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| 00:00:00.03 | Kristina Feller | It's not a large group of participants. All right, so ready when you guys are. |
| 00:00:06.44 | Rozalynne Thompson | We're ready to start and we have initiated our audio sequence. |
| 00:00:11.22 | Kristina Feller | Terrific. Well welcome everybody, thank you so much for joining us this Wednesday evening for our regular planning Commission hearing. It's Wednesday, November 17th. Um, first and foremost, apologies for being slightly late with starting this hearing. past our 6.30 start time, we had an appeal at the city council for a planning commission item that ran a little bit late. So thank you for your patience this evening. Uh, so with that, um, Interim Director, Community Development Director Scoble, could you kindly call the roll? Thank you. |
| 00:00:50.64 | Director Scoble | Thank you and good evening Chair Feller and Planning Commissioners. This meeting is being held pursuant to government code section 54953, subsection E, and in light of the declared state of emergency, This regular meeting of the planning commission on November 17th, 2021 is being conducted telephonically through Zoom and it's being broadcast live on the city's website. I will now call the roll. Commissioner Saad? Thank you. Commissioner Luxenberg. |
| 00:01:18.50 | Jeffery Luxenberg | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:01:19.31 | Director Scoble | Commissioner Junius. President. Vice Chair Graff. Thank you. Chair Feller. here. All members are present and we have a quorum. |
| 00:01:28.62 | Kristina Feller | Terrific. Thank you very much. The next item is the actual approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion to approve and a second? |
| 00:01:38.26 | Jeffery Luxenberg | So moved. Second. |
| 00:01:41.77 | Kristina Feller | Great, thank you, Commissioner Saad and Commissioner Luxembourg. Director Scoble, could you call the roll? |
| 00:01:47.09 | Director Scoble | Commissioner Saad. Commissioner Luxenberg. Thank you. |
| 00:01:50.66 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Thank you. |
| 00:01:51.42 | Director Scoble | Commissioner Arjunius. Yes. Yes. Chair Fowler. Yes. Motion carries unanimously. |
| 00:01:59.81 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:01:59.88 | Carrie Souza | Thank you. |
| 00:01:59.93 | Director Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:01:59.96 | Unknown | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:01:60.00 | Director Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:02:00.30 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Just one comment, the titles for people are not fully what they normally are. I don't know if that's an issue, but it might be helpful for the public if the titles that are in the Zoom. |
| 00:02:12.80 | Andrew Junius | Apollo, thank you, Commissioner Luxembourg. Yeah, I need to just be Andrew Junius, not my law firm. I don't know. I think you have the ability to change that, Heidi. |
| 00:02:20.65 | Director Scoble | We do. So as we're moving through this meeting, we'll work on updating or renaming the commissioners. |
| 00:02:27.79 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. Thank you very much. |
| 00:02:30.50 | Director Scoble | Yeah. |
| 00:02:30.54 | Kristina Feller | Yeah. Thank you for pointing it out. because this is being recorded that the public does know both tonight and also for future reference. So thank you very much for bringing that to everyone's attention. So moving on to item number three, this is a time for public comments on any items, not on the agenda this evening. And if Director Scoble, if you could help provide some direction to the public on how to go about making public comment. |
| 00:03:00.43 | Director Scoble | Yes, thank you, Chair Beller. This is the time for the Planning Commission to hear from citizens regarding matters that are not on the agenda. Except in very limited situations, state law precludes the Planning Commission from taking action on or engaging in discussions concerning items of business that are not on this agenda. However, the Planning Commission may refer matters not on the agenda to staff or direct the subject to be agendized at a future meeting. With that, if you'd like to participate or provide a public comment at this moment, please raise your hand. Video or audio public comment participation is limited to three minutes. If you'd like to make a comment, please raise your hand in the Zoom application and you'll be called upon when it's your time to speak to raise your hand on a phone, press star nine, and each speaker will be notified when their time has elapsed. It appears as though we have one public commenter, William Bill Versace. Bill, you have been asked to be unmuted and to start your video. |
| 00:04:02.46 | William Bill Versace | There we go. Um... Kind of amusing several things because I have had trouble with this connection before. Um, Commissioner Luxembourg is This background picture is exactly where I live. and Commissioner Junius I am currently the acting director of the Neutra Foundation Richard Neutra designed the house behind you, which we currently control. So aside from that, I have sent a letter to the Planning Commission and copies of two letters to BCDC. asking you to find out what is going on at the end of Main Street in Old Town. This block has become a minefield. of conflicting so-called public improvements many which are hazardous, unapproved, Waffle. unsupervised, unbillable and out of sequence in an unforced schedule that will delay public access to the beach for another year. after we neighbors have already put up with two years of inconvenience obstacles and diversions. This is certainly not the fault of the I entirely endorse the development, always have from the beginning and it is not the fault of the well-intentioned developer of Valhalla. It is a systemic failure of governance. and somebody has to do something. to get this cluster under control. and to conduct the public reviews that were missed. enforce building code. building of civil codes. and the approvals that were granted Bye. the planning commission and by the city council. and to correct the dangerous conditions that have been allowed I don't know who is responsible for that, has responsibility for that. but it's certainly not the old dial living across the street who uses the street or block and beach to walk the dog every day. So, I'm asking both the planning commission last night or planning commission, And the city council last night put this item on their agendas for the next meeting. |
| 00:06:51.92 | William Bill Versace | just block. location. is that historically, significant vestige of the peer. that was the original entry entry point. to associate out. Not coincidentally, it's for Bella. Um, The one that deserves an attractive scenic overlook with sittings, interpretive signage, in universal aspects. access to beach. which is what we're promised but not what we're getting. So I asked the planning commission to please consider putting this on the agenda for discussion. at the next meeting. Thank you. |
| 00:07:41.50 | Kristina Feller | Thank you very much, Mr. Versace. Appreciate you being here this evening to make public comment and to bring this to our attention. We have also received written correspondence although we do not engage in sort of dialogue or debate at this time, because it's not agendized, what I would like to do is ask staff to please come back and report out to this commission at our next hearing on December 1st after the Thanksgiving holiday we would like to understand what is happening down there, I'm certainly aware that there are a number of different projects, I believe, going on down there, including sewer modification and upgrade as well. but if I could ask staff to do that and we can review that further on agenda settings. But thank you very much. for the comments. I'm not seeing any other raised hands at this time. Director Scoville, do you see anybody? |
| 00:08:44.62 | Director Scoble | Chair Foller, you're correct. There are no additional hands raised at this time. |
| 00:08:48.22 | Kristina Feller | Okay, then I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna close public comment for items not on the agenda at this time. And we're going to move on to item number four on our agenda. which is the approval of the draft meeting minutes. Um, Are there any comments from any commissioners, any edits that you'd like to propose just by show of hands, if you could let me know if not, I will look for a motion to approve the notes as drafted and looking for a second as well. |
| 00:09:20.28 | Richard Graef | I'll move to approve. Perkins. |
| 00:09:22.96 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. Director Scoble, can you take the roll call? |
| 00:09:26.20 | Director Scoble | Commissioner Saad. Yes. Commissioner Luxenberg. |
| 00:09:29.63 | William Bill Versace | YOU HAVE SOMEBODY |
| 00:09:30.30 | Director Scoble | Missionar Genius. |
| 00:09:31.59 | William Bill Versace | Yes. |
| 00:09:31.91 | Director Scoble | Thank you. Vice Chair Greg. Yeah. Chair Keller. |
| 00:09:34.93 | Kristina Feller | Yes. |
| 00:09:35.35 | Director Scoble | Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. |
| 00:09:38.00 | Kristina Feller | Terrific. Thank you very much. Let's go ahead and move into item number five, the public hearing on our agenda. And Director Scoville, I'll hand that over to you. |
| 00:09:48.24 | Director Scoble | carefeller. Before we go into that, Commissioner Saad, this is the time for any commissioners to declare any ex parte communications or identify whether they have any recusals associated with this project or conflicts of interest. |
| 00:10:04.58 | Nastassya Saad | Bye. Go ahead. Thank you. I have no expert communications and I will have to recuse myself because I'm within 500 feet of this project. |
| 00:10:14.21 | Kristina Feller | Thank you Commissioner Saad so for that when we move into this hearing item if you could go off camera obviously you're welcome to participate as a member of the public and when this item on our agenda is closed you can come back up here to our virtual time so thank you |
| 00:10:32.02 | Nastassya Saad | THANK YOU. |
| 00:10:35.27 | Kristina Feller | Okay, Commissioner Luxenberg, any ex parte? |
| 00:10:38.55 | Jeffery Luxenberg | No, did not talk with anybody who visited the site. Thank you, Chair. |
| 00:10:43.66 | Kristina Feller | Thank you, Commissioner Junius. Thank you. |
| 00:10:45.47 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Thank you. |
| 00:10:45.48 | Richard Graef | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 00:10:45.55 | Jeffery Luxenberg | So, |
| 00:10:45.97 | Andrew Junius | Thank you. |
| 00:10:46.33 | Richard Graef | communication. |
| 00:10:46.78 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. Thank you. Vice Chair Graf? |
| 00:10:49.87 | Richard Graef | No ex parte communications. I am within the, I think it's the thousand foot radius. of the project, but, uh, I see no conflict of interest of any sort So I'm going to participate in the meeting. |
| 00:11:08.72 | Kristina Feller | Thank you very much for, for for that. Okay, Director Scoble. |
| 00:11:15.17 | Director Scoble | Great, thank you, Chair Fuller. And with that, we'll go into our first public hearing item. And this is a request for a designer view permit at 514 Bonita Street. We have the pleasure this evening to have our principal planner, Rosalyn Thompson, who will be providing a presentation on behalf of our interim assistant planner, Marian Machado, who was unable to attend this meeting this evening. So with that, I'll hand it over to Ms. Thompson. |
| 00:11:23.92 | Andrew Junius | We have the |
| 00:11:42.88 | Director Scoble | Can everybody hear me? |
| 00:11:45.03 | Kristina Feller | Yes, we can. Welcome. |
