keep it the regular meeting of the Reno City Planning Commission on Wednesday August 2nd 2023 idle number one we will have our newest commissioner commissioner Meyer lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance all right thank you item two Heather roll call please Eris Armstrong present Manny pacera is absent at this time Arthur Munoz here Carrie rommeyer here Alex felto here and Sylvia Villanueva is absent at this time you do have a quorum or I'm so sorry JD draculic here thank you and you do have a quorum thank you all right closing item two 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 do we have any request to speak forms anybody on Zoom I'll go ahead and begin by reading the clerk's comments 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 three 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 agenda's for possible action on today's agenda when you are called on for public comment please state your name for the record and begin by speaking the timer will begin when you say your name and you will be afforded three minutes if you're 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's disruptive behavior and you will be asked to leave Chambers if the behavior continues and we did receive uh correspondence that was General in nature and not specific to any items on the agenda they were forwarded to the Planning Commission and entered into the record we do not have any voice smells and there's nobody that would like to speak at this moment thank you anybody in the chambers wish to speak on public comment uh for any item or in general seeing none we will close item three a public comment we'll move on to item number four 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 three public comment has heard at the beginning of this meeting so we will now open item number 4.1 which is case number ldc2300063 easy breaks looks like we will get a presentation from the applicant please go ahead good evening my name is minerique Carpio brand my wife Nora Garfield brand would like to start off by saying I would like to thank Mr chair Vice chair Planning Commission City attorney and staff like to thank for your time an opportunity and before I begin I also like to thank Mr Carter Williams first professionalism guiding me through this process walking me walking the dog for a lack of better terms on getting through this it's been uh sometimes a little bit frustrating however he helped me navigate for that thank you Mr Williams and I appreciate that with that being said if I can get to the next slide please thank you so just a little background of where we're at I just retired July 31st two days ago for the Marine Corps 27 years I bought the shop back in April of 2020 this uh automotive shop with the intent to get things started and get me ready for pretty much now being retired however Kobe did happen I was stationed in Japan and I was not able to come to Reno over a year hence why why this is happening at this moment that's uh it was posed to me that covet is not an excuse however it was definitely real to me in Japan so I was not able to get my business license and the one-year portion did expire so we did purchase uh the shop from Tim Crow uh just rear-end and they were it was licensed back then uh as just where it rains all I did was just change the name uh from potato potato that's basically what I did um uh pretty much it stayed dormant since April of 2020 and then my deployments throughout southeast Asia and that's uh that's the background of where we're at the questions nope next slide please So currently the location next slide please currently the location I just want to point out that easy breaks is right in the heart of pretty much Automotive Maintenance alley in between Gentry and Yori road down in Virginia Street I think you're all very familiar pretty much the location the red signifies where easy brakes is at and I just put a put a quick picture up there just just to give some contents to what I'm trying to say questions oh I can do it right yeah okay [Music] so um I was working with uh Mr Mr Williams he mentioned that the lane use designation over mixed a mixed use um so it's right in the heart of it and obviously time expired everything got rezoned by the city and um I did not have a business license so I fell under that I'm now conforming at this time [Music] just another depiction and this came from the city's website and wherever it pull it pull this information [Music] so the current condition of the shop that uh Nora myself bought it's just number 21 and number 18 stalls and and I'll show you here shortly where they're at it's Bay 21 and Bay 18. that's it's been untouched I didn't add delete remove not a bolt nothing I just bought it and it stayed dormant this whole time [Music] so some of the concerns for the conditional use permits concerns I'm just just kind of pretty much presented as well in some of the mitigating factors that that I was able to hopefully provide so uh the the main concerns that for the shop is the non-conformant due to its location within a quarter mile of the freeway on on ramp um it's not within the quarter quarter mile and does rezoning happened while I purchased it and I was in Japan so I fell in every other shop around did get grandfathered minus mine uh the other concern was previous noise complaint from the complex not necessarily from this shop that I'm buying but uh I was I was supposed to provide a noise mitigating plan and I think I was successful in doing that and I'll I'll present that here shortly at the Landscaping issues or pretty much of the overall complex of a complex and I must say it like this I don't own the complex it's not me it's I things set out of control out of all those things just want to point out that I have zero control of all those concerns I had nothing my I there's nothing I could do was out of my control and being a marine is very hard to say those words that I'm dealing with things that I had zero control over just want to point that out so the non-conforming zone changes obviously the noise concerns at about 18 if you see down there there's a a living complex behind Bay 18. and I believe there was a noise complaint about four or five years ago before I even bought the shop and uh and in the Landscaping that was again not my control so it was posed to me like what is the loudest noise generating equipment I got it's uh it's the impact gun for the air compressor and it's at 93.7 decibels I did a lot of that deep dive into noise management I went to the OSHA website and I I know more about sound and travel than I care for right now so it's pretty interesting stuff that I've learned very interesting so with that being said [Music] I went to the manufacturer of the equipment I have I pulled the data and that's where I got those numbers 93.7 decibels I know you can't see it but I do have pictures and something that you can actually if you're interested I can I can show you sure shortly I also I also cited my work I got the websites on there as well so this is straight from the OSHA and on Sound Source and how sound travels and of course uh from Bay 18 you add another 20 feet from the bay door to the fence line is 52 feet measured it with a caliberate calibrated