Hello everyone, welcome to the South San Francisco Planning Commission meeting for January, or excuse me, February 19, 2026.

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Roll call, please.

Commissioner Baker.

Here.

Chairperson Funes.

Here.

Commissioner Furria.

Here.

Commissioner Shahade.

Here.

Vice Chair Pomiku.

Here.

Commissioner Zhang.

Here.

Commissioner Evans is absent.

Thank you.

Are there any changes to the agenda?

No changes to the agenda.

Thank you.

Does any member of the public wish to address the commission on any item that is not on the agenda?

Tonight at this time, please fill out a speaker card and give it to the clerk.

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If you would like to recuse yourself for an item, you can also do so at this time.

Yes, we have one item on the consent calendar.

Number one is consideration and approval of minutes from the November 20th 2025 planning commission meeting.

Commissioner Furria.

Yes.

Commissioner Shahade.

Yes.

Commissioner Baker.

Yes.

Chairperson Funes.

Yes.

Vice Chair Palmiku.

Yes.

Commissioner Zhang.

Yes.

Commissioner Evans is absent.

If the clerk can please read the next agenda item.

Yes.

The next item is number two, and it is a report regarding an application for design reviews for the Westboro Preschool Expansion Project, including the construction and operation of an approximately 7,000 square foot child daycare center at 2360 Galway Drive at Westboro Park in the parks and Recreation zoning District in accordance with Title 20 of the South San Francisco Municipal Code and determination that the project is consistent with the 2040 General Plan Environmental Impact Report and that no new environmental document is needed per sequel guidelines 15162, 15168 and 15183.

And items 2A and 2B are the resolutions.

And Senior Planner Christy Usher is going to give the staff report.

Great, thank you so much.

Thank you.

Good evening, Chairfunas and Planning Commissioners.

For your consideration tonight is an application for design review for the Westboro Preschool Expansion Project, including the construction and operation of an approximately 7,000 square foot preschool located at 2360 Galway Drive at Westboro Park.

The project site has an approximately half acre footprint that is located within the boundaries of the 10-acre city-owned Westboro Park, located at the corner of Westboro Boulevard and Galway Drive.

The new preschool will be located in the northeastern corner of Westboro Park, where currently a public restroom, maintenance yard, existing lawn, and maintenance road exist.

Westboro Park also includes a community center, picnic areas, baseball field, walking trails, tennis courts, playgrounds, and basketball courts.

The project site is bound by fire station 62 and residences to the north, Galway Drive and residences to the east, Westboro Boulevard to the south, and Westboro Middle School to the west.

The City of South San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department offers child care through its preschool early learning program serving children ages two and a half to five years old.

The existing child care program at the community center at Westboro Park has an enrollment of 59 children, distributed among three classrooms and up to eight staff members on site during preschool hours.

The community center would continue to function as a preschool until construction is complete.

Preschool operations would then move to the new preschool facilities immediately following completion.

The community center currently houses one preschool classroom with two additional classrooms in modular buildings directly adjacent.

The relocating of the preschool component may allow for increased community programming at the community center.

The new preschool facilities would include five indoor classrooms, one covered outdoor classroom, and administrative office space with a total of approximately 7,000 square feet.

There would also be outdoor play areas with climbing structures and natural play areas.

The new preschool facilities, the preschool expansion project would increase student capacity from the existing 59 children to 100, and would require up to 15 staff.

The proposed preschool will serve children ages two and a half to five years old.

And the preschool will maintain the same operational hours of the day and days of the week as the existing preschool, which include 7 30 a.m.

to 6 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

The proposed exterior materials for the building would be a composite, a combination of stucco, cement fiber, composite ship lap siding, and exposed wood elements, and would be surrounded by wood and metal fence.

The proposed preschool is one story with a maximum height of less than 18 feet, and the new preschool building would meet energy efficiency requirements and be all electric.

The design review board reviewed the project in October of last year and recommended approval to the planning commission.

The DRB liked the create and modern design, the finishes, artwork, and color palette.

