[CALL TO ORDER]
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AND WITH THAT, UH, I'D LIKE TO WELCOME EVERYONE AND, UH, TO THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL AND THE PETALUMA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SUCCESSOR AGENCY FOR OCTOBER 7TH, 2024.
IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA, PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD IN THE BACK OF THE CHAMBER AND BRING IT TO THE CLERK.
I WILL NOW, UM, INVITE MONICA APARICIO AND MARIA GALVEZ TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO THOSE WHO WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN SPANISH TONIGHT.
UM, CITY CLERK, MAY WE HAVE A ROLL CALL FOR THE EVENING? ARLE PRESENT.
PLEASE STAND AND JOIN US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
AND NOW A MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE.
[AGENDA CHANGES AND DELETIONS (TO CURRENT AGENDA ONLY)]
AND TONIGHT'S AGENDA.I'M LOOKING UP AND DOWN THE DIOCESE TO SEE IF ANY AGENDA CHANGES ARE REQUESTED BY ANY OF OUR COUNCIL.
AND SEEING NONE ARE, UH, WE'LL PROCEED WITH THE AGENDA AS SHOWN.
[PROCLAMATIONS]
THE FIRST ITEM ON THAT IS A PROCLAMATION.SO, UM, I'D LIKE TO INVITE, UH, CHIEF FIRE, CHIEF JEFF SHOCK AND FIRE MARSHAL, UH, JESSICA POWERS UP TO THE FRONT TO HELP RECEIVE IT AND PERHAPS OTHER FIREFIGHTERS AS WELL.
FIREFIGHTERS FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, OCTOBER 6TH TO 12TH 2024, WHEREAS THE CITY OF PETALUMA AND THE PETALUMA'S FIRST RESPONDERS ARE COMMITTED TO ENSURING THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF ALL THOSE LIVING IN AND VISITING OUR CITY THROUGH PREVENTION AND EDUCATION.
AND WHEREAS FIRE IS A SERIOUS PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERN, BOTH LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY, AND 75% OF ALL FIRE DEATHS TOTALING 2,160 IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2023 OCCURRED IN THE HOME.
AND WHEREAS SMOKE ALARMS SENSE SMOKE WELL BEFORE YOU CAN AND WILL ALERT YOU EVEN WHEN ASLEEP TO DANGERS THAT MAY HAVE AS LITTLE AS TWO MINUTES TO ESCAPE SAFELY.
AND WHEREAS THIS EVENING, PETALUMA RESIDENTS NEED TO MAKE SURE THEIR SMOKE AND CARBON MONOXIDE ALARMS MEET ALL THE NEEDS OF THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS, INCLUDING THOSE WITH SENSORY OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES.
AND WHEREAS THE PETALUMA FIRE DEPARTMENT IN COORDINATION WITH AMERICAN RED CROSS AND REBUILDING TOGETHER, PETALUMA HAS INSTALLED HUNDREDS OF SMOKE AND CO ALARMS IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR OUR MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS.
AND WHEREAS PETALUMA RESIDENTS CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SMOKE AND CARBON MONOXIDE ALARMS, AND HOW TO TEST THEM AT THE CITY'S WEBSITE ON IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT SECTION, ON THE HOPE AND SAFETY PAGE.
AND WHEREAS THE 2024 FIRE PREVENTION WEEK THEME, SMOKE ALARMS MAKE THEM WORK FOR YOU EFFECTIVELY.
SERVICE TO REMIND US THAT THE MAJORITY OF US HOMES HOME FIRE DEATHS CONTINUE TO OCCUR IN HOMES WITH NO SMOKE ALARMS OR NO WORKING SMOKE ALARMS. AND THAT HAVING WORKING SMOKE ALARMS IN THE HOME REDUCES THE RISK OF DYING IN A HOME FIRE BY MORE THAN HALF.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT I, KEVIN MCDONALD, MAYOR OF PETALUMA, AND THE ENTIRE PETALUMA CITY COUNCIL DO
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HEREBY PROCLAIM OCTOBER 6TH THROUGH 12TH 2024 AS FIRE PREVENTION WEEK THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY.I URGE ALL THE PEOPLE AT PETALUMA TO ENSURE THEY HAVE WORKING SMOKE AND CARBON MONOXIDE ALARMS, AND TO KNOW THE SOUNDS OF THE ALARMS, AND DEVELOP A HOME FIRE ESCAPE PLAN WITH ALL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND PRACTICE IT TWICE A YEAR, AND TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MANY SAFETY ACTIVITIES AND EFFORTS OF OUR FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES DURING FIRE PREVENTION WEEK 2024.
TO OUR MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, STAFF, AND OUR COMMUNITY, THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING FIRE PREVENTION WEEK AND ACKNOWLEDGING THE HARD WORK OF THE DEDICATED STAFF AND OUR FIRE PREVENTION BUREAU, AS WELL AS OUR OPERATIONS CREWS.
I'M JOINED HERE TONIGHT BY SOME OF OUR TEAM CHIEF JEFF SHOCK EMERGENCY MANAGER, UH, TOM JORDAN, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT ALISON KREI, ASSISTANT FIRE MARSHAL AMY SIGGE, FIRE INSPECTOR ASHLEY HIGGINS, AND OUR STATION ONE FIREFIGHTERS EVERY DAY, OUR MISSION IS TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE, AND WHEN WE DO OUR JOB WELL, YOU DON'T HEAR ABOUT IT IN THE NEWS.
THIS YEAR'S THEME, SMOKE ALARMS MAKE THEM WORK FOR YOU.
AIMS TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING WORKING SMOKE ALARMS IN EVERY HOME.
IN 1973, THE AMERICA BURNING REPORT REVEALED THAT OVER 12,000 PEOPLE DIED AND MORE THAN 30,000 WERE INJURED BY FIRES ANNUALLY.
ONE OF THE KEY RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THAT REPORT WAS THE INSTALLATION OF SMOKE ALARMS IN HOMES ACROSS AMERICA.
SINCE THEN, WE'VE LEARNED THAT A WORKING SMOKE ALARM CAN NEARLY CUT THE RISK OF DYING IN HALF.
TONIGHT, WE REMIND EVERYONE, TEST THE BATTERIES IN YOUR SMOKE ALARMS MONTHLY, REPLACE THE ALARM EVERY 10 YEARS, AND ENSURE EVERYONE IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD KNOWS TWO WAYS OUT IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY.
IF YOU NEED A NEW SMOKE ALARM, PLEASE REACH OUT TO US.
WE HAVE PARTNERS AND PROGRAMS, UH, WITH REBUILDING TOGETHER PETALUMA IN PLACE TO ENSURE EVERY MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY HAS A WORKING SMOKE ALARM IN THEIR HOUSE.
ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR TAKING AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THE SAFETY OF YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR COMMUNITY, BECAUSE REMEMBER, IF IT'S PREDICTABLE, IT'S PREVENTABLE.
THANKS TO THE WHOLE TEAM, APPRECIATED BEING HERE TONIGHT.
[GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT]
UH, AND NOW WE MOVE TO OUR GENERAL COM PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR THE EVENING.DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST THAT ARE WITHIN CITY COUNCIL'S SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, BUT THAT ARE NOT LISTED ON THE CURRENT AGENDA.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED UP TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON, AND DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL, TIME WILL BE ALLOCATED IN EQUAL SHARES.
TOTALLY NO MORE THAN 20 MINUTES.
AND I DO WANNA REMIND ALL SPEAKERS THAT SPEAKERS, UM, SHALL BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS.
UM, AND MADAM CLERK, CAN WE HAVE OUR, UH, TIMER AND MESSAGE? ABSOLUTELY.
UH, WE DID RECEIVE SEVEN PUBLIC COMMENTS AHEAD OF THE MEETING, WHICH ARE POSTED ONLINE, AND AT THIS TIME, I WILL START OUR 32ND CLOCK.
UM, FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARD TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO.
UM, SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED.
PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION.
SO WE HAVE, UH, 19, UH, SPEAKERS AND PERHAPS ONE MORE, UM,
I MEAN, THE TIMER WAS THE TIMER, BUT, UH, I CAN SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.
SO WE WILL HAVE ONE MINUTE PER SPEAKER, UH, UH, TONIGHT.
AND OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS MIKE GARDNER, TO BE FOLLOWED BY STEVE DILU.
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ONE MINUTE.GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
I'M MIKE GARDNER, AND THIS IS ISAAC RAYA.
WE ARE THE CO-FOUNDERS OF THE PETALUMA WRESTLING CLUB.
AND, UH, WE JUST WANTED TO HAVE SOME TIME IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY AND EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE FOR A PILOT PROGRAM THAT HAS BEEN OPERATING AT THE, UH, PETALUMA FAIRGROUNDS AT THE EXHIBITION HALL.
WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO RUN OUR, UM, FALL PROGRAMMING FOR OUR, UH, FOR OUR KIDS THERE.
UM, OUR CLUB HAS SERVED HUNDREDS OF KIDS NOW OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS, 5 0 1 C3, UM, WITH SOME GREAT VOLUNTEER SUPPORT FOR, UH, EXPANDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL PETALUMA KIDS AND SURROUNDING AREAS TO, TO BE, UH, PROMOTING GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE SPORT OF WRESTLING.
WE JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A QUICK HEADS UP THAT, UH, AS ADVERTISED ON THE, UH, PARKS AND RECREATION WEBPAGE, OCTOBER 18TH, WE WILL BE HAVING AN OPEN HOUSE, AND WE HOPE TO SEE AS MANY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND CITY OFFICIALS AS AS POSSIBLE OUT THERE JUST TO SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING DOWN AT THE FAIRGROUNDS.
AND WE, UH, REALLY APPRECIATE THANK YOU, STEVE DILU TO BE FOLLOWED BY GAIL STEINER.
OKAY, WELL, I'M GONNA HAVE TO CUT THIS WAY DOWN.
AND, AND LET ME ASK THE, THE CLERK TO RESTART.
THAT'S IMPORTANT MESSAGE I DID NOT SAY OUT LOUD, AND I WISH TO SAY IS THAT, UM, I APOLOGIZE FOR THE SHORTNESS AND BREVITY, BUT IF YOU HAVE REMARKS THAT YOU HAVE PREPARED, THE CLERK IS WILLING TO ADD THEM TO, UM, OUR DISTRIBUTION AND TO THE WEBSITE SO WE SEE ALL OF YOUR COMMENTS.
I WISH TO SAY THAT THERE IS NO MORAL JUSTIFICATION TO RESPOND TO AN ACT OF INJUSTICE AS COMMITTED BY HAMAS WITH ANOTHER ACT OF INJUSTICE COMMITTED BY ISRAEL, ESPECIALLY WHEN THOSE MOST LIKELY TO BE HARMED ARE INNOCENCE OF VEGANS.
THE PEOPLE HAMAS KILLED OR TOOK HOSTAGE DID NOT DESERVE THEIR FATES ANYMORE THAN THOSE IN GAZA OR LEBANON.
DO NOW, ISRAEL SHOULD MOVE TO NEGOTIATE A CEASEFIRE.
ACCORDING TO NEWS REPORTS WAS IN THE OFFERING PRIOR TO THE ISRAELI ATTACK IN LEBANON.
IT IS HARD TO SEE HERE ANY CONCERN BY ISRAEL TO NEGOTIATE THE RETURN OF THE HOSTAGES, AT LEAST AS AN IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVE.
IT IS IN THIS CONTEXT THAT I HOPE THE CITY COUNCIL WILL RECONSIDER ITS RE INITIAL REJECTION OF A CEASEFIRE RESOLUTION THAT A GROUP OF US WORKED ON.
OUR, OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS GAIL STEINER, TO BE FOLLOWED BY IDINA FLORES.
TODAY, MARKS THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE HAMAS ATTACK THAT KILLED OVER 1200 ISRAELIS AND ADDITIONAL 250 WERE TAKEN AS HOSTAGES.
ISRAEL'S RESPONSE WAS QUICK AND CATASTROPHIC TO DATE, OVER 41,500 PALESTINIANS IN GAZA, THE MAJORITY WOMEN AND CHILDREN HAVE BEEN KILLED WHILE MILLIONS HAVE BEEN DISPLACED AND OTHERS TAKEN HOSTAGE, MALNUTRITION AND STARVATION RUN RAMPANT.
COMPOUNDING AN ALREADY STRETCHED HEALTH SYSTEM AFFECTING THE MOST VULNERABLE, ESPECIALLY HUMANITARIAN AID, IS SLOW TO BE DELIVERED, OFTEN BLOCKED.
OVER 160 PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS HAVE BEEN KILLED.
THIS CONSTITUTES GENOCIDE, WHICH IS DEFINED AS VIOLENCE AGAINST A GROUP OF PEOPLE WITH THE INTENT TO DESTROY THEM.
THE US MILITARY HAS SPENT $17.9 BILLION OVER THE PAST YEAR HELPING ISRAEL D DEFEND ITSELF WITHIN A COUPLE MONTHS OF ISRAEL'S ATTACKS ON GAZA, A GROUP OF JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH PALESTINIANS, OTHERS APPROACH CITY.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER'S, ADINA FLORES TO BE FOLLOWED BY SANDRA SHAND.
MY NAME IS IDINA FLORES, AND I'M THE LEADING ACTIVIST FOR SONOMA COUNTY, AS WELL AS AN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST, I'VE BEEN SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE MAFI THAT IS TAKING PLACE WITHIN YOUR CITY.
I DON'T APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT COUNCILMAN BARNACLE SENT OUT AN EMAIL TO ALL OF HIS CAMPAIGN DONORS WITH MY NAME AS THE SUBJECT LINE.
IT SAID, WHO IS THE DEAN OF FLORES? WHY IS SHE TARGETING PETALUMA WITH ONE DEROGATORY CLAIM AFTER ANOTHER? AND SO HE DOES HAVE ABOUT A MILLION DIFFERENT CONFLICTS OF INTEREST.
THERE ARE CASES ACTIVELY OPEN WITHIN THE FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES
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COMMISSION, SO I DO NOT, UH, APPRECIATE THOSE BLATANT TEND TO LIES AS AN EAST INDIAN WOMAN YEAR CAMPAIGN DIRECTOR OR THE GENTLEMAN SUPPORTING YOU.MR. ERIC LELAND HAD THE AUDACITY TO CALL ME AN ANTI-VAXXER.
AS AN EAST INDIAN WOMAN, IT IS IN MY CULTURE TO PRACTICE NATURAL MEDICINE AND MY FAITH AS A CHRISTIAN, I DO NOT WANT TO GO BY THE AGENDAS THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS PUSHING.
MALCOLM X SAID, THE MOST DANGEROUS PERSON TO A BLACK MAN IS THE WHITE LIBERAL.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SANDRA SHAN SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY NANCY.
I BRING YOU GREETINGS FROM THE DOWNTOWN PETALUMA PEACE VIGIL URGING CEASEFIRE.
IN ISRAEL AND PALESTINE, WE ARE SOMETIMES SMALL IN NUMBER.
SOMETIMES WE HAVE ABOUT 25 PEOPLE, AND WE GET AN EXCELLENT RECEPTION.
A LOT OF PEOPLE HONK, A LOT OF PEOPLE WAVE FLASH, PEACE SIGNS.
WE GET, UM, OUT OF TOWNERS WHO STOP PEOPLE FROM EUROPE WHO WERE VISITING OUR COMMUNITY AND SAY THEY DIDN'T KNOW THAT THERE WAS A CONSCIENCE IN AMERICA.
AND THEY'RE HAPPY TO SEE THAT.
I HOPE THAT, UH, THOSE WHO MISUNDERSTAND WHAT WE ARE DOING WILL LEARN TO HAVE AN OPEN MIND.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT SUPPORTING HAMAS, IT'S ABOUT SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE INTENTIONAL STARVATION OF CIVILIANS IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS NANCY RAPPA, RAT OLI, UH, TO BE FOLLOWED BY JODY JOHNSON.
UH, UH, AFTER THAT, UM, I'M HERE.
I'M UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT MOST OF OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN OUTSOURCED TO A PRIVATE FOR-PROFIT COMPANY.
AND FOR, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE OUR DEPARTMENT BACK IN THE COMMUNITY PAID FOR BY THE CITY OF PETALUMA SO THAT THEY'RE WORKING FOR US AND NOT A FOR-PROFIT COMPANY THAT MAY NOT HAVE OUR BEST INTEREST AND THE PUBLIC'S INTEREST.
UM, I'VE NOTICED FROM THE MEETINGS THAT RIGHT BEFORE THAT, THE PEOPLE WHO COME ARE VERY PROFESSIONAL, BUT THEY USE MOSTLY GOOGLE STREET MAPS.
I DON'T THINK THEY'VE WALKED THE STREETS OF PETALUMA.
THEY DIDN'T SEEM FAMILIAR WITH A LOT OF THE THINGS, AND I THINK IT'D BE BETTER TO HAVE OUR DEPARTMENT BACK HERE WORKING FOR PETALUMA.
ALRIGHT, NEXT SPEAKER IS JODY JOHNSON, TO BE FOLLOWED BY KAY POLAND, CITY COUNCIL CITY STAFF.
THE DETERIORATION OF OUR COMMUNITY OF MOBILE PARKS FROM THE BAD ACTOR, LARGE INVESTMENT MOBILE PARK OWNERS, IS JUST BEING ALLOWED TO GET WORSE IN YOUNGSTOWN WITH NO ENFORCEMENT OF THE SENIOR PARK.
ONE OF THE SALES OUT OF FIVE NOW TO A YOUNG FAMILY WAS A CALCULATING COLLUSION BETWEEN TWO PROPERTY MANAGERS AND PARK OWNERS OF YOUNGSTOWN AND THE WIFE OF SAID PROPERTY MANAGER.
IRONIC THAT THAT PROPERTY MANAGER AND ANOTHER SENIOR PARK IN PETALUMA DOESN'T ALLOW ALL AGE TO BE SOLD IN HIS MANAGEMENT.
SENIOR CITIZENS IN YOUNGSTOWN ALREADY STRESSED, FEARFUL, AND SOME UNABLE TO HANDLE MORE, HAVE NOW BEEN SUBJECTED TO THE MOTHER OF THIS VERY YOUNG FAMILY, COLLUDE WITH PARK OWNERS WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF 91% OF THE RESIDENTS TO NEGOTIATE.
THE PARK OWNERS PUSH TO GET RESIDENTS TO GIVE UP THEIR RIGHTS.
PARK OWNERS KNOW YOUNGSTOWN RESIDENTS ARE REPRESENTED.
DID THEY HAVE THEIR ATTORNEY CALL OURS? NO.
INSTEAD, WITH MEETINGS AND FLYERS PUT UP AT EVERY RESIDENCE'S MOBILE HOME IN A NON-SOLICIT PARK ON ONE OF THE HOTTEST DAYS LAST WEEK, THEY STARTED THE NEWEST ATTACK, ENTICE AND DIVIDE.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER'S, KAY POLLEN.
AND, UM, LET'S KEEP OUR APPLAUSE DOWN.
IT DOESN'T SHOW DECORUM FOR ALL SPEAKERS OF ALL SIDES.
SO, UM, NEXT, AND I THINK WE'LL HAVE SEVERAL SPEAKERS CONTINUING THIS, UH, UH, CONVERSATION.
THE PARK RESIDENTS NOT WILLING TO ENGAGE WITH THESE PARK OWNERS OR AFFILIATES SIMPLY STAYED AWAY ON THEIR LAWYER'S RECOMMENDATION.
THEN THE SAME RESIDENTS WERE MET WITH HATE EMAILS, THE USE OF THEIR EMAILS, NEVER GIVEN PERMISSION.
BY SAME AFFILIATES OF PARK OWNERS USING FAKE NAMES AND FAKE EMAILS, ONE OF OUR RESIDENTS COULDN'T TAKE IT AND HAD A COMPLETE MENTAL BREAKDOWN.
IF YOU READ THESE RESIDENT WORDS, YOUR TEARS WOULD FLOW, AND YOUR RAGE FOR WHAT HAD BEEN DONE TO HIM WOULD BE HARD TO CONTROL.
LIVING HIS LIFE WITH HIS LIFE PARTNER WITH ALZHEIMER'S, JUST WANTING TO LIVE IN HIS OWN MOBILE HOME IN PEACE, WOULD BE LED TO THE BRINK OF ANYONE'S WORST NIGHTMARE OF THAT, OF WILLING TO GIVE UP LIFE FOR PEACE.
HOW WAS THIS RIGHT TO BE ADDED ONTO THE INTIMIDATION
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AND THREATS TO SENIOR RESIDENTS? IT HAPPENED, AND IT CONTINUES TO HAPPEN BECAUSE NO ENFORCEMENT ON LAWFUL SENIOR PARK OVERLAY HAS BEEN DONE.REALTORS AS EARLY AS LAST WEEK, WERE TOLD THEY STILL MUST SELL AS AN ALL AGE PARK.
WILL IT TAKE RESIDENT BEING SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR SUICIDE ATTEMPT TO ENFORCE THE LAW? THANK YOU.
I HAVE TINA YONKERS TO BE FOLLOWED BY JENNIFER BOYLE.
THESE ARE SOPHISTICATED, CALCULATING PARK OWNERS WHO WANT TO MAKE RESIDENTS GIVE UP THEIR RIGHTS TO NOT CLOSE THE PARK.
AN INTENTION MOST DO NOT BELIEVE THEY CAN OR WILL GO THROUGH.
SENIOR CITIZENS ARE THE PAWNS, AS IF THIS IS A GAME.
I REMIND EVERYONE, THESE REPRESENTATIVES, EXCUSE ME, I'LL GIVE THAT AGAIN.
THESE REPRESENT YOUR GRANDMOTHER, YOUR GRANDFATHERS, AND SHOULD BE PROTECTED LIKE THEY WOULD IF THEY WERE YOUR FAMILY.
THIS, THEIR LATEST ATTACK ON SENIOR RESIDENTS WHO OWN THEIR HOMES HAS NEVER HAD ANY BOUNDARIES.
THEN IN LITTLE WOODS, YOU HAVE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN AND CONTINUED TO BE SUBJECTED TO HARASSMENT, INTIMIDATION, AND THE ATTEMPT TO BLEED THEM DRY SO THEY CAN DEFEND THEIR HOMES.
THANK YOU JENNIFER BOYLE TO BE FOLLOWED BY JANICE BARKER SO THAT THEY CANNOT DEFEND THEIR HOMES AND THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN THEM.
A SECOND ARBITRATION, THREE MONTHS AFTER THE LAST DECISION OF A ZERO AWARD OF PARK OWNERS DEMAND OF $1,530 PARK OWNERS THROWING EVERYTHING AT THEM WITH ONE INTENT TO WEAR THEM DOWN, TO RUN THEM OUT, OR TO SCARE THEM INTO SUBMISSION.
WE'LL LISTEN TO EVERY COMMENT MADE AT COUNCIL MEETINGS, COUNTY COUNTY MEETINGS, OR IN THE PRESS FROM THIS BAD ACTOR OWNER, HARMONY.
THEY STATE WE WILL LITIGATE UPON, LITIGATE UPON LITIGATE UNTIL SOMEONE GIVES THEM THE EVERYTHING THEY DEMAND.
WHAT DOES THAT LOOK, LOOK AT MEANS? LOOK LIKE.
IT MEANS GIVING UP ALL PROTECTION.
CITIES HAVE VOTED IN LIKE RENT STABILIZATION.
ONLY THEN WILL THEY STOP THE ATTACK.
THEN WE HAVE CAPRI MOBILE VILLA, WHERE 90% OF THE RESIDENTS WERE COERCED INTO SIGNING LONG-TERM LEASES.
THAT LEASES NEVER BEING TOLD THAT RENT STABILIZATION EVEN EXISTED, DEMANDED TO SIGN LEASES IN ENGLISH WHEN THEY SPOKE SPANISH, MANY ONLY GIVEN A LAST PAGE OF THE LEASE TO SIGN.
SOME LEASES FORGED THEN THE AUDACITY OF THAT, OF THE FEW RESIDENTS THAT WERE ATTACKED WITH ARBITRATION ON AUGUST 13TH, SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY LEARN NOT TO SIGN ANYTHING AFTER THEIR WIN OF NO AWARD OF INCREASE.
THE PARK OWNERS TAKE, TAKE IT ANYWAY IN SEPTEMBER.
THEN WHEN DEMANDED TO CORRECT IT, THEY GIVE A SECOND STATEMENT WITH AN INCREASE OF $130.
WHEN RESIDENTS IN GOOD FAITH PAY THE CORRECTED AMOUNT DUE WITHOUT THE INCREASE, THEY SLAM THEM WITH THREE DAY NOTICE.
TIM PORTIA TO BE FOLLOWED BY BEN PETERS, THEY SLAMMED THEM WITH A THREE DAY NOTICES OF EVICTION.
AND RESIDENTS ARE MADE TO PAY UNDER PROTEST.
SO AS NOT TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF EVICTIONS.
IF ALL ISN'T BAD ENOUGH, THE RESIDENTS RECEIVE NEW STATEMENTS IN OC FOR OCTOBER, STILL WITH THE UNLAWFUL INFLATED PRICE AND A $50 CHARGE FOR BEING LATE THE PREVIOUS MONTH WHILE THE CORRECTED STATEMENTS FROM THE PARK OWNERS WERE COMING NOT ON, NOT ONE PERSON WOULD SAY THE INTENT, THE HARM THREATS AND THE INTIMIDATION.
THE FEAR IS RIGHT, EXCEPT THE PARK OWNERS OR OTHER PARK OWNERS THAT CRUSH VULNERABLE MOBILE PARK RESIDENCE ENFORCEMENT MUST TAKE PLACE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE FOR OUR RESIDENTS.
THESE ARE YOUR CITY'S LAWS AND ORDINANCE, AND WE COUNT ON YOU TO COME ON AND DO SOMETHING.
LITERALLY, THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT GONNA SEE NEXT YEAR, AND IT'S STRESS
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AND ANXIETY FROM ALL OF THIS STUFF BEING DELIVERED UPON THEM.UH, BEN PETERS TO BE FOLLOWED BY ROBERT HANSON.
UH, SOME HEAT WAVE WE'RE HAVING HERE IN TOWN AND GLOBALLY.
I'D LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO INVITE EVERYONE TO TOMORROW NIGHT'S MEETING.
THAT'S A JOINT MEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE CLIMATE ACTION COMMISSION, THE TOPIC OF WHICH IS THE BLUEPRINT FOR CLIMATE ACTION.
AND SO IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT TOPIC IN TOWN.
I DON'T WANT TO GIVE AWAY TOO MANY SPOILERS TONIGHT.
I WILL SAY THAT PARKING MANAGEMENT IS INCLUDED IN THE DOCUMENT.
SO IF THERE'S A CONVERSATION TONIGHT AROUND PARKING OR TALL BUILDINGS, PERHAPS YOU MIGHT CONSIDER ATTENDING TOMORROW NIGHT.
THE FINAL THING I'LL SAY, UH, A LOT OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT THE HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS.
I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE US TO LOOK BELOW OUR BUILDINGS.
THE DOWNTOWN FLOODS IN EVERY SCENARIO.
AND IF WE DO NOT HAVE A PLAN TO DEAL WITH FLOODING, THEN WE HAVE NO PLAN.
I THINK INVESTMENT IS THE BEST WAY FOR US TO SAY THANK YOU, ROBERT HANSEN, TO BE FOLLOWED BY BRYANT MOHAN.
GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY, TO EVERYBODY I WISH THE VERY BEST IN HEALTH AND SPIRIT.
MY NAME'S ROBERT HANSEN, VET, RETIRED CARPENTER, GRANDFATHER, RAISED BY A GENERATION THAT INSTILLED PRIDE IN COUNTRY, PRIDE IN CITIZENSHIP, A GENERATION THAT CELEBRATED THE BIRTH OF CHILDREN.
FOR THE FA PAST FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS, MY PUBLIC COMMENT, NON AGENDA ITEMS HAS BEEN BOTH INTERRUPTED AND TERMINATED.
MY DISCUSSION, THE ATTACK ON THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN, MY GRANDCHILDREN, MY CITY COUNCIL, SAYS I HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THINGS THEY CAN ADDRESS.
THEY, I ARGUE THAT IF OUR CITY COUNCIL COUNCIL CANNOT STAND IN OPPOSITION TO ABORTION UP TO AND INCLUDING BIRTH.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
AND YOU KNOW, THE, THE MICROPHONE IS OFF AND YOUR SPEAKING TIME HAS ENDED, AND I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER'S, BRIAN MOYNIHAN, MR. HANSEN, SHOULD BE, YOU'RE OUT OF ORDER AND YOUR TIME IS CONCLUDED.
WELL, WE'RE HERE TO DO THE PUBLIC'S BUSINESS, AND WE HAVE A LOT TO DO TONIGHT.
THIS IS NOT IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
THE IMPACTS OF INFLATION OF HARM.
THE CITY, THE IMPACTS OF MASS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION WILL HAVE A LONG TIME NEGATIVE IMPACT ON OUR COMMUNITY, STATE, AND COUNTRY TO BATTLE INFLATION AND ECONOMIC MALAISE.
OUR BUSINESSES NEED TO BE ENCOURAGED, NOT SMOTHERED IN BUREAUCRACY.
WE NEED A GENERAL PLAN, WHICH IS GENERAL IN NATURE, NOT PARCEL SPECIFIC.
WE NEED TO BE DEVELOPING A GENERAL PLAN 2049, NOT REHASHING A FAILED GENERAL PLAN 2024 THAT HAS BEEN UNDERMINED WITH SPECIFIC PLANS, OVERLAY DISTRICTS, AND A CONVOLUTED ZONING ORDINANCE.
A GENERAL PLAN 24 49 WOULD BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND AVOID CIRCULATION PROBLEMS. IT WOULD DEVELOP A PARKING MASTER PLAN THAT WOULD ALLOW NEW DEVELOPMENT TO OCCUR WITHOUT USURPING THE PARKING OF OUR STRUGGLING BUSINESSES AND NEIGHBORHOODS.
I'D ENCOURAGE THE CITY COUNCIL TO ABANDON THESE VISIONING EXERCISES, WHICH ARE DESTINED TO A LEAD TO A GUIDED DECISION MAKING PROCESS.
STOP WASTING THE COMMUNITY'S MONEY, ADOPT A GENERAL PLAN 2049.
UH, NEXT SPEAKER IS JOHN ROBBINS TO BE FOLLOWED BY MARIA POSEY.
HI, BACK TO, UH, YOUNGSTOWN OUTTA SEQUENCE.
BUT I'M JUST, UH, I'VE CALLED THESE GUYS PIRATES, SNAKES, AND THERE'S PLENTY OF OTHER NAMES THAT COULD BE PUT ON THESE GUYS.
WELL, WE FINALLY GOT OUR BILL DUE THIS MONTH.
YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH MONEY.
SO, THE, AND PARTICULARLY GALLING IS THAT THERE'S ABOUT A $30 CHARGE FOR PAYING FOR THEIR ATTORNEYS.
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WELL, I, I, I JUST HAD TO SAY THAT.I THINK OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS SHOULD REPRESENT OUR COMMUNITY, AND I FIND IT REALLY APPALLING THAT JANICE CATER THOMPSON FOUND IT OKAY TO GO INTO SOMEBODY'S PRIVATE BUSINESS AND, UM, VERBALLY ATTACK HIM BECAUSE HE SENT OUT A MASS EMAIL, UM, SAYING THAT THEY WERE ALL LIES.
WELL, IF THEY'RE LIES, THEN WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR THOSE LIES TO BE PROVEN THAT THEY'RE NOT TRUE.
AND ON THAT NOTE, IT HAS TO DO WITH ALSO, IF THAT'S THE CASE WITH EMAILS, BRIAN BARNACLES SENT OUT AN EMAIL WITH ADINA FLORES'S NAME LISTED EIGHT TIMES ON HOW TO HANDLE HER.
SHE'S A LOCAL WHO'S BRINGING OUT, WHO'S BRINGING TRANSPARENCY TO OUR COMMUNITY.
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE REALLY UPSET ABOUT THAT.
WELL, IF YOU'RE UPSET ABOUT IT, MAYBE BE TRANSPARENT AND WE CAN STICK TOGETHER.
I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE POLICE FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT, SINCE YOU GUYS FIND IT.
AND ALL THE ADULTS IN HERE THAT WE NEED TO HAVE, UM, POLICE PRESENT.
OUR CHILDREN STILL DO NOT HAVE POLICE PRESENT ON CAMPUS.
AND ALL THE ADULTS HERE NEED TO KNOW THAT WE NEED TO PUSH FOR IT.
THANK YOU JOE CHAPMAN, TO BE FOLLOWED BY, UM, LET'S SEE, SUSAN BIJI.
I WANNA TALK ABOUT COMMUNITY STANDARDS.
THEY SERVE AS A CRITICAL FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATING THE BEHAVIOR AND ACTIONS OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS WITHIN GIVEN SOCIETY THESE STANDARDS, AND COPULATE AND ENCAPSULATE THE VALUES, NORMS, AND EXPECTATIONS OF THE COMMUNITY, REFLECTING ON COLLECTIVE MORALS AND ETHICAL BELIEFS THAT GUIDE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS.
PUBLIC OFFICIALS, AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMUNITY, ARE EXPECTED TO UPHOLD THESE STANDARDS, DEMONSTRATING TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND INTEGRITY WITH THEIR DECISION MAKING PROCESS.
WHEN PUBLIC OFFICIALS FAIL TO ALIGN THEIR ACTIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY STANDARDS, IT CAN LEAD TO BREAKDOWN OF TRUST BETWEEN THE CONSTITUENTS AND THEIR LEADERS, POTENTIALLY RESULTING IN PUBLIC OUTCRY AND POLITICAL UNREST, OR THE EROSION OF DE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.
MOREOVER, THE ENFORCEMENT OF COMMUNITY STANDARDS AMONG PUBLIC OUT OFFICIALS IS ESSENTIAL IN FOSTERING AN INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE SOCIETY WHEN LEADERS PROPRIETIZED THEIR NEEDS.
UM, SUSAN BIJI IS OUR LAST SPEAKER UNDER THE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT CATEGORY FOR THE EVENING.
I'M SORRY, I PUT MY TAG IN AT THE WRONG TIME.
I, WE, WE SPEAK ON THE OVERLAY, SO I'LL BE SPEAKING LATER.
AND, UM, THAT CONCLUDES OUR GENERAL PUBLIC, UH, COMMENT FOR THE EVENING, AND I'D LIKE TO BRING IT UP TO, UH, OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS TO PROVIDE COUNCIL COMMENTS ON THEIR ACTIVITIES IN THE, SINCE THE LAST MEETING.
AND I'LL START WITH OUR VICE MAYOR REBS.
COULD I JUST, UM, BRIEFLY ADDRESS A COUPLE OF COMMENTS WE HEARD IN PUBLIC COMMENT TONIGHT? ABSOLUTELY.
SO FIRST, UM, I WANTED TO, UH, BRIEFLY COMMENT ON, ON WHAT WE HEARD FROM MS. FLORES.
UM, AND THIS IS TO UNDERSCORE THE CITY'S COMMITMENT TO TRANSPARENCY AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE, UM, ETHICAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS THAT APPLY TO CITY OF PETALUMA OFFICIALS, NOT JUST COUNCIL MEMBERS, BUT BUT STAFF AND APPOINTEES AS WELL.
UM, MS. FLORES REFERRED TO COMPLAINTS THAT SHE'S FILED WITH THE FPPC, I'M AWARE OF THREE, UM, THAT INVOLVE PETALUMA PUBLIC OFFICIALS.
ALL OF THOSE HAVE BEEN DISMISSED, UM, BY THE FPPC BECAUSE, UM, ASSUMING THE FACTS THEY, UM, THEY, UM, INCLUDED ARE TRUE, IT WAS CLEAR FROM THE FACE OF THOSE COMPLAINTS THAT THEY, UM, THEY COULD NOT BE A BASIS FOR SUPPORTING A VIOLATION OF THE ETHICAL LAWS, EITHER SECTION 10 90 OR THE POLITICAL REFORM ACT.
UM, WE ARE FORTUNATE IN PETALUMA THAT OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS AND APPOINTEES ARE VERY CONSCIENTIOUS ABOUT THEIR ETHICAL OBLIGATIONS.
AND MY OFFICE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK HARD TO, UM, BE AVAILABLE TO ADVISE THEM REGARDING QUESTIONS THEY MAY HAVE, AND TO ENSURE THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO CARRY OUT THE IMPORTANT BUSINESS THEY DO ON BEHALF OF THE COMMUNITY, UH, WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING UNDERMINED IN THOSE EFFORTS BY, UM, MERITLESS CHARGES OF ETHICAL VIOLATIONS.
AND THAT, UM, I ALSO WANNA REFER BRIEFLY TO THE COMMENTS.
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UM, WE HEARD FROM OUR, OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN YOUNGSTOWN'S TONIGHT.UM, MY OFFICE, UM, AND THE HOUSING OFFICE ARE WORKING VERY, UM, DILIGENTLY ON A NUMBER OF ISSUES THAT OUR MOBILE HOME RESIDENTS ARE EXPERIENCING RIGHT NOW, UM, RELATED TO, UM, NOTICED, UM, CLOSURE APPLICATIONS THAT YOUNGSTOWN AND LITTLE LITTLEWOODS WOULD LIKE, WOULD LIKE TO HAVE PROCESSED BY THE CITY, UM, RELATED TO PENDING, UH, RENT INCREASED ARBITRATIONS RELATED TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE CITY'S, UM, MOBILE HOME RENT STABILIZATION REGULATIONS, UM, AND RELATED TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE, UM, THE SENIOR OVERLAY.
UM, ALSO, AS, AS I THINK PEOPLE KNOW, WE ARE ACTIVELY DEFENDING THE CITY'S REGULATIONS, UM, IN LITIGATION BROUGHT BY PARK OWNERS, UM, IN WHICH WE ULTIMATELY EXPECT TO PREVAIL, AND SOME OF WHICH WE'VE ALREADY PREVAILED AND HAD DISMISSED.
UM, THE, OUR COMMITMENT IS NOT CHANGING THE DIRECTION WE HAVE FROM THE CITY COUNCIL TO ENSURE THAT THE CITY'S, UM, MOBILE HOME RENT STABILIZATION, AND CLOSURE REGULATIONS PROVIDE THE INTENDED PROTECTIONS THEY WERE CREATED TO PROVIDE, UM, HAS NOT CHANGED.
WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE WITH THAT WORK.
WE WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE, UM, INFORMATION, UM, TO INFORM THE COMMUNITY, BOTH, UM, RESIDENTS OF THE PARKS AND PARK OWNERS, ABOUT, ABOUT, UM, WHAT IS REQUIRED BY THOSE REGULATIONS.
UM, SO WHAT I WOULD URGE THE MEMBERS TO DO IS TO SHARE WITH US, UM, SPECIFICS, UM, SHARE WITH THE HOUSING.
