all right everybody thank you for coming to the regular meeting of the Reno City Planning Commission today's date is Wednesday March 20th just a little bit after 6 we will open it up with the Pledge of Allegiance commissioner roer please lead the way flag all right moving on to item number two roll call Heather if you may please Harris Armstrong here Manny Basera here Arthur Munos Carrie rer here Alex VTO is absent at this time and sylville newa is also absent so we do have a quorum and I'm here you may have Miss Me JD dracul yeah I'm here all right perfect we'll move to item number three public comment this item is for either public comment on any action item or for any general public comment members of the public may call into the meeting to provide public comment by using the zoom link provided on the agenda specifically HT ttps links. reno.gov sl3s o T4 Q3 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 with that we did receive correspondence for general public comment that was um um forwarded to the Planning Commission and have been entered into the record do not have any request to speak forms at this time all right anybody on Zoom or voicemails I think you said you forwarded them already but no voicemails right does anybody in the chambers wish to speak on General Public comment oh sir would you like to speak in general or on a specific item General okay please do you have a request to speak for him there is that what that is you can fill it out after if you like come on up you'll have three minutes feel free to state your name when you start and then give that piece of paperwork to Heather when you're done please I've lived in Nevada Northern Nevada most of my life and I just want to comment uh on the North Valleys um it I I've gone back ever since back the days of caselle I've gone to his office in the past about infrastructure about 395 and I wish it was somehow that they could slow down building permits building until infrastructure can catch up I just I feel like there's a difference between Southern Nevada and Northern Nevada and we're very behind as far as infrastructure um like you know I feel like if we could have started like 395 10 years ago we would have saved millions of dollars when I was pleading with celle in the past and uh back then he was saying all the federal governments going to take care of it we went to worry about pay but it was still nothing really corresponded another thing is my wife's a nurse mental health nurse and it's really hard when there's a crisis when she come Cold Springs to work at the VA and I felt if this would have if they would have started the infrastructure 5 years ago you know we wouldn't have this bottleneck and uh another thing too I'm a ride share driver and I've just seen it it's just all over town it's just we're just so behind and I I really would wish you could take it in account to look at the big picture and say hey let's just slow down a little bit on on on some building until things can get caught up all right thank you very much thank you sir appreciate it yeah feel free to give your form to Heather thank you again anybody else in the chambers wish to speak on general public comment seeing none we will close public comment hang on Mr chair we do have some folks in the zoom oh that have their hands raised please do our first public commenter is Luise sofron go ahead and unmute and state your name and say your comment hello hi we can hear you uh yes my name is Louise suant and my question for the council is are there any health issues for future residents living so close to the White Lake Playa um for the pla dust has and will there be any public health department evaluation done this is regarding the White Lake um White Lake uh development thank you all right next up we have Rebecca Flanery Rebecca you can go ahead and unmute Rebecca we we will come back to you but we're going to skip to the next um public commenter which is Ain fabri Aaron you're good to go please state your name and begin your comments okay you guys can hear me okay yes we can thank you hey nice to meet you all and thanks for all the work that you do um I was uh born in Carson City and I'm in the process of moving back I brought I bought some land and I'm trying to build a a house for my family and I kind of ran into an intractable issue with the building permits process um there's a disagreement between the planning and Engineering departments uh that has already cost us dearly and I kind of had an impact where I don't see any way to resolve it do you guys have any uh suggestions sir we're we're not answering any questions during public comment but you continue to make statements sure oh okay just comments yeah the the sign up form said questions and comments I believe um yeah so I guess uh it would be nice to have a uh clear way to kind of deal with these sorts of issues and uh I think there's clearly some sort of schism or disconnect between the planning and Engineering departments for example just to give a little more detail and tell me when I'm out of time um the planning department uh had you know had a determination on easement that required us to merge two of our Lots which was very expensive we lost a lot and um you know it was very disruptive uh and so we get to the end of the process and now the engineering department is saying that the the the the easement does exist or the opposite of what the planning department is saying and saying that we can't proceed and so the planning department led us down a road and forced us to do something that was very expensive and timec consuming and has now made our project unbuildable um so that that's basically the situation just so you guys have some awareness and I would be happy to answer any of your questions offline thank you thank you as well appreciate it all right we're going to try Rebecca Flannery again is it working this time state your name and you'll have three minutes Rebecca Flanery and this is regarding the um huge amount of growth that you are trying to do here in Cold Springs um I'm born and raised in Reno the traffic now is just Madness it takes 45 minutes to an hour to get home from Moana um the morning is not any better there's no back roads we used to be able to back road we can't do that anymore there's just so much traffic and there's so many people so like the gentleman was saying earlier um is there any way we can just stop like the warehouses from coming out here till we can catch up because this is really um having a detrimental effect to us out here um we moved out here here to get away from the city and be in peace and not have traffic and crime the crime inar in our town is skyrocketing we don't have police we don't have the proper infrastruct infrastructure all around you know where we getting police doctors teachers we we just keep bringing people people here and then saying we have a lack of housing when you keep bringing people here and nobody can afford to live so just we need this growth to be a little more in line with our pay our traffic just we're frustrated and most of our Reno ites are really really upset to see what our home is becoming growing up we always were told to conserve our water because lack of water and where's all this water now magically coming from um sorry I'm just speaking for a lot of us rites and we're all overwhelmed and frustrated and stressed out and our lack of our life that we used to be able to have is now being eroded for what I'm assuming is you guys being paid off by Corporate America um is is there any relief coming our way or is it just more grow grow grow thank you thank you as well any more zoom there are no more hands raised right now okay one more time anybody else in the chambers wish to speak on General Public comment oh we have another gentleman sir come on over uh state your name you get three minutes and when you're done please go and fill out a request to speak for thank you very much my name is Richard KO I'm a resident of uh Cold Springs uh and I'm just GNA I guess I want to expand a little bit on what I've heard so far uh traffic traffic's an issue it's I've seen had grown the 17 years that I've lived here uh a lot of expansion in the North Valleys but nothing's been done to improve the freeway they're doing it now but they're still doing it in a stretch that it really doesn't alleviate a lot of problems uh that's number one uh and I don't see that going away uh on my way home from work I see all these houses there to the right that have been built up uh I've been coming up here for a little over 30 years for the air races and I decided to become a resident up here uh unfor that event left also and that's I'm assuming was because of the uh development that was done up there in the the Red Rock not Red Rock office Dead uh it's growing way too fast up there um I remember that used to be a rural area you drive through there there was nothing there you can see people riding horses I mean it was really neat everybody knew each other uh now good luck you know with that uh it's basically turned into the suburbs and that's what's happened with this development developing all of that up there now I see it leaking over the or it's trying to leak over the valley over into Coal Springs uh I bought there for the it was further away from everything and I'm I'm talked with my neighbors they like it there also because of the seclusion you don't have the problems I actually bought in the old part of Cold Springs where there are no no lights I'm an amateur astronomer and we don't get any light doesn't bleed out the sky uh I noticed that uh I have a friend that that used to live off of a red rock and at one time we used to just set up telescopes there but even that's changed now with all the warehouses and they have those uh how I don't know what they are those lights that they use but they just bleed out everything now and so you know that into that but we moved out there because of the beauty of the area and now it seems like it's being encroached on so our our our um quality of life is changing because of this development everything and I still see a lot of housing that's empty so I don't know what the problem is there and as far as affordability I don't think we have any control over that uh you folks might have better way to do that I don't know uh my understanding with the water system with the water that they're going to use for these developments is they're going to bring it down from um um further down in the valley I guess they're going to pipe it up at least that's what I'm hearing I don't know um but my biggest thing is light pollution the uh the overdevelopment uh traffic and of course housing it's it's not affordable I keep getting offers for my house and I said well what am I supposed to do sell my house and then move under the 80 freeway somewhere that's not going to work for me so anyway that's all I needed to say I wanted to say thank you very much thank you sir Heather any more zooms come in okay nope all right anybody in the chambers wish to speak on public comment seeing none we will close item three public comment move to item number four truck trucky Meadows Regional planning agency annual report so item 4.1 staff report all right there we are good evening Mr chair and Commissioners for the record Lauren Knox senior planner this agenda item addresses the 2023 Chucky Meadows annual report so I'll give you a quick overview of what the annual report is um per state law and per the regional plan all local planning commissions and affected entities are required to submit a calendar year report based on actions taken throughout that year that furthers the policies and strategies within the regional plan this helps team RPA the Trum Regional planning agency not only track progress towards the implementation of the regional plan but also helps gather information that we can use in our Collective decision-making so the report in front of you tonight is for calendar year 2023 I'll get into the specifics a bit more but as an overall there's a few highlights of the report on the slide overhead this is items like the affordable housing and increasing housing diversity efforts related development code amendments the adoption of a new parks recreation and open space master plan and overall involvement in the regional Plan update which is slated for adoption in October of this year so generally the report follows the policy sections of the regional plan which may be familiar to those of you that are on the regional Planning Commission so I'll go ahead and touch on population growth first so the regional plan requires that we all utilize What's called the consensus forecast this is a population um based method for estimating kind of the future population in our area so this information is used for planning related analysis which we do utilize and that's a policy within our master plan housing is also viewed as a key part of planning for our population and last year carrying on to this year for this type of effort staff has been undertaking housing initiatives related work to address housing affordability and this came before this body recently you may remember as a text Amendment additionally Council has acknowledged housing as a priority and has allocated funding as described in the report for these efforts including things like waving sewer connection fees and building permit fees as well as allocating funding to support affordable housing development projects so for regional form the regional plan lays out a priority hierarchy for development which generally discourages sprawl by prioritizing infill development in core areas and limiting development potential in these outer tier areas the city's master plan framework and policies support implement this policy concept additionally through discretionary review we have approved one annexation in the past year as well as four master plan amendments all of which are consistent with our master plan and thus the regional plan so for public facilities and services there's some crossover here with the regional Forum in regards to prioritizing facilities and services and infrastructure in places that we want to see growth so again those infill core areas and generally areas that have already seen some level of development this is the most fiscally efficient and responsible way to grow which is why it's a key policy within the regional plan the master plan utilizes what's called a concurrency management system to ensure new development provides adequate facilities and services to meet this policy within the regional plan as part of the population forecasting work tmrp also develops spatial modeling that assists us with our long-term planning efforts specifically for things like roads and Sewer improvements which we did utilize in 2023 their assistance for some of our work they're also developing the public infrastructure plan which we have been heavily involved with the idea here is to get a highlevel view of where infrastructure to serve development is and where Capital Improvements and infrastructure Investments are being made to support this effort tmrp also requires that we provide a list of Capital Improvements for the past calendar year as well as our Capital Improvement plan this is in each of the annual reports that come before you this year they're also looking for something called a list of assets to get a