[0:36] Good afternoon everyone. I would like to call the July 22nd, 2026 Planning Commission meeting to order.

[0:41] Here we have the roll call please.

[0:45] Vice chair, Carver.

[0:47] Here. Commissioner Deb. Here. Commissioner Patinho.

[0:53] Here. And chair, Judah. President. All rise and join me for the title of the waitress.

[1:20] Welcome, everyone. This is the portion of the meeting set aside to invite public comments regarding any matter within the jurisdiction of the Prime Commission.

[1:29] Public comments are limited to no more than three minutes each.

[1:31] You desire to speak on an item on the agenda tonight. Please wait until the item is heard.

[1:38] Those wishing to speak are asked to sign up using the digital public speaker keyouts located

[1:44] at the Council Chamber of Entrance. Miss Santos, do we have comments submitted by members

[1:49] of the public or request to speak? There are no comments and nor requests to speak.

[1:55] chair Judah. Thank you very much. The items listed in the consent calendar are to be voted

[2:01] on together by one motion. Unless the commissioner requests this request separate action,

[2:07] the items on the consent calendar are item number three A approval minutes of the June 10,

[2:12] 2026 meeting, planning commission meeting, an item number three BIA request received and files

[2:18] six month operation compliance update and continue the approval of the operation of the short-term

[2:23] number STR 25 dash 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 at 7446 Lcentral way based on the way based on the update

[2:36] do any of the commissioners want to pull any of these items for separate discussion yes

[2:41] sorry I'd like to pull item 3b for discussion are

[2:53] there any extensions no I

[2:56] Go ahead and ask.

[3:00] Question a staff for three B. I just want to confirm that you have a process you go through

[3:11] and doing these reviews at the six month and then you do a site inspection.

[3:17] I think it's a year or you can better identify all that for us.

[3:21] that it there is. It is in compliance. It is being reviewed. There is oversight.

[3:29] Yes, so we do a yearly inspection every year on all this to our properties.

[3:35] Includes a e-culture service from the PD and from us.

[3:41] All right. I'm sorry about that. We ask we do a yearly inspection on the property at all STRs

[3:47] in the city and we also include which would be called for service from the PD and us and any

[3:55] code violations that may happen throughout the year.

[4:02] Thank you very much. That's all I have.

[4:07] So chair, Drew, that you'd have to have one motion for the minutes and another motion for the other

[4:16] Okay, so we start with a minute first. Let's let's let's have a motion to approve the minutes. We have a motion a second

[4:25] second

[4:26] Did the first motion please continue and second was and

[4:34] the second motion and

[4:36] Start vote all in favor. Hi, hi

[4:40] And then we do a second motion, is there a motion to approve items 3a and 3b.

[4:50] Motion to approve, Carver.

[4:53] Deps second.

[4:56] Oh, then please.

[4:58] So first motion was vice chair Carver.

[5:01] Second motion was Commissioner Deb and start vote on favor.

[5:06] Aye. Aye.

[5:14] Okay, great.

[5:15] a consent items have been approved, now we're going to move on to item number 4A. The next time

[5:21] on the agenda is a public hearing item. It is a request to operate a short term rental within an

[5:27] existing 1,409 square foot single story. Single family dwelling located at 74 90 Santa Elena Drive.

[5:38] May we have the staff report please Mr. Credence.

[5:44] You're evening chair members of the Planning Commission.

[5:49] The item before you as a proposed short-term rental property located at 7490, Santa Elena Drive.

[5:58] The subject property is located at the southwest corner of Santa Elena and western Avenue,

[6:03] surrounding properties on the north, south, and west consist of a single family dwelling.

[6:08] The property across western Avenue consists of non-spare farm movement part.

[6:16] The property developed on the single, single story, family dwelling, with a

[6:22] task garage.

[6:24] Here's the picture of the property from the street view in this current conditions.

[6:33] In 2020, City Council adopted an ordinance 1675 to begin regulating short-term

[6:39] rentals.

