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Commission meeting to order.

Welcome to the December 9th, 2025 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 speech.

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

Thank you.

Okay, I'd like to call on uh Commissioner Bush for uh pledge allegiance.

You got it.

Hands over your hearts, ready to begin.

To the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Please be seated.

Okay, may we have a roll call, please?

Yes, uh Commissioner Palman is absent.

Vice Chair Bush.

Here, Chair Theonis.

Here.

Commissioner Babano here.

Commissioner McGee?

Here.

Commissioner Palmer.

Here.

And Commissioner Goldberg is also absent.

We have a quorum.

Okay.

Uh now is the time for public comments for items that are not on the agenda.

Do we have any uh speakers uh for items not on the agenda?

We have no one signed up to speak for items that are not on the agenda.

Oh Kadoki.

Uh next on the agenda is a public hearing on the appeal of the zoning administrators approval of conditional use permit number 24-016 and coastal development permit 24-001.

Uh the TRAN residents uh on uh uh carousel.

Uh planning commissioners, please state your disclosures regarding this item.

We'll start on my right.

I spoke to uh councilwoman uh Vandermack and Brett Bush and uh Brian Thinas.

Take exception that he didn't call me vice chair.

Okay, vice chair.

Dominic McGee and Councilman Chad Williams.

Okay, and I spoke with uh Commissioner McGee and uh Commissioner uh Pellman and uh um mayor Burns at the time, uh former Mayor Burns, uh Mayor McKeon, and um, and uh Councilman uh Vandermark.

I spoke with Councilman Twining.

I spoke with Council person I spoke with Councilperson Pat Burns and Council and Mayor uh Casey McKeon and two unnamed residents.

Okay, uh staff may we uh please have a report.

Yes, Marco Cuevas, associate planner will be giving the presentation.

Uh yes, thank you, Chair and uh planning commissioners.

Uh tonight for your consideration we do have the appeal of the zoning administrators' approval of condition use permit number 24016 and coastal development permit uh 24-11.

That is the TRAN residence.

Um the project site, it's uh project is located at 1674 Carroll Cell Lane.

It is a 5,289 square foot lots.

Um the neighborhood um consists of a mix of single two and three story homes and the general plan and zoning designation is RL for residential low density, and as the slide shows, the um project site is located here with the yellow arrow.

And it's a uh within Humboldt Island waterfront lot.

So uh the project request is to uh demolish the existing two-story residence.

Um which is about the current residence, is about um five thousand and seventy square feet, um, and um construct a new 5,671 square foot three-story single-family residence at a height of thirty-four feet and one inch with uh a three-car garage.

So uh the image to your left is the site plan showing um the location, of course, of the garage up front, but also of how the addition will be or the new construction would be developed onto the site.

The image to your right is the current view of the property as it exists today.

So with our ZA action, the zoning administrator held a public hearing on October 15th, 2025 to consider the proposed project.

The applicant spoke on behalf of the project, and there were no speaker speakers in opposition to the project.

Staff recommended approval, citing that the project was in compliance with all but one of the development standards for the residential low density zone.

In order to attain full compliance, the third floor habitable area will need to be revised to reach the second story top plate and is noted as a condition 1A.

The project was also conditioned to limit the building height at 230 feet and is noted in condition one B.

The ZA considered the compatibility and variety of one to three-story homes with diverse architectural styles and also considered multiple homes approved with heights ranging from 25 feet to 35 feet within the neighborhood and the vicinity, and determined that limiting the project to a maximum height of 30 feet would be more consistent with development with adjacent residences and recently approved homes in the Huntington Harbor.

Thus, the ZA approved the project with the suggested findings and modified conditions of approval.