* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:01] [ 4:00 P.M. - SPECIAL MEETING - CALL TO ORDER / ROLL CALL] ALL RIGHT, GOOD EVENING. AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR THIS SPECIAL, UH, WORKSHOP, UM, BETWEEN THE CHINO HILLS CITY COUNCIL AND OUR WONDERFUL COMMISSIONER. SO, UH, PLEASE, UH, MANAGE ANY CLERK. WOULD YOU MIND TAKING ROLL MAYOR? JOE'S HERE. ARAMARK HAS YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN HERE, COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS. RIGHT. I'M ALSO GOING TO CALL ROLE FOR THE COMPLAINING COMMISSIONERS COMMISSIONER FAN. RAISE YOUR HAND IN THE ZOO. OH, THERE HE IS. HOLD ON. JUST A MOMENT. DOESN'T LOOK LIKE HE HAS HIS, UH, VIDEO OR HIS AUDIO ON, BUT I DO SEE THAT COMMISSIONER FAN IS JOINING THE MEETING COMMISSIONER VOID, MR. BLOOM, COMMISSIONER HAMAMOTO COMMISSIONER HAMAMOTO AND COMMISSIONER STOVER HAVING FEEDBACK ON HER. SO I'M HEARING THEM IN A DELAY. OKAY. ALL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT FROM BOTH THE PLANNING AND THE CITY COUNCIL ANTARCTIC. ALL RIGHT. IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND JOINING [ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG] ME FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND THEN THAT'LL LEAD US INTO PUBLIC COMMENTS READY? OKAY. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES. LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. ALL RIGHT. LET'S REMIND OUR FOLKS. LET'S STAY ON. YOU WILL GET THIS, UH, WE'LL LEARN THE HANG OF ZOOM AFTER THE PANDEMIC'S OVER. ALL RIGHT. WITH THAT, UH, MADAM CITY CLERK. [1. PUBLIC COMMENTS: At this time members of the public may address the City Council regarding the Housing Element Workshop. Those persons wishing to address the City Council are requested to please raise your hand via Zoom or dial *9 to be selected from the meeting cue. Comments will be limited to three minutes per speaker.] DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS BEFORE WE GO INTO THIS? UM, CURRENTLY HAVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT THAT WAS SUBMITTED BY EMAIL, AND I WOULD ASK THAT ANYBODY WHO IS IN THE MEETING WHO WISHES TO SPEAK BEFORE WE START THIS WORKSHOP, IF THEY WOULD RAISE THEIR HAND VIA ZOOM BY STAR NINE OR RAISING IT THROUGH THE ZOOM. YEAH. PERFECT. THANK YOU. I DO NOT SEE ANY HANDS RAISED, SO I'LL GO AHEAD AND READ THE COMMENTS THAT I RECEIVED. THANK YOU. OKAY. DEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOP DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, JOANN LOMBARDO. THANK YOU FOR YOUR QUICK RESPONSE AND TAKING THE TIME TO COMMUNICATE WITH ME IN RESPONSE TO BIG BOX STORES AND REAL RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT USAGE DECREASING, AS YOU STATED, DUE TO ONLINE, SHOPPING IS JUST AN EXCUSE TO DEVELOP HIGH DENSITY HOUSING AT THE CROSSROAD CENTER IN DESPERATION. AGAIN, COSTCO PETSMART AND LOWE'S ARE BIG BOX STORES, AND YOU'RE DOING GREAT EARNING PROFITS OF 20% ABOVE AVERAGE. THERE IS STILL A LARGE PART OF THE COMMUNITY THAT LIKES TO SHOP BIG BOX STORES. SENIORS, FOR EXAMPLE, ARE NOT BIG ONLINE SHOPPERS. THERE ARE PLENTY OF BIG BOX STORES IN THE LOCAL AREA, INCLUDING WALMART BEST BUY TARGET SAM'S CLUB. DICK'S SPORTING GOODS, LOWE'S HOME DEPOT, PEPBOYS, NORDSTROM RACK, ET CETERA. TOYS R US IS STILL IN BUSINESS WITH A MODIFIED BUSINESS PLAN USING A 10,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING INTERACTIVE TOY DEMONSTRATIONS AND OPEN PLAY AREAS. BRINGING TOYS R US BACK TO CHINO HILLS WOULD BE POPULAR WITH THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE A GENERAL PLAN THAT WAS DEVELOPED WITH COMMUNITY INPUT. IF THE GENERAL PLAN CAN BE REVISED WITH JUST A STROKE OF A PEN, WHY HABIT THE CITY SHOULD STICK TO THE PLAN AS ADOPTED WITH THE COMMUNITY'S BLESSING. I'M CURIOUS WHY MIXED JUICE IS SO SUCCESSFUL IN OTHER CITIES, AS YOU STATED IN YOUR LETTER. BUT TO MY KNOWLEDGE, WE HAVE ONLY ONE MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT AND CHINO HILLS MIXED USE HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME IN AN ARTICLE IN THE CHINO CHAMPION NEWSPAPER DATED MARCH 13TH, 2021. THE MAYOR OF CHINO SAID THAT THE CITY HAS NOT HAD SUCCESS WITH MIXED JUICE. I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN YOUR THEORY THAT MAKES JUICE IS APPROPRIATE AT THE CROSSROAD CENTER SITE. WHEN YOUR NEIGHBORING CITY HAS LITTLE SUCCESS WITH IT, IF MIXED USE IS SO GREAT, WHY ISN'T IT? WHY WASN'T IT USED AT THE SHOPS? I REALIZED THAT NOW IN DESPERATION, THE CITY IS PLANNING A MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT ON THE DIRT LOT, ADJACENT TO CITY HALL, SIMILAR TO WHAT IS BEING TOUTED FOR THE CROSSROADS CENTER. MIXED USE DEVELOPMENTS BRING LOTS OF PROBLEMS, ESPECIALLY NOISE AND MORE TRAFFIC. PEYTON DRIVE ALREADY SOUNDS LIKE A FREEWAY, WHICH IS TERRIBLE ENOUGH, COUPLED THAT WITH THE CLOSE PROXIMITY OF THE 71 FREEWAY AND THE NOISE PROBLEM IS MAGNIFIED. ADDING A MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT TO THIS AREA WILL MAKE THE NOISE PROBLEM, EVEN WORSE, MORE TRAFFIC, [00:05:01] ALSO RESULTS IN MORE POLLUTION FROM ALL VEHICLES. THIS IS AN AREA THAT ALREADY HAS HEAVY TRAFFIC, ESPECIALLY THE NIGHTMARE CAUSED BY THE COSTCO GAS STATION. RESIDENTS IN THIS AREA ARE NOT INTERESTED IN MORE TRAFFIC THAN THE PROBLEMS THAT COME WITH IT. ACCIDENTS. PHIL CONGESTION INCREASING THE TRAFFIC BY ADDING A MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT COULD CAUSE CONSUMERS TO AVOID AREA AND AFFECT EXISTING SMALL BUSINESSES WHO WANTS TO PATRONIZE A RESTAURANT IN A PLACE WHICH IS HEAVILY CONGESTED, NOISY AND DIFFICULT TO DRIVE TO THE DINING EXPERIENCE IS RUINED BEFORE YOU EVEN GET TO THE RESTAURANT. MIXED USE DEVELOPMENTS ARE NOT A SURE THING BY ANY MEANS. I DID NOT SEE THE PROPERTY AT THE CLOSE VELANO. GREG NORMAN GOLF COURSE HAS ONE OF THE SITES BEING CONSIDERED FOR HIGH DENSITY HOUSING, EVEN THOUGH THE OWNER HAS BEEN QUITE VOCAL ABOUT HIS DESIRE TO DEVELOP CONDOS ON THE SITE, THE NORTHERN AREA OF CHINO HILLS HAS TAKEN THE BRUNT OF THE HIGH DENSITY HOUSING. THE CITY NEEDS TO TAKE THE CROSSROADS CENTER OFF THE LIST AND PUT THE HIGH DENSITY HOUSING SOMEPLACE ELSE. THERE'S ABOUT THREE MORE PARAGRAPHS TO THIS LETTER. SO THIS, UM, COMMENT WILL BE POSTED ON THE WEBSITE SO THAT THE PUBLIC CAN HAVE THE FULL COMMENTS. AND COULD WE GET THE NAME OF THE, UH, BRIAN PETRA? OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS, MR. PETROFF. ALL RIGHT. WITH THAT, WE WILL MOVE ON TO OUR ONE HAND RAISED IN THE ZOOM APP. DID YOU ALRIGHT? LET'S GIVE IT A SHOT. OKAY. THIS WOULD BE JIM GALLAGHER. ALL RIGHT. GOOD AFTERNOON, JIM. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. YEAH, THANK YOU. UM, I WASN'T REALLY GOING TO SPEAK, BUT I WAS ACTUALLY, I WAS THINKING ABOUT SPEAKING IN FACT, IN FAVOR OF MIXED USE. THAT'S WHY I DECIDED TO RAISE MY HAND AND I DO BELIEVE THAT THE CROSSROADS SHOPPING CENTER IS IDEAL FOR THAT. ESPECIALLY IF THERE'S THE RIGHT INGRESS AND EGRESS ESTABLISHED, THEY COULD PUT ABOUT THREE TO 500 UNITS YOU'LL AS YOU'LL SEE THERE. AND I THINK IF IT'S PLANNED OUT PROPERLY, IT WILL BE LESS INVASIVE AS THE PEOPLE THAT WOULD USE THE STORES. THERE WOULD BE THE ONES THAT LIVE THERE AND THEY WOULD ALSO BE FREEWAY CLOSE. I ALSO ADVOCATE FOR THE SHOPS TOO, AS A MIXED USE AREA, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE WITH THAT IDEA IN MIND, AND ALSO THE CROSSROAD SHOPPING CENTER, WHICH HAS A LOT OR NOT CROSSROADS, I'M SORRY, THE COMMONS, WHICH DOES HAVE A LOT OF OPEN SPACE, AS WELL AS THE SPACE NEXT TO THE BATCH TEMPLE. TO ME, THEY'RE ALL IDEAL BECAUSE THEY ARE FREEWAY CLOSE AND THEY DO MEET THE NEEDS, THE REQUIREMENTS OF BEING CLOSE TO A TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR. AND, UH, OTHER THAN THAT, I LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT YOU, UH, UNCOVER YOURSELVES AS YOU HAVE THE DISCUSSION TODAY. AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO DO THIS. THANK YOU, MR. GALLAGHER. WE APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS. OKAY. ALL [ HOUSING ELEMENT WORKSHOP] RIGHT. WITH THAT, WE WILL MOVE ON TO OUR HOUSING ELEMENT WORKSHOP. SO ITEM TO RECEIVE PUBLIC INPUT, PROVIDE STAFF DIRECTION ON HOUSING ELEMENT, UPDATE, UPDATE PROCESS. GOOD. OKAY. WE GOT ONE MORE HAND RAISED. OKAY. MR. JOHN BRUNER. MR. BRUNER. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS AFTERNOON, MR. BURNER, CAN YOU HEAR US OKAY. SORRY. I WAS MUTED. NOT A PROBLEM. YES. YES, SIR. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS AFTERNOON. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO GIVE US YOUR COMMENTS. I DON'T KNOW IF I'M PUTTING THIS IN THE RIGHT PLACE FOR THE MEETING. I'M, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE COLLATERAL. I'M NOT, I'M NOT SURE I'M SAYING THAT RIGHT. EITHER, UH, PROPERTY. AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU IF THERE ARE PLANS TO PUT 180 UNITS ON THAT PROPERTY, HOW MANY STORIES WOULD IT BE? I'M SORRY, MR. BRUNER. I, WE DIDN'T HEAR WHICH PROPERTY YOU REFER TO. WOULD YOU MIND RESTATING THAT? OKAY. BOLERO. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALL RIGHT. I'M SURE THAT WILL BE MENTIONED AS WE GO FURTHER DOWN THE MEETING. IS THERE ANY OTHER ITEMS SIR, THAT YOU'D LIKE TO BRING UP? UH, NO. I LIVE, UH, I LIVE ADJACENT TO THAT PROPERTY AND, UH, I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE TRAFFIC THAT WOULD BE GENERATED, UH, WITH ADDITIONAL HOUSING THERE. IN ADDITION TO THE TRAFFIC THAT IS ALREADY AT TIMES, VERY HEAVY, UH, WITH PUBLIC EVENTS. SO THAT'S MY CONCERN. I'LL REST. AND, UH, LISTEN TO THE COMMENTS. THANK YOU, MR. BRUNER. WE APPRECIATE YOU JOINING US THIS AFTERNOON. THANK YOU FOR THE COMMENTS BEFORE WE MOVE ON. I'M JUST GOING TO ASK FOR ONE LAST TIME. IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND AT THIS TIME. OTHERWISE WE WILL JUST MOVE ON WITH THE WORKSHOP. THANK YOU. MA'AM I DO NOT SEE ANY HANDS RAISED, BRIAN. I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION FOR CHERYL, CHERYL. UM, CAN WE CAN'T SEE IT ON OUR END? HOW MANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ON THIS CALL? I'M JUST CURIOUS. WE HAVE [00:10:01] A PROXIMATELY 20 ATTENDEES, BUT WITH THAT IT'S 29, INCLUDING THE BEST CLINICIAN, BUT THAT'S INCLUDING STAFF AS WELL. THANK YOU. WONDERFUL. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE ONE MORE COMMENT PLEASE. OKAY, MR. GARY, TWO-TONE ALL. ALRIGHT, MR. STONE, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS AFTERNOON. UH, WE'D LOVE TO HEAR YOUR COMMENTS. YES. HELLO. I LIVE WITH JASON, UH, TO THE, UM, CAVALERA RANGE AS WELL. I'M JUST CONCERNED ABOUT THE HEIGHTS OF THE BUILDINGS IF PROPOSE WOULD BE BUILT, UM, AND THE CRIME RATE GOING UP AS WELL AS PARKING ISSUES AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO PARK OVERNIGHT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD TO VISIT FAMILY MEMBERS AND SUCH AT THE, UH, PROPOSED, UM, PROJECT SORT OF VOICE MY CONCERNS ABOUT THE OVERALL TRAFFIC CONGESTION PARKING ISSUES AND THE HEIGHT TO THE BUILDING. THAT'S BASICALLY ALL I HAD TO STATE. YES, SIR. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THOSE COMMENTS. THERE ARE NO MORE HANDS RAISED. ALL RIGHT, GOOD. NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO OUR REPORT. ALL RIGHT. UH, MAYOR JOE'S CITY COUNCIL. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY. THANK YOU TO OUR COMMISSIONERS. STAFF WILL COME FORWARD FROM A VARIETY OF POSITIONS IN THE CITY TO WALK US THROUGH, UH, TODAY'S WORKSHOP. AS YOU'RE AWARE, THE PLANNING COMMISSION I BELIEVE HAS MET IN FOUR SEPARATE OCCASIONS, WORKING THROUGH THE WORKSHOP. UH, TODAY'S GOAL IS TO PROVIDE THE COUNCIL DIRECT ACCESS TO STAFF EARLY IN PROCESS. UH, THE COMMISSIONERS ARE HERE. SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THEIR DELIBERATIONS ALONG THE WAY? AND WITH THAT, I'LL JUST ASK OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, LEN LOMBARDO TO START US OFF. THANK YOU, BEN, MR. CITY MANAGER, UM, MAYOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION AND ALSO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, AS BEN MENTIONED, WE'VE HAD FOUR WORKSHOPS WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION. SO TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO SUMMARIZE AS BEST WE CAN, THE MAJOR TOPICS AND DISCUSSIONS THAT WERE DISCUSSED DURING THOSE WORKSHOPS. WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO COVER EACH OF THESE TOPICS AS BRIEFLY AS WE CAN. AND OVERVIEW OF THE HOUSING ELEMENT, UH, AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS OF THIS UPDATE, THE SIX CYCLE HOUSING ELEMENTS SCHEDULE THE REGIONAL HOUSING NEED ASSESSMENT KNOWN AS THE RENA DEFAULT DENSITIES, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, COMMENTS AND RESPONSES AVAILABLE SITE CRITERIA, REVIEW OF POTENTIAL SITES, EXISTING MULTI-FAMILY AND NEXT STEPS. SO HOUSING ELEMENTS IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER HAVE BEEN AROUND SINCE 1969, UM, CALIFORNIA STARTED SAYING THAT EVERY COMMUNITY SHOULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FAIR HOUSING TO THE YEARS THAT IT HAS GOTTEN MORE AND MORE RIGOROUS. THE HOUSING ELEMENT IS ONE OF SEVEN OF THE REQUIRED ELEMENTS OF A GENERAL PLAN, AND EVERY CITY MUST HAVE A GENERAL PLAN. WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THE HOUSING ELEMENT. IT'S THE ONLY ELEMENT OF THEM ALL THAT HAS REQUIREMENT FOR UPDATES. AND IT'S NOW EVERY EIGHT YEARS, THERE IS ALSO A RIGOROUS BODY OF LAW RELATED TO THE HOUSING ELEMENT, AND IT'S VERY CLOSELY REFINED IT AGAIN, IT IS THE ONLY ELEMENT WITHIN THE GENERAL PLAN THAT HAS THAT. SO THAT INDICATES THAT THE STATE VALUES HOUSING AS A KEY COMPONENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE. IT'S THE ROLE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO, TO, UM, TO ADMINISTER AND ENSURE COMPLIANCE ARE KNOWN AS HCD. AND WE'RE NOW IN OUR SIXTH CYCLE HOUSING ELEMENT. AND THAT COVERS YOUR PERIOD FROM JUNE 30TH, 2021 THROUGH OCTOBER 15TH, 2029. SO DOES THAT MEAN SINCE THE CITY HAS BEEN INCORPORATED, THIS IS THE SIXTH TIME WE'VE HAD TO DO IT. THIS IS THE SIXTH TIME IN ALL. AND I DON'T REALLY KNOW IF IT WAS THIS. I THINK THE SECOND EITHER THIRD OF THE SECOND WAS THE FIRST TIME THE CITY PARTICIPATED IN. SO VERY QUICKLY WHAT'S THE PROCESS. SO WE'RE STARTING THE PROCESS NOW. SO THE FIRST IS TO DETERMINE THE REGIONAL HOUSING NEEDS ALLOCATION ASSESSMENT, AND THAT HAS BEEN DONE. WE UPDATE OUR PREVIOUS HOUSING ELEMENT. WE SUBMIT [00:15:01] OUR DRAFT HOUSING ELEMENT TO HCD FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL. AND I WANT TO SAY THEY HAVE A VERY KEY PART IN THIS PROCESS. THEY HAVE A LOT OF CONTROL OF WHAT'S IN THE DOCUMENT AND HOW WE PROCESS IT. AND WE NEED TO REVISE THAT ACCORDING TO THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS AS BEST WE CAN. AND THEN WE WILL MOVE FORWARD WITH SUBMITTING THAT TO HCD AND ULTIMATELY THE ADOPTION WHO PROVIDES OVERSIGHT TO HCD. THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. OBVIOUSLY, THE GOVERNOR WOULD ALLOCATE WHO'S IN CHARGE OF IT, BUT MANY OF THESE LAWS ARE SET BY OUR LEGISLATORS. OKAY, THANK YOU. GOING BACK ONE WHERE YOU SAY DETERMINING THE REGIONAL HOUSING NEEDS ASSESSMENT, THAT'S NOT REALLY DONE BY US, CORRECT? THAT'S DONE AT THE STATE LEVEL. ABSOLUTELY. WE HAVE NO HAND IN IT, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE BEEN VERY INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS. SO WHAT'S THE SCHEDULE. WE HAVE AN EXTREMELY TIGHT SCHEDULE. WE NEED TO HAVE ALL OF THIS DONE BY OCTOBER 15TH, 2021. AND THAT DATE IS ESTABLISHED BY HCD IN ORDER TO DO SO. THE FIRST PART AND THE MOST DIFFICULT PART FOR US IS TO IDENTIFY ADEQUATE SITES FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. AND I'M GOING TO, I'M GOING TO DESCRIBE THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER IN THIS PRESENTATION SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT IS, WHAT THAT MEANS AND WHY IT'S SO DIFFICULT FOR US TO IDENTIFY ADEQUATE SITES. AND THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE THIS MONTH IN ORDER FOR US, OR EXCUSE ME, NEXT MONTH, IN ORDER FOR US TO MEET THAT SCHEDULE, WHERE WE THEN COMING FORWARD WITH A DRAFT HOUSING ELEMENT, WE'LL BE PRESENTING THAT TO PLANNING COMMISSION CITY COUNCIL IN JUNE, THEN SUBMITTING TO HCD FOR THEIR REVIEW. AND AGAIN, WITH THE GOAL OF GETTING TO ATD, A HOUSING ELEMENT THAT WE CAN ACCEPT, AND THEY HAVE APPROVED BY OCTOBER 15TH, 2021, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY SEVEN MONTHS FROM NOW. SO THIS IS THE RENA NUMBERS. SO THE FIRST ROLE IN WHERE IT STARTS IS AT THE STATE LEVEL, THE STATE HAS A MANDATE, OKAY, SO MANY UNITS THAT NEED TO BE DEVELOPED WITHIN THIS PLANNING CYCLE. SO IT'S AN EIGHT YEAR PLANNING CYCLE. SO FOR OUR REGION AND OUR REGION IS A SCAG REGION, WHICH IS SIX COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. THE STATE HAS MANDATED THAT WE NEED OVER 1.3 MILLION NEW HOUSING UNITS OF THOSE HOUSING UNITS, ABOUT 41.6% MUST BE LOWER INCOME. AND THOSE LOWER INCOME ARE DEFINED AS THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. AND FOR US AS I'LL DESCRIBE A LITTLE LATER, THAT IS OUR HIGH DENSITY HOUSING CITIES WITH A HIGHER PROPORTION OF ABOVE MODERATE INCOME, SUCH AS CHINO HILLS WILL HAVE A HIGHER PROPORTION OF THE LOWER INCOME AGAIN, TO CREATE WHAT THE STATE HAS IDENTIFIED AS EQUITY AND HOUSING TOO, TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY JURISDICTION HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE HOUSING FOR HOUSEHOLDS OF ALL INCOME LEVELS, SCARED THEN TAKES THE LEAD AND DEFINES A METHODOLOGY FOR HOW TO ALLOCATE THESE ONE OVER 1.3 MILLION ACROSS THE SIX COUNTIES. JOANNE, ONE THING REAL QUICK BACK TO THE SLIDE BEFORE THAT THE VERY BOTTOM COMMENT WAS ALONG A PARALLEL TRACK GENERAL PLAN, UPDATE PROCESS TO INCORPORATE THE LAND USE CHANGES REQUIRED BY THE HOUSING ELEMENT. OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO COME UP WITH THESE SITES THAT WE'RE GOING TO IDENTIFY BETWEEN NOW AND OCTOBER 15TH. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO AHEAD AND REZONE. IN MANY INSTANCES, THOSE SITES THAT HAVE BEEN CHOSEN FOR THAT POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT COULD A DEVELOPER COME IN OR AN OWNER OF THAT PROPERTY ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. AND WITH THOSE NEW, UH, GENERAL PLAN UPDATES, GO AHEAD AND APPLY FOR THAT. I'M ASSUMING INCREASED DENSITY. OKAY. CAUSE THAT'S A VERY CRITICAL THING. I MEAN, IT'S, I'M SURE IT'S GOING TO GET DISCUSSED BY PEOPLE BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF FEAR OUT THERE ABOUT US DUMPING HIGH DENSITY, UH, PROPERTIES OR PARCELS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. BUT THE REALITY IS THE WAY THIS IS GEARED. ONCE THIS THING GETS GOING, IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE A RUNAWAY FREIGHT TRAIN. WE'RE NOT GOING TO REALLY BE ABLE TO DO A WHOLE LOT ABOUT IT. I DON'T BELIEVE, BUT HOPEFULLY OUR FURTHER EXPLANATION WILL TAKE CARE OF THAT. YEP. WE'LL DISCUSS AS THE PROCESS, BUT IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF UNITS, YOU'RE CORRECT. WE HAVE TO COME UP WITH THAT NUMBER OF UNITS OR FACE CERTAIN CONSEQUENCES AGAIN, WHICH WE'LL GO OVER IN THIS PRESENTATION SHORTLY. I JUST WANT TO BE SURE ABOUT THE TIMING OF THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE CONSISTENT WITH THE OCTOBER 15TH DEADLINE. SO IT HAS TO BE IN PLACE. THE GENERAL PLAN PROCESS WILL BE PARALLEL. WE CANNOT DO IT THAT QUICKLY. SO THE GENERAL PLAN MOST LIKELY WILL OCCUR. WE'RE HOPING FOR NEXT SPRING. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SORRY. CAN WE ON, ON THIS SLIDE, UH, [00:20:01] WHAT QUANTITY, WHICH QUANTIFIES VERY LOW AND LOW INCOME HOUSEHOLDS. IT'S BASED ON A PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS TO THE MEDIAN INCOME. UM, AND I HAVE A SLIDE LATER ON THAT TALKS ABOUT SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. THAT'S PROBABLY A GOOD EXAMPLE. SO ESSENTIALLY IT'S 80% OF 50% OF THE MEDIAN INCOME FOR THAT COUNTY. OKAY. OKAY. SO NOW GIGS TAKES OVER AND, UM, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING THROUGH THIS PROCESS SINCE 2019. OUR CITY HAS BEEN KEENLY INVOLVED AND QUITE HONESTLY, UM, I HAD NO IDEA THAT IT WOULD END UP WITH SUCH A LARGE NUMBER. I DON'T THINK ANY CITY GOING INTO THIS PROCESS TWO YEARS AGO, THOUGHT WE WOULD END UP WITH AN ENORMOUS NUMBER. IT HAS BEEN A SHOCK AND, UM, A JOLT TO MANY COMMUNITIES, BUT WE PARTICIPATED, WE, WE ATTENDED EVERY SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING. WE PROVIDED COMMENT LETTERS EARLY ON. WE PROVIDED FOR COMMENT LETTERS TO SCAG THROUGH THE PROCESS, OFFERING SUGGESTION, IDENTIFYING PROBLEMS WITH THE METHODOLOGY WHERE THEY WAS GOING. WE DID NOT GET A RESPONSE. OKAY. SO IF THE METHOD, IF WE ARGUE THE METHODOLOGY IS FLAWED, WHAT RECOURSE DO WE HAVE TO CHALLENGE THAT I HAVE HAD REALLY NONE BECAUSE WE HAVE, AGAIN, GIVEN OUR COMMENTS SCAG HAS THEIR MARCHING ORDERS AND THEY WERE NOT RESPONDED TO, THEY WERE NOT, UH, WE DID NOT SAY, OH YEAH, YOU HAVE A GOOD IDEA OR WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER IT. THEY CONTINUED WITH THEIR, THEIR MANDATE AND THEY MOVED FORWARD. SO THOSE CONCERNS ARE STILL THERE. THE CONCERNS ARE STILL THERE, BUT WE REALLY ARE AT THIS POINT, HAVE WHAT WE HAVE, WHICH THE JOANNE, WE DID HAVE AN APPEAL PROCESS. CORRECT. AND THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO HIT ON NEXT. SO THEY GAVE US OUR DRAFT NUMBERS IN OCTOBER WITH A CHANCE TO FORMALLY APPEAL. AND WE DID INDEED BECAUSE THEIR METHODOLOGY GAVE US, OH GOSH, ABOUT ANOTHER 1700 UNITS BASED ON PROXIMITY TO TRANSIT AND TO JOBS. UM, WE MADE THE POINT WHERE WE DON'T REALLY HAVE MUCH TRANSIT AND WE'RE ESSENTIALLY, WHAT'S CALLED A JOB POOR REGION. MOST PEOPLE LIVE HERE AND WORK OUTSIDE. UM, SO WE WENT THROUGH THE APPEAL PROCESS, UH, SCAG STAFF ARGUED WELL, THEIR, THEIR METHODOLOGY IS BASED ON THE CONNECT. SO CAL PLAN, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY IN THE COMMUNITY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THAT, BUT IT'S A REGIONAL PLAN THAT SCAG, WHICH IS, UH, I WANT TO SAY THE KIND OF, UH, THE LAR THE BIG PICTURE PLANNING ARM FOR THE SIX COUNTIES, SIX, EXCUSE ME, SIX NUMBER BULLETS AND PLANNING ORGANIZATION. IT IS INDEED. AND IT, IT DOES THE BIG PICTURE STUFF. WHERE SHOULD THE ROADS GO ON THE BIG PICTURE? AND OBVIOUSLY WHERE SHOULD THE HOUSING GO? UM, SO THEY BASED IT ON SOME OF THIS INFORMATION, UH, WE PRESENTED INFORMATION DURING THE APPEAL THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THIS INFORMATION IS NOT CORRECT. IT'S FLAWED. WE SHOWED THEM THE DATA WE HAD. WE SHOWED THEM OUR HARD WORK, TRYING TO GET TRANSIT. AND I DO BELIEVE THAT EACH OF THE SIX MEMBER SCAG ARENA APPEAL BOARD THAT WAS ON THAT APPEAL BOARD HEARD US AND AGREED WITH US. HOWEVER, BECAUSE, AND I WANT TO SAY, IT'S A MOVING TRAIN THAT IS VERY LARGE. IT'S BIGGER THAN THE CITY. AND IT'S BIGGER THAN THE REGION. THEY DETERMINED THAT BECAUSE OF THIS, EVEN THOUGH THEY AGREED, WE'RE TOO FAR ALONG, SCAG FOLLOWED THE APPROVED METHODOLOGY, EVEN THOUGH WE MAY SAY IT'S FLAWED AND IT MAY INDEED BE FLAWED. SO WE, OUR APPEAL WAS DENIED, UH, FOR, UH, AGREED WITH THE DENIAL. ONE DID NOT. AND ONE ABSTAIN. SO, UM, WE HAD SOME QUESTIONS AMONG THE SCAG BOARD WHO MAKES UP THE APPEAL BOARD. THERE REPRESENTATIVES SCAG VARIOUS MAYORS OR COUNCIL MEMBERS FROM VARIOUS REGIONAL COUNCIL MEMBERS. OH, REGIONAL COUNCIL MEMBERS. OKAY. SO THESE ARE OUR FINAL NUMBERS. AFTER ALL THAT HARD WORK, THIS IS WHAT WE'VE GOT. WE'VE GOT 3,729 TOTAL UNITS. AND I WANT TO SAY THAT WE NEED TO PLAN FOR WITHIN THE NEXT EIGHT YEARS. SO WE NEED TO IDENTIFY ADEQUATE SITES THAT CAN ACCOMMODATE THIS MANY UNITS. THE CHALLENGE FOR US IS THAT 59% OF THOSE UNITS, ALMOST 60% NEED TO BE AGAIN, THESE LOWER INCOME, WHICH ARE THE HIGH DENSITY. THAT'S 2,209 UNITS. JUST FOR COMPARISON. I HAVE OUR NUMBERS FROM OUR FOURTH CYCLE, AND THAT WAS 2006 TO 2014. WE HAD 1,040 UNITS AND 33% WERE THOSE SLOWER INCOME. OUR FIFTH CYCLE, THE ONE WE JUST FINISHED 862 UNITS AND THE AMOUNT OF LOWER INCOME OR 42ND, 42%. AND SO WITH THIS DECLINING TREND, I QUITE HONESTLY WAS EXPECTING NO MORE THAN A THOUSAND. SO IT AGAIN, HIT US ALL QUITE, QUITE HARD. [00:25:04] SO HERE'S A QUESTION. HOW DO YOU DEFINE AFFORDABLE? AND IT'S A BIT OF A, IT'S A BIT OF A PUZZLE. SO UNFORTUNATELY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, THE COST OF LAND, THE COST OF LABOR, THE COST OF MATERIAL MAKES IT POSSIBILITY OF BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING, REALLY, ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR CHINO HILLS. IT MEANS THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO, AND I HAVE THE NUMBERS UP HERE. YOU SAID, WHAT, WHAT DEFINES AFFORDABLE? SO FOR SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, THE MEDIAN INCOME FOR A FOUR PERSON HOUSEHOLD, I BELIEVE IS ABOUT 80,000 AND T TO QUALIFY FOR AFFORDABLE, TO BE, EXCUSE ME, TO BE CONSIDERED A LOWER INCOME HOUSEHOLD. IT'S ROUGHLY 60,000 A YEAR. SO TO MAKE THAT HOUSING AFFORDABLE TO A HOUSEHOLD AT 60,000 A YEAR, IT WOULD HAVE TO SELL FOR ABOUT 180,000 OR RENT AT ABOUT 1500 A MONTH. MOST OF THE RENTALS AND CHINO HILLS RENT FOR ABOVE THAT. SO EVEN THOUGH WE PROVIDE THESE HOUSING, IT IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR THE MARKET TO ACTUALLY PRODUCE LOWER INCOME HOME HOUSING. THE NUMBERS I HAVE HEARD FROM A NUMBER OF LOW-INCOME HOUSING PROVIDERS IS THAT TO BUILD ONE SUBSIDIZED, EXCUSE ME, ONE LOW INCOME HOUSING UNIT IS ABOUT 40,400,000 TO $500,000. SO IT IS VERY EXPENSIVE. HOWEVER, FOR US, THE GOVERNMENT CODE ALLOWS FOR A DEFAULT DENSITY AND THAT'S WHERE THE HIGH DENSITY COMES IN. AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE LOOKING AT THE SITES AS POTENTIAL SITES TO, TO HIGH DENSITY. SO UNDER THE DEFAULT OPTION, THAT'S PROVIDED BY THE GOVERNMENT CODE, A CITY SUCH AS CHINO HILLS HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ZONE SITES FOR NO LESS THAN 30 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE. BUT JOANNE, HERE'S THE PROBLEM. EVEN THOSE HIGH DENSITY HOMES OR APARTMENTS, THREE STORIES, THEY DON'T RENT FOR $1,500 A MONTH IN THE CITY, ESPECIALLY FOR A FAMILY FOR, IT WOULD BE TWICE THAT MUCH. HOW DO WE GET AROUND THAT? SO WE CAN BUILD, BUILD THE UNITS AND THEY CAN QUOTE SAY THEY'RE LOW, YOU KNOW, LOW INCOME, BUT THEY AREN'T. I MEAN, IT'S, THIS IS CRAZY, ABSOLUTELY CRAZY. WELL, THAT'S IT, THAT'S A CHALLENGE, BUT THE GOOD AND THE BAD FOR, FOR US. AND AGAIN, MOST CITIES SIMILAR TO US, ALL OUR NEIGHBORING CITIES, WE GO THROUGH THAT DEFAULT DENSITY. SO AS LONG AS WE ZONE FOR NO LESS THAN 30 DWELLING UNITS BREAKER, AND THOSE UNITS ARE, EXCUSE ME, THOSE SITES ARE BUILT FOR NO LESS THAN 20 UNITS PER ACRE. WE CAN QUALIFY IT. AND I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, THIS IS WHAT WE'VE USED IN OUR LAST TWO CYCLES BECAUSE THIS DEFAULT DENSITY HAS BEEN AROUND FOR OUR LAST TWO CYCLES. AN EXAMPLE IS AVALON BAY APARTMENTS. WE ZONE THAT FOR VERY HIGH DENSITY THAT ALLOWS UP TO 35 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE. IT WAS ACTUALLY BUILT AT A DENSITY OF 22.74. SO IT CAME IN A LITTLE LOWER MOST DEVELOPMENTS IN CHINO HILLS COME A LITTLE LOWER JUST BY MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS. WE ALL HAVE A LITTLE TOPOGRAPHY IN OUR LAND. SO THIS IS A TYPICAL DEVELOPMENT SCENARIO FOR OUR HIGH DENSITY. AND JUST FOR INFORMATION ON THE MODERATE INCOME AND THE UPPER INCOME, WE HAVE AN ANTICIPATE MEETING OUR MODERATE INCOME HOUSING REQUIREMENTS THROUGH OUR HIGH DENSITY THAT IS BELOW ZONE LOWER THAN THAT. WE HAVE A HIGH DENSITY ZONING THAT GOES UP TO 25. DO YOU PER ACRE? SOME OF OUR DEVELOPMENTS HAVE COME IN THROUGH THAT. AND ALSO FOR ANY MEDIUM DENSITY, SUCH AS TOWNHOMES CONDOMINIUMS, LOWER DENSITY APARTMENTS HAVE MET OUR, OUR MODERATE INCOME AND THE UPPER INCOME ARE A SINGLE FAMILY. WE DO HAVE ENOUGH SITES ALREADY ZONED FOR SINGLE FAMILY TO MEET OUR CURRENT RENA ALLOCATION. SO WE WILL NOT NEED TO REZONE ANY ADDITIONAL SITES FOR, FOR UPPER INCOME, BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ZONE AT 35 AND THEY BUILD IT AT 22, HAVE WE JUST DONE OUR PART? AND IT'S UP TO THE DEVELOPER TO GO AHEAD AND BUILD TO THE, THE HIGHER DENSITY THAT WE BILL OUT UNDER STATE LAW. IF WE ZONE FOR AGAIN, NO LESS THAN 30 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE. AND IF THE DEVELOPER BUILDS FOR NO LESS THAN 20 UNITS PER ACRE, WE HAVE SATISFIED A REQUIREMENT. SO FOR HCD, WE ARE COMPLIANT. AND THAT IS HOW WE HAVE BEEN COMPLIANT WITH OUR PAST TWO HOUSING ELEMENTS. SO IN TERMS OF AFFORDABILITY, YOU ASK A VERY GOOD QUESTION. WHAT ABOUT AFFORDABILITY? AND THAT'S A BIT OF THE, I WANT TO SAY THE CONUNDRUM OF THIS PROCESS. SO THE THEORY BEHIND ALL THIS HOUSING [00:30:01] IS THAT IF YOU INCREASE SUPPLY, IT BECOMES MORE AFFORDABLE AND PERHAPS PERHAPS OVER TIME, THAT'S CORRECT. UM, WE HAVE NOT SEEN THAT IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND SO FAR IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, THAT HAS NOT BEEN THE CASE BECAUSE IT'S A HIGH VALUED AREA, GOOD WEATHER, LOTS OF JOBS, UH, LOTS OF DEMAND, BUT THAT'S THE THINKING. SO WHETHER OR NOT ANY OF THESE HOUSES WILL ACTUALLY BE AVAILABLE OR RENTABLE TO PEOPLE OF LOWER INCOME, THAT'S NOT PART OF THIS EQUATION. THAT'S NOT PART OF THE QUESTION HERE. THAT'S NOT PART OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY. AND I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE MISCONCEPTION YOU HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC IS THEY SEE A VERY LOW INCOME AND LOW INCOME, AND THEY ASSUME WE'RE BUILDING, YOU KNOW, THAT DEBT SUBSIDIZED HOUSING FOR EVERYBODY, IT'S GOING TO BE A MARKET RATE ON THESE UNITS, CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT. THE MARKET WILL DETERMINE WHAT THE RENTS ARE. ALL RIGHT. NOT SECTION EIGHT HOUSING OR ANY THING OF THAT NATURE. NO. IF, IF IT WAS SECTION EIGHT, IF THAT WAS STILL READILY AVAILABLE, IT WOULD BE EASIER TO MEET THIS WITHOUT BUILDING MORE HOUSING, BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S NOT CURRENTLY READILY AVAILABLE. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND ACTUALLY I WANTED TO HIT THE POINT, WHICH YOU JUST MENTIONED. SO AS PART OF THIS PROCESS, NOT ONLY DO WE NEED TO DO THESE HOUSING ELEMENTS, HTD HAS A VERY ONEROUS PROCESS AND YOU JUST SAW OUR LATEST ANNUAL GENERAL PLAN ANNUAL REPORT. AND IT'S A LENGTHY DOCUMENT, VERY DETAILED. SO WHEN WE FILL THAT OUT, ATD IS ASKING US NOT ONLY WHAT REZONE FOR WHAT'S BILL, THEY'RE ASKING US, WHAT THEN, WHAT DID THEY RENT FOR? WHAT DID THEY SELL FOR? AND BECAUSE OF THE MARKET CONDITIONS, EVEN THOUGH WE BUILD THESE VERY HIGH DENSITY UNITS, ACCORDING TO THEIR REQUIREMENTS, THEY RENT OR SELL FOR MARKET RATE JUST BASED ON IT. AND I WANT TO POINT OUT BECAUSE I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME ARTICLES IN THE PAPER WHERE THEY SAID, WELL, UM, KENO HILLS ONLY GETS A C FOR PROVIDING HOUSING. WE DON'T, WE DON'T DO WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO. WE DO DO WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO. WE DO EVERYTHING WE CAN DO. WE DO ZONE. WE FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS HOUSING, BUT WE CANNOT CONTROL WHAT THEY RENT. JOANNE, IS THERE A TIMELINE FOR WHEN THESE UNITS HAVE TO BE DEVELOPED BY? UM, NOT REALLY. UM, HOWEVER, IF THEY SIT THERE FOR TOO LONG, THEN WE DO NEED TO REPORT ON THAT AND WE DO NEED TO RESPOND TO THAT WITH THE NEXT HOUSING ELEMENT. AND AS WE GO ALONG A BIT ON THE PENALTIES, IF SOMEONE COMPLAINS TO HCD THAT, HEY, WE'RE MAKING IT HARD FOR THEM TO BUILD ON THESE UNITS ON THESE SITES. THEN THERE IS A PROCESS WHERE THEY CAN COME IN BY DEFAULT. SO IT'S, IT'S A FAIRLY RIGOROUS PROCESS. WE MAKE IT HARD FOR DEVELOPERS IF IT'S, IF IT'S ZONED THAT WAY. I DON'T KNOW. INTERESTING. OKAY. BUT IT'S, IT'S UM, THE, THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE A LOT OF SAY IN THIS PROCESS. I WAS JUST CURIOUS BY THE TIME. SO WHEN YOU'RE SAYING, IF IT SITS FOR A WHILE DEFINED HOW LONG I HAVE NO CLUE, I DON'T SAY I HAVE, I DON'T HAVE A CLEAR ANSWER FOR THAT, BUT HOWEVER, ON THIS HOUSING ELEMENT CYCLE, WE NEED TO REPORT FOR ANYTHING NOT BUILT IN OUR LAST HOUSING ELEMENTS CYCLE. OKAY. JOANNE, THE, THE PAYMENT LIEU, UH, PROCESS THAT WE SET UP. GOOD. WHAT WAS THAT? 1990S, MID NINETIES THOUSAND DOLLARS PER APARTMENT UNIT, OR MULTI-FAMILY UNIT DOLLAR PER SQUARE FOOT UP TO 3,500 SQUARE FEET. IS THAT STILL IN PLACE? ARE WE STILL COLLECTING THAT WE ARE STILL COLLECTING THAT. OKAY. AND SO DOES THE USE OF THAT TO SUBSIDIZE SOME OTHER THING HELP US IN THE LONG RUN WITH THIS OR NOT VERY LITTLE BECAUSE THAT THE FEE IS SO LOW. I THINK WE HAVE MAYBE ABOUT THREE, A LITTLE OVER 3 MILLION. WE HAVE DONE A HABITAT HOUSE. WE DO HAVE TWO OTHER HABITAT HOUSES COMING THROUGH THE PROCESS AND ONE ITEM. AND WE'LL BE IDENTIFYING, FINDING THE SITE THAT WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT IS MOVING FORWARD WITH SEEING IF WE COULD BRING IN WITH THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY, A HOUSING DEVELOPER, I DON'T NECESSARILY A NON-PROFIT, BUT A LOW-INCOME HOUSING DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPER WHO COULD DO SENIOR HOUSING THAT WOULD MEET THE AFFORDABLE REQUIREMENT, UM, BECAUSE THE COST OF THAT HOUSING IS SO GREAT. WE'RE NOT SURE HOW FAR THAT $3 MILLION WOULD GO OR IF IT WOULD BE FEASIBLE. BUT WE ARE LOOKING TO USE THAT MONEY IN A MEANINGFUL WAY THAT COULD ASSIST OUR COMMUNITY AND CONTINUALLY THE NEED FOR SENIOR HOUSING, AFFORDABLE SENIOR HOUSING HAS POPPED UP THROUGHOUT THIS CITY'S HISTORY AND PROBABLY MORE SO AS MANY OF OUR EARLIER RESIDENTS ARE BEGINNING TO AGE. OKAY. A HYPOTHETICAL, ALL RIGHT. WE, AS A STATE OF CALIFORNIA, SAY, THERE'S A HOUSING SHORTAGE. THEREFORE WE HAVE THIS PROGRAM THERE ALSO AT THIS POINT IN TIME, WE'RE HAVING A MASS EXODUS OF PEOPLE WITHIN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. SO IN THEORY, [00:35:01] THERE'S MORE HOUSING THAT'S BEING OPENED UP FOR USE AND FOR DEVELOPMENT OR FOR, TO BE USED BY PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE HOMES. IS THAT ANYWHERE IN THIS CALCULATION OR WOULD IT BE WORSE IF WE DIDN'T CONSIDER THAT? I MADE IT BECAUSE I MEAN, THAT'S THE REALITY. UH, PEOPLE ARE MOVING OUT HERE IN CHINO HILLS. WE HAVE PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF WHO ARE SENIORS AND EMPTY NESTERS THAT AREN'T MOVING OUT BECAUSE WE LOVE THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS AND WE CAN'T AFFORD RENT AS MUCH AS WE CAN A HOUSE PAYMENT. SO THIS IS, I MEAN, THERE'S SO MANY ELEMENTS TO THIS THAT JUST DON'T MAKE IT WORK. I MEAN, IS THERE ANYBODY MAKING THESE CALCULATIONS THAT'S TRYING TO USE COMMON SENSE. YES. AND I AM. I'M VERY AWARE OF EACH OF YOUR COMMENTS AND THEY'RE VERY GOOD COMMENTS. I HAVE HEARD THESE COMMENTS COME UP, UM, TO HCD. IN FACT, WE'VE HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH ATD REPRESENTATIVES, UM, WITH SCAG STAFF, UNFORTUNATELY, UM, THAT'S NOT ON THE RADAR OF THIS HOUSING ELEMENT CYCLE. SO THESE MARCHING ORDERS STAY IN PLACE, UM, UNTIL THE STATE LEGISLATURE SAYS OTHERWISE BEFORE, RIGHT NOW THIS IS OUR MANDATE. AND, UH, THAT'S, WHAT'S CAUSING US TO MOVE AND TO MOVE SO QUICKLY. ALL RIGHT. DO YOU WANT TO HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS? FIRST OF ALL, WE ARE ONE OF THE FEW CITIES THAT DIDN'T MEET OUR FIFTH CYCLE ARENA NUMBER. THERE'S ONLY A HANDFUL OF CITIES THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA AND WE'RE ONE OF THEM. SO THAT'S ONE THING I JUST WANTED TO LET THE PUBLIC KNOW. THE SECOND THING WAS THE INITIAL ARENA NUMBER THAT WE HAD IN THE FIFTH CYCLE WAS ABOUT 400,000 UNITS THROUGHOUT SIX COUNTIES, 191 CITIES. THAT'S CORRECT. SO WE STRIVED TO MOVE THAT FORWARD THIS TIME. SO OUR NUMBER FROM THE REGIONAL COUNCIL WAS 4,000, SAME AS LAST TIME. UM, STAFF WANTED US TO GO WITH A HIGHER NUMBER, 600,000. WE SUBMITTED A TATE CD. INITIALLY THEY SENT TO US 1.4 MILLION UNITS, AND THEN THEY RE REDUCED IT BY ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND. WHEN WE FIRST GOT OUR ALLOCATION, AS FAR AS THE NUMBERS UNITS THAT HAD TO BE BUILT, UM, IT WAS WELL OVER 4,000 AND THERE WAS AN ISSUE WITH ORANGE COUNTY NOT BEING EQUITABLE AMONGST THE OTHER FIVE OTHER COUNTIES. AND THAT GOT READJUSTED DOWN AT 37 29. BUT, UM, THIS IS, I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF MOVING PARTS HERE. UM, AND IT JUST, IT FEELS FRUSTRATING THAT, LIKE YOU SAID, THERE'S NO COMMON SENSE. SO, BUT AGAIN, I KNOW YOU HAVE TRIED WITH COMMENTS, UH, WORKING WITH THEM OR AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR ARENA, AND YOU SUPPLY IT A WHOLE LOT OF COMMENTS THAT WERE COMMON SENSE IDEAS, BUT IT JUST DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE. SO I APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORT, BUT IT IS FRUSTRATING. WELL, AND RAY, I THINK TO YOUR POINT, JUST EVERY TIME I KEEP HEARING THE RATIONALE BEHIND THIS, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THE SOVIET UNION WENT AWAY WHEN I WAS NINE, BUT A LOT OF THIS SOUNDS LIKE JUST TOP DOWN, SOVIET PLANNING, YOU KNOW, YOU GET IT FROM ON HIGH AND FORCED ONTO US AND YEAH, HEY, THERE'S NO APPEAL PROCESS. THERE'S NO, YOU KNOW, NO QUESTIONING AUTHORITY. IT'S, IT'S JUST RIDICULOUS. BUT I KNOW YOU, I KNOW YOU ESPECIALLY HAVE WORKED HARD AT SCAG TO MAKE IT AS, AS LESS ONEROUS AS WE CAN GET IT. AND YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB ON IT. AND I THINK WE OWE YOU A ACOUTO FOR THAT AND STAFF AS WELL. SO HERE WE ARE TRYING TO MEET THESE REQUIREMENTS. AND THIS IS THIS WORKSHOP AS A FOUR WORKSHOPS THAT WE'VE HAD WITH OUR PLANNING COMMISSION AS PART OF A PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IS IMPORTANT FROM SO MANY ASPECTS. UM, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US. SO OUR COMMUNITY KNOWS WHAT WE'RE