City Council

captions standing by. City of davis city council captions standing by. Good evening everyone. And welcome to the tuesday, MAY 5th regular meeting of the davis city council. Welcome everyone. Uh, I note for the record that all of my colleagues are hearing chambers and our first item of business is to approve our agenda for this evening. So a motion to approve. It is a tie, so I'm going to call it to council member chapman for the motion to approve and a second to council member dose, all in favor of approval, of the agenda. Say, I I any nos or extensions? Hearing none. The agenda is a bit of gusly. Excellent return to a series of some ceremonial hearing none. The agenda is a bit of gusly. Excellent return to a series of some ceremonial acclamations. Will we recognize some community groups and each of us in on council? Here, will read the proclamation and then you have the opportunity to come up and make a few, uh, few words of cmment. And then we'll have a short opportunity for, uh, photos at the end of that. Um, I understand there MAY be some here who wish to make a public comment regarding a proclamation because it's a ceremonial item and not an item of business. We don't take public comment during that part of the meeting but you are free to offer your comments during the general public comment period that will follow immediately after the proclamations. So with that we are going to turn to council member chapman for national recognizing national public works week. Thank you, mayor. I'd like to invite up to the podium adrian henning. The city of davis public works, deputy director, and melody eldridge, thank you, mayor. I'd like to invite up to the podium. Adrian henning. To city davis public works. Deputy director, and melody eldridge, senior civil engineer. This proclamation is for declaring MAY 17th. Through MAY 2rd 2026 as national public works week. The services provided by public works personnel to the davis community. Is daily. Live supporting safety, reliability, and comfort. The 2026 national theme for public. Works week rooted in service. Powered by community highlights, the commitment of staff whose daily operations long-term planning and delivery of critical critical infrastructure, enhanced mobility, sustainability and overall quality of life. Public works teams also play a vital role in emergency response and recovery restoring access repairing damaged systems and supporting police fire and ems during incidents affecting public safety. They maintain critical assets such as bike paths streets, utilities street lights and signals the affect the effectiveness of this work. Depends on public, understanding trust, and appreciation, and continued community support, ensures long-term success. Now, therefore, we the davis city council on behalf of the citizens of davis to hereby proclaim, MAY 17th through MAY 23rd 2026 as national public works, week in the city of davis in urge, all citizens in civic organizations to acquaint themselves. With the issues involved in making opera and improving our public works facilities and to recognize the contributions which public works personnel. Make every day to our health safety comfort and quality of life. Thank you. Thank you so much council member, chapman, and thank you council for. As you do, every MAY shining a spotlight on a dedicated group of professionals that mostly work behind the scenes to ensure a smooth quality of life in davis. We appreciate it. I just want to add that, it's an honor to accept this um on behalf of all of our very very hardworking colleagues and both public works departments. Uh, they do a lot of work behind the scenes, like adrienne said, and uh, just thank you for technology and network. Okay, thank you. And next, we're going to turn to council mmber partida to recognize MAY as asian-american native hawaiian and pacific islander heritage month, great. And I'm going to invite up ellen, white. And uh, this is a proclamation recognizing the month of MAY as asian-american native, hawaiian and pacific islander heritage month. Asian-american native hawaiian and pacific islander heritage month is recognized at both the national and state levels as a time to honor, the profound contributions of asian-americans and pacific islanders to the history and development of the united states. The asian-american named and pacific, islander community represents a richly diverse population more than 45, distinct, ethnic groups and over 100 language dialects. The theme for 2026 is power and unity strengthening communities together, highlighting the importance of leveraging collective power, honoring contributions building bridges and inspiring younger generations to foster resilience innovation leadership participation ownership and belonging with aa in hpi communities. The local davis chapter of a papa asian pacific american public affairs established in 2018 focuses on serving communities and advancing leadership and civic engagement. Now, therefore, we the davis city council on behalf of the citizens of davis. Do hereby proclaim MAY as asian-american native hawaiian and pacific islander heritage month and the city of davis in doing. So, the city of davis will recognize and observe this month by calling upon the davis community to uplift and show ongoing support to persons o asian. Heritage native, hawaiian heritage, or pacific island, heritage now, and in the future and to encourage institutions and organizations to recognize the month with programs and activities. Thank you thank you, council member gloria. Thank you very much council, iran. And I, um, I for my papa, we're very happy and, and, and grateful to have this opportunity to accept this poclamation. Um, we will make sure we DECEMBER this information widely in our community. And also, by the way, you can tell our group is very diverse. And we specialize like the the year to see theme of empowering women and the strength in the community and inspiring younger generation of leaders which aligns very well. Um with the papa mission of engaging, uh, inspire any power, um, not just the api community but the leaders. Actually in davis, the student in the community, uh, MAY route. Uh, remind me to thank you for the internship programs that you supported in the past and we will be sure to contact you for for and and thank you for your future support and have some conversations. Thank you. Thank you. S now I'm going to turn to council member dose to recognize MAY as jewish american heritage month. Hi, I like to invite up ted lascher on behalf of bet haverim. Jewish american heritage month is a national month of recognition and celebration observed. Each MAY since 2006. Te history of jewish immigrants in california. Pretty predate statehood, with the first jewish settlers documented in the early 1840s and the gold rush marking the first major wage with migration particularly in northern california. generations of jewish immigrants, fleeing persecution and seeking opportunity have found a home in california, including in yellow county and the city of davis, their stories reflect resilience cultural richness and a deep commitment to community life. Jewish american history. Includes both remarkable contributions ad the enduring legacy of ostracism hatred and violent persecution, including the holocaust and ongoing acts of anti-semitism worldwide. Recognizing jewish american heritage month includes a commitment to advancing education about jewish