Planning Commission

the meeting to order. Everybody to be JUNE 20th, 2026. Meeting of the planning commission and we have a full house in terms of commissioners tonight bolinski is out. So rachel will be voting member and with that, we could get. Sorry you say something, I stop because it means I do something wrong. >> I didn't realize was not.. >> with that, could I get a motion to approve the agenda to make a change, >> so moved. >> all those in favor .. >> I >> any. From staff?? And I just would like to introduce very briefly again for she is going to be taking over clerking for the planning commission. Victor is backing her up, but this is her first evening. In doing. On the full duties, so I just wanted to reintroduce her. I think MISS Commissioner truce wasn't here and so make sure everyone knows who that is over there. And then to your right, my left is samantha bailey, our assistant planning I think I've this is the first time I'm hearing here with an item. other than that, I think I'll hold everything else until calendar. And if you all have questions about projects, we can talk about that later. Welcome to both of you. Wonderful to have you how about from commissioners okay. I have one and I call it just kind of like a heads up. I believe we MAY be the only. Condition that needs 10:00 at nght. So not any time soon, but relatively soon. We might want this meeting to. Six up to and there's some work to be dne just for everybody. Heads up. If anybody heartburn about that. Let me and dara know and we'll see on that.. >> it was announced by the city's communication director today, barbara archer, the demo. Going to start on three g really soon. It was disappointing that some people, I guess, weren't aware of the downtown plan had negative comments that they've been making about that. So it might be something that, you know, barbara MAY want to follow it up with a saying. Basically, this is pursuant to the plan that was approved by council in 2022 after several years of hard work by a broad based advisory commission, I guess, you know, some. Paying attention to what was happening. That's good news. Dental >> donna. Okay, wonderful. All right. At this point, we're going to take any public comment. Please come forward. Anything that is not listed on our agenda come forward.. One great we're going to move on. Oh I'm sorry. There's somebody a comment. Prfect. Sorry.. >> I'm >> I am a uc davis student and mentioning to in mentioning 240 street I've come to my attention that you planning has a concern about that turn right off eighth street and third. And I know this is maybe not totally with our planning commission, but in any work that is on there, if it was pssible to. Ways of getting a little bit more right of way to that, to turn in and out of eighth street. From third street. It allow a shuttle service. Maybe, or other forms of downtown transit that are hard to do right now because of limited available options to turn around that bus in downtown. so I wanted to mention that in thank you. >> thank you. Anyone else? All right on to the consent calendar. I think we've had the two sets of minutes. On any want me to split them apart? If anybody had issues. Could I get a motion to approve >> move >> to approve the APRIL 8th in the 22nd, 2026? >> second in favor wonder wonderful great. We are moving in an excellent cip. I like it I think we're ready for item. A because anybody from the applicant here. I thank you, MADAM Chair. >> have a brief presentation for an overview of recognition permit for the business. World as explain what staff is requesting commission the applicant stated are also here. So staff and the can answer any questions you MAY have I think this is for use permit for 19 uses a retail store that sells more and sleeps falls under a commercial retail use the address for the is 4525. For my place. Is zoned under for 88 ranch and that allows retail, commercial permitted use the right side of the slide is the map for the project surroundings is uses that the restaurant and dental shared sites so the north there are some professional sales and commercial recreational and services which also has a mix of uses such as commercial retail .. Left of that shows the floor plan with the proposed interior demolitions and alternate improvements aside from that's being done, whether alterations need to be existing 4350 square foot building, the site as a whole. As a commercial retail use will offer a in a manner consistent with typical retail practices. They'll be open seven days a week from 10 A.M. To 8 P.M.. Generally will be 1 to 2 employees and 5 to 8 patrons on site at any given time. There will be no outdoor scenes or events. And with the surrounding sites are zoned under pd for 88. Which is a light industrial business park area retail commercial is conditional permitted under this designation. And the zoning components are pretty minimal a the use is consistent is designation and the interior improvements additionally, staff has found the use of work for the site and areas. And concerns or issues. So with that, staff is asking, planning commission to affirm that commercial retail is a conditionally permitted use under the zoning designation and to approve resolution to permit conditional use permits and that concludes my report. Presentation. Any questions? >> did the applicant want to say anything or.. Okay, I'm looking ... Yes. Yes. Okay, great. So I think what we'll do is I'm going to get some clarifying questions from the commissioners. Then we'll go to public comment and then we'll kind of do our deliberation. So I'm going to start with you, rachel. Any questions? No clarifying questions awesome >> zero. >> sam. No clarifying questions. >> none for me. >> I've got a questions are there any competing for the parking >> not something that we evaluate at this time because there are no parking >> this question. The bank had a drive through window is that drive through being abandoned or is it just remain there? I, I couldn't tell you >> drive through it won't be in use for this purpose don't believe there was any indication that it would be removed at this time. I'm not sure for >> the applicant have anything to add. >> to >> that?? Removed. The drive through it will remain intact and de there possibly, but other than that it will not be used at all. >> thank you. That's all I have.. >> I had one question. Come back there a vault in the bank? And if so was not. It was one reason. It was very attractive to us. It was easy to kind of do that, just the teller area and okay, correct >> have to >> all safe at all. Okay. I wndered I was going to go. Try mattress involved. I thought it'd be kind of cool, but okay. Thank you so much any members of the public, any public comment on this issue? All right. I'm going to go to my right and just see if there's any discussion. >> no, I think this is a an application. And for permit that we can also be supported. So compatible with the light industrial park compatible zoning. It's not going to nuisance. Things are the factors we look at and requires minimum interior alterations light and empty there are no concern at all. Mine poject. Will prepare to support any >> to add >> some of >>.. >> moved t approve the two staff recommendations affirming the zoning interpretation, allowing retail, commercial as a conditional use in pd. For 88 and six approved the resolution of the planning commission to approve a permit for a commercial retail store from. And the >> second. >> those in favor opposed perfect situation. Good luck. Let's go.. Oay. We are ready for it which.. You have to go to. Yes. >> can I welcome. >> first certain. Absolutely. >> all right. I'm delighted to welcome students from uc davis from c d community and regional development. 