This meeting is being recorded.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Like to call uh the June 4th, 2026, Washoe County Board of Adjustment meeting to order.

May we please have a determination of quorum.

Uh Peter Gishan.

Present.

Rob Pierce.

Present.

Kathy Julian.

Present.

Pat Caldwell.

Present.

And Commissioner Hirshney will not be present.

He does have an excused absence.

We do have a quorum.

Okay, thank you.

You'd all please stand and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Under God individual with liberty and justice.

Okay, uh Ms.

Hickman, the ethics law announcement, please.

Thank you.

Board members are reminded that if with respect to any matter or any person coming before the board today, you've received a gift or a loan.

You have a pecuniary interest.

You have a commitment in a private capacity, such as family employment, business, or similar relationship.

Or if you've provided representation or counseling before an agency to a person or entity for compensation within the last year on a matter that's being considered today, you must disclose that gift loan interest commitment or prior representation at the time the matter is considered.

You must furthermore abstain from deliberation or voting on the matter.

If it's clear the gift loan interest commitment or prior representation would materially affect the independence of judgment of a reasonable person.

Board members are also reminded under the board of adjustment rules.

If you've had any contact outside this meeting with any person interested in a matter coming up before the board today, you should disclose the nature of that contact at the meeting.

Thank you.

Most decisions rendered by the Board of Adjustment are appealable to the Board of County Commissioners.

If you disagree with the decision of the Board of Adjustment and you qualify it as an agrieved person or party, you may appeal in writing within 10 calendar days from the date the decision being appealed is reduced to writing filed with the Secretary of the Board of Adjustment and mailed to the original applicant in the proceeding being appealed in accordance with Washoe County Code.

Please call the planning staff immediately at 775-328-6100 for information on the appeal procedure and the application fee.

Thank you.

Do we have any public comments?

I have no public comment in chambers.

I have no hands raised on Zoom.

Okay, thank you.

Uh looking to today's agenda.

Has everyone had a chance to review it and have any comments or questions.

If none, I'll entertain a motion.

Mr.

Rob, I move to approve is written.

Okay.

Kathy Julian, I second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second.

All those in favor of approving the June 4, 2026 agenda say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed say nay.

Okay, motion carries.

Moving on to the draft minutes from our May 7, 2026 meeting.

Once again, any comments, questions, or concerns?

If none, I'll entertain a motion.

Mr.

Rob, I move to approve is written.

Thank you.

This is Pat Caldwell, all second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second to approve the May 7, 2026 draft minutes.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed say nay.

Okay, motion carries.

On to the public hearing.

Item 8A, administrative permit case number WADMIN 26-005, community fair.

Mr.

Lloyd, would you please announce?

Yeah, for hearing discussion and possible action to approve an administrative permit for an outdoor community event for the incline village general improvement district community fair.

The event will be held at 960 Lakeshore Boulevard, and approximately 500 people are expected to attend throughout the event.

The date of the community fair is July 3, 2 uh 2026, and the hours of the event are 11 a.m.

to 3 p.m.

Uh this application is submitted by Incline Village General Improvement District.

The subject property is located at 960 Lakeshore Boulevard and consists of approximately 17.83 acres.

The proposal is being reviewed under development code article 808 administrative permits and is situated within uh commission district one.

The site is uh governed by the incline village tourist commercial uh plan land use designation and the uh the TA IVT regulatory zoning district uh within the boundaries of the Tahoe area plan and representing uh Washoe County in this matter is planner Julia Oland.

Thank you.

Yeah, one week at the full screen.

I can't hear you, Julie.

This is my community uh admin permitted 2605 for the community fair.

Um, as stated, this is a request for administrative permit to allow for an outdoor community event, excuse me, with conditions um to be held uh on July 3rd at 960 Lakeshore Boulevard.

And this is required to be reviewed by you per Washoe County Code 25.272 and 110 310 20.

Fair is on the third, as I said, from 11 to 3.

It's free, it's a free event, open to the public, and includes local businesses, uh, philanthropic organizations and other community groups.

Activities will include um games, food, giveaways, a bounce house, and community information.

The fair is expecting approximately 500 people.

I just want to make that clear, it's 500 people.