history and combating anti-semitism in all its forms. Since 1961 congregation bet haverim, the jewish fellowship of davis, have served as a vital center for connection and belonging. Community organizations, continue to foster education and engagement, including the community picnic at central park. On MAY 19th. Open to all. Now, therefore we the davis city council on behalf of the citizens of davis hereby proclaim MAY 2026 as jewish american heritage month and reaffirms its commitment to promoting cultural understanding fostering a sense of & belonging honoring the contributions of jewish americans, and preserving and teaching history in its fullest and truest form. Thank you. Thank you very much. My name is ted lascher and I'm joined at the podium by longtime community leader harry harry gatman, and I'm here in the capacity as a member of the congregation bed, have rein board of directors. And that capacity I gratefully accept this proclamation. Um, let me first set stress. That while our reform synagogue is very dedicated to the local community. There are many jewish bread as residents of davis, who are members of other congregations or practice judaism in other ways. So when we all celebrate, our jewish heritage, we also appreciate this explicit support. That you have shown um jewish david for residents in the past including the the council's recently approved motion acknowledging concerns expressed by community members regarding anti-semitism hostility, and community safety. Uh, thank you for passing that measure. We agree with this expressed by council that there needs to be a continued city effort to fight discrimination of all types. Um, but as COUNCILWOMAN Do said, our history is much more aout than and overcoming hardships real as they've been uh, jewish americans have made important contributions in every aspect of life. And we are your friend, neighbors, and in the great, many cases your family members. So there's much heritage to celebrate. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So now, I'm going to turn to council member vma to recognize MAY as biker great. Uh, can I invite corey, frost, the city of davis? Active transportation coordinator? F****** corey. The city of davis is a bicycle friendly community with approximately 63 miles off street pads. 120 mi of bicycle lane to 30 grade separated underpasses and overpasses that help remove barriers to safe and convenient travel. the city of davis constructed, the first bike lane in the united states, in 1967 along, 8th street between sycamore lane and b street. Throughout MAY bicycling will be celebrated with events including luca on, MAY 3rd and bicycle valet it. Celebrate. Davis on MAY 15th. Bicycling provides significant health. Environmental transportation community benefits and offers a fund affordable and practical way to travel for recreation commuting and everyday trips, the city of davis is a nationally recognized leader in bicycle planning, engineering and culture and continues to implement innovative strategies that make bicycling safer and more convenient. Davis, first received a league of american bicyclists first ever platinum bicycle friendly community award in 2005 and renewed, its platinum status again in 2026 remaining the longest standing patinum level bicycle-friendly community in the nation. Now, therefore be resolved, we the davis city council on behalf of the people of davis. Do hereby proclaim MAY 2026 as MAY is bike month, the city of davis and encourage all community members to celebrate. The many benefits of us, u, thank you all. Thank you for this. Proclamation, MAY is bike. Month is about celebrating viking here in davis and encouraging, both new and experienced riders to choose biking over driving for the environmental health and safety benefits. That it brings, um, also, thank you to everyone who came out for lupa losa this past sunday. It was a great success. We had over 500 participants including congressman, mike thompson who stopped by for a bit. Um looking ahead like whoo mentions. Uh, we have a bike valet that celebrate davis, and we're really excited about about the bike scavenger hunt, we have on MAY 30th. And lastly uh I'm holding a sign here that is recognizing eighth street as the first bike lane in the united states. The bike lane was established in 1967 between 83 and sycamore lane in the state city will be installing signage along the corridor to mark that important. Great, thank you. So next, um, I'm going to recognize MAY as national mental health awareness month and I'd like to invite sarah gavin from communic. Carroll, ole martha gilmore from davis center for psychotherapy and my fellow board member david pinto from nami for mental health is an essential part of overall well-being, impacting individuals, families and communities across davis, nearly 1 in 5 americans experiences, a mental health condition, each year, the city of davis is home to a diverse network of mental health providers, including those in private and group practices who are essential to the well-being of the community by delivering trauma-informed, care, reducing stigma and contributing to a more resilient and supportive community. The davis center for psychotherapy is a collaborative mental health practices as provided services for thousands of davis residents since it was founded 35 years ago, has trained and guided dozens of community-based therapists and has been a leader in promoting group psychotherapy nami. Yolo county is an organization of individuals whose lives have been touched b mental illness with a mission to provide advocacy support education and public awareness. So that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives. Communicare olay, a network of federally qualified health centers with a center in davis is 1 of the primary providers of behavioral health and substance use to services. In yolo county communicare, olay provides high quality comprehensive health care, to all who need it, regardless of insurance, or ability to pay now. Therefore we the davis city council on behalf of the citizens of davis. Do hereby proclaim, MAY 2026 as national mental health, awareness month and call upon community members to raise mental health awareness throughout the community. Welcome everyone. Thank you. Mayor and council members and sarah, gavin, I'm the chief behavioral and community health officer for community. Care olay. And we have been providing care in the community and davis since 1972, and we provide comprehensive medical behavioral health, mental health substance, use and dental care primarily for individuals are on medical or uninsured and I've been with the organization for over 18 years and feel encouraged by the progress we've made including significant expansion of our mental health service and the intentional recognition of the critical role. The peer support advocates with lived, experience play in our mental health delivery system last last year alone, our behavioral health department provided more than 60,000 visits just in yolo county for behavioral health um and each of those visits represents an individual story and 1, that's difficult to share in this context and fully capture. But I'm proud of the services. We provide in partnership with our with our community partners to support our community, or clinical teams and staff care, deeply about our clients and patients and bring compassion, and heart to this work every day when we think