They found the design to be well integrated into the surrounding residential neighborhood and lacking an institutional appearance, which made it also appear very welcoming.

The DRB also praised the proposed ADA enhancements, which improved path of travel to the baseball field and tennis courts, as well as improved access for city maintenance vehicles.

In March of 2025, the Westboro Preschool Expansion Project was the primary topic at the annual town hall meeting for District 2, hosted by Vice Mayor Nogales.

The meeting was held at the Westboro Community Center, and over or approximately 80 residences attended.

At the meeting, the project was presented, as well as the overall need for the additional preschool space and the benefit of creating a new facility separate of the existing community center.

The community members in attendance were appreciative of the update and raised no concerns about the project.

Staff did receive six letters in support of this project.

In summary, these letters express support for the project because it will increase availability of preschool enrollment, which is in very high demand based on the wait list.

It will provide high quality preschool curriculum, or I should say it would continue high quality preschool curriculum.

It would offer affordable preschool options and provide safe preschool options and allow opportunities for siblings to attend with currently enrolled children.

Again, just summarizing some of the comments in the staff report.

In terms of circulation, the existing circulation pattern is to remain on site.

Minor modifications are proposed to the designated pickup and drop-off spaces, EV spaces, and ADA spaces.

It should be noted that caretakers are required to escort children and sign them in the drop off and pickup windows, which are between 7.30 and 9.30 in the morning, and 4 and 6 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

The site is located in the Parks and Recreation Zone District where a preschool is a permitted use.

The proposed project also complies with the development standards that it's located in.

The project also supports many goals and policies in the city's general plan, including those related to providing child care in Westboro and policies that support providing high quality accessible services and amenities for residents at all stages of their lives.

An environmental checklist was prepared for the preschool expansion project, which concluded that the current project is within the scope of the previous environmental analysis for the general plan EIR, and that subsequent SQL analysis is not required for the proposed project.

In conclusion, the Westboro preschool expansion project complies with the city's municipal code, development standards, and findings for approval for design review, as well as the city's general plan goals and policies.

Therefore, staff recommends the Planning Commission approve the proposed project of an approximately 7,000 square foot new preschool facility at 2360 Galway Drive in Westboro Park.

That concludes the staff presentation.

The applicant team is also here to present and answer questions.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

So I will now open the public hearing and call for a staff report, if there is one.

Sorry, the applicant, sorry.

And keep it open.

Oh, thank you.

And you added these slides.

Oh, wait a second.

Who's doing that?

Oh, Lehman's here.

Um good evening, Chair Funis and Commissioners.

Um, Jake Gilkrist, your director of capital projects.

Um thank you, Christy, of course.

Um for the last six, oh this is the last slide.

What's happening?

No.

There we go.

Thank you, Lehman.

Um, for the last six and a half years, I've had the privilege to serve as the city's director of capital projects, and while I've worked on larger and more complex projects than this one, including the building we're in, um, I think this is the project that's been closest to my heart.

Um, and I'm really excited that we're finally here after five years.

Um, I'd like to introduce the project team, including Greg Mediati, our director of parks and recreation, of course.

Umsami from Kitchell Construction and Project Management is here, and you'll also be hearing from Chris Dorman from Dorman Associates, who's also here with Mary Peterson, the project architect.

Um, I really want to appreciate like express gratitude to them for really putting the community and the children first when it comes to the integration of this building and facility into the park and into the neighborhood.

I'd also like to really thank Christy and Adina for their leadership.

Um I think we take for granted a lot of the time just how excellent our planning staff is, and so thank you both for your leadership.

Um, and also because he's here as a resident.

Um, Vice Mayor Nogales has just been instrumental as a champion, not just for preschool across the city, but also specifically for this project, and so I wanted to acknowledge him too.

Um, five years ago when this project was originally assigned to me by then city manager Futrell, uh, one of our first tasks was to find a location for the preschool.

And um we knew from the preschool wait list and the sort of heat map of where the wait list sort of centered that Westboro was the place that needed expanded preschool within the city.

We searched for a site, and after two fall starts at different locations in the neighborhood, we slowly began to settle on a location somewhere within Westboro Park.