152. Which is a ten week course where students tackle updating the general plan. And this is a course I've taught since 2017. So it's been a while. And every year we the general plan. Every year, students have really interesting ideas. I'm going to recuse myself, but I'm incredibly proud and I'll hand it over to our chair and go to the audience. >> if you have to go to the chair, I guess yes we're excited. Come on, come forward. Excited hear this. We're back to yeah. You guys want to sit there? That's fine. Yeah. So you're not going to yeah. >> right. Switch off since we're all speaking at times. So that goes smoothly. But we are so excited to present to you our version of the davis 2050 general plan update this was prepared by the consolidated by us four and one other person who was not able to make it tonight. We're super excited. Like catherine said, we've been working on this for ten weeks and we're really excited about in here. >> I >> okay, first of all, we're going to introduce ourselves the vision statement. We've developed for davis. 2050. Go over each element barring a couple for the sake of time, and then we'll have a's from you guys. Okay, I'll go first. I'm michaela, I am a second year incoming third year community regional development student. I'm also double majoring in history I grew up in placer county, far from here. I feel very at home in the central valley. I really care about this place. Since I've moved to davis, I've really gotten involved in the community I work for unitrans I've done a little bit of planning work there. I with the davis night market, and I am an avid cyclist, so interests like issues of transportation, safety. Also me for recreation and transportation >> hello all. I am the I am just finished my fourth year. I have one more quarter here. I'm also a crd made I had the privilege of serving as chairperson for the asia. And advocacy committee. And I also work for human I am a good chunk older than most other undergrads. I've had a life in southern california and in indiana for a few years and I vsiting davis, I gave up all my plans as I fell in love with instantaneously and I think we have a lot of really great, amazing aspects of it. And I'm super happy to be working on the weeks getting, getting involved in the city. And so.. >> everyone. >> oh, this is so tall. >> hi everyone. My name is carissa cnco. I am a first generation immigrant and I've been living here in the us since 2018. I am also an incoming senior student at uc davis. As I mentioned, I majored in sociology while also minoring in >> regional >> bring about five experience in the housing sector, so I worked with, like I mentioned, five years of experience working with various nonprofits and serving our community as well as affordable housing developments pretty much. I've been really interested in like to work with. And it's such an honor to present to you guys just because the work that I've done has really shown firsthand what stable housing could do for individuals, communities and just our community, like our whole families in general. And I've been wanting to take like those ground level insights and the micro level and apply them to macro level by just pursuing broader systemic. Changes that our students and I'm going to pass it over to natalia.. >> everyone. My name is natalia. I am senior at davis study and community and regional development. About me. I have represented the sacramento county. Board for the ended my term at. Vice chair a couple weeks ago. And so representing this board has really just taught me the value in going to the communities first and uplifting. In front of all the adults in elected officials that make the for us so I'm really passionate about the intersection between institutions. And to. Lift this sme excited to represent my presentation. So I'll go on to our vision statement. Our vision statement is a davis that strives to enter te voices and needs of youth in the most vulnerable create a welcoming, safe and environmental justice oriented community that fosters creativity housing. So how does our statement from the current vision well, according to the 2020 census, around 50% of the population was students. So our statement specifically sizes these communities, while also emphasizing values and environmental justice. And we also specifically mention increasing density will contribute to more economically sustainable status. >> that brings us t our element have,. 11 elements here. That's right. The 2007. This general has. 21 so we've found significant simplify a little bit the things the ones with the asterisks. That's land use and zoning housing social services space hazards, air quality and noise. Those are managed by the california state general plan guidelines. So we've added a couple water, food and ag economic development and education. So we're super excited to present those to you guys that brings us to our land use vision.. Our overarching vision for land use is to develop a diversity of neighborhoods that reflects the diversity of the community. We send davis really to be accessible and affordable for all residents regardless of age background. Where they came from. Initially this requires us to restructure our use a little bit frozen annexation up zoning neighborhood commercial centers and transit oriented development around the centers. Hindering with the 2007 general plan vision we've consolidated this to kind of mean there's a there's a focus on slow growth. There's a focus on wants to grow 1% per year. That was the stated in 2001. In that general plan we've seen in years a need for commercial, commercial and industrial spaces. To support people who want to work here. Ad infill. Housing to support students and that come and work for the university so I'll show you guys the map we propose annexation of a couple corridors and then we've highlighted some areas to zone as well though, I do want to talk about the floodplain. Obviously when we develop in a floodplain, it puts the city and the residents in a vry tricky situation. There's mandatory flood insurance and there's federally backed mortgages. Higher flood insurance for homeowners and developers and there's strict development regulations structures, flood proofing, things like that so we're trying not to annex anything in the floodplains or annexations have been employed. This matter. Designated by the federal emergency management. Management agency in the blue, there's a 1% chance of flooding each year. And a 26% chance of major flooding over a 30 year mortgage, which is actually quite high. Okay, so here is that we proposed the areas I the black are the city boundaries. As they stand, and the areas outlined in the pink are what we are proposing to annex notably, I want to talk about campus in this plan, we've talked about campus. Because we want to be represented in the political scene of davis. A lot of students live on campus so annexing campus would make >> it. >> a lot easier for students to participate in the governance structures here. As well as collaborate with housing lot of infrastructure there that is would be beneficial for the city I we're focusing representation. So I want to hammer home that point would give students the right to vote in local elections. So.. >> and as land use determines housing, we do we do present our proposed davis housing map where you see that the city shall produce 8500 housing units by 2050, which is 16% more than the baseline. And 112 more than the consultants maximum scenario o 4000. These housing units will be produced through citywide intensification and development. And our overall overall vision for housing is foster and inclusive and equitable, davis by providing affordable use housing meets all the needs of all residents for generations to come and for context. Davis is facing a housing shortage obligating the seat to exceed its target. 