Good evening. Welcome to the February 27th, 2025 Planning and Design Commission. The meeting

is now called to order. Will the clerk please call roll to establish a quorum.

Thank you, Chair. Commissioner Lee.

Here.

Commissioner Lamas.

It's absent. Commissioner Nibbo.

Here.

Commissioner Caden.

Here.

Commissioner Hernandez.

Here.

Commissioner Mossesry.

Here.

Commissioner Wallace.

Here.

Commissioner Blunt.

Here.

Vice Chair Chase.

It's absent. Commissioner Risky.

Here.

Commissioner Thompson.

It's absent and Chair Young.

Here.

Thank you. We have a quorum.

All right. I'd like to remind members of the public and the chambers that if you would

like to speak on an agenda item, please turn in a speaker slip when the item begins.

You will have three minutes to speak once you are called on after the first speaker.

We will no longer accept speaker slips. We will now proceed with today's agenda.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgment in honor of Sacramento's Indigenous People

and Travel Lands.

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

Plains Miwok, Patwin Wintu 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 together together today in the active practice

of acknowledgment and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous People's history, contributions,

and lives.

Please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic.

It stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

All right, first we'll have our directors report from Stacia.

Thank you, Chair.

One item for the directors report this evening.

I just want to let the commission know that the commission's 2024 annual report was received

and filed by the City Council this week.

I'll have more information for you and a schedule at a later date concerning the two recommendations.

That the commission included in the annual report.

That concerned a discussion related to the number of seats on the commission and an

offsite alcohol use permit workshop.

And so I'll have more information on that in the future.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you.

All right, our next order of business today is the approval of the consent calendar.

Clark, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the consent calendar?

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speaker slips on this item.

Thank you.

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

Or make a motion in a second or a second for the consent calendar?

Someone, there we go.

Thank you, Alina.

Thank you, motion to approve.

Thank you.

Second.

All right.

Have a motion and a second by Commissioner Hernandez and Commissioner Wallace.

Would clerk please call the roll for vote.

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioner Lee.

Aye.

Commissioner Lamas.

It's absent.

Commissioner Nibbo.

You're all right.

That's not going to be an absent.

All right.

Aye.

That's not going to be an absent.

Sorry, Commissioner Nibbo.

Was that a yes?

Yes.

Commissioner Caden.

Aye.

Commissioner Hernandez.

Aye.

Commissioner Mossesry.

Aye.

Commissioner Wallace.

Aye.

Commissioner Blan.

Aye.

Vice Chair Chase.

It's absent.

Commissioner Risky.

Aye.

Commissioner Thompson.

Commissioner Risky.

Aye.

Commissioner Thompson.

It's absent.

And Chair Young.

Aye.

Thank you.

The motion passes.

All right.

Thank you.

We will now proceed to the discussion calendar.

Item two is the Wood Spring Suite Hotel Reson.

P24-013.

Jose will be doing a presentation.

Good evening, commissioners.

Chair Young.

My name is Jose Quintanilla.

Associate planner with the community development department.

The item before you this evening is P24-013.

Wood Spring Suite Hotel Reson.

A request to develop a four-story, 122 room hotel.

At 2270 Del Paso Road.

Within the Natomas Crossing, planned unit development in North

Natomas.

The project site is currently zone employment center, EC50PUD.

It is proposed to be rezoned to General Commercial, C2PUD.

It has a 2040 General Plan Designation of Employment Center of Employment and Mixed Use.

The surrounding area consists of multi-unit residential to the southeast.

Commercial uses to the north and vacant land to the west.

Additionally, a future light rail station serving the green line extension is planned.

The west of the project site at Terracina Drive and Truxel Road.

This project requires approval of the following entitlements.

A reason of 2.09 acres from EC50PUD to C2PUD.

A planned unit development, PUD schematic plan amendment for the Natomas Crossing area 1.

PUD schematic plan to allow for hotels.