IF, IF, IF, IF RESIDENTS ARE RECEIVING, UM, NOTICES THEY BELIEVE ARE IN VIOLATION OF THE CITY'S REGULATIONS, UM, PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION, PLEASE PROVIDE THAT, THOSE, THOSE COMMUNICATIONS.
IF THERE ARE CONDITIONS IN THE PARKS THAT RESIDENTS BELIEVE ARE NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH OUR REGULATIONS, YOU CAN SEND US PHOTOS OF THOSE, PLEASE.
THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE REPRESENTED BY LEGAL COUNSEL CONTINUE TO CONFER WITH YOUR LEGAL COUNSEL ABOUT CONCERNS THAT, THAT YOU HAVE SO THEY CAN ADVISE YOU.
IT IS THE, THAT FACTUAL INFORMATION, WHETHER DIRECTLY FROM RESIDENTS OR FROM THEIR REPRESENTATIVES, THAT, UM, MOST HELPS US HELP THE COMMUNITIES CONTINUE TO PROVIDE HOUSING SECURITY.
SO OUR EFFORTS HAVE NOT DIMINISHED AT ALL.
UM, AND, AND I, I, UM, I CAN'T REALLY OVERSTATE, UM, THE IMPORTANCE THAT THE COUNCIL HAS PLACED ON ENSURING THAT THESE NEARLY 900 HOUSEHOLDS IN THE CITY HAVE HOUSING STABILITY.
SO THAT WORK HASN'T CHANGED, BUT, UM, THE BEST WAY TO HELP IT BE SUCCESSFUL IS WHEN THERE ARE SPECIFIC INDICATIONS OF PROBLEMS TO PLEASE SHARE THOSE WITH US.
AND I THINK I'D JUST LIKE TO REITERATE THAT AND ADD ONE COMMENT IS THAT, UH, LEGAL REMEDY DOESN'T MOVE AS FAST AS HARM AND STRESS IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND I, WE UNDERSTAND WHY YOU'RE HERE AND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT, UH, PLEASE FOLLOW, UH, COUNCIL DIRECTION
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THERE.AND WE'RE BACK TO OUR, UM, UH, VICE MAYOR RI.
UM, NOT MUCH HAPPENED IN THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS, HOWEVER, I DID GO TO THE NORTH BAY WATERSHED ASSOCIATION, WHICH HAD A COUPLE OF REALLY NICE PRESENTATIONS ON MAYOR ISLAND, UH, DID IT BY ZOOM.
BUT THE PRESENTATIONS, UM, A LOT OF REALLY GOOD HISTORY, UH, VERY INTERESTING HISTORY THAT HAPPENED ON MAYOR ISLAND, UH, FOR ALL THE SHIPBUILDING THAT WENT ON THERE.
BUT THE, THE MAIN PRESENTATION WAS ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND BECAUSE IT WAS DONE IN THE, UM, BEFORE WORLD WAR I, IT WAS MOST OF THAT WAS BUILT AND HADN'T BEEN FIXED AND REPLACED FOR A WHILE.
SO THEY ARE NOW WORKING ON TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO, UM, WITH THEIR, UH, VERY DATED INFRASTRUCTURE UNDERGROUND.
AND JUST AS A REMINDER THAT SOME OF OUR PIPES ARE ALSO AS OLD AS THEIR PIPES, UH, UNDERGROUND.
AND THAT, AND, AND THE BIG MESSAGES, UH, THE UNDERGROUND STRUCTURE IS AS IMPORTANT OR MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE ACTUAL ROAD SURFACE ABOVE IT.
AND THAT, UH, BUT THEY, EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DONE TOGETHER BECAUSE THEY MADE, THEY REPAVED SOME OF THE ROADS AND DIDN'T QUITE DO THE PIPES, UH, AT THAT TIME.
SO A LITTLE BIG ERROR IN THAT REGARD.
UM, SO THAT WAS JUST A, A GOOD REMINDER THAT, THAT, YEAH.
UH, WE NEED TO REALLY WORK ON OUR INFRASTRUCTURE UNDERGROUND, UM, EVEN MORE SO THAN ABOVE GROUND.
UM, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON.
AND I JUST WANT TO TALK, WELL, I'LL FOLLOW WITH, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER REBS, EVERY TIME WE'RE DOING PROJECTS, WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT'S UNDERGROUND INSTEAD OF JUST, YOU KNOW, TEARING A ROAD UP AND MAKING IT NICE.
WE'RE ACTUALLY LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE TO, UM, IMPROVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE BELOW, BECAUSE THE WAY I LOOK AT IT, THERE'S A WHOLE CITY BELOW, AND, YOU KNOW, FOR SO LONG, WE WERE JUST PATCHING OUR
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STREETS INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY TEARING THEM APART AND GOING UNDERGROUND.AND THAT'S LIKE THE D STREET PROJECT.
YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THAT PROJECT IS REALLY THE PILOT PROGRAM, BUT THEN THAT ENTIRE STREET IS GONNA BE, UM, TORN UP AND THE OLD CLAY PIPES ARE GONNA BE REMOVED.
AND SO THAT'S THE DIRECTION THE CITY IS GOING, AND I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT MERRI ISLAND IS GOING IN THAT DIRECTION, AND IT COST A LOT OF MONEY TO DO THIS.
UM, I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY, UM, UM, COMMENTS ABOUT MY, UM, COMMITTEES, BECAUSE I'M HAVING COMMITTEE MEETINGS NEXT WEEK IN THE FOLLOWING WEEK, SO I HAVEN'T HAD ANY THANKS.
UM, I'VE HAD SOME JUICY MEETINGS, UM, UH, AT SONOMA CLEAN POWER IN PARTICULAR, SO I'LL JUST HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE, THE PIECES FROM THAT.
UM, SONOMA CLEAN POWER SPONSORED A BILL, UM, AROUND GEOTHERMAL PERMITTING THAT WOULD CHANGE THE PER, UH, PERMITTING AGENCY FROM THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA TO THE LOCAL AGENCY, UM, WHICH IS CRITICAL SO THAT WE CAN, UM, UH, BASICALLY MOVE THE GEOTHERMAL PROJECTS THAT SONOMA CLEAN POWER IS PUSHING FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, FORWARD IN A MUCH MORE TIMELY MANNER.
UM, AND YOU'LL GET TO WHY THAT'S IMPORTANT.
UM, WE ALSO, UH, WERE PART OF A COALITION THAT WAS OPPOSING A BILL FROM, UM, SENATOR CORTESE, SB 1298 THAT WOULD'VE BASICALLY ALLOWED LARGE GENERATOR, LARGE DIESEL GENERATORS THAT LIKE, COULD BASICALLY POWER OUR CITY, UM, TO, UH, BE EXEMPT FROM ANY SORT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS.
SO THOSE WERE TWO, UM, HIGHLIGHTS ON THE LEGISLATIVE FRONT.
UM, WE'RE SWITCHING OUR BACK OFFICE SERVICE PROVIDER, UM, TO PROVIDE BETTER CUSTOMER SERVICE.
UM, BUT INCREASING, SO THERE'S A COUPLE OTHER PIECES HERE NOW THAT ARE, THAT ARE REALLY JUICY.
UM, WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH A PREPAYMENT, UM, PROGRAM FOR OUR, OUR RENEWABLES CONTRACTS THAT, UM, ALLOWS US TO ACHIEVE EIGHT TO 10%, UM, SAVINGS ON THE FIXED COSTS FOR, UM, RENEWABLES CONTRACTS.
UM, IT'S GONNA PROVIDE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THREE TO $5 MILLION PER YEAR FOR RATE PAYERS AND, AND BENEFITS, UM, OVER, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR THE ENTIRETY OF OUR RENEWABLES CONTRACTS.
UM, THEN, UH, THE BIG ONE, SO, UM, UH, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN GOVERNOR NEWSOM SIGNED, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, AUTHORIZED DABBLE CANYON TO REMAIN OPEN OUT UNTIL 2030, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CLOSING DOWN, UH, DABBLE CLAN CANYON IS THE LARGE NUCLEAR PLANT.
UM, IT IS THE SINGLE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO ABOVE MARKET COSTS.
SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, UM, UPWARD PRESSURE ON OUR ELECTRICITY RATES, DIABLO CANYON IS THE, UM, THE SINGLE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO TO THAT.
UM, BUT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BASELOAD ENERGY, THAT'S ENERGY THAT RUNS CONSISTENTLY, UM, WE, UH, HE NEEDS IT TO STAY OPEN SO THAT WE CAN KEEP THE LIGHTS ON DURING HOT DAYS AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, WHAT THAT MEANS FOR SONOMA CLEAN POWER AS AN AGENCY THAT IS NEVER, UH, PROCURED NUCLEAR ENERGY IS, IS THAT WE WILL BE, UM, IN THE, IN OUR POWER CONTENT LABEL WILL, WE WILL BE SHOWING NUCLEAR ENERGY, UH, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR HISTORY, WHICH IS REALLY UNFORTUNATE.
BUT, UM, WE WERE FORCED, UH, EVERY RATE PAYER, REGARDLESS OF, UM, IF THEY'RE A CCA CUSTOMER OR IF THEY ARE A PG E CUSTOMER, UM, WOULD BE PAYING FOR IT.
AND SO WE WERE EITHER GOING TO, UM, HAVE TO BUY ADDITIONAL ENERGY AND YOU ALL WOULD BE PAYING TWICE, OR WE WOULD HAVE TO SHOW NUCLEAR IN OUR POWER CONTENT LABEL, WHICH IS SOMETHING WE WEREN'T COMFORTABLE WITH.
BUT ALSO, UM, WE WEREN'T COMFORTABLE ADDING $46 MILLION, UM, TO THE, THE REGION'S BILL OVER THE NEXT SIX YEARS.
UM, WE EVERGREEN, WHICH IS THE A HUNDRED PERCENT RENEWABLE, WILL REMAIN A HUNDRED PERCENT RENEWABLE.
UM, AND BASICALLY WHAT THE BOARD DID WAS WE, UM, IN ADDITION TO AUTHORIZING THE, THE PROCUREMENT OF THE, UM, THIS NUCLEAR ENERGY, THERE WAS THREE ADDITIONAL, UM, DIRECTIONS THAT WE GAVE TO OUR CEO, WHICH IS TO BRING OUR, UM, THE SONOMA CLEAN POWER POLICY PLATFORM FORWARD TO, UM, TO REVIEW THAT, UH, THROUGH THE LENS OF, UM, WHAT'S GONNA BE NEEDED TO ACTUALLY CLOSE DIABLO CANYON BY 2030, BECAUSE IT'S REALLY NOT ON TRACK TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN, UM, TO CONVENE A JOINT AGENCY ADVOCACY EFFORT, UM, OF CCAS AND, AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, UM, FOCUSED ON TRYING TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
AND THEN TO BRING A RESOLUTION TO THE BOARD TO OPPOSE OR TO, UM, TELL THE GOVERNOR, THE LEGISLATURE AND THE CPUC TO ACTUALLY, UM, GET OFF THEIR BUTTS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO, UM, MAKE THIS A REALITY.
SO, UM, LITTLE UNFORTUNATE NEWS, BUT, UM, IN THE NAME OF TRANSPARENCY, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE, UH, JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE'RE ALL PAYING FOR, FOR NUCLEAR, EVEN IF WE DIDN'T WANT TO BE.
IMPORTANT NEWS COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY.
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I, UH, PARTICIPATED IN A TWO HOUR ZOOM EARLIER TODAY SPONSORED BY, UM, LEAGUE OF CALIFORNIA CITIES AND THE BAY CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT, UH, COMMISSION.AND THE SUBJECT WAS IMPLEMENTING SB 2 72, WHICH IS REGIONAL SHORELINE ADAPTATION PLANS FOR SEA LEVEL RISE.
AND, UH, CITIES IN THE BAY AREA ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT, UM, ENORMOUSLY DETAILED PLANS BY, UH, THE BEGINNING OF, UH, 2034, SO NINE YEARS FROM NOW.
UM, INTERESTINGLY, UM, AND THESE ARE GONNA BE VERY EXPENSIVE, AND THERE'S SOME RUMOR OF GRANT FUNDING, BUT WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT.
UM, BUT INTERESTINGLY, UM, PETALUMA AND A HANDFUL OF OTHER JURISDICTIONS AT ASTERISKS NEXT TO THEIR NAMES IN TERMS OF, UH, THE, THE LIST OF, UH, CITIES AND COUNTIES, UH, REQUIRED TO COMPLY WITH THIS.
THE ASTERISK ASTROS BASICALLY MEANS IN OUR CASE THAT WE'RE NOT SUBJECT TO BC'S JURISDICTION.
UM, WE'RE NOT TECHNICALLY, LEGALLY REQUIRED TO DO ONE OF THESE PLANS, UH, ALTHOUGH WE'RE ENCOURAGED TO, AND I'M GUESSING THAT OUR CITY WILL WANT TO DO THAT, ALTHOUGH WE CAN SOMEWHAT DEVIATE FROM THE, UH, THE REGULATIONS, UM, THAT ARE EVENTUALLY GONNA BE PROMULGATED IN THEIR ARE COMMENT LETTERS DUE NEXT WEEK BECAUSE THE BCD ABOUT TO FINALIZE ITS PLANS.
UM, AND THEN SECONDLY, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER NOW AND I MET, UH, WITH, UH, SOME FAIR BOARD MEMBERS ON SEPTEMBER 25, UM, AND IT WAS PUBLICLY NOTICED.
UM, AND THERE WERE SEVERAL TAKEAWAYS.
THE ONE I'LL SHARE TONIGHT IS THAT, UM, THE FAIR IS RUNNING ABOUT A $600,000 DEFICIT PER YEAR AT THIS POINT, BURNING THROUGH THEIR RESERVES AT A VERY FAST CLIP.
AND THAT'S NOT GONNA BE A SUSTAINABLE MODEL FOR THEM IF WE WANT THE FAIR TO CONTINUE IN THE LONG TERM.
SO, UH, MUCH AS I, I KNOW MY COLLEAGUES AND I WOULD PREFER NOT TO HAVE TO REOPEN THE CONVERSATION ABOUT, UM, THE FAIRES FINANCES.
IF WE WANT THE FAIR TO CONTINUE HERE, THAT'S GONNA BE SOMETHING WE NEED TO TAKE UP IN THE NEW YEAR.
AT OUR LAST PARKS, UH, MEETING, WE LISTENED TO A PRESENTATION REGARDING OUR SWIM CENTER AND THE POOL REPLASTERING RESURFACING PROGRAM PROJECT.
UM, THE CITY COUNCIL WILL HOPEFULLY SEE THE SAME PRESENTATION AT A FUTURE MEETING.
IT WAS VERY EDUCATIONAL, AND THEY HAVE QUITE A BIT PLANNED.
THERE WAS QUITE A BIT OF COMMUNITY PUBLIC INPUT REGARDING THE FUTURE OF THE SWIM CENTER, ALSO THE KAVANAUGH POOL AND OUR AQUATICS PROGRAM.
ALSO, THE PICKLEBALL COMMUNITY SPOKE ABOUT THEIR FUTURE NEEDS, SO WE NEED TO REALLY THINK ABOUT THOSE GROUPS.
AND I ATTENDED THE RIBBON CUTTING AT THE FAIRGROUNDS FOR OUR NEW PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION.
THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR, FOR INCLUDING MY FAMILY WHO WERE ALSO INCLUDED IN THE PHOTO.
UM, MONTAGE IS TRULY THE HEART OF PETALUMA, AS I BELIEVE OUR CITY MANAGER, UH, SAYS.
THE AIRPORT DISPLAY DAY IN SEPTEMBER WAS WONDERFUL.
THE PAPA MEN MEMBERS LET THE PUBLIC LEARN AND EXPERIENCE AVIATION UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL.
WE'D LOVE TO SEE OUR NEW LUMA GO EXPAND ITS BOUNDARIES TO THE AIRPORT RIGHT NOW AT STOP.
SHORT OF, I THINK, UM, MARIA, MARIA, UM, I DON'T EVEN THINK IT GOES THAT FAR.
ANYWAY, THE, UM, BIKE RACKS ARE ALSO NEEDED OUT AT THE AIRPORT BECAUSE A LOT OF FAMILIES WERE COMING OUT TO USE THOSE PICNIC TABLES, AND THEY WERE JUST TO, UM, CHAINING THEIR BIKES TO THE FENCE.
ANYWAY, I ATTENDED A HISTORIC TALK PRESENTED AT THE PETALUMA MUSEUM.
IT'S THEIR NEW EXHIBIT, MY, UH, POSTCARD HERE, MEXICAN, CALIFORNIA FASHION.
AND I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO GO SEE THE NEW EXHIBIT TELLING THE STORIES OF MEXICAN, CALIFORNIA.
SO IF YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF PETALUMA, YOU KNOW THAT THAT'S WHY THERE'S A MEXICAN FLAG HANGING IN THE COURTYARD AT THE OLD ADOBE, UM, STATE PARK.
UM, FOR OCTOBER'S DAY OF THE DEAD, THE MUSEUM STAFF HAS EVEN ADDED A REMEMBERING PETALUMA'S LOST ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES DISPLAY.
I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO GO SEE THE HISTORIC HOMES AND BUILDINGS THAT WE'VE LOST IN PETALUMA AND UPSTAIRS, THERE'S A WONDERFUL PHOTO TIMELINE OF PETALUMA'S DEVELOPMENTS OVER THE DECADES, AND IT REALLY SHOWS WHAT OUR FOREFATHERS AND MAYORS AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE THINKING WHEN THEY, UH, CHOSE, UH, AUTOMOBILES OVER, UM, HISTORIC BUILDINGS.
AND WHEN THEY WANTED TO MODERNIZE PETALUMA TO BRING ECONOMIC GROWTH IN TRULY THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY THERE.
THERE WAS ALSO A HISTORY SPOT, VIRTUAL GUIDE THAT YOU CAN UPLOAD TO YOUR PHONE.
UH, WE'VE REALLY GONE HIGH TECH WITH OUR MUSEUM.
SO YOU HIT THIS QR CODE TO YOUR SMARTPHONE, AND YOU CAN GET EDUCATED
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ON THE HISTORY OF PETALUMA AND HOW WE GOT TO BE WHERE WE ARE TODAY.THE PETALUMA DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION HAS A WONDERFUL, HAD A WONDERFUL ANTIQUE FAIR DOWNTOWN LAST MONTH.
UM, I DON'T NEED ANYTHING MORE TO COLLECT DUST, BUT IT WAS NICE TO SEE LOTS OF PEOPLE AT DOWNTOWN.
UM, COMING UP, THERE'S A LONG LIST OF THINGS COMING UP, BUT JUST IN OCTOBER, WE HAVE THE WITCHES AND WIZARDS ON THE WATER TRICK OR TREAT TRAIL, AND THINK AHEAD TO VETERANS DAY ON NOVEMBER 11TH.
TODAY, I SPENT A COUPLE OF HOURS AT THE PALOMA HOTEL MEETING WITH THE PALOMA LODGING ASSOCIATION.
THIS IS A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE PEMA TOURISM IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.
WE DISCUSSED HOW TO PARTNER HOSPITALITY WITH BUSINESSES, WITH LOCAL WINERIES AND RESTAURANTS, AND THEY HAD A LOT OF WONDERFUL THINGS TO SAY ABOUT OUR TOURIST IN PETALUMA.
UM, I JUST, UH, WANNA APPRECIATE YOUR, YOUR, UH, COMMENTS REGARDING, REGARDING OUR CARNEGIE LIBRARY HISTORICAL MUSEUM.
IT'S A REAL GEM IN THE COMMUNITY.
UM, ON THE, UH, SONOMA COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION, WE'RE FINISHING UP, UH, SOME DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDING FROM, UH, FEDERAL, UH, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, ABOUT $5 MILLION WORTH.
AND, UH, WE HAVE LOTS OF GOOD APPLICATIONS FOR NEW PROGRAMS. WE'RE HOPEFUL TO, UH, GET AN EXTRA HALF A MILLION, EXTRA 10%, HALF A MILLION IN BONUS, WHAT THEY CALL REFER TO AS BONUS MONDAY MONEY.
WE WON'T FIND OUT FOR ANOTHER MONTH OR SO, BUT WE'RE ABOUT TO DISTRIBUTE, UH, THE, THE INITIAL AMOUNT.
UM, IN TERMS OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE, UM, UM, I HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, UH, UH, ARTICLE THAT MADE SOME VAGUE, UH, ACCUSATIONS OF PETA BEING AMONG, UM, SEVERAL MANY ACTUALLY, UH, UM, POLICE DEPARTMENTS THAT, UH, THEY ACCUSED OF, UH, INAPPROPRIATELY, UH, RETIRING, UH, MEMBERS WHO, UH, UH, HAD CHARGES THAT THAT WOULD'VE BEEN EXPECTED TO LEAD TO DISMISSAL.
AND, UH, THIS IS, THESE ARE VERY VAGUE COMPLAINTS, AND WE HAVE NO INFORMATION YET.
OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT'S GONNA MAKE US A FORMAL PRESENTATION AT THE NEXT MEETING OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
WE'LL ALSO, UH, WE'VE BEEN SPENDING TIME THINKING ABOUT WHAT OTHER TOPICS WE'LL COVER IN THE FUTURE.
FINALLY, I'D JUST LIKE TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE, UH, PETALUMA BLACKSTAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ARE, UH, PUTTING ON A HEALTH FAIR AT, UH, OUR LUCCHESE COMMUNITY CENTER THIS SATURDAY, BETWEEN 10:00 AM AND 2:00 PM THANKS.
UM, I THINK, UM, MANY OR MOST, UH, THE COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE BEEN APPROACHED BY THE, UH, FOURTH DAA TO DISCUSS THEIR, UH, FIRST YEAR OF RUNNING THE FAIR AFTER THE CITY, TAKING POSSESSION OF THE ENTIRETY OF THE FAIRGROUNDS, AND, UM, WITH THEIR CONCERNS, THE WAY THEY'RE, I THINK I'LL BE, UM, SUGGESTING THAT WE AGENDIZE THE TOPIC, UH, SO THAT WE GET A REPORT BACK.
HOW'S THE FIRST YEAR OF THE FAIR AND, AND HOW, WHAT HAPPENS TO THAT IN THE FUTURE? SO I'LL BE ASKING TO AGENDIZE THAT FOR A FUTURE COUNCIL WORKSHOP.
UM, LIKELY IT'LL TAKE A MINUTE TO PULL THE FINANCIALS TOGETHER AND AGREE ON PRESENTATION FOR THE FAIRGROUNDS.
SO I'M NOT SURE WHEN THAT'LL ACTUALLY HAPPEN, PERHAPS INTO THE NEW YEAR.
UM, I ALSO WAS IN ON A ZOOM WITH HEALTHY PETALUMA, UM, HOW AND REQUEST OF HOW HEALTHY PETALUMA THE HEALTHCARE DISTRICT CAN, UH, BETTER ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO IT WAS GOOD THAT THE CITY WAS AT THE TABLE WHEN THEY WERE ASKING HOW THEY BETTER SERVE.
UM, IN THE SAME LIGHT OF BETTER SERVING, UH, COTS IS OPENING THEIR RECUPERATIVE, UH, CENTER.
THAT'S THE, THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE MARY ISAAC BUILDING THERE.
UH, IT HAS 18 BEDS FOR, UH, UH, HOME SPOKE, COMING OUTTA HOSPITAL SERVICE, BUT STILL NEEDING SERVICE.
CAN'T BE, UM, JUST DISMISSED FROM HOSPITAL.
UH, AND, AND IT INCLUDES A HOSPICE FACILITY, ACTUALLY.
SO, UM, COX IS REALLY GROWING IN THIS AREA.
ALSO ATTENDED THE KICKOFF CEREMONIES, UH, FOR, UM, DIA DE LOS MORTIS THIS WEEKEND.
AND, UH, THERE'LL BE CONTINUING EVENTS THROUGH THE MONTH.
UH, I ALSO ATTENDED LOS CNS STATE OF THE LATIN COMMUNITY ADDRESS, UH, HERE BACK, UH, WEEK.
UM, I ALSO ATTENDED SONOMA COUNTY'S MASTER PLAN FOR AGING.
UH, THEY REALIZED THAT, UH, WELL ALREADY IN THE COUNTY, MORE THAN 28% OF FOLKS ARE OVER 60 YEARS OLD, AND IN FIVE YEARS BE MORE THAN A THIRD OF SONOMA RESIDENTS ARE OVER 60 YEARS OLD, AND THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE SERVICES INTENTIONAL FOR AGING THAT WAY.
AND, UH, WHATEVER THE DEMOGRAPHIC IS COUNTYWIDE, I'M SURE PETALUMA LEADS, AND THAT MIGHT NOT BE THE GOOD THING.
UM, BUT, UH, I ALSO TENDED, UH, SMARTS STRATEGIC PLANNING WORKSHOP.
IT WAS RIGHT HERE AT OUR PETA ARTS CENTER, WHICH SERVED
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AS A GREAT HOST FACILITY.UM, THEY REALIZED THAT RIDERSHIP IS UP OVER 30% THIS YEAR, AND THOUGH THEY MADE THE, UH, FAIR FREE FOR SENIORS AND STUDENTS, THE REVENUE IS STILL HIGHER BECAUSE THE INCREASED GROWTH.
SO IT DIDN'T COST THEM ANYTHING TO MAKE IT FREE FOR SENIORS AND STUDENTS.
UM, I ALSO ATTENDED A, UH, UH, DISASTER PREPAREDNESS PUT ON BY LOCAL SCOUTS GROUPS AT OUR WALNUT PARK.
ALSO, UM, WANNA NOTE THAT MEASURE OA TAX MONEY FROM MENTAL HEALTH THAT WE HAVE IN THE COUNTY IS, UH, RELEASING ANOTHER $5 MILLION IN SUPPORT OF, UH, SERVICES, SOME OF WHICH IS GOING TO HOMELESSNESS, AND SOME OF WHICH WILL ROLL BACK TO PETALUMA FOR SERVICES WE PROVIDE.
AND, UM, AND THEN, UM, THE PURPLE CUP PROGRAM, THE HOT AND COLD BEVERAGE PROGRAM, UM, KIND OF CAME OUT OF A ZERO WASTE CONCEPT, BUT IT'S INDEPENDENT OF, UH, THE CITY ITSELF.
THEY SENT OUT THEIR FIRST UPDATE, AND THEY'RE OVER 100,000 CUPS RETURN TO WASH, TO, TO, TO VENDOR.
AGAIN, 100,000 CUPS IN ONE MONTH.
I DON'T THINK THEY HAVE A VERY HIGH RETURN RATE YET.
THEY'RE HOPING THAT THE CUPS RETURN AT A HIGHER AND HIGHER RATE, BUT IT'S JUST STAGGERING TO KNOW THAT, UH, THAT IT'S 100,000 CUPS OUT OF A LANDFILL IN THE FIRST MONTH ALONE.
ALSO ATTENDED A NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS MEETING, UH, THAT THE, THE CITY HAS A ONE OF THE STREETS IN TOWN IS, IS CONCERNED ABOUT SPEEDING AND, AND, UH, HAS THE CITY'S ATTENTION ON IT NOW.
THEY'RE, UH, COLLABORATING ON BEST IDEAS AND MODIFICATIONS OF CURRENT IDEAS.
[CITY MANAGER COMMENT]
THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT, AND I'D LIKE TO PASS IT OFF TO OUR CITY MANAGER.COUNCIL, COMMUNITY, UM, AND STAFF.
UH, I WANT TO, UM, ANNOUNCE, UH, THAT WE HAD RECEIVED A NOTICE FROM, UM, THE STATE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, THAT THE CITY OF PETALUMA RECEIVED AN $8 MILLION AWARD, UH, FOR ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION HOMELESS SERVICES.
THIS IS A GRANT THAT WE RECEIVED A LITTLE OVER A MILLION DOLLARS IN 2021.
AND THIS, UH, AWARD IS OVER THREE YEARS.
AND IT WILL, UH, HELP US CONTINUE, UM, CONTINUE OUR INITIATIVE OF OUR STRATEGIC PLAN TO END HOMELESSNESS, UM, AND ALL THE WRAPAROUND SERVICES AND ALL THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE HAVE ON THE GROUND, UM, TO ADDRESS OUR UNSHELTERED COMMUNITY.
SO WE'RE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT IT AND CAN'T WAIT TO SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY HOW WE ARE GOING TO BE, UM, UTILIZING THAT, THOSE FUNDS.
EXTREMELY HELPFUL AND ALSO HELPS AUGMENT THE MONEY THAT WE'RE SPENDING OUT OF OUR GENERAL FUND.
UM, AND ALSO SPEAKING OF THE FAIRGROUNDS, UH, TODAY WE'RE EXCITED TO WELCOME A LARGE SCALE SCULPTURE, NAGA TO THE FAIRGROUNDS.
UH, THE STUNNING PIECE CREATED BY ARTIST CJ ROUGH GARDEN FOR BURNING MAN IS A HUNDRED FOOT LONG SEA SERPENT THAT CAPTIVATES WITH ITS INTRICATE DESIGN.
IT COMPRISES FIVE SECTIONS, FEATURES 4,000 HANDMADE SCALES, AND REACHES AN IMPRESSIVE HEIGHT OF 24 FEET AT THE TIP OF ITS TAIL.
FOR THE NEXT FOUR TO SIX WEEKS, NAG WILL BE POSITIONED NEAR HERZOG HALL WHILE CJ AND HER TEAM FINALIZE THEIR WORK ON THE SCULPTURE.
AND MID-NOVEMBER, IT'LL BE RELOCATED TO THE LAWN, CLOSEST TO THE GROOM TRANSPORTATION, WHERE IT'LL BE ON DISPLAY UNTIL JANUARY 7TH.
UM, WE'LL KEEP, UH, EVERYBODY INFORMED, BUT COME, GO OUT AND CHECK IT OUT.
AND THAT'S, UM, OH, AND I WANTED TO THANK THE TEAM.
I DON'T KNOW IF TOM JORDAN'S STILL HERE, BUT WE OPENED UP THE COOLING CENTER DURING THE HOTTEST, UM, THE DAYS OF THE WEEK LAST WEEK, UM, AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
AND ONE OTHER COMMENT, UM, JUST WANTED TO, UH, SOME, SOMEBODY MENTIONED M GROUP AND THEY ARE PAID BY THE CITY AND THEY DO WORK FOR THE CITY AND FOR THE COMMUNITY.
SO JUST TO CLARIFY THAT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
AND I JUST WANT TO, UH, COMPLIMENT STAFF'S EFFORTS ON GETTING THAT, UH, GRANT FOR HOMELESSNESS.
I KNOW, UM, THE STATISTICS THAT THE CONTINUUM OF CARE, UM, COUNTYWIDE HOMELESSNESS BOARD PUT OUT, UH, THE POINT IN TIME COUNT SHOWS THAT BETWEEN, UH, 2022 AND 2024, THIS MOST RECENT COUNT, UH, THE POP, THE HOMELESS POPULATIONS DROPPED BY 20% IN PETALUMA OVER THE LAST YEAR, IT'S ONLY DROPPED ANOTHER TWO OR 3% BECAUSE I THINK WE'VE GOT MOST OF THE FOLKS WHO COULD EASILY BE HOUSED, HOUSED.
SO WE'RE HARDER AND HARDER WORK, AND I'M GLAD THERE'S FUNDING FOR THAT WORK.
[CONSENT CALENDAR]
THAT, UH, GETS US TO OUR CONSENT CALENDAR FOR THE EVENING, AND I'D LIKE TO LOOK UP AND DOWN THE DIOCESE TO SEE IF ANYONE HAS A QUESTION OF STAFF OR, UH, UH, A CONCERN ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR.AND, UM, SEEING NONE, I'D LIKE TO PASS IT TO OUR CITY CLERK TO INVITE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR.
UH, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO.
SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED.
PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION.
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CARD.I DON'T SEE ANY OTHERS COMING IN AND, UM, OPENING THE PUBLIC COMMENT, I'D LIKE TO INVITE ADINA FLORES TO SPEAK TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR.
I'M GLAD THAT WE ARE TAKING THE TIME TO GO AHEAD AND IMPLEMENT THE FAIR POLITICAL PRACTICES CONFLICT OF INTEREST CODE, WHAT THEY'VE RECOMMENDED THIS EVENING.
I DO NOT APPRECIATE YOUR STAFF LYING ON RECORD.
THERE IS A CASE CURRENTLY OPEN.
MR. BARNACLE FAILED TO DISCLOSE HIS INCOME AS SENIOR MANAGER OF ENERGY SOLUTIONS FOR ALL YEARS.
THAT IS A MAJOR, MAJOR CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, UH, THE FOUNDER OF HIS NONPROFIT BUILDING DECARBONIZATION COALITION, PANAMA BARMY, UH, THE FPPC DID OPEN A CASE, AND THAT IS BECAUSE HE DID NOT DISCLOSE HIS INCOME AS CLIMATE ACTION VICE CHAIR.
SO THERE ARE BLATANT CONFLICTS NOW.
YOUR STAFF JUST LIED ON RECORD.
IT IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH.
AS A WOMAN OF COLOR, I, THAT'S THE ONLY CONSTANT I'VE KNOWN IN MY LIFE IS ABUSE.
I'M NOT GOING TO CONTINUE TO TAKE ABUSE FROM WHITE MEN.
I WILL LET THE POLICE KNOW, UH, WHEN I WILL BE AT YOUR NEXT EVENT TO PROTEST.
UM, I'M REALLY GOOD AT SHUTTING EVENTS DOWN.
I WILL ABSOLUTELY MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT GET ELECTED.
PLEASE STOP REPRESENTING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
AS SUCH, AT THIS POINT, WE'RE GONNA CUT OFF.
AND GOD BLESS THE PHONE AND GOD BLESS NAME OUTTA YOUR AND GOOD NIGHT.
AND, UM, THAT WAS OUR ONLY SPEAKER FOR, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE CONSENT CALENDAR.
AND SO BRINGING IT BACK UP TO THE DIOCESE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY.
SURE, I'D REMOVE APPROVAL OF, UH, CONSENT CALENDARS.
ITEMS ONE THROUGH FIVE SECOND.
AND WE HAVE A SECOND FROM BARNACLE AND A ROLL CALL.
[PUBLIC HEARINGS AND MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION]
AND THAT BRINGS US TO, UM, PUBLIC HEARINGS MATTER FOR CONSIDERATION.UH, WE HAVE A, UH, BEFORE US PUBLIC HEARING IN ACTION TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE COST OF ABATEMENT, HAZARDOUS VISITATION AND RUBBISH, AND CONFIRMING APPROVAL OF THE FORWARDING OF UNPAID BILLS TO THE COUNTY ASSESSOR OFFERS FOR COLLECTION AS ASSESSMENTS.
AND WITH US TO HELP US WITH THIS ITEM IS FIRE MARSHAL JESS JESSICA POWER.
THIS YEAR AS PART OF OUR HAZARDOUS ABATEMENT PROGRAM, A TOTAL OF 647 PARTIALS WERE IDENTIFIED, NOTICE AND INSPECTED.
AFTER THE MAY 31ST COMPLIANCE DEADLINE, OUR TEAM CONDUCTED FOLLOW-UP INSPECTIONS ON ALL PARCELS.
I'M PLEASED TO REPORT THAT 622 PARCELS WERE SUCCESSFULLY ABATED BY THEIR OWNERS.
THESE OWNERS WILL NOT RECEIVE A BILL FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT'S INSPECTION.
HOWEVER, 25 PARCELS FAILED TO COMPLETE THE REQUIRED ABATEMENT BY THE MAY 31ST DEADLINE.
THESE WERE SUBSEQUENTLY CLEARED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT'S CONTRACTOR OUT OF THOSE 25 PARCELS.
16 HAVE YET TO PAY THE INVOICES ISSUED FOR THE CONTRACTOR SERVICES EXHIBIT A IN TONIGHT'S RESOLUTION LISTS THESE 16 LOTS, THE RESOLUTION BEFORE YOU CONFIRMS THE COST OF THE CONTRACTOR'S WORK AND PROPOSES PLACING A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT ON THE PROPERTY OWNERS WHO HAVE NOT PAID THEIR INVOICES.
AND, UM, UM, UP TO COUNSEL FOR ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS MATTER, NOT SEEING ANY QUESTIONS, LET'S GO TO A PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE MATTER AND INVITE OUR CLERK TO READ THE MESSAGING.
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARD TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO.
SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED.
PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION.
AND, UH, DID WE RECEIVE ANY CARDS AND LETTERS AHEAD AND, YEAH.
UH, SO THAT CLOSES THE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE ITEM OF THE EVENING AND BACK TO COUNCIL.
AND WE HAVE MOTION BY CATER THOMPSON SECOND AND A SECOND BY VICE MAYOR.
AND NOW WE MOVE TO ITEM SEVEN.
TO CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AND RECEIVE PUBLIC TESTIMONY.
PROVIDE COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT.
CONSIDER PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS, AND ADOPT A RESOLUTION DIRECTING STAFF TO PREPARE FINAL
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EIR REPORT FOR THE DOWNTOWN HOUSING AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OVERLAY.AN EKN APPALACHIAN HOTEL PROJECT.
TO, UH, LEAD US OFF ON THIS, WE HAVE PRINCIPAL PLANNER, UH, PRINCIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER, OLIVIA IRVING.
THIS ITEM BEFORE YOU IS CONSIDERATION OF THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT FOR THE OVERLAY AND THE HOTEL PROJECTS.
AND TO DIRECT PREPARATION OF THE FINAL EIR.
THE PURPOSE OF THE HEARING IS TO RECEIVE AND RECOLLECT COMMENTS ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS, WHICH WILL BE RESPONDED TO IN THE FINAL.
THERE ARE NO PROJECT APPROVALS TONIGHT.
THERE ARE NO ENTITLEMENTS BEFORE YOU AND DIRECTION TO PROCEED WITH PREPARATION OF THE FINAL.
DOES NOT INDICATE SUPPORT OR OPPOSITION ON THE PROJECT APPROVALS THAT WILL COME BEFORE YOU IN THE FUTURE ONCE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IS DONE.
I'M A PRINCIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNER.
I AM OVERSEEING THE PROJECT'S ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW PROCESS ON BEHALF OF THE CITY.
I'M JOINED TONIGHT BY MY COLLEAGUES, GREG POWELL, PRINCIPAL PLANNER AND ISABEL CASTELLANO, HISTORIC PRESERVATION SPECIALISTS WHO ARE PROCESSING THE PROJECT ENTITLEMENTS.
BUT AGAIN, TONIGHT WE ARE NOT HERE FOR PROJECT APPROVALS.
WE ARE HERE TO RECEIVE COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT.
SHE IS THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES FOR FIRST CARBON SOLUTIONS.
THEY ARE THE FIRM THAT THE CITY ENTERED INTO A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH TO PREPARE THE ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS ON THE PROJECT.
UH, BEFORE I HAND IT OVER TO MARY, TO WALK US THROUGH THE EIR, I WANT TO TAKE A QUICK LOOK BACK ON WHERE WE HAVE BEEN.