7300 new units by some key issues that we've identified in terms of housing is that roughly 56% of davis rentals are additional zoning limits diversity of housing and uses.. And so to execute our vision, we propose two goals. Our goal one increase the quantity of affordable and designed homes in the city. We require use and higher density developments across all income levels. Prioritizing commercial corridors and sites this will be achieved through form based codes and implementing density bonus programs. And to ensure that this actually happens, we will hold the davis planning and community. Development department accountable for meeting this targets. But our our goal one really just sets our ambition to actually get there. We city's own processes, needs to be realigned and that brings us to go two, which is governmental constraints to housing production. And affordability. We'd be able to just in just in context, like regulatory barriers, low production and drive u housing costs. So our second goal is to directly remove these these constraints. City of davis shall soon shall revise zoning codes. And waiving impact fees for this will accelerate housing production. Lower the financial barriers that have long affordable mixed use from moving forward. The goal is met the same as the previous one, davis planning and community development, as well as davis city. So we'll be held accountable for implementing those reforms.. >> and of course decisions we make with land use housing need to be tied together with a robust system. Goal is to see davis. Regain its status as a leader in that more than most places. Davis. Closely associated with interpretation. From a big people on bikes. We want to make it where davis is, a place where taking the bike or walking or taking the bus are the easy options. And to do that, we have several recommendations overall goals are to prioritize of transportation to eliminate injuries and death on our streets and to achieve a 50% increase in pedestrian and bicycle mode. Share with a 20% reduction in car trips by 2050. This goals in the local safety plan and the. Beyond platinum bike plan and exam. To do that. We want to see several things enacted. One would be to make sure that the transportation system broadly is safe and low stress. Connected. That we have high for pavement. Conditions that have improved protection and separation for bike lanes. We reduce or restrict through downtown with traffic calming and expand our shared streets. These for the bike infrastructure ad for the downtown space. Opportunity to add public space or community expression at a markers or infrastructure time we are able to some that we have paid for boxes, we are able to use it for the living things in davis on to decouple the prices of parking from residential development. And we want to.. Parking downtown as has been discussed for quite a long time. And finally, we want to support us in davis by working with our local agencies exploring local funding. And transport infrastructure to help improve in town and across the region. >> our vision for open space parks and recreation. Is to davis greenbelt into a widely recognized community. Community asset to serve the health and well-being. Some key issues identified there are several deteriorating pathways and insufficient lighting and signs along belt as well as a lack of public awareness within the community regarding the belts. Full extent and purpose. Identified areas reported as unsafe and under enacted are right there at the top such as. Right and davis, as well as the davis our ideas have been to like make these as make this as a high priority zones for green belt and so expansion and so by 2030, davis will close the remaining gaps in the green belt by adding an additional 0.8 miles in rural north davis and another 0.7 miles in south davis.. And then just kind of tying into this. This, you know, expansion isn't you know, really serve the purpose. If people don't know about it. So the green belt really is only valuable if people actually use it. And the residents, use it our hope, our goal is to increase the awareness by installing banners. Outside as renaming some bus to highlight the belt points. So directly. Bridge the gap between daily commuters and the city's spaces. Not just recreation, but residents. Every well-being. >> so for economic development, strategy, this will tie back into some of the things we mentioned with land transportation. But there's two broad tools here that will parking benefit district and our economic zone. But before getting into that, broadly, we want to see mixed use zoning very business space density of these plots and permitting reform, streamline applications will be used to small business success. To allow the community to host businesses that are beneficial for those running tem, for those working with them, and for those who benefit from their services. We want to improve the job's here to keep tax dollars. The sales tax dollars that are really important for us in town and in town, which will also help us reduce our vehicle. Miles traveled and our greenhouse gas emissions. Well ways of making use of some synergies where businesses benefit from being located at each other near the agricultural and biomedical university. The opportunities that we have in town and we want to leverage the talent from those give students a clear path after graduating.. The zone would be an overlay in the core that would have supportive building codes and policy for small businesses that allow them to up easier and charge. Formula based enterprises. And vacant spaces. Reflecting the impact they MAY have on the we also want to establish district through the core, which would tie back into making use of the paid parking. We're putting downtown and reaping the benefits of the revenue that's coming fom that. And broadly across the board. We want to see that regulatory, burden for the city and for the businesses applying is reduced to help make it an easy process to support businesses that are starting.. >> right. >> so I will just briefly go over our safety and element, which. Unfortunately, has a sacrifice for the sake of time. But just really briefly, I'll talk about our vision which is to emphasize prevention. Actions and davis is large and growing youth nation. We are susceptible to uniquely to youth, unique risks and concerns. So we just want to share that we are considering climate justice and public health equity as well. In our safety and as we want to consider in all of our other elements.. On to you in education. So our vision for this element is to create youth efficacy opportunities for our students and establish real relationship of trust and