[6:40] Was that an ordinance that would like to highlight some of the conditions owners are required to follow?

[6:44] Property owners must live at the property as a primary residence.

[6:47] quite hours between the hours of 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. and owners must be able to be on site within

[6:54] one hours of notification by the renter or the city that there's an issue at the property.

[7:04] Currently we have 14 short term rentals in the city of Bonaparte.

[7:09] We use the current software as rental scape as the monitoring unpromoted short term rentals

[7:15] collect inspection fees and transient tax.

[7:19] Short-term rentals must be STR applicants and businesses application and December of 12th.

[7:28] The property is 1400 square feet.

[7:30] Family was four bedroom and two bathrooms.

[7:33] The applicant proposed the maximum of six residents at the location.

[7:37] An addition suggested on-site parking for one host vehicle in three guest vehicles.

[7:49] Here are some pictures of the four bedrooms at the property.

[7:51] And here's the pictures as a kitchen, family, and garage at the time of inspection.

[8:04] On July 9th, 40 public hearing notices were male to the property owner to locate it within

[8:10] 300 feet of the subject property.

[8:13] Located at the proposed required, sorry.

[8:19] The notice was posted as required.

[8:21] Staffordford received five written comments from neighbors expressing concern about the proposed

[8:26] operation of the short term rental. Due to the written comments received, the director decided

[8:32] that public hearing is necessary to assess whether the applicant has significant

[8:36] dress potential adverse impacts on the public's health, safety or welfare given

[8:41] significant concerns raised by the neighbors. Some neighbors express concern about

[8:46] potential safety, speed, increased traffic, public parking issues, and loss of property

[8:52] value and noise.

[9:05] The applicant has, at the time of the inspection, the applicant

[9:07] comply with all provisions of the code.

[9:10] Inspection found 11 as the owner does not reside

[9:13] at the property.

[9:14] Absent of the verbal and written comments

[9:16] can receive the STR applicant would have been approved

[9:20] at the staff level.

[9:23] Planning Commission shall have the Ciciter testimony

[9:25] provided by the applicants and members of the public

[9:29] and the information provided in your agenda package.

[9:34] With that, Plan A Commission may approve or deny the S.J. applicant.

[9:41] Two resolutions have been provided to you in your agenda packet.

[9:45] One resolution is to approve it.

[9:48] One resolution is to deny it.

[9:50] This action by the Plan A Commission is final.

[9:54] This concludes my presentation.

[9:57] And I'm available for any questions.

[10:00] If you have any questions.

[10:02] Thank you very much, Mr. Cravens.

[10:05] Do any commission members have questions of stuff?

[10:08] I do.

[10:10] Mr. Cravens.

[10:13] You, as you went through the PowerPoints,

[10:16] as Ruth did,

[10:18] we have identified parking spaces,

[10:21] as an initial picture,

[10:22] which is much cleaner than mine.

[10:26] How many parking spaces in the application are being assigned to be in the garage?

[10:32] Well, the applicant assigned it assigned two vehicles in the garage.

[10:47] When you all go on site and do the, especially the annual, when you go back and make sure they're staying compliant,

[11:02] Is there any way to make sure there's enough room to put two cars in that garage?

[11:09] We do do an inspection of the other property.

[11:13] We could verify it, and this is, and this is, and if they don't have the room to park

[11:19] any car or one car car, we could require those corrections to be made.

[11:24] It also could be a condition that is part of their permit.

[11:28] understand. And can you, I know we all want to get this through, but I was just curious

[11:37] if you could kind of go over what you did a six month review on the existing. So you

[11:44] do six months on new ones and then you do annually. Can you go quick over what you do annually

[11:52] when you go to the short-term rentals?

[11:55] So the annual inspection is always the same as if we run to the first time to the next time.

[12:02] Each inspection is done.

[12:03] We check for any calls for service, any from PD and code enforcement.