about mental health, & awareness month, I think as my patients and clients as I think about those that are providing those services. And as we reflect on mental health awareness month, we also have to reflect onma and we have away in reducing stigma. I think about my grandfather who was a prisoner of war for years in world war ii, and he, um, came back and lived with consequences of trauma without any access to mental health support whatsoever. Uh, and in, in contrast, just a few months ago, I overheard a group of kids, on a soccer field, openly sharing their experiences in therapy, discussing their therapist among each other. So we it we've come a long way. Um, and it was a reminder that although progress feels slow, it is happening. We're just not all the way there yet and so my stigma barometer or my test is filling I the blank. I would tell my boss blink. I would tell my boss. I have a cold. I would tell my boss. I have cancer. It's not as easy to think about telling your boss that I'm struggling with depression or alcohol use. So we've come a long way, but we have progress to make and recognizing and accepting as physical health. Without judgement. All facing challenges around, who had who gets access to treatment, especially amid multiple threats to insurance coverage and access to care. We're likely to see more people in the community that struggling that don't services and have added stressors. But 1 thing we d know, is that community and relationships matter, community plays a critical role in health and healing and overall well-being and happiness. It's it's not access to formal resources. It's also about being a part of a community where you feel cared about affirmed seen and have real relationships and connection. And dave, this is a community that shows up for each other. In that way events, like davis pride or uh, recognizing mental health and community events and through engaged impact, empathetic leaders, who care deeply about the people who live here, that's really what matters. So thank you for your leadership. Um, and bringing awareness to mental health. Not just this month, but year round. Thank you. Hi, I'm martha. Gilmore accepting for davis center for psychotherapy. In 1991 6, women dale. Bondon some of them here, susan brown. Susan cohen burn. Alana davis, martha gilmore, and ellen, pettit fulfilled, our dream and opened the doors of data center for psychotherapy on oak avenue. Over the years trudy bulbs and louise walker joined us. We were equal partners, making all decisions by consensus and fulfilling our calling of providing individuals, couple and groups of therapy to the community as well as training and mentoring upcoming therapists for 35 years. It has been our honor to serve the davis community, do work closely with so many therapists that continued their work in davis today. We feel very fortunate to have built this center in the community that values the importance of mental health. Thank you council. Thank you mayor. Hi. I'm david pinto with anomi. Yolo, thank you so much. This is a great honor. Thank you. Thank you. And now I'm going to turn back to council member vittala to recognize the 50th anniversary of village homes in honor in honoring its extraordinary contributions to sustainability, community design, and innovation, great. Uh, lots of invite up judy corbett adri mcgrath and my neighbor of liz mary well, it's nice to be back at the city council again. We had many, many long hours to spend here in 1975, and, um, this was an entirely supported by staff the city manager, hard reese approved of it. But, uh, we had a council no matter what the staff said, uh, which included dick? Hold stock. Tom. Tom tazzy, mayor. Skinner joan paulus. And bob black judy. I hve a proclamation. Maybe I can read the proclamation and then turn it over to you. If that's okay. I got you excited. No, its okay. Its okay. Its okay. Its okay. In 1975, construction began on village in 1975 construction began on village homes, the visionary and innovative neighborhood in davis, california conceived as a bold experiment in sustainable community design. Village was established in leadership and perseverance the founders judy and michael corbitt. Along with committed, collaborators city, officials investors and residents willing to advance new models and development. The 70 acre 245 residents neighborhood, incorporates pioneering features, including passive solar home design for energy efficiency, the 70 acre 245 residents neighborhood, incorporates pioneering features, including passive solar home design for energy efficiency on site rainwater, collection and landscape based storm. Water management, community food production through gardens, and orchards, and a layout that promotes walkability by scal access and neighborly interaction. For 5 decades village. Homes has served as a nationally and internationally recognized model for sustainable land. Use planning ecological, design, and community oriented development contracting. The scholars planners policy, makers and visitors from around the world. The exhibition village homes a radical plan presented at the uc davis design museum from JANUARY 20th through JUNE 19th, 2026 commemorates, the 50th anniversary of village homes and highlights its history design principles and ongoing relevance. Now, therefore we the davis city council on behalf of the citizens of davis do, hereby, recognize and celebrate the 50th anniversary of village homes. Hnoring, its extraordinary contributions to sustainable design, environmental stewardship, and community building, thank you so much. Pappu specially, thanks to you for living their glorious. You so I'm I'm tim mcneel um resident of village homes, but also director of the uc davis design museum. So thank you for calling the exhibition which will be o view tere until JUNE 19th. I also really importantly wanted to thank the city of davis. Um, arts and cultural affairs program for their generous support, and allowing us to create this wonderful poster which commemorates 50 years of village homes. I brought a set of them here for all the council today. Um, and if you come to the museum, there are plenty to go around too. Um, so thank you. So the program for all the good work it does for the creative, um, activities and arts within the city. So, we're going to just take a short break and we'll do group photos with each of the groups. And I know jenny chan will help us get organized. Is years. Ago. Thanks for listening to capital public radio. The next qrf listener. Supported radio from sacramento state. Okay. Okay, we in the record and I'll going to turn it over to our city manager, dunstan for some brief announcements. MADAM Mayor. Uh, only 1 announcement, we had a great turnout at last week's general plan update community meeting. Uh, we thank everybody that attended and a special shout out to the city's community development department and a comms office. We have a new general plan. Land use survey that is currently open and those who attended uh on the APRIL 30th session. I'm already completed this survey but we wanted to make everybody aware that. The survey is live. Uh it is open through MAY 28th and we encourage you to uh visit wwwwww.Fa and we're very curious to hear what your vision is for uh, the city of davis through 2050 with that. That concludes my announcements. Thank you very much, very good. I'm just going to turn to my colleagues, briefly for any announcements