SO THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE OVERLAY IN THE HOTEL, UM, STUDY SESSIONS AND PUBLIC MEETINGS THAT HAVE WERE HELD IN 2023.
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THOSE, AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, AND THAT HELPED TO SHAPE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE OVERLAY, THE OVERLAY ORDINANCE, LANGUAGE, AND THE APPLICANT'S PRO PROPOSED DESIGN FOR THE HOTEL.
THE FINAL LINE ITEM LISTED HERE, NOTES THAT THE PROJECT WAS BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE HCPC LAST YEAR, ALMOST A YEAR AGO, ON NOVEMBER 14TH.
AT THAT TIME, PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED THAT ALL THREE OF THE SUB AREAS A, B, AND C, B INCLUDED IN THE OVERLAY WITH SOME MODIFICATIONS AT THAT TIME, WHAT WAS BEFORE THOSE BODIES WAS, UM, AN ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT THAT CONSISTED OF AN INITIAL STUDY MITIGATED NEG NEGATIVE DECLARATION.
AND FOLLOWING THAT MEETING, THE CITY DECIDED THAT AN EIR WOULD BE PREPARED.
AND AS YOU'LL HEAR TONIGHT, THE EIR REVIEW PROCESS REQUIRES SEVERAL STEPS.
WE ARE AT THE STAGE WHERE THE DRAFT EIR HAS BEEN PUBLISHED AND THE CITY IS NOW COLLECTING COMMENTS.
AND I'M GOING TO HAND IT OVER TO MARY TO TALK US THROUGH THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT THAT WAS ANALYZED, THE EIR, UM, REVIEW PROCESS AND FINDINGS OF THE EIR ITSELF.
UH, MR. MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.
IT'S VERY NICE TO BE HERE TONIGHT.
AS OLIVIA SAID, THE CITY DID PREPARE AN INITIAL STUDY IN LAST YEAR, 2023, AND WAS BEFORE THE JOINT PLANNING COMMISSION IN HCPC IN NOVEMBER.
AND THAT'S WHEN FOLLOWING THAT MEETING, THE CITY DECIDED TO PREPARE AN EIR ON SPECIFIC TOPICS.
SO THE PURPOSE OF AN EIR IS TO INFORM BOTH THE PUBLIC AND THE DECISION MAKERS OF THE CONSEQUENCES, POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES OF A PROPOSED PROJECT.
IT ALSO IDENTIFIES MITIGATION MEASURES AND ALTERNATIVES.
THE MITIGATION MEASURES ARE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED AND CREATED TO ADDRESS THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS AND TRY AND REDUCE THEM TO A LEVEL OF LESS THAN SIGNIFICANT.
AND EIR DOESN'T EVALUATE THE PROJECT'S MERITS, IT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT PROJECT BENEFITS, AND IT DOESN'T GRANT ANY PROJECT APPROVALS OR ENTITLEMENTS.
OH, HERE WE ARE IN THE TIMELINE.
SO IF YOU SCROLL FROM TOP TO BOTTOM AND LEFT TO RIGHT, THAT FOLLOWS WHAT I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT, THERE WAS A NOTICE OF PREPARATION AND A SCOPING MEETING LAST MAY TO GET INPUT ON THE SCOPE OF THE EIR.
WE PUBLISHED THE DRAFT EIR IN AUGUST.
UM, WE HELD A JOINT PC AND HCPC HEARING IN SEPTEMBER 24TH,
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TWO WEEKS AGO.THE COUNCIL HEARING TO VOTE ON AUTHORIZATION TO PREPARE THE FINAL EIR.
THE COMMENT PERIOD HAS ACTUALLY BEEN EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 21ST.
SO INSTEAD OF ENDING TONIGHT, THERE'S ANOTHER TWO WEEKS.
SO YOU SEE IN THAT BOTTOM LEFT BOX, THE CLOSE OF THE DRAFT EIR COMMENT PERIOD.
SO FOLLOWING THAT, WE'LL PREPARE THE FINAL EIR.
THERE REALLY ISN'T A TIMELINE FOR THAT.
IT DEPENDS ON THE VOLUME AND COMPLEXITY OF PUBLIC COMMENTS RECEIVED.
BUT FOLLOWING THE PREPARATION OF A FINAL EIR, THERE'D BE A PUBLIC HEARING TO CERTIFY THE FINAL EIR AND THEN TO CONSIDER THE PROJECT.
SO HERE'S AN, AN AERIAL MAP OF THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
IT SHOWS AREAS A, B, AND C OUTLINED IN ORANGE.
AND THEN THERE'S A LIGHT PINK DASHED LINE THAT'S LARGER THAN THOSE THREE AREAS.
THAT'S WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY BEING CONSIDERED IN 2023.
AND THEN THROUGH INPUT FROM THE PUBLIC AND FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION, THE EXTENT OF THE, UM, OVERLAY AREA WAS REDUCED TO THOSE THREE AREAS, A, B, AND C THAT YOU SEE ON YOUR SCREEN THERE.
OH, THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS GENERAL PLAN, LAND USE DESIGNATIONS.
YOU'LL SEE IN PINK AGAIN, YOU SEE AREAS A, B, AND C.
THE LARGE MAJORITY OF THE SITE IS MIXED USE.
AND THEN THERE'S A SMALL AMOUNT OF LIGHT BLUE IN AREA C, AND THAT'S PUBLIC SEMI-PUBLIC LAND USE DESIGNATION.
WE'RE GETTING A, UM, ECHO, SO WE'RE TRYING TO CORRECT IT SIMULTANEOUSLY.
OKAY, SO THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE VARIOUS HISTORIC DISTRICT, THE BOUNDARIES OF THEM.
IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA, AGAIN, YOU SEE AREAS A, B, AND C.
THE HISTORIC COMMERCIAL DISTRICT ABUTS THE EASTERN EDGE OF AREA C, AND THEN IT OVERLAPS WITH A PORTION OF AREA B AND AREA A SLIDE.
SO THE OVERLAY HAS A NUMBER OF FEATURES INCLUDING INCREASE INCREASING POTENTIAL FLOOR AREA RATIO FROM 2.5 TO SIX, ESTABLISHING A CONDITIONAL USE PROCESS, CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT PROCESS TO ALLOW BUILDING HEIGHT TO BE INCREASED FROM 45 FEET TO 75 FEET WITH THE, UM, APPROVAL OF SPECIFIC FINDINGS RELATED TO THE EFFECT OF OF THAT DECISION.
SIMILARLY, UH, ESTABLISHES A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT OR CUP PROCESS TO INCREASE LOT COVERAGE FROM 80 TO 100%, AGAIN, WITH VERY SPECIFIC FINDINGS THAT ALLOWS FOR GROUND FLOOR RESIDENTIAL USE TO FINDS THE FACADE ACTIVATION ZONES ELIMINATE SETBACK STANDARDS, AND IT ADDS NEW STEP BACK STANDARDS.
THOSE APPLY TO, UM, UPPER FLOORS.
SO YOU STEP BACK AS YOU INCREASE IN HEIGHT.
THE OVERLAY, AS I JUST DESCRIBED, AS A PROPOSED SET OF REGULATIONS, IT DOESN'T PROPOSE ANY SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT.
AND AS SUCH, IT'S EVALUATED PROGRAMMATICALLY IN THE EIR.
NOW, I'LL TURN TO THE HOTEL SITE, WHICH IS EVALUATED AT A PROJECT LEVEL OF ANALYSIS BECAUSE WE HAD MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR IT.
HERE'S THE SITE IN AERIAL VIEW, SURROUNDED IN BY A RED LINE ON THE CORNER OF PETALUMA BOULEVARD AND B STREET OLIVIA'S HELPING TO POINT THAT OUT.
AND HERE IS A COMPUTER GENERATED VISUAL SIMULATION BASED ON THE PROJECT PLANS, THE CAD DRAWINGS TO SHOW WHAT THE HOTEL WOULD LOOK, LOOK LIKE.
AND AGAIN, IT SHOWS THAT STEP BACK ON THE UPPER FLOORS.
SO AGAIN, THE INITIAL STUDY WAS CIRCULATED WITH THE NOTICE OF PREPARATION, EVALUATED ALL THE TOPICS IN THE SQUA CHECKLIST.
THE EIR TOOK THREE OF THOSE TOPICS, AESTHETICS, CULTURAL AND TRIBAL CULTURAL RESOURCES AND LAND USE AND PLANNING, AND CREATED SEPARATE, UM, SECTIONS FOR THOSE TOPICS.
AND THAT INCLUDED ALL OF THE OTHER INFORMATION FROM THE INITIAL STUDY IN A SECTION CALLED ADDITIONAL EFFECTS EVALUATED IN THE INITIAL STUDY.
SO ALL OF THE QUA TOPICS WERE INCLUDED IN THE DRAFT EIR AND SUPPORTING IT.
WE DID A NUMBER OF, UM, TECHNICAL STUDIES AND ASSESSMENTS, AGAIN, VISUAL SIMULATIONS, THAT SHADE AND SHADOW STUDY, NEITHER OF WHICH ARE, UH, EXPLICITLY REQUIRED BY CE QA, BUT WE FELT THAT IT WAS APPROPRIATE IN THIS CASE TO HELP ENHANCE THE ANALYSIS.
AND, UM, UH, THE DEMONSTRATION OF INFORMATION
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FOR THE DECISION MAKERS AND FOR THE PUBLIC DID A CULTURAL RESOURCE STUDY.WE DID GROUND PENETRATING RADAR AND HISTORIC HUMAN REMAINS DETECTION CANINE SURVEY WHERE THEY USED DOGS TO GO OVER THE SITE AND THEY'RE SPECIFICALLY TRAINED TO, UM, DETECT, UM, HISTORICAL HUMAN REMAINS.
WE DID A HISTORIC BUILT ENVIRONMENT ASSESSMENT OF THE SITE AND ITS EFFECT ON SURROUNDING BUILDINGS IN HISTORIC DISTRICT.
UM, A VEHICLE MILES TRAVEL ASSESSMENT FOR THE OVERLAY.
AND THEN A COUPLE TOPICS THAT ARE REQUIRED BY QUA.
ONE IS CALLED OTHER QUA TOPICS AND ONE IS CALLED CUMULATIVE IMPACT.
SO INCLUDED, UH, THE WHOLE KITTEN CABOODLE.
IN TERMS OF CONCLUSIONS, THE EIR DOES NOT EVALUATE OR DOES NOT IDENTIFY ANY SIGNIFICANT AND UNAVOIDABLE IMPACTS.
SO ALL IMPACTS ARE ABLE TO BE MITIGATED TO A LESS THAN SIGNIFICANT LEVEL.
AND THE DEIR INCLUDES A NUMBER OF MITIGATION MEASURES IN THE TOPICS LISTED HERE TO ADDRESS IMPACTS, POTENTIAL IMPACTS THAT THE DOCUMENT HAD IDENTIFIED.
SO I'LL JUST TALK, UM, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE THREE KEY TOPIC AREAS AND THEN A COUPLE OTHER TOPICS THAT CAME UP IN THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING TO PROVIDE SOME MORE INFORMATION.
SO IN TERMS OF AESTHETICS, THE DRAFT EIR DID IDENTIFY A POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT IMPACT TO SCENIC RESOURCES FOR THE OVERLAY.
SO FUTURE DEVELOPMENT, GIVEN THE POTENTIAL INCREASE IN HEIGHT LOT COVERAGE, ET CETERA, COULD HAVE AN EFFECT ON SCENIC RESOURCES OR HISTORIC DISTRICTS.
SO AS A MITIGATION MEASURE, UM, WE USE THE TERM CULL THAT'S SHORT FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES.
CULL ONE E IN THE DOCUMENT AGAIN POINTS TO THIS CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT PROCESS FOR ANY PROJECT THAT WOULD PROPOSE A HEIGHT ABOVE 45 FEET OR LOT COVERAGE ABOVE 80%.
AND THAT GOES ALONG WITH VERY SPECIFIC FINDINGS THAT MUST BE MADE IN ORDER FOR THE CUP TO BE GRANTED.
SO WITH THAT, THE CONCLUSION WAS THAT FOR THE OVERLAY, UM, THE IMPACT WOULD BE LESS THAN SIGNIFICANT IN TERMS OF THE HOTEL.
HERE'S WHERE WE GET INTO THESE VISUAL SIMULATIONS.
UM, WE EVALUATED FROM NINE DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS THAT WERE SELECTED IN CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY.
YOU SEE THEM REPRESENTED ON THE SCREEN.
AND THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT OTHER FUTURE PROJECTS UNDER THE OVERLAY MIGHT BE ASKED TO DO IS AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CITY, IF YOU FEEL THAT IT'S NECESSARY, THEY GO THROUGH THIS SAME PROCESS.
SO I'LL JUST RUN THROUGH SOME EXAMPLES OF HOW THE HOTEL WAS SIMULATED FROM THESE DIFFERENT VANTAGE POINTS.
SO THIS IS FROM NORTH ON PETALUMA BOULEVARD AND WESTERN STREET.
YOU SEE IT BEHIND THE, THE TALL TREES OF CENTER PARK.
AND THEN THE NEXT ONE IS A LITTLE CLOSER IN.
AND AGAIN, NOTE THAT THE, UM, THE PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN IN LATE WINTER LAST YEAR, SO THERE'S NO LEAVES ON THE TREES.
SO JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND AS YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE SIMULATIONS.
BUT I THINK IT GIVES A MORE CONSERVATIVE REPRESENTATION OF WHAT, UH, THE EFFECT WOULD BE.
THERE IT IS FROM SECOND STREET AND B FROM WALNUT PARK FROM B STREET AND FIFTH.
AND THEN THE NEXT ONE IS A LITTLE CLOSER IN FROM B STREET.
AND FOURTH, RIGHT NEXT TO THE, UH, REX IS HARDWARE.
SO I THINK I MENTIONED BOTH THE VISUAL SIMULATIONS AND SHADE AND SHADOW USE 3D MODELING SOFTWARE.
IT'S AN INDUSTRY STANDARD USED TO MODEL, UM, BOTH WHAT BUILDINGS WOULD LOOK LIKE FROM THE CAD DRAWINGS AND THEN WHAT SHADE AND SHADOW THEY MIGHT THROW TO THE SURROUNDING AREA.
SO WE DID DIGITAL MODELING OF THE PROJECT AND THE SURROUNDING AREA TO GEOLOCATE THINGS INTO REAL WORLD COORDINATES.
AND THEN SKETCHUP, THE MODELING SOFTWARE CALCULATES THE SHADE AND SHADOW CONDITIONS BASED ON LONGITUDE LATITUDE, TIME OF DAY.
AND WE SIMULATED SPRING AND FALL EQUINOXES AND SUMMER AND WINTER SOLSTICE 'CAUSE THAT'S THE MOST EXAGGERATED EFFECT DURING THE YEAR.
SO WE'LL SHOW YOU A FEW OF THOSE.
SO THE FIRST TWO ARE SPRING EQUINOX, AND I'LL JUST FLIP TO FALL EQUINOX, I'LL TOGGLE BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THOSE TWO.
UM, YOU SEE THAT IT CASTS A SHADOW TO THE NORTH ACROSS THE STREET AND A LITTLE BIT ONTO THE ADJACENT BUILDING.
SO THAT WOULD BE THE, THE GREATEST EXTENT OF IT DURING THE MORNING HOURS.
AND THEN IT WOULD GET SHORTER AS YOU MOVE INTO, HERE'S SUMMER SOLSTICE, MORNING, IT'S JUST GOING ACROSS THE STREET.
AND THEN WINTER SOLSTICE A LITTLE BIT FARTHER TO THE NORTH AND EAST GOING ACROSS CENTRAL PARK WHERE THERE ARE ALREADY LARGE TREES THAT THROW THEIR OWN SHADOW AS SHOWN BY THE, UM, THE BROWN, UM, SHADING.
SO WE USE BLUE FOR THE BUILDING
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WIL WINTER SOLSTICE AFTERNOON, IT GOES ACROSS PETALUMA BOULEVARD, AND FOR A BRIEF PERIOD WOULD THROW SOME SHADE ONTO THE BUILDING, UH, ACROSS THE STREET THERE TO THE EAST.UM, AND I GUESS I SHOULD, SO BASED ON ON ALL OF THAT, WE DIDN'T FIND THAT THERE WAS A SUBSTANTIAL EFFECT OF SHADING ON PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE PLACES OR HISTORIC RESOURCES THAT WOULD RESULT IN A SIGNIFICANT UN UNAVOIDABLE IMPACT.
AND AGAIN, SHADE AND SHADOW ISN'T A SQA REQUIREMENT, BUT WE FELT IT WOULD BETTER INFORM THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS, UH, FOR THE CITY AND THE PUBLIC.
IN TERMS OF CULTURAL RESOURCE ANALYSIS, THIS SHOWS A COMPILATION OF DATA THAT WE COLLECTED THAT'S ALREADY OUT THERE AT THE STATE LEVEL, REGIONAL, LOCAL, AND IT USES THREE DIFFERENT COLORS.
UM, GREEN SHOWS PROPERTIES THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN ASSESSED AT SOME TIME, UM, IN THE PAST AND FOUND TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR LISTING EITHER LOCALLY OR THE STATE.
UM, ORANGE REPRESENTS PROPERTIES THAT HAVE BEEN, UM, ASSESSED AT SOME POINT IN THE PAST AND FOUND TO BE INELIGIBLE.
AND THEN PINK REPRESENTS PROPERTIES THAT HAVE YET TO BE ASSESSED.
SO YOU SEE THAT, UM, THROUGH THE OVERLAY AREA.
PROPERTIES AS THEY MAY COME FORWARD FOR DEVELOPMENT, WOULD NEED TO GO THROUGH THIS SAME ASSESSMENT PROCESS TO DETERMINE THEIR ELIGIBILITY OR THEIR CONTRIBUTION, POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION TO ESTABLISHED DISTRICTS THAT WE LOOKED AT IN A PREVIOUS SLIDE.
SO THE DRAFT EIR EVALUATED THE EFFECTS OF BOTH THE OVERLAY AND THE HOTEL, AGAIN, IDENTIFIED THAT FUTURE DEVELOPMENT IN THE OVERLAY COULD AFFECT KNOWN OR ELIGIBLE RESOURCES, AND THAT'S SPECIFICALLY THROUGH DE DEMOLITION OR ALTERATION THAT COULD AFFECT THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RESOURCE.
THERE'S A NUMBER OF, UM, MITIGATION MEASURES, UH, ONE A THROUGH ONE E THAT REQUIRE THE EVALUATIONS I WAS TALKING ABOUT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THINGS LIKE THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR STANDARDS, AS WELL AS YOUR OWN LOCAL CITY REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES FOR HISTORIC DISTRICTS AND BUILDINGS.
AND AGAIN, THESE ADDITIONAL FINDINGS RELATED TO THE CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, WHICH IS DISCRETIONARY.
SO THE CONCLUSION WAS THAT WITH THESE MITIGATION MEASURES, THE IMPACT WOULD BE LESS THAN SIGNIFICANT FOR THE HOTEL.
THE CITY COMMISSIONED A SPECIFIC BUILT ENVIRONMENT ASSESSMENT TO LOOK AT THE HOTEL AND DETERMINE WHETHER IT WOULD RESULT IN IMPACTS TO RESOURCES WITHIN AND IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO THE SITE.
IT ALSO EVALUATED POTENTIAL EFFECT ON THE HISTORIC COMMERCIAL DISTRICT THAT AGAIN, ABUTS THE EASTERN SIDE OF AREA C AND OVERLAPS A BIT WITH AREAS A AND B.
IT WAS BASED ON CE A GUIDELINES, PETALUMA HISTORIC DISTRICT GUIDELINES AND SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR STANDARDS, WHEN A BUILDING IS NOT FOUND TO BE HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT.
UM, AS IS THE CASE HERE, BOTH THE SITE WHERE THERE ISN'T A BUILDING AND THE ONE ADJACENT NEXT DOOR, THE THE RECS HARDWARE THAT SUFFERED CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE IN A FIRE ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO NOW, 2006, I THINK WHEN A BUILDING IS FOUND NOT TO BE HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT, CURRENT STANDARDS DICTATE THAT YOU DON'T NEED TO DISCUSS THE SEVEN CRITERIA RELATED TO INTEGRITY.
SO THE ERR DOESN'T CURRENTLY HAVE THAT INFORMATION, BUT IT IS CAPTURED IN THE APPENDIX OF THE HISTORIC BUILT ENVIRONMENT ASSESSMENT.
SO IF NECESSARY, WE COULD BRING MORE OF THAT FORWARD INTO THE DOCUMENT IF YOU THINK IT WOULD BE USEFUL.
SO, AS I JUST SAID, THE DPR FORMS, THAT'S DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION, THAT'S THE FORM THAT'S USED, UM, BY ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS TO DOCUMENT, UM, THE HISTORICITY OR LACK THERE OF A BUILDING.
IT'S IN APPENDIX A OF THE, UM, HISTORIC BUILT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT.
THE E-R-E-I-R ALSO DISCUSSES THE POTENTIAL FOR CONSTRUCTION VIBRATION IMPACTS ON ADJACENT STRUCTURES, IDENTIFIED A MITIGATION MEASURE IN NOISE.
IT SETS PERFORMANCE STANDARDS SPECIFICALLY TO PROTECT AGAINST ANY, UM, DAMAGE RELATED TO CONSTRUCTION VIBRATION, AS WELL AS COMPLIANCE WITH THE CITY'S OWN CODE SECTION LISTED HERE.
SO THE HISTORIC BUILT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOUND THE HOTEL WOULD NOT INTRODUCE INCOMPATIBLE MASSING AND SCALE AND WOULD CONFORM TO THE HISTORIC DISTRICT GUIDELINES.
IN TERMS OF LAND USE, AGAIN, THE DOCUMENT IDENTIFIED THE POTENTIAL FOR FUTURE PROJECTS IN THE OVERLAY TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT RELATED TO A CONFLICT WITH LAND USE REGULATION, BECAUSE BY ITS NATURE, UM, FUTURE DEVELOPMENT MAY BE GOING HIGHER OR HAVE A GREATER FAR THAN'S CURRENTLY ALLOWED.
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TO THIS CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THE SPECIFIC FINDINGS THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE MADE AS A DISCRETIONARY ACTION TO ALLOW FOR THAT.UM, AND THEN FUTURE PROJECT APPROVALS INCLUDE THINGS LIKE YOUR SPAR AND H SPAR AND THIS CUP PROCESS.
AND BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH, UH, PROCEDURE RELATED TO THIS, WE COMPILED IT ALL INTO AN APPENDIX D IN THE DOCUMENT THAT LAYS OUT THOSE DIFFERENT STEPS AND JUST PUTS IT ALL IN ONE PLACE FOR YOU.
SO AGAIN, WITH, WITH ALL OF THAT MITIGATION, WE FOUND THE IMPACT WOULD BE LESS THAN SIGNIFICANT.
IN TERMS OF TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS, UM, THIS CAME UP AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND SO WE WANTED TO GIVE A BIT MORE INFORMATION THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN READILY APPARENT IN THE EIR.
SO IT IS BASED ON INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORTATION ENGINEER RATES, THAT'S ITE IN THE INDUSTRY.
IT'S BASED ON A COMPILATION OF VALUES THAT ARE COLLECTED ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN URBAN, RURAL, SUBURBAN SETTINGS.
SO IT REALLY, THAT'S WHY IT'S THE INDUSTRY STANDARD.
IT'S SUCH A WEALTH OF DATA RELATED TO THE AMOUNT OF TRIP GENERATION, UM, THAT WOULD BE GENERATED BY A, A PARTICULAR LAND USE, PARTICULAR SQUARE FOOTAGE.
SO THE RATE FOR A HOTEL DOES ALREADY INCORPORATE THE RATE ESTABLISHED BY I-T-E-I-T-E INCORPORATES RESTAURANT TRIPS, RESTAURANT PATRON TRIPS, HOTEL STAFF TRIPS, AND RESTAURANT STAFF TRIPS.
AND IT ALSO FACTORS IN VALET SERVICE.
SO WE STARTED FROM THAT, BUT WE SAID, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T, WE WANT TO BE A BIT MORE CONSERVATIVE BECAUSE THIS WILL BE A, A HIGHER QUALITY RESTAURANT AND WE'LL ATTRACT MORE PEOPLE WE THINK FROM THE COMMUNITY.
SO CONSERVATIVELY WE ADDED RESTAURANT TRIPS ON TOP OF THE ITE RATE FOR THE HOTEL, WHICH ALREADY INCLUDED RESTAURANT TRIPS.
SO IT RESULTED IN A NEAR DOUBLING OF THE PROJECT'S TRIP GENERATION.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE USED IN THE EVALUATION IN THE EIR, UM, FOR PARKING, IT'S NO LONGER A SE A TOPIC, BUT FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES, WE KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF INTEREST IN THE COMMUNITY AND FROM THE COMMISSION.
UM, WE DID LOOK AT A HOTEL, WHICH WOULD BE 93 ROOMS WITH 58 PARKING SPACES.
THE CITY'S REQUIREMENT FOR PARKING WOULD BE 48 SPACES.
SO THEY ARE PROVIDING MORE THAN WHAT THE CITY WOULD REQUIRE.
AND THEN TO POINT OUT FOR THE OVERLAY, UM, ASSEMBLY BILL AB 2097 ELIMINATES PARKING REQUIREMENTS WITHIN A HALF MILE OF A SMART STATION, HIGH QUALITY TRANSIT EXCEPT FOR HOTELS AND EVENT CENTERS.
SO AGAIN, IT WAS APPROPRIATE TO INCLUDE INFORMATION IN THE EIR RELATED TO PARKING FOR THE HOTEL.
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS WAS ANOTHER ISSUE THAT CAME UP AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
UM, AND AGAIN, THIS IS INDUSTRY STANDARD APPROACH, AND IT'S BASED ON THRESHOLDS FROM THE OVERSIGHT AGENCY, WHICH IN THIS CASE WOULD BE THE DEPARTMENT OF TOXIC SUBSTANCE CONTROL.
SO THE UPSHOT IS THAT THE HOTEL IS, IS SUBJECT TO A NUMBER OF MITIGATION MEASURES.
THERE IS A, A COVENANT THAT RESTRICTS CERTAIN LAND USES FROM THE SITE, VERY DETAILED FROM DTSC AND FOLLOW ON ACTIONS THAT NEED TO BE TAKEN TO DEMONSTRATE COMPLIANCE BEFORE THE HOTEL COULD BE OCCUPIED.
SO THAT'S SPELLED OUT IN MITIGATION.
MEASURE HAS ONE WHICH IS STANDARD STUFF, A CONSTRUCTION WORKER HEALTH AND SAFETY PLAN, AND A SOIL MANAGEMENT PLAN.
THAT'S JUST A BEST PRACTICE TO MAKE SURE THAT AS PEOPLE ARE WORKING ON THE SITE AND EXCAVATING, THEY'RE GOING TO REMAIN SAFE FROM WHAT MIGHT, WHAT WE ANTICIPATE MAY BE UNDERGROUND 'CAUSE THEY'RE GONNA EXCAVATE THE GARAGE AREA.
BUT THEN IT'S ALSO SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS IMPOSED VIA THE COVENANT.
MEASURE HAS TWO, IT GOES INTO A LOT OF DETAIL, BUT I SORT OF BOILED IT DOWN TO THE BASICS.
THEY HAVE TO SEAL ANY GAPS BETWEEN NATIVE SOIL AND THE PARKING GARAGE FLOOR AND WALLS, AS WELL AS BETWEEN THE GARAGE AND THE FIRST FLOOR.
AND THAT'S TO PREVENT ANY RESIDUALS THAT MIGHT BE THERE, UM, FROM MIGRATING INTO SPACES, UH, EITHER IN THE GARAGE OR ABOVE THE FIRST FLOOR.
SO FOLLOW UP TESTING PRIOR TO OCCUPANCY WOULD BE REQUIRED TO ENSURE THE SITE IS MEETING THOSE THRESHOLDS FOR COMMERCIAL USE.
THAT INCLUDES VAPOR PINS THAT'LL BE INSTALLED IN THE GARAGE, AND, UM, SAMPLING THE INDOOR AIR.
SO THAT WILL EITHER CONFIRM COMPLIANCE AND CAN MOVE FORWARD TO OCCUPANCY, OR DTSC WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL MITIGATION OR MONITORING PRIOR TO OCCUPANCY TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE.
IT'S NOT UNCOMMON AND IT, IT OFTEN TAKES SEVERAL ROUNDS TO MAKE SURE THAT'S A GOOD THING
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TO MAKE SURE, UM, COMPLIANCE WITH THE THRESHOLDS IS BEING ACHIEVED AND PEOPLE ARE GONNA BE SAFE.THE EIR AS REQUIRED BY CE QA ALSO EVALUATED ALTERNATIVES.
AND IT, IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE UNDER CQA IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY SIGNIFICANT UNAVOIDABLE IMPACTS, SUCH AS THE CASE HERE, THE ALTERNATIVES ANALYSIS IS, UM, IT ISN'T REQUIRED.
IT'S SORT OF FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES.
SO AGAIN, I THINK WE WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS ARE IN TERMS OF THE ALTERNATIVES EVALUATED.
WE DID LOOK AT NO PROJECT, NO BUILD, WHICH IS A STANDARD SQA ALTERNATIVE.
AND THEN WE LOOKED AT TWO OTHERS.
THE REDUCED AREA C ALTERNATIVE, WHICH WAS BASED ON INPUT FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND REDUCED HEIGHT ALTERNATIVE, WHICH WOULD APPLY IN THE OVERLAY TO ALL AREAS, WOULD HAVE TO COMPLY WITH THE 45 FOOT HEIGHT REQUIREMENT.
AND THAT WOULD ALSO RESULT IN SOME OF THE UPPER FLOORS OF THE HOTEL, INCLUDING THE ROOFTOP, UM, OUTDOOR AREA.
A BAR WOULD BE, UH, REMOVED FROM THE PROJECT.
SO THE ENVIRONMENTALLY SUPERIOR ALTERNATIVE WOULD, AS IS OFTEN THE CASE, BE THE NO PROJECT, NO BUILD, AND CA DIRECTS THAT WHEN THAT IS THE CASE, YOU HAVE TO SELECT ANOTHER PROJECT ALTERNATIVE AS YOUR ENVIRONMENTALLY SUPERIOR.
SO THAT WAS DETERMINED TO BE THE REDUCED HEIGHT ALTERNATIVE.
WE ALSO CONSIDERED A NUMBER OF OTHER ALTERNATIVES LISTED HERE THAT WAS BASED ON INPUT THAT WE RECEIVED IN THE NOTICE OF PREPARATION, AND THERE'S ANALYSIS AND EXPLANATION IN THE DRAFT EIR ABOUT WHY EACH ONE OF THOSE WAS ULTIMATELY REJECTED FROM BEING BROUGHT FORWARD FOR FURTHER ANALYSIS.
THANK YOU, MARY, FOR WALKING US THROUGH THE, UH, EIR PROCESS AND THOSE FINDINGS.
UM, I DO WANNA JUST HANG OUT ON THIS SLIDE FOR A MINUTE AND JUST REITERATE THAT THE CQA, UM, ALTERNATIVES IS WHAT IS REQUIRED BY THE STATUTE IN ORDER TO EVALUATE A REASONABLE RANGE TO MEET THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES AND REDUCE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS, AS YOU JUST HEARD.
UM, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT BRIAN MAY WANT TO ADD SOMETHING AT THIS POINT, SO I'M GONNA PAUSE FOR A SECOND.
THANKS, OLIVIA, BEFORE I TURN IT BACK TO YOU, UH, MAYOR, COUNCIL AND COMMUNITY, UM, AGAIN, FOR THOSE THAT DON'T KNOW ME, BRIAN O DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE CITY.
UM, THIS IS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO HIGHLIGHT, UH, WHAT'S BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING, UM, WHICH IS THE DRAFT EIR.
AND SO AS WE'VE THROWN A LOT OF ANALYSIS, UM, A LOT OF, UM, OUTCOMES, UM, UM, AS PART OF THE DRAFT, BUT ALSO SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN MIND, UM, WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF COUNCIL TONIGHT, UM, AS AN EXAMPLE, UM, IS TO EXPAND ON, UM, WHAT YOU ARE SEEING.
AND SO, UM, IF THERE ARE IDEAS OR FOR EXAMPLE, UM, ALTERNATIVE ALTERNATIVES, UH, THAT YOU'D LIKE STAFF TO CONSIDER THAT MEETS THE, UM, PROJECT OBJECTIVES, UM, THIS EVENING WOULD BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THAT DIRECTION, UM, FROM THE COUNCIL.
AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO OLIVIA.
UM, I'LL JUST TOUCH ON A COUPLE MORE POINTS BEFORE WE WRAP UP STAFF'S PRESENTATION.
SO, UM, YOU SAW A VERY DETAILED TIMELINE OF THE EIR REVIEW PROCESS.
THIS SORT OF PUTS THE WHOLE PROJECT, UM, TIMELINE IN FRONT OF YOU TO GIVE A SNAPSHOT OF THE OVERALL.
AGAIN, WE'VE BEEN IN PROCESS HERE SINCE, UM, EARLY 2023 WITH A SERIES OF WORKSHOPS.
UH, WE HAVE NOW MOVED INTO THE EIR REVIEW PERIOD SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR WITH THE PUBLICATION OF THE DRAFT IN, UH, LATE AUGUST.
WE HAVE EXTENDED THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD THROUGH OCTOBER 21ST.
SO WE ARE HERE, UH, TONIGHT CONTINUING TO RECEIVE COMMENTS FOR TWO MORE WEEKS ON THE DRAFT.
AND FOLLOWING THAT, UM, UH, COLLECTION OF COMMENTS AND ASSUMING WE GET DIRECTION TO PROCEED WITH THE FINAL, THE NEXT STEP WOULD TO BE COME BACK BEFORE CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER CERTIFICATION OF THE FINAL EIR.
UM, THAT WOULD BE JUST AN ACTION ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND THE, UH, PRIOR TO MOVING FORWARD WITH CONSIDERING PROJECT APPROVALS, THE ENVIRONMENTAL MUST BE CERTIFIED.
UH, AND ONLY THEN CAN YOU MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT ENTITLEMENTS, AND THAT WOULD BE THE ZONING AMENDMENTS AND THE GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENTS, UM, THAT ARE AT THE DISCRETION OF CITY COUNCIL.
AND THEN THE, UM, HOTEL PROJECT ENTITLEMENTS THAT ARE AT THE DISCRETION OF THE HCPC AND PLANNING COMMISSION FOR H SPAR AND THE USE PERMIT.
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OF REITERATES WHAT I JUST TALKED THROUGH.UH, THIS IS THE, UH, THE, THE REVIEWING BODIES WHO'S INVOLVED.
THE CITY OF PETALUMA IS THE LEAD AGENCY FOR THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT COMPLIANCE, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE DRAFT EIR AND THE EIR ITSELF.
AGAIN, THE ROLE OF THE CITY COUNCIL IS TO CONSIDER THE ADEQUACY OF THE EIR.
IN DIRECT PREPARATION OF THE FINAL COUNCIL HAS, UM, THE AUTHORITY TO DECIDE WHETHER TO CERTIFY THE EIR AND THEN TO ACT ON THE GENERAL PLAN AND ZONING AMENDMENTS.
UM, WHEREAS, UH, PLANNING COMMISSION AND HCPC ARE RECOMMENDING ON THE EIR AND, UM, UH, PLANNING COMMISSION HAS THE ROLE OF ACTING ON THE PROJECT'S USE PERMIT FOR THE HOTEL ONCE, UM, WE'RE AT THAT STAGE.
AND THE HCPC, UM, WOULD ACT ON THE HISTORIC SPAR, UH, AGAIN, FOLLOWING CERTIFICATION OF THE EIR AND FOLLOWING COUNSEL'S ACTION ON THE LEGISLATIVE, UH, REQUEST THE ZONING, THE GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT, AND THE ZONING AMENDMENT TO ESTABLISH THE OVERLAY ORDINANCE.
OKAY, SO, UH, ON SEPTEMBER 24TH, WE WERE BEFORE THE HCPC AND PLANNING COMMISSION AT A JOINT HEARING, UH, WHERE THE DRAFT EIR WAS DISCUSSED AND CONSIDERED, AND PUBLIC COMMENTS WERE RECEIVED.
AND, UH, HCPC AND PLANNING COMMISSION PROVIDED A NUMBER OF RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO I WILL BRIEFLY TOUCH ON THESE, AND THESE ARE ALSO IDENTIFIED STARTING ON PAGE 12 OF YOUR STAFF REPORT TONIGHT.
UH, AND THESE FOLLOW EXACTLY WHAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S RESOLUTION, UH, RECOMMENDING THAT COUNT COUNCIL, UM, DIRECT STAFF TO PROCEED WITH THE FINAL.
SO THESE ARE, ARE ENUMERATE ENUMERATED IN ATTACHMENT FOUR.
SO JUST TO PROVIDE SOME CONTEXT THERE.
UH, SO ITEM NUMBER ONE IS THAT HCPCS INPUT HAS BEEN INCORPORATED, UH, INTO THE PLANNING COMMISSION RE UH, RESOLUTION AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND I JUST NOTED THAT THAT HAS, HAS INDEED HAPPENED.
UH, ITEM NUMBER TWO IS THAT, UM, ALTERNATIVE LOCATIONS BE LOOKED AT FOR THE HOTEL.
UH, AS YOU HEARD BRIEFLY, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF FACTORS THAT GO INTO AN EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE LOCATIONS, UM, INCLUDING OWNERSHIP AND ACQUISITION OF, UH, PROPERTIES.
SO, UH, THE CITY, IT SHOULD BE NOTED, THE CITY CANNOT LEGALLY REQUIRE THE DEVELOPER TO BUILD ON A DIFFERENT PARCEL.
THE ALTERNATIVES THAT WERE PRESENTED IN THE DRAFT ARE A REASONABLE RANGE.
THEY DO MEET THE SEQUENCE STANDARD, AND THEY DO ALREADY INCLUDE, UH, AN ALTERNATIVE SITE, UH, ANALYSIS THAT WAS REJECTED FOR THE REASONS STATED THEREIN.
SO, UM, STAFF DOES REQUEST THAT COUNSEL TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN PROVIDING DIRECTION ON WHAT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BE INCORPORATED INTO THE FINAL REGARDING ALTERNATIVE LOCATIONS TO THE HOTEL.
UH, ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION WAS TO INCLUDE A DISCUSSION OF ALL SEVEN ASPECTS OF INTEGRITY AND TO EXPAND THE PROPOSED OVERLAY, UH, CONDITIONAL USE FINDINGS TO INCLUDE US FINDING SPECIFIC TO, UM, THE INTEGRITY OF THE DISTRICT OR LISTED PROPERTIES THAT THAT INTEGRITY WOULD NOT BE COMPROMISED.
UM, SO THE FINAL EIR, UM, SO THE, I'M SORRY, THE DRAFT EIR DOES INCLUDE AN, AN, AN ANALYSIS OF, OF THE OVERLAY AND THE HOTEL'S IMPACT ON HISTORIC RESOURCES.
