Planning Commission - April 17th, 2025 Meeting
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[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Welcome to the City of Bakersfield Planning Commission meeting. This television broadcast is brought to you by the local cable companies, the county of Kerna, and the city of Bakersfield. You can watch the rebroadcast of this meeting Saturday at 700 p.m. and Sunday at 10:00 a.m. You can download the agenda for this meeting at www.bakersfieldcity. us. Preciding over this evening's meeting, Vice Chair Adam Strickland. It is my pleasure to call to order the April 17, 2025 planning commission meeting. Madame Clerk, will you please call the role? Chair Kedar, Vice Chair Strickland here, Commissioner Biddle here, Commissioner Brandt Oliver here. Commissioner Core here. Commissioner Martin here. Commissioner Neil here. Madame Clerk, next item, please. Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you for attending tonight's planning commission meeting. This commission provides an opportunity for public participation in the development process throughout the city of Bakersfield. The planning commission considers a wide variety of projects including subdivision maps, zone changes, general plan amendments, and more. When applications are received, the city planning division analyzes the request. Planning staff will present the facts about the project along with their recommendation to the planning commission who will approve the item or make a recommendation as appropriate. Madame clerk, next item, please. Item three, public statements. Public statements are now received at different times depending on the item. I will call on Madame Clerk to call for public statements at the appropriate time. So, please listen carefully for the correct time to speak. Item 3A, non-aggenda. Item 3A, public statements. Does anyone in the audience wish to address the commission regarding items not listed on tonight's agenda? If so, please come forward and state your name. Agenda item 3B, public statements. Does anyone in the audience wish to address the commission regarding items listed on tonight's agenda? If you are here for non-consent public hearing item 6A, now is not the time to speak. You'll be given an opportunity to speak at a later time. Seeing none, Madame Clerk, next item please. Agenda item four, consent calendar items. All matters listed in the consent items do not require a public hearing and will be enacted in one motion. There will be no separate discussion of set items unless staff or commissioner requests specific items to be discussed and or removed for separate action. May I get a motion approving consent items 4A? I'll make a motion. Commissioner Bidd, do I have a second? Second. Commissioner Neil, please cast your votes. Madame Clerk, Vice Chair Strickland, yes. Commissioner Biddle, yes. Commissioner Brandt Oliver, yes. Commissioner Core, yes. Commissioner Martin, yes. Commissioner Neil yes. Oops. Motion passes with Chair Kedar absent. Madame clerk, next item, please. Agenda item five, consent public hearing items. Now is the time for consent public hearing items. If the item is not removed by a commissioner, staff, or a member of the public, the commission will vote on all all items in one motion without further comment. If an item is removed, it will be placed at the end of non-consent public hearing items. At this time, I will open I will open all of the consent public hearing items. Does any member of the public wish to remove a consent public hearing item? Seeing none, does a commissioner or staff wish to remove a consent public hearing item? Seeing none, at this time, the consent public hearing items not removed are now closed. May I get a motion to adopt staff's recommendation of the consent public hearing items not removed, incorporating all staff memoranda and revised staff recommendations. So moved. Commissioner Martin, do I have a second? Second. Oh, sorry. It's a tie. I'm going to go with Commissioner Brent Oliver. Please cast your votes. Madame Clerk. Vice Chair Strickland. Yes. Commissioner Biddle, yes. Commissioner Brandt Oliver, yes. Commissioner Core, yes. Commissioner Martin, yes. Commissioner Neil, yes. Motion passes with Chair Kedar absent. Madame Clerk, next item, please. Agenda item six, there are no non-consent public hearing items. Okay, Madame Clerk, next item, please. Agenda item seven, communications. Does staff have any communication items? Yes. Uh, we will be having a May 1st U planning commission meeting. And then also scheduled for the May 1 meeting is selection for the new chair and vice chair the next year. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Next item, please. Agenda item eight, commissioner comments. Does any commissioner have any comments? Seeing none, madame clerk, next item, please. Agenda item nine, adjournment. This meeting is adjourned at 5:36 p.m. [Music] [Music]