or via zen reports from our area is 2 by 2s or in the jurisdictional assignments. Not seeing any uh, next are. Is there anyone who wishes to pull an item from the consent calendar? Not seeing anything. Very good and I have nothing either. I just have a clarifying comment to make before we act on 1 of the items with that, I will turn to general public comment. This is an opportunity to address us on matters not on the agenda that are within our jurisdiction. Each person will have 2 minutes to address us. And as I mentioned before, there my be some individuals who wanted to speak, uh, to the proclamations and this would be the opportunity to offer that comment. Thank you. Hi. Um, my name is nuen. I am the granddaughter of lost chinese empire and my grandpa and 1 is the lasting empire, whose name is k. And he's also the first PRESIDENT Of the republic of china. So I am. Um, but unfortunately, the chance because I was a hold us house by the chinese communist party to set up a huge, you found in my name, in 1 and my social security number. And it's new 1, so pop. And I believe support, you know, city of davis and a lot of operation and lucy davis. Um, so I want to share my opinion about this, um, know your general about the uh, new development. Many, many farmlands. Um my observation I've been working uh, driving around. Cdi found out, you know, city of davis housing, uh, apartment and uh uh single family. House are vacancy are very high and also I found out, you know, I believe everybody knows the school district is a, a closing uh schools 1, 2 3. And we don't have enough children so I can't. I feel, you know, you don't, if you don't have anything new, this, it just by building new houses and it's not helping the city. And, and another thing is, uh um I saw from uh, tim davis. You know that saying well building no income house and I asked the question, what is the, you know, your house price? The lower price will that really help people with the disability? Because my son has you know um, grow your know. Sebastian is uh uh artistic um I was going to share my thing. Um I want to share just a paper from stanford. Research is called fusions institute vehicle of cct propaganda. And the second topic is called eastbound ccp objectives. Yeah you can find online. Thank you. Hi, I'm alan hers. I'm a member of beth harr and the social justice CHAIRMAN Of speaking for myself. Thank you very much for the jewish american heritage, it's very important. My family has been in jewish and he's been in this country since 8. 1859 the 1859, the first 1 came in 1891. They watched the statue of liberty, being built, this is my first naturalization ppers from 1880. This is an article aout my other side of family. It became an upper middle class buyer. For client department store, america has been very good to to the jews. And us have been special, good to the jews, and I want to call a unique thing that davis has done. We are a poorest guy and we care for this community. Everyone remembers the awful, imam situation when the imam and davis gave an awful speech that was clearly anticipated. There was another imam again with speech. In the same thing from riverside, another college town. I ran across the rabbi from the riverside. She said nothing was done. I was lost to that they published an article in the la times and the riverside press. But nobody did anything about it. There were no city meetings. There were no commissions of no apology or nothing. Nothing happened in riverside. With all that jewish. Tech organizations down there. Why is this all that tey came up here. No 1 basically protected, the jews of riverside and davis. We took action, we met we got an apology. The interfaith community & got together and did an interfaith walk with 4 or 500 people and they my apologize, we healed ourselves. Davis is a good place for jews. I'm not saying there isn't stochastic anti-semitism that happens there. But our institutions our culture our people here, do not put that thing and we should appreciate ourselves in davis. We are a good place to be a jew. We are a good place to be a minority, we protect 1, another, we have our faults but we are a good place. Thank you very much. Thank you. Hi, my name is laura woods. Um I am an in the home sport service worker. Now, in 2017 I was discharged hi, my name is laura woods. Um I am an in the home sport service worker. Now in 2017 I was discharged unlawfully from new davis in um changed the law 1152. I believe. And made the front page of the sacramento bee. In 2017. So I I like to um, say that I love days. Uh, you guys are amazing. The city council is amazing. I'm here today to speak about black mold on my apartment complex. It seems to be in the tanks. The the toilet tanks, I's in the water, the drinking water and it's in the, the washing water. It's in the laundry, you know, the laundry te washing machine and it's serious. The kids are drinking it. We're drinking it, and it's time to do something, but I don't know who can test it. See, um, for us as you guys can test the water so we need to do that. It's 4500 alhambra. Uh, apartment 1 55 is coming. It's at its ranch, alham ranch. So if um, you guys can get that water tested, I would so appreciate it. My name is laura, woods winkler. My phone number is 530. You don't have to provide your phone, not the record. I appreciate that very much, you know see if staff can connect with kelly already. Got it for me. Excellent. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. thank you. Daniel via on friday MAY 1st, yolo democratic socialists of america held on rally in central park in davis as advertised on their instagram, yolo dsa included. 8, local unions. In the event, including uaw 4811. The other groups at the rally included. The revolutionary student union and the party for socialism and liberation u4 has previously marched at uc davis dressed as hamas. Terrorists enchanted, al-qahsi, MISS Proud, kill another hundred now. The revolutionary student organization was in central park on friday, with a large ner saying long live, the alasa flood, which is the name hamas gave to OCTOBER 7th massacre in southern israel and has repeatedly target to targeted jewish faculty on campus. They also held a sign saying death to us imperialism. With the collision of cough rifle. Party for socialism and liberation as I've stated before. Is a violent extremist group that celebrates terrorism has vandalized uc davis and is under 3 congressional investigations for ties to foreign terrorist organization, psl leaders in nathan or in los angeles, silva led the MARCH with yolo, dsa leaders, dylan, horton. And nick bucks in many other people, you know? Um, also there was current hrc commissioner dimma to mimi, who was there, marching arm and arm with these extremist groups, that celebrate the slaughter of jews 3 points, davis continues to be an epicenter of anti-semitism. And violent extremism in our town, the davis city council has completely failed to address this jew hatred. And the fact is, it's encouraging by empowering the hrc and this fake mapper report in the recommendations. This city council is empowering these people point number 3, we now know that pappu gets his history exclusively from anti-us row groups and & enjoys lecturing the jewish community on what transaction. My name is amir cole. I'm a davis resident. And it's great that dan was here to give you a little bit of the very specific information. But I just