CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA PACKET 8-11-26

Page 8 of 9 CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) CEQA does not apply to projects that the City intends to reject or disapprove. (CEQA Guidelines Section 15270.) Should the City Council wish to approve the project, staff would evaluate it for CEQA compliance and return to the City Council at a future public hearing for formal consideration and action. SUMMARY/CONCLUSION The project plans are incomplete and inconsistent with numerous policies, standards and guidelines of the General Plan, DSP, Downtown Design Guidelines, applicable ODS, and PMC regulations. The PUD District is intended to promote well-planned projects that achieve high-quality design, superior site planning, and compatibility with surrounding uses while advancing adopted General Plan and specific plan goals. Significant efforts were made throughout the process to work with the applicant and develop a project scope and design that could be supported by staff. Several iterations of the project were presented, including versions with and without a commercial component, in various configurations, and with staff generally encouraging the applicant to come as close as possible to meeting key standards for frontage design, dimensions, and functionality of the commercial space. While the PUD process allows for deviations or flexibility in considering strict adherence to established standards, the applicant ultimately requested that the version of the project under consideration by the City Council be brought forward for review. Despite efforts to work constructively with the applicant to make changes to the project to better align it with key policies and standards, the proposed project continues to fall short in multiple areas of policy conformance. Staff finds that the proposed project does not satisfy the objectives of the PUD District, and given the number and extent of the requested deviations from applicable standards and regulations, the required findings for approval cannot be made. Accordingly, staff recommends that the City Council adopt the attached resolution (Attachment 1) to deny the applications for Rezoning, a Certificate of Appropriateness, and a PUD Development Plan for Case Nos. P26- 0360 and PUD-152. EQUITY AND SUSTAINABILITY Not applicable to this project, since this is a routine item of City business. OUTREACH Notice of this application was sent to property owners and tenants/occupants within a 1,000- foot radius of the subject site (Attachment 2, Exhibit F), and the applicant has posted project identification signage on-site. At the time this report was published, no public comments had been received. Public comments received after publication will be forwarded to the City Council. STRATEGIC PLAN ALIGNMENT Not applicable to this project, since this is a routine item of City business. FISCAL IMPACT Not applicable to this project, since this is a routine item of City business. Page 244 of 373