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Good evening. Welcome to the December 11th, 2025 Planning and Design Commission meeting.
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The meeting is now called to order. Will the clerk please call the roll to establish a quorum?
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Thank you, Chair. Commissioners, please unmute. Commissioner Lee?
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Commissioner Hernandez is absent.
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Commissioner Massas-Reed?
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Commissioner Rischke?
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Commissioner Thompson?
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I'd like to remind members of the public and chambers that if you'd like to speak on an agenda item,
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please turn in a speaker slip when the item begins.
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You will have three minutes to speak once you are called on.
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After the first speaker, we will no longer accept speaker slips.
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We will now proceed with today's agenda.
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please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands.
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To the original people of this land, the Nisanon people, the Southern Maidu Valley and Plains Miwok,
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Patwin-Wintoon peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe,
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may we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today
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on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather together today
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in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation
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for Sacramento's indigenous people's history, contributions, and lives.
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Please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
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and to the republic for which it stands,
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one nation under God, indivisible, liberty, and justice for all.
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All right. First, we'll have the director's report from Stacia.
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Thank you, Chair. A few items for the Commission this evening.
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First, an update on some projects that have been approved.
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On December 9th this week, City Council approved the Beeschein Car Wash Project,
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which is located at 3601 Stockton Boulevard,
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which was recommended for approval by the Commission on November 13th.
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That same evening, Council approved the city's SB 684 ordinance related to ministerial approval of development projects of 10 or fewer dwelling units on urban lots.
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And this was recommended for approval by the commission on October 23rd.
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And finally, on December 2nd, Council approved the pre-zone and other entitlements for the Airport South Annexation Project,
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recommended for approval by the commission on June 26th.
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The second item I have is that the planning and development or the community development department is now accepting applications for the 2026 planning academy.
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This is a free 11 week program that's led by city staff.
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And what it does is it delves into current planning topics and issues concerning housing, transportation, urban design, historic preservation, climate action planning and more.
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And it's conducted in a mix of virtual and in-person meetings, including two walking tours held Monday nights from March through May.
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And the program is now in its 24th year, so we're very proud of this program.
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And I'd like to encourage you to share this with your networks or anyone who might be watching to apply.
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The application is open now, and it's open until Friday, January 23rd.
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So if you would like more information, you can just go online to the city's website.
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You can just type Sacramento Planning Academy into your browser, and it'll come right up.
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And then finally, for the commissioners, our first meeting in 2026 will be on Thursday, January 22nd.
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And at that meeting, the commission will be asked to nominate a new chair and vice chair.
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So just putting that on your radar.
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Our next order of business today is the approval of the consent calendar.
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Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the consent calendar?
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I have no speaker slips for this item.
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Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on this item?
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Any motions or seconds to approve?
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I got a motion and a second from Commissioner Blunt.
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Will the clerk please call the vote?
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Commissioner Hernandez is absent.
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Commissioner Massas-Reed?
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Commissioner Thompson?
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Thank you and the motion passes.
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Moving on to item two, Rosencourt Hotel P25-004.
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Zach will be presenting.
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Are there any disclosures or recusals for this item?
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Good evening to the chair, vice chair and fellow commissioners.
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My name is Zach Dalla, a senior planner with the community development department.
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The item before you tonight is the Rosin Court Hotel Project.
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The project is located on a vacant parcel at the northern end of Rosin Court in the highway commercial and the Northgate Regency planned unit development.
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The applicant is requesting a PUD schematic plan amendment and site plan and design review to construct a four story hotel development.
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hotel development. The applicant has identified a future restaurant pad at the eastern portion of
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the site. However, construction of this restaurant pad is not proposed at this time and is included
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for reference purposes. A PUD schematic plan amendment is requested to redesignate the project
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site from restaurant to commercial in the Northgate Regency PUD to allow for the hotel use and
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accommodate the future restaurant use. And this is consistent with the underlying highway commercial
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The proposed hotel itself would include 110 guest rooms,
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131 parking stalls with 25 EV ready spaces,
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and a variety of guest amenities
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with site access provided off of Rossin Court.
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The proposed building features a combination
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of fiber cement panels and brick veneer
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along the first floor followed by stucco
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and fiber cement panels on the upper three floors.
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The project complies with the development standards
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of the highway commercial and Northgate Regency PUD.
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except for rear yard setback, front landscape setback,
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and roof projection requirements.
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As outlined in the staff report,
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staff believes the project as designed
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meets the purpose and intent of these standards,
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and staff is supportive of the proposed details.