DOING AND WHY WE'RE DOING IT. AND WE ARE TRYING OUR BEST TO DO IT AS REASONABLY AS POSSIBLE. SO THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC, WE WANT TO HEAR THEIR CONCERNS. AND WE HAVE TRIED TO THIS PROCESS TO ADDRESS ALL THEIR CONCERNS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WILL ALWAYS BE CONCERNS AND MANY, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY, PERHAPS MOST PEOPLE WILL NOT BE SATISFIED, BUT TAKING ALL THOSE ITEMS INTO CONSIDERATION, WE ARE DOING OUR BEST TO GET THEIR INVOLVEMENT AND TO HEAR WHAT THEY SAY AND TO TRY TO ACCOMMODATE THOSE COMMENTS WITHIN THIS VERY RIGID FRAMEWORK THAT WE HAVE. SO, UH, WE HAVE HAD A NUMBER OF PUBLIC WORKSHOPS, AS I'VE SAID, WE'VE TRIED TO GET THE WORD OUT. AND THE CHINO CHAMPION WE'VE SAID FLYERS TO WELL OVER A HUNDRED VARIOUS GROUPS, NONPROFIT GROUPS, CHURCHES, RELIGIOUS, OTHER RELIGIOUS FACILITIES, PROPERTY OWNERS FOR HOUSING GROUPS, AS MUCH AS WE COULD, WE HAVE THE WORD OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA. WE HAVE A WEBPAGE, UM, IN OUR HOUSING ELEMENT WORKSHOPS, I'D SAY WE'VE AVERAGED ABOUT 40 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. SO THAT'S, THAT'S PRETTY DARN GOOD [00:40:01] FOR, FOR, FOR OUR CITY OVERALL, I WOULD SAY THERE'S SOME REPEAT PARTICIPANTS, BUT PERHAPS A HUNDRED VARIOUS MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY HAVE PARTICIPATED AND ABOUT 50 HAVE PROVIDED COMMENTS. SO WE'RE HEARING, WE'RE HEARING. AND ONE OF THE THINGS TO ADD REGARDING COMMENTS TOO, YOU'VE ACTUALLY, IF SOMEBODY HAS A QUESTION, YOU'VE ANSWERED THOSE QUESTIONS, CORRECT? EXACTLY. WE TRY TO ANSWER EVERY SINGLE ONE, LIKE, SO IN EACH OF OUR, OUR WORKSHOPS, WE TRY TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS FROM THE LAST WORKSHOP. SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE MORE SPECIFIC, UM, THEY WILL GET A PERSONAL RESPONSE BECAUSE THEY'RE ASKING A VERY GENERIC QUESTION ABOUT A PARTICULAR SITE OR THE GENTLEMAN WHO'S WHO HAD THE LETTER ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES. WE HAVE RESPONDED TO HIM DIRECTLY BECAUSE IT WAS A DIRECT LETTER TO ME AND I WILL RESPOND OR WE GET A DIRECT LETTER TO OUR COMMISSION. I WILL PREPARE A LETTER ON THEIR BEHALF. SO JUST AN OVERVIEW OF SOME OF THE COMMENTS WE'VE, WE'VE HAD, UM, POTENTIAL IMPACTS RELATED TO WATER NOISE, SCHOOL, TRAFFIC, AND PARKING, ALL VERY, VERY GOOD QUESTIONS. UM, THESE ARE ITEMS, ALTHOUGH HTD DOES NOT CARE ABOUT THESE ITEMS AND MANY OF OUR COMMENTS HAVE RAISED THESE ISSUES. WHAT ABOUT WATER? WHAT ABOUT TRAFFIC? NO RESPONSE. HOWEVER, WE WILL TRY OUR VERY BEST TO ADDRESS ALL THESE COMMENTS THROUGH OUR GENERAL PLAN UPDATE, AS YOU, AS YOU MENTIONED. UM, SO WE WILL BE ANALYZING WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS TO THE COMMUNITY OF, OF THESE THERE'S BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT IMPACTS TO OPEN SPACE, NATURAL ENVIRONMENT. THE GOOD THING ABOUT THIS PROCESS, IF THERE IS SUCH A GOOD THING, IS THAT BECAUSE TO BUILD HIGH DENSITY, HOUSING AND CHINO HILLS, THE SITES NEED TO BE FLAT OR RELATIVELY FLAT. NONE OF THIS WILL AFFECT OUR OPEN SPACES, WHICH ARE GENERALLY HILLSIDE. SO THEY ARE OUT OF THE PICTURE. WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT ANY OPEN SPACE SITES, OTHER COMMENTS, UM, TO RECORD, TO SPREAD THE HIGH DENSITY UNITS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. AND THAT IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE CONSIDERED AND CONTINUE TO CONSIDER SUGGESTIONS TO REZONE SPECIFIC SITES. AEROJET, BOYS' REPUBLIC, A NUMBER OF OTHER ONES. AND WE, WE RESPOND DIRECTLY TO THOSE CONCERNS ABOUT THE BIG BOX RETAIL THAT I JUST MENTIONED. UH, WHY DOES CHINO HELD NEEDS TO COMPLY WITH THIS REENA? AND I WILL DISCUSS THAT BRIEFLY AND ALSO CONCERNS ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF RACISM. ARE WE, OR ARE WE HITTING A PO IN POVERTY GROUPS OR IS THERE ANY, ANY FAIR HOUSING IMPACTS TO THIS PROCESS? JOHN? QUICK QUESTION. SO LIKE WHERE IT SAYS SUGGESTION TO REASON SITES. SO LET'S JUST TAKE BOYS' REPUBLIC AS AN EXAMPLE. SO YOU THINK THAT'S PRIVATELY OWNED. SO IF THAT ZONING CHANGES TO HIGH DENSITY, WE CAN'T FORCE THEM TO BUILD IT THERE THOUGH, RIGHT? THAT'S CORRECT. AND IT WOULD BE A VERY DIFFICULT PROCESS FOR US TO EVEN ENFORCES ZONING. ALTHOUGH, ALTHOUGH WE, WE CAN, IT WOULD MAKE IT DIFFICULT. AND BECAUSE ONE OF THE CRITERIA AS HTD REVIEWS OUR PLAN, AND AGAIN, THEY WILL REVIEW IT VERY CAREFULLY IS READINESS. SO IF WE HAVE AN UNWILLING OR AN UNINTERESTED LANDOWNER, THAT'S NOT GOING TO MEET THEIR CRITERIA. OKAY. SO THE BIG QUESTION IS, WHY DO WE NEED TO COMPLY WITH THIS RINA? WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DON'T? AND ONE OF THE QUESTIONS, A NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY HAVE ASKED IS WHAT ABOUT MEASURE? YOU DOESN'T THAT STOP? UNFORTUNATELY, IT DOES NOT. UM, THE STATE RENA ALLOCATIONS OVERRIDE ANY LOCAL RESIDENTIAL GROWTH CONTROLS, INCLUDING OUR MEASURE, YOU AND WITHIN THE WORDING OF OUR MEASURE, YOU, UM, IT IS ANTICIPATED BECAUSE EVEN AT THAT TIME, WE KNEW THAT THE RENA OBLIGATIONS OVERRIDE ANY LOCAL GROWTH CONTROL. SO MEASURE YOU AS IS SILENT HERE. WHAT ARE THE PENALTIES? IF CHINO HILLS DOES NOT PLAN FOR ENOUGH HOUSING? SO STATE HOUSING ELEMENT LAW REQUIRES THAT ALL CITIES ADOPT A HOUSING ELEMENT AND COMPLY WITH THIS RENA PROCESS. IT IS LAW. THE LAW ALSO REQUIRES, AS I MENTIONED, THAT WE SUBMIT THESE ANNUAL PROGRESS REPORTS AND THESE LAWS HAVE GOTTEN MORE AND MORE STRINGENT. IF WE DO NOT MAKE THIS OCTOBER 15TH DEADLINE, THE FIRST PENALTY WE WILL HAVE IS THAT RATHER THAN DOING IT EIGHT YEAR CYCLE, WE'LL HAVE TO DO THIS EVERY FOUR YEARS, UH, PRESUMABLY WITH NEW UNITS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS EXACTLY, BUT WE WOULD HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN. AND WHAT ARE THE PENALTIES? IF WE DON'T COMPLY WITH THE LAW? WELL, THE CITY WOULD BECOME AN ELIGIBLE FOR STATE GRANT FUNDS, AND THAT COULD BE SIGNIFICANT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE, UM, ABOUT $600,000 [00:45:01] IN GRANTS, WHICH ARE VERY HELPFUL TO THE CITY. WE COULD ALSO BE TURNED OVER TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND THIS HAS HAPPENED WITH, WITH, UH, OTHER CITIES. AND IF WE DON'T COMPLY, THEY COULD FIND US. UM, AND IF WE BECOME NON-COMPLIANT WITH OUR HOUSING ELEMENT AND OUR GENERAL PLAN IS NOT COMPLIANT, WE REALLY OPEN OURSELVES TO PERCENT POTENTIAL LEGAL CHALLENGES FROM ALL KINDS OF OUTSIDE ENTITIES, NOT ONLY THE STATE, JOANNE, THIS WAS THE QUESTION I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA POST TO MARK. UH, WE'VE KICKED THIS AROUND IN THE PAST AS TUSSLE MEMBER MORAN MENTIONED SOME OF THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE MO MAYBE POTENTIAL SITES AND THAT MAYBE PRIVATELY OWNED BECAUSE THERE IS THIS STATE MANDATE FOR US TO BUILD HOMES. OBVIOUSLY EMINENT DOMAIN ALLOWS FOR PUBLIC NECESSITY TO ACQUIRE PROPERTIES. YOU CAN'T ACQUIRE PROPERTIES FOR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT, BUT IN A CASE LIKE THIS, WHERE THE STATE IS MANDATING THAT WE BUILT MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL THIS, BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY WAY WE CAN POSSIBLY MEET THESE, UH, READING THE NUMBERS. IS IT POSSIBLE, OR WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR US TO ACQUIRE PRIVATELY OWNED PROPERTIES FOR THE SPECIFIC PURPOSE OF BUILDING THESE HOMES TO MEET THE RENA NUMBERS? IS THAT A FAIR, GENERAL ENOUGH QUESTION, MARK? SORRY TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT. THAT'S FINE. UM, COUNCIL MEMBER BENNETT, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, THIS IS A, UH, THERE'S BEEN A NUMBER OF CHANGES IN THE, UH, EMINENT DOMAIN LAWS OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS AND BECOME MORE RESTRICTIVE ON PUBLIC AGENCY'S ABILITY TO TAKE PROPERTY FROM PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS, WITH THE EXCEPTION FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES AND SELL ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT IS NOW, UM, POTENTIALLY RISING TO THE TOP OF THAT IS THIS NOTION OF POTENTIALLY TAKING PROPERTY FOR HOUSING USES, WHICH AT LEAST ACCORDING TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE AND, UH, AS EVIDENCED BY THIS DISCUSSION, WE'RE HAVING AS WELL AS THE NUMEROUS, UM, DOZENS, I THINK OVER THE LAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS OF A NEW LEGISLATION ABOUT HOUSING, THAT THE ARGUMENT IS THAT YES, POTENTIALLY YOU COULD TAKE PROPERTY TO FORCE A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. UM, THAT IS NOT, WE'RE STILL REVIEWING THAT. I CAN'T SAY THERE'S A SETTLED DECISION ABOUT THAT. THAT'S A PRETTY AGGRESSIVE MANEUVER TO UNDERTAKE FOR A CITY TO ESSENTIALLY GO IN. AND, UM, AND I, I WOULD THINK IF THAT WERE GOING TO BE DONE, IT'D BE DONE IN CONCERT. AND THIS WAS THE WAY IT USED TO BE DONE WITH, UH, COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT. IT WAS REALLY DONE IN CONCERT WITH A, A COMMERCIAL DEVELOPER THAT HAD A PLAN FOR A LARGE AREA OF PROPERTIES, AND THEY WANTED TO GO IN AND ASSEMBLE THOSE PROPERTIES FOR DEVELOPMENT. AND, AND THAT WAS A PROCESS THAT WAS, UM, UTILIZED PARTICULARLY IN REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES FOR DECADES, UH, UNTIL THE STATE AND ACTUALLY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN SOME WAYS, PUT IT INTO ALL OF THAT. BUT YES, IT'S A POTENTIAL, IT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, IT'S, AGAIN, IT'S A VERY AGGRESSIVE THING TO DO, BUT IT IS A POTENTIAL. OKAY. AND IT PROBABLY, I MEAN, WOULD BE I'M SURE IN OUR CASE, AN ABSOLUTE LAST RESORT FOR US TO GET TO THAT POINT. OKAY. AND THAT'S A COUNCIL DECISION. UM, OBVIOUSLY IT WOULD BE SMOOTHER AND ASSUMING, UM, IN THIS CRYSTAL BALL OF HOW TO DEVELOP PROPERTIES THAT THAT WORKS, IF THE CRYSTAL BALL IS CORRECT, THAT IS A SMOOTHER PROCESS THAN GOING IN AND FORCIBLY TAKING PROPERTY AND DEVELOPING IT. I JUST, FOR THE RECORD, I'M NOT AN ADVOCATE OF FORCING PEOPLE AND TAKING PEOPLE'S PROPERTY, UH, BECAUSE I STRONGLY BELIEVE IN PROPERTY OWNERS RIGHTS, BUT IT IS A SITUATION WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. UM, YOU KNOW, OUR FEET GET PUT THROUGH THE FIRE WITH PENALTIES. IF WE DON'T COMPLY, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S GOOD TO START HAVING THESE KINDS OF DISCUSSIONS. NOW, I DUNNO IF MISS LOMBARDO WAS DONE WITH HER DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PENALTIES. I HAVE SOME THOUGHTS TO ADD, BUT I DON'T, I HAVE A FEW MORE, BUT, UH, CERTAINLY I JUST TO, UM, FOR THE COUNCIL AND FOR THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND JUST HOW, UM, TIED THE CITY'S HANDS REALLY ARE IN THIS PROCESS. UM, I THINK, YOU KNOW, EVEN, EVEN IT'S A MUCH BROADER ISSUE THAN JUST THESE RENA ISSUES. I REFERENCED THE LEGISLATION OVER THE LAST REALLY FIVE TO SIX YEARS THAT THE, UH, SACRAMENTO HAS BEEN UNDERTAKING. IT'S REALLY BEEN, UM, I'VE NOT SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT IN MY CAREER. THEY JUST, THE UNPRECEDENTED, UM, VOLUME AND, UM, AND YEAR AFTER YEAR, [00:50:01] UH, LEGISLATION, I MEAN, JUST, YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR, THE YEAR BEFORE WE HAD OVER A DOZEN HOUSING BILLS, I MEAN, THAT WAS JUST IN ONE YEAR AND WE, IT JUST, THE MOMENTUM IS NOT SLOWING DOWN. IT'S, IT'S RAMPING UP. AND THE, UM, THE GRANTING OF ALMOST UNFETTERED POWER FROM THE LEGISLATURE, UH, TO HCD, UH, HAS BEEN, I MEAN, THEY WENT FROM AN AGENCY THAT HAD VERY LITTLE ENFORCEMENT, UM, POWERS TO, AT THIS POINT, IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE ALMOST UNCHECKED. I MEAN, THEY, THEY REALLY HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND, AND WE'VE SEEN, UM, IN, IN REAL TIME, OVER THE LAST FOUR OR FIVE YEARS WITH THEIR ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT, A LOT OF LEGISLATION IN CITIES THAT IN GOOD FAITH, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO INTERPRET LEGISLATION THAT WAS NEW AND THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, SAID HE'S READY TO A CERTAIN WAY. AND HCD DIDN'T LIKE THE INTERPRETATIONS AND CAME BACK AND WERE REALLY PRETTY VINDICTIVE ABOUT HOW THEY THEN PASS NEW LAWS AND, AND PUT IN PROVISIONS THAT WERE, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW THEY WERE, THEY WERE NOTHING SHORT OF BEING VINDICTIVE. AND SO, AND, AND LET ME JUST, UH, AS FAR AS A DIRECT CHALLENGE TO THIS, THESE, UH, RINA THE RENA PROCESS, IT'S REALLY NOT, IT DOESN'T EXIST. UM, FOR CITIES, IF THERE WAS GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE, IT REALLY HAD TO BE DONE BY SCAG. AND, AND THAT REALLY HAD NO CHANCE OF SUCCESS OF SUCCESS. BUT AT THIS POINT, THE LAW IS VERY CLEAR. THE CITY HAS NO REAL LEGAL REMEDY TO CHALLENGE THESE NUMBERS. AND EVEN IF THAT REMEDIED EXISTED, WHICH IT DOESN'T, IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT HCD AND THE LEGISLATURE WOULD COME BACK AND DO THINGS THAT ARE WORSE. I MEAN, THAT'S JUST THEIR MINDSET AT THE MOMENT IS THEY'RE GOING TO FORCE THESE ISSUES. THEY'RE GOING TO, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE GOVERNMENT'S SAYING. THEY'RE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING HOUSES BUILT, UH, TIME WILL TELL, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO DO EVERYTHING WITHIN THEIR POWER TO TRY TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. AND REALLY WITH LITTLE REGARD TO WHAT THE VOTERS, THE STAY WANT OR WHAT THEY WANT THEIR COMMUNITIES TO LOOK LIKE, THEY, THEY REALLY DON'T CARE. THEY'VE MADE THAT VERY CLEAR. AND SO FOR THE PUBLIC, I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S UNSETTLING TO HEAR, BUT THAT'S, WHAT'S GOING ON IN SACRAMENTO. SO THIS NOTION THAT THIS COUNCIL HAS ANY CONTROL OVER THIS, IT DOESN'T EXIST. I MEAN, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S ABOUT AS DOUR LEGAL VIEW, AS I THINK I'VE EVER EXPRESSED PUBLICLY, BUT IT REALLY IS QUITE UGLY. AND YOU KNOW, I, WHAT MISS LOMBARDO IS SAYING IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. WE'RE JUST, THERE'S NO WAY OUT OF THIS. YEAH. THERE MAY BE WAYS THAT YOU CAN, UM, HAVE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT PLANS OR WHATNOT TO HIT THESE NUMBERS. UM, AS FAR AS THE PROPERTIES AND THOSE KINDS OF THINGS, BUT THIS IS NOT JUST LIKE IN THE PATH WHERE THEY WENT THROUGH EXERCISES, THIS IS REAL. AND THESE FINES CAN GET UP TO, UH, ON TOP OF EVERYTHING I'VE ALREADY POINTED OUT. THEY CAN GET UP TO WHERE THERE ARE $600,000 A MONTH FOR NOT BEING IN COMPLIANCE. IT GETS UP TO THAT, THAT RANGE. AND THEY CAN SHUT DOWN BUILDING IN THE CITY. NOW THAT WOULDN'T BE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING, THEY WOULD SHUT DOWN, BUT THEY COULD SHUT DOWN OTHER BUILDINGS IN THE CITY. AND THEN THERE ARE PROVISIONS TO ALLOW RESIDENTIAL JUST TO COME IN AND BUILD BY. RIGHT. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, BUT IN THEORY, WE COULD JUST HAVE TO GRANT PERMITS TO DEVELOPERS, TO BUILD HOUSES WITH VIRTUALLY NO PLAN. AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. IT IT'S, IT'S HARD TO VISUALIZE HOW SOMEONE MIGHT BUILD HUNDREDS OF HOMES WITHOUT A PLAN THAT WENT THROUGH A PROCESS, BUT THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT ARE WE'RE BEING THREATENED WITH. SO THAT'S PROBABLY ENOUGH FOR ME, BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE A POINT THAT IT'S, WE REALLY HAVE NO ABILITY TO CHALLENGE THESE THINGS. THIS IS THE ULTIMATE LOSS OF LIFE, LOCAL CONTROL. YEAH. NOW, WITHOUT MENTIONING THEM, YOU, YOU REPRESENT SEVERAL OTHER CITIES AS WELL. ARE THEY EQUALLY AS FRUSTRATED AND EQUALLY AS STRAPPED WITH THESE KINDS OF GUIDELINES? I THINK THERE ARE VERY FEW CITIES IN THIS STATE THAT ARE EMBRACING THIS PROCESS. THERE ARE A FEW, BUT I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF FRUSTRATION EVERYWHERE. HEY, ART, IF I CAN CHIME IN HERE REAL FAST, FIRST OF ALL, SCAG, IF YOU WERE TO ASK THE 191 CITIES, ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT THIS? PROBABLY TWO OR THREE WOULD BE HAPPY. THAT'S THE RESTAURANT HAPPY? YEAH. SO SCARED, BASICALLY MADE A DETERMINATION AND GET, I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO DETAILS. UM, A LAWSUIT DID COME UP BY A COUPLE OF ORANGE COUNTY CITIES. UM, AND WE, WE LOOKED AT THAT AND I WOULD SAY PROBABLY THEY HIRED SOME ATTORNEYS TO LOOK AT THIS THAT ARE THAT'S THEIR FORTE AND THEIR RECOMMENDATION WAS NOT TO MOVE IT FORWARD, BUT TO BASICALLY DO IT LEGISLATIVELY, WE JUST MET WITH NORMA TORRES LAST WEEK AND ALSO, UH, JOSH NEWMAN, TRYING TO DO AN AUDIT OF HCD. SO WE ARE TRYING [00:55:01] TO MOVE FORWARD TO BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING. YEAH. OKAY. SO, BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE TO DO THIS TODAY AND AGAIN, I'M ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO SAY TO YOU. WE'RE NOT HERE AS A CITY TO BUILD PROPERTIES FORTE. OKAY. WE JUST HAVE TO JUST OWN FOR IT. IS THAT CORRECT? OKAY. I NEED TO PICK UP THE PHONE. I'M JUST JOKING. OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU, MR. CITY ATTORNEY, A VERY SUCCINCT PRESENTATION OF THE PENALTIES. HE HIT THE KEY POINTS, COUNCIL MEMBER MARQUEZ. