Thank you.

We are welcome to the Planning Commission and Design Review joint meeting, special meeting to discuss overview of AB 130 and SP 131 changes on the planning review process.

One to the planning commission personal.

Thank you, Chair.

For planning commission role.

Commissioner Moran has indicated he will be absent tonight.

So Commissioner Cown.

Here.

Commissioner Strongman.

Here.

Commissioner Quok.

Here.

Commissioner Klopp.

Here.

Vice Chair Knighting.

Chair Anderson.

Design Review Commission.

Commissioner Riley.

Here.

Commissioner Case.

Here.

Vice Chair Basing.

And Chair Newsom is a no-show.

We do have a quorum.

Okay.

Thank you.

Because this is a special meeting, public communication that only can only be related to this.

Yeah.

To this topic.

So excuse me.

Because public communications probably related will be related to this topic.

We're going to uh hold the presentation first.

We've had that presentation.

So then we come to uh attorney regarding the new CEQA exemptions under AB 130 SB 131.

We have a staff report.

Yes, we do.

But before we do that, I'd like to um just just uh give a shout out to Commissioner Gourney, a long-time design review commissioner is in the audience tonight to learn something new about CEQA.

I just want to tip my cap.

Joseph was a great did a lot of great things for the city.

Um that said, uh some commissioners um in response to the uh governor's signing of assembly bill 130 and Senate Bill 131 have asked to get uh trained up so to speak on how these two bills affect CEQA.

Um our city attorney's office Claire Lye is kind enough to put together a presentation that does a few things or does does more than just that.

It kind of gives a primer to CEQA itself and and kind of a just a basic CEQA primer to get into what these things do or or help set up help set up help set up the scene for projects and things that are subject to CEQA.

So that said, we'll just get right into it.

Yes, thank you, Chip.

Good evening, Chair, Commissioners.

Just try and fix this.

Okay.

So yes, so here today I like to talk to you about um these two budget trailer bills that does a number of things, but tonight we're going to focus on the changes to one, the um actually planning review process and two the um provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act CEQA.

Um so we thought it'd be helpful to before we get into what's actually in the bills to go over a little bit about what is a housing development project, because the changes introduced by those bills that we're talking about tonight relate mostly to how housing projects are reviewed and how they're um potentially can be exempt under CEQA.

And so we're gonna talk a little bit about what is a housing development project, um, as that term is used in the various state housing laws and then the process for reviewing such a project, and then we'll give um an overview about what the sequel review process entails.

Um I know some of you um work very closely with CEQA and have expertise in that area, so this will be a very high-level overview.

Um it's not going to speak to the details, but we're happy to answer those questions, but this is intended to give you some background so we can better explain the changes, and then we'll go into the one the new CQA changes under AB 130 and SD 131.

Um, and then how that in turn changes uh along with the amendments brought by AB 130, the land use review aspects of it.

So we'll get right into it.

Um, on to housing development projects.

Um, so a housing development project, you might hear uh a lot about the HAA, SB 330, the permit Street Lining act.

Um those state laws um govern what we what is uh show on the screen here as defines a housing development project.

Um that is one residential unit, so that's typically more than two units.

A mixed use project, so both residential and non-residential with two-thirds of the floor area or development area for residential.

Some large mixed-use projects, over 500 units and meeting certain demolition criteria, and also transitional and supportive housing and farm worker housing.