Sacramento County Planning Commission Meeting - May 24, 2024
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Sacramento County Planning Commission Meeting - May 24, 2024
The Sacramento County Planning Commission met on May 24, 2024, to consider two main agenda items: the review of the 2024-25 Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) and the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Rezone Project (PLNP 2020-00042). Both items were approved unanimously after staff presentations, commissioner questions, and public comment.
Consent Calendar
- Review of 2024-25 Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan (CIP): Staff presented the CIP, which identifies capital projects across county agencies. The commission found the projects consistent with the General Plan. No public comments were received. The commission voted unanimously to adopt the resolution and forward findings to the Board of Supervisors.
Discussion Items
- Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) Rezone Project (PLNP 2020-00042): Staff presented the project to rezone 79 sites to meet the county’s lower-income housing shortfall of 2,084 units, as required by Housing Element Program A1. The project includes General Plan amendments for 60 sites, community plan amendments for 67 sites, and rezones for all 79 sites. The environmental review (Subsequent EIR) identified significant and unavoidable impacts for air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, construction noise, transportation (VMT), and water supply for sites in Rio Linda/Elverta and Florin County water districts. The environmentally superior alternative excludes four sites in Rio Linda/Elverta, avoiding two significant impacts. Staff recommended this alternative, which includes 75 sites netting 3,691 lower-income units and 156 moderate-income units. The commission extensively discussed realistic development capacity, buffer calculations, and concerns about overconcentration in South Sacramento (28 sites). Commissioners expressed support for moving forward while requesting staff work with affected districts (Cordova Parks and Recreation, BRECA) and consider increasing the buffer. The motion to adopt staff recommendation passed unanimously.
Public Comments & Testimony
- No oral public comments were made during the meeting for either item. Written comments were received from BRECA and Cordova Parks and Recreation District, which were addressed during discussion. Staff noted additional public comments on the draft EIR will be incorporated into the final document.
Key Outcomes
- The commission unanimously approved the CIP review resolution, directing the County Executive to report findings to the Board of Supervisors.
- The commission unanimously approved the RHNA Rezone Project (environmentally superior alternative), recommending the Board of Supervisors adopt the necessary ordinances and resolutions. Staff will finalize the EIR and present it to the Board by the September 2024 statutory deadline.
Meeting Transcript
Good evening, everyone. We're going to go ahead and call to order the county planning commission for May 20th, 2024. If you'll please call the role. Yes, Commissioners Borja. Here. Conklin. Here. Corona Savagnano. Here. Devlin. Here. And Rachel. Here. And we do have our quorum. If you'll please stand with me for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States for America. And to the requirement for which it stands one nation under individual literature and justice. And if you'll please make the announcements for the evening. So the county fosters public engagement during the meeting and encourages public participation, civility and use of previous language. The commission does not condone the use of profanity, vulgar language, gestures, or other inappropriate behavior, including personal attacks or threats directed towards any meeting participant. Seating may be limited and available on a first come, first served basis. To make an in-person public comment, please complete and submit submit a speaker request form to the clerk. Each individual be will be invited to the podium to make a comment. Members of the public may send a written comment, which is distributed to commission members and filed in the record. Contact information is optional and should include the meeting date and off agenda or off agenda item number to be sent as follows. Via email, email a comment to board clerk at SACCounty.gov, or you can feel free to mail it in to 700H Street, Suite 2450, Sacramento, California, 95814. And before we hop to agenda item number one, I'm going to give Commissioner Conklin a few seconds to address some folks who are watching the meeting this evening. Thank you, Chair. As the clerk uh alluded to earlier, this body, as many other bodies at various levels of government all encourage public participation, and including our our young students and next generation. It's uh come to my attention that uh there's a group of uh seniors uh uh at McClatchy in Mr. Harley's uh AP government class that are um watching tonight's uh commission meeting as part of their uh um academic requirements uh one of those students, including my daughter Olivia. So I hope it uh um I hope it is the uh the teachers uh flexibility to at least uh not require them to watch the entire evening, but uh uh I do appreciate uh um their participation and just wanted to at least uh give a nod and and uh uh recognition to this uh uh group of uh students watching tonight's uh commission meeting. Thank you. Thank you. All right, please call item number one. And so your item number one this evening, Commissioners is PLNP 2024-00057. It's a review of Sacramento County's 2024 through 25 five-year capital improvement plan and the uh the environmental document is that it's not applicable. All right. Good evening, Commissioners. Thank you for having me this evening. Uh my name is Nathan Sedafine, and I'll be presenting on the uh 24-25 five-year capital improvement plan. Is there any remote I can just so uh the CIP identifies capital improvement projects for the next five years uh across various county agencies, and this action to review the projects is set forth by county code section 21, chapter 15. The purpose of our review is to determine if the projects are consistent with the general plan and to address issues before the final board approval. Purpose uh for this review is not evaluating the merits, costs, uh, or environmental impacts of the projects, as all of that will be reviewed later on an individual basis. As for the process for the CIP review, uh the board first reviews the capital improvement plan and uh refers to planning commission for general plan compliance. This happened back in April 9th of this year, and fast forward to today. The task of the commission is to determine the consistency of the CIP and forward its findings back to the board. And then in June, the board will receive the findings uh and adopt the CIP formally. Today we are only reviewing the projects that have not been previously reviewed or are newly funded. So similar to previous years, a majority of the projects are improvements to existing facilities or uh needed infrastructure upgrades.
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