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INPUT. THESE ARE VERY, VERY DIFFICULT POSITION THAT THE CITY IS IN. SO I WILL JUST PASS THROUGH SOME OF THESE SLIDES SINCE IT WAS ALREADY VERY WELL SUMMARIZED. I WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE PENALTIES AND I WANT TO SAY, AS A CITY ATTORNEY MENTIONED, IT'S VERY BIZARRE BECAUSE WE HAVE THESE THREATS IN WRITING. FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE DON'T COMPLY, WHAT IF WE DON'T BUILD ENOUGH HOUSING AS COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN SAID, WELL, THE WAY IT'S WORDED THAT A DEVELOPER COULD CLAIM RIGHTS TO BUILD HOUSING ON SITES, NOT DESIGNATED BY THE CITY FOR HOUSING. WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? DOES THAT MEAN THE CITY LOSES ALL LAND USE AUTHORITY. SO IT IS A VERY UNSETTLING PROCESS. UM, JOANNE, IF WE START ALLOWING WELL, BECAUSE WE CAN'T PROHIBIT THE USE, DO ADU CONSTRUCTIONS WORK TOWARDS OUR RENA NUMBERS OR NOT. OKAY. THEY CAN. UM, ACTUALLY THIS IS ONE PIECE THAT SCAG DID DO SOME ASSISTS. SO SCAG DID WORK WITH ATD FOR EACH OF ITS COUNTIES TO COME UP WITH A, A PERCENTAGE OF THEIR ADU THAT COULD QUALIFY. AND I BELIEVE THAT THE PERCENTAGE HAS ABOUT 30, 30% OF OUR ADY USE COULD QUALIFY AS LOWER INCOME. THE QUESTION WILL BE, HOW MANY DO WE HAVE? WHAT SHOULD WE ESTIMATE? AND WHEN, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE NUMBERS, SO TOO, THIS IS KIND OF THE INTERESTING PART. SO WE HAVE THESE 2,209 LOWER INCOME HOUSING UNITS. WE NEED TO PROVIDE FOR TARGET, HIT IT. MOST CITIES, AND EVEN HCD IS RECOMMENDING A BUFFER. WELL, MAYBE WE SHOULD ADD ANOTHER COUPLE OF HUNDRED THIS WAY IN CASE THEY DON'T COME, THEY DON'T MOVE THERE. THAT'S HARD FOR US. IT'S ALSO HARD FOR US BECAUSE OF MEASURE YOU, DO WE NEED IT? DO WE HAVE IT? SO WE'RE THINKING THIS IS WHERE THE ADU HAS COME IN BECAUSE THE ADU IS AGAIN OR OUTSIDE OF MEASURE YOU. SO PERHAPS WE'LL USE WHATEVER COUNT WE HAVE OR CAN MAKE FOR OUR 80 USE. AS THAT BUFFER IN CASE A COUPLE OF THE UNITS COME IN A LITTLE LOWER WHILE WE HAVE THESE, YOU KNOW, 10 80 USE OVER HERE THAT WE CAN, WE STILL MEET IT. SO THAT'S SOME OF THE STRATEGIZING IN MEETING THESE VERY STRINGENT REQUIREMENTS. BUT, BUT BOTTOM LINE IS BECAUSE FOR A LONG TIME, WE WERE ALLOWING THREE TO 5,000 SQUARE FOOT, LOTS VERSUS THE, WE WENT BACK TO THE 7,200 SQUARE FOOT, LOTS. HOW MANY HOMES WITH, OR SITES WITHIN THE CITY COULD EVEN ACCOMMODATE 80 YEARS? I MEAN, HAVE WE EVER GIVEN AN ESTIMATE OF HOW MANY, IF EVERYBODY BUILT ONE THAT HAS LAND AVAILABLE TO BUILD ONE, HOW MANY ADY USE WOULD WE GET MAYBE A HUNDRED OR SO IT'S NOT A BIG NUMBER, ISN'T IT? IT COULD ACTUALLY BE A BIG NUMBER. IT COULD BE BECAUSE THEY CAN BUILD THEM WITHIN THEIR EXISTING HOME FOUR, RIGHT? PARDON? THEY GET AT FOUR ON ONE SITE TOTAL THROUGH TWO, TWO, SO THEY COULD DO A JUNIOR AND ADU. MANY OF THE AID USE COULD BE QUITE SMALL. THEY COULD, COULD REDEVELOP THEIR HOUSE. THERE, THERE WILL BE SOME OF THE VERY SMALL LOTS, THE 3000 SQUARE FOOT. THAT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT. BUT IF, IF THERE'S A WILLING OWNER AND THEY WANT TO INVEST, YES, THERE'S A LOT OF POSSIBILITY. SO WHAT WE CAN COME BACK WITH, UH, UM, UH, PERHAPS NUMBER, BUT IT'S, IT'S REALLY A GUESSTIMATE BECAUSE, AND THE LAWS KEEP GETTING, I WANT TO SAY MORE RELAXED. SO THE OPPORTUNITY TO PUT HOUSING IN GARAGES, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY COULD CONVERT THEIR GARAGE TO AN ADU. SO REALLY ANY, ANY HOMEOWNER COULD DO THAT. WHAT ABOUT APARTMENTS? THERE, THERE, APARTMENTS CAN ALSO COME IN. I BELIEVE IT'S UP TO 25 OF THEIR BASE UNITS. UH, THERE ARE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS, BUT YES, EVEN IN MULTI-FAMILY WHO CAN COME IN FOR ADU. SO IT IS, I WANT TO SAY IT'S A LITTLE WILD OUT THERE. YEAH. AND THEN YOU GOT THE PROBLEMS THAT WAS VOICED IN SOME OF THE COMMENTS ABOUT, OKAY, YOU DO THAT. AND WHAT ABOUT PARKING? PARKING IS GOING TO BE A MAIN MAJOR ISSUE. AND THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE ADJACENT TO THESE NEIGHBORHOODS POTENTIALLY DO HAVE THE PROBLEM BECAUSE WE'VE HAD IT IN OTHER AREAS IN THE CITY THROUGH THE YEARS WHERE YOU BUILD, AND THERE'S NOT ENOUGH PARKING, THEY'RE GOING TO USE THE RESIDENTIAL STREETS NEXT, NEXT, OR ADJACENT TO THEM. [01:00:01] AND IT'S A PROBLEM. IT'S THERE IS, THERE'S NO PERFECT SOLUTION FOR THIS. IT'S JUST A MESS. IT IS. AND UNFORTUNATELY, PARKING IS CONSIDERED A, AN OBSTACLE TO HOUSING FROM HCD. SO IN OUR ADU ORDINANCE, THERE'S A LOT OF PROVISIONS FOR NOT REQUIRING PARKING FOR THE ADU. SO THERE'S A LOT OF PROVISIONS THAT IF, IF SOMEBODY DOES CONVERT THE GARAGE, THEY DON'T NEED TO REPLACE THE GARAGE. IT'S DIFFICULT. AND EVEN FOR THESE REZONING PARKING, AGAIN, AS AN OBSTACLE, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF COMMENTS THAT OUR PARKING STANDARDS ARE TOO HIGH FROM THE STATE. SO YOU'RE RIGHT. JOANNE, I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. WERE YOU DONE? YEAH. OKAY. SO NOT AS MUCH OF A CONSTELLATION TO THE, THE PEOPLE THAT CALLED IN AND THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT TRAFFIC AND DIFFERENT THINGS. SO WHEN A PROJECT DOES COME TO YOU, THOUGH, IT'S GOING TO HAVE THE SAME REQUIREMENTS OF VETTING TRAFFIC, UM, YOU KNOW, MITIGATION AND ALL THAT, THIS STUFF THEY DO. WHEN YOU DEVELOP A PROJECT, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET A FREE PASS ON ANYTHING LIKE THEY'RE GOING TO, YOU KNOW, GO THROUGH LIKE SEQUEL AND STUFF LIKE THAT. THAT'S CORRECT. RIGHT. SO I THINK WHAT'S ALARMING TO PEOPLE IS THAT AS SOON AS THESE UNITS OR THE ZONING IS CHANGED, FOR INSTANCE, I'VE GOTTEN SOME PEOPLE CALL FROM, YOU KNOW, THE LIVE ACROSS FROM COSTCO. AND, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS EVEN PEOPLE THAT WERE PUTTING SIGNS UP OVER THERE THAT, YOU KNOW, CALL YOUR COUNCIL MEMBER THERE. THEY'RE GOING TO PUT APARTMENTS HERE. SO I THINK LIKE WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE ALREADY SAID, IT'S LIKE, WHAT WE'RE DOING, TRYING TO BE VERY CLEAR HERE IS THAT AS WE SPEAK RIGHT NOW, THERE ARE NO PENDING PROJECTS IN THOSE CENTERS. SO WE APPRECIATE PEOPLE CALLING IN AND VOICING THEIR CONCERN. BUT LIKE WITH ANY OTHER PROJECT, ONCE A PROJECT DOES COME TO THOSE SIDES, WHATEVER IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND SEQUEL AND THINGS LIKE THAT. THAT'S CORRECT. SO AGAIN, USING AN EXAMPLE OF THE CROSSROADS MARKETPLACE, SINCE I CAME UP A NUMBER OF TIMES THIS EVENING, UM, IF THAT WAS TO MOVE FORWARD, THE PARKING WOULD BE, BE EVALUATED. AND TO SOME EXTENT, A SITE LIKE THAT WOULD BE AN EASY ONE TO PARK BECAUSE THERE IS SUCH A BIG FIELD OF PARKING ALREADY THAT THAT IS UNUSED. SO THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE EASIER THAN SOME OF THESE INFILL SITES TO PARK. BUT AS LONG AS WE CAN REQUIRE THE PARKING, WE WILL, WE WILL, RIGHT. CAUSE WHEN PEOPLE START CONVERSATION OR AN EMAIL TO US AND THEY SAY, I WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THE PROJECT THAT'S BEING PLANNED. THERE ARE NO PROJECTS BEING PLANNED AT THESE SITES. THERE'S NO PROJECT BEING PLANNED WHERE THE BOWLING ALLEY IS THEIRS. YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING THROUGH A PROCESS OF ZONING THEORETICAL. YES. I'M JUST KIND OF SAYING THIS OUT LOUD FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE LISTENING, BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY THE BIGGEST POINT OF CONTENTION RIGHT NOW IS RESIDENTS THINK THAT WE'RE STARTING TO DEVELOP THESE PROJECTS IN THESE CENTERS AND WE'RE NOT. SO OKAY. RIGHT. VERY IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL SITES TIME, THE LEGAL CHALLENGES, WHICH CITY ATTORNEY'S ALREADY HIT ON. SO I'M NOT GOING TO HIT THAT AGAIN. THE NEXT ITEM THAT'S COME UP IS AFFIRMATIVE HOUSING, FAIR HOUSING. AND THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THIS PROCESS. THERE HAS BEEN SOME COMMENTS RAISE THAT. ARE WE TRYING TO PUT ALL THE HOUSING IN ONE PLACE? DO WE HAVE A, AN AREA IN CHINO HILLS, WHICH IS CONSIDERED LOW RESOURCE? SO WHAT HCD IS DEFINED, DEFINES FAIR HOUSING OR AREAS THAT NEED TO BE BALANCED AS AREAS WITHIN A CITY THAT HAVE LOW RESOURCES. THAT MEANS A LACK OF ADEQUATE SCHOOLS, A LACK OF ADEQUATE JOBS, UH, DISPROPORTIONATELY HAVE MORE POLLUTION, LESS ACCESS TO TRANSIT TO EVALUATE WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE SUCH AN AREA WITHIN A CITY. WHAT HTD RECOMMENDS IS THIS MAPPING THAT STEM BY THE CALIFORNIA TAX CREDIT CREDIT, EXCUSE ME, TAX CREDIT ALLOCATION, UH, DEPARTMENT. THEY HAVE A HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY MAPS. AND ON THOSE MAPS, THEY SAY WHICH, WHICH AREAS OF THE CITIES ARE HIGH RESOURCE OR LOW RESOURCE OR SOMEPLACE IN BETWEEN. ARE THOSE ALREADY IN EXIST IN, WELL, THERE YOU GO. YEAH, THERE IT IS. SO WE TOOK A LOOK AT IT AND THE BLUE MEANS THE HIGHEST RESOURCE. THAT MEANS THAT THOSE AREAS THAT ARE BLUE HAVE GOOD ACCESSIBILITY TO SCHOOLS, TO JOBS, TO ALL OTHER KINDS OF RESOURCES AND THAT THEY'RE ESSENTIALLY INCOME BALANCED. SO I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS IS GOING TO RELATE WHEN OUR CENSUS COMES OUT, BUT THIS IS INFORMATION WE'RE WORKING WITH. SO OUR GOAL THROUGH THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN TO DISTRIBUTE THE SITES THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AGAIN, RECOGNIZING WHAT A SENSITIVE ISSUES THESE ARE FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE NEARBY. BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, BASED ON THIS MAP, ALL THE AREA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF CHINO HILLS STATE PARK IS WITHIN THE HIGH RESOURCE AREA. AND WITH THAT PART, I'M GOING TO HAND THIS PRESENTATION OFF TO MY COUGH LINGER. WHO'S GOING TO TALK MORE ABOUT [01:05:01] THE SITE SELECTION PROCESS AND THE NITTY GRITTY THAT WE HAVE GONE THROUGH WITH OUR PLANNING COMMISSION. SO I'LL LET HIM RUN YOU THROUGH. THANK YOU, JOANNE. THAT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE. OH, GOOD EVENING. OR GOOD AFTERNOON, UH, MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBERS. UH, SO THE SECOND HALF OF THIS PRESENTATION, I'LL BRIEFLY TOUCH ON THE EXISTING MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT. THAT'S CURRENTLY IN THE CITY RIGHT NOW, AS WELL AS THE POTENTIAL SITES THAT HAVE BEEN ASSESSED AND PRESENTED TO PLANNING COMMISSION, THE PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS, AND, UH, WRAP UP WITH THE, UH, FIRST STRAPPED ALLOCATION OF THE HIGH DENSITY, LOWER RENA UNITS FOR THE SITES. CURRENTLY, THE CITY HAS 31 MULTIFAMILY PROPERTIES, WHICH ACCOMMODATE APPROXIMATELY 5,800 UNITS. I AVERAGE ABOUT 15 ACRES WITH A DENSITY AVERAGE DENSITY OF 19 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE. UH, AS YOU CAN SEE THE MAP THEY'RE KIND OF SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE NORTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHERLY PORTION OF THE CITY, WOULD YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE A HOUSE HIGH AND LOW, ROUGHLY THIS IS OBVIOUSLY AN AVERAGE, WHAT WOULD BE MAYBE THE HIGHEST DENSITY THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THE CITY AND THE LOWEST? UH, THE HIGHEST DENSITY WE HAVE ACTUALLY IS AT THE LA PARK CONDOS. THEY'RE AT 30, 34.4 D ONE ACRE. THAT'S WHY SCENIC RIDGE THE PARK. YES. YES. OKAY. AND, AND THE, THE LOWEST ROUGHLY. OKAY. UH, THE LOWEST CAN BE DOWN ALL THE WAY TO ABOUT THREE, WHICH IS A BIT SKEWED BECAUSE IT'S THE, UH, UH, IT'S THE MOBILE HOME PARK OVER OUR LOW SERRANO'S, WHICH ENCOMPASSES KIND OF A LARGE ACRE. UH, SO IF YOU, IF YOU WANT TO TAKE MORE OF A RELATIVE, UH, IT COULD BE RANGE, LOWEST RANGE, ABOUT 8.9. OKAY. OUTSIDE OF THE MOBILE HOMES. OKAY. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE AREAS THAT WOULD FAR EXCEED THE RENA GUIDELINES TO QUALIFY. SO WE'VE ALREADY GOT IT. SO IF PEOPLE WANT TO JUST LOOK AND SEE WHAT IT COULD LOOK LIKE, THEY CAN GO SEE IT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. JUMPING INTO THE SITE INVENTORY GUIDEBOOK, UH, THE STATE STATE HAS SUPPLIED, UH, A GUIDEBOOK THAT'S UNDER GOVERNMENT CODE SIX FIVE FIVE EIGHT 3.2, UH, WHICH HELPS IDENTIFY, UH, SITES. IT'S A, UH, A SEVEN STEP PROCESS THAT OUTLINES SPECIFIC CRITERIA TO HELP CITIES IDENTIFY THESE POTENTIAL SITES, WHETHER IT BE FOR LOWER INCOME, UH, AND MODERATE AND ABOVE MODERATE AS WELL. UH, SO STARTING WITH STEP ONE IS IDENTIFYING THE DEVELOPABLE SITES. UH, IT COULD BE VACANT SITES THAT ARE ZONED FOR RESIDENTIAL USES VACANT SITES FOR NON-RESIDENTIAL USE THAT ALLOW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, UH, RESIDENTIAL ZONES, UH, THAT ARE CAPABLE OF BEING DEVELOPED AT A HIGHER DENSITY, WHICH CAN INCLUDE NON VACANT SITES OR UNDERUTILIZED SITES, UH, SITES OWNED OR LEASED BY THE CITY OR COUNTY AND SITES SOWN FOR NON-RESIDENTIAL USE THAT CAN BE REDEVELOPED FOR RESIDENTIAL USE AND REZONED TO PERMIT THAT RESIDENTIAL USE A STEP. STEP TWO IS TO INVENTORY. THESE SITES, UH, INCLUDE APN SIZE, UH, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE OWNERSHIP, CURRENT GENERAL PLAN ZONING, EXISTING USE, AND DESCRIPTION OF THESE DEVELOPED SITES, A NUMBER OF POTENTIALS, UH, DUI THAT CAN BE REALISTICALLY ACCOMMODATE FOR THESE SITES, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE AVAILABILITY AND IDENTIFY RE REALLY RENA INCOME CATEGORY THREE JUMPS INTO THE INFRASTRUCTURE AVAILABILITY, UH, MORE FOCUSED ON THE, UH, HIGH DENSITY, UH, LOWER RINA. UH, THOSE SITES REALLY HAVE TO BE READILY AVAILABLE, MEANING THAT THEY HAVE WATER, SEWER, DRY UTILITIES AVAILABLE TO BUILD AND PRETTY MUCH CONNECT, UH, AND THEN PROVIDE ANALYSIS, UH, FOR SUFFICIENT WATER AND SEWER TREATMENT FACILITY THAT CAN, UH, FOR THE CAPACITY TO ACCOMMODATE, UH, FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE SITES, UH, MAP THE SITES, UH, ALSO DETERMINE CONSISTENCY WITH FAIR HOUSING UNDER ASSEMBLY, BILL SIX 86, UH, STEP SIX, UH, INCLUDES THE, UH, RENA INCOME CATEGORY ALLOCATING SPECIFIC TO THOSE UNITS. [01:10:01] UH, AND THEN STEP SEVEN, WE'LL IDENTIFY ANY ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS THAT ARE WITHIN THOSE POTENTIAL SITES. SO THIS OVERVIEW RIGHT HERE, IT KIND OF PAINTS THE PICTURE AND GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF THE CONSTRAINTS THAT THE CITY FACES AND THE CHALLENGES OF FINDING THESE POTENTIAL SITES. UH, WHAT'S SHADED IN YELLOW ARE EITHER EXTREME TOPOGRAPHY OR SLOPES THAT ARE OVER 10% SHADED IN BLUE OR DEVELOPED LAND. AND SHADED IN GREEN ARE THE ACTUAL FLAT VACANT PROPERTIES, UH, THAT ARE WITHIN THE CITY FOR POTENTIAL HIGH DENSITY, RESIDENTIAL. UH, YOU HAVE APPROXIMATELY ABOUT SEVEN, UH, THAT ARE LOCATED IN THE UPPER HALF OF THE CITY. YEAH. JUMPING DOWN TO THE BOTTOM HALF OF THE CITY IS LARGELY OCCUPIED BY STATE PARK AND BY THE, UH, EXTREME SLOPES AND, UH, EXTREME TOPOGRAPHY AND SLOPES OF OVER 10%, UH, AS WELL AS YOUR DEVELOPED LAND. AND THEN THE LOAN FLAT PIECE OF PARCEL, UH, THAT SURROUNDS THE PROPERTY, WHICH IS CURRENTLY THE SHADY VIEW PROJECT WITH THOSE GUIDELINES AND SPECIFIC CRITERIA THAT THE STATE PUTS OUT, UH, STAFF WENT THROUGH AND RESEARCHED, UH, AND FOUND UP TO, UH, 30 TOTAL SITES, UH, FOR, UH, FOR THEM TO BE ASSESSED AS PART OF THE, UH, FIRST PHASE OF HIGH DENSITY, UH, FINDING THE, THE, UH, LOWER RINA, UH, NUMBER THESE 30 SITES WERE PRESENTED, UH, IN THE FIRST TWO WORKSHOP MEETINGS ON FEBRUARY 2ND AND FEBRUARY 16TH OF THE 30 ASSESS SITES, 16 WERE VACANT, THREE WERE OPEN SPACE AND 11 WORK DEVELOPED OUT OF THE DEVELOPED PROPERTIES. TWO OF THEM WERE GOLF COURSES, THREE WERE DEVELOPED, UH, SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AND SIX WERE COMMERCIAL CENTERS, ALL RANGE FROM 0.3 ACRES TO 291 ACRES. AND THEN I GOT A QUESTION FOR YOU CHANGE THE GOLF COURSES. WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE COMPLETE GOLF COURSE TO BE DEVELOPED JUST A PERCENTAGE, CORRECT? CORRECT. YES. WHICH TWO GOLF COURSES ARE YOU REFERRING TO IN THAT? UH, THE GOLF COURSES ARE LOW SERRANO'S IN WESTERN HILLS. SO STAFF BEGIN TO ASSESS ALL 30 PROPERTIES AND LARGELY DUE TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS, UH, LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, TOPOGRAPHY. IT AUTOMATICALLY KNOCKED OFF 17 SITES, WHICH BROUGHT THE LIST DOWN A 13, UH, TO REFINE THE LIST, WHICH WAS PRESENTED TO PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE THIRD WORKSHOP MEETING ON MARCH 2ND. UH, THOSE 13 SITES THAT ARE, UH, WERE CONTINUED TO BE ASSESSED, UH, SIX WERE VACANT AND SEVEN WERE DEVELOPED, UH, OF THOSE SEVEN. TWO OF THEM ARE GOLF COURSES TO SINGLE FAMILY, HOME, LOTS AND THREE COMMERCIAL SITES, UH, RANGING FROM TWO TO 291 ACRES. SO AS STAFF CONTINUE TO ASSESS, UH, THESE SITES, UH, FOUR ADDITIONAL SITES GOT KNOCKED OFF AND WE, UH, CONTINUE TO REFINE THE LIST AND BROUGHT IT DOWN TO NINE. UH, THIS LIST WAS PRESENTED TO A PLANNING COMMISSIONER AT THE FOURTH WORKSHOP MEETING ON MARCH 16TH. THE REASONS FOR HAVING THIS LIST, OTHER THAN THE INDUSTRY, WELL, FROM GOING FROM, UH, 13 TO NINE OR SIMILAR ISSUES, I LACK OF INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, TOPOGRAPHY, UH, JUST NOT ENOUGH AVAILABLE LAND. UH, SOME OF THE PROPERTIES MAY HAVE SOME EXTREME SLOPES AND THEN THEY HAVE MIGHT A SMALL, SMALL PORTION OF A FLAT PIECE OF PROPERTY. AND IT JUST WASN'T A SIGNIFICANT SIZE FOR, FOR AT LEAST HIGH DENSITY. RESIDENTIAL. THANK YOU. UH, SO OF THE NINE SITES, THE THREE ARE VACANT, SIX WERE DEVELOPED, UH, TO THE TWO GOLF COURSES, REMAINED ONE SINGLE FAMILY HOME PROPERTY IN THREE COMMERCIAL CENTERS. UH, THE PARCEL SIZES RANGE FROM TWO TO 177 ACRES, BUT THE SPECIFIC SITE SIZE THAT WE'RE IDENTIFYING ON THESE PARCELS ARE GOING TO RANGE FROM TWO TO 200 TO TWO TO 21 ACRES. EXCUSE ME, WHAT WAS ALSO PRESENTED AT THE FOURTH WORKSHOP MEETING WAS A DRAFT ALLOCATION OF UNITS FOR THESE SITES. UM, STAFF HAS NOT ONLY FOLLOW THE CRITERIA THAT SPECIFIC, UH, TO THE A SITE GUIDE BOOK. UH, BUT WE'VE ALSO BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE OWNERS, UH, FOR INTEREST IN MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO OVER-ALLOCATE, UH, AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT INTEREST IS THERE FOR THE OWNERS TO BE ABLE TO ALLOCATE A REALISTIC NUMBER. UH, SO [01:15:01] THE CITY DOES NOT HAVE TO DEAL WITH ANY NO NET LOSS. UH, IF WE WERE TO OVER-ALLOCATE POINT, SO SHOPS TO SITE, UH, PRELIMINARY PRELIMINARILY, WE ARE LOOKING AT 460 UNITS, UH, THE PARK OVERFLOW PARKING OVERFLOW, WHICH IS, UH, THE OVERFLOW SITE SOUTH OF THE COMMUNITY PARK, LOOKING AT 50 UNITS, WHICH IS ABOUT 510 UNITS FOR VACANT SITES. AND THEN THE LOW SERRANO'S GOLF COURSE, UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT 532 WESTERN HILLS GOLF COURSE, 166, THE KVL PROPERTY UP TO 180 A SHOP SITE, 151, UH, THE COMMENTS COMMERCIAL CENTER UP TO 300 AND THE CROSSROADS MARKETPLACE UP TO THREE 70, WHICH YOU BRING THE TOTAL UP TO ABOUT 1700 REACHING THAT 2,209 ON THE PARKING OVERFLOW. SO THAT'S NOT THE, IS IT WAS THE PARKING STRUCTURE CONSIDERED THAT PROPERTY? NO. THE, UH, ARE YOU ASKING AS PART OF THE ORIGINAL ASSESSMENT, OR ARE YOU ASKING IF THAT ORIGINAL ASSESSMENT, UH, THE, THE SMALL SLIVER ADJACENT TO THE PARKING LOT? YEAH, NO. I MEAN LIKE, LIKE TEAR THE BUILDING DOWN AND BUILD SOMETHING ON IT. NO, WE DID NOT. NO, WE DID NOT ASSESS THAT THAT 460 YEARS, THAT WOULD BE ASSUMING THAT YOU WOULD BUILD HIGH DENSITY ON THE ENTIRE SITE NOW FOREVER. WE'VE HAD POTENTIAL OF, YOU KNOW, 40 ACRES OF, WELL, NOT 40 ACRES, EXCUSE ME, 40,000 SQUARE FEET OF, OF, UH, COMMERCIAL. WE WERE LOOKING AT ANYWHERE FROM 125 TO 235 UNITS, BASICALLY, DEPENDING ON WHETHER, WHAT WE WERE GOING TO DO SUBTERRANEAN PARKING ON THAT SITE. SO THIS IS KIND OF A, IF WE DEVELOP THE WHOLE THING ARE CORRECT RIGHT BEFORE, JUST TO ILLUSTRATE THAT WE STILL CAN'T COME ANYWHERE NEAR 3,700 UNITS. WELL, I'M SORRY. SAY THAT AGAIN, SHOWING THAT WE'VE GOT 2200 UNITS POTENTIALLY HERE THAT WE'RE, AND WE'VE GOT RENA NUMBERS AT A 3,700. SO, I MEAN, EVEN IF WE TAKE ALL THESE SITES, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH CAPACITY TO BUILD THE NUMBER OF UNITS THAT ARE REQUIRED. IS THAT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ILLUSTRATE OR JUST WHAT IS AVAILABLE POTENTIALLY THIS PHASE REALLY ONLY FOCUSES ON THE HIGH DENSITY. SO THE LOWER RENA, SO THAT LOWER RENA NUMBER IS THAT 2,209, THE 3,729 IDENTIFIES THE ABOVE AND ABOVE MODERATE ON TOP OF THE LOWER RENA NUMBER. OKAY. SO, AND AS JOANNE, UH, MENTIONED EARLIER, THE, UH, UH, THE SITES THAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY ZONED FOR RS WILL MEET THAT ABOVE MODERATE PLUS SOME PROJECTS THAT WE DO HAVE IN THE, IN THE WORKS. UM, BUT THIS JUST FOCUSES ON JUST THE HIGH DENSITY LOWER. OKAY. AND ONE OF THE THINGS OBVIOUSLY CONSPICUOUS BY ITS ABSENCE, BECAUSE PEOPLE OUT THERE WE'VE TALKED SO MUCH ABOUT TRACER MOTTOES, WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADDRESS WHY THAT ISN'T INCLUDED IN THIS, OR IS IT INCLUDED IN SOME OTHER NUMBERS OR, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO HAPPEN WITH IT OR ANY DEVELOPMENT TO OCCUR, BUT SHOULD WE JUST GET THAT OUT THERE? AND I MEAN, SHOULD WE TALK ABOUT HOW WAS IT CONSIDERED EXEMPT A HANDS-OFF I GOT A QUESTION. IF I CAN ASK YES. PERTAINING TO THE SITE SIX, THE WANG PROPERTY. THAT'S NOT THE TOTAL LAKERIDGE RIGHT. OF WEARING, OH, NO. OKAY. NO, IT'S NOT. THAT'S JUST A PORTION THAT THE FLAT PORTION OF THE SITE, UH, THE REASON WHY WE HAVE NOT ALLOCATED ANY NUMBERS YET IS BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE STILL CONTINUING TO WORK WITH THE OWNER. UM, SO THAT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A POTENTIAL FOR HIGH DENSITY. UH, BUT WE HAVE NOT IDENTIFIED ANYTHING WITH THE OWNER, TOTAL ACREAGE. IF YOU CAN REMEMBER OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD, UH, TOTAL ACRES, I BELIEVE IT WAS, UH, YOU KNOW, I HAVE IT RIGHT HERE, ACTUALLY. SO THE OWNER HAS TO SIGN OFF ON, ON HOW MANY UNITS WE'RE GOING TO PLACE THEM. I, THEY DON'T KNOW GOING TO HAVE TO SIGN OFF, BUT IT IS GOOD FOR THE CITY TO WORK WITH OWNERS. SO WE CAN, AND THEY WORK WITH THEIR DEVELOPERS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE REALISTIC NUMBER THAT THEY CAN PLACE ON THAT SITE. IT MAKES SURE IT PENCILS OUT SO THEY CAN ACTUALLY BUILD EXACTLY RIGHT. SO WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A NET LOSS, NO NET LOSS, UH, THE WINK PROPERTY TOTAL, SIDE'S 177 ACRES. THANK YOU. REGARDING THE MILITIA RHINOS GOLF COURSE. UM, WHAT TYPE OF UNITS ARE WE LOOKING AT PUTTING ON THERE OR THE OWNER? I SHOULD SAY IT'S NOT THE CITY 32 ARE HIGH DENSITY. UM, AND WE ALSO MODERATE AND ABOVE MODERATE THERE AS WELL. OKAY. AND THIS IS ONLY NINE HOLES OF THE EXISTING NORTH COURSE, CORRECT? UH, SOUTH OF COURSE. SOUTH COURSE. OKAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT, COOL. RIGHT. THAT WRAPS AROUND CLOSE TO PIPELINE. RIGHT. THANK YOU. I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THE REASON WHY WE'RE TRYING TO WORK WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS IS BECAUSE OF THE NO NET LOSS. SO IF WE DO ALLOCATE, LET'S SAY, UH, THE LOW SERRANO'S [01:20:01] GOLF COURSE FOR 500 HIGH DENSITY, AND THEY ONLY COME IN WITH 300, WHAT DO DO WITH THE OTHER 200? ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'RE ON IT'S OUR JOB TO FIND ANOTHER SEIFERT, ANOTHER 200 HIGH DENSITY UNITS. SO IT'S VERY DIFFICULT. SO WE ARE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE NUMBERS ARE REALISTIC, THAT THE PROPERTY OWNERS ARE INTERESTED AND THEY ARE LIKELY TO BE BUILT SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE. THAT IS THE GOAL HERE. SO TRES HERMANAS, UM, IN OUR LAST SEVERAL HOUSING ELEMENTS, AND I WANT TO SAY, WE'RE GOING THREE HOUSING ELEMENTS BACK THE CITY HAS LOOKED TO TRES HERMANAS TO MEET THIS HIGH DENSITY. THERE'S A PORTION OF THE TRES HERMANAS SITE, WHICH IS ADJACENT TO GRANT, WHICH IS RELATIVELY FLAT. AND I DO WANT TO POINT OUT AND THAT THE VERY EARLIEST OF THE CHINO HILLS SPECIFIC PLAN, IT WAS IDENTIFIED AS A VILLAGE BACK WHEN THE CITY FOUNDERS CAME, THEY SAID, OH, YES. IN THE FUTURE, WE CAN SEE A LITTLE COMMUNITY HERE AT THIS AREA OF TRACE ROMANOS. SO AS A CITY WAS STRUGGLING THREE CYCLES AGO TO SAY, WHERE CAN WE PUT IT? UM, WE LOOKED AT THAT SITE AND AT THE TIME IT WAS A VERY DIFFERENT SCENARIO. UH, I BELIEVE, UH, THE CITY MANAGER AT THE TIME, DIDN'T NOTIFY THE CITY MANAGER OF THE CITY OF INDUSTRY. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING. UM, SO WE HAVE HAD UNITS THERE AT OUR LAST HOUSING ELEMENT. WE HAD ABOUT 300 IN THERE AND, UH, ABOUT 200 HAD BEEN MOVED TO OTHER SITES THROUGH THE SUBSEQUENT GENERAL PLAN PROCESS THAT THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY A HUNDRED HIGH DENSITY, THESE LOWER INCOME UNITS ON THAT SITE. UM, WE HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING WITH THEM BECAUSE OF THIS, NO NET LOSS, AS WE GO THROUGH OUR HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE, WE MAY VERY WELL GET A, UM, A QUESTION FROM HTD. WHAT ABOUT THOSE? WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THOSE? UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE A CHALLENGE. SO IF WE CAN MOVE THEM THROUGH THIS PROCESS, WE WILL, THE NEXT PROCESS WE'RE GOING TO DO IS A GENERAL PLAN UPDATE. WE WILL CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR SITES TO MOVE THEM THEN, BUT, UM, IT'S, IT'S A CHALLENGE BECAUSE OF THAT. NO, NO, NO NET LOSS. SO AT THIS POINT WE'RE BEING SILENT ON THOSE UNITS. OKAY. NEXT STEPS, UH, FOR STAFF IS TO BRING BACK A REFINED SITE SELECTION, UH, ALONG WITH, UH, UH, SOME ADDITIONAL, UH, ALLOCATION OF UNITS. WE'RE ALSO GOING TO TOUCH ON THE, UH, THE MODERATE, TRY TO FIND MODERATE SITES AS WELL FOR WORKSHOP NUMBER FIVE, UH, ON APRIL SIX FOR PLANNING COMMISSION. UH, THEN SHORTLY AFTER THAT, WE WILL BEGIN DRAFTING THE HOUSING ELEMENT, UH, SEND IT OUT FOR PUBLIC REVIEW AND THEN SUBMIT TO HCD AND THEN BEGIN THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE, UM, EITHER AROUND THE SAME TIME OR JUST RIGHT AFTER. UM, AND, UH, WITH THAT, UH, STAFF RECOMMENDS THE COUNCIL TO INVITE PUBLIC COMMENTS DURING THIS WORKSHOP AND HOPE OUR PRESENTATION WAS CLEAR AND INFORMATIVE VERY MUCH. I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY MORE QUESTIONS. HOW DO WE ADDRESS, HOW DO WE ADDRESS THE LOSS OF LIKE TAX INCOME FROM COMMERCIAL COMMERCIALLY ZONED PROPERTIES THAT GET TURNED INTO RESIDENTIAL HOUSING? YOU KNOW, I THINK THE COUNTY OR THE PORTION WE GET FROM THE COUNTY POOL WOULD GO DOWN. IF WE START LOSING START LOSING RETAIL, SORRY, JOANNE. YEAH. ANY OF THE SITES THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT FOR, UH, POSSIBLE TO HAVE HOUSING ON THE COMMERCIAL SITES OR PROPERTIES THAT ARE SEVERELY VACANT, AND I'M GOING TO AGAIN, LOOK AT THE CROSSROADS MARKETPLACE. SO ALTHOUGH ALTHOUGH THAT CROSSROADS MARKETPLACE, BEFORE COVID HIT, WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOME USES. I WANT TO SAY THAT NONE OF THOSE USES WERE SALES TAX PRODUCING. THEY WERE LOOKING AT A GYMNASIUM, VARIOUS SERVICE USES. SO WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE SITES, WE ARE LOOKING AT SITES THAT ARE ALREADY STRUGGLING AND DO NOT HAVE MUCH RETAIL TAX BEING GENERATED. AND ON THE PLUS SIDE, IF YOU BRING HOUSING IN. SO AS MR. PETROFF LETTER WAS SAYING, PERFECT, MIXED USE, WE HAVE TWO MIXED USE SITES. AND UNFORTUNATELY THEY BOTH CAME ON SHORTLY AFTER OR SHORTLY BEFORE THE COVID. SO THEY HAVE BOTH BEEN STRUGGLING A BIT WITH THAT, BUT LET'S LOOK AT THE SANTA BARBARA, UM, PRE COVID THOSE EXISTING COMMERCIAL CENTERS WITHIN THE SANTA BARBARA, HOW WE'RE THRIVING. I BELIEVE IT'S THE, WHAT'S THE JUICE, THE BREAKFAST, THERE'S A NECTAR SQUEEZING AND STARBUCKS HORRIFICALLY. SO THEY, THEY WERE DOING QUITE WELL. SO THERE IS THAT SYNERGY THAT HAPPENS ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU HAVE 300 PEOPLE LIVING ALL NEXT TO ALL THIS COMMERCIAL CENTER. YOU'LL HAVE MORNING TRAFFIC AFTERNOON, [01:25:01] TRAFFIC EVENING TRAFFIC, AND WE'RE TALKING PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC, SO LESS CARS AND MORE PEOPLE SHOPPING. SO THERE'S A GOOD AMBASSADOR. THERE'S A TRADE-OFF. SO AS WE LOOK AT THESE, WE REALLY DON'T BELIEVE THAT IT WILL HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON OUR RETAIL. WE ACTUALLY BELIEVE IT WILL HAVE A POSITIVE EFFECT ON OUR REGION. OKAY. THANK YOU. THERE'S ALSO A SENATE BILL SB 15 OR A TINO THAT HE'S GOING TO BE ADDRESSING. THAT WILL BE SOME, SOME POSITIVES FOR THE CITY. IF YOU WERE TO, TO MOVE THAT OVER THE SALES TAX. COOL. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM ANYONE RIGHT NOW, MR. MONTGOMERY MAYOR? WELL, WE HAVE STAFF HERE. I KNOW THAT WE HAD TWO RESIDENTS CALL IN WITH QUESTIONS SPECIFIC TO THE CABALLERO PROPERTY. IF YOU GUYS WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT, PLEASE, ON A QUESTION WAS RAISED ABOUT THE HEIGHT. UH, I BELIEVE WE HAVE CURRENT CODES THAT DICTATE HEIGHT, BUT IF YOU'D LIKE TO ELABORATE ON THE PROCESS OR WHAT, AND AS, AS WAS POINTED OUT EARLIER, WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT SPECIFIC PROJECTS, BUT I THINK WHAT THESE RESIDENTS WERE CONCERNED ABOUT AND WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN WANTED TO, TO REASSURE THE PUBLIC IS THAT IT WOULD STILL GO THROUGH OUR NORMAL PROCESS. BUT IF SOMEONE WERE TO BRING A PROJECT TO THE CABALLERO PRO UH, PROPERTY, WOULD THERE BE A HEIGHT RESTRICTION? WHAT WOULD THE CONSIDERATIONS BE, OR THE PROCESS FOR EVALUATING TRAFFIC IMPACTS? AND THEN THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT CRIME WOULD RISE. AND I'LL TRY TO ANSWER THAT ONE, BECAUSE I THINK WE'VE TRIED TO DISTINGUISH HIGH DENSITY FROM LOW INCOME. AND WHILE ALL OF THESE SOLUTIONS ARE HIGH DENSITY, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO CREATE A LOW INCOME HOUSING PRODUCT IN CHINO HILLS. BUT FOR THOSE OTHER TWO POINTS, IF, UH, IF YOU GUYS CAN ANSWER WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S A HEIGHT OR A TRAFFIC COMPONENT OF EVALUATING THAT PROJECT. SURE. UM, YOU ARE CORRECT. THERE ARE NOT ANY SPECIFIC PROJECTS THAT ARE, THAT ARE IN PLACE FOR ANY OF THOSE PROPERTIES. SO, UM, TO GIVE A SPECIFIC ANSWER ON A HEIGHT THAT THAT IS BEING, UH, PROPOSED, WE DO NOT HAVE THAT ANSWER RIGHT NOW, BUT WHEN THEY DO COME IN, THEY WOULD GO THROUGH A SITE PLAN, REVIEW PROCESS, UH, WHICH WOULD, UH, ALSO EVALUATE HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS AND PART OF THAT ZONING, UM, MAKE SURE IT COMPLIES WITH PARKING AND EVERYTHING ELSE. UH, TRAFFIC WOULD BE EVALUATED ON ITS OWN MERIT. SO YES, BUT, BUT ISN'T THE ADJACENT PROPERTY, RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL TO THE SOUTH OF THAT SOMEWHAT ELEVATED FROM THE CAVIAR OR PROPERTY. ANYHOW, IT IS SLIGHTLY, YES. OKAY. SO, YOU KNOW, WHAT IF SITUATION, IF THE BUILDING WERE TO OCCUR MORE TO THE CENTER OF THE PROPERTY AND THERE WERE PARKING AROUND THE PERIMETER, THERE WOULD BE IN ESSENCE, A SETBACK OR A BUFFER THAT ALONG WITH LANDSCAPING REQUIREMENTS OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT WOULD MAKE IT FURTHER AWAY FROM ANY POTENTIAL, YOU KNOW, LOOKING RIGHT DOWN ON THE ADJACENT PROPERTY. ISN'T THAT KIND OF IN MY, WHAT IF SCENARIO IS WHAT WOULD PROBABLY HAPPEN? I THINK YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD THERE. YEAH. OKAY. SO IT WOULDN'T BE RIGHT ON TOP OF THEM. THEY WOULD PROBABLY BE LEAST TO MA MAYBE EVEN A COUPLE HUNDRED FEET AWAY, AT LEAST THEY STILL, I, IT, UH, IT'S HARD TO TELL YOU HOW THE SITE PLAN IS GOING TO BE LAID OUT. THEY WILL NEED TO COMPLY WITH PARKING LANDSCAPE REQUIREMENTS, SETBACKS AND EVERYTHING. SO IT WOULD PROVIDE THAT BUFFER, UH, AND MEET THOSE HEIGHT REQUIREMENTS AS WELL. SO, AND INGRESS AND EGRESS ON THAT ONE, THERE'S TWO CHOICES RIGHT. ONTO PEYTON DRIVE, PROBABLY RIGHT, RIGHT. IN, RIGHT OUT. ONLY BECAUSE THE MEDIAN AND MAYBE UP ON EUCALYPTUS RIGHT. IN, RIGHT OUT, DEPENDING THERE. SO AS FAR AS IMPACTING THE ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOOD OR EVEN HAVING EXCESS PARKING AFFECT THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, I DON'T THINK THAT'S, I THINK BECAUSE OF THE GEOGRAPHIC CONSTRAINTS OF THAT PROPERTY, I DON'T FORESEE THAT AS BEING AN ISSUE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. SO JUST WANTED TO THROW THAT OUT THERE TO HOPEFULLY EASE THE PERSON'S CONCERNED ABOUT, UH, BEING ADJACENT TO A POTENTIAL SITE LIKE THAT. I THINK THE GEOGRAPHY IS GOING TO HELP THEM OUT. SURE. MAYOR AND COUNCIL, IF I MIGHT JUST, YOU KNOW, LISTENING TO SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS AND REFLECTING ON THE LEGISLATION OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS AND THE ACCESS ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT ONE IS REALLY A GOOD EXAMPLE WHERE THE FIRST YEAR IT CAME OUT AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT WASN'T SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF CITIES WANTED. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, WE WERE ALLOWED TO REQUIRE SOME PARKING AND, UM, DIDN'T INVOLVE GARAGE CONVERSIONS AND SETBACKS WHERE, YOU KNOW, ALL THE CITY NORMAL, WHATEVER APPLICABLE ZONING STANDARDS WERE, UH, THE CITIES HAD IN PLACE. THOSE HAD TO BE ADHERED TO, WELL BY THE THIRD OR FOURTH ITERATION WITHIN FIVE YEARS, THEY WIPE PRETTY MUCH ALL THAT OUT. AND WE'RE IN FACT, ENCOURAGING CONVERSION OF GARAGES FOR ADU. SO WHEN PEOPLE [01:30:02] WONDER WHETHER OR NOT THEY WILL BE SUBJECT TO A PROCESS, AND WE'VE SEEN OTHER, UM, LEGISLATION WHEN THEY'RE NEAR TRANSIT CENTERS AND WHATNOT, WHERE I'LL USE THIS TERM BY, RIGHT. AGAIN, THAT'S STILL IS, UM, KIND OF A INTERESTING CONCEPT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, BUT I MEAN, THE WAY SACRAMENTO IS GOING ABOUT THIS, IT'S, IT'S NOT UNLIKELY THAT WITHIN A YEAR OR TWO, THESE PROCESSES THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, THEY MAY NOT EXIST. SO, I MEAN, I, I, I JUST WOULD CAUTION THE COUNCIL AND THE PUBLIC THAT THEY ARE STRIPPING AWAY ALL OF THESE RIGHTS AS FAR AS SETBACKS AND, UM, HEIGHT LIMITS. AND, YOU KNOW, IT, IT REALLY, IT STARTED KIND OF SLOW, BUT THERE IT'S LIKE A SNOWBALL GOING DOWN A HILL AT THIS POINT IN TIME WITH THE WAY I LOOK AT IT. SO I JUST SAY THAT, CAUSE IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S JUST SO PATENTLY CLEAR WHAT THEY'RE DOING WELL, AND I THINK TO THAT POINT, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST THROUGH OUR LEGISLATIVE ADVOCACY AND OUR COMMENTS DURING COUNCIL MEETINGS, THAT WE MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC'S AWARE OF LEGISLATION AS IT IS GOING THROUGH DEN TO MAKE SURE OUR RESIDENTS ARE ENGAGED WITH LEGISLATORS AS WE GO FORWARD. YEAH. HYPOTHETICAL BASED ON TODAY'S RULES, MAYBE THROWN OUT THE WINDOW. THINK I GOT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS REAL FAST. UM, ART WAS A PLANNING COMMISSIONER. I WAS APPLYING TO COMMISSIONER. SO AS A PROJECT MOVES FORWARD, FIRST STOP IS ACTUALLY STAFF. WILL YOU LOOK AT IT, REVIEW IT, THEN IT GOES TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION, CORRECT? CORRECT. SO IS THERE ANY WORKSHOPS WHERE THE COMMUNITY WOULD HAVE ANY SAY, SO AS A PROJECT MOVES FORWARD, WE'LL GIVE YOU A PRESENTATION. UH, THE ONLY TIME A WORKSHOP WHERE IT'S, IT'S ACTUALLY A SCOPING MEETING IS WHEN THERE'S AN EIR INVOLVED. UH, THERE'S NOT AN EIR INVOLVED. UH, THE FIRST STEP OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IS TYPICALLY DURING A PUBLIC REVIEW PERIOD OF A SECRET DOCUMENT OR PUBLIC HEARING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. SO OTHER WORDS, WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY IS IF IT'S ON THE AGENDA FOR THE PLANNING COMMISSION, THERE ARE PUBLIC COMMENTS THAT SOMEBODY COULD MAKE CORRECT? CORRECT. OKAY. YEAH. SO I JUST WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW THAT AND UNDERSTAND THAT. AND THEN ALSO AS THEY MOVE FORWARD, IF YOU LIVE SO MANY FEET FROM THAT PROJECT, YOU WILL GET NOTIFIED. CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT. SO IT'S NOT GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO BE SURPRISING TO YOU AS A HOMEOWNER, IF YOU LOOK AT ADJACENT TO THE, TO THE PROPERTY. RIGHT. AND WE ALSO, WE ALSO PUT MAJOR PROJECT DEVELOPMENTS, UH, UP ON OUR WEBSITE TOO, UH, FOR PUBLIC, UH, FOR PUBLIC TRANSPARENCY. SO, UH, ANY PROJECT THAT HAS A PUBLIC HEARING, UH, IS LISTED ON THE WEBSITE, UH, UNDER COMMUNITY DEVELOP. AND ONE LAST QUESTION FOR JOANNE, UM, BY RIGHTS COME UP NUMEROUS TIMES, THERE IS ANOTHER TERMINOLOGY STREAMLINING, CAN YOU SORT OF EXPLAIN WHAT THAT MEANS? YEAH. SO BY RIGHT MEANS THAT FOR ALL THESE 3,700 UNITS, WE NEED TO PROVIDE THEM THEIR GENERAL PLAN DESIGNATION AND THERE'S OWNING SO THAT THEY CAN COME THROUGH THE PROCESS. THEY WON'T NEED ANY CONDITIONAL APPROVAL. THEY STILL, WE STILL CAN REQUIRE THE SITE PLAN APPROVAL AND THE PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS TO LOOK AT THE DETAILS. SO WE HAVE SOME, I WANT TO SAY SOME CONTROL, BUT THEIR ABILITY TO BILL TO BUILD WILL BE BY. RIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. I THINK AT THIS TIME, WHAT I'M GOING TO DO IS I'M GOING TO ASK FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS, THEN FOLLOW IT UP WITH COMMENTS BY OUR COMMISSIONERS, IF THEY'D LIKE TO, AND THEN CLOSE IT WITH CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS. YES. MA'AM I THINK CURRENTLY I DO NOT SEE ANY HANDS BEING RAISED. HOWEVER, IF SOMEONE WERE TO RAISE THEIR HAND, WHO HAS ALREADY SPOKEN, ARE YOU GOING TO ALLOW THOSE COMMENTS? SURE. WE'RE AN OPEN, IT'S AN OPEN PROCESS. OKAY. I DON'T SEE ANY HANDS BEING RAISED. ALL RIGHT. WELL THEN WE'LL CIRCLE BACK TO THEM. SHARAN WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING? I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LONG ARDUOUS PROCESS AND WE APPRECIATE YOU AND ALL OF YOUR FELLOW COMMISSIONERS WORKING ON IT. YOU NEED TO COME UP TO THE MIC THOUGH, SHARON. YEAH. YOU SHOULD PROBABLY PUT YOUR MASK BACK ON IT. THE MIC. SO, UNFORTUNATELY, YEAH. THANK YOU FOR COMING THIS EVENING OR AFTERNOON. WELL THANK YOU FOR, INCLUDING US TODAY. IT W I WASN'T SURE WHAT TO EXPECT, AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY PRETTY MUCH COVERED WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING. AND THERE ARE TIMES LIKE YOUR FRUSTRATION. WE HAVE BEEN EQUALLY FRUSTRATED BECAUSE IT SEEMS SO UNFAIR. AND YET WE MUST DO THIS AND I HAVE [01:35:01] TO SAY, STAFF HAS BEEN MARVELOUS. THEY STEP UP, THEY HAVE WALK US THROUGH IT. THEY MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTAND WE ARE MOVING FORWARD AND WE CAN GET THIS DONE. SO I'LL JUST LEAVE IT WITH THAT. WE CAN DO IT AT LEAST THIS TIME AROUND. THANK YOU. MA'AM. THANK YOU, JERRY. WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD ANYTHING JUST REAL QUICK? GOOD JOB. UH, AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR INVITING US. UH, IT MEANS A LOT TO, TO HEAR FROM, UH, THE COUNCIL AS TO YOUR DIRECTION AND ISSUES AND QUESTIONS. I'D LIKE TO THANK THE PUBLIC TOO. WE'VE HAD, AS JOANNE SAID, UP TO 40, 47 PEOPLE ON THE LINE, IT'S NOT, THEY DIDN'T ALL PARTICIPATE, BUT THEY'RE LISTING. SOME OF THEM ARE DEVELOPERS. SOME OF THEM ARE ADVOCATES FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT THERE HAS BEEN A CONSISTENT NUMBER OF LOCAL RESIDENTS WHO'VE BEEN PARTICIPATING AND GIVING US GOOD SUGGESTIONS. UM, ONE THING THAT WASN'T REALLY TALKED ABOUT TONIGHT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE RENO SITES EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. WE'RE ALSO JUST NOW GETTING INTO A POLICY REVIEW AND DEVELOPMENT TOO, WHICH IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT AS TO, YOU KNOW, POLICY SETS, PROGRAMS AND BUDGETS. SO WE'RE KEENLY INTERESTED TO, SO OUR JOB IS TO GIVE YOU WITHIN THE TIMEFRAMES THAT JOANNE LAID OUT A, UH, COMPLIANT, STATE COMPLIANT, UH, HOUSING ELEMENT, UH, WE SHARE YOUR FRUSTRATIONS, UM, AND LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT THE COUNCIL DOES POLITICALLY TO, TO MOVE THAT NEEDLE BACK INTO GIVING LOCAL JURISDICTIONS, THE LOCAL HOME RULE THAT WE ENJOYED BEFORE. SO WITH THAT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, SIR. ALL RIGHT. WOULD ANY OF OUR COMMISSIONERS ON THE LINE, LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT? YEAH, THIS IS MIKE. ALL RIGHT. COMMISSIONER STOVER AT HER UP. UM, I WANT TO THANK THE COUNCIL FOR THEIR INSIGHTS AND QUESTIONS TONIGHT. UH, I THINK YOU ALL SHOULD, UH, TO BE, UH, I'M VERY PLEASED THAT, UM, I THINK YOU'RE SEEING IT IN THE RIGHT DIMENSION. I, I SEE THIS AS, UM, AS, UH, THE CITIES THAT COME FORWARD FIRST THAT ARE THE FIRST IN LINE TO ADOPT A HOUSING ELEMENT CONTAINING THE RENA NUMBERS ARE GOING TO BE THE ONES THAT WILL SUFFER THE MOST. THAT'S JUST AN OBSERVATION, UH, BECAUSE I DO THINK THAT THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE CHANGES ARE COMPOUNDED BY LEGISLATION IN SACRAMENTO, SUCH AS THE DUPLEX AND FOURPLEX LEGISLATION THAT WOULD ALLOW, UH, THAT'S PENDING, UH, THAT WOULD ALLOW ANY, ESSENTIALLY ANY FAMILY, UH, PARCEL TO BE DEVELOPED FOR DUPLEX AND PERHAPS EVEN IN A LOT SPLIT, UH, INTO A DEPOT, UH, FOURPLEX. UM, I WOULD HOPE THAT IT'S A, THAT THE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDS THE USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN IS A NON-STARTER. WE DON'T HAVE TO BUILD THE HEALTHY, AND THEY USE THE GOVERNMENTAL PROCESS, UH, THAT YOU SAID IMMINENT DOMAIN TO MEET A STATE SET OBJECTIVE THAT IS UNREALISTIC ON IT, ON IT, UH, UH, CALCULATION AS ARE MARINA PROTEST, UH, AND, UH, APPEAL LETTERS WOULD CLEARLY DEMONSTRATE. REMEMBER, THIS NUMBER IS BASED UPON THE THERE'S GOING TO BE BAST IMPROVEMENTS IN THE 71 FREEWAY. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, NOT GOING TO HAPPEN THAT WERE CLOSE TO HIGH QUALITY, UH, PUBLIC TRANSIT, NOT, NOT REAL, UH, THAT, UH, THAT, UM, YOU CAN WAVE A MAGIC WAND AND, UH, HOUSING WILL OCCUR. SO I JUST WANT TO REMIND THE PUBLIC WHY WE GOT TO THIS PLACE, BUT THIS SEEMS NOT LIKE A WORLD THAT SAME PEOPLE WOULD DESIGN. AND THAT'S BECAUSE OF THE HOUSING CRISIS, THE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IN CALIFORNIA, BUT THIS DOESN'T SOLVE THE CRISIS. UH, AT LEAST IN THE SHORT TERM OR THE MIDTERM, THIS IS GOING TO BE VERY EXPENSIVE HOUSING. UH, IF IT WAS LESS EXPENSIVE HOUSING, IT PROBABLY COULDN'T BE BUILT BECAUSE NO ONE WOULD FINANCE IT. SO, UM, I WOULD ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO REMAIN PART OF THE PROCESS, BUT WHILE THERE IS NO PROJECT, WE'RE LAYING THE GROUNDWORK TO REMOVE THE PRINCIPAL IMPEDIMENT TO THESE PROJECTS. UH, WE NOT, UH, AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE STATE SET PROCESS BY REMOVING, UH, [01:40:01] UH, THE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE ZONING AND NORMAL ZONING, SOMEONE HAS TO JUSTIFY A ZONING CHANGE, BUT THE WORLD IS TURNED ON ITS, UH, ON ITS HEAD IN THIS PROCESS IN WHICH WE'RE GOING OUT TO A LARGE PROPERTY OWNERS AND SAYING, WILL YOU TAKE THESE UNITS? WHAT'D YOU TAKE THESE UNITS, UH, TO HELP US MEET THIS NUMBER THAT WE HAVE SAID IN OUR APPEAL LETTERS ARE UNREALISTIC. SO, UM, I WILL, I'LL BE CONSTRUCTED AND IN BRINGING THESE NUMBERS TO YOU IN THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE, UH, BIFOCALS ON NOT ONLY BE FOCUSED ON GETTING TO THIS NUMBER BY BEING THE GOOD SOLDIER, THE FIRST, THE GUY, UH, AT, UH, UH, ON THE BEACH, BUT ALSO HAVING BIFOCAL ENOUGH TO INDICATE THE POTENTIAL CONSEQUENCES AND DOWNSIDE OF, OF THIS PROFIT. EVEN BY MOVING IT FORWARD, UH, WE SHOULD POINT OUT CONSEQUENCES SO THAT THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE, GET BOTH THE CREDIT FOR THE PROCESS AND THEY GET THE CONSEQUENCES OF AN INFORMED ELECTRIC. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, MR. STOVER. AND WHEN ANY OF OUR OTHER COMMISSIONERS LIKE TO SPEAK, HELLO, AND I'M NOT SEEING ANYBODY RAISING THEIR HANDS OR UNMUTING THEIR MIC, THEN WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO MOVE TO A COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS FOR COMMENTS. YES. UM, HI EVERYBODY. I AM HERE LISTENING WITH GREAT INTEREST. FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO THANK OUR STAFF FOR DOING SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS ON THIS TOPIC, ALONG WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION, UH, THEY VETTED SO MANY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. IT'S, UM, IT'S, IT'S SO HAPPY. I'M SO HAPPY TO SEE THAT THEY'VE MADE THIS POSSIBLE TO THE COMMUNITY, UH, IN NUMEROUS WAYS. SO I'M JUST VERY PLEASED THAT THIS IS ALL COMING TOGETHER, BUT I'M NOT PLEASED WITH IS KIND OF A LITTLE EDITORIAL THAT EVERYBODY'S EXPRESSED IT. SO I, I THINK I'LL JUMP IN ALSO, UM, ALL BACK BACKING UP. THANK MY COLLEAGUES ALSO FOR ASKING A LOT OF GREAT QUESTIONS, A LOT OF OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS THAT ARE MORE MEANT FOR SEMINARS DISSEMINATION OF THIS INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC. UM, BUT I WILL SAY IT'S BEEN FRUSTRATING AS A DECISION MAKER TO WITNESS THE STATE'S ACTIONS OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, AS THEY HAVE FOISTED 1.3 MILLION HOMES TO BE ZONED IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, UH, THE STATE ADOPTED A ONE SIZE FITS ALL CONCEPT GENERALLY, UH, CHINO HILLS, NOT A TRANSPORTATION HUB, WHICH WAS A KEY PARAMETER IN THE STATE RENA DISCUSSIONS AT ONE POINT OR MULTIPLE POINTS. SO IT'S FRUSTRATING TO SEE THAT THEY'RE FORCING SO MANY UNITS ON US WHEN WE'RE WE FALL INTO THE CATEGORY OF A BEDROOM COMMUNITY, NOT A, WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE METROLINK PASSING BY AS AN EXAMPLE. SO HERE WE ARE. UM, THE PEOPLE WE ELECT TO THE STATE ARE KIND OF SEAMLESSLY CLUELESS ON THE REAL LIFE NEEDS OF OUR CITIES. I WISH MORE ELECTIVES IN SACRAMENTO HAD BEEN CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS FIRST. THEY PROBABLY WOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON, ON WHAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW IN THOSE NUMBERS THAT THEY'RE TELLING US THE 482 CITIES PLUS OTHER AREAS THAT THEY NEED TO BUILD. SO I JUST WANTED TO JUMP IN LINE WITH EVERYBODY ELSE THAT WE'RE ALL FRUSTRATED WITH THIS, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE STARTED HEARING SOME OF THE NUMBERS THAT WERE COMING OUT. AND, UM, I THINK THAT'S IT FOR NOW, BUT GOOD JOB EVERYBODY WITH, UH, WITH THIS WORKSHOP THIS EVENING. THAT'S IT? MR. MAYOR. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS, COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN, I THINK. ALRIGHT. COUNCIL MEMBER ABOUT IT. I THINK RAISE MY ISSUES. VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ. MR. MAYOR. THANK YOU. FIRST OF ALL, THERE'S A FEW THINGS I'D LIKE TO SAY. FIRST OF ALL, PLANNING COMMISSION, UH, YOU GUYS DID AN EXCELLENT JOB. I NOT PARTICIPATED, BUT I LISTEN TO ALL FOUR OF YOUR WORKSHOPS AND IT WAS EXCELLENT, UH, UH, MEETINGS THAT YOU PUT TOGETHER. AND I KNOW THE CHAIRPERSON IS SITTING HERE. GREAT JOB. UM, JOANNE LABARDO WE STARTED THIS PROCESS WELL OVER [01:45:01] TWO YEARS, UH, THERE WAS MEETINGS IN RIVERSIDE THAT YOU ATTENDED, UM, PROBABLY ONCE OR TWICE A MONTH. AND I WANT TO COMMEND YOU FOR THAT. I DON'T THINK WE HAD DONE THAT LAST TIME. SO AGAIN, I APPRECIATE THE EFFORT STAFF, EXCELLENT JOB. AND YOUR COUNSEL. WE, WE, WE GET INFORMED. WE SORTA KNOW ABOUT AWS. UM, WE GET INFORMATION FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY. WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE CHANGES, BUT A LOT OF TIMES OUR HANDS ARE TIED, BUT AGAIN, DO WE FEEL THE COMMUNITY WE DO BIG TIME OR WE TRY TO PUSH BACK? YES WE ARE. UM, I KNOW MYSELF, UH, MOST OF US HAVE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR LEGISLATORS. I'M TELLING YOU, THEY'VE HEARD OUR CONCERNS AND I JUST WANT THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW, HEY, WE UNDERSTAND, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING BY LAW THROUGH HCD THAT WE HAVE TO COMPLY WITH. AND AGAIN, UM, IF ANYBODY HAS ANY ISSUES, YOU CAN CALL ME AND CALL PROBABLY ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBER HERE ON THE DAYAS AND WE'RE HERE FOR YOU. SO, BUT WE DO UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNITY AND WE WISH WE WEREN'T MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS, BUT, BUT OUR HANDS ARE TIED AND THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS. THANK YOU, VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ. AND THEN, YEAH, JUST TO KIND OF ECHO WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE HAS SAID. THIS IS A PROCESS THAT ALL, I DON'T KNOW, 500 CITIES IN CALIFORNIA ARE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW. AND WE ARE, WE ARE NOT UNIQUE. WE ARE NOT AN ISLAND UNTO OURSELVES THROUGHOUT THIS. SO I WOULD JUST ALSO RECOMMEND THAT OUR RESIDENTS ALSO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN POMONA AND NORCO IN EAST VAIL AND ONTARIO, BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF UNITS IN, IN THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. AND THIS IS THROUGH NO FAULT OF OUR OWN. I BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, I WISH WE ALL, OR I KNOW WE ALL WISH WE COULD WAVE A MAGIC WAND AND JUST BE DONE WITH THIS, BUT WE'RE NOT. OR WE CAN'T. SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE THE BEST OUT OF A BAD SITUATION. AND I APPRECIATE OUR PLANNING COMMISSION AND CITY STAFF STEPPING UP. I THINK WE'VE TRIED TO BE AS PUBLIC WITH THIS. AS WE HUMANLY COULD BE THE PUBLIC IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE AN ACTIVE PART IN IT. AND, UM, PLEASE, UH, CONTINUE WHEN THESE PROJECTS DO ACTUALLY COME ONLINE, BE ENGAGED, BE, YOU KNOW, BE DILIGENT. NOW, IF YOU DON'T WANT SOMETHING TO CHANGE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD OR YOUR COMMUNITY, OR YOU WANT TO CHANGE IT TO WHATEVER, WHATEVER A PROJECT WOULD BE BEST FOR YOU, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CONTINUE TO BE INVOLVED. SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO BE A JOURNEY IN THIS WORKSHOP AND WE WILL RETURN OUR CITY COUNCIL MEETING AT 7:00 PM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION. OKAY. [ 7:00 P.M. - CONVENE MEETING / ROLL CALL] READY TO ROLL. GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED CITY OF CHINO HILLS CITY COUNCIL MEETING FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 23RD, 2021 AT THIS TIME, MADAM CLERK, WOULD YOU MIND TAKING ROLL MAYOR? JOE'S PRESENT VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ COUNCIL MEMBER BENNETT HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS, ALL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT. WONDERFUL. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AT THIS TIME, I WILL CALL [ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG] DENISE CATHERINE UP TO LEAD US IN OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO BE FOLLOWED BY ELDER PETER CHUNG FROM GOOD SHEPHERD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FOR THE INVOCATION, PLEASE, PLEASE JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO OUR FLAG. READY? BEGIN. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER [01:50:01] GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU, DENISE [ INVOCATION: Elder Peter Chung, Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church] ELDER CHUNG. OKAY. WOULD YOU PRAY WITH ME GRACIOUS, LOVING FATHER? THANK YOU FOR OUR NATION, OUR STATE, OUR CITY AND OUR LEADER, FATHER, GOD, YOU HAVE A BLESSED OUR COUNTRY. LIKE NO OTHER NATION IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANKIND. WE PRAISE AND GIVE YOUR DOG GLORY. AS WE HAVE STRAYED THE WITH SALINE FROM YOUR WORD, PLEASE DRAW US BACK TO A TIME WHEN FAITH WAS OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLE, HELP US BE HUMBLE, SEEK YOUR FAITH AND PRAY HOW TO PAUSE. TO HEAR THIS LAND. MAY WE PRAY LABOR AND FIGHT OUR EVIL UNCEASINGLY, KNOWING THAT WE MUST PREPARE FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. SO THEY MAY BE COVERED BY YOUR GRACE AND LOVE MAY GOD'S MIRACULOUS HEALING TAKE PLACE AND HERE THE THOUSANDS SUFFERING DURING THIS PANDEMIC ALSO OFTEN OUR HEART. SO FOR NOW OUR HEARTS. SO THERE IS PEACE IN THIS NATION. REMOVE HATE FROM OUR HEART AND LET LOVE BRING US TOGETHER. WE PRAY FOR OUR MAYOR AND FOR OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS AND ALL THE STAFF WHO WORK FOR OUR GRADE VIDEO, CHINO HERE, WE PRAY THAT YOU WILL GIVE THEM THE WISDOM, THE COURAGE TO UPHOLD YOUR WORD. AND WE ASK FOR YOUR GUIDANCE IN THEIR WORK FOR THE CITY THIS EVENING, F DAYS AS THE COUNCIL GETS READY FOR WORK. WHEN YOU EMPOWER THEM WITH STRENGTH AND GUIDE THEM WITH YOUR WISDOM, LORD, KEEP OUR ROBO OUR THINGS BE GLORIFIED IN JESUS' NAME. WE PRAY. AMEN. THANK YOU ALL THERE, SEAN. [6. INTRODUCTION - New Employee: Nicole Freeman, Public Information Officer, Community Relations Division] THE FIRST PRESENTATION TONIGHT IS AN INTRODUCTION OF A NEW EMPLOYEE, NICOLE FREEMAN, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER AND THE CREEK COMMUNITY RELATIONS DIVISION. NICOLE, CAN YOU PLEASE JOIN THE MAYOR AT THE LECTERN? ALL RIGHT. I HAVE THE HONOR TONIGHT OF WELCOMING BACK NICOLE TO OUR TEAM ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COUNCIL, NICOLE RETURNS TO THE CITY AFTER SPENDING TWO AND A HALF YEARS AS A PR AND MARKETING COORDINATOR AND LEADING STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA OUTREACH PROGRAMS ON OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, NONPROFITS AND MAJOR RETAIL DESTINATIONS, INCLUDING THE CITY, SANTA MONICA AMTRAK, PACIFIC SURF LINER, AND THE THIRD STREET PROMENADE. SHE'S A CHINO HILLS NATIVE AND GRADUATED FROM CHINO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL. NICOLE STARTED HER CAREER WITH THE CITY AT THE YOUNG AGE OF 13 AS A VOLUNTEER IN THE CITY'S SUMMER DAY CAMP PROGRAM. AND HAS SINCE SPENT OVER SEVEN YEARS REPRESENTING THE CITY IN THE COMMUNITY OR IN COMMUNITY SERVICES AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENTS. NICOLE LOVES HIKING AND RUNNING AND ALL THINGS OUTDOORS. AND I'LL HAVE TO HEAR FROM YOU THAT SHE SAYS SHE IS THRILLED TO BE BACK IN CHINO HILLS IN HER CHINO HILLS FAMILY. SO AGAIN, WE'LL COME BACK, NICOLE AND I'VE GOT THE CITY PIN FOR US. SO CONGRATULATIONS UM, I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER TO RETURN TO THE CITY WHERE I GREW UP IN AND ONE THAT I LOVE SO MUCH. AND AS WE ALL KNOW, DENISE IS TRULY ONE OF A KIND AND VERY SPECIAL. AND WHILE THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REPLACING HER, I WILL DO MY VERY, VERY BEST AND LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHEN IT'S SAFE TO DO SO. THANK YOU AGAIN. AWESOME. [7. PRESENTATION - Presentation of City Tile to Robin Butler for her service as Administrative Assistant II from May 9, 1988 to March 26, 2021] NEXT IS THE PRESENTATION OF A CITY TILE TO ROBYN BUTLER FOR HER SERVICE TO THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO FROM MAY 9TH, 1988 TO MARCH 26, 2021. GOOD EVENING, ROBIN, ARE WE GOOD, DENISE WITH PLACEMENT AND EVERYTHING. ONE MORE TIME TO PUSH US AROUND. ALL RIGHT. ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS WANTED TO HONOR ROBIN BUTLER THIS EVENING. ROBIN IS AN EMPLOYEE WHO WORKED IN CHINO HILLS BEFORE CITY HOOD. THE CITY IS NOW APPROACHING OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY AND ROBIN HAS BEEN HERE FOR NEARLY 33 YEARS. SHE STARTED HER CAREER AS AN ACCOUNT CLERK IN THE COUNTY'S WATER WORKS DISTRICT EIGHT, CORRECT, CORRECT ME IF I GET ANYTHING WRONG IN 1998 BEFORE THE CITY INCORPORATED, ROBIN CREDITS [01:55:01] THESE THREE YEARS TO WHERE SHE LEARNED HER EXEMPLARY SECRETARIAL SKILLS THAT SHE USED TO ASSIST THE PUBLIC IN RESOLVING BILLING ISSUES. WHEN CHINO HILLS BECAME A CITY IN 1991, ROBIN TRANSITIONED TO THE CITY ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, WHICH LATER BECAME PUBLIC WORKS. SHE ALSO HELPED RESEARCH PLAN AND ESTABLISH THE CITY'S ENCROACHMENT AND PARKING PERMIT PROCEDURES, DEVELOPING ORIGINAL FORMS AND TRACKING SYSTEMS THAT ARE STILL USED TO THIS DAY. FROM THERE, SHE MOVED TO NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES DIVISION, AND SERVED AS THE FIRST CODE ENFORCEMENT SECRETARY FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS. SHE HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN DEVELOPING MOST OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEMS IN CODE ENFORCEMENT THAT ARE STILL IN USE TODAY, INCLUDING THE CITY'S DOG MICROCHIP PROGRAM REBATE CODE ENFORCEMENT CAN HAVE SOME TOUGH CUSTOMERS. YOU'VE GOT A COUPLE OF FUN STORIES, WOULD BE NICE ROBIN AND THE COMMUNITY. AND I ARE ALWAYS GRATEFUL THAT SHE TREATS EVERY MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY WITH RESPECT. ROBIN TAKES PRIDE IN HER WORK AND IS WELL KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE CITY FOR HER OUTSTANDING ADMINISTRATIVE AND ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS SHE HAS HAD. SHE HAS AMAZED HER BOSSES WITH HER EXCEL SKILLS AND CREATED VERY COMPLICATED AND USEFUL SPREADSHEETS. HER BOSSES HAVE ALWAYS APPRECIATED HER ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND COMPREHENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF FILLING SYSTEMS AND REPORTING THAT REPORTING THAT HAS HELPED DEPARTMENTS OPERATE IN A MORE EFFICIENT MANNER. IN 2018, SHE MOVED TO THE CITY'S FINANCE DEPARTMENT AS AN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, WHERE SHE INITIATED A REVAMPING OF THE ENTIRE CITY'S OR THE ENTIRE DEVELOPMENT, THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENTS FILING SYSTEM. SORRY, HAS A LOT OF WORDS. AS A, AS A PARTING GIFT TO THE CITY, SHE HAS WORKED HARD TO CREATE AND IMPLEMENT AN INTEGRATED EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK FOR FILES RECORDS INFORMS. SO HER MUCH APPRECIATED ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE SKILLS LIVE WELL BEYOND HER RETIREMENT. SHE HAS ALSO PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN ESTABLISHING THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION AND SERVED AS PRESIDENT FOR FIVE YEARS DURING HER NEARLY 33 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS COMMUNITY. ROBIN HAS HAD 19 BOSSES AND SHE'S OUTLASTED 16 AT THE 19. SHE HAS A KIND POSITIVE AND EASYGOING ATTITUDE THAT HAS MADE HER PERFECT FOR ADAPTING TO WORK WITH SO MANY BOSSES AND BEING THE FIRST POINT OF CONTACT IN A JOB THAT SOMETIMES REQUIRES DIFFICULT INTERACTIONS. ROBIN AND HER HUSBAND BRETT HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 23 YEARS. THEY HAVE TWO CHILDREN, BETHANY AND NATHANIEL, SHE AND HER FAMILY ARE LONG TIME RESIDENTS AT CHINO HILLS. AND FIRST MOVED TO TWO EARLY LOW SERRANO'S IN 1965, WHERE