Good evening and welcome to Tuesday, July 28, 2026, regular meeting of the city of
Southam-Honey Planning Commissions, the meeting will now come to order at 6.04.
Item 1, can I get a roll call?
Commissioner Ratamosa? Present. Commissioner Ortiz? Here.
Commissioner Barrera.
President.
Vice-Chair Ting.
Here.
And Chair Rubio is absent.
Thank you.
Item number two, Pledge of Allegiance.
Please rise and follow Commissioner Barrera in Pledge of Allegiance.
Raise your hand over your heart.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for which it stands, one nation under God
and indivisible for the community and justice for all.
Thank you.
Item number three, presentation is none.
Item number four, approval of agenda.
By the motion of Planning Commission,
this is the time to notify the public
of any change to the agenda,
remove item from the consent calendar
for individual consideration
or rearrange the order of the agenda.
I'll make a motion to approve.
Second.
We have a vote.
Commissioner Barrera.
Yes.
Commissioner Teese.
Yes.
Commissioner Tamosa.
Yes.
Vice-Chair Ting.
Yes.
The vote passes.
Item five, public comment.
Speaker may provide public comment on any matter within the subject matter jurisdiction of the planning commissions,
including item on the agenda. Each speaker will be limited to five minute
unless the majority of the commission object the chair may provide the
speaker more or less time to speak. All the comment or queries shall be
addressed to the commission as a body and not to any specific member to
of. Pursuant to the Government Code, Section 54954.282, the Ralph Brown Act, no action
or discussion by the Planning Commission shall be undertaken on any item not appears hearing
on the posted agenda.
Accept to briefly provide information, ask for clarification, provide direction to
staff or schedule a matter for future meeting.
The public comment is now open.
Anyone wish to speak please come to the podium and state your name.
Anybody online?
Yes we do. For those calling on a phone press star 9 to use the raise your
hand feature.
If there's no one, the public comment is now closed.
Item
Item on the consent calendar are considered to be routine
and customary and are in act by a single motion
with the exception of the item previously pulled
by the member of the planning commission
during the approval of the agenda.
For individual consideration,
any item pulled shall be individually considered
immediately after taking action on the consent calendar.
Does any member wish to pull any item for discussions?
I see none.
I will now call a motion to approve the item 6A.
Consideration and approval
of the regular planning commission meeting minute
for June 23rd, 2026.
Staff recommend requesting approval of the minute
of June 23rd, 2026.
regular planning commission meeting. Can I get a motion? So moved.
Second. Can I get a?
Commissioner Barrera. Aye.
Commissioner Ortiz. Yes.
Commissioner Retamosa. Yes. Vice-Chair Tang. Yes. The vote passes.
All right. Item number seven, public hearing. At this time, I will open the public hearing
for each on the item 7A at 6.09,
7A, the adaptation of the resolution number 26-10,
approving conditional use permit number CUP 26-05, a request to establish and operate
a automotive repair facility within the existing 3,858 square feet building at
1848 Taylor Avenue South of California. Thank you chair. The item before you
tonight will be presented by assistant planner Charlize Hernandez.
Good
evening commissioners chair and members of the audience. The first item on
the agenda is for conditional use permit number 26-05 to review a request to establish
and operate an automotive repair facility within an existing building at 1848 Tyler Avenue.
So the site has a general plan designation of ingestual and is currently zoned as manufacturing.
The site is approximately 50,530 square feet with the existing tenant space like warehouse
as being approximately 3,886 square feet.
The site is currently developed
with six individual warehouses
with most of the units being occupied
by automotive repair and tire shops.
For the project, the applicant is requesting
to establish and operate an automotive repair facility
within an existing building.
Typically auto repair uses under the M zone is permitted,
but if a site zoned M is located within 300 feet
of a residential zone then a CUP is required. No spray boost is proposed in conjunction with
the project. The applicant is proposing accessibility improvements to one restroom
and is adding an interior fire rated wall to separate the workstation and indoor parking area.
So the workstation floor area is proposed to be reduced from 3886 square feet to 2186 square
fee in order for the applicant to meet the city parking requirements for auto repair uses.
The applicant has provided eight spaces in total. No calls related to objections to the use have been
made by code enforcement and the LA County Sheriff's Department or LA CSD for short.
Conditions of approval have been added to ensure the use would not be detrimental to public
health, safety, and welfare.
