great we'll move to item number two roll call Heather please Harris Armstrong here Manny Basera here Arthur Munos here Carrie rer here Alex fto is absent at this time Sylvia Villa here JD dulich here all right we have a quorum thank you all right moving on to item number three public comment this item is for either public comment on any action item or for any general public comment and please anybody in the room tonight if you wish to speak at this general public comment moment or on any item please go to Heather and fill out a request to speak for him appreciate it very much uh Heather do we have any request to speak forms for general public comment members of the public uh may call into the meeting to provide public comment by using the zoom link provided on the agenda specifically https coland links. reno.gov planning 11-1 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 the under this item will be limited to 3 minutes per person it may pertain to matters both on and off the Planning Commission agenda please not that the Planning Commission may not take action upon any matter not agendized for possible action on today's agenda when you're 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're an attendee in the zoom meeting and would like to make public a 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 I don't have any voicemail or correspondence for this item at this time but there may be a request to speak for okay for those in the chambers do any of you wish to speak on General Public comment well we'll definitely have our opportunities when the item comes but anybody in line there wish to speak in general public comment at the moment okay seeing none we will close item number three public comment and move to item number four approval of minutes first order 4.1 Reno City Planning Commission regular meeting of October 4th commission or chair commissioner Bill and wave I have to abstain I was not present okay thank you uh chair if you give me one second I'm trying to check my calendar okay no problem it looks like commissioner Munoz RoR Meer and villain NOA were absent on October 4th meeting correct I'll need to abstain commissioner M for the record okay commissioner roer also abstain so we have three can we still we can still vote okay so for the three of us we can still vote on approval of the minutes or any changes commissioner Armstong I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for October 4th okay we got a motion second all right got a motion in a second all in favor for the three of us I I minutes approved thank you we'll move on to item 4.2 uh Reno Reno City Planning Commission regular meeting of October 18th commissioner mun I make a um move to approve minutes commissioner Bill we have a second we have a motion and a second to approve the October 18 minutes all in favor I I all right minutes approved thank you closing item four moving to item five presentation regarding the reimagine Reno master plan including but not limited to the purpose contents and utilization of the plan looks like we'll get a presentation thank you all right all right good evening Mr chair and members of the commission for the record Lauren Knox senior planner so we have a few new members on the Planning Commission we thought it would be a good time to maybe have a training on the reimagine Reno master plan all right so let's start with some of the fundamentals what is the master plan so the Nevada revised statutes require that we prepare and adopt a comprehensive long range General plan for the physical development of the city and specifies certain elements that we need to have within that master plan our master plan really serves as a road map for the city as it grows and evolves and is a tool to guide our community towards a desired vision and values the reimagine Reno master plan has a Time Horizon through year 2036 and it releas serves all of the area within the city's jurisdiction including the sphere of influence how was it developed so the reimagine Reno process was the largest community engagement effort in the city's history it began in 2016 and was a multi-year process this engagement was used to draft the vision and understand the Community Values that need to be addressed within the plan I'll get into that more shortly in the next Slide the foundation of the plan was the previous City's master plan as well as other initiatives that the city had taken on that occurred following the develop of the the previous master plan there were some great Concepts uh but these plans are really meant to evolve and grow along with our communities um so it was really time for that kind of extensive overhaul so how do we use it uh NRS requires that our local ordinances and regulations conform with this master plan this ensures that everything we do is really rowing in the same direction the plan contains the vision implemented through guiding principles policies and implementation measures uh that we reference really in our day-to-day business and it guides our short-term actions our long-term initiatives and different strategies that we take on as a city as a whole we also conduct regular plan monitoring and progress reports to ensure that we are going in the right path and on the right direction how does it interact with other plans so a big driver from the planning and development perspective is really that annexation and Land Development code which I'm sure you've you've heard a ton about uh the development code generally requires that we have a finding of conformance with our master plan and it's made into any uh project has to be basically uh with in conformance with this master plan Additionally the try Meadows Regional planning agency is tasked with developing the try Meadows Regional plan uh the regional plan really functions in a way that all of our local jurisdiction Master plans and any affected entity facility plans have to conform with that overarching uh Regional plan that way we ensure again we're all the whole Community is really rowing in the in the same boat the master plan essentially describes where we want to go as a community and then those other plans really get more specific on how we get there so again that reimagine Reno process was the largest community engagement effort in the city's history and I want to point out some of the bigger values and vision pieces that the community expressed through that extensive process the actual process of developing the plan and the basis for policy choices is really rooted in this vision and Valu so the vision for Reno now and in the future as a base for outdoor activities an arts and culture center a university town and a Technology Center some of the top Community Values expressed a really safety for all a well-maintained an attractive City and infrastructure affordability and in a sense of community and some other key takeaways where people really wanted more walkable neighborhoods and also wanted to improve downtown that was really an important piece in terms of layout and content the master plan has five main chapters you can see listed on the slide overhead and we already touched on a lot of what's in that introduction piece so I'll touch through and highlight each of the main components of the next chapters all right so we'll jump right into Citywide policies so the vision and values that we just discussed are embodied in the master plan through eight guiding principles which you can see on the slide overhead for reference each principle contains goals and policies that really aim to achieve that guiding principle and the overall Vision again and values expressed by the community so I'm going to walk through each of them and just give a little teaser kind of on what's in each section so we'll start with guiding principle one resilient local and Regional economy this really discusses things like economic diversity Business Development and retention guiding principle two responsible and well-managed growth discusses things like growth management uh patterns of growth or an annexation policy guiding principle three thriving downtown and University District discusses items like Economic Development tourism revitalization and adaptive reuse as well as that UNR linkage guiding principle four vibrant neighborhoods and centers touches on items like a mix of housing types in fill and Redevelopment guiding principle five wellc connected region items like traffic and congestion as well as multimodal Transportation guiding principle six is safe healthy and inclusive community discusses items like Public Safety as well as Hazard mitigation and emergency mitigation planning guiding principle seven quality places and outdoor recreation touches on conservation of Natural Resources as well as access to uh the outdoors and then guiding principle eight is Effective Government so it discusses items like leadership transparency accountability and government as well as collaboration so next we'll work into the area specific policies so this is really laid out by the city's structure plan so we have Regional centers neighborhood and community centers uh corridors and employment areas as well as neighborhoods so our regional centers we have two Regional centers that's the downtown Regional Center and the convention Regional Center these areas typically serve a broader region including much of our tourism and contain a diverse mix of land uses and this is RAR where you see the highest most intense uses next we have our community and neighborhood centers so you can see they're kind of scattered throughout the residential areas within the city these centers are intended to provide Supportive Services to the immediate neighborhoods things like restaurants retail offices neighborhood centers tend to be more walkable and small scale in nature whereas those community centers tend to have some level of an anchor like a grocery store um something that has a larger broader community pool onto our corridors as you can see we have defined Urban corridors Suburban corridors neighborhood corridors and Greenway corridors these areas are really intended to reflect the key components of the city's multimodal Network so the urban corridors are typically within that McCaron Loop um generally they're multimodal in nature they have the high frequency transit or plan to have high frequency Transit this is where you're going to see the highest intensity and density and uses the Suburban corridors are more more Auto oriented in nature um still want that mix of higher density and intensity uh but it's recognized that these areas generally have more limited Transit so the master plan really kind of encourages that gradual transition next we have our neighborhood corridors uh these intend to connect those residential areas through that enhanced multimodal Network um again to other neighborhood centers or to these other larger corridors and then the greenway corridors uh typically linear open space on um established resources things like the trucky River again we want to protect and recognize kind of those important areas the employment areas intend to encourage and support a wide range of employment opportunities the design principles included in the master plan tend to promote compatibility between uses and enhance uh employment focused characters the three distinct areas are pretty self-explanatory we have the industrial and Logistics areas The Innovation areas that's like UNR and TMCC as well well as the airport transportation areas then we have our neighborhoods so the design principles included in the master plan try to promote uh diverse liberable neighborhoods that have a range of options and amenities so we have the central neighborhoods these are much more compact walkable in nature generally single family in nature but do have some multif family um and attached uses uh typically these areas are smaller in terms of unit size and and a little bit more affordable we then have our outer neighborhoods so generally these are outside of the mccaran loop in the older Suburban neighborhoods generally single family detached in nature uh the master plan encourages kind of trying to add a broader mix of housing types in those areas and then we have the foothill neighborhoods so these are generally On The Fringe of the city oftentimes have unique considerations uh things like slopes or other vegetation considerations overall an emphasis of the master plan is to encourage more of a mix of housing types and products than we've seen in the past again this is to respond to that need and desire uh for different product diversity as well as housing affordability considerations hey Lauren I'm so sorry to interrupt you sure I just need to make a quick announcement for the people that are in our webinar we have to restart the webinar so that our seventh commissioner can join um so they will get kicked out and we just need them to rejoin um in a few minutes that's all okay thank you thanks would you like me to pause good okay go for it keep going all right so the next chapter is the growth and reinvestment framework so the growth and reinvestment framework described in the master plan focuses on two main Concepts that's the land use plan as well as the concept of concurrency management so that land use plan really defines the land uses and the land use map illustrates where and how Reno will grow through the arrangement of those land uses concurrency management attempts to ensure that new growth occurs in a timely manner that's supported by facilities and services that are needed so touching on those land use categories as you can see on the slide overhead there's a variety of land use categories ranging from residential to mixed use employment and more the master plan defines each of these with the description of the densities the types of uses characteristics of development and the conforming zoning District so again that's that connection with the annexation and Land Development code applying these land uses to the area within the city's jurisdiction is really how we paint that picture of how we achieve that desired future that we want these land uses work in conjunction with items like the structure plan that I just discussed and this is what we really use to track our development capacity guide facilities and infrastructure planning and also guide future zoning changes so with concurrency management the goal is really to promote timely orderly and efficient arrangement of services and infrastructure this attempts to ensure New Growth does not create a burden on the existing residents concurrency really aims to ensure that infrastructure and Facilities support development are provided at the time that those demands are seen this uh is done through defining what's needed who's responsible for the provision and maintenance of those infrastructure and service pieces and also by defining levels of service for public facilities and services that are desired Parks and Recreation facilities are also an important provision of our public facilities and services and it's really a big part of our landscape fabric as well um they're described within the master plan there are a variety of different types of facilities and the master plan really focuses on the fact that each type of facility in each area is going to have different needs and that we should tailor it to those needs last but not least we have implementation so the master plan lays out seven priority initiatives as well as about 300 um different implementation strategies so in terms of those priority initiatives I'll touch on just a few uh one of the big ones was aligning the annexation and Land Development code with the the master plan when it was adopted this was a task that was undertaken following the initial adoption of the reimagine Reno master plan and it's an item that we're also currently working on cleaning up advancing implementation of the downtown action plan so we heard from the community how important downtown is to our area and steps are being taken to really move that needle and Revitalize the heart of our city and then a demonstration of the city's commitment to responsible and well-managed growth that's really a lot of the collaborative work that we do as well as ensuring that we're as efficient and as proactive as we can be in our planning efforts in terms of those 300 implementation strategies each one is related to one or multiple guiding principles and uh each strategy really includes information about okay who's the responsible party what potential timing are we looking at and what resour resources are really needed so with that that concludes my presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions you might have thank you very much Commissioners please questions if you have them commissioner Munos please uh I don't have any questions just comments I really appreciate that I think it's uh a good thing for the new commissioner to come on and um anytime you want to come on with any uh updates or anything new I'd love to have you back so thank you any questions oh I'm sorry commissioner AR please uh I Echo commissioner Muno sentiments think those really helpful and instructive for us my only question is could you share that presentation with the the fellow Commissioners I think it'd be nice to reference it and you know if we have questions we could always reach out and get you know more detail offline but super helpful thanks again absolutely great okay thank you for your presentation we appreciate it folks in the chambers we're going to take a short short short five minute break to figure out the technical difficulties feel free to stay where you are we'll all be here for a moment and once uh Heather tells us that we're kind of good to go and getting our other commissioner on we'll start right back up so we'll be on a five 5 minute break item number six public hearings any person who has chosen to provide his or her public comment when a public hearing is heard 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 public comment is heard at the beginning of this meeting so we will start with item 6.1 case number lc23 d66 Liberty Flats town homes and will we be getting a presentation from the applicant good evening uh Derek Wilson on behalf of the developer um and there we go uh so this is a request for a tentative map uh corner of uh Liberty and holcom uh so it's uh in some of the downtown districts uh this a request for a 21 unit townhouse project um we're here for the for the tenative map approval uh we could we could build apartments by right uh but it's the tenative map that uh that brings us here um it's uh uh moderate sized buildings three stories um each unit will be for sale uh so we'll have an individual owner um uh it's surrounded by a mix of of primarily office space uh so that's our layout um Drive access from Liberty uh 21 units each with their own garage uh parking uh on the first level uh so we won't be uh won't be relying on surrounding streets uh emergency access from the alley and also from holom Avenue so the existing building um it's not terrible but uh it certainly will be a visual uh upgrade uh when we get rid of that it's a it's an aging office building on site there uh so I think bringing some investment and some Redevelopment to this area is an overall Improvement uh that's it uh some views of the architecture uh a contemporary residential lookx mix of materials and and surface treatments uh the master plan is in place for this uh we're in a downtown mixed use area no changes to that uh same with the zoning zoning is in place we're in a mixed use District uh so a district that's intended uh for these sorts of changes uh you can see there's no residential zoning anywhere around the project um so as I just mentioned no no residential zoning uh around the project there is a a single family house across Liberty Street uh in my opinion we're putting uh residential next to residential that's very compatible uh land use planning um so we're not we're not directly adjacent to any residential it's all uh commercial uses um so this site uh as you just saw from the master plan presentation uh a project like this um directly supports uh some of the master plan goals uh including uh increased housing options reuse of old sites and then enhancing the downtown um so uh in my opinion a fairly simple project uh I'll be happy to elaborate on any of that if anybody has any questions thank you thank you and we'll get a presentation from staff thank you Brook good evening Planning Commission uh Brook oswal associate planner case before you is a tenative map uh that's taking the three existing parcels and and we'll take that into 21 residential parcels and some common area Open Space Project site is about seven of an acre they are looking to establish 21 Lots on that in our downtown core area we in specific to this zoning area we are looking for a minimum of 21 Lots uh per acre or 21 units per acre this comes into about 29 so is very supportive of of that um housing and dens e gos as was mentioned uh this is in our mix juuse downtown Riverwalk District um substantially surrounded by that we do we have some professional office over with the orange there and then the uh the dark orange and then the lighter orange moves into an mf30 zoning the big things that we looked at on this project is the overall site design and then that traffic access and circulation so with this you can see that we have a t design with uh the main access gated access coming in off of Liberty Street the hul MAV comes down hul MAV will not um not be at through street but will be uh emergency access per our discussions with uh Reno Fire Department that will be gated that will also be need to be screened in such a way that we can deter headlights so I'd anticipate a uh a decorative gate or some other screening mechanism on that um and then a few more conditions we're looking at along along the Liberty side we do have existing um landscape we would like to maintain that normally we would look for a median and then the the landscape but or and then the sidewalk in this case we're um asking that they maintain the sidewalk where it is and they will be maintaining the existing mature trees uh HOA will be established for that common area open space uh maintenance and maintenance of that internal circulation um construction hours because of some of the residential uses they'll be limited uh limited uh to daytime use and and exempt from Sundays and then last but not least is our Regional Transportation Commission they have a Smart Trip program and with this uh every owner will be given that um that uh programming for that this is in close uh proximity to uh public transport ation in our downtown core and we look to encourage those uh Transportation options staff could make all the findings I'll leave you with a recommendation recommended motion and available for questions thank you all right thank you very much Brook we'll go to the Commissioners for disclosures commissioner rorm please I'm familiar with the site uh commissioner merera I'm familiar with the site commissioner Armstrong familiar with the site read and received emails commissioner M familiar with the site commissioner Bill Anda visited the site commissioner Dracula is familiar with the site and read and received an email all right with that said we'll open up public comment Heather do we have any requests to speak forms anybody on zoom on this item we did receive correspondence for this item that was forwarded to the Planning Commission and is part of the record no voicemails or request of speak forms at this time all right anybody in the chambers wish to speak on this item specifically tonight seeing none we'll close public comment and go to the Commissioners for questions of the applicant or staff