ruler that I have in my shop and it's at 52 feet and that puts it at [Music] um at a distance where the minute I hit the impact it's another 20 feet so it's 72 feet and by the time the resident behind Bay 18 hears it it is down to a just a normal conversation or a whisper according to OSHA's model and Source on how sound travels throughout everything if you notice I did have um and there's a graph from OSHA as well on how sound decipitates with with distance and sound uh bouncing off the walls and my shop is insulated on the top and on the bay doors so that's one of the things that I want to point out that I do have mitigating factors that my shop would not provide any significant noise that would create an urban complaint and I'm very confident in that another mitigan Factor if necessary is to keep Bay 18 door closed if that becomes an issue I just want to remind the commission that what I'm going for is not a full total Automotive carrier just eats breaks and Diagnostics that's it so if I need to work on brakes take me probably a minute to take the tires off if that four or five volts that's it [Music] so this is the bay door those are the insulated foam I just want to point that out to mitigate the sound concerns that the planning committee planning fan commission hat [Music] insulation on top and that reduces noise as well any questions or concerns about noise okay thank you uh so I bring this next one up because uh it was there was a question I was opposed to to us it was why another mechanic shop in in Reno why another one so I put one up to the US Bureau of Labor's statistics and brought up that uh I want to highlight that there's a mass Nationwide shortage of mechanics in the nation right now um not everybody wants and everybody wants to be the next YouTube star or you know the social media influencer that's what they want to be they don't necessarily want to get paid 18 or 20 an hour to break their back it's hard work So Young Bucks don't want to do it young ladies don't want to do it and our aging force that are experience and know how to do it uh Technologies going beyond their scope and they're retiring that's it I'm kind of in the middle I'm retiring for the Marine Corps I'm trying to transition into something that I think I could provide a service so a little bit of data as you can see the total vehicles in Washoe County according to countyoffice.org is around 336 000. Nevada has about 2 million vehicles on the road right now uh in according to the same website nevadaworkforce.com there's about 5400 current maintenance people right now to take care of those vehicles that I just mentioned so it's just some more statistics and I wrote a a Washoe County specific statistics according to 2020 census.gov there's approximately half a million people in Washoe County there's 336 000 registered Vehicles as of 2018. uh and there's only 13 1300 uh Automotive technicians projections right now between now and 2028 so I just want to point out the the ratio of that so technician ratio right now the way the county according to the data is 249 vehicles to one mechanic that's a lot of a lot of work for one maintenance guy I can barely handle two or three cars at once maybe just me so a healthy fire department Fleet in your city right now is 30 to 1. so 30 vehicles to your one maintenance that is your maintenance plan right now in the city and within Washoe County and City of Reno and Sparks as well so that's a healthy maintenance plan that's what I did in the Marine Corps as well I I was a maintenance management for tanks AVS lavs and anything ordinance related that goes boom I I was the maintenance manager for the entire Pacific and that's a healthy healthy plant Thirty to one it's good but the current population right now is 249 to one so regular citizen and Washoe County has about seven to ten days of wait time to get their vehicles fixed so I brought that up just to to attack the posed question to me why do we need another shop it I think the city needs it needs it bad needs another shop and I'm just a specialized shop bricks and Diagnostics not Total Auto I don't care because I want to slim down the time weight for the average citizen to hey I just need brakes done you know what my check engine light's on come on in let's go take care of it in and out go back to what you're doing advice I need to see your car leave it here three or four or five days and uh yeah and I did a little study on that to see if my business model is something good for the city as well if I could provide a service based on that uh Planning Commission I appreciate your time if you're borrowing any questions or concerns I'm at the ready thank you we will have a presentation from the city and then we'll have a chance to ask you questions yes sir yeah thank you for your time thank you all right we will now take a presentation from the city thanks Carter yes all right all right good evening Commissioners Carter Williams assistant planner for the record um before you today is a request to re-establish a non-conforming auto service and repair facility the project is located um It's actually an 1800 square foot Suite on a 2.25 Acre Site located at the corner of Yori Avenue Avenue and Gentry Way specific request is to re-establish a previously abandoned facility it's located within the mixed-use urban Zone Auto Service and Repair uses are actually Allowed by right however when they're located within mixed use urban they must be within a quarter mile from our freeway on-ramp prior to 2021 in this location auto service was allowed under the old code but a change to the code occurred that intended to um to reposition or um kind of cluster auto-oriented uses in mixed Urban zones around freeway off-ramps so so Auto Service and Repair drive through facilities those are intended to be clustered and that was intended to prioritize pedestrian-oriented uses and to reduce vehicle miles traveled um auto service is allowed generally in General commercial zones so even the property next door would allow for it in this case which um is one of the reasons that the staff is supportive of this project um on the timeline of this application so the previous Auto Service and Repair use went out of business in March of 2020 the code change occurred in January of the following year and then this applicant applied for the business license in May of 2023 they would have had to have applied for the business license in 2021 March of 2021 in order to continue that use um the project is located within the urban mixed use master plan designation and it's in conformance with the following policies including Community Development the overall mixes of uses in the site and in the general area and building orientation which I'll show later in the presentation addressing compatibility with surrounding uses there are a number of mobile home parks to the north and west of the site as the applicant mentioned there were past code enforcement complaints related to noise for this site it wasn't specific to this Suite it was specific to another auto service and repair facility that was facing that um that mobile home park to the north uh we did receive correspondence from the property manager of that mobile home park and they noted that there