As you can see this image displays the existing floor and site
plan of the project site. The project site again consists of a 3886 square foot building with an
adjacent 4,767 square foot of outdoor parking area. The remaining 500 square feet of floor
area is occupied by offices, restrooms, and a customer lobby area.
So we'll move on to the
next image, which displays the proposed site and floor plan. As mentioned
previously, the applicant is proposing to reduce the workspace floor area to
around 2,180.
6 square feet, and an interior wall will be added to separate the workspace and parking area. The indoor area has 4 parking spaces, as you can see, and the outdoor area has 4 parking spaces.
The applicant has provided 250 square feet of landscaping in the outdoor area as well.
So
notices for the public hearing was posted and mailed to all property owners
within 300 feet of the vicinity on July 16th and the newspaper notice was
posted on July 17th. Staff hasn't received any comments or concerns from the
public. An LA County Sheriff's Department provided comments for the
project, namely with parking and landscaping. As a result the applicant
did revise the project to include one additional parking space for a total
of the eight and provide 250 square feet of landscaping in the outdoor parking
area which you saw from the previous slide.
So staff determined that the use
is exempt from environmental review pursuant to section 15301. Staff has
determined that the project complies with all development standards noted in
the South El Monte Municipal Code chapters 17.03 and 17.09. Approval of
the CUP as determined will not be detrimental to persons or properties in the immediate vicinity
nor the city in general.
In conclusion staff recommends that the planning commission adopt
resolution number 2610 approving CUP number 26-05 to establish and operate an automotive
repair facility at 1848 Tyler Avenue. That concludes the presentation and please let me
know if you have any questions. Thank you. Thank you. That's the planning
commission. How many questions for staff? I do. Commissioner. We're just for
clarification because maybe I'm wrong but if you could put it to the first slide
please.
That one of the map. This one. So it says 1838 correct? So the main
address site for all the those warehouses is 1838. Okay. I just want to make
sure because the address is 1848. Yeah the tenant space is 1848 so each warehouse
has its own number. I just wanted to clarify that. Thank you. Mr. Chair I have a question
for staff. The 300 feet buffer, does that include any residential customers or is that
just everything that's on Tyler right there? So as you can see from the map the closest
residential zones are those on
Florida Avenue. And that's when
the C.P. kicked in because it
was within 300 feet measuring
from property lines. There are
a couple of residential uses
adjacent to the site, but
they're not conforming, which
we don't consider as part of
the C.P. And no one called
their question. Thank you.
So that's a, there's multi businesses in that little complex, correct? So I know in the staff report, the sheriff's report, is that specific to that location or is it specific to like the whole, all the units at the same time?
It's specific to the location. So we provided the tenant space and the plans for that project
and they reviewed them and had their comments only for that tenant space.
Is there any knowledge of maybe any other possible problems that anybody's encountered
with the other tenants that could be an issue as well that would come up?
We tried to cover as many of our bases in the conditions of approval. So that includes
you know, no parking other than the designated parking areas that they have, noise regulations,
and they don't have a spray booth so we didn't have regulations for those either. So we try
to cover our bases.
Just to add on top of that, as part of the package that does get sent over to Sheriff's
Department, it does include the site plan. So our hope is that they do take a holistic
approach and review the whole entire site and then with regards to any calls for
service, I do believe in the presentation it was stated that we did not find any
calls for service for this site. That's what I was looking for. Okay. Thank you.
Any other questions?
I do have a quick general question. I'm always curious. When
we send these notifications, when you mentioned property owner, is there a
separation between property owner or renter at that location. What if the
property owner is different? Sarah, do we just notify just to that address at
nearby even though a renter or not the property owner himself? So with the
mailing labels that the applicant sent there the properties included all of
those six warehouses and included their personal addresses as well the
property owners and the renter mm-hmm so whoever is occupying that on space at the
moment thank you
we were now open for public hearing for this item is anyone
wishing to speak anyone
online for
those calling in on a phone press star 9 if
there's no objection by the planning commission I will close public comment
and participate, public participation.
Is there any additional question?
Is the applicant present?
Yes, they're here in the audience right now.
Can we maybe hear from the applicant
and describing his project
and to what scope they're going to be doing repair?
Sure.
Can we have you come up, please state your name.
Hello, hi, okay.
Greetings, all commissioners.
So my name is Lee Wichun
and I will be the representative to the owner
to replant this project.
So for this project, the business name is HK Auto Care.
So it is an automobile body repair facility.
And the business specialized in automotive body repair and the metal work only and does
not perform any painting or coating or refishing services.
Any other questions?
