[Music] uh thank you everyone for joining I'll Now call to order the regular meeting of the Reno City Planning Commission today is Wednesday August 21st and we are at the City of Reno Council chamber we will begin with agenda item one the Pledge of Allegiance uh commissioner Sarah will you please lead us uh closing item one and moving to agenda item two Michelle can we get a roll call please Carrie rer Manny Basera here Christina Dale VR Christina Del VR yeah here JD dulich is absent Alex velto here Sylvia villan NOA is absent Harris Armstrong here we have a quorum thank you we'll close item two and before moving on to item three we would like to Pro propose a change to the agenda moving item 4.2 which is a staff presentation until after public hearings don't see any issues with that so I think we'll go ahead and proceed close item two and move on to item three public comment this item is for public comment on any action item or any general public comment members of the public may call into the meeting to provide public comment by using the zoom link provided on the on the agenda specifically https colon sl/ links. Reno .gv sl45 N3 qm capital K it should be noted for those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the Planning Commission as a whole comments heard under this item will be limited to 3 minutes per person and may pertain to matters both on and off the Planning Commission agenda please note that the Planning Commission may not take action upon any matter not agendized for possible action on today's agenda when you are called on for public comment please state your name for the record and begin speaking the timer will begin when you say your name and you will be afforded 3 minutes if you are an attendee in the zoom meeting and would like to make public comment at this time please raise your hand lastly while in this room please be respectful warnings will be issued by the presiding officer if there is disruptive behavior and you will be asked to leave Chambers if the behavior continues um we did not receive any voicemails or course we did receive voicemails and corresponden that was sorry we did not receive any voicemails we did receive corresponden that was General in nature and not specific specific to any items on this agenda they were forwarded to the Planning Commission and have been entered into the record do we have uh anyone wishing to speak on Zoom don't have any request to speak forms do we have anyone in the Chambers wishing to speak during general public comment seeing none we'll close item three general public comment and move to item 4.1 uh staff report acceptance of a res presid impact statement associated with the closure of the Parkdale Soul mobile home park this item is for discussion only good evening Commissioners this is Carter from the uh associate player with the City of Reno um I'm un aable to attend in person this evening but so I'll introduce this item um this is a reporting requirement established by the Nevada by statutes um in the case that a mobile home park closes um it it is intended to I mean make you all aware make the city aware and notify the residents of the closure as they have certain rights associated with um U mobile home clart closures U there is no applicant or um staff presentation but if there are any questions as far as the process or um items related to um uh housing affordability and and neighborhood for the housing and neighborhood Development Department there's somebody in the in the room that can answer those question questions and and my myself um but there is an opportunity to discuss or we can move on sure commissioner B sure just a question out of curiosity like um so this is just administrative like um Carter uh is this an administrative action or how how does a closure come to be I guess there is no um restriction on uh the the landlord's right to closure except that they have to follow certain procedures this is one of those procedures it's a not notification or report that has to be submitted to the Planning Commission or governing body um of the uh specific jurisdiction um they also have to um compensate the individual tenants so there is a compensation component to this that happens with the state of Nevada Department of manufactured housing great thanks Carter any further questions from the commission or comments see none uh I have none myself do we have anyone in the uh public wishing to speak on this item seeing none I'll close item 4 uh sorry item 4.1 and we will move on to item five public hearings uh item 5.1 has been postponed I believe it was a noticing error uh no the the the project applicant postpone request to postpone this item um prior to Noti is going out so we can move on to item 5.2 okay thank you Mike we'll move on to item 5.2 LDC 2466 Burger King cup and we'll begin with a presentation from staff good evening Commissioners uh Heather Taylor assistant planner here to discuss a conditional use permit for an existing Burger King restaurant so like I said this is an existing development it's a little over an acre in size and it's located on kitsy Lane just north of its intersection with vassard uh the applicants are requesting a conditional use permit to extend the operating hours between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. the site is zoned General commercial and they're um immediately adjacent to single family residential 8 units per acre to the west and North so the site was originally developed um in 1999 under a special use permit to allow for commercial development along a major arterial and residential adjacency a request to operate outside of standard um allowed hours was not contemplated at that time uh the 1999 entitlement included um a 6-ft wall on the west and North boundaries along with um an a landscape area which is still compliant with today's code uh for drive-throughs within 100 F feet of a residential uh property line so on this side you can see the uh building outline the red star is where the ordering takes place and the arrows indicate the direction of the drive-thru to mitigate any to mitigate conflict regarding the outdoor speaker staff is recommending a condition to uh restrict the use of outdoor speaker between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. meaning uh the drive-through Lane would only be used for mobile orders so a customer would just skip the speaker in the menu board alog together go to the window and pick up their order the interior of the building will remain open and available for customers not using the mobile pickup option um during the overnight hours on the screen are the conditional use permit findings staff believes all findings can be met and recommends approval subject to conditions listed in the staff report here is the recommend a motion and I am available for questions awesome job thank you nice to see you over there and do we have a presentation from the applicant yes we do okay the applicant is uh free to present when they're ready right yes it's up there oh perfect okay so um we are Burger king um how do I work this here so we are mrb holdings my name is Samantha Miller and I have Jamie coal here he is our director of operations and district manager we also have here uh Todd lner he's the director of Maintenance and um remodeling construction and all of that William Miller and Samir thar they are district managers as well um all five of us have a combined experience at Burger King for over 55 years so uh we know the game we know Burger King very well uh we're a proud member of the Burger King family since 2007 um as mrb Holdings Corporation we're committed to providing our community with the same high quality food exceptional service and convenient dining experience that Burger King has to offer and is renowned for uh we are committed to being active members of our community as well as well um our support includes contributions to local school programs and offer corporate scholarships to deserving students uh we are requesting um a conditional use permit to extend our operating hours to 24 hours a day and by operating Around the Clock we can better serve our customers create new job opportunities