haven't been complaints recently and they spoke with adjacent neighbors um to confirm that there was no concerns and immediate concerns regardless we implemented conditions requiring noise generating equipment to be located within Bay 18 and Bay 18 is to be closed while that operating equip that equipment is in operation and to support the noise attenuation or there's existing insulated doors on 18 and B21 um my understanding from the applicant is that bay 21 is to be used as the primary customer interface and we've also implemented a condition to limit hours of operation to 8 pm and I believe they're actually operating less than that I think it's 4 pm 4 pm is their their cutoff time um so the existing Auto Service uses in the building there's four currently and they're noted by the the four dots um there so it's already a center that's kind of established for this um and from a design perspective the location of these Suites is oriented away from the uh the the street frontages with bay doors facing internal or not facing the the frontage so it's it's kind of a it's a space that's already designed for this type of use or a non-pedestrian-oriented use this is the view from or along Yori Avenue so the proposed use is located at the rear of the building allowing storefronts um in the front along those Street frontages to be used for pedestrian-oriented activity generating uses so the design um needs certain master plan policies for building orientation and location of uses on the screen are the findings for conditional use permit through staff's review and Analysis we we find that it meets all the findings and on the motion on the screen is the recommended motion and I'm available for any questions thank you Carter appreciate it absolutely great we will kick it to the commissioner for disclosures commissioner Moon knows please commissioner Munoz no disclosures commissioner Armstrong no disclosures commissioner draculic familiar with the area commissioner no disclosures commissioner velto you unmutant commissioner velto can you hear us buddy yes I can hear you there you go any disclosure sir no disclosures great thank you closing that and moving to public comment Heather do we have any requests to speak forms or voicemails we did not receive any voicemails correspondence or request to speak forms and I don't believe we have anyone be assumed that would like to speak now see that your name is Carlos and I apologize for not asking you each time all right thank you um do we have anybody in the chamber though wishes to speak on this item seeing none we will close public comment and open it up to Commissioners for questions or discussion commissioner Munoz yeah if we don't have any uh questions I can go straight into discussion if that's okay with everybody please um first off thank you for your service um and I am uh considering knowing the area and what's going on there I don't see why I don't see any reason why this shouldn't be approved so I'm all for it commissioner Dracula I I thank you again for your service as well and also for such a great presentation from an applicant uh that doesn't have a representative well done you put a lot of care and effort to it and I'm sure that reflects in your business and I also will be supporting this motion commissioner Armstrong uh commissioner I also want to say thank you for your service thanks for a great presentation basically ditto to my counterparts I think it's a really straightforward project and um I will be supporting commissioner vermeier I too appreciate your service and I'm happy to see the space be used um you know just the way you presented thank you commissioner velto if you want to chime in if I don't hear from you I'm sure we'll get a motion from in here yeah I am I I agree I'll definitely be supporting the motion and I really want to Echo commissioner munoz's comments that's that presentation was very very effective from uh you know someone is obviously doing good work in the community so I'll definitely be supportive thank you great okay please do commissioner Munoz based on compliance with the pickle findings I move to approve the conditional use permit subject conditions listen staff report and I can meet I'll find as a case number lgc23-063 easy breaks we have a motion commissioner Armstrong I'll second you have a motion in a second all in favor aye aye any opposed see none motion passes good luck closing item 4.1 and moving on to item 4.2 case number ldc23-00055 Diaz masonry or Dias masonry I apologize it looks like we will get a presentation from the applicants representative thank you Commissioners Mr chair thank you um John chromatic boy they moved this up a couple of feet huh is that feels a little different I am here um on behalf of the applicant is that volume okay there we go is that good loud enough thank you this is a request for a master plan Amendment and zone change to me for both the zoning and the master plan element the project location you can see in Panther drive right in the kind of the heart of the Panther Valley area then mix of a lot of industrial and some remnant a single family this property is three Parcels composed you know put together and then um fronting Western Road a little bit more about the character of the site looking West and East on Western Road you can see it's a little bit unkept in its current state you can see that one on these property line and then also uh from Wester Road and the fact that it's a storage yard again Western Road looking West and East to skin shows kind of defines the character of the area there is the master plan as we know it today overall master plan single family for these three parcels and then single family to the North and then everything to the east south and west really is industrial and character there is the existing and proposed in more detail you can see the me to the right and the purple on zoning same ideas that single families we noted in the three Parcels entirely uh Industrial to the east and south and mostly to the West and then there's the proposed for the zoning element in conformance with the master plan and um I think you guys know this but this would be sort of a Redevelopment Next Step subject to a minor conditional use permit for this use there's um it's kind of a character in the site plan assembly the properties there's a rendering of the future building and planned for the project and then some um I think these have some Merit to discussion to what's on the table this evening the Emmy designations are less intense than the inic as I mentioned this will be an M Cup in a future development permit the proposed use appears to be more appropriate than existing unlike adjoining residential loss to site fronts Western which has very much a industrial character and residential is not appropriate given the existing use of the adjoining property and a couple more points I mentioned the cup more consistent with the surrounding clearly Redevelopment of the site would enhance the Aesthetics and low impact uses anticipated with the masonry operation so that's all I have thank you for your time I'd be here for any questions thank you John appreciate it thank you we will now get a presentation from the city thank you Brooke Planning