Thank you, clerk.

Good evening and welcome to the Thursday, September 26, 2024 530 p.m. planning and design commission

meeting.

This meeting is now called to order.

We'll call the roll to establish a quorum.

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioner Zon, absent.

Commissioner Chase.

Here.

Commissioner Lamas, absent.

Commissioner Buckley.

Here.

Commissioner Caden.

Here.

Commissioner Hernandez.

Here.

Commissioner Masez-Reed.

Here.

Vice Chair Young, absent.

Commissioner Blant.

Here.

Commissioner Rishki.

Here.

Commissioner Thompson.

absent.

Commissioner Thompson.

absent.

And Chair Wallace.

Here.

Thank you.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

All right.

I would like to remind members of the public and chambers if you would like to speak on an agenda item,

please turn in a speaker slip when the item begins.

You'll have three minutes to speak.

One, two, or a call-down.

After the first speaker, we will no longer accept speakers' slips for that item.

We will now proceed with today's agenda.

Please rise for the opening, acknowledgments, and honor of Sacramento's Indigenous people and tribal

communities.

The original people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Valley and Plains,

Miwok, Puthwin-Winton peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only

federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us

today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today in the active practice

of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous peoples, history, contributions,

and lives.

Thank you.

Stay standing for the pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which

it stands one nation under God, invisible with liberty and justice for all.

Okay, first we have the Director's report.

Thank you, Chair.

September 17th at City Council was a busy night for planning staff.

We had several items on the agenda that night.

First, City Council approved the missing middle housing ordinance, and it will be effective on October 17th.

Council also acted on an appeal of the sequel determination for the American River One project,

denying the appeal and approving the project, and Council approved the Delta Shores East project that night.

And that's all I have.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you, Stacia.

Okay.

First item is the consent calendar.

Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the consent calendar?

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speakers' lips for this item.

Okay.

Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on this item?

It looks like we have some.

Commissioner Nantes.

I was going to make a motion to approve it.

Thank you.

And then Commissioner Blunt.

Second.

All right.

We have a motion in a second.

We'll take the roll.

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioner Zan.

Absent.

Commissioner Chase.

Aye.

Commissioner Lomas.

Absent.

Commissioner Buckley.

Aye.

Commissioner Caden.

Aye.

Commissioner Hernandez.

Aye.

Commissioner Masis Reid.

Aye.

Vice Chair Young.

Absent.

Commissioner Blunt.

Aye.

Commissioner Risky.

Aye.

Commissioner Thompson.

Absent and Chair Wallace.

Aye.

Thank you, motion passes.

Excellent.

Thank you.

All right.

Item number two is the 2025 Planning and Zoning Work Program.

Is there a presentation from Greg Sandlin?

All right.

Good evening, Chair Wallace, members of the commission.

Greg Sandlin, Planning Director.

Here, back again, with next year's Planning and Zoning Work Program.

I believe this is the fourth year we've done this.

And this stems from the 2020 changes to our Planning and Development Code,

where we've pushed project approvals down to the director level, staff level,

and the commission wanted to know what's next.

We're going to have a lot more time to work on policy.

And so this is an opportunity for the commission to weigh in on the work program.

And consequently, we now have annual reports, which station will be covering next,

which commission, and they have a work program.

So this essentially acts as that.

So in terms of overview, I'll get on the, describe the process of how we developed the

Planning and Zoning Work Program.

Go through some of our accomplishments in 2024, and some of our, well,

I'm going to walk through each initiative that we have essentially in the 2025 work program.

And then we'll take questions, comments, suggestions, after that.

So in terms of the process, this is the initial draft of the work program that you'll be reviewing.

And then I will come back in November, with any responses to questions I couldn't address.

A summary of your comments and suggestions, and anything that I've worked into the work program,

or have not, the reasons why.

And then we ask for you to recommend the program to the council for adoption.

In December, if time allows, we can get to the Law and Legislation Committee for them to look at the work program,

and get their recommendations, and then council for his work program in January.

So 2024, very busy year.

I had the most staff we've had in quite a long time working on all these different initiatives.

Of course, the adoption of the 2040 General Plan, Climate Action, Adaptation Plan,

Master Environmental Impact Report was huge accomplishment, five-year effort.

Utilizing quite a lot of staff capacity with all those different work products.

We adopted the 2024 omnivist amendments, many years of pent-up technical updates.

We needed for Title 17, adopted forward together plan, from Roosevelt, Dupasov Boulevard,

the existing building electrification strategy, and age-friendly action plan.

We had to do a midterm evaluation of the housing element implementation programs back in March,

and we didn't really make any changes to those implementation programs.

But that was something that HCD wanted, part of our housing element certification.

Hosted in ADU Fair, Partnership for the Greater Sacramento Urban League.

I think that was quite a success.

Also, we've developed Housing Information, Educational Website for our campaign for Info Housing,

just greater education on Info Housing and the benefits of affordable housing.

It's called Housing for All, and actually the first of eight community workshops started tonight, hosted by Greta Sous.

Also, this wasn't in our work program, but we found it was necessary to help with just better processing of tentative maps.

We created a tentative map sub-mill guide that's online now for developers, just to improve the quality of those applications.

Some projects we also initiated was the Citywide Reson program.

We're starting to analyze all our zoning for every single parcel in the city for consistency with the general plan,

which sites need to be updated.

We started framing up and doing the analysis for a comprehensive update for planning and development code to implement the 24-year-old general plan,

and we'll get some more into those specifics in a little bit.

We kicked off our vacant spaces study to get some strategies to activate, develop vacant sites and buildings,

consulting with our various department and support agencies.

Then also, we started the update of the River District specific plan.

Some of the things we are still working on to the end of the year, well, this is now updated this slide, missing middle,

inner mordance that was adopted last week, and our affordable housing info campaign.

Stockton Boulevard specific plan will be coming to the commission in the next meeting.

Vehicle and bicycle parking strategies, coming to the commission as well.

Amendments to the Tenant Protection Act, that'll be going to Council November.

We'll be coming back to the commission with amendments to Title 17 on cannabis, which we discussed in the last meeting.

We'll also have an ordinance, two ordinances, or actually four ordinances related to special needs housing, compliance with state law.

And another omnibus ordinance that includes updates to our density bonus as well as a chapter of the code that would implement SB 684 to allow small lots in our multi-family zones, which is essentially our single-family zones as well.

So much to come still.

Some of the work that was not anticipated was research and analysis on consumption lounges, cannabis comes in all out, consumption lounges that was directed by our law and legislation committee.

Our staff are already hard at work implementing our climate action plan and existing building, allocation strategies that pursuing two significant grants from the Department of Energy.

And I'll get into a little bit more the details of what they would be paying for in terms of electrification.

And then also a small developer's boot camp just kind of popped up and we all give more information on that, but we received a grant and we're already starting to work on that effort.

So I will move on now to the 2025 work program.

It's organized in your staff report and how I'm going to present it as citywide policies, housing policies, neighborhood and community planning, climate and I added equity policy, and ongoing just program at work that planners are busy with that are also working on policies.

So in terms of citywide policies, we anticipate more state legislation to work on and become compliance with.

It's a steady stream from our legislature.

Updating the planning development code to address organic waste requirements and it's also more than just organic waste requirements trying to amend our code to accommodate a greater variety of housing types.

We have solid waste services that is really set up for single family homes and duplexes and multifamily with missing middle housing.

So we're trying to find a way to use the more constrained space to make sure that people are adequately served without driving the design of housing.

So it's going to be an interesting puzzle.

So we're going to start with the presentation. We'll start bringing forward an annual report again. Now the general plan is adopted.

A key part of the general plan implementation is that the planning and development code, the reason program will also be looking at environmental justice in terms of performance zoning.

The zoning that would be considered of intense industrial uses existing and new uses that are near residential.

That is on the docket. As far as the planning development code update, we would be working in a permanent ordinance for missing middle housing.