commissioner R I have a quick question for the applicant uh just quickly on Lots uh 18 through 21 is the front side served off that Corridor or is it designed architecturally cuz the elev the um yeah the elevation doesn't quite show that Frontage which side's facing the street the the front door side 1821 is the the alley side is that right is that yeah okay um yeah so you you'll enter off the alley for those units okay so the front their front door faces the interior Courtyard then yes there's a front door on the on the interior side okay [Music] thanks no questions we can move to discussion or entertain a motion commissioner Muno please uh commission M I'll start a discussion great um we talk a lot about infill in these meetings uh with the two empty lots there and then removal of this old building um I think this is uh obviously necessary for the city Reno uh for housing um but also a good use of the uh available space that we have that's Limited in inside our uh more dense densely populated areas so I uh don't have any issues with this I think it's a good project commissioner Munos I I Echo oh sorry I Echo that as well I think it's a good project for downtown um there's a project pretty similar to it about half a mile towards the river and I I've driven by those and been in those many a time it's great product um you know it's good for that downtown area to have a little bit more residential so I'm with you there commissioner villain NOA please same comments y awesome commissioner baser please yeah same same sentiment um may I ask a quick question you may of course uh for the applicant there was some feedback received just about an access point for pedestrians not sure if you saw saw that but was that addressed or could you speak to that sure um yeah absolutely we uh I mean one of the features of living downtown is you can walk everywhere so yeah we we want good pedestrian movement around the site um so yeah the the site will connect to the sidewalks that are on two sides okay perfect yep okay sounds great commissioner V I can make a motion okay commissioner rary did you have a question or discussion but commissioner vill and Wy you go ahead with regard to case number LDC 2366 Liberty Falls Town Homes based upon compliance with the applicable findings I move to approve the tenative map subject to the conditions listed in the staff report all right we have a motion commissioner R second all right we have a motion in a second all in favor I I any opposed all right motion passes good luck with your project appreciate it all right we'll close item 6.1 moving to item 6.2 case number LDC 23-00 64 rgm storage yard and I believe a presentation from the applicant thank you how you guys doing um my name is Rob Mcall I'm the president of Reliance grounds management I have with me Chase gani his vehicles are also parked in the yard in which we will be discussing um which were seeking a conditional use permit for um so on our agenda we'd like to do an introduction of who we are how our companies came about and uh tell you a little bit about the background of this site like to show you guys some site plans a few before and after pictures of the condition prior to us um taking over the site and what we've created at this point in time um then we' like to communicate with you guys a little bit about some of the things we've done to comply with all the regulations not only from the city but from the county as well um so as an introduction um like I said I'm the president of the company we both started the company back in about 2017 um he has his own business I have mine as well we met early on on the stages because of that we uh we became good friends and we kind of worked together and we decided that going in um on a yard together would both financially help us and it would work well for both of our businesses because I take care of large scale commercial properties Chase does a lot of tree work and the two of us kind of work in parallels so we've been working together and sharing yards for multiple years now um our yard prior to the one that we're currently going to discuss was over off stoker Avenue the property and land was sold um pretty much sold out from underneath us with very little warning we were on a month-to-month basis they came in and gave us a 15-day notice from their attorney and said cease and assist it's time to get out um fortunately Chase had a very solid relationship with the owner at 7360 West 4 Street um he used to be his b coach in fact um both Chase and I grew up here in Northern Nevada and um the owner of 7360 west4 Street had contracted Chase to go in there and do some fire hazard removals and you'll see in the in the next slides that the property was a serious fire hazard so he was in there clearing it at that point he had discussed with Jerry the possibility of us potentially moving there um in the future and this is prior to us getting the actual eviction notice um we did know the land that we were um at that time um operating our businesses out of was up up for sale and Jerry had said that it was a possibility let's work on getting the fire hazards taken care of we'll go from there so um the property that we're discussing is located on Fourth Street stag Avenue is down before you get down to Patagonia and all that stuff it's on the corner of stag Avenue and Fourth Street um it used to be a trailer park 15 20 years ago um like a mobile home park since then it had been completely vacated the stitser family owned it for multiple years and basically held on to the property and and just let it become native um in in the area in which we're discussing some of our competitors that are in the exact same Corridor are Reno green artistic Gardens um just across McCarron um is All Seasons which is a direct competitor of ours as well and then inside that Corridor obviously uh trucky river rock is right down on Fourth Street just west of um McCarron Corridor and earthworm excavation is right across street from them as well so we believe that this is a very reasonable site um a lot of our comp competitors right there in that exact same Corridor so it seems like a great place for us to be able to operate our businesses out as well um this is a this is the site map itself as you can see there's three Parcels um above where we are the pink site indicates where we have our employees coming in and out in the mornings they Park up there um at Peak during the the major summer hours which is when my business itself is at its peak area um obviously that's where mowing lawns and we're we're trimming bushes and we're running with Max Capacity I usually bring in 35 or so employee Vehicles because a lot of the employees ride together Chase on that that entity what do you factor in yeah my business fluctuates and thank you guys for your time tonight um we do a significant amount of our revenues in California at this point in time from Trey over the hill um but Max Capacity I probably have 20 employees at that time which would be maybe 10 to 20 personal vehicles I suppose so in that in that pink area at Max absolute Max Capacity and that would be July August and September there's a possibility of Maximum 50 vehicles coming in and out of there the orange area is our fenced in yard in which we've established we we did put a privacy fence up around there it's a six foot privacy fence that's where we store the equipment that we use to to run our day-to-day operations the yellow area that's directly closest to the the orange area is where we store the green waste that comes off of um the properties that we take care of which would be the stockpile portion of this um conditional use permit that we're discussing that stockpile we allow to get no larger than maybe 80 to 90 yards of green waste material at that time we also have a trailer that's a 40- yard dumpster we Haul the material out and we take it out to Lockwood they just actually built a um a green waste facility where they're going to turn it into mulch and they're going to sell it back to the community as you know a nice mulch so the products we're using are actually being reused and brought back into the community um then the farther area over is where we're stockpiling wood chips from Chase's business and at the same time he takes those out he hauls them up north to a power plant where they burn them and they create power for um different areas yeah and then also too it's it's a wood chip facility where we donate our chips to the community as well as um to a power plant and then it's a log staging area as well um where people can come sign waivers and get free firewood um we also offer free delivery service we've been delivering uh numerous loads out to the native reservation as well providing free firewood for the community this is what the property looked like before as you can see the entire field a is combustible there's multiple dead trees in there which would cause a vertical fire creating Embers that could easily jump over Fourth Street or to neighboring properties so that's why we were initially called on to the property you can tell there's very little sign if any at all that it was a trailer park at any point in time this is what we've turned it into this is a view from inside of the yard we brought in Road grindings actually when they did the Fourth Street corridor um down the road where they put the roundabout in I know some people at snc and they were able to bring those in we brought in Rolling compactors we compacted it um this was an effort a to stabilize the soil and to keep dust down as much as possible so that's what we've done with the the property obviously this is prior us completing and finishing all aspects of the fence in the gates but this was this was our initial grading and how it came out this is what it looks like from the aerial today all those containers that are multiple colors in front at the very Forefront of this photo have all now been painted to match the the slope so any of the homes from across the street or if you're traveling down Mayberry lane from the opposite side I actually took a soil sample from the Hillside and took it to Home Depot and matched the exact color as close as I could get it and I painted a painting contractor to paint the whole entire place all the roofs and all the sides of those containers all match that Hillside down so it's virtually that I'm not going to say it's impossible to see them but there're as camouflage as I could possibly make them and that's obviously to try and reduce any any unsightly containers or anything that somebody body that lives up in those multi-million dollar homes up on the hillside would have to look down at or anybody on the traffic of stag Avenue we did everything we could to try and disguise it as much as possible um so we've been communicating and working with the city as much as possible um initially we did move into the property we did not pull all the proper permits like I said we were kind of in a time crunch and as you can see with the size of our companies we we couldn't just shut down we have contracts with with the city he we work with um Jeff or I mean I'm sorry um the guys over at U at the parks Department Matt and multiple other guys over there um we take care of all the lmas for the city we also take care of Somerset entire Master Association all of uh the majority of South Reno we take care of Double Diamond along with multiple sub associations down there and Chase has multiple contracts with government agencies over Northern California so it wasn't really an option just to shut down the businesses and find a place to go um we've already uh discussed the size of our equipment in our fleets um and basically on this site just for clarification it is just for parking our vehicles and for putting some of our green waste we do not have any of our office operations out of there we do not work on the vehicles on these sites we both have our own separate um facilities where we have our own mechanics our offices aren't there nothing it's simply a storage facility that's all there is to this place um our hours of operations are generally from 7 to 9:00 P or 9:00 a.m. and that's 9:00 a.m. if if we drag out a little bit because we got to load some vehicles or load some plants or things like that and then we're back around 3:30 so from 3:00 till 4:00 and then that's the only time that we're on the property we'll have a vehicle once or twice pull in and out of the yard whether it's a manager yes go pick up another piece of equipment but the hours and the actual durations that we're on this facility are very very minimal and we try to keep it to Monday through Friday if we do have large projects and we have to work you know crew on Saturday I think since we've been there it's been two Saturdays for my business and I don't know if you've ever operated on Saturday I think so so basically Monday through Friday very minimal hours very minimal impact to the community and the neighboring people around us um so um the site was built to the city standards the Indie um the Indie EP actually went in there and did a full sight survey they wrote us a concluding letter that said that the grading and all the soil stabilization met all of their requirements so we had no problems with that um in addition to that we do have U public services are available to serve the entire Project without any issue um the noise that is Created from the property currently is generated from our generators that are in the morning they're still they're just standard generators like you would you know power an RV or something with because we have to power our time clock and some fuel pumps on the property those generators are ran for very limited time the only reason we're currently using those is because we just had Envy energy set the um Transformer and we're waiting for our application for our permit to set a new meter on there and then we'll disperse power right off the power good through EnV energy so that's currently in the works um as I said we are trying to bring power in the reason um we don't have water on site right now is because there's no power and the property runs on a water well so as soon as we get power we will have water in everything on there it'll reduce um the noise and any kind of dust right now we're trying to minimize the dust we haven't had any complaints up to this point but um we are aware that it is a dirt property and we do need to do everything we can to facilitate and minimize any dust it's just a lack of ability to have water and power there at the time um we um we do snow removal and we take care of snow removal both of our companies do snow removal obviously we're coming in snow season and that's why I'm bringing it up snow removal is one of those circumstances where we can't control when the storms hit if those storms do hit on a Saturday or a Sunday like that unfortunately we are going to have to operate um out of there and sometimes we will have to be leaving you know at late nights and we'll do everything we can to try and be as quiet as possible when that happens there's no illumination on the property we we do not have any power so we have very very little ways to illuminate at this point um any illumination that will come will be from Vehicles headlights and that will be an evenings or in the middle of the night when we have snow events where we have to go out and we have to get the guys loaded up we have to put ice melt and other things in the vehicles that go out and perform our you know contractual OB obligations um we do also um myself we are um a certified licens chemical applicator we had the Department of Agriculture come out they did an inspection again we had no issues there as well so they did look at our facility we have a stored lock container where any chemicals are stored we didn't have any issues with that and everything there is um up to par so um that's all I have do you have anything else Jason no I think you touched on most of it um I think a few kind of points you left up on the on the board there um stag Avenue which is a road that's owned by Union Pacific Rail Road um was a a point that we had to address and uh we do have confirmation via email from Union Pacific that they're working on uh providing us with the contract to utilize that road so they have uh granted us the right to use it we just haven't signed any documents yet we're waiting for them it's been a a fairly painstaking process working with Union Pacific um stag Avenue was certainly overgrown um I think we we did a a favor for ourselves as well as a community around and cleaning up stag Avenue Rob had his guys uh maintain all of the low growing vegetation while I had my guys maintain all of the trees a long stag Avenue that had overgrown that entire Road um we would all of our trucks would hit those trees every time we drove down that road um I think that's probably you've touched on most of it y uh so I guess we can leave it at that y so great thank you we'll have a moment to ask you some questions later so great thank you guys appreciate it looks like we'll get a presentation from Jeff from the city all right uh Jeff Foster associate planner for the record bringing you tonight LDC 2364 which is the storage yard for rgm the project size is approximately 8.32 Acres um and the request before you tonight is a conditional use permit to allow for outdoor storage associated with the maintenance repair maintenance repair or renovation business essentially a contractor's yard in terms of the geography we're here on the south side of Fourth Street um above the river and uh obviously south of I80 there zooming in a little further uh the uses to the north are undeveloped land uh to the West we have a mobile home park to the South we have uprr uh land along with the railroad tracks and then to the east we have a former Motel property uh potentially being used as a multif family um the key issues are compatibility with surrounding uses operational impacts and traffic and access the zoning district is mixed use Suburban um and that would allow for a variety of uses uh commercial retail restaurants a hotel light industrial warehouses um all sorts of things outdoor storage requires a conditional use permit the master plan is Suburban mixed use and here are a handful of polic goals and policies that the project lines up with so history uh the applicant presented a summary of of the history I wanted to get a little bit more into some of the nuts and bolts um as it as was indicated it was previously used as a mobile home park and it was vacant until it was leased and the applicants established the landscape maintenance business uh as the applicant indicated they did not obtain the conditional use permit prior to establishing their operations as a result code enforcement issued a stop workk order and a notice of violation and that brought them into the city uh the city required the applicant to obtain a stockpiling permit to allow the use on a temporary basis while going through the conditional use permit application process that we're in right now as well as addressing uh the conditions of approval moving forward specifically I wanted to point out that condition number five uh requires the project to comply with the stockpiling requirements in in RMC and this listed are some of the things that they have to comply with um for uh stockpiling as far as the site design goes the employee parking area is next to and Below West Fourth Street um as indicated uh in kind of the the fuchsia honeycomb area um and it is accessed from a shared driveway serving the site and the parcel to the East and that uh parking area is covered with wood chips and this the picture the inset picture there you can see um showing that parking area covered with wood chips go figure um the area to the South there is the fence the fenced and graveled Equipment storage area on the central portion of the site that is primar arily accessed from stag Lane and is connected to the employee parking area so you can get between the two but the trucks and equipment that are in that area primarily access it from stag Lane uh the equipment storage area is buffered by topography as well as a distance from the adjacent land uses um and then as pointed out earlier there's a material stockpile area on the western portion much of the site remains undeveloped and I wanted to point out that conditions seven and eight address screening um as the applicant pointed out the containers have been painted to kind of blend with the surrounding landscape um we also are requiring additional screening uh to allow to uh minimize what you can see from the roadway as well as the surrounding land jues um as the applicant did point out this the fence jard is screened already um additional Landscaping would be required around it as well as up along Fourth Street to screen from from the roadway there as far as compatibility goes um several other businesses incorporate outdoor storage along West four Street as was po as was pointed out earlier I've listed a few of them here um there are also several light industrial uses up and down Fourth Street in the project vicinity such as Self Storage RV and Boat Storage and other contractor yards the hours of operation would generally be between 7:00 a.m. and 4 pm Monday through Friday with occasional operations on Saturday and as the applicants pointed out snow removal might require them will require them uh to uh work outside of those hours on occasion um all work is done offsite the on-site activity is generally limited to on-site uh or to sorry to morning pickup and afternoon drop off operations very little activity happening throughout the rest of the day as far as operational impacts go uh the noise from the project is limited to people entering and exiting the vehicles voices uh delivery and pickup of delivery and pickup of materials and Equipment vehicle storage or sorry vehicle startup and idling and movement and we did add condition number nine uh to uh limit idling not only for noise but also air quality potential air quality impacts further on operational impacts uh the potential air quality issues from vehicle ID idling and dust generated by the site um so as the applicant pointed out they did meet eps stabil ation requirements since the outdoor storage area and the access from stag Lane have been fully graveled and are not left as bare Earth condition number 10 was added to require ongoing maintenance uh of the site to minimize dust generation and other environmental impacts regarding traffic and access the project proposes access onto west four Street which is actually an end. facility Sr 647 um and that would be where the employees enter the site and that's in the picture on the top uh from there they would park right there in the in the uh employee parking area that I showed you earlier stag Lane is a private driveway on Federal Land and is leased by uprr and that is where they would uh access Ingress and egress for their heavy equipment primarily conditions number 13 and 14 require approvals from uprr and endot as applicable in order to use those facilities and it's my understanding that the applicant is close to having agreement with uprr for stag Lane here are the recommended findings and uh staff can make all the findings and here is the recommended motion I'm available for questions thank you very much we'll go to the Commissioners for disclosures commissioner Villa please commissioner Villa I visited the site commissioner M I'm familiar with the site and read and received emails uh commissioner Armstrong I'm familiar with the site and I read and receive emails commissioner berera similar disclosures commissioner rer same disclosure commissioner Dracula same disclosures all right we'll now open it up to public comment I do