Commission my name is Brooke Oswald I'm an associate planner with development services quickly look at the project site it's approximately uh two-thirds of an acre consisting of three Parcels these Parcels were annexed in back in approximately 2007 they were further subdivided and uh the zoning went to an sf8 at that time they were anticipated to be residential as you can see you can see three residential lots there we did have a building permit in about five years ago that has expired and the property has moved in and now we have a request for a master plan Amendment and a zoning map Amendment um for some reason there should be animations that are not working with the presentation but I will go try again foreign okay this is a little bit better so this is a bit further out and so you can see the project location and get a general idea what we have around you can see the large industrial format buildings that we have to the right uh right to the north of the site and directly left to the site you can see um a large section of County Properties there are larger lot properties and then what we can see is newer Development coming in with those smaller residential lots coming once again closer it's just off past Panther and Western you can see the large format building industrial building and then start to see that more uh larger lock character as I mentioned it was annexec back in 2007 was rezoned and anticipated to be developed as residential it did not get developed as residential and before you tonight we have a master plan a memo zoning map amendment to move that forward so looking at our master plan on the right it's currently single family and what would be proposed is that goes to our our mixed employment and to the right uh sf8 looking at our zoning District going from an sf8 zoning District to the me now on this blocked in you can it doesn't really show the context this is a really unique areas I kind of showed before we have that residential and we have we have um that that heavier industrial warehouse and distribution our me zoning is is our lightest zoning area it has lighter and Industrial uses retail Flex industrial and and a number of those one of the biggest things with the Emmy is that it restricts hours of operation so you would require conditional use permit for any hours between 11 pm and 6 A.M so this gives you a better context of our of the surrounding master plan land use destination you can see we have that industrial right up against the residential and really no no sort of buffer between those at this time that would be going to an me although that looks as though it is sort of out of place what we're anticipating and I'll show you in a further slide is is that we may anticipate seeing a lighter buffer of commercial or industrial up against that heavier industrial between the residential once again looking at our zoning now we can see some mixed employment spots within that larger Industrial Area coming in this is similar in nature to that so this is this is interesting the yellow or the orange that you're seeing is County Properties so we have this awkward Island that sits two little awkward islands that sits in an island of itself as you can see the exterior of this is surrounded by railroad right-of-way and there are two entrances that come in on the North portion of that um this is a tier two for our regional which we are looking for uh more uh denser density or clusters of uh of commercial or or employment hubs and then that surrounding residential additionally this is in the Panther Valley area which traditionally has had a lot of planning and neighborhood planning over a period of time it's come through this that that's important in the context of this area so we do have a current project site this is recently we we currently have an application in uh for a an industrial Warehouse here and we've we've seen the zoning master plan change in this area um looking at our findings both through our master plan Amendment findings and our Zone management uh finding staff could make all the findings in this and I'll leave you with your recommended uh motion that concludes my presentation I'm available for questions as needed thank you thank you Brooke appreciate it we'll go now to the Commissioners for disclosures commissioner rohrmeyer please and commissioner Roberto has left yeah and he's texting me technical difficulties trying to get back on I think thank you okay thanks Carlos no disclosures commissioner Armstrong no disclosures commissioner disclosures commissioner draculic no disclosures and can we move on without Alex on this and is this Carl yeah we need to yeah we can postpone until he comes back he's back okay commissioner velto can you hear us sir technical difficulties you're fine thank you commissioner draculitch no disclosures all right we will now open this up to public comment Carlos do we have any requests to speak forums or voicemails we did receive correspondence that was forwarded to the Planning Commission and entered into the record we don't have any voicemails or requests to speak forms and I don't believe we have anyone be assume that would like to speak at this moment thank you guys appreciate it anybody in the chambers wish to speak on this item seeing none we will close public comment and go to the Commissioners for questions or discussion uh commissioner Millions I'll start please uh Brooke quick question for you um the way the property is being used right now obviously we saw some pictures of it I don't know if there's a current or not is what's happening on the property right now conforming to what it's zoned for that is not a conforming use for what the zoning is the residential zoning that would be considered an outdoors uh storage of what you was shown there the me that would become they would have to come through their business license and as stated any commercial development on those properties would uh require further discretionary review so it would be further reviewed to look how any sort of um uh use on that property would impact those surrounding properties okay and then one last thing the one of the last slides you showed there's a little area right next to the freeway that we recently correct um proved can you remind me what that was approved for exactly I know they're putting some type of Warehouse there that went into an industrial master plan in ic and I think kind of showing that character of of that industrial coming along through there and then looking at this me as we possibly go is creating a sort of a buffer or a lighter industrial uses as we move to the residential sure and and was it the city's um opinion that that is kind of tying the whole area together by by switching this over to Amy yeah so the original application that came in was actually IC and we had a number of discussions and because of the limitations of the size of the site uh potential uh that surrounding County Land even though that's within our sphere of influence we still have jurisdictional over that and a few others it was really decided that the lighter Emmy the Emmy zoning was appropriate and that was amenable to the the applicant and what they are proposing to use property for in the future okay thank you commissioner