and contribute to the local economy as well and we are committed to being good neighbors and will'll work closely with the community to address any concerns and then now we'll hand it over to William for addressing and understanding the neighborhood restaurant so I'm William um Kei Kean is one of my restaurants um I was a general manager there before quite a while before I was a district manager um we've seen that since we've started um we have increased demand in that location a lot for food delivery um there is some factories a couple maybe like six or eight blocks away that are open on the third shift um we have a proven track record for our food safety our commitment to food safety um we've got the highest scores in with a 94.3 that was back in July um we commit to staff training we're currently at uh that location's at 100% right now in staff training um and that's all I got so far a grade in your in your was County Health oh and I have an a grade in our was County Health District inspections as well okay next you got it one okay that's good Todd Todd Todd is our uh head of Maintenance and construction so he can um address some of the noise mitigation strategies there hi guys so my name is Todd lner um want to talk about noise mitigation strategies we're willing and able to help mitigate any issues that may arise from any of the neighbors that might cause or if we caused any issues um we've already talked about basically making it to where we do mob mobile orders only that means that nobody would be speaking in or out of the actual microphone in the Drive-Thru everybody would be going straight up to the window um secondly one of or one of the things that we're going to be doing by having to be or by staying open 24 hours is liter prevention and cleanup the longer we have the staff on site the more they can go out and make their rounds and clean up the parking lot the drive-thru things of that nature and relieve any kind of problems that might arise there um and thirdly safety and security measures um that area when that parking lot is dark we tend to have a lot of issues with different people um drug use and people sleeping in the parking lot and things of that nature um we've actually as soon as today we actually had to call the police on somebody and get them out of there so what we're hoping is if there's more people more bodies on site then people aren't going to gather the lights too yeah having the lights on all night yeah and then we'd have the lights on as well so okay thank you economic benefits um job creation and support obviously to run 24 operations we would need to hire more staff um it will commun um add to that in the community as well increase tax revenue the more sales we do obviously more tax is going to go to the city and then Community involvement uh the more sales that restaurant can do the more we can give back to our local community we're are partnering with woster over there um to do some sponsorship with the the high school there as well um operation details 24-hour operations it's a seamless experience um we've done this in other locations um we also have one in California that's also 24 hours um it's very seamless to just transfer over to 24 hours have the minimum staff there to to make sure that the restaurant stays open um with the expansion of door Dash GrubHub Uber Eats uh the demand is there for for delivery food um especially on the late night and those overnight hours uh more and more people are ordering um later at night dedicated and trained staff um like he mentioned we have 100% completion on our um training there and then uh we will have a minimum of three staff members in that restaurant at all times that way the lobby can stay open um they can service the guests and the restaurant is safe as well um and then just conclusion we're committed to the community whatever we need to do um like we said we would turn off the speaker at night time to mitigate the the sound uh have our customers come directly to the window and then just key benefits we're going to uh just increase the business the the way it is so I think that's it thank you thank you so much uh we'll now bring it back to the commission for disclosures commissioner velto can you please start uh commissioner velto familiar with the site commissioner verer familiar with the site and uh eight there growing up commissioner Del vard do you have any disclosures on this project I have never eaten there and that's okay we would welcome you to come visit us yeah uh commissioner Armstrong I'm familiar with this side otherwise no disclosures um we'll now move to public comment uh any person who has chosen to provide his or her public comment when a public hearing is heard will need to so indicate on the request to speak form provided to the secretary alternatively you may provide your comment when item three general public comment has heard at the beginning of this meeting uh I have no request to speak forms Michelle is anyone wishing to speak via Zoom no one on Zoom no request to speak forms or correspondents for this item thank you uh anyone in the Chambers wishing to speak on this item seeing none I'll go ahead and close public comment and bring it back to the commission for questions commissioner B uh yes chair thank you uh maybe for Heather hey Heather I was curious um are there comparables because I think there's a um Carl Jr McDonald's and a few other similar joints next door right yes um do any of those have like a 247 cup or 247 like cup you know I did not look into that before okay the applicants kind of nodding their head though the McDonald's across the street from us is open 24 hours on Friday Saturdays Fridays and Saturdays previously they were open 24 hours 7 days a week um I think they looked into the sales and made made a decision that it wasn't worth it to them to be open seven days a week but they are still open 24/7 on Friday and Saturday and then I think um sir would you mind coming up just to state your name for the record of course and I'm taking Harris's job there for a second if you'd like to uh name is Jamie coal I'm the director of operations for the business great thank you so much thank you yeah and then um Heather it was kind of a precursor question because um because I I I was the main issue the the the drive-thru speaker box going off so loud or yes that was the problem there was a code enforcement complaint that came in regarding the you the usage of the outdoor speaker after 11:00 p.m. so it came before us and they asked if they needed a conditional use permit we told them you know that they did through the code enforcement process and then um that the main concern was the speaker oh okay and and the neighbors are fine with the conditions do you know I haven't got any sort of Correspondence or comment from them so yeah I I that's the best we can do because because I where I'm leading with this is that um you know Burger King May if if we decide this evening may get this um conditional use permit and then Carl's junor May and then the next door neighbor and so forth and so forth and I'm just concerned um how do we then deal with potential um volume noise it's not just a speaker but all the vehicles and perhaps F hanging out uh that that may create an issue that we weren't anticipating kind of like the issue 20 years ago you mentioned in your presentation that we were we weren't anticipating this issue but are I guess are there issues that we're not anticipating yet that maybe we should be before we proceed with this or are we pretty good if there are I I think that code kind of provides us with um a way out of it because it requires the wall and the buffer the landscape buffer so that in itself um provides you know kind of a mitigation um requiring the speaker to be turned off overnight is just an extra kind of step to make sure that there's no problems with the neighbors um and if something like we'll just have to take each you know drive-thru Case by case because it's kind of hard to tell what's there what's existing what they were required to do at the beginning um and if the neighbors have problems with it then we'll have to we won't know until it happens