have some requests to speak fors we'll start with those um but do we have anybody on Zoom waiting not at this time I don't see any hands but that could change okay great thank you uh first up we have Lawrence mcnut speaking in favor Lawrence you'll have three minutes and please state your name and after Lawrence Michaela Morrison will be up also speaking in favor on big deal of um okay no problem uh my name is Lawrence mcnut I'm the owner you hear me close to the mic yeah if you can there you go gotcha there we go my name is Lawrence mcnut I'm the owner of the river in just up on the other end of Fourth Street I just thought I'd give you a picture of our place if it's familiar to you um I managed me and Dan and my business partner we manag about 40 acres along Fourth Street of Union Pacific Land as well as our land um so my my point here is I'll tell you a little bit about this project cuz I've watched it from the moment you guys started putting the wood chips down a little bit before that because it was quite curious what you guys were doing down there and you also got part of my shaved asphalt by the way so but uh nonetheless is it's called the fair application of the rules that's why I'm actually that's why we came today so we've been up here for three years the first thing we tried to do was pretty much what you guys were doing and we were completely shut down by the city and I say that in building that we need we were told we had to pave the entire 14 acres if we wanted to park Vehicles out there now I look at Fourth Street as a underserved underc cared for kind of a mess down on our end so when I see another business come in to store their their trucks and they're doing cleaning they improve the area so that's why I'm in support of what they're up to but if I'm going to see one business get a exception to a rule and I see others that are that I'm told are grandfathered in so they therefore they have travel parking lots as well many of the storage areas you're talking about those same rules should apply to all of us business owners along the road I think what these guys are doing they' dramatically cleaned things up that's why we're in support of it but I want to see this type of activity where that I'll just say the working with the city and the planning here apply to the rest of us that's what that's my statement to you guys otherwise God help us clean up four Street it's a mths we got a nice roundabout now got a lot of stuff you guys cleaned up a lot of acreage um we have a number of other areas that frankly need a lot of cleaning along Fourth Street as well and I know the other neighbors will like it um I will say a couple positive things I'm right on Fourth Street your trucks come by my place I don't see any problem with it it's not impacting things um my only Ingress egress is on Fourth Street um I drive by your place almost one almost daily um it looks good we're always going to see the top your containers though cuz we're like for street is about 20 ft higher than your contain your yeah so uh so but uh otherwise you know we'll be coming to you we'll be standing right here on some of our projects I just like the same courtesy thank you thank you Michaela Morrison please come on up state your name you'll have three minutes and after Michaela we will have Cole Hill I believe speaking in favor coming up hi my name is Michaela morison um I am a resident on stag Lane I have lived there currently myself for the last 3 years with my fiance Cole Hill and we have gotten a letter from some of our neighbors at the Siesta Village Apartment Complex to come to this meeting to voice our um opinions on the impact of the business and when I say we I mention me my fiance and his father that are three of the approximate seven inhabitants that are given access on stag Lane that live down on the bottom of stag Lane we all three of my family are in favor of Arbor pros and Reliance they have done like like they stated in the last public comment stated a huge cleanup of the area before it was an isore not just a fired Hazard it was an invitation to homeless and drug users which have been an annoyance in our area we I currently have two encampments on my property that I could show you right now of homeless people and I believe they have cleaned it up the presence of a company there pushes those Riff Raff away that we do not want there they have um the complaints that some of the neighbors have stated is yes like the noise the traffic I myself leave to work I'm a teacher I leave between 6:45 and 7:15 every morning which is like the time they come in I have had no issues with traffic they have been very polite waiting at their little stop sign for me to pass by so I just wanted to kind of put in my public comments stating that three of the seven inhabitants that are legally allowed to use the P Private Road of stag Lane are very happy that they they are there and they have cleaned it up and they have had no problems with us thank you thank you thank you all right Cole Hill please come to the podium you'll have three minutes and after Mr Hill be Jorge Marin hello my name is Cole Hill um I own 6780 stag Lane I've lived there my whole life and it has been a dump these guys came in they cleaned it up drastically no more homeless no issues I see him run a water truck every day I see him out my bedroom window I got no issues with them I'm happy to call them neighbors all right thank you very much Mr Marin please come to the podium state your name you'll have three minutes and after M Mr Marin we will have Jacob Daniel Morris good evening um my name is Jorge Marin I lived on the property on sta Lane for 18 years and it was a dump um um some of the neighbors would see me out there cleaning that road from time to time or um calling in the homeless people that would try to camp out there was a lot of drug use um it was definitely um a fire hazard and these guys did an amazing job cleaning it up um I've I'm still heavily involved in that property and I'm there early in the morning till late at night uh helping the new owners and I've never had any issue with them so thank you guys thank you thank you as well uh Mr Morris I apologize it looks like you don't wish to make a statement but are in favor so no pressure on coming up unless you wish to at this moment okay okay no worry sorry I misread that before next up is Suzanne J Edwards speaking in favor and after Miss Edwards we will have Crystal talk good evening my husband Hammond Edwards and I live on stag Lane and we are definitely in support of the storage yard and the tenants since they've become our neighbors people have stopped parking between the storage property and the railroad tracks where we would frequently see them doing drugs dealing drugs leaving drug paraphernalia and other debris sleeping in their cars and even having sex in their cars so you can certainly understand that isn't the type of activity we want occurring anywhere near our home these nefarious activities and the Homeless Problem have also been greatly reduced as a result of our neighbors we homeowners on stag Lane consider this a huge security benefit further Reliance grounds management owner Mr Rob Michaela recently had one of his Crews as he mentioned trim all of the trees on stag Lane which were hanging over the road which forced us to drive in the middle to avoid scratching our cars he also had them clean out all of the Sage Brush and weeds encroaching the road picked up all the litter blew the same sand gravel and debris collected it all and disposed of it and prior to their coming along too I used to tell my friends when you see the abandoned sofa on West forth take an immediate left that's stag Lane because there is no street sign so we are very grateful for his generosity and stag Lane looks so beautiful it Rivals the roads in Colin Ranch unfortunately people do like to dump garbage in other items on West four street right next to Stag and they have been very generous in keeping that area clean our home is south of the storage yard right on the trucky River across from dker Park we have to drive by the storage jard every day to access our home the employees of Reliance uh grounds management and Arbor Pros they work a normal 5-day work week I've never seen them there on the weekend uh they leave early in the day and but I know there are Neighbors at Siesta Village monthly rental units who gave us a letter expressing their concern about the alleged quote noise dust storms chemical and traffic are having on the area especially given that they are just across from the beautiful dker Park the trucky River green belt and the surrounding Wildlife including song birds coyotes raccoons mountain lions squirrels deer Etc unquote we have not experienced any of that the storage yard as you are aware is north of the railroad tracks I can assure you that the presence of our new neighbors is having no negative impact on the local Wildlife our property is filled with numerous species of birds we frequently hear coyote very close by too close in fact for my taste and in fact uh two nights ago they were in our yard uh we Sunday October 29th and we could hear them clearly as did our dogs we've seen several raccoons in our yard including one who tried to go inside our home when we left the door open uh at least one skunk many rabbits several snakes an abandoned peacock that we did rehome and a couple of weeks ago I arrived home to see five deer in our field completely unperturbed by my presence not a day goes by when I drive up and down stag Lane that the ground squirrels are not playing chicken running back and forth in front of my car between their storage yard and the railroad tracks so we do not believe any Wildlife has been negatively impacted and we hope they stay Thank you thank you next up is Crystal and I apologize I hope I pronounced your name correctly feel free to come to the podum and she wishes to speak in opposition and next up is Olivier jonan I believe hi I hope you all are well uh I speak to you this evening regarding the issue of Reliance Landscaping moving on to 7360 West for street can you please your name for the record Crystal P thank you there were some fallacies in Mr mela's presentation that I unfortunately do not have time to address at this moment um and I'm going to have to speak more quick quickly than I would like to communicate uh what is needed um while we do agree with a lot of the statements um in support of this project um we do hope that you have all had a moment to review the emails videos and pictures that have been sent regarding uh this issue knowing that there are many more that have not been sent firstly this proposal is for a storage yard but it would more appropriately be turned formed a base of operations for two very large Landscaping businesses who have 30 plus trucks moving on and off the property twice a day six days a week plus their employee Vehicles this traffic is directly in front of our home and has destroyed the quiet and Beauty we moved there to enjoy we have a Time Lapse video to show you uh of the sheer volume of traffic on this road uh in just one day but it was unfortunately erased uh we would like the opportunity to refilm and show that to to you there were months of unpermitted construction right next to our home heavy machinery every day being driven on an unpaved Back Road 10 ft from our homes we have videos of BOS and graters idling 10t from our home for up to 45 minutes filling our house with diesel exhaust and constant loud noise until we were forced to leave our own home because of it yes we are inconvenienced yes we are feeling harassed by the unpermitted construction this summer and constant barage of trucks in front of our home now yes we are saddened about the loss of use of a small road that many of us enjoyed walking on every day with our dogs enjoying the beauty of the mountains and proximity to the river but our biggest concern is the residents who live there being injured by these trucks or their employee Vehicles residents have voice concerned about themselves or pets being hit with those work tracks while walking on stag Lane many of these trucks are as large as semis also of great concern is that what they have turned into an employee parking lot is also the entrance to our complex with upwards of 40 of their employee vehicles moving on and off the property every day I personally have had almost two vehicle collisions with their employees while trying to pull into my house and I recently learned even the owner of our property had a near Miss accident as well and was treated poorly by the person to boot these properties were not made for this volume of traffic on a daily basis it is not a matter of if and accident will happen but when the one potential solution we see that could solve all of the problems safety environmental proper use is them grading and using the entrance on the far west side of the property it was once a road and it could be used again if properly graded um I'm G to have to skip we find it interesting and rather telling that Mr Malla has a good been a good neighbor to the affluent neighbors across stag Lane but not to the 12 Apartments who are directly adjacent to the property unlike some of our neighbors who are not adjacent to the parcel we are not so much concerned with an apartment complex moving in if Alliance were to leave as we are of people being hurt in a car accident or hit with one of their trucks we are not against Mr Malla and Reliance being there but they have been selfish and negligent not considering the health I'm sorry your time is up I appreciate you thank you thank you all right livier I'm sorry I probably mispronounced your last name but please feel free to come up to the podium and uh state your name for the record you'll have three minutes sir good evening my name is Olivier I live at uh 7350 West Fourth Street right next to Reliance I just wanted to voice concerns about the air quality because the air quality has definitely changed since they arrived there's a lot more dust uh people tend to have a lot more allergic reactions I do understand that they don't have any power right now so they don't have have any water so hopefully when they do have water they can contain the dust and also the main concern is that both of their entrances are shared with our entrances to Siesta Village so if there's a possibility to create a new entrance you know we have no problem for them to be there we do appreciate the work that they have done in the area and we we understand that they've acted out of survival they had to do what they had to do they could have done it better but now they're here we want to work with them and I'm sure there's a way to make everybody happy and definitely one way is to have a new entrance for them and like they can have their own business we won't have to revew that traffic and everybody will be a happy camper that's all I have to say thank you thank you very much all right we will now oh I'm sorry any uh Zoom come in while we're speaking we did receive correspondents uh and voicemails for this item they have been forwarded to the Planning Commission and have been entered into their record and would you like to hear the voicemails right now we can play them in Chambers please thank you hello uh my name is David and I'm I'm leaving a comment for the project that's uh at 7360 West Fourth Street it's uh Reliance Landscaping um and I'm just gonna I left an email but I'm just read the email and maybe add another note my name is David and I have been associated with the property next to 7360 West Fourth Street for six years I do have to say the project in question 7360 West four Street has been very impactful to everyone surrounding it in a negative way I have noticed a massive increase in traffic on the private road stag Lane as well as severe issue with the dust that is being generated now because of the clearing of the a natural brush which naturally mitigated the issue now when I walk down stag Lane between 11 11:30 p.m. and I'm wearing a headlamp I'm amazed at how much uh dust is in the air and sort of blowing East into my face during the Stow of the night I did include a video from Wednesday the 25th during the day showing a dust cloud that just came swooping through there but um and there were no vehicles involved at that time it was just a gust of wind and the video shows like the tail end of the dust storm but when I first initially saw it it was almost a wi out it was so thick and I by time I got my camera out and was able to video it it it dissipated um I just wanted to let everybody know that you know this is definitely a new problem in this area particularly the dust and the traffic um I've never remember an issue ever before uh this situation uh came to pass in the on the property next door of so much dust and and um traffic so I just wanted to say that thank you very much byby hello my my name is Tom Rigden I'm one of the owners of 7350 West 4th Street in Reno and I'm calling about 7360 West 4th Street I've received some complaints from my tenants of 7350 about the tenants of 7360 um one of those is the extreme amount of dust and dirt that's being created um because the tenants of 7360 are parking in a dirt lot uh perhaps they could water that lot down occasionally or something but I've experienced this myself just not not just my tenants my wife and I are uh having trouble keeping the property clean because of all the dust and dirt another issue is that the ten of 7360 are using stag Lane to access 7360 West 4 Street and if that just meant a couple of cars were added each day that would be one thing but in this case that is not the case there's a tremendous number of cars and trucks and some very big trucks that are using stag Lane to access 7360 West Fourth Street um one tenant reported to me two times that she was almost hit by a truck there's an inury to 7360 West West Fourth Street which is directly off of Fourth Street which could be used by the tenants for 7360 rather than them using sag Lane um also one point at 7350 West Fourth Street West driveway I personally was leaving the property at 7350 and um a tenant from 7360 came up their side of that driveway and basically just blared his horn at me as if I was doing something wrong when in actuality I was in the driveway of 7350 um and the last issue is that we also did receive a report that the tenants of 7360 were leaving garbage behind 7350 anyway I feel like these are just reasonable and neighborly requests that something be done that they enter at a different spot other than stag Lane and that they discontinue dropping off garbage thank you my name is Tom Rigden rfr holdings my number 40871 0422 all right that's it for the voicemails and there are no hands raised in our um Zoom meeting right now either great thank you anybody else in the chambers wish to speak specifically on this item seeing none we will close public comment and go to the Commissioners for questions of the applicant or staff commissioner Munos thank you Mr chair I'll start uh Jeff it's gonna be for you uh I I understand the explanation of uh this business business coming in uh in haste and setting up before everything was properly set up uh through the city as far as pulling their permits things like that what is the city stance or even the state stance on um penalties for this happening and is there any what's over for that so I'm not an expert in Code Enforcement by any means but I as I mentioned they did Issue a stop work order and a notice of violation um my understanding is there are there's a a process of fines and whatnot that build up over time if things are not rectified um I'm not 100% sure if some of those things have been put on hold as we've been going through this process recognizing the Natural Evolution and time frame associated with it um but yeah there is there is ultimately a a code enforcement process um that will be ostensively resolved as a part of of this you know where we're at tonight okay all right um it seems in the last couple of months we've had a few uh applications come before us that have been the same type of thing where a property has been used um before they are permitted um and and the the word we get I think we hear a lot is coming into compliance or bringing into compliance for what they're already doing uh is there what is a process when they come in to bring their property under compliance um as far as you concerned how how does that if you can give me a quick explanation of of how that process goes so um they did come in uh and speak to actually I happened to be the planner of the day at the counter uh when they came in oh gosh back in was that may March I don't know sometime sometime before they applied for the conditional use permit um and and I advised them that they needed the conditional use permit um they were not able to to get that so but they did get the application for the conditional use permit submitted as soon as they could uh thereafter which was uh the week of June 15th um and so that began the process of bringing them into compliance uh but our immediate request was to get them to get a stock piling permit because that process could have been done in theory um much faster to at least get them a temporary approval to occupy the site as they are currently for a period of 12 months so once that stockpiling permit is issued uh it's it's allowed for up to 12 months okay so ideally that can I interrupt you is that done no that's what I was going to get to so yeah ideally that would have been completed by now um because of the time frames associated with various reviews and getting the applicants engineered to provide information and whatnot um it has drug out much longer than it really should have uh so it has not been issued as of today um I know that engineering is the last reviewer to uh have hold comments on that so hopefully those will be resolved and that permit would be issued within the next few weeks giving them a 12-month uh uh time frame at at which they would be in compliance okay so last question if this is denied today at this does not go through is there still a chance for them to get that permit that they have yes so the stockpiling permit would allow them to operate as they are currently for a period of 12 months even if the conditional use permit is denied okay and then if if we are denied here it goes to city council are we just a suggestion to city council um or is this this is final no if If you deny it tonight um they have the opportunity to appeal it to council cor okay thank you that's all I have commissioner mun I just want to clarify if you do have specific code enforcement questions code enforcement staff is in the audience tonight and can can answer any additional questions oh Cindy I'm sorry you weren't did not know you do great commissioner baser please yeah Mr Foster um question for you one of one of the concerns or suggestions I heard this evening was um that folks love this um but there are some issues uh neighbor issues and and valid ones uh one that stood out was uh the the main entrance for for the facility and the suggestion by one of the gentlemen was if a western entrance could be used is that an option or no so currently the so the the entrance that they're talking about as a conflict point is the uh the entrance that is shared with 7350 West for and 7360 the subject site so that driveway provides access to the former Motel property to the East and then immediately Dives down into the rgm storage parking area for the employees on the west okay it's a shared driveway um this site has uh as my understanding has all right to use that driveway uh because it is an access to that site uh they of course would not use it for the large Vehicles because simply really impossible so