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Let me start with the land acknowledgement.

We honor, respect and acknowledge Elkrow's first inhabitants, the Plains Maywalk, who

lived as sovereign caretakers of this land and these waterways since time immemorial.

We commemorate and advocate for the descendants of the Wilton 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.

Would all of you please turn off your electronic devices, cell phones, etc.

And will the clerk please read the customary greetings?

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 notice agenda item, as it may be necessary.

If you wish to address the Commission during the meeting, please complete a speaker card

and give it to the clerk prior to consideration of the agenda item.

Thank you.

Let's move on to the agenda.

Will the clerk please call the roll?

Planning Commission members Oscar O'Conn, Sandra Ful, Farynder Singh, Vice Chair Juan Fernandez

and Chair Suman Singh.

Present.

At this time I invite Chelsea to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

At this point would you please join me in a moment of silence.

Thank you.

With that we move to agenda item number two, approval of the agenda.

Chair Sengard moved to approve the agenda as presented.

Do we have a second?

Vice Chair Fernandez will second.

It's been moved and seconded.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

The motion carries.

At this point we move on to public comment.

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-agendaized items raised under public

comment until the matter has been specifically included on an agenda as an action item.

Committee by point one is Municipal Code General Plan Amendment flood control prevention.

Good evening Planning Commission.

Sarah Kirchgesner planning.

The proposed project includes general plan amendments and municipal code amendments.

They are text amendments would provide exceptions to allow for the construction of non-habitable

structures and public infrastructure such as trails, non-habitable maintenance facilities

and similar equipment to be located within the 100 year floodplain on a case by case

basis when such construction would not result in upstream or downstream impacts.

The amendments consist of revisions to Title 16 as well as Title 23 specifically Chapter

1650 and 23100 as well as concurrent revisions to the general plan.

The need for the proposed amendments was identified while reviewing a capital improvement project

and as part of the hydraulic analysis it was determined that the project wasn't able to

meet the current regulations.

Pursuant to the current municipal code no increase in water service elevation is allowed

and according to FEMA's definition that means 0.00 feet.

The hydraulic model that was used to calculate the water service elevation increase is developed

with assumptions that can easily affect its accuracy.

City staff reviewed the municipal codes from other agencies within our stormwater partnership

and to determine how they regulate these increases and most of the agencies that we looked at

limited that water surface elevation increase to a foot.

Given the level of accuracy of the modeling software as well as the policies of these

neighboring agencies staff determined that the current adopted regulations were too restrictive.

Additionally during this review staff also determined that there was a clerical issue

in the general plan flood policies related to non-havital structures that needed to be

updated.

The previously adopted amendments from 2014 were inadvertently left out of the 2019 general

plan update and these proposed amendments will reinstate the previously adopted policy

and definitions.

Here are the proposed amendments to the general plan.

It would amend general plan policies ER2-6 and ER2-16 to allow the development of non-habitable

structures and public infrastructure within the 100 year floodplain on a case by case basis.

As I mentioned such exceptions must result in no net increase to the water surface elevation

adjacent to downstream and upstream of the development.

The amendment to the general plan would also include a definition of habitable and non-habitable

structures.

For the general plan, excuse me, for the municipal code amendments to title 16 and 23 the proposal

would amend chapter 1650 to allow the floodplain administrator to permit the approval of bridges,

trails, drainage and non-habitable maintenance facilities with the determination that such

improvements involve no more than one-tenth of a foot increase in the water surface elevation

as well as the waters being fully contained within open space or other approved undeveloped

areas.

The improvements must be within a floodplain easement or other protective instrument and

the physical and or economic use of upstream and downstream properties cannot be adversely

affected.

The amendment would also revise and add definitions of habitable and non-habitable structures

to be internally consistent between the municipal code and the general plan.

The review of the environmental analysis for the project staff determined that no further

environmental review is required under state CEQA guidelines 15183 and 15162.

In February of 2019 an EIR was certified by the city council as part of the Elk Grove

general plan update and no potential new impacts related to the project have been identified

that would necessitate further analysis beyond the impacts and issues already disclosed and

analyzed in the general plan EIR.

Staff recommends that the planning commission adopt a resolution recommending that the city

council approve the project.

This concludes my presentation.

I'm available for any questions.

