Sep 12, 2023 4:00 PM - Redding Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

>> [CALLING ROLL] >> We have this new fancy microphones and screens so it's going to take some time getting used to. Just before we get started, if you would like to speak on any item that is agendized or in public comment, please go fill out blue speaker card in the back and bring it up here to the front and then we will call people depending on which item is for. Moving to number 2, approval of minutes. We have 2. The minutes from June 27 and then the minutes from July 25. Can I have a motion to approve the minutes from June 27? >> Motion to approve. >> All right. Thank you. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >>Aye >> Can I have a motion to approve the minutes from June 25? >> So move >> Second >> I am going to abstain because I was not here. All those in favor? >>Aye >> Moving on to announcement, Do we have any? >>There's none >> There is no announcement. We have a couple of items today, and the 1st 1 that will be is considering is the planning commission number 4. Which is subdivision extension, application EXT2023 968, which is a request by MD Development for a 3 year extension to a previously approved tentative subdivision map, which was a way back in 09, and I am sure we will get into that. Mr. Castro, are you presenting today? We have a recusal? >> Yes, I will be recusing myself due to proximity of residency and development property. >> Thank you very much. We will just take a moment to let Commissioner Partin leave the room. >> Mr. Castro, if you like to get started. >> Thank you Chair Hatch. Good evening, commissioners. So, the action here for consideration is approval for the 3rd and final 3 year term tentative subdivision map extension for 7 bridges subdivision. 7 bridges subdivision S309 granted approval to develop a small lot, single-family subdivisions assisting up 127 lots on 38.3 acres to be developed under a plan development plan. So, the subdivision is located on both sides of oasis Road approximately 1 mile east of Interstate 5. It's zoned RS3PD, That's residential single-family district with plan development overlay district and it's shown there in red. You will notice in the south side, there looks like it's filled in. That's actually a bunch of lights blending together and that's the area of the approved subdivision. It was originally approved in 2010. I said before, with applied development plan, the scrappy care is from the plan development plan. Is then the map itself . It's the same thing. So to the notes phases 1 and 2, already recorded and that's everything. There is out of recess road that's already been recorded " as the last 3 year extension. The map can go over a brief timeline. We can see her get today, the map was originally approved in 2010 and the map approved wells enteral record that on '30. That brought them after 2013 heartland with the recession assembly state assembly Bill208 and assembly Bill 116. Each of the state assembly bills. Granted an additional 2 years of time to THAT were still alive and that time. So, that in another 4 year that brought the life of the map 2 2017. The 1st 3 year extension was granted to the map which brought him up to 2020. In that time, substantial office improvements were done. So, those site improvements included widening and tapering oasis road that is true old Oregon Trail at approximately a thousand feet up there was optional, you drive. There's a threshold of off-site improvements that as of the vision can do a monetary threshold.1.1.wrestle these ones that amount of money spent off-site for improvements. It automatically provides an extension for the map. So, essentially that's what happened there. And that automatic extension brought them up to 2023 and that's where we are today. This is the 2nd 3 year extension. The map with the approval and that's what's before today in the map. SoCal issue here before the planning commission is whether or not to grant approval of a request the subject entity map for 3 years approval of a request to extend the subject tentative map or 3 years. As for adding or amending existing '33 conditions. The city attorney has applied no additional condition should be impose for approval of the extension request. The city description is limited to whether or not to grant extension and if so, for how long. So in conclusion, no changes were being proposed to the same subdivision map estriol 9 with these. Extension request nor have there been any general planning, zoning ordinance revisions affecting the map staff is not aware of any new environmental issues. Consideration of the map approval. Mitigation measures are conditions there. Recommends approval extension application 2023 968. >> Thank you, Mr. Castro any questions from the commission? >> I just had a couple question with regards to water were is this development going to get water from? I'm not entirely clear exactly where is getting water from. >> I know in resident approvals, were Bella Vista water has been the purveyor of water that we had a letter that they would actually give us water or give them the development water. You have that? >> We generally get that building permit face during settlement phase that would already enhance. >> Those words serve letters were submitted for what those developments and will be requesting that as well as for the future face. >> That I'm giving that this was approved and in 2010 and it's ever been. Subsequent 3 approvals. How have we got back to allow this water to confirm that? >> That is in the fact that the case changes between entitlement the building. Require will serve letter open building permits as well. >> Then, my 2nd question is with regards to. Maybe you can talk to the little bit about AB 208 and AB 116. I'm looking at packet page number 8 and is basically the tentative subdivision and plan development approval appears from 2010 and it says, please note that the tentative map will expire on September 18, 2016, unless it is extended in your request for extension must be made prior to the expiration date and that's dated September 30, 2010. So, I was curious that you said 3 year approve while but this looks like a 6 year approval. I was curious what that meant? >>It's a good question. Went back out and I look at the timeline, I do recall seeing this letter and reading that. When I backed out Andy, myself, it all worked out with the way I explained it. So, I can t speak exactly why does it say that but my understanding is that the timeline should work as the way I described before. >> I was looking at SB 208 because that got me confused, at which access the bill extends the expiration date by 24 months, or as specified subdivision maps that will expire on or before January 1, 2014. So if this blows until 2016 then SP AB go. It really wouldn't apply in my map? >> I understand what you're saying. The original profile would have been granted in 2010. It went to 2013, so what have fallen within the timeframe to get that map extension is 16 data is given here back like I said before, I'll stand behind that we do approve about triggering it with AB 208 and continuing on the timeline from there. >> Any other question from Commissioner Goedert? >> Artist types of extension office to the surrounding area? >> Their notice with the hearing is the last stance hundred feet. >> So it doesn't include the utilities like mellow water? They usually weigh in. >> I'm not exactly sure if that was not this developers the water. I know it did this under general foot nothing That's what I know. >> Is it the people that we do not include utilities in our map extensions in the notifications? >> Any other questions? Commissioner? >> In the event that there is not water available, given what we know about water in that area, what alternatives does the developer have available for this boat out? >> They can reside or provide will serve letters, then we won't issue. Building permits or allow occupancy. In the past, I believe there is been more auditorium on landscape irrigation and watering. So, domestic service available and which case will delay their requirements. If it's a PD, we would offer some delay or forgiveness to Their front yard plantings or change the potential landscape plans of those shards to accommodate for the moratorium on watering but it sorts of ebbs and flows, but ultimately became a real situation. There was no water. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? Do we have an applicant here? >> No. >> Thank you, at this time I will open the public hearing for AB 208 and looks like we have what speaker. If you'd like to speak. Please pull out double speaker Cardinal back and bring it up to the frontier. >>My name is David larger, and I'm concerned about the project. As you saw on the other side of the highway. They have Most of the tree out and developing cutting most of those out that this project is even thought it looks very green on there. It most. Since 2010, the climate crisis has gotten worse and, for instance. There's a heat island effect, which means that when you have a CD and that all the concrete road sidewalk gets full, Road buildings, and it makes the climate a lot harder, hotter from 8 to 15 hotter. So, that's happening in Arizona. Now, Your botanical gardens and Phoenix there are dying. The temperature doesn't get down to about 97 at night and that's the time I just has a certain type of partisan this is where it upends up. Where as up in the daytime when it's '97 night they can come up and they start to that. I noticed our former planning manager require a one-to-one mitigation for the oak trees. For that time, I think that that was a good plan back I would urge that you put in class and at least half of the trees that are required to be planted the trees. I up there with a friend of mine under other subdivision, we got a couple pieces of wood and 1 of them was size, sales and 6 inches in diameter. 70 years old trees. So, 2 blokes are very old there. It was allowed to plant only 60 of them and ready to restrict trees. You're not going to Rick Kuester any cardboard and you're not going to keep the city cooler and it's important that for every subdivision that goes in as there is more and there's adequate mitigation. I know that the Bella Vista water district that came before the country and the supervisors turned down. There is a water district said we do not or cannot just the permits for this project because we do not have the water. I think that's important thing to look into in Bella Vista. >> Thank you. Any comments in this items? Seeing none, I will close the public hearing and bring it back to the commission. >> Just 1 comment on the question about the planting of blue Oaks. We typically discourage or unable to make additional conditions of this extension correctly. I think I heard it earlier that usually the case. >> Any other questions? Commissioner Gutter? >> Yes, I made a visit and while I didn't go through all the property because it's lens with oh Woodland. It is readily apparent that it is not significant of Woodland property and it's very unfortunate that we do not have a tree ordinance update. Yet, when we were looking at the project were asking for an extension. Were there is probably thousands of Oak crest on that property. According to the numbers of the dates of this extensions, that the there were provided by Mr. Castro entitled to 3 year extension. Totally 108 months. They have actually received to date, 120 months worth of extension. So, to that effect, am going well. I'm sure it's a lovely project that I think 120 months is sufficient. We don't have a tree ordinance. We can add additional extension. According to Mr. DeWalt. So I will be voting on this matter. >> All right, anybody else? >> Given that current arguments doesn't allow for any additional work here and argue tree ordinance is not executed yet, is there from the department? Is there any work that can be done on asking the developer if the one-to-one would be done in later blue? Just as an offer of their good faith in the work that were doing. >> There's absolutely nothing to prevent that. I think it's a good idea. Please reassess the issues with the developer as a potential or something that may be decided that the developer or do but >> Let's say the developer, we approve this as it goes forward that still doesn't get constructed in the next 3 year., What transpired after that? >> At that time, they would be out of extension and entitlement would expire. They had to reapply altogether. >> In which case they would fall under, any new ordinance? >> Giving that a lot has changed in the last 13 years since this was worth approve, we have gone to a significant drop that remade not being at the moment. I am concerned with about water and I would like to hear If they will be able to provide water to this project. I guess, absent of that information would either ask for. If we extend this or to the next meeting or what would be , what would be or what could be here? >> I would think, based on Mr. Castro said, it expires and as a matter of days or weeks. If we continue to another commission meeting will be our past expiration date at that time. >> To emphasize the point that Mr. Pegram made earlier, we will not issue building permits. If there's not, that s the text at issue. >> So, additionally, Mr. Anthony can wrong but I believe that our moratorium for landscape irrigation has been. In the absence of other organized or future ordinance. It's kind of, like to say we want to see what another ordinance will do in the future. Somebody that has approved project timing wise. I agree with Commissioner Goedert It has been a long time. I think we bought on the 1st time on the commission, the 1st time. This was approved which means like a long time that has been progress made looking at everything from building materials to supply chain issues. I know with a number of this particular project, we been a bit leading with a lot of other projects moving forward to this. Due to those various issues. So my question is, does this reach that very high bar that we need to hit legally, to be able to deny extension because it appears obviously continue once or do it. We had to do a show and an approval or denial for extension which anybody recall when the last time we that we >> I've been here for almost 21 years and I don't think it happened during that time. >> Was been here for considerably longer and I've never seen extension request. >> All right, Annie Commissioner Corey >> I think to the kind of back of what Commissioner Milburn is also saying if the same time as the primate and the 3 issues, we also do some serious cost-of-living increase and I don't like using the word crisis but will use it a lot in California and calling it the housing crisis. I think were expected to be millions of homes Short but over the next decade. I look at something like