the only the employee Vehicles would be the ones that would use that area the theoretical driveway further to the West we were looking into this today um if I can get my presentation up I'll show you where I believe though I have not been shown a diagram but where I believe they're talking about so let's go let's go to this one at the very left of the screen you see a sliver uh diving down into the parcel MH um there appears to be a former Road right there let me see if I can grab a different uh well okay on this one you see the the spike that that goes up from the subject properties to fourth street that appears to have been used as a some kind of a informal Road never a formal road I don't think by the looks of it um that accessed that parcel which is one of the two subject Parcels um potentially in theory that could be used as a driveway uh for the employees um it would be a little unusual because um the employees would then have to kind of circumvent around to another parking area to the parking area up above or use a different area of the site for parking um the other thing would be just grade wise and whatnot and I'm not an engineer but just kind of looking at it it looks to be a pretty tough uh ask as far as getting uh you know a a a real driveway in there um I would also o point out that any uh uh development of that as a driveway as a formal driveway would require approval from end do um which is an impediment yeah great thanks Mr Foster may I do a follow you may please uh of the applicants if I may uh gentleman want to step on up um first off Kudos um you know small business is the backbone of our community and y'all are making the loneliest highway or the loneliest Road the our Highway How does it go the yall know okay so that neck in the woods is not so lonely these days and it seems like youall have a lot of great support which is fantastic um are there any neighborly issues that have been reported that yall can't work through um it's definitely nothing we can't work through um we've attempted very much so to comply with the request from um any individual that has complained especially the individuals from the the now I'm sorry um the people that now occupy the multif family place it at one point was a motel or whatever it was um we've actually chained off all portions within 350 ft of that property there's two access roads and one that comes off fourth where the employee parking is that splits that comes right behind those that's chained off right off four Street next to theirs and then within 350 ft over our portion of our yard where at any point in time one of our employees could drive behind there all of those access roads are chained off and there's Boulders across where the chains are we brought Boulders in you cannot access it I drove up it today simply to put a sticker on our sign I had to drop the chain just because I have the key to the lock for the chain and I drive a large four-wheel drive durax diesel and I could not go around this it it's impossible I mean I I actually looked I was like man do I have to take the get out and unlock this I had to so we've done every effort we can to avoid them furthermore that area because we did have some complaints we went to the um the um neighborhood Advisory board meeting we understood her complaints regarding equipment next to their property diesel fumes dust or anything like that noise what we would like to do and what I'd like to propose to her if we can get her to approve this and the landowner is we would like to come in there and we have a copious amount of wood chips as you could imagine that's what he does all day is Chip wood we can bring that wood in there and I'd like to spread it over that small area that is directly adjacent to their property where any dust could arise during a dust storm or in event of wind put wood chips on that that will reduce and pretty much solve any problem for any of that wood furthermore the area that comes off which we've already gotten signed off is okay but it it does have um road base on it and as we all know when the wind blows road base when it's dry will create some Dust We would like to bring in some additional asphalt grindings and put it down steamroll it and make it a nice solid as close as we can asphalt access point but again we don't want to disrupt the neighbors and cause any more future conflicts or issues of any kind until we get approval to do so and simply I can get road grindings tomorrow I can call the guys at snc that brought us the initial Road grindings I'm good friends with them they can come in they can bring us road grindings we can spread them out it will cause some noise for the neighbors for a very short period of time we'll grind them out or we'll lay them out with a road grader we'll compact them and we'll make sure that we do everything we can to reduce any dust can possibly come off the property okay thank you and and your your scrappiness and resilience is blotted a question on safety with the snow season coming too soon um I think there was a note about potential weekend work and so forth because youall do uh snow removal what does that potentially look like uh I I know it's hard to predict you know when the snow comes but it seems like it's coming sooner than later yeah yeah um you know historically the snow usually comes you know last year we had a just shot you I think November 1st was our our first storm where we actually had an event where we had to go out and plow yeah well actually we like it um but I I usually what we've seen is it usually comes right around that Thanksgiving time so we will be getting into snow season snow season for us basically is dispersing trucks with snow plows on them we do have one large um dump truck that we purchased it was retired indot truck we use that for plowing all of the gated community in Somerset I actually stage it at at Somerset at the clubhouse my CDL driver reports directly to the facility at the clubhouse that truck will not even become a factor the other pickup trucks that do go out with snow plows that we use for parking lots apartment complexes and smaller HOAs will disperse from stag Avenue a part of the agreement that we have that um with the um uprr the railroad and stag Avenue for our access point is that we will maintain that so the noise that will be caused along stag Avenue will be us plowing stag Avenue so the residents can get out safely and get you know a nice speed or get some speed and encroach on the Fourth Street in a safe manner so we will be plowing and taking care of stag Avenue and on top of that the M you know the uh the multi-use or multif family place right now in this public here and I will tell you right now I will plow that entire place for free if if they want us to we will come in there and we'll plow their whole entire property for free Farm I don't have any problem with that again trying to comply and be a good neighbor we'll do anything we can to try and move forward and rectify this situation um if they want us to come in after we get through with a couple areas we don't wake up all the residents in there again we will comply with that now when we do come out of our property what I would like to do is I would like to put the plow down and push the snow off the side of the road so all the rest of the vehicles that come out from our property have a nice safe way to get up on the four Street and then get moving forward and not have to go down through the snow and pack it down and turn it into a sheet of ice essentially so a little bit of noise may happen when it is snowing in the evenings or in the middle of the night when we have to come out but for safety reasons we would like to plow stag Avenue and initially just for egress purposes for us to get in and out of stag Avenue that would be the only noise that they would ever really hear at all because we don't have to run generators we don't have to do anything we fire up vehicles and most of our I mean my oldest vehicles are 2014 and they're all new they they don't have exhausts on them it's all stock emission stuff we can turn on the headlights and that's what we use for Illuminating the Arts great thanks gentlemen you all heard it free plow for life on stag commissioner vill Ander oh everybody wants to speak uh commissioner vill please go first where my I'll try to be quick I think I missed some of I was looking at Google maps and looking at the area so I apologize if I'm asking questions that we're already answered for Mr Foster um the Stag Road versus the other entry way I believe um the actually can you pull up your map that you had up earlier okay if you want to put that up this is that yeah there's actually a telephone okay oh okay okay I did draw I did visit the site but obviously I had some issues because there's there's no is this right that there's no paved Road currently so the excuse me the driveway that accesses the site currently that the employees use to get into the employee parking area is paved it is paved okay yes this uh Road that would be in the blue area here I believe that's what the property owner Mr Rigden was suggesting was another road further to the West another sorry another road another driveway further to the West I believe he is talking about uh a driveway that could come in in this area here into the site okay as a so that's what he was requesting is that that's what he was requesting I believe yes and then what was the issue with that and like I said I apologize if you went over this I was no problem at all no problem at all so um a couple of things one is it would be a rather circuitous uh entrance to get to the employee parking area because ostensibly they would still need to go around and park in the employee parking area Okay uh further up along West four Street unless they turned another part of the site into an employee parking area but right now they would have to go in here down around the fenced area back up into the employee parking area so it's circuitous but number two um and we haven't had a chance to look at this formally this is just kind of a back of the napkin uh an analysis of it this afternoon after we got those voicemails and emails um but the the uh grading and uh uh engineering associated with developing a roadway or driveway I should say again um would be potentially quite challenging um not maybe not impossible but certainly challenging due to the slopes okay um and then lastly as I did mention earlier also um that would also require an end do encroachment permit because there would be a new formal driveway accessing Fourth Street okay so again another impediment okay and then stag Avenue I know we had some folks have issues with the trucks going on and off you know traveling um on stag there's no other entrance way for those um trucks right no that's the only place that they could enter yes okay and the the issue if um was it OT right endot that had that they need they're working with endot is that correct if that if they don't get the approval what happens at that point if end do does not give them the approval that they need so uprr I think is actually what you're asking yeah yeah the The Rail Road Union Pacific that's right y so um if they do not get the approval from UPR or if they do not get the approval tonight yes if they don't get the authority to be able to use that Ro so um and that would tie back into the long-term uh use of the site as um commissioner Munoz was asking about so if they if they are denied tonight and ultimately again they could appeal the council and have a dis no I mean if up uprr denies them that access not us we don't apologize okay so if uprr does not allow it um uh then they would that would effectively be a showstopper but the um I have seen Communications uh that the applicant is having with uprr uh written Communications that uh suggest a very positive outcome with respect to that all right thank you for kind of reiterating some of that absolutely commissioner rier please yes um Jeff I have questions about the application itself understanding that this came in sort of as a response to code enforcement um what is the paving plan here and the parking plan what it's unusual to not see that in a cup the paving plan to have parked a paved code uh to have paved parking area there's a lot of parking on this site and there seems to be no indication of striping number of spaces the sort of typical things you see in a cup application can you walk me through what the plan is So the plan is not to do anything other than what they're already doing engineering has looked at this and they've they've approved it with just the uh parking area in a in the format that it's current and with the wood chips um there's not a formal parking plan per se and um as I read the conditions of approval so they have to comply with code requirements but to get a business license correct I believe that's what it's tied to yes yeah because that yes it is because that's the last thing that we can hold them on and do they have a business license today no they do not they're operating without a business license so you have your you may you may have your business licenses for other locations but for this location that business license is pending I I'm just I'm surprised to see an application that doesn't have this level of detail and it would be very beneficial to understand you know what you traditionally see on a plan so I just need a little more information because they were talking about I've heard 40 parking spaces I'm I'm just not seeing it on the site can you help me understand what so next this being an outdoor storage use it would be hard to define a a parking ratio associated with outdoor storage because essentially it's not a there is no building there are no people right other than people coming to the site and parking their vehicles so there's not a traditional parking ratio or calculation associated with this um and as I mentioned a minute ago engineering um has looked at it and is not requiring um a a a formal parking area in terms of pavement and striping and things like that so that area is plenty big enough to to park that many vehicles I've been there multiple times it's certainly big enough but it wasn't something that we looked at in terms of a traditional parking calculation and a formal parking lot and things like that I think then the question is why is there not a consideration of this as parking use in addition to an outdoor storage go ahead Mr Ry commissioner Ry just to clarify I think I think Jeff is correct if if if you look at how code would Define this it's a storage yard it's the fact the employees come and and park their cars there it's because they're accessing equipment that's stored in that yard so we would not require a formal parking or Paving plan um because it's it's not something that's open to the general public it's just the employees um so in that case those Provisions the code for parking would not apply to such a use so it's essentially an outdoor storage use rather than a use that would generate a formal a need for a formal parking lot does that does that make sense commissioner arong please uh Jeff this one's also for you so related to the conditions you have for idling um and some of the like maybe dust control parameters I think we've heard some valid concerns around that how does your proposed conditions actually like enforce that so there's not idling um going on for you know long periods of time as as we heard tonight or some of the Dust controls they're like requirements that they use water to deal with the dust control or do they just have to use whatever resources are available but like do they like is there a formal compliance with idling and dust control that will make this more uh copasetic in the neighborhood okay so for idling uh traditional idling conditions require signage that to be posted that says vehicle idling is not allowed that kind of a Thing If I recall correctly and I apologize I don't have the conditions up here in front of me but that would be that it should have been in the condition language um if not it's certainly something that that's again kind of the expectation with that signage would be posted on the fences um uh reminding operators to not idle um the I mean there's a certain amount of idling that just happens when you start up a vehicle right and let it warm up for a minute but you know kind of ongoing idling is what we're talking about um and other than signage that's I mean that's our available mechanism to require it um to to to to you know to minimize the amount of idling certainly if it became an ongoing issue that could be another code enforcement okay yeah that was that was my next question is there like a code enforcement mechanism that if it occurs for you know like 45 minutes or or an inordinate amount of time like is there a way for it to actually be addressed and dealt with so that compliance is is cons would you like to speak on this is it do you have a yeah I kind of just want to know how it works right oh you way lower yeah good evening Commissioners uh cind go Blanco for the record city of Mareno code enforcement supervisor so essentially what happens is we get a complaint so um you pass this and suddenly we get phone calls that the trucks are idling for a long time we send a code enforcement officer out there to basically videotape that whole time and surveil and see what's going on and then if if it is an ongoing issue like is it a fine is it a cease and assist like what what's the action that gets taken if it's an on issue the first one would be uh the notice that we would issue would be a warning right and then um after that it's a $100 $250 500 and then $1,000 fine okay great thank you I just wanted to know what kind of enforcement mechanisms were in place to prevent it from being an ongoing issue right and then you know if it kept going then we would have a revocation hearing thank you thank you commissioner draas Chef I got a question for you regarding the business license um do we believe they're going to be granted the license and what's the timeline on that so the the hold up the business license is precisely the the Cup tonight so when they when this if and when the cup were to be approved that would allow the business license to be approved weeks months till that's delivered days and days to weeks yeah days to weeks okay yeah all right thanks for clear and commissioner Armstrong I don't think I had a chance to answer the question about the dust control yeah do okay so um the one of the conditions does require uh watering they can certainly as you heard the applicant mentioned um they can uh you know or intend to water the site um I believe have been watering the site but intend to continue to water the site um if and when uh they bring electricity that would allow the W the well to be pumped to fill their water buffalo that would allow a more easily and readily available means of watering the site to control dust at the appropriate times um the other thing is as the applicant talked about they have all sorts of ways to control dust with wood chips and you know grindings and things like that so um we really were just made aware of the uh the dust issue during the comments that that flooded in so to speak over the last few days um but that was not something that uh had been brought to our attention before my staff report did talk about a dust control at a more General level but I think it still covers the issue in terms of how it would be addressed great that's that's exactly what I I really just want to know that there are parameters in place that there are toess dust controls I'm I'm not loud enough as it is uh but yeah just wanted clarification that there were proper like protocols in place to manage some of the the issues that we've seen via email or that were were brought up tonight so yeah and in fact I would also point out that um uh an agency was contacted today is my understanding and they are in the process of obtaining a dust control permit um so there I would imagine uh that as a part of that dust control permit that they would have to provide standard best management practices that they would uh you know incorporate into their operating protocols to uh to keep dust down awesome thank you again for that color Jeff I really see no questions we can shift into discussion if we'd like commissioner berser please oh oh sure thank you um great discussion you know I I attended the workshop earlier this this morning with the city on housing highlighting not just housing but just process and how we just need to get out of our own way at times and I'm a staunch believer of empowering folks um definitely took to heart your note uh gentlemen on the front about the uh application Fair fairness so we'll be keeping that top of mind and so I think this is a great opportunity for us to Showcase how sometimes life happens it's messy um you know people didn't go through the the process you had to be Scrappy you had to figure out what are you going to do with your passion or dream overnight and um we need to gauge these situations um accordingly sometimes there's a small business like y'all sometimes it's a bigger project that's going to impact uh Wildlife communities and so forth in different ways this is one of those that I think just makes sense you know um so I'm all for it uh I think it's a it's a great way or an example to Showcase how we can help folks uh navigate this sometimes arduous um process commissioner B uh kind of going back to what you said earlier small businesses are a backbone of our community I really support them um I've never met the applicant Mr Mccalla before but I have heard his name for people I trust and respect and heard nothing but positive things about his integrity and I'm seeing here tonight you know in public he's stating on the record that he's here to be a good neighbor uh looks like they have more to get get to and obviously probably didn't go down the way they wanted it to and I'm with you there that they're ready to make right um I see a good business business and I see a lot of support for what he's doing and also once again room for improvement over time and I don't have any reason to believe he won't try to deliver on that uh so just my thoughts on that commissioner R sure um I have I appreciate the effort that went into coming tonight and hearing from the neighborhood I strongly feel that there's a lot still to be figured out on this site dust permits and things are still being understood and in the process it's not far enough along in my opinion demonstrating that the cup is is clearly defined in all of the things that need to be done so I will not be supporting the application thank you any other discussion if not we will entertain a motion commissioner Munoz and commissioner I'm ready to make a motion okay the case number of LDC 23- 000064 rgm storage yard based on compliance with the pickable findings I recommended the Planning Commission approve the condition use permit subject conditions listed in the staff report and I can make the findings all right we have a motion commissioner Armstrong I'll second we have a motion and a second all in favor I any opposed one okay uh motion uh passes 5 to1 good luck with the rest of your project and we appreciate your support moving forward you're thank you we are going to take a five minute bathroom break we have a healthy it item coming up in front of us so let's take a quick breather all right everybody we will pick up from our break thank you all for giving us that time we're going to move on to item 6.3 case number LDC 2411 Santa quicy secondary access looks like we'll get a presentation from the applicant please uh good evening Commissioners Chris Baker manhard Consulting here on behalf of the uh thanks for