better understanding of where potential private investments in infrastructure to support growth our that then come to the city this provides a little bit more wholesome view of kind of the infrastructure we have for natural resources generally the regional plan aims to preserve natural features and mitigate impacts from development the city's master plan contains many goals and policies that address the natural resources that are in the report with regards to sustainability in 2023 the city has streamlined the energy energy benchmarking program retr lighting and Parks completed a community solar project and received a grant to plant trees among many other things related to sustainability Additionally the city adopted the parks recreation and open space master plan which was really driven by priorities within the reimagine Reno master plan team RPA has also been undertaking a natural resource plan effort and staff's been very involved in that as well for regional Regional coordination staff's been very involved in the regional Plan update working Group which meets regularly to help guide the regional Plan update process additionally staff has been involved in the 2050 Regional Transportation plan the 2023 Nevada legislative session of particular note uh assembly Bill 213 um has brought many of the local jurisdictions together for implementation of housing reporting policies and strategies as required by that bill the renad corridor joint plan was officially sunsetted which actually started as a regional plan change in 2019 so this required significant collaboration with the county and the community and then Additionally the city is coordinating with the county on a cohesive Chucky River plan so for 2024 efforts uh the regional plan report process requires that we also talk about what might be kind of on the horizon for the next year with regards to implementing the regional plan so there's a variety of items staff's working on or anticipating on working on in 2024 related to that implementation so things like the e code cleanup item which you're going to hear about later this evening a focus still on affordable housing and expanding housing choice and diversity and further collaboration with all of the efforts that tmpa is currently working on with regards to that Regional Plan update and their various specific efforts so with that there's a recommended motion on the screen overhead I'm happy to answer any questions you might have thank you Commissioners questions discussion commission AR please uh so one thing that you mentioned that I found interesting was uh sound like there was maybe a new Focus on private infrastructure investment can you explain maybe what that would look like what kind of infrastructure would a private entity invest in uh in conjunction with the city I'm assuming and what kind of entities are those like what kind of private entities are you looking at so generally the list of capital assets are things that are dedicated to the city potentially that might have a depreciating value so um these are items like if a development comes through for example and there's a roadway that's dedicated to the city that might be something that becomes an asset list that then is tracked through Regional planning so they can get a better understanding of where that infrastructure investment is being made so our CIP in our public infrastructure Investments that's already being captured very publicly right and this is just another layer of that piece that's being looked at to try and get that more wholesome view great thank you commissioner Munoz I know you're virtual did you have any questions can you hear me yeah there you are okay great uh yeah no I don't have any questions but I really appreciate the uh the presentation thank you if no questions or discussion we will need a motion for acceptance commissioner baser please happy to make a motion um first off great report thank you um could I get the motion on the screen by chance I move to accept the 2023 annual report and recommend that Council accept the same report and forward to the trucky Meadows Regional Planning Commission and Regional planning governing board all right we have a motion commissioner Armstrong I'll second motion and a second any discussion all in favor I I any opposed hearing none motion passed unanimously thank you all right we'll close item number four move to item number five public hearings any person who has chosen to provide his or her public comment when a public hearing is heard we'll need to so indicate on the request to speak form provided to the secretary alternatively you may provide your comment when item three public comment is heard at the beginning of this meeting we'll now move to item number 5.1 which is case number LDC 24-35 North Virginia and web Industrial looks like we'll get a presentation from the applicant please come on up good evening uh Planning Commission for the record my name is Veronica Barton and I'll be presenting a condition use permit for North Virginia and web industrial project so this property consists of four vacant Parcels um located on the east side of the North Virginia Street and stead Boulevard intersection the overall scope for the project is to construct two tilt up Warehouse Flex shell building things there are three triggers for the conditional use permit the first we're requesting 24x7 operations on the MS Zone Parcels which we will get into um on the next slide and also to allow grading resulting in fills over 10 ft on the Northern side of the property and the third to allow the disturbance of a major drainage way that's going across the property as well so the current Zoning for the property is split between mixed use suburban and IC industrial commercial the three red hatched Parcels are zoned mixed you Suburban on the left image and the gray is industrial commercial the master the master plan land use for all four of the parcels is industrial and the total acreage for the property is around 9 acres here we have a landscape plan I'll use this to go over the general findings for the subject property coming to the first uh cup trigger industrial zoning allows 24x7 usage by R so we're requesting the same for the MS Zone Parcels of this property the site has been designed to meet all City of Reno municipal code standards and requirements as well as meet the master plan requirements for industrial zoning the split zoning of the site triggers different lens landcaping requirements and we have provided Landscaping all throughout and it's distributed um with special emphasis on the major drainage way and it exceeds the requirements the nearest residentially zone property for this site is almost 1500 ft away and there's a major freeway acting as a as a buffer there are two mobile home parks um within 500 ft of the property there is also a significant buffer and they're not adjacent to the property as well all the neighboring properties have um industrial zoning as well with 24hour operations um for most of them however we are limiting truck movement between the hour of 6:00 a.m. and 10 p.m. and requesting indoor operations for 24 by 7 coming to the next trigger which is the major drainage way disturbance we're only proposing minor encroachment to the ma major drainageway by piping the minimum amount necessary to construct the proposed Northeastern driveway and the RightWay improvements no other impact um is proposed outside of this piping the last trigger which would be the fills over 10 ft we're proposing that as it is necessary to provide for a functional set design and appropriate access to North Virginia Street despite the fields being over 10 ft they're located and designed in a way to mitigate any potential environmental degradation such as slow failure storm water runoff Etc the location of the fills are also in compliance with the Reno Municipal Code as well as the standards set forth in RMC 18.04.3 and that is the Phill exhibit moving on to some of the other high Lev Design Elements for this property we are proposing three aises the Eastern and the Western axis will be a ride in ride out only and we're also providing pork chops that will restrict turn movements and enhance safety we are proposing a full access for the center driveway and we're also proposing 6-in sidewalks all along the front edge to increase pedestrian access these improvements are also being coordinated currently with RTC we also submitted a traffic impact study and a noise study for this project and it is with staff for their review per the trip generation letter that was prepared by the traffic engineer for this project the anticipated daily am peak hour and PM peak hour trips are well below the City of Reno requirements for an entry and access study no Road wide for left turn lanes are proposed with this development as the upcoming RTC Road winding project will be providing a center two-way left turn lane lastly the proposed design of the property includes truck docking Bays that are facing one another which will minimize truck noise generation towards the residences or any surrounding businesses given that this is an industrial and logistical Warehouse heavy area the noise generated by the business activities of this property is not anticipated to increase the existing noise levels in a significant matter I'll I'll end my presentation with this here are some elevations for the project the findings of we just talked about and I also have here the civil engineering team for the project should you have any questions we'll be happy to answer thank you thank you as well appreciate it looks like we'll get a presentation from the city hi Carter hello Carter Williams assistant planner for the record or sorry associate planner for the record um so before you tonight is a a conditional use permit for a um Industrial Development located near the intersection of North Virginia Street and web Circle the about 9 Acres site uh is comprised of about four Parcels um for area context to the Northeast is the Amazon Local distribution facility and then out of frame of this image uh to the Northwest is dead Boulevard the specific request is for 24-Hour operations the disturbance of a mge rage way and then gradings uh grading that results in fills greater than 10 ft in height the zones this property has two zoning districts industrial commercial and mixed use Suburban for both zones warehouse and distribution is allowed by right so in in this in the review of this case the uh the use itself isn't in question um it's specific to whether or not 24-hour operations is allowed or would be um appropriate on the three mixed use Suburban Parcels represented there um and I I also want to point out the spotted nature of this area um eventually this whole area will transition into industrial um pursu to the master plan uh master plan policies that support this application are um applications that support a monitored industrial Hub as well as uh policies that uh protect and preserve hydrological resources including major drainage ways from a compatibility standpoint this uh area is predominantly industrial and specifically warehouse and distribution and other storage uses um uh the again we're not looking at the use but um all these are located within industrial zones which allow for 24-Hour operations by right so the 24-hour operation con concept indoors would be consistent throughout the area there are two mobile home parks within the vicinity of the project project um and because of that and some of uh some non-conforming residential uses nearby we've implemented a condition or our recommending a condition that um exterior or outdoor truck operations be limited to between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 11: p.m. before we go into the drainage and uh grading conversation just to introduce the site um From staff's perspective at least um the truck dock orientation um facing inward uh is a a feature that supports the mitigation of noise and allows screening um per requirements within the code Landscaping is proposed throughout the site but there is a uh um it's noted that it is uh centered or or um positioned more around the uh drainage way uh to integrate it better with the site on the screen is the major drainage way that is the the existing course of the major drainage way represented in yellow generally the uh majority of the drain way is is going to retain its original course um and currently it actually is piped on both ends so it's piped under North Virginia Street and continues uh North East into uh the adjacent site through a pipes so this is a limited area where it is exposed um but it's uh code requires that it one not be is generally remain retained as an open Channel and it's restored to a natural condition on the screen is the exhibit showing the grading that exceeds 10 ft in height in red um generally this these areas are limited in scope and size um to uh only fill cavities um and do not disturb any sort of um significant Hillside features on the screen are the findings for a conditional use permit through staff's review and Analysis we were able to meet all the findings in addition to this um for grading projects there are findings uh specific to cuts and fills um and we were able to meet all those findings most of them are related to Hillside development which this wouldn't be generally applicable and on the screen is the recommended motion I'm available for any questions thanks Carter appreciate it we'll go to the Commissioners for disclosures commissioner Armstrong please commissioner Armstrong no disclosures commissioner B please commissioner bassera no disclosures commissioner roer no disclosures commissioner VTO no disclosure commissioner Munoz please commissioner Muno no disclosures commissioner draulic no disclosures all right we will now open it up to public comment I don't have any request to speak forms but Heather anybody on Zoom it doesn't appear that anyone on Zoom has their hand rais I don't have any request to speak forms we didn't receive any correspondence sorry we did get someone on Zoom to raise their hand um no cor correspondents no voicemails and just this one um person on on Zoom please go ahead Rebecca if you're ready go ahead and start you'll have three minutes sorry for some reason it's over my phone and on this iPad sorry it's throwing me off um so my question is is is there any intention of putting a light over there because we have a school bus yard and it's already hard as heck for them to get in and out of there with the lines of traffic that go down Virginia when 395 is atrocious what what about the school buses you know I mean who decided that this should be all warehouses out here in the first place this is not very accommodating I don't know thank you thank you as well have there anybody else on Zoom no there is not okay anybody in the chambers wish to speak on this item yes please separate from uh general public comment please state your name and you'll have three minutes uh Frank shank I I do go on that route on on uh old Virginia and uh just want to comment it would be good to have an extra Lane on that road it's single Lane most icept near the Amazon and uh all along that old Virginia there's wrecked cars there's junk I mean I I can like 10 cars just on the side so I wish you know these people could have the responsibility and keep that street clean uh but anyway I just