CITY OF MERCED
Site Plan Review Committee
MINUTES
Planning Conference Room
(via Teleconference)
January 6, 2022
Chairperson MCBRIDE called the meeting to order at 1:33 p.m.
1. ROLL CALL
Committee Members Present: Chief Building Official Frazier, City Engineer Beltran, Director of Development Services
McBride
Committee Members Absent: None
Staff Present: Planning Manager Espinosa , Senior Planner Nelson, Associate Planner/Recording Secretary
Mendoza-Gonzalez, and Fire Chief Parker
2. MINUTES
M/S FRAZIER/BELTRAN, and carri ed by unanimous voice vote, to approve the Minutes of November 18, 2021, as submitted.
3. COMMUNICATIONS
None.
4. ITEMS
4.1 Site Plan Application #487, submitted by UP Holdings, LLC on behalf of Stan Short Trust, property owner. This request allows the construction of a 66 -unit apartment complex with 65 permanent supportive housing units and 1 manager’s unit at 3015 Park Avenue, within Planned Development (P -D) #4 with a General Plan designation of High-Medium Density (HMD) Residential.
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Senior Planner NELSON reviewed the application. Refer to Draft Site Plan Resolution #487 for further information.
Site Plan Review Committee Minutes
January 6, 2022
Colby THOMASON, representing the Swiss Colony Apartments to the north of the project site stated that they have shared access with the project site through the alley at the north end of the project site.
He requested that the development work with him and the owner of the Swiss Colony apartments to provide a security gate that would serve both apartment complexes.
City Engineer BELTRAN stated that he was concerned that the 22 - foot-wide drive aisle on the west side of the project site would not provide sufficient access for the Fire Department. Senior Pla ner NELSON explained that the architect has been working with Casey Wilson of the Fire Department and that the width was acceptable.
Fire Chief PARKER confirmed they were aware.
M/S FRAZIER-BELTRAN, and carried by the following vote, to approve Site Pla n Application #48 7, subject to the Findings and thirty-five (35) Conditions set forth in Draft Resolution #487:
AYES: Committee Members Frazier, Beltran, and Chairperson McBride
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
4.2 Site Plan Application #486, submitted by I & G Petroleum, Inc., property owner. This request allows the construction of a 10,000- square-foot commercial building pad with 3 tenant suites (Yosemite Plaza) on a 1.146 -acre vacant parcel located at 1295 Yosemite Avenue, within a zoning classification of Planned Development (P- D) #46 with a General Plan designation of Neighborhood
Commercial (CN).
Associate Planner MENDOZA -GONZALEZ reviewed the
application. Refer to Draft Site Plan Resolution #486 for further information.
The applicant and his design team were in attendance and made themselves available for questions from the Committee.
M/S BELTRAN - FRAZIER, and carried by the following vote, to approve Site Plan Application #48, subject to the Findings and thirty- nine (39 ) Conditions set forth in Draft Resolution #48 6, with the removal of Condition #40:
(Note: Strikethrough deleted language, underline added language.)