Any time.

Welcome to this October 17th, 20.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

September 3rd, 2025.

Desire to be commission meeting.

Um, Mr.

Secretary, can we do a roll call, please?

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioner Case.

Here.

Commissioner Riley.

Here.

Vice Chair Basting.

Here.

Chair Newsom.

I'm here.

We have quorum.

Okay, so consent calendar.

Is there anything on the consent calendar?

Do we propose to move anything to the consent calendar?

Staff has no recommendations.

Alright, let's move on.

Now we're going to move on to public communications.

Okay.

This is for items which are not on the agenda under the Brown Act.

The commission cannot act on items raised during public communications, but may respond briefly to statements made or questions posed, request clarifications, or to step to refer an item to staff.

So nobody's here to talk about anything beyond items on the agenda, I assume.

Excellent.

And we'll move on.

So we're getting ready to start the public hearing.

So has anybody had any export communications?

No.

On either of the items.

Excellent.

We'll move on.

So now we're going to open the public hearing.

And the first item on the public hearing is the Olympia Place Master Sign Program Amendment.

Does staff have a presentation?

Looks like you do.

Yes.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Simmer Gill, senior planner with the city.

We are here tonight to consider the master sign program amendment for the Olympia Place shopping center.

The applicant representing this project, Michael Piazzola, is here tonight, as am I, to answer any questions that you may have after the presentation.

And just to quickly orient you with the site, the Olympia Play Shopping Center is located along multiple frontages.

The site is zoned plan development with a general plan designation of pedestrian retail.

The existing master sign program that was established does have different sign criteria tailored for each uh building frontage and tenant location within the shopping center.

The request tonight is to amend the master sign program for signage along Mount Diablo Boulevard.

So uh tonight the applicant is requesting to update the sign criteria for uh six specific tenant spaces that are listed on this slide, and these are all along Mount Diablo uh Boulevard Boulevard.

Uh the applicant is requesting to replace the existing wall-mounted business identification sign with a new canopy mounted illuminated uh channel letter signage and also replace the existing uh fabric blade signs with new non-illuminated metal blade signs.

The amendment uh before you tonight does apply only to these designated spaces, and all of the other tenant spaces within the shopping center will continue to follow the uh criteria in the existing sign program.

And uh the applicant did mention that the uh amendment is intended basically to modernize the property signage uh providing more contemporary and integrated design with some of the um recent uh changes to the shop uh shopping center fronting uh Mount Diablo Boulevard, which was a new paint scheme, and also to replace the fabric um awnings with uh metal canopies.

And here is what the existing wall sign location along Mount Diablo looks like currently.

It's um signage is allowed on the upper portion of the facade, and it it is for these specific locations is identified as sign type B.

So the applicant um is asking to uh remove the upper portion location as you can see that sign or logo that's installed on the existing storefront.

Uh it's uh very high, so they want something that's more eye-level and want it installed on the um new metal canopy that will replace the fabric um awnings.

And uh each sign does measure two feet three inches in height with a sign area of approximately twenty one square feet, uh graphics um limited to tenant names and logos uh will be allowed on these um sign bases, and here is the existing existing fabric uh blade signs that you see currently within that shopping center, and there's a photo of an actual one that's there now.

Um the applicant is proposing to update those again because they're the existing ones are worn out and outdated.

Uh so the new um metal metal that will be um painted satin black, uh we'll have vinyl uh graphics, white vinyl graphics and letterings, and they will be non-illuminated and meet the uh sign limitations, which is four and a half square feet is typically allowed for blade signs, so they'll stay within that parameter.

And this project is exempt from uh CEQA or environmental review as it's only a change in signage criteria to an existing um commercial shopping center.