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Agenda
PLANNING COMMISSION
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
6:00 p.m. REGULAR MEETING Council Chamber
990 Palm Street
San Luis Obispo, CA
CALL TO ORDER
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE : Chair Wulkan
ROLL CALL : Commissioners Robert Jorgensen, Steve Kahn, John McKenzie, Nicholas
Quincey, Charles Stevenson, Vice-Chair Hemalata Dandekar, and Chair Mike
Wulkan.
ACCEPTANCE OF AGENDA: Commissioners or staff may modify the order of items.
CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES
1. Minutes of the Regular Planning Commission meetings of January 8, 2020 and January
22, 2020.
PUBLIC COMMENT: At this time, people may address the Commission about items not on
the agenda. Persons wishing to speak should come forward and state their name and address.
Comments are limited to three minutes per person. Items raised at this time are generally referred
to staff and, if action by the Commission is necessary, may be scheduled for a future meeting.
Planning Commission Agenda for February 26, 2020 Page 2
PUBLIC HEARINGS
NOTE: Any court challenge to the action taken on public hearing items on this agenda may be
limited to considering only those issues raised at the public hearing or in written correspondence
delivered to the City of San Luis Obispo at, or prior to, the public hearing. If you wish to speak,
please give your name and address for the record. Please limit your comments to three minutes;
consultant and project presentations limited to six minutes.
2. Continued review of a proposed four-story, 50-foot tall, mixed-use project consisting of 5,241
square feet of commercial use on the ground floor, eight hotel suites, and 39 residential units.
Project includes: a request for a mechanical parking lift; parking, landscaping, and site
improvements; and a categorical exemption from environmental review (CEQA). Project
Address: 545 Higuera and 486 Marsh; Case #: ARCH-0017-2019; Zone: C-D; Marsh
Higuera Mixed Use, LLC, owner/applicant. (Shawna Scott – 45 minutes)
Recommendation: Adopt the Draft Resolution approving the project based on findings and
subject to conditions.
3. Review of a four-story mixed-use project consisting of 36 residential dwellings and 68 square
feet of commercial space, including requests for a 22 percent density bonus (as a standard
incentive) and a reduction in required parking, by a total of four parking spaces (as an
additional incentive), in exchange for providing affordable units within the project
(categorically exempt from environmental review); Project Address: 564 Higuera; Case #:
ARCH-0150-2019; Zone: CR; Damien Mavis, Creekside Lofts LLP, owner and
applicant. (Walter Oetzell – 45 minutes)
Recommendation: Adopt the Draft Resolution approving the project based on findings and
subject to conditions of approval.
4. Development review of a 296-unit multi-family residential project within the NG-30 zoned
portion of the San Luis Ranch Specific Plan area, and a Vesting Tentative Tract Map (Tract
3150) subdividing a portion of Tract 3096 from two existing lots into twelve to provide for 296
airspace condominiums with minor exceptions to the open space requirements for common
interest subdivisions. Includes a determination that the project is consistent with the certified
Final EIR for San Luis Ranch Specific Plan and therefore exempt from further environmental
review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); Project Address: 1035
Madonna; Case #: ARCH-0459-2019 & SBDV-0747-2019; Zone: C/OS-SP, R-4-SP; MI
San Luis Ranch, LLC, owner and Coastal Community Builders, applicant. (John
Rickenbach – 60 minutes)
Recommendation: (1) Adopt the Draft Resolution approving the development plan based on
findings and conditions of approval; and (2) Adopt the Draft Resolution recommending the
City Council approve the Vesting Tentative Tract Map (VTTM) based on findings and subject
to conditions of approval.
Planning Commission Agenda for February 26, 2020 Page 3
5. Review of amendments to Title 17 (Zoning Regulations) of the Municipal Code associated
with temporary incentives regarding site development standards with the provision of all -
electric buildings with a sunset date of December 31, 2022 in support of the Clean Energy
Choice Program with an Exemption from Environmental Review. Case # CODE-0062-2020.
(Teresa McClish – 45 minutes)
Recommendation: Adopt the Draft Resolution recommending that the City Council introduce
and adopt an Ordinance amending Title 17 (Zoning Regulations) of the Municipal Code
regarding temporary incentives for development standards with the provision of new all-
electric buildings with a sunset date of December 31, 2022.
COMMENT AND DISCUSSION
6. Staff Updates & Agenda Forecast
ADJOURNMENT
The next Regular Planning Commission meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 11,
2020, at 6:00 p.m., in the Council Chamber, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, California.
APPEALS
APPEALS: Any decision of the Planning Commission is final unless appealed to City Council within
10 days of the action (Recommendations to City Council cannot be appealed since they are not a final
action). Any person aggrieved by a decision of the Commission may file an appeal with the City
Clerk. Appeal forms are available at the Community Development Department office, City Clerk’s
office, or on the City’s website (www.slocity.org). The appropriate appeal fee must accompany the
appeal documentation.
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Department located at 919 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, California during the hours of 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM, and on
the City’s website:
http://www.slocity.org/government/advisory-bodies.
Meeting video recordings can be found on the City’s website:
http://www.slocity.org/government/department-directory/city-clerk/on-demand-meeting-videos
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