A planned and design review to construct a four-story, 50,922 square foot and 122 room hotel

and associated site improvements.

Because of the rezoned, City Code requires that all entitlements must be approved by the City Council.

The employment center zone permits land uses in two categories.

Primary and support retail.

Support retail uses are limited to a maximum of 10% of the overall PUD net acreage.

Hotels are considered support retail.

The 10% threshold has been reached in this PUD and therefore a rezoned is necessary to allow for hotel development on the site.

The proposed C2PUD zoning is consistent with the employment mixed use designation in the 2040 General Plan,

which encourages employment supportive uses in proximity to higher density and mixed use housing.

The PUD schematic plan is designated to the site for office use to accommodate the hotel the project proposes amending the PUD schematic plan to include commercial and office use, which includes hotels.

Additionally, this project requires site plan and design review approval for the construction of the hotel and site improvements.

On screen is the proposed site plan on the following slides will be the landscape plan.

The proposed hotel development consists of four stories.

It's 122 rooms and measures a total of 50,922 square feet.

The project complies with all applicable development standards of the City Code.

Here is the landscape plan.

So let me go back to the site plan so you can see and then the landscape plan.

These are the elevations.

And then we have a daytime and a nighttime rendering.

So notification of the project and this hearing were provided to all neighborhood associations, residents and property owners within 500 feet of the subject site, staff received no public comments.

Staff recommends that the planning and design commission pass a motion recommending city council approve the request and entitlements as a project encourages employment supportive uses in proximity to high density and mixed use residential areas.

It enhances development flexibility within the site promotes key policies for north to Thomas that encourage a job housing balance and provides valuable service to both the business and tourism sectors.

Thank you. This concludes my presentation.

I'm going to ask you to answer questions and the applicant is also present and has a brief presentation.

Thanks.

Good evening commissioners, chair young. For those of you I haven't gotten a chance to meet you.

My name is Merce Fuentes with Taylor Wiley and Keesling and we represent the applicant.

I just wanted to say thanks to staff for all their hard work. Thanks to Jose, that was a great staff report, great presentation.

I did prepare a short PowerPoint presentation, but I actually think you covered a majority of it. And I just wanted to emphasize one slide if we could go to slide for I believe.

Oh, I do.

Okay. So I just wanted to share this slide with you guys because it provides some regional context.

You'll see our project site highlighted in green.

Basically emphasizing the project's location in a well connected urban area and how it's surrounded by existing office and commercial uses.

I also just wanted to use this slide to illustrate to proposed projects and uses nearby the project.

You'll know the Cal North State University Hospital just to the west of us.

Typically these projects take a couple years to build out. You'll have construction workers coming into town, contractors, subcontractors, staying in our community for a couple months at a time.

And we think that our extended stay sweet style hotel rooms would provide great accommodations for those folks.

And then of course at the build out of the hospital and medical campus, you'll have traveling nurses coming through our town.

You'll have family members that are visiting patients who might be staying at the hospital for an extended amount of time.

And then also to the north, you'll see our North Natomas regional park.

We currently have a bunch of baseball fields out there.

And as you guys know, typically youth sports tournaments when folks are coming to town for that.

You have mom, dad, younger brother, younger sister coming along for the ride.

So again, we think that our extended stay sweet style rooms would really help serve their accommodation needs as well.

But otherwise this was the one slide I just wanted to share with you guys.

I wanted to say thanks again. I'm here to answer any specific questions you have.

We also have our engineering team here if you guys have any design related questions. So thanks.

Before we move on to discussion and questions, are there any disclosures or recusals for this item from the commission?

Right, Commissioner Lee. Yes, I met with a representative of the applicant consistent with the staff report.

You, Commissioner Hernandez.

Thank you. I received an email from the applicant, but we were not able to set up a time to meet.

I'll just ask you. One else. Okay. I also met with the applicant's representative.

And it was consistent with the staff report. Thank you.

Clerk, are there any speaker slips for this item?

