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It is six o'clock.

Good evening.

I will now call to the excuse me.

I will now call to order the Elk Grove Planning Commission regular meeting Thursday, October the 16th at 6 p.m.

I will begin with our land acknowledgement.

We honor, respect, and acknowledge Elk Grove's first inhabitants, the Plains Miwok, who lived as sovereign caretakers of this land and these waterways since time immemorial.

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

Will you now take this opportunity to silence your electronic devices?

And will the clerk please call the read the customary greeting.

The Elk Grove Planning Commission welcomes, appreciates, and encourages participation in the meetings.

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

Thank you, Sandy.

Will you please call the roll?

Commissioners Sandra Poole is absent.

Oscar O'Khan is absent.

We call Varinder Singh.

Present.

Present.

And Juan Fernandez.

Present.

Since my vice chair is absent, is Commissioner Singha as former commissioner or chairman, the acting vice chair if there is even one needed.

There would only be.

Thank you.

And do I have a motion for approval of the agenda?

Chair, I move to approve the agenda as presented.

Second.

I have a motion and I have a second.

All in favor?

I three zero.

Motion passes.

Excuse me.

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.

Sandy, are there any speakers for the public comment?

We currently have no speaker slip.

Okay.

There are no speakers.

Moving on to consent calendar items.

Do I have a motion to approve the regular meeting minutes of September the 18th, 2025?

So moved.

I have a motion.

Do I have a second?

Moved and seconded.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Motion passes.

Sandy, will you please call the item 5.1?

Item 5.1 is Elk Grove Subaru.

It's project PLNG 24017.

Good evening, Planning Commissioner.

Sarah Kirchkessner, Planning Division.

The project before you tonight is a major design review for the Elk Grove Subaru.

It is a new automobile dealership with associated site improvements, including parking, lighting, and landscaping.

The project site is located at the northwest corner of Auto Passage Drive and Laguna Grove Drive.

This is within both the Laguna Ridge specific plan and within the Automall.

The project site has a general plan land use designation of auto commercial.

As I mentioned, it is within the Laguna Ridge specific plan, and it's identified for auto commercial uses.

Both auto and vehicle sales as well as auto and vehicle storage are permitted uses in the AC zone, and the project is consistent with general plan policies and the Elk Grove development standards.

The major design review includes an approximately 56,000 square foot two-story automobile dealership with showroom offices, parts counter, and 31 service bays.

There is both standard parking for the dealership as well as 864 spaces for vehicle storage.

The project includes a water quality detention basin shown in green on the site plan along the western boundary.

And the project is conditioned to provide a three-way stop and crosswalk at Auto Passage Drive and Auto Center Drive.

Here are the proposed elevations.

The design features a painted CMU concrete masonry walls as well as a slate tower, storefront window systems, and the colors are gray-silver with blue accents.

The project design is compatible with the surrounding automobile dealerships in the vicinity of the project site as well as the overall AutoMall.

A green sheet was provided today with revisions to two conditions of approval, conditions 29 and 33, specifically for 29.

Upon further review, we did determine that the drainage for the post-development flows as identified were accommodated within the specific plan and the drainage study associated with that.

So we determined that that sentence could be deleted for condition 33.

The extent of the improvements identified in this condition were not necessary upon further review against the city's development standards for the site.

So it has been slightly revised.

For the environmental analysis, no further environmental reviews required under state SECO guidelines sections 15162 and 15183.

The site was previously analyzed as part of the Laguna Ridge specific plan EIR and the general plan EIR.

Staff recommends that the planning commission adopt a resolution finding that no further environmental reviews required and approving the major design review for the site based on the findings and conditions as well as the revision in the green sheet.

This concludes my presentation.

I'm available for available for questions.

The applicant Hugh Hines is also available to answer any questions that you have.

Thank you, Sarah.

Commissioner Singer.

I do have one question.

I am looking at the aerial view of the drawing.

I think it is.

Page five.

Bottom left-hand corner.

At the very bottom.

Keep going.

Well, that works.

Auto city drive and auto passage is where the crosswalk will be.

Is that right?

Uh yes.

Okay, and that's the green sheet, so that's why it's not reflected in the drawing.

Okay, very good.

Um, and that'll be a three-way uh stop sign.

Yes, at auto pass.

So it is it's the auto passage drive and auto city drive.

So it is shown in this, it's at the southwestern corner of the site.

That's highlighted in yellow.

So it would be there, right at that corner.

Yes.

Got it.

Okay, very good.

That's my only question.

Um, thank you.

Okay.

So I will now open the public comment opportunity and ask the applicant to speak if they so wish.

Please approach.

Uh good evening, commissioners.

Thank you so much.

My name's Hugh Heinz.

Um, I'm the architect with uh Produ Inc.

representing the project.

Uh, we're based in San Francisco.

Um, but I also wanted to share our the project sponsor and our client, uh Lithia Motors uh weren't able to be here tonight, but they wanted to extend their gratitude to the commission and also to um planning staff.

They're based in uh Redmond, Oregon.

They're relative newcomers to the Elk Grove area.

Um they have recently purchased a number of dealerships um throughout uh the Central Valley and this uh Elkgrove uh Subaru they purchased about uh six months ago, and uh they wanted to share that this is a really uh for them.

They see this as the jewel in the crown for their California um holdings.