having us this evening uh project location um I'm going to try and use the pointer here so uh Project's located south of Interstate 80 uh to give you a point of reference there Interstate 80 is that gold uh Center Line uh east of G Lane the pointer doesn't work you can use the M there should be a mouse it's working oh it is yeah it's working thank you though but the Commissioners can't see the commission can't see that screen all right fine there you go hey guys the pointer doesn't work okay let's do this again okay project location uh south of Interstate 80 as you can see here uh where the pointer is uh east of gika Lane which is a little bit difficult to see it's actually kind of right here running north and south and again it is 4 APN uh and and the uh kind of the the route is that is that green area uh the existing land use designation uh there's there's multiple here uh the existing master plan public quasi public large lot and then open space uh as you can see the existing zoning designations the majority of the site actually isn't zoned it's made up of of railroad RightWay and waso County RightWay uh so that's the area that's not colored there that you can see the green kind of bisecting there is a little bit of r or llr point5 and a little bit of open space the request to tonight is for a major site plan review for cuts greater than 20 ft and fills greater than 10 ft and then grading in that open space zoning District that I referenced a little bit of project background it's it's taking a lot to get where we are I know some of you are familiar with kind of the history of this uh the associated tentative map with the secondary access was approved March 24th 2021 and it did have one route and I'll give you a little bit more detail on the next slide uh later that year uh after um kind of working with an adjacent property owner that was affected by the secondary access route a new or alternate alignment was was proposed it approved via special use permit uh the big thing here is it really reduced the overall length of the secondary access uh it cut it essentially in half and obviously when the roadway is less the grading and Associated impacts are less so all of that was reduced with this special use special use pit approval um there was a condition included to coordinate with the steam mode ditch company because all of the proposed and approved accesses do cross the ditch uh so we have been working with them uh at length in front of you tonight is the third iteration I guess uh for the major site plan review what happens here is uh over the last two years the applicant has acquired some additional property out there and as a result some design modifications have occurred so the major site plan review really just um incorporates those new design modifications uh most of those are relating to grading hence the cut and fill requirement um uh and it does the alignment of the ditch Crossing is a as a preferred route by by the steamboat ditch company so here's the slide I was referencing I'm going to use the pointer um the approved versus proposed design first and foremost uh the Design's consistent with the approved roadway alignment uh what you're looking at here in green is the roadway alignment that was approved via the special or via the tentative map uh in red it is a little tough to see because uh the red alignment and the gold alignment are nearly identical um that is the current approved special use permit alternate alignment right so as you can see significant reduction and overall length uh and impacts Associated not only to Property Owners but with grading um what's in front of you now again is there was the addition of this little triangle piece here during the approval process at the tentative map and the approval process of the special use print that was not controlled by the applicant they have since acquired that and Grading modifications uh uh have resulted the big really what's Happening Here is significant reduction to walls um with the addition of this property um reduction wall Heights from 23 1/2 ft uh to a little over 13 ft not only that we had double tier walls before and now we were proposing only single tiered walls so what that does is significantly cut down the length so the linear foot of wall uh from over 2600t to just over 1300 ft uh and again as a result of this the maximum road grade actually uh decreases a little bit also so the request is for cuts and fills um again the roadway alignment which you're seeing here is nearly identical to what's currently approved via the special use permit um that was for cuts and fills also and for uh grading in the open space there was a code update special use permit in 21 now it's actually a major site pler view so that's the difference in terminology uh what you see here uh the cuts over 20 ft are in red and the fills over 10t are in blue that newly acquired property that we're talking about is this little triangle piece right here and there is an Associated uh cut there so again a lot of the discussions regarding walls um before because of the wall Heights there was a soil nail which is a little bit more impactful wall that was required because of the height uh now that we're reducing uh the wall Heights we can use pre-cast decorative retaining walls which in my opinion do look a little bit better uh so these these are a couple examples of what those walls could look like we did provide photo simulations as part of the application request um so this is looking south from Crystal Park Road uh and Gava Lane so essentially the proposed roadway would go right through here and with the current approval of the special use permit these were actually double stacked walls so the impact went way down into here and then this is the wall we were talking about that is proposed now to be just over 13t that was the 23 and2 foot wall that went all the way uh um parallel to the road here's another angle uh this is looking East from Interstate 80 uh towards quy Road um as you can see here before this wall now is 13 ft before it was 23 ft and then it's a little tough to see but there were double stacked walls uh required uh on the downhill slope side um we did attend the NAB um and there was some public comment at the NAB the bulk of the public comment was actually relating to the approved tenative app and its impacts not really specifically relating to grading associated with a redesign of of a secondary access that's currently approved uh there was some line of sight concerns with the neighbor uh we actually went I actually went and met with uh chance he's here in attendance tonight I'm sure I'll be speaking outed his property identified that that uh that he had a concern um and we kind of came up with a solution we worked with the applicant uh to provide a solution and then we uh talked to scat staff and I know staff's going to provide some language for an additional condition that the applicant would enter into voluntarily so with that I'm available for any questions thank you thank you now take a presentation from Jeff from the city take this with me all right Jeff Foster associate planner for the record uh tonight LDC 24 000011 and that's the secondary access for Sant quy the project information uh the disturbance area effectively where the where the secondary Access Road would go is approximately 5.4 acres and as has as has already been detailed uh we have a major site plan review for grading resulting in Cuts greater than 20 feet and fills greater than 10 feet as well as grading within the PG zoning District so location wise I think the applicant did a you know a fine job indicating where this is at but to belabor the point just a bit because I was told that during the Sant aquacy project approvals people didn't necessarily know where we were talking about so um you can see there the circle uh uh around the area where we are at uh south and east of I80 um uh east of the yeah east of the rail road tracks there uh the key issues are site design and Grading compatibility as well as traffic and access zooming in here we can see uh a little bit better where things are at um and you can see Boomtown there uh and the Boomtown Garson Road interchange um that was actually uh an abandonment for a portion of Oldtown Road was approved at Council last week um and that's actually related to this project uh in an overall sense because the uh new access that provides the primary access to the overall development in this area is there at Boomtown Garson Road um and so that abandonment was approved at Council last week this is the secondary access that will provide secondary access to that Development Area and we'll get a little bit uh into a little bit further into that later on so the zoning districts as the applicant indicated uh there's a mixture of uh llr uh 0.5 and pgos as well as no zoning in that RightWay area and here's the master plan land use again a mixture of public quasi public large lot neighborhood and pgos and then a a bunch of different policies that the the project lines up with so history-wise again the applicant um uh went through this but since I've got the slide so the city council approved the Santa equaly properties tenative map in the corresponding master plan and zoning map amendments in March of 21 that text is in green to correlate with with the green secondary access road that was approved as a part of the tenative map the uh Su for the preferred alternative alignment was approved in October of 2021 uh and that's the red um the SCP included a condition to coordinate with the steamboat ditch company and a revised Al alternative alignment was preferred um that's the one in yellow um so we can keep on going from there it's it is important though the last bullet I didn't want to stay on that for just a second the application seeks grading entitlements required for the currently proposed alignment that is the only thing that we are here for um we're not here to reexamine the tenative map the approvals associated with that or any other action we are literally here just for a secondary access road that was actually approved two years ago and could have been built at that point in time with the previous alignment um the revised alignment they only have to come to us again because of the new parcel with the additional grading with the cuts exceeding 20 ft and so again the scope of what we're looking at tonight is just the approval of this secondary Access Road nothing else off site nothing else associated with the tenative map as far as the site design the secondary access road is designed to minimize gradient and overall visual impacts the applicant went through a comparison of some of the things that have changed uh the original one uh sorry the secondary access approved with the tenative map again the original alignment was about 2600 ft the previous Su approval was about 1,300 uh feet and the this proposed secondary access road where we're at now is even shorter at 1,260 approximately um and again compared to the approved secondary access the proposed secondary access alignment will reduce the amount of retaining walls reduce the overall height of the walls and reduce the maximum grade of the road uh site design again uh the the the wall Heights are indicated in the first bullet the applicant already went over those it is anticipated that a pre-cast decorative block retaining wall with a rock work look will be used and that will be vetted during final design um and conditions five and six are included to require matching Earth Tone colors and additional geotechnical analysis and these conditions are actually very very similar to the conditions that were on the previous Su approval for site grading here are the maximum fills and cuts in the first bullet the applicant already went over these um we did also include conditions 7 to a nine to address enhanced grading techniques that are above and beyond the the requirements that code has to that to deal with grading and cuts and fills so the applicant will be required to address standard code conditions um regarding grading and cuts and fills 7 to n conditions um add some additional layers to that uh to make sure that things are done in the best possible way as far as compatibility goes the site design generally minimizes visual impacts and blends with topography the grading would impact approximately 105 mature trees that number was 30 previously um condition number 10 requires a 1:1 native tree replacement um previously they were not talking about irrigation of the trees they now have the ability to irrigate the trees which will help ensure their survival um and so they there will be at least 105 trees and I also amended the condition that was on the previous SCP approval to require a mixture of seedlings and saplings versus just seedlings so that we would have a more immediate effect in terms of the maturity of those trees um and not just a bunch of tiny little trees um condition number 13 requires Improvement and maintenance agreement with the steam booat canal and irrigation companies similar to the previous approval uh the applicant did show these uh visual uh elements here that's perspective a and perspective B from I80 um as far as traffic goes and this is something that has come up um at nauseum in the comments that uh have been submitted to the Planning Commission over the last several days uh regarding the uh a new traffic report so the master traffic study for the Morton and Garson overlay District planning areas 2 and three was prepared in December of 2019 and that was part of the previous tentative map approval uh the study evaluated development buildout within the mgot area and analyzed a proposed secondary access road to serve the greater megod planning Area 3 the traffic study identifies this as a secondary access with approximately 23% of residential trips the primary access as I mentioned earlier is provided with connection to I80 to the north through the Meridian subdivision which will accommodate the remainder of the trips and again that's at the Boomtown Garson interchange and if you drive by you can see all the work that's being done on a new end do roundabout as well as a new uh roundabout associated with the subdivision right there off of Boomtown Garson Road uh propo the proposed rise revised alignment is consistent with the study there are no additional traffic impacts that were not analyzed in that study four years ago and the traffic related conditions of the previous tenative map approval will ensure that the required level of service stand ards for all projects in the mg good are maintained um so what this all boils down to is many of the comments have requested an update to the traffic study which is simply not warranted we're not talking about new development we're talking about a previously approved tenative map with based on a traffic study uh the secondary access road has nothing to do with adding traffic or anything else it is simply a condition of approval of from the previous tenative map um and therefore a new traffic study is not warranted as a part of the action that we have tonight here are the major site plan review uh recommended findings and staff can make all findings and here is the recommended motion and I'm available for questions thank you Jeff appreciate it we will go to the Commissioners for disclosures commissioner rer please start I'm familiar with the site and received uh voicemails and emails uh commissioner verer same disclosure and I also spoke with Mr Baker commissioner Armstrong I read and received emails listen to voicemails and I spoke with the applicant representative commissioner Muno is familiar with the site uh read received emails listened to voicemails and uh I was present for the last two times this is brought before us commissioner billan WEA I visited the site I received and read emails I was also at the October 20th 2021 Planning Commission meeting commissioner Dracula rden received emails familiar with their site spoke with the applicants representative also pres for the 21 meeting all right we'll now move into public comment I do have one request to speak form Heather any more forms come through no other request to speak forms at this time okay oh give me one more right on any before I get on to the uh people present here any Zoom um or voicemails to EXP uh there's nobody in Zoom with their hand up we did receive correspondence that was distributed to the Planning Commission and is part of the record um I do not have any voicemails for this item great okay we'll start with people present tonight uh first up is Chance reading I wanted to make a statement in opposition chance go aad and state your name and you have three minutes thank the projector um hello hello thank you uh my name is Chance reading I live and own 425 and 435 South Fray Road it's two of the five Residential Properties in between the proposed intersection and Highway 80 um I did speak out in opposition to this when it originally was proposed um however I do think that um that the applicants done a really good job to be honest working with the residents and I think this is uh the best of the um the designs that I've seen and am aware of um I appreciate the applicant reaching out and did look at this um my concern and and why I'm here tonight is is um for my excuse me my family my daughter it's it's simply a safety issue so what I what I was trying to bring up and is so this is my driveway uh the Green Arrow is the south facing Direction this is what the picture looks like as you turn left out of my driveway um currently this this is an existing condition I understand that currently there's 35 daily trips they're going to about 10x that number per their numbers which I I honestly think is a little low I think this access is going to provide the main access for 80 for um the the residents that are going to live on this side plus there's a proposed School site there um and one of the things is the intersection that's being proposed is behind U obviously the the visual barrier here um in meeting with the applicant one of the things that we discussed which hasn't been brought up this evening which I thought might be um was a you know a fairly simple solution landscape removal and uh there is a a power pole back here but possibly increasing this slope to increase the visibility so that we can pull out safely with the increased traffic and that's really what I'm here to ask for um I personally believe that this is a great design I just believe it's not finished I believe this design should go all the way to Highway 80 and I think that's something that will probably be Revisited in the future um it I know that doesn't necessarily fall on the applicant I think the city's requireed iring this I know originally this was uh supposed to be an emergency secondary access and it kind of grew into a full-blown secondary access I think per the city's requirements I think with that kind of traffic increase you can obviously see there's no shoulders there's barely this road is barely wide enough for two vehicles as it is there's no shoulders and the sidewalk that's being proposed is going to dump down into this so essentially into a drainage so it seems unfortunate especially with the potential School site The Pedestrian access we have in the cycling community that's going to be traveling through this area um so that's my main concern here is safety I know we're not visiting safety I know we're visiting grading but I think this is an opportunity to maybe get this right because it seems like it it didn't get right in the beginning two suggestions I do have for the project that were um I think missed in the design is I I think that low-level pedestrian Lighting in the sidewalk would be um a wonderful addition to this um I do like the Dark Skies but uh you know to make this functional in the evening and the other thing that I haven't seen anyone talk about is this is a North sloping west facing Hill that ends in a stop sign this will not get sun until probably 1:30 or two um I know because I have to deal with this issue um and I think that there will be some ice and snow issues on this hill and I think that wasn't addressed thank you Mr reading appreciate it next up is Carly borchard wishing to make a statement you know what to do good evening nice to see you all I should have asked chance for a reading of his comment because I don't want to reiterate everything he said but I am going to reiterate a little bit and this is more for my community I have sat on the uh W five NAB for eight years so I was very much a part of this this process I also sit on the west trucky Meadows verd ey cab um so I've been ingrained in this project since the Inception and Shout out and kudos to the applicant they have been very great to work with they've come together with the best project that could come forward and I think that they've been very diligent in their Communications the issue that I have is what we were just discussing with the last project getting out of our own way we kind of need to get in our own way here because these streets all of this road Network that we're dealing with here is Washo County Roads that City of Reno has now annexed property into and are now dumping all of this traffic into our Network so where does the city come in and take some responsibility for those safety issues where does that happen it doesn't it shouldn't land on the applicant they have done it their job and they've done a great job where does the city come in and say where is our responsibility to make sure that the existing residents that already live here and have lived here for 60 70 80 years are still safe on their Road Network and that is where the community concerns come in and I fully appreciate staff saying that's not what we're here tonight this is already a done deal that's the ship is sailed but my question to you as the Planning Commission and the folks with the education and the knowledge and maybe hopefully the engineering can give us residents some assurances that we're still safe on our own roads thank thank you thank you as well are there any Zoom hands nope no Mor okay all right and no voicemails uh anybody else in the chamber wish to speak on this item seeing none we will close public comment and go to the Commissioners for questions of the applicant or staff um I'm going to I'm going to start if you guys don't mind don't do that often uh question for you Jeff we'll just Dive Right into what what's kind of just brought up to it recently sense is fresh from my understanding coming into this I have concerns about what Mr reading was saying as well and seeing what's going on I understand this isn't anything that could be solved there with that turn isn't on the applicant am I accurate there maybe okay maybe yeah all right I'll take that and then ultimately it does look like something we should be proactive about um I've taken that drive uh about a year or two ago with Miss Bard and understand what they're dealing with and so it does feel like a moment to be proactive so when again we're really not I wanted to bring that up here now to address the public comment I know it's not what we're voting on but wanted to understand a little bit more and the mechanisms we have to address something like that where we are being proactive in this you know specific scenario absolutely so um I also attended the NAB meeting that uh that uh chance uh attended and brought up the safety concerns and there were other safety concerns or other people voicing the safety concerns um at that meeting and in some of the correspondents that you all re received over the last few days right um again it is certainly outside of entirely outside of the uh decision tonight to deal with far-flung safety issues on County Roads and and do roads