We're working at along greater variety of neighborhood serving commercial uses in our neighborhoods, in certain cases, and also consolidating some of our zones.

So this is going to take a fair amount of analysis and that's something we'll be working on throughout the year.

So as directed by the general plan, we will look at potentially expanding allowable uses, home occupation uses, and updating some of the updated standards.

That could be part of the planning and development code update as well.

We hope to take four of those updates to Title 17 and the winner of next year.

And we anticipate further research and consideration of canned or consumption lounges.

So the discussion right now on a parallel track of a mending Title 5 to permit consumption lounges, but a lot of that hinges on where we permit dispensaries because under state law, you have to have a consumption lounge located with a dispensary.

So the idea is we would first go ahead with determining where it's appropriate to have dispensaries and then consider where is appropriate with that to have consumption lounges.

So more discussions potentially next year on that.

Short term rental regulations, some technical cleanup to clarify the code. The revenue is also looking at amending our regulations in a separate title to allow short term rentals when a property owner is on the site.

Because currently you can do a short term rental and someone purchase a site from out of town and doesn't even live there.

So that's under consideration as well.

Housing policy.

Mix income housing ordinance continuing to work on that.

We like to update the market feasibility analysis start early next year in light of changing macro economic factors like interest rates.

So changing demand for certain housing product types and just continuing to look at our recommendations, re-evaluating those in light of other proposals we have also received in the past year.

So maybe 1033. This is where we have the ability to develop a local ordinance that would permit the sale of an ADU.

While changing our code to do that isn't terribly complicated. We also want to look at the process and challenges outside of permitting that are involved in the sale of that property, the maintenance of that property.

So in the mortgage we want people to be informed in these ADU sales to be successful maintenance of these properties.

So it's taking a condo liability issues and insurance. All of these considerations we're trying to work out.

So but it does seem like a great opportunity to allow more homeownership.

SB 9 probably will be so we have SB 9 right now are an interim ordinance that's implementing this.

We've been wanting to develop permanent regulations, particularly now that we've learned various things in developing the missing middle housing.

Standards are the interim ones. This too, this ordinance would likely be part of the planning and development code update.

Mobile homes or mobile tiny homes as ADUs.

I believe the city of Fresno has done this other jurisdictions were looking at different ordinances that would allow this.

These homes would be able to be parked on a property, but they would need to have some type of permanent sewer water hookup and just having those types of standards.

So we can do this in a uniform safe manner.

So we're going to move to the state's tenant protection act.

So as I said there are some amendments are going ahead.

Miner amendments in November to council extending the sunset date.

But in collaboration with the code enforcement division of CDD that implements this ordinance, we're looking at some larger changes that could impact the scope of the program.

After the last time on a lease, another policy considerations.

So more to come on that planning is just helping in terms of surveying and providing outreach and collaboration with code enforcement.

Universal design ordinance.

Looking to update that, adjusting the scope right now that ordinance applies to R1 and R1A zones.

In certain subdivisions, we're taking a look and making some improvements after our experience in the past more than 10 years with this.

And also improving public awareness of these options that are in available for a new single family homes.

So we hope to be developing an ordinance next year on that.

We're doing outreach right now.

Housing element. We have our annual progress reports, which takes quite a lot of staff time collecting all the data, not just for housing that's how the building permits,

but also what's been approved through the planning process.

We have our housing policy working group, which meets quarterly or as needed.

It's been really successful since the start of the housing element update.

A group that we can take to a variety of where we can take policy items to a variety of stakeholders.

We're presenting the housing element out element progress report to the council and commission in the spring.

Missing middle housing as part of the planning and development code.

We want to develop a permanent ordinance.

Look at a local bonus program to incentivize affordable housing.

And then also things like driveway requirements.

We have commercial standards for driveways right now for certain unit sizes or multi family housing under our code.

And that could be a constraint for sure on development of some of these sites.

So, despite having this interim ordinance adopted, there's things like solid waste, driveway requirements, building code requirements, drainage requirements, things that we have to look at to help make this a success in terms of implementation.

Development process improvements.

That's also underway, but continuing to look at not just planning, but our building process, building inspections, our development engineering, public works, utilities process for just how it's impacting development and other improvements we can make.

So that'll be part of next year's work program.

Part of the housing element is to take another look at our current rent escrow ordinance.

That is in title eight of the city code.

And essentially if someone is in violation of code standards for housing, the city could require that rent be placed in an escrow account and only be dispersed when those code violations are remedied.

So we're going to take a look at that to see if that's feasible and effective.

Affair chance ordinance.

This is probably related to the updates to the tenant protection act, but looking at rules that limit the use of criminal records by landlords when they're screening prospective tenants.

So we're going to take a look at the program financial assistance for affordable 80 use.

Looking at a program, a financial assistance program where can we produce more 80 use if using financial assistance on condition that the unit is rented out to a lower income household or housing choice about your participant when the idea is that came out of the housing element.

So we mentioned the small developer boot camp.

This is a grant-funded program.

We're looking at focusing on BIPOC, smaller developers on smaller housing projects.

This is kind of a, as we look into moving ahead with implementing missing middle, we have developers that focus on the larger projects, but we are looking at other programs around the country where they have multi-day workshops.

To look at zoning, building contractor requirements, financial assistance, just financing, putting together a pro forma.

It's a, it's exciting concept that I think has a lot of co benefits.

And so we're just starting to scope that out.

And we're looking to train trainers for a five year program.

Our pro housing designation is expiring.

That is through the state of California.

If you get a certain amount of points, your designated pro housing jurisdiction, which helps us be more competitive for financing and even direct grants.

So the application process does take some time.

And so we need to reapply by July 1st, 2025.

So for neighborhood community planning, the river district specific plan is already underway.

We're doing a lot of existing conditions analysis, but there'll be a larger public kickoff outreach in early 2025, where we hope to have a draft plan by

next fall.

Central city specific plan.

We are scoping that out.

And we'll be looking to get proposals from consultants in the coming months, where we'll start working on looking at existing conditions and spring and having more of a public kickoff by the end of the year.

Mary'sville, the passable of our action plan.

Just like along with Stockton Boulevard, there's going to be some pilot grants for some help facilitate some public private partnerships and implement these plans.

And so as part of the end at work, once we're done with the plan, we continue the engages in community that helped develop the plan and work with them to successfully implement.

So Stockton Boulevard coming to the commission next meeting.

Same type of work.

City-owned 102 acre site.

So we are now looking to come back to council in January.

We've done quite a bit of community engagement over the summer.

The district office is continuing to engage the community.

So we hope to get direction from council on some general principles of what land uses should be there.

Need to be there as part of the development of the site as well as working then to get proposals from private firms to have that public partnership to develop site.

So just in general, the neighborhood development action team continues to work on various educational initiatives like ADU resource fairs and the like.

There's community led planning pilot program that we're exploring and implementing the general plan.

Community ambassador program continuing to be successful program of multilingual multicultural engagement with the community.

And then there's a link to the end that's website.

Climate inequity policy.

So I mentioned grants that the city has applied for.

One is for I think $3 million to develop new reach codes to require certain appliances to be changed out.

And existing and new development or in existing in existing development.

And then also for commercial buildings.

A program. This would be the $19 million grant to set up a program in the city where we would have performance standards for buildings of I believe 50,000 square feet or more.

To track incentivize reducing the carbon emissions emissions in that building.

So we will see if we get those grants, but if we do that will be a significant impact to staff to set up those programs.

And the first one is for the first year.

And then there's a range code also the grant for that is in partnership with Elk Grove in Sacramento County.

Developed those.

As you know, we're continuing to work on a strategy for our bike and vehicle parking requirements, looking at parking maximums.

And then we will see the city adopted in winter and then having the code updated by summer.

Other implementation measures from the climate and action and adaptation plan.

Heat reduction in the public realm.

