The Half Moon Bay Planning Commission met on October 14, 2025, to handle administrative setup for remote participation, approve previous minutes, hear public comments, and discuss two major items: an update on objective design standards for multifamily housing and a coastal development permit for remediation of unpermitted grading by Caltrans.
Can I I was just gonna before we get to minutes and so forth, we need to do some teleconferencing housekeeping. No, I know. Okay, all right. So um, so we're back on. Um, Bridget, you want to tell me what um what is going on with our um with Steve Ruddick. Yes. So this is the meeting for October fourteenth, twenty twenty-five. Ruddick is remote this evening, and we just need to verify a couple of things. So, want to make sure that we make clear that the meeting for the record reflects um that he's remote. Um, Commissioner Ruddick is participating um by Zoom. According to the Brown Act, each teleconference location has been identified. We did not notice because this is a um due to a potential illness. Um, so this has been just upon us this afternoon. Um, I would like to now request that Penny Commissioner Ruddick respond to the following questions. Can you hear me well? I hear you fine, yes. Were you able to hear the proceedings up until this time? I have to admit I missed the pledge of allegiance, but other than that, yes. Do you have a copy of the agenda for this meeting? Yes, but did I'm all by myself. All right. I would now like to ask any of the members of the commission to speak up at this time. If such commissioner has not been able to hear Commissioner Reddick. We can all hear him. Seeing none. Um that's. Okay. So hearing no comment, the record should reflect that all planning commissioner members present have indicated that they were able to hear Commissioner Ruddick. I would next request that any commissioners speak up at this time if he or she for any reason to believe based on the voice recognition and/or the video. Otherwise, that this person representing himself as Commissioner Reddick. And is if you if it's not true, please speak up. Hearing no comment, the records reflect that no commissioner has expressed any doubt that this is Commissioner Penny Commissioner Reddick, and that he will be participating via teleconference. I would like to advise the commission that any votes taken during a teleconference portion of this must be taken by a roll call vote. Um and then I also just want to welcome everybody this evening to our meeting. Um it is live and um videoed on Pacific Coast TV's webpage as long with channel 27. We do have Spanish interpretation for this meeting. Um just some public etiquette items to review that um we will go ahead and do in-person um public comment first and then followed by the Zoom platform. Planning Commission chair will open up the general public comment section of the agenda at that time. The community members are welcome to speak at any item that is not listed on this evening's agenda for those items that are listed specifically on tonight's agenda during that time there will be discussion, and the chair will designate a specific time for public comment opportunities. Three minutes are given to each commenter, and again, we will proceed with in person and then zoom. Um those in Zoom, just raise your virtual hand and we will um collect or ask in order that they received. We have not had any correspondence that I am aware of, and nor have we posted anything uh this evening or to the to the plenty commission for correspondence for these items. And um, I just would like to remind everyone to speak into the microphone so that the public can hear us on TV and on the hybrid Zoom. Thank you, everyone, for your participation. And I will now hand it back over to our um vice chair who's our acting chair this evening, uh Commissioner Gorn to officially begin the evening's meeting. So uh officially did we have a pledge of allegiance? Because we had a pledge of allegiance, but was that on camera? Can we just just tell everybody that yes, we did have a pledge of allegiance if it wasn't on? Yes, I believe it was recording, so we have that on recording. Oh there you go.