Alright. Good afternoon. Today is Tuesday, July 28. It is 04:45PM, and we are calling this regular meeting of the city planning commission to order. Let's start with a roll call.
Noel Sanchez. Dave Caldwell.
Megan DeSanto, legal counsel.
And I am Michael Gazdaco, chair. We are going to go to the minutes from the 06/16/2026 meeting. You all should have received them in advance of this meeting. If you have any edits or comments, feel free to chime in. Otherwise, we can entertain a motion to approve as drafted.
Fully formed motion. All in favor of the minutes as drafted, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Any extensions?
The minutes on task. Moving along to director's report.
Just a quick note that, we have hired a planning technician to replace, our, our good friend, Lev Simon. Blake Horn is in the back of the room waving.
Welcome to Blake. So, hopefully, that will help an awful lot with some of the backlog of of work that we have. But that's about it.
Big shoes to fill literally. Yep. So moving right along to the agenda. We're gonna take the first item out of order. We're gonna jump to agenda item number two, which is a minor land development project, case number 26Dash047MIL203DouglasAve.
We are continuing this to the August 18 meeting at the applicant's request. So I think just for housekeeping purposes, we should take a vote and a motion to continue. Second, and we'll just all take the notes. Make a
Alright. Through the August. Through the August. August 18. K.
Still second? Still second. Alright. All in favor of continuing, say aye. Aye.
Aye. All opposed? Extensions. We are continuing that matter at the applicant's request. I hope you have that in writing Yeah.
To the August 18 meeting. Now back to agenda item number one. Referral number 3618 is rezoning of 1331 Eddy Street.
Sure. And, commissioners, this is a request to rezone residents to subject property at 1331 Eddy Street from R 3 to r p.
Try on. Your mic can speak closer to it, please.
Sure. The petitioner is requesting this rezoning to R P because they wish to live in the residence and also have, business on the 1st Floor, beauty salon or office, and were among the choices that they mentioned. So this is on Eddy Street, an area that's already exhibit exhibits a lot of mixed use and commercial. And I I'm not sure if the applicant's in the audience or on Zoom, but we can hear from them. They they are.
Is anyone representing the app? Anyone representing Lindsey Morrell either in person or online?
Yeah. That's that's kinda odd. I mean, you know, in in the interest of of not wanting to have to prolong this one, I'll just make a note that, as Choi Yeon said, this this little stretch of Eddy Street has a number of properties that have, commercial activities happening in them, either, grandfathered or by variance. And I can I can pull up the, the zoning map and show you? So so it is it is a, it is a residential zone, but you can see that it's just, just off of Broad Street, and it's just off of, a section of c two zoning.
The request here is to go to RP so that there could be, so that there could be some, you know, small scale commercial uses there. I will also show you street view. Yeah. Is is Lindsey Morrell in the audience?
That's a new No. Members? Okay.
Okay. We'll, we'll just show you that. So this is the subject property here. I have this up on the up on the screen, and you can see across the street, there are two buildings with commercial uses here. And then, this is this is where we have a commercial zone just a couple of doors up.
And you see that that, in many cases, these are, you know, houses that have commercial activity. So the the idea here is residential professional. It's not a commercial zone. It's still a residential zone. The bulk and the height setback, impervious surface, and so forth, they're all the same for residential professional compared to to R 3.
So, you know, in this case, there there is not currently commercial activity happening on this property, but given its location on Eddy Street in proximity to these other commercial areas, it would seem that this would be a a minor zoning change. So that's that's our take on this.
And then if they were successful at city council in getting this zone change in people department, they'd have to come up to compliance for the zone. Right? Yes. And things like that. They would.
But I think they comply anyway. Okay.
The building that is the building across the street zone from her?
It's not. It's zoned residential. So this would have been by variance likely, these these commercial uses, and we prefer not to, to have people apply for use variances anymore. The preferred route is is through a zoning change. Yes.
And that's that's, that's what the comprehensive plan says.
Any other questions, commissioners? Okay. Gotta read the staff report.
Sure. So, commissioners, as you saw, this area is one that is residential but characterized by a number of mixed use properties. You saw commercial on the ground floor, retail, as well as a gas station in proximity. So given this mix of uses, we feel that it would be appropriate to rezone the subject lot to RP, especially when you consider the future land use map of the comprehensive plan, which, as you know, is intended to be general enough to support a number of uses and is also not intended to be parcel specific. And, also, the plant the map shows is one where medium density residential is located approximately neighborhood commercial and mixed use.
So, therefore, would be consistent with the intent of the comp plan as well as section one one of the ordinance, which allows for a range of fuses and an intensity that's appropriate with neighborhood's character. And based on that, we would recommend that you make a positive recommendation to the council to approve this change.
Okay. Public hearing. So, well, we don't have to take public comment, I believe, on this one, but we we will. If anyone here is interested in chiming in on referral number 3618, we will open public comment for this agenda item, rezoning of 1331 Eddy Street. Anyone here in the physical room who wishes to speak on this, please stand up and come to the podium.
They're joining us in the virtual room. Please raise your virtual hand or press 9 if you are calling in. And seeing none, we will close the public comment portion of this agenda item. I have no issue with this zone change. I just would recommend that the advocate actually attend the city council hearing, but this goes before them.
But other than that, I have I have no issue with this, it seems, in keeping with the area.
Right. The motion that the CPC recommends approval of the proposed some change. Here we go. Motion to have
a second. Thank you. K. We'll go around and do a vote. Lindsay?
Great. Bye. Forget what you think. Bye.