And initially we thought we were going to expand the Bulos Center and build off of that and potentially add more modulars or move the playground or do something in that area.

Um, but as the project developed, Director Mediati and I were really in alignment that this project would really be a success if we didn't just add preschool capacity, but if we also gave something back to the residents in the park users who were never going to use the preschool itself because it's such a narrow group of people who actually get to benefit from the preschool itself.

And so we really felt like the project would succeed if we were going to be able to do other things to help the park.

And so I think creating this accessible route up to the tennis courts is really important.

Um improving the picnic picnic facilities by moving the exterior restrooms away from Galway and closer to the group picnic area is really important.

Opening up the younger kids' playground, the two to five-year-old playground to public use all day, because right now it's limited in use because of the licensing requirements for the preschool that uses this the playground during the day.

And then excuse me.

Lastly, just rededicating the Alice Bulos Community Center to the public.

We've heard a lot of clamoring for additional senior programming.

And by moving the preschool to its own discrete facility within the park, we're really allowing a lot more flexibility of programming of the um the excellent facility that is the Bulow Center.

I'm happy to stick around and answer any questions about project delivery or otherwise, but um before I hand it off to Chris Dorman for the design presentation.

I just wanted to mention that as a landscape architect, I'm just so impressed with the way they manage to really integrate the facility, not just into the neighborhood, but also with a really light touch into the park itself.

And with that, I will hand it over to Chris Dorman.

Thank you very much.

I'm gonna practice with this and see if I can make it work.

There we go.

Okay.

Well, hello, commissioners.

Thank you very much for taking a minute to listen to our description of a child care center.

Um I've been blessed to be able to work on children's centers for more than 20 years, and none more interesting and more fun than this one.

Um the city of South San Francisco has been uh really uh fun place to work, people to work with.

So I'm excited to present this.

Um I will be fairly brief because I think Christy did a tremendous job of of introducing the project, uh, and I'll be here for questions.

So this this first uh slide here is about so sort of the the goals that we have for children's center.

So we thought we would show um what it what what will this look like um in the future when we're done, and this is a similar center.

We've um learned a lot over the years about um providing uh for children, and so this illustrates a lot of our core principles.

We taught we want to get lots of light into classrooms, we want to create space, natural ventilation, we have a real commitment to indoor outdoor play areas, so um so we are trying to incorporate all those things when we come and look at a new project.

Um this particular project was an interesting challenge because of course it's such a um you know well used park.

Um and so it was it was great to discover this area that we could bring the children up to the top of the site, um, you know, pull them away from some of the other park activity, um, create an area and an easy access zone for parents to drop off without uh you know generally affecting much of the parking area and throughout the facility.

We're very lucky to have um adequate parking here.

Sometimes we don't have that for our children's centers.

Um, and so this just represents some of the challenges of the site or some of the existing conditions, the purple line, talk about the summer and winter solstice, um, the wind directions, and how can we address some of those things as we lay out the building?

So um, so as we move this forward and and started to zoom in, we started to look at um how do we create a central entry?

Our children's centers have a uh a secure entrance for all parents.

They all have to drop off as was mentioned, and they all have to walk through this the primary entry so that we you know can can create a nice and secure environment.

Um, so the uh lighter green area is the administrative area, the the current preschool that they have in the community center doesn't really have adequate administrative area, so this gave us the opportunity to accommodate a lot of the administrative functions that we would want to have in a children's center.

And then um, you know, we utilize the uh interior courtyard, which is also the play area as a circulation spine to access the classroom.

So everybody walks through the entry and then they go out and disperse their classrooms.

And what we try to do is is create a courtyard that creates some um visual noise separation from the park.

It also protects a little bit from the wind, depending on the direction, but a lot of the prevailing winds uh will be protected.

Um we have some uh outdoor classroom areas that we'll show you in a minute.

So really giving a good opportunity to create um this space that hopefully you know will will allow for children to feel like they have the space they need, but also create some security and separation from the rest of the park.

