and we have a quorum uh apologies everyone we're doing this a little bit different uh since this is um since I'm Vice chairing um and we're doing this remotely uh tonight so um I don't have the binder we're just going to go for it but uh to start the meeting we're going to begin with a pledge of allegiance and Manny can you lead us my pleasure iedge Al flag the United States ofer stand na thank you all right um Michelle may we do a roll call Carrie ryer here Manny Basera here Christina delvar here JD draulic absent at this time Alex velto here Sylvia vinoa here we have a quorum excellent thank you right at this time we're going to open the meeting to public comment um this is available to anyone in the audience or joining us on Zoom this evening um and public comment is limited to three minutes um Heather do you have any public comments members of the public may call into the meeting to provide public comment by using the zoom link provided on the agenda specifically https colon links. reno.gov SL capital P Capital C 09-04 d24 it should be noted for those in the audience that comments are to be addressed to the Planning Commission as a whole comments heard under this item will be limited to 3 minutes per person and may pertain to matters both on and off the Planning Commission agenda please note that the Planning Commission may not take action upon any matter not agendized for possible action on today's agenda when you are called on for public comment please state your name for the record and begin speaking the timer will begin when you say your name and you will be afforded 3 minutes if you are an attendee in the zoom meeting and would like to make public comment at this time please raise your hand lastly while in this room please be respectful warnings will be issued by the presiding officer if there is disruptive behavior and you will be asked to leave Chambers if the behavior continues uh we did not receive any correspondents or voicemails for this item does anyone wish to speak during public comment at this time looks like we have no one in the chambers or in Zoom all right we will close public comment um and move into item number four approval of the minutes um starting with item 4.1 uh reproval of the Reno City Planning Commission meeting of August 7th 2024 commissioner Villano a motion to approve thank you do we have a second commissioner baser a second all right we have a motion in a second all in favor I I I no opposed um and the item passes um item 4.2 approval of the Reno City Planning Commission minutes for August 21st 2024 commissioner Basera so moved commissioner I have to upake was it was present Comm ball second right we have a motion in a second uh and one exstension uh all in favor say I I I all right um hearing no opposition we will close item four approval of the minutes and move to item five public hearings any person who has chosen to provide his or her public comment when a public hearing is heard will need to so indicate on the request to speak form provided to the secretary alternatively you may provide your comment when item number three public comment is heardred at the beginning or at the end of this meeting okay tonight we have one item on the development public hearing agenda um and that is item 5.1 we will begin with a presentation from staff good evening members of the commission for the record my name is Leah pakati and I am an associate planner with City of Reno development services this evening I am presenting an application for a major site plan review this is for Viewpoint apartment's second emergency access for a couple of you on this uh commission you might have seen this before there have been two previous entitlements that went through on this in the last couple of years and I'll cover a bit of that in the background also I just want to point out that we have received no public comment on this item I know there might have been some confusion about that but no there's been no public comment received looks like I might have to use this um I don't want to interrupt but I can't see any of the slides give us just one second got it working all right we should be back up and working can you see the slides now not yet still now Alex Sylvia you're not able to see either I can see them now uh Viewpoint apartment secondary access road yeah looks like I can I'll let you know if if that changes all right wonderful thank you all righty well we'll start out with the the map here of where the project is this is this project is a 54 Acre Site and it is located just sort of southwest of the Home Depot that's located at the intersection of the I 80 and McCaron Road this is um only a057 acre Development Area so we do have 54 Acre Site this is the only acre the only portion of the site that we're looking at today so what we're we're looking at is a major site plan review for a second emergency access road and the reason that we're reviewing that is that major site plan reviews are required anytime we have grading that results in fills greater than 10 feet in height or Cuts exceeding 20 fet in this particular case we're looking at fills greater than 10 feet subject site is located in the multifam residential zoning District the key issues that we looked at in this are the overall site design and the compatibility with the existing residential complex there to the west to give you a little bit of background um the original monabell Apartments were approved in 1995 and it was an 864 unit apartment complex that was approved at that time in 1997 phase one was developed 450 units were built but phases two or three were never developed although there was some Mass grading that went on on