want that to sink in we had in davis in central park, a big protest with a big banner saying, long live eloxx flag. We've seen that on campus. It's been there. Like we've seen that on automation on campus, you know for a few months now. But this is the first time that it's been on camp on on town in town and not only in town, it was in central park. The beating heart of this town. And, I don't think that that's a coincidence, that that happened, 3 days after last tuesday meeting, I think the people who did that felt empowered, by what this council decided to do. And again, we had their public officials appointed public officials by a banner saying long I hope that you can reflect on that. It's never too late. To recognize that you've made a mistake. And act to change that. Thank you. Alan miller, welcome to anti-zionist jew, appreciation month. As a jew. Because of my jewish family, because of my jewish family, I saw a holocaust survivor in is park in the 1930s and the sign was changed from no dogs to know dogs and no jews. People were horrified on the way to shabbat last shabbat dinner last friday in central park. The alaska & flood, the amas term for the operation on 1077. But no 1 was horrified. Why you say you want to condemn hate in all its form? Condemn that I'd rather be banned from the park as a jew or a dog than I'm a sign calling for the death of my people deeds. Not words. Not proclamations. If hate comes from the right in davis, you can dim it. If hate comes from the far-left, you don't because they are your base. I don't care if calling for the death of my people have white hoods or capillas wrapped around their heads. Why? Tuesday justice in palestine soup, their across from the yelling, slogans anti- dion. Is a hate movement. Maybe israel is a hate movement from a palestinian perspective but don't identify either. And until you do we won't get a grip on addressing hate in this town. But we had anti-zionist jews and their allies yelling across the street at jews. So this hate in there somewhere. This month is ours, here's your proclamation. 51 for each of you. I'll crumple these and I'll leave them on the table for the clerk. Actually. They're eric jones. Flyers. So you can take 1 of these home. And each of you can shove it up your respective asses. Good evening. Um, I will went to the park on MAY 1st for a mayday thing with, uh, no kings and uh, invisible. And there were, there were these people with this big banner. That said, al aqsa fun, I'm not making this up. You all know what, I'll ask the flood is that is the, um, code name. The hamas code name for OCTOBER 7th. That's some really weird s*** going on in this town. I got to tell you jeep. Some weird s*** going on in town here. Uh, yeah, I know, free speech and all of that man. But you know, up there and lecture us, man. I don't know, I got yelled at maybe because someone saw me here. Somebody call me hanging out with my people on saturday in the park. And I had some s*** yelled at me the other day. And I'm like, whoa. Whoa, am I safe? Am I safe? I stood up for all you and all your causes for so many goddamn years, when are you going to stand up for me? Who's going to stand up for me in this town? Is there anyone else in chambers who wants to have a public comment? Seeing none, we will close the public comment hearing. Thank you. We are turning next to our consent calendar. And is there someone who would like to move the consent calendar? Second. Okay, there's a motion from council member dose. The second from council member vitela. Before I call for the vote, I want to just I want to make 1 quick note of clarification based on some emails. We had. Um, some of the emails we received pertain to item I, which is the second reading of the ordinance related t sidewalk maintenance and repair. And I just want to make sure that I offer some clarification similar to what we offered at first reading, which is that what we are going through now is the process of putting this into the city ordinance and until staff returns to us with actual details about how we would implement. And actually enforce the ordinance, there's not going to be any change. We fully recognize. There are considerable details. That we need to address and work where there's any implementation of the ordinance. So I wanted to make that abundantly clear for anyone who was concerned about it, so with that, I will call for the vote all in favor of approval of the consent calendar. Say, I, I I and he knows or extensions. Hearing hearing none. Very good. Just want to give our presenters a moment to get themselves, ready? We are. Oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna pound the gavl here for sake of protocol. We are opening now, the public hearing on the willowrow project, it's very exciting. It's been a long time, coming. Lots of work, uh, uh precedes, all of this. And so tonight is the night when we will be taking a number of really, really important actions. Um, related to certification of the environmental impact report as well as all of the other related actions that are needed to occur before this matter, can be placed on the ballot. Um we'll start we'll have a brief presentation staff. We'll have I believe our director metsker. Perhaps, perhaps not, and our senior planner, eric lee will be here to present along with our halton after they do their presentation, we will have a presentation from the, um, project applicant and then we'll um, return here for some carifying questions. Um, and then we'll take public comment and then we'll return to the das for deliberation and action, so I think they're still getting set up, not giving them a minute. Yeah. Sorry please. Give us a minute. Absolutely. No worries. Thank you, mayor, eric leasing your planner. Um, we're pleased to be here tonight to present the willow go project to you. And I'm here with nick papani from raining, plenty of management, great power, c e consultants on the project. We will also be presenting during this staff presentation. So for this item just for the public, is the public hearing on, on willow grove. We're asking the city council to take action, um, but is uh, kind of follow up to the workshop that we had on APRIL 21st uh where we presented the project to kind of basic features um various elements including the development agreement. There was public, comment, talks about the comment during that period a number of concerns and questions from the public. But overall, they were generally, luckily supportive of the project from the public. Uh, we did receive a number of clarifying questions from the city council, there was good discussion. And so 1 of the items that the council asked us to come back with more information on was related to the that we had on APRIL 21st uh, where we presented the project to kind of basic features, um, various elements including the development agreement. There was public, comment, talks about the comment during ta review process. Um, it's in the work hard work of many people involved. With staff reviewing the applicant with, you know, pesenting or providing the project information uh responding to questions. Um, lots of input from the public during the process providing comments on different points. Uh, the neighborhood meetings that the applicant has had as well as from the commissions from various commissions that have reviewed the project uh in recommended approval. Elements that aso, including this planning