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Home My WebLink About06/27/2017 PC MinutesMINUTES OF THE CITY OF DIAMOND BAR MEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION JUNE 27, 2017 CNe1IMCoP]:41:43 Chair/Wolfe called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. in the City Hall Windmill Room, 21810 Copley Drive, Diamond Bar, CA 91765. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Commissioner Mahlke led the Pledge of Allegiance. 1. ROLL CALL: Present: Commissioners Naila Barlas Frank Farago, Jennifer "Fred" Mahlke, Vice Chair Ken Mok, and Chair Raymond Wolfe Also present: Greg Gubman, Community Development Director; James Eggart, Assistant City Attorney; Grace Lee, Senior Planner; May Nakajima, Associate Planner; and Stella Marquez, Administrative Coordinator. 2. MATTERS FROM THE AUDIENCE/PUBLIC COMMENTS: None Offered 3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: As presented. 4. CONSENT CALENDAR: 4.1 Minutes of the Regular Meeting of May 23, 2017: C/Mahlke moved, C/Farago seconded, to approve the Minutes of the Regular Meeting of May 23, 2017, as presented. Motion carried by the following Roll Call vote: AYES: NOES: ABSTAIN ABSENT: COMMISSIONERS COMMISSIONERS COMMISSIONERS COMMISSIONERS 5. OLD BUSINESS: None 6. NEW BUSINESS: None 7. PUBLIC HEARING(S): Farago, Mahlke, VC/Mok, Chair/Wolfe None Barlas None 7.1 Development Review No. PL2016-216 — Under the authority of Diamond Bar Municipal Code Section 22.48, the applicant and property owner requested Development Review approval to demolish an existing single family residence and construct a 10,704 square foot single family residence with 1054 square feet of garage area and 2,608 square feet of patio/balcony area on a 0.65 gross acre JUNE 27, 2017 PAGE 2 PLANNING COMMISSION (28,465 gross square foot) lot. The subject property is zoned Rural Residential (RR) with an underlying General Plan land use designation of Rural Residential. PROJECT ADDRESS: • ' ""wWRO T"T 01111 22242 Steeplechase Lane Diamond Bar, CA 91765 Huo You Liang 14328 Lomita Avenue City of Industry, CA 91745 APPLICANT: Jeffrey Sun 15328 Lomita Avenue City of Industry, CA 91745 AP/Nakajima presented staff's report and recommended Planning Commission approval of Development Review No. PL2016-216 as recommended by staff, Findings of Fact, and subject to the conditions of approval as listed in the Resolution. Chair/Wolfe commented that Sheet T-2.01 actually shows the first floor and not the second floor. T-2.02 shows the second floor. Jeffrey Sun, applicant, confirmed that Chair/Wolfe was correct. He explained that this home is very large and the design is custom. Four to six family members will occupy this home when completed and said he believed it was a beautiful design. Chair/Wolfe agreed that it was a beautiful design. Chair/Wolfe opened the public hearing. With no one present who wished to speak on this item, Chair/Wolfe closed the public hearing. VC/Mok moved, C/Mahlke seconded to approve Development Review No. PL2016-216, with the Findings of Fact, and subject to the conditions of approval as listed within the Resolution. Motion carried by the following Roll Call vote: AYES: COMMISSIONERS NOES: COMMISSIONERS: ABSENT: COMMISSIONERS: Barlas, Farago, Mahlke, VC/Mok Chair//Wolfe None None 7.2 Developmnt Review No. PL2017-14 — Under the authority of Diamond Bar Municipal Code Section 22.48, the applicant and property owner requested Development Review approval to construct a 5,203 square foot single family residence with 916 square feet of garage area and 2,182 square feet of JUNE 27, 2017 PAGE 3 PLANNING COMMISSION loggia/deck area on a 1.1 gross acre (47,916 gross square foot) lot. The subject property is zoned Rural Residential (RR) with an underlying General Plan land use designation of Rural Residential. PROJECT ADDRESS PROPERTY OWNER: APPLICANT: 23516 Mirage Lane Diamond Bar, CA 91765 Kathy and Jonathan Ou 16309 Sonnet Place Chino Hills. CA 91709 Steven Phillips 26 Windsong Irvine, CA 92614 AP/Nakajima presented staffs report and recommended Planning Commission approval of Development Review No. PL2017-14, based on the Findings of Fact, and subject to the conditions of approval as listed within the resolution. Steven Phillips, Architect, said he designed the house to step down the hill in both directions. This is not a very large house which leaves plenty of land around the exterior portion. He believed the design fit the City's guidelines and he is very proud of his design. Chair/Wolfe said that Mr. Phillips should be proud of the design that fuses modern styles with a more Mediterranean look which fits nicely into the terrain. Chair/Wolfe opened the public hearing. There being no one who wished to speak on this matter, Chair/Wolfe closed the public hearing. C/Farago moved, Chair/Wolfe seconded, to Approve Development Review No. PL2017-14, based on the Findings of Fact, and subject to the conditions of approval