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 a non-agendized item

raised under public comment until the matter has been specifically included

on an agenda as an action item. Clerk, do we have anyone registered to speak?

I will now close the public comment opportunity as there is no one registered to speak.

Moving to the consent calendar items.

Do I have a motion to approve the regular meeting minutes of November the 6th, 2025?

Chair, I will to approve the minutes of November 4th.

6th.

6th.

November 6th.

I'm sorry.

I have a motion.

Do I have a second?

Second.

I have a motion and a second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

Regular meeting minutes of November the 6th.

Pass 5-0.

Public hearing items.

Will the clerk please call the hearing item 5.1?

Item 5.1, Willington Crossing, PLNG 24-040.

Good evening, Mr. Chair and Commissioners.

My name is Kara Killingsworth.

I'm the project planner.

on the Waldensee and Crossing project.

The applicant is requesting a tentative subdivision map for condominium,

subdivision design review, and major design review to construct 188 unit townhomes

with a clubhouse and assorted site improvements,

which include parking, landscaping, and four driveways.

The project is located on a 7.49-acre vacant property.

It is zoned high density residential with the general plan designation of high density residential.

It's surrounded by other low density residential as well as a variety of commercial.

It is located in the 200 year floodplain, which means all habitable structures must be built above the floorplain levels.

Garages are not considered habitable space.

the map includes three condo lots and it will have 29 buildings and a clubhouse the original

project had 30 buildings and two common lots the modification reconfigures the map to include

the 29 buildings and the clubhouse on the north side of the building a property the interior of

buildings or is what was reconfigured to make sure that it maintained the 188

units such as in the original approval there were studios in this proposal there

are no studios in the original there was bedroom one bedrooms sorry no one

bedrooms and in this modification there are now will be one bedrooms the project

was constructed to it will be will be constructed to reduce any noise levels

and will meet the criteria in the general plan for 45 decibels interior.

The townhomes will have three levels with garage spaces on the ground level

and living space on the second and third levels.

The townhomes will have a single residential unit appearance

and will follow a Santa Barbara style with a mixture of colors and materials,

which includes stucco, wood, stone, and tile as a variety of earth tone,

tans, whites, and beige colors.

The clubhouse will have a similar architectural style.

It will follow that Santa Barbara style with the variety of stone and stucco and the tile roof.

It will be two levels and will be built above the floodplain,

and it does comply with the engineering standards.

some of the amenities that the clubhouse will include will be a pool patio area and a barbecue

the site will still continue to have pathways and courtyards throughout the whole property

as well as a variety of landscaping and the biggest change really is the parking so in the

original approval there was the code had a different requirement for multi-use residential

so in the original project there was a studio as mentioned in two to three bedrooms and so

the requirement has changed and so that's why there's a less of a requirement now than there

was before when it was originally approved in 2022 and so so like for a one bedroom it's one

a studio originally was one and a half space per unit as well as the guests

also changed from one space every four units now it's one space every six units

and so that why explains the change of reduction in parking requirements is the

code change. Staff determined that this project no further environmental review

is necessary under CEQA as the project is consistent with the general plan and

therefore the section 15183 and section 15162 it's consistent with the

general plan EIR and staff finds recommends that the Planning Commission

find that no further review is required for CEQA and approve the tenant

subdivision map for condominiums subdivision map design review and major

design review for the Wellington crossing project that concludes my

presentation. I'm available for any questions. Commissioner Singer, do you have any questions

with staff? No questions, Mr. Chair. Commissioner Poole? Just for clarification on the clubhouse,

it indicates because it's an amenity that no additional parking will be needed. Yes. And I

think this came up the last time this project came up, but will there ever be an instance where they

will rent out that clubhouse for events or something that might require additional parking?

Not that I believe so.

I believe that the purpose of the clubhouse is for many of the residents on site to enjoy,

not to run out to offsite use.

Okay.

But the applicant is here to, yeah.