commission. Um, most recently and then of course city council and the sub committee which has been involved within the project as well. So we're happy to be here tonight for this hearing. Should it be successful? The uh, project site is located just outside the city and the north east corner? Uh, it's about 2332 acres and so it does require a measure jrd votes. Um, so that would be also part of the actions that we're asking tonight to schedule it for ballot. Mention should that be successful, then it could be annexed and the developer at that point if you wanted to quickly review the planning entitlements, and the planning applications that are involved in this project, um, the, of course there's an eir that was thoroughly, thoroughly. Analyzed the application, and the different impacts we should make will be talking about. Um, there's the general plan amendment to the, of course, there's an eir that was thoroughly thoroughly. Analyzed the application and the different impacts we should make will be talking about. Um, there's the general plan amendment to pred dei from the applicant side, timing requirements and also invests the projects and then scheduling the ballot scheduling the item for the ballot measure. Scheduling the ballot scheduling the item for the ballot measure. Um the illustrative plan on the right hand side there, we've kind of gone through before. But just very briefly the project is a residential subdivision that's for 1,250 units. It's a mix of low medium and high density. Um lots and and different different housing types, um, of the 1250 units over 500 would be high density, so that would be condominiums, town homes and then the affordable apartments site, so it would be 20050 or 4, go apartments and the remaining about 288 or. So of those high density, sites would be the town homes and condominiums. There's another 250 or so, or 215 or so medium density, lots and then only about sorry, 500, sorry, 5150 medium density, lots and then about 200 low density. So it's a good mix or the the project does provide good circulation throughout the site as well as off-site for pedestrians bicycles, and and vehicles. There are substantial open space with the community parks, the green belts, um, like an egg transition area. Um, the applicants have been working with neighbors, so they responded to concerns from wild horse neighbors, about the wild horse buffer. They've widened it slightly on that side and included other provisions to address some of their concerns that are incorporated. Uh, it includes storm water quality features as well as additional. Food water capacity of built into the project, it maintains the habitat channel, a which runs through the & site along with their so overall we we feel it. We do well design project and good benefit to the community provide the many community amenities meets those meets many of our needs, uh, as as well as meets or exceeds seeing standards and implements specific goals and policies. Can we I just want to briefly mention the briefly, the fire station site which uh fire station question. Um, the project will be an impact fees, um that we put up front and the current value of dollars. So there is no plan to about the fire station for um, the project will be an impact fees, um, that we put up front and the current value of dollars. So there is no plan to about the fire station for what fire station for and fire station 7 was. But overall it was staff believes. The pojects have been fully vetted and there's no unresolved issues. The applicant is kind of undergone a thorough. Uh public engagement effort but not with flavored, the workshops organizations and groups involves neighborhood groups, and the republic at large, there's plenty in public involvement throughout the process humorous. Public comments were received at the workshop. They are included in some attachment to this stuff report. Um and since then there have been a handful additional public comments that we've received that are also attached but no new issues and no new. Concerning something that is. During that process. So, from the public comments that we received so far, the planning commission reviewed the project um APRIL 8th, um, and the unanimously recommended approval of it and certification of e their were these 4 points that they kind of added as potential recommendation items um for 1 through 3 staff believes that we've noted before in the workshop that they're adequately. Just already in different, the approval documents for the fourth item, which relates to the grade separated processing staff, does not support that. And uh, the staff report provides some details, and I just quickly want to touch on that in that presentation, right? So on this, on this exhibit, here, on the right hand sde is a kind of conceptual design of the over crossing or under crossing. That is provided by applicant. You know, there's a number of issues and challenges related to potentially doing it. It's in the site. Um, the first is just the land ownership, so it's not under under the control of the applicant or developer, or the city, um, instead of the straight shot. So, in this case, the design is kind of a zigzag because it starts on the project site and it should cross has that angled angled turn. Lands lands onto the harper, junior high school because of the concern of uh, crossing at the high school there or the junior high shool there. Um, it's not an ideal from the design point of view. It creates some concerns on essay safety and visibility compared to just a straight lands onto the harper, junior high school because of the concern of, uh, crossing at the high school there or the junior high school there. Um, it's not an ideal from the design point of view. It createss and there's a lack of connection. So this would essentially dead end at the school site doesn't connect directly to the city network, uh, and then some operational questions about whether how that would work because it wuld land on the school property. Um, I that all open day? All night long? Um, you know, how does that work with the general public accessing the school site? Um and then, as well as of & course, the time frame, inside. It doesn't connect directly to the city network, uh, and then some operational questions about whether how that would work because it would land on the school property. Um, is that open all day? All I um, before the um, before the crossing but also for some of the other influence that are being being provided, um there will be a crossing protected crossing at the existing street light. Um, go with the sidewalk that connects to that crossing from the to the project site along coel. As well as other improvements as you can see, with the fourth through lane, um, kind of the new right in right out access point, uh, they're just on the left hand side for the project site. So again, this is very doable, this is proposed. Uh, and uh, we provide a safe protected crossing and it will connect to the existing path to travel. Onto the site. So this shows what that would be um for children or people who are crossing coal at this at the new at the new location. Connecting to the sidewalk, to the top of the travel to the school site. No, 1. 