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Okay. Good evening. Welcome to the February 19th, 2020, city of Napa, regular meeting for the planning

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commission. I would like to call this meeting to order and ask my red to conduct the roll call.

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Senator Commissioner Massaro, President, Commissioner Shotwell, President. Chair Owen, President.

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And as of right now, I'm going to mark Commissioner Ivoc as late and then Vice Chair Myers as absent.

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We will now rise for the pledge of allegiance.

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The planning commission conducts all meetings in accordance with the Ralph M. Brown Act.

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California government code sections 54950 at sec and pursuant to the city's rules of order for planning commission meetings.

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The planning commission conducts all meetings in accordance with the Ralph M. Brown Act.

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California government code sections 54950 at sec and pursuant to the city's rules of order for planning commission meetings policy resolution 10.

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Staff, are there any changes to the evening's agenda or any supplemental reports?

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No changes.

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Commissioner, are there any proposed changes to this evening's agenda?

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No.

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All right, public comment provides an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the planning commission on items of interest,

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not otherwise noted on the agenda. Each speaker's comments will be limited to three minutes and will comply with the rules of order for planning commission meetings.

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Do we have any members of the public who wish to provide public comments on non agenda items?

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Okay, consent calendar. These routine items may be approved by a single vote. However, any member of the public or commissioner may remove an item for consideration during the public hearing portion of the agenda.

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This evening, we are reviewing the planning commission regular meeting minutes for February 5th, 2026.

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Is there a motion to approve the meeting minutes for the February 5th, 2026 planning commission regular meeting?

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Second.

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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Motion passes.

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We have no consent hearings or no public hearings appeals on the agenda.

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Administrative reports, administrative report items, including reports and recommendations from city staff that do not require a public hearing prior to action by the commission.

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The commission may take action of the agenda description provides for it.

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Only the planning commission may authorize public input for these items.

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It is within the discretion of the chair and commission to allow public testimony.

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Tonight, we have item 8A housing element annual progress report and item 8B general plan annual progress report.

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We will now hear a report from staff.

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Good evening planning commission and those in attendance tonight.

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I will be presenting on the 2025 annual progress report for the housing element in general plan.

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So just as an overview, the annual progress report is required by the state to be submitted every calendar year.

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And so this is submitted directly to the Department of Housing and Community Development and the Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation.

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As for the contents of the report, it is pretty standardized.

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It is based on the tables that are provided by the Excel sheet that HCD provides.

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And so these tables detail permits issued in final by affordability.

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Any assistance received the type of units and that sort of information to compile it.

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There are also sections of the report that summarizes data, which I will be covering in my presentation.

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So the main.

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The most important sections of the Excel sheet and if the report were the tables that are identified here.

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The first table table A and A2 really identifies the housing entitlements in the permits that we've completed in the calendar year of 2025.

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Table B shows the overall arena progress during this six cycle and table D goes into more qualitative information about the programs that we've implemented so far.

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So just an overview of the permitted housing units and our arena progress.

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As you can see in 2025, 164 permits were 164 units were permitted.

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This table doesn't include the permits that were final, meaning that they received their final certificate of occupancy.

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So it doesn't reflect all of the housing units that we've worked on in the past year.

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But it definitely shows that we've been making progress.

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And separately from the arena progress, we have been tracking the number of accessory doll units that we've been permitting.

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And so there's been a bit of an upward trend.

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And I'll touch on this a little bit later as well.

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So as for the program section, which I was mentioning, you know, there are several programs that the city listed within its housing element.

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We did accomplish some of these programs in 2025 that included continuing the zoning ordinance update.

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We permitted five D to restricted 80 units, which are restricted to low income renters for a period of 20 years.

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And that was achieved through the city's junior unit initiative program.

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We also provided funding for certain households to receive emergency repairs, which reduces displacement in the city.

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And we provide a rental assistance.

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As you may know, the city did recently purchase harvest middle school and there are some plans in place to kind of do some community outreach to see what.

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That site will eventually become.

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But it's envisioned that it will include some form of housing and recreation.

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Lastly, there is the city owned parcel on the corner of Jefferson and Trauer.

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And so there have been efforts by city staff to identify specific developer.

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And there was an exclusive negotiating agreement that was entered to in this last year.

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As for this coming year, we definitely plan to continue the zoning ordinance update.

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As you see here, it is expected that we will have a public review draft sometime towards the middle of the year.

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And then final draft ready for adoption and review by decision makers towards the end of the year.

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As for the housing element implementation, we will continue to implement the programs.

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And now that we have combined our department with housing, I think that'll give us a new opportunity to really collaborate on some of these programs.

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As for the action required with this, we do request that the planning commission forward a recommendation for staff to city council to accept the 2025 housing element progress report.

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So that staff may submit this to HCD and LCI.

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Thank you, Angela, of course.

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I'm here for any questions.

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Are there any questions or comments?

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Angela, I know we're working on the zoning ordinance, but the design guidelines are part of that as well, right?

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The objective ones.

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That's correct.

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Yes.

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Just have to clarify.

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Absolutely.

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Any additional questions or comments?

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No.

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Okay.

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Do I have a motion to forward the recommendation to council?

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So moved.

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Second.

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All those in favor?

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Hi.

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Motion passes.

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Wonderful.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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And now we'll move on to the second presentation.