| 00:11:45.62 | Rozalynne Thompson | Yeah. Okay, thank you. Let me go ahead and share my screen. |
| 00:11:55.77 | Rozalynne Thompson | Can everybody see that? |
| 00:11:58.06 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:11:58.30 | Rozalynne Thompson | Okay. So good evening, Chair, Vice Chair, and Commissioners. The agenda item before you is design review permit request for a new 225 square foot detached garage located at 514 Bonita Street. |
| 00:12:16.98 | Rozalynne Thompson | The subject property by 14 Bonita street is a 3,500 square foot square shaped parcel. The properties zone are pre or multiple family residential. The neighboring properties are zone R2 as well as R3. the uses of the adjacent parcels to the north, south, east, and west of the Black 14th and New Street are a mixture of multifamily residential and single family residential uses. The property slopes downward from Bonito Avenue towards Caledonia Street to the north. The property is currently developed with a 1,369 square foot single family residence that is oriented laterally along the silk base. there is currently no garage or carport that exists on the site. The applicant requests the planning commission approval of a design review permit to allow the construction of a new 224 square foot detached garage above the proposed 264 square foot accessory dwelling unit or ADU. to be located at 514 Boniard Street. pursuant to subsection 10.54050 D, Now this is how many code. To be approved, a request for a design review permit must meet all the findings therein. |
| 00:13:35.04 | Rozalynne Thompson | on November 5th. 2021 public notice was posted on site and milled to neighboring properties within a 300 foot radius inviting public participation and comment on the project. |
| 00:13:48.34 | Rozalynne Thompson | As for the project background on October 28th, 2021, A lot line adjustment application was filed by the property owner of 514 Bonita Street and 430 B Street requesting zone administrator approval of a lot line adjustment to adjust the lot line between the two properties. on July 8th, 2021, The application was approved. |
| 00:14:14.56 | Rozalynne Thompson | As for the project background, um, on August 24, 2021, a design review permit application was filed by the subject property owner for the construction of the proposed 225 square foot detached one car garage, with an 87 square foot deck. on the north elevation. The garage would be above the proposed 263 square foot ADU on the lower ground level. The ADU proposed on the lower ground floor is permitted. First up, section 10.44080. of the zoning code. Pursuant to subject Pursuant to that subsection of the zoning code, The ADU is not within the scope of this design review permit. This is the proposed site plan. The proposed garage will be located to the immediate west of the existing primary residence. and above the proposed ADU. The proposed setbacks are zero on the front five feet on an Eastern Side yard setback. a 51 foot Western side yard setback and a 19 foot 10 inch rear yard setback. The lot coverage is 36.2% and that's the result of lot coverage. This here's the proposed front elevation. From the front elevation, the proposed garage is slightly lower in height with the same five and 12 group pitch as the existing primary dwelling. The entrance to the garage makes up the bulk of the appearance of the site from the public right of way. The proposed detached barrage would match the modern architectural style and appearance of the primary dwelling unit from the street. Here's the proposed west side elevation. The exterior consists of vertical siding, with color to match existing single-family residents with wood clad for the doors and windows The siding has been extended to all elevations of the structure. The building measures 24 feet from finished floor of the ADU to the roof bridge. |
| 00:16:15.05 | Rozalynne Thompson | Here is the proposed east side elevation. The siding is continued through this elevation and an axis there is introduced. This is the rear elevation where you can see the 87 square foot deck off the garage. |
| 00:16:36.67 | Rozalynne Thompson | Story polls were installed and the notice is posted on November 5th, 2021. |
| 00:16:44.78 | Rozalynne Thompson | The staff has analyzed the project and has determined that it needs all designer view permit findings. And here are just, here are the findings listed. They're enumerated in the staff report as well as the resolution. The project is conditioned as conditioned, is consistent with all applicable policy standards and regulations of the General Plan and Zone Ordinance. I'm The proposed garage will be consistent with architectural style, will be consistent with architectural style of the primary dwelling unit. Um, The proposed one car garage is consistent with the general scale of the buildings in the surrounding neighborhood, as well as the buildings on site. |
| 00:17:34.38 | Rozalynne Thompson | And here are the rest of the findings. |
| 00:17:46.23 | Rozalynne Thompson | And As far as accessory dwelling unit, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS. While not in the scope of the design review permit and a ministerial project, staff is informing the commission that an ADU permit has been submitted in conjunction |
| 00:18:00.86 | Carrie Souza | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 00:18:01.23 | Rozalynne Thompson | Thank you. with this designer view permit, Under ministerial view, staff is required to assess if the application meets the standards of the zoning code. I'd also like to add that as for the California Environmental Quality Act for CEQA, The project is categorically exempt under section 15.3.3, new construction or conversion of small structures of the SQL guidelines. Staff recommends that the Planning Commission approve the resolution approving Design Review Permit 2020 21. for the construction of a new 225 square foot detached garage above a proposed accessory dwelling unit located at 514 Bonita Street, That concludes staff presentation on this item and I am available to take any questions that you may have. |
| 00:18:50.30 | Kristina Feller | Thank you so much, Rosalyn. Excellent presentation. And I also want to note it's most appreciated that you posted the presentation ahead of this hearing that that not only gives the commissioners an opportunity to look at this, but it certainly gives the public time to familiarize themselves with this project as well. Before I open this up to questions from the commissioners for staff, just a couple procedural issues. One, did you receive any public comment, written comment before the hearing this evening? |
| 00:19:27.06 | Rozalynne Thompson | No, Chair Filler, I have not received any public comments. |
| 00:19:30.90 | Kristina Feller | Okay, thank you. And, and just, um, a point of clarification, you mentioned that. The lot line adjustment application. was issued on October 28th, 2021. but approved on July 8th, 2021. Was it submitted in 2020? |
| 00:19:50.48 | Rozalynne Thompson | That I think is correct. That was an error. That's okay. |
| 00:19:53.55 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. |
| 00:19:53.65 | Rozalynne Thompson | Yeah, yeah. |
| 00:19:55.24 | Kristina Feller | Okay. I just want to make sure that it's clear for the record and for everybody else. So thank you. Thank you again. for your presentation. So at this time, let me ask each of the commissioners if they have questions for staff. Commissioner Junius, do you have any questions for Principal Planner Thompson? Commissioner Luxenberg. Oh, you're on mute. Here we go. |
| 00:20:26.49 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Sorry about that. I wanted to second your comment about sending the presentation in advance, which is very thorough and helpful, so I have no questions at this time. |
| 00:20:38.05 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. Vice Chair Graff. |
| 00:20:42.22 | Richard Graef | No question. |
| 00:20:43.08 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Thank you. |
| 00:20:44.19 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. I just had a quick question. You made reference to a heightened design review. For this? |
| 00:20:52.39 | Rozalynne Thompson | No. It's just a design review permit. |
| 00:20:53.78 | Kristina Feller | Okay. That's what I thought. I saw some language in here. I just wanted to clarify. So thank you. I don't have any questions either for you at this time. The presentation report were excellent. Thank you for that. So let's go ahead and invite our applicant up here to give their presentation and is that Rosalind being done by Mr. Hubbell |
| 00:21:22.65 | Rozalynne Thompson | I am not sure. We could ask Mr. Hubble if he is the... |
| 00:21:28.57 | Unknown | It is. |
| 00:21:28.86 | Director Scoble | Thank you. |
| 00:21:28.89 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:21:29.57 | Rozalynne Thompson | Thank you. |
| 00:21:29.59 | Director Scoble | THE END OF THE |
| 00:21:29.86 | Rozalynne Thompson | Thank you. |
| 00:21:30.21 | Director Scoble | If I can jump in, Brad Hubbell is the project architect and he has been given co-host functions and has controls to share a screen. |
| 00:21:39.56 | Kristina Feller | Terrific, thank you very much and Mr. Hubbell, welcome. Let's also put the timer up here, Zoom team. |
| 00:21:42.70 | Director Scoble | I'm not sure. |
| 00:21:43.12 | Carrie Souza | Thank you. |
| 00:21:45.50 | Kristina Feller | So that'll help Mr. Hubbell manage his time. Welcome, you have 15 minutes to give a presentation on the project. Um, the staff will certainly give you a sort of a warning before that time is up. or alternatively, if you don't need all that time, you're welcome to reserve that. for later on if you wanna address any questions from the public or anything that you might get. |
| 00:22:06.02 | Andrew Junius | Thank you. |
| 00:22:06.04 | Brad Hubbell | Thank you. |
| 00:22:06.05 | Andrew Junius | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:22:06.14 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:22:06.17 | Brad Hubbell | on. |
| 00:22:06.46 | Andrew Junius | Thank you. |
| 00:22:10.66 | Kristina Feller | With that, I will hand it over to you and the floor is yours. |
| 00:22:14.81 | Brad Hubbell | Super, super. Thank you very much. And Rosalind, thank you very much for your presentation. Commissioners, thank you for hearing us tonight. We're excited to show you the project. However, I feel like Rosalind did such a great job describing everything. I'm not too sure what we can add to that, but I will walk you through very briefly our presentation, nonetheless. When I do this, just mind you that I lose view of everybody, so I can see my presentation, but not you guys. So I'll come back. You'll see me, I guess, but I'll come back to you after this. So here we go. Pardon me. I need to share my screen, sorry. |
| 00:23:17.75 | Brad Hubbell | I don't know. Bear with me a moment. There it is. |
| 00:23:25.16 | Brad Hubbell | Okay, is everybody seeing that? |
| 00:23:27.41 | Kristina Feller | We can see that, yes, you might want to come in just a little bit. |
| 00:23:28.82 | Brad Hubbell | Right. Say again? Oh, well, I'm going to start the presentation, and that should zoom in for you, I think. Isn't that better? |
| 00:23:38.26 | Kristina Feller | That's great. Thank you. |