Thank you, Chair. I have no speaker slips for this item.

All right. Does the commission have any questions for the staff for the applicant or any motions from the commission?

Commissioner Reed.

Thank you, Chair. I would like to make a motion to approve staff's recommendation.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. I think once they actually are able to build out the Cal State North, the North State.

I'm going to chop it up. So I'm just going to leave it at that.

When they actually build that project, it's going to be needed. So yeah, fully support the project.

Thank you. Commissioner Kaden.

Second.

Oh, that was a sorry. Second. Got it. Got a second. Any other comments, questions?

Okay. Have a motion from Macias Reed and a second from Commissioner Kaden.

Will the clerk please call the roll for vote?

Thank you, Chair. Commissioner Lee.

Aye.

Commissioner Lamas. Aye.

Commissioner Naiba. Aye.

Commissioner Kaden. Aye.

Commissioner Hernandez. Aye.

Commissioner Macias Reed. Aye.

Commissioner Wallace. Aye.

Commissioner Blunt. Aye.

Vice Chair Chase is absent.

Commissioner Rishki. Aye.

Commissioner Thompson is absent and Chair Young. Aye.

Thank you. The motion passes.

Congratulations.

All right. Moving on to item three and ordinance amending various provisions of Title 17 of the Sacramento.

CD code relating to off-street vehicle parking requirements.

Presentation from Ryan.

Okay.

Good evening, Chair and Commissioners. I'm Ryan Dodge, Associate Planner and Long Range Planning.

Staff recommendation for this item is for the Planning and Design Commission to pass a motion and for a recommendation to City Council to approve a resolution relating to environmental review and an ordinance amending Title 17 of the Sacramento City Code removing minimum vehicle parking requirements.

Removing minimum vehicle parking requirements builds on a series of parking reforms that the city has implemented over the past 12 years.

In 2013, the city eliminated all minimum vehicle parking parking requirements on the central business and arts and entertainment district, which is a parking district, one of four currently.

Parking minimums for certain non-residential projects citywide.

In 2019 through the transit-oriented development ordinance, the city removed minimum parking requirements within a quarter mile of existing and proposed libel stations.

In January 2023, the state passed assembly bill AB 2097, which wouldn't affect that January.

To further encourage housing production, prohibiting minimum parking mandates within half mile of what the state defines as a major transit stop.

And that area covers about 44% of the city.

So a year ago today, City Council approved the 2040 general plan, which included a new citywide policy, LUP for God 14 that end a minimum off street vehicle parking mandates.

So this general plan policy has been in effect since March 28, 2024 when the adopted 2040 general plan took effect.

The general plan is implemented through zoning specific plans and other city plans and programs.

The city needs to ensure that the city codes ordinances and other policy documents are consistent with the city's general plan.

At this time, the city code still shows minimum parking requirements.

This ordinance has been prepared specifically to clean up the city code to make it consistent with the general plan.

Staff recommend that the planning and design commission forward a recommendation to the city council to approve the environmental review resolution and the ordinance to men title 17 of the Sacramento City code to remove minimum off street vehicle parking requirements from the code to ensure consistency with the 2040 general plan.

I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you.

Are there any members of the committee?

Thank you, Chair. I have no speaker slips on this item.

Great. Thank you. Do we have any questions for staff or motions from the commission?

Commissioner Lee?

Yeah, just one to start by thanking staff for their work on this.

For years, I've been following how the housing crisis has really affected so many lives and how policies like parking requirements play a role in shaping housing affordability and supply.

This policy is a really both step in moving forward to reduce barriers to development and really hoping that it will contribute to increasing both affordability and housing stock in our city.

That said, it also introduces new challenges, challenges that cities across California are actively grappling with momentarily.

There's really no clear playbook yet for managing this transition particularly in how parking supply and demand shift from individual projects to cities which has in some cases increased demand for on street parking that existing residents businesses and visitors rely on.

