land acknowledgement.

We honor, respect and acknowledge Elkrow's first inhabitants, the plains may walk, who lived as sovereign caretakers of this land and these waterways since time immemorial.

We commemorate and advocate for the descendants, the Wellcome Rancheria tribe, the only federally recognized tribe in Sacramento County, who endured because of the bravery, resiliency and determination of their ancestors, tribal members and leaders.

At this point would you please silence all your electronic devices, cell phones, etc.

Thank you. And will the clerk read our customary greeting?

The Elkrow planning commission welcomes, appreciates and encourages participation in the meetings.

The commission reserves the right to reasonably limit the total time for public comment on any particular noticed agenda item as it may be necessary.

If you wish to address the commission during the meeting, please complete a speaker card. They're located in the back of the room and give it to the clerk prior to consideration of the agenda item.

Thank you.

Before I move to regular agenda, we do have a new member of the staff with us. I would like to ask director Jordan to briefly introduce him and give him a full introduction later.

All right. Well, thank you. Good evening, chair and commission members. Christopher Jordan. I am very excited and proud to welcome Jason Hone, our new assistant director for development services to the team.

He'll be joining us these meetings and accounts meetings and will be overseeing the broader development services group, including planning, engineering and building. And so we'll chat more later, but welcome Jason.

Thank you.

Thank you.

With that, would the clerk please call the roll.

Commissioners Oscar O'Connor.

Present.

Sandra Poole.

Present.

Brenda Singh.

Present.

Vice-chair Juan Fernandez.

Present.

And chair Suman Sinha.

Present.

At this point, I would like to invite Jordan or Jason Hone to lead us in the pledge of allegiance.

To the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God and invisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

At this time, would you please join us in a moment of silence.

Thank you.

With that, we will move to the approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented?

Mr. Chair, I move to approve the agenda as presented.

Do we have a second?

I will second.

All those in favour of approving the agenda as presented, please signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Hearing none, the motion carries.

With that, we are going to move to the public comment opportunity.

Members of the audience may comment on any item not on the agenda that is of interest to the public and within the jurisdiction of the Planning Commission.

The Planning Commission cannot take action on non-agendized items raised under public comment until the matter has been specifically included on an agenda as an action item.

So at this time, I will open the general public comment opportunity.

Given that there are no speakers signed up, I will close the public comment opportunity and we will move to the consent calendar items.

I have a motion to approve the consent calendar items which is the regular meeting minutes of October 17, 2024.

Chair, I move to approve the October 17, 2024 minutes as prepared.

It has been moved. Do I have a second?

I second.

It's been moved and seconded. All those in favour, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any abstentions?

Hearing none, the motion is approved.

With that, we will move to the public hearing items and will the clerk please call the hearing items.

Item 5.1 is risen hope of the Christian and missionary alliance.

Good evening, Chair, commissioners.

Carrie will act strategic planning and innovation program manager.

This item is a conditional use permit for the risen hope of the Christian and missionary alliance.

The project consists of a conditional use permit to allow 3,305 square foot assembly use within an existing 23,347 square foot multi-tenant building.

No modifications to the site or the exterior of the building are proposed.

The project site is located at 10, 471 Grantline Road.

The site includes an existing single story multi-tenant building that is fully improved with an existing 105 space parking lot and associated landscaping.

One currently vacant tenant space in the building is being proposed for lease as an assembly use.

The site is bordered by vacant land to the north, industrial office use to the east and south, and the highway 99 Grantline interchange to the west.

The general plan land use designation is light industrial and the zoning is MP which is industrial office park.

Assembly uses do require a conditional use permit in the MP zone.

The project is consistent with land use with general plan policies.

The conditional use permit is to use an existing 3,305 square foot space as an assembly use.

This would include an approximately 1200 square foot main sanctuary to offices with a meeting space and storage space.

Primary religious services would occur on Sundays between 9am and 11am with approximately 30 attendees and smaller religious study gatherings would occasionally take place on weekday evenings after 5pm.

During normal workday business hours the proposed use would be standard office functions.

So access to the property is provided via existing driveways on the south side of Grantline road to the north and from east Stockton Boulevard to the south.

No changes to the parking area or landscaping have been proposed nor have any exterior alterations to the building been requested as part of the project.

The existing parking lot for the site contains 105 parking spaces.

The existing uses and parking requirements are included here along with the parking requirements for the proposed assembly use.

The total parking required for all uses in the building including the proposed use is 85 spaces.