| 00:23:39.66 | Brad Hubbell | Sure. So we're Hubble Daily Architecture and Design, and we're representing our client, Tyler Stewart. who is the owner of the property, one at 514 Bonita Street. Here you can see our CAD rendering of the proposed garage neighboring her existing house. Rosalind already mentioned, and you are all probably very familiar with the neighborhood because this is just one block north of the city, of the community center. Um, And our object, the project lot, you can see there in red. This is an aerial view showing the property with the lot line adjustment that was added as of July per Roslyn's comments. And this is just a quick view showing the property as it is now. One note that the siding is horizontal and that the windows are all aluminum, Fleetwood windows, which we would be matching with the garage. Here are a few photos of the neighborhood just to give some orientation of the proposed ADU location and neighbors across the way. The existing lot along with the I'm trying to get, I can't use my pointer, never mind. So you have the existing property on the left without the ADU garage and with it located to the right. I'm going to go pretty quick. Please stop me if you need because I just don't want to repeat things too much. The idea was to have a garage that's accessed easily off a street level with the ADU below that can still have use of the existing spa and the rear yard of the home and property. This is a quick front elevation and you've all seen these through the prior presentation but I just wanted to give a second glance at them. And if you need it, Here are some color renderings to help show how we designed the garage to be Um, in sync with the existing home with the horizontal siding, black accents and the Standing seam, metal roof. We've also made sure that the railings of the existing home are repeated at any stair and deck portions of the garage and ADU. A quick section of the property. And then here is a list of materials to your right column there to give you a sense of all the different materials that we're proposing basically aligning with and in in parallel with the main home. And that completes my presentation. If you have any questions, I can bring any of those back up. |
| 00:27:01.04 | Kristina Feller | Great, thank you, Zoom team. Let's go ahead and stop the clock if you can. about well over 10 minutes here should you need it it's worth use But I want to thank you for the presentation and walking us through that. Let me ask the commissioners if they have any questions of the applicant at this time. Kushner Junius. |
| 00:27:22.83 | Andrew Junius | Thank you, Chair Feller. Mr. Hubbell, excellent presentation. I really, I just think you've got a lot to work with there and I think you did a great job here. I really like this little project. Just a couple of technical little details. Are we clear that the lot line adjustment, I think, is an extremely creative way to make this happen. I'm extraordinarily happy that you guys were able to work with your neighbor and work this out. I assume that process is completely done and the new map is recorded and the new property line is established. |
| 00:27:51.03 | Brad Hubbell | It's in the process of being recorded. The neighbor actually is the owner of, she owns both properties. So it was very symbiotic. |
| 00:27:58.52 | Andrew Junius | Oh, good. All right, well, then you don't get too many medals for that. I was a little easier than it did. |
| 00:28:02.01 | Brad Hubbell | Agree about that. |
| 00:28:04.76 | Andrew Junius | It could have been, but congratulations anyway. Nice job. |
| 00:28:07.04 | Brad Hubbell | She talked to herself and everything else did. |
| 00:28:09.71 | Andrew Junius | Great. I'm not sure. You know, one, I'm a lawyer, not an architect, so I don't like to, I'm certainly not gonna push you around much here, but I'm kind of curious, two architectural issues The home itself is set back a bit off the street. And the garage it looks like is not lined up with that, with the front facade of the house. That's what I'm seeing on the plan, right? There's at least two or three feet, it's forward. |
| 00:28:36.35 | Brad Hubbell | It's just back from the property line enough to be able to allow us a roof eave. So the eave comes to the property line. The idea there is that we didn't want to create a bridge. Okay. For those remaining three or four feet. |
| 00:28:52.86 | Andrew Junius | So it was strictly technical, easier to build it this way than to push it all over. That's good. Um, And then there's a little deck on the back of the garage. Is the only way to get to that deck through the garage? |
| 00:29:04.60 | Brad Hubbell | It is, yes. |
| 00:29:07.23 | Andrew Junius | That's all I had. Thank you much. |
| 00:29:08.70 | Brad Hubbell | got, |
| 00:29:08.92 | Andrew Junius | Thank you. |
| 00:29:10.12 | Kristina Feller | Thank you, Commissioner Junius. Commissioner Luxenberg. You're on mute again. |
| 00:29:18.56 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Sorry about that. I just had a quick question, similar to Commissioner Junius. So the deck that you access through the garage is for the house, so you go out of the house, out to the sidewalk, into the garage to that deck. Is that correct? |
| 00:29:37.88 | Brad Hubbell | Well, The house has a deck, but this deck is also because it's a little sunnier than the one at the house. And yes, that would be how you would access the deck. It's for exercise and yoga. It's a place to be able to be outside and not underneath the eave of the main house, which is the other deck that's existing. |
| 00:30:04.17 | Jeffery Luxenberg | and then the ADU has a deck on the lower level. So this one is now- That's correct. They have their own gap. |
| 00:30:09.01 | Brad Hubbell | That's correct. This one is now their own gap. |
| 00:30:10.85 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Thank you. This one is not intended for the ABU. No, it's not. Okay, thank you. That's all I have, Chair Paul. |
| 00:30:18.89 | Kristina Feller | Great, thank you very much. Vice Chair Graff? |
| 00:30:21.91 | Richard Graef | Yes. uh... Sure, fella. I had... Same question about the front setback. I noticed that it's up to the property line And I just wanted to be sure that that's Okay. for the codes and so on. and that there weren't any additional setbacks required. I certainly understand why it's there. So, I was also curious about the garage desk. Uh, It would be a nice place to work on your car, if you're working on parts or something, but yeah. um, And I had a question, this probably should have been for staff, I'm looking at the... project summary table. the FAR. and and its existing FAR of 40.3 and the proposed of 40.3. I'm not sure why those numbers are the same. or what that's referencing. So, Um, Maybe it's not a real critical issue here, was curious about that. Um, Um... And that's... That's it. Those are the only questions I have. |
| 00:31:44.56 | Kristina Feller | Great, thank you, Vice Chair Graff. Mr. Hubble or even Roslyn, do you want to just confirm the square footages for the record here of the existing home. and the proposed ADU and the garage. So we make sure the math Math is clear. |
| 00:32:04.91 | Rozalynne Thompson | Okay, if you just give me a couple of seconds. Sure. Thank you. |
| 00:32:09.42 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. |
| 00:32:09.47 | Rozalynne Thompson | Thank you. |
| 00:32:09.48 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. |
| 00:32:09.69 | Rozalynne Thompson | Thank you. |
| 00:32:09.79 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. |
| 00:32:10.88 | Brad Hubbell | I'll let Rosalind start, and then if there's any further issue, I'll cover. |
| 00:32:15.20 | Kristina Feller | Okay. I thought I saw that the ADU is 200 or maybe it's a garage is 225 square feet. |
| 00:32:24.64 | Brad Hubbell | That is correct about the garage, but the ADU doesn't count toward floor areas. |
| 00:32:28.62 | Kristina Feller | No, we know that. Yeah. |
| 00:32:29.90 | Brad Hubbell | Thank you. Okay. |
| 00:32:30.71 | Richard Graef | Thank you. So the floor area ratio that's referenced in this chart is only for the Um, primary dwelling, is that correct? It's just a little confusing to me. So I was trying to understand this chart. |
| 00:32:53.06 | Kristina Feller | Well, I think we have 1,369 square feet for the existing home. There's no change to the existing Is that correct, Mr. Hubble? |
| 00:33:00.45 | Carrie Souza | Oh, exactly. |
| 00:33:02.94 | Kristina Feller | Okay. And then you have the 225 square feet of the garage. So that would be your total That's the total area if you're calculating the FAR. I don't know how big the ADU is. but I'm assuming it's pretty much the same size, but maybe a little bit bigger than the garage. |
| 00:33:21.58 | Brad Hubbell | The ADU is 263 square feet. |
| 00:33:24.02 | Kristina Feller | to 60 days. |
| 00:33:30.03 | Kristina Feller | So Vice Chair Graff, does that help? |
| 00:33:32.76 | Richard Graef | I guess. I'm just... a little on shore of the I think that's the intent of this chart. much of an issue. It's just confusing to me. So let's skip it. |
| 00:33:49.89 | Kristina Feller | Okay. |
| 00:33:50.30 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Actually, I just asked this question. Does the garage count towards the FAR? |
| 00:33:55.78 | Kristina Feller | the garage will, the ADU won't. |
| 00:33:58.75 | Jeffery Luxenberg | So if the garage counts, then those numbers, I agree with Commissioner Graff, those numbers shouldn't be the same. |
| 00:34:09.09 | Kristina Feller | Rosalind, do you have the ability to show this graph on for everybody here. Is that possible or Mr. Hubbell, maybe you have that in your field. |
| 00:34:19.27 | Brad Hubbell | Yeah. I can show it to you if you're talking about the one on the set. |
| 00:34:25.85 | Richard Graef | It's on page five of the Uh, Okay. |
| 00:34:34.34 | Kristina Feller | of the staff report, okay. |
| 00:34:35.98 | Richard Graef | Yeah. |
| 00:34:36.75 | Brad Hubbell | I don't have this top word in front of me. |
| 00:34:37.99 | Kristina Feller | Okay. |
| 00:34:40.74 | Brad Hubbell | I don't want to. |
| 00:34:41.24 | Kristina Feller | do have the ability to show that. |
| 00:34:41.48 | Rozalynne Thompson | do you have a |
| 00:34:41.87 | Brad Hubbell | THE FAMILY. |
| 00:34:42.03 | Rozalynne Thompson | and the ability to stroke Yes, just give me a second. |
| 00:34:46.61 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. |
| 00:35:03.36 | Director Scoble | Chair Feller and Planning Commissioners and Principal Planner Thompson, let me know if you'd like me to share it. I was able to find it. |
| 00:35:11.67 | Kristina Feller | Sure, if you have it, let's just, yeah, let's get it up on the screen. Let's make sure we're looking at the same thing. So we're looking at page five. There's a project summary table. There you go. |
| 00:35:21.81 | Unknown | Yeah. Thank you. |
| 00:35:22.69 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. |
| 00:35:22.70 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:35:23.21 | Kristina Feller | we can make that a tiny bit bigger. Um... So Vice Chair Graf, I'm assuming So let's just start at the top. So the parcel area is |
| 00:35:38.48 | Richard Graef | Well, I was just looking at the next to the last line. where it says floor area ratio, and existing. 40.3. and proposed 40.3. And I saw those two numbers. being the same and that threw up a little red flag In my mind, I was not looking at the other numbers. So, if that could just be explained to me why why the ratio is the same in the existing and the proposed, and I would be happy. |
| 00:36:12.25 | Kristina Feller | Okay. Good, good question. |
| 00:36:16.25 | Brad Hubbell | If we, adding the garage to the existing fluoride, you end up with a 46.9% fluoride ratio. |
| 00:36:28.62 | Director Scoble | Yes, I believe this is a typo. So we can correct the record. Okay. |
| 00:36:34.96 | Richard Graef | Yes. |
| 00:36:35.64 | Director Scoble | you |
| 00:36:35.91 | Richard Graef | That's fine. I just wanted to know why the numbers were the same. |
| 00:36:40.06 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Can I just chime in here? It's not just the staff report, but it's on the drawings itself. So Mr. Hubbell, if you're noticing that. |