So I really appreciate what the city's parking division is doing in terms of piloting the supplemental parking permit program to address this issue.

As we continue refining these policies, I just really encourage early coordination between the community development department and parking staff when developments with little to no parking are proposed.

That's what we really hope ensure that projects integrate well into existing parking conditions. Again, I really appreciate staff's work on this and I look forward to seeing how we can continue to refine our approach to ensure successful projects and communities.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Blunt.

Thank you very much to the staff for all the work on this.

It's hard for me.

Being a resident, you know, and someone who has a car, there are moments where I'm like, I don't know how this works out.

But I understand the point and I get the central idea of it.

I'm with Commissioner Lee and the sentiment of I'm very much in favor of development.

I think that we have, you know, it's obvious we have a housing crisis.

So we need to do, make measures to do things to get more housing.

But at the same time, I just, I look at this and it's, I feel like if we're going to be giving this, this is an incentive for more construction, right?

More development.

And with incentives, I feel like if we're going to give stuff away, we should be getting stuff back.

So that's my hesitance on this.

Yeah, that's just a food for thought.

So thank you.

Commissioner Katie.

Yeah, I mean, just a clarifying question, right?

I mean, this action essentially already happened with the general plan.

And this is sort of a cleanup.

Is that the way to characterize this?

Is there anything that is happening here today that goes beyond an action that we've already taken with the general plan?

That is correct. The general plan created the policy.

So when that went into effect, that's what we've been using.

So anytime anybody comes in, we follow the general plan policy.

We don't look at the code at this time because the code is inconsistent and has minimum parking requirements.

It could be confusing to the public thinking that we might still have them.

Right. Well, thank you.

And, you know, extremely proud of our city that we've done this.

I think, you know, we're probably at least top five.

Like we're one of the largest cities in the country to do this.

I mean, I know Austin and San Jose San Francisco, but the list is pretty small for cities of our size that have done this.

So extremely proud of our city.

I think it's great for sustainability.

It's great for affordability.

So happy to move the item.

Thank you.

Motion from Commissioner Caden.

Commissioner Lee.

I'll second that.

You.

I had a, oh, Commissioner Wallace.

Very good.

Because I'm old.

I just wanted to note that I remember when in here did a story on the high cost of free parking by Donald Shoop,

who passed away, is it late, late earlier this month?

And so I think it's really fitting that we're making this motion today.

And that so many great people who even who live here have, were fortunate enough to work with him and under him.

And it's really cool to see someone's legacy live beyond them.

So.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Commissioner Nibbo.

Forgive me for reminiscing, but I was around in 2013 when we did the first one for the Central City.

And this room was packed.

It was a very aggressive stance at that time.

And it's it's stood up to the, to the test of time.

There's been a few times I kind of regretted it, but for the most part it's, and I'm really proud what the city has done since.

And I, I, I wholeheartedly support this.

This is a great thing for the city.

Thank you.

The second.

Someone second it.

Commissioner Lee.

Thank you.

All right.

And do you have any other comments additional comments?

Okay.

I think just for my thoughts, I mean, the affordable housing sector, like the cost of parking comes out to be like, and this was 10 years ago, like 30,000 a unit.

And so, you know, just kind of do the mental math, right, and kind of how this potentially save costs saves costs for housing.

So, appreciate the fine work.

I believe there's also like a kind of a subcommittee that's also dealing with parking strategy.

Yeah, so we have a separate project that we're working on.

We started in July 2023 and getting rid of parking minimums was part of that project until the general plan.

Past it in February 2024.

Part of that is looking at parking management.

We're creating a tool kit.

We had a couple of members of this commission on working group.

We met three times.

We did outreach as well, community workshops, a couple rounds of it.

So, we did have a draft parking strategy out there, which also includes increased minimum bicycle parking requirements as part of it as well.

And we'll be coming back to this commission, sometimes the spring, I believe, with a final version of it.