1 of the things I did want to touch on is before, we'll have them plan. Um, there'll be no changes. No significant changes to this to this since te workshop. Um 1 element that was refined ore was clarified is that whereas previously, the plan proposed 10 at least 10 units would 10 of the 250 units would be designated for, uh, individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Uh, the applicant was able to go back and talk to their partners and increase that commitment to 20. So they will have committed to at least 20 of the units will be for those individuals as part of this project, the rest has stayed the same. Do you want to just mention that the 1.8 million dollars? That contribution for the housing trust fund? Um, is addressing the development agreement. The language there is flexible to allow for um, potential uses of the site or, um, but staff will return to city council, uh, with their specific program for use of those miners in the future. So, kind of with that, I just wanted I'll turn it over to nick pawnee, and then he'll come cover the and then we'll kind of wrap it up after that. Thank you, MR. Lee. Good evening, mayor and council members again, nick papani vice PRESIDENT With randy planning and management and I'm here to present the exciting overview of the eir and process of trying to make it. Someone engaging, um, so, first off, uh, what we start with when a lead agency decides to prepare an environmental impact report is to prepare, what's called a notice of preparation and that notice of preparation is essentially a document that identifies the range of topics that we're going to be studying, um, and solicit input from the public and aencies as to what topics do they think should be studied, uh, within the document uh, that goes out for a 30-day public review, period. And during that 30-day period, we have what's called a scoping meeting. Um, that's scoping meeting was held at city hall on JULY 25th of 2024 and the that period ran from JULY uh 12th 2024 to AUGUST 12th 2024. So upon closure of that period we take a look at all the comments and see, make sure we're addressing all the relevant environmental issues and then we begin on the fairly lengthy process of conducting the environmental analysis, working with various technical sub consultants, that we manage and and work in concert with the city. And so upon completing the draft environmental impact report uh that was released um for a 45-day uh, public review period. Um a notice of availability was released notifying the public and agencies that the draft eir was available for public review, uh, that gets routed to state agencies as well um, for their review and comment and then we had a meeting during that uh, actually 54 days public review period, in this case? Um, to accept verbal comments on the draft eir from the public. Um, and that was DECEMBER 10th 2025 uh, at the end of that. Public review, period. We collect all comments and we assess those commas to see if any revisions might be needed to the draft, the ir, and then we respond to all comments and writing and produce a final eir. And that was released on MARCH 16th 2026. So in within the draft year, we evaluated essentially all the topics in the what's called the appendix g of the california law quality act checklist um and I'm not going to read all these here. You can see them but essentially uh the c is a fully exhausted v with a technical chapter on every topic and again, a lot of technical work went into the analysis and support of uh these different chapters. Next time cover, um, most of the potential impacts resulting from the project uh were determined to be uh less and significant or with uh requirement of mitigation measures. The impacts could be fully reduced to a lesson significant level um, just kind of a quick overview in terms of those impacts that required mitigation but that were reduced to a lesson significant level those include light and glare from the, uh, new residences, uh, and other associated on-site uses, um, air quality, uh, construction greenhouse gas emissions. So those could be fully mitigated. Um, biological rsource impacts those as your uh well yellow habitat conservation plan. This project. We received coverage through that. So there's various avoidance and minimization measures, uh, required in the eir for, uh, the different ptential, uh, protected species that could occur on site and, uh, their associated habitats cultural and tribal cultural resources. Geology soils, hazards and hazardous materials. The, the soils were tested for organic chlorine, pesticides and all the uh, detected. Contaminants were below. Uh, the respective levels, identified by the state, um, hydrology and water quality. I'm just going to kind of hit on that a little bit here. Uh, a portion of the project site is located within the fema 100-year. Flood zone um, the flood sources anticipated to be associated with backwater uh flooding uh from the yolo bypass through the the willow slooh and not specifically channel a that runs through the site. Um due to the off-site nature of the regional flooding source, uh, the storm water control plan that was prepared for the project. Determine that the building pads could be elevated with phil. Um, and that that fill wouldn't cause any downstream or upstream flooding. The project includes oversized detention facilities on site. As well as a overlay. So with that size infrastructure. Um, there's an ability to fully accommodate potential uh, volumetric flow increases from the project and there would be no um downstream or upstream increases in flooding as a result. And then for transportation, uh, construction traffic and bike ped uh transit. We'll talk a little bit more about transit but those impacts were determined to be uh less than significant. Um go to the next slide. Thank you. So the er did determine that a a variety of impacts would be significant and unavoidable. And what that means is that even with including mitigation measures, these impacts could not be fully reduced um, below the relevant threshold, all our analysis is based on threats. So like for air quality, the air district has a numerical threshold, the projects above that. That's an impact. If they're below that, it's not an impact. So first edex, I'll just run through these a little bit the project. As you know is an open agricultural. Uh, setting the project would permanently convert that setting um, to a urban development. Open system parks included. Um, but that's a permanent conversion and uh, substantial degradation of visual character. So that's the significant avoidable impact as well as conversion of agricultural resources, the site includes both prime farmland and farmland of statewide importance uh, that permanently converted as a result of the project. Um, of course, there would be mitigation required in accordance with the city's code, that would require, um, permanent conversion of farmland, uh, which is estimated, I believe in the development agreement at, uh, 807 acres at 374, uh acres of add preservation um air quality greenhouse gas emissions and uh energy. So the significant avoidable impact here is related to criteria pollutants. Um, there's various mitigation measures required in the eir to reduce these criteria pollutant emissions but the impact would remain above the threshold. Um so that's a sustained significant avoidable impact. Um, noise. That's just a a short-term impact. That's associated with construction, period, increasing ambient noise above the threshold, which is, uh in this case utilizes 5 5 db, so uh, there would be a temporary period during which the that ambient increase threshold would be exceeded. Population and