AND AS YOU HEARD, THE, UH, INTEGRITY ANALYSIS IS ONLY TRIGGERED IF YOU DO HAVE AN ELIGIBLE, UH, RESOURCE.
AND, UM, AND SO THE, THAT ANALYSIS IS ALREADY IN THERE, AND THAT RESPONSE WILL BE, UM, PROVIDED IN THE FINAL AS WELL.
AND I DID WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THE MITIGATION DOES FURTHER IMPOSE THAT, UM, PROJECTS THAT COME FORWARD WITHIN THE OVERLAY ARE SUBJECT TO A HISTORIC, UH, RESOURCES ANALYSIS, WHICH, UH, AGAIN, IF IT WAS ELIGIBLE WOULD BE, WOULD INCLUDE AN INTEGRITY ANALYSIS.
UH, AND THEN IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE ALSO THAT THE, UM, THE FINDINGS ALREADY INCLUDE, UH, IN A STATEMENT TO RESPECT AND PRESERVE THE CULTURAL, HISTORIC, AND ARCHEOLOGICAL RESOURCES WITHIN THE OVERLAY.
SO THE FINAL, WE'LL CONSIDER THIS COMMENT AND WHERE THE INTEGRITY DISCUSSION, UH, MAY BE ENHANCED OR CLARIFIED.
AND WE'LL ALSO, UH, TAKE A HARD LOOK AT REVIEWING THE USE PERMIT FINDINGS THEMSELF TO SPECIFICALLY CONSIDER IF THERE'S A, UH, SUCH A FINDING AS RECOMMENDED BY THE HCPC SHOULD BE INCLUDED THERE.
AND COUNSEL MAY WISH TO CONSIDER THIS TONIGHT IN DELIBERATION, UM, AS YOU'RE DIRECTING STAFF ON THE ADEQUACY OF THE ANALYSIS OF AS IT RELATES TO HISTORIC RESOURCES AND, UM, AND INCLUDING A FINDING REGARDING NOT COMPROMISING THE DISTRICTS, UM, UH, ELIGIBILITY FOR LISTING ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS, UH, RECOMMENDS AUGMENTING THE PROPOSED OVERLAY MITIGATION MEASURE COLE ONE A TO CLARIFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF A HISTORIC RESOURCE EVALUATION.
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UH, AGAIN, THAT MITIGATION DOES REQUIRE HRES HISTORIC RESOURCE EVALUATION.UM, AND THERE WAS A RECOMMENDATION TO AUGMENT THAT, UH, WHICH WILL BE LOOKED AT IN THE FINAL.
AND THEN THE OTHER RECOMMENDATION THAT'S SET FORTH IN ITEM FOUR HERE IS THAT ALL PROPERTIES WITHIN THE PROPOSED OVERLAY BE REVIEWED FOR ELIGIBILITY THROUGH AN OVERLAY WIDE RECON RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY AND STAFF.
UM, THE STAFF REPORT DOES NOTE THAT THE PROPOSED OVERLAY, UH, DOES NOT AUTHORIZE ANY CHANGES TO THE PROPERTIES AT THIS TIME WITHIN THE OVERLAY THAT ALL PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE OVERLAY WOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE H BAR AND SPAR PROCESS, WHICH DOES TRIGGER HRE.
UM, AND BASED ON THE POTENTIAL DIRECT AND INDIRECT IMPACTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH CQA, AND THEN AS AN EXAMPLE, UM, WHICH WE STATED EARLIER IN THIS PRESENTATION, THE HOTEL DID INCLUDE AN EVALUATION OF THE TWO ADJACENT PROPERTIES FOR THOSE HRE.
UM, THE ELIGIBILITY FOR THE BANK AND THE RECS BUILDING AND FUTURE PROJECTS WOULD SIMILARLY, UH, HAVE THAT IMPOSED ON THEM TO ENSURE THAT ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT IMPACT.
SO, UM, THE STANDARD PRACTICE IS TO EVALUATE ELIGIBILITY AT THE TIME THAT AN APPLICATION IS RECEIVED AT THE PROJECT LEVEL.
UH, SO STAFF IS ASKING COUNSEL TO TAKE THESE CONSIDERATIONS INTO, UM, THESE RECOMMENDATIONS INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN PROVIDING DIRECTION ON WHETHER TO PURSUE A RECONNAISSANCE WIDE SURVEY.
UM, ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO DEVELOP AND PUBLISH DESIGN EXPECTATIONS FOR THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE OVERLAY.
UH, THAT WAS A, A RECOMMENDATION FROM PLANNING COMMISSION TO HELP THEM MAKE AN INFORMED DECISION ON, UM, ON THEIR, UH, SPAR PROCESS.
AND AS NOTED IN THE STAFF REPORT, UH, STAFF WILL THOROUGHLY REVIEW THE DESIGN RELATED FINDINGS AND CONSIDER ALL OPPORTUNITIES TO FURTHER MAXIMIZE THE COMMISSION'S DISCRETION BY APPLYING ADDITIONAL FOR FINDINGS OR AUGMENTING EXISTING DESIGN RELATED FINDINGS, UM, AND BRING THOSE FORWARD FOR COUNCIL'S CONSIDERATION.
ITEM SIX IS A RECOMMENDATION TO INCLUDE URBAN PARK REQUIREMENTS FOR HOUSING.
UH, THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN CAPTURED IN THE GENERAL PLAN AND THE PROPOSED OVERLAY DOES NOT CHANGE OR ALTER THE RESIDENTIAL DENSITY.
BUT, UM, AS ALL COMMENTS WILL BE ADDRESSED IN RESPONDED TO IN THE FINAL, THIS WILL ALSO BE, UH, INCLUDED THERE WITH A RESPONSE.
ITEM SEVEN IS A SPECIFIC REQUEST FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION THAT THEY BE PROVIDED WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE FINAL EIR AND MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL REGARDING CERTIFICATION BEFORE IT COMES FORWARD TO COUNCIL.
AND ITEM EIGHT IS A REQUEST, UH, FROM PLANNING COMMISSION TO BE PROVIDED WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE PROPOSED OVERLAY ORDINANCE FOR RECOMMENDATION TO COUNSEL PRIOR TO COUNSEL CONSIDERING THE OVERLAY ORDINANCE, UM, FOR ANY MODIFICATIONS TO THE USE PERMIT, FIND FINDINGS THAT, UM, PLANNING COMMISSION PREVIOUSLY RECOMMENDED AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE NOVEMBER 14TH 2 20, 23 PUBLIC HEARING.
SO STAFF IS LOOKING TO COUNSEL ON BOTH OF THOSE ITEMS TO PROVIDE DIRECTION ON, UH, THE REQUEST FROM PLANNING COMMISSION ON ADDITIONAL REVIEW FOR THE FINAL AND ON THE OVERLAY ORDINANCE ITSELF.
UH, SO AGAIN TONIGHT, THERE ARE NO PROJECT APPROVALS.
THERE'S NO ACTIONS, THERE'S NO, UH, NOTHING BEFORE YOU THAT WOULD INDICATE APPROVAL, UH, OR NOT ON THE OVERLAY OR THE HOTEL.
AGAIN, THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING TONIGHT IS TO RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT DIR.
UM, SO THE PUBLIC IS REMINDED THAT, UH, FOLKS HAVE AN EXTENDED PERIOD FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS TO SUBMIT WRITTEN COMMENTS.
UM, SPEAKERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PROVIDE WRITTEN COMMENTS, BUT WE DO WANNA NOTE THAT ALL COMMENTS THAT ARE MADE WILL BE, UH, EVERY EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO RESPOND TO THOSE IN THE FINAL.
AND, UH, AND THAT IS, THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE FINAL, AGAIN, IS TO COLLECT ALL OF THE COMMENTS AND, UH, PROVIDE RESPONSES TO ALL THE COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL, UM, CONSIDERATIONS.
SO WITH THAT, UM, THE RECOMMENDATION BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING IS TO CONSIDER THE ADEQUACY OF THE DRAFT DIR TO CONSIDER HCPC AND PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS TO RECEIVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE DRAFT DIR, TO PROVIDE THOSE COMMENTS AND PROVIDE DIRECTION TO STAFF ON PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS.
UH, AND BEFORE YOU TONIGHT, YOU DO HAVE A RESOLUTION, AN ATTACHMENT ONE THAT WOULD DIRECT STAFF TO MOVE FORWARD WITH PREPARATION OF THE FINAL.
AND THAT COMPLETES, UH, STAFF'S PRESENTATION AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
I APPRECIATE THE, UH, PRESENTATION.
AND, UM, UM, JUST WANTED, UH, NOTE THAT, UH, I THINK MOST OF US HAVE WATCHED THE PLANNING COMMISSION HCPC, UH, LONG MEETING LAST, UH, YOU KNOW, UM, BACK WEEK.
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AND ALSO THE EXHAUSTIVE INPUT THAT, UH, THAT THE PUBLIC BROUGHT TO IT.AND, AND THAT THE, THE, UH, COMMISSIONERS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS, UH, THE COMMISSIONER AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS WHO WERE THERE THAT NIGHT, THEY ASKED AN AWFUL LOT OF QUESTIONS, EVEN TO THE POINT WHERE THE PUBLIC OFTEN SAID, UH, GEE, ALL MY QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ASKED BY A COMMISSIONER, WHICH IS A, I THINK A FIRST, BUT, UM, BUT IT, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT, UM, AND WE'RE AT THE END OF THIS, IT ONLY MEANS THAT WE'RE AT THE POINT WHERE WE'RE ASKING THE PUBLIC FOR MORE INPUT, ASKING COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR MORE QUESTIONS ON THIS.
UM, AND, UH, I THINK, UH, THAT THAT MEETING WAS SO ROBUST THAT I'M OKAY WITH, UH, FOLKS SAYING TONIGHT.
WELL, A AS WAS ASKED BEFORE AT THE PRIOR MEETING, OR AS WAS ANSWERED PRIOR AT THAT PRIOR MEETING, BECAUSE, UM, I THINK WE'RE HAVING, UM, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE GETTING TO A FINISH LINE AND PEOPLE REALLY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THEIR ANSWERS, UM, QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
AND THAT'S WHAT THE FINAL EIR WILL GIVE US.
I'M GONNA TRY AND FOCUS EVERYBODY'S QUESTIONS AND, UH, AND COMMENTS TO EIR, UM, RATHER THAN ORDINANCE.
UM, AND, AND, UM, TO TEE THAT UP, UM, YOU MENTIONED THAT, UM, HOW DID YOU SAY IT, THE, THE BENEFITS AND MERITS OF THE PROJECT, UM, AREN'T WHAT'S BEING DISCUSSED TONIGHT.
AND SO I THINK I'M GONNA ASK, WELL, WHEN ARE THEY? AND, AND, UH, AND THE, THE QUESTION IS, CAN THE FINAL EIR HAPPEN AT THE ADOPTION OF FINAL EIR HAPPEN AT THE SAME MEETING AS THE ADO ORDINANCE ADOPTION, OR IS THERE A SEPARATION BETWEEN THOSE TWO? SURE.
UM, THE CERTIFICATION OF THE FINAL EIR AND, UM, CONSIDERATION BY COUNSEL ON THE PROJECT MERITS AND THE, UM, ZONING OVERLAY COULD HAPPEN.
UM, AT THE SAME TIME, THERE WAS A SEQUENCE THAT WAS DISCUSSED IN THE PRESENTATION, UM, WHERE IT'S THE FINAL EIR YOU CERTIFY THAT AND THEN GET TO THE OVERLAY.
BUT YOU COULD DO THAT, UM, I BELIEVE IN ONE MEETING.
UH, THANKS FOR THAT, UH, CLARIFICATION.
AND THEN I, UM, I WANT TO INVITE COUNSEL TO HAVE, UH, UH, ANY QUESTIONS OR, UH, DO WE HAVE OTHER STAFF COMMENT ON THAT? ALRIGHT.
WHO'D LIKE TO, UH, JUMP IN THE FIRST MR. MAYOR? EXCUSE ME.
I I WAS JUST GONNA NOTE, UM, IT'S CONSISTENT WITH WHAT BOTH OLIVIA AND BRIAN SAID, UM, THAT THE CA ACTION BY THE COUNCIL DOES HAVE TO OCCUR BEFORE ENTITLEMENTS HAPPENED, BUT THAT COULD HAPPEN AT THE SAME MEETING AS LONG AS THE SE ACTION TAKES PLACE FIRST, SO, RIGHT.
I, I HEAR YOU THAT THERE'S AN ORDER, BUT I'M, UH, I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT THEY, UM, I WANTED TO GET CLEAR IF THEY WERE INTENTIONAL FOR THE SAME MEETING OR NOT INTENTIONAL FOR THE SAME MEETING.
'CAUSE THAT I THINK, INFLUENCES EVERYBODY TOO.
AND SO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY, THANK YOU.
SO JUST TO FOLLOW ON THAT BRIEFLY, UM, IN THE, ONE OF THE ATTACHMENTS TO OUR CONSENT CALENDAR TONIGHT, THERE WAS A, UM, A FUTURE MEETING, UH, ON DECEMBER 16, WHICH IS TENTATIVELY PENCILED IN FOR THE, UH, ADOPTION OF THE, UH, OR CERTIFICATION OF THE FINAL EIR AND THE FIRST READING OF, UM, THE ORDINANCE.
BUT I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY WITH STAFF, SO THAT WOULD BE THE FIRST READING OF THE ORDINANCE THAT WOULD NOT START THE 30 DAY CLOCK FOR REFERENDUM SIGNATURES.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT WOULD HAVE TO HAPPEN AFTER THE SECOND READING SOMETIME IN JANUARY.
UM, I HAD A QUESTION, UM, ON, ON SPOT ZONING.
IS, IS SPOT ZONING ACTUALLY ILLEGAL OR IS IT MERELY A, A BAD PRACTICE THAT'S FROWNED UPON SPOT ZONING? UM, IT'S NOT ACTUALLY A PROHIBITED THING.
IT TENDS TO BE USED TO REFER TO THINGS LIKE, UM, DOWN ZONING THAT'S PROJECT OR PROPERTY SPECIFIC IN A WAY THAT, UM, A PROPERTY OWNER POSES.
UM, IT'S, IT IS A BE A BEST PRACTICE.
UM, AND THIS BEST PRACTICE IS BEHIND HOW STAFF HAVE, UM, MADE THE RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT CONSIDERATION OF THE OVERLAY TO CONSIDER, UM, UM, LAND USE, POTENTIAL LAND USE CHANGES IN A WAY THAT THAT MAKES SENSE FROM A POLICY STANDPOINT, UM, AND HAS TO DO WITH, UM, AREAS OF THE CITY.
UM, SO THAT, THAT IS, THAT IS WHY, UM, THE OVERLAY CONSIDERATIONS HAVE PRESENTED,
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BEEN PRESENTED AS THEY HAVE AND WHY THEY'VE EVOLVED AS AS THEY HAVE.UM, BUT THERE'S NOT, THERE'S NOT, UH, YOU'D BE HARD PRESSED IN THE LAW TO FIND EXPRESS PROHIBITIONS AGAINST, UM, UM, GENERAL, YOU KNOW, ZONING AND EVEN GENERAL PLAN LAND USE DESIGNATIONS, UM, BEING FOCUSED ON A RELATIVELY NARROW AREA.
WE SAW SOME OF THAT IN THE, IN THE 2008 GENERAL PLAN, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT THE COUNCIL APPROVED AT THAT TIME WITH SOME FAIRLY PARCEL SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS.
AND, UH, GIVEN THAT SPOT ZONING IS, IS NOT ON ILLEGAL, AND ESPECIALLY BECAUSE HERE WE'D BE TALKING ABOUT UP ZONING RATHER THAN DOWN ZONING.
UM, I THINK IN RESPONSE TO MR. O'S INVITATION, I THINK ONE ALTERNATIVE WE SHOULD LOOK AT IS, IS JUST, UM, UPZONING THE PROPOSED HOTEL PARCEL AS A STANDALONE AND NOT HAVE THE REST OF THE, UH, THE OVERLAY IN THE MIX.
SO I I, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S CURRENTLY AN ALTERNATIVE THAT'S BEEN STUDIED.
IS IT? I DON'T THINK THAT'S BEEN DISCUSSED, BUT I THINK, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S THREE SUB AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED, AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAS MADE A RECOMMENDATION TO ADJUST ONE OF THOSE SUB AREAS, BUT AS PART OF ITS RECOMMENDATION, IT, IT, IT INCLUDED THAT THE COUNCIL CONSIDER ALL THREE.
BUT IT IS, UM, IT IS INHERENTLY THE CASE THAT THE COUNCIL COULD MAKE WHEN IT COMES TIME FOR ITS, UM, LEGISLATIVE DECISION ABOUT THE OVERLAY.
UM, AND, AND WHEN IT COMES TIME FOR, ITS, UM, YOU KNOW, DUE PROCESS CONSIDERATION ABOUT THE APPLICATION THAT THE COUNCIL COULD CONSIDER WITHOUT REDOING CQA SOME LESSER, UM, UM, LEGISLATIVE CHANGE.
SO IT, SO, SO NOT, NOT NOTWITHSTANDING THAT WHY, WHY CAN'T WE JUST LOOK AT AN ALTERNATIVE THAT'S THE HOTEL SITE ONLY, UH, AS PART OF THIS DOCUMENT? I'M NOT SAYING THAT YOU CAN'T, I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THAT, BUT I THINK WELL, AND MIND, I'M PUTTING THAT OUT AS AN IDEA.
BUT I WAS ALSO GONNA PUT OUT THAT, YOU KNOW, THE COUNCIL COULD LOOK AT, CHOOSE TO FOCUS ON ONLY ONE OF THE SUB AREAS, ONLY TWO OF THE SUB AREAS.
UM, AND WHETHER THE, THE CAVEAT I WANTED TO SAY AND, AND MY, MY STAFF COLLEAGUES WOULD, I WOULD, WOULD BE THE ONES TO ADDRESS THIS, IS WHETHER THERE ARE CONSIDERATIONS, UM, RECOGNIZING THAT THAT WOULD BE A SUBTRACTIVE CHANGE, WHICH IS GOOD 'CAUSE IT MEANS THAT WE'VE ALREADY ADJUSTED THE FULL UNIVERSE OF THE POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND DON'T HAVE TO RECONSIDER THEM.
BUT I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, REQUIRE SPECIAL CONSIDERATION, UM, IF THE COUNCIL CHOSE TO NOT EVEN DEAL IN TERMS OF SUB AREAS AT ALL.
UM, SO, SO SHIFTING GEARS, I'M, I'M JUST A LITTLE PERPLEXED AT HOW WE GOT HERE.
UM, THE STAFF REPORT ON PAGE TWO SAYS THE PROPOSED OVERLAY WAS SUBMITTED BY THE APPLICANT, EKN DEVELOPMENT AS A ZONING AMENDMENT TO THE CITY IN MAY OF 2023.
I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THIS TOPIC HAS COME TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
IT WAS CERTAINLY NEVER IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF OUR TOP 10 PRIORITIES, AND I DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS ONE OF THE 200 AND SOMETHING THINGS WE CONSIDERED TO, FOR NOMINATION IN OUR TOP 10 PRIORITIES.
UM, AND, AND YET NOW WE'RE BEING TOLD THAT, UM, WE'RE SPENDING $161,000 OF CITY FUNDS FOR, FOR THE EIR.
UM, I, I GUESS ONE QUESTION I HAVE IS, I DON'T RECALL APPROPRIATING, APPROPRIATING THOSE FUNDS IN, IN THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR BUDGET.
IS, IS, WAS THAT DONE? THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER.
WE'LL, UM, TRY AND KEEP THIS TO A MINIMUM TO KEEP OUR DECORUM TOGETHER.
I DON'T WANT ANYBODY APPLAUDING, NOR DO I WANT PEOPLE BOOING.
SO I MEAN, LET'S JUST HA HAVE THE CONVERSATION AND, AND GET THE FACTS OUT CLEARLY.
UH, SO COUNCIL MEMBER AT THE PROJECTS, UM, AT THE PROJECT LEVEL, UM, WE DON'T APPROPRIATE, UM, IN THE BUDGET.
AND SO THE CITY COSTS, UM, WHICH WAS DISCUSSED IN A PRIOR MEETING, UM, JUST GETS INCORPORATED INTO OUR DEPARTMENT BUDGET.
BUT THIS ISN'T A PRO, WELL, NOW WE'RE DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN THE PROJECT, WHICH I TAKE IS THE HOTEL AND THE OVERLAY ZONE, WHICH IS NOT A PROJECT.
IS THAT FAIR? UH, WHEN I SAY PROJECT, IT'S CON UM, COMPREHENSIVE BETWEEN BOTH THE OVERLAY AND THE PROJECT.
UM, THERE'S A MORE EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF DIFFERENT PROJECTS, UM, THAT, UH, STAFF WORKS ON.
UM, AND TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY, WE TRY TO BUDGET ACCORDINGLY AT THE START OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
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IT, YOU KNOW, THE COST THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED, UM, IS JUST PART OF OUR DEPARTMENT WIDE BUDGET.CAN CAN YOU POINT TO ANY LINE IN, IN OUR ADOPTED BUDGET, WHICH IS SEVERAL HUNDRED PAGES LONG, THAT THAT IDENTIFIES THIS PROJECT? LIKE I SAID, WE DON'T IDENTIFY AT THE PROJECT LEVEL, SO THIS IS JUST, THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THE DEPARTMENT BUDGET, SO I'M HAPPY TO REFER BACK AND WHY, WHY, WHY WOULD STAFF EXPEND THIS KIND OF MONEY ON SOMETHING THAT'S NEVER BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A COUNCIL PRIORITY? I THINK THERE'S A NUMBER OF PROJECTS THAT, UM, OUR CITY AND OUR STAFF WORK ON THAT MOVE PROJECTS FORWARD, INITIATIVES FORWARD, AND THIS IS JUST ONE OF THEM.
WELL, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO AGREE TO DISAGREE ON THAT.
UM, AND ONE LAST QUESTION, QUESTIONNAIRE IS ON PARKING AND I, UNDER, I, I THINK, UM, THE STAFF WAS TALKING ABOUT SB 2097.
AND, AND SO MY UNDERSTANDING, NOT WITH RESPECT TO THE HOTEL, BUT WITH RESPECT TO THE OVERLAY, UM, IS THAT THE EEIR TAKES THE POSITION THAT BECAUSE SB 2097 MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE CITY TO ENFORCE ANY PARKING MINIMUMS WITHIN ANY OF THE THREE SUB AREAS, THAT THERE'S NOTHING THERE TO ANALYZE.
IS THAT A FAIR CHARACTERIZATION? I MIGHT LOOK TO MY TEAM HERE, BUT, UM, WE CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT, WE CAN PROVIDE A LITTLE MORE CONTEXT IN WHAT WAS EVALUATED, UM, WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF CA, UH, PARKING, UH, FOR THE HOTEL IN PARTICULAR WAS ONE OF THEM.
THE, UM, SO THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT CAME UP AT PLANNING COMMISSION AND, UM, PARKING IS NO LONGER A PART OF THE CA CHECKLIST.
SO IT'S BEEN REMOVED BECAUSE THE, UM, CAPACITY FOR PARKING IS NOT AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.
SO IF PARKING IS RESTRAINED, THAT'S A, A, UM, UH, PROB YOU KNOW, IT'S A, A COMMUNITY, UH, CHALLENGE AND IT'S A PROBLEM, BUT IT IS NOT AN IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT.
SO, UM, SOLVING P PARKING, WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING IS, UM, THROUGH CA IS, UM, THAT WAS REMOVED BY THE STATE BACK IN, IN 2010.
SO I, I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA FLIP THAT ON ITS HEAD A LITTLE BIT.
IT, IT BASICALLY, THE LEGISLATURE HAS SAID THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO STUDY PARKING, BUT THERE'S NOTHING THAT PREVENTS US FROM STUDYING PARKING TO GIVE THE PUBLIC A, A TRUE PICTURE OF WHAT'S GOING ON.
IS THAT FAIR? WELL, WE ARE DIRECTED TO FOLLOW THE CQA MANDATE, WHICH IS TO EVALUATE IMPACTS OF THE PROJECT ON THE ENVIRONMENT, NOT THE, UM, ENVIRONMENT'S IMPACT ON THE PROJECT, WHICH, UH, KIND OF IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE WHEN IT COMES TO PARKING, BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PARKING SUPPLY AND AVAILABILITY AND LIMITING THAT, WHICH, UM, AGAIN, IS A, A CHALLENGE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND, AND, UM, AN IMPORTANT COMMUNITY CONSIDERATION.
BUT IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT IS, UM, A AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF A PROJECT.
SO THE BOTTOM LINE IS WE CAN AGREE THAT THE EIR DOES NOT EVALUATE PARKING FOR THE OVERLAY.
IS THAT FAIR? WELL, THERE'S A NUMBER, SO
UH, BUT YOU CAN HAVE AN INCONSISTENCY WITH A, A POLICY OR A PROGRAM OR A LAND USE AND STILL NOT HAVE A ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.
SO WE SAW THAT HAPPEN WITH THE TRANSITION FROM AWAY FROM LEVEL OF SERVICE.
UH, SO WE DON'T, WE NO LONGER WOULD SAY THERE'S AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT DUE TO A LEVEL OF SERVICE DEFICIENCY.
WE WOULD NO LONGER SAY THAT THERE'S AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT DUE TO LACK OF PARKING, BUT WE WOULD SAY THAT IT WOULD CONFLICT WITH THE CITY'S POLICY ON PARKING.
WE ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE, UM, ON THE TABLE TODAY.
SO YOU DIDN'T LOOK AT THE PARKING CHANGES PROPOSED IN THE DRAFT CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, WHICH ARE PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL, INCLUDING, YOU KNOW, PAID PARKING WITH SURGE PRICING AND THEN PERMIT PARKING IN THE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS AROUND DOWNTOWN.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE HOTEL PETALUMA PATRONS ARE GONNA PARK ANYMORE.
UH, SO WE DO LOOK AT ALL OF THE EXISTING REGULATIONS THAT ARE ON THE BOOKS AT THE TIME THAT THE NOTICE OF PREPARATION IS RELEASED.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE DID HERE, AND THAT WAS A YEAR AND A HALF AGO.
QUESTIONS? UH, VICE MAYOR SCH.
I, OKAY, SO, UM, I DID COME UP WITH A LIST, UH, FOR THE LONGEST.
I LISTENED TO A LOT OF THE DISCUSSIONS.
I'VE BEEN TO SEVERAL OF THE MEETINGS,
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AND I ACTUALLY DID COME UP WITH, UM, 32 CONCERNS, UH, PRESENTED BY OUR CITIZENS, UM, ABOUT THE OVERLAY IN THE HOTEL.SO A LOT OF IT IS NOT BEING HANDLED BY THE EIR PROCESS, BUT WILL BE HANDLED BY OTHER PROCESSES.
SO, UM, ONE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE DONE IS MAYBE, UH, FIND OUT WHEN AND WHERE ARE THOSE OTHER CONCERNS THAT ARE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE PARKING, WHEN AND WHERE DOES THAT REALLY COME INTO, UH, THE PROCESS OF DISCUSSION, ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION, UH, VICE MAYOR, THE WHERE AND WHEN, UM, THAT MAY BE OUTSIDE OF THE, UH, CQA AND THE DRAFT AND FINAL EIR, UM, BOUNDS WOULD BE WHEN THE PROJECT ITSELF, RIGHT, THAT I'M SAYING IT'S OUTSIDE THE BOUNDS.
SO WHEN DOES IT GET DISCUSSED? YEAH, AT WHAT TIME IN THE PROCESS? YEAH, AS I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY, WHEN THEY, UM, OVERLAY PROJECT, UM, THE PROPOSED PROJECT COMES BEFORE YOU.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, THE QUESTION AND CONCERN ABOUT PARKING, UM, WHILE IT MAY NOT BE A CQA IDENTIFIED IMPACT, UM, IT ABSOLUTELY, UM, COULD GET STUDIED AS PART OF INFORMATION THAT HELPS INFORM A DECISION AROUND THE PROPOSED OVERLAY ITSELF.
AND SO, UM, HOWEVER, THOSE ARE ALL SORT OF UNPARALLEL TRACKS.
AND SO IF THAT, UM, IF THERE'S A CONSENSUS FROM THE COUNCIL TODAY THAT WE DO NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AND STUDY PARKING, UM, OF THE OVERLAY, UM, A LITTLE BIT FURTHER AND MORE DETAILED, THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE, WE WOULD TAKE BACK AND INCORPORATE AND BRING BACK TO YOU AS PART OF, UM, THE ENTITLEMENTS FOR THE OVERLAY.
BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THERE IS A PARKING STUDY IN PROCESS OF, OF SOME SORT, AND IT'S, SO AT SOME POINT WE WILL HAVE THAT INFORMATION TO LOOK AT FOR THE ENTIRE DOWNTOWN AREA, EVERYTHING.
SO THAT CAN BE, THAT'S CORRECT.
HOPEFULLY CONCURRENT AND NOT AFTER THE FACT.
UM, THEN ON THE, UM, JUST WHEN, WHEN WE HAVE SIX STORIES, UH, ON THE OVERLAY, UH, WE HAVE ONE PROPERTY, UH, THAT'S IN THE OVERLAY THAT, UM, UH, IS ON, ON A PRETTY STEEP HILL.
IT'S UPPER SALE RIGHT NOW, AND IT'S, IT'S GOT, IT'S GOT LAYERS UP IT.
SO IS SIX STORIES ON THAT, JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR ON WHAT, WHAT SIX STORIES, IS IT SIX STORIES FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE VERY TOP, OR IS IT SIX STORIES FROM THE TOP AT ANOTHER, SIX STORIES ABOVE THAT? SO WOULD SIX STORIES BE FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL OR AT THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL? VICE MAYOR? I'M NOT QUITE CERTAIN EXACTLY WHICH PROJECT, UH, YOU'RE REFERRING OR THE PARCEL THAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO, BUT IF YOU COULD YEAH, IT'S RIGHT NEXT TO THE, UM, UH, THE, THE DENTIST OFFICE, UH, RIGHT, I GUESS ONE, ONE PROPERTY OVER FROM, UH, WASHINGTON.
I THINK YOU'RE TALKING LIBERTY STREET.
SO THERE'S A PROPERTY THERE THAT, THAT HAS A STEEP GRADE GOING UP.
AND, AND, AND I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT LESS THAN A STORY HEIGHT ACROSS THE PROPERTY.
UM, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S ALMOST TWO STORIES FROM FRONT TO BACK.
UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A 20, MAYBE A 20 FOOT INCREASE IN HEIGHT FROM FRONT TO BACK.
SO, I'M SORRY, WHAT'S THE QUESTION? WHAT THE MAXIMUM THE QUESTION IS, UM, JUST WHEN WE SAY SIX STORIES IN THE OVERLAY IS SIX STORIES FROM THE, THE VERY LOWEST LEVEL, WHICH IS ON THE, THE FRONT OF THE STREET, OR SIX STORIES FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL IN THE BACK OF THE BUILDING OR AT THE BACK OF THE PROPERTY.
I, I THINK WE'D LOOK, WE'D NEED TO, I DON'T, WE, I GUESS IN THE BACKGROUND, WE CAN LOOK TO SEE HOW WE DETERMINE THE, THE HEIGHT OF THE, OF THE PROJECT UNDER CONSIDERATION.
SO WE NEED A MINUTE TO LOOK AT THAT.
JUST, JUST, JUST JUST MAKE SURE THAT THAT ONE PROPERTY, THAT IT'S NOT SIX STORIES FROM, FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL INSTEAD OF THE BOTTOM OF THE HILL.
BUT, BUT REMEMBER, WE DON'T EVEN KNOW, UM, UH, YOU KNOW WHAT, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE POTENTIAL QUESTIONS IS HOW MANY SUB AREAS MIGHT, YOU KNOW, MAY, MAY, MAY BE A PART OF AN OVERLAY CONSIDERED FOR APPROVAL BY THE COUNCIL.
OH, THIS IS AN OVERLAY, THIS IS AN OVERLAY C IT'S JUST, AND IT'S ONE OF THE OPPORTUNITY SITES.
THAT IS, OR CURRENTLY UP FOR SALE.
IT'S GOT A SALE SIGN IN FRONT OF IT RIGHT NOW.
SO, YOU KNOW, AND I, AND I, I HAVE TO, UM, INTERJECT HERE A LITTLE BIT.
UH, ONE OF MY, UH, FAVORITE ANSWERS AT, UM, AT THE PLANNING AND HISTORIC WAS GREAT COMMENT, WOULD DEFINITELY ANSWER THAT IN THE EIR BECAUSE APPARENTLY WE'RE NOT ANSWERING IT TONIGHT, YOU KNOW, AND SO THAT'S IN THE RECORD AND WILL GET ANSWERED AND I'M INTERESTED.
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JUST CHECKING ON THAT.AND WE JUST RECEIVED A LETTER, I GUESS FROM A, UM, UH, AN ORGANIZATION ABOUT WHAT HOTEL WORKERS AND, UH, TALKING ABOUT THE VM TS AND THE TRAVEL AND THERE, THERE'S A DIFFERENT TYPE OF DOCUMENT ANALYSIS ON TRAVEL THAT THEY WERE RECOMMENDING.
UM, IS THAT, WILL THAT BE, UM, FOLLOWED UP AND WILL BE DOING THAT MORE IN, UH, WORKING AT DIFFERENT WAYS OF TRAVEL FROM THE DIFFERENT FOLKS THAT ARE WORKING AS WELL AS VISITING? WILL THAT BE INCLUDED IN, IN THE TRAVEL ANALYSIS? RIGHT, PARTICULARLY FOR THE GREENHOUSE GASES YOU'RE REFERRING TO? YEAH, I I BELIEVE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A COMMENT THAT CAME IN THIS AFTERNOON OR TODAY, YES.
SO YEAH, UH, ABSOLUTELY ALL OF THE COMMENTS THAT WILL BE, THAT ARE RECEIVED AND ARE SUBMITTED AS PART OF THIS, AGAIN EXTENDING TO OCTOBER 21ST WILL BE A COLLECTED AND ASSEMBLED AND, UH, LINE ITEM AND A RESPONSE WILL BE PROVIDED.
I, I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TONIGHT OF OKAY.
UH, ADDITIONAL ANALYSIS, BUT IT WILL ABSOLUTELY BE RESPONDED TO.
I THINK THAT WE'RE REFERRING TO ALSO THE, UM, UH, THE WAY THE WORKERS ARE TRAVELING AS WELL AS THE VISITORS ARE TRAVELING AND THE GREENHOUSE GAS CONSUMPTIONS, UH, FROM BOTH, UM, POPULATIONS AND THE QUANTITIES THEREOF, AND HOW FOLKS ESTIMATING HOW THEY WOULD ACTUALLY GET TO THE HOTEL WITH, AS LONG AS THAT'S COVERED IN THE FINAL, I'M, I'M HAPPY, JUST AS A REQUEST.
THEN ON, UM, IN THE SETBACKS, UH, SOME FOLKS HAVE STATED CONCERNS THAT, OH, WELL, SOME FOLKS MAY GO MORE THAN SIX STORIES HIGH, AND WE ALREADY HAVE SETBACKS ON THE FIFTH STORY AND SIXTH STORY.
UM, IS IT FOR, FOR THAT CONCERN THAT FOLKS MAY BUILD UP HIGHER AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE, CAN WE INCLUDE A SETBACKS ON THE OVERLAY? THAT WOULD BE MORE, AND, AND LET ME ASK, IS THAT A ORDINANCE ONE OR AN E ACT? WELL, TRYING TO STAY FOCUSED ON ER AND IS THERE ANY EIR ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION? IT WOULD BE, UH, PARTLY IT'S THE, UH, THE, THE VIEW, UH, THAT WOULD BE LOOKED AT HOW, HOW THE BUILDINGS ARE VIEWED, AS WELL AS HOW MUCH SHADING THAT THEY WOULD DO.
SO IS, IS THAT A CONSIDERATION FOR THE EIR TO CONSIDER, UM, BUILDINGS THAT MIGHT BE TALLER, UM, THAT THAT MIGHT BE PROPOSED IN THE FUTURE FOR IN THE OVERLAY AREAS B AND C? IS THAT A CONSIDERATION FOR THE EIR, UH, AS IT RELATES TO THE USE PERMIT FINDINGS? UH, I THINK THERE IS A, AN AVENUE THERE, AND I, I HEAR YOUR COMMENT AND WE CAN DEFINITELY TAKE A LOOK AT THAT, UM, AND, AND CONSIDER WHAT MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE TO CLARIFY THE, UH, SET STEP BACK ON THE, THE HIGHER FLOORS.
YEAH, JUST, JUST IN CASE, JUST SO THAT WE HAVE SOME CONTROL IF, IF SOMETHING LIKE THAT EVER DOES HAPPEN.
SO I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANNA DO IS WE WANNA GET THAT.
UM, IS IT POSSIBLE, UM, AT THIS POINT TO ACTUALLY REDUCE THE, UH, ZONES, THERE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITY SITES THAT WERE LISTED THAT ARE SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN THE THREE ZONES.
UM, IS IT POSSIBLE AT THIS POINT TO, TO PROPOSE THAT WE HAD A LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITY ZONES THAT ARE PARTICULARLY THE PROPERTIES THAT REALLY MIGHT BE DEVELOPED VERSUS THE ENTIRE O UH, A, B, C, UH, IT IS APPROPRIATE, AS YOU HEARD, UH, EARLIER FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY TO, UH, OFFER ANY COMMENTS YOU MAY HAVE ABOUT, UH, ALTERNATIVES THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE.
UM, AND, UH, THE, THE MONIES THAT WE ARE SPENDING, THE $160,000 CURRENTLY BY THE CITY, IS THAT BEING MATCHED BY EKN OR ARE THEY PAYING A, A PORTION OF THAT? UH, VICE MAYOR, YES, THERE'S A COST SHARING AGREEMENT.
UM, SO ALL HOTEL COSTS PLUS A ROUGH PROPORTION SHARE OF THE OVERLAY IS BEING COVERED BY THE PROJECT APPLICANT.
UM, THEN SOMETIMES OF HAVING LIVED IN A COUPLE OF LARGER CITIES WHERE LARGE BUILDINGS WERE, WERE BEING PUT DOWN LARGER THAN SIX STORIES LARGE, UM, I HAVE, UH, REMEMBER THERE WERE, WERE SOME BUILDINGS THAT WERE, UM, DAMAGED THAT WERE NEARBY.
AND SO THAT'S WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING PILES AND I'VE HAD THE EXPERIENCE OF PILE DRIVING, UH, A MILE AWAY, AND YOU COULD STILL FEEL IT JUST ABOUT, UH, POUNDING IN.
UM, SO, UH, WHAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IS, UH, WHEN YOU'RE DIGGING DOWN 20 FEET AND THEN THE PILES HAVE GOTTA GO DEEPER THAN THAT PROBABLY.
