ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
MINUTES
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Call to Order/Roll Call 1:11 PM
EDC MEMBER PRESENT
Mayor Deborah Robertson
Mayor Pro Tem Ed Scott
CITY/AGENCY STAFF PRESENT:
Arron Brown, Acting City Manager
Robert Messinger, Deputy City Attorney
Tanya Williams, Assistant to the CM
Kathy Brann, Economic Development Manager
Paul Gonzales, Community Development Manager
Alberto Paiva, Engineering Services Director
Daniel Casey, Senior Planner
Siri Champion, Senior Planner
Dionne Harris, Senior Planner
Janet Daisley, Admin. Assistant
Angela Perry, Mayor/City Manager’s Executive Assistant
Additional Attendees:
John Peukert, Resident
John Dorado, Consultant
Subsequent Need Items: MPT/Mayor voted to add presentation s - LAN WAN Enterprises and EES
Public Comments – None
Review/Approval of Minutes
1. Minutes from the November 9, 2022 – Accepted for the Record
PRESENTATIONS
- LAN WAN – (invited by the Mayor – Arron gave a disclaimer to vendor) Presented by Rami Dababneh, Executive Vice President – IT Services
Committee Comments/Questions/Recommendations
Mayor – talked about we need to provide better service to our residents. She would like Arron to look at putting out an RFP.
CM Scott – asked staff to look at next steps.
Mayor – wants a Census map, Arron will get that.
EES Consulting – (invited by CM Scott – Arron gave a disclaimer to vendor) Presented by Howard Choy, Executive Consultant – Community Choice Energy
Committee Comments/Questions/Recommendations
CM Scott – Do cities still have to opportunity to go this route.
CM Scott – asked about what parts of the city’s work and part doesn’t.
Mayor – asked about cities that are 100,000 – 150,000 in population – Howard said Pomona
CM Scott – asked city that’s interested in rene wable, can they join a CCA that isn’t renewable.
CM Scott – said we need to dust off what we had and revisit. Edison is just going to get more expensive.
Mayor – we haven’t been able to quantify what we’ve saved.
2. EDC-23-075 Rialto Olive Grove, LLC – Multi-Family Development Presented by Daniel Casey and the representative from Olive Grove
Committee Comments/Questions/Recommendations
CM Scott – asked if it’s going to be apartments. They said sure yet – early stages. He told them they should have community meetings first.
Staff will hold a community meeting including Lennar and the current El Rancho Verde residents. Once they get to the point of application, they will narrow it down.
CM Scott – said it will be what the community wants. Mayor agreed.
3. EDC-22-978 Willow and Jackson Proposal
Presented by Kathy/Jerrod Smith
Committee Comments/Questions/Recommendations
Mayor – asked about the funding and why we’ve been sitting on it so long. Kathy gave update on why it hadn’t been spent.
Mayor – wants to know what the foundation will be bring to the table.
CM Scott asked if the City will own the loan, they will own the loan the ent ire time – they couldn’t sell it.
Developer – With the funds they would be building the first 4 units and with the other then they would be building the rest. City would retain the ownership of the other lot.
Mayor – asked for a list of all the bidders for foundation.
Kathy will send over the Performa via email to subcommittee.
4. EDC-23-049 Guilherme ‘William’ Nascimento – Proposed 141,668 square foot Self-Storage 3-Story Facility and a Specific Plan Amendment to change the Specific Plan’s current zoning of Commercial-Mixed Use (C-MU) to Commercial-Pedestrian (C-P).
Presented by William Nascimento, Principal – LCG, Kevin Canning, Consulting
Committee Comments/Questions/Recommendations
CM Scott and the Mayor are concerned about the storage f acilities renting out to homeless and how are they going to keep the homeless out.
Mayor – concerned that the building can be as high as a two-story home – worried about the visual elevation.
CM Scott – asked how high the zone wall is. Developer said the wall is 5 feet and building is 34 feet. Why only a 5-foot wall – Dionne said we normally require 6 foot wall.
Mayor – has some concern with the projects. She’s concerned with what the benefits are to the community. Subcommittee recommends doing a Community Meeting.
6. EDC-23-089 General Plan Update and Community Engagement
Presented by Siri began the presentation Asha Bleier, Senior Project Manager & Henry Eckold, Planning & Urban Design - Dudek
Committee Comments/Questions/Recommendations
Last updated 2010.
Consultant said this is a focus general plan update, not doing the comprehensive general plan update yet.
Land use, safety elements, mobility elements and environmental justice elements and Siri said circulation elements to include the truck routes.
Mayor – asked what elements we are leaving out. Consultant said there are many more in response to
Subcommittee discussed forming a Community Advisory Committee CM Scott – said we need to find a better way of engaging the community.
Subcommittee wants them to reach out to outside groups.
Siri will get a timeline.
___________________________________________________________________ Staff presenting from this point. – Mayor said in the future consultants’ presentations should come first on the agenda.
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5. EDC -23-088 Foothill Central Specific Plan and Regional Early Action Planning
2.0 Grant Update
Presented by Siri/Paul
Committee Comments/Questions/Recommendations
Mayor and CM Scott are providing information on areas they are concerned about. Tatoo shops, thrift stores, second had shop with separation (i.e., 500 ft distance).
CM Scott – How do you develop the downtown, w here you don’t get certain types of business. Paul said distance and specifics.
Mayor – this is an opportunity to work with other groups to look at a potential of brining a satellite facility in our downtown area. She said the piece that’s missing is the double tracking.
Subcommittee is open.
7. EDC-23-100 Discussion on proposed warehouse on Valley Boulevard generally located between Riverside Avenue and South Lilac Avenue.
Presented by Paul
Committee Comments/Questions/Recommendations
Subcommittee was OK with the old FedEx building because it was an existing warehouse.
CMT Scott – we are opposed to the other one on SE corner of Willow and Valley, because that is zoned retail, industrial and freeway.
CMT Scott – said we have approved enough on valley.
Mayor – concerned about moratorium on trucks in that area, were it affects valley.
CMT Scott – Leave it as freeway/commercial.
8. EDC -23-112 San Bernardino County 5 -Year Economic Development Strategy Project Identification.
Committee Comments/Questions/Recommendations
Set up a standalone meeting with Subcommittee.
REPORTS/DISCUSSION ITEMS
2. Partner Agency Funding Opportunities – Bring Back
3. Update on State Lobbyist and Advocacy Efforts – Bring Back
UPCOMING MEETINGS/OTHER DISCUSSION ITEMS
March 8, 2023
Adjournment
Meeting adjourned at 5:45 p.m.