this, as well as the economic administrator certainly appeared to be on the horizon, with interest rates and visibility, some materials cost contraction. I don't know if it puts it that far back in visibility much farther away from disability that it is right now. It's as close that could be more likely to be the opportunity to extend this while it certainly made not be able to happen or be able to pencil in the 1st place in the next 3 years. Certainly, I don't see things getting less expensive or more PC balls. So I would be pro this 3 year extension considering that we do not have a history of denying those and out of concern, it would open up a possible litigation towards the city of Redding. This is our best chance to address housing stock. So, I will make a motion to accept staff recommendation on this item. >> We have a motion, the have a 2nd? >> Second. >> Where a motion and a 2nd, and further discussion? I will call for a, all those in favor? >>Aye >> Motion passes. Moving on to Commissioner Partin, Moving on to commission consideration 5. So we have a number of items relating to specific plans in general plans and so the 1st 1 is 5A. Their running riverfront the specific plan. Community coalition member selection by the city of Redding to select 1 planning Commissioner to serve as a member of the Redding riverfront we >> I just offer a few minutes up comments and then allow you to discuss and deliberate. Were breaking on the update of the Redding Riverfront. And month ago a little longer ago in terms of our public engagement process with the open house that we had down at the Civic Auditorium, as part of the process, we have several hundred members of the public in attendance to provide their feedback and engage them on this. This effort after that open house, we had a series of stakeholder interviews as well. As with the consultant from numerous stakeholders and property owners in the area. The next step in this process as to form What were calling the Riverfront specific plan community coalition Group and as you can see, in your staff report, the community you brought this before the City Council back in August and heard and then and some of their voice of support of their effort in terms of myself in the city, selecting a coalition group to serve visioning group. ITS at this group will be our representation of the stakeholders in the Northern and Southern Riverfront area and they will need approximately 4 to 6 times per publicly held meetings of about 2 hours. The idea of this group will create what's were calling a vision and guiding principle documents. So it's a specific plan is intended to get this document will be present at the City Council. This is a visioning document for their approval before we can engage more stakeholders in the process and subsequent lay heavy stakeholders discussion. So this is a coalition group is sort of starting >> Do we have the specific names of people stakeholders? >> Now we have placeholders, were waiting until we get confirmation and develop the entire the up membership class before we parted. So at this point were still working on gathering members. >> Any question where he wants to take or will you have a comment on this? We have 1 comment for this item which is Catherine McDonald. >> I am a resident, a property owner in the garden track. Before I make the remarks that I plan to make, I would like to express my disappointment when Jerry may name the makeup community, unrelenting good residence, his talk about business owners and people with money are interested in development but he didn't blame the fact that at least 2 residents will be on that committee. I know that Mark Marzano at the City Council meeting. Make sure that those 2 residents will be from the garden track. I am hoping that whoever is appointed from the planning commission is very sensitive to traffic which is at Sequoia Street in front of Sequoia middle school. The garden track, that will result to development but at the turtle Bay area and particularly on Park Marina . If traffic is backed up on Park Marina, People are very likely to use See, and the residential streets in the garden track. I would just like to ask that whoever is appointed would be sensitive for the sake of the children and the past and the family still live in the garden track. I don't think that the traffic program will be as severe contrast track because the streets are so burdened. >> Thank you, Is there any other comments on this item? Seeing none, I'll bring it back to the commission. Before we nominate, anybody there S questions? Commissioners? >>Mr. Chairman, I wouldn't result from Commissioner who would have interest in serving on that position. >>I was up and volunteering and I did have a couple comments about that. It would be great to hear what other commissioners would be interested in volunteering back as far as the conflict, I don't own any project or anything near the waterfront. So, I do not have a conflict. I think it's important to note that This timeframe for this committee or this plan that in presently appoint Ted will certainly put together complete timeframe. >> Thank you for asking that. I didn't make any comments but I'm right now targeting early October for the 1st meeting of this group. So, probably in the next 3 or 4 weeks and that ultimately were looking biweekly or probably at most every 3 weeks to have a meeting of this group, and likely Monday or Wednesday evenings. So again 4 to 6 meetings in the evening so we can promote as much involvement from the public as possible. Roughly 2 hours and those will begin and about 1 month from now. >> Also, from the development background, how hard it is to actually get projects off the ground? I see a lot there to Redding Residents Presented on the list. >> Certainly, I'm happy to see other members on that as well to Commissioner and are only planning commissioners that would like to be considered. >> Anybody else? >> I just want to say that I think anyone of us would be a great job and I think having complex and interest doesn't need to be a consideration and that needs to be waited on the nomination. >> So, on the issue of conflicts of interest cannot just lay out the general rule, the general will is you have a conflict of interest If you own property that is if you're willing specific plan area or within 500 feet of the specific plan area and the other source of conflict of interest in this case would be if you have a financial interest, meaning that there is some property there or a business that is current source of income to you. >> So those are the general parameters for conflict of interest for this issue? >> In this instance, unpaid membership or a nonprofit board it last resulting financial interest and is not a conflict of interest. >> Question? >> I am a homeowner in the garden, so I will just bow out as I would have a conflict. >> As for myself, I don't have a conflict. I did serve on the tree committee and I feel like I put in some time, though, so I'm not interested from the commitment perspective. >> I have a rental property in the neighborhood so eliminating as well. >> All right, just to be direct, previously you had rescued yourself from the specific plan things. I would mind speaking to that. >> Absolutely, will disclose sure, we up until friend reluctantly did represent the cutest family there in the property. I do not have any conflict of interest there are I am a member of the arch out cowboys