Good evening and I'd like to call the meeting of the Planning Commission of August 5, 2020, six to order. If Commissioner Snyder could leave it in the pledge of allegiance and appreciate
it.
I'm Clerk, if we could have the roll call, please.
Chair, sorry.
Here.
Vice Chair Gutierrez.
Present.
Commissioner Esvander.
Present.
Commissioner Coral.
Commissioner Schneider.
Here.
Commissioner Thompson.
Present.
Commissioner Avalos Villalobos.
Chair, you have a forum.
Thank you very much.
I'll move you to the next item.
We would like to speak oral communication from the audience items that are not on the agenda.
We have anybody that's requested to speak on items not on the agenda.
I'm very good.
Thank you.
To move on to our Plain of Commissioner Minutes, we can for motion and second to approve
the Minister of the July 1st, 2026 Plain of Commissioner Meeting.
Move to approve.
Through the motion and a second.
All those in favor, signify by saying aye.
Opposed, hearing none, Minister from July 1st, 2026 meeting have been approved.
Moving on to our public hearings, we're going to go ahead and move forward on this item,
which is variants number 26001, conditional involvement permit number 26001, and precise plan
of design number 26001.
Jason, go ahead.
A good evening commissioners, this projects are only a project for this evening.
It is a quick, quick car wash proposed in the north east corner area, a baseline road
and Riverside Avenue.
It's a variants 26-001, CDP, or a conditional development permit number 26-001.
Precise plan to design number 26-001 and environmental assessment review 26-001.
So the applicant request is to approve variance number 26-001 to allow the front
property line set back to be reduced from 50 feet to 5.75 feet to approve conditional
development permit number 26-001 for the development use of a car wash, to approve precise
plan of design number 26-001 for construction of a car wash, to find the project is exempt
from California Environmental Quality Act under environmental assessment review number 26-001.
Project location, the north side of East Baseline Road, approximately 250 feet east of North
Riverside Avenue.
It is where the current vacant bank of America building is now, and that will be demolished.
It is a commercial shopping center C-Dash A-1 A-Zone.
It is in the North Rialto Center, which includes the state of brothers,
a good will store, harbour freight, and to other drive-thru's, Walgreens, and TAMsburgers.
The site will be approximately 0.99 acres with 3593 square foot building area.
So include a pay station, which is quite quite for first two is a QB building, where the employees can
direct with customers. There are overhead canopies, 18 vacuum stalls, one for ADA, and three
employee parking stalls. One of those will be ADA. It includes drive through lanes,
a trash enclosure, landscaping, and that 5.75 foot set back from north, or excuse me, from
that it should be, it should say East Baseline Road.
The primary building, it's this is the main drive
through car wash tunnel, an electrical room,
an equipment room, an employee restroom,
and an employee lounge.
These are the elevations.
That main tunnel building is approximately 22,
little more than 20 feet wide,
little more than 103 feet long
and 29 feet high at a size point.
The articulation and finishes include plaster finish, stone veneer, it is an earth-thone
colors with cornice roof line and varying roof heights.
These are elevations of the paint station canopy, the vacuum canopy, and the QB station.
It would be
about 27% landscape coverage, there you can see landscaping along the north east and south edges of the exterior perimeter and there's also landscaping inside around the vacuum station areas.
It's operations.
We open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Monday through Friday it will employ approximately 15 people with two or three working each shift.
The quick-wack members, they pay a monthly fee, but employees can collect payments from non-members as a washer cart.
Each vehicle is washed with approximately 22 gallons of fresh water and 50 gallons of recycled water.
The recycled water is filtered, and I know Smosis system.
Quick-wack uses biodegradable liquid soap products during the wash process.
no chemicals gasoline, diesel or other petroleum products will be sold, and the vacuums in the
interior of their self-service.
The variance request. The variance is requested to reduce the minimum
building setback required along baseline road from 50 feet, which is the required to 5.75 feet.
The existing bank building that's on the project site, it's set back is currently three feet.
From the ultimate right away, the proposed car wash building will be set back in additional two feet further than the existing bank building.
So that set back will actually increase each development on the four corners at the intersection of baseline and reverse side.
We're granted variances to encroach within that 50 foot set back.
The most recent one was in July 2013 when Tocco's gavel on was allowed a 5 foot set back.
Script compliance with the 50 foot set back would impact the existing parking lot and traffic circulation within the North Rialto Shopping Center.
This would require major modifications to the centers lay out to accommodate any development.
The variants will also maintain consistency with the existing developments in the surrounding area and preserve the integrity and layout of the existing center.
are men in the Hoh Van Nesien transportation consulting conducted a traffic impact study.
It was to assess the potential impacts on nearby streets and intersections.
The project will generate approximately 348 daily vehicle trips.
33 trips will be in the AM peak hour and 36 trips will be in the peak AM peak hour.
The nearby intersections in roadway will continue to operate at their current level of service.