So looking at building design strategies.

Cooling the building, looking at alternative pavement materials.

We2003 trees shading landscaping in our public realm in the public right of way.

This is going to be also paired with consideration of minimum tree requirements for new development.

So then also we have regional climate planning where the air district is lead on that.

And then we're also working on the planning and planning.

Title 17 EV charging incentives.

And then also working with public works on transportation adaptation plan.

Looking at our infrastructure and how resilient it is to increase.

Heat and climate change.

Looking at healthy food initiatives.

According to Sacramento Food Policy Council.

And others.

We have a say called grant that we've applied for for a food literacy urban farm community action plan.

That is in the West Broadway area near Laudtona Floyd with urban farm there.

And then lastly just some of the ongoing program work we have the planning academy.

Applications are open in December with their 23rd class.

And yeah.

That's includes my presentation.

Just noting that we have more staff capacity.

Greater diversity of programs and projects.

So which I'm still struggling to describe.

And of course we also have the new council next year with the new initiatives and ideas they're bringing as well.

So we'll see how that impacts our workload.

I'm happy to take any questions you have.

Just clerk.

I'm going to ask you to public comment really fast.

Do we have any speakers for the item?

Thank you chair.

I have no speaker slips for the item.

All right.

Now we can have our conversation.

All right.

Starting with Commissioner Chase.

I believe Commissioner Blondon.

What your name is in front of my.

Okay.

Okay.

Thank you.

Didn't want to.

Didn't want to cut in line there.

Great.

First of all, thanks very much.

I wish the rest of you staff was here to hear how grateful I think we are for the job that everyone has been doing here.

So please pass that on.

Thank you.

Great report.

Just a few comments and kind of questions as we go through here.

The first of all, Congress on the planning academy 22 years.

That's really amazing.

And I think I've heard a lot of people out in the community who have taken that.

Who have just spoken really highly of it.

So glad to hear that.

That is moving forward.

Could you give me clarification on the.

I know the moving forward the forward together program.

I think which is now.

Beginning to occur in North SAC.

What's the relationship of that to the end that is that a product of the end that are.

It is.

Yeah.

So the plan was developed with.

Really trying to be community led.

And inspired.

And the end that.

Or the neighborhood development action team.

They found that having these implementation grants.

I think that's really great.

I think that's really good.

As a couple of people.

When people are developing these action plans.

Helps garners enthusiasm.

Interest in the plan and just makes it a little bit more.

Just.

More effective.

And how we implement it.

Other plans in the past.

We have a list of implementation measures.

But.

to move some of these things forward.

So with neighborhood development action team,

you have Elizabeth Boyd and her team

that are doing the planning side of things,

and you let Lynette Hall that with community engagement.

And then you have Mikhail Davila on economic element

that helps to, he will be the lead in these grants

in soliciting them, proposals,

and then working with the community to implement.

Great thanks.

These are just, I am really looking forward to that,

moving forward in my district too.

Be sure to need that attention.

A few other congrats, the ADU fair,

I don't know if anyone else here attended it,

but back at Grant High School last year,

great event, pouring rain, and it was an incredible turnout.

So thank you for putting that on.

The tenant protection plan, I guess one of the issues

would be what, if any, affect Prop 333 may have on that.

Are they completely separated?

Yeah.

Can you remind me of what Prop 333?

It's the new rent control proposition

that's being tossed out to change a reduce.

I'm going to make George to get a breakdown

of the forum of that, but it's the one that,

we see it on TV all the time.

But I think it's doing away with some of the rent control

issues that have been in place for a while now,

and there's pros and cons to it.

Anyway, I guess we'll stay posted

to see how that impacts things.

I don't have a TV, so I'm not subject to these commercials.

Quick clarification, and a small developer's workshop.

What is in the world of public acronyms?

What is BIPOC?

Oh, Black, Indigenous, or people of color.

Okay.

Sorry, yeah, acronyms.

The one comment to it, there's one of the things

you touched upon was looking at minimum tree requirements

throughout the city.

We've kind of had those for pro, you know,

for ever it seems like, but developers

would all have the same to find a way to get around

and not provide as many as we should.

My question is, what's the conflict?

I mean, I applaud that minimum requirement of more trees,

but we're also looking at as we identify our projects,

reducing setbacks and whatnot.

How are we gonna, how are we gonna be looking at

how those two things are addressed together?

Certainly, yeah, I mean, it's gotta be context sensitive.

With missing middle housing, we did have this kind

of minimum carve out for open space that could accommodate a tree.

But yeah, I think in urban areas where you have less setbacks,

it's gonna be harder to require a large tree

in a front setback.

We have suburban development though, proposals

where we're constantly pushing back on some of

just how they use the space.

You have single family homes that are taking up

so much of the lot of small private or small streets

that don't have separated sidewalks and a tree planner.

And when that gets built out,

it doesn't have any very little shade.

And so with that type of product type,

I think there's room for us to push back

and have requirements for tree shading.

We have the requirement just for parking lots right now.

There really isn't anything in terms of private

like yards and the like to get some more trees planted.

But certainly we have such a diverse set of neighborhoods

and built environments in the city.

We have to have some type of context sensitive approach.

I'd hate to see our city of trees suffer too much

as we move forward with that.

And my last kind of common or question of whatever it may be

is if he was back to the city,

did the study for the cannabis study,

which I believe certainly as a commissioner helped understand

and speak to some of the projects that were coming before us.

But I think also to the applicants or not the applicants,

but the neighbors who were there

had had comments about the effect

that these would have in their property values.

We know the whole story.

So if that was very helpful,

I think to give us some grounding in terms of

what's really out there.

Any possibility, I would love to see the same kind of a study

done for affordable housing.

Because I think we get the same kind of a pushback,

at least I hear in my neighborhood,

whenever an affordable housing project is proposed,

whoa, it's gonna kill our property values, et cetera, et cetera.

If we had again something similar to that study

to really help us understand and take a position

that will support the additional housing,

but let our residents understand why there may,

hopefully would not be a negative effect.

I would, you know, that may not be this year,

but at some point in time,

I would sort of love to see that kind of a program

or a study initiated.

That's pretty much it for me.

So again, congrats on all of your hard work.

And thank you very much.

Thank you, Commissioner Chase.

Commissioner Messias Reed.

Well, I certainly don't wanna give you more work

because this is insane that the amount of work

that you've already accomplished in 2024

and what we can, we'll continue to do in 25.

So great job.

I'm looking forward to continuing the work.

I remember when we were as a commission

going through the process of moving entitlements

more to staff and director level

and really encouraging, you know, at that time,

we didn't know what we were gonna be doing a work plan

and that was the process we were going to end up undertaking

and certainly the staff was gonna undertake.

But I can tell you that, and we were wanting to go less

and less entitlement more policy driven, right?

And that was sort of the goal, then goal.

And I think certainly we've accomplished that.

I don't know if we have any past percentages

I did see in the next report that you did say it was like 47%

of our items at commission more policy

and a little more than 50% were entitlements.

So it does look like, you know,

we're moving in the direction of focusing more on policy,

of course, with the general plan updates

and the housing element, you know,

those are really robust policy updates

that really took over the last five years of our time.

So I'm eager to see what the next few years

are gonna look like for us.

And I think a lot of that's gonna be around the implementation

of these policies and how those play out.

So really excited about it.

It will say just from a, like operational perspective

because again, there are so many things

that you guys are working on, especially with the end-at team.

I think what would be really helpful certainly for me.

I participated in a lot of these programs

and also are familiar with some of them,

but not all of them.

I think what would be really, really helpful

on the work plan itself is if there were hyperlinks

to some of these pages that we could go to,

whether it's okay where, you know,

the city code chapter 17.616.

I mean, I know how to navigate through Title 17,

but it's not always the easiest way.