[12:10] We do check, make sure they have all smoke detectors, they have the exit plan,

[12:16] They have their business license, they paid their TOT taxes, they have no unpromitted items from the last inspection,

[12:30] or the condition of the law, and we should have the property means this is made and kept up on the property.

[12:37] Thank you.

[12:39] Thank you so much Mr. Cravens.

[12:41] I have a question and it might sent similar redundant or repetitive as you kind of touched upon

[12:46] what you do when you do inspections. But one of the comments that was submitted by, oh sorry,

[12:54] one of the comments, I'll start again. So the question about to ask my time redundant or repetitive,

[12:59] but for the sake of clarity and transparency, there is one of the comments that we received,

[13:06] there was a concern about this person, they bought this property and they turned it immediately into an

[13:10] CR. So there was, I'm wondering, what is the city do to make sure that an STR owner or applicant

[13:21] actually lives in the residence? That's a good question for the question. So one of the

[13:27] inspections that we do is we do go through the entire house. We ask the applicant which room

[13:33] are there living in or which one they're staying in. We do verify that they have some type of clothes,

[13:38] the bathroom is used. They have food and refrigerator. We do look at it that the house is

[13:44] being lived in. One of the things we do. At any time if we get complaints regarding them

[13:50] not living at the location, most times it's a neighbor that can see the property will call the

[13:56] sound and say hey there's someone at the property. We'll follow up with an inspection at the property

[14:01] and knock on the door and make contact with whoever's staying at the property and has them.

[14:05] Are you living here? Are you staying here? Are you running? You know, we'll start asking

[14:10] questions investigating and see what's going on and based on their answers that we say,

[14:15] okay, yeah, the owner doesn't live here or does live here and then we'll require them to come

[14:19] up to the property. They have to be at the property within one hour. Thank you so much for answering

[14:23] that question clearly. Anyone else have any questions?

[14:29] Okay. All right, well, thank you so much.

[14:32] All right, this is now a public hearing that is now open.

[14:37] Miss Santos, do we have written comments

[14:39] submitted by members of the public?

[14:41] Other than what was in your agenda packet,

[14:44] there are no other written comments.

[14:48] Sorry, Ruth, just for the record,

[14:52] staff did receive one written communication

[14:54] after the publication of the staff report.

[14:57] The comment was submitted.

[14:59] .

[15:00] Yesterday, from Jessica Torres, this comment was distributed to the Planning Commission and is copies

[15:07] have been provided to you for the record and are also available for the public.

[15:12] Thank you very much. May we, since there are no written comments,

[15:20] or Ruth will read through

[15:21] the comments. May we hear first from the applicant to the applicant wishes to speak today.

[15:27] Oh come up to the mic please. Thank you so much. Welcome.

[15:34] Thank you so much for having the hearing today.

[15:37] So I'm here to answer any questions that you may have.

[15:42] We heard.

[15:44] Yes, my name is Fungang-Win.

[15:47] And we have, I'm a mother of three.

[15:51] And we started living in Buna Park since last year.

[15:57] And my husband go back and forth between here and his business, and his business in Vietnam.

[16:07] So most of the time I'm home with the kids and we have a couple of extra rooms that we can

[16:13] rent it out since the location is right. Very close to not very far. So we thought that we may share it

[16:20] to the tourists who want to come to visit the city. So yeah, so that's why I apply for the short-term

[16:27] rental permits.

[16:32] And we asked the question, your garage, the fit to cars. It does, it fits to cars.

[16:43] Yes. Commissioner, that. No, no, no. Nobody has any further questions. All right, well, thank you so much.

[16:52] Now next, we'll go to any, are there any commissioner questions and the samples? Are there any members of the public who wish to speak?

[16:59] who signed up today.

[17:02] There are none.

[17:03] We just raise their hand.

[17:06] Welcome.

[17:07] Thank you so much.

[17:09] That's fine.

[17:11] We'll bring you up if we have further questions.

[17:26] Welcome.

[17:28] My name is Maria Valdevia,

[17:31] and the next neighbor to this house

[17:33] that they are going to do the business.

