Planning Commission meeting to order.

Welcome to the March 26th Huntington Beach Planning Commission meeting.

While the Planning Commission welcomes public involvement and free speech, it rejects comments from anyone that are discriminatory, defamatory, or otherwise not protected speech.

Those comments will not inform nor be considered by the planning commission and may cause maybe cause for the chair to interrupt the speaker.

Such comments will not be consented to or otherwise adopted by the planning commission in its discussions and findings for any matter tonight.

Thank you.

Now for the Pledge of Allegiance, uh Commissioner Acosta Galvez, please stand.

Can we have the roll call, please?

Yes, certainly.

Commissioner Adams is absent.

Commissioner Pellman.

Here.

Vice Chair Kennedy.

Here.

Chair Twining.

Here.

Commissioner Wood?

Here.

Commissioner Rodriguez.

Here.

And Commissioner Costa Golvine.

We have a quorum.

All right.

Thank you.

Now's the time for public comments for the items that are not on the agenda this evening.

Do we have any public comments?

We do have one public speaker.

Perry Clitheroe, please come down to the uh microphones.

Okay, good evening, Commissioners.

Uh I am here tonight to speak about our recent legal struggles, especially with what happened on Friday and our upcoming trial on Friday in regards to our non-compliant housing element.

Uh to quickly dispense the idea that we are going to win, uh, that we are likely to win these lawsuits.

Uh going back to the 1890s, California has ruled that cities or charter cities have the right to govern municipal affairs except the state legislature has the right to continue to govern on matters of statewide concern.

The Great California housing shortage uh is certainly a matter of state concern, and we are not going to win that lawsuit.

I uh it's just not gonna happen.

It is a matter of state concern.

Um, though I appreciate the energy.

Uh builders remedy is going to be used against us, especially with how vocally opposed we've been to them.

I feel like there might be some spite involved there, unfortunately, which isn't right, but could happen.

Uh builders remedy is of course the free market solution to the Great California housing shortage, uh and it will mean we have no control over where uh upzoning takes place in our city where big new apartment buildings get placed, big new condo uh developments get placed.

I don't want to focus on the fear though tonight.

Uh what I think is disappointing is that I think we're missing a lot of opportunities to improve this city and quality of life for the residents.

Uh specifically on transportation.

My whole life congestion and traffic has been a big issue here in Huntington Beach.

Um, obviously, we're very built out and very sprawly.

Everybody drives.

I don't know the statistics, but I'd wager the majority of Huntington Beach residents commute outside of the city limits to go to work and to make a living, and that's without talking about the tourist traffic or school traffic that occurs every day.

Uh, if we passed a compliant housing element, we could focus our upzoning on certain thoroughfares that are used heavily every day, such as Adams, where thousands of students travel to OCC.

Let's right now they have to choose between the terror of sharing that road while on a bicycle.

They have to, or they have to choose the completely unreliable bus system that we have, or they get in their car and they drive, burning fuel down atoms and polluting the air of all those residents and getting in the way of everybody who maybe has to get to the 55 to go to work and doesn't have the bike as an option.

On Beach Boulevard, we could take tens of thousands of cars off the road by offering reliable bus service or even a streetcar service like Southern California used to have to help get a lot of that tourist traffic coming down beach uh off our roads, plus we'd have a nice streetcar and bus bus route to Knott's Berry Farm and Anaheim.

Plus, we'd have a nice streetcar and bus bus route to Knott's Berry Farm in Anaheim.

And this is just me thinking off the top of my head.

We've got experts here who are incredible.

Let's lean on them and see it as an opportunity, please.

Thank you.

No more public comments.

All right.

Next to the public hearing items.

First item is zoning map amendment number two three zero zero two mapping consistency cleanup project, churches and schools.

Planning commissioners, please state your disclosures regarding this item.