So it would really be nice to kind of have a hyperlink

to some of these things or some of these projects,

action plans so that we can kind of see

where you guys are in that process

from this work plan, because then, you know,

as a commissioner, I can kind of keep track

of where things are through the work plan.

And I can sort of use that work plan throughout the year

to kind of track where we're at.

So if we could do something like that,

it would be incredibly helpful.

And one of the,

see, one of the items that were listed under the accomplishments

was the under housing policy initiatives,

was the polling for the vacant property tax.

Out of curiosity, I'm not exactly sure

where we landed with that particular polling.

And I'm just thinking around like when we're doing these,

neighborhood action plans,

and certainly the Northgate Marysville plan

and Stockton Boulevard plan,

and I'm thinking about all of our aging commercial quarters

and how we can, you know, I know Stockton Boulevard alone

has over 140 vacant lots.

Some of them are in the process of being developed currently,

but you still have over 100 vacant lots.

And so just curious, you know,

where we landed on that process,

and what's ahead?

Well, the majority of those polls were supportive of that.

But even with a boost of education and outreach

according to the pollsters,

it didn't get to that two thirds level

that you need for a property tax.

So I think they described the electorate in a grumpy mood.

Oh, that is correct.

Okay, yes.

Yeah, no, now you're, yeah, you're jogging my memory.

You're right.

Yeah.

Yeah, so I think it shows promise.

I think it warrants another look in a couple years.

But yeah, and we also, from a city perspective,

we have the library assessment that's on the ballot,

the tax maintenance, I think,

to keep some of those programs.

And so we were concerned putting on competing measure.

Something to tax heavy.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's,

that's very specific to who's being impacted there.

And I think just generally,

when we're looking about the work

that we're trying to do on our aging commercial quarters

and supporting more dense housing and heavy transit

and heavy populated areas,

I think that's gonna be a really important

sort of key to doing some of that work

and even potentially finding some funding

to bring in some more housing into those areas.

So I would certainly love to continue

having that conversation.

I understand the political climate

is always like the big issue there.

So I wanna continue that.

I do wanna thank you, Greg and staff,

because I think in previous meetings throughout the years,

I know that there were two really main issues

at the planning commission we're pushing

and that was to address sort of our parking ordinance

and the cannabis ordinance.

We obviously at the last meeting,

we had a very robust discussion about cannabis.

I think for this current commission,

it has died down significantly.

And as I saw on the next report,

you'll see that we have had in 2024

no CUPs for cannabis,

which is really surprising to me

because I've been on the commission for five and a half years

and we were just so heavy on cannabis

that it feels like such a pressing issue

and now maybe not so much.

But I appreciate that,

we're to the point where we're almost there

with figuring out those ordinance updates.

So I just wanna thank you for that.

And that's it for me.

Thank you.

Commissioner Buckley.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you for the presentation, appreciate it.

It must be a banner year for all these successes.

I mean, that's so much great work to get done.

So congratulations to you and your team on that.

I think we've gotten to see all the hard work

that you all put into it.

So really appreciate that.

I only have a few short comments.

First on the small developers,

the BIPOC developers piece,

that's been an area of interest for state agencies as well.

Trying to figure out how to make sure

that we open up our funding programs

to less traditional developers.

That includes BIPOC developers

who maybe will do some community development work

and think about developing in areas

that large developers don't commonly think about

and then also tribal developers too.

It's helpful with those folks too.

Also another constituency that doesn't necessarily

have the full breadth of background

that the larger works and various developers

have.

And so you just might consider looking at the work

that the Department of Housing Community Development has done

around this or the Tax Credit Allocation Committee,

I think is also thinking about this.

There are some challenges there, I'll say,

because we do have a constitutional prohibition

on directing funds specifically to folks based on race.

But it's still an interesting space of exploration

and figuring out how we could lift up some of the developers

who don't commonly get into the programs.

And then the Housing Policy Working Group,

I was wondering if you could just talk a little bit

about the role they play in thinking

through Housing Element implementation

and who's on the working group?

I could follow up with the full list.

I think it's about 40 people.

So you have a Marker 8 developer as a affordable housing

developer, members of Sacramento Housing Alliance,

Legal Services in North California,

Apartment Association, BIA, Safe Sacramento,

Neighborhoods.

It's quite a diversity of stakeholders.

And I think it's been helpful to have everybody

in the same room continue to take these policy initiatives.

I think the dynamics are pretty collaborative.

Over the years, these people have gotten to know each other.

But I can, as part of follow up in this report,

I can include that as an attachment.

That'd be great.

And I was really just thinking, are there any,

all the people you listed or folks I think I would imagine

are on a working group like that.

But I was wondering if there are any folks

that we wouldn't imagine being on a working group on that.

I don't necessarily get to that table.

And then just if you could talk a little bit about the role

they might play in Housing Element implementation

as we continue through the cycle.

I heard you talk about continuing to engage with those folks

and just trying to wrap my head around how they might be utilized.

Yeah, really we, anytime we have something

that's related to Housing Element,

just like this short-term rental program

that revenue brought to us, one in our thoughts on,

we said, well, we have a housing policy working group.

It's a great way of effectively just checking in.

And so usually once the point of having

like a framework of recommendations,

you have fully developed an ordinance,

you go to them and just get their thoughts.

So just about anything that I listed there

on their, for under housing policy,

goes to that working group.

I think we also have a couple commissioners on,

Mr. Young is on it, you as well.

Sure, let's see.

Yeah, Commissioner McSews reads, so that's, yeah.

Great, great.

I think it's important.

And I think as we talk about the Housing Element initiatives,

I think it's important to hear from your team

what the working group sort of where they were on some of these things.

The last one I wanted to mention is,

Commissioner Chase and Missy has read,

brought up the cannabis study.

I think that conversation we had,

I think it was last time, really highlighted for me,

how much that study is at the underpinning of,

I think how planning staff are making their decisions around this,

but also how we're considering these questions around cannabis.

And I just would really, I know you have a ton of things to do.

I agree, Commissioner Missy has read.

I don't want to add to your load,

but I think some public,

some better exposure and socialization

of the cannabis study would go a long way.

It's clear that folks who come in here have a set of concerns

and many of them are very legitimate,

but I think if they can understand where we're coming from,

with the cannabis study and be able to part that conversation as well,

I think it would just help facilitate these conversations

and sort of clarify our decision making to the public.

Oh, all I have, thank you, Chair.

Hey, Commissioner, I have some questions.

I'm curious, this is just a laundry bit list, a grab bag.

There's not a lot of policy questions in here,

but just satisfying my own curiosity.

So we'll start at the top on the tenant protection,

research that you're doing.

Are you looking at all at how it's affecting ownership

of rental properties?

We surveyed both tenants as well as owner property owners

about the program to get their feedback.

So I don't know if that's on the website.

I believe those attach the staff forward to long-led,

but I can provide links too.

I can look it up.

My concern, just anecdotally, with friends who are renters,

and I'm rentering myself, is that there's,

as it gets more expensive to maintain, repair,

ensure property in California, the mom and pops

are going out of business.

And there's some pretty good research that

shows that one of the ways we keep rents down

is by mom and pop ownership.

And so I'm concerned for my own reservation,

but also for others in the same situation.

And I just want that to be highlighted

as another point of consideration

when we are talking about tightening up the ordinance.

OK.

So that's that one.

Next one was really quickly, we have

to reapply for pro-housing.

Is there anything we need to do, like in terms of showing

progress for the designation to retain it?

From what I understand, it's just providing an update

with your latest programs, if things have changed.

Also, if we have new things to add on, which we do.

It's more like a stat.

Based on status, not outcomes.

Correct.

Yeah, more of looking at your programmatic approach

as a city, your policies, how you get certain points

for each thing, like reduced parking requirements

or no vehicle parking.

That you had points for that.

So something like the missing middle housing,

I imagine we can get some points for that.

But I think the state didn't want

to just have some jurisdiction qualify forever.

Right.

