The Monterey Planning Commission held a regular meeting on February 10, 2026, to consider consent items, one public hearing for an architectural review and tree removal permit at 2298 Prescott Avenue, and commissioner comments. All seven commissioners were present. The meeting began with a roll call and staff introductions.
How do we give us a hug Uh Erica, can you please do a roll call and uh announce staff who are present and provide instructions for online listeners to participate, please? Sure. Chair Silva. Vice Chair Latasa. Commissioner Bluth. Commissioner Freeman. Commissioner Palmer. Here. Commissioner Polly. And Commissioner Stoker. And our staff members present today are our planning manager, Levi Hill, Principal Planner Fernanda Riveri, Senior Associate Planner Chris Schmidt, and myself, recording secretary Eric Cabrera. Information on participating in this meeting and providing public comment, including remotely by Zoom or telephone, is on this meeting's agenda, which is online at Monterey.gov forward slash agendas. Remote commenters will be muted until it's their turn to speak, and a timer will be shown on the screen. If you're connected on Zoom, the timer is accurate with no delay. In the chamber, we recommend keeping phones and devices muted to prevent audio interference with the meeting. Thank you for participating in your city government. Thank you, Erica. We'll start by uh um opening up the consent agenda, and we have uh one to four items, and I will start by um item number two approval of minutes. If there's anybody in chambers or online that may have comments regarding the minutes for the last hearing, you may speak. So, Chair may recommend just going ahead and taking all the consent items as one item or one action and then opening up to the public to see if anyone would like to remove an item. That's why I wanted to split it because Terry wasn't here and it might have a different vote than on the other three items. So Terry, Terry's still able to participate in the vote on the minutes if you'd like to. Um, and so but okay, so then we can take it. Okay, very good. So um let's just do this holistically. So if there's any member of the public in the chambers or online that uh wishes to speak towards the four items on the consent agenda, you may do so. Anybody online? There are no attendees online. Thank you. We'll uh bring this back to the uh commission. Um, do we have any comments? I'd like to move approval of the consent agenda, all four items. Do I hear a second? Yes, second. So we have a motion to approve by Commissioner Stoker, second by Commissioner Freeman to approve the four items on the consent agenda. Okay, Chair Silva. Yes. Vice Chair Latasa. Yes. Commissioner Bluth? Yes. Commissioner Freeman, Commissioner Palmer, yes. Commissioner Polly. Yes. Commissioner Stoker. Yes. Okay, the consent agenda has been approved. Did those items other than the minutes, those items are uh appealable to the uh city council with forms available in the planning office and online uh that is 10 days appeal period from today. Thank you. Uh now we'll open up uh general public comments.