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It should be pretty brief.

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But this will touch on the general plan annual progress report.

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So similar to the housing element progress report.

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This is also required to be submitted to the state.

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This has to be submitted to the department of land use and climate innovation.

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And the contents of this report are a little bit more flexible to allow for different jurisdictions to kind of report on what they feel.

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It's relevant to the implementation.

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So for this year's report, we decided to include information on how other elements besides the land use element have been seeing some progress.

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So this report really summarized those efforts.

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So notable achievements in this presentation.

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I'm not separating them by which element they correspond with.

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But generally we did see many opportunities for resident engagement.

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That include the open house, which I believe was the second annual open house this year.

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City Academy, which is ongoing for a while, but recently has picked up some seem as well as these owning ordinance update.

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There was a session for the public to come in and provide their opinions and learn more about the zoning ordinance.

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And so we hope that people will continue to be involved.

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As for small business support, economic development division and partnership with planning and other organizations in the city.

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Put on the first small business fair.

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And so that provided resources help people understand permitting.

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We think it was a great move forward and we hope to see it next year or this coming year.

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Also we had the leaf lower rebit program.

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This was kind of a mix of, you know, sustainability, but also small business support.

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This was.

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This rebate was from ARPA funds.

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And so it actually just concluded this year.

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But it was great to be able to go into the community and speak with these people to understand that there.

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These resources available for them.

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Lastly, on this slide.

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We did finalize the river lines strategic plan.

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So just envisioning what the oxbow area could look like with that connection.

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And so we hope that that can move forward as well.

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There are also mills that contracts which were processed, which would help preserve the character of those structures in their neighborhood.

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Some more notable achievements with parks and open space.

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Of course, the south-nappest entry center recently got their pickleball courts.

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And the soccer fields that we hope that those will be available for use soon.

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We're working with the developer to finalize those touches on there.

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And there has also been continued work on the urban forestry management plan from parks on going.

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And like I mentioned earlier, there was the recent acquisition of the Harvest Middle School Campus, which will be working with the community.

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And what's staff to see what the plan is for that site.

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And lastly, as I mentioned earlier, there is the city on site on Jefferson and Trauer, which they recently entered into that exclusive negotiating agreement with the developer for the negotiation of how these nineteen four sale units will be approached.

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As for the action stake into implement the general plan in 2025, the zoning ordinance update kind of ties into the housing element as well as the general plan.

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And we also use the mechanisms that we currently have in place to preserve housing and ensure that any units lost were replaced.

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As for the actions in this year, we do plan to finalize the zoning ordinance update, and especially given that we have now merged departments will continue to collaborate across departments to make sure that these programs are implemented or started or, you know, we just know what the plan is for them during the cycle.

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So with that, I do request that the planning commission forward a recommendation to the city council to accept the general plan annual progress report authorizing staff to submit it to HCD and LCI.

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Thank you Angela, of course.

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Are there any questions or comments for staff on this one?

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Do I have a motion to forward the recommendation to council?

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I will make a motion to forward the recommendation to council for the 2025 general plan progress report.

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Do I have a second?

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All those in favor?

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Aye.

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Aye.

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Great.

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Thank you.

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Are there any comments by commissioners and or staff additional to this?

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I have a question for staff.

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Do we know the status of the food court area off of South school?

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The food truck?

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That trying, you learn.

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Yes.

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Yeah, I believe that they haven't necessarily moved forward with the permitting.

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So staff is coordinating with them to see if they would like to move forward with that.

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I did have a few exciting updates provided.

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I think you start out with the most exciting as a introduction or reintroduction to our associate planner,

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Bond Mendes.

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Bond was with the city from 2018 to 2022.

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Went to the city of Ranch Cucamanga and then we're super excited to have her back and she's fit seamlessly back with the team.

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So definitely excited. You'll see Bond sitting here sitting in front of council presenting projects.

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And we look forward to her efforts and the contributions she'll have for our planning division and then just the city as a whole.

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Also, you know, just want to update commissioners.

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Massara and shot well will be attending the 2026 planning commissioners Academy of the League of California cities.

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We did get thankfully.

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To put them on the wait list and then we're able to actually register them today.

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And so we'll work out logistics but excited to.

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To see the training opportunities provided to you and kind of the updates both at the macro and micro level and how it affects the city of Napa.

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As far as a gender forecast.

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We're tentatively canceling.

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March was fifth planning commission so we'll likely have planning commission for March 19th.

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As of right now, there are three items that will be taken front of you.

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One was just pushed off so the most recent gender forecast shows for you like they have three projects presented that night.

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Also an exciting thing.

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We look back in the video city council meeting on Tuesday, which was January 17th city council gave direction.

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To our public works department on the Jefferson Street Undergrounding project update, which included a reduced project scope to the original idea.

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Just brief background there was.

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A tariff by the California Public Utilities Commission which.

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Every city was afforded certain credits that were able to be converted in undergrounding overhead utility lines.

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That program was stopped so the city can no longer crew credits through that program, but would recommend looking back on the city council hearing.

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Excited to see where that goes.

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May be the impact that it has the development of the Jefferson corridor. But that is all I have, as far as updates.

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Thank you, Raider. All right, as he said, the next regularly scheduled meeting for the planning commission of the city of Napa is March 19th, 2026. We are adjourned.