Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Planning Commission meeting of August 12th, 2021.

At this time, I would like to ask the city clerk to please take roll.

Chair Mallet present.

Vice Chair Sanguinetti.

Here.

Commissioner Garcia is absent.

Commissioner Mountain.

Here.

Commissioner Rizby?

Here.

Commissioner Jones is absent.

Commissioner Via Pudua?

Here.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

I would now like to ask Commissioner RISV to lead us in the flag salute.

Please join me in Flag Salute.

I pledge a flag on the state of South America.

And two public.

So we'll move to agenda item three, consent calendar.

Would anyone like to comment on the consent calendar?

In that case, could I have a motion to approve the consent calendar?

To the chair, I move the motion to approve the consent calendar as presented.

Second it.

I vote in the affirmative to approve.

I did watch the video and I did uh read the minutes and the agenda.

Thank you.

Motion passes 50.

Agenda item number four, public comment.

This section of the agenda is reserved for public comment on anything within the jurisdiction of the commission.

If you'd like to speak on a specific agenda item, you may do so here or later when that item is called.

All um public comments are limited to three minutes.

Um do we have any public comments?

We have no general public comment.

Thank you.

On to agenda item number five, public hearings, environmental assessments.

Agenda item 5.1 is an initial steady addendum to the 2040 General Plan Environmental Impact Report.

Commission use permit and design review requests for the proposed retail commercial center development at 815 West 8th Street.

To open the public comment.

Okay, staff, could you please present?

Thank you.

Good evening, Chair Mallet and members of the Commission.

Item 5.1 is for planning application P number uh P190101, which is an initial study addendum to the general plan EIR, a commission use permit and design review request for a proposed retail development on West 8th Street.

The project is located on the north side of West 8th Street, just west of I 5.

This is a street view of the current conditions along the westbound lane of West 8th Street looking towards the project.

The existing structure to the immediate right in this picture is the existing shell station and is not a part of this project.

The site has a current general plan designation of commercial and is surrounded by commercial low density, sorry, by low density residential to the north, south, and west, and commercial to the south and the east.

The site also has a zoning designation of general commercial.

The EIR addendum provides substantial evidence demonstrating that none of the conditions listed in CEQA guidelines section 15162 would occur.

Thus, no subsequent EIR is required for the city to approve this project.

And because the 2040 general plan EIR sufficiently describes and mitigates to the greatest extent feasible the potentially significant project level and cumulative effects associated with the project.

A subsequent EIR is also not required.

The project includes development of five parcels totaling 18.1 acres.

There will be one convenience store and fueling station with a quick serve restaurant, four additional quick serve restaurants, two with drive-throughs, a self-service car wash, a truck repair and fueling station, and a three-story hotel.

The site will have approximately 389 parking stalls and include site improvements such as landscaping, bioswales, street trees, and frontage improvements.

Design review approval is required for the development of this site, and a commission use permit is required because the municipal code requires that on sale of alcoholic beverages within convenience store obtain a commission use permit.

The following graphics shows the proposed site plan, which includes perimeter perimeter trees, parking areas, and proposed buildings on the site.

The site will have one point of vehicular access off of West 8th Street where this star is at the signalized intersection with Lever Boulevard.

There's an additional EVA near Building A and two additional EVAs located off Denise Street and Sabrina Street.

These EVAs are noted with these blue arrows, and they will be controlled by click to connect gates, which are controlled by the fire engine at the site when they need to access those EVAs.