The applicant might be able to clarify.

Thank you.

Vice Chair?

No questions?

Kara, can you go back to the overhead view?

I'm not finding it in the PDF.

I'm just curious where the positioning of the clubhouse is in the grant.

Oh, it's.

So it's on the north side.

So there's a commercial, vacant commercial.

So I can.

So it's going to be.

So there's a north property that's vacant as well.

And so it's going to be closer to that other property on this high density residential.

Got it.

North of the star.

Yeah, north of the star.

And there will be a road, effectively, where the yellow northern perimeter is?

It's not going to be a road.

There will be a trail back there.

The road will be in front of that yellow.

Ah, there will be a row of homes and a trail behind them?

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah, so it's going to be the property line, a trail, and then the buildings, and then the driveway.

Got it.

I wasn't visualizing it in relation to the remaining vacant parcel.

So the parcel to the north is not part of the proposal.

Correct.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

With no further questions, thank you for your report.

I will now declare the public comment opportunity open,

and I will invite the applicant to speak if they would like to

and if they are present.

Good evening.

Please.

Please.

Hi. Good evening. My name is Vasili Stratton. I'm the developer for this townhome project at Elk Grove Boulevard and Harbor Point. Thanks for having me.

I'm hoping it's going to be a very successful

and beautiful

development

and it's going to

serve a lot of the

people in the area who

want to live in a home type

environment

they're going to be

at this point

they're conceived

as for rent

got it

Commissioner Poole had a question regarding the availability of the clubhouse.

Will that be for the exclusive use of the...

It hasn't been considered for anything else.

So it hasn't been considered to be used as a rental for use for...

Do you have...

I can't remember if there's space in there that it could be rented out.

Is there space in there that could be rented out?

I mean, it's kind of like a couple house where there's going to be a TV and places you're going to come in from the pool.

And I don't know if it's going to be, it can be designated for if somebody wants to use it for like some kind of birthday party or something.

but it's

kind of oriented for the

residents to

use it, maybe

book it for an

event, possibly, I don't know

I'm not sure, I haven't

Right, but not other people outside of the residence

Right, it would be for the exclusive use of

the residents. Correct, that's the intention

Right, it wouldn't be like a

wedding hall that would be

Right. I think that was the impetus of the question.

Yeah, I raised that because there's very limited parking in the perimeter on the streets there.

Sure.

There's pretty much one lane.

And with no additional parking allocated to the clubhouse, I wanted to make sure.

There'd be enough space for people to.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

For what it's worth, I'm a big fan of that style of architecture.

so I appreciate the tile roof and the adobe and mixture of wood and color.

So I like your project.

Thank you.

Greatly appreciate it.

Any other questions of the applicant?

Okay.

Thank you.

Good night.

And Angelica, are there any other speakers that have submitted blue cards to speak?

Okay.

then I will declare the public comment opportunity closed

and I will move to commission deliberation.

I'll start with the left again.

Commissioner Singat.

Well, this is basically a slight modification

of the project that appeared on September 15, 2022.

So I don't see a lot of cause for a lot of deliberation.

I think it's a good project as it was then.

So I would move for its approval.

All right.

I'll second if that was a motion.

Oh, no, I think I'd read the entire motion.

Deliberation or action, I should have said.

Yes.

Go ahead.

Okay.

I move here to adopt a resolution

finding the project exempt from CEQA person to state

CEQA guidelines section 15311

and approve a major...

Sorry.

and sorry section 15 183 and 15 162 and approving the tentative condominium map and major design

review for the wellington crossing project based on the findings and subject to the conditions of

approval included in the draft resolution i have a motion do i have a second second

i have a motion and a second all in favor all right any opposed five zero congratulations

I think the clubhouse will be a nice addition.

Moving on to item 5.2.

Will the clerk please call the item?

Item 5.2, the Village Major Uniform Sign Program Amendment, PLNG 25-025.