Um it's an exciting project um given that Subaru um in the next year is gonna be coming out with three new uh electric vehicle um cars, and you know, this is seen really as a project that's uh kind of coincident coincident with that and very much inspires a lot of the uh moves that we're making.

So, as you might have noticed, um there's a very large solar array on the roof, 250 uh kilovolts were also um far in excess of the um Cal Green and uh Elk Grove uh climate action plan requirements in terms of um electric charging.

Um it's a very robust electric uh charging system.

And so this is a very exciting project for Subaru for us as architects, um, because it's it's really um kind of um hopefully gonna showcase um the electrical electric vehicle platform and be a real contribution to Elkgrove and hopefully the surrounding community.

Um, but yeah, we're we're very excited about the projects, and of course, uh would welcome any questions that you may have.

Thank you.

Um you said Lithia?

Lithia Motors, correct, yes.

Got it.

Got it.

Um the uh the commentary about the solar array uh is appreciated.

Um I'm on my third EV, so um all of the technology resounds with me.

Um I meant to ask Sarah, but I'll ask you.

Um it's um the construction is CMG concrete.

What is the acronym?

Oh, that was the concrete masonry unit.

CMU CMU, okay, CMU, concrete mason, okay.

Correct.

And if just to clarify, those are for the rear portions of the building.

What would constitute the uh service areas?

So part storage, obviously the service shop itself, the front portions of the building that are for customer service, um, all of the showroom that's a steel frame uh construction, and so it has that sort of lighter weight um that affords the larger storefront and glazed openings.

Um, and so the the uh facial material that you're seeing on the front of the building, that's uh an aluminum composite paneling.

It's commonplace among I'm sure you see it all the time, right?

Um, and so that fascia will all be the ACM, and then it's uh basically once you get to the sort of the rear portions of the building, that's where it switches out to the painted CMU um block behind that.

So for most of the most of the front facing portions of the building will be clad and either in that ACM or corrugated metal panel.

Very good.

I I love learning new acronyms, so thank you for the for the details.

All right, I don't think we have any other questions, so thank you for your time and for thank you.

Making the drive out for Mission Street.

Um, Sandy, is there anyone um registered to speak?

We have no speakers.

No speakers, all right.

Then I will declare the public comment opportunity closed and move to deliberation.

Or action.

Mr.

Chair, I'm glad to see for the strengthening of the El Grove Auto Mall.

And I would suggest we move to the motion on this agenda item.

How about it?

So I move that we adopt a resolution finding that no further environmental review is required under state's equal guidelines, section 15162 and 15183 and approving the major design review for the El Cro Subaru project based on the finding and subject to the conditions of approval contained in the draft resolution, with the revisions to condition 29 and 33 as provided in the supplemental information green sheet.

Second, I have a motion.

I have a second, all in favor.

Aye.

Motion passes 30.

Thank you.

Moving on to the regular agenda item of which there are none.

So we will skip ahead to the director's report.

Mr.

Christopher Jordan.

Evening, Chair Commissioners.

Um, do we have report?

Thank you.

It's nice when I can stump Sandy sometimes.

Um, all right, a couple items for you, just real quick.

Um, on Friday, we were able to release the draft environmental impact report for the summer villa's project.

This is a project that you may recall there was a public outreach meeting at the end of May that the applicant put on southeast corner of Sheldon and Waterman out in the rural area.

I know there's a lot of interest in that project, so I wanted to flag that for you that the EIR is available.

We did not have a hearing schedule yet for that, but we are working diligently as we come up on the holidays to work out those details.

Comment period closes the Monday of the week of Thanksgiving, and there will be a public comment opportunity, in-person opportunity in this room on November 13th for that item for just on the EIR.

It's not a public hearing, it's not a planning commission meeting or city council meeting, it's just an opportunity for staff to receive verbal comments on the EIR if people wish to choose.

We do highly encourage written comments though, and please get them in by the deadline.

Um, future matters that are coming up.

We do have two items for your November 6th meeting that are confirmed and notices have gone out.

This will be a CUP amendment and new conditional use permits, as well as a zoning code text amendment for authority winery project.

This is at the southwest corner of Elk Road Boulevard and Bradshaw, as well as a general plan amendments uh city initiated for updates to the open space element that's required by state law and a cleanup and comprehensive update to the implementation work program.

And then we are working on matters tentatively for November 20th that are listed on the sheet before you including Wellington Crossing and Sheldon Meadows.

Um one of those may slip to December, though.

We're still working out some details.

Uh ZA does have a zoning ministry, does have a hearing on Monday for the Elliott Clubhouse project, an extension to a tentative map and a minor design review for the Interlude Kitchen and Bar Project that's up here at the corner of Laguna Boulevard and West Stockton.

Um City Council, we have nothing on the agenda from development services or community development for next week's meeting, other than I believe Sarah's got an update for the council on the shelter project.

So if anyone is interested in uh listening into that item next week at City Council, do feel free to.

Um, and then as I mentioned, the last meeting of the year Maverick uh approval uh for that project was appealed by interested parties and is currently scheduled for November 12th at the city council.

Includes the reports if you're happy to answer questions if you have them.

Any questions for our director?

No.

None.

All right.

Thank you, Christopher Team.

Um, with that, I will call, I will adjourn the meeting at 6 15 p.m.

Thank you, everyone.

Good night.