responsibility so that students feel that they are actually represented and truly belong in the city of davis. So just for some demographic context. Approximately 40% of uc davis students are first generation, about 30% are eligible for the pell grants, and we have students from over 50 countries. So this brings a wide array of unique student challenges, such as affordability, career entry, visa restrictions, transportation, and just unequal access. And opportunities to professional networks. So while the general plan does outline aspirations for youth and educational opportunities, we found that these were very vague created a limited and poorly coordinated structures and programs. Okay, so our first goal for this element is to host and accessible and paid internships through collaboration with the city and our school districts, icluding the university and local corporate and nonprofit partners. This would build on unrealized policy from the 2007 plan, and also contribute a great deal to a wide range of service areas. Having our students contribute so it also have a great deal in potentially increasing student retention as internships are very desired, important reason for why stay we also just want to make sure prioritizing our underrepresented students and making sure that we have flexibility in terms of rolling bass placements long time that and we also really want to emphasize outreach, which would include city of website, dedicated to internships. Like to add a currently, there's a but add one for internships as well, just for streamlined access. Other examples of outreach could be emails with school faculty and staff media, hiring websites such as handshake and recruiting student ambassadors who can also programs. For the timeline. We'd like to see this as soon as possible. Starting within the next school year, and we recommend departments of community development sustainability and human resources for support and then the budget. We estimated and allocated $500,000, which is just less than 1% of the general fund.. And our next goal is to reestablish the uc davis city student liaison commission and add a voting seat to all of this commissions t increase local government participation and representation. So we believe that this would improve the city's social future by including young adults into a more unified vision and davis and >> and onwards. >> so this also address values of environmental justice through this representation. And of course, also require adequate. Advertisement and outreach. We estimate a very low to neutral cost for around 14,000 per student stipend for commission just for some example, for an example. I personally received assignment youth advisory board and it really helped not just and retention, but also making me feel that you are valued and a part of the that you're serving, even if you're just a young person without a degree. Again, timeline, we see this as soon as possible within the next school year since there are eisting frameworks available .. >> air quality sections now for.. Keystone piece was the tiered water implement system where those who use the most are & paying a higher and those who use the least closer to an. Some established base would be paying a lower rate. This ensures a more equitable payment. Across the population of davis those who are not owning which is a large percentage of our population here incorporate greywater systems infrastructure across the city this would be ideal bioswales. This would be permeable pavement. This would be rin gardens. Features like that. And greywater systems developments. It would all help with making smart use of our water, which is a precious resource here in california. It would have upfront costs, but you would gain a lot in stormwater management in preventing, you know, some of the damages that we talked about from being in the flood zone. It would allow us to support increasing biodiversity in our urban forestry and it would improve cimate resilience and help shade and cool and clean the in neighborhoods. Moving from that for air quality, we wanted to draw the attention on & this cover map to the southeast along I-80 where you will see that there's the largest concentration of impervious surfaces. And their soil. This will also be the area that has the most wins pollution burden from vehicles because of the freeway. And in the area where we've started targeted a lot of the high density and lower income housing in our past few housing to combat that, we wanted to install a vegetated noise. Buffer. Line of trees invitation. Along that corridor the urban forest canopy through there would help the residents who are exposed and the noise from the interstate. It would be more equitable and it would advance our climate and our equity goals as well >> sorry >> to do that, we would have to coordinate with the state and regional like caltrans along the corridor. You can help. They can help secure funding and >> right, that brings us to our final element, which is noise. In this element, we really focused on creating a culture of play music and enjoyment around the city there are live music really foster a sense of community. We want more opportunities for that, more opportunities for people to get outside. Meet people and feel a part of the city as >> it >> is so we want to groom for recreational noise and music without harming sensitive populations and create its community so we are considering the needs of older davis residents, young families with kds we don't want to loud noise. Obviously does have negative health impacts, so we don't want to impose that upon people that are vulnerable so as chad was talking about, we would like to mitigate a lot of the negative noise impacts by development standards and green noise barriers around the freeway in addition to planting trees. We would also like to add community input mechanisms for when there MAY be an issue with noise. Currently I've been to shows where there is a complaint from a neighbor, and then it just gets shut down right way. We really want there to be more of conversation around that. So people understand what their neighborhood needs and how to make sure events are safe and enjoyable for everyone in the future. The 2007 general plan vision talks a lot about keeping davis. Quiet for instance, in the suburbs. Which, well, this isn't as we've seen, davis is 50% students. That's not the majority of who's here. And we want a new plant kind of the reality of the population here. So we are planning on doing this by reducing the noise restrictions in designated neighborhoods dominated by college students or under the age of 25. As I mentioned, we want to foster a more social atmosphere for students and rsidents we did a survey well, we loked at a map of the age distribution in davis we found central davis in downtown a lot of students in them. It's very dense and it's close to campus. Responsible for this ordinance planning and community development, parks and recreation. As it does concern recreation and public works to install some of the infrastructure we would like to see this in 3 to 4 years, review a pilot program the community and the neighborhood, and approval by the residents to edit the current ordinance to be a little more lenient. Currently, I believe it's capped at 60 or 65db at any time of day. Which we to in a charrette we did in our class, a room where people were talking was 80db and it was more conversation. So