housing. Uh, the project side is not planned for growth, so the project will result in substantial unplanned population, growth uh which in and of itself isn't necessarily a significant impact, it kind of relates to infrastructure right? And how that population growth affects infrastructure which was evaluated in throughout the other chapters of the document. Uh, for transportation. Um, as you are well aware transportation impacts significance is now based o vehicle miles traveled rather than level of service. Uh, so specifically for that vehicle miles, traveled, the project would have vnt per person associated with the project vmt. Capitalist is our metric that would exceed both the cities and the regional thresholds. Um, there's mitigation included in the eir, that requires implementation of a transit, demand management. Um, measures those measures are identified throughout the eir and of course, we can talk about any of those, if you have questions, but but the measures wouldn't be sufficient to reduce that vehicle miles traveled per resident below, ballsy, and local, and regional thresholds. Uh, for transit. There was a transit impact identified ad that has to do with the existing koval cord on the project's frontage um which is uh where the p and q lines uh are already underperforming along that portion of the routes. And so the project would add additional trips of course to that segment um of east koval boulevard and therefore further, decrease uh, boosts performance uh, the mitigation included in the document is to uh install right turn lanes uh at the project accesses to facilitate cars getting into the project uh quickly and get off that through route along westbound, loose koval. Um so that's a mitigation requirement in the cumulative scenario. Obviously, there'll be additional trips along that corridor heading westbound. And so further degradation and boosts performance. & um, the mitigation required in the ei is for the project to contribute. A fair share toward the installation of a second westbound through lane along, uh, the project's frontage so that would obviously provide additional capacity, help the buses, get through that corridor more efficiently. I'm going to meet their better better meet their performance objectives. Um, even though the drafty are identifies efficiently. I'm going to meet their better better meet their performance objectives. Um even though the drafty are identifies with the project, just contribute a fair share through the development agreement. The applicant has agreed to advance the construction of that second westbound through lane. So they would widen their frontage of east koval and install that second westbound lane and that could be subject to fee credits in the future, through the the forthcoming cip project. That public works is working on and then lastly, uh, wastewater treatment capacity. Um, as you're aware the draft er concludes that, there would be a potentially significant and unavoidable impact associated with the limited wastewater treatment capacity at the plant. Um, the da has confirmed though that through both interim and long-term plans, uh, that, uh, it will the plant will be sufficient capacity, um, to serve the project, uh, such that sewer connection shall be available, uh, when they are needed, is the project builds out the city public works department, as you're aware is initiating a cip to design and the wastewater treatment plant upgrades and then up subsequently update the sewer rates to help fund those upgrades. And I believe there's also ability to seek uh state loans potentially for those upgrades. But um, so, I think we move on to all terms. So, for the alternatives, the ear is required to evaluate a reasonable range of alternatives. Uh, there's no set number on that number that r reasonable range. Um it's certainly more than 1 but uh, you know, in this case we have 5 so that, that definitely meets the test of a range, really, the purpose of the alternative exercise is to provide an informed decision making o your part as a decision maker. And so, in an effort to do that, we included 5 alternatives, uh, each alternative has to meet the basic objectives of the project, what's this? Another secret requirement? Um, alternative 1 does not do that because the project would remain in its current state. Um, but we do have to consider a no project alternative. Um, alternative 2 is what we call the lower number of units. Same footprint alternative and that would be. And that's an exhibit. You can see there on the screen that conceptually illustrates that, and that would have 3. Excuse the 9307 units, compared to the proposed 1,250 units. And the, um, potential benefits of that uh, would be essentially, a reduction in the need for wastewater treatment capacity. Um, it would have a reduced residential density compared to the proposed project. But again, I'm trying to avoid or lessen 1 of the projects of significant effects that would really be the focus on wastewater treatment as our capacity. So, if third alternative is, uh, same number of units, but a reduced footprint low, we take the projects footprint down to 170, acres out of 62, acre reduction. Um, that. But because we have the same number of units, we increase the residential density, um, density is approximately 16.6 million units per acre, compared to the projects 11.9 and, uh, in terms of environmental, uh, effects in comparison to the project, this would result in reduced uh, farmline conversion by approximately 26% compared to the project. Reduced biological impacts due to the, uh, reduction in the development area and avoidance of channel. And as you can see to the northern portion there, and it would be anticipated that the city's bmt threshold uh could be met through increased residential, density associated with this, as we've talked about in other hearings, uh, data suggests that by increasing your residential beef. Result in different product types. The result in different trip, behavior by residents and so kind of using state guidance, uh, we've suggested that it be possible to meet the city's vmt threshold with this proposed density. And then alternative 4 uh, is the same number of units but on the smallest footprint. So we take it down to approximately 100 acres. Uh reducing the scope of the development area by 132 acres in order to achieve those uh unit count in a smaller area such as that of the potentially 6-story uh, buildings as well as multiple 4 store apartment buildings. So, pretty high residential density here 33.9 billion units per acre. Um, the kind of logic behind this 1 is that potentially, we can se the project alternative meeting both the cities and the regional, uh, dmt thresholds. Uh, so pretty, pretty aggressive density there. And with a really a name and reducing the projects, um, the mt impacts and possibly avoiding significant impacts. Um, of course, you're reducing agricultural impacts as well. Biological interactions like shrinking down the flooding. So that needs us with the final 1, which is the higher number of units. Same footprint alternative. So increasing the units up to uh, 1486 and thereby potentially again, having some uh, associated benefits, uh, of reducing uh, vehicle miles traveled potentially meeting just the city's threshold here. Not as aggressive as our, our last alternative. Um, and then, uh, reduce in operational gsg emissions as well, through the reduction of dmt. Transition here. We'll, we