UM, SO THE TWO STRUCTURES I'M, I'M MOST CONCERNED ABOUT IS THE ACTUAL, UM, ACE HARDWARE, THE ACTUAL WALL THAT'S RIGHT NEXT TO IT, UH, BEING THAT IS POTENTIALLY FOR CRACKING WHATEVER THE STRUCTURE IT COULD WITHSTAND BECAUSE YOU'RE DIGGING A BIG HOLE VERY NEAR IT, VERY DEEP AND POUNDING.
SO I'M WORRIED ABOUT THE STRUCTURE OF JUST THAT, THE ACTUAL WALL ON ACE HARDWARE RIGHT NEXT, THAT'S NEARBY WALL.
THE OTHER STRUCTURE THAT I'M MOST CONCERNED ABOUT IS THE GLASS STRUCTURE ABOVE THE MUSEUM, UH, WHICH IS A VERY FRAGILE THING.
UM, AND SO IT WAS JUST, I'D LIKE TO, THAT CHECKED OUT ALSO TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, THERE'S NO POSSIBLE
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VIBRATION 'CAUSE WE'RE ONLY ONE BLOCK AWAY FROM, FROM THAT, FROM OUR MUSEUM.AND, UH, IT'S A BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURE AND IT'S BY VERY HEAVY GLASS, JUST BY THIN LEAD STRUCTURE HOLDING IT ALL UP.
SO, UM, I'M WORRIED ABOUT THAT.
THAT IS PROBABLY THE MOST FRAGILE STRUCTURE THERE.
THERE'S MIGHT BE SOME FACADES IN ON, UH, THAT ARE CLOSE BY, UM, MIGHT BE, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT GETS CHECKED INTO, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS PROMISED EARLIER THAT I HEARD, UM, UH, SAID THAT, THAT WE WERE GONNA HAVE CGI VIEWS NOT JUST SIX PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A COUPLE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS, BUT CGI VIEWS, UM, GOING UP AND DOWN THE STREET AS IF YOU'RE, AND YOU COULD GO UP AND WALK UP AND DOWN IT, OR EVEN TAKE A, LIKE A DRONE GOING UP AND DOWN.
SO IS, BESIDES YOUR SIX, COUPLE FEW MINIMUM PICTURES THAT YOU'VE SELECTED.
UM, COULD THERE BE MORE IN THE FINAL AND COULD THERE BE CGI IN THE FINAL TO SHOW US THE FEW, TO SHOW US THAT WHAT IT REALLY WOULD LOOK LIKE FROM FROM STREET LEVEL AND THEN FROM A WINDOW FROM ACROSS THE STREET VICE MAYOR IF, UM, AS WE'VE BEEN NOTING, AND I THINK WE'LL WANNA CIRCLE BACK AND DO A, A STRAW POLL, IF, IF, UH, THIS REQUEST, UM, ADDS TO ADDRESSING SOME OF THE INADEQUACIES OF THE IMPACT REPORT AND IT HELPS INFORM A DECISION AND A DISCUSSION, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN BE INCLUDED.
YEAH, SO I THINK IT WAS VERY DRAMATIC.
THE PICTURES ARE BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL THINGS THAT WE WERE SHOWN.
THE PICTURES THAT YOU HAVE IN THE EIR ARE, ARE MUCH BETTER SHOW FEELS A LITTLE SMALLER BUILDING THAN WHAT WAS FIRST PROJECTED THERE.
AND I THINK HAVING, UM, A FEW MORE IMAGES AND A FEW MORE, EVEN THE CGI MIGHT BE HELPFUL.
SO IN THAT RESPECT TO ACTUALLY SHOW THAT WHAT THE BUILDING MIGHT ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE, IT'S MASSIVENESS, UH, WITH THE SETBACKS AND COUNCIL MEMBER SCHIBS ONE O OVER HERE.
ONE THING I'D LIKE TO ALSO ADD TO THAT IS, UM, IT'S USUALLY WHEN THE SIDE PLAN AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW IS HAPPENING THAT WE HAVE THAT KIND OF DETAILED ANALYSIS.
REMEMBER, AS YOU'VE HEARD TONIGHT, AS STAFF HAVE EMPHASIZED THAT IT'S, UM, BECAUSE THIS IS COMPLIANCE, UM, STAFF ARE, ARE, ARE PROVIDING FOR COMPLIANCE WITH, UM, THE, THE STATE'S ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, CQA, UM, THAT THAT'S THE FOCUS.
AND, AND WHAT YOU'VE, THAT'S WHY YOU'VE HEARD, UM, AND SAW SOME DETAILS ON THINGS LIKE THE SHADE ANALYSIS AND SOME OF THOSE CONSIDERATIONS.
TYPICALLY THE, THE, THE FINE-GRAINED ANALYSIS AND CONSIDERATION FOR APPROVAL OF THE, OF, OF FINAL DESIGN IS, IS THE SPAR ENTITLEMENT AS OPPOSED TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.
SO NOT THE, MAYBE NOT IN THE IR BUT A LATER PRO THAT WOULD COME IN A LATER PROCESS.
SO WE WOULD SEE THAT LATER YES.
SO IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE PART OF THIS PROCESS.
UM, AND AS PART OF THE, UM, WOULD A WATER CONSERVATION PLANNED IN CASE WE HIT A DROUGHT AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THE HOTEL AND HOW MUCH WATER IT'S USED, IS THAT PART OF THE, UH, EIR 'CAUSE I DIDN'T QUITE CATCH THAT IN THERE MYSELF.
IT USES A HUGE AMOUNT OF WATER PER, PER PER CAPITA.
THE, UM, WATER USE AND THE UTILITY DEMANDS, UM, ARE WELL WITHIN THE RANGE THAT HAVE BEEN ANTICIPATED BY THE GENERAL PLAN BUILDOUT.
BUT THOSE WERE, UM, ARE ADDRESSED IN THE EIR.
AND THEN TO YOUR, UH, QUESTION, THE CITY DOES DO PLANNING FOR, UH, DROUGHTS, AND THAT IS, UH, CONDUCTED ON A, UH, CITYWIDE BASIS AS PART OF THE URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT PLAN.
AND THAT DOES INCLUDE ALL OF THE, UH, REQUIREMENTS FOR DROUGHT MANAGEMENT AS WELL.
SO, UH, SO YOU'RE SAYING, UM, WOULD IT BE PART OF THE ER TO SAY THAT THE HOTEL HAS THE CAPACITY TO STILL FUNCTION IN A SEVERE DROUGHT OUT, OR WOULD THE HOTEL CLOSE DOWN IS IF IT WAS, IS THAT AN IMPACT DURING A DROUGHT? WOULD WE, COULD WE CLOSE DOWN THE HOTEL? WOULD THAT BE CONSIDERATION? IS THAT PART OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT? COUNCIL MEMBERSHIPS? I THINK THAT'S MORE OF AN IMPACT OF THE ENVIRONMENT ON THE HOTEL.
REMEMBER, THIS IS ABOUT THE PROJECT IMPACTS ON THE, ON THE ENVIRONMENT.
SO WE, WE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD, WE HAVE ONGOING DISCUSSION ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER CONSERVATION AND, AND THE CITY'S PROGRAMS TO FREE UP ADDITIONAL PORTABLE WATER SUPPLY THROUGH USE OF RECYCLED WATER, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
UM, AND THERE'S LUCKILY, BECAUSE OF THAT, WE'RE WELL BEYOND THE DAYS WHEN WE HAD WHAT WERE CALLED DE FACTO MORATORIA BECAUSE WE COULDN'T PROVIDE FOR WATER SUPPLY FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT.
WE'RE NOT NEARLY IN THAT KIND OF PLACE.
SO ALL THOSE SAFEGUARDS AND REGULATIONS THAT ARE STILL INTACT.
BUT AGAIN, WHAT WE'RE ANALYZING WITH THIS DOCUMENT, UM, IS THE, YOU KNOW, POTENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, ESPECIALLY THE POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT ONES OF THE, OF THE PROJECT AS A WHOLE, WHICH FOR THE SECRET PURPOSES IS, IS THE HOTEL APPLICATION AND THE OVERLAY.
YEAH, I WANTED TO GET CLEAR ON THAT.
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SOME OF THESE THINGS HAVE COME UP IN CONCERNS AND I JUST WANT, WANT THINGS ADDRESSED LIKE THAT.UH, BECAUSE I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE SURE.
THEY HAVE BEEN ANSWERED EARLIER AND, AND WE'RE NOT TRYING TO SAY THEY'RE NOT VALID CONCERNS.
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN WHAT, WHAT'S AT ISSUE TONIGHT AND WHAT'S WHAT'S ADDRESSED IN OTHER WAYS.
AND IN, IN MY LIST, I THINK I DID TURN INTO STAFF, UM, THERE'S A LOT IN THERE THAT'S NOT PART OF THE EIR THAT AT SOME POINT WILL NEED TO BE DISCUSSED AND WORKED ON DOWN THE LINE.
UM, BUT, BUT THERE IS A, I THINK YOU, I I, I'VE CAPTURED A LOT OF WHAT THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN SAYING, SO AT LEAST IT'S A WORKING LIST FOR US, FOR DOWN THE LINE FOR THINGS.
BUT I THINK THAT'S ALL THE, UH, ALL I HAD FOR THE EIR AT THIS POINT.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER
UM, IN TERMS OF, UH, ONE OF, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER RIM'S SRI'S QUESTIONS ABOUT THE, UH, THE, UH, NOTE FROM THE, UH, FROM, UH, UNITE HERE UNION, UM, YOU KNOW, WHICH, WHICH QUESTIONED WHETHER, UM, THE VMT ANALYSIS, WHICH I GUESS IS NOT REALLY IN THIS, IN THE, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT, BUT IS IN THE DOCUMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH IT, THE TRANSPORTATION DOCUMENTS.
AND THEY READ THOSE AS SAYING THAT A TRANSPORTATION A TDM PROGRAM, A TRA TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, WOULD BE REQUIRED FOR, BECAUSE, UH, WELL, BASED ON THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE, AND THAT WAS JUST SOMETHING THAT I THOUGHT I COULD CONFIRM EASILY OR NOT.
AND WHEN I, UM, YOU KNOW, WENT TO THESE DOCUMENTS TO LOOK AT IT, UM, IT WAS STATED THAT THEY WERE BASED ON OUR OWN PETALUMA, UH, VMT PROGRAM TOGETHER WITH THE, UH, OPR TECHNICAL ADVISORY DOCUMENT.
AND THAT DOCUMENT DID SAY THAT I, I, I THOUGHT, WELL, BECAUSE, BECAUSE MOORE PARKING IS BEING OFFERED THAN NECESSARY, THAT THAT, UM, THAT IT WOULD NOT BE SCREENED OUT.
THIS PROJECT WOULD NOT BE SCREENED OUT.
BUT THEN SOMEBODY HERE MENTIONED, UH, SB 2097, AND, AND IT MADE ME THINK THAT PROBABLY THAT IS WHAT GOT RID OF THAT REQUIREMENT.
UH, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT DIDN'T DIRECT ME THERE WHEN I WAS TRYING TO CONFIRM THIS, YOU KNOW, AND I DIDN'T THINK TO GO TO 2097, I WAS JUST FOLLOWING THE DIRECTION THERE, AND MAYBE THERE'S EVEN A NEW OPR TECHNICAL ADVISORY, BUT I COULDN'T GET THERE.
UM, I GOT TO WHATEVER THEY, THEY SENT ME TO.
SO, UH, IS THAT POSSIBLE THAT 2097 IS, IS WHAT TOOK AWAY THAT REQUIREMENT? OR IS THIS AGAIN, ALL IRRELEVANT TO, UH, TO TONIGHT'S WORK? I CAN HELP TO START TO ANSWER SOME OF THAT.
SO, UH, WE DID ADOPT VMT GUIDELINES LOCALLY.
THEY ARE, UH, ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT THE OPR HAD RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION.
THAT'S BECAUSE THE DIRECTION FROM COUNCIL AT THE TIME WAS TO DO A HIGHER PERCENT REDUCTION OF 16.8%.
SO THAT'S OUR STANDARD CITYWIDE.
WE DO HAVE, UH, A NUMBER OF, UH, SCREENING CRITERIA IN THERE, AND THEN REQUIREMENTS WHEN YOU DON'T SCREEN OUT, AND YOU DO HAVE A POTENTIAL VMT IMPACT TO INCORPORATE WHAT YOU HAVE NOTED AS, UM, TDM MEASURES.
SO THE TRAVEL DEMAND MANAGEMENT MEASURES.
SO IN THIS CASE, THE, UH, HOTEL IS WITHIN A HALF MILE OF SMART, WHICH, UH, IS A SCREENING CRITERIA AND SAYS THAT A, A FULL VMT ANALYSIS IS NOT NEEDED BECAUSE SCREENS OUT, BECAUSE IT'S WITHIN PROXIMITY TO WHAT'S A, UH, STATE RECOGNIZED MAJOR TRANSIT STOP.
SO, UM, RIGHT THERE ON ITS FACE, WE WOULD THEN NOT ADVANCE TO THE NEXT STEP OF IMPOSING TDM BECAUSE THERE'S NOT A VMT IMPACT.
SO, UM, THAT COMMENT HAS NOW BEEN SUBMITTED AND IS PART OF THE RECORD, AND THAT ABSOLUTELY WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WE LOOK AT AND PROVIDE A RESPONSE TO.
AND, UM, WHERE THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES TO, UH, FURTHER PROMOTE REDUCED TRANSPORTATION THAT CAN CERTAINLY BE IMPOSED, UH, INCLUDING THROUGH CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL ON THE PROJECT, WHICH IS FULLY DISCRETIONARY AND SUBJECT TO A USE PERMIT.
UH, JUST ONE OTHER QUESTION ON THIS THOUGH, IS IT, MY OWN INTEREST IN THIS, YOU KNOW, IS CERTAINLY MORE IN THE REALM OF HOUSING THAN AS A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY DISTRICT.
UH, ALTHOUGH, YOU KNOW, I THINK BOTH, BOTH ARE, ARE REASONABLE, UH, UM, GOALS.
UM, AND, UH, AND I WAS CONCERNED THAT, THAT THE, UH, A WISH FOR HOUSING, UH, UNDER THIS OVERLAY, UH, IS LIMITED BY LEAVING THE, UH, DENSITY AT 30 UNITS PER ACRE.
BUT I THINK, BUT I, I THINK AGAIN, UH, THAT THAT CAN BE INCREASED JUST BY DENSITY BONUSES, UH, IF IT'S A HUNDRED PERCENT AFFORDABLE PROJECT.
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THERE'S A WHOLE SCALE, UM, WITHIN THE STATE DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM.AND, UM, I DON'T SEE OUR, THE, THE HOTEL PEOPLE HERE, BUT, UM, I GUESS I MIGHT BE LISTENING VIA ZOOM.
UM, THE PROPOSED DOWNTOWN HOUSING AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OVERLAY DOES NOT INCLUDE LOTS AVAILABLE ON LIBERTY STREET, AND I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THAT BECAUSE ON LIBERTY STREET, THERE'S, UM, AN EMPTY LOT THAT'S FOR SALE THAT'S BEING PROPOSED FOR HOUSING AND AN OLD TELEPHONE BUILDING, WHICH WOULD BE PERFECT TO REPURPOSE FOR HOUSING.
HOW DID SECTIONS A, B AND C GET DETERMINED, AND WHY DID SECTION C INCLUDE THE PHOENIX THEATER, WHICH IS A HISTORIC LOCATION IN PETALUMA? SO I DON'T KNOW WHO TO DIRECT THAT QUESTION TO, BUT THAT'S MY FIRST QUESTION.
SO HOW, HOW DID WE GET HERE? UH, I, I THOUGHT OLIVIA DID A, UM, GREAT JOB, UM, AT THE START OF THE PRESENTATION.
UM, BUT, UM, WHAT I THINK, UM, YOU DON'T SEE IN, IN THE SORT OF SHORT STAFF PRESENTATIONS, UH, IS THE ANALYSIS THAT, UM, IS BEHIND IT.
SO THERE'S, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE EXAMPLE THAT COMES TO MIND IS THE PARCEL INVENTORY THAT WAS DONE BY STAFF, UM, LAST YEAR, UM, IN THE LEAD UP TO THE NOVEMBER HEARING.
UM, WHICH TOOK INVENTORY OF EACH OF THE PARCELS, UH, WITHIN THE OVERLAY, UM, AS WELL AS THE, I BELIEVE WE ALSO LOOKED AT THE STUDY AREA.
UM, AND WE LOOKED FOR THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.
SO WHERE, UM, IS THE ZONING, UM, NOT MATCHING UP WITH WHAT WE'RE SEEING ON THE GROUND, TYPICALLY A ONE STORY OR TWO STORY.
UM, AND SO WE WENT PARCEL BY PARCEL TO IDENTIFY THOSE, UM, SITES.
UH, WE WERE, UH, BEING MINDFUL OF OUR EXISTING, UM, HISTORIC RESOURCES ARE, UM, HISTORIC DISTRICT BOUNDARIES, UM, AND DIFFERENT SENSITIVE, UM, USES, UM, WHEN THE OVERLAY ITSELF WAS SELECTED.
UM, AND ON TOP OF THAT, I THINK THERE WAS ALSO A REALLY ROBUST DISCUSSION FROM PLANNING COMMISSION AT NOVEMBER, UM, AT THE NOVEMBER HEARING, UM, ABOUT LOOKING AT A, UM, TRUNCATED OR A SHRUNKEN DOWN VERSION OF, UH, SUB AREA C.
AND SO THROUGHOUT ALL OF THAT PROCESS, UM, IS REALLY WHAT'S, UM, BROUGHT US TO THIS POINT, UH, WITH THE, UM, PROPOSED OVERLAY BOUNDARIES.
UH, THAT SAID, WE, UM, WE'RE NOT GOING TO, UH, YOU KNOW, ADDRESS AND IDENTIFY EACH AND EVERY SINGLE OPPORTUNITY SITE, UM, AROUND, DOWN IN AND AROUND DOWNTOWN.
UM, SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S A COUPLE THAT YOU HAVE IN MIND, UM, THAT I BELIEVE WE WE COULD LOOK INTO.
UM, UH, SO IF YOU CAN JUST PROVIDE A LITTLE MORE CLARITY, I THINK YOU SAID THERE'S A, AN OLD, UM, BUILDING OFF ON LIBERTY, MAYBE TWO SITES.
UM, THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN TAKE BACK AS A TEAM, UM, AND RESPOND TO FOR THE FINAL.
WELL, ONE OF THOSE SITES HAS A CYCLONE FENCE AROUND IT.
IT'S NEXT TO THE PG UH, PG THE TELEPHONE BUILDING, WHICH HAS, UM, EVEN EVEN BARB WIRE IN THE BACK BECAUSE IT MIGHT HAVE CONTAMINANTS INSIDE.
AND THEY DON'T WANT THE UNHOUSED CLIMBING THOSE FENCES, THE UN HOUSE ARE, ARE USING THE FRONT PART.
UM, AND IT'S BEEN VACANT FOR A LONG TIME.
THERE WAS A FIRE PROBABLY IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS, WHICH MADE IT, UM, AN EMPTY A LOT AND IT'S HAD IT FOR SALE SIGN.
I DON'T REMEMBER ALL THE DETAILS, BUT I THINK THERE IS A PROJECT PLAN IN PLACE.
UM, HAVE ALL THE PROPERTY OWNERS BEEN NOTIFIED AND COMMUNICATED WITH THE IMPACTS OF THE OVERLAY IN SECTIONS A, B, AND C? UH, I'LL ANSWER THAT SECOND QUESTION.
UH, SO WITH EACH AND EVERY, UH, THERE HAS BEEN NOTICE AND, UM, ATTEMPTS TO ENGAGE WITH, UH, PROPERTY OWNERS.
UM, SO EACH TIME WE DO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING OR SOME, UM, SIGNIFICANT DISCUSSION, WE, UM, NOT JUST NOTICE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE, UM, OWNERS, UH, WITHIN THE OVERLAY, BUT I BELIEVE GREG A THOUSAND FEET AROUND OF THE STUDY AIR.
SO IT ACTUALLY GOES ABOVE AND BEYOND JUST THE OVERLAY.
UM, SO EACH TIME WE HAVE THESE, UM, HEARINGS, OUR
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CONTACT INFORMATION IS THERE, UM, WITH AN INVITATION TO, UM, PARTICIPATE AND ENGAGE IN THE DISCUSSION.SO THE OVERLAY IS A GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT TO THE, AND I BROUGHT IT WITH ME, THE 2025 GENERAL PLAN, WHILE WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF FINALIZING THE 2049 GENERAL PLAN.
AND MY NAME IS ON THE, THE CURRENT GENERAL PLAN, BECAUSE I SAT ON THE COUNCIL AND I DID ALL THAT WORK.
WHY ARE WE RUSHING THIS OVERLAY JUST FOR ONE HOTEL PROJECT WHEN THE PROJECT HOTEL PEOPLE AREN'T EVEN HERE TO REPRESENT THEMSELVES? AND, AND I'M REALLY DISAPPOINTED, SO I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
AND DO WE HAVE A GUARANTEE THAT THIS HOTEL GROUP, EKN, CAN FULFILL THE CONSTRUCTION FROM START TO FINISH FINANCIALLY? SO COUNCIL MEMBER NOW, UM, YES, I, UM, I KNOW THAT, UM, HEATHER AND, UM, ANDREW CAN HELP ANSWER THE FIRST PART OF YOUR TWO PART QUESTION OF WHICH BRIAN ANSWERED A PART.
BUT I ALSO WANNA REMIND YOU AND THE REST OF THE COUNCIL THAT THOSE CONSIDERATIONS, I MEAN, SOMEBODY, IT WAS, IT WAS OLIVIA MENTIONED, AND IT'S CERTAINLY TRUE THAT WHEN IT COMES TIME TO CONSIDER, UM, ENTITLEMENTS THAT ARE BEING SOUGHT BY THE EKN PROJECT, WHICH REQUIRE, UM, DISCRETIONARY CHANGES TO THE CITY'S GENERAL PLAN AND ZONING, UM, THAT THE COUNCIL'S FULL DISCRETION IS GONNA COME INTO PLAY AS TO WHETHER OR NOT A MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL WANTS TO EXERCISE THAT DISCRETION TO, TO PROVIDE A BASIS FOR APPROVING THE PROJECT.
BUT TONIGHT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS FOR THE OVERLAY AND THE HOTEL APPLICATION.
SO THOSE, THERE'LL BE A CHANCE TO ASK THOSE QUESTIONS, BUT, BUT OUR FOCUS IS, IS THE SEQUEL COMPLIANCE TONIGHT.
SO DO YOU WANNA ANSWER THOSE OR YOU JUST WANNA PUT 'EM ON THE RECORD AS BEING ASKED? UH, COUNCIL MEMBER NOW I COULD, UH, CLARIFY THAT THE VACANT LOTS ON LIBERTY ARE IN FACT, WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF SUB AREA C OKAY.
'CAUSE IT DID NOT LOOK THAT WAY FROM THE MAP, BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
UM, I'LL MOVE ON TO THE HOTEL.
UM, I BELIEVE THAT, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER HEALY AND I, A YEAR AGO TRIED TO GET STORY POLLS, AND I BELIEVE THAT WAS TO SHOW THE HEIGHT AT 45 FEET, WHICH IS THE CURRENT HEIGHT STANDARD IN, UM, PETALUMA.
SO NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT GOING UP WITH SETBACKS TO AS HIGH AS 63 FEET.
IS THAT WHAT I'M READING CORRECTLY? OR DO WE WANT TO GO TO THE FULL 75 COUNCIL MEMBER NOW? THE, UM, LAST SUMMER WHEN WE DISCUSSED THE STORY PULL OPTION WITH COUNSEL, THE, UH, REQUEST WAS FOR THE STORY PULLS TO MODEL THE ACTUAL HEIGHT OF THE PROPOSED HOTEL.
SO IT WOULD'VE BEEN AT, I BELIEVE IT WAS 68 FEET.
AND, UM, WHERE WOULD THE STAGING BE FOR CONSTRUCTION? FOR THE HOTEL? WELL, IT WAS, IT'S A VERY SMALL FOOTPRINT.
WHERE WOULD THE CONSTRUCTION STAGING TAKE PLACE? I BELIEVE THAT'S A QUESTION THAT WE DID RECEIVE, UH, DURING THE PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING.
AND WE ARE WORKING ON THE ANSWER TO THAT AS PART OF THE RESPONSE TO THE FINAL, IN THE FINAL EIR.
I JUST THOUGHT MAYBE YOU HAD THAT ANSWER.
UM, AS FAR AS THE PARKING, UM, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF TALK ABOUT OFFSITE PARKING, AND I, LET'S SEE HOW I WORDED IT TO STAFF.
THE, UM, THE, IF A VEHICLE IS BEING LEFT FOR VALET PARKING, WHETHER IT'S IN THE PARKING GARAGE, WHERE IS THAT VEHICLE GOING TO BE IDLING OR WAITING FOR THE VALET TO COME AND TAKE THEIR KEYS AND MOVE THE CAR? WHEN A HOTEL GUEST ARRIVED, IT DIDN'T SAY WHETHER IT WAS GONNA BE B STREET OR WHETHER IT WAS GONNA BE PNO BOULEVARD.
AND THE REASON I ASK IS BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA BE A TRAFFIC WHERE THAT VEHICLE, THAT HOTEL PATRON IS GONNA BE PARKING AND IDLING THEIR CAR.
SO THE EIR DOES ANALYZE THE VALET OPERATIONS AND, UH, SERVICE AREA AND INCLUDING CONFLICTS WITH PEDESTRIANS, OBVIOUSLY, BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF, OF DOWNTOWN.
AND IT DOES OFFER, UM, IMPROVEMENTS TO THE CROSSWALKS, UH, AT THAT LOCATION AND,
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UH, AND IN THAT AREA.SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE EIR DOES, UH, TOUCH ON, AND HAPPY TO EXPAND ON THAT IN, UH, AS WE DEVELOP THE FINAL, IT JUST DIDN'T EXPLAIN WHERE, UM, THE, THE CURRENT TRAFFIC IS GONNA BE ABLE TO GO, IS THERE WASN'T, UM, THIS IS, WE'RE GONNA TAKE AWAY A PARKING SPOT ON B STREET FOR VALLEY PARKING, OR ARE THEY GONNA BE ABLE TO PULL INTO THE PARKING GARAGE UNDERNEATH AND THEY'RE GONNA, THAT'S WHERE THE ENTRANCE IS GONNA BE.
SO YOU CAN GET BACK TO ME ON THAT.
SO I'LL LEAVE THE REST OF THE QUESTIONS FOR LATER, MR. MAYOR.
DON'T WAIT, DON'T WAIT TOO MUCH LATER.
IT'S A, IT'S GOOD TO GET TO ALL, ALL OUR QUESTIONS OUT RIGHT NOW, MR. MAYOR, IF I, IF I MAY, YES.
UH, THE COUNCIL MEMBER HAD, UH, REFERENCED THE APPLICANT'S PRESENCE AT THIS EVENING'S PUBLIC HEARING.
AND STAFF DO WANT TO NOTE THAT A APPLICANT REPRESENTATIVE IS PRESENT HERE THIS EVENING.
UM, HOWEVER, WHEN WE BRING FORWARD THE DRAFT DIR, BECAUSE THE CITY IS THE LEAD AGENCY, WE BRING IT FORWARD IN THIS MANNER WHERE STAFF ARE REPRESENTING THE CITY AS LEAD AGENCY.
SO THERE'S NO REQUIREMENT THAT THE APPLICANT IS HERE OR TO BE AVAILABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
YEAH, SO JUST TO CLARIFY, IT'S AB 2097 AUTHORED BY LAURA FRIEDMAN, NOT SB 2097.
UM, THE PLANNING COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF THE OVERLAY ZONE, AND I KE I KEEP SEEING THE MAP AS THE, WHAT WASN'T THE SHRUNK DOWN VERSION OF THE, OF THE, OF SUBSECTION C.
SO MY FIRST QUESTION IS, UM, IS THE EIR GOING BACK TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION OR IS THE EIR AND THE OVERLAY ZONE GOING BACK TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION? UH, THAT IS, UH, AT COUNCIL'S DISCRETION.
UH, TONIGHT WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT FEEDBACK.
THE PLANNING COMMISSION, UH, DID REQUEST FOR THE FINAL EIR TO RETURN TO THEM BEFORE BEING CONSIDERED, UH, BY COUNCIL.
AND, UH, DID ASK THAT THE OVERLAY ORDINANCE ALSO BE RETURNED TO THEM BEFORE BEING CONSIDERED BY COUNSEL.
AND IF I MAY INTERRUPT FOR A SECOND TO ANTICIPATE THE WAY THE EVENING WILL GO, THERE'LL BE PUBLIC COMMENTS AND, UH, UM, AND THEN BACK ONTO COUNSEL.
AND AT SOME POINT, UM, THE EIGHT RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE IN THE STAFF REPORT PLUS OTHER THINGS WE'VE HEARD FROM COUNCIL, WE'LL NEED KIND OF A STRAW POLL OR WHATEVER TO SEE, TO SEE WHICH ONES MOVE FORWARD, UM, FROM COUNCIL TONIGHT, IF ANYTHING MOVES FORWARD.
BUT WE'LL LOOK ACROSS FOR WHAT WE'RE GONNA ADD TO THE, UH, EIGHT, EIGHT ITEMS THAT WERE PRESENTED FROM PLANNING AND, UH, AND ALSO DO A STRAW POLL ON THOSE PARTICULAR ONES.
AND THEN MY FINAL QUESTION IS, UM, SO WHICH OF THE SUBSECTION C ARE WE ACTUALLY, UH, LOOKING AT TONIGHT? ARE WE LOOKING AT WHAT, WHAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED TO US, UM, WITHOUT FRONTAGES ON KELLER STREET? OR ARE WE LOOKING AT THE, THE WHOLE, WE ARE LOOKING AT THE EIR TONIGHT.
SO WE ARE LOOKING AT THE, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT.
WE'RE LOOKING AT THE FULL, UH, ALL THREE OF THE SUB AREAS AS THEY'RE SHOWN ON THE MAP WITH NO MODIFICATIONS, UH, AND THE HOTEL AS HAS BEEN PROPOSED.
SO, UM, AS AN ALTERNATIVE, WHEN WE GET TO OUR COUNCIL COMMENTS, WE COULD SUGGEST, UH, A MODIFIED SUBSECTION C OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN ACCORDANCE WITH WHAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED.
AND THAT'S BECAUSE IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR STAFF TO MAKE SURE THE ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS, CONS ANALYSIS CONSIDERED THE FULL UNIVERSE OF WHAT THE COUNCIL MAY WISH TO APPROVE, RECOGNIZING OR NOT, AND RECOGNIZING THAT YOU MAY HAVE SOME SUBTRACTIVE CHANGES WHICH DON'T REQUIRE NEW SQL PROCESS 'CAUSE WE'LL HAVE ALREADY DONE A ROBUST ANALYSIS THAT THAT'S THE THINKING.
UM, THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS.
UM, COUNCIL MEMBER CATER THOMPSON, I'LL, I'LL WAIT UNTIL THE COMMENT ABOUT SUBSECTION C AND WHAT WAS DISCUSSED AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND WHERE WE WANTED TO GO WITH THAT.
MAYOR, IF I COULD JUST ADD, UH, IN RESPONSE TO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER BARN NICOLE'S QUESTION, I DID JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THE ALTERNATIVES EVALUATED, UH, DO INCLUDE THE REDUCED AREA C ALTERNATIVE THAT WOULD ALIGN WITH THE RECOMMENDATION FROM PLANNING COMMISSION.
SO THAT IS ALREADY IN, IN THE ALTERNATIVES.
LET ME ASK THAT A DIFFERENT WAY IF I COULD.
UM, SO, UM, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, UM, IN NOVEMBER, THE PLANNING COMMISSION MOVED FORWARD THIS TO THE COUNCIL UNDER MITIGATE A NEGATIVE DECK AND, AND UNDER THE ORDINANCE AS IT WAS, AND COUNCIL
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HASN'T SEEN THE ORDINANCE.UH, FOR ME, THAT PUTS US AT A REAL DISADVANTAGE NOT HAVING SEEN THE, THE ORDINANCE AND MAYBE EVEN BUMPING IT BACK TO, UH, PLANNING WITHOUT HAVING A CHANCE TO COMMENT AND DO A LITTLE BACK AND FORTH THERE.
UM, AND IT ALSO GREW INTO AN EIR.
AND, UM, BUT WHERE I'M GOING WITH THE QUESTION IS, IF WE MODIFY IN THE ORDINANCE, THE SECTION SIZES AND THE LOCATION AND WHATNOT, SO LONG AS THEY'RE REDUCTIONS, THEY DON'T REALLY TRIGGER ANY NEW EIR EFFORT.
RIGHT? UH, I THINK THAT'S A, UH, GENERALLY THAT IS CORRECT.
UM, THE INTENT OF THE ALTERNATIVES IS TO EVALUATE A RANGE SO THAT THERE'S SOME FLEXIBILITY WITHIN WHERE THAT EXACTLY LANDS.
AND SO, UM, AS I JUST STATED, THE REDUCED AREA C ALTERNATIVE DOES ALIGN WITH THAT RECOMMENDATION THAT CAME FROM PLANNING COMMISSION, BUT IF YOU FURTHER WANTED TO, TO REFINE IT OR, UM, AUGMENT IT IN SOME WAY, UH, I THINK THAT THE RANGE HERE MOST LIKELY WOULD BE COVERED BY THE CIR.
UM, AND ANOTHER CONCERN I, I DID HEAR WAS, UM, AT, AT PLANNING AND THEN DIRECTED THEM TO US, ME THAT, UM, UM, THAT DELIVERIES, UM, ARE NOT DETAILED.
IS, IS, IS THAT A THING THAT THE EIR ACTUALLY, UM, REQUIRES OR DOES IT, UH, REQUIRE SUBMITTAL A PLAN? OR WHAT DOES IT REQUIRE? HOW DOES IT ASSESS THAT? UM, THE EIR DOES LOOK AT BOTH CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION, AND THAT WOULD INCLUDE, UM, ONGOING DELIVERIES AND, AND MAINTENANCE AND, AND WHATNOT AS WELL.
SO, UM, THAT IS, UH, WHAT THE EI IS INTENDED TO COVER.
UM, ALSO IN ONE OF THE, UH, LETTERS, UM, PROBABLY TODAY, UM, THERE WAS, UH, IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT, UH, MUCH OF THE HISTORICAL, UH, DATA HAD, UM, INADEQUACY TO IT, NOT INADEQUACY, ADD ERRORS IN IT, MAYBE ADDRESS ERRORS OR DATE OF, UH, I THINK IT WAS, WAS THAT WAS, UH, A LETTER THAT CAME IN TODAY.
AND, UM, AND I THINK THE, THE, THE COMMENT WAS THAT IT RELIED ON FEEDBACK FROM, FROM, UH, PET PETALUMA HISTORICAL LIBRARY OR COUNTY, UH, LIBRARY, UM, RATHER THAN TRUE INVESTIGATION.
AND I'M ASSUMING THAT ALL THE ERRORS, UM, SUGGESTED WILL BE REVIEWED AND, AND, YOU KNOW, CORROBORATED FOR CORRECTNESS.
BUT WHERE CAN WE SAY ONLY PROFESSIONAL REVIEW OF A DOCUMENT BY SOMEONE INVOLVED IN A PROJECT RATHER THAN A REQUEST FOR DATA FROM AN, FROM A NON-PROFESSIONAL SOURCE? YOU KNOW, IF, SINCE THE LIBRARY DOESN'T HAVE SOMEONE ON STAFF DOING THIS AND CERTIFYING THIS, CAN WE PUT THIS IN? DOES THAT GO INTO THE, INTO THE ORDINANCE RATHER THAN, I MEAN, THERE'S NO PLACE IN THE EIR FOR THIS, RIGHT? IF THE ERROR GETS POINTED OUT, WE FIX THE ERROR, BUT HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT GETTING BAD DATA? UH, SO I, I AM, I, I'M FOR A QUALITY STANDARD, UH, QUALITY STANDARD IN PREPARATION OF HISTORIC RESOURCE EVALUATIONS.
YES, THERE'S VERY CLEAR GUIDELINES FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR STANDARD, AND THAT IS WHAT THE MITIGATION, UH, DOES REQUIRE, IS THAT PREPARATION.
AND THEN WE DID GET A RECOMMENDATION FROM PLANNING COMMISSION TO, UH, FURTHER LOOK AT HOW WE MIGHT REFINE THAT AND ADD SOME CLARITY TO THAT, UH, MEASURE.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE WILL BE DOING IN THE FINAL ABSOLUTELY.
IN, UM, IN, IN THE ORDINANCE, NOT IN THE IR OR BOTH.
I WANNA MAKE SURE IT GETS INTO THE ORDINANCE TOO.
UM, AND THEN I DID HAVE THE SAME QUESTION ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, EK HAS BEEN IN THE NEWSPAPER HERE, AND WHERE CAN, YOU KNOW, WHERE, WHERE DOES THAT CONCERN APPEAR? AND I THINK THAT QUESTION GOT ANSWERED THAT IT, IT COMES IN DURING THE PROJECT SPAR AND ENTITLEMENT REQUESTS.
THAT'S WHEN WE HAVE ALL THIS DISCRETION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY'RE ASKING FOR THINGS THAT ARE CONDITIONAL AND WE CAN SAY YES OR NO, AND SO WE CAN ASK FOR THEIR FINANCIAL SECURITY.
OR IS, IS THAT A POSSIBLE, IS IT POSSIBLE TO ASK FOR AN APPLICANT'S FINANCIAL SECURITY DURING THE PROJECT, UH, APPLICATION PERIOD? YOU BET.
THAT'S A, WAS A VERY SHORT ANSWER FOR IT.
DID I, I I, I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A, I THINK I STU A MAYOR WITH THAT.
UH, THAT MIGHT BE A, A RECORD THERE.
AND, UM, THEN, UM, I, I BELIEVE THAT THAT THE, UM, GRAPHIC I'VE SEEN SO MUCH OF IS, UH, THE HIGH GLASS HOTEL SURFACE, AND NOW IT LOOKS TO BE A, A DIFFERENT SURFACING.
UH, WHEN AND WHY DID THAT CHANGE? SINCE, YOU KNOW, IT HASN'T COME TO COUNCIL.
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MY NAME'S ISABEL CASTANO PRESERVATION SPECIALIST.
UH, SO YOUR QUESTION WAS HOW HAS THE HOTEL CHANGED? AND THROUGH THIS PROCESS, THE HOTEL HAS BEEN PRESENTED, UH, TO PLANNING COMMISSION AND TO THE HCPC COLLECTING FEEDBACK, UH, FROM THESE COMMITTEE BODIES AND FROM THE PUBLIC.
UH, SO THROUGH THAT, UM, STUDY SESSION, UH, FEEDBACK, DESIGN REVIEWS, UM, THE, THE EXTERIOR HAS BEEN MODIFIED, UH, TO REFLECT, UH, THAT, THAT FEEDBACK THAT'S BEEN PROVIDED.