we want to just raise that to 70db. If an event exceeds 70db, it is going to be to offer earplugs. Permit and decrease those noise levels by three. Instead of a around no more than six levels at any time of day. So real quick. Here's a map of the population in davis. As you can see downtown and central davis quite populated by students addition to that corridor in south davis, by the freeway. So we kind of want to establish noise district, where music and social events are allowed at higher volumes and at more times of day. Obviously, we want to do this through public opinion surveys, notifying residents and assessing the impacts of populations. We want to be careful to make sure everyone's on the same page about this so I know noise is something that often causes tension between neighbors. Okay, to hear any questions from you guys. That is all we have in terms of presentation. Much for having us. Stick around so yeah thank >> you best way because I think is going to be more of like a conversation with you guys asking things. I think maybe I'm just going to start with the public. To ask things because we might get carried away here you mean by that? So if anybody from the public would like to address the students or ask a question, great. >> hi my name is a resident of yolo county for more than 30 years. I raised two children here. Birth to them. The first the. Comments about, you know, the students is I'm leaving davis. You know, I was once a student. I good attitude. But I do want to make a comment on, you know students needs to b students. I you know, show that people know you are not the real. Human and ai themselves all the time. Artificial intelligence. So I'm a real woman and no I shall be representative of or commissioner. One comment about the company is oscar like $14,000. Stephan. Steven for the commissioner. I don't know if y'all guys, I believe this is a commissioner is a volunteering. You know so it's a think you're asking too much that one another way is drive b the don't know about you guys. Like today. This is not even one student on the you know green grass and I believe my observation. As >> residents of a >> city we lost a lot of students. The students population is much, much less than the before the pandemic. So idon't see the need for building new apartments. I believe we have enough partners. Another issue is a little bit of the topic is, I believe women's rights should keep in women often both. Robots. Should pretend to be women and. No commissioner shell you have a spouse. If you the vote. And that's pretty much one more question is, you know, I still have a map of. The first map you have, this have yolo. So our senior I was kicked out of the communist and baked me without the lawsuit. But I do want to see a on your the second I do see the the on my so believe you know, that's for the for the planning committee I believe. Yolo is part of david's community. Even. Its hcd manager and any change to. And I'm one of them. And I believe I'm the owner of ranch yolo. My name is a new one. I am the granddaughter los chinese empire. I'm the only one so far and that's it. Thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you all for doing great job on this. And I sent to your professor some comments aout individual slides and the like. I'll take the opportunity to talk about slide score vision statement, a really like te content of vision statement. Compared to is a huge improvement that said, I believe that content is answering a. What is question that is typical of a values. Rather than the do we want to be. And how do we get there questions typical vision. Statement. You had individual vision statements in some of the elements that were much more oriented that way, which was really good. But if we're going to look at a plan, we really do need to know where are we going? Where do we want to be and then also, what was missing is an accountability component, which answers the question, are we getting there? I am attaching. I attached to the email to catherine short paper on based accountability. That you MAY find interesting the that's paper is in the next item that you all are dealing with six. List two and seven general plan vision. But in fact shown in document, which I had the 2007 general plan had 37 different vision statements in 15 different categories. And none of them are 1% growth per year which is what was on your slide. A good follow up project for the students could be to form an assessment of the 37 vision statements we are going forward with our general plan update what david needs we've gotten to a point where we have $264 million of unfunded liability for maintaining our roads and our and and that brings us up half $1 billion of unfunded liability. When you have the pensions and retiree health care question of where are we now? There's something that we have to wrestle with and a general gives us the opportunity to instead of doing projects. That are driven by developers coming. We are able to say to the builders. This is what our community needs very, very clear in that this is what we believe they would need to do. Going forward. But a vision statement that all and understand then people. Saying no. But they'll actually focus on why what, what they're looking at voting on is moving this forward. Thank you. >> thanks, ma'am.. >> name is johnston. I'm a past member of the environmental, the natural resources commission I like to to thank you for coming and thank you for your work. There's a lot of very interesting ideas there. And I thought in particular that the two things that struck me was more of a of an emphasis on appreciating the students as citizens in the, in the city, which I think oftentimes gets over overlooked because they MAY or MAY not be voters they MAY or MAY not participate in the city. Things of than... Shopping but that leads me to my second one. I really agree with your. Your your goals about trying to minimize transportation centers that have easy and non-polluting to these centers some. In some places it's called 15 minute city. What struck me though, and this is the question I'll end with this was set a goal of a 20% reduction in car travel by 2050. But at the tme, our travel. Travel contributes gases. By 20%, not seem compatible with the climate of action plan and so I guess question is, did you check your goals against other goals that the city has in places like but anyway, thank you for this evening and thank you for planning commission for having them on board. >> I have not spoken here in person quite a while. So I will try to remember how to do that I generally like a lot of the I presented here, I also really like the vision statement in particular, I very much support annexing either the entire campus or at least the residential parts of campus for the reasons that were mentioned students are big part of this and if individual students aren't in davis for that long. The needs of students as a whole generally remain fairly consistent and those needs should be better represented in city politics and one way to help do that is to allow students who live on campus to vote on city affairs. So I would very much. Support that I also do think that something else which would benefit students in terms of city is having more spots for students on the commission's it would be nice if those were voting positions. I know for a while the accountability commission had a voting student position. I know it was