Zoning Administrator

(silence) (silence continues) - Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Michael Cass and I am serving as the zoning administrator today. Today is Thursday, June the 13th. It is 4:01 in the afternoon. I'm calling the meeting to order. I'd first like to start with public comments. This is for items that are not on today's agenda, but still are the subject matter jurisdiction of the zoning administrator. If you're interested in making general public comments, if you could please choose the raise your hand button, which you can access in the center lower portion of your screen. Okay, seeing none, I'll move on to our actual public hearings. We have two public hearings that are on today's agenda. The first is a public hearing to approve a one year extension of the design review approval conditional use permit and historic resources permit approvals for Portside Lofts, which is a approved mixed use project located at 600 to 610 Ferry Street in the central commercial zoning district. I've read the staff report and I am familiar with the project, so I don't need a need for any questions of staff at this time, but I do see that the applicant is here and so I'd like to invite them, if they would like to do so, to make a presentation. Imanol, if you could please promote Brandon Verize to speak. Good afternoon, Brandon. Not to put you on the spot, but I just wanted to give you the opportunity that if you would like to make any comments, you can do so at this time. - [Brandon Verize] I appreciate that, Michael, thank you for having the meeting this afternoon. I have nothing to add. There are some issues that we need to address and work through with the city, so I'm looking forward to doing that, and that is all I have to say at this time. - Thank you, Brandon. I appreciate that. I'll now open it up to public comments for members of the public to comment on this application. I do see that we have Jonathan Bornstein who has raised his hand. Imanol, if you could please promote Jonathan. - [Johnathan Bornstein] Hello, hi, Jonathan... I'm sorry, I'm with Brandon and I didn't see him, so I'll lower my hand at this point. - Okay. Well, I appreciate you joining us, Jonathan. - [Johnathan] Thank you. - So I will open it up to anyone else who wishes to make any comments at this time. Again, if you're interested, please use the raise your hand feature at the bottom of your screen. Okay, seeing none, I will then close the public hearing. And, again, I am in support of the request that is before me this evening, and I'm prepared to grant a one year extension for this project. I really see this as a really pivotal project and important project for our downtown. It's a gem of a building that will be fantastic to see some activity and some revitalization, particularly in that portion of the downtown, and just wanted to express commitment from the planning division to help make this project come to fruition. So, Brandon, on behalf of Dan, myself, Jill, and other members of our department, we look forward to continuing to work with you and look forward to talking with you in the near future, about addressing some of the outstanding issues so we can bring this project to fruition. And so we'll talk to you soon. So, again, I'm hereby approving a one year extension for this project, and this decision is appealable if an appeal is filed, along with the appeal fee, within 10 days of today's decision. Thank you so much and congratulations, Brandon, to you and your team. Okay, then I'm prepared to move on to the second public hearing that is on today's agenda. It is a request to conduct a public hearing and adopt resolution 24-08, approving request for design review approval to construct a 16 square foot wall sign. It's coming before the zoning administrator today, because their total signage is over 20 square feet. The city recently approved another sign, and this would be a second sign that would be consistent with the sign that was recently approved. I don't have any questions for staff at this time, but then did want to see if members... If anyone from the applicant team wishes to make a presentation. If you'd like to do so, if you could please use the raise your hand feature. Okay, I see Steven is here. Imanol, if you wouldn't mind promoting Steven. Okay, Steven, you have the floor. - [Steven] I have the floor. I just wanted just to say that we're here. We're present. I appreciate the work that you guys did. We really have no comments. I just wanna let you know that we're participating in the meeting. - Okay. Well, thank you for attending today. I appreciate that, Steven. I have no questions for you at this time. - [Steven] Okay. Thank you, Michael. - Thanks. Okay, now I'd like to open it up for members of the public, if any members of the public wish to speak on this item. I just see Jonathan who's here, who was here for the previous item, if you're interested in speaking on this item, if you can please choose the raise your hand feature. Okay, seeing none, I'm prepared to close the public hearing for this item. And similar to the last project, I hereby adopt resolution 24-08, which would approve the request for design review approval for the construction of a second 16 square foot wall-mounted sign for Obsession Nail Salon. Again, really, really excited to welcome this new business to our community, and we look forward to successful operation for years to come. My decision is appealable, if someone would file the appropriate paperwork along with the application fee for the appeal within 10 days of today's decision. I will like to advise, Steven, just so you're aware, is we will get you an approval letter out at some point, hopefully early next week, at which point you have the ability to apply for a building permit. Once you obtain your building permit, then you can have the signage installed, and Imanol will be your point of contact if you have any questions going forward. But again, congratulations and we appreciate your participation through this process. Saying that, it is now 4:08, we have no other items on today's agenda, so I am prepared to adjourn the meeting, again, at now, 4:09. Thank you so much.