UM, AND YOU ARE CORRECT, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME BEING PRESENTED TO CITY COUNCIL, UH, SEEING THE RENDERING, SEEING THE PROJECT, AND THE, AND, UH, REVIEWING THE DRAFT, EIR.
UM, AND AGAIN, UH, ALL THE COMMENTS ARE REALLY HELPFUL TO GO BACK TO THE FINAL EIR.
UH, BUT IN TERMS OF THE DESIGN, UH, THERE, THERE IS, UH, PROGRESS THROUGH THE STUDY SESSION AND IT WOULD BE FINALLY, UH, REVIEWED WHEN, UH, THE HAR APPLICATION GETS PRESENTED TO THE HCPC.
AND I THINK THAT'S GONNA HOLD ME ON, UH, QUESTIONS AS WELL.
DOES ANYBODY, UM, ANOTHER QUESTION BEFORE WE TURN IT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, THEN, UM, I'D LIKE TO, UM, MOVE THIS TO, UM, THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD ON, ON THE ITEM.
AND, UM, WE, UM, UH, UM, AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR CLERK TO MAKE, TO READ OUR MESSAGING FOR, FOR PUBLIC COMMENT TONIGHT.
UM, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ATTENDING IN PERSON SHOULD BRING THEIR SPEAKER CARDS TO THE CLERK'S DESK IF THEY HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO.
SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO BE RESPECTFUL IN THEIR COMMENTS AND THAT THIS MEETING IS BEING TRANSLATED.
PLEASE PAUSE BETWEEN SENTENCES FOR TRANSLATION.
ALSO, WE DID RECEIVE, I THINK, ABOUT 21 COMMENTS AT THE TIME THAT THE AGENDA WAS PUBLISHED, THAT WE'VE RECEIVED SEVERAL MORE.
AND WE'LL PUBLISH THOSE TOMORROW AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE'S COMMENTS GET IN.
AND, UM, ARE WE, NOW, ARE WE RUNNING THE, UH, 32ND CLOCK THAT EXPIRE? OH ONE.
AND, UH, SO, UH, WE'LL GET STARTED HERE.
UH, WE HAVE, UH, 19, UH, COMMENTS.
AND, UH, TOM GAFFEY WILL BE OUR FIRST SPEAKER TO BE FOLLOWED BY, UH, JULIE BENTON.
MR. MAYOR, JUST TO CONFIRM, THAT'S A ONE MINUTE CLAP FOR EACH SPEAKER.
UH, NO, UH, LEAVE THIS ONE, UH, WIDE OPEN.
AND, AND, UH, THANKS FOR THE WORK YOU GUYS ARE DOING.
UM, QUESTIONS FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION LAST WEEK, WHICH WERE NOT ANSWERED.
QUESTIONS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT, WHICH ARE NOT QUITE ANSWERED.
UH, THE QUESTION IS THE EIR ADEQUATE, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO ACTUALLY DECIDE THAT, SO PLEASE DON'T MOVE THIS THING FORWARD.
YOU ALL HAVE QUESTIONS? WE ALL HAVE QUESTIONS.
NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN, THERE'S AN ADDITIONAL $161,000 THAT WE'RE ALL GONNA BE ASKED TO PAY.
IT'S NOT JUST YOUR MONEY, IT'S CERTAINLY NOT STAFF'S MONEY.
WHERE DID THAT CHARGE COME FROM BEFORE YOU EVEN AGREE TO PAY THAT? YOU HAVE A WHOLE CITY OF CITIZENS WHO WANT TO KNOW WHY ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'RE PAYING $161,000 TO MOVE THIS HOTEL FORWARD FOR EKN, WHICH BY THE WAY, MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH THIS PROJECT IF YOU'RE ALL AWARE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THEIR TAHOE PROJECT.
SO PLEASE, THIS EIR IS NOT ADEQUATE.
YOU ALL HAVE, MOST OF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, JUST SO THAT IT DOESN'T COME UP LATER TONIGHT.
I'VE BEEN IN PETALUMA SINCE THE FIFTIES.
SO I AM NOT INTERESTED IN KEEPING THIS TOWN IN THE FIFTIES.
I'M NOT INTERESTED IN KEEPING THIS TOWN SMALL AND QUAINT.
I'M JUST INTERESTED IN US DOING THIS APPROPRIATELY AND NOT DESTROYING WHAT WE HAVE THAT IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF LIVING IN THIS TOWN.
SO, PLEASE, THIS THING IS NOT READY YET.
UM, PLEASE, I THINK, I THINK I'VE MENTIONED ABOUT, UH, UH, APPLAUSE AND, UH, BOO, WE, WE WANNA KEEP THE QUORUM CORRECT AND APPRECIATE YOUR SUP SUPPORT ON THAT.
UM, WHAT WE SAY, JULIA MINTON, JULIA BURTON.
ANYWAY, UM, I FIRST WAS WRITING DOWN, PLEASE DON'T GO FORWARD THAT WITH THIS NO GOOD, VERY BAD,
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UGLY BUILDING PLANS THAT THE BUILDING IS JUST UGLY.I MEAN, DON'T YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT ARCHITECTS IN THE WORLD? AND, AND ONE MORE THING TO SAY THAT THERE WAS AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT.
I'M PART OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND I DON'T WANT IT.
AND I DON'T WANNA GO PAST EVERY DAY ON THE BOULEVARD AND LOOK AT AN UGLY BUILDING THAT, YEAH, I'M PRICED OUT OF THAT KIND OF STUFF.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, NANCY OLIS, UH, TO BE FOLLOWED BY KIM WHEELER.
SO THANKS A LOT, GUYS, FOR ALL THE INFORMATION.
IT WAS A LITTLE CONFUSING WITH ALL THE ACRONYMS TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT, BUT IT DID SOUND LIKE, UM, WHEN THEY WERE DOING THE TRAFFIC, UH, THE ITE, THEY WERE USING NATIONAL AVERAGES.
AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT QUITE HAS TO DO WITH PETALUMA.
I, I LIVE VERY CLOSE TO PETALUMA BOULEVARD ON D THERE'S LOTS OF TRAFFIC.
I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE INDIVIDUAL TO PETALUMA.
UM, ALSO THE, WHEN I WAS HERE AT ANOTHER MEETING, THE HISTORIC COMMITTEE DID NOT LIKE THE WHOLE PLAN, THE OVERLAY BECAUSE IT RUINED THE FEEL OF OUR DOWNTOWN.
AND THAT'S PART OF IT, NOT EACH INDIVIDUAL BUILDING.
AND ALSO FOR THE, THE HOTEL OR THIS WHOLE IDEA OF PUTTING BIG BUILDINGS IN OUR HISTORIC DOWNTOWN, PUTTING A STEP BACK MAYBE CHANGES THE VIEW FROM ONE POINT DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET LOOKING AT IT.
IT DOESN'T TAKE INTO THE EFFECT OF WHEN YOU'RE UP AT THE WATER TOWERS LOOKING DOWN OR YOU'RE DRIVING INTO PETALUMA FROM THE BELT BOULEVARD SOUTH.
AND LOOK, THE FIRST THING YOU'RE GONNA SEE IS THAT SIX STORY THING.
IT DOESN'T TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION.
THEY, UH, ONE OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TALKED ABOUT IDLING.
OKAY, YOU HAVE 48 PARKING SPOTS, A 93 ROOM HOTEL AND A RESTAURANT THAT IS SUPPOSEDLY GONNA DRAW THESE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE GONNA BE DRIVING AROUND LOOKING FOR PARKING.
THAT ISN'T THAT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT BECAUSE THEY CAN'T JUST PARK.
AND THAT'S AFFECTING US WHO LIVE HERE AND WHO COME HERE TO SHOP.
I REALLY FEEL UPSET THAT THE OVERLAY HAS BEEN PUSHED WITH THIS HOTEL.
THEY'RE TWO SEPARATE PROJECTS AND THEY SHOULDN'T BE PUSHED TOGETHER THAT WE'RE COMING UP WITH A NEW GENERAL PLAN.
IT SHOULD BE, IF YOU WANT AN OVERLAY DEAL WITH IT, THEN IT SHOULDN'T BE SHOVED THROUGH.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHOSE IDEA WAS IT TO DO AN OVERLAY? LIKE WHO BROUGHT UP THIS GREAT IDEA? ORIGINALLY IT WAS JUST GONNA BE A HOTEL.
I DON'T KNOW WHO DECIDED WE NEEDED THIS.
ANYBODY KNOW? LIKE, HOW DID IT BECOME AN OVERLAY? I'D REALLY LIKE TO KNOW.
AND AS FOR REX HARDWARE, YES, IT BURNED DOWN A WHILE.
IT MAY NOT BE ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER, BUT IT IS HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT TO PETALUMA.
AND I DON'T THINK YOU'RE TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THAT KIND OF STUFF.
THANK YOU KIM WHEELER TO BE FOLLOWED BY DEBBIE RAFANELLI.
UM, I'M NOT AS QUITE AS PREPARED AS EVERYBODY WAS, SO I APOLOGIZE.
UM, I AM THE OWNER NOW OF SUGO TRIA, UH, RESTAURANT RIGHT ACROSS FROM WHERE THIS IS GOING TO BE BUILT.
UM, I DO SEE ADVANTAGES TO ME AS A RESTAURANT TO HAVE A HOTEL NEXT DOOR.
UM, 'CAUSE THE PEOPLE AREN'T ALWAYS GONNA GO TO THE RESTAURANT IN THAT BUILDING, RIGHT? SO I DO SEE THAT BENEFIT.
UM, AND I'M ALSO BEEN AT SUGO FOR TWO YEARS PRIOR TO BECOMING OWNER.
AND I KNOW WHEN THE PEOPLE COME INTO TOWN TO VISIT US, IT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH OUR AESTHETICS AND OUR BEAUTY OF OUR DOWNTOWN.
I DON'T WANNA SEE THAT CHANGE.
SO IF THE HOTEL WANTS TO GO IN, STAY WITHIN OUR GUIDELINES THAT WE ALREADY HAVE.
YOU TALK ABOUT PARKING IN THIS EIR AND IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE ONLY TALKING ABOUT THE 58 VEHICLES IN RE REPRESENTATION TO THE 93 HOTEL ROOMS. WHAT ABOUT THE 150? DO 150 PERSON RESTAURANT, THE 60 PERSON EVENT, UP ON THE, UM, SIXTH FLOOR.
THE, UM, A HUNDRED AND FORTY, FOURTEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY FOUR SQUARE FOOT EVENT SPACE, WHICH I LOOKED UP, COULD HOLD UP TO 190 PEOPLE.
IF YOU HAVE A FULL HOTEL, YOU HAVE A FULL RESTAURANT, YOU HAVE A FULL EVENT CENTER, YOU HAVE A FULL BAR, THERE'S ALL THESE CARS COMING
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IN.I ALREADY HAVE PEOPLE STRUGGLE, COME TO MY RESTAURANT, THEY CAN'T FIND PARKING.
MY STAFF HAS TROUBLE FINDING PARKING AND I LOVE LUMA GO.
I HOPE IT GROWS AND EXPANDS AND IT BECOMES AN EVEN BIGGER THING.
AND POTENTIALLY WE'RE GETTING AHEAD OF THE THINGS, BUT THERE'S A HUGE IMPACT TO THE DOWNTOWN BY THIS HOTEL.
UM, AND THEN YOU TALK ABOUT ALL THE OVER OVERLAY THINGS, BUT, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS.
AGAIN, I DO SEE THE BENEFIT ONCE IT'S BUILT, THAT I COULD SEE SOME POTENTIAL INCREASE OF MY BUSINESS, BUT I ALSO COULD SEE A DECREASE IN MY BUSINESS BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN'T GET TO ME.
I ALSO AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS HOTEL AND HOW THAT'S GONNA AFFECT MY BUSINESS WHILE IT'S BEING BUILT.
I HAVE OUTDOOR SEATING THAT I ACTUALLY WANNA MAKE, EVEN BEAU MORE BEAUTIFUL AND I WANNA INVEST IN.
BUT IF I'M GONNA HAVE THIS OVER THERE AND DIGGING AND ALL THIS KIND OF STUFF, PEOPLE AREN'T GONNA WANNA SIT OUTSIDE MY RESTAURANT
UM, AND RIGHT NOW I'M SEEING MORE NEGATIVES THAN I'M SEEING POSITIVES TO IT.
DEBBIE ELLI TO BE FOLLOWED BY CHANTEL ROGERS.
UM, I'VE LIVED IN PETALUMA FOR 37 YEARS, AND I STILL FEEL LIKE A BABY COMPARED TO SOME OF MY FRIENDS WHO'VE BEEN HERE FOR GENERATIONS.
THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF POSITIVES IN PETALUMA, BUT RIGHT NOW, UM, I'M NOT FEELING IT.
AND I FEEL LIKE PROBABLY ALL OF US WHO'VE WAITED TO TALK TONIGHT FEEL THERE.
THE DOWNTOWN, THEY'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS HOTEL FOREVER.
AND THE BIG PROBLEM IS AESTHETICS IS ONE, BUT THE BIGGER THING IS PARKING AND CONGESTION.
AND THE TWO OF YOU REALLY FOCUSED ON THAT.
IF, IF VALET, THAT'S GONNA BE CRAZY WITH YOU TRYING TO GET ACROSS THE STREET.
AND YOU'RE SAYING OVER THERE THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FIXING THE, UH, CROSSWALK THAT'S GONNA MAKE NO DIFFERENCE ON VALET PARKING.
AND YOU DON'T LIVE IN PETALUMA.
AS SHE WAS JUST SAYING, THE HOTEL WORKERS ARE PART OF THE EQUATION TOO.
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT GUESTS, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE ARE GONNA, THE HOTEL, THE BAR, UM, WHO WORK THERE.
WE'RE TALKING HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE AND FIF 4 53 PARKING SPACES.
I WAS WRITING THINGS DOWN AS WE GO.
UM, BASICALLY I HAVE THE SAME CONCERNS AS EVERYONE ELSE.
UH, PEOPLE COME TO PETALUMA BECAUSE IT'S A HISTORIC DOWNTOWN.
IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE MOVED HERE.
WHEN WE MOVED HERE, THERE WERE 32,000 PEOPLE.
IT'S STILL A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE TOWN.
IT STILL HAS THAT SMALL TOWN OF APPEAL.
I GO DOWN TO THE PENINSULA WHERE I LIVED BEFORE I LIVED HERE, AND EVERYTHING SKY RISES.
I DON'T WANT PETALUMA TO LOOK LIKE THAT.
NONE OF US MOVED HERE TO HAVE PETALUMA LOOK LIKE THAT.
WE WANT PETALUMA TO LOOK LIKE THE BEAUTIFUL HISTORIC TOWN.
IT IS IN THE, I ALSO AGREE WITH THE OVERLAY, WHAT THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE HOTEL.
THEY'RE TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SUBJECTS AND I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY'RE ON THE SAME PLAN.
IT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE TO ME OR A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE.
UM, JUST REAL QUICK, YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY.
RIGHT NOW, PETAL IS GOING THROUGH THE BAD AND THE UGLY AND HOPE WE GO BACK TO THE GOOD.
CHANTEL RO ROGERS TO BE FOLLOWED BY WAYNE TRO.
UM, AT ALL SPEECH GOING HERE, MOSTLY RELATED TO THE IDEA THAT THIS WAS FEELING REALLY RUSHED, AND THAT AS THE PUBLIC, WE REALLY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO ABSORB THE INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF DATA THAT'S BEING THROWN AT US.
THE FIRST THREE AND A HALF ARE ACRONYMS AND, UH, ABBREVIATIONS TO HELP US UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE THING.
AND IN A MONTH, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO THAT AT THE SAME TIME THAT WE'RE TRYING TO EVALUATE THE, UH, RECENTLY, UH, RELEASED, UH, GENERAL PLAN, LAND USE FRAMEWORK.
SO IT, IT'S A LOT FOR THE PUBLIC TO TRY TO ABSORB IN TERMS OF LAND USAGE.
UM, BUT THEN
BUT I, I DON'T, I'M, I'M, I'M, I'M UNCLEAR.
OKAY? I THINK I REMEMBER, AND YOU KNOW, CORRECT ME
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IF I'M WRONG, THAT THE HOTEL CAME FORTH AND SAID, OH, WE WANNA PUT UP A SIX STORY HOTEL.AND WE SAID, NO, WE CAN'T DO THAT.
WE ALL THOUGHT IT COULDN'T HAPPEN.
AND SO THEN THE, UH, HOTEL OWNER SAYS, WELL, THE CITY CAME BACK AND SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, UM, IF WE HAVE THIS, UH, OVERLAY ZONE, THEN WE CAN JUSTIFY, WE CAN, UM, WORK THIS HOTEL IN AS PART OF THE OVERLAY PROCESS.
THAT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE ONLY REASON THAT THE OVERLAY EVER, UM, CAME INTO FRUITION WAS BECAUSE WE COULDN'T JUST HAVE A HOTEL.
AND NOW APPARENTLY WE CAN JUST HAVE A HOTEL.
SO HOW DID WE EVER, I I'M, I'M TOTALLY CONFUSED BY BY HOW WE GOT HERE.
IT FEELS VERY, AND IT ALWAYS FELT SORT OF LIKE ANOTHER AGENDA, LIKE PEOPLE WHO WANTED HOUSING DOWNTOWN FOUND A WAY TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN ALONG WITH THE HOTEL.
AND THIS IS WHERE A LOT OF PEOPLE WANTED THE GENERAL PLAN TO GO.
ANYWAY, SO WE'LL SEGUE THIS INTO THE, UH, INTO THE OVERLAY.
AND I FEEL LIKE WE'VE ALL JUST BEEN TOTALLY DUPED.
AND I, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE GOT HERE, BUT SOMEBODY'S GOT SOME EXPLAINING TO DO BECAUSE THIS, THIS IS JUST NOT OKAY.
AND, UM,
GOOD LUCK EXPLAINING THIS ONE GUYS, BECAUSE, UM, I'M REALLY INTERESTED TO HEAR HOW THIS HAPPENED.
AND NOW WE'RE PAYING $161,000.
WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT EITHER.
WAYNE TRO TO BE FOLLOWED BY DARREN KUZEN.
I'VE BEEN IN THIS TOWN FOR ABOUT 30 YEARS.
SO, UM, WHEN LOOKING AT, I FIRST ATTENDED THIS, UH, THIS DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT, UM, A LOT OF THINGS WERE OMITTED.
AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT I THINK IS THE, UH, HAZMAT, THE HYDROCARBONS, THE FIRST MITIGATION OF THAT, UM, UH, PROPERTY WAS ONLY DONE TO THE DEPTH OF 10 FEET.
THEY STOPPED WHEN THEY HIT THE WATER TABLE.
SO IT, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO WITH THE, THE MATERIAL THAT IS COMING OUTTA THAT SITE BECAUSE IT WAS AN OLD GAS STATION.
IS THERE BENZENE OR HYDROCARBONS, OTHER CONTAMINATES IN THAT SITE? NOT JUST HISTORICAL, YOU KNOW, UM, STUFF, BUT, UH, WHAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT IS THAT THERE'S NOW, UM, CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL ON THAT SITE.
UH, THERE'S, YEAH, I PULLED THE, THE PERMIT FOR THAT IS THERE'S A GRADING PERMIT FOR THAT SITE THAT HAS THE, UM, THE ADDITION OF 200 TONS OF ROCK TO BE GRADED.
IT'S NO ACCIDENT THAT IS IN FRONT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT OR THROUGH THE, THE ZONING PROCESS, THE REZONING PROCESS BECAUSE, UM, IT, IT HAD TO HAVE BEEN PLACED THERE.
THE FENCE HAD TO BE TAKEN DOWN AND THE CONSTRUCTION HAS STARTED.
I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT STARTS BEFORE ALL THESE PROCESSES ARE ARE IN PLACE.
'CAUSE ALL ALL, UM, THINGS SHOULD BE, UH, PROVEN BEFORE THE THE PERMITS BE BE ACCEPTED.
SO WHY IS THAT MATERIAL ON THAT SITE? IT'S NOT JUST A STAGING AREA.
'CAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT 1 0 1 FOURTH STREET, THERE'S ALSO MORE BUILDING MATERIAL.
THERE'S A CONEX BOX AROUND, UH, AROUND ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT REZONING AREA.
SO IF YOU'RE ASKING FOR WHERE THE, THE LAY DOWN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL IS, IT'S IN THAT SAME FOOTPRINT.
IT'S NOT A MISTAKE THAT IT LOOKS LIKE IT, THEY'VE SUPERSEDED THE, THE PROCESS BY, UM, GOING AHEAD AND STARTING THIS BUILDING, UH, PROCESS.
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BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE WHO IS, WHO'S INVOLVED AND, AND WHO SIGNED OFF FOR IT.THANK YOU DARREN KUEN TO BE FOLLOWED BY, UH, SONYA CARRABELLE.
UH, FIRST TOPIC I'M GONNA COVER IS ONE OF THE LINCHPIN MITIGATIONS IN THE DOCUMENT THAT'S MM, OVERLAY CUL ONE E, WHICH I THINK NEEDS TO BE FURTHER EXPLORED AND I THINK MIGHT BE A DEFERRED MITIGATION.
UH, OTHER COMMISSIONERS AT OUR HCPC AND PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 24TH AGREED THAT THAT PROBABLY NEEDED WORK.
UM, EVEN AT THE LEVEL OF A PROGRAMMATIC EIR REVIEW, WE DON'T WANT TO JUST KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD TO A FUTURE DISCRETIONARY REVIEW TO MITIGATE IMPACTS.
WE NEED TO MITIGATE IMPACTS, UH, IN THE PRESENT.
SO DESIGN STANDARDS WERE DISCUSSED, SOMETHING LIKE THAT INTEGRATED INTO THE OVERLAY ZONE TO ACTUALLY MITIGATE THE ISSUES.
NOW WHEN IT COMES TO AESTHETICS AND CULTURAL IMPACTS, THAT CU L ONE E AGAIN IS THE LINCHPIN REFERENCE FOR HOW WE'RE MITIGATING AESTHETIC AND CULTURAL IMPACTS.
AND I THINK IT DEFINITELY NEEDS WORK.
PARKING WAS REFERENCED EARLY AND OFTEN IN OUR MEETING, ESPECIALLY ITS SECONDARY IMPACTS ON TRAFFIC, GREENHOUSE GASES, VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED.
I'M SURE ANYONE WHO WATCHED THE MEETING KNOWS COMMISSIONER FRY ILLUSTRATED HER POINT PRETTY VIVIDLY WITH SOME RATHER CONVINCING CALCULATIONS.
TO ME, THIS MAY BE A GLARING OMISSION FROM THE DRAFT EIR IS AGAIN, NOT ANALYZING THOSE SECONDARY IMPACTS CAUSED BY PARKING.
GENERAL PLAN CONSISTENCY WAS AN AREA I FOCUSED ON.
SO IF YOU SEE TABLE 3.3 DASH THREE IN THE DRAFT EIR AND YOU REALLY READ THROUGH THAT, THERE ARE BULLET POINTS, POLICIES AND GOALS PULLED FROM THE CURRENT GENERAL PLAN 2025.
BUT IN REVIEWING THOSE AND READING THE GENERAL PLAN, ESPECIALLY ELEMENTS ONE THROUGH THREE, I FOUND A LOT OF INCONSISTENCIES AND I THINK THERE WAS A LOT OF MISSING CONTEXT.
UH, A PARTICULAR NOTE IN FRAMEWORK ONE OF GENERAL PLAN 2025 FAR FLOOR AREA RATIO IS CALLED OUT AS AN IMPORTANT CONTROL ON BUILDING MASS AND TRAFFIC.
IT'S REPLETE THROUGHOUT THAT SECTION.
I THINK ALL THE POLICIES AND GOALS ARE IN THAT CONTEXT.
SO BIGGER COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS TO THE TUNE OF WHAT IS PROPOSED BY THE OVERLAY ARE STRONGLY INCONSISTENT WITH FOUNDATIONAL AREAS OF GENERAL PLAN 2025.
I THINK THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF OTHER ISSUES PRESENTED BY BOTH THE PUBLIC AND AT THAT PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, ONE QUESTION I HAD IS, YOU KNOW, WE REFERENCED AGAIN, DESIGN STANDARDS, UH, AND POTENTIALLY MAKING SOME CHANGES TO THE OVERLAY TO MITIGATE IMPACTS.
BUT A AS IT WAS BROUGHT UP, I THINK WE HAVE A LIVE APPROVAL OF A GENERAL PLANNED AMENDMENT FOR THE OVERLAY AS WRITTEN.
AND I'M NOT SURE THAT WE COULD MAKE ANY IMPACTS AT THIS STAGE OR MAKE ANY CHANGES AT THIS STAGE.
UH, ESPECIALLY INTEGRATING THAT INTO A SQA ANALYSIS.
I DON'T THINK WE CAN ADD MITIGATIONS AT THIS POINT TO THE OVERLAY BUILD IN MITIGATIONS BECAUSE AT LEAST PLANNING COMMISSIONS MOVED IT FORWARD.
SO I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THAT INTERACTION.
SO I MADE THE CASE AT THAT MEETING AND TONIGHT THAT THERE ARE ENOUGH SIGNIFICANT DEFICIENCIES THAT WOULD CHANGE THE COMPLEXION OF THIS EIR ANALYSIS.
AND THIS DRAFT SHOULD BE PULLED BACK AND REVISE.
YOU GUYS COULD ALSO EXTEND IT TO THE END OF THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD.
I THINK WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THAT THRESHOLD.
WHEN IS THE DRAFT EIR INADEQUATE? I KNOW STAFF HAS ADVISED THE ISSUES CAN BE DEFERRED IN THE FINAL DRAFT, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO DO RIGHT BY THE RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER QUA AND BY RIGHT BY THE COMMUNITY.
UH, KARABELL TO BE FOLLOWED BY CATHERINE REINHARDT.
UM, I'M SONYA CARRABELLE AND I'M WITH UNITE HERE.
LOCAL TWO, WHICH IS THE HOTEL WORKERS UNION FOR THE NORTH BAY AND AROUND THE BAY AREA.
UM, AND WE, UH, THOUGH WE'RE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT MORE HOUSING IN THE DOWNTOWN, WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT THE IMPACTS OF THE APPALACHIAN HOTEL.
UM, WE REQUEST THAT A HOUSING ONLY OVERLAY SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, AND WE BELIEVE THAT THAT SHOULD BE STUDIED AS AN ALTERNATIVE IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT.
UH, THIS WOULD BE A MORE ECONOMICALLY JUST ALTERNATIVE, AND WE ALSO BELIEVE IT WOULD HAVE A SMALLER ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.
UH, AS OUR MEMBERS WELL KNOW, THERE'S A DIRE JOBS HOUSING IMBALANCE HERE IN PETALUMA AND AROUND THE NORTH BAY.
UM, THERE'S A SEVERE SHORTAGE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
OUR MEM OUR MEMBERS WHO WORK AT THE PETALUMA SHERATON AND OTHER HOTELS IN SONOMA COUNTY EXPERIENCED THAT SHORTAGE THROUGH CRAMPED HOUSING, DIFFICULTY PAYING RENT AND LONG COMMUTE TIMES.
70 PER PERCENT OF LOW INCOME RENTERS IN PETALUMA, WHICH WOULD BE A SINGLE PERSON MAKING 40 TO $65,000 A YEAR, OR 20 TO $30 AN HOUR, ARE RENT BURDENED, MEANING THEY PAY OVER 30% OF THEIR INCOME IN RENT.
A LOW WAGE HOTEL WILL ONLY MAKE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING SHORTAGE WORSE.
FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE, A HOUSING ONLY OVERLAY WILL ENCOURAGE TRULY TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT WHILE RESIDENTS OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS WITHIN THE OVERLAY ZONE MAY BE VERY LIKELY TO USE SMART OR OTHER TRANSIT TO WALK OR BIKE TO NEARBY DESTINATIONS.
UH, AND HOTEL EMPLOYEES MAY BE LIKELY TO USE SMART OR OTHER TRANSIT TO GET TO WORK.
IT'S VERY UNLIKELY THAT MANY HOTEL GUESTS
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WILL DRAG THEIR LUGGAGE ROUGHLY HALF A MILE FROM THE SMART STATION TO THE PROPOSED HOTEL UNDER THE PET.THE PETALUMA ZONING CODE PROJECTS WITHIN HALF A MILE OF A MAJOR TRANSIT STOP ARE EXEMPTED FROM VEHICLE MILES TRAVELS ANALYSIS.
BUT PER THE VMT IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES, THEY'RE STILL REQUIRED TO DO A TRANSPORTATION DEMAND MANAGEMENT PLAN, UM, AS WE WAS BROUGHT UP EARLIER.
UM, AND SO NO SUCH PLAN HAS BEEN DONE AS FAR AS I CAN TELL.
UM, SO PLEASE THOROUGHLY CONSIDER THE IMPACTS OF THE, UH, HOTEL PIECE OF THIS PROJECT, BOTH IN THIS EIR AND AS YOU MAKE DECISIONS MOVING FORWARD.
ANOTHER OPTION, UH, THAT'S LESS, THAT'S MORE OUT OF THE PURVIEW OF THIS, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT, UH, BUT IS TO AMEND THE H THE OVERLAY TO, UH, BRING BACK THE FISCAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT REPORT OR E ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS, UH, THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY REQUIRED FOR HOTELS.
UH, AND TO INTEGRATE THAT WITHIN THIS OVERLAY, UM, SO THAT YOU CAN TRULY CONSIDER THE IMPACTS OF THE HOTEL, UH, INCLUDING THE IMPACT ON THE JOBS HOUSING IMBALANCE THAT THIS CITY STRUGGLES WITH.
UH, CATHERINE REINHARDT TO BE FOLLOWED BY SUSAN BIJI.
I, UH, SUBMITTED PUBLIC COMMENT, WHICH I KNOW SOME OF YOU HAVE READ BASED ON RESPONSES I'VE RECEIVED.
UM, BUT I JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT A FEW THINGS FOR THE RECORD.
I HAVE TWO MAJOR AREAS OF CONCERN, UM, REGARDING THE EIR AND AS WELL ONE ABOUT THE EIR AND ONE ABOUT THE STAFF STATEMENT IN THAT THE NEXUS BETWEEN THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE HPC HCPCS RECOMMENDATION THAT A RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY BE CONDUCTED PRIOR TO THE ADOPTION OF AN OVERLAY.
THE STAFF REPORT MAKES THE CASE THAT THERE'S NO NEXUS BETWEEN, UM, THE HOTEL AND THE SURVEY.
AND I BEG TO DIFFER, WE WOULDN'T BE DOING THE OVERLAY WITHOUT THE HOTEL.
ARE, UM, WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT HERE ABOUT THE NATIONAL REGISTER DISTRICT AND USING THAT INFORMATION TO INFORM THE EIR.
WELL, THE NATIONAL REGISTER DISTRICT WAS CREATED IN 1995.
UM, THE DESIGN LOT GUIDELINES WERE IN 1999.
BUILDINGS ARE NOW THAT WEREN'T 50 YEARS OLD OR OLDER BACK IN 1995 ARE WITHIN THE HISTORIC DISTRICT AND WITHOUT, UH, OR OUTSIDE OF THE DISTRICT.
THERE'S ALSO, UM, THE SITUATION WITH, UM, THE AND, AND WHY WE NEED, SO WHY DO WE NEED A RECONNAISSANCE SURVEY? OKAY.
OUR, OUR DESI OUR, UH, WE'RE WORKING WITH OUT OUTDATED INFORMATION, BUT OUR GENERAL PLAN, THE ONE THAT WE'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW, WE HIRED, EXCUSE ME, THE CITY HIRED PAIGE AND TURNBULL TO DO AN EXISTING POSITION AND BACKGROUND ON HISTORIC RESOURCES THAT THEN INFORMS OUR, OUR UPCOMING, UM, GENERAL PLAN.
AND IT'S VERY CLEAR THEY SAY EVERYTHING THAT I'M SAYING.
WE HAVE OUTDATED INFORMATION THAT WE'RE MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT.
AND YOU KNOW, IT SAYS HERE, GIVEN THE GENERAL PLAN'S FOCUS ON INFILL DEVELOPMENT AND INCREASED DENSITY WITHIN THE URBAN GROWTH GROWTH BOUNDARY, CAREFUL CONSIDERATION OF POTENTIAL INTACT OF HISTORIC RESOURCES WILL BE CRITICAL, CRITICAL THAT ANALYSIS.
AND THAT TAKES ME TO THE SECOND PART.
THE, THE, UM, THE HISTORIC BUILT ENVIRONMENT IMPACTS ASSESSMENT THAT WAS, UH, CRAFTED BY SOUTH ENVIRONMENTAL IS RIDDLED WITH MISTAKES.
AND I'M SORRY IF I DISTRACTED YOU BY PULLING OUT SEVERAL OF THOSE FROM THE TABLE.
UM, BUT IT WAS BASICALLY TO SHOW, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT BUILDINGS AND DESCRIBING THEM.
FOR INSTANCE, WHAT WE KNOW TODAY IS SIENNA ANTIQUES ON PETALUMA BOULEVARD NORTH.
THEY'RE DESCRIBING AS THE OUT, UH, MARIN OUTDOORS AND JC PENNEY'S, WHICH IT WAS WHEN THE NATIONAL REGISTERED NOMINATION WAS CREATED.
IT'S SINCE BEEN REHABBED AND WOULD BE CONSIDERED A CONTRIBUTOR REGISTERED DISTRICT.
UH, SUSAN BIJI TO BE FOLLOWED BY JOE CHAPMAN.
I'M A LONG-TERM RESIDENT OF PETALUMA AM SINCE 19, I WAS GONNA SAY 83 YEARS, BUT SINCE 1983.
OUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET IS OUR HISTORIC CENTER AT THE HEAD OF THE RIVER, UH, ALSO AT THE GATEWAY TO OUR, UM, WINE INDUSTRY.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, PRESERVE THIS AREA FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
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IT AS IT IS, BUT WELL-MANAGED FOUR STORY, UH, GROWTH.AND BY THAT, MY SPEAKING OF MY VISION IS, UH, AND I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN THE AWARD-WINNING, UH, STRUCTURE ON, UM, WEBSTER AVENUE BY MONTESSORI.
THAT'S WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, THAT KIND OF, UH, ARCHITECTURE AND THAT, UH, SPACE FOR THE HOTEL.
A SNEAK PREVIEW OF WHAT OUR TOWN WILL LOOK LIKE WITH THE OVERLAY IS THE, A HOTEL THAT'S BEING PROPOSED.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT A HISTORIC CENTER THAT, THAT AS OUR MA MAIN VALUABLE ASSET WAS FILLED WITH BELTINGS THAT ARE SIX STORY LOOKING LIKE THAT, LOOKING LIKE THAT HOTEL.
'CAUSE I HEARD TONIGHT THAT THE SAME PEOPLE THAT VETTED THE HOTEL ARE ACTUALLY GONNA BE VETTING THE BUILDINGS, LOOKING AT THESE VARIOUS HISTORICAL ISSUES, ET CETERA.
AND AS FAR AS THE MONEY THAT THE CITY SAYS THEY'RE GONNA GET FROM THIS IS $700,000 PER YEAR.
I'VE PRESENTED, UH, UH, SEPARATE FINANCIAL ANALYSIS DONE BY ARCHITECTS AND ECONOMISTS THAT SHOWS THAT THAT'S WAY OVERINFLATED.
AND I'VE ACTUALLY PRESENTED THIS TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS AND I DO HAVE COPIES OF THAT.
IF SOMEONE WOULD LIKE TO, UH, UM, TALK TO ME AFTERWARDS.
AND MY LAST QUESTION IS WHY CAN'T WE DO FOUR STORY HOTEL, FOUR STORY BUILDINGS IN PETALUMA? THEY DON'T PENCIL OUT, I'M TOLD, BUT THEY PENCIL OUT IN SEBASTOPOL, THE PENCIL IN HILLSBURG, WHICH HAS THE SAME, UH, ECONOMIC, UH, UH, STRUCTURE THAT PETALUMA HAS.
IN FACT, PROPERTY VALUES ARE PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT MORE, I DO THINK WE'RE GETTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE WITH THE OVERLAY.
I THINK THE ERI IS IN INCOMPLETE AND WE'RE ALSO DEALING WITH SOME'S BEEN BROUGHT UP TONIGHT THAT, UM, FINANCIALLY DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THEY'RE QUITE STABLE.
EKN THEY'VE ALREADY GONE INTO BANKRUPTCY AND, UH, FILED, UM, UH, UM, AN OPTION FOR THEIR, UH, PROPERTY IN LAKE TAHOE AND WE'RE DEPENDENT UPON THEM FOR OUR 700, $700,000 BOON DOGGLE.
UH, SO I THINK A LOT HAS TO BE LOOKED AT HERE.
AND AS FAR AS DOWNTOWN BEING, UH, BUILT UP BY AFFORDABLE HOUSING, I THINK THAT'S A PIE IN THE SKY DREAM.
I THINK THE PROPERTY VALUES ARE TOO, UH, UH, VALUABLE THERE.
BUT I DO THINK THAT A NINE STORY BUILDING WHICH WILL HAPPEN BECAUSE IT'S, UH, WITHIN A HALF MILE OF OUR TRANSPORTATION HUB.
OKAY, WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JOE CHAPMAN TO BE FOLLOWED BY JEAN GABLE.
UH, THE ANALYSIS, UH, THAT WE JUST HEARD, THE LAST THREE WERE JUST INCREDIBLE.
UM, I KIND OF WONDER IF YOU GUYS HAVE PUT AS MUCH TIME INTO IT AS THEY HAVE.
UM, SO I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS, A FEW POINTS THAT, THAT ARE, I WOULD LIKE TO KIND OF THROW OUT THERE.
THIS DRAFT, EIR IS INADEQUATE FOR POINTS BROUGHT UP TONIGHT AND AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING ON THE 24TH OF SEPTEMBER SECOND, ENVIRONMENT, SECONDARY ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS FROM LACK OF PARKING HAVEN'T BEEN ADDRESSED.
I KNOW WE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT IT TONIGHT, BUT IT'S AN IMPORTANT PART.
UM, THERE'S NOTHING IN HERE HOW IT STATES HOUSING LAWS LIKE DES DENSITY BONUSES WILL WORK WITH THE OVERLAY.
THE OVERLAY IS INCONSISTENT WITH OUR GENERAL PLAN.
AND FOUR, THE CUP PROCESS IS NOT AN EFFECTIVE MITIGATION.
UM, IT CLEARLY NEEDS TO BE REVISED WITH SOME OF THESE BIG ISSUES ADDRESSED.
HOWEVER, MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS THE PROCESS EVER SINCE THIS CAME ALONG, THE PLANNING STAFF HAS PUT TON, TONS OF DOWNWARD PRESSURE ON THE PLANNING COMMISSIONERS AND THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO PASS THIS PROJECT THROUGH.
