Good morning. As the clerk, I will call this meeting to order pro tem due to chair Baggett and vice chair Gray being absent.
We will need to elect a temporary chair for this meeting. I will now ask for public comment on this temporary election.
Seeing none, I will turn it over to the commissioners to elect a temporary chair.
Good morning. I elect Denny as the temporary pro tem or chairperson.
I'll
second. I will now call for the vote. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed. The
vote has been passed with three in favor with commissioners Baggett and Gray
excused.
Good morning. So you've already called this order so we're good to go
there so it looks like we will start with the pledge if I can get Lance to lead
us in the pledge please.
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.
Okay at this time of the meeting we will allow for any public comment for any items
that are not on the agenda. If there's anyone here that would wish to speak on something
that's not on today's agenda. Do we have anybody on the line that wants? Do you guys know?
No.
Okay. Seeing that there's none, then we will move on to the approval of the minutes from
the June 26th meeting. Do you guys have any additions or corrections to those meeting
minutes?
No, Mr. Chairman.
Can we get a motion to approve those, please?
Will you ask for a public call?
Oh, that's new.
we do that. Is there any public comment on the minutes from June 26th? Okay, seeing
none, I'll look for a motion.
I make the motion that we approve the minutes of
March 20, 2026.
I'm a month behind. There we go. Nope, May 8.
Okay, I'll try to do this again. I'll
make the motion that we approve the minutes for our June 26, 2026 meeting.
Can I get a second, please?
I second it.
All in favor?
Aye.
Any opposed?
Motion carries unanimously.
Okay, our first item on the agenda and only item on the agenda today will be the development
code update for Title 16, subdivision ordinance, and I believe our Director Greg is going
to speak on that.
Thank you, Madam Chairperson and members of the Commission and thank you for your time
addressing this matter today.
Today before you, we had intended to bring the first section of the development code
update to the Commission for your recommendation to the Board of Supervisors to adopt at this
point in time due to some absences and scheduled vacations and a technical matter after a
conference with the county surveyor, we're asking that the item be continued to the September
18th agenda for a description of our approach and methodology to the separation of the development
code and the necessary changes that were made and to address the CEQA compliance for
the item.
So at this time, what we're asking from the Commission is your continuance of the
item to the September 18th at the regularly scheduled meeting of 9 o'clock.
Okay. Yeah, I know we were all told that you know something got lost in
transition and I know a lot of this was worked on at previous meetings and some
of those concerns and comments and items that we had wanted addressed in that
section hadn't got folded into this so as long as we can go back and capture
those that'd be great as well. We're willing to meet with all of the
commissioners actually on your concerns on the matter if you'd like to
meet independently. Okay, great. Thank you. Do we need public comment on this?
Yes. Okay, do we have anybody in the public wishing to speak on this? If you
do, go ahead and come up and state your name, turn on the mic and write your
name down, please.
Kim Melton. In the extension, and I'm a little gray in
this area, but my history goes back a long way and something that we've
done used to do and in conjunction with the extension of the public hearing, is it possible
to make that slash workshop? Because as you remember, Danny, three minutes to cover sections
of this thing or whatever is decided here is absolutely ludicrous to address any issue.
I couldn't address probably one or two pages of my list in five minutes.
And also, a workshop portion of it allows a two-way communication.
It's still public, hearing people still, and you still can regulate how long, if somebody
gets off on a tangent or something.
But if you have it as a slash workshop, it gives you more open latitude to have a
two-way conversation because as you well know last year when I was up there were a
lot of questions I made comments that people had a lot of questions on I was
able to explain it and that would be my request if that is a possibility. Thank
you. Okay so that is something I need to check with Council and everybody on
as far as when it is brought back up on the 18th if the document we
receive in advance is appears to be missing some things that we felt we
thought were in there from previous meetings. Will we be able to revise this
at that time or how would we address that?
Again we're very staff is
absolutely willing to meet with individual commissioners to go over the
document in question. Happy to do that we can explain what changes are. The
The continuation in what we're seeking from the Commission is your recommendation to the
Board for adoption.
So between the 18th and now, again, we're willing to meet with every one of them and
explain our methodology on this, and then we would give an explanation of our approach
and methodology to the Commission.
The only thing we would be seeking on the 18th would be your recommendation.
Thank you.
Sorry.
All right, then I will close the public portion.
Commissioners, do you have any comments on this?
Go over that with questions that I have, or are we going to table that?
Yes, okay.
Thank you, Madam Chair.
Through you, I have a question for the staff regarding the CEQA section 15378B5,
which is referenced in the recommendations and justification section of page 7 of
the staff report on our report that we have.
Could the staff clarify the basis
for determination specifically? And my question, sir, is does this ordinance
update include any changes to actual land use of development standards?
For
or other development requirements or is this update limited strictly to the
administrative and organizational changes such as reorganizing existing code
sections and corrected outdated references. I'd appreciate it if the
staff could walk us all through this distinction since it's
the basis of this.
Local exemption being requested today.
Thank you. Madam Chairman, is there any? Okay, thank you. That's an excellent question. And
it's primarily the reason that we've separated or segregated what was referred to as the development
code back into Title 16 and Title 17, which is zoning and or development standards. As
As Commissioner Wardle had pointed out, we had identified a section of the CEQA guidelines
15378B5, which allows for administrative changes and updates.
In this particular case, Title 16 is primarily a regulatory instrument on the administration
of the Subdivision Map Act by local government.
That's what Title 16 does for us, and it is in fact exactly what Commissioner Wardle
had suggested an update to the code to identify both statutory and regulatory changes to the
way we administrate that act. So in this particular case, anything that would affect density,
development standards, any of those things that would be found in Title 17, we have segregated
for this purpose so that would allow us to move forward with Title 16 under that administrative
section of CEQA identifying this would not be, in fact, a project per se as identified under CEQA
and would allow for further environmental evaluation on a project by project basis. So your question,
it was in fact a question, but your question was also kind of an answer and it was perfectly stated.
That's exactly what we're doing.
Okay.
Thank you.
Any other questions or comments?
The only comment I have is that I can't see having a public hearing as a workshop.
So I think we just need to stick with the public hearing and do what we're supposed to do
at the public hearing is my comment on that.
Any other questions, comments?
No matter.
If not, then I would look for a motion to table this and move it to the 918 agenda as requested by staff.
I
make the motion, we table this and move it to our September 18th meeting and
leave the rest up to staff.
I second that. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries
unanimously.
Our next item would be if there is any Commissioner reports.
Okay
seeing none. Mr. Thompson, do you have a report for us? I have no report,
no
future agenda items.
Okay, seeing none, we'll be adjourning this meeting at 912.
Thank you for everybody that showed up.