Um, as was mentioned, the the dark gray area is the new accessible path up to the tennis court, which we're able to incorporate into this design, as well as moving the existing restroom up closer to the picnic area.

So there's a lot of great benefits that we were able to achieve with the design and the layout uh in this park area.

Um so uh you know, if you zoom in, you can see that the preschool classrooms have um, you know, have teacher supports and child toileting in each zone, and the drop off is right located next to the entry so that we can uh hopefully address uh timeline timely drop off uh through the process.

Um for the for the look and feel you've already seen what the elevations look like, but you know, the inspiration was kind of a mid-century modern sort of eichler of the houses that are of the area.

How could we sort of take advantage of light and air and um and space and uh and so in indoor-outdoor um environment?

So we tried to utilize that in creating um glass that typically in the in the classrooms is indirect light, north facing light, um, cross ventilation in all the classrooms, operable windows, so that we can reduce the need for air conditioning and really just have this opportunity uh for children to go in and out of the classrooms.

Uh that the entry um you know is is intended to be easily readily available and visible so people can come and see that.

And then you can see there's a sort of a moving walkway that um uh roof that allows parents to move through the play area without getting wet in the rain, but also gives some additional shade to the to the play area.

So we've tried to utilize uh a few materials without um and be able to um optimize some of the textures so that the building feels like it's got a a few um uh different items that are of interest.

Um one of which is the um is the pattern we made out of this uh cement tile cement panel, which is called equitone.

It's really lovely, and I think we'll be able to um add a little splash of color and then at the same time warm things up with a little bit of uh vertical wood.

Um as you can see the building does surround the courtyard and the play area and create sort of like a a visual separation using landscaping um between the parking drop-off and and the play area.

Um this is just a you know uh axon from above, and you can kind of get a sense of the the building, its location next to the restroom, which is uh up to the left, and of course the walkway to the tennis court.

Um one of the things we did like about the way we were able to fit the building into the site was the ability to um just create enough of a step in the site so that the building is not too dominant from the park view.

It stepped down about four feet from here, so uh it diminishes some of the visual impact, fits in.

Um you can barely see the fire station and the scale of the fire station behind, but just trying to keep things um, you know, of uh of a single story and uh you know uh pedestrian scale.

Um and finally, these were all the materials that we used.

Uh we did use them uh we uh we're proposing a mechanical screen for the um rooftop units that will be a laser cut screen to help screen the units from uh from sight lines.

We tried to create a couple of different um accents for metal posts, and as I mentioned, the fiber cement and the wood.

So we've tried to create some um some opportunities for color without overwhelming uh children and and the neighborhood.

Um that's one of the things we try to do is make it feel like a uh residents feel like home.

So happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Thank you so much.

Does any of the do any of my fellow commissioners have any questions for the applicant?

Um can you just through the chair?

No, of course.

Commissioner Baker.

Could you describe a little bit about the um kitchen facilities?

Um I know that's important in a in a preschool.

For the um say that one more time, the kitchen for kitchen facilities.

Is there food preparation?

Here, I'll go back.

I mean, uh basically there's what we call effectively a food prep facility, and um because there's a number of uh meals mostly snacks and and lunch, um, that this gives them the opportunity to bring in foods and and prep for that.

Um there I don't believe they're actually necessarily cooking in that location, but they're able to create preparation for all the snacks that that the children have and lunch.

Um I think they bring some of that food in pre-prepared, but then if they did, you know, prepare some of it, they're able to do that.

But it's not a full uh commercial kitchen.

The other question I had was related, um especially in the winter um in the afternoons.

Um you're on the east side of a of a hill.

I can imagine that the there's not a lot of sun after probably about three o'clock or so in uh in the courtyard there.

Um what uh I I guess my question is um have you maximize outdoor exposure in this courtyard?

Is this gonna be a uh a play area?

Because I know there was a play area up front.

You know, you're reminding me that I skipped to because I'm an architect, so I get all excited about the architecture and answering questions, but um I'm gonna skip ahead for one second here because we do have um a blow up of the play area here, which I should have shown before, but essentially um I'll digress for one second, and um you this is intended to give you a sense of the nature play that's involved.

