Good afternoon, everyone.

I'd like to call the February twenty sixth, twenty twenty-six meeting of the Planning Commission to order, and if we could please have roll call.

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioner Carter.

Let the record reflect that all commissioners are present with the exception of Commissioner Sisko.

Thank you.

No changes or corrections on those, so they will be approved as submitted.

And then we'll move on to public comment.

And I would like to mention that the two items, we have two items that on the agenda today that are being continued to a date certain.

And they are the public hearing 11.1, MD Market Conditional Use Permit, and item 11.2, the Meadowwood Ranch Tentative Map Amendment.

So if you are here to speak on either of those items, now would be the time to make your comments since they are not technically on this agenda.

So with that, if anybody has um comments that they would like to make on the on items that are not on the agenda today, please make your way to the podium.

You'll have three minutes.

And you'll see a timer coming.

So hi everyone, my name's Anna Diaz, and I am from the Roseland area.

I just wanted to give my public comment regarding one of the previous meetings that you guys had regarding the restaurant del Valle.

I was watching it through Zoom because I was not in town that day.

However, I was very, very upset and very, very concerned, and I'm gonna continue to say I'm very concerned for the future of the planning commission and how you guys are going about things because in all reality I did hear from like you know, Pat Cisco and from other people that said that they were at the location themselves that you know that they just didn't believe that it would be a right fit for the area.

My honest opinion as a long-lived Rosen area resident is that for people that don't live in the area, I don't think it was valid to even think that some of those comments were even made, especially when you do not live in the area.

Regardless, that street, my sisters lived off Gardner for several years since I was a cook student, and regardless, that street's always gonna be busy.

There was comments about Santa Rosa City Schools, which is now Cesar Chavez's academy, and that again was a so like a comment that was totally off of topic and honestly didn't even pertain to the project itself.

There was also comments from the business owners themselves that some of the people that came to the location to take notes or to observe the location, didn't even come inside to say hi, not even go inside to order a taco, just it kind of made them feel uncomfortable, and especially with the topic of ice, it made them feel that they were being inspected.

So I need you guys to really pay caution, especially going to a majority Latino area, that when people are not familiar with you and you're looking like you're taking notes or quote-unquote looking like a code enforcement officer, at least go inside and say hi, at least introduce yourselves, and if you don't want to introduce yourselves, go inside and order an orchata.

That's all it took because it made the owners themselves feel very uncomfortable.

And I said this to you guys in um a personal email as well.

So I do want to give a special thank you to I believe Commissioner Pardo and to Commissioner Standards for truly being in United with the with the owners themselves.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anybody else making public comments?

Ms.

Carmen.

Yes, thank you.

Hello?

Yes, hi.

Um good evening to the board, uh Janice Carman here, and um I want to make uh two um comments about uh the meetings and the scheduling of the meetings, and uh this is I'm gonna refer to the last time we had the meeting.

Um, there was the uh finance meeting at four o'clock, and then this at 4 30, the my oral meeting was at uh 6 and Qatati, and um I've spoken at other meetings about this, but just to put it in the awareness of whoever is doing the calendars to um try to do the calendars so that people can make the meetings, and I try to go to most of the meetings.

I I'm particularly interested in the planning and uh the waterways and the things related, design review, etc., related to the planning, but it it makes it extremely challenging and frustrating.

And uh then today, um, I went to a waterways meeting and I hadn't been to the waterways meeting in.

Well, I went to the last one, which I guess was May.

I can't believe it that it was that long ago but um the uh there was quite a lot of discussion that went around the um Terry Saunders was there he's now on that board as well uh the around the uh meeting agenda for that uh particular um area of the uh city and uh they were talking about meeting uh at not at will but something like that you know if something came up they would they would meet and uh I think it makes it even more challenging for somebody to be part of it when you don't know when the meetings are gonna come up but I think that things that are related to planning and things like the waterways are really important and they should have uh at least quarterly uh meetings and then um it's actually running into a third thing but after I left the meeting this morning I wanted to go to the zoning meeting well I was actually an hour behind and I didn't even realize it because I still was going to get the meeting arrangements for Tuesdays there's at least three maybe five meetings at five o'clock during the city council meeting and all I wanted was the half page for the meeting and I went once to the office once to the office down there and I also asked at waterways if they could help me over there.

Nobody could help me so I still don't have it and then I got a paper from the um planning over here and it said that I'd have to wait two days I'd have to apply for these half page that are public announcements of the meetings and I just wanted to have the backup page for the meeting on Tuesday which is only two days away they are open tomorrow but I shouldn't have to come down here just to do that.

I don't have email that's part of it but but I'm just saying it's challenging.

Any other comments on non-agenda items.