so okay and and were there any lighting conditions so as not to uh keep the neighbors up as well or is that not an issue um there's already relighting conditions required for a residential adjacency so they'd have to follow that um it's just a certain foot candle at the property line so kind of everything kind of has to be shining towards the middle of the site and not at the property line itself perfect okay well sounds like uh hopefully this works out where it reduces kind of like the the challenges you're facing now with with folks just kind of lingering around so sounds promising thank you thank you commissioner uh don't want to forget about you commissioner DVR on Zoom did you have any questions at this time or you okay uh one of my questions was about the lining and I know that they have the mitigations in place already um one of the other questions I have is around sort of what their sales forecast are kind of going to um you know the question of potential traffic and obviously this is late at night anyway so there's going to be less traffic but you know again a little bit more noise more traffic um more lights that sort of thing so was kind of curious to what um sort of like a percentage of uh you know new new folks coming through for uh for meals between 11: and 6:00 a.m. might be go ahead uh Jamie cobal again um in the the locations that we have 24 hours including the California one it's about 20% increase in what we in the overnight sales about 75% of that is door Dash or Uber Eats coming to pick up orders and they're picking up multiple orders at that time so there's not a ton of traffic um but it's the cars coming in picking up those orders heading home most of the time understood thank you thank you that was that was all I had thank you commissioner belto any questions I have no questions at this time uh do we have any further questions from the commission or should we move into discussion all right we'll move into discussion does anyone want to start discussion or I would entertain a motion if there's no discussion I'm happy to make a motion chair go for it thank you sure um on the matter of LDC 24- 000066 based upon compliance with the applicable findings I move to approve the conditional use permit subject to conditions L listed in the staff report CHR second we have uh first and a second uh any last uh discussion seeing none all those in favor I I I I I I motion passes unanimously good luck with your project you thank you now close item 5.2 and open item 5.3 case number LDC 24-6 chock Bluff LC major site plan review and looks like we'll get a presentation from Staff first good evening members of the commission for the record my name is Leah picatti and I am an associate planner with the City of Reno development services this evening I am presenting an application for Chalk Bluff LLC major site plan review the subject site is a 2.5 acre portion of a 23 acre parcel that's located just south of the I80 and just east of Rob Drive the request here is for fills greater than 10 ft in height and disturbance of a major drainage way current zoning district is large lot residential and the site is currently vacant key issues that we looked at in this are overall site design and natural resource protection this is a very small component of a much larger project and I know that there's a couple of you here tonight who are newer and may not have seen this but over the course of the past few years we have processed several different entitlements for um Flying J TCA and Heiser which is directly to the east of this project so on the screen up there you can see in purple is the proposed area that we're looking at today and everything else that you see has already been approved it is important to note too that this site even though it's technically vacant in 2010 it was issued a permit for um grading and temporary stock piling and that had to do with the expansion of the I80 at that time so there is some disturbance already on the site and as we get to the to the major drainage way I'll show you that it's significantly Disturbed already so overall site design again we're looking at 2.75 acre development we're looking at fills up to 60 ft in height approximately 82,000 cubic yards of fill and the applicant has proposed to construct a sediment BAS and for what I believe is construction on the adjacent site regarding the major drainage way um this is a little bit rough but basically the existing drainage way does something like this and it the pipe ends approximately 60 ft from the property line now you can kind of see the corner of the property boundary here but to the right of that is the Heiser property and the Heiser property is an uh SPD that was approved back in 2023 and piping of the major drainageway was approved in in that application so their plan was to run that pipe along the northern portion of the parcel so all this is going to do is take that existing pipe and move it up to the northern portion and run it directly to the Hiser property that's already been approved for the piping of the major drainage way and that it will Channel down into a natural drainage way that's on the other side of the Hiser property uh major site plan review recommended findings uh staff is able to make all of these findings I can go through these with you if you like but basically it's compatible it's supports the adjacent developments um it the grading and the piping has already been approved on the adjacent properties public services and facilities are all available it's technically an infill parcel it's compatible with the types of development and lastly it's going to improve drainage in the area that concludes my presentation the recommended motion is on the board I'm available for questions and Stacy is here with a presentation as well thank you awesome thank you looks like we'll get a presentation on the applicant next I see you Stacy good evening Stacy Huggins with wood Rogers um here tonight on behalf of the Chalk Bluff LLC grading project uh Leah did a great job summarizing this project so um I have a couple more slides than she did and some of them are repeats I try to skip over them you know where the site is um but just as a reminder that blue outline on the aerial is the full parcel the area outlined in red is really the subject of um this major site plan review um just a little bit more history for those of you that may not have been in the Planning Commission role when these went through the process so um directly south of the Rob Drive exit is the Flying J um management piece the Rob Drive mixed use project it was called when it went through um that was approved in July of 2023 uh it included a major site plan review for cuts and fills on that parcel it established development pads and established circulation um that's represented uh on this map in January of 2024 the Heiser or the S3 Rob Drive specific plan was approved as leam mentioned uh that established uh a the drainage way to be piped through the north end of that property it also established grading quantities maximum Disturbed areas and cuts and fill depths um and then it really did include we contemplated as part of that project piping and rerouting this existing drainage way um to outlet to the east so we had always contemplated this drainage way being in a pipe what we're really trying to do today is fix that little purple piece on the map so that um it kind of ties together in the drainage uh as leam mentioned this property and I've got some Aerials I'll show you was previously Disturbed through a building permit for a number of projects I80 and retra were the big ones and you'll see in um the next pictures I have really how impacted this property was so I I picked a couple um I I went back as far as 1998 and the property had been Disturbed as far back as that so I just picked some of the bigger more impactful grading images to share with you but you can see back in 2004 they were very much disturbing the site if you look on the Eastern side where our project site sits uh I don't think I can point to it but um you can see that the grading was uh intentionally cut off at the edge there in what I'm calling the