HomeMy WebLinkAbout01/23/2024MINUTES OF THE CITY OF DIAMOND BAR
REGULAR MEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION
JANUARY 23, 2024
CALL TO ORDER:
Vice Chair/Torres called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. in the City Hall Windmill
Community Room, 21810 Copley Drive, Diamond Bar, CA 91765,
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: C/Wolfe led the Pledge of Allegiance.
ROLL CALL: Commissioners Naila Barlas, Mahendra Garg, Raymond
Wolfe, and Vice Chair Ruben Torres
ABSENT: Chair William Rawlings
STAFF PRESENT: Greg Gubman, Community Development Director
(telephonically); James Eggart, Assistant City Attorney;
Grace Lee, Planning Manager; Dat Tran, Associate
Planner; and Stella Marquez, Administrative Coordinator
2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: As Submitted.
3. PUBLIC COMMENTS: None Offered.
4. CONSENT CALENDAR:
4.1 Minutes of the October 24, 2023, Regular Planning Commission Meeting.
C/Wolfe moved, C/Barlas seconded, to approve the Minutes of the October 24,
2023, Regular Planning Commission meeting. Motion carried by the following
Roll Call vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
5. OLD BUSINESS:
COMMISSIONERS:
COMMISSIONERS:
COMMISSIONERS:
COMMISSIONERS:
None
6. NEW BUSINESS: one
Barlas, Garg, Wolfe, VC/Torres
None
None
Chair Rawlings
JANUARY 23, 2024
7. PUBLIC HEARING(S):
PLANNING COMMISSION
7.1 Conditional Use Permit No. PL2023-60 —Under the authority of DBCC
Section 22.58, the property owner and applicant are requesting a Conditional
Use Permit to operate a dance studio within a 1,242 square -foot tenant suite
at Towne Centre Village, a 78,651 square -foot, multi -tenant shopping center.
The subject property is zoned Regional Commercial (C-3) with an underlying
General Plan land use designation of General Commercial,
PROJECT ADDRESS:
1137 Grand Avenue
Diamond Bar, CA 91765
Diamond Bar Grand, LLC
2727 West Coast Highway
Newport Beach, CA 92663
APPLICANT: Angelica Gacutan-Vitoria for Kapiliwaiokeao
1120 Bahia Court, Apt A
Ontario, CA 91762
AP/Tran presented staffs report and recommended Planning Commission
approval of Conditional Use Permit No. PL2023-60, based on the Findings of
Fact, and subject to the Conditions of Approval as listed within the Resolution.
Vice Chair/Torres opened the public hearing.
With no one requesting to speak, Vice Chair/Torres closed the public hearing.
C/Wolfe moved, C/Garg seconded, to approve Conditional Use Permit
No. PL2023-60, based on the Findings of Fact and subject to the Conditions
of Approval as listed within the Resolution. Motion carried 4-0 by the following
Roll Call vote:
AYES:
COMMISSIONERS:
NOES:
COMMISSIONERS:
Barlas, Garg, Wolfe, VC/Torres
,
None
Chair/Rawlings
PLANNING COMMISSION COMMENTS/INFORMATION ITEMS:
There were no comments offered.
JANUARY 23, 2024
9. STAFF COMMENTS/INFORMATIONAL ITEMS:
PLANNING COMMISSION
Senior Planner/Lee
reported there is
one item
scheduled for the February 13, 2024,
meeting, a remodel
to a home at 915
Pantera
Drive.
10. SCHEDULE OF FUTURE EVENTS:
As noted in the agenda.
ADJOURNMENT: With no further business before the Planning Commission, Vice
Chair/Torres adjourned the Regular Planning Commission meeting at 6:44 p.m.
The foregoing minutes are hereby approved this 13th day of February, 2024.
Attest:
Respectfully Submitted,
Greg Gubman, Community Development Director
Ruben Torres, Vice Chair