want to comment and also be good to have a bike PA along that that route that's all I want to say thank you all right thank you as well anybody else in Chambers wish to speak on this item seeing none in the room I'll double check with Heather on Zoom anything else no one has their hand raised okay all right we will close public comment on this item and open it up to the Commissioners for questions of Staff or the applicant commissioner mun knows I know you're virtual if you want to jump in can't see your hand if you are uh commissioner monus no uh I'm ready to make uh go into comments if nobody else has anything go into a discussion is that you said sorry excuse me yeah discussion okay not seeing much activity in here commissioner Muno if you want to kick off discussion we can yeah um with with with the nature of North Virginia already this actually fits right into what is going on up there uh it's going to be lower impact um it is commercial though you know I'd love to have like I said before more restaurants more shopping areas more places for uh infrastructure type type stuff this is jobs and uh having more jobs up here does help dampen the uh traffic going into town so there is definitely the benefit to that this fitting the area along with those uh reasons I don't see any reason not to approve this I don't see anything wrong with it it looks like a good project thank you thank you as well if there's no other discussion on the board here you can feel free to make a motion the case number of LDC 24-35 North Virginia web industrial based upon compliance with the appicable findings I move to approve the conditional use for subject conditions listed in the staff report and I can make the findings all right we have a motion commissioner Armstrong I'll second we have Motion in a second any further discussion all in favor I I I any opposed heing none motion passes unanimously good luck with your project all right we will close item 5.2 move on to I'm sorry closing item 5.1 moving on to 5.2 staff report for possible action in regards to case number lc24 d41 9590 North Virginia Street zoning map Amendment Leah we getting a presentation from the applicant the applicant is virtual thank you so much thank you uh Mr chair commissioner John krmpotic can you hear me okay we're good to go buddy okay I'm getting uh the zoom message that says you cannot start screen share while the other participant is sharing so whatever that means there we go I think it's coming coming in now right try to share again John if you don't mind I think um I think we're there now can you see that we cannot see anything no we'll try a share again I think you'll see it now perhaps okay yep there it is there it pops in okay very good so little bit of lag here I think that PO do that pull full screen now is that good yeah you look good buddy thank you uh this it's all good thank you do you need a disclosure on why I'm uh participating virtually or are we good I'm good buture you're okay thank you very much I'm usually in the chambers John kotam representing the applicant who is bjack Corporation for the zone change from Ms to IC on the 2 Acre Site um I really have three things to share and then I'll keep the rest I got a lot of detail of course to be prepared in terms of findings the intended use but I think the three key points are if you look at this map it's all it's entirely dominated by industrial and logistic types of uses which are foremost allowed and fundamental to the proposed Zone and as staff pointed out the Ms Zone specifically removes residential type uses Health Care type uses and education type uses in this sea of industrial uh and again we have them labeled in a fairly broad sense in every direction beyond the subject site warehouses some outdoor storage you can see uh the on track Warehouse um and then there's a couple of other mobile home parks that have been there for years the other is um as staff also pointed out the MS zone so there's the existing master plan there's the existing zoning and proposed zoning I see that Ms master plan is probably every one of you Commissioners know is not compatible with the I master plan um so that is also fundamental to uh this request so with that I do have some zoning analysis about conforming distance uh districts about the industrial Logistics area of which this is part of and then these findings in my analysis as well but with that I think I'll turn it over to the commission and to staff for their presentation and save the rest for any questions you may have thank you for your time thank you John and we'll get a presentation from staff hi leup picatti associate planner with City of Reno development services and I am just following up on Mr kic's presentation here with a brief presentation of my own basically what we all need to understand here is that the current zoning is not in conformance with the master plan this is the same area on North Virginia that we've seen repeatedly that have come in for these zoning map changes from Ms to IC so here you can see the site this is a just down the street from the one that Carter just presented as you can see it is surrounded by industrial type uses um there are no residential uses in close proximity to this particular site the request is a zoning map Amendment from mixed juice Suburban to industrial commercial to bring it into conformance with the master plan you guys have all seen this list before of the conforming base zoning districts for the industrial master plan land use designation as you can see Ms is not on that list but industrial commercial is you've also seen this this is that summary of uses that kind of explains that residential would be allowed in Ms but it would not be allowed in ic and then some less intense industrial like indoor salvage or towy yard would be permitted in ic where it wouldn't be per pered in Ms the development standards are changing slightly you can see that in front of you here and it's included in your staff report as well here are the recommended zoning map Amendment findings staff has reviewed these two findings and has found that it is does conform with state law and it definitely conforms with the master plan that concludes my presentation the recommended motion is on the board and I am available for questions thank you thank you Lee appreciate it we'll go to the Commissioners for disclosures commissioner velto please commissioner VTO no disclosures commissioner R Meer no disclosures commissioner Basera no disclosures commissioner Armstrong no disclosures commissioner commissioner M no disclosures thank you sir commissioner draulic no disclosures we will now open it up for public comment I don't have any requests to speak forms do Heather do we have anybody on Zoom voicemails we did not receive any correspondents or voicemails for this item no request to speak forms in it does not look like anybody on Zoom has their hand raised all right anybody in the chambers wish to speak specifically on this item seeing no one we will close public comment and move to the Commissioners for questions of Staff or the applicant commissioner Munoz I'm got a crickets down here yeah no I have nothing uh nobody wants to do discussion I'm ready to make a motion I'm seeing had no or to so go for it okay the case number LDC 24- 000041 959 North Virginia Street zoning map Amendment based on the compliance with the pical findings I move to recommend the city council approve the zoning map amendment by ordinance and I can make the findings we have a motion second second from commissioner rer any further discussion all in favor I I any opposed hearing none motion passes unanimously good luck to you John thank you very much Commissioners nice to see you all have a good one thank you all right closing item 5.2 moving to item 5.3 case number lc23 D 000020 White Lake Parkway master plan and zoning map amendments oh hi Garrett sorry go for it buddy looks like get a presentation from Garrett the applicate I do Mr chairman thank you uh for the record Garrett Gordon Tonight representing Lifestyle homes uh behind me it's nice to introduce I have three generations of listeners uh Bob listener Peter listener and Dustin listener have been developing up in Cold Springs for almost 30 years now so they know this area very well and we're excited to present this project to you which is uh a two-fold um request for a master plan and zoning map Amendment the area uh roughly is 218 Acres located on the east side of White Lake um exit you can access the property um both off of Village Parkway on the north side of the lake and then on White Lake Parkway on the south side of the lake the first request is a master plan Amendment you can see on the left hand side it's really kind of a a smorgasborg of different Master use master plan categories we have single family we have a Suburban mixed use and then you can see in the bottom leftand Corner we have some open space uh the request is to convert it to mixed employment which is a more modern land use um in the master in the master plan and will'll accommodate what we're proposing is uh um a hybrid of NE of neighborhood commercial uh and industrial type uses the zoning map you can see again on the leftand Side neighborhood commercial single family three uh and there's actually a little pocket of industrial down there at the bottom so again again we're taking all those different zoning categories and creating one SPD specific plan for a handbook we thought the best way to come before you tonight kind of a unique location it was best to work with staff and for the record I want to thank Grace for the last 18 months working with us on coming up with a handbook that really I think hits home uh the market and the need for some commercial uh and jobs in the North Valleys as well as being certainly sensitive to the lake the open space and you'll see some pretty unique Trail ideas to want to tie this all together and one I'd also note currently under sf3 we could build about 400 homes there so and that would be by right so again we're taking the residential use out and moving forward with um the handbook so you'll see before you tonight in your packet um we have a master plan Amendment change we have the zone change and then the zone change triggers the handbook and our White Lake Commerce Center handbook really does four things provides a development schedule provides a land use plan provides development standards as well as some site planning standards to give the developer and the community certainty of what would be developed there one day so development schedule um nowadays uh when these specific plans come before all of you and eventually city council there's some time frames like the old PUD handbooks had to be built within 20 years 25 years 30 years we came up with staff and said let's put a development schedule of 15 years we think that's the appropriate time frame to build out 218 Acres if we don't hit that time frame we'd have to come back before you and ask for an extension or modifications and you can see here the rendering um we don't know exactly what will be built here but what we do know is it'll be a combination of neighborhood commercial some restaurants some um uh personal services I'll hit more on top of that on that issue a couple slides down but I think this is a great view of between the commercial and Lake Parkway and the lake would be the warehousing the industrial um other type job Economic Development uses but along that stretch of White Lake Park rate really have a traditional kind of shopping area that's very needed uh in the North Valleys so the land use plan this is built into the handbook it really breaks us up into three categories one of the 8 28 Acres 184 would be that mixed employment you can see there in purple which would accommodate kind of the warehousing and the bigger box developments two this was very important to staff and this was very important to the feedback we received at the NAB meeting this community wants commercial they've been asking for it for a long time they'd like restaurants they'd like dry cleaners they'd like coffee shops uh rather than commuting into the town for those type of services they want in their backyard there's a lot of rooftops in Cold Springs and it was important to staff that we have a minimum we can always go higher but we have to have a minimum of about 11 and A2 Acres of neighborhood commercial along White Lake Parkway to hopefully hit bring those Services into this community that they've been asking for and three this question came up we are changing you can see the zoning in the bottom leand corner of open space uh that open space is being rezoned a specific plan for the handbook but you can see in the land use plan that stays so the 25 acres of open space remains 2 5 Acres of open space we're not impacting that whatsoever so the handbook as far as the neighborhood commercial you can see here's some renderings again we anticipate and and hope for built out of almost 12 acres of neighborhood commercial along White Lake Parkway and our land use table in the handbook and includes retail restaurants personal services uh Child Care community service servicing office uses like Medical Offices again I've been before this body a handful of times on North Valley's projects and we've always heard commercial well we've finally put that requirement into a handbook and hopefully it gets built out there was also a question of what if a restaurant wants to come in or a bar that wants to operate 24 hours it was important to staff to kind of have that check that if we there wasn't a a use on in the commercial strip that wanted to go 24 hours we'd have to apply for a minor conditional use permit just to make sure it's in the right location and is sensitive too in any surrounding um residents or other or other businesses and again here's another rendering commercial commercial we heard that uh we think this is a great opportunity some great views of the lake you have uh a lot of rooftops across the street and then up Village Parkway in the cold springs and we really hope this is that shopping neighborhood commercial center that's been desperately needed up in the North Valleys mixed employment so I'm transitioning now from that neighborhood commercial orange color into that purple color of the mixed employment a mixed employment um category does allow 24 operations but part of part of the um the timing that went into this handbook since we submitted and since I'm here before you tonight is really working on these conditions to make sure that we've been we're very sensitive to the residents across the street on the other side of White Lake Parkway so what's in the handbook number one employee parking has to be Bei behind the 10 foot combination burm rock wall within 200 ft of residential and you'll see a lot of those references to the the this the the distance between the residential use and the project to make sure we're minimizing impacts to the residential two this has been pretty consistent in a lot of the handbooks you've approved for for industrial no loading docks within 300 feet of any residential use and oriented away from White Lake Parkway so you can see the examples there on top we had those drafted you could see if a industrial Warehouse project came forward what it would look like as far as dock orientation and you can see no docks are facing White