We had a draft out to the public up until December 2, 2024.

And we're still processing the comments and working through and making sure that we're responsive.

Thank you.

All right.

Having seen no other comments, we have a motion to forward the recommendation to City Council as detailed in the staff report.

Will the clerk please call the roll for the vote?

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioner Lee?

Aye.

Commissioner Lomas?

Aye.

Commissioner Nibbo?

Aye.

Commissioner Kaden?

Aye.

Commissioner Hernandez?

Aye.

Commissioner Maseus Reign?

Aye.

Commissioner Wallace?

Aye.

Commissioner Blant?

No.

Vice Chair Chase?

Is absent?

Commissioner Rishki?

Aye.

Commissioner Thompson?

Is absent and Chair Young?

Aye.

Thank you, and the motion passes.

Thank you.

Clerk, are there any other moving on to the next item?

Members, comments, ideas, questions?

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

Okay.

And then, Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the public comments?

Matters not on the agenda.

Thank you, Chair.

I have no speaker slips on this item.

Great.

So now we move to the most important part of this time.

This is Commissioner Wallace.

This is last meeting.

I am extremely sad, but yet hopeful for all the good work that we're going to see Maya do outside of the commission.

But we'll dearly miss her insight, her passion, and her love for this community.

But I know she's going to be out there pounding the pavement and doing some awesome work.

And so we wanted to take this time to give the commission a chance to give their thanks and their time.

And then we want to also give you some time for any final words that you have to say to the commission and to the public.

So I'm going to give this time for the commission to share anything they want to say and thank you to Maya.

Well, I wanted to thank all of you for being really great co-conspirators in the effort to make Sacramento the most awesome city in America.

The staff, I've known a lot of the staff over the years, we used to be in bowling leagues together and stuff.

And it's really fun to sort of work together on different sides of an issue over time and get to see things come to fruition that we've only dreamed of.

And we're told we're crazy when we're in grad school, if you're me.

And so I've really appreciated the time to work on all of the issues that we've worked on.

I will not miss our knockdown dragouts fights over cannabis and alcohol.

I'm not going to admit.

And I'm not going far. I'm not leaving this commission, but I'm going back on to the arts culture and creative economy commission, which is where I started.

And I feel even better equipped to advocate for policies around equity and inclusion across our city that I think are really essential to making Sacramento a livable place for everybody that has opportunity for all.

And just sort of noting that we are in very uncertain and difficult times.

I encourage you all to dig deep and find your leadership because it is deeply needed and it probably will be for the foreseeable future.

So with that, thank you so much.

Any members on the commission who wish to share a word or two?

Commissioner Messia's read.

I just want to say thank you.

You know, my like she said, you started at the arts commission and I'm really glad to hear that you're back for all those exact same reasons and just second, whatever it is that she said.

So thanks, Mia. I know we have we'll have another new face on the commission looking forward to inviting them.

And thank you for your time. Thank you for your service.

Commissioner Lomas.

Thank you, Chair. Commissioner Wallace. I also want to thank you for your service.

Not only to this commission, but for the work that you've been doing on behalf of Sacramento for many years.

You're a wealth of knowledge and it's been a privilege to kind of tap into some of that knowledge during our discussions here, but it's evident how important Sacramento is to you and to making it a better place for all of us.

So I appreciate the time we got to spend with you on the commission here and look forward to the great work you can do on the Arts and Culture Commission.

Thank you.

Anyone else? Okay.

We have some flowers for you and a certificate from the city of Sacramento and some thank you cards, which I will hand out over to you in a second.

Thank you.

First of all, I think I've also become a better person because I see the heart and passion and the care that you have for everyone in the city and beyond.

I think that I am very confident that wherever you go, whatever that aroma is of care that you give off, right?

That aura as the young generation likes to call it will just be passing on to other folks and you'll be prepping the next generation to fight the good fight.

So thank you very much, Maya.

And with that concludes today's agenda. The meeting is adjourned.