The Santa Rosa Planning Commission held a virtual regular meeting on March 24, 2022, at 4:30 p.m. (adjourned at 6:09 p.m.). Commissioners unanimously approved three conditional use permits: a Total Wine & More for alcohol sales with tasting and wine classes, an AT&T telecommunication facility, and a Flora Terra cannabis retail dispensary. No public comments were received on non-agenda items.
This is the city attorney Burke if you would like to test your audio and video for us. Can you hear me, Mike? Loud and clear. Thank you. Excellent. Thanks. Mike, it looks like everyone is here. We uh ready to go at 4:30. Yes, at 4:30, staff will be ready when you are. And I wanted to let you know that is going to be a minutes ticker today. So for roll call and other meetings like that, we'll be doing this first words. Okay, thank you. Yep, no problem. So I think we'll be ready to go in about a minute. If everybody can turn their cameras on, that'd be great. There we go. There you are. Yeah, the host had disabled my video for some reason. No worries. I don't mind being in the dark. Okay. Uh, Mr. Maloney, Ms. Buckite, are we ready to go? Yes, Chair Weeks, we are ready to go. Thank you. Okay. So with that, I will call to order the March 24th, 2022 meeting of the Santa Rosa Planning Commission. And read our typical statement due to the provisions of the governor's executive orders, N twenty-five-20 and n-29-20, which suspends certain requirements for the Brown Act and the order of the health officer of the County of Sonoma to Shelter in place to minimize the spread of COVID 19. The planning commissioners will be conducting today's meeting in a virtual setting using Zoom webinar. Commissioners and staff are participating from remote locations and are practicing appropriate social distancing. Members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and as noted on the agenda. Members of the public wishing to speak during item four, the public comment period or during our public hearings tonight, we'll be able to do so by raising their hand and we'll be given the ability to address the commission. So with that, um, could we have roll call, please? Let the record reflect that all commissioners are present. Thank you. So we don't have any minutes to approve tonight. And so we'll go right into our public comment section. I'm gonna open the public comment period now for any item that is not included on this meeting's agenda. If you wish to make a comment via Zoom, please select the raised hand button. If you're dialing in via telephone, please dial star nine to raise your hand, and each speaker will have three minutes. A countdown timer will appear for the convenience of the speaker and the viewers. And please make sure to unmute yourself when you're invited to do so. Uh your microphone will be muted at the end of that countdown. So we have any members of the public who would like to speak on items that are not on the agenda tonight. Chair Weeks, there are no hands case at this time. Thank you very much. So with that, I'll go ahead and close the public comment period. And we'll move into item four, planning commissioners report. So our uh purpose as a planning commission is that we are charged with carrying out the California planning and zoning laws in the city of Santa Rosa, and duties include implementing of plans, ordinances, and policies relating to land use matters, assisting in writing and implementing the general plan and area plans, holding public hearings, and acting on proposed changes to the zoning code, zoning map, general plan, tentative subdivision maps, and undertaking special planning studies as needed.