the site in 2022 they came forward with an application and the Planning Commission did approve 432 units to be built on that parcel and then in 2023 they came through and asked for a major site plan review to develop this access road right here one of the conditions of approval for that access road was that they could not start any improvements on the property until they got approval of a secondary access road and at that time they were trying to get access across the north of the parcel through the Home Depot parking lot here for whatever reason they were able unable to attain that access so since then to satisfy this condition of approval they've been working with the Reno fire department and they've come up with a plan so this is that little portion of the parcel that we were looking at earlier you can see the main Access Road running um north to south on the left hand side there and then you can see where Summit Ridge Drive and South McCarron Boulevard meet there so up at the top of the screen you'll see the first emergency access road that was approved with the primary access road the main access road back in 2023 but the problem was is that that access road was too close to the primary access so the applicant worked with the fire department and they came up with this idea to put in a second emergency access and that would be what we're looking at today so this is just up a little bit on Summit Ridge Drive from the McCarron exit it will be a 24 W 24 20 ft wide Road it's going to be gated we're looking at maximum fills of just over 16 ft and also pedestrian access will be you pedestrians can use this access to coming up Summit Ridge Drive so it will be gated to vehicular access but pedestrian access will be open and also because it's right adjacent to that existing apartment complex we did put a condition of approval on there that limits the days and hours of construction which is typical with projects like this on the board are the major site plan review findings um basically the access road is compatible with the existing apartment complex the access road complies with all development standards all of our public services and facilities are available in this area project is reasonably compatible with the apartment complex uh due to the restricted hours and days of construction just trying to mitigate that impact on them a bit and it will not be detrimental to public health safety or welfare the additional access does actually benefit the public the health the safety of the people in that apartment complex both the existing apartment complex and the proposed apartment complex that concludes my presentation the recommended motion is on the board I'm available for questions and the applicant also has a presentation thank you thank you Leah uh now we can hear from the applicants representative good evening for the record Dave Snellgrove I'm the planning team manager with CFA Bowman um I was thinking about maybe not going through but I I'll go ahead and and and go through all the slides here um online there should be a gentleman by the name of Bob skiff um if you could have him ready to promote just in case there's any questions he's the overall project manager for the owner I work with him regularly so as Leah said this was a requirement uh for approval this was one of the conditions of approval the approval page that you see up here this is for the apartmentss the requirement for a second emergency access was also put on to the access road approval which Leah kind of covered some of the history so on condition six here I believe it was condition eight and Leah referenced that in her staff report um that there's a requirement that prior to the issuance and we we change this over time modification of condition talking to staff prior the issurance of a building permit for vertical construction associated with the apartments the applicant shall provide an emergency secondary access subject to the satisfaction of the administrator so we're basically required to have this I do want to thank staff we work with staff we work very closely with uh Marshall Burke on this and you know figured out hey this is the way we can go and do it and he was satisfied with this route so we brought the application forward Leah covered the location of it I won't belittle that um it is just 057 Acres that we're working with we've seen the zoning this is uh this is one that didn't have there were there were really it was really hard to find old maps for for this project but this is uh most of the previously approved special use permit at the time back from 19 the 7 9 95 case from 1995 phase one is on the right hand side that was constructed that was a 450 units but that phase two got graded but never completed so there were utilities put in there were roads graded there were never there was never any surface improvements like asphalt or any of that put in but it was all graded out if you look at an aerial map you can definitely see the definition of what's there and this shows that kind of stops and you can see the patterning of the roads um if we had if if someone had this to do over and known the problems that we'd gone through relative to access they probably would have built the the Western portion first however uh we've been TR trudging through this and I think we're we're getting there uh relative to the access so that's the layout you can see the uh the second Access Road that'll come out and serve montabello what this shows is that's going to be the primary access to the Viewpoint portion of the apartments there was also o access ways through montabello or anticipating that as you go between the two that it would be