but I could tell you, especially after this weekend that are barbecue in the park and you could tell by my voice that we do it we don't do it for money. I'm gone over as well to the financial conflicts there. As of the current going over with the city attorney, I have no conflicts of interest and just regarding the position itself, might have to be honorary in another capacity. Potentially bringing up the another Commissioner to be able to do that doesn't appear. That will be the case and would like to serve. This is something I work on and started for a very long time. I was 1 of the 2 Commissioner myself in the community service advisory, Commissioner Deal propose doing this! A specific plan about a decade ago and you put up a proposal before Council and will work on the full matrix of how that would be done following the Brown act chatter and do the specific plan update. So I'm very familiar with the history with a lot of every detail regarding the zoning, land uses, circulation to the number of factors. It is something very familiar with our aware toward the riverfront. The specific plan area. I think it would be a good candidate to be able to do that. >>Yes, I don't have any conflict, this are excellent candidates but if you need a tiebreaker. >> I think from the standpoint of expertise in this area was Cameron and Luke , excellent choices. >> 1 more. I term because she did not mention that the management committee ordinance, if we did have this on Mondays, I would need a note from those for 6 meetings. >> I will also need that note. >> I'm not in the business of giving out notes. With that, I appreciate everybody's willing to volunteer their time for such an important topic for our community. This is going to be open to the public, even though it's a Brown act committee and with though I hear, runs or Commissioner Middletown Comments, I do feel like. Given the residency of the relationship with the cutest family and given that with likely representations. Would with all due respect, I would nominate Commissioner Goedert. I think she has a long track record in history of being on the planning commission and doing a really great job and doing the Redding SIS in 1 way or other. That's my nomination. >> Is an official nomination. >> I will seconded. >> So we have personal 2nd any further discussion? All those in favor? >>Aye >> Any oppose? All right, congratulations. All right, moving on to 5B.So this is just a general plan update for the general plan 2045 by the city of writing and there are a couple different sub items here, but I think it's going to >> Good evening Commissioner, staff and residents. As about engagement a strategy for the general plan, we partnered with Janice Hartman community advisor. The extension to conduct the youth engagement and information room session. So, to give you a brief recap of what we did, the general plan update , we started with a gap analysis to understand that we current plan was missing. We then put together a list of focus group participants. Drive off 9 elements are you conducted 31 different focus group sessions at engineers was big part of most of those focus group meetings. A total of 100 a total of 110 participants were member engagement strategy, included service from Boca social forum updates, youth engagement, planning commission workshops and in full room sessions. We conducted a total of 5 of this 4 rooms at various locations in the city of running. It was advised and serious social >> My name is Janice, who in addition to serving as a focus group part Participant. Today I will just presenting the group studies years and sessions. In the same presentation some information on visual all was in March of this year. It conducted 15, 1/1 at Shasta high school and enterprise high school. There are 2 main goals. The 1st was to listen to the unit provided in on what they think. The general plan should look like. The 2nd was to develop and empower the student to think how best to improve running for the future. The thought process behind that is that this is a 20 year document, this 16, 17, 18 years old will in fact be midcareer. This comes around and were looking at them as potential and so kind of give brief overview, there were over 300 high school seniors that participated across this course. We went in. It was about an hour long in each classroom and patient was two-game kind of representation under general plan and what planning percent on tonight. Students were able to provide feedback on the community survey that's on the city of Redding website. And on the last note, I wanted to make sure that this couldn't have happened without the teacher support. We had a lot of buy-in at the administrative level of discourse and then at the teacher. So, thank you to the 4 teachers that allowed us to participate. So, the 1st question, when they were in small groups was imagine yourself in 20 years, are you living are leaving and Redding? Why or why not? and as you can see the 2 tables here you can see that Circling the bottom circle. The top is Jesus. The bottom is enterprise high school. For those students that said, yes, I will be leaving here at the answer were pretty consistent across both schools. The 1st of course that wouldn't leave her, my family is the nature. I love writing it has a lot of nature. A lot of outdoor recreational opportunities. I want to leave her in 20 years and then last was what we call small town feel so our trust. They called it not being congested at enterprise. They called it not being inexpensive 33.So, I wouldn't leave here because the things I do aren't here. They don't exist here at enterprise high school. The 1st reason why students said that, I wouldn't leave her was because of the crisis surrounding our homeless population. The 2nd was because of either extreme weather so hot summers or wildfire changer. They re not completely right now is just an ideas. When were talking about the different concerns and environmental justice element, we have language around revision of river sources. This serve on house operation and in the community development to hit on the lack of activities, lack of things to do. We develop go surrounding what's called third-place projects. So, those are places that people go when they're not at work or school and not at home. All this between places that you can go to. We also talk about neighborhood cleanups and volunteer services. This idea of things to do. Similarly, in the recreational element, looking at programs and park facilities focusing well-being through physical activities and this Parks and Recreation areas. What do you think the biggest challenges in writing? As you'll see the similar across the 2 school, the biggest issues again are your comment seems that you'll hear 2 of this entire presentation. Challenges and concerns around our house population Personal safety were the Answers and that I chastise school we had utility maintenance. This goes to sidewalks and roads, this was done in March. It was really rainy in March or roads were trust. The other 1 was again, these original opportunities. What we have, but we want more of it. Similarly, the same ideas that enterprise were seen, with the exception of hitting on the wall for any concerns again in this issues surrounding our and host population. So, focusing on community-oriented policy services Involving the residence on some strategies that we know work increasingly. Safety patrols in public areas, places