donnut hole or the Ravine of of the parcel um and that carries through in each of these images in 2011 you can see there there was Phil brought on to the site as part of the I80 project again in 2018 you can see there's a little bit more disturbance still have not um touched this area that is subject to this project or this request tonight so just kind of touching high level on the grading again Leo did a great job talking about this um this area that we're looking at is about 2 and a half acres of the overall site it is a we have uh fills approximately 60 ft in depth um in order to bring this again hole in the doughnut up to the same level as the properties surrounding it to the um West uh it will eliminate that Ravine uh the materials are sourced from other grading projects so that would be associated with the um Heiser project and the Flying J and we're doing this so that we can really do one overarching grading project so that everything can kind of graded at the same time and we don't have to have multiple grading projects and multiple phases of grading it will really help to reduce the impact on the overall area by doing this all at once uh in terms of the major drainage way impact I've kind of already talked about that a couple times right we're going to put it in a pipe connect it through the Heiser project and send it to the east into another natural drainage way that we're not impacting so I want to just show you we put together some visual impact um simulations so I I'd like to just take a minute and show you what these might look like so um the picture on the top we have two different views and I'm going to show you without this um fill project and with from both views so looking kind of at the site uh if you were traveling uh eastbound on I80 the top picture is what it would look like today and the bottom picture is what it would look like um without this major site plan review on the Chalk Bluff site so you can see there it really has an Abrupt grade change from the Heiser property it drops down into the bottom of the Ravine and then the the adjacent Hiser or um Chalk Bluff property uh if it weren't filled it would have to come back up essentially and you'd continue to have this hole there creating unnecessary steep grades so with the um approved or with the proposed project again the picture on the bottom kind of shows what that would look like uh once it's filled in um from traveling eastbound uh it's a much smoother grade change from parcel to parcel and it really brings and I'll show you in the next picture um that that parcel up to the same level as where the current Chalk Bluff parcel that has already been filled and Disturbed up to the same level as that site so now we're looking at the site from across I80 on the North side uh you can see there Circle in the top it says view2 it's from a um I think that's a some sort of assisted care facility looking across the way the image on the top again that's what it looks like today the bottom picture is what it will look like without this current Chalk Bluff um fill project with the Chalk Bluff fill project the picture on the bottom is what it will look like to traffic going Westbound and you can see as I mentioned before it really brings it up to the same grade as the Chalk Bluff property that's already been Disturbed we're not increasing any of the elevation on the remaining portion of the Chalk Bluff piece it is just this 2 and 1/2 acre portion of the site so um it's not it's not uh terribly visible going westbound it's not going to um scream at you it ties the two properties together again the Heiser fill is already approved so we're not creating something on the Heiser property or the S3 property um that isn't already approved and um ready to move forward h on all those that's um my presentation I am happy to answer any questions uh I have an engineer here if you have something specific that you want to ask too great thanks for your presentation uh we'll bring it back to the commission for disclosures uh commissioner VTO uh commissioner VTO familiar with the location I also spoke briefly with the applicant's representative commissioner Basera same disclosures as commissioner VTO commissioner delar I am aware of the area and I have not spoken to anybody about it commissioner arong I'm familiar with the site read receip emails and those are my only disclosures uh we'll now uh close disclosures and move back into public comment any person who has chosen to provide his or her public comment when a public hearing is heard will need to se indicate on the request to speak form provided to the secretary alternatively you may Prov provide your comment when item three public comment is heard at the beginning of this meeting I have no request to speak forms is anyone wishing to speak via Zoom no one on Zoom no correspondents and no voicemails for this item uh anyone in the chambers is wishing to speak on this item seeing none we'll go ahead and close public comment and bring it back to the commission for questions no question chair I'm actually ready to make a motion unless commissioner B has questions I do please I do go ahead uh I guess I think for for Stacy yeah yeah hey Stacy hi um it seems pretty um uh on the up and up everything seems fine I was just kind of curious uh this seems to be part of a a bigger Vision here is that correct I think you mentioned that is a correct statement bullet bullet three on one of your slides it's kind of future development would you mind bringing my presentation back up just so I just so we're looking at it together let me just sorry too far too far which one did you want to see um I think the one that mentioned that related to Future development that I think it was that there it is bullet 4 I guess okay um so is is it also a fair statement that we'll probably be seeing y'all for a zoning Amendment because still large lot residential correct so um Stacy Huggins for the record um the Chalk Bluff parcel is zoned llr um it could could be developed with large lot residential if the property owner chose to take that path um but they could certainly come in with a zone change um to try to do something that is compatible with the rest of the higher intensity development around them okay so what if it's not that what would the future developments be if it's not that what's being envisioned I I mean I think kind of going back to the zoning and maybe this is more of a um question or a conversation for Leah because it's really more about the zoning of the property but um they could put single family detached homes on that large lot zoned property right now mhm um or they again they could try to do a zone change if they wanted to okay if it's not that what what's the point of the the rerouting then really again the point of the grading right and the grading kind of triggers the reroute of the drainage way is to not have this hole in the middle of all of these and um not create those abrupt drop offs into this this hole in the middle of all of these properties even if this chalk bless property were developed as single family detached Lots um without this filling project they would e either have to do it themselves at a future date or leave it undeveloped um and work around it we're filling it now as part of this effort this overall effort um so that there can someday in the future be a comprehensive development project for that entire area yeah that all makes sense thank you Stacy I was just trying to get it a sense of that kind of larger Vision because I know when the Heiser project came before us I think the applicant was a different person who is no longer involved and so um and that's fine I'm just trying to get a sense of uh the vision which often times relates to um con a sense of consistency with who's behind a project unfortunately I can't speak for the property owner um for what he will do with the rest of his property but yeah that's all right just trying to get to sense that Vision sure okay thank you Stacy sure y commissioner delard did you have any questions um I just had a question sort of about the process that might take place and like how long does it would it take to do this I'm just