| 00:36:48.77 | Unknown | Mr. Hubble, I'm noticing that. Thank you. |
| 00:36:51.43 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Thank you. |
| 00:36:51.68 | Unknown | as a new project. |
| 00:36:51.79 | Jeffery Luxenberg | As well. The project data part of your drawing. |
| 00:36:54.82 | Brad Hubbell | you |
| 00:36:55.09 | Jeffery Luxenberg | you Thank you. |
| 00:36:55.52 | Brad Hubbell | I noticed that our chart in our drawing has a miscalculation there that that part was submitted so I am definitely updating that as well. |
| 00:36:55.60 | Jeffery Luxenberg | I noticed. |
| 00:37:05.45 | Richard Graef | but it's still in compliance. Definitely. |
| 00:37:08.04 | Brad Hubbell | Yes. |
| 00:37:09.02 | Richard Graef | Yeah. |
| 00:37:09.24 | Brad Hubbell | All right. |
| 00:37:09.32 | Richard Graef | All right. |
| 00:37:09.35 | Brad Hubbell | Thank you. |
| 00:37:10.32 | Kristina Feller | Okay. So staff, if we could, for the proceedings this evening, if you could just please make note, of that edit that needs to be made on on the staff report and whatever action that we take this evening one way or the other and of course Mr. Huffington would please admit that correction with the So what was the change with the Delta? That would be helpful. but that would not need to come back to us just for clarification. to make sure we've got a clean and clear record with no ambiguity. Okay, thank you for sharing your screen. I think that's a good question. for that. Um, Okay, so the, I just had a couple questions as well before you, Mr. Hubbell. One is, Is there any, are you proposing any landscape for this? or does this affect any existing trees on your on this property |
| 00:38:22.88 | Brad Hubbell | It does not affect any existing trees. And if there is landscaping, it's down really at the lower portion, which being that the side yards as they are really not planning on major landscaping. |
| 00:38:38.74 | Kristina Feller | Okay. and is I'm assuming that the garage is just naturally ventilated. need for any kind of package unit or anything that would go with the garage. It's just like a normal garage like any one of us has. additional use for it. It's just a garage. |
| 00:39:00.53 | Brad Hubbell | It's a garage, occasional, storage and possible storage of a exercise bicycle, but other than that, It's a garage. |
| 00:39:12.52 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:39:12.54 | Kristina Feller | you |
| 00:39:12.59 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:39:12.71 | Kristina Feller | Perfect. Thank you. |
| 00:39:14.04 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:39:14.75 | Kristina Feller | I had no other questions. I appreciate the presentation and being so thoughtful and sensitive with, the architecture, even though it's a small project in a small edition, It always counts and it's always helpful to set a precedent. So thank you very much for being sensitive to all those matters. Unless it's a commission. |
| 00:39:37.08 | Unknown | Unless it's a machine. |
| 00:39:38.38 | Kristina Feller | unless the commissioners have any additional questions at this time you can just indicate to me no then I'd like to go ahead and move into public comment on this item. So thank you, Mr. Hubble. We will come back to you. We're going to open this up for public comment at this time. Um, So if any member of the public would like to comment on this item on the agenda, I see one hand so far. please feel free to raise your hand in the Zoom application or star 9 on your cell phone. If we Zoom team could get the timer clock up here We will allow three minutes for public comment and welcome Ms. Brewster. Welcome this evening. You have the floor is yours. You have three minutes for public comment. |
| 00:40:27.84 | Aaron Brewster | All right, well, I think everyone loves this project, so I don't know, this is sort of a love fest, but I would like to join in. Um, I, uh, I'm Aaron Brewster. I live at 417 Bonita, so I'm kind of kitty corner. right across from City Hall. I have a six year old daughter here, but she keeps popping in and out. Anyway, we love the |
| 00:40:48.34 | Andrew Junius | Anyways, |
| 00:40:50.05 | Aaron Brewster | Tyler, she's a wonderful neighbor. We love her house. We love |
| 00:40:50.26 | Rozalynne Thompson | I'm not sure. |
| 00:40:54.97 | Aaron Brewster | the garage that matches the house. We think it's a wonderful use of space and we love the project on our wall. So we just wanted to We didn't get it together enough to support a letter or to submit a letter. So we wanted to, show up and say that we really support the project. |
| 00:41:10.70 | Kristina Feller | Thank you very much for attending this evening, both of you. And thank you for your comments. I'm looking for any other members of the public that would like to make comment at this time Uh, sing. Yes, one more. Let's see. Carrie Souza's iPhone. Welcome this evening. If you could unmute, there we go. And just announce yourself for the record as |
| 00:41:39.35 | Carrie Souza | Oh, hi, yes, this is Carrie Souza. I'm at 518 Bonita Street, just west of Tyler. And we love Tyler's property. And I'm excited to see what she does with the garage. attachment, especially since it's going to match the current house, which I just think really brings up the whole value of the neighborhood. It's very aesthetically pleasing. It's going to be very beautiful. We look forward to seeing what she does with it. |
| 00:42:12.60 | Kristina Feller | Great, thank you for attending this evening and thank you for your comments. I am looking for any other members of the public that would like to comment at this time. Please raise your hand. Seeing none, I'm gonna go ahead and close public comment. And Mr. Hubble, if you'd like to make any other final comments, you're welcome to do so. If not, you're going to hear us deliberate and we might ask a question or two, but the time is still yours. It's up to you. |
| 00:42:44.30 | Brad Hubbell | I don't have any further comment at this point, but as I said before, I'm here for answers and I will, go off camera as well, but I will still remain here and attentive. |
| 00:42:57.74 | Kristina Feller | Okay, great. Thank you very much. Okay, so let's bring this back up to our virtual dais here for any final comments, questions. Commissioner Junius, let's start with you. |
| 00:43:11.15 | Andrew Junius | Well, just one more time, I mean, I think there's no question, great design, consistency with the materials. I also just want to point out, you know, what a great location for an ADU. It's got street access and it's really close to Caledonia, walking distance, everything's downtown. You know, not that it's an A-bar business, it's actually how it's used, but this one actually could get rented to a real person. very supportive, nice work. I'll be voting yes. |
| 00:43:36.06 | Kristina Feller | Terrific. Thank you. Commissioner Lefsenburg. |
| 00:43:40.08 | Jeffery Luxenberg | I second Commissioner Junius' comments as well. I think it's an excellent design as well. |
| 00:43:47.11 | Kristina Feller | Great, thank you. Vice Chair Graf. |
| 00:43:50.71 | Richard Graef | Thanks. Yes, I'd like to compliment the applicant on a job well done. It's not so often we get a project that's so well thought out and so nicely executed. and so easy to approve. And so I just want to say yes and Good work. And I'll be voting yes. |
| 00:44:15.70 | Kristina Feller | Excellent, thank you very much. I don't need to belabor this any further. I'm gonna echo my colleagues and i would like to make a motion to approve this application with the correction of page five in the staff report. the Um... And if we could ask Mr. Hubbell to please and resubmit your drawings with the correct calculations on it with the project summary table. I think that is the only caveat that I see in terms of uh an approval this evening and uh with that i would ask for a second Exactly. Thank you, Vice Chair Graff. Director Scoble, could you please call the roll |
| 00:45:06.38 | Director Scoble | Commissioner? Luxembourg? Yes. Commissioner Arginias. Yes. Vice Chair Gretz. Yeah. Chair Feller. Yes. Motion passes 4-0-1 and I'll mark in the, or note in the record that commissioner Saad was recused from this item. Right. |
| 00:45:26.19 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 00:45:26.47 | Director Scoble | All right. |
| 00:45:26.53 | Unknown | All right. |
| 00:45:27.88 | Director Scoble | And before we go on to the next item, I'll just identify that any action of the planning commission may be appealed within 10 days of the action to the city council. You must complete the required appeal form and pay the appeal fee within 10 days of this action for the appeal to be filed timely. |
| 00:45:27.94 | Unknown | And before we get |
| 00:45:45.46 | Director Scoble | Questions regarding how to file an appeal may be directed to the project planner or community development department staff. |
| 00:45:52.55 | Brad Hubbell | Thank you, everybody. |
| 00:45:54.05 | Kristina Feller | Thank you, Mr. Hubble. Thank you very much. Great, let's move on to our next business item. |
| 00:46:02.22 | Director Scoble | Okay, our first business item is a recap of the Community Development Department overview presentation that was presented to the city council this past November 9th, 2021. and I will be providing the presentation. And we had a light agenda tonight and I was working with other agencies to see if we could put any other informational items on this agenda. And since we were not able to find another presentation in a timely manner, I just thought I would provide a general overview. I'm not going to go into the same level of detail that I provided to the city council, unless you would like me to, but I believe that the planning commissioners have a pretty good understanding of what we do, but I'll just provide you with my overview. So with that, let me pull up my screen. |
| 00:47:03.40 | Director Scoble | So as I indicated earlier, Last Tuesday, the Community Development Department provided an overview of the department. This is an initiative that our city manager, Chris Zapata has initiated. Essentially, each department within the city hall will be coming monthly to the city council to provide kind of an update and overview of their respective departments. So since Community Development Department was on the deck, Here's our presentation. So the purpose and intent of the Community Development Department is to guide, regulate, and enforce the Sausalito Municipal Code, and especially Title 10, which are zoning regulations. Our Community Development Department, as you know, is comprised of the Planning Division, the Building Division, and we also have an arm where we provide code enforcement. So our current planning or community development department is comprised of We have our principal planner, who's Rosalyn Thompson. three assistant planners We have an administrative aide who's Maria Hernandez. And then we have also been using consultants to backfill our backlog. So we have a combination of cost recovery consultants and then consultants that have essentially been acting as staff, such as interim assistant planner, Maria Machado. And our assistant planners are Elena Lipp. She was hired in 2020. We have Mike Genusek that was hired in 2021. And we have Adam East who was just hired and started in October of this year. We also have in our building division, a building inspector Kenneth Henry. We have a full-time permit technician, Kimai Burdon. We have a permit services coordinator, which is a new position that was created. And we have a pending staff member who has accepted the position and will be moving from the Chicago area to California. So she'll start her position in December. And then we have also been using contract staff to provide our part-time building official services plans examiner and part-time