gated to vehicular but pedestrians would be able to pass through uh Leah noted the first primary or the first emergency access point here and the new emergency access point is there so this has a lot of different points of access um and trying to make sure that we were satisfying what is what is required and what the intent is from the international fire code uh Leah didn't really cover this but one of the things I think she mentioned it in the staff report but I'll cover it so that you're aware we're not proposing formal Landscaping with this part of this would be just drawing your eye to it the intent here is that would we would just revegetate uh our thought is we want to have this come back and over time and it would look more natural uh rather than being some enhanced Landscaping with pine trees or different things running down it to really bring attention out driving up or down McCarron Boulevard the only area that we exceed the 10 foot of fill is in that the green and the purple portion so I put a black line around that that's 0.11 Acres of the0 57 acre acre side is 5436 plus or minus square feet of the total Development Area uh would exceed that 10 foot of fill that is necessitating this major site plan review we're in agreement with staff's assessment review and recommendation for the project we believe as does staff that all necessary findings can be made and respectfully request your approval be available for any questions you might have all right thank you for your presentation at this time we'll open it up to public comment uh did we receive any public comment on this item Carrie we're going to do disclosures before public comment thank you very much all right we'll open it up to Commissioners for disclosures um I cannot see the folks at the Das so let's start with the zoom uh Commissioners um commissioner vaina I am familiar with the site that's the extent of my disclosures very good uh commissioner VTO commissioner VTO same disclosures all right um Commissioners in the chambers commissioner verer read and reviewed material and I am familiar with the site commissioner delr I am familiar with the site as well excellent and commissioner R Meer same disclosures all right now we will enter into public comment have we received any um public comment on this item no requests to speak forms voicemails or correspondents received for this item right seeing no request to speak we will close the public comment and open it up to Commissioners for questions of staff and the applicant any questions um commissioner vill NOA question for the applicant yes commissioner vill NOA hi um so if I understand correctly that there will now be three three emergency entrance ways to the site yes um the one that will be open to the public is this blue line one that comes out and it'll go into a roundabout entry that'll get modified from the entry that currently there so going into the monabell apartments which is the green arrows here that would technically for the Viewpoint apartments that would technically serve as one emergency access point then we have the other emergency access point was approved as part of the primary access road for for Viewpoint and then we have this new purple emergency access point so yes we have a primary open open to the public 24 hours a day seven days a week and then we've got three additional points of access do the other two the additional two those don't go through the original monabell it looks like they they around they connect in with the uh Viewpoint Road access so we have two points there um that'll connect in with that access way that comes to the south of Montello as you can see the blue the blue arrow one so if there was an emergency fire wouldn't be going through neighborhoods it would just it have a direct access correct okay thank you that's all are there any other questions at this time commissioner B thank you chair uh just I guess a question for the applicant kind of to uh piggy back off of commissioner vova I was just curious um since the emergency access roads are pretty close together um would this not create a potential bottleneck and in case of emergency since is all funneling pretty closely to to one EG one main artery going out to McCaron the and and this is what we worked very closely with uh Fire Marshall Burke okay on is the primary area of concern was really at the intersection of Summit Ridge Drive and then the Loop Road coming down and that was that was the initial concern that we had when we when we brought the first application through was if something happened at that intersection that people couldn't get through so one of the things that we've done and me see if I have a you can see on this slide right below the words up at the top there's a there's a proposed curb cut that'll allow for fire department to turn left in or right in there so that would be the primary point if the intersection were blocked MH they could they could get access in there either going up the the Loop Road from McCarron or down the Loop Road from Summit Ridge Drive um that they could get in either way this new access point would be a right out only um the the thought thought and intent was if there was an evacuation necessary that people could largely go down this road we were thinking in at first we might be able to go with a 12 or or something narrower I said no just in case we'd rather have it 20 feet wide so we widen the road out after initial submittal to the 20 ft um but yeah there would be two points and and the the big concern was if something happened at the intersection there might not be another way in so we were trying to get far enough away and the identification for