You know, politics, things change, approaches change.

Cities might fall back on their aggressive pro-housing approach.

So we have to update just kind of where we are as a city,

in terms of our programs.

I like that.

OK, thank you.

Two more.

The small-to-revellover boot camp,

I appreciate Commissioner Buckley's comments

about looking into what HCD is doing on that front.

And then we have a local small developer in Roshan Davis

and that culture.

And he's sort of articulated a program around everything

that is necessary to get by-pock folks

and underrepresented communities into ownership situations.

And so I'm just hopeful that those are complementary

and move forward in a complementary way.

And then the last one was the Central City specific plan.

Was the last time we updated that one?

2018.

OK.

That was the project manager for it.

Right.

Yeah.

We're supposed to update in five years,

but we've been busy with the general plan.

OK.

That's a lot of fun.

That's a lot of fun.

For an update in the light of all the activities.

All the activities.

Yeah.

OK.

That was the only question I had.

Thank you.

And yeah, I want to echo everyone else's comments.

This is an amazing work.

This is an exciting time to be a planning commissioner.

I feel like I used to look at this body and be like,

oh, they have some cool things to do, but a lot of slogging.

And as a policy nerd, I really

appreciate the opportunity to work on policies.

So I think that our previous commissioners

for that direction pushing us in that direction.

And like I said, in the briefing,

like I said, in the briefing, you've

had a fair amount of policy coming to you this year.

You're going to get more, I think, just

in light of the diversity of initiatives.

So a lot more work next year.

All done.

I think I have commissioner Caden after me.

Is that correct?

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah, I would totally echo everything

that our chair just said.

And it's really quite remarkable.

But we're able to accomplish when you go through it like this.

So and you neglected to mention that we're accepting an award

for our general plan.

Yeah.

EPA conference, which I'll be cheering for.

Thank you for that award.

So the four of you on.

So I want to just bring up the point that commissioner

McSewis redid with the formal housing tax

measure on vacant properties.

And I agree we should not lose sight of it.

And I do think, well, two thirds may be too high a threshold.

We do speaking of props.

Prop five could be reducing that threshold to 55% for affordable housing.

Come November, depending on if that passes.

So I think I don't know if the polling

suggested that we could get to 55.

But it seems a lot more doable than 67.

So I would love for us to continue to push on that

and find a dedicated source for affordable housing

potentially on the 26 ballot.

Really excited about it's such a small thing.

I know, but the 1033 implementation

where we'll be looking at selling aid use separately as condos.

I know there's some things to be worked out,

but I'm really, really excited about the potential of that

to offer this kind of very starter home first time home

by our opportunity.

I was hoping we'd be the first in the state

to implement that San Jose, I think,

be a sort of punch, but we can be still number two.

On specific plan areas, so I think this has been something

that we've been really successful in in the past

in just basically covering a good chunk of our city

with specific plans.

And one of the key benefits of that

is all of the sequence streamlining benefits that we get.

And we've had tremendous success using the 743 exemption

that just says if you're consistent with the regional

sustainable community strategy and you're in a specific plan area,

you're just full-sequit exemption.

And so I know, it looks like the priority next year

is updating plans that currently exist.

I know we got stocked and coming up next month.

And I'm not suggesting that we undertake another one next year.

The time is spoken for, but I hope

that we don't lose sight of that as just like a key strategy

of just continuing to expand the areas in our city

that are covered under specific plans,

because it's a tremendous tool.

So I've brought up before how it's also extremely helpful

for grant applications, right?

If you have these environmentally cleared

transportation projects, that's what a lot of these

state grant programs are really looking for,

particularly if we're housing

and single communities program, they want to have

that menu of cleared projects.

So the Mary'sville, they'll pass so full of our action plan.

I mean, if there's an opportunity in the future

to make that a specific plan or to just continue that work

and actually cover that within a specific plan,

I think there's been several projects up there

that could have had an opportunity for funding

that just didn't have environmentally cleared projects.

So I just hope that we're continuing to build out

that strategy of covering more of the city

with specific plans.

The small developer bootcamp, I know a lot of people

brought that up and I think it's such a good idea.

I know we didn't get a ton of money for that grant,

but I just wanted to highlight something that I've,

I think I mentioned to you, but I want to mention

the other commissioners here is that

Saicog is applying for the Federal Pro Housing Grant

to do a variety of things, one of which would be

to create a regional program around this same idea.

So I'd encourage you, as you're starting to think

about that grant, if Saicog is successful,

how you might consider using extra money,

given that there might be some more of it

for doing something exactly like what you're doing,

but at a larger scale.

I'm seeing and I completely agree,

I think with the priority based on staff time

and the number of hours of just focusing

on the general plan implementation

and the planning development code update,

I was interested if you could help me understand

there's a lot of actions that are updated

that are relating to updating Title 17

in the development code, and they're separated

out in different sections.

And so I'm trying to understand,

what are we doing those separately,

or is it all like one rolled up into one big update?

And the things that I guess maybe a better way

of asking this is are all the following projects

that I'm just gonna list here in a single action

as a part of Q4 in 2025.

So implementing action in LUP A10

that the planning development code update,

the citywide rezone program,

and then amending Title 17

to incorporate the interim missing middle ordinance.

Is that all bundled together or are those separate?

All bundled together.

Okay, all right, that's helpful to understand.

I think, so I think my primary comment

and I guess ask on this item is gonna be for staff

to really view next year as an opportunity, I guess,

to evaluate the initial results of the interim ordinance

as it goes into effect in a few weeks here.

So, where we're making the interim ordinance permanent

and actually present essentially a policy choice

for the planning design commission and for council

for tweaks to kind of improve the effectiveness

of the ordinance, right?

So for example, again, if the intention is for the

missing middle ordinance to deliver more affordable housing

types like six plexes and eight plexes,

how many applications did we receive over the first year

for those products?

How many units in general did we actually get applications

for what do those units look like?

And if we're not getting, I guess, more than a four plex,

like what are the potential constraints?

I think you identified some of the ones around driveways

and some of these more kind of eclectic issues.

Of course, we talked about bull control as an issue.

I'm wondering if we can just bundle all of that evaluation

into that action item to take the interim ordinance

and making it permanent.

Absolutely.

I mean, we play it on looking at every single

missing middle housing project as utilizing that ordinance

and looking at the different constraints.

I am concerned on the constraints beyond zoning,

like the Fire Code, Chapter 11A, Accessibility,

Requirements, Solid Waste.

I had mentioned drainage earlier.

But certainly if any of our standards are becoming

a constraint too, that's, yeah, we definitely want,

we want the numbers, but also more of also the qualitative

considerations of what is getting in the way.

Yeah, well, I mean, so how do you have a sense of how you would

obtain that information on the qualitative side?

I mean, is that conversations with developers and...

So Nguyen would be kind of a point

on tracking these projects, following up with the planners

to get feedback, certainly could fall up with the developers

as well, but essentially kind of creating a little case studies

that we can share out.

So we move ahead.

Yeah, I think that makes a ton of sense.

And I mean, I think, right, we're the first in the state

to do this, and we can't pretend like we're going to nail it

right off the bat.

And I think there's just so many requirements and so many

little things that could become these binding constraints,

but we don't know yet, right?

And we should have the humility to be willing to kind of make

tweaks as we realize what's working, what's not working.

So I appreciate that.

And I think that is kind of pretty consistent with what I heard

from City Council when they adopt the ordinance on the 17th,

and there was this, you know, ask to come back.

I did hear from the Dias a request in three months.

To me, that feels like not even close to enough time

to make any kind of educated evaluation,

but if we're talking about, you know, end of the year next year

for this being folded into the permanent ordinance,

that's a full year, maybe a little bit more.

That does feel meaningful and enough to kind of make

some conclusions on.

So I think that's my main thing.