[17:36] I live in my property since 1980,

[17:39] and I was really concerned

[17:40] And I was Googling the good and the bad parts about this air base.

[17:46] My main concern is I overheard the lady, the neighbor, that she will be leaving there with

[17:52] the kids.

[17:52] I know I saw the kids and I know there has one go back and forth to Vietnam because I spoke

[17:57] to him long time ago.

[17:59] My concern is somebody be in charge of the property, because some people told me that they

[18:06] the air bees and they filled it up papers and the rentals and then the

[18:13] provinces were the neighbor. But I overhear you that somebody will be in charge,

[18:19] right? Because I'm very close. They could just jump in my yard. I live in the house for

[18:27] so many years and I'm concerned. I just want to be sure, be safe,

[18:32] leave the house because I know your neighbors sometimes we are good, sometimes we are bad, but we get along with everybody

[18:40] But with a know who is coming to put a rental. I just want to be sure that somebody will be responsible when they rent it

[18:48] For my safe and my family.

[18:58] Thank you very much for your comment. Really appreciate you

[19:03] All right, does any other members wishing to speak tonight?

[19:12] Yeah, so seeing none, uh, charge it if there's no other speakers and you will close the public hearing on the item

[19:20] We meeting is officially closed, and

[19:27] so Mr. Craven's we have some follow-up questions do to some of the comments made

[19:34] But once this is

[20:00] When your man went once. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much for your comment. Mm-hmm. Thank you

[20:09] Okay, Mr. Craven, so we have some questions

[20:15] Please excuse me, I did not bring my iPads so I don't have the resolutions in front of me.

[20:24] And so just a couple and also just so everyone can hear as well.

[20:29] Is the if this gets approved is the owner required to share a contact information with their neighbors in case there's an issue or does the city.

[20:40] have a contact, an easy to find or distribute contact information, or whomever would

[20:47] be necessary, code enforcement or planning or whomever if there was an issue raised.

[20:52] Who was?

[20:53] Holder.

[20:54] Yes.

[20:55] Good question.

[20:55] Commissioner Depp.

[20:56] So we do have a condition of approval in the resolution for approval that would require

[21:00] for the contact information to be shared not only with staff but also within the 300

[21:06] foot radius to all property owners.

[21:09] Okay.

[21:09] And then also, how long is the permit for officially, because even if there are six-month

[21:15] or annual inspections, is this permit in perpetuity, is it something that's only for a year

[21:21] and then has to be renewed, what is that term for that?

[21:26] Thank you for the question.

[21:27] So yes, the inspection is done every year.

[21:30] Each year we go through and it's like doing a new inspection, so we go through and make

[21:34] that property made is kept, that they have fire, they were sure fire alarms, that they're still living at the property.

[21:45] We do go through everything and if we receive any complaints through the year, then we do review it and to check to see what the complaint was.

[21:53] If it's for noise and stuff like that, it could be brought up to be suspended or have some appropriate probation.

[22:00] But it is the permit itself, is there an expiration date on the permanent where it has to be renewed or is it for a term of one year only or three years?

[22:08] What's the term of the permit?

[22:10] The permit has to be really new every year.

[22:12] Okay, and then the standard, again, forgive me for not having my, I read this last week when we got the packet.

[22:22] The six month inspection is that something that's additional or is that something that's usually included already?

[22:30] That's in addition to what the code requires.

[22:33] And that is that in with that be in this current resolution or with that have to be added in.

[22:37] No, it's already within the current resolution.

[22:40] Condition letter F.

[22:45] And just for the sake of clarity, you do to one of the comments made by one of the residents.

[22:52] When somebody resides at the property as they're supposed to, when you own when you are applying for an STR as a condition of approval,

[22:59] They're supposed to be able, like if somebody calls them, they have to be available within an hour.

[23:05] Correct?

[23:05] Correct.

[23:07] I hope that answers a question for some members and the audience.

[23:12] And have there been any issues with this specific STR?