building inspector services and the company that the city uses is CSG and they're a known company that provides these services to other municipalities and counties and lastly we have our code enforcement division, which consists of a consultant who's here three days a week, and she also works for CSG. The city historically has not had a full-time code enforcement officer. It wasn't until 2016, excuse me, 2016, when the short-term rental concern started rearing its head. And so the city has allocated money to provide services for code enforcement. So within the planning division, the planners review current planning projects, such as the one that you reviewed tonight for a design review permit. We also approve and review ministerial permits. So these are by right permits that our zoning ordinance has identified as being acceptable if a project meets a certain threshold or development standard. And we also coordinate with other departments internally in city hall and then outward in our community, both at the, local state and national level we also provide advanced planning services such as long-range policy planning and general plan is a great example of that parklet visioning process that we're going through is a great example of that in the objective development design standards in turn we also provide public information to the community through internet phone calls web um I'm sorry, an over-the-counter. We did just open our counter up about two weeks ago three weeks ago and i'll speak to that shortly and then um enforcement pretty much falls under the the planning division some projects that we are working on above and beyond just our regulatory current planning projects would be our housing element we're working on senate bill initiatives such as this vehicle miles travel item that's related to the california environmental quality act we're working on climate reduction pollutant strategies A lot of Senate bills recently that have been approved require some type of regulatory component at the local level where the planning division needs to address them. One of the other functions that the planning division does is that we also act as staff to hearing bodies. So our community development director and or our newly appointed principal planner act as the zoning administrator. This position reviews discretionary applications that are identified in our zoning regulations and takes action on those projects. Those actions are appealable to the Planning Commission. We process probably about 10 zoning administrator projects a year. We also act as staff to the Planning Commission, as you know, and also the Historic Preservation Commission and the Sustainability Commission. So we provide staff liaisons to these boards, committees and commissions. We provide agenda management and facilitate the noticing of these meetings. Our building department, as we discussed, is comprised of our, again, our building official, building inspector and permit technicians. And those persons basically manage all building permit projects to ensure the health, safety and welfare and compliance with the building codes. So they review and approve plan checks. They facilitate the permit intake and issuance. They conduct inspections and they provide public information to the public as well. So as part of the report that I prepared for the city council, the timing was such that it was necessary to include the quarter one update. So for the past few years, our former city manager has asked all departments to provide quarterly updates and so these next tables kind of provide an overview of some metrics related to the community development department and also include some recent information I didn't have um actually this one does include the recent um total enforcement metrics so this table right here shows through the past three years where we are in terms of code enforcement processing of applications and it breaks down the different types of complaints that we have. So currently we have 59 active code enforcement cases were down from last year by 20, Okay. we receive a lot of code enforcement cases and then we process them. So the numbers fluctuate, but we are pretty consistent, you know, around the high fifties, low seventies. In terms of the planning development budget, um the budget allocated to the planning division is a little under three million dollars Approximately $1 million of that is assumed to cover our cost for covering consultants. And we're working on trying to reconcile those invoices right now. And we're hoping to recuperate at least $1 million of this. So the operating budget for the planning division should be a little less than $2 million. And our building division, because we have less employees and less consultants, is around $850,000. So in terms of other metrics, this table diagram shows the difference between our discretionary and our ministerial permits and how many on average we process. So this table shows the three different fiscal years in our most recent quarters. And it's interesting because the numbers are fairly consistent in 2019, 20 fiscal year, we had a couple outliers, so that's kind of what this 18 permits is showing. And there's a corresponding data set for revenue fees as well. So we just had a really busy year. But we pretty much average, based on the quarters, around 10 to 12 permits. In terms of our ministerial permits, what's interesting about our zoning regulations is that we have a provision that says every time a building permit is issued, specific items, a subsequent planning zoning permit is required. So that's considered to be a ministerial over the counter permit. And that's why these numbers are so high. So they correspond directly to our building permits. In terms of our planning fees, this is also really interesting because you can see where the city started. Well, let me back up. So currently the fee structure related to our planning application fees is essentially a fixed fee. However, the city council has adopted a resolution that says when we have outside consultants processing these applications, then we can recover the cost of the processing of that application so you can see in early fiscal year 18 how our fees were a little bit lower but as soon as we started you know implementing the cost recoveries the numbers are going up exponentially what's a little deceiving about these numbers is that you're we're seeing lots of revenue here but our expenses pretty much cover most of these fees that we're taking in. So the department doesn't really have a lot of revenue gain associated with the processing of applications. This next slide speaks to building permits issued and received. We're pretty consistent with building permits received. You can kind of see in COVID, we had a bumpy first quarter start, which was to be expected, but then we kind of, brought it back up a little bit. In terms of project valuations, We have another little weird outlier here. In terms of speaking with the building inspector, there were a few projects that had high valuations and that's the reason for this number. The Casa Maduro was one where I think there was like a $10 million valuation, so it kind of bumped it up. In terms of building fees charged, you can see that there's a direct correlation between our building valuations and our fees. So that's embedded in our fee schedule. But as you can see from these charts, the fees charged are pretty consistent throughout the years. So some highlights with our department is that we're catching up with our backlog. And with Roslyn coming on board, we've been collaborating and coming up with ideas on how to get some of these low hanging fruit projects through our process. And the light is at the end of the tunnel and we can see a path moving forward, which is exciting. And we've hired our new principal planner and as an assistant planner and a permit services coordinator. The permit services coordinator is also identified as providing an ombudsman aspect to that. she will help facilitate projects that are stuck and we'll see how she does. And then our public counter is officially open. So our first day that the counter was open to the public, for the general public, we saw from nine to noon, a consistent flow of people coming to the counter. We issued eight permits, We brought in some good revenue. So it was a success. Currently we have our counter open three days a week, Wednesdays and Thursdays. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, those days are for appointments only. We are offering virtual appointments for the planning division. and There is an option for the building division, but we're slowly going to unwind the building division appointments just because we're finding that it's more efficient to actually have the applicants come into the department so we can review the plans more expeditiously and issue those permits. And so, So Community Development Department challenges. So we've had about three years of significant staff turnover. And what that staff turnover has created is a variety of inconsistent policies and procedures. And as you've experienced probably through these past couple of years, sometimes you have a staff report that has a consistent template and sometimes you don't. Or sometimes there's information in a staff report that's important, for a similar project it's not in there so roslyn and i will be working towards creating consistent templates and um and training the staff how to use these templates and basically from start to finish from intake to review of projects to ensure permit streamlining act, consistency and conformance. We're gonna create checklists and charts and hopefully that'll be something, a good tool for the planners to utilize. And we're gonna do the same thing with the building division as well. Establish consistent policies and procedures so we can be efficient with the use of our time. |
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| 01:00:53.43 | Director Scoble | So some of the challenges that we've also had was COVID-19. So here we have this pandemic that closed down city hall. So the city staff had to quickly try to figure out how to resume business in a virtual world. And now that COVID is slowly subsiding and we're slowly opening up to the public, we're finding that we need to pivot and shift. And sometimes that's a little bit more challenging to go from one virtual scenario to coming back into the office and figuring out how to integrate the two and create a hybrid. So those are some of our challenges. Some challenges we have is that we are under, we have underutilized inadequate or redundant technology. So we're gonna be doing an assessment in terms of figuring out how to upgrade or enhance our tracking system to more effectively use it. We're going to see if we can get some funding from the council to get more licenses for some of our software products. Right now we're finding that we have too many staff members using our permit tracking system, so you can't always get in there. And so there's always someone manning the administrative background of the system so we can kick people off that aren't using it we have a lack of technology training we have duplication of software so we have microsoft teams a super robust office 365 that's integrating you know virtual meetings and calendar scheduling but we also are paying for zoom and we're paying for calendly and we're paying for adobe but we're also paying for DocuSign and for digital signatures. So we, the city have recently consulted with Rebecca Woodbury, who is the former IT director over at the city of San Rafael, and she's gone out on her own, and she's currently doing an assessment of the city's IT department, and we'll be providing recommendations, which will address these items. Some other items that we need to start working on is right-sizing our cost recovery projects and contracts. So in COVID it was a little challenging to keep track of some of these contracts we have with our planning consultants and also collecting sufficient deposits and adequately addressing this with the applicants to ensure that we have sufficient deposits. So we're working with the finance department who is reconciling our invoices and what that really means to the deposits. And we're going to be having some conversations moving forward to right size this. And then we also have an outdated fee schedule. So this is something that I think is really important for the city is to contract out to a consultant or an agency who can do a study of our current fees and identify ways that we can collect fees in an appropriate manner. So these agencies that provide these fee studies basically come in, they assess how many hours it takes to process an application, they'll assess what our overhead is, they'll assess what our needs are, and we can come up with a reasonable cost recovery fee schedule that will help |