so People feel safe and they're out in the community addressing quality of life issues beyond just crime . The other concerns are hitting our residents and then continuing to support a certain program in transportation. This looks at the elementary updates that we have the draft language includes the road and sidewalk improvements, pedestrian safety and increasing productivity. I wanted to point out, what more thing on the public safety piece. There were stars coming from the use not feeling safe in our communities. The stories of the youth experiencing discrimination, violence, threats, verbal trust profiling. There was a lot that was unknown prior to this activity. It was pretty clear that this was a common theme that we heard from our youth. Lastly, in the environmental justice is goes back to kind of safety piece is looking at the built environment and using that as an approach to increase more ice on the street are more increase safety and community. Again, prioritizing is what improvements Park infrastructure, we were having an increase on those thing or propose to increase those things and then involving the neighborhood to address the issues understands up safety priorities for the next 10 years. Is a very similar things that we just talk about a lot that we talk about was park and open space are accurate in all things. Make sure and I want to continue to that. We also mentioned looking at increasing regulation of illicit drugs, and being more healthy food options, job addressing the homeless crisis and community health groups that enterprise. Similarly, drugs came up again. This environmental justice element, this community groups Support team that has seen to be around with all the various focus groups. There are different policy recommendations that are surrounded with this supporting, care. the increase in healthcare, looking at mental wellness efforts. This are things that really have in the job language that coincides with the use letter saying that they want. Eliminating or reducing the use of illicit drugs. Adults looking at extracting a sense of community and striving for positive and safe place to live when it comes to focusing on jobs. We have economic development element, this looks at promoting youth-oriented programs, looking at deployment for residents across abilities and ages, workforce training and then found attraction and retention. We know that a lot of our year1Those. That's my 5 minute youth engagement. >>I just want to say that was fascinating to see how this young students are or how this young people are viewing our community and the difference between the 2 sides of town. I particularly noteworthy was the concern of the east side of the town about 12 are when it was so far-removed From the actual car fire in comparison to the chastise pool area. >>This were college prep class. It was the heat of students we could reach that were either taking government economic at that time. >> Thank you, I really appreciate that. You took the time to go to this and engage to high school students analyzing that attracting and raising retaining talent and getting boomerang kids to come back are super important. I appreciate hearing those results. Thank you. >> Thank you, Janessa. Back to the in 4 rooms, we have organized 5 in 4 rooms at various locations in the city. The 1st was for the City Hall community room. Dan had 1 of the old City Hall in the downtown. The 3rd 1 was at Shasta Trinity fly Fisher clubhouse. The 4th of Redding school of arts and the 5th at the MLK Junior center. The sessions were aimed to educate residents of the general plan. We wanted to talk about the components Television, which got us here. The Iraq's original plan and recommendations made. We also had an update on the youth engagement activity, angiogenesis that there to talk about it and we also included 3 interactive questions to engage the participant at this. We included 3 interactive question. Development in downtown Redding is 1 of our focus area and has its own specific guidelines and policy recommendations in the community development and design element. So, going over to the other 4, the 1st exacerbation of our natural resources. This was a common theme. We came across these workshops. We also emphasize this in various elements of the general plan. So, the recommended language. It talks about avoiding minimizing development related disturbances, sensitive areas. As a primary form, preserving and enhancing river and quick orders, encouraging education, communities, stewardship and volunteerism in protection and enhancement of local biological resources, protecting sensitive habitat Plants, wildlife, habitat, linkage and regulatory corridors and preserving areas containing excessive slope commute little choppy. Those trails are important terms. This is tied into transportation elemental transportation element is general emphasized on providing safe, efficient, cost-effective and low last walk and sidewalk bike walks. This also extended sought interconnect think he trouble nods and activity centers. In the city, we also have language and infrastructure that facilitates safe crossing and improved multimodal service. Preservation of historical and cultural resources in another key topic that we've covered is the recommendation made in good policies and encourage preservation, rehabilitation, they were historic buildings and culturally important research October worship with the property agency to ensure documentation and expansion of cities candidate list and preserving existing community character. Question was what type of development would like to see happen more in writing? So, residents were given 7 options to rank and the top priorities that we saw was housing portrayals and outer access restaurant, healthy food options and commercial and retail and the community development and design element talks about providing affordable housing within walking distance to transit and services. We also have policies that encourage the development of diverse housing options for all income levels. We also have policies that encourage development of diverse housing options of all income levels. Policies that support combining housing with other users to increase side potential and opportunities that enable development of multi family housing throughout the community to increase housing stock for parts trailing outdoor access process. The current level of service, this has been something that will carry over in this minimum 10 acres of improved parkland, per thousand population reached in the current general plan. We have extended the goal to walk a backup all ranges of the nearest park. Trailhead or recreational amenity. We also have language that talks about regional recreation and active transportation process on that price into the transportation element is the liability in our backstroke facilities and open space areas will help people is requirement of the environmental justice element and our community health partners environmental justice element recommends expanding access to health depression reportable food and resources partnering with local farmers and agencies to promote with assistant programs and encouraging the development of new retail venues that sell fresh produce exploring community responsible ideas to optimize healthy food access and prioritizing improvements to address. Healthy food access in underserved communities, residents feel that the city should prioritize