and you know all of that stuff right so we can all agree that that is not the the uh the arena that we're in tonight however um we do want to address the safety issue that's very very clear in fact on Monday afternoon at 1:30 a gentleman by the name of Jean and I don't remember Jean's last name but jean came in and met with Frank uh uh who's the engineer on this project and is sitting right over there um and myself at the counter and spent probably half an hour going over his concerns and his ideas associated with the the blind Cur uh curve S curves area that um that has been brought up tonight um so we've had a couple of interactions with folks who are dealing with and very concerned about that issue and so we take that wholeheartedly uh to heart um Frank uh has been the engineer on this project uh when I say this project I mean the larger project the larger Santa quy for a long time um he's the project engineer on this project um and is definitely committed to dealing with safety issues as they come forward uh to final Improvement plans or final building permit plans um when those come about so he would likely be the engineer assigned to those um and so he is committed to uh factoring in the safety aspect um the applicant's representative did uh talk about a potential condition of approval to be added to the discourse tonight um and so condition number 14 that I have here um effectively gives uh us coverage us as the city coverage to require um the a final design of the intersection and the that whole area that whole interplay with that S curve and the Mounds that are obstructing uh visibility with the overgrown vegetation um allows us to kind of wrap all of that into the design uh of those building per or those Improvement plans as they come forward so we have a potential condition here that would give us that leverage to do that um the applicant did also speak with uprr about uh effectively trimming down the vegetation that causes those visual obstructions there on both sides of the curve uh and so that would be kind of implicit in this as well is uh requiring the applicant to follow through with upr's agreement to allow them to trim that vegetation down down and clear up that line of sight so that's that is what the city is at this point in time uh doing to address the safety issue within the immediate confines of this project okay thank you and on top of that I definitely didn't want to add anything to applicant because I know they did a great job specifically what we're dealing with tonight so uh Chris are is are you guys open to that potential condition uh Chris Baker here on behalf of the applicant our only modification would be it refer is OT in there and I think that should actually be Washo County because that's who controls it right away okay but you're open to it yeah uh again this was the result of us meeting in the field with the applicant um it it provides a solution uh some some clearing and grubbing of of the uh property adjacent or south of his of his driveway uh would in conjunction with some of the other improvements we're doing in the area as part of the railroad improvements um I I think can solve uh some of those concerns for sure okay thank you and Jeff on that end do to waso County thing is that accurate yeah so we would actually prefer to leave end do and then simply add waso County and uprr so not add UPR it's already there but add waso County between OT uprr um as another entity uh recognizing that was County may be involved uh but endot apparently has some kind of jurisdiction in that area too so just to be safe it would be best to have all four of those jurisdictions listed in the approval there Chris looks like you wanted to speak on that uh they do have jurisdiction in the area but not actually it's it's it's to the north uh essentially the freeway onramp is the only jurisdiction they have and then but yeah nothing that we would be doing improvements in and I don't know if any of you had dealt with endot uh it's a timely process and I'd hate for any improvements that could help with safety be held up by someone who doesn't need to review okay just to clarify on that if OT is not required to review then they don't review so by listing them in the condition doesn't mean that they that they have to review it so um the city at this point unless I have any from engineering you okay so engineering would like to keep OT in there so that would be the recommendation again if Ott doesn't actually have jurisdiction and doesn't therefore need to review any plans they wouldn't review the plans and therefore would be no Associated time delays okay Chris comment one more time sorry we're ping ponging I feel like we're playing Tennessee yeah I love it again Chris Baker here on behalf of the applicate can we at least put in parentheses if required just by end not that seems a reasonable that's fine okay okay both of you will have to remind me once we get to a motion perfect thank you thank you okay about as applicable okay all right thank you and I'll I'll uh yield the mic and any other Commissioners have questions commissioner villan NOA please uh this is for U Mr Foster so Mr Foster this is a major site plan review which was triggered by the need for grading resulting in Cuts greater than 20 feet fills greater than 10 feet so on and so forth yes okay because this is in front of us um the findings that we need to make include um consistency with the Reno master plan compliance with Title 18 mitigate traffic mitigation impacts um rational phasing plan and then the requirements for major site plan review right correct all of that is needs to be considered yes yep and you mentioned the only thing that we are consider considering is that secondary access right so a lot of the policy requirements uh policies uh values what a lot of the stuff that's in the master plan only related to that secondary AIS right correct okay thank you I have other questions but I'm going to just stop right there for now please great no problem commissioner baser sure Mr fer just looking at me like he's ready thank you um so one one of our uh challenges or or maybe responsibilities is that new growth doesn't burden existing uh communities um or surroundings and I think uh it sounds like yall have been doing a phenomenal job at uh striving for that um the thing I'm sitting with right now is the feedback from the uh community members who are really concerned about you know the well-being and safety of their family and neighbors and it sounds like provision was it 14 uh uh the new condition is 14 right does that aim to address those concerns it it does within what can be done for this project um in other words the safety associated with the uh the intersection that would be created by the new access road and the existing roadway Network in that immediate area so the safety issues in that immediate area would be addressed by condition number 14 again the larger safety issues are not addressed by that condition and could not be addressed by any conditions associated with this particular application that is before us tonight however um that did give me an Avenue to bring up a condition of approval from the previous tentative map condition number 21 that requires payment of $150,000 to go towards roadway improvements addressing safety in the greater ver mgot area I know $150,000 doesn't go very far uh but at least it was what was conditioned of the tenative map at that point in time payment of that amount specifically for roadway improvements specifically associated with safety in this area okay thank you and and um to build on that that there was a suggestion from the public or the Community member um if the applicant would be willing to uh clear out some of that vegetation and so forth and maybe this is all tied together um do you do you know if they would be open to that or maybe that's a question for Mr Baker or maybe that's again Chris Baker manhard Consulting here on behalf of the applicant uh yeah that was our suggestion to to remedy the problem out in the field uh and the condition that uh that Jeff is adding is there I guess verbal response or or text response to to that offering uh which does mention horizontal and vertical line of sight um you know our the next steps for us is to provide uh Improvement plans um for for the railroad to approve and we would include uh kind of that clearing and grubbing of that area south of the driveway on those plant okay great that would be our response to the condition okay great and since you're up here Mr fster one last one since um you mentioned that you did speak with uh the the resident and there was an issue and you guys found a solution is that what this is about was this okay perfect yes absolutely okay yeah we met we met on site um we actually stood right where his photo was uh and I agreed there there was solution that we could provide to help with linos sight uh in addition uh there were some comments on the Improvement plans the for the first go round with uh the railroad and one of the other slopes is actually uh to help with line of sight from the center line of the roadway facing South toward the intersection is actually also going to be kind of uh modified to to help improve safety in line of sight okay great thank you so commissioner villan NOA uh yes question for Mr Foster again I think it was your um I think it was your um screen that we were using to go over some of the master plan um policies that were adhered to or met next one I think it was or maybe it is yes it is this one so this is these value or these policies that are as we went over earlier in this meeting um are in the master plan so can you touch on some of these how this secondary access specifically aligns with these items just the secondary access specifically because that's all we're reviewing today okay so um the emergency secondary access would be pretty self-explanatory just in terms of providing a second point of access up into that uh area for emergency secondary access um the viewsheds talk about minimizing grading and and uh uh you know minimizing visual uh you know intrusion things like that so when we have uh A reduced amount of grading with this proposed uh secondary access uh as well as a reduced amount of retaining walls is that wouldn't that be considered like mitigation yeah in a way in a way it's it's basically saying when we look at this project um uh as compared to the previous two project projects or the the ten map secondary access as well as the uh previous Su approval secondary access when we compare those against each other but then when we also look at this one on its own merits um how is it how is it lining up with the master plan um and I wish I had uh the the language of each of these goals and policies committed to memory I don't that's okay so like tree preservation we're losing 105 trees and I know it's not you I'm just you're more maybe the applicant probably has a lot of the answers too I'm only speaking to you because I know you're you know this development code like the back of your hand so I figured you probably would be a great person to answer but if the applicant wants to come up because it because I know I was mentioned earlier we're losing 105 old growth trees well mature trees which which is the the definition of a mature tree is 6 in diameter at breast height um so approximately 4 and2 ft of above the ground a DI a tree that's at least 6 in in diameter um so I mean there are some larger trees and and if we go back to this exhibit um you can kind of get a sense from the underlying imagery uh the size of of some of the trees um certainly uh a number of them are smaller but some of them are are are certainly bigger um so the uh the applicant might be able to speak to more clearly why the increase from 30 to a approximately 105 um but what I can also tell you is that when we look at this um visual simulation here um I had extensive conversations uh both internally as well as with the applicant to to get a sense of of why they are showing these trees remaining uh versus uh removed and so for example the tree uh to the Lower Side on the uh the the the uh right of picture there um uh with the design of the wall um all those trees Chris if I'm not mistaken are at least 10t away from the wall if I remember correctly uh but the design of the wall would be such that it would um and this gets back to the whole tree preservation Pol or goal that we talked about earlier the design of the wall excuse me is such that it would uh allow ideally those tree those trees to remain their their roots to remain and the condition requires consultation with an arborist to also make sure that as much as possible those trees are being preserved yeah okay again I'm not trying to pick on you I'm just I the position was taken earlier that a lot of the policies are you know in the master plan are being metant I just don't think that's accurate because if we go through one by one for this secondary access that's just not the case and I'm not telling you that it's more for the record I'm not again not trying to pick on you but um can we go back to those polies one more time okay so views can we can we get the applicant up here maybe that might help to go through some of these and see how those are being met but and again we're just looking at that secondary access currently they have approval for another access point that should this fail today they can presumably use is that right uh potentially but again remember that coordination with the steamboat uh Canal or the steamboat ditch company um required that that was conditioned uh as a part of the previous approval was that coordination and buy in from them and so in effect uh the applicant is being um told by the steamboat ditch company that their previously approved alignment is not what the steamboat ditch company would like and so that kind of is forcing them to to move in this direction and as the applicant indicated they OB AED that one additional parcel that allows them to uh respect the steamboat ditch company's uh position in terms of what they would prefer for the alignment um as well as uh uh so that that that parcel allows that to to be done um but again remember that the uh uh the overall amount of grading the overall amount of walls and Heights and all of that is reduced by the current uh proposal ye yes but again we're only at their current proposal because the first one was rejected presumably for Good Reason by Steamboat um it looks like this gentleman wants to yeah uh Chris Baker here on behalf of the applicant um I'm gonna jump in here uh the the first proposal was not rejected it was actually approved well not by us but I mean Steamboat no it was approved by Steamboat also okay thank you for clarifying so it wasn't uh it became a constructibility question it's not that it couldn't be done it's just that we didn't have uh we had now an access to an additional property that was was not an option to design around uh so like Jeff indicated um we do have an approved special use permit which almost mirrors this route identically um which just provides more disturbance significant uh leave more walls more grading um not more tree removal though I think that's where you were kind of getting at just different tree removal um the scale and size of the trees are actually a lot larger uh that were to be removed because they were on the downhill slope so if you can kind of I don't know if I can go through here Jeff nope can you go back to the photo Sims I'm sorry what did you want to to I have control now through here and also I don't want to hog the mic so I'm going to after this I'll let you say what you're going to say and then I'll turn it back over to the chair so others can chime in so for example uh in my presentation like I had pointed out uh I'm going to use this so before on the downhill slope we had two tiered Ralls so we had a wall requiring a bench and then an additional wall so essentially all these large growth trees that are shielding the road were actually proposed to be removed so that kind of went all the way up uh the route so now what we've done is this Wall's significantly Less in height right so this went from 23 to about 13 ft and then the grading feathered back right so what allows us to do Talis grading um and plantings of new trees uh on a larger scale right so uh we weren't doing seedlings that were not going to be irrigated which was the condition before so now we're doing more mature trees that are going to be irrigated so they would have a better success rate um and what you end up getting is you get that that feathered look um and I think it's kind of important to point out here you can't really see it in the proposed one so this whole area here most of the stuff and I can go back to my presentation if you want it's smaller scale trees they're very similar to the size that we're replacing with them with again 6 in at diam or at breast height so we're talking about you know 8ft tall trees not 100 foot tall trees which uh kind of the additional walls required us to remove so overall I I agree with Jeff um there might be more trees that are being removed but they're not the substantial size uh with the previous or currently approved route um that combined with uh the less walls uh the better I know there's a view shed uh issue in there so kind of what you see as you drive down Interstate 80 or when you drive down quy Ranch Road um again I think this is a significantly better solution and I think overall uh it does comply with the master plan better than the currently approved uh project go I have others but go I'm gonna let others speak does anybody else want to chime in we're enjoying your questioning oh wait commissioner Muno please thank you uh I think this will be for uh Mr Foster um originally when this came through I believe it was 2019 um and I may get some of the dates a little bit off the road in question we're talking about now was a fire access are a emergency road only correct I believe the original conception was more of a emergency secondary access yes okay and then when this came back to us the next time is when we have the the road that we basically the basically that they're planning over the top of now with some minor adjustments correct so okay when when the when when we talk about the the different timing here um and Chris would also have a a very good understanding of this because he's been involved since the very beginning as I understand on this so um the the uh the secondary Access Road um even under the previous the original tenative map was anticipated to carry uh residential trips 23% right so yeah it was a full second 2019 it wasn't it wasn't a Access Fire Road only it not it was a right okay okay um you know that's all I have I'll save the rest for uh for comments okay discussion commissioner villain please okay great so now we'll talk infrastructure so I know that the applicant isn't responsible for creating all the infrastructure around the area was County Reno that's not the applicant's responsibility however the development that is happening um why did City this staff believe and I know again the first project the first access way was approved but we're not talking about the first access we're talking about this access way um and so we're under new review we're looking at the conditions again or excuse me we're looking at um the review the findings again with the infrastructure can you can we touch on that why why we believe why the STA staff and the applicant believes that current infrastructure is appropriate uh for the secondary access point especially since since it's not just a secondary fire access with a gate so again unfortunately um that is not within the scope of what I am charged with in reviewing for this but the findings do indicate that safety is a factor it is you said it earlier when I asked you that the major site plan the findings are in relation to the project that we are analyzing which is simply the secondary access it is not the entire project the entire project the Planning Commission and then the City Council deliberated on the entire project and the associated impacts four years ago I'm not talking about the project I'm talking about the secondary access correct specifically why is the secondary access point and I and I I'm trying not to be rude to you or I but what but I feel like you're turning my questions into something that they're not I am not I assure you hold just a moment Mr really would like to chck commissioner vill in way if I can clarify um when Jeff says we focus on this this is a request for grading um within the open space designation as well as the cuts and fills correct so we staff is charged at reviewing that in context are the grades appropriate does Fire review this does it meet their standards are the the the grading is grading properly mitigated to be consistent with the master plan in terms of visual impacts we look does it meet our standards like Jeff said we're not contemplating this with the safety of the overall project we're looking at it in context of is the grading appropriate that we're reviewing with this request okay so is the grading appropriate with the infrastructure that's currently in place now yes okay and why is that can you touch on that for me please given that it is right next to high you know it's right next to the highway and it does you know we are I mean there's potential for slope impact as far as um uh what's the terminology that we use when slope failure um especially when we're removing so many trees there's risk of SL slope failure we're REM removing 105 trees slope failure um so in this case the infrastructure that's currently in place I understand there's going to be some walls um put up but can you to speak to why staff believed it was appropriate um for the secondary axis with respect to the infrastructure that's in place given the grading and and the risk of slope failure um please touch on that absolutely so the design of this roadway uh this secondary access roadway that is shown on this uh diagram here um is being it's being done by qualified Engineers they have to comply with um our requirements in terms of the city's Public Works design manual um and all engineering practices that are it's just it will be part of the overall final design of the roadway um the uh you can see my reference in the third Bullet to the conditions requiring the additional geotechnical analysis um that is associated with the walls and the overall project um so some of these kinds of things get addressed during final design um much the way on a tenative map versus a final map uh some of the things get put to bed during final design so the tenative map shows approximately where the parcels will be and the final map you know figures out some of the the the final details so some of that will be done during the uh subsequent building permit process uh the additional geot technical analysis as I mentioned with the conditions um compliance with code with regard to RMC um and compliance with standard uh grading and cuts and fills requirements in the code um the additional conditions 7 through nine here addressing enhanced grading techniques um dealing with things that are both visual as well as structural so that we can make sure that the ultimate design of this project and the execution of this project is such that there will be uh the various issues that are associated with grading for a road and development of the road uh and the retain Associated retaining walls will be done um in a way that respects the area visually as well as uh achieve success uh structurally and and design wise so that that would be how that happens okay and so when reviewing when we're looking at our findings for this major site plan review which is