Lake Parkway the docks are all internal to minimize that noise and I should also note to the to my right um but to the north of where these buildings are located is currently Reno truss which is a heavy industrial operation as it is indoor manufacturing and also outdoor storage so these projects would certainly be compatible with the Reno trust project uh and and and operations that are happening just next door uh three um no docks facing White Lake Parkway within 500 feet of a residential use unless screened by another building four all loading and unloading between 10 and 10: p.m. and 7: a.m. have to be an enclosed trailer I know you've seen this condition before if you're operating in the middle of the night the the the the trailer has to be backed up into a sealed dock door so there is no noise impacting the area uh also no backup alarms beepers between that period of time and also no running refrigerator equipment between that period of time as well so I think we hit all the the concerns and all the potential noise impacts to the area and mitigating them excuse me with all these conditions finally it was important to staff to kind of limit the size of these buildings and so we are limited to 500,000 Square ft for a single tenant building if we did want to go larger we'd have to to come with a conditional use permit which which would come before this body so you could evaluate those impacts of a larger building project entries um worked again with staff on making sure as well landscape different types of trees accent trees and making sure that for you can see the rendering here having a nice welcoming um entry into the development U sidewalks of course important we're trying to get that connectivity from Village Parkway uh down white Lakes Parkway so you can see sidewalk standards uh again Landscaping standards buffering standards um are all implemented and there's a little rendering of what it could look like traffic analysis we heard about this earlier from I think public comment I I note two things one we don't know what the Project's going to be yet right we have a lot of uses and the land use table what the project could be so we built into the handbook some safeguards to make sure when the project came forward no building permit would be issued until either a trip generation letter or a traffic impact analysis was in fact completed and in that bottom paragraph you can see it's absolutely would be required by the developer to um Implement and construct any mitigation measures or improvements necessary to meet acceptable levels of service White Lake Parkway currently meets a level of service we cannot do anything as regards to a project with with with exceeding that level of that with with exceeding a um an acceptable level of service and that there's any improvements that are needed we'd have to build those out two our traffic engineer also noted and I believe commissioner Muno mentioned this early on the earlier item jobs right we want to bring jobs into this area the reverse commute right rather than having all these rooftops these folks commuting on 395 into the city hopefully we're providing jobs for them in their backyard to stay in the area as well as some neighborhood commercial uses rather than commuting on 395 to go shopping or go to a restaurant we're keeping that in the in the area again reducing trips so you'll see in the packet certainly it's a fact that industrial uses um are a lot better as far as peak hours on 395 trails in open space so we've agreed and certainly um staff uh is I think one of the reasons why they're recommending approval is because we're agreeing to connect White Lake Parkway to Village Parkway with a trail system we have to have a 10-ft wide green belt green belt between the lake and our development as well as a pedestrian path that connects those areas there's a lot of cool stuff out there there's a lot of wildlife out there it's a really great lake so we're going to add two interpretive signs kind of discussing the area the history of the area the wildlife that's out there so folks can Meander or run or ride their bikes and kind of appreciate what's going on including uh adding three benches there's a little rendering of what the trail could look like so you can see there's the lake there's kind of that green belt or that open space and then the trail system uh would run kind of along the border of the uh of the development there's kind of another rendering so you'd have this trail system uh connecting a really long trail system uh connecting to two points of access and the trail has to be built before we go vertical so we can't get away with building anything vertical until that trail system goes in and that was important to staff to make sure there was a trigger point of not pushing the trail to the end of the development but making sure built on at at the at the um beginning of the development fiscal impact analysis always important what's this going to do to the city's general fund to the city street fund um and as you know for any master plan Amendment nowadays you have to submit a fiscal impact analysis uh which did conclude that the revenue from this project U would be in amount of approximately $210,000 to the city's general fund but also over 1.8 million to the city's Street fund conformance with master plan certainly this is important I just pulled this I couldn't have said it better right from the staff report Community Development this is really pulling out some uses um that probably are not that compatible with the area putting a handbook on top and bringing in these neighborhood um commercial uses that are desperately needed this area is certainly identified as a modern industrial Hub and so we believe that the industrial portion of the project absolutely conforms with the master plan we're providing Neighborhood Services a neighborhood center and then transitioning into the unincorporated County open space the fact that we're going to have this great trail system that runs along an area with open space connecting two two points of access on White Lake Parkway and on Village Parkway that again extends out into additional Trail areas we think is a win-win for the development as well as uh the community important I know always to North Valleys is public engagement and I can say on behalf of Lifestyle homes they always go above and beyond I even told them no we should not put this on next door because you never know what you're going to hear but they put it on next door and to my surprise it said well when's a bakery coming when's a nursery coming there was some excitement actually to bring some commercial and Retail uses out to the area so we had a a neighborhood Advisory board meeting which was required but as always the listeners go above and beyond and held a neighborhood meeting and what did we hear commercial commercial which we've added there used to be a a land use in the commercial zoning to do multif family the community said no you're promising us commercial we don't want Apartments to go up so we removed that out so there's no you cannot build apartments in that neighborhood commercial anymore which was a fair comment uh strict 24-hour use standards which I went through where the where the docks can be where the screening should be Etc and then finally traffic impact safeguards which we built in uh you have to do um uh not only do a traffic letter or comprehensive study but whatever those impacts and the conditions and mitigations are required you have to build those before the first uh building permit so we think we we hit that as well so with that uh I appreciate the time Mr chairman we're all here for questions and um we are in total agreement with all of staff's uh recommended conditions and the final conditions in the handbook thank you thank you as well we will get a presentation from staff hi Grace yes good evening Commissioners Grace mackan senior man management analyst for the record here to discuss the um White Lake Parkway SPD and master plan amendments so Garrett did a great job of summarizing the project and so I'll just kind of fill in some gaps as needed um the subject site is located in Ward 4 in Cold Springs east of White Lake and generally west of White Lake Parkway so right in between the PLA and that White Lake Parkway so the applicant is requesting a master plan Amendment from a number of uses Suburban mixed use single family Parks Greenways in open space all to mixed employment and then a zoning map Amendment from neighborhood commercial single family 3 units per acre and Parks Greenways in open space to a specific plan district and we'll discuss these details um a little bit more throughout the presentation some key issues that staff looked at when analyzing this project were compatibility available of services in infrastructure and conformance with the master plan here is the proposed zoning map amendment that demonstrates the change as you can see there's a handful of different zoning districts that are currently assigned on the site this is a carryover from County zoning when the site was annexed and the proposed SPD zoning comes with the handbook with a um specific development standards that we will discuss later although it's turning into that light pink color there's a breakdown of kind of what's allowed in certain areas kind of as as Garrett discussed similarly with the proposed master plan we see a handful of different uses um and sorry a handful of different master plan designations replaced with mixed employment which generally supports we'll see kind of some light industrial employment and research type uses now we can discuss the SPD handbook and what type type of development we can anticipate the proposed handbook includes a minimum of 11.45 Acres of that neighborhood commercial zoning and would have to be located generally between White Lake Parkway and the rest of the development and so we kind of anticipate that this will serve as some sort of buffer to have those commercial uses pushed forward towards White Lake Parkway and the uh the residence and then those industrial uses um you know behind or somewhat buffered from where most of those residents are are um located and then the rest of the area would be allocated to about 182 Acres of mixed employment and then 25 acres of that open space additionally in this handbook we can account for mitigations for the Industrial Development near residential including like Garrett talked about 24-hour use mitigation loading dock restrictions and additional screening requirements something I would like to point on is that 24-hour operation Garrett did a pretty good job of summarizing this um I think something to specifically look at is that number four that prohibits backup equipment and alarms between the hours of 10: p.m. and 7: a.m. um these are generally kind of some of the biggest bigger complaints we get so we tried to address these and um you know stay ahead of the curve on that part so the development standards that are proposed are very similar to what we see in Title 18 for the respective zoning districts some differences that are actually more restrictive than code include lighting um and front setbacks to ensure compatibility with the surrounding neighborhood so in conclusion we don't necessarily know what the final development will look like but this provides us with some parameters that are actually above code to understand what can be constructed in the future on this site um prior to submitting the staff report I had received 11 public comments eight in support and two in opposition with one neutral comment and then after I submitted the staff report I received about 20 comments and I think those were hopefully all forwarded to the commission um who were all in support of the proposed project here are the findings for a zoning map Amendment and the findings for a master plan Amendment and then finally the findings for a specific plan District so the recommended motion is on your screen and I'm available for questions thank you grace we'll go to the Commissioners for disclosures commissioner Munoz please commissioner MOS you're muted sorry can you hear me now yes we can sorry yeah no disclosures commissioner VTO uh commissioner VTO spoke with the applicant representative uh received and I don't think I received any emails actually just spoke with the app representative commissioner roer spoke with the applicants representative and reviewed the many um emails received to all of us commissioner Basera spoke with the applicant the applicant's representative visited the site reviewed public comment commissioner Armstrong I spoke with the applicant's representative and I read and received emails commissioner dracul I visited the site met with the applicant and their representatives and read and received emails all right now we will open it up to public comment I do have one request to speak for notably it says uh Frank does wish does not wish to make a statement but is in favor do you wish to make a statement come on up Frank yeah it's okay come on up uh Frank shank P Springs I just want I did serve on the citizen visor board for some years and Cold Springs I'm not on anymore and I'm just going to kind of speak for myself you know um but I I just have some concerns one is uh 911 calls I know this is City and uh R County how would that work I would like to see perhaps a a uh renal PD substation there Center City um the White Lake Parkway I'm very concerned because it's just a single uh Road and uh I mean I'm I'm for the retail is great but the warehouses I'm a little nervous about because of traffic and his semi-trucks um so i' would really like to see expanded um Lanes on all the way along three um White Lake Parkway on to 395 going both through Bordertown and through um the other route sorry I'm not very clear the other thing um you know I really like to see preserved as a bike path somehow because of there's events that happen every year there um where they do timing and stuff I like to see that event continue um I'm kind of concerned about being close to the dry lake there the warehouses you know I mean I know they had the nightmare with Swan Lake and the lawsuits and all that and I um you know I hope that there's a a study on flood plane and especially if if another development comes in similar to Stone Gate because I I don't think I think that folded but there's got to be some concerns on that lake so I hope that there's a study on that um um I guess that's about it but I I did have a a good talk with Peter and uh you know I'm I'm kind of thrilled about the retail but I'm a little hesitant about the warehouses and traffic um but anyway I hope you um I'm really I consider about having a a police stop station because we could really use it um we get more and more crime and uh and I'm really concerned about flooding all right thank you very much thank you Frank are there anybody on Zoom any voicemails it doesn't look like there's any hands raised right oh I'm sorry there is a hand raised okay go ahead Rebecca flyry you're up you're still muted so please unmute yourself okay can you hear me now yes go ahead I AP my apologies um so with this I do not think that we need any warehouses I think we have enough out here not everybody works at a warehouse other thing you were discussing as far as because I work in medical and not a lot of medical facilities are out