[23:17] For this property, no.

[23:18] We have not received any complaints regarding the STR.

[23:21] Thank you so much.

[23:22] Any further questions by fellow commissioners?

[23:25] I just want to confirm that when you do your six month review, this is not in confirming this is not just this short term rental, but it's a standard practice of planning to be required in and all your resolutions, or is this a special condition for this short term rental?

[23:52] It's, it's on a case by case basis, so if if if if if we've sifted and received any comments

[23:59] rain communication for this STR, it would be a proof that staff level and then would have

[24:05] to adhere to all the short-term rental code requirements, which does not include that six

[24:11] month evaluation. It would just go through the annual process. So since this is an item that is

[24:18] being heard by the commission, that condition as a matter that was in addition to the standard

[24:25] code requirements.

[24:26] Thank you.

[24:29] And there's just one other clarification, too.

[24:31] The must be available to be on property within one hour.

[24:36] That's if somebody is currently renting because otherwise one could never ever leave a single

[24:43] on vacation, is that that that on call for on site, that's only for if somebody's currently

[24:49] running. That is correct. Thank you for that powerful question. We're talking about vacations

[25:00] earlier. Yes. And for clarification, the short-term rental at this location has not been in

[25:07] progress. So there hasn't been no short-term rental. That's why they're here before you this evening

[25:12] to obtain their short-term rental permit. And if the commission decides to approve the short-term rental,

[25:18] then they will be going to the next step, which is to obtain all their licenses, so they can commence their short term rent to activity.

[25:26] And so then if I made the clarification that there have been no issues with this property,

[25:30] is that it hasn't been operating illegally up until this point, this is a brand new

[25:35] operation of brand new application. There's just been no issues at the site prior.

[25:41] Correct. At least no code complaints.

[25:45] Thank you.

[25:46] Thank you very much.

[25:47] Are there any further deliberations?

[25:50] I hope that everyone feels that there are questions

[25:53] have been answered.

[25:55] Are there the so the staff recommends that the planning commission

[25:58] received the staff report and presentation together

[26:00] with public testimony and based on the information

[26:03] provided determine whether to adopt a resolution to approve,

[26:06] conditionally approve, or deny the short-term rental permit

[26:09] number STR 26-0004 and do we have a motion in a second to either Niaprove or conditionally

[26:19] approved. Motion to approve Carver.

[26:26] So motion to approve by Carver and a second by

[26:29] Petinho.

[26:31] Commissioner Carver, Vice Chair Carver. Yes. Commissioner Patinho.

[26:39] Commissioner

[26:39] Your Deb?

[26:41] And Chair Judah.

[26:48] The motion passed for zero with one absent.

[26:54] Thank you very much, everyone.

[26:55] The motion has been approved.

[26:58] To adopt the resolution approving the short term rental permit number SCR 26004.

[27:05] Thank you very much.

[27:07] All right.

[27:08] And we have a staff report, please.

[27:10] Yes.

[27:10] So the development agreement for the Aquarium and Butterfly Conservatory that

[27:16] did come before the Planning Commission in June was heard by the City Council

[27:20] at their July 14 meeting and the project was approved.

[27:24] The only item I have for you.

[27:26] Thank you very much.

[27:28] May we have the agenda for cast?

[27:30] Please, Mr. Luna.

[27:31] Yes, Chair.

[27:32] Members of the Commission.

[27:33] So for your next meeting in August, there is a code text amendment to the

[27:40] and also the commercial permitted use table.

[27:46] Thank you very much. Any commission reports?

[27:51] I just wanted to thank staff for being here tonight

[27:55] providing the information that they're using

[27:58] and you and your staff for everything you guys do.

[28:02] You guys, I know you guys sometimes have a hard lift

[28:06] and it's much appreciated.

[28:10] I second that we all agree.

[28:11] Thank you so much everyone.

[28:12] and it is officially 6.58 I think and we're joining this meeting.

[28:20] Thank you very much.

BP Planning Commission July 22, 2026

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