Good evening, Chair Fernandez, members of the Elk Grove City Planning Commission, Antonio

Ablog here to present to you tonight the Village Major Uniform Sign Program amendment.

The project before you tonight consists of an amendment to the approved Village Major

Uniform Sign Program.

The request is to allow one additional freestanding monument sign along the western boundary of

the shopping center that will be along Weimark Drive. The project is located on approximately

15 acres at the corner of Bighorn Boulevard and Elk Grove Boulevard. This is in the Laguna

Ridge specific plan. It is zoned shopping center. It there is the commercial center under construction

currently. Many of those commercial shelves are nearly complete and will be going on to the next

phase which is the interior improvement shortly.

As far as the major

uniform sign program approval

that overall sign program was

approved by the planning commission earlier this year

on June 19th

what was approved as far

as the standalone freestanding signage

there were seven freestanding

signs approved. Three of those

were multi-tenant monument

signs. Four of those were

placemaking signs which

only advertised for the village shopping center with no discrete tenant signage on those four

placemaking signs. You can see on the screen before you the types of signs that were approved.

On the lower left you can see those placemaking signs. There's two of each of those that just

say the village at Elk Grove and on the right you can see the two types of freestanding tenant

monument signs there is one 20 foot sign that will be on Elk Grove Boulevard and then a nine

foot sign each at Weimark Drive and Bighorn Boulevard.

I'm sorry.

Sure.

Yeah.

Oh okay. I wasn't finding a one.

There's one. It's yeah.

I wasn't finding it when I was looking at the histogram. Thank you.

So the amendment before you tonight is to add one additional sign type B.

Because there is an approved major uniform sign program,

that sign program does allow up to two freestanding signs per project entry.

There are six project entries which allow up to 12 total signs.

This additional sign would bring that total up to eight,

so they're still not reaching the cap of that signage.

this would result in a total of four multi-tenant monument signs.

And based on the 15-acre size of the center,

that's not unusual for that many multi-tenant monument signs

for a shopping center that size.

Even though there was a major uniform sign program

approved earlier this year based on the number of tenants

and the location of those tenants in the shopping center,

the developer felt four signs to advertise those tenants

would be more appropriate,

especially given the depth and size of that shopping center.

So the amendment only asks for one additional freestanding signs.

Those parameters for the size and construction of the sign

are already contained within the sign program and will not change.

so what the sign program calls for is a nine foot sign with push through acrylic construction with

internal elimination you can see kind of the same similar type of construction for

signage at the ridge that sign that sign does have internally lit letters that for the most part are

what we call push through acrylic signs instead of having a big lit sign that becomes

issue for glare the lighting we see in these we kind of refer to as halo lighting where

the individual letters are accented by backlighting versus becoming a glare issue for

passers-by on the road.

So those are guidelines that are already set by the sign program.

This just adds one more sign under those same guidelines.

As far as CEQA, the project is exempt from further review

presented to Section 15.311, Accessory Structures.

That exemption applies to projects that consist of construction

or replacement of minor structures, including on-premise signs.

With that, staff recommends that the Planning Commission find the project exempt from CEQA

to state CEQA guidelines section 15311 and approve the amendment to the Village Major Uniform Sign Program.

I'd be happy to answer any questions, and we have a representative from the developer here tonight also.

Thank you, Antonio, for your report.

No questions?

No, sir.

Okay.

There are no questions of staff.

Thank you again, Antonio.

I will now move to the public comment opportunity

and invite the applicant to speak

if he would like to do so.

Good evening.

My name is Richard Tierling.

I'm with FAPUS Investments and no comments.

We're just adding one more sign here

to allow the tenant base that we have

to have more opportunity for signage.

So any questions, feel free to ask, but nothing too grand here or anything that unique.

Any questions for the applicant?

I did have one.

I noticed there are six signs on each of the tenant signage.

Of the smaller monument signs, yes, there are six individual plaques.

Six individual plaques.

There are eight total tenants in the development.