kind of more Curious than anything else like is there noise and dirt and dust and and again like you mentioned the the senior and uh memory memory assisted living is across the way and just didn't know if there was any impact or anything like that that we should be considering thank you for your question Leah pakati for the record um the conditions of approval require that they obtain a grading permit Within 18 months so we're kind of looking at that particular time frame in terms of mitigating noise or any kind of pollution in the air or anything like that we're fairly confident that um the grading practices that are required by the city in general are going to mitigate those issues that care facility is across the freeway so it's it's quite a distance away from where this is going to be happening plus you've got traffic in the freeway and off ramps and all of that as well anytime we look at these projects we look specifically to see what sort of impacts those are going to have and when we when we create those conditions of approval the first thing we put in there is anything that needs to needs to be done to mitigate that so staff is confident on this project that all of those things will be mitigated perfect thank you so much thank you any other questions from the commission commissioner B go ahead sure I it's more um kind of a comment for uh staff and applicant um I can get behind this this seems totally fair um I I do recall though that at some point it wasn't the Heiser one it not Solly the Heiser one but the one prior to that that's directly south um there was Community concern from folks to the West I want to say and um if this does come before us in the future um that time is given for them to to share those concerns if they have any future concerns and and those concerns be considered and not that you not that staff doesn't do that already but I I did notice that the NAB was cancelled for this one in July and so life happens but it shouldn't happen at the detriment of them being able to provide their input uh again this one's seems fine but for something like a zoning Amendment change or something larger I I I would really uh advocate for their input to be considered and just to mitigate some of your concerns Leo picotti for the record um if this ever comes for a zone change it's also got a master plan of large lot which means it's going to require a master plan Amendment master plan amendments require Community meetings beyond the neighborhood Advisory board so if anything like that happens in the future we can assure you the community will be aware finger snaps thanks Leo any further dis I guess we're kind of in discussion now any further discussion uh or excuse me a motion uh chair ready to make a motion okay in the matter of case number LDC 24- 0060 Chalk Bluff LLC major site plan review based upon compliance the applicable findings I move to approve the major site plan review subject to the conditions listed in the staff report and I can make all the findings I can second that great we have a motion in a second uh all those in favor I I I I uh vote passes unanimously good luck with your project I'll close uh item 5.3 and public hearings in general and go back to item 4.2 for a presentation by development services assistant director Angela fo good evening for the record Angela F assistant director for development services our intent with this presentation is really just to give you an update on some of the broader things that the City of Reno is working on we tried to keep it limited to things that you would care about in terms of development or things that maybe you would see come before you maybe on on a different level so while the city is doing a ton of work just in general um we're just going to give you some high Lev points of some of the things that you may be interested in and again in just helping to keep you guys educated on some of the the policy and decision-making um items that council's working on I think this will be more of a kind of an informational and kind of a happy presentation no questions at the end all right so we're going to go kind of Department by department and I wanted to start with the parks department that picture on the top is our brand new Moana Springs Aquatic and Fitness Center and you may have remembered this this came before Planning Commission gosh probably two or three years ago and you said great what do you guys going to do said we're going to build this great new swimming pool so we are actually at the point now where it's done we're having a grand opening here this month or maybe even next month um and then we're going to open it up to the public so this is super exciting there is a lot of blood Sweat and Tears across the city that went into this project and across the community as a whole so very excited to see that happen um some other big things happening within the parks department is just this last year so within the last probably eight months or so they adopted a new master plan these Master plans do not come before Planning Commission they go before the Parks Commission um so this is not something you guys would have seen but we wanted to highlight some of the key things that came out of that so we're calling it the the the pros plan the parks recreation an open space master plan we're really kind of taking a different approach to Parks you know for the last probably 30 or 40 years we've said well when you come in with development you pay a park fee all residential development pays a park fee it's about $1,000 per door you guys don't ever see that because it's not something that's discussed when they come in for a building permit for each house they pay that fee that money then goes to building new parks now one of the challenges we continue to have is well who who's buying the land for the parks who's actually building the amenities in the park and who's maintaining the parks that Park fee again $1,000 per door has not increased in quite some time and that's set by the state Leg State legis legislature so we don't have the ability as a city to raise that fee unless the state legislature wants to so we're kind of challenged with well you know the price of Maintenance the pr price of building the price of owning land has gone up drastically so we just we realized we can't afford to continue doing things the way we used to do so one of the big things that came out of this Pros plan is trying to come up with different ways to fund Parks so as we see development projects come forward they will continue to pay that, per door but we're as also asking them to do things differently when projects come forward we're now asking them to donate the land to pay to put in the park and to maintain the park this is a very different mindset than the the City of Reno has had in the past but again understanding our challenges there is not enough money to go around to maintain the parks we have today let alone build new parks so this is something again is as we see new tentative maps come forward we'll be look and again the biggest difference here is they're not the the development Community is not required to do these things so we are working with them on a case-by Case basis that last project was probably a great one you may have remembered when Heiser came before you as an SPD and you guys said well we want you to dedicate land for a park and at the end of the day Council said well we don't necessarily want land unless it's usable right we we see a lot of developers donating land that's like steep what what are we going to do with this kids aren't playing on steep slopes we can't just grade it and put in um you know ameni so we're really doing a hard look at how we're addressing parks and you'll start to see that more and more as more development projects come forward fire this is definitely a big one uh we had that that fire out in the Santa quy verd area just within the last month or so and um I think it was not fitting timing wise but that that area is something that has been before the Planning Commission more recently so you guys are very aware of that development that's planned out there we have about 12200 homes and we have