So there's no environmental waste or anything that you have to recycle or anything like? Yes, correct. So there's no any other materials or air commissions to the to the environment. Thank you.
I have a couple questions. Have you operated a facility like this elsewhere in other cities? I believe the the owner has some other.
automotive business in different cities.
So this is the, I believe this is the first one
in South Zealomonte.
South Zealomonte, yeah.
Okay.
Is the facility, is it gonna,
does it comply with South Coast AQMD air quality?
Yes.
And you said that there are gonna be no,
no spray booth there, right?
No spray booth.
You said that you were gonna modify one of the rooms
with a fire resistant wall or something.
But yes, so the current workstation is a little bit too large based on the building code. We need to provide like 17 parking store to the to that space, which is not feasible for for the existing site.
So that's why we reduce the workstation to about 2000 square feet. So by the code, we only need to provide seven parking store, but we provide an additional one based on the share of comments.
one last question. Is that building, is it fire sprinkler? The current building
don't have the fire. I don't think they have the fire sprinkler right now. Is that a
requirement? Do we know?
So when this project gets submitted for plan check
it'll be provided to trans tech who will plan check this this project and
then they'll make sure that it's up to the latest building code standards.
So we would anticipate that, you know, those modifications be required case by case basis.
So there might be some exemption.
It's up to the plan checker at the time.
I will also add that when the applicant applies for their business license, which they're
required to do. They do have to go through LA County Fire and AQMD review regardless,
so that would be covered in that.
I just have one last question.
Sure.
Have you or your client, have they read the conditions of approval?
Yes, they do.
And they understand them what is required.
Thank you.
I have a quick question.
Sure.
What's the timeline for your improvement?
So, based on the city permitting progress, once we got the CUP approved, I believe there's,
once we go through the building permits and all the progress we need to do, and the construction
probably going to be only limited in two months, because the only construction we need to
is enlarge the restroom and add a fire rated wall.
I believe we can finish everything
within this year, 2026.
Thank you.
Any other questions?
Do I have a motion to adopt a resolution number 26-10
approving the conditional use permit number CUP 26-05?
I'll make a motion to approve.
You get a second
So moved
Can you get a vote?
Commissioner Barra, aye
Commissioner Ortiz. Yes, Commissioner Tamosa. Yes
Vice-Chair Tang. Yes, the vote passes
Thank you so much. Thank you, sir. I will close the public comment for the agenda item number seven eight at
624.
Item number 8, general business and there's a number 9, commissioner report.
AB 1234, section 5532.3d, require a member of a legislative body to provide brief report on
meeting attended at the expense of the local agency. I conference seminar,
training, etc. at the next regular meeting of the legislative body. Does
any planning commission have anything to report?
Item number 10,
correspondent and there's none. Item number 11, commissioner agenda, there's
none. I don't know 12 staff member common.
So thank you for that. We wanted to follow up on
your last meeting's inquiry with regards to the Santa Anita project. I'm going to have Tiffany
Ho ahead and provide an update for us tonight. Thank you, Director Marquez. Good evening,
commissioners. I'm providing it up to, my name is Tiffany Ho. I am the Community
Development Manager and I am providing an update to the request for the sanity
improvement like exhibits and a project that was brought up at the regular
planning commission meeting on June 23rd, 2026. I wanted to say that there are
no final approved plans for that project debt. It's still going through
scoping. So when that project is available, when they're approved
plans. We will be happy to bring that back to the Planning Commission for a presentation.
Yeah, thank you. And do we still have time to make recommendation based on the recent
development around Sanadita here?
So given that this project is grant funded and there are
certain timetables on specific grants for this project, we would have to take a look at what
those recommendations would be ultimately, it would have to involve City Council recommendations
as well. I know that the latest rounds of modifications were an initiative by City Council.
So that would be where we would have to ultimately get that determination from. But as I previously
mentioned any recommendation is welcome but we would have to consider timelines
and funding for the project. I understand. The reason why I brought this up is
that San Diego obviously changed the business that front that areas change
and if we design based on history in the past use of that location it may
not align with what we see the development now but we thank you if you
don't mind once you have a more comprehensive scope please bring it to
our body to walk us through what it would look like and we'll assess at the
time to see if there's something we wanted to recommend any change any
application moving forward. So noted.
Anything else?
If there's
Objection by the Planning Commission. I will now adjourn the Regular Planning Commission meeting at 6.28.
The next Regular Planning Commission meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026.
Thank you all.