If it's stated differently in the staff report, I apologize for that to attend the event.

And the fair is informal.

It's usually up there.

Most of the people walk to the event and it's in an open field.

There's a layout of the um of the village green, um, the area it's at on Aspen Grove.

You can see the village green area in the middle, and then there's parking to the lower part of the of the of the green area.

No neighborhood was required.

118 parcels were notice.

I did not receive any emails or phone calls.

Various agencies did review the application.

Um their comments are in the staff report.

The agencies with the conditions are included in the conditions of approval.

Staff can make all four findings as shown in the staff report and recommends approval.

And here is a possible motion.

I believe the applicant might be available for any questions on the phone.

I don't know if you see her on the phone.

Thank you.

You have someone online.

And I'm available for any questions.

Thank you.

Any questions for staff at this time?

Rob, Pat.

None from Pat.

No, I'm good.

Okay.

Uh, is the applicant wish to make a presentation?

Go ahead and unmute the state your first and last name for the record, please.

Hi there, my name is Adia Van Paborg from Incline Bills General Improvement District.

I'm the recreation operations manager.

Um, I don't have any further comments besides that.

We opted to um not do the bounce house.

So that's not in there.

No bounce houses, as we're gonna bring the kids.

Yeah, we're we're gonna do some like field game stuff instead.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Any questions for the applicant?

Okay.

Do we have any public comment?

I have no public comment in chambers.

I have no hands raised on Zoom.

Okay, any uh discussion with the board.

Uh no, uh, I'm Kathy Julian for the record.

I'm from Incline Village, and this is an event that's held every year, and it's uh very good community event.

Super.

Yeah, no further discussion.

I'll entertain a motion.

Sun Discipline Valley.

Okay.

This Pat Caldwell for the record, I'll make a motion.

Please.

I move that after oh, sorry, I moved that after giving reasoned consideration to the information contained in the staff report and information received during the public hearing.

The board of adjustment approve administrative permit case WADMIN 26-0005 for Incline Village General Improvement District, having made all five findings in accordance with Washoe County Development Code Section 110.808.25.

Thank you.

This is Robin it.

Okay, we have a motion and a second.

Uh all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, say nay.

Okay.

Motion carries.

Thank you, Julie.

Moving on to item 8B, administrative permit case number W A D M I N 2606, the Sun Valley Food Trucks.

Mr.

Lloyd.

Yeah, for hearing discussion and possible action to approve an administrative permit for an outdoor community event for the Sun Valley Food Trucks community event.

This event will be held at 5430 Sun Valley Boulevard, and a maximum of approximately 900 people will be in attendance.

The dates of the community event will be uh June 11th, 18 and 25 of 2026.

And the hours of the event are 4 p.m.

to 8 p.m.

The applicant is Reno Street Food, and the property owner is Sun Valley Shopping Center.

The subject property is approximately 4.37 acres.

The proposal is being reviewed under development code article 808, administrative permits and is uh situated within commission district three.

The site is uh governed by the commercial land use designation and the general commercial regulatory zone within the Sun Valley Planning Area, and representing Washoe County in this matter is planner Tim Evans.

Thank you.

All right.

Okay, so Tim Evans, planner.

So the case before you today is administrative permit case number W admin 26-0006 for Sun Valley Food Trucks.

So the subject property is located at 5430 Sun Valley Boulevard, and the surrounding parcels are similarly developed with commercial structures.

Um the subject properties located within the Sun Valley Planning Area, and the property is zoned general commercial.

And there on the right side of the screen, you can see the vicinity map that shows the location within the Sun Valley planning area.

So the request before you is an administrative permit for an outdoor community event.

And so on the screen is the site plan that was submitted with the administrative permit application.

Um there in the middle of the screen, you can see where the actual event itself is going to be held with the food trucks and things like that.

And I'll get into more of the event details later on.

Um and then on the left side you can see that there's a rectangular box, um, and that's a parking area.

And on the right side of the screen, there's also a parking area as well.

So this event is a partnership between Washoe County Commissioner Garcia, Sun Valley General Improvement District, Washoe County, and Reno Food Trucks.