with with respect to the grading uh resulting in grades cutter than 20 greater than 20 feet so on so forth what's an example of something you would consider with regard to um with regard to that you know say we're considering consistency with the Reno master plan so we did talk about some of the policies but actually let's go to compliance with Title 18 so compliance with Title 18 what's an example of um in this case what you would look at if you know when reviewing as a staff uh for the city what would you consider when reviewing for this par particular U major site plan review so again um grading the the the title 18 which is the Reno Municipal Code has very uh detailed language on grading and cuts and fills and slopes and all of those things and so all of those requirements would be addressed through the standard process This Is Not Unusual this is exactly how this happens all the time approvals are based on an assumption that those kinds of things are going to be addressed during final design and the building permit process so that's how uh the grading would be addressed and that's how those things would be uh the compliance with Title 18 as as you're as you're indicating it would be addressed throughout the rest of the process moving forward okay so why is it in front of us today if if it's going to be addressed moving forward because it's an entitlement that is required for cuts and fills uh for the grading commissioner vill wave if I if I could add to that that so when staff reviews the grading plans that are submitted we look for compliance with Title 18 requirements in terms of the slopes that they're providing um mitigation measures um for erosion that sort of thing that are covered in conditions on this permit um as Jeff mentioned I believe it's conditions 7 through n actually go on enhance what's even required in our standard code procedures so those get conditioned on this report with with this request and then when they come in with their final Improvement plans staff will verify that those conditions are being met and that all those measures are being implemented with the final design it's clearly part of policy and procedure for it to be brought in front of us for a reason Beyond just that of because it's an entitlement that's obviously not the case and so no and I agree the reason that they're here tonight is due to the the cuts um the cut and fill aspect of the grading that's being proposed but we have standards that that they still have to comply with it's just from a grading perspective that's kind of I guess above your normal grading so to speak that's why there's thresholds established in the code that provide this greater review so and if I can jump in and I appreciate I I now I'm seeing where where I think you were going commissioner villain NOA um so the the reason things come to this body for an entitlement is when they are above the you know outside the pale right above and beyond a traditional uh project whether it's for residential adjacency or cuts and fills or you know Heights or anything like that right when they're above what we can approve administratively directly at a building permit level without ever coming to a decision-making body right so in this case um not only are not only does the applicant have to comply with RMZ Title 18 but when it comes when it comes to a body like this you have the ability to add conditions I.E conditions 7 to9 in this case that that are above and beyond as I think Mike you were just referring to that are so that when the applicant comes forward with building permits those additional conditions they have to comply with above and beyond RMC in Title 18 so whereas they wouldn't have that opportunity but they wouldn't be required to do those but for having had to come to this body okay Ian I'll let I'll let others go but I if I have more questions I will let you know okay I don't feel like everything was answered but I'll move forward and we'll go from here all right thank you commissioner berer please yes thank you um I have one question I I do want to touch on my fellow Commissioners uh questioning I just want to say I I understand where she's coming from I believe I think when we walk out of this room we just want to unequivocally know why were're saying yes or no to something and when we have folks that drive in all the way from ver ey and they catch us out in the hallway and they ask why did you support that or why did you deny that because my safety and so forth we want to be able to give him a clear answer right and we want to give not not in a uh um kind of rude way or anything but really an answer that you would be able to explain to a 5-year-old right like simple straight answer so with that that kind of tees me up with my question we're trying to talk about safety and the the common theme is well not today and I understand I understand why but the question is when just so folks that are here all the way from verdy can plan and anticipate when they can actually share their input and work with these fine folks on on a viable solution when can they tentatively plan for safety discussions so there's a a solid solution that works for everyone so and Mr Baker can come up too if if you want to tag team it it's up to you so within the context again of what we're looking at tonight um staff feels that safety is being addressed in a in a in a finite place right at the essentially at the intersection there um beyond that as I mentioned condition number 2 one from the previous LDC for the tenative map requires the $150,000 payment for safety improvements in the roadway Network in that area Okay um Beyond those things it's it's it's essentially I mean it is outside of my charge for what we can look at for this decision tonight um I would hope that there are opportunities um for discussions um I know that Carly who spoke earlier um is actively engaged in discussions with uh the county and and other folks trying to impress upon them the realities of the safety issues in that greater area um again not specifically right here but in the greater verdy area so there are folks that are having those discussions trying to get change to be brought about um I commend them and I hope that they are successful I've seen the roads out there I've driven with car uh last week uh on on Thursday right um to to look out at the roads out there absolutely they are substandard for the widths and the and whatever shoulders and things like that with regard to traffic uh that's coming I can't give you anything else for tonight there's there I there's no there's nothing that this particular project can can get involved with there um so I I wish I had something else for you I I appreciate that Mr Foster um here's the thing it's it's our discretion so we're going to roll with things so Mr Baker you mind stepping on up for a sec um and I would like um would you like to step up for a second yeah no no Carly Carly we're gonna do this it's it's gonna take 30 seconds commissioner B before that I just want to make make one clarification on what on Jeff said when we say that we look at only the grading well we we also look at the safety aspects of that grading so we we look at the road grades we look at the geometry of the alignment of the road itself and we look at the intersection of where that's tying in which is why we have proposed condition number 14 so to say that we don't look at safety at all no we look at safety in context with this request um there were conditions on the previous maps and other components of the projects that will get implemented with the project itself but what we're looking at tonight is the safety associated with this specific request yeah thank you and and I appreciate that and I'm totally fine with that but since we're all about adding conditions and working together and finding Solutions I just want to know from Mr Baker since you're you're representing the fine folks is a commitment to to work with Carly and folks and the families to ensure that uh there will be a a final solution that works for everyone um um especially because there's kids involved and all that just for the record Chris Baker uh here on behalf of the applicant um again I think we've we've done that today we've done that throughout the process um but again the ultimate decision unfortunately isn't up to us it it's up to you guys in the City of Reno and waso County um whose actual Road we're talking about we just get to propose ideas we don't get to determine whether or not those ideas get approved no I I I know it's not about approval it's about how we work together and and that's going to be the theme of my tenure here ensuring that we work together closely and intentionally and so I just want to know is is that satisfactory to you or would you like to see something more I would love to be involved with this as um Jeff mentioned I have been working with RTC I've been working with the Washo County I've worked with anybody and everybody that will discuss this with me I don't know personally because this is not my forte this is not my expertise that there is a solution on Crystal Park Road I believe that the powers that be can come to the table and offer some suggestions and some corrections but again our road network was not planned it just evolved it just became so these roads are not even two-lane roads they're not striped we have no gutters we have no sidewalks we have barely a curb it it is not safe it is not safe for the pedestrians it's not safe for the residents it is just simply not safe and I encourage anyone of you to come out and drive this with me I'm not making this up this is not NIMBY this is not I'm worried about a development in my backyard this is truly a safety concern for our community and I'm happy and willing to work with anybody involved I don't know again I don't feel that it's fair for me to put this on this developer but their development is generating the traffic that's going to be using these roads so at what point can we say we need to address this and who is responsible for that and I feel that the City of Reno is that is what I wanted to put on the record tonight perfect thank you so much and Mr Baker thank you for taking the heat as well uh nothing personal there just uh thank you yeah yeah so thank you for doubling down and making sure that we do our job too okay okay all right it's raining back in let's get to what's in front of us um I think we've had a lot of questions I'd say we move into discussion does anybody have any points they would like to make commissioner Munos uh thank you um I'm looking at Title 18 1804 401 uh encourage initiative grading practices are appropriate heel sides from public View and unsightly scarring um I voted against this road last time it came up um and I feel that the the use of the area and the use of the entire project um wasn't something that I would have ever approved uh I think it was a beautiful area that I personally used for hunting 20 years ago um but we get to the point where we are now and regardless of how I feel personally about or the area I do feel that the uh the developers and and uh the city are doing their very best to make this area work um that is going to function how it should and I can see the developer has gone through Great Links uh to make sure that everything within their scope of what they can do they have done their best to um maximize the green Open Spaces uh safety in the roadways the the um the grading changing the grading from what it was last time in the walls and Heights from what they were last time to now um it is a great improvement from what I saw and regardless of how I feel about the project regardless of how uh this affects the wildlife in the area because it absolutely does and and and that was a major sticking point for me last time was the uh the Muer population travels directly where they're removing all these trees down across the freeway which they done a great job mitigating that they've they've put in the uh the stops and the the uh I'm not sure what they're called they're like retaining walls for for animals to be able to jump down and not jump back up onto the freeway they they've done that it's it's visible in the area um so regardless of my personal feelings are towards this I do feel like they are putting an effort um I look forward to when uh the city and the county catches up on the roadways and the areas to make it safe um for travel out there because it is unsafe right now and and I know that's not in the scope of what we're doing but because of what they've done because of the changes they've made um I can look at this and say yeah I I do see they meet uh they meet the findings and that I can approve this now and I wasn't able to two years ago so I do appreciate the work they're putting in great thank you commissioner Armstrong were you going to make a note uh I was gonna make a motion but if there's still comments I will hold off commissioner Ro did you want a point of discussion yeah quick comments I really feel that um what we're seeing today versus what was presented in the past is a market Improvement the reduction in the walls the um limited cuts and fills from an engineering standpoint are a substantially better secondary access I think condition condition 14 within the Nexus of the project shows good faith in working with the neighbors and yeah I can make the findings okay thank you I'm in the same place I think specific to this item we've seen from our public commenters that there is sympatico with the applicant on this very item and the concerns outside of that I'm sure will continue to be voiced and hopefully we'll be more proactive but what we have right in front of us we have an applicant who's been very active with the neighbors in this specific item and I think they've done a great job and I'm happy to see this Improvement to so all be in support commissioner villanua um so I disagree I mean I don't disagree to the point that they've made an effort to communicate with the community um but just because they've commun with Comm communicated with um The Neighbors in the community does not mean that they've met um all the requirements of um and all the have met all the findings here that I'm required to review um for example like I mentioned earlier I do think um SA safety um and we are entitled to you know review this for health and safety welfare well-being of the community um I I don't believe that you know this this is a a place where Road should be the secondary access should be I think the slope is way too steep I'm the only one here that actually visited the site so I could tell you that because I was there just a couple days ago um but that that site is steep um we're losing a lot of the trees the policies that that um in the master plan that are um alleged to be met here or M or you know plans here that are um not met that are mitigated in an effort to meet those policies I just don't uh believe are um uh meet the threshold that is required for this area um and I understand this is just the secondary axis this is not the the the review of the development that's been approved but I was in no the last time on October 20th 2020 21 for um similar reasons and I mean they're back here again not because they were denied um access but because this is allegedly a better access which uh I I don't know if that's the entire truth um but I have to take him for their word because you know they're here today um but in any case um I I disagree I don't think that this is appropriate um place I don't think it's safe I don't think this secondary access is safe um and I don't think it meets the policies of the master plan so I um I'm going to vote be a no vote on this okay thank you and for the record I I have visited I I took the tour with Miss borchard and went to the verdc community council and listened to the concerns of the neighbors the last time this was in front of us so I've definitely been there and visited and I hear what you're saying but notably I have been there commissioner baser yes um short and sweet I'm for it um as much as the last 10 minutes of my line of questioning might indicate it I'm actually for it um I think my rub is really on us on our end right U Mr Foster you do a good job presenting guiding the facts Mr Baker appreciate your efforts doing community outreach and the the folks from the community being here um I just wish that we had better answers for youall for some of these things you know and that's maybe something that we we'll need to work on and I hope we will be uh in the near future so we're working more in parallel instead of serially where it's like one after the other and it takes long time to figure out what exactly is going to happen so um great job y'all tonight I'm for it all right thank you all right uh Christian AR I think you're ready to make a motion uh yeah I was and uh still am I I'd just like to say I do think it's um I think the alternative Access Road that's been proposed is appropriate I do think there are appropriate mitigations that we went through specifically for the trees I I agree with the tradeoffs and uh I ultimately think it's it's going to be a better solution so with that in case of LDC 24-11 uh Santa kichi secondary access based on compliance with the applicable findings I recommend that the Planning Commission approve the major site plan review subject to the conditions listed in the staff Report with the addition of condition 14 amended to reflect end do as applicable and the inclusion of Washo County sound good okay second we have a motion in commissioner you second so we have a motion in a second Heather can we do a roll call vote please uh V villaa uh no Carrie roer yes Arthur Munos yes Manny Basera yes Harris Armstrong yes JD julich yes motion passes 5 to one all right thank you and good luck appreciate you time tonight all right we're going to close item 6.3 mov to item 6.4 case number LDC 24005 Elks Lodge RV park and I'm working on the Assumption we'll have an applica or presentation from the applicant come on up you'll have 15 minutes thank you Commissioners is this up I believe you're good okay and my clicker the mouse or this mouse mouse you can use the clicker to like go through the slides and then the mouse to point if you would like to okay that's easier thank you um my name is Ann Marie Lane from D I'm representing Elk Lodge on this request also with me today I have senior um civil engineer silus Callahan on the project I'd also like to introduce and if you could just stand briefly and wave to the commission when I introduce you I've got representatives from the Reno Elks Lodge we have their exalted leader miss Connie Weber and Elks Lodge board member Mr Dan langshaw as well as Mr Sid Russell assistant wagon Master of the Reno Elks RV Club thank you folks for hanging in there with me today the purpose of my presentation is to um answer to introduce you to the Reno Elks project and answer any questions that you or members of the public might have and then respectfully request Planning Commission approval of the conditional use permits finally I'd like you uh to introduce you to the applicant organization uh the fral order of elex Lodge was founded to promote and practice the four cardinal virtues of Charity Justice byly love and Fidelity to promote the welfare enhance the happiness of its members to Quicken the spirit of American patriotism and to cultivate good Fellowship as a fraternal organization with a network of nearly 2,000 lodges and communities all over the country they administer a generous charitable Foundation that spends more than $80 million annually for education and patriotic community-minded programs the Reno Elks Lodge has been operating out of the current Lodge since 1961 the Reno chapter of elks was established on June 30th 1900 the project site is located west of the Reno Convention Center the proposed project revitalized an underdeveloped vacant dirt lot adjacent to the west of the lodge oh there you go if the conditional use permit is approved the vacant lot will be converted to overflow parking and and 11 short-term RV rental spaces for Elks Lodge members the request has been made for a conditional use permit to establish a short-term recreational vehicle park as a permitted accessory use to the Reno Elks Lodge primary use as a fraternal organization RV parks do require a conditional use permit in the city Rino regardless of intensity including size or lengths of stays so why the project the two main driving factors for this projects are to increase the interconnectivity between lodges and to accommodate parking for recent membership growth besides being a place where Neighbors come together families share meals um the Fraternal Order of Lodge offers an extensive network of communities Across the Nation approximately 393 lodges across the country offer short-term RV rental spaces to their members of the um 16 Elks Lodges in Nevada seven maintain RV spaces as an added amenity to their members RV rental spaces are used by members when traveling to and from official Elks sponsored events as as alternative accommodations while visiting family and friends and as emergency locations for those who need to evacuate due to natural disasters as far as growth um in addition to the 11 RV rental spaces this project will include installation of 68 new parking spaces to accommodate for the recent growth in membership the Reno El Lodge has added 831 new members since 2019 which is a growth rate of 57% the sub site is located within the mixed juuse Urban Zone in District it is surrounded by that zoning District to the north Southeast and West the uses surrounding the site include offices to the north a private Middle School to the South and a tire store to the east it is adjacent to an apartment complex to the West although notification was sent to surrounding property owners and the site was posted as required by code staff has confirmed that they have received no written comment and opposition about the project the project was scheduled to be presented at the ward to Neighborhood advisory meeting although the meeting was canceled NAB board members were emailed project information and no comments have been received as stated the applicant is proposing 68 new parking stalls including 11 short-term RV rental spaces which includes four new Ada parking stalls and one new Ada short-term RV space the need for the additional parking is Justified with the El Lodge membership growth rate and growth rate projections elex Lodge members utilize the RV elex Lodge members utilizing the RV spaces will have access to Elk's Lodge restroom and bathroom facilities as well as um the proposed sanitary dumping station for the discharge of vehicle retention takes the proposed RV parking spaces meet the minimum setback of 5T to parcel boundary lines an existing 6 foot height fence with solid vinyl slats separates the existing private school to the south from the proposed adjacent use there's an existing 6ft he iron fence which is located on the west property boundary line between the Willowbrook apartments and the proposed parking area adequate Landscaping with differing Heights of plantings will provide adequate screening between the willber apartments located west of the proposed parking lot addition as far as operations onsite trash disposal will utilize the existing Elks Lodge trash receptacles um and I would like to point out that this request does differ from traditional RV parks in that the stays are limited to 1 to two weeks and the use will be limited to Lodge members only the park um will be required to have a operation manual this operation manual will include choir hours although the slide States um 900 p.m. proposed choir hours will be from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. based