also difficult to fill and there are some issues around that but that would be nice. Or at the very least, ex officio positions. The way that the human commission has an ex officio position, and for that it's not filled and there's no harm as there could still be a if there is a student who wants to spot. And there's no issues or anything if it's a non-voting position. But if there's a way to make it voting position, that would also helpful and then I also do think that we need to be supporting more dense, affordable housing. There are different ways to do that. Some of the ways presented here. Are part of it. But we also do need to pressure developers to provide more for the community. We also should be strengthening the rental resources program and rental protections. That is a way to support renters as well as all renters across davis and then one final thing that I think is relevant this time of the year is there's so much that goes to waste in davis. I wonder as a way to systematically part of davis's plan try to recover and redistribute those items, which go to waste in the summer, and then people, especially students buy brand new ones in the fall. And I think using the whole foods as a space for that would be a good way to do so. >> thank you. >> greetings. My name is et am currently a student at uc davis first, I would like to say I'm full for all the students who came out to like and like interact with the community of davis and get really like informed policies. And like ideas.. But one thing that stuck out to me during your presentation. On the transportation and the economic slide was the, of paid parking downtown and not totally it, but I did have like some questions raised. I know probably couldn't get answered at the time or you might not have been the one who researched it first. How much would it b? How would it be invented? Would it be? Parking meters? Would it be like an app on campus? There any targeted areas that you are hoping focus on? So like, what areas would be paid remain free and then who would it be the city of davis? Would you be hoping to like taps or your own footsteps to enforce the parking and yeah, kind of my only questions on that.. >> great. Thanks. >> you I'm chris granger. I'm currently the executive director for clovis. I served on the downtown. Planning committee and others and so this is really fun to have this student group. I came to your workshop in APRIL that was the other class. Yes. Another group that's been doing planning and so I'm just really thrilled to see what you've put before us. I'm a particularly interested because I was part of the downtown planning process in the form based code being continued. Used as a tool in our community. If some of the commissioners haven't actually gone through and read that book and seen it, it has such great examples of what we could do in our neighborhood if we would just think about where those things might go. So we could do some of the things that you've suggested about increasing density in all of our neighborhoods, not just loking to new of land on the edges of our community to solve our need to build more housing and I, I also really appreciate the next we've added a seriously, those metrics there is not that kind of in the climate action plan where we've said, we want to do this by then with these things and so that's the kind of metrics we need to be looking at suggested some some frameworks for us to play with but really in it would be great if the general plan actually reflected more metrics. For us to, to really set some goals on how we get there. What are the things that we're going to do that are going to deliver those metrics by 2050? Thank you so much >> chris. Anyone else? Go to the commissioners just start with you. The the question. Comment. Kind of freewheeling. You guys your your be there. The microphone to reply. Just jump up >> with >> thanks so much. >> for coming. This is >> absolute inspirational. >> and and hts off. >> to our our >> fellow for for teaching in such an inspirational way and in our we know that davis wouldn't be this without the students. So thank you so much for providing your valuable perspective on this. I had two questions. I know this wasn't a formal process, but I was wondering, you engaged any community while you were putting this together, whether it be like friends or, you know, other students or nurse or colleagues just wondering about that. And the second one was around annexation and as we know, merced was annexed into the city of merced two years ago now. So I was wondering if you actually looked at that as a case study, and what were the lessons learned around that? That would be really interesting.. >> answer your question about outreach, we not do any outreach for this project to the broader community, but the class was 75 different individuals. So we did a lot of cross talking. We had two cats where we developed materials. We had maps of like, what does your look like? Where are you coming from of students in our class that use bikes to get to campus or use the bus. Like that kind of get a feel for the student needs those two events with the 75 students, I believe we us invited friends to that. But obviously at 10 A.M. On a tuesday and people are busy. So there's that. Besides that, we didn't do any other formal outreach to your question about annexation for this project, no. personally, I have looked into it a little bit santa cruz and berkeley are also annexed as part of the city's there's a lot of technical like you have to. Form an agency and there's a lot that goes into it. But there is precedent I am interested in like developing that more part of the final document for this plan. Maybe have a stepping stone to actually make that happen. Yeah thank you, thank you. >> super john.. >> first, thank you that was very exciting and very stimulating presentation. Kudos to our for making this happen. Thanks so much it's wonderful, wonderful to be here and it's a question I know that everybody contributed what a great project. So good questions. And I, I agree with a lot of things that you've already said. So I'm not going to be the question of the ability and the other vision and the translated into some outcomes. And those outcomes get translated into measurements. And those measurements get assessed or do they?? And I would throw out that you consider what's happened to the visions. That have been stated for this community. As a continuing poject. And I would urge you to talk to. Colleagues and let this time it's too important and I think it's got tremendous impact for our community, for all of us, not just the students I urge you to think about if you were to be leading and not doing this next year, what would you recommend to the next people? Follow up with you? Presented because I think if we lose something in resolution and we get to accountability. We have a lot of visions in this community. We have a lot of ideas. And we paper and we can look at the example of that. Quite frankly and what we end up with is we don't get there. But we're never sure why don't understand what happened. But we're going to do it again. And what do we start with you. And we get in this dialectic gets us into the same. Place a seen this living in this community for years and having been in politics and other things involved with the city so I urge you to take a good look at that. And se what kind of metrics you say. We have metrics, but