And so there will be multiple food truck vendors, a total of approximately all a total of eight informational booths for various governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations, such as Sun Valley General Improvement District, Boys and Girls Club of Truckee Meadows, and so on and so forth.

Um, this event will be held on three three different days of the this month.

Um the first will be on June 11th, the next will be on June 18th, and the last will be on June 25th of this year.

Um the event hours are would be from 4 o'clock p.m.

to 8 o'clock p.m.

And the actual event will include music, dancing, and the serving of food and drinks.

And so it is anticipated that approximately 900 people could be in attendance at this event or a maximum of 900 people.

Um the total on-site parking is 156 spaces, in addition to a drop-off area for attendees utilizing Uber Lyft or other um taxi type services like that.

Um and one thing to note is that in the staff report it calls out that there is a um security agency that was hired for security specifically for this.

That has changed.

It changed after the drafting or the uh finalization of the staff report.

Um, it's no longer going to be the security agency, it's going to be um Washhoe County Sheriff's Deputies.

So there's going to be two deputies providing security services at each event.

And so the project was sent for agency review.

A total of 15 agencies reviewed the project, um, and a total of three agencies provided conditions, which are included in exhibit A of the staff report.

Noticing occurred for the project, and a total of 68 separate property owners were provided with noticing, and as a result of that noticing, no comments were provided to or no public comments were received by planning staff in relation to the project.

And so staff is able to make all five required findings as detailed on pages six and seven of the staff report.

And staff recommends the board of adjustment approve administrative permit, W admin 26-0006, and provides the motion on the screen as well as in the staff report.

And I'm available for any questions, and the applicant is available for questions as well.

And I don't believe that they have a presentation.

Thank you.

Any questions for staff?

Hey, Tim, question for you.

Peter Gishon for the record.

So this is simply an administrative permit.

Other agencies are going to tell us if the parking is adequate, if the number of restrooms is adequate, if the number of security is adequate.

That's not our purview.

Tim Evans planner.

So as far as the parking being adequate, I did talk to engineering, and that was one piece that myself in engineering looked at heavily, and they believe that the parking is adequate as proposed.

And then as far as like bathrooms and restrooms and things like that, that's reviewed by Northern Nevada Public Health, and the applicant is working with them specifically to meet those items.

And there are conditions of approval addressing those items as well.

Okay, perfect.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Yeah, Kathy Julian for the record.

How did they determine the number of food trucks necessary for the crowd coming?

That's a good question.

I will defer to the applicant to address that question.

Yeah, sure.

Please just state your name for the record when you come up.

Good afternoon.

Steve Schroeder, owner and founder of Reno Street Food, which operates the food truck Wednesday, Thursday, Fridays here in our community.

That's a great question.

Uh this being a first-time event that we've ever done in this community.

I mean, we've had 15 years of uh running the Idawald Park uh food truck Friday event.

We did expand last year.

We have North Valley's Regional Park, um, which we go through the process of approval with the uh parks and rec commission.

And then we did add a uh South Reno event.

So this will be our fourth event for the weekly food truck events, even though it's a limited series of three days.

Gauging the quantity of food trucks comes from one, the food trucks that are actually available in the market.

Uh we work with about a hundred of them during the course of the year.

Well, the summer.

Um, we respond we had responses from several food trucks.

We booked them into that place.

Or we've got about uh actually ended up with about 12 that will be there.

So it's made up of food, dessert, drink specific, non-alcoholic, and then the alcoholic vendors.

Um if we see that we need more, we can try to add more.

Um, if we see that we need less and the audience doesn't show, we can back it down and do less.

So it's this really bizarre fluid ability of trying to make sure that we have enough or too much or not enough.

Okay, so in terms of the Kathy Julian for the record, um, in terms of the approval, does it I did it give a range of food trucks or do you need to go back to the county?

That's a question for the staff.

Do they need to go back to the county if they change the number of food trucks?

Tim Evans planner, so as far as the number of food trucks and things like that, um, it was to some degree left open-ended.

Um, and Northern Nevada Public Health has requested specifically a list be provided to them on the number of food trucks and vendors that are going to be there, and that's kind of what's gonna tie those two together and keep that limit limit there.

Okay, thank you.