The parking analysis, based on the score of footage of the QB building, it would require one parking space.
However, quick-quack will be fighting three parking spaces, one of which is ADA.
This
project meets the exemption requirements of sequence section 15303 for a new construction or conversion of small structures.
Class 3 allows for the exemption of a project consisting of the construction of commercial structures, not exceeding 10,000 square feet and floor area.
In summary, the project's consistent with the General Plan, the Commercial Shopping Center Zone,
and Realtome Municipal Code Chapter 1861 for Design Guidelines,
the project's consistent with commercial uses and developments in the surrounding area.
It has catacorically exempt person went to sequence section 15303.
We have prepared a notice of exemption to submit to the county.
Public hearing notices were mailed, was posted, and published in the San Bernardino's
son newspaper.
He recommended that planning commission adopt exhibit H, exhibit I, and exhibit J,
thereby approving variance number 26-001, conditional development permit number 26-001 and
site's plan, a design number 26-001 based upon the findings and subject to the conditions
they're in. Also recommended to find the project is exempt from the California Environmental
Quality Act pursuant to section 15303 new construction or conversion of small structures
with the environmental assessment review number 26-001-001-001 and that concludes that part of the presentation.
Do you have any questions?
Thank you, sir.
Commission, have any questions for staff or the applicants here too?
Yes.
I'd like to ask any questions specifically before we open the public hearing.
For the applicant or the staff member, please.
Let me have the applicant come up and I'll just go a couple of questions, just because we have to ask us some questions.
I can't wait to get away with not saying nothing.
So first, this will be the formation, this will be it unaware.
This is the fourth quick quack in reality.
And there knows if there's any more in the hopper right now, I have no idea.
What criteria do you guys use to spot these things in relationship to your existing quick quacks or other
self-serve car washes, which there's a lot of here too.
What we're looking for is traffic, right? I mean, everyone of cars on it, and so what drives
it is that as we are reviewing corridors, we're looking at where people are coming and where
people are going on it, and because our model is a membership base formula, we know that
we build more it begins to relieve pressure at existing car wash our quickwats and what we find
it happening is that someone a one location may not be convenient on the way to work or
way from work and so we build these in strategic locations. At some point we feel that we control
the market and then our customers are satisfied with going anywhere.
Well, it's a good location. I don't know any of the car washers on baseline, so I mean, that does make it, that makes, that's a good one. So yeah, the second thing is the one thing, this is just a comment on a question, I appreciate a quick whack when they open.
They usually seek out some type of nonprofit or some type of thing to do when it opens to do that first day of fundraiser to be able to get money to that nonprofit and in that area to be able to do that.
And that's, I know people when you open up in San Bernardino, or in Fontaine, they do the same thing.
So I really appreciate that that you before you even open, you're giving back to the community already.
So we want to thank you for that when you do that.
That's an excitement time for us.
We're able to be with the community and pick a community charity that is near and dear to their hearts.
Got it.
Any other questions for either patient or for the applicant?
Why is it taken so long to open the one on foot?
A lot of complications that we have in building it.
Typically we're at about 240 days to build a car wash.
But from the time we identify a site and go through the permitting side of the entitlement side of it and to the...
We're trying to cut it down. It's growing paints for us, but we're building a lot of these right now, and we're trying to do it as quickly as we can.
Okay, any of your questions first, you know, staff, I have a couple of questions. Go ahead.
Last time, I was into the impression of, I forgot which one it was, but I had to
recuse myself because I looked too close in you and I spoke and you're like just to be safe.
Let's recuse and I wasn't into the impression if something was going to be close again
of proximity to my home, because we let me know
however this location is literally across the street
from the same location that I had to recuse myself from.
Should I recuse myself to be on the safe side?
I was not told, hey, you're too close to this proximity.
If it's the same summer time, this is as I
would pregnant and do it to yourself, do it to yourself.
OK.
So we'll recuse yourself at this time.
And then we'll real join us after we're done
with the public hearing if that's OK.
after the question is there.
It's a determination.
We've got it.
Thank you so much.
Anything else?
Go ahead, Terry.
I have.
I have two questions.
But I'm not sure.
Because this is a complicated between the various and the actual development,
the process of planning.
So if my current, whoever would tell them my questions are out,
she'll be waiting to later, then I'll be glad to formulate them.
So my first question is states in here that you use the loss-moses program or process for cleaning the water, my correct?
Is that a reverse loss-moses?
Yes.
And when you do that, how often is the water and that some actually exchange goes down the waste for new waters?
But in or is it a process of you keep cleaning it until you don't need to deliver any water into the waste system?
We have three holding tanks, 1,500 gallons, that are filtering the water, the sediment on the water,
as it trickles down to it, and it's the last tank that we're using that's been cleaned through this process
that through our osmosis system. Any water that we don't consume is naturally going to be recycled,
it recirculated through the sewer system,
but we've taken basically 4500 gallons of water
that we filtered through this, our sediment tanks.