Armstrong uh just one follow-up question for you Brooke so because it is kind of an interesting area with the adjacent residential uh at the time of our packet there was engagement with the neighborhood Advisory Board and there wasn't any pushback because that changed since or is there any issues with this coming in or is it generally accepted as a good buffer yeah we we haven't seen a lot of public comment there was one that was recently referred to you and that really um dealt with some public safety parking and some of the safety on that uh Steph looking at this too and and was mentioned by Mr capotech is is um the nature of that roadway if you look at residential driveways the you pull in and you back out so there's a safety risk especially as we're moving trucks and truck traffic through there an industrial coming in will require two-way traffic and so the visibility and safety of that becomes much safer as we look at that property so that would um speaking to the public the comment that we received okay today excellent thank you [Music] commissioner velto do you have any questions no questions thank you session or entertain emotion uh if we don't have any discussion I'm ready to entertain a motion please do the case number of ldc23-00055ds Masonry uh based on compliance with the people find is I move to adopt the master plan amendment by resolution and recommend that the city council prove the master plan and zoning map Amendment subject subject to conformance review by the regional Planning Commission and I can make all the findings we have a motion commissioner Armstrong on second we have a motion and a second all in favor any opposed seeing none motion passes thank you all right we'll close item 4.2 and move to item 4.3 case number ldc23-00060 Meadow Creek condition 15 amendment looks like we will get a presentation from the applicant I'm not that tall good evening commissioner Stacy Huggins for the record with what Rogers representing the applicant in this Meadow Creek commercial condition 15 amendment um just some of you may have seen this that does seem really loud um uh last year or the year before this commercial center came through um an entitlement process to allow um restaurants full-service restaurants with uh alcohol as well so there was an amendment to this if this looks familiar to you and you were on the board then you may um just remember that just as a memory reference piece uh so this 3.87 acre parcel you can see there it's identified as the site with the arrow on it uh it's south of Arrow Creek West of wedge Parkway uh to the and I will show you on this next map here so just so that if you don't know where this area is you have some general idea the Reno ice facility is directly across the street to the east of the project site uh there are some apartments to the northeast of the project site the mountain gate 78 single family residential project which is really the basis of this condition Amendment um is adjacent to the project to the South as well as to the west and then the South valleys Regional Park and the library as you can see in that exhibit are south of the project area just to go back to this exhibit as I mentioned the property uh is master planned single family the zoning on this property is SPD and that specific plan district is an older SPD it is called the we we call it the wddp um for short but the long name is the wedge darascar Duxbury pay specific plan this specific plan and you can see the map there identifying the four properties Property Owners was um initially adopted in Washoe County in the early 1990s uh it's a two-page specific planned document so very different than what you might expect today uh the document itself exists or consists of that map and also a little bit of land use information and what the intent of that SPD was um the star on the map where it's in the kind of the bottom right hand corner of the square identified as de rosscar is where the project site is located that we're talking about uh you can see they're highlighted that The General commercial uh consisted of eight Acres within that duraskar area our project site the only General commercial commercial area within this SPD is the Four Acre parcel that we're talking about today so um it has been annexed into the City of Reno it's now zoned SPD by the City of Reno which is what I showed on that original map um a little bit about mountain gate 78 again that's the residential that is on the south and the West as well as included this um Four Acre commercial piece that was approved in 2000 uh 2017 sorry um it included 78 Lots uh single-family detached residential as well as allowance for 35 000 square foot commercial area um the single family is complete it's all built out the commercial center all the buildings are constructed and this is a functioning operating commercial center with several tenants Within These existing buildings uh some of the uses that exist in there are retail stores there's a dentist medical office uh there's a couple of restaurants with menu full menu food and restaurants um recently pinion opened up a restaurant right on the corner across the street from Reno ice so it's a very um popular location it's been very successful so far um why we're here tonight you can see condition 15 as part of that mountain gate 78 it very specifically limits the signage for this commercial center to Neighborhood commercial and we really feel like this neighborhood or this commercial center is very similar to what you might be familiar with at South Creek where um South Creek pizza is Baron V The Grove so it's a very similar use and that Center itself is designated and the signage falls under the mixed-use Suburban standards so we were trying to find find signage that was more um aligned with that um I so thank you so what we're asking for is to amend um condition 15 uh to establish the our our own a very specific commercial sign program um that still is complementary and uses all the colors and architecture of the of the commercial center um but allows a little more flexibility than the neighborhood commercial standards would allow so I wanted to show you this comparison so you can see on the top of this table is what's currently allowed in this Center in the middle is that mixed use um standard again for comparison and also because um Reno ice and the uses around it are all mixed use we thought that that was a fair comparison we're not out of line wedge Parkway is an arterial the uses across the street are designated mixed use so signage consistent with them um was something we wanted to look at and then on the bottom there in the yellow is the proposed Meadow Creek sign program um and I want to just talk through some of the changes associated with the sign program as opposed to the NC or the MU so the first thing is that we are um we are asking to modify the freestanding sign height so that would be related to a monument sign that is proposed on the south um east corner of the project site under NC they were restricted to 12 feet under mixed use they could have gone to 35 feet we've limited it and said we only want eight feet so we think that that's in keeping with the area and a little less than the NC in exchange for reducing that