here what are we offering for medical jobs um I know it's a thing that's needed out here very much as well as restaurants but I've also been told that a lot of restaurants don't want to come out here because we don't have the population and then is there really going to be another 400 homes built on that Lake like that L increases and decreases in size all the time what are we doing about flooding like the last gentleman said um I guess that's about it thank you thank you as well Heather anybody else on Zoom no one else has their hand raised all right anybody in the chambers wish to speak on this item sir do you want to speak again okay come on up you you will need to fill out another request to speak form thank you please state your name for the record and you'll have three minutes uh Richard KO resident Cole Springs um the commute wasn't that bad until all the warehouses went up between uh Red Rock and uh Lemon Valley in that area so uh it's going to it's going to stay bad until something gets done about that also I live in that one area I wish you had that map up where all those houses are at right along there and I can go in my backyard and I could actually look up and see the national forest there that's going to be gone once this is built a lot of people that moved up there because it is rural that's all going to disappear there's a lot of people on the north side of that area in the valley that own horses where are they really going to be able to ride them once all that and then you have truck traffic going through there basically you approve this what you're doing is you're turning Cold Springs and to Palmdale Lancaster California thank you thank you sir if you can fill out a request to speak for please thank you appreciate it very much anybody else in the chambers wish to speak on this item seeing none we will close public comment and move it to the Mr chair I still have um one more statement to say oh okay please do we did receive correspondence for the it this item that has been distributed to the Planning Commission and is part of the record 26 in favor and one opposed we have not received any voicemails for this project all right thank you very much uh we will close public comment and move to the Commissioners for questions of the applicant or staff commissioner Munos is choir down here if you want to jump in oh uh yeah commissioner mun I'll jump in real quick um first off uh a project of this magnitude and changing that much area uh would make me more hesitant um if it wasn't for what they were offering or what they're proposing uh there is a large um differentiation between each thing that proposing here which is is something that that that I believe the north Valley's really needs uh the commercial aspect of that or uh Community commercial is is huge uh stuff that people can use up there restaurants it's it's it's what everybody's screaming about and I think that's why we have uh in the last statement that the city made so many people uh in favor of something like this um I would be a lot more hesitant if there wasn't a um handbook that's coming along with this which I I really do appreciate and and like that but as far as questions I think everything was well covered and I appreciate it thank you thank you commissioner Dracula just a quick question if we want to I guess point up a clarification for White Lake Parkway in the Sid of the road maybe Grace wants to just expand on that yes thank you uh Grace mckinin Senior Management analyst for the record I'm glad you brought that up cuz I wanted to clarify it so the 2050 RTP does identify white Lake Parkway from the stonate entrance to Village Boulevard widened in the 2030 2050 time frame um and so rtca did review this project um and they were comfortable with that and they did kind of offer that that was in the plan to widen white L just due to the development we've seen okay in regards to timing on that I guess just for clarification you know post buing pre-building so for RTC to widen that it's within the 2030 2050 time frame there is a standard in the handbook that once we exceed 100 trips which is fairly minimal so we'll see a a a comprehensive tra traffic impact analysis fairly early in this project um and any Improvement improvements that that list the applicant will be required to make perfect thank you commissioner baser please great thank you chair uh maybe for Grace um like like uh commissioner munus I'm really impressed by by this presentation by by the project and that you've taken the time with the applicant and the community to to really try to put together something that works for everyone um in that vein you know we've heard some some public sentiment um that I think deserves a little bit of questioning uh at least for getting some answers um there was concern about lighting and I was just wondering if there's NightLight friendly uh night sky friendly lighting that's part of this uh proposal yes so just to clarify anything that's not addressed in this handbook will defer to code for our standard guidelines um and so we do have some things that go above and beyond code in this handbook um one of those is the heights of these lightings and I think um you know we're kind of learning with these industrial developments as we go but I think with the height of these light poles that can be something where it just increases that flooding um in light pollution onto other sites and so we've restricted the height and then also required them to kind of dim them to safety levels at nighttime um and then also just our standard foot candle measurement at 05 foot candles at the property line um to to have them contain that Lighting on site okay great thank you so much I do have a few more questions but I'll kind of yield for others I keep rocking all right let's do it thank you chair um I'm a little little confused Grace because I I hear that people want this um they want they need the jobs want the jobs and so forth but then I also heard during the presentation both from staff yourself and the applicant that we don't know what this might look like right so and then there's a 15-year timeline so even though folks need slw want the jobs are we talking about one year out five years out 15 years out yeah it's tough to say um I think a good way to look at this is a zone change with some additional goodies we get on top of that uh and so we can't really guarantee with any zone change when the development will happen um but because this is a little bit more targeted I think it shows that the um applicant is more motivated to build something that's more specific um the 15-year time frame I kind of look at is a little separate it's helpful for some of these puds or spds that we see hang out there for 20 30 years maybe not that long but never get built and they become extremely outdated and so allows staff and Council to go in and sunset these plans um so that you know we can look at them in a more mod modern lens great thank you so much and I have one more please do all right um a lot of the concerns I've heard this evening um of often um already have discussion for a solution or response to them from leadership whether that's uh our own city council uh staff or Regional Planning Commission but sometimes folks just don't know about it right so is there an educational campaign in the works or that's going on to inform people about like the 2030 uh Road plan to to widen the roads make sure there's bike paths and so forth up in Cold Springs or these impacted areas I think RTC does some significant Outreach I know that we've recently tried to maybe pivot the way that we do Outreach we see that when we do in-person meetings or inperson um stakeholder meetings no one shows up anymore um but I think that's a a cue that maybe times have changed and so we've started to Pivot these to maybe more virtual social media bursts um things of that nature to try to increase this Outreach because it is tough we see we do all this Outreach and work to try to educate the public on a project or a process um and we don't get anyone until maybe the city council or Planning Commission meeting and so to try to maybe combat or mitigate that we're trying to change our processes and our Outreach techniques so that we can help educate people as to what the actual projects are great thanks Grace appears no more questions from the Commissioners if we want to open discussion or entertain a motion commissioner belto I'll make a motion all right go for it on the matter of LDC 23- 0 0 uh 20 I move to approve the master plan Amendment consistent with the and I can make all the findings you should be separating into two is that request is that correct uh principal planner Nathan gobert that's correct okay so in matter of LDC 23- z020 I basic on compliance with the applicable findings I move to adopt the master plan amendment by resolution and recommend the city council approve the master plan uh and the zoning back Amendment subject to condition one and conformance review by the regional Planning Commission we have a motion commissioner Armstrong I'll second we have a motion and a second any further discussion seeing none all in favor I I any opposed seeing none that motion passes unanimously so I just made them together should I make a second one specific to the zoning map amendment I I thought I heard you leave out zoning map Amendment on that motion so go for it again brother okay so base uh the matter of LDC 23-20 based upon compliance the applicable findings I move to adopt the master plan am the zoning map Amendment subject to condition one and conformance riew by the regional Planning Commission and I can make all the findings that'll fly naan good this is a recommendation to city council Commendation to city council thank you so we have a motion commissioner Basera second we have a second any further discussion see none all in favor I any opposed hearing none motion passes unanimously good luck on your project thank you all you all right we're going to close item five move on to item six zoning code cleanup okay case number txt 23-5 Title 18 zoning code cleanup and if you wanted to take a five minute break now would be a good time was that that was for boting we will take a five minute break thank you wake up e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e Heather you ready ready all right we're coming back from brick break and I guess I'll just rev it up one more time we're doing item 6.1 which is case number txt 23- 00005 Title 18 zoning code cleanup getting a presentation for Miss Angela fous great thank you for the record Angela fous assistant director with development services so just kind of a a reminder recap of what we are doing today um it was a couple years ago back in 2021 we adopted a brand new zoning code and at that time we knew that there was going to be changes anytime you adopt a big new document you're always going to find errors so over the last three years we've been keeping a list of those errors and we tried to keep it consistent with just this list um you know there's there's things in the zoning code that maybe we as staff don't like or the general public doesn't like but we we tried to keep it really limited to what we'd call a code cleanup if it was a major change we knew we had to take that separately as a separate text Amendment um and as an example accessory dwelling units are ad us we currently don't allow adus so we're doing that as a separate text Amendment so you guys will review that completely separate I'm creating a whole new Adu ordinance as part of a code cleanup would really be outside of what we' call a cleanup item so just as a reminder of what what the things are that we're dealing with as part of this process anything basic you know grammar changes um things that we found confusing as staff if we can't interpret the code we have a problem so we we went back and we said how do we clean some of those things up uh another big thing that we've seen is that we have a lot of challenges with industrial next to residential and so we we also took a look at what can we do to better protect some of these residential neighborhoods and then of course there's always changes with the legislative session so there's a handful of things that we know we have to do coming out of this last session in terms of of input we started with a technical advisory committee and these are people that actually use the zoning code so these are planners these are Landscape Architects these are engine um if you use the zoning code we said you know five times a week you actually open it and use it for your job we would consider you a technical advisory committee member so we held seven meetings with that group we had about I think 35 people on that committee so a pretty robust committee again more of the technical P we had seven meetings got their input then we took that input made some changes and then we went out to stakeholder meetings we had nine meetings some were in person and some were virtual I will say generally speaking we had very minimal attendance similar to the staff or the um public here tonight very minimal attendance on this topic so that was a little disappointed but at the same time these are cleanup items these are not major initiatives we also went out to all of our social media so we tried to reach you know through through the news we tried to reach people through nextdoor.com we let people know about these meetings um through Twitter and and Instagram here at the C Reno we try to inform different different groups so in terms of what we're doing now we have set aside three meetings with the Planning Commission it's a very big document um you know over 700 pages so rather than doing an allinone meeting we're going to break it up tonight I'm going to try and keep it limited to about an hour just so you guys can stay alert and awake um next meeting we have a very limited agenda so I'll probably keep you guys for a couple hours and then we'll follow one more meeting after that and then I'm going to take your feedback again I'm not looking for any recommendations from you at this point I'm just looking for your feedback I'm GNA take your feedback and go to city council and let them know your opinion of these code cleanup items then PL the city council is then G to give us feedback of of your feedback and I'm going to come back to you and I'm going to say here's what city council said and then you will formally make a recommendation you know this is a a Planning Commission and so your recommendation goes to city council they can choose to accept your recommendation or they can choose to modify it but again um you know the more information we give them as to why you want these changes made I think the better off we are so again it's a very long process we will likely get through city council final adoption next fall so just know that nothing happens quick especially when it comes to changes to our zoning code so let's let's just Dive Right In Like I said for shight we're just going to cover the first about 120 Pages which is about three chapters worth and this is very long and Technical so bear with me and feel free to stop me at any time if you want to go with more specific questions so first of all we we added some language for a scrier error these are things like oh oops We spelled something wrong in the zoning code so we have to go back and go through a