| 01:04:00.29 | Andrew Junius | at the Ohio State. |
| 01:04:01.12 | Director Scoble | cover our services, but not be super onerous to the applicants and then also possibly include it. a general plan impact fee. So it could be a low fee associated with the issuance of permits. And this fee collection can then accrue and can help to further implement some of these general plan policies and programs that we're gonna be embarking upon soon. So it's always in everyone's best interest to kind of know what our true costs are and have the council identify how we wanna recover those costs. So some of the challenges that we have and opportunities is enhancing staff training, including customer service training, enhancing staff response times and cross training departmentally. One of the things that has always been helpful to me when I've gone to different agencies is they've always had onboarding programs where you shadow different departments so you understand how the big picture works. And we're gonna slowly be incorporated those shadowing opportunities. So a planner can shadow our building inspector and see what happens during an inspection or shadow our public works staff to have them, you know, maybe see what they do with a sewer line. So all sorts of opportunities. One thing that I've been stressing and I am promoting this is ongoing professional development training. There's so many great opportunities to expand upon our current knowledge base and our regulations and rules are constantly changing and it's important to keep abreast of those new laws and regulations. One of our challenges is that we are still in process of completing our digitization project. So we have probably about 80% of it completed. but we have probably about a hundred more boxes of building and planning documents that need to be scanned so we'll be working with the council to receive funding for this and then once that happens then we can have all this information accessible and the next project related to that is going to be providing access to the public through a portal on our website and this will hopefully address um you know, public request applications so that, you know, instead of a member of public inquiring about certain documents, and we'll have those documents readily available, and so it'll save on staff's time as well. And, um, Oh gosh, there's so many opportunities. I think moving forward, we need to create a policy related to cost recovery, project management and invoicing. establishing updated policies, procedures, and best practices for the daily operations for planning and building, continue to strategize and manage the backlog planning and building projects and break down interdepartmental silos and you know really work collaboratively as a team because there is overlap between many departments and we're reviewing the same information so let's let's work smarter together other items are and this is actually the big item or one of the bigger items is enhance our code enforcement enforcement and and consider hiring a full-time code enforcement officer. The city is paying. actually the big item or one of the bigger items is enhance our code enforcement enforcement and consider hiring a full-time code enforcement officer. The city is paying a consultant to do these services and in looking at what it would cost to hire an in-house code enforcement officer, the dollar amount is fairly similar. So it's something that may be included in an upcoming budget for the city council to consider, because there is an opportunity to actually have a full-time code enforcement officer because we also have a very big backlog. Like even though we only have 59 permits, we're again still constantly you know trying to keep up with we have and with code enforcement we operate on a complaint basis so we're not really even proactive with um you know finding violations so and that's also a policy discussion that the city council um should have and and see if they want to direct staff to be more proactive or just still kind of keep in our lane in terms of responding to complaints another thing that I think would be really helpful for the department would be to establish and update our records management and retention policies, which includes training of all staff. What I'm finding in my interim position is that I'm charged with trying to onboard new planners and provide the information. And I don't know where the information is or I'm struggling with locating where the information is. And so it's taking a lot of time to kind of find those nuggets. So there's a great opportunity to consolidate, archive old documents, and really kind of create a robust and intuitive records retention system. And then another thing that is really important for the staff is that we have really outdated, a really outdated work environment, and our workstations are dowdy and tired, and it would really be great to get some funding to upgrade our workstations, to create a nicer environment. I welcome it and I invite the planning commissioners to come down to the community development department and see what we've been working with Thank you. this amazing building that we're in. I'm in city hall and it's this great, historic central school, but it was built in 1927 and it's a 1927 building. Um, Let's see. There's a lot more. I included this presentation in our agenda. I'm not gonna go through everything, but I just wanted to provide you kind of with this overview. You see somewhat of a small subset of what we actually do, but we do a lot more than just bring discretionary projects to the planning commission and the occasional advanced planning, you know, regulation or visioning project. So we're busy here and we're having fun and we're making the best out of what we have. |
| 01:09:41.00 | Rozalynne Thompson | There's a lot more. |
| 01:10:00.83 | Kristina Feller | MEETING. |
| 01:10:11.71 | Director Scoble | So with that, I'm available to answer any questions you have. |
| 01:10:15.62 | Kristina Feller | Thank you, Director Scoville. That is quite a lot of work packed into a handful of slides. You know, all know how, how, uh, spread thin a community development is but I think that with your efforts. We are all working smarter together. And certainly with principal planner, Rosalyn Thompson coming on board, we have a leg up. in that so I you know bravo. I think one of the biggest most wonderful successes is getting that counter reopened. That is a game changer in getting us back to normal or whatever the new normal is but I think you know you obviously saw evidence that there are there are a lot of people clamoring to improve properties or expand properties or whatever. And so we're also very excited about that. And just, we are certainly cheering you on from here and here to support you in every, every possible way that we can I'm sure my fellow commissioners would agree I just like to, I know Commissioner Sada is a quick question, The issue of enforcement is such a huge thing that we are so far behind the eight ball on today. And with all of this new legislation coming down from the state. It's going to be like a tsunami. So if we cannot get ourselves prepared for that now, I think we're going to have a whole world of hurt. And so I'd like um, to ask the open question, what is it that this commission can do to assist community development to make sure that we have the proper resources and skill sets in place I'm very happy to make a formal recommendation to city council that this position be funded I'm sure there's a lot of other things we can do, but I'll just throw that out there. It's kind of a rhetorical, open question, but let's think about it. Commissioner Saad, I know you wanted a way in here too. |
| 01:12:27.03 | Nastassya Saad | Thank you, Chair Fowler. Yeah, thank you, Director Scoble. That was a great presentation. In the transition from Lily over to you, I just wanted to call out and it's not entirely finalized. And I think Chair Feller and I might need to catch up again quickly, but I started working on an ombudsman type. PowerPoint kind of interview a few different key players at city hall, some of the local architects and a different group of people just to get an idea about what that role could look like. This was back when I think there was gonna be potentially a dedicated role there. So, you know, we can share the draft with you, whatever Chair Feller thinks is appropriate, but it's, It's. uh, there's some good information in there that might be helpful as a recommendation if that role does kind of pan out. So happy to share that with you or go over it with you. |
| 01:13:26.19 | Director Scoble | Thank you, yes, I would love to receive whatever information you have. I am confident that with good policies and procedures in place and holding staff accountable to deadlines, that we're going to eliminate some of the concerns that or the feedback that we've been receiving in the community. |
| 01:13:46.55 | Aaron Brewster | THE END OF THE END OF THE |
| 01:13:48.55 | Director Scoble | I don't know what was causing some of these things to get stuck, which then is trickling down into a delay in project processing. But if you have a system in place that, I mean... Current planning and the building permit process is very prescribed if you think about it. And if you have the tools in place that makes it easy for staff to utilize, then, we'll be able to work in concert with those recommendations from the OMSFEDsmen, but I think good planning and building and processing practices will address the lion's share of some of the concerns. |
| 01:14:28.01 | Nastassya Saad | Sure, yeah, and based on some of the feedback, I don't disagree. I think it's a huge win that we have staff now so welcome to all of the new staff members, because I think that was a lot of a gap for sure. But anyway, I will be happy to share that with you. Thank you. |
| 01:14:44.41 | Director Scoble | Thank you. |
| 01:14:44.77 | Nastassya Saad | Yeah. |
| 01:14:48.02 | Kristina Feller | Mr. Genius, yeah. |
| 01:14:49.32 | Andrew Junius | Chair Feller, thank you and Heidi, great presentation. you know, for such a small town, it's pretty complicated, isn't it? Uh, stunning in a way. I mean, just overall, I'm a huge fan of simplification at any level, if there's any way to do. I know a lot of it actually originates from the code itself, so there's not much you can is unbelievably complicated, but I know you're doing the best you can, and you've got, but you do have tons discretion within your administrative work. and I know as you're doing this, cleaning things up, trying to organize things, making it so that are doing the same thing three times, that kind of stuff. Bravo, keep it going. I do wanna echo Chair Feller's you know, strong support on code enforcement. I don't think there's any question the city needs a full-time code enforcement officer. When you mentioned, I mean, most places do, at least most places that I know of, to do have their code. by individual private complaints, anonymous complaints, which, you know, once you kind of get used to that, I would assume that all of the complaints in the code enforcement file right now are driven by complaints from the public, right? |