So with 105 parking spaces there is adequate parking to meet the needs of the tenant including the proposed assembly use.

In terms of environmental the project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to state CEQA guidelines section 15301 for an existing facility.

And finally staff recommends that planning commission adopt a resolution finding the project exempt from CEQA and approving the project subject to the conditions of approval and the resolution.

And with that the applicant is here if there's any questions and I'm available for further questions as well.

Let me start with the questions for staff.

So I had two questions. You mentioned there's no exterior changes proposed to the building no signage anything.

Okay.

And I didn't ask this in my briefing. Thank you for the information in advance by the way.

You outlined the entire building but it's only one space of the building that's been occupied.

Yes. Actually in there the red square shows the one unit that's proposed.

Got it. Okay. Thank you. Okay.

Any other questions?

Thank you. And with that I'll declare the public hearing open and invite the applicant to speak.

Good evening commissioners. My name is Jerry Lau. I'm the pastor of these this very small church.

I've lived in Sacramento my whole life and I moved and lived in Elgar for the last 10 years. It's a beautiful city.

We hope to plan a church here where people could come and you know I have spiritual renewal and be a part of the community.

We hope to be a blessing to the community. If you have any questions please let me know and I'll try my best to answer.

Any questions for Mr. Lau?

Thank you Mr. Lau. I don't believe anybody has a question now if there is anything we'll ask you later.

Thank you. Thank you.

With that I will open the public comment opportunity. I believe there are no written or and that is normally signed up to speak.

So I'm going to close the public comment opportunity and therefore the applicant does not need to respond as there were no comments.

And I will therefore declare the public hearing closed and move to commission deliberations and actions.

All of my questions are answered in the staff briefing. Just want to thank the staff for the thorough report.

I think nothing further. Do I have a motion on this agenda item?

Sure.

Oh you beat me to it.

I move that the planning commission adopt a resolution finding that the finding the project exempt from sequel pursuant to state sequel guideline section 15 301 and approving a conditional use permit for the risen hope of the Christian and Missionary Alliance project

based on the findings and subject to the conditions of approval contained in the draft resolution.

Do we have a second? I will second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye.

Any opposed? Hearing none. It is approved unanimously. Thank you.

So with that with the clerk please call the next action item.

Item by point two is climate action plan and El Grove municipal code amendments.

Good evening again. Carrie Whitlock strategic planning and innovation program manager.

So this item is this this act the actions in this item include an addendum to the previously adopted and certified environmental impact report for the general plan and climate action plan.

So the amendments proposed this evening are for our current cap, which was adopted in 2019. We're still in the process of a comprehensive update to the climate option plan called the climate compass.

And that work will take several more months and should be coming to planning commission in summer 2025.

The current language and measure B E five reads as phase in zero net energy standards for new construction beginning in 2020 for residential projects and 2030 for commercial projects, specific phase in requirements and zero net energy compliance standards will be supported by updates in the

we have previously worked on, on rather than moving towards the on-site inherent with the Z and E standards, the state has adopted solar photours

generation. So while the ZNE standard may no longer be the focus for residential buildings,

the city is still committed to reducing building sector greenhouse gas emissions and remaining

consistent with the greenhouse gas reduction analysis completed as part of the CAP adoption.

So the proposed language change removes the ZNE standard for new residential construction projects

and instead emphasizes the emission reduction needed. This language and the updated targets

will ensure consistency with the GHG reduction analysis previously completed. The specific

target figures were calculated based on the California Energy Commission's energy savings

that were modeled for the 2022 Title 24 standards as part of the EIR conducted for the state code.

So measure TACM-9 relates to EV charging. This measure has been updated with each code cycle as

additional state requirements are instituted. The last amendments to the CAP in December 2022

made changes to ensure consistency with the 2022 California Building Code. The changes proposed here

with the intervening code cycle that went into effect on July 1st, 2024. The amendments include

changes to the multi-unit residential and hotel motel EV parking requirements and new power

allocation alternative for non-residential construction. So in case you haven't memorized

all the different level of compliance for EV chargers, EV capable spaces have the electrical

installed and ready to support EV charging but don't have any receptacle or charger installed with

them. EV ready spaces are EV capable with a receptacle and that could just be a plug or it could

actually be a charger. And then EVSE installed spaces are EV ready with a level two or a DC fast

charger already installed. So the changes for multi-unit residential and hotel motel developments

are shown here. Previously there were different compliance levels required based on the number of

units. This has been streamlined so all units have the same requirements. New construction no

longer needs to actually put in any EV capable spaces. However there is a higher percentage of

spaceage which require a low at least a low power level to charging receptacle which is now 40%

from 25%. And 10% of all spaces must be equipped with a level two EV charger up from zero chargers

for units under 20 and 5% for 20 or more units. For non-residential development an alternative

to the space allocation method is also now provided using power allocation. The general principle is

similar to the space allocation with higher requirements included for larger parking lots

and flexibility in types of chargers installed as long as there's one level two charger provided.