Gentlemen, any further questions?

This is Pack Hold, no questions.

Thank you.

And sir, do you have a presentation?

Okay, thank you.

Very thorough.

Thank you.

Um, any public comment?

I have Veronica Cortez in the chambers.

Veronica.

I'm just taking a small talk.

Pleasure.

Hello, everybody.

Veronica Cortez again, your favorite lunch lady who's running for District Assembly 27.

Not by choice, but because I have been exposed to the injustices that have been associated with Sun Valley, and I have been attending various meetings through the past year.

You've probably seen and heard about me.

Um, but Sun Valley, I was born at St.

Mary's and taken out there since 1977.

My grandparents came in the 60s from Texas.

My parents still live out there, my children live out there, and I've been a lunch lady in Washoe County school districts all the way up from Huntsburger all the way to Virginia Plumber, which was my elementary school.

I've been all over this district doing my public service as a lunch lady.

The last few years I've been out at Lemon Valley as we're feeding, we have over 670 kids in the school.

Most of them are directly certified through some type of state agency to get breakfast or lunch.

So we just want to make sure we're there for the kids.

However, this topic exactly is on Sun Valley.

So I own the Byright Pizza in Sun Valley.

Like I said, um, I'm a mobile notary that pro bono seniors in Sun Valley so they can get their you know their affairs in order before you know the unthinkable happens.

I also do work up at the jail.

That's why district 27 is really where I'm from.

It's what I do.

Um specifically for this.

Um I know six months ago at the November 4th, 2025, Washoe County Planning Commission meeting, uh, Vice Chairman Pierce requested an agenda item clarifying the desired pattern of growth in the Sun Valley area.

Now I've talked to him a couple times in regards to this, and he says there's nothing he can do.

So I'm coming to you for a plea.

If we can please get that on the agenda, is uh the clarifying of the desired plan of growth.

Sorry, I'm nervous.

Because being in Sun Valley, I've seen those left with no grocery store, no bank, and people are dying daily out there.

Whether it's the seniors that can't get out to get to their doctor's appointments because the Ubers won't load their wheelchair, they can't wait at RTC.

Rob's advice was for everybody just to specifically.

Um he can uh use bikes or walk out of Sun Valley, but everybody knows how safe that is.

So I'm here to advocate for Sun Valley.

We do need more businesses and more things to come in.

However, I have a list right here of businesses that I went to last night.

The place they want to do this food truck Friday or Thursday or whatever it is, there's about 12 food trucks around that area.

They want to charge them 100 for application fee and 250 per event to move 50 feet away from a place they're already paying for.

That's why nobody bought into it.

The only lady that bought into it, her name I have here on a paper somewhere, and she said she really wasn't under she didn't really understand what they were talking about because she's a first-time business owner.

The other people knew what they were talking about, and that's why they didn't buy in.

So I think I I think your project is good.

We do want it out there, but I think it should benefit the community more than the county who has you know.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you very much.

Any further public comment?

I have no further public comment in chambers.

No hands raised on Zoom.

Okay, let's uh bring it back for any discussion.

Rob, Pat Haldwell, no questions.

Okay.

Having no additional questions, I'll uh entertain a motion.

Okay, Kathy Julian, for the record, I'll make a motion.

I move that after giving reason consideration to the information contained in the staff report and information received during the public hearing.

The Washoe County Board of Adjustment approved administrative permit case number WAD MIN 26-0006 for renal street food with the conditions included as a ghibit A to this matter.

Having made all five findings in accordance with the Washoe County Development Code section 110.808 point two five.

Thank you.

We have a motion.

Is there a second?

Ms.

Holder for the record, I second.

Okay, thank you.

We have a motion and a second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed say nay.

Okay, motion carries.

That uh does it for our public hearing.

Um moving on to chair and board items, any future agenda items.

Okay, any requests for information from staff.

Okay.

Moving on to item 10, directors and legal council items.

Any report on previous board of adjustment items, Trevor?

No, nothing to report on.

Okay.

Any legal information or updates?

Okay.

Do we have any public comment present?

No further public comment in chambers or on Zoom.

Okay, the time is 154.

I call this meeting adjourned.