If I could also add one other thing to the list,

I'll make a similar comment that I made when we were

discussing the Miss Middle ordinance,

but this is not specific to Miss Me Middle,

and that's just, I'm really interested in exploring

opportunities as a commission, as a planning department,

to reduce the barriers and costs in the building code,

which you just referenced, Greg.

And I think that that's, you know,

there's a lot that we can do there.

And, you know, the two things that I'm, you know,

specifically really interested in,

although I'm sure there's plenty more,

our first would be to kind of increase the threshold

at which we're applying the residential

versus the commercial code.

That's something that Memphis has done.

You know, I think it kicks in at three right now.

We could increase that up to six, something like that.

And then the other is to do what Seattle, Honolulu,

the entire states of Minnesota, now Connecticut,

and Washington have now all done,

which is to allow for single-stair buildings.

I just, I really think there's a lot of opportunity there

for more efficient buildings, more cross-ventilation,

more comfortable buildings, more family-oriented units

that have larger, you know, number of subbedrooms.

Like there's just a lot there.

And I think it's just a common sense modernization

to the code that has, you know, the potential for big impact.

So I know that there's so much on the list.

I'm not like trying to add, I don't,

I'm not pretending like that will be, you know,

completed next year, but if we can at least, you know,

add that to the list of things that we're looking at

as a part of the building department building

and the building code,

and just kind of start that conversation next year.

I think that would be great.

That's all I have.

Thanks.

Commissioner Keita.

Commissioner Reshky.

Thank you.

So thank you so much for this great report.

This was really exciting to read,

and congratulations on this great work and this plan.

So just a couple of comments.

I think the, you had a line out of mind on tree requirements.

And I wanted to sort of relate that to the goal,

eight, you know, to this unique and varied sense of place

and natural and urban elements for hometown pride.

I really want to keep our city of trees data.

And it seems like, you know,

there's a lot of tree planting programs of plant kind of big trees,

but not really not really the ones that it really make an impact.

And I notice, you know, if you walk through like Curtis Park,

North Curtis Park, and there's all these big,

really old oak trees, or you walk through Oak Park,

where there's maybe a palm tree here there and not much shade,

do you really notice the difference?

And I think there's, I've heard there's something like a 7,000 or more.

This was years ago, so probably more by now,

property value, you know, increase just by living by big trees.

And so I don't know.

I think planning these big trees is really difficult

in also achieving some of the housing types really.

So I don't know if there's a way to look at, you know,

doing a density bonus or an exemption from bulk requirements

or something like that, if they're willing to plant like a big oak tree

or something that would really make them have to be a little bit more creative

with the way they use the lot.

Or, you know, if someone's doing an ADU,

if they also plant a large tree like that,

can they have, you know, a reduced impact fee or something?

So that's just sort of, some thoughts on trees.

I saw, you know, you're looking at the ADUs as well.

I've seen a lot of ADA projects fall through because of the impact fees.

It kind of, something that people don't look into and then there's like a,

a many tens of thousand dollar fee.

And so I don't know if there's a way,

it looked like you're looking for ways to sort of help finance ADUs.

So I think that would be great.

And, you know, similar to how you talked about limiting the short term rentals

to just like local residents for those ADU compensations,

you know, it seems like there's a lot of local people who want to like have their mom live there,

you know, like have their family live there or something versus, you know,

a larger out of city company or something financing that.

It looks like next month the school fees for ADUs or development is also going up nearly 50%.

So I think that's really impacting the ability to get these,

these little ADUs built because they're already so expensive per square foot

compared to a bigger project just by the nature of, you know, economy of scale.

So with, yeah, and then with the tenant protection, I think kind of echoing what others have said,

there's, again, if there's a way to protect, you know, owners who are local residents

who have like, you know, one rental unit that they're renting out while they move in with the family

and remember to help with the health issue or something, you know, if we could protect those small,

like renting out their home people from some of the more onerous requirements,

because it is so expensive to, you know, maintain repair and sure.

And keeping these mom and pop owners would be really good for, you know,

I think, tenant and owner relationships and cost of rent.

So yeah, the organic waste, I was just thinking about that because, you especially for, you know,

are saying for the figuring out for the missing middle, it seems like there's a couple,

the company that I work at the office building, they have like a bike person come by

and pick up our compost and take it to a local urban farm.

And so I noticed there's some urban farming incentives on here.

And so years ago I did a study for the California Energy Commission where we looked at,

combining, you know, urban agriculture with housing and one of the biggest benefits we found

was the reduction in carbon from taking trash trucks off the road,

because we could just take the compost there.

So like maybe looking for like a smaller local way of, you know, managing that missing middle organic waste.

And then, yeah, I think I want to, the last note I just have is,

also with, as Commissioner Caden mentioned, reducing barriers for the building code,

especially the single stair access would be really wonderful to look at on a local level.

Yeah, so thank you so much.

This is really wonderful to read.

Thanks Commissioner Rechke, Commissioner Blunt.

Yes, I'd be remiss if I didn't also congratulate you.

And I mean, it, with that much work, I mean, I see your staff come into these meetings and

present the materials and, you know, it's, it really reflects on you of how like great,

because trying to get everyone to pull in one direction it takes, yeah, it takes a talented,

capable person. So, I also, just going to keep echoing everybody else.

I too have comments about the boot camp.

When I hear it, I hear it as actually a tremendous opportunity to talk to folks about,

I love the, you know, going through the contractor requirements and all the different elements

that go into being a developer within Sacramento City. But I think part of that too is talking

about worker issues. I would love to see that be a part of it, just to educate folks on the

issues that workers face on the types of projects that these developers will be working on.

And to use it as an opportunity to try to encourage them to be a positive part of, of our community.

And just with them, no sort of what happens behind the scenes sometimes.

I have a question about the city owned 102 acre site.

So, that does not, that does not count as surplus land, right? Or what's the difference?

It certainly could. It depends on what you're

surplusing it for. Also, if it's, I believe, if it's designated as a park and a recreation use,

I believe it is in the general plan, there's ways of not doing that first offering right of refusal

for the surplus land act. So, there's, because the intention for this site is to have affordable

housing on it, market rate housing, we are still looking at developing a larger community

amenity, potentially a sports complex, accessible by the community. So, that's something we've

been studying looking at is the how the Surplus Land Act interacts with that when we're generally

thinking this is something that could be purchased by a larger master developer and portioned sold.

So, the act applies, but I think it's also there's some aspects of how you designate the land before

you sell it. That answers your question. Yeah. It just isn't right. So, that's okay, cool. Yeah, I'm

very intrigued by the public private partnership idea and it's quite exciting, but maybe a sports

complex, I think that's fantastic. Yeah, I just close it up on my end. Again, congratulations and

I'm really, really impressed. I mean, you know, we know that the city is facing major budget issues

and it's, you know, it's not an easy time financially for the city, but your team is

striving despite all that and checking a lot of boxes. So, thank you.

Commissioner Chase? Now, I have Commissioner, or sorry, Commissioner Blanton, now we have Commissioner Chase.

Thank you, Chair. Griggy, you kind of mentioned, I think, or touched on some of the constraints

beyond perhaps planning and building and one of those, of course, is the fire code and the local

fire department, city fire department as well as the state fire marshal on some of these things.

Coordination, I think, and having them involved and these, as we move forward, it's very,

very critical. Otherwise, you don't want to run into that wall, you know, to fire down the road.