how does that translate into accountability? We say, well, the planning commission did should be responsible for the city council think it takes the whole city be engaged in that process. If it's really going to work and I think that's where we fall down. We have a whole bunch of busy people. We have students here. Who volunteer have seen them volunteer the organizations that have on the board for the first priority is how do I raise what happens with their with their internships is they sometimes laboratory don't think that's acceptable. Student I don't think that's acceptable to an. Not doing what the vision was for that to happen. That. So I, I want you to just take a deep look at the things yu've done discontinue it find the next step. You need to happen to answer these questions that people are bringing forward today. And this is casting any aspersions at all on the great done. Thank you, thank you. >> again. Thank you. I >> have a number of observations all, I want to echo what stranger said when the downtown plan was being developed, the based code. Just made perfect sense. And I said at the time, if I could become for a day, I would mandate that that form based code put into existence within the entire city. I mean, it just makes so much sense to, to do that. And the whole emphasis being isn't what takes place in a structure important is, is how it looks from the outside and how it fits in in terms of, you know, mass and form and that type of thing with surrounding areas. So I really applaud you for including that paid particular attention to slide number seven on, on the floodplains that's been a issue. I've had some conversations with our community development director metzger in which she said. What we really, really need is, is somebody perhaps to consultant to come in and, and do an updated map of the flood prone areas because the maps are and have right now is its a situation where every individual ad, project comes on bretton woods is an example. They have to do their own individual starter control plan that ran into a situation where he thought he was satisfying all the needs he budgeted for dollars to the city stormwater flood control requirements kind of came along and said, oh, but wait a minute, you got to meet our requirements to and budget went from 4 million to somewhere between 13 and 14 million, which then adds on to the cost of each individual house. We saw the same thing with the failed to be project. They had to come up with all that stormwater. Wouldn't it make more sense to have we have a really good map of the flood prone areas, they have comprehensive slide. Stormwater and flood control plan would resolve a lot of the you know, with that particular map. So I'm really glad you focused on that. I'd like you were saying in terms of decoupling parking costs from rent, I thought that was great. One of the things that I'm in. My ninth year here, so I've seen this over and over again is these stupid pds that are in the current general plan. We're an applicant came in. Tonight. They're changing anything about the exterior of the building and how it looks. But they go through a public hearing we saw this many years ago. There was aempty building that had previously & been a photocopying shop on third street, east of b. They wanted to convert the building into a mexican restaurant. They had to jump through a bunch of hoops, come to a public hearing because the pd didn't allow a restaurant usage in that building. Nothing about the exterior of the building changed it was shop to a restaurant. But they had to jump through so many hoops, which gets to a point. You made that is just too much of a problem in davis. Davis has a reputation throughout the entire sacramento area as being very difficult do business and get a permit. I did have one observation and a question I think it was.. The economic development slide number 20. You have a bullet that says we should assess charges to large chain businesses and owners of vacant office and resale retail space count for community. But then further down, you say but we should also reduce regulatory burdens burdens to local businesses staff. So I'm wondering, how do you how do you blance those two seemingly contradictory statements >> wanted to start with a kind of a expression of the limitations of what what we are and what our group is the executive committee us and our missing a colleague who is utah right now. We are were in charge of lot of detailed. Drafts. The 11 different elements and that self getting it down to a presentation that we can fit into any reasonable time. Involved. A lot of stuff being missed, and it also means that there's a lot that can't. Answer the great detail. Unfortunately, tonight, because we're just not the experts in that when we were in class, we had the members there to give much more on that. And these were our work is, is a reflection of the drafts at the quarter, but they have been finalized and they are now being late continued synthesize together within that .. Understood it to be more of a regulatory in terms of applications for newer businesses maybe like to your point about the the plan to what that's how I understood the producing the regulatory for the smaller ones. And then at the completely allow a larger such as like and everything that happened with that. But if it's to come in to decide what its impact will be on the rest of the businesses I the community where it's appropriate for it to be located and how could make use of the capital that is behind that to benefit our community. I hope that provides some movement in >> helps. I guess only observation I'd make is sometimes the property has no control as to whether or not it's going to be vacant example, being the building earlier tonight in chase bank decided to vacate the building. The owner of the building, you know, can't control the you know, the market dictates and if you look at the co-op shopping center, you know, at the far north end, there's been like 2 or 3 spaces there, vacant for many years. Just because it to fill those spaces. So why should the owner of that center, do he can't find a new tenant it's, you know, a market. Controls what they I guess on the other point I would make as far as your, your suggestion for paid internship, you said it would cost about 500 000 a year. It's about one fifth of the current city deficit. City's budget isn't a whole $2.5 million projected for this year. For the next several years. So 500 but it's a big chunk of the deficit. So I understand. I used to work at development agency and I paid interns, but when I was in college. Many days ago, I had an unpaid internship at the urban and regional planning department at southern california. Edison, where I worked one day a week. A hell of a lot was no anyway, that's all I have.. >> great. Thank you. I thought you did a hell of a job and one thing I really liked was you started right up front. Your mission statement saying this is a youth perspective on the city general plan. Really stayed true to that as all of your studies and boy, is that refreshing. That's like, really like that a lot. I'm going to follow up on rachel's question and the annexation. So the main benefit that's been stated is that students living on campus can vote. So I have two questions. Is that it did you look at this more deeply possible benefits. And then also personal question for each one of you has that really impact you back then? Living