commercial and retail development in the plan. In addition to providing guidance for commercial development emphasize on mixed use development projects to ensure available land is used for this class potential. What use, what do you like to see in the hills. So, residents here voted for more trash cans, bathrooms and parking increased bikes and pedestrian access. So, our goal is to strive and ensure every resident lives within our 1/2 mile walk couple by couple registered in West park trailhead or recreational amenity public are reflected in the community. We have a section in the community development and design element that focuses on public art and section and section in the parks trail and recreation element that focuses on preserving Redding historic and cultural heritage to public art. That is responsive to the community and recreation element transportation talks about it and environmental justice also talks about it. So, the recreational element. This especially calls for installing signage information, board and maps as funding allows the person Trial heads. So that means the mid underrepresentation. >> Any question at the commission? >> Thank you, this was incredible. Can you circle back to the historic candidate list? I know that something we discussed multiple times, but is there any understanding of why our current list is so small and what was been impending, increasing the list and how were going to change that for? >> My understanding is that It s not a lot of property owners want to be included the candidate list because It brings property that's 1 and 2nd, we do not have a lot of buildings or historic structures property documented. So someone comes in and says that they want to demolish it or something. It will obviously advise them but when there is stopping them from moving forward. The better part of our new general plan that will allow us to understand what history. >>So you know it. I recommend that Arturo part of the candidate list, the local government application that we are working on is obviously going to bring fans and this is just historical society. >> I think those of you have seen the list of about 100 and so properties. It is based on the database server back in the 80s and that looks like a historic house but there has been very little research done which is very there are policies in the job want to work with Tessa story, side orders to actually get some grant funds to do the real studies. >> Do you have any comments or questions? >>A couple things on that. Just to clarify, city asked to list. So there's the qualified list in the calendar list . The qualified list is very short that I only qualified list can get on thereby being part of the automatic qualification. Although there are structures on both that have been included on our qualified list. We just haven't taken it through the process which eventually comes to us. I been on the historic structure committee for historical aside about 15 years and tried to spearhead some effort to try and increase the stress. So, basically the definition of the qualified. This is a story, current address. It made me historical and there's a long list of potential criteria that might make it back to clarify if you're on the candidate list, there are no restrictions regarding building anything having to do with any construction on the property. So, if you're qualified, the higher your list, which is like old City Hall cascade, the old Kennedy house on Trinity behind those type of things. You fall under the Department of Interior guidelines for historic preservation back on candidate list, there are no guidelines. So the big leap is going from candidate to qualified and a lot of that process. >> So the City Council policy which was adopted a number of years ago, that basically says that if there is the militia and permit submitted to the city for any structure on the candidate list, it will be referred to a group such as historical Society and given certain amount of time. I can't remember Respond back to do whatever studies they think they can do to help determine whether that indeed is a story structure that would trigger SQL process. >> Any other comments? How do we want to proceed with those before we want to? >> I might advise because now Mr. Manuel percent on general plan comments received and unless the comments are in particular to the in 4 rooms or the youth engagement is there. With respect to general plan, it might be best to wait until Mr. Daniels presentation. >> I am Janessa Hartman, just heard my presentation and the engagement activity so based on the engagement , The following changes I have proposed for consideration is the commission to consider for changes to draft general plan and are listed here on the screen. This list changes based on the summary of feedback collected from the high school senior over to hundred 25 of them. The respondent offered many comments that were centered 40 following areas, concern surrounding our un-house population, increasing opportunities and recreation department for jobs careers and improving personal safety and it strengthened the sense of community. The big, that I have order request that I have is to increase or to have a new goal surrounding intercommunity helpfulness environment justice element. The goal words strive to strengthen the sense of community and creation and writing through connection relationship and trust and objectives would be continuing to build all resident stress and city government great a sense of belongingness were all residents are respect and all are all individual support and publicized events and the celebrate diversity, and continue to strive for community where residents have safe and positive place to live. Many of them are addressed by the focus group in this article that yet to be addressed. Please consider this changes as unduly present the feedback from the youth in a large part of the preparation from the high school seniors and there's many more information that I can provide you please let me know. We also have also the engagement report. >> Thank you very much. Any other comments about your engagement? >> Can we see the next page? >> With that callous proceed onto the next section. >> Thank you Mr. Chair around members of the commission. We have a fairly lengthy use that report from me on a number of issues and I'm going to try to be brief because I rather hear your comments. I think after a few things with the should brought up today and I do appreciate your patience and presentation you just gave. I think the public is aware of what's really contained in the plan. For the brief background of the public review draft and are planned. We did the public review on July 14 of this year. The 45 day period is related to the draft. We certainly still taking comments on the drive general plan is to speak. The final environmental impact report being prepared by our consulting team. There working respond to all the comments received during the 45 day comment period and providing necessary findings and where appropriate the statements. That is going on as we speak. Respect to finish up this process, hopefully this general plan and the CRR After his see how many comments that we have however long it takes to get a final document for the folks to review and make recommendations. Were going to address a number of things today. The first two items are some issues that may suppose and the rest of them and I'm not gonna