The Santa Rosa Planning Commission met on August 24, 2023, at 4:31 PM in the Council Chambers to conduct three public hearings. The meeting included public comments on non-agenda matters, commissioner reports, and departmental updates. Key actions included a continuance of the Bunya Bunya tree removal appeal, approval of a time extension for the Holly Hock Subdivision, and a tied vote on the 7-Eleven beer and wine conditional use permit, leading to a continuance to October 26, 2023.
Chair Weeks. Uh, we're good to get started whenever you are. Thank you. Uh I'd like to call the meeting to order and ask uh the recording secretary for roll call. It is four thirty. And can we do roll call? Commissioner Carter. Here. Commissioner Sisko. Here. Commissioner Holton. Here. Commissioner Peterson. Here. Commissioner Sanders. Here. Vice Chair Duggan is absent. Chair Weeks. Here. Let the record reflect that all commissioners are present, with the exception of Vice Chair Duggan. Thank you. And with that, um, item two approval of minutes. Uh, we don't have any minutes today, so then we'll move on to public comment. This is on non-agenda matters. Um, so we're taking public comments on item three. As I said, non-agenda matters. This is the time when any person may address the commission on matters not listed on this agenda, but which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. So if you'd like to, if you are in the council chambers and would like to speak, go to either one of the podiums up there. Please state your name for the record. Yes. Can I use overhead? Yes, give me one second. My name's Cliff Wiggum. I'm one of the property owners in the Roberts district that was named Roberts District as part of the downtown stationary specific plan. This is a zoning map for part of the DSASP. I would like to point out the positioning of the Roberts District is the south of one of Highway 12. And it has a zoning of a 6.0 floor area ratio. And across the freeway and Wally Farms is a 2.0 floor area ratio. And we are on the south side, which is part of Southwest, and Roseland, and we're burdened with the 6.0 floor area ratio. This map better illustrates it that we are obviously part of Roseland and Southwest, and there's a four-lane elevated solid earth freeway between us and Raywood Square. That's pretty significant barrier. And uh we are burdened with the zoning, however, as part of the uh downtown enhanced infrastructure financing district. This is a an excerpt from the staff report, which reads Roberts Road area south of Highway 12 and west of 101. This area is better aligned with the potential future Roseland area EIFD since it is the east anchor of the Basketful Road Corridor. This corridor is a central Roseland access in the past, has been part of the Roseland study area. Publicly desired infrastructure upgrades in the Roberts Road area as part of the EIFD formation process should be examined holistically within the rest of that corridor. This is language stating that Roberts district is not part of Ray Road Square, but is part of Roseland. No developer that I've talked to will give me documentation that they can't build a 6.0 floor area ratio. They just plain don't respond when I send them the information. They verbally tell me that they can't build it that density in the southwest, which is a uh area that is very depressed and needs affordable housing.