on staff's recommendation in addition to the quiet hours the manual include restrictions on generator use and noise levels a maintenance and upkeep schedule of the dump station and trash locations and it will also prohibit the use of wood burning fires um although the project is designed to accommodate individual electric and water hookups that is not a requirement en code and this project um will be phased the final determination on electric and water hookups will be determined based on Final design cost projections um in the future the sanitary sewer dump station is required be code is required by code and will be installed as designed uh staff's recommended conditions of approval include limitations on construction hours enhanced landscape along the western boundary including additional trees and shrubs that exceed current city standards and on and an on-site sign posting that has a detailed map of the park identifies Park facilities and includes the established rules of the park the applicant agrees to these and all recommended conditions of approval um as evidenced throughout the application narrative and Associated doc documents the applicant cop request is consistent with longrange policies and regulations governing the allowance of these requests as such the applicant respectfully request the city of planning city of Reno's Planning Commission approval of the conditional use permit at this time I'd like to thank City of Reno staff especially Mr alswell for his assistance throughout the application process I'd also like to extend my GR itude for the planning commission's time as well as to the um Elks board members for trusting Dal um to provide the Professional Services on this new exciting project should the commission have any followup questions about this request I or project engineer Mr Callaway are happy to provide a response Miss wer is also available if you have spe specific questions for the lodge thank you thank you very much appreciate it we'll get a presentation from Brooke good evening once again Planning Commission Brooke Oswald associate planner just go over the project site we are in ward two as you can see almost at that Junction of Ward one Ward uh three and ward two uh go over the project site the project site itself is approximately two acres of an overall 5.2 Acre Site and as we come in a little bit closer go a little bit more this is uh to establish an RV park in a that mixed use urban zoning uh that does require a conditional use permit the big things that we looked at this is that compatibility with those surrounding uses and the operations I just to give you a larger Outlook of this as you can see off to the western side we have a a larger Park and we really start to see residential coming in further to the uh West there up to the top that's the Atlantis Hotel just so you have a perspective of where we are um this is the new Moana pool coming in uh shortly and then down here this is uh kitsy and uh the intersection of three or sorry uh North Virginia and 395 North Virginia is really important because it is that main arterial Hub that we have uh we have our bus Rapid Transit that runs down there that runs every 10 minutes so and this larger area as the whole is known as one of our um Regional areas coming in closer to the site uh off to the east of the site there is the large convention center and then directly next to the site are are some tires some retail and Dutch Brothers Coffee uh this project here is the Fire Creek Casino this was an approval that came before this commission uh a while back um still uh the the approval is still there but have not moved forward with construction uh off to the north of the project we have two quasi Office Buildings uh directly to the north specifically what staff looked at were two of the main uses we have we have a multif family development and a small Middle School uh small uh Private School uh to the west and south project going over our re re mag Reno we have several things that are supportive of this it's that underutilized space as was shown it is a vacant lot that has been there uh we have that uh Central core and um uh infill of that this is a really unique use as of Van RV park and not something we usually see in a denser place but I think as I'm trying to show that surrounding area is really supportive to that recreational use uh both for our community but visitors uh with the convention center additional casinos in the area the bus Rapid Transit the proximity to food and uh other shopping in that area and then on our right showing our our zoning which is our mixed use urban zoning So within our code we have several additional standards that are required for um RV park uh and the applicant has met or is exceeding those to look at our overall project site our project to the left there is at 2 Acres with the larger uh main uh Elks Lodge uh in the white they do have a swimming pool recreational facilities the bathrooms and other sanitation will be open to uh the guests 24 hours a day um with that uh we do we did look at that screening and buffering we are requiring additional trees and code does require that that fence that is currently open view be screened in one way uh will be screened that will be reviewed through the building process sanitation is probably one of the most key importance of this and this is really coming from the state down so the state has uh several requirements that they have to go through first to be approved uh we have held back our our final moving forward with any permits until they have those in place additionally we have the parking that they have come in they do me or exceed um their their parking standards what they've done additionally we have what is unique about this area is they' provided an alternative Paving surface so it is a geogrid that is backfilled with gravel this is uh great in many ways from sustainability of of the percolation of that water um the alternative um surface also reduces heat island effect and is uh suitable for this staff engineering has reviewed this and staff and we are in agreement that this this is the appropriate surface so the big one we looked at was that operations um first thing we have we have a a dedicated management to this the Elks clubs they are as was stated they're very well established they do this Across the Nation they have that background in support of how they would do it they have really limited themselves in many ways the the city does allow 90 days at an RV park and they have really limited those days to to two weeks um Additionally the operation manual has other things related to quiet times uh no open fires generators and a number of other things that we will come into support that proximity to those other uses our access point we have our main access point coming here that M hits the main pave parking area what we' anticipate the RV parking will mainly be used here as you can see the darker gray area will be the paved area with the pervious surface on the remaining portion of the site come in really quick to this area just to go over the project um looking here at that aess point I I identified before it comes up and we do have one way and and we worked with them to get this specific so um that is when you're dealing with larger vehicles that that how they're moving through there and that safety especially because of pedestrians and that cross traffic that one way is really important all those sites are designed to be backed into so so those future movements back in will be going out which promotes that safety and pedestrian safety uh this is that General Park area down in the middle of that between the two areas you see a a white line that is a designated pedestrian area so that we have safe pedestrian access through the site and finally we're looking at a Recreation Area uh although they do meet our Recreation standards with that pool and the other amenities that provide they are will be providing additional uh recreational amenities which will have landscape and we'll meet City standards and requirements and then finally that additional buffering and screening that we'll see uh with landscape along that uh residential edge with that staff could make all the findings for conditional use permit and I'll leave you with a recommend a recom recommended Rec a recommendation thank you all thanks bro appreciate it all right we'll go to the Commissioners for disclosures commissioner villan NOA please uh commissioner Villa familiar with the site oh and I've read read emails as well commissioner same disclosures commissioner Armstrong familiar with your side I read and received emails commissioner verer familiar with the site received emails and spoke with the applicants representative commissioner rer been to the site read and received emails commissioner Dracula read and received emails of familiar with the site and also got a presentation from the applicant prior to this meeting all right uh do we have any request to speak fors Heather I do not have any requests of speak forms for this item we did receive correspondents and voicemails that were um for this item they were forwarded to the Planning Commission and have been entered into the record would you like to hear the voicemail right now please thank you okay yes this is Alan Crawley live here in Reno Nevada I'm a member of the Reno else Lodge and we have the RV uh area proposal is coming to tonight and I am totally for it something that should have been done a long time ago and it's more of a el recreational area so yeah I am for the approval and support of this project I appreciate that and I thank you so much goodbye all right that's it for voicemails thank you very much anybody in the chambers wish to speak on this item seeing none we will close public comment and go to the commissioner for questions of the applicant or staff commissioner Basera yeah I I don't have questions really just uh Tip Top great job I'm ready to make a motion if no one else is I'll comment oh go ahead uh yeah I think this is a good use of that area I actually have done they I know that Alex Lodge does host um quite a few different events there I've been to I volunteered for a veterans legal Services event there and uh they did a great job as host uh at that location and I think this is a another great use for folks to be able to use that site thank you great go ahead and uh make your motion if you'd like commissioner sure um thank you uh in the matter of case number LDC 24-5 Elks Lodge RV park based upon compliance with the applicable findings I recommend that the Planning Commission approve the conditional use permit subject to conditions listed in the staff report I have a motion commissioner Armstrong I'll second have a motion and a second all in favor I I I any opposed seeing none motion passes abely good luck with the project thank you thank you you bet all right we will now move on to case number lc24 0014 Reno seek Tipple looks like we will get a presentation from the applicant please come on up you'll have 15 minutes state your name for the record please uh good evening Commissioners uh my name is Eric lude I'm with Robinson engineering and our client is the Reno seek Temple our client is in the process of building a new Temple facility to replace the previous facility that was destroyed by arson in around uh 2010 um our first exhibit is a vicinity map which shows you where this location is in W five our client has used this site for religious assembly since approximately 2009 construction on the new Temple facility had begun pursuant to a building permit under the original permit the foundation stubbed utilities to the exterior of the building at their original plan locations and some site improvements were completed um you can see that work when you drive by today on East Second Street we are proceeding with the project and there's a lot going on but we are before you tonight for just one reason and that is we are requesting an alternative equivalent compliance to decrease the ground floor interest requirement for transparent windows and doors from 25% to plus or minus 15.1% in favor of enhanced pedestrian amenities making these improvements to The Pedestrian environment and activating the public area in front of the building will be a suitable substitute for transparency arguably these improvements will provide greater benefits than the additional windows and doors we have provided a site plan and Landscaping plan as the second and third exhibits uh they show the details and I'll let you Heather just roll that forward um that's the site plan there and then the Landscaping is the next document um the added amenities are a detached wandering sidewalk uh along East Second Street a front Courtyard with benches and plenty of trees this approach will enhance the overall design and look of the project it will positively impact adjacent property it will provide benefits to the public passing by on foot and using various modes of transportation this approach is consistent with the features of adjacent properties and use regulations in the area and will increase Public Safety Health and Welfare uh we have requested such a reduction out of a respect for the privacy of our clients community members who will be using the facility we want to knowledge Carter Williams uh for his creativity and cooperation in coming up with this approach after we consulted with him about this um project we also want to note that the Landscaping plan was well received by the W five NAB when we presented this at their meeting on October 1 uh no one opposed our um request at that time uh I just want to Note One Thing One air in one of the exhibits the site plan uh the northeast corner duplex will not be demolished just want to make sure you are not confused about that very small detail I'm happy to answer any of your questions uh thank you very much for your time and consideration thank you as well looks like we will get a presentation from Carter good evening Commissioners Carter Williams assistant planner for the record so tonight before us is a request for an alternative equalent compliance submitted by the Reno SE Temple um the property is located on the southwest corner of East Second Street and Locust Street um and it's specific to ground floor interest but it how it's how that comes out in code is the transparency of Windows and Doors the property is located within the mixed use urban Zone which allows for religious assembly by right and it's located within the urban mixed uh use master plan land use designation um it is generally supported by the master plan and is consistent with the following the policies listed on the screen here is a view of the existing condition of the site um some features that will be improved through this process currently there's multiple old curb Cuts there's five in total um across both Second Street and Locust Street um will be reduced to two um there are there's an existing bus stop and street light infrastructure that's um obstructing the existing sidewalk and there is no landscape Parkway um it's it's AB buding the street from oops uh so the Second Street in this area is considered an arterial and with the smaller sidewalk the um obstructions that exist today and um I generally it's just there there this poses a danger to pedestrians there it goes sorry so this request considers ground floor interest of a building or put to put it differently whether there are features that uh draw um pedestrians to the building um so the code quantifies this um based on the amount of Windows on a facade windows indoors that provide views into Lobby retail restaurant spaces um so this process the alternative equipment compliance allows us to consider alternative features that would serve the same purpose so the applicant's proposal has the existing sidewalk reconstructed pulling it away from the street allowing for that um that Parkway to to be installed which improves the Landscaping situation on the site the building is also pushed closer to the to the street which which kind of creates that bridge um between the public sidewalk and the Civic space that's provided on the public Pro uh private property uh um the space will be activated using with pedestrian amenities including benches um a Pap patio and Planters um those curb cuts are going to be removed to not not disturb the The Pedestrian environment and the um sidewalk is oriented so that it's positions outside of that that infrastructure that's currently obstructing it the building also provides ground floor interest by having the entrance project out um and having a uh walkway effectively or connection to the um to the sidewalk directly from the entrance to incur to clearly Define it as such and that's further demonstrated by the uh the architecture um the scalloped or multifoil arches um clearly identify the entrance um which is encouraged within our code um there is uh on the Locus Street side it's not a pedestrian entrance so um to add similar interest there's Evergreen tree plantings that are proposed on that that that side um so generally um the the design features that are proposed are um they they achieve pedestrian activation um through kind of a multi-layered approach marrying building design site design and landscape design um to achieve those goals in the mixed juuse districts the uh the findings for an alternative compliance through staff's review and Analysis we've um were able to meet all the findings and then on the screen is the recommended motion and I'm available for any questions thank you very much all right we will go to the Commissioners for disclosures commissioner War Meer please I've been by the site uh I visited the site commissioner commissioner Armstrong I'm familiar with the site and read and received emails I I don't think there were any emails on this specifically though commissioner Mo I'm familiar with the site commissioner Villa no disclosures commissioner dracul no disclosures all right any requests to speak fors Heather I have no correspondence no voicemails and no request to speak forms for this item and no Zoom no one on Zoom all right cool anybody in the chambers wish to speak on this item seeing none we will close public comment and open up to the Commissioners for questions of the applicant or staff commissioner rar it off I have a question for Carter and this is just my under so I can understand the process um would the applicant have been able to do a minor deviation for the under 10% reduction in transparency so the the transparency requirement is further it's more than 10% okay um so it's a so it's so 25% reduction would be 2 and a half perc and they're they're about 10% under yeah got it thank you commissioner villan NOA hi Carter so the um my understanding of policy reason behind the clear windows or the transparent Windows is for welcoming uh to create that welcoming retail space or uh space for patrons and in this case we are um just creating an alternate equivalent right by allowing for other um accommodations and features that kind of mimic what that would otherwise do um is that right that's correct okay great thank you discussion my fellow Commissioners I'm ready to make a motion please do kind sir stand by him on the wrong one while my fellow commissioner brings up up his motion just want to say it's nice to see Mr lude in a different context other than the Reno Tahoe Odyssey actually can I share something as well um for I I do want to say I think this is appr I didn't get a comment but I think this is appropriate because not all the alternative equivalents that we seen come in front of us actually do what they're intended to do sometimes gives the appearance of that but doesn't really satisfy that so I I think in this case that is being met um and so I'm happy to support the project or the modification great and I can make got it I got it just uh case number LDC 2414 Reno seek uh based on a based on upon compliance with the pickable findings I move to approve the alternative equivalent compliance subject to conditions listed to the staff report commissioner Basera second we have a motion and a second any further discussion seeing none all in favor all I any opposed hearing none motion passes good luck thank you all right closing item 6.5 moving to item seven trucky Meadows re Regional planning liaison report who's who's who's who's my guy I can do it if you don't mind okay so our last meeting was Thursday October 26 2023 at 6 p.m. uh business of the day included three resolutions of appreciation uh for the service of Sarah chich Peter Gower and Mark Johnson the last two I think we're very familiar with um and then we had three public hearings on Regional plan conformance review the first was for a city of Sparks master plan Amendment for El Rancho Estates the second was another city of Sparks master plan Amendment for the Marina Gateway and Prader Way project and the last one was a city of Reno master plan Amendment for Diaz Masonry which we saw come through this commission all of which were approved uh there were no reports and the next meeting is November 20th 2023 which is a Monday uh usually they meet on Thursdays but because of Thanksgiving they'll be meeting on Monday this time thank you so much appreciate that closing item seven moving to item eight staff announcements Mike here we go just a couple quick announcements um the Valley View Estates PUD project which this board approved uh I think last beginning of last month uh that went to city council uh Council continued that item and requests for some additional analysis be included in the Pud so that will come back before them in the future they did not set a date but I'll give you an update once that does come back um the Viewpoint Apartments um which you this this board also approved um the applicant appealed the condition related to the secondary access to to council um and actually withdrew that appeal the day of the hearing hearing they worked out their issue with the fire department so that will proceed as approved by the Planning Commission um lastly just a a couple venue changes that we have coming up um the city will be doing some it upgrades to the council chambers in December and January so our December 20th meeting and our January 3rd meeting will be held at the city of Sparks city council chambers and our January 18th meeting will be held at the washer County Commission Chambers so that we'll we'll obviously get you some additional details on that but just a quick heads up that we'll have some venue changes coming up in December January remind us again and thank you and then just to confirm we next meeting is November 16th it's a Thursday so is that correct yes okay great all right closing item eight item nine commissioner suggestions for future agenda items go ahead Mr I don't know if I have uh one necess say for the future but I did want to ask um there there was a lovely report um given by uh Angela fous today at the workshop related to um how we work and all this stuff and I was just wondering maybe from Mike or uh someone else on staff if we can get a copy or if that can be presented to us or it was it was really neat absolutely we can staff can forward you a copy of Angela's presentation well I'll make sure that get sent out in the morning maybe send that also with commissioner AR shank's request from the uh master plan presentation absolutely thank you all right closing item nine item 10 public comment Heather anything on your end no correspondence no voicemails and no request of speak forms for this item anybody in the chambers wish to speak seeing no humans here we will close item number 10 public comment move to item 11 adjournment make a motion to adjourn second all in favor hi all right everybody have a good night Mr Hall where you going