Um that entire uh sand like brownish area, dirt area where the where a play structure would be, the play structure is gonna be sort of a log play structure.

That is completely uncovered.

So the idea is you know you're not wrong about the um about the sun uh in the winter time.

Um one of our biggest challenges, and I know that it's very foggy here.

I live in Mill Valley, it's very foggy there too.

But on those rare occasions where it is hot, what we tried to do with the roof is also utilize it to um to help shade in the afternoon sun.

So it was kind of like a, you know, we're trying to capture both opportunities there, but um, but we did, you know, we tried to bring in extra light into the classrooms by facing all those windows north.

So I think, you know, I think ultimately because of the low the low height of the building itself, we're not gonna have as much trouble with actually shading the courtyard.

It it's really more of the trees that are kind of around and behind that will be a concern.

Yeah, I trust me.

I'm not worried about their sun exposure in Westboro in the summer.

I know, I know, I know.

Only maybe May and part of September.

All right, thank you.

Any other questions?

I'll go ahead.

This is to uh to staff.

The building wise, we're fine.

I noticed that we're with this capital project, we're we're look we're picking up forty-one additional to up to 100.

Will this remedy our our waiting list?

I know we can't build a avoid a waiting list, but what we're doing the capital project, I think we should take advantage of it to do the best we can to minimize that waiting list because we know we can let's say put 110 kids, 115 kids.

Again, we can't build it to have no waiting list.

I'm not saying that.

But if you're doing the capital project, utilize the best you can to get as many kids in there as we can.

You know, again, 41 more is better than what we have right now.

I think again, utilize the new building and use it to its capacity the best we can.

I know we have limitations in the site, and the building looks fine.

I'm not even gonna debate it because that's it's a building.

You know, it's gonna serve its purpose.

So that's my question to staff.

And again, how many is on that weight?

Not a estimate if you had to guess.

I can tell you, because I just looked it up.

It's about those about 600 children weight list.

Don't excuse me for my I know I know it's it's absorbent to size that list.

So I I will I will preface uh to say um that does not mean all those children are not served.

Um it just reflects, I think they're part of our system.

The quality um plus the the affordability of the program we offer is uh substantially more than a lot of other providers.

So um a lot of all those children, or most of those children have cares, just not necessarily with the city.

And I do realize we're turning back the other building to its original design as a community center.

So that's that's the only question I would have to staff do.

As we're building it, utilize it.

I will reference or make one more note, which is um there is a portable classroom that serves the majority of those children.

It's probably licensed for about 40 of those children.

Um concept is to lease that um portable classroom out to a private provider or not profit provider as well to help address that concern of uh maximizing our uh preschool space.

Um so that's also a consideration we're looking at.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other comments or questions?

Okay.

That's it, you like to say.

Go ahead, Commissioner Pom or Vice Chair Apomku.

Thank you.

Um this is exciting.

Um I was just um uh thinking about my own uh pickup drop-off uh experience and wondering uh it looks like there's ample parking there, which is great, and then that turnoff area is sheltered from the main street.

Are there any concerns about if um traffic is more than what is anticipated?

Um just also imagining like little kids and how they are not always so observant about you know what's around them.

So just just trying to envision what the pickup drop off would look like, and um wanted to make sure that that's uh adequately planned for.

I'm happy to answer that question.

Um there's a couple of ways that the center can control pick up and drop off.

One um one is to sort of mitigate and mediate the timing of when people show up.

That can be done.

As I was mentioning before, the beauty of this site is that there is ample parking in this zone.

So we have three to five effectively drop-off spots, like really close to the to the to this uh entry.

Um I think my personal think uh thinking would be that they're going to encourage people or or parents are likely to gonna be parking on the sidewalk side of the parking lot.

There's actually another 40 spots there.

And so one of the advantages is that people can continue to do that.

There is parking on the right side of this picture as well.

So, you know, but I think parents tend to want to park and then as you just described, if they have a stroller whatever, just be able to get into the sidewalk, get out of the street.

