I'd like to call the Planning Commission meeting to order.

Welcome to the May 12, 2026 Hunting to Beach Planning Commission meeting.

While the planning commission welcomes public involvement in speech, it rejects comments from anyone that are discriminatory, defamatory, or otherwise not protected speech.

Those comments will not inform or be considered by the Planning Commission and may cause the chair to interrupt the speaker.

Such comments will not be consented to or otherwise adopted by the Planning Commission in its discussion and findings for any matter tonight.

Thank you.

At this time, I'd like to ask Commissioner Thenis to lead us in the pledge of allegiance.

Please stand if you're able and address the greatest symbol of uh liberty uh in the whole world, our flag.

And uh please begin.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands?

One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all.

So nice ranking, that's my own.

May we please have the roll call?

Chair Bush here.

Commissioner Thenis here.

Commissioner McGee.

Here.

Commissioner Palmer.

Present.

Commissioner Goldberg here.

Commissioner Clifford is absent.

We have a quorum.

All right.

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

Do we have any public comments?

We have one uh person signed up to speak, Charles Jackson.

Please come down to either microphone.

And Mr.

Jackson, just to be clear, it's not for the agenda item tonight.

Thank you.

Okay.

Um I'm Charlie Jackson.

It's nice to be here to talk to you folks.

I want to talk about the reliable young lumber yard.

It's a little late on one hand, but I think it'll be appealed.

The reliable lumber yard would be an excellent location for mixed use housing with a higher city tax income than a warehouse provides.

The city has learned that warehouses are not great sources of city revenue.

It would also allow HB to stick it to Newsom.

HB can stick it to Newsom by not requiring subsidized housing.

Apartments, duplexes, and multi-level uh buildings with uh will all have lower costs than single family units and hence be affordable housing.

There is a need for this kind of housing in Huntington Beach.

The lumber yard is currently next to residential housing on two sides.

To the north, the uh multi-level housing project would not impact any residential properties.

Uh to the south, the duplexes could be built, and uh the lumber yard is also close to a park, which makes it ideal for residential housing.

While the neighbors might oppose this idea of housing because they'll probably oppose anything you put forward.

Uh they should be given a choice.

And it's hard for them to complain about noise from other residents.

They can complain about noise from trucks and things, um, but everybody has neighbors and their neighbors are noisy.

It seems that the planning commission is ramming this through so that this option of housing um, which will have a larger tax revenue, won't be considered.

This would also allow the current owner to get more income by selling the property for housing rather than for a warehouse with pollution and noise.

Um there also needs to be a plan for the railroad lines that are adjacent to the property and are obsolete.

You are the planning commission, and you said zoning.

Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

Next on the agenda is the public hearing on conditional use permit number 24-008 on liberty the liberty duplex, planning commissioners.

Please state your disclosures regarding this item starting on my right.

I spoke to a resident on Spear Drive.

I spoke to uh Councilman Burns.

And I spoke to Commissioner uh McGee.

That's it.