I've found this out last three and that four years dealing with homelessness and the fire

issues that have come up in terms of distance and spacing between units. You know, you can certainly

achieve a lot of things with ratings, fire ratings between the buildings, but there's a cost

factor there. So, it's important, I think, to keep them, you know, keep the fire department

either local or state at the table on these issues. Some of the things, you know, that may get

involved, for instance, the, it's not like the movable ADUs kind of a program would likely get

going beyond just the city and get the HCD involved, who would be overseeing those, and that would

then bring in the state fire marshal, not the local city fire department. So, again, just critical

to have everybody at the table at the same time moving forward. For those projects like that,

the city building department is really just going to be looking at the utility connections

to that unit and not be inspecting the movable unit itself. Could either be HCD sometimes,

or even DMV regulated, but more likely, I would think, probably HCD here. The single-steer

thing is issue is a very interesting issue. A year's ago, many, many buildings, high-rise buildings

in New York City have a single-steer, but it's what's called a scissors there. You enter that at

different points, you know, closer together than the code will now allow, and they unfortunately

are not allowed anyone. I think it's a big mistake, because a lot left on the ground, left missing.

Once you've entered into each part of the steer, you've completely separated from the people above

you by a rated enclosure between the two stairs. So, it's essentially the same as having two

stairs at the end of the building, however, they're just all integrated into one. It's kind of an

MCS approach to exiting. Work great. It's still working in New York City and other major cities,

why it was, you know, disallowed, I'm not sure, but as we get into smaller footprints,

the efficiency of that floor plate is really critical. And that second steer can take up a

tremendous amount of room. And, you know, render a project, perhaps, you know, just not feasible

as it moves forward. So, I would certainly encourage, you know, as we move forward looking forward to,

you know, working with the building department again, that's what the building department and

the fire department will come in to see what kind of perhaps code changes need to be modified,

working with the Building Standards Commission too, which, you know, actually makes the changes,

they publish the changes, but they're really made by committees and other parties that bring

those changes to the table. So, again, just wanted to add those thoughts to the conversation here.

Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Commissioner Chase. Okay, I think this was a review and comment.

I think we've got lots of review and lots of comments. Thank you.

Moving on to the next item. Number three, planning and design commission 2024 annual report.

We'll hear from Stayshow for this one.

Yes, thank you, Chair. So, I'm happy to be here with you tonight to kick off the preparation of

the commission's 2024 annual report. This item is for reviewing comment only tonight. Staff

soliciting your feedback on the draft report that we've prepared. So, I'll take your comments

and incorporate any updates and then return to the commission's November 14 meeting with the final

draft of the report. Just to give a little bit of background, it was in March 2023 that Council

updated its rules of procedure document, which among other things established this annual report

requirement for all city boards and commissions. And the goal of the annual report is to

give boards and commissions the ability to communicate their accomplishments and their priorities

with both Council but also with public. The annual report is first reviewed by the commission

itself and then by the personnel and public employees or PMPE committee and then moved on to

Council as a receive and file item. So, that's the path that it will follow.

The draft report that's in your packet this evening follows a template that's been provided

by the clerk's office. So, all the boards and commissions will have a very similar

product at the end of the day. What I want to do is walk you through the report itself.

So, we're familiar with all the different sections. It's attachment three in your staff report.

I'll start on page three, which is the introduction.

This page discusses the establishment of this particular commission, which was in 2012,

in this version of the commission, how the commissioners are appointed and the list of the

current members. And then on page four, there's a list of past commissioners from 2023.

Some of you are still here, some of whom have termed out or left, but it's important to recognize

their participation. So, they're included on page four. Page five begins a summary of the

purpose, powers, and duties of the commission. This is taken directly from Title Two of the City Code.

At the bottom of the page, you'll see a highlighted section, which is a new component of the

annual report this year. It will be a message from our chair, which will be included in the November

report. Starting on page six is really kind of the meat of the report. This is the key accomplishments

section. And so to prepare this section, I've gone through all of the meetings this year

and put together the attachment four, which you'll see in your staff report. So, it's all the

action items that have taken place to this point and then what we're projecting will be on the

agendas for the rest of the year. I'm not proposing that that attachment four be a permanent part of

the report, but it's just provided to the commission tonight for to kind of feed into your conversation,

prompt some conversation on that. The commission will have held 18 meetings in 2024 and heard and

anticipated 62 agenda items. This represents a 17% increase over the number of agenda items for

2023. So, if you feel like it's been a busy year, it has been a busy year, as you can tell from

from Greg's presentation. And we anticipate that will continue. The division of work between

private projects and policy items is roughly the same as it was this last year. It's about half

and half waited a little bit more towards private projects. There were 33 private development projects

or we're anticipating we'll finish the year with 33 private development projects where the

commission is either taking final action or making a recommendation to council. The 22 of those

projects involved a request for a conditional use permit. So, that's kind of the predominant

ask. That's a slight increase from last year. And the number of reason requests though was down. So,

we had seven last year, we only have three this year. The use permits were primarily for alcohol sales,

equipment and storage yards. We had a couple of gas stations drive through restaurants and some

other smattering of other CDOPs, but there were no cannabis use permits this year, which was

a change from the past many years. The commission heard three appeals this year for projects that

were decided initially at the director level. That was included contemporary commons, project

American River One project and 860 Ardenway use permit. We overall just in the planning

division we have 12 full time staff positions that are dedicated to processing between 600 to 700

planning applications every year. And of those applications fewer than 10% of them come before

the commission and council. So, that kind of shows you that you're really seeing like the tip of the

iceberg of kind of what's going on. And as commissioner mcisry to point it out that was an intentional

shift in 2020 to to have the commission focus more on policy items and shift item development projects

that were consistent with code or had maps or deviations, but we're meeting the purpose and intent

to the code down to the staff and director level. Beginning on page seven,

we have items listed from last year's work planning and zoning work program that the commission heard and

they're listed here in chronological order and I'll continue to update this table in the report

as we sort of moved towards the end of 2024. But the planning division as you know has just over 15

FTE that are devoted to this work. On page nine I added a section on training because we are

anticipating a brown act training scheduled for October 24th. So, I want to make sure that we include

that as something that the commission has done this year. Page nine, or I'm sorry, page 10 is a

section on commission resources extended. So, the report template requires information to estimate

the average meeting cost for each of the boards and commissions. The yearly cost for 2023 and 2024

are provided here in the summary and then there's a breakdown at the expenditures that's included on

the table for the per meeting cost. Overall the cost for this commission went up in 2024 and that's

most likely due to a couple of different reasons. First, that 17% increase in hearing items. So

just more time spent preparing reports and attendance for those items. The per meeting time has increased.

I would say substantially this year. On average last year the meetings were about an hour and a half.

This year they're currently at about two and a half hours when you average them across all the meetings

that we've had so far. So that causes the increase. And then also planning staff's hourly rate was

increased in July. And that's something that I've taken into account by providing a per rated amount

for the hearings that were January through June and then the higher amount for the second half of

the year. And that's reflected on the table. And then finally page 11 is the work plan for the

upcoming year. And in terms of identifying commission priorities I'd like to recommend as we did

last year that we include the work plan that Greg just went over to represent what we anticipate

the commission will be working on addressing in the new year because we've seen it's pretty comprehensive.

So just to wrap things up the planning and zoning work program will go to long-ledged

then to council for adoption, ideally in January. So we would take that adopted work plan,

attach it and go to P and P E with that final complete report and then on to council.

So any comments or suggestions you have for the annual report tonight I'll take those, wrap them

up, bring it back in November. And with that I'm available for any questions or comments. Thank you.

I'm going to ask if there's any speaker slips for this item clerk.

Thank you, Chair. I have no speaker slips for this item. All right, great. We will have our conversation.

For stuff we have Commissioner Blunt. Thank you for your work on this. This is really cool.

And I just have one question. She really kind of went through all of the

items in all sort of the minutiae of what we've been doing as a group of people. But I'm

just wondering if you considered working in public comment or like the, or if, and even,

yeah, I'm not sure what that would look like, but.

How do you mean? What do you mean? How?

Well, just in the sense that there have been items where a lot of people have come out and

given public comment and had opinions on things or participated on certain items.

That might be worth documenting and taking note of.

I hadn't considered that just because the report tends to focus more on the operations of the

commission and less on the particulars of those specific projects. That's why it's not here

currently. Cool. Thanks. That's it.