I DON'T THINK THE STAFF IS OBJECTIVE AND HAS AN AGENDA WITH A HOTEL AND THE OVERLAY.
I AM ALSO WORRIED ABOUT CONFLICTS OF INTEREST WITH THE CURRENT CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
DENNIS PO K HAS A NEPHEW THAT WORKS FOR EKN.
BRIAN BARNACLE WORKED BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE CITY STAFF TO, AND THE APPLICANT TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE OVERLAY FROM THE BUILDING FORUM OVERLAY TO THE DOWNTOWN HOUSING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OVERLAY.
IN HIS WORDS TO MAKE IT MORE MARKETABLE.
WE HAVE ASKED IF THEY SHOULD BE RECUSING THEMSELVES FROM VOTING ON THIS ITEM SINCE THEY CAN'T BE OBJECTIVE.
SO THAT'S TWO LESS, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT I THINK NEED TO BE VOTING.
I ALSO FEEL LIKE I HAVE A GOOD PULSE IN THE COMMUNITY.
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SO OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS GENE GRABLE, AND THAT'S TO BE FOLLOWED BY ANTHONY PIRRO.I APPRECIATE THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, HEARING, UH, FROM THE CITIZENS, AND I REALLY AM GLAD I WAS ABLE TO COME AND DO THAT.
I ALSO WANNA THANK THE CITY STAFF BECAUSE DEALING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORTS IS A DIFFICULT JOB.
THEY'RE BIG, THEY'RE LONG, THEY'RE TEDIOUS, AND THEY'RE VERY HARD TO UNDERSTAND FOR SOME PEOPLE.
AND, AND THAT'S A, A REALLY IMPORTANT SERVICE.
UH, BEING ABLE TO COMMUNICATE TO THE CITY, UH, COUNCIL AND TO THE COMMUNITY WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN.
UM, I HAVE HAD IN MY CAREER MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO WORK WITH ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORTS, AND I HAVE SEEN THEM USED AS TOOLS BY DEVELOPERS TO GET WHAT THEY WANT.
AND I'VE SEEN THEM USED BY, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS TO GET WHAT THEY DON'T WANT
AND, UH, I'VE GROWN VERY CYNICAL OF THEM.
AND I WANTED TO REALLY, THE POINT I WANTED TO MAKE ABOUT THIS DRAFT, EIR IS THAT IT'S FINE, BUT THROW IT IN THE GARBAGE.
THESE ARE NOT THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS PROJECT.
AND I HAVE SEEN MANY TIMES WHEN DEVELOPERS HAVE USED EIRS TO DIVERT ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE BIG QUESTIONS ABOUT A PROJECT AND FOCUS ON MINUTIA, WHICH THEY CAN CONTROL AND THEY CAN MITIGATE.
SO WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT SHADOWS AND WHAT THEY DO TO OTHER BUILDINGS IN THE COMMUNITY.
YES, THAT'S A POINT THAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED, BUT THESE ARE NOT IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.
AND WE SPENT AN ENTIRE EVENING HERE TALKING ABOUT MINUTIA, WHEN IN FACT, THE BIG QUESTIONS ARE WHAT KIND OF TOWN DO WE WANNA LIVE IN? WHAT KIND OF COMMUNITY DO WE WANNA HAVE? AND WHAT KIND OF IMAGE DO WE WANNA PROJECT TO THE REST OF THE BAY AREA? UH, I HAPPEN TO HAVE LIVED HERE FOR 30 YEARS.
I MOVED HERE BECAUSE I LIKED THE CHARM AND ELEMENTS OF PETALUMA THAT MADE IT UNIQUE AND THAT INCLUDED SOME, UM, CYCLONE FENCES DOWNTOWN AND SOME EMPTY LOTS.
I DON'T, THAT DOESN'T BOTHER ME.
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO COUNCILMAN, UH, BARNACLE, WHO SEES BLIGHT WHEN HE LOOKS AT THAT, I SEE CHARM, I SEE HISTORY, I SEE UNIQUE THINGS THAT MAKE THIS COMMUNITY DIFFERENT THAN ALL THE OTHER COMMUNITIES IN THE BAY AREA, WHICH LOOK THE SAME.
UH, I LIVED IN CARMELA MONTEREY, WHICH IS ANOTHER UNIQUE SPOT IN CALIFORNIA.
I CAME TO PETALUMA BECAUSE I LIKED THAT AESTHETIC.
I DON'T WANNA LIVE IN, UH, PLEASANTON OR DANVILLE OR ANY NUMBER OF EAST BAY CITIES THAT ALL LOOK THE SAME.
YOU DRIVE THROUGH 'EM IN, THERE'S NO DIFFERENCE FROM ONE TO THE OTHER.
THIS HOTEL IS GOING TO BE THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE CHARM OF PETALUMA.
UM, I JUST DON'T SEE ANY WAY AROUND THAT.
I DON'T SEE HOW ANYBODY CAN DEFEND THIS PROJECT IN CONTEXT OF THE VALUES THAT BRING PEOPLE TO PETALUMA.
UM, NOBODY'S GONNA WANT TO COME HERE AND HAVE WINE ON THE ROOFTOP IF IT'S JUST LIKE GOING TO SOME OTHER CITY, ANYWHERE ELSE IN CALIFORNIA.
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.
ANTHONY PIRRO TO BE FOLLOWED BY ALEX DE CARLY.
I'M ANTHONY PIRRO, LONGTIME PEDAL OF MY RESIDENT MULTI-GENERATION.
SO I'M SURE WE'VE KIND OF BEAT A DEAD HORSE IN A LOT OF THIS STUFF.
BUT LOGICALLY THINKING, UM, WE ALREADY HAVE SEVERAL HOTELS THROUGHOUT PETALUMA.
IF ANYTHING, PUTTING IN ANOTHER HOTEL WILL ACTUALLY AFFECT THEM THAT HAVE BEEN HERE LONGER.
SO IT COULD POTENTIALLY HURT BUSINESSES, UM, HAVING SOMETHING OF A HIGHER CALIBER, MULTIPLE STORIES HIGHER THAN WHAT WE'VE ALREADY ALLOWED HERE, UM, HAS A PUBLIC SAFETY FACTOR THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED.
UM, WE DON'T HAVE A LADDER TRUCK THAT COULD GET UP TO THOSE KIND OF LEVELS.
SO DOES THE CITY HAVE THE FUNDS TO ALLOCATE FOR OUR STATIONS TO HAVE A LADDER TRUCK THAT COULD REACH THOSE KIND OF HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS? LET ALONE YOU GUYS HAVE SPOKE ON MOVING STATION ONE OVER TWO WHERE THE FAIRGROUNDS IS.
SO YOU WOULD HAVE LESS OF A RESPONSE TIME TO GET THERE.
'CAUSE WE WOULDN'T HAVE A FIRE STATION ON THIS SIDE OF THE PEDAL OF THE RIVER PARKING.
UH, YOU GUYS ARE SAYING IT'S GOING TO BE EXEMPT FROM PARKING BECAUSE THE HOTEL WAS IN A HALF A MILE OF A SMART TRAIN STATION.
SO THAT'S GONNA CREATE MORE OF AN INCONVENIENCE FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO VISIT THAT HOTEL.
HOW IS THAT GONNA BE APPEALING? YEAH.
HI, THIS IS THE NEW PETALUMA HOTEL.
YEAH, WE DON'T HAVE PARKING, BUT IF YOU LEAVE YOUR CAR WHERE YOU'RE AT, TAKE A SMART TRA SMART TRAIN, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, CARRY YOUR BAGS HALF MILE TO OUR HOTEL WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE A CAR AND YOU CAN'T GO VISIT THE OTHER SURROUNDING AREAS.
LIKE THERE'S NO LOGIC TO THAT.
UM, IT'S OBVIOUSLY THE COMMUNITY IS PUSHING BACK ON THIS ISSUE, YET WHEN IT COMES TO VOTING, THE COUNCIL GETS TO MAKE THAT DECISION.
HOW IS THAT FAIR TO THE COMMUNITY? IF YOU GUYS HAVE FORGOTTEN, LET ME REMIND YOU, YOU GUYS WORK FOR US.
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DON'T WORK FOR YOU.YOU WERE APPOINTED BY THE MEMBERS OF THIS COMMUNITY, AND YOU NEED TO LOOK OUT FOR US IN OUR BEST INTEREST AND WHAT WE WANT THE CITIZENS OF PETALUMA WHO STAND FOR PETALUMA.
UM, IF THIS PASSES, WHERE DOES IT STOP? UM, WHAT WAS, WHAT'S STOPPING OTHER DEVELOPERS FROM DEVELOPING UP? WE NEED TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE OUR HISTORIC DOWNTOWN AND THE AG COMMUNITY THAT WE RE YOU KNOW, WE RESEMBLE, UM, IT, IT'S, IT'S A PART OF OUR HERITAGE.
UM, YEAH, I'M, I'M, I'M DONE AFTER THAT.
YEAH, I GUESS THAT WHOLE THING ABOUT DECORUM WENT OUT THE WINDOW.
ALEX DI CARLY, YOU'RE NEXT, FOLLOWED BY MOIRA SULLIVAN.
I THINK THAT MY POSITION ON THE OVERLAY IS ALREADY WELL DOCUMENTED, SO I'LL KEEP IT PRETTY SHORT AND SWEET.
I WAS, UH, DETERMINED AT THE LAST PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING THAT THE DRAFT DIR IS INSUFFICIENT.
AND SO I THINK IT MAKES SENSE THAT IT GETS KICKED BACK TO THEM NOW THAT IT'S HERE.
AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO REMIND COUNSEL, AS WE JUST SAID, THAT THE OVERLAY WAS AGAINST THE COMMUNITY'S WISHES, AND THAT YOU AS THE COUNCIL REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY, NOT ANYBODY ELSE OR NOT ANYTHING ELSE.
THANK YOU MOER SULLIVAN TO BE FOLLOWED BY DEBBIE FISHER.
SEATED TO MOER MOER SULLIVAN IS, UH, DEBBIE FISHER HERE.
I HOPE I DON'T NEED ALL SIX MINUTES.
UM, YOU GUYS GIVE THE PUBLIC A LOT OF HOMEWORK HERE.
UM, ONE THING I WANTED TO START OFF REAL QUICK IS JUST ON THE CITY PLAN.
UM, ACCORDING TO THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF PLANNING AND RESEARCH, A GENERAL PLAN IS EACH GOVERNMENT'S BLUEPRINT FOR MEETING THE COMMUNITY'S LONG-TERM VISION FOR THE FUTURE EMPHASIS ON THE COMMUNITY'S VISION PER THE CITY OF MAYO VALLEY.
THE GENERAL PLAN IS THE LINK BETWEEN THE EXPRESSED VALUES AND VISION OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE RESULTING PUBLIC PROCESS AND DECISION MAKING.
SO, UH, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START.
I'VE GOT ALL THESE CONSULTANT REPORTS THAT I LOOKED OVER.
UM, I KNOW THAT A NUMBER OF THE, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE EMPHASIZED BIKES OVER CARS.
UM, IF YOU LOOK AT THE HOTEL EIR IT SHOWS THAT THIS PROJECT WILL RESULT IN 966 ADDITIONAL CARS PER DAY ON PETALUMA BOULEVARD.
THIS WILL CAUSE OUR D STREET AND PETALUMA BOULEVARD INTERSECTION TO GO FROM A D LEVEL OF SERVICE TO AN E, WHICH IS A FAILING GRADE.
THE EIR DOES NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT CUMULATIVE IMPACTS.
UH, I KNOW YOU INTEND TO, UH, OYSTER COVE WILL HAVE 250 PARKING SPACES ON COPELAND.
UM, THE CITY OWNS THE CHAIN LINKED FENCE OPPOSITE WALNUT PARK.
UM, AND THAT'S GONNA BE OSTENSIBLY AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT WILL PROBABLY HAVE PARKING.
UM, THEN THERE'S BEHIND GROCERY OUTLET.
AND THEN I THINK YOU HAVE PLANS FOR A 10 STORY AT LAKEVILLE NEAR THE TRANSIT STATION.
UM, WE ALREADY HAVE PER THIS EEIR, WE ALREADY HAVE A FAILING INTERSECTION.
SO YOU REALLY DO HAVE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ALL THOSE OTHER IMPACTS.
UH, IN TERMS OF OUR HISTORIC DISTRICT, UM, IT SAYS THAT PETALUMA IS A SIGNIFICANT EXAMPLE OF A VICTORIAN ERA TOWN CENTER.
THE DOWNTOWN COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, WHICH IS, UH, HAS, UM, IMPORTANT EXAMPLES OF ITALIAN EIGHT AND SECOND EMPIRE STYLE CAST IRON FRONT COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, AS WELL AS EXAMPLES OF LATER STYLES, INCLUDING THE RENAISSANCE REVIVAL, ART MODERN AND MEDITERRANEAN REVIVAL, UM, STYLES.
UM, THERE WERE BY PAIGE AND TURNBULL, WHO DID THE, UM, UPDATE TO THE GENERAL PLAN FOR, THESE ARE THE EXPERT ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
THEY SAID THERE WERE 380 PROPERTIES, UM, THAT ARE POTENTIALLY ELIGIBLE FOR, UH, PROTECTION.
UM, AND THAT'S VERY CONCERNING BECAUSE, UH, WE'RE WE'RE GETTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE WITH THIS OVERLAY 'CAUSE WE HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED OR LOOKED INTO PROTECTING THOSE PROPERTIES.
UM, AND INDEED, UM, ON THE EXECUTIVE FINDINGS THAT MANY OF THEM HAVE, HAVE NOT YET BEEN FULLY OR PARTIALLY IMPLEMENTED.
AND THAT, UM, THE CITY REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURES FOR REVIEW OF DEMOLITION OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS DOES NOT ALIGN WITH CE QS DEFINITION OF AGE ELIGIBILITY FOR POTENTIAL HISTORIC RESOURCES.
UM, OKAY, I HAVE THREE MORE MINUTES.
UM, AND SO, UH, WE NEED OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS TO PROVIDE A CONSISTENT FRAMEWORK FOR REHABILITATION AND ENSURE THAT THE HISTORIC CHARACTER OF OUR BUILDINGS AND NEIGHBORHOODS ARE RETAINED.
UM, THERE'S JUST SO MUCH HERE, UH, ENSURE THAT NEW DEVELOPMENT ADJACENT TO ELIGIBLE HISTORIC AND CULTURAL RESOURCES IS COMPATIBLE WITH THE CHARACTER OF THOSE RESOURCES.
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THREE P SIX.UM, JUST TO PICK UP ON WHAT, UM, COUNCILMAN SHRI SAID, UM, OUR 1906 CARNEGIE LIBRARY WAS DESIGNED BY BRAINERD JONES.
IT'S IN VERY CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE EKN HOTEL.
IT HAS A LEADED GLASS DOME, WHICH YOU MAY NOT KNOW, IS THE LARGEST FREESTANDING ONE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
IF YOU LOOK AT OUR NOISE AND VIBRATION ASSESSMENT DONE BY ILLINGWORTH AND RODKIN, GONNA RUN OUT OF TIME HERE, IT SAYS, EXPOSURE TO EXCESSIVE GROUND BORNE VIBRATION DUE TO CONSTRUCTION IS A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT.
I KNOW YOU'RE GONNA SAY THAT YOU CAN MITIGATE IT, UH, M GROUP BECAUSE YOU'VE NEVER NOT MITIGATED, UH, ONE.
UM, BUT THAT'S BOGUS BECAUSE IT SAYS HERE THAT THE 0.3, UH, INCHES PER SECOND VIBRATION LIMIT IS GONNA BE EXCEEDED.
AND I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
UM, THAT GLASS CEILING, IT SAYS BY THE PILE DRIVER'S AND VIBRATORY COMPACTION.
THE OTHER ISSUE WITH THE NOISE IS THAT IT SAYS THAT EVERY EVENT AND ACTIVITY IS GOING TO BE ABOVE 60 DECIBELS.
AND IT SAYS THAT, WAIT A MINUTE, SEE IF I CAN FIND IT.
SO NOISE LEVELS ABOVE 45 DECIBELS HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO AFFECT SLEEP SO THAT IT'S NOT GOOD FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE DOWNTOWN NOISE LEVELS ABOVE 60 DECIBELS PER THE REPORT.
30, 30, 30 TO 35% OF THE POPULATION IS QUOTE, HIGHLY ANNOYED.
UH, SO YOUR ROOFTOP PATIO NOISE EVENT IS GONNA BE ABOVE 60 DECIBELS.
UM, AND YOUR ROOFTOP EQUIPMENT IS ALREADY AT 75 DECIBELS.
SO PEOPLE ARE GONNA HAVE TO TURN THE MUSIC UP EVEN HIGHER.
BUT YOU SAY THIS IS NOT A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT.
VERY ODD, UM, ON THE CUMULATIVE IMPACTS FOR TRAFFIC.
SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE A FAIL ON, ON THE INTERSECTION OF D STREET AND, UH, PETALUMA BOULEVARD.
AND WE'RE ALREADY, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT PEOPLE ALREADY SET THROUGH MULTIPLE TURNS OF THAT INTERSECTION AND THEY, AND THEY CAN'T MOVE ON, UM, ACROSS D STREET.
SO LOTS AND LOTS OF THINGS THAT ARE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS THAT IN THE PAST, MY EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN IN THE MANY YEARS I'VE COME UP BEFORE THE CITY THAT THE M GROUP ALWAYS SAYS CAN BE MITIGATED.
UM, I WOULD JUST ONCE LIKE TO SEE SOME OBJECTIVITY ON THESE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS.
THANK YOU LANCE KUHN MCKEAN TO, UH, UH, BE FOLLOWED BY TOM LEWIS.
UM, LIKE ALEX DECAR, MY POSITION ON THE OVERLAY IS PROBABLY WELL KNOWN BY NOW.
UM, I'M ONLY GONNA TALK, I'VE GETTING WRITTEN COMMENTS TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION, UM, BUT I'M NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT ALL THOSE.
I'M JUST GONNA TALK ABOUT, UH, ONE ASPECT OF THE, UM, EIR WHERE THEY SAY THAT THE IMPACTS OF THIS HOTEL ARE SO INSIGNIFICANT THAT ALTERNATIVE SITES DON'T NEED TO BE EVALUATED, WHICH I THINK, UM, THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM WOULD DISAGREE WITH.
UH, THAT'S THE REASON WE'RE ALL HERE.
AND SO, UH, THAT ALONE SHOULD BE, UM, RE REVISED AND CHECKED OUT.
AND THE OTHER THING TOO IS I, YOU KNOW, ONLY FOUND OUT YESTERDAY ON THE 38TH PAGE OF THE 38TH PAGE STAFF REPORT THAT THIS CITY PAID $161,140 TO DO THIS.
UM, THE TOTAL COST OF THIS, UH, EIR WITH FIRST CARBON SOLUTIONS WAS 272 DO THOUSAND DOLLARS AT $900.
SO THE ANSWER VICE MAYOR CHUBB'S QUESTION, AND THE CITY PAID 60% OF THAT, AND THEY'RE CALLING THAT COST SHARING.
AND IT SAID, THE CITY HAS ESTABLISHED WITH THE APPLICANT A COST SHARING AGREEMENT THAT INCLUDES ALL COSTS RELATED TO THE PROPOSED HOTEL SITE AND A PROPORTIONATE SHARE OF THE PROPOSED OVERLAY STUDY COST TO BE PAID BY THE APPLICANT.
SO IT'D BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHEN THAT AGREEMENT HAPPENED AND, UM, WHO WAS INVOLVED BECAUSE, UH, I REMEMBER LAST YEAR, UH, WHEN WE WERE AT THE WOMEN'S CLUB AND THE CITY AND KNOW BEFORE YOU GROW, WERE CHAMPIONING THE OVERLAY.
UH, I REMEMBER ONE GUY ASKED THE QUESTION, UM, YOU KNOW, THE TAXPAYER SHOULDN'T PAY FOR THIS.
AND I REMEMBER, I DON'T KNOW IF A CITY EMPLOYEE OR WHATEVER THEY SAID, OH NO, THE APPLICANT PAYS THE WHOLE COST.
SO IT'S A BIG SURPRISE TO HEAR THAT WE'RE PAYING 60% OF THE COSTS FOR THIS THING THAT I THINK MOST PEOPLE DON'T WANT.
TOM LEWIS SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY A VERONICA OLSON, HONORABLE MAYOR, COUNCIL AND STAFF.
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I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE CULTURAL AND HISTORIC RESOURCES AND THE OVERLAY HOTEL AND THE IMPACTS TO THOSE RESOURCES TONIGHT.AND I THINK OF ALL THE THINGS THAT THIS WHOLE, UH, UM, THIS, THESE CULTURAL WARS HAVE CREATED IS CITIZENS ADVISORY GROUPS THAT HAVE BEEN FORMED IN INTEREST AROUND THE BEST FOR PETALUMA.
AND ONE OF THOSE IS PETALUMA HISTORIC ADVOCATES.
AND I'M PROUD TO BE A PART OF THAT GROUP OF ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS, ENGINEERS, AND HISTORIANS FROM PETALUMA.
SO, UM, GOING FORWARD, THIS IS ON THE RECORD, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S BEEN CLARIFIED.
NEARLY ALL OF THE IMPACT ANALYSIS AND THE DEIR HINGES ON THIS CONTENTION THAT REX HARDWARE IS NO LONGER A HISTORICAL RESOURCE.
AND IF THAT'S TRUE, THE ENTIRE BLOCK BOUNDED BY PETALUMA BOULEVARD, SOUTH B STREET FOURTH AND C WOULD NO LONGER CONTAIN ANY HISTORICAL RESOURCES WHICH COULD JUSTIFY ITS REMOVAL.
HOWEVER, IN REALITY, THE 1995 NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION WAS NEVER AMENDED TO REMOVE THE PARTIALLY RECONSTRUCTED REX HARDWARE STORE.
THIS WAS PERHAPS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE REPLACEMENT IS REASONABLE PRODUCT REPRODUCTION OF WHAT PREVIOUSLY STOOD ON THE SITE, ITS HEIGHT, MASSING MATERIALS AND DETAILS ARE ALL QUITE SIMILAR TO THE BUILDING THAT WAS DESTROYED.
VERY FEW PEOPLE WHO PASSED BY THE BUILDING EVERY DAY COULD TELL, CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO.
FURTHERMORE, A PORTION OF THE ORIGINAL CALIFORNIA 1870 COMPLEX STILL SURVIVES.
IT'S QUITE CLEAR THAT THREE 13 B STREET, WHICH IS REX HARDWARE, IS STILL A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE PETALUMA COMMERCIAL HISTORIC DOWNTOWN.
AND DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE PROPOSED HOTELS WITHIN THE HISTORIC DISTRICT, THE PROPOSED DESIGN SHOULD COMPLY WITH THE SECRETARY OF INTERIOR STANDARDS.
AND THE 1999 PETALUMA HISTORIC COMMERCIAL DISTRICT DESIGN GUIDELINES, SECTION 7.0 OF THE DESIGN GUIDELINES DEALS WITH NEW CONSTRUCTION.
AND THE PROPOSED SIX STORY HOTEL DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THE GUIDELINES, INCLUDING THE ONE THAT STATES THE AVERAGE HEIGHT AND WIDTH OF THE SURROUNDING BUILDINGS SHOULD DETERMINE A GENERAL SET OF PROPORTIONS FOR AN INFILL STRUCTURE.
THIS IS AT THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, ALTHOUGH THE WIDTH AND OF THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES IS COMPARABLE TO THE PROPOSED NEW HOTEL, THE HEIGHT DEFINITELY DOES NOT COMPLY BECAUSE ALL OF THE ADJOINING PROPERTIES ARE EITHER ONE OR TWO STORIES IN HEIGHT.
IN A NUTSHELL, A SIX STORY BUILDING WILL TOWER OVER THE BUILDINGS IN THE REST OF THE HISTORIC DISTRICT.
SO THE PROPOSAL IS OUT OF COMPLIANCE.
AND, UM, VERONICA OLSON TO BE FOLLOWED BY DAVID KELLER.
UM, OUR EIR IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT, BUT I, I ALSO WANNA JUST TALK ABOUT THE PROCESS THAT THIS, THE OVERLAY AND THE HOTEL HAVE, UM, BEEN AFFECTING THE COMMUNITY GREATLY.
UM, BECAUSE THE DEFICIENCY OF THE OVERLAY AND THE HOTEL PROJECT BEING GLBB ONTO ONE PROCESS IS, IS VERY EVIDENT.
IT'S THE CONFUSING NATURE OF THIS WHOLE DISCUSSION TONIGHT.
IT'S HARD TO UNPACK, IT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND.
SO FROM, AS A COMMUNITY MEMBER THAT HAS BEEN VERY INVOLVED IN PLANNING, UM, I STAND HERE TONIGHT WITH GREAT RESPECT, BUT I'M ALSO VERY CONCERNED THAT WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY ADDRESSED THE COMMUNITY'S NEED OF HAVING A PROCESS IF WE'RE GONNA USE MAJOR LAND USE CHANGES IN OUR HISTORIC DOWNTOWN AND NOT ACCOMMODATE THE COMMUNITY.
WHAT PART OF THIS HOTEL PROJECT HAS TO BE GLOBBED ON TO WHAT SHOULD BE A GENERAL PLAN PROCESS WHERE THE COMMUNITY HAS A SAY IN WHAT THEY WANT THEIR DOWNTOWN TO BE LIKE, AND ALSO THE ECONOMICS OF THE DOWNTOWN.
HOW, HOW, HOW HAS THAT BEEN? UM, STUDIED IT.
WE HAD ONE CONSULTANT DO AN ANALYSIS, BUT THE LOCAL BUSINESSES, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING, HAVEN'T BEEN COMMUNICATED WITH AND INTERVIEWED, UM, TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY FEEL IS, UM, ADEQUATE.
SO THOSE QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ANSWERED.
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REIN'S COMMENTS AND MORRIS MORRIS SULLIVAN'S ANALYSIS ON, ON THE ACTUAL EIR AND ALSO TOM TOM LEWIS'S COMMENTS.AND I FEEL THAT THE DESIGN STANDARDS HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT I HAVE BEEN ADVOCATING FOR, FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
AND IF WE CAN SPEND $160,000 ON, ON AN EIR, THEN WE CAN SPEND THAT MUCH ON DESIGN STANDARDS.
AND IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WE ONLY SPENT 60,000 ON OUR DESIGN STANDARDS.
SO WE NEED TO ACTUALLY PUT THE WEIGHT WHERE WE NEED IT.
THE, THE PROCESS ITSELF HAS TO ALSO INCORPORATE WHAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS, WHICH IS GUARDRAILS.
IF WE'RE GONNA PUT PROCESSES IN PLACE THAT CHANGE OUR LAND USE, THEN THE GUARDRAILS HAVE TO BE THERE FOR OUR COMMUNITY TO HAVE THE LIVABILITY, THE VIEW SHEDS, THE FEELING OF THIS TOWN.
AND DAVID, YOU HAVE SOMEONE SEATING TIME TO YOU? YEAH, IT'S, UH, JOHN NIA.
JOHN STILL IN THE HOUSE? OKAY.
COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY STAFF, CITY MANAGER.
UM, THIS HAS BEEN A PROCESS THAT I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO WE RECOMMENDED TO THE CITY AS THIS WAS COMING FORWARD IN ITS BALL OF TWINE AND CONFUSION THAT THE CITY EMBARK ON A PUBLIC PROCESS DELIBERATELY TO ENGAGE THE PUBLIC.
AS THIS SET OF PROPOSALS WAS UNFOLDED, EXAMINED, LOOKING AT ALTERNATIVES, LOOKING AT THE WHOLE SITUATION FOR A MAJOR PORTION OF OUR DOWNTOWN THAT WAS TURNED DOWN.
UM, SO I'D LIKE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE PROCESS.
FIRST, I DO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I INCORPORATE BY REFERENCE ALL COMMENTS, WRITTEN AND VERBAL RECEIVED ON THE EARLIEST EARLIER I-S-M-N-D FOR THESE PROJECTS.
AS FORMAL COMMENTS ON THE DRAFT EIR TO BE RESPONDED TO IN THE FINAL EIR AND NOT BE BURIED.
I WANT TO SEE THE RESPONSES IN THE FINAL.
THAT'S WHY THEY'RE INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE.
UH, SECONDLY, TO BE CLEAR TO IT FOR THE COUNCIL AND FOR THE PUBLIC, THE TWO WEEK EXTENSION OF TIME FOR COMMENTS TO OCTOBER 21 IS DUE TO THE CITY'S FAILURE TO TIMELY NOTIFY THE ATTORNEY FOR ONE OF THE, UH, PEOPLE WRITING TO THE CITY WHO REQUESTED NOTICE IN WRITING OF THE DRAFT, EIR AVAILABILITY IS NOT GOODWILL OF THE CITY THAT BROUGHT US, THAT IS LEGAL COMPLIANCE.
UM, THE CITY HAS TAKEN A FAST TRAIN TO APPROVALS OF BOTH THE HOTEL AND THE ZONING OR OVERLAY INCREASING THE LEVELS OF FRUSTRATION, LOSS OF TRUST AND ANGER BY MANY WHO LIVE AND WORK IN PETALUMA.
YOU WERE ASKED TWO YEARS AGO, AS I MENTIONED, TO ENGAGE OUR PUBLIC IN A CREATIVE, THOUGHTFUL, COLLABORATIVE PROCESS, MUCH AS WE DID FOR THE CENTRAL PETALUMA PLAN, FOR THE RIVER PLAN, FOR THE STATION AREA PLANS, UM, EVEN FOR SEWER SCHOOL.
A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS STARTING WITH YOUR STATED GOALS AND WELCOMING THE PARTICIPATION OF THE DEDICATED, INTELLIGENT AND SOLUTION ORIENTED PEOPLE WHO ARE PETALUMA.
APPARENTLY, CONFLICT RESOLUTION VALUES AND SKILLSETS HAVE NOT BEEN OF INTEREST HERE EITHER.
AND I'VE SUGGESTED THAT SPECIFICALLY THERE'S A NUMBER OF RESOURCES FROM, UH, EPA FROM OTHER AGENCIES.
THIS HAS BEEN USED IN PUBLIC PROCESS FOR GENERATIONS.
AND WE, YET, WE HAVE A HUGE AMOUNT OF CONSTERNATION HERE, AND APPARENTLY SEEMS TO BE NO INTEREST OR NO SKILLS TO DO CONFLICT RESOLUTION OF THIS KIND OF PUBLIC POLICY SET OF DECISIONS.
BUT YOU CAN STILL CHO CHOOSE TO DO THAT.
YOU CAN CHOOSE TO DO, TO DO BETTER.
YOU CAN PUT THE DEIR ON HOLD PENDING THE NEXT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT STEPS.
UH, ONE PIECE WOULD BE TO POST PHYSICAL SIGNS ON AREAS A, B, AND C INDICATING THE PARCELS THAT ARE SUBJECT TO THE OVERLAY.
SORRY, MR. O, YOU REFUSED TO DO THAT.
AND APPARENTLY THAT'S THE CITY'S POSITION.
THAT WAS OVER A WEEK'S WORTH OF EMAILS.
UM, YOU CAN HOLD FACILITATED AND MODERATED PUBLIC MEETINGS, STARTING WITH YOUR GOALS, STARTING WITH DATA, STARTING WITH ACTUAL ANALYSIS, AND LOOK AT THE SHORT AND LONG-TERM IMPACTS AND THE ALTERNATIVES.
WE HAVE NO, WE DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY
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BASELINE DATA TO SAY THAT ECONOMIC IPRO DEVELOPMENT OF ANY OF THIS WILL HAVE ANY IMPACTS.'CAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'RE STARTING.
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT SECTORS OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY MIGHT NEED HELP.
THERE HASN'T BEEN ANY SURVEYS.
IT'S ALL TOTAL MAGICAL THINKING UNLESS YOU PUT DATA BEHIND IT, YOU HAVEN'T DONE THAT.
THESE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS THAT COULD COME OUT IN A DELIBERATE SERIES OF MODERATED PUBLIC MEETINGS.
DO WE NEED THIS AT ALL? LET'S DECIDE THIS IN PUBLIC.
AND AS YOUR BIG SIGN, SAY ALL OVER TOWN AND IN FRONT OF CITY HALL, SLOW THE FAST DOWN.
SO, UH, JANE HAMILTON IS OUR NEXT SPEAKER, AND THEN ERIC CHAO.
SO, UH, 40 YEARS OF COMING AND TALKING AT PUBLIC MEETINGS, AND IT STILL MAKES ME NERVOUS.
UM, SO THE COUNCIL AND THE PLANNING COMMISSION BOTH HAS HAVE HELD THEIR DELIBERATIONS ON THIS DEIR AHEAD OF THE CLOSE OF PUBLIC COMMENT.
SO ANY, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PLANNING COMMISSION MADE THE DECISION TO JUST MOVE IT TO THE COUNCIL BEFORE THE CLOSE OF PUBLIC COMMENT AS THOUGH NOTHING REALLY IMPORTANT COULD BE COMING UP, UH, IN THAT INTERIM TIME.
AND IF, IF YOU AS A COUNCIL DECIDE TO MOVE AHEAD AND SAY, WELL, JUST GO AHEAD AND START ON THE DEI, I MEAN THE FINAL EIR IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING, UH, WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'LL ALL GET WORKED OUT FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD.
AND THAT'S A VERY UNUSUAL SEQUENCE.
YOU KNOW, IT'S USUALLY NOT THE WAY IT GOES AND, BUT IT IS THE PERFECT WAY TO PUT THE STAFF IN THE DRIVING SEAT.
AND I MEAN, NO DISRESPECT ABOUT THIS TOWARDS STAFF, BUT THE COUNCIL NEEDS TO BE IN THE DRIVING SEAT, AND THE COMMUNITY NEEDS TO BE IN THE DRIVING SEAT.
AND WHAT REALLY SURPRISED ME TONIGHT WHEN I WAS LISTENING AT HOME AND WHY I RAN DOWN HERE, IS THAT TO FIND OUT THAT THE HOTEL COULD BE UP ZONED, AND WE COULD JUST LOOK AT THE HOTEL BY ITSELF, AND THE OVERLAY COULD ACTUALLY JUST BE DEALT WITH UNDER THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE.
AND IT MAKES SO MUCH, THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR.
IT'S NOT, NOT, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S NOT WORKED OUT.
THE, THE OVERLAY IS JUST A CONCEPTUAL IDEA.
THERE'S, IT'S NOT RESULTS BASED.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT RESULTS WE'RE LOOKING FOR WITH THE OVERLAY.
SOME IDEAS ABOUT ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND HOUSING, BUT NO DATA.
WE, THIS SHOULD BE, THE OVERLAY SHOULD BE HANDLED IN THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE AND WITH THE COMMUNITY AND THE HOTEL SHOULD BE JUST HANDLED BY ITSELF.
AND SEPARATING THOSE TWO WOULD BE REALLY, REALLY GREAT IF THE COUNCIL COULD BRING THEMSELVES TO DO THAT.
UM, THE ALTERNATIVE SITES NEED TO BE LOOKED AT FOR THE HOTEL, UH, THE MI YOU KNOW, ALL THE MITIGATIONS THAT ARE GIVEN TO AND OVER TO THE, UM, CUP PROCESS, THE CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT PROCESS THAT'S JUST KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD.
IT'S, IT'S LIKE ANY, ANY ISSUE THAT COMES UP, WELL, THAT'LL BE HANDLED IN THE CUP PROCESS.
NO, THOSE, THOSE QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ANSWERED.
AND THOSE ARE ALL OVERLAY QUESTIONS.
YOU COULD JUST SIMPLIFY THIS BY DIRECTING THE STAFF TO CUT THE OVERLAY LOOSE AND LET THAT BE A GENERAL PLAN ISSUE AND, UH, AND JUST DEAL WITH THE HOTEL AND LET THE COMMUNITY COMMUNICATE WITH YOU ABOUT THE HOTEL.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK, ESPECIALLY GIVING MY, UM, COMMENTARY LATE.
AND I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY.
I MOVED HERE NINE YEARS AGO FROM MARIN, UM, SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE I KNEW I WAS COMING TO A COMMUNITY THAT ACTUALLY WAS COMPASSIONATE, INCLUSIVE, UM, AND CREATIVE.
AND I'VE LEARNED OVER THE LAST YEAR, YEAR AND A HALF, HOW ARTICULATE AND PASSIONATE OUR COMMUNITY IS AS WELL.
AND IT REALLY, UM, TOUCHES MY HEART.
AND I HOPE OUR CITY COUNCIL AND THE ONES WHO GOVERN US ARE THE SAME WAY.
UM, I DON'T USUALLY WRITE THINGS DOWN, BUT I DECIDED TO DO SO THIS TIME AND I SAVE TIME.
BUT AS YOUR CONSTITUENCY IS SPEAKING LOUD AND CLEAR, AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S A STRONG MANDATE AND OPPOSITION TO THE EKN HOTEL AND THE OVERLAY THAT ALLOWS THIS HOTEL TO HAPPEN.
YET FROM PRIOR HEARINGS AND LOCAL COMMUNITY MEETINGS, IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT THE CITY COUNCIL MIGHT VERY WELL HAVE A MAJORITY IN FAVOR OF THIS PROJECT AND THE OVERLAY.
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WE HAVE AN ELECTION COMING UP, AS YOU MAY KNOW.UM, I THINK WE ALL KNOW, LET US LET THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS WORK, BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT HOW YOU GENUINELY FEEL ABOUT THIS HOTEL PROJECT AND THE OVERLAY, AND LET THE PEOPLE THEN SPEAK WITH THEIR VOTE.
LET US VOTE OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO REPRESENT THE CONSTITUENCY.
AND THEN AS REPRESENTATIVES OF YOUR CONSTITUENCY VOTE FOR THIS HOTEL AND OVERLAY.
YOU REPRESENT US, YOU REPRESENT, THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN SPOKEN.
IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO SHARE.
YOU CAN SEE, AND I'VE SEEN OVER THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF AFTER GOING THROUGH FORUM AFTER FORUM AND COUNCIL MEETINGS, THAT YOUR CONSTITUENCY DOES NOT AGREE WITH THIS.
THAT THIS DOES NOT FIT INTO WHAT WE FEEL IS BEST FOR OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE LOVE, AND THAT WE'VE MOVED HERE FOR.
AND IT'S NOT JUST REALLY BECAUSE OF THE HISTORICAL ASPECTS, IT'S ALSO SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT ABOUT WHAT THIS COMMUNITY'S ALL ABOUT.
AND SO I HOPE THAT YOU AWAIT THIS ELECTION, SHARE WITH YOUR CONSTITUENCY EXACTLY HOW YOU FEEL, AND LET US GO AHEAD AND VOTE, UM, IN THAT MANNER.
AND HOPEFULLY THEN YOU WILL GO ALONG WITH YOUR CONSTITUENCY AND UNDERSTAND HOW WE FEEL ABOUT THIS.
