Perfect.

Good to know.

Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Planning Commission meeting of November 9th, 2023.

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

Commissioner Jones, present.

Commissioner Mallet, present.

Chair Rebsey is absent.

Vice Chair Nathaniel.

Present.

Commissioner Thompson is absent.

Commissioner Bopara is also absent.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

Moving to agenda item number three, uh consent, adoption of consent calendar.

Is there any comments from the commission on this particular item?

Is there a motion to approve the consent calendar?

Commissioner Mallet.

Thank you.

Moving on to 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 a member of the public would like to speak on a specific agenda item, they may do so here or later when that item is called City Clerk, do we have any public none, Chair?

Moving on to agenda item number five, public hearings.

This is a public hearing for the request for I'm sorry to interrupt you.

Yes, uh, I meant to say before you started.

No problem.

Um moving on to agenda item number five, public hearings and environmental assessments.

I now declare the public hearing open.

Are there any commissioner disclosures at this time?

Um, I didn't know reading the agenda, but as I walked in, I know the um the landowner, not the actual applicant for this.

It's actually the son of the landowner.

Okay, I I know your mother also.

Just to be just to be clear and yeah, long time Stockton.

Thank you, Commissioner Mallet.

Any additional disclosures at this time.

All right, city staff, you have the floor.

Okay, so uh Mike McDowell, assistant director of the community development department.

I'll be making this presentation.

And uh if I need to use my pointer, I'm not used to this, right?

As far as usually I have staff making these presentations, so I'll turn around and I'll point something out if if we need to point it out.

Uh so the project site here is located at the southeast corner of Thornton and Wadman Avenue.

As you can see, it's a vacant site.

So the general plan identifies this site as administrative professional at present.

And then you can see the surrounding it.

We have in red, we have commercial to the west, and to the north of the site, you have low density residential in yellow, and then medium density uh residential in that orange is brown color.

So zoning is very similar, uh, except we get into the actual zoning districts.

So we have commercial general uh located to the west and to the north residential low density, and then residential medium density to the east of the site, and then again commercial office related to the administrative professional for the general plan.

So the project entitlements are summarized here.

However, I want to clarify the far left column, which is referring to a lot line adjustment, is not really an entitlement from the planning perspective.

It's not here for your consideration, it's more of just being informative that there is a lot line adjustment that's being proposed, and it's already been filed with our community development department development engineering section to move lot lines and merge the property to create two separate parcels, and we'll get into the two separate parcels as part of the presentation.

So the entitlements part of this, and that's here before the planning commission is a recommendation for the general plan amendment and the rezone.

And so that's a recommendation as you're aware that goes to city council for the final decision.

So your recommending body for those two items.

Uh in addition, on the entitlements is a use permit, and that's for the convenience store, which includes off sale of alcohol, and that's part of the planning commission's consideration for approval.

And same goes for design review of the project.

So that's under planning commission's authority.

So your approvals or denials, whatever you whatever decision you make here will ultimately uh end up at least part of it to city council being the legislative uh recommendations.

So this is just a brief overview, just to I indicated a lot line adjustment was being proposed.

There's five lot lines, technically, there's five separate parcels on this plot, and so they're merging along with the lot line adjustment uh into two.

So you have parcel one that's gonna be ultimately proposed for the commercial use, and then parcel two goes along with the residential uh medium density use that's being proposed with the project, and I'll get into that.

So convenience store with fueling station and car wash are not permitted under the current uh zoning.