And so we're always encouraging that, and that's why we put all the drop-off parking near there.

But um, but from what we can tell, and it in generally on a um on a uh center sort of of this size, usually it's it's really about um 10 people who drop off every 15 minutes or so, and so you know, we have people coming in and going out, and so there is the there's definitely adequate drop off parking for that.

So we did look at this extensively, but I think that's how there's a couple of different opportunities for uh managing that, but the the lucky thing is that there is in fact enough parking, and so we don't have to worry about some centers where they might queue up or they might, you know, or people have to drive around in circles and all that.

So we have the advantage of parking here that we don't normally have.

Thank you so much.

Anyone else?

Any other questions?

No, okay.

Um, does any member of the public wish to address the commission on this item at this time?

Please fill out a speaker card and give it to the clerk at this time.

I will ask the clerk, are there any members of the public who would like to provide comments?

We have no members of the public wanting to provide comments.

Thank you so much.

So I'm gonna close the public hearing and turn over the matter to the commission for discussion.

Commissioner Baker, do you have any thoughts?

Yeah, I mean, there there was a study last year that I think only 73% of San Mateo County's child care needs were being met.

And this is a small step, but I think it's an important step to moving forward.

Um when I was on the school board, um, I didn't realize we were talking about preschoolers here, but for the older kids, especially with the Monte Verde, Skyline, Westboro area students, there was a huge demand for child care.

Simply the demographics and costs of living here show that most families do have two working parents.

Making facilities such as this more and more critical.

So I will strongly support this, and I'd love to see more of this in the future.

Commissioner Zhang.

Third chair.

Twelve years ago I needed this.

I put my daughters on the wait list, and it's only putting on the wait list.

Never had a chance to do that, but that speaks of how important like this project would be to our fellow Social San Francisco citizens.

Architecturally, this is amazing.

Like the site, I don't know who filed this site, but it's like it's almost like mate for this project.

Like seriously, like the safe drop-off, like that you really need to do minimal, and you actually move the the toilet facility closer to like the users, like I'll probably it's a collateral damage or something, but like still it's great and uh uh blends into the neighborhood so well.

I think the only neighbor that might be affected would be the fire department hearing the noise.

Um, but I think that's about it.

So I was like, wow, like awesome design.

Um, and I saw that you actually have uh gates, like a short gate in front that could like adequately uh prevent like kids using the the part jumping into it to enjoy some private moment.

So perfect, like really good design.

I I strongly strongly support this project.

Go ahead, uh Vice Chair Personal Ponku.

Thank you.

Uh well, unlike uh Commissioner Zhang, uh my my child did make it off the uh the wait list just in time for him to go to kindergarten, which is a story that um I have told some of you.

So it's it's really not a knock on the city, but just a testament to the quality of the programming and the incredibly high demand.

Um so just wanted to put that personal piece in there.

Um, but I really appreciate the incredible thoughtfulness and the the vision around this.

I know how much work uh went into championing and creating this, and it's full of thoughtful touches.

Um, I really love that this is uh visually integrated into the park and not sort of walled off.

So this is really just like a great um community space.

Um I love that it frees up uh more community center programming because that is also another need that um I've been hearing uh as well loud and clear from the community.

So I just think there's a lot of win-win here.

Um I think uh the improvements to others who are using the park are also really great.

Um, and you know that uh applicant was really being too uh humble, saying that you know the preschool itself is a is a narrow group of people who will benefit because I think that the more child care infrastructure that we can create.

I mean, with 600 on the wait list and these much-needed seats, um, it's really uh a benefit not just to those who use it but to the the whole community, which is really strengthened by this.

So um I absolutely think this is a step in the right direction.

Um I'm excited to support um as a planning commissioner, but also as a parent, um and um very appreciative that this is before us.

Commissioner Faria.

No, I agree with a lot of the statements made by my fellow commissioners.

Like I've uh said before uh digressing momentarily.

While we're building it.

Let's maximize our capacity there.

I mean, I'm all I'm in full support for this.