text amendment to clean up spellings no so we added language that gives us the ability to make those changes you know our most common example that we see is the word public um a lot of times it comes out as pubic and so that would be an obvious one we don't want the word pubic in our zoning code when we're referring to the public so scrier error we could clean that up and we wouldn't have to go back to Planning Commission and city council to make that type of change another area that we're looking at is what we call non-conforming uses in our code today we have some language that says if you have a non-conforming use so let's say four Street you know years ago four Street was a major Corridor it was a major highway we had a lot of uses such as um auto repair or gas stations and over the years we've changed where we allow those uses because the zoning has changed so if you had a use 40 years ago maybe it was an auto repair ship on Four Street and that use is no longer allowed through this non-conforming use section we allow you to bring that use back because at one time it was allowed um the way the code is written now is that basically you can bring any use in any zoning District anytime you want with a conditional use permit that that wasn't the intent it was meant to be prove that it was at one time an allowed use that was permitted and it went away for whatever reason and you want to bring it back so we're changing the language to say you have to prove that your non-conforming use was at one time legally approved so again more of a Clarity um the way we've interpreted it has has been this but we're putting it in writing to formalize what was intended some of the other simple changes we have whole sections of our code on how we deal with non-conforming structures that's the building itself in that section we kind of accidentally refer to non-conforming uses versus non-conforming structures that that's not right that whole section should be limited to just things related to the structure and we have another section related to non-conforming uses so again more of a cleanup just oops we we had some some wording that was wrong so we're cleaning that up no real substance in terms of change all right and then related to some of our existing shopping centers we have some language uh related to if you're doing routine maintenance so let's say you have a a parking lot and you want to restripe it and repave it there's some confusion on well what triggers it to be considered a substantial change you know we find that a lot of these old shopping centers they don't meet landscape codes that are in place today a lot of their their parking design is old so they don't meet our parking requirements meaning maybe the the length of the parking stall or the width of the parking stall but we want to encourage these shopping centers to you know make improvements and to just do maintenance so we added some verbiage just to clarify if you're really just doing routine maintenance of your shopping center we're not going to penalize you we want to encourage you um we consider that a non-conforming site because it doesn't meet today's code but again we're not going to penalize you for trying to make it better so we added language that allows you to do that and then for some of these shopping centers where they want to go really above and beyond just some minor cleanups we gave them an out through this minor site plan review that's a 30-day staff review if they want to make some bigger changes um when we consider that any any big alteration that expands your parking by more than 10% so the idea is that um you know we want you to bring you closer into conformance with our zoning code but not make it so cost prohibitive to do that so the next chapter is 18.02 and this has to do with our different zoning districts so number one we have a table we call it an annexation table basically it's a table that says here's what the waso county designation is and if you're annexing that property in Torino here's what the zoning would be and here's what the master plan with B we found some inconsistencies we found some zoning codes that we just or some zoning distri that we just left completely off the table again more clarifying it nothing really of substance but just cleaning it up to make sure that we have all of our master plan categories and all of our zoning categories accurately reflected in that and then when it came to the different zoning districts we made a couple small changes number one is we have requirements within each of our zoning districts for the maximum height of a building and the maximum number of stories of a building so as an example let's say you're professional office zoning District so you have office space let's say the the maximum height is 35 feet the maximum number of stories is 2.5 I don't know who builds a 2.5 story building but we consistently have that we thought that doesn't even make sense I don't know how you build 2.5 stories or why we encourage anyone to build half story so we said let's just remove any reference to maximum number of stories our focus is always going to be height we didn't raise the height we just said take out maximum number of stories however many stories you can build and the building code really directs how tall each story has to be so again it's not something zoning really needs to dictate it's something that other um you know regulations kind of take control over and then we had some again cleanup um when we have step backs and setbacks one thing we found is that we have some language requiring how far you have to be when you have multiple buildings on one lot and we found that some of our zoning districts have setbacks between buildings typically 10 ft and other zonings it was completely s silent so we said let's just make all these zoning districts more consistent and so we added some language that if you have multiple buildings you have to have at least 10 feet between buildings again more of a consistent just between different zoning districts couple super easy ones we changed some of the nomenclature just the names and some of our categories we have um entire districts so we have zoning districts meaning like uh mixed use mixed use Suburban mixed use downtown we call all of that a mixed use district and it got confusing because we have a mixed use District which encompasses about I think 10 different zoning districts and then we have um that broader category so we said people are confused between what a mixed use district is versus mixed use zoning so just make it simpler we call them urban districts so that's anything that is Zone mixed use that's our downtown area it's our General commercial area we call that an Urban District similar to what we call non-residential districts in the code right now that's anything from industrial to mixed employment mixed juice airport we found that confusing because people said well what's a non-residential district wouldn't that also be General commercial we said no General commercial fits in the one above so it got confusing so instead of non-residential districts we're calling them employment districts another just quick change is within our category of mixed use Suburban zoning this was a new zoning District that we didn't didn't have 3 years ago and now we have we needed to beef up our purpose statement so we could better understand where that mixed use zoning is appropriate we see it a lot in our major corridors you know Forth Street Virginia Street that's where mixed use Suburban is more intended um but we're finding is that more people are coming in requesting a zone change and putting mixed use Suburban zoning pretty much everywhere because it's kind of a catch all so we said let's just clarify where we want to see that mixed use Suburban zoning within our professional office zoning District we have a cap of 35 ft that's as tall as the building can go but we had some language that you could go through a site plan review and go up to 55 ft now that all seems very simple and easy but we had a footnote that said that only applies along certain streets so it became very confusing we said professional office zoning there's not a whole lot of it throughout the city let's just open it up you don't have to be on a certain Street in order to use that to get the the the taller 55 ft um so again we didn't raise the height of of what's allowed we just said let's open it up to everywhere that zone professional office if you want to go taller than 35 you would go through that minor site plan review anything over 55 is not allowed when it comes to more of our industrial zoning districts we found that we had some We have basically three different industrial zoning districts and they had some some conflicts and it made it difficult to really just administer um from one perspective it was the height so we have an i zoning district and an IC zoning district and a mixed employment zoning District so we looked at the height and what's appropriate and what type of uses we really see most of those zoning districts are warehouses distribution you know that typical building that you're seeing there in that picture and we're starting to see that more and more of them are looking to go taller than 45 ft so just to be consistent we said let's cap that at 55 ft so those two zoning districts again most of your industrial uses are in those zoning districts um they're now capped at 55 ft instead of 45 ft we also have some language that talks about um within a a single building so you may have like a a business center where you have a couple different industrial buildings we have some limitations that you can't have more than 500,000 Square fet per building um otherwise it triggers a couple other things and so we just cleaned that up because it got very confusing as well just trying to administer you know do do we care um if you have multiple tenants in a building versus one tenant probably not it's the same that you know the building's a building um so we we cleaned up some of those requirements that really just didn't make sense and we found that it was just causing more administrative questions um than not and then when it came to um things that trigger a conditional use permit versus a site plan review um or a minor site plan review we we kind of reduce some of these things so instead of going having to go through a conditional use permit for some of these types of things we lessened it to a minor site plan review again conditional use permit Planning Commission review minor site plan review 30-day staff review we still do full public notice so you still get a postcard if you're within a certain distance you still have the opportunity to comment you still have the opportunity to appeal any of these decisions to city council we have what we call a gaming overlay District you guys don't see a whole lot of these because you don't get a whole lot of new casinos coming your way we have some sign regulations specific to gaming overlays so as an example the the area near um Keystone Fifth Street Fourth Street that general area um that's all considered a gaming overlay so we have sign allowances if you're a casino you can go much bigger but what we found is it was written to say that as long as you're in the gaming overlay you can use those sign allowances so somebody like In-N-Out Burger obviously not a gaming establishment was able to put in a much bigger sign because they were in a gaming overlay the intent was just for the casinos the the licensed casinos to be able to have the bigger sign so we added clarification again we knew what the intent was we just missed it um in specifying within this specific section of code so again just a clean up to to make it make more sense and frankly match what was already in our sign ordinance um this is a separate section related to gaming overlay so quick clean up within the wells alue neighborhood plan we had one small change um we are I would say intending to do a more robust neighborhood Outreach process to look at the Wells Avenue neighborhood plan we will start that probably after we finish the zoning code update um but one quick cleanup just for clarification within Wells Avenue there's some very specific parking requirements and we added some clarity to help understand how to administer those parking requirements all right within our section called table of uses we basically have probably 20 Pages it's a it's a nice little spreadsheet that shows every type of use that we allow or prohibit um and which zoning districts that use is allowed in so we took a look at all of the different uses and we have a list of ones that maybe we needed to expand where they're allowed so major government facility it's a great example that would be things like a jail um I'm trying to think of a couple other ones things like um gosh give me an example of another one we did just talk about big government facilities things that um you know not your DMV or your police station those are minor but a major government facility maybe where you have a big um waste Station so things that you know the government owns um but really have a big impact like the best one would be the was County jail right you have a big impact on the community we looked at where it's allowed now and we found that it really didn't have a lot of zoning districts where it was allowed so we added it to some new zoning districts but we also required a conditional use permit those types of major facilities really involve or should involve a public process to make sure we're addressing all the concerns so again we expanded where it's allowed but triggered more conditional use permits churches religious assemblies again we looked at them and just expanded some of the zoning districts to where they're allowed child care centers that has actually been a very hot topic um the need for more child care centers is really growing and we're finding that our zoning code was restrictive on on where we allow them so we opened it up to allow them in more districts and in some cases required more of a public review process schools bars hotels motels again all of these are some pretty basic things that you can see why um we just took a look and said where does it make sense where where we see those types of uses let's be a little bit more flexible separate from that we also said where should be we be more restrictive um the two or three that jumped out the most was your Hazardous Waste Facility we don't get those very often if ever but we we took a look and said um let's require a conditional use permit anywhere they're allowed so they're pretty much only allowed in your industrial areas but now we require a conditional use permit they're not allowed just by right in any zoning District some of these other ones that we that we mentioned before with um warehousing and distribution centers we took another look at those um in a lot of those areas they are allowed by right and we took another look at them and said U maybe we want to require a conditional use permit because again they they tend to have a bigger impact we're seeing a lot of them in North Valleys and so the ones that are near residential how do we better protect you know the residents and provide a buffer between so we took a a harder look at those and then we added a whole new category for data centers and I don't know if if you have you know been