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Planning
Commission Meeting Update
August 23, 2006
Wednesday
7:00 p.m.
CALL TO ORDER/PLEDGE
OF ALLEGIANCE
ROLL CALL:
Commissioners Charles Stevenson, John Ashbaugh, Peter Brown, Andrew
Carter, Jason McCoy, Vice Chairperson Carlyn Christianson, and
Chairperson Andrea Miller
All Commissioners
were present.
ACCEPTANCE OF
AGENDA:
Commissioners or staff may modify the order of items.
The agenda was
accepted as written.
MINUTES:
Minutes of
August 9, 2006.
The minutes were
approved as submitted.
PUBLIC COMMENT:
There was no public
comment
PUBLIC HEARINGS:
1. 577
& 579 Marsh Street and 1213 & 1221 Nipomo Street.
TR and ER 36-06; Review of a tentative tract map for an airspace
condominium subdivision including 33 residential units and 3
commercial units, and environmental review; C-D zone; Bermant Homes,
applicant. (Jaime Hill)
Following a brief
presentation by staff explaining the condominium subdivision, and
State Law 435 regarding the density bonus and concession, the
applicant team walked the Commission through the development,
explaining the building design, layout, and parking. Public comment
was limited to one speaker, Ernie Martin, a resident of the 500 block
of Islay Street. Mr. Martin had general concerns about the height of
buildings in the downtown, maintaining views to the mountains,
compatibility of architecture with the Old Town area, and the
increasing parking problems on Pacific, Buchon, and Islay Streets. He
also expressed that he felt that this project was well designed.
The Commissioners had
a lively discussion about a variety of issues, including the term and
tenure of the affordable units, parking, and property development
standards. Commissioner Ashbaugh focused on the height and mass of the
project, and recommended that the owners of the commercial tenant
spaces be awarded parking on-site. Commissioner Brown had questions
about the location of the transit stop on Nipomo, and recommended that
additional long-term bike storage for the residents be provided on the
ground level. Commissioner Stevenson felt that the smoke generated by
the Old Country Deli should have been addressed in the environmental
document, that there should be additional commercial space,
potentially on the Nipomo frontage, and that the upper story should
have an additional setback. Commissioners Carter, McCoy, Christianson,
and Chairwoman Miller all expressed that this is an appropriate
location for a project of this type and scale, that it includes many
features that we should be encouraging, such as underground parking
for residents, and that it seems well designed.
On a motion by Christianson, seconded by Carter, the
Commission voted 6-1
recommending approval of the Mitigated Negative
Declaration of Environmental Impact and tentative tract map, including
the 27.5% density bonus and concession to waive the requirement for
lockable storage for the nine 1-bedroom units to the City Council as
recommended by staff, adding a condition that owners and occupants
receive a disclaimer about adjacent food services and the airborne
smoke and odors that they create.
Commissioner
Stevenson voted no due to concern about the ratio of residential to
commercial floor area and the reduction of commercial floor area on
the site.
COMMENT AND
DISCUSSION:
2.
Staff
Deputy Director
Davidson informed them of items on their upcoming meeting, and
reviewed the meeting schedule for November and December of this year.
3.
Commission
The Commission had
a brief discussion about a memo that was provided to them by staff
which explained the two-step process of discussing building heights
that was to begin next Monday, with the discussion at the regularly
scheduled Cultural Heritage Committee Meeting.
The meeting
adjourned at 8:30 p.m. to the regular meeting of the Planning
Commission scheduled for Wednesday September 13, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. in
the Council Chamber of City Hall, 990 Palm Street.
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