I do want to call them Vice Mayor Nogales for his persistence, compliment you on making sure you can support his district and uh not letting it die as things can.

I think the city should also, if we're able to look into other areas where there might be a need, explore them.

You know, small little bits and pieces, you know, 50 here, 100 there, 75 there, can help map you know eliminate that list, but again, full support of this project and uh um can't be built soon enough.

Thank you.

Commissioner Shahade.

Yeah, through the chair.

Well, my kids a few years ago quite a few years ago.

My kids have kids, yeah.

We had I had to send them to San Bruno to a private preschool because the demand is still great in South City, and we don't have too many affordable options, and I think this is a great step.

And as far as the parking, I recall having to circle two, three times, sometimes 10 15 minutes to find parking to drop off my kids at that preschool.

So I think this circulation is great, location is amazing, in my opinion, and I salute again Mark for his persistence and he's been working on this for years, every little bit is gonna help.

It's not gonna solve our problem, but the demand keeps getting greater because our community is growing, and the younger generation is growing.

We're seeing that the older generation is you know either left us or moved on, moved.

So there's gonna be greater demand as time goes on.

I love the design, it's incorporated well, it meets the city, you know, demand, and I'm in full support of the project.

Well, thank you so much.

So as the only person on the planning commission that doesn't have children, I do appreciate how beautiful this new facility is gonna be, how it's incorporated into the park, as my fellow vice chairperson said.

I love that we're continually thinking about the future South Citians that aren't with us yet or that are need to be educated.

Um so I'm in full support of the project.

I think it's absolutely beautiful, and I can't wait to see it open.

So uh but a commissioner like to make a motion.

I'll make a motion.

First of all, move to adopt a resolution making certain sequel determinations for the project subject to the findings here in my second roll call, please.

Commissioner Zhang.

Yes, Vice Chairperson Palmiku.

Yes, Commissioner Shahade.

Chairperson Funes, yes, Commissioner Baker.

Yes, Commissioner Faria, yes, Commissioner Evans is absent.

Thank you so much.

Move to adopt a resolution making findings and approving the planning entitlements for the project.

I'll say, Yeah, go ahead.

Can I make a motion, please?

Already did.

Sorry, we already did.

Sorry.

Sorry, can we get a roll call, please?

Commissioner Baker.

Yes, Chairperson Funes.

Yes, Vice Chairperson Palmaku.

Yes.

Commissioner Zing.

Yes.

Commissioner Faria.

Yes.

Commissioner Shahade.

Yes.

Motion passes.

Congratulations, everyone.

Thank you.

It's still there, isn't it?

I don't think so.

She's 46 now.

It's still there.

I said he's 46 now.

I don't know.

She's like 41 years ago.

My kids are in a happy hall in San Bruno.

So I will open the floor to nominate.

Or to take nominations for chair.

I'd like to nominate my vice chairperson Palmaku to be chair of the planning commissioner, please.

Oh, sorry.

Okay.

Sorry.

So I'd like to close the public hearing.

And then I'll call for administrative business, please.

I'm sorry, could we quickly uh actually just read the item into the great um so under administrative business we have number three, which is annual reorganization of the chair and vice chair of the South San Francisco Planning Commission, and I'll give a very brief staff report.

Um I'm a Dina Friedman Chief Planner.

Um so it is time to do our annual reorganization of the planning commission where the commissioners um oops elect a chair and a vice chair.

Um so before we do that, I just want to take a minute to thank uh chair Sarah Funes for her incredible work this past year.

It has been um wonderful.

We've everybody in the planning division has just really enjoyed working with you as the chair of the planning commission, and um just wanted to thank you.

Um you did a great job.

We really appreciate you.

Thank you.

I really appreciate working with staff and all my fellow commissioners.

Thank you.

So with that, um it's time to move on to the reorganization.

Wonderful, okay.

So I'd like to open the floor for nominations for the next chair with the planning commission for our lovely city.

I personally would love to um nominate my vice chairperson Aisha Pomako to be the next chair.

I'll second the nomination.

Thank you, Commissioner Baker.

Roll call, please.

Or are there any other nominations?

