Sacramento Planning & Design Commission Meeting - October 22, 2020
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Sacramento Planning & Design Commission Meeting – October 22, 2020
The Sacramento Planning and Design Commission met on Thursday, October 22, 2020, at 5:30 p.m. The agenda included a consent calendar, several public hearings, and a discussion item. Two public hearing items (a street name change and a school master plan appeal) were moved to the November 12, 2020, meeting. The Commission approved the consent calendar, the River Oaks Marketplace project, and the 2021 Planning Work Program.
Consent Calendar
- Approval of Meeting Minutes of October 8, 2020 – Approved unanimously (Commissioners Lenzi and Chair Coville abstained as they were absent from that meeting). Director’s Report was received and filed with no oral report.
Discussion Items
Item 5: River Oaks Marketplace (P19-012)
- Location: 3171 W El Camino Avenue (District 4).
- Proposal: Subdivision of 5.23 acres into four lots for a 4,650 sq ft commercial building with convenience store/restaurant and a 10-pump gas station, a 4,500 sq ft McDonald’s drive-through, an 880 sq ft Dutch Bros coffee drive-through, and associated site improvements. Required entitlements included a PUD schematic plan amendment, tentative parcel map, conditional use permits (gas station, tobacco retailing, two drive-throughs), and site plan/design review.
- Staff Presentation: Assistant Planner Jose Quintanilla summarized the project, noting community concerns about alcohol sales and traffic. The applicant removed the proposed car wash and alcohol sales, eliminated one driveway on West El Camino and one on Orchard Lane, and added pedestrian connectivity and open space. A letter of support from the River Oaks Community Association was received. Staff corrected several errors in the staff report, including a broken link to CEQA documents and updated flood findings. No new public comments were received.
- Applicant Presentation: Ryan Hooper (Law Offices of Gregory D. Thatch) representing SKW LLC provided background, noting the site’s history of commercial approvals and outreach with the community and Councilman Hansen’s office. The 7-Eleven will be a new community market concept with fresh food and a Laredo Taco Company restaurant (first in Northern California). A full traffic study was conducted, and all five recommendations were incorporated.
- Commission Discussion: Commissioner Kaufman moved to approve staff recommendation, citing the site’s long-standing appropriateness for highway-serving uses and community support. Vice Chair Pluckebaum seconded.
- Public Comment: No callers or e-comments.
- Vote: Unanimous approval (8-0). Chair Coville thanked the applicant for outreach.
Item 6: 2021 Planning Work Program
- Presentation: Acting Planning Director Greg Sandlund reviewed the latest draft work program, highlighting the addition of a concurrent effort to amend city parking regulations to eliminate minimums and establish maximums. Staff capacity was adjusted to include 10 long-range planners. The recommendation was to forward the work program to City Council via the Law and Legislation Committee for adoption in January 2021.
- Commission Discussion: Commissioner Kaufman confirmed that policy items from the ad hoc committee are incorporated into the General Plan update. Commissioner Lindsay raised concerns about parking maximums in suburban areas like North Natomas, which lack public transit and experience overflow parking from multi-generational households. Commissioner Ogilvie suggested considering permit parking districts alongside parking maximums. Chair Coville noted that the parking code update would not worsen existing suburban parking issues and that parking management strategies could be explored.
- Public Comment: None.
- Vote: Motion by Commissioner Ogilvie to forward the work program to Council, seconded by Commissioner Messias Reed. Unanimously approved.
Key Outcomes
- Consent Calendar: Approved (6 ayes, 2 abstentions).
- River Oaks Marketplace (P19-012): Approved with all requested entitlements (8 ayes, 0 nays).
- 2021 Planning Work Program: Forwarded to City Council for adoption (8 ayes, 0 nays).
- Items Continued: Street Name Change (P20-022) and Third-Party Appeal of Sacramento Country Day School Master Plan (Z19-105) were continued to the November 12, 2020, meeting.
- Adjournment: The meeting adjourned without further business.
Meeting Transcript
Good evening. Welcome to the October 22nd, 2020 City of Sacramento Planning and Design Commission hearing. For city staff, commissioners, applicants that are logged in to the meeting, please remember to keep your microphones muted until you are speaking. For members of the public there are that are joining the meeting. In addition to submitting e-comments, you have the option to phone in during the public comment period. Stacia will share her screen right now to display both those options. Let's see. Comments that are submitted through email or e-comments before 5 p.m. today have been received by city staff and are available for commissioners to review. If you would like to give an e-comment during the meeting, please do so. E-comments posted after 5 p.m. today will be pulled up and we will take a moment to review them. If you're calling in to comment on an item, please refer to the instructions on the screen. After you dial in, you will be prompted to select a hearing item number to move to that item's queue. You can call in any time before or during the public comment period for that item, and you will be placed on hold until it is your turn to speak. Once you call in, please keep in mind it'll take a minute to move you to the queue. So let's get started with today's agenda. I want to let everybody know that uh we do have some changes. Um both item number three and item number four have been uh moved to November 12th's planning and design commission agenda. Number three, uh is the street name change for the portion of Maple Street to Cato Court number P 20-022. That has been moved to item 12 to November 12th, excuse me. And the third party appeal of the Sacramento County Day School Master Plan Z 19-105 has been moved to the November 12th calendar. Okay, let's move on to the consent calendar. Station, do you have a director's report? Oh, we should call roll. Let's do that first. Sorry. If you all unmute. Very good, thank you. Now do you have a director's report? I have nothing for the director's report tonight. Okay, let's do the whole consent account, which includes the uh approval of the minutes. Is there any motions? Second. Okay, we have a motion and second. Commissioner Wonconnelly. Hi. Commissioner Messius Reed. Hi. Commissioner Kaufman. Hi. Commissioner Lenzi. Abstain as I was not at the last commission meeting. Commissioner Farrell. Hi. Commissioner Ogilvie. Hi. Commissioner Yee. Vice Chair Pluckabon. Hi.
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