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Meeting Name: Planning Commission Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: 4/9/2025 6:00 PM Minutes status: Draft  
Meeting location: City Council Chamber, 2nd Floor, Merced Civic Center, 678 W. 18th Street, Merced, CA 95340
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25-272 1D.1 Consent ItemSUBJECT: Planning Commission Minutes of March 19, 2025 ACTION: Approving and filing the Planning Commission Minutes of March 19, 2025   Not available Not available
25-224 1D.2 Consent ItemSUBJECT: Planning Commission Annual Attendance Report ACTION Reviewing and approving the Annual Attendance Report.   Not available Not available
25-148 1E.1 Public Hearing ItemSUBJECT: Conditional Use Permit #1286, initiated by Veronica Perez, on behalf of Cencal Land and Cattle Company LLC, property owners. This application involves a request to operate a food truck within the parking lot at 850 West Main Street, generally located on the southeast corner of West Main Street and P Street, within a Central Commercial (C-C) Zone. *PUBLIC HEARING* ACTION: Approve/Disapprove/Modify 1) Environmental Review #25-05(Categorical Exemption) 2) Conditional Use Permit #1286 SUMMARY Veronica Perez is requesting conditional use permit approval to operate a food truck within the parking lot located at 850 West Main Street (Attachment B). Mobile Food Vendors are considered a conditional use within a Central Commercial (C-C) Zone. The proposed food truck would be located within a parking lot near the southern corner portion of the parcel (Attachment C). The Planning Commission will be reviewing this proposal to ensure that the new site plan is designed in a manner that minimizes negative impacts to the existing site and promotes compatible and orderly development. Staf   Not available Not available
25-257 1E.2 Public Hearing ItemSUBJECT: General Plan Amendment #25-0001, Zone Change #25-0002, and Environmental Review #25-0006, initiated by Stonefield Home, Inc., applicant on behalf of TRS Enterprises, Inc., property owner. The General Plan Amendment would amend the General Plan Land Use designation from Neighborhood Commercial (CN) to Low Density Residential (LD) and the Zone Change would change the Zoning designation from Neighborhood Commercial (C-N) to Low Density Residential (R-1-5) for a five (5) acre portion of a larger site to allow for the development of twenty-seven (27) single-family lots, previously approved for this site, by Tentative Subdivision Map #1263 (“Crossing at River Oaks”). The subject site is generally located on the south side of E. Childs Avenue approximately 780 feet east of the intersection of E. Childs Avenue and Coffee Street. *PUBLIC HEARING* ACTION: PLANNING COMMISSION: Recommendation to City Council 1) Environmental Review #25-0006 (Categorical Exemption) 2) General Plan Amendment #25-0001 3) Zone Change #25-0002 CITY COUNCIL: Approve/Disapprove/Modify    Not available Not available
25-270 1E.3 Public Hearing ItemSUBJECT: Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map #1335 (“Bellevue Ranch North Village 24”) initiated by Benchmark Engineering, applicant for Hostetler Investments, LLC, property owner. This application involves a request to subdivide approximately 17.90 acres into 55 single-family lots within a gated community. The lots would range in size from approximately 8,000 square feet to approximately 18,000 square feet. The subject site is generally located on the west side of G Street, south of E. Old Lake Road, within Planned Development (P-D) #42, with a General Plan designation of Low Density Residential (LD); *PUBLIC HEARING*. ACTION: Approve/Disapprove/Modify 1) Environmental Review #24-41 (CEQA 15162 Findings) 2) Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map #1335 SUMMARY Planning Commission Meeting of March 19, 2025 During the Planning Commission Meeting of March 19, 2025, the Planning Commission voted to continue this item to the Planning Commission Meeting of April 9, 2025. Information regarding the Public Hearing Notice process can be found at Attachment A (Draft Planning Commission Resolut   Not available Not available
25-263 1E.4 Consent ItemSUBJECT: General Plan Amendment #24-02/ Site Utilization Plan Revision #3 to Planned Development #20/ Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map #1332 / Site Plan #551/ Minor Use Permit #24-13, initiated by Eric Gonsalves, on behalf of Yosemite 1380 LLC, property owner. The General Plan Amendment would change the General Plan land use designation from Commercial Office (CO) to Business Park (BP) for 2.72 acres and from Commercial Office (CO) to High Medium Density (HMD) residential for the remaining 4.48 acres. The Site Utilization Plan Revision would change the land use designation within P-D #20 from Commercial Office to Self-Storage for 2.72 acres and to Residential for the remaining 4.48 acres. The Minor Use Permit would be for interface review to allow commercial development adjacent to or across from a Low Density Residential (R-1-6) Zone. The Site Plan Review Permit would allow the development a self-storage facility (approximately 500 storage units). The vesting tentative subdivision map would divide the self-storage from the residential lots and create the 41 residential lots. *PUBLI   Not available Not available
25-271 1E.5 Business ItemSUBJECT: Cancellation of April 23, 2025, Planning Commission Meeting due to a lack of items ACTION: Cancel the Planning Commission Meeting of April 23, 2025   Not available Not available
25-273 1F.1 Business ItemSUBJECT: Report by Deputy Director of Development Services of Upcoming Agenda Items ACTION Information only.   Not available Not available
25-274 1F.2 Business ItemSUBJECT: Calendar of Meetings/Events Apr.|99|City Council, 6:00 p.m. 9 Planning Commission, 6:00 p.m. 21 City Council, 6:00 p.m. 22 Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, 4:00 p.m. 23 Planning Commission, 6:00 p.m. (May Be Cancelled) May|99|City Council, 6:00 p.m. |99|Planning Commission, 6:00 p.m. 19 City Council, 6:00 p.m. 21 Planning Commission, 6:00 p.m.   Not available Not available