Commissioner Blunt. Commissioner Mosseus Reed.

I think this report is extremely helpful because oftentimes I feel like I've had to kind of sit

back and do some background research myself to go back and say, okay, what, you know, and also when

we're trying to, you know, make recommendations for the work plan coming up, you know, it's,

I think, going back to, to, to look at what was controversial or what were the main

issues that we're doing with over the year. It's really helpful to have this report because

really just visually, right? I can see from this report that I think the most striking thing for me

was under the private development applications, we had 33 and 22 of them were alcohol-related

CUPs. And so to me, that is a flag. I don't want to say red flag, but a flag that, you know,

what was a really big hot topic issue for us for many years on planning commission, which was

cannabis, right? And we're moving forward with really sort of refining the ordinance and the

recommendations there. What I'm seeing now is that we're having the majority of our private

project applications are coming in related to alcohol. And I feel like I'm sort of having

deja vu in a sense with the alcohol-CUPs that are coming in deja vu of the process we went

through with cannabis. And I mean that to say that refining our goals and our intentions around

how we approve cannabis CUPs are going to be really critical for us if we're going to be seeing

this amount moving forward. For example, we, I want to say two or three years ago, we started

implementing or staff started including in some of the staff reports. I think, and correct me if

I'm wrong, Stisha, or in Greg, it was a healthy places index, right? That was never used in the past.

And I think maybe there were some commissioners at some point who said, you know, what are we

using any tools? Are there any tools out there to help us determine like what is over-concentration

of alcohol? Because we're having, again, just like with cannabis, we'd have these one-off

meetings where it wouldn't be controversial and then you'd have a host of people from the community

coming out against an application. And so it makes it very difficult for us to do our job of

being consistent with our goals and our objectives when we're taking amount of case-by-case basis.

And really what's impacting our decision often times with those controversial issues or CUPs is

when we have a huge influx of community members coming out in opposition. And so what I want to do

is really avoid having that happen in the future. And this is why I think it would be possibly

helpful to have some kind of a workshop at commission to just kind of roll over. We just had

general plan updates, which means we had ordinance updates and changes. Looks like from the last

time we had an alcohol CUP, which I believe was last month, we were no longer using the healthy

places index and now are using some environmental justice policies from the general plan, which

as important and critical as it was to include them in the general plan, I feel like we really

still need some guidance as a commission around how we are using them in our decisions.

So I really would, again, this was very telling 22 of 33. So if that's what the future of our projects

are going to look like at commission, I would really like to just get some clear direction on what

tools we'll be using, what's the whole staff will be using, and maybe a little workshop and having

a discussion on how we're going to sort of move forward and make some of those decisions.

Other than that, these reports are really great. So thank you, Stasia. Appreciate it.

On the alcohol, I thought about spending some time and going back and, you know, in past years,

just to see what are we really looking at in terms of trends. It's, there were eight CUPs this year

out of the 22 were related to alcohol. So, but I don't know if that's more than normal. I think

we had a couple of agendas where they all seem to cluster on, so it felt a little bit impactful.

But that's something that I think would be interesting to look at.

All right, Commissioner Chase. Thank you, Commissioner Messias.

Thank you, Chair. Thanks, Stasia. Great report. We should have

singled you out as well when we complemented Greg and the staff on all the great work you've done

tremendous job for this commission, as always. I want to follow up quickly on the commission

and the sizes reads coming on the healthy places, because I remember I asked you about that. So

several years ago, could what is it? Can we use it? Can we get a workshop? But I think we did get

an explanation of it. But then sort of didn't, and I guess perhaps because the general plan is

kicking in to cover, I do agree that it would be, I'd sound like it was offering a lot of potential

to be able to help evaluate projects. I think we should reconsider, you know, using as a tool,

as appropriate as a move for Horde. It seemed like it had a lot of promise.

And really quickly for the record, sorry, Stasia, I did miss beak. It was eight related to alcohol,

not 22. One other thing, you probably covered this a couple of years ago, because I appreciate

your listing of the former commissioners, for instance, 2023. I couldn't help but think,

well, one who just brought a tremendous amount of input to this commission over the years. That

was show ye, but he was probably mentioned in a earlier one. The last thought I had is going

through here, as I see you've, you've got a cost of the support to this commission, what,

227,000, any sense of how that compares to either on a compare commissioner basis or whatever,

to other jurisdictions? I don't know. And I don't know what we do with that information.

I know. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Commissioner Chase.

I have a couple of things. So I have to write this,

Chair's message and some of the things that commissioners are discussing are things that I

think I might refer to. And I do think, like giving that context of like community engagement,

working with new tools, trying to start to apply new general plan policies,

as definitely the work, that's the, you know, the bulk of our work and it's all new and so we're all

kind of filling our way through. The alcohol CUP issue, if you want, I can actually speak to it

in the comments because it's my understanding that a lot of those were occurred because ABC

decided that we didn't have an open concentration of type 21 licenses and so everybody was moving

from one type of license to include heart alcohol in addition to beer and wine. So that's

fine to highlight and I think gives some context to the council and to the community about why it might

seem that we're just a soloontown once again. And then I was, yeah, and I think that's all I

had to say. Yeah, that was going to say that the HPI was in those staff reports though. I think

we just are struggling to balance the environmental justice policies with the old economic development

ones. So that's really the crux of that challenge and that's all I have to say for now and I will

head back. Last one, unpopular opinion here, but when we were going through many years ago,

the streamlining process at commission, for the record, I respect every commissioner who has,

it was I'm serving with now and who I've served with in the past and have learned so much from

all of you. But we are a 13-member body and I think, you know, if we're just talking about operationally

if we're wanting to cut costs and be more efficient, unpopular opinion, but I really think that 13

members is too many. And I think I would love to explore the idea of reconsidering the size of

the commission. I don't have any other comments from commissioners, so I think we will let you

proceed with those thoughts and that would bring us to the meeting. Are there any commissioner comments

ideas and questions? Anybody? No? Okay. I guess I'll do it here. So I just wanted to acknowledge

the passing of a great giant in our community earlier this week. Bill Camp was the leader of the

Sacramento Central Labor Council until I think 2017 or 2018. And after an illness, he passed on Monday

night, I believe. And if you go to the Sacramento Council's website, they have a sort of really beautiful

work. What's the word? Obituary. That sort of explains that I learned a lot about Bill. I actually met him

on this dius on my first commission sort of service for the Registration Commission about 10 years ago.

I guess 12 years ago. And he started his career in the civil rights movement when he was in college.

And he didn't get his PhD from Duke University because he was organizing workers at Duke. And they

basically said, you need to leave. And we'll give you a terminal master's degree. So I thought

that was pretty cool. He's someone who really stood up for his principles and fought really hard

for working people. So that was my comment. And I see commissioner Chase. Thank you. Just a quick

question for Stacia. How many of our commission members here are termed out this year? Are they going to be open

positions? And now we have two to two term limits. And I don't know off hand. I don't want to miss speak.

Yeah. So.

Is this working? All right. Jacob Redberg office of the city clerk. The terms that are

expiring this year are all of the. All of the even council member terms as well as mayor terms. I

don't think we have any personal and public employees committee appointed seats expiring. So that seats.

BDF H. Get BDF and H. Actually, it looks like.

The mayor seat extends a little longer for whatever reason, but we'll look into that. So again,

yeah, district the district to appointee for six and eight of those seats, Jacob. Thanks. Thanks. Are there two

turn limits to the commission's correct. So city could ones that are coming up. How many are at this?

Be getting termed out. That information. I don't have on hand at this moment, but I can. I can speak with

you individually and we can figure that out. Seriously, have any new faces. We're going to see at some point here. Thanks. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Chase. Public comments matters not on the agenda clerk. Do we have any comments?

Thank you, Chair. We have no speaker slips on the item. All right. And that's it. We are adjourned. Thanks, everybody. Have a good night.