Sorry.

Now that you said roll call.

Yeah, anyone, anyone else want it?

You pick my choice, so that's good.

Okay, so roll call, please.

Commissioner Zhang.

Yes.

Chairperson Funes?

Yes.

Vice Chairperson Palmaku.

Do I vote on myself?

Yes.

You can say no.

Commissioner Faria?

Yes.

Commissioner Shahade?

Yes.

Commissioner Baker.

Yes.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

You have to run the second moment.

Yeah, I'm gonna hand over.

I'm gonna pass over my favorite baton.

I know how much this means to you.

I love that gavel.

So we'd like to thank you so much for the nomination.

Um, and I second staff in appreciating uh Commissioner Funes for the incredible leadership um and steadiness that she's brought to the planning commission.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh now we will open the floor and take nominations for vice chair.

I nominate uh Commissioner Baker as the vice.

I second.

Any other nominations?

All right.

Let's uh take roll call, please.

Chairperson Palmaku.

Yes.

Sounds good.

Commissioner Zhang.

Yes.

Commissioner Funes.

Yes.

Commissioner Shahade.

Yes.

Commissioner Faria.

Yes.

Commissioner Baker.

Well, yes, thank you.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

Thank you, everybody, for the vote of confidence.

Great.

Any items from the Commission?

Um, I just want to mention that uh next month I will be attending the annual um, forget the actual title of it.

It's Commissioner Clienting Commissioner Academy down in Anaheim on behalf of the commission and hope to come back with a nice uh report and learn a lot of things that will benefit my new role.

I kind of will see you there actually.

There's Chair Baker, I attended that back many moons ago, and you'll find it very interesting dealing with different municipalities.

Some of the issues uh with Samber to do account with the fires and all, it's really interesting.

You'd be able to pick what the one clash you want to attend, but again, highly recommended.

You should you'll enjoy it.

Thank you.

That there's a uh group of classes on CEQA, which is a relative it's relatively new for the planning commission to be the approving body, so I I look forward to learning more on that.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

All right.

I think we are ready to adjourn.

Thank you, everybody.

Survived, Sarah.

I did.

Oh you had a soft one.

You had a small one.

Commissioner Shahade.

Yes.

I'd like to make a motion making determination that the project is categorically exempt, per se, qua guidelines, class 32, section 15332 infill development projects.

Second.

Roll call, please.

Commissioner Faria.

Yes.

Commissioner Zhang.

Yes.

Commissioner Baker.

Yes.

Chairperson Funes.

Yes.

Commissioner Shahade.

Yes.

Commissioners Evan and Vice Chairperson Palmaku are absent.

Can I entertain a second motion, please?

I'd like to make a motion.

Make findings and approve entitlement requests for the project P23-0086 included in the design review DR23-0019.

Subject to the attached draft findings and draft conditions of approval.

Second.

Roll call, please.

Commissioner Baker.

Yes.

Commissioner Faria.

Yes.

Commissioner Shahade.

Yes.

Commissioner Zhang.

Yes.

Chairperson Funes.

Yes.

Commissioner Evans and Vice Chairperson Palmaku are absent.

Motion passes.

Thank you.

Just as a note, if any interest interested party may appeal the commissioner's decision.

Is there any more?

No.

So I'll ask the clerk if there are any members of the public who would like to provide any comments on this item.

We already have that.

Great.

Um I just want to say.

That's not part of the first time.

But that would be can we get them involved?

I love South City.

I think so.

I'm so involved in a lot of the library and the city events.

Wondering stuff like this.

And when a yeah, it does get displaced because they're gonna be destroyed and building new dwelling.

Is there a can Sal City start get someone involved to contact those residents and just gonna offer help or assistance in those situations.

Yeah, so in my role here, I can't provide guidance, but I would really love for you to speak to Adina, the slowly human right there, after the meeting, she'll be able to provide the support.

Thank you.

Yeah, thank you so much.

Um, is any fish to have any items or announcements?

Wonderful.

Thank you all so much for coming.

This meeting is now adjourned.

Have a great night, everyone.