plans for a fire station we have PL stands for a residential fire station we have no money to build a fire station these are concerns these are things the City of Reno um is is challenged with we know development's coming we know we have approved development we do not have anything in our CIP plan to build a fire station in this area years ago um as we started to see verd kind of develop we added an extra contribution to development out there so we've asked them to to contribute money that we are now going to use to help fund a fire station now when we came up with that contribution amount the fire stations at that time were being built for about $7 million seems reasonable a fire station today is more like 10 to 15 million so again we we've already missed the Target on being able to fund a future fire station a lot of things that we're thinking about how do we do that so um just know at the end of the day this is more so for the public you know just because you you build houses doesn't mean there's any funding source to build a fire station let alone to man a fire station uh our firefighters today we have about 254 on staff those guys work a rotation now we have multiple fire stations I think we have 14 different fire stations and they all work different shifts and as they you know have doctor's appointments or days off or Vacations or sick leave our fire department is constantly juggling staff I think the last numbers I heard was on an average day we have about 72 firefighters working at these stations to be fully staffed we would probably need about a hundred firefighters working at these stations so there's this constant battle with we need more fire stations we need more fire men we need more money um know that again fire is not something that's easy to solve it's a complex topic we at one time uh had one uh fire department we were emerged with trucky Meadows in the city of Reno that that merger happened back in 2000 I think it was back in 2012 that those two stations got divorced and so again we've had a lot of challenges with budget when we get married and then we get divorced as we could all probably relate to from you know growing up in the 80s with divorced parents come on who didn't I think we can appreciate the fact that um there's challenges with budgets and and we see that across the board um that bottom picture is a new it's a concept so that is our new kind of proposed fire station this is in the downtown area where we currently have our police station the game plan is to demolish the existing building we um and then build a new fire station this is going to be a very amazing building so where we're at in time timing wise in process we are likely going to be able to to kind of clean up the asbestos in the next probably 6 months demolish the police station in the next probably um 6 to 12 months and then we're still looking at what does this new building look like so we've we've hired Consultants to design it it's going to be multi- stories it's going to be able to serve you know the whole downtown area again one of the busiest fire stations in the nation I think it's the top five fire stations in terms of busyness in the entire nation we have a lot of calls for service out of the station um but the one thing we don't know for sure is the timing of when it will be built so once we get uh design completed we'll go back to council and show what the the budget needs to be and then we're going to figure out how we're going to pay for it so stay tuned for that I think we've lost it okay okay Police Department our Public Safety Center just opened I think our groundbreaking was last week this this is a huge accomplish accomplishment for the city um this was the old rgj building that um kind of was repurposed again another huge win for the City of Reno how we funded this was through an impact fee so every three years we're going to come back to the Planning Commission talk about that impact fee talk about all the money that we're raising that money that we raised is specific to this building it's not to anything else um Staffing wise we have about 350 sworn off officers just in terms of numbers you think well that seems good so it's the year 2024 346 sworn officers back in 2008 we had over 370 sworn officers so we actually have less sworn officers policemen today than we did back in 2008 uh a lot of things happened right the the economy crashed we weren't able to hire people as fast as we needed to but our population has significantly grown since 2008 I think the the the one thing that's worth noting is the way we do police service now is different than what we did in 2008 we use a lot more technology so while our numbers may look down that doesn't necessarily mean that we're providing any less of a service to the public it just means we have found ways to do things faster and smarter and using technology to help us get there one thing I wanted to point out is this new Deeds program directed engagement enforcement and deployment strategy so this is a great name um we're focusing right now on the downtown area we are coordinating with a bunch of different departments recording with our code enforcement team our police officers our parks and wreck team and we're looking at things we can do specifically on the river and in the downtown area so we're targeting some of these things we're cleaning up some of the encampments in the downtown and on the river using this team um we're also looking at calls for service and really trying to Target that downtown area providing a faster better service um we're looking at graffiti we're looking at just reaching out to the businesses and saying what can we do to help you guys what are your issues again it's not just our police force it is a a full team of departments working on this program but we're seeing great results I think this started in September so it hasn't been quite a year yet um and and every month when we go to council we give them updates on some of the the progress that we're seeing with this group utility services so this group within the city Reno really looks at things related to sewer and storm water um one of the big projects they're working on is called the awf or the advanced purified water facility this is a a brand new facility that's going to be built out in the North Valleys and the idea is that we would use that existing treatment plant it's a sewer treatment plant and when sewer goes in then something comes out right poop goes in cleaned up poop comes out what do we do with that cleaned up poop reclaimed water it has to go somewhere so there's this program called the awf program that we've been working on um we're going to create a whole new Pipeline and a whole separate building and it basically is going to clean up the um the water that comes out of the sewer treatment plant to a higher degree and then we're going to pump it back into the ground into an aquifer that's further out in North Valleys this is something a lot of other states do but the state of Nevada does not this really is is high technology a step up in terms of cleaning water this also provides um the ability for us to kind of hold up to droughts right right now when we have droughts and we're in these closed basins and water is low in these basins there's nowhere to go for water once we run out of water and these basins were out so this gives us the ability to pump water back into those basins that's clean and you can actually drink it um so this is something that we've been working on for a number of years we're working both with tomwa and the City of Sparks and wash County um it's it's a very expensive project I think the the latest numbers I've seen are about a qu billion dollar B ASM boy that's what I made an allowance in the 80s so this is a very expensive project um Reno is paying about 70% of that bill again where do we get that money um as as as development happens development is required to pay sewer connection fees hundreds of thousands of dollars that we get from development that we're putting in a piggy bank and saving for this project um we're also going after grants so we have a huge amount of grants that we were able to get I