freestanding height we are asking to be able to have an increased copy sign area within those signs so you can see we've doubled the NC but stayed consistent with the mixed use standards excuse me the wall sign area that you see there is generally the same as the NC one square foot per lineal foot of business Frontage uh all the signs cannot exceed 400 square feet total for the center a three foot Max letter height same as the NC standards um the 75 of business Frontage is and although it doesn't show there it is consistent with the mixed use and the 20 square foot per tenant ensures that each tenant gets to have a share of the signage to advertise their business where these standards where the sign program really differs from both NC and the mixed use is in the illumination and specifically in terms of how we are Illuminating signs internally versus externally so I'm gonna flip this slide so that we can talk about that particular change so what we did is we we obviously want to have signs illuminated so people can find the businesses inside the center I understand that the businesses that face residential don't want to the residents don't want to see lights at night we did want to be able to have an opportunity to have those lit up in the winter months when it's dark at four o'clock a little bit later than four o'clock so some of these businesses are open until six so um we have proposed to limit the lighting associated with buildings A and B as you can see in the blue there those would not be able to be lit after 8 PM or before 6 a.m so all the lights on those businesses facing to the West would have to turn off at 8 pm the signage Facing East North or South on building D which is actually angled away from the residential and could have their signage illuminated during their normal business hours and that's in accordance with the city of Reno's typical operating hours so we felt like that was a good compromise again for uh the illumination standards of NC and mixed use and then just to close on that we um held the policy that we could not have any flashing or animated signs as part of the sign program um we were asked a question at the NAB about how this might be enforced and so I want to just clarify for you that this sign program so um these standards this exhibit will all become an exhibit to the lease agreement and it will be managed by the landlord and and or the master developer all the tenants within this Center know this is happening now um quite frankly they are thrilled to finally be able to have something other than temporary signage potentially on their buildings so I want to just I just have a couple more slides just so you can see so this um there's there's kind of two different types of signs with this project there's the commercial center signage that will be installed by the master developer and you can see some examples of those the existing entry wall sign is already there and it's on the wall it is not currently being lit um so this new sign program would allow that sign to be lit um in accordance with these policies I mentioned the monument sign to be located down in the Southeast corner of the project site along wedge Parkway so that traffic coming north on Wedge would be able to see the center before they get to the um driveway and then there's also within the center to um towers that are on the North Edge and the South Edge and both of those would have two signs within them you can see it's kind of inset in that top part of the tower all of those are designed to match and be consistent with the architecture as well as the color scheme of the project so when we look at the tenant signs and again um our our goal is to have this be very consistent throughout the tenant signs are intended to be designed as classy clean classy all-white lettering that minimizes the impact to the adjacent residential and that they all look the same so you're not going to have different colors of signs in this Center they'll all generally be the same in color and and size of the signage this will allow the tenant signs to be distinguished from the commercial center signs and then again just I noted on here those signs facing west will not be illuminated after 8 pm and the signs Facing East towards wedge Parkway north towards Arrow Creek Parkway or south at the angled away from the residential will be allowed to operate during their regular business hours so in closing just very quickly I mentioned at the beginning this is the only commercial property in this area now it is the last piece of developable land within the yes or the wddp um it was initially supposed to be eight Acres it's not going to be a Acres it's four acres this is this is the only project this sign program will apply to and it will be enforced by the landlord through their um through a lease exhibit so uh that concludes my presentation I am happy to answer any questions if you have them thank you Stacy and it looks like we'll get we'll get hello again Commissioners Carter Williams assistant planner for the record um so before you today is a condition amendment to condition number 15 of the Meadow Creek uh development that was approved in 2018 the site is located um west of wedge Parkway south of its intersection with arrow Creek Parkway and the specific request to change sign requirements for the commercial portion of the project um the property is located in the wedged rocks drost car I spelled that wrong excuse me Duxbury pay specific plan District um and this is Stacy mentioned that it's a situation where there are no development standards for for the area so they are established through entitlement conditions for the individual projects in this case neighborhood commercial standards were applied generally not only to the development of the center but to the sign standards as well um the uh master plan uh the projects is in conformance with policies that support existing businesses in the area and it is the proposed request establishes a development identity which is sought after in specific policies related to signage and building Insight improvements for neighborhood commercial centers the uh this is the proposed site plan I want to draw attention to the southeast portion of the site where the proposed Monument sign is located um as well as five wall signs that are intended to advertise the the commercial center itself there are about 20 20 tenant Suites I'm sorry we can anticipate that there will be signage for each of those um there's sign elevations Stacy's were better so the sign standards that are changing so science copy area is generally increasing from about 350 square feet based on the neighborhood commercial standards to 400 square feet um the flexibility is being added that prevents a situation where a tenant may not may be locked out of having signage and this is something that we've applied in the mixed use zones that works really well to to enable the uh the continued use of these sign programs um in the future um there's an additional aesthetic requirement that limits the maximum width of the sign to 75 percent of the business Frontage Monument signs are proposed to be just greased from 12 feet to eight feet and then there's additional restrictions on sign lighting including