watching the news or seeing seeing what the kind of the interest is but we have had had a ton of interest in data centers they're different from manufacturing or warehousing because they really don't have many employees so there's not a lot of traffic they don't have big semi- trucks coming um they're they're generally you know very low noise very low smell so they they really don't fit the typical category of of manufacturing a warehouse so we added a whole new category with you stand standards specific to Data Centers okay and then separate from that you know list of that um here's where the uses are allowed and not allowed we also have what we call use standards So within each of these different um categories we have additional standards so a lot of these like for instance child care we have limitations on where they can be located if you're in a residential area for instance you have to have a play area we want to make sure that you have a a wall buffering your play area if there's any houses next to you so we just took a look at all those things and really kind of beefed it up we also found that our standards were not in alignment with waso County Social Services that is actually the licensing agency so we wanted to make sure that we were consistent um with social services so that we didn't have too conflicting sets of rules minor government facility those are things like your police station and your fire station libraries we added more administrative flexib ility we've had a couple come before this Commission in the last couple years um our our new Public Safety Center which is our police station the the app um City came before you with a request for variance for landscaping and so and fencing as well so each of these is really unique and different you know as a police station you're concerned about safety so fencing was a big deal we couldn't meet the code because we wanted additional fencing on the property line and code wouldn't allow it so we said for these types of facilities let's allow more administrative flexibility to work with the user again the idea is that you're a government agency you're providing some kind of protection for the public so um rather than having to go through a a public hearing for all of these things let the administrator have more say in how those those buildings are designed again looking at the the the need of what the use is fire stations are another one um you know we we want to do what's best for the fire department in so providing flexibility for them to design their site is is really key in um excuse not adding extra hurdles would you entertain a question on this topic or would you prefer absolutely let's give Angela a break you were just going you need some water okay could use a Red Bull right now commissioner belto please let me find Sor I have my notes so in the there's so I I got some concerns from people that are involved with the School District um so I wanted to hear your response to some of those concerns so one of the concerns had to do with the Zoning for schools and the distinction between Elementary and postsecondary schools and their concern was that as the language is written it would preclude the building of schools that maybe were were either three tiered so elementary junior high school high school versus Elementary and sth and eighth grade versus high school so how would the zoning changes as proposed uh allow for flexibility for the district to build that different types of schools yeah just maybe let me back up um back in I think it was the 2013 legislative session the legislature told Reno Sparks in was County um that we needed to play better in the sbox and we need to have the same set of rules when it comes to schools and specifically schools were being built and you know in Reno they required X number of parking spaces in was County they required a different number of parking spaces or maybe they had a different requirement for landscaping and for setbacks so per the legislature all three jurisdictions got together and came up with the same set of rules related to schools so step number one is we went back and we looked at our regulations and what our Sparks and the county doing and are we consistent with them so we cleaned that up we found that over the years our zoning code had been modified new things had been added frankly a lot of them just didn't make sense to us so we we took things out which the school district I think is happy about we took out some regulations um and then we again made sure that we were aligned with what the other two jurisdictions require when it comes to schools we did add some language uh requiring that new schools uh have to come in with some kind of study that shows how they're doing kid drop off and pickup this is um consistent for whether it's a School District school or a charter school what we have found really coming out of covid we have a lot of new charter schools and many of them just go straight to a building permit and so we really don't have the ability to ask for some of these things unless we put it in the code so we're asking for things like how are you going to you know handle queuing of kids and how are you going to handle where the crosswalks are um the school district also commented on that and said they disagreed that we shouldn't have that regulation and again they they do that anyway was County School District does those things anyway but we have to be fair and treat all schools the same so we put specific language that says before we issue a building permit show us how you're going to do all these things how are you going to address safety of you know kids walking and buses um so I think number one I'm I'm hoping the school district understands why we're doing that it's the things that they provide to us anyway they allow us to comment we make changes we work with them um for the charter schools now we've given us the ability even if they don't trigger an entitlement they go straight to a building permit gives us the ability to ask for more information if they're not providing that so I think that was one of the concerns from the school district secondly there's there's kind of two tiers of where schools are allowed and this is from the regional plan um high schools are allowed in certain areas I believe they are required to be on an our cherial versus K through h not on an arterial so we separate the two again k through eight is kind of one tier of school and then High School is your 9 through 12 and so that is better aligned with what the regional plan dictates I think if we're starting to see more interest in having a k through 12 um and we see some of these for some of the charter schools we have we are starting to see some of that design we would work with the school district or that Charter School to figure out again how are we addressing the regional plan rules um as well as from our own zoning code perspective so I am not seeing a major issue because again we continue to always work with the schools we wouldn't prohibit them but it's something that has recently come up um at least on one charter school that's providing K through 12 so my suggestion is we should work with Sparks and waso County and the three jurisdictions should come up with a unified answer I don't want Reno to go out on its own and go Rogue and do something that is different than the other two jurisdictions when we all agree to do the same thing and and if I may to oh sorry guys commissioner Dracula I am similar to commissioner VTO at a stakeholder reach out to me and kind of on your topic with the onsite drop off and and kind of the queuing um they were under the impression that and what I'm being told administrators have control over the site design which may lead to this maybe miscommunication on the best practice for drop off pickup so I don't know if you kind of covered that in that wasn't sure if the administrator the the issue with the administrator having control over that is something we you're going to cover or can right now yeah and so the administrator in this case would be a collection of you know our our Traffic Engineers our civil engineers our planners we all get together and we look at a site and we also you know reference best practices there's Public Works design manual standards there's um you know traffic manuals that also dictate school so unfortunately there's no one set of rules for how to do school drop off and pickup and we we can definitely see it in some of our older design schools they have very poorly designed drop off and pickup and you've got you know cars queued up for blocks because there's no place for you know kids to safely get in and out with um the new newer schools that have been designed I will say like that's pretty much one of the the key things that everyone's looking at so they are designed much better but again you know the school district themselves have have have not been a problem they have been great Partners at working with helping us to work with them it's some of these charter schools that come into existing shopping centers for instance right if you have a shopping center and a new school coming in how are you handling safely kid drop off and pick up so by putting in a requirement that says we as staff need to look at that you need to show us what you're doing he need to come up with a plan and we need to approve it um from a code enforcement perspective it also gives us some teeth to say if you are not if once your school's built and if you have conflict with drop off and pickup and we will know right away because we get a ton of complaints from The Neighbors when there's a conflict or even the parents um we can go back to the school and say hey let's let's reconfigure this show us how you can get out there and help direct traffic so just again from trial and error and the the ones that have been problematic because it wasn't design designed correctly or in a way that's been really safe for the kids or the parents um we added this language to say let us work with you to make sure that we create a safe environment okay commissioner VTO yeah just quick follow on that so I guess my I'm looking at the code here on 1803 180330 and when it's defining educational facilities it identifies schools primary schools secondary so if you had a school come in that was all the above how would you it seems like it wouldn't fit we had aou we've we yeah I mean this is it's come up as an issue already so um we have to be flexible and administratively work with them to try and figure out how to best address it my my my suggestion too is um with your feedback we would like to go back and work with Sparks in wasow county and ask them how are you guys addressing this let's all come up with the same answer okay thank you commissioner r I had a question about the uses two slides ago I would you prefer if I ask at the end I'm not yeah the one with the data center and whatnot and the religious assembly I guess um I appreciate the code cleanup is starting to look at uses more inclusive or exclusive uh with these new uses I would say some feedback would be that maybe a data center because it comes with so much energy MH infrastructure that that really changes the site is design what happens outside the data center um where it says they're now allowed is that the kind of thing like feedback would be to with a conditional use permit or they're just going to be allowed so we currently did not have a use for data center at all okay and um the interest we've gotten they've come to us the developers have said well what use do I qualify as right am I a warehouse my indoor manufacturing and so we said let's create your own category and I your own set of Standards so for instance all data centers we have different zoning districts where you can apply they all trigger a conditional use permit um for that reason I mean the the again the the fencing the noise you know the location is it appropriate so all data centers trigger a conditioning use permit the way we've Pro proposed it okay great just thank you for that clarification what I just said uses allowed I was yeah jumping to conclusions and then similarly with the religious assembly I don't um does Reno code have a size or like a number of seats or a trip gen where then it would also require some sort of entitlement or review process uh not related to Traffic we do have things that trigger based on um number of of traffic trips would trigger a traffic study but again those can go straight to building permit not necessarily a public review within the religious assembly we have um certain zoning districts they're Allowed by right and certain zoning districts they require a conditional use permit we do also have some use standards basically that says if you're a church that's on I believe a collector or an arterial roadway you know pretty busy roadway um you need to use the collector arterial as your main point of access and not access through the residential streets again just trying to create most of our churches we see in in kind of residential neighborhoods and how do we better protect those neighborhoods from an overflow of traffic and those kinds of things so we have some use standards that they have to follow no matter no matter where they're at um but we do have certain zoning districts where they also trigger a conditional use permit perfect thanks commissioner Armstrong please this is also I think related to sort of the expansion of the zoney district so I had a stakeholder reach out and their question was related to tattoo parlors and similar I think body painting entities is how it's defined but effectively they wanted they saw that this was going on and they wanted to know if it had been considered bringing it back into down town or I guess it would roughly be considered an urban District I believe it used to be allowed in downtown and then there was a rationale for why it wasn't allowed in downtown but I just wanted to get a better understanding of is that being considered as maybe an allowable use um in the future and if not maybe just some context on why we don't have it downtown anymore yeah and that's a great question there there was some history on that and it was before my time and Nate probably before or maybe you do remember there was um interest I believe from from city council to remove it from certain parts of the city including the downtown um a a tattoo as a use tattoo parlor as a use isn't a separate use it's lumped into like a professional service um there I mean I think if if Planning Commission has interest in bringing it back as its own specific use and also looking at where it's appropriate I think that would be good feedback to that we could share with the council clarification excuse me just a point of clarification it is its own land use the tattoo yeah um previous Council Direction was was to remove that as an allowed use specifically to the downtown core um so that that was a previous Council Direction um they're they're not currently allowed in that location but we we have um received you know we we get constant inquiries about where can I do tattoos and you know if Planning Commission wants to evaluate the appropriateness of of lumping it into like a general personal service or something to that that effect but the preclusion from tattoo parlor downtown was a previous Council Direction you remember what year that