Is that correct?

Currently, but there are many more to come.

As far as we have some vacancy, we are currently 84% leased.

But we do have some more space.

We just want to have as much flexibility as we possibly could there for them.

How do you determine which of the six get their logo or their name?

Their placement there.

We give that opportunity to each of the tenants.

Obviously, the larger tenants, which are majors there, for example, Whole Foods and Barnes & Noble,

they'll be placed on the large pylon side, the 20-footer, which is on Elk Grove Boulevard.

for the smaller tenants, which would be maybe your yogurt shops and sandwich shops, et cetera,

they would be on the smaller signs.

Got it.

Okay.

I was just curious because it didn't appear that there were enough plaques to building

or tenant ratio to list everybody.

And if you did so, it would be too busy probably.

Correct.

Yeah.

So we just want to keep that a very nice, clean-looking design.

And this gives really, as of today, it will give a plummy of signage for each of those

individuals' smaller tenants as well.

Got it. Okay. Any other questions of the applicant?

Okay. Thank you. Appreciate you coming and speaking.

Is anyone registered to speak? Okay.

I will now close the public comment opportunity and move to commission action or deliberation.

I can support this. I have no questions.

Any questions or discussion? No, sir.

All right, then I will move to adopt a resolution finding the project exempt from CEQA pursuant to state CEQA guidelines section 15311 and approving a major uniform signed program amendment for the village major uniform signed program amendment project PLNG 25-025 based on the findings and subject to the conditions of approval included in the draft resolution.

Do I have a second?

Second.

I have a motion and a second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passes 5-0.

There are no regular agenda items on the agenda for tonight,

and we will now move to the director's report, Mr. Jordan.

Good evening, commissioners.

Okay, so a couple items for you.

We'll start with the upcoming December 18th planning commission meeting.

We have one agenda item confirmed.

This is the re-approval of the Village 4 tentative subdivision map

for the Sheldon Park Estates project.

I'd like to confirm that we have a quorum

for that item in that evening.

I believe we need three of you.

If we could double check.

Okay.

Everyone will be there.

Fabulous.

All right, then we have two items we're queuing up

for your January 15th meeting,

which would be the Trilogy Med Waste Project

and the Triangle Point Subdivision Project.

In between there would normally be another agenda,

but that falls on January 1st.

So unless there is any concern from the group,

our recommendation is to have the chair cancel the meeting.

I concur.

All right, fabulous.

Thank you.

In terms of upcoming council items,

nothing immediately report this evening.

There is a council meeting next week.

No major items are on the agenda.

We do have a couple final maps

that are going to council for approval.

If anyone's interested in those,

happy to talk about them.

Zoning administrator,

we do have an item next,

or two weeks out,

a week from Monday, actually,

for the Mary-Hell Spring Hill Suites Minor Design Review.

This is a repaint project for that building

up at the corner here at Laguna and Laguna Springs.

And then we're tracking a couple items for January 12th,

including a Skyport restaurant, outdoor seating project,

map extension project,

and the design review for the Cattleman Steakhouse project,

also up the way.

Council, actually, I'm sorry, for Council next week,

I do apologize.

In addition to those maps,

we also have the general plan open space element

and the implementation work plan updates.

And then for January 14th,

we're tracking,

working with the applicant

on bringing forward

the Bartholomew Winery Amendment Project

and then that Sheldon,

and then a Sheldon Meadows map

and rezone project

also scheduled for around that time.

I believe that's everything

we have this evening.

Happy to answer questions if you have them.

Any questions of our director?

None.

where's the Skyport restaurant

it's in the Stone Lake

Landing Shopping Center

Elk Grove Boulevard

and Harbor Point

okay got it thank you

all right

if there are

no other questions

or items for our director

are there any planning commission matters

for us

to discuss

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

I was very lazy and I ate like a king.

I will now adjourn the meeting at 6.27 p.m.

Thank you very much.

Good night.

Thank you.