on campus, you weren't able to vote. Did you feel. Disenfranchised? Have you felt something tangible? That this annexation might might address? I'd like to ask two kinds of questions. One, a personal question, but also one that MAY have from your research and .. >> to your second question. Yes. Green and I felt like.. I was getting engaged in the sphere, but it was felt like I was an outsider in a way. I was maybe like, not warranted that I should be here, but I didn't have a direct vote it's my difference being over here on a street. I think just being able to vote in the primary and one of the other benefits. If it had been in to the past. Decade or so of housing in our arena. Numbers would be another benefit to I know that due to the kinds. There are some questions about that, but the. The controversies and legal ongoing goings on. In the west campus development over the past or so,, what was one of the hopes there that annexation could make a more kind of beneficial environment between. And the school are so close. Particularly that they should be close as well .. >> also >> your. >> second question, I was in the dorms last year, and I, I was participating out of city stuff, but felt I couldn't register to vote here. There were things I missed out on jelly. As a student participating. It's hard to hear the. Like you're only here for four years, so like, why do you care? Is a little bit of the rhetoric that I hear. I, I care about this place because there's going to be students after me and there were many students before me that cared for this place knowing that. And then that ethos of like but, but you are only here for four years. It's like that. And ten not being able to vote, it just feels a little disjointed. I think. So, yes. Long winded do your frst point. Personally, I think davis has a lot of really fantastic green energy initiatives. They consistently voted like most sustainable university. They do really great, like there's some good food recovery stuff. There's a lot of good agricultural sustainability work happening there. But the green energy prt. I'm not an expert in that, but there's a lot of really fantastic programs university in terms of recovery and whatnot that I think could benefit the infrastructure in the city to help davis with like our climate action plan and goals. That's like the first thing that comes to mind for me because they've done a lot of really fantastic work and I think that could be a really cool collaboration. And then in terms of transportation as well. Unitrans is already a collaboration between the university and the city and it is a for the size of this town. Fantastic transportation network. So I think taking that as a as an example of like, what it could look like if the a little bit to provide public infrastructure there's a case study there so yeah, we're working on including that. And >> two of you want to comment quickly. So we are >> on >> to the second question. I can say that for my experience, a lot of students don't know they can vote of course, a lot of students cannot vote and so we you know, the importance of like belonging. And then, of course, of course, like student voter efficacy is really crucial, especially if you look at things like measure b,, which with 51. 50, 100 votes and most people those were students. So imagine if we had more students who could vote. And then students who knew that they could vote and that their matters. What a difference that could make. So that's yeah, that's special. >> we could have been just jump in here because I keep on annexation real quick. So we don't feel like again. One of you can just answer this I am chancellor MAY. I'm somebody in the university administration. What's in it for me? For annexation? I get what's in it why would I want to do it? So me .. >> in talks with campus planning and like the public and as I check through caltrans grant applications see that they were denied a competitive grant award for a regional transit mobility hub. The project. Campus planning on terms of projects. They have had a hard time getting funds from the state for what they have been telling me, because I think a large part the limited kind of benefit the state sees in it at a high level, it's already operating at they as they worked on moving forward together project. This is something that was focused solely on the infrastructure within campus, but it leaves out a lot of the fact that many students are coming from not only outside of campus, through davis streets, but also outside of other areas in the region. And to do something cohesive allows more opportunity to create a product that would be competitive for the state in terms of that same with coordination on things like just boulevard and the traffic impacts along there. And the border and. Sycamore and, anderson have a focus on education, so I >> that. So I would, I would have more access to grants. Think about transportation effects. My university, my students, faculty, my staff, all of that on city streets etc. Anything else that would convince me why I just I think we have to think about all the stakeholders when we say we want to do something and say what's in it for them. And why I'm okay, I'm going to go. Let me I know he's got some ask .. >> I'm >> children are grown up, so I was intrigued. Right away by your by your vision statement and I was very impressed with your discussion of increased quantity of affordable and university homes. You know, form based code. of course. Why aren't we talking about that? And you know, many bonus we can do to anybody that doesn't cost city money. That's that's also would the and mitigating the government grants that was a good discussion to that resonated with me. Like three questions though because I wanted some of your assumptions and basically see if you could learn more. Justify them. The first one, the annexation should we keep coming back to. I'm sure you were made aware at some point campus is in yolo county part of it is in solano county. Assuming we can get over the political considerations of. Because I liked where you drew the boundaries and it is natural. Have be there. The campus. If they want to be there. But how would that really work? I mean part of the campus is and you literally going to have one set of rules for two thirds of the campus and another set of rules for one third of the campus have been through if it could be implemented, how that would work.. >> I think you guys it's fine if your personal expert on this not here, just say thank you for the feedback >> if you don't have feedback, then I say, I think you need to address.. >> we did. We.. It was hard for me to find information on this. I think there is precedent on this, but I could be wrong in that the nishi site had by solano county at some point up until the 90s and moved into yolo county. In preparation for the development. I would have to into that a little bit more and so I, I think that there is precedent for this in some other aeas. And including in town, but I, I don't have a great answer to that. >> and I would just say recognize the issue and it as something that would have to do wth cost. The second question I had under the mitigation indicated you were going to wive this slide 12. Wave impact fees for infill. We lose that benefit.. >>.. >> waiving impact fees for the development this is more focused on housing and affordability. So housing production and affordability. So leaving t