think we just got $30 million in Grant that we kind of worked out when tomwa T's paying 30% of this so this is definitely a long range plan um but again this is something that creates more of a sustainable water source for the City of Reno so this will definitely benefit this region public works so anytime there's a flood anytime there's a major snowstorm the public works department is your best friend they're the ones that are out there work in the 24-hour shifts plowing on the roads cleaning the storm drains anytime there's a major event um these these people work really really hard so the Public Works design manual it's a big manual that pretty much regulates anything that is City regulated so it's not private property regulated it's government regulated like sewer lines and storm drain lines and streets so they have had the same Public Works design manual for gosh probably 15 years and so right now they're going through an update similar to what we're doing with our zoning code so some of the key areas that they're looking at is looking at um the street design requirements storm drain sewer Street lighting and even traffic requirements so they are going through it's probably another six months of working with stakeholders working with the development Community working with our team at development services um to update that manual once they make all their changes we will be doing an update to our zoning code to pretty much match what they have done so that our our public requirements for public infrastructure matches private requirements for private infrastructure we want to make sure those two are aligned so you'll be seeing more of this topic in the next year business license so anytime a business comes in you guys see a ton of businesses come in Burger King for instance In and Out Burger um you know they go through their planning and the zoning they get that approved and then they have to go through and get a business license so this is a completely separate set of regulations not not planning regulations but business license related but again we work hand inand with this department because so much of what they do really intersects with what what we do so here's a couple of those different chapters that they're looking at updating things that you guys have seen or maybe not seen you know alcoholic beverages bars and restaurants how we Regulate live entertainment all of those things so they hired a consultant and said hey can you just look at Best Practices so it wasn't so much as look at our code and tell us what we're doing wrong it was look at the state of Nevada and find what we're missing what maybe maybe we we agree or don't agree but just tell us what's right or wrong in terms of best practices so they came up with a lot of changes um and we went out to the public the business license department did went out to the public and we received a lot of kind of negative feedback I think a lot of people said whoa what are you doing we didn't approve this why are you making these changes so just for the record these were not staff's recommendations these were not City council's recommendations this literally was the consultant was hired to look at Best Practices and they bring it forward and then our Council and sta can work together to figure out what makes makes the most sense for the City of Reno so they've been working on this for for gosh probably um six to eight months actively working on this and I think we're going to slow down the process go back and do more community outreach make sure we get all the feedback before we move forward to the next step of trying to make some actual kind of decision- making with staff in the city council this is a fun one so we have a whole um Redevelopment agency we have a department that's focusing on Redevelopment kind of some of the big things I wanted to highlight for this group is our downtown facade Improvement program we have basically free money that we are giving out to the downtown business owners if you want to make some changes this could be anything from the front of your building maybe needs to be painted maybe you want to change the facade maybe you want to get rid of that tacky 1990s theme and do something a little bit more modern so we're basically U we have a program set up where you could apply we give you you show us how you're going to spend the money what you're going to do with it um and then we're allocating money so we sadly haven't had a ton of interest in this I mean you can throw money at people and they can not take it and there's only so much you can do so we're continuing to try and um and and encourage business owners to do more to really just you know better the look of downtown um so that's something I think it's super positive and and easy money for the community that that that wants to use it the next one is that picture on the top left that is our community assistant center that used to be the old homeless shelter as I would call it um and it's been vacant for a couple years once we opened the cares campus which is kind of the big tent shelter on Fourth Street this this Building closed down and it's been vacant so there's been a ton of vandalism um the the elevators don't work I think the price to fix the elevators is about a million dollars it's a lot of money to fix an elevator we've also had flooding in there when the fire alarms have gone off and the sprinklers have gone off so there's been a lot of damage to that building and so we put it out to an RFP and we asked developers what they would like to do with it we had four applications come in for proposals for that project at um last week's council meeting Council review the applications the different rfps and are likely going to move forward with um a type of residential development most likely they're going to tear down this building and put in I think it was a four-story building um with a lowincome component so they'll will be um again this was something that was kind of a priority an affordable housing component so we'll follow that and see where that goes then that picture on the right that top right is our Locomotion Plaza uh the the train trench if you remember when that was built basically we have a train trench and on on top of the old train track we now have just a a concrete pad and so over the years we've been saying what can we do with that so we we have some money that we got um from the federal government and so we're we're going to use that to really activate that space right now there's a really cool mural on that train trench and so we're going to do more we're going to put out heating um some shade structures we're going to buy some big cargo containers similar to like what you see at the Eddie where you can use those as a place to go and a place to kind of do activities we can also use those act those those cargo containers for storage so all that's in process we're trying to also activate it to have events so we have somebody that we've hired whose job is to basically plan and coordinate events so they'll be concerts there'll be food events there'll be just fun activities for kids we're trying to keep it happening so we activity have activities happening you know like twice a month or I'm sorry twice a week through the the busy months of the summer and even in the winter when things are cold we're trying to kind of activate that and keep the keep um that space happening so that locals will want to come downtown and here's a kind of a safe space where there'll be things happening and then we have two kind of big plans happening the Virginia Street placemaking that's that one on the left on the very bottom we hired a consultant and asked them to look at the Virginia Street Corridor in our downtown area and say what can we do so we've done a lot of studies over the years on Virginia Street and you know you go back to like at the heart of it it's it's the same answer right we need to activate downtown if you're walking downtown and you see a blank wall That's not Activation so there's so many things we can do and they gave us a lot of recommendations so we're looking at funding and what can we do now and what can we do kind of