was I mean how long ago was that I don't recall off hand thousands yeah uh perfect well I you know I would just like to say on record I do think that is a path at least I would be willing to to go down I think it would be worth exploring and uh just have my feedback on the record that I think it would be good to revisit that and maybe bring it back in some form as an allowable use downtown because it seems like there was a lot of demand um and I think things are maybe a little different now in terms of that that business or industry and I can understand maybe why at the time they didn't want it downtown but I do think uh in some instances it could fit and be you know it it could enhance or add value to some of the developments that we're seeing in the downtown Corp thank you okay any other feedback on these slides okay immun NOS did you want to jump in at all buddy don't want to forget about you uh no I'm good just listening along thank you okay Angela keep going please okay so related to animal facilities and we kind of lump animal facilities into one General category it's everything from dog boarding Dog Grooming veterinarian hospital um we currently have some restrictions on outdoor components a lot of these you know doggy daycares they have an outdoor space and our current zoning District kind of limits um if you're within 150 ft of residential zoning you can't have that outdoor component so we expanded that to say um you can have an outdoor activity through the approval of a conditional use permit so we can look at them on a case-by Case basis and then related to auto service and repair we have a lot of um these these types of businesses and and we currently try and limit the service base from facing the street or the rideway and we kind of went back and said well why isn't that where we want them to face as opposed to residential so we just provided some CL clarification um if you have one of these types of uses we prefer that you don't face the residential we're trying to protect the residents from the you know the noise and then we added some use standards to better address some of the other negative concerns with just um the noise that comes out of those to help with screening and that kind of thing all right some of these other similar um use standards that we looked at car washes very similar a lot of these car washes have the the loud vacuums outside um same with the the The Bays of when you go in um so we added some use standards to kind of mitigate some of those impacts when you are next door to residential electric substations so those are the big Envy energy substations we we have a whole section in our zoning code with all these regulations but they're kind of conflicting it says like you shall do all these things but maybe these things and then only sometimes these things we said I don't I don't even know how to interpret that so we um deleted all of those things that didn't make sense and we just said um you know we will work with staff will work with you on a case-by Case basis depending on where you're at if you're in a a substation that's out in the middle of nowhere we probably don't need to be concerned with you know landscaping and screening of landscaping versus if you're in more of the city urban area those are things we're concerned with so so again more flexibility but enough that staff can still weigh in and and look at them individually crematorium there was some language that was um updated per state law so we just updated our use regul regulations to reflect that outdoor storage this is definitely a Hot Topic we have a lot of businesses that want to do outdoor storage and our standards were a little confusing so we we cleaned them up and we added some additional screening typically when you have outdoor storage you're you know piling things up and so you need fencing you need Landscaping to help screen it from you know Parks or from residents and so we we beefed up some of those screening requirements from a warehouse and distribution um point or perspective that picture on the Top's really a good example of especially in the north valy area where you see a lot of these big industrial buildings with a bunch of dock doors what are we doing to mitigate those impacts it's everything from the noise from the trucks the lights at night when it's super bright out um you know the again the the amount of truck activity so we added some standards um and really tried to keep the residential um mitigation in at the the top of our um concern here so if you have a new Warehouse or distribution we now require that you look at the site and try and avoid any of these dock doors facing residential zoning if you can design your site to the have the doctors face inward or face the rideway or anything that's not residential that would be preferred we also added some additional screening standards you know whether it's um fencing or additional Landscaping with BMS and then trees on top and if you still can't meet any of those we did provide a a minor um site plan review process so you would still go through some kind of review process to tell us how you're going to address it maybe not meet our our code requirements but again give us flexibility to work with you a case by casee basis a good example is the the chewes out in North Valley they have a huge distance I think it's over 300 feet from the back of their dock doors to where the houses are plus there's a big change in elevation there's a railroad track you know but but it's it's very impactful because even something with such great distance there really wasn't a way to screen because of the grade change you know even if you put in a 10 foot wall those houses are up here so a 10 foot wall does does nothing to to mitigate that so in those kinds of situations we really need to look at it on a Case by case and figure out a way to mitigate those impacts from those neighbors all right drive-throughs this is a big one it was funny um preco drive-throughs were very negative everybody hated drive-throughs because we were very um encouraging people to take the bus and to walk so drive-throughs were like you know what we shouldn't be doing and then Co hit and drive-throughs became the best thing ever and frankly saved a lot of businesses right so many businesses shut doors completely but if they had drive-throughs they could keep their their business open so we're we're seeing a lot more drive-throughs and frankly we're just a lot more friendly towards drive-throughs I think as a result of covid but we have found that some of these big users like the In-N-Out burger or the Dutch Brothers they have huge queuing lines and our zoning code doesn't have rules special for them our rules are basically geared for your Starbucks and your you know Bank of America drive-thru so we added some language that basically says we have as staff the ability to ask for a separate queuing study basically you have a a traffic engineer provide a study to prove that based on what your use is and how many cars you're going to generate you've designed the site uh correctly I think that's a great one again our our goal is to not over regulate drive-throughs but you know which ones I'm talking about that are problematic all right live entertainment this is something we've had in code for a while uh we have some regulations if you are within a certain distance of sensitive uses like like Parks or residential we just added some language of how we measure the distance between your live entertainment and some of those uses open lot parking that's basically if you have a site and all it has on it is a parking lot there's no building just a parking lot we call that open lot parking our code right now had some conflicting rules on if you're a temporary parking lot versus a full-time forever parking lot we have um a lot of temporary parking lots if somebody says um hey I just want to put in a temporary parking lot for a couple years um and I plan to eventually build on that site so we clarified some of the rules for if you do a temporary parking lot things that we still want to see are landscaping and lighting and sidewalks and fencing where appropriate so we just um better clarified what's considered temporary and what's considered permanent and then the rules for both stockpiling this is a big one where we've gotten a lot of complaints from the development Community stockpiling is just a temporary thing it's something that developers do when they need to move dirt on a temporary basis we see this a lot on our Public Works Road projects so anytime you have a road project you have to have a place where you can pile material again typically it's you know 6 months or 12 months or one year our rules were very restrictive and we're conflicting with what everyone else in the community does so Sparks has rules for stockpiling waso County Carson City ours were by far the most strict and we had the most complaints so we went back and we just clean that up and tried to better align which is best practices again you have a permiting process you're allowed to do it for 12 months um staff can allow for another 12 month extension past that beyond that you have to clean up your site rev it and return it to what it was before Angela yeah quick question on the open lot parking yes um is there an encouragement for um shade structures or some form of sustainability like you you see a lot of open lot parking in downtown for instance right going on and perhaps elsewhere but it almost seems like Prime for uh solar structures or uh charging stations or additional things that would complement a a parking lot does does the city encourage those type of things or is it just yeah I mean anytime somebody wants to request it we we don't have any issues with it the things that we look at is um you know have you designed it correctly and a lot of times it's it's it's expensive to put in solar structures so we don't have a lot of developers that are just doing it because they want to do it um but we we don't we definitely don't discourage it okay great thank you great all right so this is where we're going to stop for the night again this covers the first three chapters of the zoning code for our next meeting we're going to go over all of the um development standards so that's parking and Lighting and Grading and hillsides it's going to be riveting bring your Red Bull and um like I said what I'm looking for tonight is just general feedback if there's things that you like or don't like let me know we we heard you talk about a couple of things tonight but if there's other things that you want um again we'll take that to council and let them know your your input um but generally this is just a really an open dialogue with you for these first three chapters thank you Angela um we are going to treat this normally so we got our presentation from staff um looks like we're not going to hear anything else so we will kick it to the Commissioners for disclosures commissioner VTO uh commissioner VTO spoke with the community leader about uh schools and how zoning code may affect schools commissioner roor no disclosures commissioner rera no disclosures commissioner Armstrong I spoke with a community stakeholder on the tattoo item that I had brought up commission Comm disclosures commissioner Dracula chai spoke with a stakeholder addressing the school all right we will also open this up to public comment Heather any Zoom or I don't see any requests to speak forms we don't have any public comment for this item right now I can't believe it and no hands are up okay anybody in the chambers wish to speak on this item seeing none we'll close public comment with that said I guess we can kick it if we have more questions which look like we kind of did uh we can kick to discussion um and before we get into discussion I guess just for clarification Mr Gilbert on the motion no motion tonight I will add I was I was told you're not allowed to make a motion okay so no motion tonight so I guess we can continue with discussion or questions if not will we just anybody have any questions concerns look like we'll be picking up where we left off with her than thank you Angela commissioner Muno anything on your end buddy no nothing M thank you okay then we will close item six and move to item seven trucky Meadows Regional planning liaison report commissioner yeah commissioner RAR a February meeting we had the Heiser project come through try Meadows Regional planning and it was approved all right excellent we'll close item seven move to item eight staff announcements all right just to give a quick update the Reno act conditional use permit was uh appealed and will'll be heard by City Council on appeal uh on March 27th also um at your next Planning Commission there will be a brief uh legal training for the Planning Commission and uh let's see actions taken by city council and Planning Commission actions um Bell Vista uh the B Vista Bas 2 PUD will be uh heard by Council April 10th and Council uh received a request for continuance for the mill and Greg uh Street item the Planning Commission made a recommendation on so they won't be hearing that soon uh they will be R noticing when Council will be entertaining that item thank you and when's our next meeting remember April 3 April 3rd great thanks all right closing item eight moving to item nine commissioner suggestion for future agenda items commissioner B please sure I have one I did speak with uh a native uh tribe leader uh Brian Melendez who's president and CEO of tribal minds and in the spirit of our city of Rena 2023 annual report section F where we're trying to work with more folks um I'd like to invite him to come speak with the uh Planning Commission and just share some insights on how we can work closer together um if that sounds good to everyone sounds good to me all right should how would I go about that to have it on the agenda as opposed to just public comment follow up with that okay perfect thank you great close item nine move to item 10 public comment this item is for either public comment on any action item or for any general public comment Heather we did not receive any correspondence voicemails or request of speak forms for this item all right anybody in the chamber I'm so sorry we do have one hand up in the the zoom okay fire away okay Louise you can go ahead and unmute and make your comment uh listening um my name is Louise suant uh listening to um this uh Planning Commission I noticed that um the discussion of traffic and um um other input on the community is mentioned but I never hear any comment about uh the impact of of um the impact on health of the communities uh is there any process and is there any um effort by the commission to evaluate the impact of what is being planned on the health of the community members and if not uh I believe it it should be part of any um commission's responsibility thank you thank you as well anybody else on Zoom nobody else has their has their hand raised no okay anybody in the chambers wish to speak on public comment seeing none we will close public comment move on to item 11 adjournment Mr chair I'm so sorry we got another no we don't just no so never mind yes never mind item 11 adjournment okay you moved okay all in favor for ger have a good night y'all thank you I was checking with you the see you thank good night do you want to sign the approval letter for