| 01:16:00.97 | Andrew Junius | I'm a good friend. I think there's a lot there. And if we have a full-time person to be checking on those diligence out there and Thank you. |
| 01:16:15.18 | Andrew Junius | to the next day. cleaning all that stuff up. quickly. is you know important And people need to know that, you know, rules are rules. And if there's a problem with the rule, they're gonna be, you know, the city's gonna raise it. if they're informed about it. I'm a little nervous about having, with maybe some exceptions, like I know that marinship is a specific issue and I wouldn't be, I'm opposed to some affirmative department outreach to try to figure out how much illegal activity and uses that are not properly zoned going on down there. but I'm a little hesitant to have you know, code enforcement officers trying to run around and, you know, see things. I'm actually, I was kind of surprised that you guys had had before I showed up as a commissioner, program to turn the meter maids into code enforcement officers. So that was clever and interesting, but boy. That's interesting. Interesting approach, which anyway, keep up the great work and let's get that good personal stuff going |
| 01:17:14.48 | Kristina Feller | Thank you, Commissioner Junius. Commissioner Luxenberg, did you want to weigh in here? |
| 01:17:19.09 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Sure, I thank you, Director Scoble, for excellent presentation, very thorough, as well as the report that backed that up. I concur with that code enforcement's important and needs to be... some attention paid to. I also would second that anything we can do to expedite these projects, some of which have been two, three, four years in the making. So I suggested a couple meetings back to look at a project that went through, maybe a commercial project that went through the process, what all the steps were and how long it took, and figure out where all the roadblocks were. So something in that vein might be useful to help expedite projects. But understand the immense amount of work that the department does. So, and again, I think you're doing a great job as you've taken over here. And that's all I have to share for. |
| 01:18:17.46 | Kristina Feller | Thank you, Commissioner Luxenberg. Waste your ground? |
| 01:18:21.39 | Richard Graef | Well, first I'd like to thank and from Thank you. Planning Director Scoble. for stepping in and doing a great job. uh, brings a lot. through a through the process. I'm not sure. like the The areas have been covered, yes. I would support code enforcement, certainly. I'm certainly happy to see that the some what appears to be stability now with some new staff, and I'm really excited about that. So I think that's a real step forward. Um, Really, I think if any of us as commissioners can be of any assistance, certainly give us a call. So I think that's probably about all I have to say about it right now. Yeah. |
| 01:19:21.02 | Kristina Feller | Thank you, Vice Chair Graff. Um, Yeah, I think, you know, a couple of things that we had talked about for initiatives were checklists. you know making sure that not only is it clear to the applicants what needs to be submitted that it's clear to the commissioners as well because we need to be fair across the board with every single applicant and make sure that we're not manufacturing expectations that are not, Fair. So let's, you know, if we can help with that, if you want to bring something back to us collectively, individually, please do so. with bringing on Principal Planner Thompson. Rosalyn, we are delighted |
| 01:20:09.90 | Unknown | I hate it. |
| 01:20:10.89 | Kristina Feller | that this position is filled and you are quite a key to staff retention. which has been a real issue here. And so anything and everything we can do to support you as well. I think the quality of the presentations and the reports have improved, they're more consistent. I know it's a heavy lift sometimes, but getting those presentations posted before the meetings isn't just helpful to us and obviously will help the planner be organized, but it really helps engage the public. which is really a critical part to everything that we collectively do here is to make sure that we're informing the public that we're clear with the public that we give them opportunities as well. And so Um, uh, you know, I, I think just, you know, We're here to be part of the solution. don't forget that. We don't want to just react to something you guys do. We really do want to be part of the solution and help where we can. So do call on us, please. Thank you. |
| 01:21:25.72 | Director Scoble | It's so important to have the support of the planning commission and it helps us do our jobs better. So thank you for that. |
| 01:21:34.42 | Kristina Feller | Thank you for the presentation. I hope the public recognizes how lucky we are to have such a wonderful community development department and recognize all the hard work that you do so thank you for keeping us updated and everybody else updated as well |
| 01:21:52.26 | Director Scoble | Thank you for the opportunity to let me here. |
| 01:21:56.29 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. |
| 01:21:56.87 | Director Scoble | So with that, we can go on to the next item on our agenda, which is communications. So I'll just kick this off with some staff communications. So as you saw tonight, we were a little late to start our meeting because the city council deliberated on the appeal at 719-725 Bridgeway, also known as the Langston Building and voted five zero to deny the appeal. There was great conversations. If you haven't seen the meeting, I encourage you or recommend going back and listening to it um the city council modified three of the conditions um to provide additional protections to the uphill neighbor and um and we'll be working towards updating that resolution and getting it finalized so we have have a historic preservation commission meeting tomorrow on that agenda. We're gonna be talking about a historic design review information packet for 108 Spencer and the historic resource evaluation report was prepared for it by a notable architectural historian recommending that the building is not historically significant, but we'll see what the Historic Preservation Commission comes up with. The other item on the agenda will be the historic context statement. So I don't know if the planning commission has been following this at the city council level, but the city council has directed this historic preservation or historic context statement to return back to the historic preservation and and also return back to the planning commission. Some language that is proposed to be added to it includes a land acknowledgement statement. It also includes recognition regarding restrictive covenants and some other type of cleanup items. So we'll see what the Historic Preservation Commission does and we'll go from there. At the last meeting, last Tuesday we had two back-to-back meetings each week the city council also directed staff to work with the federated indians at great town rancheria to come up with a land acknowledgement policy so we will be working towards that moving forward and regarding a code enforcement update i did speak to our consulting code enforcement officer these past couple days to try to get an update on certain projects. And some of the challenges that our code enforcement officer is facing is just understanding where these projects are or these enforcement cases are in process. So I've actually been working with her to understand how these relate to our code relative to administrative penalties and courtesy notices, as well as who and what are, who the information goes to and what are the next steps. So I think we unstuck probably about 15 code enforcement cases over these next couple of days and we're gonna be sending out letters to property owners. And sadly, I'd like to announce that our assistant planner, Mike Janjasek submitted his resignation yesterday and we'll be pursuing other goals and a career path elsewhere. So with that, we'll be working with trying to fill that position or figure out what to do with that position. But the good thing is, is that we're working with Michael Baker still, and we have a plan moving forward. We don't foresee that this minor little hiccup is gonna slow us down. and we have a plan moving forward. We don't foresee that this minor little hiccup is gonna slow us down. And we have a path moving forward. Again, with principal planner Rosalind Thompson's lead and charge, I'm confident that we're wearing good hands and we're gonna be able to ride this little storm until we fill that position. And we also, again, have our permit services coordinator who's gonna be coming on board We're planning to have her trained actually on some of these planning items. So we're going to train her to process the zoning permit applications and occupational use permits. So that's going to take a load off of the staff so the staff can actually focus more on discretionary permits versus these ministerial permits. So we have a plan. So with that, I will conclude my updates unless Chair Feller, I missed something. So please let me know. |
| 01:26:24.67 | Kristina Feller | No, I think you covered quite a lot there. Obviously, sorry to hear about Mike. He was so involved with objective design standards and other things. So I'm sorry to hear about that. Um, So I think You know, we've talked a lot about getting updates on enforcement matters in the past. Is it possible to, or is it reasonable to ask for either a monthly update or every two months? I mean, I think quarterly goes a little too far, Some of these are pretty. and we just, We also want to make sure that sometimes those enforcement issues inform us in terms of how we condition things. we're not just here just to, you know, relish in someone getting in trouble with it actually is informative to us. So we know, Is it possible? Is monthly too often? every Is that reasonable? You tell me what you think is best. |
| 01:27:29.54 | Director Scoble | Yeah, you know, let's start with monthly and see how we do. I think again, you know, with a lot of our current issues with community development, it's really we're struggling with inheriting some inconsistent policies and procedures and trying to create that new consistent path moving forward. And so this is gonna be a good impetus to keep us moving forward in a consistent manner. So let's start with monthly and then as we catch up or as needed, we can always reassess when you want us to come back. |
| 01:28:03.80 | Kristina Feller | That would be great. Let's try to get that on monthly and You or Roslyn, you choose. when in our month that we do that. If it's the first meeting or the second meeting, I leave that to you. Um, Let's see. And... There were a couple other things that we had talked about. that we've talked about several times here. And if I could ask staff to maybe agendize for our next meeting or future meeting we need to define and be clear how, when, an applicant Um, we approve a tree removal permit and we do not require them to replant on the property for whatever reason that the value of that tree is put into whatever account. that the city heaps. So. We have approved this on Several. um, a tree removal application so far. And I think it's a mystery if that money has ever been collected, where it went, if anything happened. So this is going to happen more frequently. And so I really would like to prioritize being clear about what that is. So if we could maybe. agendize a discussion so we can all contribute to that and it's publicly noticed at a future meeting or if you and our city attorney want to work with that, or if one of us, you want to assign one of us to work with the city attorney to do that, fine. We just want to move this forward because I think it's pretty important to all of us. |