midterm and longer term some of the easy ones are um you know seating shading things for people to do trying to encourage people not to just be walking in downtown but stopping and maybe doing some shopping so there's some ideas of like some little kiosks being set up lots of things happening in that kind of Realm um similarly we're doing the trucky River corridor plan same thing we've had a lot of plans over the years on the trucky River Corridor same ideas we have to activate our River we need people we need the right type of people that want to do activities right whether you want to go and and and play in the water or you want to just take a walk or ride your bike or you want to have art and events on the river so many things we could be doing so we're really trying to activate that space improve the lighting more seating definitely more events again all a big um kind of a a broad picture not one thing is going to fix it we only have so much money to go around so we're really trying to be smart with how we spend money and put in some improvements on the river and on Virginia Street and then the best department of all development services I don't know if you've heard about this group there's about 70 people within development services we have planners we have engineers and we have um ladies and and and men from the building department so we have a a pretty big department probably one of the bigger departments outside of police and fire within the entire city uh so you see our staff day-to-day and they're the ones that process the applications so they're reviewing building permits they're the ones doing the entire elments but we have a whole separate team that really works on I would say more of these long range things just coming up in the next probably 18 months here is a list of things that you can expect to see and be a part of from a zoning code perspective we just had the housing ordinance adopted so Council passed that that was very exciting next up is our zoning code cleanup we will be going to City Council next week to talk about the things that we shared with you um back in April March and April on the zoning code cleanup that will be coming back before you guys again for a formal recommendation so look for that probably this fall the next thing on our list is a new sign ordinance uh that has anything to do with our existing sign ordinance we want to make sure we clean it up to match some federal regulations that maybe we're not consistent with and then telecommunications that's cell towers the Adu ordinance so we just went to council recently to talk about an Adu ordinance they gave us some feedback we're going to start that kind of public process later this year um we're going to go go out and get stakeholder input go back to city council go back to Planning Commission so it's a long process but that's a very big topic we want to make sure we do it correctly short-term rental that's another one that's the airbnbs and the vrbos we're um coordinating with our business license department and our city council to make sure that we do it correctly make sure this is something that the city wants us to start working on um again once the Public Works design manuals adopted we're going to come back with changes to our zoning code once the business license codee's adopted we're going to come back and make changes to our zoning code so there are a ton of changes related to our zoning code that you're going to see in the next 12 to 18 months bigger picture long range this is like the vision right what do we want to be when we grow up so Regional planning really is the long range vision for the community Renos Sparks watch County they are doing their five-year update now for those of you that sit on Regional you've been involved in those meetings our staff's heavily involved in those as well we'll be seeing that probably in October um once we adopt the new amended Regional plan we then have to go back and make changes to our master plan we're not going to do any major oval Halls we're just going to basically be um in conformance with the new updated Regional plan then the next two things are some big things some big ticket items that we really haven't touched base on um in a couple years so our sphere of influence this is the boundary of where we want to grow in the next 20 years we've had a number of different development projects come to council over the last year and a half from asking to Annex and our city council has denied the annexation so this is really good opportunity to go back and say where does the city want to grow there's probably areas we don't want to expand maybe because we can't provide police fire sewer road service um so we'll look at all that and then an annexation program that is the places where we want to Annex as a city in the next seven years um we we have not had an annexation program I think since 27 so we need to adopt a new one again we'll be working with our Council heavily on that to see what their vision is as to how we want to grow and where we want to grow so that summarizes again all the big ticket items that I thought you guys might be interested in we're going to come back uh you know probably on a twice a year basis and give you updates again just so you can stay in the loop we're also going to do more trainings kind of um specific to land use and things that you deal with as planning Commissioners so will be starting that probably in the month of September just to keep you guys uh awake and alert and aware of what your role is as a planning commissioner any questions open it up to the commission for any questions commissioner B sure not a question just a thank you very insightful I think it really helps us get a sense of of how we all work together and how our decisions influence to some degree uh the development of the city in partnership with yall so I look forward to these thank you Angela great yeah thanks so much Angela I uh I really look forward to these presentations uh looks like there's a lot going on so appreciate the update and I think it's uh particularly great that there will be kind of a maybe a renewed focus on some of the planning commissioner training because this body had the Good Fortune of of having folks that were really tenured on here for a long time but we've got um certainly some some new folks here uh myself included that I would say relatively new so I think the training will be really good for us to just make sure we understand the scope of our role and continue to do a good job great thank you so much thank you so that will close out of 4.2 and we can move into item six trucky Meadows Regional planning liazon report uh we have um nothing to report since last time we have a meeting tomorrow night with one agenda item uh for the Chism mobile home park and that's all that's on the agenda great thank you we'll close item six move to item seven staff announcements excuse me just a couple of things um the City Council next Wednesday on the 28th is set to hear the Canyon's PUD that you recently approved um with your recommended added condition as well as you recall a couple months ago we had uh Envy energy come through for the power line Envy energy and Hines Ranch which is stonate has appealed uh the condition requiring um the the Align one that was related to the alignment that will be heard by the Council on Wednesday night and as commissioner VTO stated Regional planning we'll hear the Chism mobile home park master plan amendment in zone change uh tomorrow night and that's all I have great thank you we'll close item seven and move to item eight commissioner suggestions for future agenda items seeing none we'll close item eight and move to item nine public comment this item is for either public comment on any action item or for any general public comment I don't have any requests to speak fors is there anyone wishing to speak on Zoom no one on Zoom no correspondence no voicemails seeing No One in the Chamber I will assume No One in the Chamber wants to speak under general public comment close item nine and move to item 10 adjournment so moved so second all right we all in favor yes we will adjourn thank you thank you