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Prior to today's hearing,
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staff mailed public hearing notices to all residents,
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property owners, and neighborhood associations
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within 500 feet of the project site,
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as well as posted a hearing notice at the project site.
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To date, staff has received no public comments,
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and there is no known opposition.
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Staff is recommending the commission approve the requested project per the
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findings and subject to the conditions of approval in the staff report.
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With that, I'm happy to answer any questions as the applicant team is also
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here. I'm happy to answer any questions with the commission. Thank you.
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Are there any speaker slips for this item?
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Thank you, Chair. I have no speaker slips for this item.
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All right. Any questions for the staff or applicant from the commission?
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Move approval for this item.
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I will second that motion.
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Let's do a roll call.
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Commissioner Tao? Aye.
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Commissioner Lamas? Aye.
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Commissioner Naibo? Aye.
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Commissioner Caden? Aye.
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Commissioner Hernandez is absent.
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Commissioner Macias-Reed? Aye.
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Commissioner Ortiz? Aye.
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Commissioner Blunt? Aye.
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Vice Chair Chase? Aye.
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Commissioner Rischke? Aye.
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Commissioner Thompson? Aye.
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Thank you. The motion passes.
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I'm going to move on to discussion item 3, official brewing company P25-018.
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Are there any disclosures or recusals for this item?
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We'll move on to Sierra.
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Good evening, Chair and Commissioners.
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My name is Sierra Peterson, project planner with the Community Development Department.
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The item before you is P25-018 for official brewing company located at 2425 24th Street in Suite B.
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This application is for a conditional use permit to establish a tap room for alcohol sales in an existing 5,000 square foot brewery within the general commercial zone in the central city SPD.
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The site has access from X Street Broadway Alley and is connected to the Real Pie Company, which runs on 24th Street.
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No alterations to the structure are proposed with the additional use.
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The business will be open to the public Friday and Saturday 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. with ongoing
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beer manufacturing.
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There are no active uses outside the building proposed.
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While the applicant has provided hours of operation, the active alcohol and beverage
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control type 23 license allows for sales, service, and consumption of alcoholic beverages
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between the hours of 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. each day of the week.
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The type 23 license also has restrictions including no sale of distilled spirits and
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any entertainment provided shall not be audible beyond the area under control.
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This project was noticed to all residents, property owners and neighborhood associations
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within 500 feet of the subject site and the site was posted with a public hearing notice.
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Staff has not received any public comments.
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Staff recommends that the Planning and Design Commission approve the requested entitlements
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subject to the findings and conditions of approval including the staff report.
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That concludes my presentation and I'm available for any questions you may have.
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The applicant is also here tonight. Thank you.
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All right. Thank you.
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Are there any speaker slips from the public?
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Thank you, Chair. I have no speaker slips for this item.
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Great. Any questions from the Commission?
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Commissioner Ortiz?
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Yeah, I just want to make sure I understand currently the site is a production and it currently has a tap room,
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which means customers can consume on-site now or they cannot.
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So the way alcohol licenses work in the City of Sacramento is the alcohol and beverage control license
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regulates how they can sell and the hours they can sell,
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but the City of Sacramento also requires a conditional use permit to sell within the city limits.
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So they need both to actually open operations.
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So what is the current operation?
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The current operation is a microbrewery.
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It is not open to the public.
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That's what I needed to clarify.
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And we're shifting into a continue to brew, have a tap room where customers can consume on site,
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and they can purchase to take home.
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There's two new uses.
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I'm perfectly fine.
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I think it's wonderful.
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My only concern is, God, the parking over there is just really bad,
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just to get to the pie company.
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And I didn't see anything in the report regarding the pie, the parking.
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Well, the pie is on my mind.
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Is there a concern at all about the parking limitations there?
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The general plan, the 2040 general plan regulates parking and we no longer require
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parking for any new or existing uses within the city limits.
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We don't analyze parking with this at this time.
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I love that area and I will frequent and enjoy.
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But I did want to point out when I'm going to get high, it's hard to park.
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So I just will have to walk from my house a little more.
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Commissioner Lummis.
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So I had a similar question, trying to just confirm what the current operations were
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and what we're looking to approve here moving forward.
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I had a question more out of curiosity.
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the hours of operation are 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
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Seems like a very short window of time.
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Would you happen to know, like, was that per the city's guidance
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or a request from the applicant to only be open at the taproom component for that period of time?