nighttime hours restrictions the sign standards that are not changing is that um the maximum square footage across all buildings within the center is limited to 400 square feet the maximum letter height would is restricted to three feet um same with the neighborhood commercial Zone and then internally illuminated signs would not be allowed facing residential and otherwise intern indirect lighting is otherwise only allowed the specific lighting restrictions apply to the west facing facades of building a and Building B where indirect illumination only is allowed no internal illumination and then signs must on this these two facades must be turned off between 8 pm and 6 am and for the rest of the center they would be turned off during all of their business hours to give an idea of what these types of Illumination are reverse Channel letter or cast light or Halo lighting is an indirect lighting source that would be allowed on Alpha sods within the center internal illumination so there's a a LED inside of a can or um and then there's a some kind of screen or something blocking the direct view of that illumination Source it's still considered an indirect lighting that would be only allowed on all but the West facade and the South facade facing residentially zone property what is remaining not allowed and if this is true for existing and proposed is neon or exposed bulb or digital digital signs which is considered direct direct lighting before you are the findings for conditional use permit and through stats review and Analysis we've um we can meet all the findings and on the screen is the recommended motion I'm available for any questions thank you Carter absolutely I'm sorry there is one other thing thank you there was additional coordination with the applicant after the staff report was released they requested that so the existing condition number 15 F notes that internal illumination is not allowed across the entire Center we've amended the condition sorry we've amended the condition oh are you like this thank you we're amending the condition or recommending that the condition be amended to allow for indirect illumination except for on those residential facing facades um so still allow it wasn't our intent to um prohibit internally illuminated across the entire Center um but to it is a code requirement that when it faces residentially zone property it is it is prohibited so we clarified that in the condition and I have it here but I don't know if it okay it's not working so I don't know how Carter do you just want to read it into the record I can read in the record so condition number 15f wall sign illumination shall be limited to indirect elimination Halo backlit download and internal internally illuminated signs are prohibited on the south and west facing facades of building a and the west facing facade of Building B as shown in Exhibit C in the staff report Center signage facing west shall not be illuminated between 8 pm and 6 a.m all other signage shall not be illuminated outside of business hours for the center foreign we'll come back to that no problem thank you okay appreciate it all right we'll uh open it to Commissioners for disclosures commissioner velto please I spoke with the applicant's representative and I'm familiar with the site commissioner Munoz uh familiar with the site Richard Armstrong briefly spoke with the applicant's representative and I'm familiar with the site commissioner I spoke with the applicants representative commissioner draculitch I spoke briefly with the applicant's representative and familiar with the site okay closing this public disclosures we will move to uh public comment Carlos any request to speak forms or voicemails or Zoom and so we don't have any requests to speak forms or anyone be a zoom we I guess we do via Zoom um we did receive correspondence that was entered into the record and we have one voicemail which would you like to begin with let's get with the zoom caller hello um should I go ahead sure what's your name uh Lori Ray and I'm speaking on behalf of Scenic Nevada and for the new members of the commission seeing Nevada as a non-profit all volunteer group that's been in Reno for about 23 years and our mission is to protect the scenic Beauty and Community character of Nevada and we do that primarily through advocating for strong sign control which brings me to tonight's meeting and I just wanted to uh say first of all that originally we were opposed to this sup because the applicants wanted to replace the neighborhood commercial science standards with General commercial we think General commercial standards are far too intense for this neighborhood which is surrounded by open space residential neighborhoods and a pub in public facilities this end of town is very beautiful as you saw from the photographs with the it has you know pretty spectacular views so we think that's sort of bucolic setting should be preserved in that sign intensity really matters here so we were very happy to see that staff in the applicant came to a compromise mixing General commercial and replacing it with a balance between neighborhood commercial and mixed-use Suburban so we actually we aren't opposed to this sup now as long as these recommendations by staff are upheld the staff report which is excellent by the way shows that the applicant will be limited to one Monument sign about eight feet tall and the wall signs will increase but the total allowed meets the neighborhood commute commercial regulations of 400 square feet per parcel so we think that that shows that the businesses have a can have a sign facing the parking lot and facing the street which is what they were looking for and the lighting isn't going to be too intrusive because of the um uh requirement to turn them off by 8 PM for those that face residential so all in all it's a good job by staff and the applicant it's a fair compromise and we hope you approve the sup as recommended by staff thank you very much thank you Miss Ray all right Carlos we will go with the voicemail case number LDC [Music] 23-00060 regarding the Meadow Creek uh New Plaza I think we need a light there or crosswalk we need a crosswalk blinker and marked in the in the pavement and it's not very clear there either you can either turn left right or pull in you know uh leaving if you want to go straight across you know there's a hockey rink there it's lots of kids there with the yogurt place and Etc and the pizza coming we need to think about the people walking bye Carlos any more voicemails or anything else there that's it for now thank you is anybody in the chambers wish to speak on this item seeing none we'll close public comment and move it to the Commissioners for questions or discussion of the applicant or staff commissioner you can go if you I don't see any questions coming from anybody else if you'd like to move into discussion please do I was also along the lines of the public comment um impressed by the compromise and thought that went into creating a cohesive signage package and that's something that I appreciate about this development as well as just neighborhood commercial and neighborhood centers in general I think are a really nice addition to our community thank you commissioner velta do you want