The Huntington Beach Planning Commission held a regular meeting on September 24, 2024, at 6:00 PM. The meeting included public comments on non-agenda items, two continued public hearing items (Bolsa Chica Senior Care Community and Midway Concepts Mixed Use Project), and approval of prior meeting minutes. The Commission voted 4-3 to recommend approval of the Bolsa Chica Senior Care Community project (which includes a General Plan Amendment, Zoning Map Amendment, Zoning Text Amendment, and Conditional Use Permit) and also approved the Midway Concepts Mixed Use Project with a 4-3 vote. A motion to require Commissioner Rodriguez to recuse himself due to his impending move was ruled invalid.
Meeting to order. Welcome to the September 24th, 2024 Huntington Beach Planning Commission meeting. While the Planning Commission welcomes public involvement in free speech, it rejects comments from anyone that are discriminatory, defamatory, or otherwise not protected by speech. Protected free speech. Those comments will not inform nor be considered by the planning commission and 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. Commissioner Adam. Present. Commissioner Pellman. Vice Chair Kennedy. Here. Chair Twining? Here. Commissioner Wood? Here. Commissioner Rodriguez? Here. Commissioner Costa Galvan. Here. We have a quorum. Thank you. Now's the time for public comments for items that are not on the agenda this evening. Do we have any public comments? We currently have one uh public comment signed up to speak for items that are not on the agenda. We do have several public comments that are signed up to speak for the Bolsa Chica Senior Project. Um and so they were waiting to see whether or not you guys were going to reopen the public hearing. Do you want me to call those now or to wait? Do we want to do the public hearing? I mean the not the public hearing, but the one the non-agendized item first. Yes. And then I'll make an announcement. Okay. Robert Greinger, please come down. So if those members that weren't there, I'd go back and look at that meeting again because specifically the topic we're talking about is the Kettler Education Center near my home has been operating as a maintenance yard for the last six years without any conditional use permit at all. They've been essentially operating without permission from the city in an unhoused fashion, making lots of noise and causing havoc, up uh turning the lights on at 5 a.m., waking us up, um, not even thinking that they think they're their authority because they're the state is um above the city. Well, it's not when you read through the state laws. We have all these title five and title five is for education. When you read through Title V of the Education Code, this is the California Code of Civil Procedures. It's nothing I'm hiding here. Five three zero nine four. It talks about how the state has authority to put schools wherever they want. So for classroom facilities, yeah, they five three zero nine four does give them the right to build schools. But in subsection B of that state code, it talks about non-classroom facilities. And interestingly, it says, you know, if you have a non-classroom facility, you can't just do whatever you want. What if that non-classroom facility is a painting contractor or a blacksmith shop, something that doesn't fit within that area. And their proposal for a maintenance yard is against the state code. They're not exempt. And they must get back in line with every other business that operates a commercial business and apply with the planning commission once again the right way, just like any other citizen who is operating a business would have to stand in line and ask for a conditional use permit. They have never got one.