Planning Commission on 2026-04-08 6:00 PM - Apr 08, 2026

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How does the Planning Commission open the April 8, 2026 meeting (pledge, roll call, procedures)?

Unknown 0:09

That's like the biggest insight.

Leslie (staff) / Secretary Chiricou (Leslie) [Leslie - staff chair/recorder] 1:50

Yes, thank you.

Eric Crutchlow 2:04

All right, so.

Leslie (staff) / Secretary Chiricou (Leslie) [Leslie - staff chair/recorder] 2:06

Yeah. Make sure everybody has one.

Libby Seifel 2:14

No. Can you hear me okay? This is Libby.

Leslie (staff) / Secretary Chiricou (Leslie) [Leslie - staff chair/recorder] 2:30

Yeah, Libby, we can hear you. We're going to start in just a minute.

Libby Seifel 2:33

No, that's fine. I'm just going to go off video and go off audio. I just wanted to make sure. Thank you.

Eric Crutchlow 2:44

Order of the Planning Commission meeting of April 8th, 2026. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Leslie (staff) / Secretary Chiricou (Leslie) [Leslie - staff chair/recorder] 2:56

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Eric Crutchlow 3:08

Please remain standing. Chair Kuru, if you might read the statement of values, please.

Leslie (staff) / Secretary Chiricou (Leslie) [Leslie - staff chair/recorder] 3:16

Statement of values. As we gather, we humbly seek blessings upon this meeting. May we act with strength, courage, and will to perform our obligations and duties to our people with justice to all. Let us seek wisdom so that we may act in the best interest of our people, our neighbors, and our country. All this we ask so we may serve our community with fairness and respect, putting their needs before all.

Eric Crutchlow 3:45

Thank you. Please be seated. Elizabeth, please call the roll.

Simran Malhotra 3:55

Commissioner Botnagar?

Leslie (staff) / Secretary Chiricou (Leslie) [Leslie - staff chair/recorder] 3:56

Present.

Simran Malhotra 3:58

Commissioner Biagini?

Leslie (staff) / Secretary Chiricou (Leslie) [Leslie - staff chair/recorder] 3:59

Present.

Simran Malhotra 4:01

Commissioner Chiaracuru? Here. Commissioner Wang?

Unknown 4:04

Here.

Simran Malhotra 4:05

Commissioner Rosa?

Unknown 4:07

Yes, ma'am.

Simran Malhotra 4:08

Commissioner Saleem? Here. Chair Crutchlow?

Eric Crutchlow 4:11

Here.

Simran Malhotra 4:11

Very good, thank you.

Eric Crutchlow 4:15

No absences for the quorum. Secretary Chiricou, could you read the Declaration of Commission Procedures, please?

Leslie (staff) / Secretary Chiricou (Leslie) [Leslie - staff chair/recorder] 4:26

Yes, Chair. Public hearings are conducted by the Chair in accordance with the following procedures. The Chair of the Commission directs all activity during the hearings. All comments shall be addressed to the Commission. Any item on this agenda may be continued to a subsequent hearing. Applicants will be allotted up to 10 minutes to present and justify proposals following staff presentation of the item. Other speakers will be given up to two minutes. The applicant is allotted up to five minutes for a bottle of comments. No additional comments will be accepted upon the close of the public hearing, although the Commission reserves the right to direct questions to any speaker on any matter. Special procedures time limits may be applied to any item as prescribed by the Chair.

Leslie (staff) / Secretary Chiricou (Leslie) [Leslie - staff chair/recorder] 5:13

Appeal of Commission actions must be filed in writing within seven calendar days.

Eric Crutchlow 5:20

Thank you very much. Copies of the current agenda and staff reports for each of the items on the agenda are available from the Planning Division office on the Friday afternoon preceding the meeting and available online. continuances and exceptions. This part of the meeting allows for applicants, members of the public, or other interested parties to request that an item be one, continued without hearing, two, withdrawn, or three, taken out of order. And for those of us, for those of you that are here, I just wanna make sure that last one, if you want something taken out of order, please make the request, okay? Because I know that sometimes we can get into an area, it goes very long, and you're trying to get to the one thing that you're very interested in, so I wanna make sure that that's very clear.

Eric Crutchlow 6:05

Thank you. Let's see. Are there any requests from applicants, the public, or the Commission for continuance or exception for any of the items on tonight's agenda? Even with that warning, everybody's good. I love it. Thank you very much. If there is a request for a continuous, no, we don't have to do that because nobody's asked. Anybody online would ask? No, they don't, right? Okay.

Unknown 6:39

Under public hearing, we need to open the public hearing, so we'll wait until we get to public hearings.

Eric Crutchlow 6:44

The consent calendar. So there's one item on the consent calendar today, Secretary Chikuru, could you please read the procedure for the consent calendar?

Leslie (staff) / Secretary Chiricou (Leslie) [Leslie - staff chair/recorder] 6:55

The procedure for the consent. The procedure for the consent calendar is as follows. Consent calendar items may be enacted, approved, or adopted by one motion unless requested to be removed by anyone for discussion or explanation. If any member of the planning commission, staff, the applicant, or a member of the public wishes to comment on a consent calendar item