PC Minutes-2022-02-09 MINUTES February 9, 2022
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO PLANNING COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING TELEPHONIC/VIDEO CONFERENCE MEETING ORGANIZATION:
Chair Taylor called the Regular and Telephonic Conference Meeting of February 9, 2022, of the Planning Commission of the City of San Juan Capistrano to order at 5:00 p.m. ROLL CALL:
PLANNING COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Commissioners Harrison Taylor, Stan
Braden, Darren Fancher, Matt Gaffney, and Tami Wilhelm.
COMMISSIONER ABSENT: None.
STAFF PRESENT: Joel Rojas, Development Services Director Matisse Reischl, Senior Management Analyst Jane Abzug, Deputy City Attorney Agenda items are presented in the originally agendized format for the benefit of the minutes’ reader but were not necessarily heard in that order. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE:
Commissioner Taylor led the Pledge of Allegiance. ORAL COMMUNICATIONS: Elizabeth Dorf
None. CONSENT CALENDAR: Commission Action: Moved by Commissioner Gaffney, seconded by Commissioner
Fancher, to approve consent calendar items C1, C2, and C3 by a 5-0 vote. C1. MOTION FINDING THAT CONDUCTING TELEPHONIC/VIRTUAL MEETINGS FOR THE REGULAR OPEN SESSION MEETINGS AS ALLOWED PER ASSEMBLY BILL 361, PROMOTES SOCIAL DISTANCING DURING THE
COVID-19 PANDEMIC. APPROVED. C2. DRAFT JANUARY 19, 2022, PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES. APPROVED. C3. DRAFT JANUARY 26, 2022, PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES. APPROVED.
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ROLL CALL: AYES: COMMISSIONER: Taylor, Wilhelm, Braden, Gaffney, and Fancher NOES: COMMISSIONER: None ABSENT: COMMISSIONER: None
ABSTAINED: COMMISSIONER: None UNFINISHED BUSINESS: None.
NEW BUSINESS:
None.
PUBLIC HEARINGS: F1. Consideration of Code Amendment (CA) 21-005 to amend the Kinoshita Farm
Specific Plan (85-01) to allow a public skatepark and trail as permitted uses; Rezone (RZ) 21-003 to rezone a City-owned 28-acre property located at 32681 Alipaz Street (APN: 121-190-57), known as the Kinoshita Farm, from Agriculture/Specific Plan-Precise Plan to Specific Plan-Precise Plan; and City
Skatepark and Trail Project (CIP 21201) to allow development of a City-owned
skatepark, trail, and related facilities. CONTINUED FROM JANUARY 26, 2022, PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Matisse Reischl, provided the staff presentation and responded to questions.
Micah Shapiro, Lead Designer with Grindline Skateparks, Inc., provided presentation and responded to questions. Mike McIntyre, Principal Landscape Architect with Action Sports Design, provided
presentation and responded to questions.
Carey Fernandes, CEQA consultant with Dudek, responded to questions. Chair Taylor opened the public hearing, and Addie Ogden, Kim Koeppen, Gerald
Muir, Christina Ortiz-Reynolds, Monica Henderson, Lisa Ohlund, Patrick Jenkins,
Greg Braun, Dan Smith, Erik Gibbs, June Sacco, Tom Sacco, James Gilbert, Bonnie Foster, Eric Stuart, Cody Martin, Eric Groos, and Shane Huiberts provided public testimony.
The Planning Commission took a recess at 6:47 p.m. and reconvened the meeting
at 6:52 p.m.
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Chair Taylor closed the public hearing. The Commissioners thereafter deliberated and made several suggestions for City Council consideration, including review of the proposed project plans by a Certified Access Specialist for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act; Design Review Committee review of the proposed project related to proposed pavement colors, restroom building materials, bicycle
parking, and future lighting; consideration of a bike lane along Camino Del Avion; an amplified music prohibition and adding hours of operation on the park rules signage within the proposed skatepark. Commission Action: COMMISSIONER Braden made a motion, seconded by
COMMISSIONER Gaffney, to 1) adopt a resolution recommending that the City Council adopt an Ordinance approving Rezone (RZ) 21-003 and Code Amendment (CA) 21-005; and, approve the City Skatepark and Trail Project (CIP 21201); and 2) recommend the City Council adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) and Mitigation Monitoring Reporting Program for Rezone (RZ)
21-003, Code Amendment (CA) 21-005 and City Skatepark and Trail Project (CIP 21201). The motion passed by a 5-0 vote. ROLL CALL:
AYES: COMMISSIONER: Taylor, Braden, Gaffney, Wilhelm, and Fancher
NOES: COMMISSIONER: None RECUSED: COMMISSIONER: None ABSTAINED: COMMISSIONER: None
INFORMATION ITEM:
None. COMMISSION/STAFF COMMENTS:
ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business, Chair Taylor adjourned the meeting at 7:40 p.m. to Wednesday, February 23, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. in the City Council Chamber.
Approved on March 9, 2022.
____________________________ Joel Rojas, Development Services Director Acting Planning Commission Secretary