The changes to the municipal code are all related just to the EV charging requirements.

With each state code cycle EV requirements have continued to change with additional changes planned

for the 2025 code. This has made it challenging to continually maintain consistency between the

climate action plan, the municipal code, and the state building code. So to help remedy this the

municipal code proposed amendments would include greater reference to the latest state building

standards code and would consolidate EV definitions in one location just in section 16 rather than

including them in both section 16 and section 23. So just to summarize the changes being proposed

for the cap it's just these two measures being updated BE5 to change from a zero net energy

standard to decrease energy emission requirements and for TACM-9 to update EV charging requirements

to match the state building code. And the municipal code updates are all related to EV charging

and include changes in section 16 building and construction and section 23 zoning.

The proposed amendments to the cap and municipal code are considered a project under CEQA

and the general plan EIR which was certified by city council on February 27, 2019 also included the

2019 climate action plan update and the 2019 zoning code amendments as part of the analysis.

So this included analysis related to building energy emissions reductions identified in BE5

and EV charging infrastructure improvements included in TACM-9. So state CEQA guidelines

provides that previously approved EIRs can be relied upon to approve subsequent changes to a

project unless certain qualifications are exceeded that would require either an addendum to the EIR

or a subsequent EIR negative declaration. An addendum may only be prepared if changes to the

project are occurring but none of the specific conditions requiring a full EIR have occurred.

So staff have reviewed and concluded that an addendum to the EIR is the appropriate document.

Changes that are being proposed to the project are not substantial. The impact of the changes would

be equivalent to or less than the impacts previously analyzed in the original EIR.

The addendum identifies that for each of the project components and for each of the impact areas.

There are no changes of physical circumstances that will cause a new significant impact or

substantially increase the severity of the previously identified significant impacts

and there is no new information of substantial importance. So this is also documented in the

addendum and the staff report. So finally staff recommends that Planning Commission adopt a

resolution recommending to City Council that they adopt the addendum that they adopt a resolution

for the CAP amendments to BE5 and TACM-9 and adopted an ordinance amending the municipal code

16 and Title 23. And with that I am available for any questions.

Thank you. Questions for staff?

I have one. You mentioned in I think it was in the minimum spaces of EV Ready for Future expansion

of EVSC. Low power level 2 is 220 volt. It's not like standard 110 wall power, correct?

For a low power level 2 charger? Yep.

Sorry, what was your question? It's 220. It's not the standard 1. Yes. Level 1 chargers are

just the 110 but was just double checking that. Okay. Thank you.

Well I had an excellent meeting with staff just as a general comment and I'd like to

I'm glad that the language relating to BE5 is being amended to emphasize fuel source and emission

reduction and also simplifying the language as it relates to EV charging which I think is

critically important as we move forward but I have no comments at this point so what I will do is

I will declare the public hearing open and open the public comment opportunity

and that nobody is signed up and there were no written comments so I will therefore close the

public comment opportunity and declare the public hearing closed and therefore we'll move to

commission deliberation and action. Just want to thank staff for the report and for the direction

on how to efficiently review this document.

Okay. I'm glad some of you found the efficient way of reading the document. I

ended up with all 200 pages. Okay. So thank you. Next time I'll get some more. But anyway,

other comments? If not, I will bring this up. Thank you for the staff report. I brought it up

in my briefing. We talked about the service level of the chargers once installed, right? Do they

have a target for availability? Just having them installed if half of them are not functioning.

And I remember, I believe your comment was that it's up to the either contracted

charging company, ChargePoint or whomever to maintain those but if I remember correctly,

we said we could have a performance minimum number. We might add that once this was approved.

Do I remember that correctly? I don't think CJ was in my briefing. So with respect to

maintenance of EV chargers once installed, publicly funded chargers do have certain

state and federal requirements but not all EV chargers are publicly funded. So privately

funded chargers don't really have any maintenance requirements at this time that we're aware of.

But we could certainly look into potentially maintenance standards for EV chargers.