with the presentations as far as the slides but I was not give you the sense of what are the contents of some of the comments. I understand that, letters are directed to commissioners any obscene there others that you have not seen yet and we will get into those to you before your next hearing. I think without further ado let's take the first one. The directive versus aspirational policies. I think we had more comments on the topic both in the general plan. The concern of some is not is very specific. We are not using the word prohibited. There are number of ways to do that. We are supposed to do that for the next 23 years. We don't know what the font increase that will be available. Instead of considering just to prepare and adopt. We don't have any sense of funding. We don't know if grants are available and we don't have timeline and that is certainly the skies of decision have to be at the time by the city Council during the priorities. We also don't know about scanning and staffing is roughly half. I was planning manager and resources available for the project. There's also overtime changing priorities and watching our blonde yet refresh and see 10 years and ideally you need to give it back true. If you are to lock-in it means you simply have to do well. There also other issues like changing and state and federal law. Would you see not too long ago the intestate court. Should we have of the policies. Do we really got want to when things change. Another concern has two against legal families. I'm gonna let the City Attorney talk about may be little bit about that. I think from the staff perspective, that have been the language that owes and provides adamant that the city Council and the staff certainly can ignore the directive that says is strive to do something in the stalls the city Council and not decided to not to try. We think that the direction is adequate. I wanted to give you a couple of just illustrative slides of what could happen. As you know we've got some floodplain regulations and in the floodplain and policies of the general plan it says the developers shared will dedicate floodplain areas where they develop to the city. This happens to be a Canyon Hollow Creek between 273 and an odd North of Ridge Lane. You can see it's pretty wide that the flooding and you know gets across the 273. The anodic canal tends to pool but that is it make and a sense of this property to have that huge floodplain. That is certainly a question for the staff. This is a little bit hard to see. This is a tentative map that was approved in a cold Bridgeview Vilas is under reached out by them Masonic Temple and that's really challenging to photography and item on the left the sort of the hatch and if you will and why it's a 20% slope areas an illustration on the right is the actual proof tentative. We have policies in our general plan the size I know it 20% must be dedicated to the public. It has to be a little bit room that was built into the plan. There is indeed a grading proof within the 20% slope. Much of the property would be dedicated to the city. Here's kind of a macro that illustration and hopefully that you can see it. What's highlighted in the circle is a particular lots. Most of the plot but not all of it is in Greenway. Yes it could have been litigated in the city but it would have been made on the buildable. The canyon below it is allowed to develop. Is strictly in the relation that you should indicate for the city. I think I would turn it over to the City Attorney and talk about them. >> Thanks Ken. I don t know if I can improve too much on what Kant said regards to kind of one size fits all policies. He did a great job. In the legal perspective, I mean the goal extended to goal something we strive towards. So the goals in general plan should be goals by just by definition but when we make the mandatory redo create certain risks for us. I'll give you an example, if you had approached me as a lifelong resident and Shasta and just put a bunch of Oak tree And I would set it's a great idea. Those old would be burdened and more tender to burn homes and loss of life and properties and so on and so forth. So the canceled point we do learn from her extremes as we go forward knowing that this documents going to be in place for dead decades and I'll continue with the oak analogy as an example. In the developers gonna be replanted those folks somewhere unless they have other properties. One of the challenges that we had now that existing in the litigation in the car far is the claimant that was made and embrace condemnation in the space on the Fifth Amendment that can take properties without due compensation. When accidents happen due to some projects that the government has, When there's loss and compensation and that's extended to the point where a fire could been condemnation, whereby if the public entity had a project that can contributed towards a fire and the compensation with the salt loss of property the compensation should result in that's one claim in our existing litigation. I think we can defeat that and we didn't do anything to that oak. There was no project and just receiving the property and its natural condition. We have a car far I m quite confident legislation that I cannot defend. I understand that we should value our environment and understand the concerns but we should be very careful when we take goals and make them mandatory requirements that we are in causing unintended consequences down the road. Another body of law it sums that requires the governmental entity to do something and that governmental entity fails to do the thing and it loss results the governmental entities responsible. When we create mandatory duties, for example when you're going to maintain an all the folks that are on the public property and then something happens to be the oak and it falls somebody in something that that we could be liable if we do get to it on time. Having a license arborist make it safe. My concern is If we were making a series of mandatory duties, squarely set ourselves for some problems down the road. When you can actually accomplish the mandatory goal it is to be a goal but is now a moderate mandatory duty what happens when our budget just doesn't allow it when were making choices between cops and oaks. What were going to do with that as a community? If the general plan says it's okay did it's okay to be blunt. I really encourage you even though the values that are being proposed are great. I persecuted Amber mental crime and 11 environment but we need to be cognizant of what were setting ourselves up, as a community. In the car the context we about $40 million as an insurance and we go beyond that. There are consequences for that. We don't want to get there. With that I will stop talking. >> We don't get too far ahead of ourselves and give moving into other topics. Feel free to at this point if you'd like to have some discussion yourselves if not I will give moving forward. >> Unless there and a question I think since we do have some Public Comment I don't think we know we should actually go with that but in other questions? >> Just a clarification, sooner be coming back to revisit this after the Public Comment. >> Please continue >> We will continue to talk about circulation. I meant going to spend as much time as in the staff report that you have in the staff reports available online for any folks. Certainly one commissioner and perhaps more and I'm certain