to slide in no I appreciate all the work that staff's done on this uh I I just want to yeah I'm definitely going to be in support of this uh this project okay great I'll jump in a little bit so condition 15 uh item f um did we have that written down so we could read it again or do we we haven't read into the record but is everybody comfortable with what you've heard verbally okay I didn't know if you guys wanted to see it written down to get another glance come and if we have no more discussion or questions we can entertain motion and discuss the amendment to 15f commissioner Armstrong commissioner Armstrong I'm ready to make a motion um in the case of ldc23-00055 oh sorry that is the wrong case number let's try that wait okay sorry about that let's try this again in the instance of case number ldc23-00060 meadowcrete condition 15 amendment uh based on compliance the applicable findings and in support of the amendment that was read into the record I moved to approve the modification of a condition of approval subject to the conditions listed in the staff report okay we have a motion commissioner Aurora Myers seconded we have a motion in a second all in favor aye opposed none the motion passes thank you and good luck appreciate it all right closing item 4.3 moving on to item five recommendation to city council for appointment to the Truckee Meadows Regional Planning Commission from the members of the Reno City Planning Commission to fill the two vacant positions with name stated as such um open to discussion and I think we have some people who would consider joining um I'll open it up to everybody else in here for a moment this is uh commissioner belto I just want to chime in on this you know I've been at the uh I'm one of the Liaisons to the trucking Meadows Regional planning agency at the last meeting we had commissioner Armstrong in attendance and I think he definitely showed a lot of interest and was very capable [Music] um commissioner valdo sorry buddy you're you're glitching pretty good there you can you hear me yeah I apologize can you hear me I can hear you oh you're clear now we got the first half I think we got the just go ahead and go backwards about five seconds and say it again I appreciate it the only other thing I wanted to add is that um the the newest commissioner that's not able to attend tonight he did express interest to me when I met with him the other day um so I thought I'd throw that out as well okay uh personally I I understand commissioner Armstrong has some interest and also our newest member to the commission commissioner rural Meyer also has a lot of technical Savvy and skill and has some interest um I'd be supportive of both of them going to the regional planning do we need a motion for both okay so we do need a motion for uh both members to join I will entertain that maybe commissioner Munoz if you'd like or if you have any questions sorry thank you commissioner Munoz uh did you get the motion correct here it's two nominate uh Commissioners to the position of the regional Planning Commission correct this is actually a recommendation to city council so you guys will be forwarding a recommendation of two people got it okay so if you want to nominate two people then if we get a second motion the commission can vote on that okay thank you all right commissioner Munoz I nominate to I would like to nominate uh commissioner Armstrong and commissioner rohrmeyer to recommendation to city council for the regional Planning Commission positions commissioner belto little second great we have a motion and a second all in favor aye aye aye did it scared me for a second okay for for the record we have five eyes for the motion made by commissioner Munoz any opposed say none that recommendation will move forward to the city council are we good there Angela okay closing item number five moving item number six Trucking Meadows Regional planning liaison report do we have someone who's at the last meeting uh yes uh chair I'm happy to happy to report uh at the last meeting of the tracking Meadows Regional planning agency um there were multiple items but one item that I think was particularly interesting was the the agency debuted their 2022 annual report and this does a lot of demographic information about Washoe County it's widely available it's available on their website if anyone wants to check it out and I would strongly recommend you do because it is some fascinating data and the way they put the data together to share the public is just incredible uh so that's what all I have to report from the last meeting but it was myself and commissioner Armstrong in case commissioner Armstrong oh and it was also commissioner uh Mr Johnson's officially last meeting uh just one more update of Interest they also unveiled a very large undertaking to review kind of capital infrastructure across the region both existing and planned as well as kind of the maintenance requirements for those I think it's a great undertaking and it'll help further develop the tiers for development at the regional level so just wanted to say that that's a great development and hopefully they are successful thank you to both of you we'll close item six and move to item number seven staff announcements as well good evening Angela Foose assistant director for development services really my only update is to to formally introduce Carrie Romer for those of you who have not met her she actually has a background in planning so she's going to be I think a wealth of technical knowledge for this team and we're very excited to have her on board our other commissioner Manny is out sick today um so we hope to see him at our next meeting so we're again grateful that you have volume told to to join the regional Planning Commission she didn't say no and we look forward to working with you no updates from Council we didn't have any Planning Commission items that were forwarded to council at our last council meeting and other than that now that we have a full commission we will be bringing back some training opportunities we're going to wait till some of our agendas are light tonight would have been a good night but just know going forward we we plan to have additional training to get new Commissioners up to speed and hopefully get you guys that are more seasoned just again interested in things that we can bring to you that are not development focused but just more planning focused thank you thank you as well closing item seven opening item number eight commissioner suggestions for future agenda items seeing some shaking heads commission valto got any suggestions no just keep doing sounds good buddy loud and clear good closing item mate moving to item number nine public comment this item is for either public comment on any action item or for any general public comment Carlos do we have any more public comment for this evening we don't have any requests to speak forms anyone be a zoom any voicemails or correspondence great thank you anybody in the chambers wish to speak on public comment seeing none we will close item number nine moving to item number 10 adjournment which we will give the honors to commissioner we have a motion oh second commissioner motion and a second all in favor aye aye aye thank you all