And that's something we're doing some research on, my city attorney's office and development

services. But that's still an ongoing project and so we don't have a proposed solution for you

tonight. And if we did, I think it would be something that would live outside the CAP document.

But we're still working on the specifics of that. Okay. Very good. Thank you. I couldn't recall

the discussion exactly. And it happened to me. I went in the ChargePoint app and I saw that a

charger was available and it was at my office of all places. And I got there and there was a tag on

it that it wasn't working properly. So I wasn't able to charge. So just having the equipment

installed is great but making sure that it is functional would be even greater. So a service

level agreement or a performance standard when we get there would be desired.

That's an excellent point. Thank you. Okay. Given any other questions or thoughts about it,

if not, do I have a motion on this agenda item?

Chair Shinga, I moved to adopt a resolution recommending that the city council adopt the

addendum to the Environmental Impact Report for the Climate Action Plan and Outgrow

of Municipal Amendments Project, approve the proposed amendments to the Climate Action Plan,

and adopt an ordinance amending the EV charging requirements and definitions

in Title 16 and Title 23 of the Outgrow of Municipal Code,

all in accordance with the findings in the draft resolution.

Do I have a second? A second. It's been moved and seconded. All those in favor?

All right.

Can you pose? Getting done. It passes unanimously. Thank you.

With that, we will move to agenda item six, which is the regular agenda items for this meeting.

And then the regular agenda items on the agenda. We will move on to the director's report.

Good evening again. I already did a little bit of introduction for Jason, so I'll just let him

take the floor if he'd like for a moment to say hi to you all.

I'm very honored and happy to be here. I've always enjoyed visiting Elk Grove,

and now I'm thrilled that I get to work and be part of all the exciting stuff going on.

It's been almost three weeks and just really impressed by my colleagues' dedication

and enthusiasm for what we do here, and I think it's reflected in the built environment,

and I'm just excited and thrilled to be part of that. So thank you.

Thank you and welcome to Elk Grove and to the planning department and working with the planning

commission. All right. So in terms of the balance of the report that's before you,

a couple of highlights. In terms of recent approval actions, our new zoning administrator,

happy to say I'm no longer the zoning administrator, give him my new capacity with the city,

Kara Redig, our deputy city manager, has taken over that position and had her first hearing

in October for the DeBAT baseball and softball training academy, which she did approve.

We do have a couple of items coming up at December 9th. I think this list is a little bit

dated, unfortunately. I think we are just tracking for the REI project and the ARCO AMPM

flatland. So it's a little bit more work that we're trying to iron out quickly.

Other council or then jumping back up the top of the list with council actions,

the council did approve the historic resources, the registry of historic resources for the city,

recognizing all of our existing ones that are on the state and federal list,

as well as two sites meeting the qualifications for the local list. We are looking at future rounds

of identification of other resources around the community and those will be coming up in the next

couple of years. That mainly goes through the historic preservation committee's work effort,

but we can certainly talk about it in a future item if you like.

Council did also approve some amendments to the popular group apartments back in October.

That project is currently in construction with the first units hopefully coming online about the

first of the year. Not on this list. Council did consider at its last meeting the changes in

Old Town for the bars breweries in Winery. They do have some questions around that and asked staff

to go do some additional research and bring it back at a later date. I believe we were targeting

February 12th meeting for that. We'll also be doing some engagement with the historic preservation

committee and the Old Town Foundation once, primarily once we get past Dickens Fair to

reach out to them since they are extremely busy this week. So we'll wait, probably do that.

I think HPC we're going to try to go next month and Foundation probably after the new year.

Other matters, we do have one confirmed for December 5th. You should have your packets if

it hasn't already been provided to you. It'll be ready tomorrow, I believe, right? They'll be right

tomorrow. So we'll have that for you and then we have nothing coming up for the second meeting.

So we'll be looking, I believe, for cancellation of that item and I believe January 2nd is the

next available dates and you probably don't want to be here for that date either. So we'll probably

look at two cancellations on your agenda. Are that right, Sandy? All right, I got it right.

If you have any questions, happy to answer them.

That helps. So any questions for Suje? No? Okay, with that we will move to the next agenda item,

which is Planning Commission Matters. Anything on your thought process that you would like to raise?

No, here in nothing at this point. We will then move on to, I guess, the Northern Agenda items.

I will therefore adjourn the meeting at 6.30 p.m. and I look forward to seeing you at the meeting on

December 5th. Okay, thank you.