| 01:29:53.57 | Director Scoble | Yeah, I think that's reasonable. And would it be possible, because this is gonna be a little bit of an item to unpack in order to bring something that would allow us to have a thoughtful conversation with the planning commission, but maybe agendize this for January. And what we do is we can identify kind of what our current regulations are, where our practices are and recommendations to streamline and to improve process and identify fees and that type of thing. And we can identify what other communities are doing relative to tree permits and see if we might wanna do something similar. So would something like that work |
| 01:29:53.67 | Kristina Feller | . |
| 01:30:28.28 | Director Scoble | for Okay, perfect. So we'll work towards something in January for that. |
| 01:30:32.57 | Kristina Feller | Yep. Yeah, that sounds good. Um, So we had also asked for Um, sort of the I'll call it the cliff notes of, to be presented to the commission for the new legislation that's come down from Sacramento, including SB 9, SB 10, I note that that was provided to the city council last night, but it was not on our agenda for tonight. And I think it's, a very important piece since it's really of the family. you know, the planning commission is legislatively bound to enforce these issues and we know these codes better. than anyone that's the purpose of the commission. And so I think it's really important that we are proactive in advocating properly for how that's interpreted here in Sausalito and the other initiatives that this commission has taken on, including objective design standards and so on, that that is used beyond just the HAA. |
| 01:31:45.28 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:31:46.06 | Kristina Feller | Could we agenda please a presentation that our similar to what our city attorney had provided last night to the city council. to this commission. since it'll affect us directly. |
| 01:32:00.03 | Director Scoble | Yes, we can work with our city attorney, Mary Wagner, to identify a date where she can provide that presentation. |
| 01:32:06.64 | Kristina Feller | Okay, great. I'm not sure. Let me just by show of hands, any other item that the commission would like to request be on a future agenda? or um, that you can think of, okay. Okay, great. All right, so. with that, why don't we Well, and I guess the Southern Renn Fire District is always an important one. We should be getting an, you know, an annual briefing from them, particularly because there are new they've defined new, um, and they have an updated list of, you know, you know, bad plantings, good plantings, you know, all that kind of stuff. So again, those are things that we are, fall right in the crosshairs of what we do. So it's pretty critical that this commission is fully briefed. and aware of those of those matters as well. |
| 01:33:07.73 | Director Scoble | I'm regarding the Southern Marin item. I'm working with them to see if they can come to the December 15th meeting. |
| 01:33:14.68 | Kristina Feller | Right. Great. Okay. Thank you for that. Okay, let's go ahead and go report out on subcommittees. The first is the objective design and development standards that Commissioner Junius and I sit on. Commissioner Junius, do you want to give an update? |
| 01:33:34.04 | Andrew Junius | We are meeting every other week at this point. We have another meeting coming up on Monday. I think we've made some. kind of, Thank you. |
| 01:33:45.85 | Andrew Junius | Thank you. public and private. |
| 01:33:52.05 | Andrew Junius | Thank you. Hopefully somebody out there is going to be able to, you know, come up with the magic sauce to make it work for the private. The private thing is really difficult. We're also, I think, starting to, you know, Bob Brown's a great consultant, and we're starting to I think that You know, the idea that this toolkit that Marin came up with, with this OptiCoast company You know, it's a, it's, |
| 01:34:24.97 | Andrew Junius | slightly different view. you know, we're going to have to do adopt some of that stuff just, you know, part and parcel of it simply because we don't really have any other choice. Heidi was thinking we could possibly get some additional funds to bring that consultant in to help tailor us a bit. on the pieces of the toolkit you know, can work for us and try to streamline that a bit. So we're making some progress finally. really a stunningly challenging operation when you, you know, dealing with the discretionary stuff. we've been dealing with for 40 years in these cities. to shift gears into something is not only objective, it's streamlined, it makes sense, and it doesn't have a million holes in it. We're working on it, and we're getting there. So thank you. |
| 01:35:15.09 | Kristina Feller | Yeah, I agree with everything you say. And just for a point of clarification, these objective design standards are not to replace the building code or anything like that. These would be used specifically for the HAA projects and possibly the SB9 as well. Um, that we probably need to have a bigger conversation about. But so these are kind of in parallel tracks, if I'm explaining that properly. Thank you. Um, good. And our next meeting is Monday. Okay, the next item is the Housing Element Advisory Committee. That is a heavy lift that's just getting launched and Commissioner Saad, and I sit on this and so our next meeting is, I believe, December 8th. at 6 p.m. That is a public hearing. so there will be a link to that. And so we're really just getting started. I think, Director Scoble, there's a, bunch of information that will be circulated that I think yourself and the principal planner Thompson are, circulating to the larger HEAC as it's referred to that which stands for Housing Element Advisory Committee Um, so we have some homework reading, I think we need to do. before our next meeting. So there's really not much other than that to to report. |
| 01:36:52.05 | Director Scoble | Chair Caller, if I could interrupt. I was remiss in identifying something that maybe Principal Planner Thompson can speak to just as a staff report out regarding HEAC and what occurred today. So Roslyn, are you able to share just what happened today regarding the housing element update? |
| 01:37:14.33 | Rozalynne Thompson | Sure, so as part of our community engagement plan, We are hosting focus groups. And so today we had our first focus group and And it was with community organizations, social service providers, and nonprofits, it was divided into two sections. We had a total of eight participants. So we had three in the morning, and five in the afternoon. And basically what the intent of the focus group was to first go over the housing element give a basic overview and second, get input from these organizations as to Um, and ways to engage the community. what they would like to see considered in the housing element update process. So, and it was very informative. Um, got a lot of good information. We will have a second focus group sometime in December, and that will be with private organizations and business groups. |
| 01:38:21.05 | Kristina Feller | Great, thank you. could anybody attend these were they by invitation only or directed by staff only Um, |
| 01:38:29.93 | Rozalynne Thompson | It was by invitation only. So because we were just targeting community organizations, nonprofits, social service providers, It was, targeted about 44 to 50 organizations were targeted and invited. and likewise for the second focus group when it comes to the business and private organization. |
| 01:38:52.45 | Kristina Feller | So just for a point of clarity, so we understand because I wasn't aware of any of these and Commissioner said I'm not sure if you were either Is this something that you then just report out to HIAC? what the findings or the input are, How does that work? |
| 01:39:14.38 | Rozalynne Thompson | So as part of the community engagement plan, yes. So we will tell HIAC exactly what input that we received from the focus group. and moving forward. what are some of the recommendations we are going to implement when it comes to engagement, when it comes to reaching out to certain groups. So We will be reporting out to HEAC in the next HEAC meeting on December 8th. |
| 01:39:42.45 | Kristina Feller | Okay, great, thank you. And I'm assuming those were facilitated by DeNovo the he had consultant |
| 01:39:49.58 | Rozalynne Thompson | DeNevro and Kearns and West. |
| 01:39:51.43 | Kristina Feller | Perfect. Okay, great. Great. Thank you. |
| 01:39:55.77 | Rozalynne Thompson | Welcome. |
| 01:39:56.14 | Aaron Brewster | Thank you. |
| 01:39:57.42 | Kristina Feller | That's right. Let's see, our next item is Parklet Subcommittee and that Commissioner Luxembourg and I sit on that, we've had our first meeting. Commissioner Luxenberg, do you wanna update everybody? |
| 01:40:13.15 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Sure. We had a meeting on November 11th, and we talked about the items that came before, both the city council and the benchmarking that was done by yourself and Vice Chair Graff. And based on that information, we sort of outlined sort of deliverables that will end up that community development summarize that. And we've got another meeting scheduled for November 22nd. So, and we'll proceed on refining what those deliverables will be. |
| 01:40:47.61 | Kristina Feller | Perfect. Great. Thank you. The last item, I don't think it's listed here. Can I just report out on sea level rise? Is that that's okay to do even though it's not on here? There was a presentation provided to the city council last night on the sea level rise task force and the findings in the report. It was an initial draft of the report. Not everyone on the task force had actually Um, and finalized their comments on it, but there was some good input back from the city council And I think the most important piece is that a full blown vulnerability study really needs to be done. in certain parts of Sausalito, even though sea level rise affects the entire waterfront. some areas as we know well, are more vulnerable than others. And so I think that's one of the biggest takeaways from all of this. So more to come on that. |
| 01:41:42.71 | Andrew Junius | Thank you. |
| 01:41:42.72 | Unknown | Thank you. |
| 01:41:42.82 | Andrew Junius | you |
| 01:41:56.27 | Kristina Feller | So I don't have anything else. Does anybody else? have anything to report out? know. Um... And I'll wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. see everybody December 1st is our next meeting. Great. |
| 01:42:13.76 | Unknown | Okay. |
| 01:42:13.98 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Look at that. |
| 01:42:15.43 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. All in favor. |
| 01:42:17.98 | Carrie Souza | Thank you. |
| 01:42:19.10 | Jeffery Luxenberg | I. |
| 01:42:19.80 | Kristina Feller | Thank you. |
| 01:42:19.83 | Carrie Souza | Bye. Bye. |
| 01:42:20.86 | Jeffery Luxenberg | you |
| 01:42:21.45 | Carrie Souza | Thank you. Great. Thanks, everybody. Good night. |
| 01:42:24.12 | Jeffery Luxenberg | Have a great Thanksgiving. |
| 01:42:25.03 | Nastassya Saad | It's rolling. |
| 01:42:25.42 | Carrie Souza | THE END OF |
| 01:42:25.57 | Nastassya Saad | Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving. |
| 01:42:28.05 | Unknown | I'm sorry. |
| 01:42:28.28 | Carrie Souza | Thank you. |
| 01:42:28.98 | Unknown | Thank you. Thank you. |
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