from Fire Marshall Burke was that this met the intent of what the international fire code was identifying as necessary for fire access me mentioning that we have multiple multiple access points uh to the site but uh you know we were we came down to this as being something that would be acceptable so brought this case forward great and because I know that youall were trying to find a solution with the adjacent neighbor right like to the north and it was it was challenging we'd been told at one point a long time ago when we were working with oh Harris will be easy and when we came down to it we got the Home Depot one settled and then we went back to Harris and that became really hard okay and they were not willing to budge at all even though there's a dirt path out there they didn't want to have it formalized so great work working with uh Fire Marshall Burke and trying to find a solution I did have thank you so much I just had one followup for uh Leah um I I did notice in the material provided to us that y'all asked for a hydrology letter or a um correct a hydrology letter and then the applicant mentioned that they were going to submit it and did y all get that was that to your satisfaction do you know that'll come in when they submit for their building permits and that'll be reviewed by our engineering team at that time oh okay it it read as if it was already done so I just want to make sure not that I know of I think that was going to come in with that okay Nate do you know just Leah Leah is correct yeah awesome I'm good back to you chair right any other questions from Commissioners I do have one more question if if no one else does go ahead given I think I saw in the materials that is that I know that the site's already established um but with that given the conversations regarding the fire um is there issues with flooding and the reason I I bring that up is because we may be it looks like we're developing a road on what is otherwise not a road and if the road that we put there isn't porous enough could that create aggravated flooding um is there any issues with that if you could bring my presentation back up that actually that last slide that we were on probably will help explain some of it and this ties into commissioner B's question as all also so where we're putting the road across there's a drainage course that comes down and we're going to be blocking that off so very small in this plan you can see the light green road that goes off that'll go to a a uh Culvert that'll go underneath the road so that that ties in with your hydrology question commissioner Basera um it's kind of hard to see and I don't know if there's a great grand pointer here but up above where the a line goes there's there's a line that cuts across the road both in the graded area and across the road and then there's a little V at the right hand side of it that'll be a pipe that goes through in terms of flooding this will be very very minimal we've been working with uh with tomwa on the overall road because they want us to catch any water coming down before it gets into the Highland ditch so not only are we going to have to work with it on this but we're having to work with it in terms of the the main access or that'll go all the way out to viewpoint commissioner villan and wave I do hope that answered your question but please let me know if it did not is that the cap of the water I'm just trying to figure out if there's any issues with regard to the flow and I I'm not a hydrologist by any mean so I you know you could certainly um make any corrections to my assumptions but you know now that there will be a road there that's currently not there um and the road is less horest um will that is that going to create any issues with regard to enhanced flooding more than otherwise expected um because go ahead anytime that you add an impervious surface you do have a a net increase uh to water that'll run off and that would have to be collected this is a fairly minimal area but there would be some accommodation that we'd have to make and there's a requirement as part of the conditions that identifies that we need to address the hydraul ology in association with this so we'd have to handle that and that as uh as Leah said during her portion of the questioning that that would be handled through the uh hydrology information that'll come in with final plans you did that answer your question yes no further questions okay we have any other questions from our commissioners commissioner B Sure uh thank you chair just one more I think maybe for staff or applicant it's uh it's more I think for edification um I think one of the criteria that we have outline as part of our findings is that uh the project uh outlines a rational phasing plan do you want to briefly speak on that what what that might look like yes thank you Leo for the record um in this particular case this isn't a phased project so it doesn't necessarily require a phasing plan phasing plan would be more like if we were looking at the the project as a whole where we said okay phase one is going to be those first 450 Apartments phase two is going to be 432 32 Apartments phase three will be the access road so on and so forth we would put timelines on all of those phases and that's why that's asking that so in this particular case there is no phasing plan okay perfect thank you sir so much Leo see any hands for questions um are we ready to move into discussion let's do that um Commissioners any discussion uh commissioner berer here I don't know if there's much more to add other than just to highlight that I I know the applicant was faced with some challenges with the uh neighbors and trying