Okay so with that I will go ahead and close the public comment period and bring it to item five commission business the planning commission is charged with carrying out the California planning and zoning laws in the city of Santa Rosa duties include implementation 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 to tentative subdivision maps and undertaking special planning studies as needed so with that we'll move to commissioner reports uh commissioner sanders yes thank you chair um we had a great waterways um meeting today and I was there too uh and I just want to kind of report out some of the things that we discussed um we have a new member of the um committee committee uh Drew Fagent I believe is how you pronounce his last name he's uh uh from design review and we're really happy to have him uh actually his first day gave a lot of great input so way better than I did my first day so good on him glad to have him there Vic Libtak is also back um as the uh representative uh citizen at large we also elected um our chair our dikey to continue as the chair and Kevin Dr.

Kevin C to be vice chair a couple of things that are coming up the Santa Rosa um South Santa Rosa specific plan community involvement meetings are going to be happening uh in March 4th at Amarosa March 5th at Taylor Mountain uh elementary school and you can get those details at the city website um FEMA is we we talked about this a little while ago um the flood maps that FEMA is redoing and uh at this point um we're in the appeal stage of that which started January 20th and will end April 20th uh with the final uh flood map to be um released um I believe it was May don't quote me on that but it's definitely in uh 2027 one of the favorite my favorite updates is on our cleanups of our creeks and waterways um we had a hundred and thirty volunteer um cleanups and they removed uh 1200 cubic yards of trash from the uh creek which is amazing and i we asked for a visual representation of what that looks like and that's a hundred and twenty dumpsters or my favorite it's a football field covered six inches deep and that doesn't include sidelines i i asked about the sidelines not sidelines just the football field but that's an amazing amount of trash to be pulled out and it's it's it's so great that we have these volunteers that do that uh every year last um the three earth day cleanups which are also coming up um and you can they didn't have specific dates so please visit the um earth day website to get those specific dates if you want to participate in these cleanups they're fantastic events and it's really a a great way to to give back so if you if you uh frequent our creeks and streams please consider it thank you thank you any other comments from commissioners okay so with that I'll go ahead and open the public comment on the commissioner reports if there's anybody who would like to make a comment please make your way to the podium seeing no one rise and this is on the waterways the comments made by Mr.

Sanders okay um so with that we'll move on to um uh department report thank you chair weeks and members of the commission uh jessica jones deputy director of planning um just uh a few things here just uh uh updates on some of the projects um that the commission has heard recently um at this week's city council meeting uh the council uh held a public hearing on an appeal of the logo fresca apartment project that the commission um took action and approved uh that uh action was upheld by the council at this week's meeting so just want to give you an update on that um we also have an appeal um pending for the pure vita um community care facility project that the council that the commission approved that is scheduled for the March 24th city council meeting um and then we just recently received an appeal of the Del Valle drive thru that the commission um denied uh we do not yet have a date for that for council but um we'll certainly update you once we do that's it thank you any questions of staff on that okay so with that I will go ahead and open the public comment on department report if you have any comments you'd like to make on what Ms.

Jones just said please make your way to the podium seeing no one rise we'll go ahead and close that and we will move on to number nine consent items we have none we have no report chair we're gonna go first into item seven statements of abstention and then our first scheduled study session item gosh I skipped right over that I'm sorry.

Sorry uh statement of abstentions or recusals anybody okay now we go on to study session I'm not used to us having a study session so um thank you Madeline uh so study session 8.1 South Santa Rosa specific plan study file it's a citywide st 23-004 and Connor McKay will be giving us our presentation.

Great thank you Chair Weeks and members of the planning commission as mentioned my name is Connor McKay I'm a senior planner I'm very excited to be presenting this study session on the land use and circulation alternatives report associated with the South Santa Rosa specific plan.

So we'll discuss what a specific plan is and kind of where we've um come and uh what we've heard from our community in terms of feedback and opportunities and issues with the South Santa Rosa Pacific Plan.

I think it's been quite some time, or this might be the first time that we've presented to the commission on the South Santa Rosa specific plan.

So I wanted to give some additional background on the plan itself.

And then we'll go right into the uh each of the alternatives that are included in the report.

That was included as attachment one of your packet um and then we'll kind of go into next steps and facilitate a discussion about each alternative.

So in terms of what a specific plan is, so specific plans are a long-range planning document for a very specifically defined area.

So while a general plan establishes citywide vision and policies, specific plans would zoom in on a defined geographic area, and that can be areas of the city or areas of unincorporated county, which is the case for this, and we'll get into that in later slides.

So specific plans address land use.

So what kinds of housing, jobs, shops, services, where should those go, and at what intensity or density.

Also addresses circulation and transportation issues.

So how do people move into, out of, and within the specific plan area, and what types of transportation do they use?