Questions for staff?

Yes, sir.

Have we made any studies to see if the unhoused could have any effect on these changes?

The city has navigators as part of our housing department and division that do are aware

of where the unhoused population is located within the city and do provide resources

to help with that unhoused population.

Okay.

The reason I ask is because in Camden and the trails you see them either camping or

hanging around every time you take a walk.

So I don't know if that could be a problem.

Commissioner, if I could, the city recently adopted updates to our anti to our camping

ordinance.

We do not allow camping within waterways or other certain open space areas such as flood

control facilities.

It's a public health and safety issue.

And so police would be called out for trespass instances in those cases and individuals

moved along or connecting with our navigators offered if they're eligible access to the

city shelter in certain instances.

So people should not be in these facilities to begin with.

Thank you.

I noticed in one of the docs or one of the slides, it calls out a floodplain administrator.

There isn't a dedicated role of a floodplain administrator in the city context or is there

a person whose responsibilities that falls under?

It's more of just of a point of information question.

I believe that's under the public works department.

Thank you.

Okay.

I believe.

Thank you.

There are no questions at this point.

So at this point, I'll declare the public hearing open and open the public comment opportunity.

I know that there are no written comments or no written comments were received and no

public speakers are signed up.

So I'm going to close the public comment opportunity and declare the public hearing closed.

Without we would move to commission deliberations and action.

Any further discussions on the item?

I'm glad to see it's rectifying the classical error and also the issues with the WSEL, which

makes perfect sense.

So if there are no further discussions, do I have a motion on this agenda item?

Chair, I move to adopt a resolution recommending that the city council find that no further

environmental review is required pursuant to state sequel guidelines section 15183 and

15162 and approve the amendments to the city's general plan and municipal code.

Is there a second?

I second.

It's moved and seconded.

All those in favor?

Second from the same right?

Aye.

Any opposed?

Hearing none, the motion is unanimously approved.

No, that's okay.

There are no regular agenda items at this time.

So we will move to the director's report.

Good evening, Chair and commissioners.

So with no continued items for your consideration after tonight's meeting, recommend and will

proceed with canceling the December 19th and January 2nd meetings.

So happy holidays and enjoy the time off.

If you're not aware, the city is hosting the illumination festival this weekend at district

56.

I encourage everyone to come out.

There'll be a parade and a whole bunch of festivities and activities.

So please stop by over at the center for that.

I think we mentioned at the last meeting council is asked for continuance on updates to the

old town SPA regarding bars and breweries.

We're continuing to work on that and we'll be actually doing a discussion item with the

store preservation commission at their meeting next week.

For future matters, zoning administrator has an item next week regarding the REI store

that'll be up here at the corner of Laguna and West Doctin for facade revisions.

And we're working on an item for flatland brewing that'll be at a future ZA meeting.

Council matters that are coming up next week.

Also consider the climate action plan revisions that you saw at your previous meeting.

And these revisions that you consider tonight will be at a future January meeting for council.

It's asked for questions if you have them.

Yes Christopher, the REI used to be the bed, bath and beyond.

Is that the bill?

Thank you.

Any other questions?

Hearing none, thank you.

And we will move on to planning commission matters.

I have one.

I received an email from California SQL conference, I think it was.

Are you aware of a SQL update in calendar 25?

Is there any commission learning opportunity that staff might recommend?

If you're not familiar with the information blurb, I can share it with you afterward.

It should have come, I imagine, to all of us from the planning commission academy.

No?

No.

Okay.

You're welcome to forward it along.

We can certainly try to identify an activity for SQL specific training if you're looking

for that or we can certainly bring in some additional staff and do something at a regular

planning commission meeting if you'd like.

There's a lot of different conferences around the stuff.

We can help you bet if it's one that's worthwhile and see about budget availability to send

to you if you're interested.

Okay.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Otherwise, thank you.

And we will move on to agenda item number eight.

Oh, no, sorry.

Given that we've done planning commission matters and there are any other items for the good

of the order?

Hearing none.

And there being no other agenda items, the meeting is adjourned at 6.14 p.m.

Thank you.

Have a merry Christmas and a happy new year and happy Hanukkah and...

Happy holidays, everyone.

Happy holidays.

Yes.

Just happy holidays.

Okay.

Thank you.