as listed within the resolution. Motion carried by the following Roll Call vote: AYES: COMMISSIONERS NOES: COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: COMMISSIONERS Barlas, Farago, Mahlke, VC/Mok Chair//Wolfe None None 9. PLANNING COMMISSIONER COMMENTS/INFORMATIONAL ITEMS: None JUNE 27, 2017 PAGE 4 PLANNING COMMISSION 10. STAFF COMMENTS/INFORMATIONAL ITEMS: 10.1 Public Hearing dates for future prolects. CDD/Gubman stated that there will be no Planning Commission meeting on July 11. The next meeting takes place on July 25 for which there are two agenda items. One is for a new residence on North Diamond Bar Boulevard which also involves a General Plan Amendment and Zone Change. As such, the Commission's role in this project will be to review the Development application for the home and to forward a recommendation to the City Council in regard to the General Plan Amendment, Zone Change and the Design Review for the home. Currently, there is an inconsistency between the residential General Plan designation and the Commercial Zoning designation for the property which needs to be resolved. The other agenda item is a request for a relatively modest residential addition to a tract home on Gold Rush. CM/DeStefano's last day is July 7th and the new City Manager, Dan Fox, begins his service with the City on Monday, July 10th. There was a GPAC meeting on June 15, the topic of which was the commencement of Phase 2 of the General Plan process that began with the task of looking at land use alternatives centered on potential locations for a "town center." During the First Phase of reconnaissance there was a lot of community interest in establishing a town center, and the alternative sites that were being preliminarily considered were 1) strengthening the presence of intersection of Grand Avenue/Diamond Bar Boulevard; 2) looking at the corridor along Diamond Bar Boulevard between Golden Springs Drive and the SR60 flyover (future Sprouts/Ross on one side and Smart & Final Extra on the other side); and 3) look at repurposing a portion of the existing Golf Course property, which would also incorporate a variety of alternative re -uses with the remaining acreage, including the possibility of a "great park" to preserve as many of the notable open space features and possibly configuring them to integrate into the City's trail system at Sycamore Canyon Park. The consensus was that the Diamond Bar Boulevard corridor between Golden Springs Drive to the freeway overpass appeared to have the most potential for being intensified to become a town center and there was also some interest in looking further at the golf course. There was also interest and support for looking at the area with a '/z -mile radius of the Metrolink Station for creating a transit -oriented and high-density residential set of land use policies over the long term. Staff will be going back to the GPAC with refined concepts and examples of possibilities for those areas. Outreach efforts started for Phase 2 with the Concerts in the Park series. Tomorrow night will be the third Concerts in the Park where staff will man the General Plan "pop-up" booth. Outreach will also take place at supermarkets, community service organization presentations, churches and other community venues. In the fall of this year there will be another community workshop, another joint City Council -Planning Commission meeting and other GPAC meetings. JUNE 27, 2017 PAGE 5 PLANNING COMMISSION Dates will be revealed as staff and the consultant pull together deliverable products for those meetings. Chair/Wolfe commented that with respect to building a transit -oriented and high- density around the Metrolink Station between Industry and Diamond Bar is on the Union Pacific Line and there are very limited slots available for operating passenger rail. There are conversations that have started up again to attempt to negotiate with Union Pacific, but that is why one sees very infrequent service on that line versus the San Bernardino line. CDD/Gubman acknowledged Chair/Wolfe's comments and stated that because this is a long-term plan there is hope. C/Farago said that when the study is done for the new "downtown" will the study provide information on its positive and negative effect to the other retail areas within the City and CDD/Gubman responded that there will be stress -tests on the economics as well as, infrastructure capacity and traffic impacts under each alternative. C/Farago said he would hate to see all retailers migrate to downtown leaving abandoned shopping areas throughout the City. 11. SCHEDULE OF FUTURE EVENTS: As posted in the Agenda. ADJOURNMENT: With no further business before the Planning Commission, Chair/Wolfe adjourned the regular meeting at 7:26 p.m. to July 25, 2017. The foregoing minutes are hereby approved this 25th day of July, 2017. Attest: Respectfully Submitted, Greg Gubman Community Development Director //V Raymon Volfe, Chair erson