AND THAT WAS OUR LAST PUBLIC SPEAKER ON THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, CLOSING THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR THIS.
AND, UH, BRINGING IT BACK UP TO THE DIOCESE FOR, UH, DELIBERATION.
UH, I DO WANNA SAY, AS WE CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT, THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, IT, IT IS POWERFUL THAT YOU SHOW AND SPEAK, AND I THINK THE COUNCIL DOES HEAR YOU.
I MEAN, CLEARLY THE COUNCIL HEARS MANY VOICES FROM MANY SOURCES, BUT SHOWING UP SHOWS A CERTAIN, UH, UH, DEDICATION TO IT AND TO, TO BE HERE AT THIS TIME OF NIGHT ALSO SHOWS A CERTAIN DEDICATION TO IT.
UM, AND LET'S BRING IT BACK UP TO COUNCIL AND COUNCIL MEMBER.
BAREL, DO YOU WANNA START US OFF TONIGHT? HAPPY TO.
UM, I, TOO, I'M GLAD THIS IS HAPPENING DURING AN ELECTION.
I'VE GOT TO HAVE PROBABLY, I'M, I TOO AM GLAD THAT IT'S HAPPENING DURING AN ELECTION, UM, BECAUSE IT BRINGS A LOT OF TRANSPARENCY TO WHERE PEOPLE STAND.
UM, AND IT ALSO ALLOWS ME TO HAVE 500 CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE ABOUT IT.
UM, I'VE GOT SORT OF FIVE MAIN AREAS OF FOCUS, UM, THAT, UH, THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE STUDIED IN ALTERNATIVES, UM, THAT HAVE REALLY COME FROM CONCERNS.
I HAVE CONCERNS THAT I'VE HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY.
UM, FIRST, WHERE WILL PEOPLE PARK? UM, I THINK WE NEED TO STUDY PARKING IMPACTS.
WE HAVE A FULL ON DOWNTOWN PARKING STUDY GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
UM, UH, AND IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT HARD TO MODEL THE IMPACTS OF THE HOTEL, UM, GIVEN THE DATA COLLECTION THAT'S ALREADY GOING ON.
UM, I'LL ALSO NOTE FOR THE, THE FOLKS WHO ARE, UH, STRUGGLING WITH THIS QUESTION, THAT HOTEL PETALUMA HAS NO PARKING.
IT HAS THREE FEWER ROOMS. UM, AND PEOPLE COME THERE AND THEY ENJOY IT.
THEY STILL GO TO THE HOTEL PETALUMA.
IT'S DEFINITELY USED MORE THAN ANY OTHER HOTEL IN OUR CITY.
UM, SO I, UM, BUT I THINK THAT IT'S STILL, WE SHOULD ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.
AND SO, UM, WHERE WILL PEOPLE PARK IS AN ALTERNATIVE.
I THINK WE SHOULD, UH, BE LOOKING AT, UM, HOW DO WE ENSURE THIS IS NOT GONNA RESULT IN NINE STORY BUILDINGS? THAT'S BEEN, UH, A FUN ONE.
UM, I THINK THAT WE SHOULD STUDY AN ALTERNATIVE THAT REMOVES THIS, UH, HOUSING FROM THE CUP AND JUST MAKES IT COMMERCIAL, UM, AND MAKE THAT AN ALTERNATIVE.
UM, THAT WOULD, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT GONNA DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE, THE THREAT OF, UM, TALL BUILDINGS WITH UNLIMITED DENSITY AND NO PARKING, UM, BECAUSE ALL THAT'S ENABLED BY STATE LAW.
UM, BUT IF IT, UH, YOU KNOW, SQUELCHES THE, THE COMMUNITY CONCERNS, I THINK IT'S, IT'S WORTHWHILE TO TAKE A LOOK AT AS AN ALTERNATIVE, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THE EIR.
UM, THE THIRD ONE, AND I THINK THIS IS THE ONE THAT I PROBABLY HEAR THE MOST, IS I'M OKAY WITH THE IDEA OF A HOTEL.
I'M OKAY WITH SIX STORY BUILDINGS, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE IT LOOKS GOOD, AND I CERTAINLY DO TOO.
UM, I THINK THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT I'D LIKE US TO LOOK AT, UM, AS ALTERNATIVES, PROGRAMMATIC ALTERNATIVES.
UM, ONE IS REQUIRING MULTIPLE, UH, ARCHITECTURAL RENDERINGS TO COME FORWARD IN THE POLICY.
UM, THE SECOND ONE BEING TO REESTABLISH OUR DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE, UM, THAT WAS DISBANDED.
UM, AND BRINGING FORWARD, LIKE WE DID WITH, UH, LIKE WHEN WE STARTED THE PUBLIC SAFETY ADVISORY GROUP, WE, YOU KNOW, CRAFTED A POLICY.
AND, UM, WITHIN THAT POLICY ALSO SAID THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE, UM, AN ADVISORY GROUP.
I THINK WE SHOULD, UH, I'D LIKE TO SEE AN ALTERNATIVE, UM, LOOKED AT, UM, AS WE, AS THE POLICY CONTINUES TO MATERIALIZE, THAT WOULD, UM, ULTIMATELY ALLOW US TO REESTABLISH DESIGN REVIEW FOR THE OVERLAY TERRITORIES.
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AND IT WILL, YOU KNOW, ONCE WE HAVE THE BODY, WE CAN EXPAND THE SCOPE AND, AND APPLY IT TO OTHER AREAS BECAUSE, UM, AS WE DO MORE INFILL, UH, DESIGN REVIEW'S GONNA BECOME EVEN MORE IMPORTANT SO THAT WE HAVE PROFESSIONALS POURING OVER THE DETAILS OF HOW THINGS LOOK, HOW THEY BLEND IN, UM, NOT JUST THE ARCHITECTURE, BUT HOW THEY, UH, THEY FIT INTO THE PUBLIC REALM.UM, THE FOURTH THING, UM, HOW DO WE UNDERSTAND THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF THE HOTEL? UM, IT'S NOT LOST ON ME THAT THE HOTEL IS THE DRIVING FORCE FOR THIS, UM, AND THAT THE HOTEL IS GOING TO LIKE, UM, FOR THE COUNCIL MEMBERS UP HERE, WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT IT BECAUSE IT'S PROVIDING, UM, A REALLY STICK LIKE, UM, I MEAN, IT'S LIKE GROWING YOUR GENERAL FUND BUDGET 1% ON A THIRD OF AN ACRE LOT.
IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT TO, UM, IT'S, IT'S NOT INSIGNIFICANT, UM, IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS.
UM, BUT I ALSO AM, AM IT'S NOT LOST ON ME THAT WE'RE DOING THAT ON THE BACKS OF LOW WAGE WORKERS AND IT'S GONNA CREATE AN, UH, INCREASED DEMAND FOR, UM, AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
AND SO I THINK THAT, UM, THERE WAS, UH, A REQUIREMENT FOR IN FISCAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT THAT WE ADOPTED IN 2008.
AND THEN IN 2019, WE, UM, UH, ELIMINATED HOTELS FROM THAT FOR SOME REASON, WE DECIDED TO EXEMPT THEM.
UM, I THINK THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE US, UM, INCLUDE IN THE, IN THE FINDINGS FOR THE CUP, UM, YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE, BRING THAT BACK AT LEAST FOR THE OVERLAY PARCELS, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COUNCIL'S EYES WIDE OPEN ABOUT, UM, WHAT IT'S DOING TO THE JOBS HOUSING BALANCE.
AND THE FIFTH THING, UM, IS, UM, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS EXACTLY MAKES ITS WAY INTO THE, TO THE EIR, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE'S THIS SENSE THAT, UH, FOR THE COUNCIL, THAT THERE'S A, LIKE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE REASON WHY WE WANT TO DO IT, IT'S BECAUSE, UH, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE MUSEUM AND THE, AND WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT THE SEISMIC RETROFITS AT THE MUSEUM, AND THAT'S $5 MILLION THAT WE DON'T HAVE, AND WE WANNA DO THE TRESTLE, AND THAT'S $14 MILLION THAT WE DON'T HAVE.
UM, AND I DO THINK THAT, UH, THE TRESTLE IS BLIGHT RIGHT NOW.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S FALLING APART, IT'S CAVING INTO OUR WATERFRONT.
WAIT FOR 30 YEARS, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T, AND I, AND I'M GONNA INTERRUPT A LITTLE BIT AND ASK US TO BRING BACK TO THE EIR YEAH.
WELL, I THINK THAT, UM, WELL ANYWAY, I'M I'LL, I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT, BUT I'LL, I'LL JUST SAY THAT I GENERALLY AGREE WITH WHAT GENE GRABLE SAID, THAT EIRS ARE, UM, THEY'RE A LEGAL STEP IN THE PROCESS TO GET THINGS DONE AND MITIGATE LAWSUITS.
AND IT'S NOT ANSWERING THE RIGHT QUESTION, WHICH IS WHAT DO WE WANT OUR TOWN TO LOOK LIKE? UM, HOW DO WE SUPPORT OUR SMALL BUSINESSES? HOW DO WE CREATE A VIBRANT DOWNTOWN THAT THAT WORKS FOR EVERYBODY? UM, AND, UH, I AGREE THAT THAT'S THE, THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS.
I JUST WANTED TO ASK STAFF WHAT MORE YOU NEED FROM COUNCIL AT THIS POINT TONIGHT, UM, IN TERMS OF INPUT AND, AND LET ME TAKE ONE STAB AT THAT.
UM, AS MENTIONED EARLIER, WE'LL DO, UM, A STRAW POLL ON THOSE, UM, EIGHT ITEMS. AND, UH, I BELIEVE WE'VE ADDED A FEW TO OUR LIST AT THIS POINT.
IS THERE MORE YOU WANT TO ADD TO THAT? UH, WE ARE RECEIVING ANY COMMENTS THAT THE COUNCIL WISHES TO OFFER ON THE DRAFT DIR AND, UM, AS THE MAYOR JUST STATED, UH, DIRECTIONS SPECIFICALLY ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PLANNING COMMISSION.
SO I, I PERSONALLY, I THINK I GAVE MY COMMENTS EARLIER.
UM, AND I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD.
I GUESS, I GUESS I COULD REPEAT THEM THREE TIMES, BUT I DON'T THINK I NEED TO.
UM, SO HOW ABOUT, HOW ABOUT IF WE ROLL IT RIGHT INTO THAT, UH, STRAW POLLING KIND OF, UH, UH, TERRITORY.
AND I HAVE THE, UH, STAFF REPORT, UH, LISTING OF EIGHT.
AND, UM, AND THEN THE QUESTION IS, IS, UH, WHO HAD ANY ADDITIONAL ONES THAT WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT? AND, UM, I DID, UH, PUT A NOTE HERE THAT, UH, THE, THE SPOT ZONING OR, UM, REVIEW OF ALTERNATIVE WITH JUST THAT, UH, PROPERTY OR JUST A EITHER ONE OF THOSE WAS YOUR CONSIDERATION.
DO, DO YOU NEED, GIVEN THAT, GIVEN THAT THE EIR DOES THE ANALYSIS ANYWAY AND PROBABLY WORKS, THEN DO YOU, DO YOU WANT US TO WEIGH IN ON THE EIR ADDING SPOTS, ZONING A SMALLISH, EVEN SMALLER THAN THEY CURRENTLY SUGGEST? I THINK IT SHOULD BE REVISITED AND REEMPHASIZED, BECAUSE I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GOING ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THAT WASN'T AN OPTION.
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A THING THAT, THAT THE ERR CAN ADD AT THIS POINT? THE A, A FOCUS ON, SHALL, SHALL WE CALL IT AREA A? IS THAT, OR JUST THE HOTEL SITE? OR JUST THE HOTEL SITE? CAN, CAN THE EIR MAKE COMMENT TOO? JUST THE HOTEL SITE? I AM HEARING THE COUNCIL HAS, WOULD LIKE TO SEE A ALTERNATIVE TALKED ABOUT THAT IS JUST THE HOTEL SITE.AND, AND THAT WORKS FOR YOU TO DO THAT ANALYSIS OR ADD THAT COMMENTARY TO THE EIR? THAT'S A POSSIBILITY, YES.
THEN LET ME JUST PULL, UM, ACROSS THE BOARD.
UM, DOES EVERYBODY WANT TO SEE THAT IN THE, IN THERE? YES.
SO YES, THAT'S ONE WE'VE GOT, UH, WE'VE GOT A STRAW POLL PULLING THAT INTO THE RESOLUTION OF THE EVENING.
I ALSO, UM, HAVE A NOTE HERE THAT YOU WERE INTERESTED IN, UM, STEP BACKS ABOVE SIX STORIES TO BE COMMENTED ON, AND I WANNA PUSH THAT BACK TO STAFF.
DO YOU RECALL THE COMMENT, UM, ABOUT WHETHER WE SHOULD HAVE MORE STEP BACKS AT A HIGHER THAN SIX STORIES, OR IN SOME WAYS THAT ALREADY COVERED IN THE EIR READ THAT, UM, WE, THE EIR ANALYZES, UM, UP TO 75 FEET, WHICH IS WHAT THE OVERLAY ORDINANCE, UM, STATES COULD BE ALLOWED WITH ADDITIONAL FINDINGS.
BUT THERE WAS CONCERN THAT MAYBE SOMEHOW SOME WAY COULD GO HIGHER.
IS THAT A THING THAT WE NEED TO EVEN CONSIDER, OR IS THAT A THING THAT CAN BE THAT, THAT WE'D SAY SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE STEP BACKS OR, OR SHALL WE SAY THAT THAT WOULD HAVE ITS OWN AREA? SO MAYOR, IF I'M UNDERSTANDING THE, THE ORIGINAL DISCUSSION, UH, CORRECTLY, THE CONCERN IS ANYTHING THAT GOES ABOVE THE PROPOSED SIX STORY SLASH UM, 75 FOOT HEIGHT PROPOSED HEIGHT WITH THE CUP, UH, HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT ANYTHING ABOVE THAT, POTENTIALLY THROUGH A DENSITY BONUS PROJECT, UH, CONFORMS WITH THE STEP BACK, UM, PROPOSED, IS THAT, IS THAT ACCURATE STEP BACKS? YEAH.
SO HOW DO WE MAKE SURE IT'S NOT STEP BACK AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HAVE THIS SORT OF MASS THAT GOES ABOVE THE 75 FEET? I BELIEVE WE CAN ADDRESS THAT.
AND THEN THERE WAS ONE ABOUT OPPORTUNITY SITES.
DOES, DID ANYBODY CAPTURE WHAT THAT CONVERSATION WAS AT THE STAFF LEVEL OR DO YOU WISH TO REPEAT VICE MAYOR? YEAH, SO THAT WE WOULD, UH, UM, REDUCE THE, UH, PARTICULARLY I THINK THE C UH, BUT I THINK THERE WAS THE OPPORTUNITY SITES WHERE THE SITES THAT ARE MOST APPROPRIATE FOR ACTUALLY CONSTRUCTION, UM, THAT LOOKED LIKE THE BEST OPTIONS TO DO.
UM, IF WE ZEROED IN ON THAT, IF WE COULD, IF WE'RE GONNA DO ANYTHING, MAYBE REDUCE DOWN THE OVERLAYS TO, TO THOSE PARTICULAR OVERLAY SITES, UM, OR MAYBE WHATEVER FOLKS WOULD DO.
SO YOU'RE PROPOSING AN ALTERNATIVE THAT INCLUDES, WE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT A FOCUS DOWN JUST TO THE HOTEL.
SO IF WE'RE DOING IT JUST THE HOTEL, WE MAY NOT NEED THE TO TALK ABOUT THE OTHER SITE.
SO VICE MAYOR, UM, YOU ARE INTERESTED, OR GA UH, LOOKING FOR A STRAW POLL ON A MODIFIED SHRUNKEN DOWN SUB AREA C THAT AND MAYBE SUB AREA A THAT FOCUSES ON, ON OPPORTUNITY SITES, UM, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, VACANT PARCELS, IS THAT RIGHT? 'CAUSE I THINK THAT'S WHAT THE OPPORTUNITY SITES WERE.
THEY WERE MOSTLY, UH, NEEDING DEVELOPMENT.
SO I THINK THAT FITS WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF LOOKING AT, SO IN TERMS OF THE STRAW POLL, I, I WOULD BE DISINCLINED TO GO THERE SINCE I THINK WE'RE HEADED MORE TOWARDS THE OTHER SIDE OF YEAH.
GETTING JUST TO A, EVERYBODY GOOD WITH NOT ADDING THAT? OKAY, GOOD.
UM, I DON'T THINK I SAW OTHER, UM, PROPOSALS COME TO THE TABLE.
SO MOVING INTO THE ONES THAT CAME DIRECT FROM PLANNING AND, UM, IN THE NUMBER ORDER THAT THEY'RE IN THE STAFF REPORT, UH, NUMBER ONE, DIRECT PLANNING STAFF TO INCORPORATE ALL HCPC, UH, I, I THINK THAT'S BEEN DONE BY THE PROCESS.
AND, UM, DO WE ALL AGREE ON THAT? ANYONE? OKAY.
THEN, UH, NUMBER TWO, RECOMMEND EXPANDING PROJECT ALTERNATIVE ANALYSIS TO CONSIDER ALTERNATIVE SITES FOR THE PROPOSED HOTEL DEVELOPMENT WITHIN OPPORTUNITY ZONES.
AND I THINK THAT THAT IS, UM, UM, SQA CONSTRAINED AND SO BEEN DONE IN THIS A SO I'M, I'M OKAY WITH SAYING THAT THAT'S NOT AN AD.
PLEASE, LAST WORDS, UH, IN OUR, IN THE, BASICALLY
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THE OVERLAY, I THINK WE WERE LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE SITES OUTSIDE THE OVERLAY IS WHAT I THINK WAS THE ACTUAL ASK.WELL, RIGHT, BUT OPPORTUNITY ZONES, PROPERTY ZONES, BUT WITHIN CE QA, THAT'S REALLY NOT AN ASK THAT WE GET.
SO IT'S A MORE OF A GENERAL PLAN ISSUE, ANOTHER ISSUE.
SO I'M GONNA SUGGEST THAT THAT'S, THAT'S CONSTRAINED BY QUA AND NOT TO BE ADDED, NOT TO BE ANALYZED.
UH, NUMBER THREE, EXPANDING THE EIR INTEGRITY ANALYSIS TO INCLUDE DISCUSSION OF SEVEN ASPECTS OF INTEGRITY TO FULLY EVALUATE POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF ANY FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.
UM, AND WE HEARD THE CONVERSATION ON THIS, THAT THERE'S ONE PROJECT IN THIS, AND THEN THERE'S THE OVERLAY IN THIS AND IN HOW IN THE FUTURE THIS WOULD BE COVERED BY OUR, UH, GENERAL PLAN UPDATE OR, UM, THE, THE WORK THAT WE DO IN GENERAL PLANS.
SO NOT IN THIS PERIOD ARE WE ALL HEARING IT THAT WAY? OKAY.
WHEN YOU, UM, MENTIONED THAT, COULD IT BE ADDED TO LIKE THE LAND USE SECTION? WELL, ANY PROJECT, PROJECT APPLICATION WOULD GET HEAVY SCRUTINY LIKE THIS.
SO I'M SUGGESTING THAT'S FUTURE NOT IN THE CIR, UH, RECOMMENDING THE AMENDED PROPOSED OVERLAY TO REQUIRE, UM, HISTORIC RESOURCE EVALUATION THAT AT A MINIMUM AND ANALYSIS THE PROPOSED BUILDINGS HEIGHT AND MATERIALS FOR POTENTIAL ADVERSE CULTURE, CULTURAL AESTHETICS, UM, RECOMMEND THAT ALL PROPERTIES SUBJECT TO THE OVERLAYER REVIEWED.
AND THAT'S KIND OF, I'M HEARING IT AS THE SAME THING, IS THAT AS THE OVERLAY BECOMES GENERAL PLAN, GENERAL PLAN WILL PICK UP THIS ISSUE RATHER THAN THIS PARTICULAR, UM, EIR.
ARE WE FEELING ABOUT THAT? EVERYBODY FEELING? UM, GOOD.
UM, THEN NOT, NOT TO BE AN AD FOR THIS ONE, I, UH, I SENSE STAFF MIGHT WANNA SAY SOMETHING OR NO.
ARE WE GOOD? I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I'M GETTING A LITTLE CONFUSED ON SOME OF THESE.
I WANNA MAKE SURE STAFF IS CLEAR ON WHAT THE DIRECTION IS ON, ON EACH OF THESE.
AND I CAN'T SEE ANYONE'S FACE, SO I'M JUST, WE GOOD? ALRIGHT.
WHO'S, WHO'S KEEPING TRACK OF THE SCORECARD, BUT, UM, I, I HAVE, UM, NUMBER ONE WAS DONE BY PROCESS NUMBER TWO IS THE CONSTRAINT OF CQA.
NUMBER THREE AND FOUR ARE PARTS OF WHAT THE GENERAL PLAN WILL DO FOR US.
SO NO ADS TO THE EIR TO THIS PROJECT, THIS ACTION FROM THOSE FOUR ITEMS. UM, NUMBER FIVE IS RECOMMEND DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLICATION OF DESIGN EXPECTATIONS FOR PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPOSED OVERLAY.
CAN I ASK STAFF TO RECAP WHAT THAT MEANS? ACTUALLY, UM, THIS, GO AHEAD.
YEAH, THIS, UH, IS ABOUT THE DESIGN, UH, STANDARDS AND DESIGN GUIDELINES THAT WERE MENTIONED A NUMBER OF TIMES.
SO TO HAVE REALLY CLEAR, UM, EXPECTATIONS FOR PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT TO FOLLOW, UM, IN REGARDS TO FUTURE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE PROPOSED OVERLAY.
YOU WANNA ADD ANYTHING ANDREW
SO MAYOR, I BELIEVE THAT THE COMMISSION WAS FEELING LIKE AS, AS A, UH, REVIEW AUTHORITY FOR DESIGN AND NOT HAVING DESIGN EXPERTS ON THE COMMISSION, THEY'RE, THEY'RE FEELING VULNERABLE AND WOULD LIKE MORE DIRECTION ON WHAT THEY SHOULD BE REVIEWING DESIGN AGAINST.
SO I, I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY ASKED FOR IT TO BE, UM, EMBEDDED WITHIN THE OVERLAY, BUT, BUT PERHAPS A SUPPLEMENTAL GUIDELINES TO SUPPORT DIRECTION TO STAFF, MAYBE? CORRECT.
SO I THINK WE'RE ALL SEEING VALUE IN THAT.
AND SO AS DIRECTION TO STAFF, THAT'S A GOOD ONE.
MAYOR SIX IS, UM, ANALYZING THE URBAN PARK REQUIREMENT FOR FUTURE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.
SO AS I MENTIONED IN THE STAFF REPORT, THIS IS, UH, ALREADY CAPTURED IN THE GENERAL PLAN AS IT RELATES TO THE PARK REQUIREMENTS FOR HOUSING.
UM, SO THIS WOULD BE, UH, I DON'T, WE DON'T NEED SPECIFIC, UM, DIRECTION FROM COUNCIL ON THIS.
THIS WOULD BE SOMETHING WE RESPOND TO IN THE FINAL EIR TO CLARIFY, UM, THE RATIOS FOR URBAN PARKS, UH, AS IT RELATES TO HOUSING.
AGAIN, I'LL, I'LL RESTATE, THERE'S NO CHANGE IN, UM, HOUSING DENSITY, SO THERE WOULD BE NO CHANGE HERE WITH THE, UM, PARK RE PARKLAND RATIOS.
I'M SEEING HEAD NODDING AS A STRAW
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POLL, EVERYBODY.UM, A AS THEN AS THE RECORD IS WHAT YOU JUST SAID,
UM, NUMBER SEVEN, REQUEST THE CITY COUNCIL THAT PLANNING COMMISSION BE PROVIDED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW FINAL EIR MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL CONCERNING CERTIFICATION OF FINAL EIR.
UM, AND YOU'VE INDICATED THAT'S AN AD OF 30 DAYS IN THE REPORT, AND I'M GONNA PAIR THAT UP WITH THE, UH, LAST ITEM, WHICH IS, UH, UM, HAVE PLANNING REVIEW THE ORDINANCE PRIOR TO COUNSEL EVER SEEING IT.
SO, UM, THAT'S WHERE WE NEED SOME MORE CONVERSATION AND FEEDBACK.
DO WE, DO WE HAVE 30 DAYS TO PUT THIS? UM, DO WE, DO WE WANT TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE THAT ONE MORE OPPORTUNITY AT PLANNING? YOU MEAN THEY PASSED THE TEST IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR AND SOMEBODY, SOMEBODY GRABBED THE MIC FOR A SECOND.
UH, WELL, AT WHAT POINT DO WE GET TO, TO WEIGH IN ON THE POLICY AS THE, AS THE DECISION MAKERS? I MEAN, IT JUST FEELS LIKE, UM, I'D CERTAINLY LIKE TO HAVE TO, TO WEIGH IN ON IT.
I DON'T, I MEAN, I'M NOT OPPOSED TO GOING TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION, BUT, UM, I CERTAINLY WANNA SEE IT AND STAFF COUNCIL MEMBER.
UM, SO THE NEXT STEP AS MAYOR, UM, ALLUDED TO, UM, WE DO HAVE A, A RECOMMENDATION FROM PLANNING COMMISSION TO MOVE THE ORDINANCE FORWARD.
AND SO WHAT HAS CHANGED FROM NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR TO, TO THIS POINT IN TIME IS WE HAVE MORE ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS.
AND SO THE IDEA WOULD BE THE ABILITY FOR COUNCIL TO WEIGH IN ON THE POLICY OPTIONS, UM, IN TANDEM WITH THE CERTIFICATION.
SO WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, SOME SOMETIME SO FAR IT'S SCHEDULED IN TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER, BUT, UM, I THINK BASED ON THE STRAW POLL FOR ITEM NUMBER SEVEN AND EIGHT, UM, AS MAYOR IDENTIFIED 30, SO LEMME BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL FOR A SECOND.
DID YOU WANNA WEIGH IN ON, I THOUGHT I SAW HIM.
YEAH, I, I'D BE WILLING TO SEND IT BACK TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
UM, AS A HYBRID SUGGESTION, I'M SUGGESTING THAT, THAT, UM, THE COUNCIL SEE THE ORDINANCE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, MAYBE, AND CALL IT A WORKSHOP, CALL IT A, YOU KNOW, A DIRECTION OF STAFF ITEM.
AND SO IT COULD STILL GO TO PLANNING, BUT AT LEAST PLANNING WOULD'VE HEARD OUR FIRST CREATIVITY AND CRAFTSMANSHIP RATHER THAN PLANNING, THINKING THEY GOT IT TO THE FINISH LINE AND THEN COUNCIL WEIGHS IN.
SO I'D BE INTERESTED IN A TIMELINE THAT DID THAT, BUT I'M ASSUMING THAT THOSE ARE ALSO NOT PART OF THE RESOLUTION OF EIR THIS EVENING.
SO CAN WE TOSS THAT BACK TO STAFF TO BE, TO, TO FIND US A PATH AND, AND JUST RECOGNIZE THAT'S NOT PART OF THE, THE, THE RESOLUTION TONIGHT? I, I THINK SO, BUT MAYBE WE SHOULD PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE DIRECTION THAN THAT.
SO MAYBE A STRAW POLL IN THAT, UM, WELL, LOOKING FOR THE DIRECTION, UM, I MAY THIS POINT, UM, 'CAUSE WE'RE LOOKING FOR THIS DIRECTION OF WHAT TO DO NEXT AND WHEN TO START WORKING ON THIS.
UH, ONE OF THE CONCERNS THAT WAS BROUGHT UP TONIGHT IS THAT, UH, THIS HAS BECOME, UH, DOMINANT IN OUR, UH, IN THE ELECTION THAT'S COMING UP.
AND ESPECIALLY THE TWO DISTRICTS THAT ARE THERE.
AND THE PEOPLE HAVE SAID, THIS IS THE, THE WAY THE VOTE'S GONNA GO, YOU'RE GONNA HEAR FROM THE PEOPLE.
SO WHAT I'M, WHAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IS THAT SPENDING A LOT MORE MONEY AND EFFORT, UM, JUST SEEING HOW THE VOTE GOES.
AND THEN COME JANUARY, WE MAY HAVE A WHOLE NEW COUNCIL HERE, UH, THREE NEW PEOPLE, UM, FROM WHAT WE HAVE HERE NOW, WHICH MIGHT CHANGE THINGS DRAMATICALLY AND IT MIGHT SHIFT DRAMATICALLY AT THAT POINT.
SO I, I'D LIKE TO SEE MAYBE SOME DELAY ACTUALLY AT THIS POINT, LIKE WHAT'S BEING ASKED BY THE PUBLIC, UM, AT LEAST TILL MAYBE JA EVEN JANUARY IF WE CAN.
UM, SO THAT WE, INSTEAD OF SPENDING THE MONEY THAT WAY AND THERE'S OTHER THINGS WE NEED TO DO AHEAD OF TIME, WE'VE ASKED FOR PARKING, WE'VE ASKED FOR MORE INPUT, WE'VE ASKED FOR MORE SURVEYS OF THE BUSINESSES AND OF TO, UH, OWNERS AND MAYBE JUST DELAYING THIS PROCESS A LITTLE BIT MORE AT THIS POINT, UH, TO THE FIRST MEETING IN JANUARY TO ACTUALLY MAKE SOME FINAL DECISIONS ON THIS WHOLE THING.
UM, MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE AT THIS TIME BECAUSE WE HAVE CAN I, CAN I COMMENT ON THAT SIDE? THAT'S SO I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED RIGHT NOW.
WE'RE GOING COUNCIL MEMBER LEY.
SO JUST TO FOLLOW ON THAT, EVEN WITH THE SCHEDULE THAT'S BEFORE US NOW, WITHOUT SENDING IT BACK TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION, UM, THE SECOND READING CAN'T OCCUR UNTIL THE NEW COUNCIL IS SEATED ANYWAY, SO THE NEW COUNCIL'S GONNA MAKE THE ULTIMATE DECISION ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
SO I I I THINK YOUR POINT, IT IT, WE'RE NOT LOSING ANYTHING BY SENDING IT TO THE PLANNING COMMISS.
SO HOW MUCH EFFORT DO WE PUT IN NOW BETWEEN NOW AND THEN? SO ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THIS? ALL RIGHT.
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QUESTION FROM STAFF? JUST YES, I DO.SO THERE IS A, UH, REQUEST AND IT LOOKS LIKE A STRAW POLL, UH, THAT WE, UM, RETURN, UM, TO COUNCIL, UM, BUT NOT BEFORE WE GO BACK TO PLANNING COMMISSION.
UM, AND THAT WOULD BE FOR, FOR THEIR REVIEW OF BOTH THE DRAFT, OR ACTUALLY WHAT I HEARD WAS JUST THE, THE DRAFT EIR, UM, AND THE COUNCIL WOULD LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT AS PRESENTED TO PLANNING COMMISSION LAST YEAR, THE ORDINANCE, UM, IN SOME FORMAT.
IS THAT, WHAT, IS THAT ACCURATE? RIGHT.
SO I THINK I, I THINK WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS IF WE PASS THE RESOLUTION TONIGHT TO GO TO FINAL, FINAL IS WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR IN ITEM SEVEN FROM PLANNING.
SO THAT WOULD HAPPEN AND THAT'S THE 30 DAY AD THAT'S DESCRIBED IN THE STAFF REPORT.
SO LET'S SCROLL POLL ON SEVEN.
DO WE APPROVE, UH, RETURNING THE FINAL TO, TO A, A PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING.
SO THAT'S, AND THEN EVEN THE, UM, THE ORDINANCE, THEY'VE ASKED THAT THEY SEE THAT AGAIN.
AND IF THAT CAN RUN CONCURRENT, THAT'S GREAT.
BUT YES, WE WOULD LIKE SOONER RATHER THAN LATER FOR OURSELVES TO SEE THE, UM, ORDINANCE SOONER THAN THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING THAT, UM, THAT WHERE THEY SEE THE ORDINANCE FOR A SECOND BITE, INDEPENDENT OF THE TRACK OF THE EAR.
JUST TO UNDERSTAND ORDER THOUGH.
SO YOU'D LIKE COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO, AS A DECISION MAKER, CONSIDER AT MAYBE AT A WORKSHOP LEVEL THE ORDINANCE AND THEN STAFF WOULD TAKE THAT FEEDBACK BACK TO PLANNING COMMISSION FOR A FINAL GO WITH PLANNING COMMISSION BEFORE WE COME BACK TO CITY COUNCIL ON THE ORDINANCE.
WERE YOU ABOUT TO SAY WE'RE DONE? 'CAUSE I HAD ONE QUESTION PLEASE.
UM, CAN WE GO BACK ONE SLIDE THERE? IT WAS, IT WAS BACK TO THE FIRST ITEM RECOMMENDED.
I, I, I SORT OF DON'T REMEMBER THAT YOU TOOK A STRAW POLL ON THAT, BUT MAYBE WE DID THAT AT THE BEGINNING.
UH, WITH, WE ALSO HAVE TO VOTE.
DO WE ALSO HAVE TO VOTE TO GO PAST 11 O'CLOCK? OH, I'M, I'M
UM, SO COUNCIL MEMBER ZIKE REQUESTED ABOUT, UH, ITEM ONE OF THE, UM, STAFF REPORTS WERE DIRECTING PLANNING STAFF TO INCORPORATE ALL HCPC.
AND WHAT WE SAID WAS THAT THAT WAS DONE BY THE PROCESS OF BUILDING THE EIR.
THEY TOOK THOSE CONSIDERATIONS.
THEY'RE GONNA BE IN THE FINAL, THEY WILL BE RESPONDED TO IN THE FINAL.
SO, SO WITH THAT, ANY OTHER DELIBERATIONS IN WEIGHING IN, UM, THEN I'M LOOKING FOR A MOTION COUNCIL MEMBER.
SCH UH, FIRST QUESTION IS, ARE WE GONNA ASK FOR THE, UM, GO STRAIGHT TO THE FINAL AT THIS POINT? OR ARE WE ASKING FOR ANOTHER DRAFT AT THIS POINT BEFORE THE FINAL? SO, NO, THE MO THE MOTION IS TO, FOR THE FINAL, WE'VE HAD THE DRAFT HEARINGS AND SO THE MOTION TO BE MADE PER THE STAFF REPORT IS GO AND ANSWER ALL THESE QUESTIONS AND BRING US THE FINAL SO WE CAN SEE THE ANSWERS.
AND DO WE HAVE A, UM, A DEADLINE WE WANNA SET ON THAT BEFORE JANUARY OR AFTER JANUARY? IT'S BEFORE IT'S AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
AND I THINK THEY HAVE THIS W IT STAYS ON TRACK, UM, EXCEPT THAT IT DOESN'T COME TO COUNCIL QUITE AS QUICK AS THE STAFF REPORT SHOWED TODAY.
IT COMES WITH A PLANNING STEP IN THE MIDDLE.
HELP ME OUT BECAUSE THAT, THAT RAISES UP, IS STAFF ABLE TO MEET THIS DEADLINE OF, GIVEN ALL THE UM, UM, INPUT THAT YOU'VE RECEIVED FROM EVERYBODY AND ALL THE QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ASKED AND ABLE TO ARE, ARE YOU GONNA BE CAPABLE OF ACTUALLY, UH RIGHT, GETTING US TO A FINAL BY DECEMBER? UH, WELL WE WILL HAVE TO, UH, REVIEW ALL OF THE COMMENTS ONCE THE DEADLINE HAS HIT ON THE 21ST AND WE ARE DOING, WE'LL DO EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO MEET THAT TIMELINE, BUT, UM, I CAN'T SIT HERE TODAY AND SAY ABSOLUTELY WILL BE BEFORE YOU ON DECEMBER 16TH.
SO, UM, I KNOW THAT THE, UM, CITY TEAM WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP YOU UPDATED AS WE, UM, YOU KNOW, CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD AS WE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE, UH, FULL SCOPE OF THOSE ARE AND WHAT, UM, ADDITIONAL STEPS AND, UH, PROCESSES TO, TO GET BACK BEFORE YOU WITH THE FINAL.
AND IF WE HAVE TO PUT, UH, MORE STAFF ON IT, MORE TIME, MORE MONEY, WHAT TYPE OF, UM, ARE WE, ARE WE, IS THIS AN OPEN BOOK FOR WHATEVER MONEY IT TAKES TO GET THIS DONE? AND WE ARE, WE'RE PAYING FOR IT.
I THINK THAT'S THE PATH WE'RE ON CURRENTLY.
UM, WE'RE LOOKING FOR A MOTION TO GET CLOSURE ON IT TONIGHT TO GET US THE
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FINAL.JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR ON WHAT WE'RE DOING.
DO YOU WISH TO MAKE THAT MOTION? UM, I'M, I'M NOT READY TO MAKE THE MOTION.
I'LL MOVE APPROVAL MOTION PER WRITTEN IN THE, AND I DON'T THINK WE ADDED ANYTHING TO THE RESOLUTION IN ANY OF THE CRAFTING THAT WE DID.
SO IT'S THE, THE MOTION IS PER THE RESOLUTION IN THE PACKAGE.
CAN YOU CLARIFY? NOW WE CLARIFIED THE MOTION THAT WAS JUST MADE.
IT'S FOR THE OVERLAY AND THE DEIR FOR THE HOTEL.
IT'S FOR BOTH OR WE SEPARATED THE DEIR, JUST THE DEIR.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OVERLAY? THE HOTEL? IT'S FOR BOTH OF THAT IS NOT AN OUR, SO I WAS JUST TRYING TO GET A CLARIFICATION OF THE MOTION.
SO THE, THE MOTION IS TO APPROVE THE RESOLUTION, THE PACKAGE, WHICH, UM, AGAIN, WE'RE IN, WE'RE DOING ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE TONIGHT.
SO, UM, THAT TITLE OF THAT RESOLUTION IS RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF PETALUMA AUTHORIZING STAFF TO PREPARE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT FOR THE DOWNTOWN HOUSING AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OVERLAY AND EK AND APPELLATION HOTEL PROJECT.
SO IT'S THE ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT FOR BOTH OF THEM, BUT JUST THE ENVIRONMENTAL TONIGHT IS IS THE EIR FOR BOTH? FOR BOTH, YES FOR BOTH.
AND I'LL MOVE APPROVAL OF THAT.
AND WE NEED A SECOND, SECOND, A SECOND FROM CATER THOMPSON.
AND SO THEN WE ARE AT ROLL CALL VOTE BARNACLE.
RES I'LL HAVE TO SAY NO AT THIS TIME.
UH, I, I THINK IT'S GONNA TAKE MORE TIME AND UH, UH, WE PROBABLY NEED TO SEPARATE OUT THE HOTEL AND DO SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT RATHER THAN JUST MOVING STRAIGHTFORWARD RIGHT NOW.
AND, UM, WITH THAT, UH, WE HAVE CONCLUDED OUR BUSINESS FOR THE EVENING AND WE ARE ADJOURNED.