Alright, welcome.

Good evening and welcome to the December 11th Planning Commission meeting.

Will the secretary please call the roll?

Thank you.

Commissioner Moran?

Here.

Commissioner Cound.

Here.

Commissioner Strongman.

Here.

Commissioner Quok.

Here.

Commissioner Klopp.

Here.

Vice Chair Knighting.

Here.

Chair Anderson has phoned in.

He will not be here tonight.

So we have six.

We have a quorum.

Perfect.

Do we have anything on the consent calendar today?

We do not staff recommends no changes.

Okay, beautiful.

Now, before we begin, there are two opportunities for the public to provide comment.

The first is during the item of each agenda as it pertains on the agenda.

And the second one is would be right now, and it's for comment that is within the purview of the Planning Commission, but not something that is on the agenda.

So does anyone want to provide any public comment for items that are not on the agenda tonight?

Seeing none.

Then I would like to then start with the public hearing and open the public hearing.

Does oh, pardon me.

Has anyone had any experte communication?

Seeing none, lots of shaking heads.

Well, I I just will say I drove all this, I drove all the sites.

So perfect.

Do staff have a presentation?

Thank you.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Simmer Gill, senior planner with the city.

Uh we are here tonight to consider the Mount Diablo mixed use uh development that will be located at 2094 Mount Diablo Boulevard.

Uh the applicant representing this project, uh Ben Johansson and his team are here tonight, as am I.

And with the city, we have Ryan Cook, who is the senior civil engineer also available for any questions after the presentation.

And just to quickly orient you with the site, uh it is zone mixed use commercial, and there is an existing commercial building on the parcel.

Uh it's a roughly 20 24,000 square foot lot, and it is located within the West Downtown specific plan and also listed as a housing site or where we envision housing um future housing.

Uh so it's listed in this inventory uh sites table.

And here are just some photographs really showing you uh what's currently on site.

It is that existing single-story building with multiple tenants, and uh the project request before you tonight is uh to demolish that existing commercial building to build a seven-story 74 unit mixed use development, uh, which also uh consists of approximately 3,000 square feet of ground floor commercial space as well as a daycare center, and uh it the project does consist of a mix of studios, 35 one bedroom units, and 35 two-bedroom units.

Sizes range from 591 square feet to uh roughly 1,500 square feet uh and uh there is new ground floor as well as rooftop landscaping.

There is 80 parking stalls that will be located within the mechanical parking system as well as eight surface uh parking spaces for the commercial component.

Uh a drip line encroachment permit is also requested as part of this project and uh because the project is providing eight very low income units, uh, it is um utilizing state density bonus law as also being processed under the housing accountability act, which I'll go into more detail or further in my presentation.

Uh so this project did go before the design review commission um on September 17th, where they reviewed the project as well as made some comments which are listed on this slide and made a recommendation to move the project forward to the commission to the planning commission uh for consideration of the entitlements.

And um the plans have been revised to address all of the lighting and um lighting related comments, um, as the project does include building mounted uh security lighting, the site distance triangle, as well as the drainage plan was reviewed by uh the city's traffic engineer and the public works department, and the fire apparatus access is also shown on the plans.

Uh the applicant is requesting to waive um to did not address uh did not incorporate a second material because they're requesting a waiver to that associating it with costs that are associated to the project.

And so tonight the planning commission will consider the design review for the new building, tree drip line encroachment permit, as well as the density bonus concessions and waivers, and also a conditional use permit, which is for the day care portion of the project.

Before we go into the project, I really just wanted to touch on the applicable state housing laws that apply to this project.

So this project is being processed under the Housing Accountability Act, which does require cities to approve housing projects that meet the city's objective standards.

And the only way the city could deny this project is by making specific health or safety findings.

And these findings must be based on objective existing written public health safety standards.

It's also being processed under SB 330, which essentially got adopted in 2019 to strengthen the Housing Accountability Act, which means that if a project meets the city's objective standards, SB 330 essentially prevents the city from reducing those housing units or adding any new development standards after an application that was submitted to the city has been deemed complete.

And as mentioned earlier, they're utilizing density bonus, which they're providing affordable units as part of the project.