And what percentage goes into the wastewater system?
Just ballpark if you can.
How much?
Like a percentage or how many gallons?
Well, give me a percentage.
You have 4500 gallons.
I would bet that you're 50%, I mean, I don't know that calculation on it, but if I'm
using 75 gallons of water, 25 fresh, and 75, I mean, 50 gallons of my recycled water on it,
I'm going to have that 25 gallons of water that is naturally going to go back to the system,
And if I'm going to have 30, 300 cars or 400 cars that beat that math formula, okay, and then
a few of us are our whole system where this practice, the solid set of our sedimentary and they go to the bottom of my course.
Yes, yes, okay.
And then we filter every second out, when the last tank exchanges and the water goes down into the sewer system, does it go from the bottom of the top?
Good, have to be from the top.
Go from the top.
Yeah, so at some point you need to clean this out of that last time.
Yeah, eventually, but it's not going to be at the same rate as our first state.
Okay, good.
All right, that's good.
Any other questions for the applicant or staff for the public hearing?
If not, thank you.
This is the time of the place for the public hearing for these particular item.
Is anyone requested to speak on this item before us tonight?
No, sir.
Okay, very good.
Commission.
What's your pleasure?
It's a pleasure.
There's a motion in second to close the public hearing.
All those in favor signify by saying aye.
Okay.
We'll be on.
What's your pleasure?
Move to adopt.
Exhibit.
Aye.
Exhibit.
zero one and precise plan of design, number 26, zero, zero, zero, one, based upon the findings
of subjects of the condition there, and to find a project is exempt from California Environmental
Quality Act Reservant Dissected, 15303, Nuke Instructor, and Conversion of Small Structures,
Environmental Essence Review, number 26, zero, zero, zero, one.
Second, to the motion, give a motion in a second.
The clerk if you could do a roll call for us, please, on the sign of.
Commissioner Avalos B. Alowos, refused herself.
Commissioner Schneider.
Vice Chair, would you give us chair or story?
Commissioner Estender.
Aye.
Commissioner Thompson.
Okay.
Motion carries.
Congratulations. Thank you so much. Looking forward to it.
Okay. If we can get Commissioner, come on back in.
Okay. So, will we not, we don't have any action items that are listed in our agenda.
So, if we can have comments from our community development director.
Thank you, Chair. I'm coming up on August 19th. It would be our second meeting of the month.
but we do not have any items scheduled.
However, we do have items for September 2nd,
so we will have the first meeting in September.
Yep, first meeting is so 92, you'll have a meeting,
but at 19, we will cancel that meeting.
Okay, okay, Daniel, anything for the group?
Okay, that concludes my comment.
Thank you.
Plan you to your comments, any comments, folks?
Yes, I'm going to be for it.
The process that we before here,
did sometimes get involved in questions
or at least in our minds, or in my mind,
a little bit involved with response to
how those questions you're addressed and answered.
And I had a question concern.
We've got in chemicals that are used
in the automated college process.
And that chemical is hydrofluoric answer.
And I brought that to Representative and Planning,
and I want to compliment the staff over there,
right not only bringing it and looking at it
and listening to what my concerns were,
but to addressing it with other public safety agencies.
And that included not only research in the office,
but actually field work.
And I think that's how the system really validates itself.
I have a deep concern about the use of hydrofluoric acid.
It's a killer. There's no question about it.
And at one time it may have been prevalent in touchless car wash systems.
However, I think that the car wash industry itself, the automated car wash industry,
has seemed the liability and the concerns that the public has in our mental concerns with
using the exact type of product, and not only how to forecast it, but its derivatives also.
And that predicated my question to the applicant here regarding the removal of solids.
Now, that being said, call washes, save water, environmentally, they're a benefit to all of us in our community.
A much more beneficial than us.
You see the whole system working the dirt off and letting it at the street.
At the same time, like in the industry, we have to not only regulate it, but we have to take a look at what it's doing, and it's impacted upon the community.
So I think in this, in this instance, again, I want to congratulate and thank staff for their health and bringing that forward.
It is of a deep concern to all of us.
And at the same time, the cooperation they receive from the applicant and from our allied agencies inside the city and county.
Just to give you anybody once you hear it, the National Institute of Health,
And the United States Environmental Protection Agency
are worth you very extensively to ban that product
from public use.
And I'd very much like to see our city fall in kind
and enact some sort of ordinance or expand an ordinance.
You can't buy marijuana in reality.
But right now, somebody can use this product
and it's your evidence.
So that being said, I'm very much
I appreciate what's been done, but I think there's one more step that can be taken for that.
And I hope that we do take that step.
That's about it.
And welcome to Rialto and Oscars.
Very good.
Thank you, sir.
Any other comments or questions from the commission?
If not, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.
So moved.
So moved?
Second.
Very good.
All right.
Meaning is adjourned. Thank you so much.