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So the applicant included in their application that they were going to start business operations
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with Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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However, the city approvals, the CUP,
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doesn't regulate their hours of operation.
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It's actually the ABC license
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through the state regulates hours of operation and sales.
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So we can't actually comment on any of that.
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We just included that as information for the neighborhood.
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So that can change?
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It could change, yes.
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So the state of California,
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the Alcohol and Beverage Control Board,
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they allow sales and consumption from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. every single day.
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So presumably even if we were to approve this, right when they get their license,
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they can say they want to do Monday through Sunday to, you know,
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within the hours that are allowed within the license.
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Within their Type 23 ABC license, correct.
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Thank you for that clarification.
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I am kind of curious
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I'll end my comments there.
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Thank you. I yield my time.
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Commissioner Macias-Reed.
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My apologies for not
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perusing through the entire staff report.
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You may have answered this in the staff report
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already, but under conditions
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this says that we let's see here minors are not allowed to enter and remain
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obviously this is a tap room and typically with tap rooms minors are
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usually allowed in some instances but obviously there's food service not
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required here so I guess my assumption would be that there's not food service
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that's going to be here and so what are going to be the conditions of approval
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on this project that would require some type of signage on the exterior of the building
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or elsewhere that would preclude minors from entering the premises?
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So that is also regulated by the ABC license who can enter and remain.
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They are not allowed to have minors in because they don't have food service,
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and so minors are just not allowed.
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the police department did send a letter of protest to the ABC which the ABC reviews
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they can choose to include those conditions or not include them so that'll go with their type 23
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so as of right now there's no food service minors can't go in there so they do require signage
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okay and if that changes then that's their ABC license
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Okay, that was it. Thank you.
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Commissioner Thompson?
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Okay, we have a motion.
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Commissioner Ruschke?
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No, Commissioner, who did I miss?
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I think it must see us read.
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Any further questions or Commissioner Lamas?
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One last question just for clarification.
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So in terms of the food service, it's not required.
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is that because they're going, they're seeking to get approval as a tap room?
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How is that classification different than a restaurant,
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which might require food in order to serve alcohol?
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It's the ABC license type.
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So they're a type 23, so they're a beer manufacturer
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that in addition to the manufacturing, they can sell and consume on site.
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So it doesn't require food service.
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There are different types of ABC licenses that are for restaurants, and so then they require receipts of sale, and then that will get submitted to the ABC board.
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So we don't even look at that when that happens.
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Okay, so right now with the Time 23 license they do have, they have the ability to sell on-site and for off-site use, but they just need the second city approval in order to activate that authority.
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Okay, perfect. Thank you for that clarification.
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Great. We have a motion and a second. Any other questions? No?
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All right. Let's do the roll call.
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Commissioner Lamas?
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Commissioner Naibo?
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Commissioner Caden?
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Commissioner Hernandez is absent.
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Commissioner Masters-Reed?
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Commissioner Ortiz?
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Commissioner Blunt?
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Commissioner Risky?
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Commissioner Thompson?
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Thank you. The motion passes.
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Great. Thank you. Congratulations.
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We'll be moving on to our next agenda item, which is Commissioner Comments, Ideas, and Questions.
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What did we do? Oh, I'm sorry.
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Yes, Item 4 has been continued. Apologies.
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So we'll move on with that, and that will continue at the next.
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Just to clarify, it's being continued by staff to January 22nd, 2026.
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We will now move on to Commissioner comments, ideas, and questions.
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Does anyone have anything they'd like to throw out there?
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Commissioner Macias-Reed.
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I was just going to say happy end of 2025 to the commission.
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I'd like to say I enjoyed serving as your chair.
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And, you know, this was a fun year to get to know all of you.
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I hope to be able to reach out to you guys a little bit more as time goes on.
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And I especially, I've been trying to get lunch with everybody, so I apologize that I was not able to get through that this year, but I will endeavor to just continue to just meet up with you guys.
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You guys are all a very special group of people, and I've learned a lot from all of you guys, so thank you.
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And just want to encourage folks, you know, to, if they're interested in serving as vice chair or chair, please, please consider that.
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I think it's a tremendous honor to be serving in this position.
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I think the planning staff are really good at supporting the vice chair and chair.
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And I just want to encourage folks, you know, if you're considering that you'll have a lot of good support.
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And I think everyone here on this dais also will provide that support as well.
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Let's move on to public comments.
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Matter is not on the agenda.
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Do we have any speakers?
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I have no speaker slips for this item.
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Thank you very much.
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Then this meeting is adjourned.