to find the um solution here and again just what I mentioned earlier it's great that yall work with our uh Fire Marshall and crew and get creative to try to find a solution that works best for for everyone so uh I'm ready to make a motion if there is no further discussion uh please great and if um our Mighty crew to my right can assist me with a motion on the screen so I um you wouldn't have the uh case number handy would you okay give me a moment here I'll just pull it up on my end all right uh commissioner Basera here in the matter of LDC 25- z002 Viewpoint apartment secondary emergency access road mspr based upon compliance with the applicable findings I move to approve the major site plan review subject to the conditions listed in the staff report and I can make the findings commission Vall second right we have a motion and a second ready for a vote uh all in favor say I I I I right hearing no opposition uh motion approves unanimously congratulations with your project good luck with your project all right closing the development items uh we will move to item number six the trucky Meadows Regional planning liaison report do we have an update uh commissioner merera here um I believe I attended for uh this fine body here uh during the last Regional planning meeting we were presented with the Reno master plan Amendment Chism mobile home park that went through this body just u a few weeks ago or last month um it was approved by Regional uh I want to say unanimously as well we were also presented with a draft natural resour ource plan draft public infrastructure plan and draft 2024 Regional Plan update which will be coming before this body at the next meeting at the end of this month and Regional staff will be looking for support or adoption by all three regional bodies Sparks Reno and County and that is it excellent thank you with that we move to item number seven staff announcements Nathan do you have some updates I do good evening Nathan Gilbert principal planner for the record um planning Commissioners should have all received our new uh onboarding manuals uh PC bylaws and open meeting laws uh information on that assistant director Angela fous and her team will be conducting a series of workshops with the commission uh in the upcoming months including topics from the manual and other relevant uh information to the role in the public review process U also uh updates on Council Action Council approved the Canyon's planned unit development Amendment uh including uh the addition uh to the hbook that the Planning Commission added uh requirements for all homes to be 100% EV ready so every home in the subdivision would would have an EV charger uh and for inclusion of um Wildlife study information and fural horse management um language uh Council also upheld the planning commission's decision uh relating to to the Envy Energy Corridor utility conditional use permit and denied appeals by Envy energy and the Hines Ranch company uh to modify condition number nine related to the corridor alignment so the conditional use permanent was approved by Council on appeal and they upheld all conditions recommended by the Planning Commission and finally the Calvary Chapel zoning map Amendment recommended for approval by the commission will be heard by Council on the September 11th hearing that's all I have thank you also I want to thank commissioner Basera for catching a few items in the bylaws um I know we'll be reviewing those in future hearing um just some outdated linkage so thank you both um and that brings us to item number eight commissioner suggestions for future agenda items does anyone have anything they want to put forward U commissioner berera here I just wanted to check in with staff um Nate I had previously asked about about um agendize a presentation by tribal leaders that had reached out wanting just to do a presentation on how they might be able to collaborate more with this body or staff and so forth and I was wondering if uh there's anything I could do to help move that along or if yall have it covered um I would have to follow up with the commission on that I I do recall I think I was pitching in last time that was requested that information was forwarded I I'll follow up with where where stand on that okay happy to work with the offline too thank you any other suggestions seeing none we will move to item number nine which is public comment uh this item is for public comment on any item or any information general information public comments um do we have any one in the audience or online wishing to speak yes I think we have looks like we might have one believe we have council member Eber coming up yes we have one public commenter excellent hello um council member eert for the record um thank you Nathan for sharing the updates about Council I was going to let everyone know that we upheld the uh planning commission's decision on the Envy Energy power Corridor and ALS Al that the Canyon's uh development um was approved um and I also wanted to let everyone know that I'll be coming back in October to give like a more comprehensive kind of report about what's going on with the council so just wanted to share that thank you oh that'll be terrific thank you looking forward to that uh are there any other public comments at this time no other correspondents all right we will close the public comment and that brings us to item number 10 uh which might have been a record for shortest beating in City of Reno planning commission recent history um do we have any motions for adjoin so moved commissioner baser a second second all right all in favor I I I I and thank you and have a good night hi everybody good night