many members of the public would have questions about the process this gone through. What really goes into those decision, are we setting ourselves four problems later? Resetting ourselves for problems in gridlock? We are mandated to doing the state of California says that communities must design streets to accommodate sort of transportation not just a single occupancy. Unit to be designed for pedestrians, buses were appropriate. Those are the overarching basis on what we do. I want to make sure that everyone knows that before the city undertakes a project, To either reduce the number of lanes or vehicles on the street or if the edge of the general plan calls for the future Street. For instance, Victor Avenue between Highway 44 and Hartnell Avenue was scheduled to be a four-lane the street and all the way to Shasta view Drive. I think it is the same situation Anderson traffic studies suggested that the scope and to be the case. It is always done from traffic analysis looking in the future before it's done. Another important element is grant funding. We have complaints and certainly Mr. Anthony can speak about it. We got more lane miles in writing because we are so spread out that's most other amenities and expensive to maintain. We hear complaints about all time about fixing those roads. One thing that happens when we have this We have graphs Linda is active transportation program. Also gives us the ability to resurface that area, to do them improvements. Frankly, we rely on it quite a bit. When regards to the concern about evacuation, we are committed to get the policy number down and Public Safety elements to work with the state to develop evacuation routes drop the city within and then next 2 years. The flyer has agreed that the two-year front timeframe is adequate in the legislation also requires us to identify every residential subdivision that doesn't have the public access Street points out service will be going into the next two years. We need to retrofit and keeping our existing life way. Anna questions or should I just give moving on? >> keep going >> This is one that's been brought up by staff. You're probably ordinary member back in March I think last year as in the project we just get going and were preparing some information and for the environment our consultants we suggested and provided and reduce planning area that reduce we'll have a map here in a minute. We reflect what we thought at that time would be a more tightly develop city and try to control his parole the best we can policies that would result in facilitating and field development when infrastructure available or we could make extensions very easily and not exceeding out for miles. It had some benefits if we do this efforts of things and introduces five vehicle miles traveled for all of this residence and if you live in close and you don't have to travel as far as your job order shopping or whatever else. The other thing we were trying to do is to this policy is to provide some incentives to read vitalize some of our older commercial centers, perhaps make them into the mix use and you can see those that recall the opportunity sites in the general plan. As part of the oldest, where finding more opportunities for affordable housing and housing general. The proposed PAR recall planning area mirrors the spear of influence, that's the area that the local agency formation commission of Shasta County designated as a serious and if you ultimately kind of described that way at times and we have included all show you the map here in a minute. The creek bottom is never been in our spirit of influence but it has been in our planning area scenes the 1980s. Because we surrounded our tree sites number one we have a Stillwater business Park traffic true there now that Durga Stillwater sewer treatment plant within the area. This things the city impact that area would have not on next the area and also included in the bike I water service area if you go to the Boulevard plasticity limits we have the fire protection up and there is provided city water and we took over the Buckeye water district years and years ago. This is the planning area drew proposed in March 2022. It included his spirit of influence that churn Creek bottom and the Buckeye area as well as areas in Stillwater Creek basin to your right hand side, that's were in not is known as in the secondary growth area and are inclined general plan. Once we started looking at with our environmental consultant at the population projections for the next 10 years we started looking at the impact and we started looking at how land is used for instance of the land are in conservation reason stopping the pond area and we started looking at what the Banneker ring in the county development over the last 20 years. If you look at land use as an bar's relations there are just things within this that area and read or in the hand right inside the just don't really make sense to have in our planning area. That's just going to develop as it parts of the Redding the way things are and frankly it does temperamental benefits not even to think about it. Something came up last night, I know that the chairman is well aware of this and I just sold this in the news but I googled it in the morning that Gore launched essentially done in the Southwest Redding with their red circle and that now in the conservation easement so it will not be develop is not currently the city limits. I think depending on the commissioners director and would finish this it would be appropriate to perhaps live it in the planning area. It would take out to the primary Road area. It's has general plan classification of public facility or institutional. What are driving all this? is all consistent. If your flex the downward trend for future growth projections. We started looking at the vacant plants supply for Redding and look at the anchors of vacant land stand by our GS division. We could accommodate approximately 24,000 dwellings under the vacant land and 6000% and I think that's more than enough land to accommodate in the next 20 years. That's what's removing those areas of red that you saw. That is the main part and have some other topics and I can address unless you'd like to focus on this portion. >> Would you mind going back to the last slide? >> Sure >> Looking at the vacant land supply that's would accommodate 24,000 dwellings and 6000 persons is that only the primary and secondary growth? >> That is the existing city limits primary and secondary growth areas as well as it's in the whole planning area. Picking out that area and read so that includes the chart creek bottom which then if you do the mat because most of it is a great way of floodplain and about 1000 for body unit so were talking about let's say 295 and change or whatever you have sense of how much that is an actual city elements of this point I'm not excluding as primary and secondary and I think I asked them to do those calculations at this point and we can certainly get those for you and put them and part of the general plan. >> Yeah, that would be great. I notice in the staff report but also in the general plan from one of the is current existence in the enforced of the projections from the dose on the now, interested population growth where you know significantly 80 were aggressive and again as previously and I think it is 113,000 wars about 20/20 and were about 20,000 shorts of that. >> Correct It gets a little bit complicated. Denve