THERE WAS NOTHING AROUND, BUT CROPS, COWS AND HORSES, AND A FUN STORY IS THAT WHEN ROBIN WAS 16, SHE WOULD, SHE WROTE HER HORSE TO WORK AT HILLDALE RANCH, GENERALLY LOCATED BETWEEN VALLEY VISTA AND TOWNS IN JUNIOR HIGH, THE RANCH WAS OWNED BY HOWARD STRICKLAND, THE FORMER HEAD OF MGM STUDIOS, PUBLICITY DURING THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD, ROBIN TRAINED MINIATURE HORSES THAT WERE THEN OWNED BY ELVIS PRESLEY'S MANAGER, COLONEL TOM PARKER. SHE'S EXTREMELY GRATEFUL FOR HER JOB OVER THE LAST THREE DECADES. AND FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT IT HAS INTRODUCED HER TO THROUGHOUT THOSE YEARS AND THE FRIENDS THAT SHE HAS MADE FROM HER YEARS AT CITY HALL. SO ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SERVICE, AND WE WANT TO WISH YOU THE BEST IN RETIREMENT. AND THIS, AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO INVITE COUNTY SUPERVISOR CURT HACKMAN UP TO TONE HIM TO SAY SOME WORDS, ALL THE PROTOCOLS HERE AS WE GET THROUGH COVID HAS ALL THESE NEW PROTOCOLS. I SEE EVERY OTHER ROW OPEN AND, AND ALL THAT OF STUFF, BUT I PRETTY MUCH GUARANTEE YOU 90% OF THE VERB AND BACKSTAGE. WE DON'T NEED TO DO THIS IN HERE, BUT, UM, BRIAN AND THE COUNCIL, THANK YOU, ROBIN. WHEN I GOT THE NOTICE THAT BOTH OF YOU AND DENISE WERE RETIRING, THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT IS, BOY, I'M GETTING OLD BECAUSE WE WERE ALL HERE TO YOUNG TOGETHER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO OR 20 YEARS PLUS AGO. AND PETER IS HERE. WE'RE A ART, CYNTHIA AND BRIAN ARE BOTH YOUNGSTERS RIGHT NOW. BUT, UM, YEAH, WHAT A PLEASURE HAS TO GROW UP AND SEE WHAT, YOU KNOW, HEALTH HAS BECOME HAS BECOME A THAT BECAUSE OF THE TEAMWORK ABOVE THE CITY STAFF AND THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THIS, OUR RESIDENTS HAVE MADE THIS SUCH THE DIAMOND IN SAN MATEO COUNTY TO GROW UP IN AND LIVE IN. AND WE ARE THE BEACON FOR SAN MATEO COUNTY. AND IF YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS HAVEN'T FIGURED OUT THE MAP, NOW, IT MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE WITH THE COUNTING TIME PERIOD ADDED ONTO THE CITY. CAUSE I KNOW WE WEREN'T 30 YEARS OR 33 [02:00:01] YEAR OLD, 33 YEARS OLD YET. SO THAT MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE. AND SO YOU'RE KIND OF COUNTY. SO, SO ARE YOU DENISE KIND OF COUNTY, SO KIND OF ADOPT YOU BACK FOR THE LAST DAY OF YOUR RETIREMENT HERE. OKAY. UM, BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. THANK YOU TO SERVICE OUR RESIDENTS HERE PRE CITY AND DURING THE CITY TO MAKE THIS SUCH A GREAT PLACE TO GO. AND I ALL, I COULD USE BLAME THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP ABOUT EVERYONE LEAVING AND PLEADINGS CHINO HILLS STAFF. APPARENTLY HE WANTS CHANGE. AND, UM, NO, BUT THANK YOU. AND I DO HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU HERE. OKAY. IF I HAD BETTER STAFF WORK, BOTH OF THESE THINGS TONIGHT WOULD MATCH, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I GET WHAT I PAY FOR, I GUESS WHAT I GET, I GUESS, BUT I MAY HAVE A CITY OF CHINO OR SAN BERNARDINO CALL BACK. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. WE'D LOVE TO PRESENT THE STUDENT TODAY. AND THEN ROBIN ON BEHALF OF THE CITY, CHINO, IF WE DON'T END UP FILES ALL THAT OFTEN, AND WE WANT TO END THIS PODCAST, YOU, WE REALLY APPRECIATE HIM. I HAVE TO SAY, ACTUALLY FELT LIKE I GREW UP IN THE CITY. WHEN I STARTED, I WAS THE BABY WATERWORKS LATE WATERWORKS EIGHT AND NINE, ONE OF THE OLD LADIES. AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT THE CITY, THE EMPLOYEES HERE HAVE BEEN LIKE A FAMILY OF A STYLE AND THAT'S MADE EVERY DAY BEARABLE COMING IN AND WORKING BECAUSE IF I DIDN'T COME IN, I I'D MISS MY FAMILY HERE. AND SO THE CITY HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL PLACE TO WORK. UM, AND I APPRECIATE THE JOBS I'VE HAD. THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTING. IT NEVER GOT BORING. AND I'VE ALSO APPRECIATE APPRECIATED THE LEADERSHIP HERE BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS HELD OUR FOCUS WHERE NEEDED TO THE, TO GET OUR JOBS DONE, TO A POINT WHERE OUR JOBS FELT WORTHWHILE. SO IT'S GOING TO BE SAD LEAVING HERE. AND I MISS ALL THE PEOPLE GREATLY. I'M NOT GOING TO MISS COMING IN IN THE MORNINGS. SO THANK YOU VERY MAD. SHE ALSO HAD A CERTIFICATE. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. DO WE WANT TO DO PERFECT ONE WITH COUNSEL AND ONE WITH PERFECT. PERFECT. ENJOY RETIREMENT. YES. YOU'RE GOING TO BE MISSED ROBIN. . NEXT IS THE [8. PRESENTATION - Presentation of City Tile to Denise Cattern for her service as Public Information Officer from May 31, 1988 to March 26, 2021] PRESENTATION OF A CITY TILE TO DENISE CATTERY FOR HER SERVICE AS PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER FOR MAY 31ST, 1988 TO MARCH 26, 2021. YOU ALREADY FORGOT WHERE TO COME DOWN TO [02:05:17] PROMISE. I WOULDN'T DO IT. BOY, WHO HAS WORKED IN CHINO HILLS ONCE AGAIN, BEFORE CITY HOOD AND HAS SUPPORTED ALL DEPARTMENTS IN THE CITY AND CITY EMPLOYED AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER OR ANOTHER DURING THE 32 YEARS, DENISE STARTED HER CAREER. CAN I TAKE THIS OFF? THANK YOU. DENISE STARTED HER CAREER AND CHINO HILLS IN 1988 AT THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS CITY. MAN, WAIT AT THE CHINO HILLS CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, A SPECIAL DISTRICT OF THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO. CHINO HILLS WAS EXPERIENCING TREMENDOUS GROWTH AT THE TIME. AND DENISE HAD BECOME THE ANSWER PERSON HANDLING A MYRIAD OF QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY AND DEVELOPERS. DENISE WAS EVEN PART OF A SMALL GROUP WHO STAYED LATE ON THE NIGHT OF THE CITY'S INCORPORATION ELECTION IN 1991 TO SKETCH THE CITY'S FIRST LOGO. AND SHE HELPED PLAN THE INCORPORATION PARTY. SHE EVEN PLACED THE ORDER FOR THE VERY FIRST WELCOME TO CHINO HILLS SIGN FROM 19, FROM DECEMBER, 1991 TO MARCH OF 1992, SHE WAS THE CITY'S DEPUTY CLERK IN 1994. DENISE WAS APPOINTED TO SERVE AS THE COMMUNITY SERVICES DIRECTOR RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CITY'S FLEDGLING RECREATION PROGRAMS, SPECIAL EVENTS, VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS, AND PART PLANNING. FOUR YEARS LATER, DENISE TRANSITIONED BACK TO THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE TO HANDLE PUBLIC INFORMATION DUTIES. SHE SERVED AS THE CITY'S FIRST PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER WORKING ACROSS ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS TO GATHER INFORMATION AND SUPPORTED THE CITIES. UH, THE CITY COUNCIL OBJECTIVES TO ENHANCE THE FLOW OF INFORMATION TO RESIDENTS THROUGH THE WEBSITE NEWSLETTER AND MEDIA RELEASES. SHE WORKED ON THE CITY'S ADVERTISING PROGRAM, SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS, MARKETING AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS EFFORTS. SHE COORDINATED NUMEROUS SPECIAL EVENTS AND SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS WITH OUR COMMUNITY. AS WE CELEBRATED NEW ROADS, NEW PARKS, AND EVEN FREEWAYS AND HER CAREER HERE AT CHINO HILLS, SHE HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN THE COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH FOR THIS CITY'S MAJOR MILESTONES. ON BEHALF OF THE CITY, DENISE HELPED OREGON ORGANIZE THE GRAND OPENING OF THE 71 FREEWAY. SHE COORDINATED THE GROUNDBREAKING, THE EARLY GROUNDBREAKINGS FOR THE PLACES IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER. AND THAT ARE PART OF SO MANY OF OUR COMMUNITIES, UH, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, FOND MEMORIES, INCLUDING THE ORIGINAL CITY HALL, WHICH IS OFF OF FOUNDERS DRY, OR WAS OFF OF FOUNDERS DRIVE THE NEW CITY HALL, THE COMMUNITY CENTER, BIG LEAGUE DREAMS, THE MCCOY EQUESTRIAN CENTER AND THE RECREATION CENTER THERE QUITE OFTEN, DENISE WAS THE ONE GETTING THE CALLS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT RELATED TO, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW MANY OF THESE CALLS YOU GOT IS CARBON CANYON, OPEN, UH, COVID-19 UPDATES. AND MOST RECENTLY THE BLUE RIDGE FIRE, DESPITE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, WAKE UP CALLS, NEVER ONCE. HAVE YOU SEEN HER WITHOUT A SMILE ON HER FACE IN 2013, SHE WAS HONORED BY HER FELLOW EMPLOYEES AS THE CITY'S EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR FOR HER TREMENDOUS WORK ETHIC, YEARS OF DEDICATION AND TIRELESS EFFORTS TO ALWAYS GO ABOVE AND BEYOND FOR OUR CITY. ACCORDING TO THE NIECE, SHE'S ALWAYS HAD THE BEST JOB BECAUSE SHE WORKS ON A GREAT TEAM AND ENJOYS RESIDENTS, COMMUNITY LEADERS, BUSINESS OWNERS, AND THE VOLUNTEERS WHO MAKE CHINO HILLS, WHAT THE COUNCIL AND I MOST APPRECIATE ABOUT DENISE IS HER UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY AND HER DEDICATION TO OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS. SHE'S ALWAYS WILLING TO ASSIST ON A TASK EVEN WHEN IT'S NOT HER RESPONSIBILITY, DENISE, OR AS I WOULD SAY, MS. CHINO HILLS IS WIDELY KNOWN AND ADMIRED FOR HER RICH INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE. HER HEART AND SOUL IS DEEPLY INGRAINED IN THE CHINO HILLS COMMUNITY, HER OUTGOING PERSONALITY AND WELCOMING AND INQUISITIVE NATURE. ALONG WITH A TREMENDOUSLY WARM DISPENSATION HAVE MADE HER PERFECTLY SUITED FOR THE JOB THAT SHE HAS DONE AS IF ALL OF THESE ROLES AS IF THESE ROLES AND TWO CHILDREN WERE NOT ENOUGH. DENISE SOMEHOW HAS FOUND THE TIME TO BECOME THE CO-FOUNDER OF THE CHINO HILLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN 1994. AND SHE CURRENTLY SERVES AS ITS PRESIDENT. SHE HAS ALSO SERVED AS A BOARD MEMBER ON THE CHINO YOUTH MUSEUM AS SECRETARY AND VOLUNTEERED FOR BINGOS, DENISE AND HER HUSBAND MARK HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR 41 YEARS AND THEY HAVE LIVED IN CHINO HILLS FOR 34 OF THOSE YEARS. THEIR TWO ADULT CHILDREN GRADUATED FROM CHINO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL. THEIR SON, CHRIS IS 32 [02:10:01] AND THEIR DAUGHTER KELLY IS 29. DENISE'S TIES ARE SO DEEPLY ROOTED IN CHINO HILLS. HER FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM COULD EASILY BE MISTAKEN FOR A CITY'S PHOTO ALBUM IF FULL OF MEMORIES, UM, FROM HER SON LEADING FLAG SALUTES AT CITY HALL, UH, AND HER DAUGHTER, HER DAUGHTER IN DANCE CLASSES AT FOUNDER'S RECREATION CENTER. SO ON BEHALF OF THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, AND I'M SURE PRIOR CITY COUNCILS, WE SINCERELY THANK YOU FOR YOUR SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN, IN THE CITY AND YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO IT. IT IT'S, THIS WOULD NOT BE THE, THE CITY THAT WE HAVE WITHOUT PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF. SO PLEASE ENJOY NOT BEING WOKEN UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, UH, FOR BY WORK CALLS, EXTENDED CAMPING TRIPS, UM, MEN MAKING THEM, UH, WE HOPE YOU ENJOY MAKING MEMORIES WITH YOUR NEW GRANDDAUGHTER AND THE TIME WITH YOUR FAMILY AT YOUR SON'S UPCOMING WEDDING. SO AT DENISE, YOU'RE GOING TO BE MISSED. CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR RETIREMENT SUPERVISOR HACKMAN RIGHT AFTER THE EIGHT PAGES BRIAN HAD, IT'S HARD TO ADD MUCH TO IT. HE'S RUN IT HERSELF. ALL I CAN IMAGINE IS WHAT, BUT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPRESSED. IF WE HAD THE NUMBER OF PICTURES SHE HAS TAKEN OVER THE LAST 30 OR SO YEARS, AND ACTUALLY HAD A NUMBER FOR THAT, BUT JUST WHAT GREAT MEMORIES. I MEAN, DENISE IS OUR CHILLER CHEERLEADER FOR CHINO HILLS. SHE IS THE, THE FACE, THE ONE THAT PRESENTED EVERYTHING OVER THE HISTORY, THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF CHINO HILLS TODAY. UM, OUR PUBLIC OUTREACHING COMPONENT OF THAT. AND IT'S SUCH A CRITICAL ROLE TOO, THAT YOU PLAYED. AND I KNOW A LOT OF SECRETS WERE BARED WITH YOUR RETIREMENT, WHICH IS PROBABLY A GOOD THING AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, TOO MUCH ABOUT ALL OF US FROM MY KIDS BEING BORN AND, UM, ALL THE REST OF IT. UM, BUT WHAT A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU BE PART OF THE TEAM HERE, REALLY PART OF THAT SUCCESS OF CHINO HILLS BLOOMING INTO THE COMMUNITY THAT IS NOW WHERE THEY WERE RATES AT VERY HIGH AND ALL THE STATS AND ALL THE REST OF IT WAS BECAUSE YOU PUT THAT FACE AND YOU KEPT THIS ALL IN LINE. AND HE TOLD US WHERE TO STAND. AND HE TOLD US WHAT TO DO. I REMEMBER MY MAYOR VIDEO THAT YOU KEPT TELLING ME RETAKE BACK, CAUSE I'M HORRIBLE IN FRONT OF VIDEO AND SEVERAL TIMES DOING ALL THE DIFFERENT SHOTS. UM, BUT WHAT A PLEASURE IT IS TO SEE YOUR FULL CAREER AT 33 YEARS HERE, SERVING THE RESIDENTS WHERE YOU LIVE, WORK AND PLAY WITH THE MOTTO OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY RIGHT HERE IN CHINO HILLS, HAVE HE MADE IT SUCH A PLEASURE FOR ALL OF US BE PART OF THAT GROWTH? UM, YOUR EXPERIENCE, YOUR LEADERSHIP, YOUR GUIDANCE THROUGH THOSE YEARS FOR RELEASE, FOR ME, I CAN SPEAK FOR MYSELF. UM, IT'S INSURMOUNTABLE. UM, EVERY ONCE WHILE YOU'RE PUTTING UP A OLD PHOTO, I CAN'T BELIEVE I LOOKED LIKE THAT WAY BACK WHEN, BUT, UM, I THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND LIKE I SAID, YOU HAVE THE HISTORY OF THEIR SITE. WE'RE VERY THANKFUL THAT YOU'RE STILL CONTINUING YOUR SERVICE IN THE CAPACITY AS THE, THE STORY OF CHINO HILLS, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT TO SAY HERE AND, UM, WHAT A GREAT MEMORIES WE'RE GONNA HAVE. AND SO WE'RE SAD TO SEE YOU GO, BUT VERY PLEASED THAT YOU MEET THIS MILESTONE AND YOU HAVE OTHER CHAPTERS IN YOUR LIFE TO START NOW AM ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO. WE WANT TO WISH YOU THE BEST IN RETIREMENT. AND WE KNOW YOU'RE NOT GOING HOPEFULLY TOO FAR AWAY. YOU'LL STILL BE HERE, STILL BE OUR FRIEND, BUT, UM, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET UP AND GO TO WORK EVERY DAY, ESPECIALLY FOR THIS COUNCIL HERE. AND THE MAYOR DRIVES EVERYBODY AWAY. SORRY, BRIAN, THEY'RE ALL GREAT FRIENDS. GOSH, I KEEP HEARING ABOUT IT. YOU THINK THE, ONE OF THE FEW, UH, COMMON, COMMON THREADS THROUGHOUT THIS CITY AND IT, PEOPLE AROUND WE'LL NEED TO BE BOSS. I KNOW IT'S HURTING CATS WITH THE FIVE OF US, SIX OF US. SO ON BEHALF OF THE CITY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. WELL, I'M GIGGLING. NO, I DIDN'T WRITE THE SCRIPT. I WAS FORBIDDEN FROM SEEING THE SCRIPT ALL WEEK. UM, WELL, PRETTY MUCH THE SCRIPT SAID EVERYTHING I MIGHT'VE SAID EXCEPT ABOUT SUPERVISOR HAGMAN, BEING A COP. WHEN I MET HIM, UM, MOST LIKELY MY DAUGHTER THROWING A PIECE OF FIREWOOD WHILE SHE WAS BABYSITTING YOUR KIDS AND STARTING TO FIRE YOUR HOUSE. ANYWAY, I HAVE SO MANY MEMORIES AND I THINK ROBIN SAID IT SO WELL THAT THE PEOPLE HERE REALLY HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE AND IT STARTS WITH THE COUNCIL WANTING TO DO THE BEST [02:15:01] JOB THEY CAN FOR THE RESIDENTS AND WITH EMPLOYEES THAT REALLY CARED ABOUT THIS CITY AND WORKED SO HARD. I FEEL LIKE I WAS REALLY AT A NEAT MOMENT IN TIME WHEN THE INCORPORATION COMMITTEE STARTED THE IDEA OF A CITY HOOD AND THEY GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE INVOLVED AND THOSE PEOPLE WERE, WERE ALL VERY, VERY EXCITED TO CREATE A NEW CITY. UH, AND AFTER CITY HAD HAPPENED, I HAD THAT LOGO IN MY, IN MY SCRIPT HERE TOO. BUT, UH, SO THAT, THAT FIRST LOGO TURNED INTO THE LOGO WITH THE TWO HILLS AND THE TREE THAT ENDED UP ON THE, ON THE VEHICLE DOORS. UM, AND THERE IS SOME DISAGREEMENT ABOUT WHO ORDERED THAT WELCOME CHINO HILLS SIGN. UM, BUT I HAVE TO SAY THAT MANY OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE HERE WHEN THE CITY STARTED STAYED FOR THEIR WHOLE CAREER AND THEY HONESTLY TRIED THEIR BEST TO BUILD COOL PARKS AND TO, TO DO SOME INTERESTING THINGS HERE AT CHINO HILLS AND TO INVOLVE THE RESIDENTS IN DIFFERENT THINGS AND ALL OF THAT EXCITEMENT HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME WITH NEW COMMISSIONS AND BRINGING THE LIBRARY TO THE COMMUNITY, UM, THAT FIRST CITY COUNCIL WITH GWEN NORTON PERRY, OUR FIRST MAYOR AND MAYOR PRO TEM, JIM FARMAN AND MIKE WICKMAN AND GARY LARSON AND ED GRAHAM WAS THE ONLY GUY THAT WOULDN'T FOLLOW DIRECTIONS, BUT HE LITERALLY GOT HIS SEAT BY JUST A FEW VOTES. SO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOUR VOTE DOES COUNT. THEY REALLY SET ABOUT TO REACH THEIR GOALS AND SOMETHING THAT IT WAS LESS THAN 10, DEFINITELY LESS THAN 10. UM, ANYWAY, SO THE FIRST CITY COUNCIL REALLY STUCK TO THEIR GOALS AND AS CLOSE AS I HAVE ALWAYS WORKED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL, IF THEY DISAGREED, I NEVER KNEW IT. YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY REALLY WERE PROUD OF THEIR EFFORTS TO WORK TOGETHER AND THAT TRICKLES DOWN TO THE ORGANIZATION. AND THEN YOU BROUGHT IN MY SORRY, BEN, MAYBE MY VERY FAVORITE CITY MANAGER, CAUSE HE WAS MY CITY MANAGER FOR SO LONG, UH, DOUG LABELLE AND HE BROUGHT US COSTCO AND HE BROUGHT US TO THE SHOPS AND HE BROUGHT A REALLY SOLID ORGANIZATION, WHICH WAS A BIG FEAT FOR WHAT HE, WHAT HE ACTUALLY INHERITED WHEN HE GOT HERE. AND THEN MIKE FLAGER WHO'VE WHO FOLLOWED HIS FOOTSTEPS IN, HE FINISHED THE, THE TRT P FIGHT AND THEN BEN MONTGOMERY, WE USUALLY CONSIDERED CITY MANAGERS, LUCKY IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE A FIRE AND HERE YOU BECAME CITY MANAGER AND YOU'VE GOT COVID AND A FIRE, BUT I'VE ALWAYS VALUED YOUR, YOUR LEADERSHIP AND YOUR GUIDANCE OVER THE YEARS, YOU ALWAYS HAVE VERY THOUGHTFUL CONSIDERATION OF DIFFERENT TOPICS WE'VE DISCUSSED. SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. UM, BUT YEARS AGO, KATHY GOTCH HIRED ME A BOSS AND HER NAME IS VALERIE CLUNK. OH, I'M NOT DOING IT SO QUICK. I NEED A RESCUE. YOU GO. UM, SHE, SHE, SHE AND I HAD BEEN WORKING TOGETHER FOR ABOUT 19 YEARS AND WE FINISH EACH OTHER'S SENTENCES, OUR SKILLS REALLY COMBINED TO DO A GOOD THING. SHE IS THE ONE THAT MAKES SURE THAT I KEEP MOVING FORWARD WHEN STATE OF THE CITY IS IN A CRUNCH. UM, BUT ONE THING I KNOW FOR SURE, THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS TEAM IS GOING TO CONTINUE JUST AS STRONG NICOLE. YOU HEARD HER EXPERIENCE IN HER BACKGROUND AND SHE IS ME. SHE IS ME. SHE'S A YOUNGER ME. SHE CARES. SHE'S AN EXCELLENT WRITER. AND I'M JUST SO THRILLED TO HAVE SPENT A FEW WEEKS WITH HER. AND OF COURSE, BRANDON HERE, HE'S SUCH A GREAT MEMBER OF OUR TEAM AS WELL. HE'S ANOTHER PERSON THAT, THAT GREW UP THROUGH OUR RECREATION PROGRAM. SO THESE ARE TWO EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE THAT WE BROUGHT UP THROUGH OUR PROGRAMS. AND THEN WE HAVE EDWARD IN THE BACKGROUND WHO HE LOOKS TERRIFIC, BUT YOU NEVER SEE HIM. HE'S GOT A REALLY NICE SUIT ON RIGHT NOW. AND OF COURSE ROB WELLS, WE WORKED WITH FOR SO LONG, BUT I'VE BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO WORK WITH EVERY DEPARTMENT. AND I APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S HELP GETTING US INFORMATION TO TELL THE STORY OF THE CITY, BUT REALLY FIRST AND FOREMOST, IT'S THE PEOPLE. AND I KNOW THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO SEE YOU PEOPLE AGAIN, BECAUSE I HAVE STAYED IN TOUCH WITH SO MANY OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE RETIRED, BUT I JUST WANT YOU ALL TO FIND THE RIGHT PEOPLE FOR THE RIGHT POSITIONS SO THAT THEY CAN FLOURISH IN THE, IN THE ROLE THAT THEY HAVE. AND YOU'LL DO NOTHING BUT GO FAR WHEN YOU DO THAT. AND I APPRECIATE, YOU KNOW, I KNOW OUR BENNETT WAS ON THE G PACK, RAY MARQUEZ, PETER ROGERS, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, I MENTIONED, UH, SUPERVISOR HAGMAN AS A COP. AND THEN HE WAS THE FIRST MAYOR TO RUN A MEETING IN THIS BUILDING. AND THEN CYNTHIA JOINED US. AND THEN, AND THEN MAYOR JOS, WE KNEW HIM FROM OTHER ROLES THAT HE PLAYED, INCLUDING ON THE FIRE DISTRICT, BUT WE'VE JUST, WE JUST HAVE A GREAT GROUP OF PEOPLE HERE. SO I COULDN'T BE MORE THRILLED THAT THAT'S ALL THAT I CRIED. YES. HE SAID, MAYORS, IN ORDER YOU THINK I CAN DO IT? SO WHAT THE MAYOR SAID, OH, WE'LL WORK ON THAT WALL FOR YOU. GLEN NORTON PERRY, JIM THALMANN, GARY LARSON, MIKE WICKMAN, ED GRAHAM. OOPS. THEN WE HAD TO SKIP. NO. WOW, GOOD. AND OUR PERIOD. WELL, ARE YOU GOING TO DO EVERY YEAR? YEAH. [02:20:02] OKAY. WELL WE, WE, AND IT'S VERY FUN BECAUSE EVERYONE CAN BE A MAYOR IN CHINO HILLS, SO THAT PROVIDES SOME FUN EXPERIENCES FOR US. SO ANYWAY, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH TO THESE WHO WAS THE FIRST CITY MANAGER? ROBERT VAN NORTE AND THE CITY CLERK. FIRST ONE, LINDA RUTH, WASN'T IT? LAURIE. OH, WELL ACTUALLY, UM, NO, IT WASN'T THE FIRST CITY CLERK. SHE WAS THE FIRST CITY MANAGER SECRETARY. OKAY. THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. YEAH. SO THEY ACTUALLY HAD ME BE THE FIRST DEPUTY CITY CLERK. AND YOU'D BE REALLY SORRY, HERE, SIGN THIS. YEAH. SO, BUT YEAH, SO WE'VE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE AND IT'S BEEN A GREAT RIDE AND YOU'VE BEEN THERE THE WHOLE TIME. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND I WILL BE INVOLVED WITH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. AND AS YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN, UM, PROMOTING A PROJECT THAT I CAN COME BACK AND DO A LITTLE MORE OF THAT WITH SOME OF THE RECORDS HERE AT THE CITY. SO I HOPE TO DO THAT IN MY FUTURE. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR MAKING THAT. EVEN IF IT'S SCRIPT WISE, ESPECIALLY SCRIPT WISE AND GOT TO KNOW DENISE, PROBABLY ABOUT MAYBE WITH RAY. ALSO ABOUT THAT TIME, I WAS A LITTLE LEAGUE PRESIDENT, KENYAN HILLS LITTLE LEAGUE, AND I WAS SHOCKED TO CITY HALL. JONATHAN WAS THERE FIGHTING FOR CANYON HILLS FIELDS. WHAT FIELDS CAN WE HAVE? AND YOU WERE THE INTERIM, UH, COMMUNITY, UM, SERVICES DIRECTOR AT THE TIME. SO I THINK WE WERE MEETING RIGHT OUTSIDE YOUR OFFICE AND THE TRAILERS THERE. AND IT BECAME A, I BECAME A COMMISSIONER AT THE END OF 98. AND SINCE THEN WE'VE BEEN GREAT FRIENDS. AND AGAIN, YOU'VE BEEN THERE FOR MYSELF AND YOU'VE BEEN THERE FOR ALL OF US AND, AND NOT CHOOSING ANY SIDES. YOU'VE JUST BEEN PUTTING OUT THE QUALITY WORK FOR ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US TO MAKE US LOOK GOOD WHEN WE'RE DEDICATING CITY HALL OR, OR OPENING, DEDICATING THE LIBRARY, WHATEVER IT IS. UH, YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR US AND WITH A GREAT ATTITUDE. MOST OF THE TIME I CAN CHALLENGE THEM MOST OF THE TIME, CONGRATULATIONS ON EVERYTHING AND MORE TO COME. WE'LL HAVE A FEW MORE WORDS IN A COUPLE OF DAYS. THANK YOU. THERE'S, THERE'S LOTS OF LOTS TO SAY A LOT, WHICH WE'VE SHARED WITH YOU. WHEN YOUR, WHEN YOUR DAUGHTER BECAME HOMECOMING QUEEN, UM, YOU KNOW, MY PERIODIC DELIVERIES TO YOU HAVE THE, MAYOR'S A HOT SAUCE THAT I MAKE MY OWN SPECIAL, HOT SAUCE, AND THAT WILL KEEP COMING. SO YEAH, BUT NO IT'S WORDS, CAN'T EXPRESS WHAT YOU'VE MEANT TO THIS CITY. UH, SOMEONE WHO IS IN LOVE WITH THE CITY, LIKE YOU HAVE BEEN, AND LIKE PETER SAYS, YOU MAKE US LOOK GOOD WHEN IT COMES TO VIDEO PRESENTATIONS, UH, SCRIPTS THAT WE NEED TO SAY THE RIGHT THINGS IN A LIMITED AMOUNT OF WORDS. UH, YOU'RE THE ONE THAT GOES OVER IT AND OVER IT, AND YET YOU STILL ALLOW US A LITTLE BIT OF INPUT. SO IT'S VERY NICE OF YOU. UM, YOU ARE SO FUNNY, UH, YOU REALLY ARE. AND YOU KNOW, THE ONE THING THAT IS ABSOLUTE, UH, FOR SURE IS THAT WE NEVER SEE YOU WITHOUT A SMILE, EVEN WHEN YOU'VE HAD TOUGH TIMES, YOU'RE STILL, SOMEHOW YOU ALLOW OTHERS TO NOT FEEL THAT PAIN AND TO BE HAPPY JUST BEING AROUND YOU. SO THANK YOU FOR YOU'RE GOING TO BE SORELY MISSED NICOLE. YOU DO HAVE SOME, SOME BIG SHOES TO FILL, BUT WE HAVE EVERY BELIEF THAT YOU'LL, YOU'LL DO AN EQUALLY AS GOOD JOB. UH, AND YOU'RE, YOU'RE BEING AROUND WITH, WITH WHAT I AFFECTIONATELY CALLED THE HYSTERICAL SOCIETY. UM, BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF FUNNY THINGS ABOUT OUR CITY. UM, IT'S GOOD THAT YOU'RE STILL GONNA BE AROUND. SO THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US. I APPRECIATE IT. DID HE SAY, I WANT TO SHARE SOMETHING THE NIGHT OF THE ELECTION, WE BECAME A CITY. WE ACTUALLY HAD OUR CELEBRATION OF THEIR WESTERN HILLS AND I WAS THE INSPECTOR FOR THE ELECTION. SO WE HAVE TO GET ALL THE VOTES TOGETHER AND SHE WOULD KEPT ON COMING IN LIKE EVERY FIVE MINUTES WE'LL BE DONE. ARE YOU DONE? ARE YOU DONE? SO I FINALLY GOT DONE PROBABLY LIKE ABOUT NINE O'CLOCK, 10 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, AND YOU JUST SORT OF PUSHED ME OUT OF THE ROOM, BUT WE HAD A GREAT TIME THAT NIGHT. AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR WONDERFUL PARTY. AND THEN ALSO, UH, I THINK YOU WERE AT THE GRAND OPENING OF MY POOL AT MY HOUSE, SWIMMING LESSONS, LESSONS. YES. I REMEMBER THAT I HAVE A POOL. AND SO HE OFFERED HIS, IT WAS BACKYARD SWIMMING LESSONS THROUGH THE Y AND HE HAD, WE DID. I'M SORRY, YOU DID SUE ME ON THAT TOO. SO YOU'RE GOING TO BE MISSED AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS HAVING A SMILE AND BEING AN IMPORTANT COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. OH, DENISE. I LIKED PETERSON FOR SAVING A LOT FOR, IN A COUPLE OF DAYS WHEN WE HAVE OUR LITTLE SOIREE. UM, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU'RE JUST SO DOWN TO EARTH AND YOU REALLY, UM, YOU NEVER CROSSED THE LINE, EVEN WHEN [02:25:01] I TRY TO LIKE DRAG YOU ACROSS IT, LIKE, YOU'RE JUST SO PROFESSIONAL AND, UM, YOU JUST, UH, YOU'RE A FRIEND, BUT AGAIN, YOU'RE VERY PROFESSIONAL, SO I'M KIND OF GLAD YOU DON'T WORK FOR THE CITY ANYMORE. CAUSE NOW WE CAN BE REAL FRIENDS. AND UM, I JUST KNOW THAT YOU ALWAYS LIKE HAVE OUR BEST INTERESTS AT HEART. AND LIKE EVERYONE SAID, YOU WANT TO MAKE US LOOK GOOD. YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE SHOOTING SOME AND LIKE A HAIR'S OUT OF PLACE FOR PETER OR MYSELF AND SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT, UM, BUT, UM, I JUST REMEMBER TOO ONE TIME IT'S LIKE, I DIDN'T KNOW YOU THAT WELL, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW I ENDED UP TALKING WITH YOU, BUT I WAS, I WAS MAD BECAUSE I WANTED TO BE ON THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AND I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO LIKE INFILTRATE, WHATEVER INNER CIRCLE I THOUGHT OR WHATEVER. AND YOU JUST, YOU HEARD ME OUT AND I SET UP A MEETING WITH YOU. I DON'T KNOW HOW I ENDED UP MEETING WITH YOU OR WHO, WHO ASKED ME TO MEET WITH YOU. I'LL TALK TO ANYONE. BUT YEAH, IT WAS LIKE, YOU'RE JUST, YOU'RE JUST SO NICE AND SO GENUINE. SO YOU'RE REALLY GOING TO BE MISSED AND I'M SO PROUD OF YOU FOR NOT CRYING. YOU'RE DOING GREAT. SO, UM, LET'S JUST DO HOW VALERIE IS DOING. YES. THIS IS JUST THE PRELUDE TO YOUR WEEK-LONG STUFF. SO YOU'LL BE MISSED DENISE. I APPRECIATE YOU. SHALL WE GO? OH, AND WE ALSO HAVE A CERTIFICATE ON BEHALF OF OUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS REPRESENTATIVE YOUNG KIM. SO WE'LL SNIFF THAT PHOTO. ALL RIGHT. YOU OKAY. TRYING TO MAKE HER CRY. YOU THINK WE SHOULD SAY TISSUE AS GOOD AS REPUTATION OKAY. PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR RETIRED WE'RE ME FOR PUSHING PEOPLE OUT. PERFECT. PEOPLE GET MARRIED. YEAH. GOOD IDEA. [9. PUBLIC COMMENTS: At this time members of the public may address the City Council regarding any items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Council, whether or not the item appears on the agenda, except testimony on Public Hearing items must be provided during those hearings. Please raise your hand via Zoom or dial *9 to be selected from the meeting cue. Individual audience participation is limited to three minutes per speaker.] AT THIS TIME, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC MAY ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL REGARDING ANY ITEMS WITHIN THE SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION OF THE COUNCIL, WHETHER OR NOT THE ITEM APPEARS ON THE AGENDA, EXCEPT TESTIMONY ON PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS, WHICH MUST BE PROVIDED DURING THOSE HEARINGS. PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND VIA ZOOM OR DIAL STAR NINE TO BE SELECTED FROM THE MEETING QUEUE INDIVIDUAL AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION IS LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER. MAYOR. I HAVE SEVERAL HANDS RAISED AND I DO HAVE TWO COMMENTS TO READ INTO THE RECORD. SO AS USUAL, WE WILL START WITH THE HANDS THAT ARE RAISED. THANK YOU. OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS RONNIE GUYER AND GOOD EVENING, MR. GUYER, SIR, IT'S GOING TO TAKE JUST A MOMENT FOR HIM TO UNMUTE HIS MIC. GOT IT. I PICK ON HERE NOW. GOOD EVENING. WE CAN HEAR YOU, SIR. EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. UM, MAYOR, UM, AND, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, CITY STAFF, AND CONTINUING, UH, CITY STAFF. UM, I'VE BEEN BLESSED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE SOME FEELINGS THAT I HAVE AND OBSERVATIONS THAT I'VE BEEN BLESSED TO SEE THE LAST EIGHT OR SO YEARS IN WHICH I'VE BEEN ABLE TO WATCH THE THINGS IN ACTION WITH THE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS. AND THAT GOES FOR STAFF AND I SEE END RESULTS. WELL, I LIVE IN RESULTS AS WELL HERE IN THE CITY AND IT'S ALL GOOD. AND SO IT'S WONDERFUL TO BE ABLE TO GET UP THERE AND SAY THINGS AND APPLAUD ALL THE GOODNESS THAT IS HERE. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY HOLDS THE CITY TOGETHER, IT'S HOW IT'S PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC AND TO THE WORLD. AND I HAVE FOUND THAT JUST HITTING MY, SITTING IN THE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS, THEN WATCHING DENISE CULTURE AND TAKING HER PICTURES OF WORLD CHAMPIONS, HAYNE, UM, UH, UH, STATE CHAMPION TEEN, UH, NATIONAL TEAMS, OFTEN CHINO HILL, UH, WITHIN ITS SYSTEM, UH, AND THE WAY SHE HANDLED TO THEM AND GREETS THEM AND BRINGS [02:30:01] THEM INTO 10 PEOPLE OR 40 OR 50 INTO THE PICTURE IN FRONT OF THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, SEATINGS, UH, IS WITH HER SMILE AND WITH HER, UH, JOYOUS HEART. UM, UH, IT WAS JUST A WONDERFUL THING TO WATCH AND SEE, AND THEN YOU SEE THE END RESULT OF THE PICTURE. SO GLORIA AND INCLUDING ONES THAT I'VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO BE A SUBJECT OF, UH, UH, SOME YEARS AGO, BUT I'LL TELL YOU, UH, SHE TOOK A PICTURE OF ME AND I'M FIVE, FIVE, FIVE FOOT FIVE INCHES. THE PICTURE SHE ENDED UP PUTTING OUT THERE MADE ME FEEL LIKE I LOOKED LIKE I WAS SIX FOOT, SIX INCHES TALL. I MEAN, THAT IS REAL, REAL COMPLIMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY. AND I UNDERSTAND MY MOTHER GAVE HER A CAMERA WHEN SHE WAS THREE YEARS OLD AND THE REST WAS HISTORY. SHE WENT OFF, STARTED RUNNING AT ANY RATE. THE ONE THING THAT I THINK I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FAIRLY RECENTLY HERE IS THAT HAPPINESS IN LIFE COMES WHEN YOU'RE LIVING YOUR PASSION AT ANY AGE AT AGE THREE, THIS LADY WAS LIVING HER PASSION AND IT STARTED THEN WITH A CAMERA AND IT MADE A DIFFERENCE IN A LOT OF LIVES DURING HER ENTIRE LIFE OF DOING WHAT LIVING HER PASSION. SO THE ANSWER IS IN THIS CASE, GOOD END RESULT COMES FROM KNOWING THAT WHEN YOU'RE HAPPY, OTHERS COULD BE HAPPY TOO, WHEN YOU'RE REALLY GOOD AT IT. AND YOU CAN TOUCH OTHER PEOPLE'S SOUL, LOOK AT THE WONDROUS THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE AND YOUR LOVING HEART, SHARING IT WITH SO MANY PEOPLE. NOT ONLY AT THE MOMENT YOU'RE TAKING THE PAIN PICTURES AT THE TIME WE GET TO ENJOY THEM. GOD BLESS YOUR HEART. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS DON DONALD BRIDGE. MR. BRIDGE? YES. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? YES, SIR. GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR JOSEPH AND VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, STAFF, AND COMMUNITY. I WANTED TO GIVE YOU A BRIEF UPDATE ON THE CURRENT STATUS OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT AS THE BOARD'S LIAISON TO THE, UH, TO THE CITY. UH, I THINK AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, UH, THE ELEMENTARY, UH, SCHOOL COHORTS, THE COHORTS RETURNED BACK ON MARCH 4TH. I HAD THE CHANCE TO VISIT, UH, ROLLING RIDGE ELEMENTARY AND SEE THE CLASSROOM SET UP WITH THE PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT. AND, UH, THE STUDENTS WERE SOCIALLY DISTANCED AND, UH, I APPRECIATED, UH, PRINCIPAL PALA THOMAS FOR SHOWING UP FOR SHOWING ME AROUND. UH, IT WAS GOOD TO SEE THE STUDENTS BACK. THEY WERE ALL THRILLED TO BE BACK. OUR SECONDARY, UH, COHORTS ARE, ARE BACK THIS WEEK. AND, UH, I WAS ALSO EXCITED TO SEE, UH, AS WAS THE REST OF THE BOARD, OUR ATHLETIC TEAMS PARTICIPATING, UH, AS OF LAST YEAR AND AS OF LAST FRIDAY, UH, THANKS TO THE PRESSURE ON THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. THE CHEERLEADERS WERE ABLE TO, UH, RETURN OUT FRIDAY AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO BAND AND CHOIR. HOPEFULLY RETURNING SOON. I THOUGHT I'D HEARD SOMETHING LAST NIGHT THAT THEY MIGHT BE, BUT I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING OFFICIAL TODAY. UM, ALSO, UH, I HAVE, UM, SOME GOOD NEWS TO REPORT, UH, KIND OF BREAKING NEWS, SO TO SPEAK FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT THAT HE SENT OUT AN EMAIL TO EVERYONE ON STAFF, A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO THAT, UH, DUE TO THE, UM, UH, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, UPDATING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR PERSON INSTRUCTION TO REFLECT PHYSICAL DISTANCING GUIDANCE. THAT'S GOING TO ALLOW ALL STUDENTS TO RETURN TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY. AND THIS DEVELOPMENT IS GOING TO MEAN THAT OUR DISTRICT WILL BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE ALL BLENDED LEARNING STUDENTS EVERYDAY WHILE ADHERING TO FE FEDERAL STATE AND LOCAL GUIDELINES. THE RETURN DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS A TRADITIONAL ELEMENTARY CALENDAR SCHOOLS WILL COME BACK APRIL 6TH ON TUESDAY THAT TUESDAY OH, CAL ARROW, THE MULTI-TRACK YEAR ROUND SCHOOL, UH, TRACKS A, B AND C WILL COME BACK. UH, APRIL 5TH, UH, TRACK C WILL COME BACK MONDAY, MAY 3RD. AND OUR SECONDARY SCHOOLS WILL RETURN TO FULL BLENDED, UH, ON CAMPUS, UH, MONDAY, APRIL 12TH. SO THAT JUST CAME ACROSS MY PHONE IN THE STAFF'S PHONE OF EVERYONE IN THE DISTRICT A COUPLE OF HOURS AGO. AND I WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU NEXT WEEK IS OUR, UM, OUR SPRING BREAK FOR THE, UH, FOR THE DISTRICT. AND I WOULD LIKE TO WISH EVERYONE A SPRING BREAK AND A NICE, UH, EASTER HOLIDAY AND PASSOVER HOLIDAY SEASON. AND I ALSO TOO PERSONALLY, WOULD LIKE TO ADD MY THANKS AND CONGRATULATIONS TO DENISE FOR THE WORK THAT SHE DID FOR THE CITY. I'VE KNOWN DENISE PROBABLY OVER 25 YEARS WHEN OUR SONS PLAYED AYSO SOCCER TOGETHER. AND ALSO I HEARD TONIGHT CONGRATULATIONS ON, ON THE UPCOMING WEDDING AND A GREAT JOB AND FIND REPRESENTATIVE FOR OUR CITY. AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THAT CONCLUDES MY COMMENTS. THANK YOU, MR. BRIDGE. [02:35:01] NEXT IS JIM GALLAGHER. ALRIGHT, GOOD EVENING, MR. GALLAGHER. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR CITY COUNCIL, UH, STAFF AND FELLOW RESIDENTS. UH, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO COMPLIMENT THE HOUSING ELEMENT WORKSHOP THAT PROCEEDED A FEW HOURS AGO. I THOUGHT IT WAS VERY WELL RUN. VERY GOOD RECAP. AND I ALSO FEEL IT'S APPROPRIATE. NOW. I SHOULD ALSO HAVE MENTIONED THAT I REALLY APPRECIATED THE PROFESSIONALISM THAT ROBIN BUTLER AND DENISE KATRIN BROUGHT TO THE CITY. UH, I ALWAYS FELT LIKE I COULD GO TO ROBIN FOR EXAMPLE, TO GET ANSWERS AS WELL AS DENISE AND I APPRECIATED ROBYN EVEN WHEN SHE WAS CONFISCATING MY CAMPAIGN SIGNS, A JOKE. UM, BUT ALSO DENISE, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I ASKED HER ONE TIME WAS WHERE DO ALL THOSE PICTURES GO? AND I'M STILL WAITING FOR AN ANSWER ON THAT, BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH OF YOU AND WELCOME NICOLE. NOW, BEFORE I GET OFF THE STAGE, I ALSO, UH, I'M HOPING THE TONIGHT'S COUNCIL WILL KEEP IN YOUR HEARTS, THE 18 PEOPLE THAT WE LOST THIS PAST WEEK TO GUN VIOLENCE, AND MAYBE MAKE A STATEMENT AT THE END ON THAT, AND ESPECIALLY REACH OUT TO OUR ASIAN COMMUNITY. THERE'S A SERIOUS TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY RIGHT NOW. UH, AS YOU KNOW, IT'S ALL OVER THE NEWS AND MAYBE REACH OUT TO SPECIALISTS AT THEM AND MAKE A STATEMENT THAT THEIR CITY DOES CARE ABOUT. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. GALLAGHER. OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ESTHER KIM. THANK YOU, MS. KIM, ONE SECOND. THERE WE GO. ALL RIGHT, MS. KIM. YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS EVENING. GREAT. THANK YOU. AND GOOD. JUST BY SMEAR MARQUEZ CITY STAFF AND MEMBERS OF OUR CITY COUNCIL. MY NAME IS ESTHER KIM, AND I'M A STUDENT ATTENDING CHINO HILLS HIGH SCHOOL, AS WELL AS AN ORGANIZING DIRECTOR OF THE EMPOWERMENT. COLLECTIVE IS STILL LED COALITION, WORKING WITH ENTITIES, SUCH AS YOUTH COMMISSIONS TO MOBILIZE CALIFORNIA STUDENTS FOR PROGRESSIVE STATE POLICY. I'M SPEAKING TO YOU TODAY TO PROPOSE THE CREATION OF A YOUTH ADVISORY COMMISSION WITHIN CHINO HILLS. DURING THIS TIME WHEN COVID-19 HAS BROUGHT EVERYONE'S SPIRITS TO AN ALL TIME LOW, BUT YOUTH COMMISSION, IT WOULD BE THE POSITIVE INFLUENCE THAT WE TRULY NEED RIGHT NOW THROUGHOUT THE PAST FEW MONTHS, I'VE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO WORK WITH DIVERSE AND INFLUENTIAL STUDENT LEADERS WHO ARE ALL PART OF THE LOCAL YOUTH COMMISSION. THESE COMMISSIONS HAVE BEEN DOING AN IMPRESSIVE AMOUNT OF POSITIVE WORK AROUND THEIR COMMUNITIES. SO JUST DANNY AT THE FOREFRONT OF PROGRESSIVE POLICY CHANGE, VOLUNTEERING AND PLANNING COMMUNITY PROJECT SUGGEST DEAF THINK IT'S A WEBINARS, ALL OF WHICH HAVE IMPROVED THE CITY SOCIAL CLIMATE, AS WELL AS PROVIDE INEFFECTIVE OUTLET, YOUTH VOICE AND EMPOWERMENT. LIKE THIS IS EXISTING YOUTH COMMISSIONS. OUR VERY OWN ADVISORY COMMISSION COMPRISED OF STRONG MOTIVATED STUDENT LEADERS RESIDING IN CHINO HILLS WOULD BE ABLE TO COMMIT TO ACTIVITIES SUCH AS VOLUNTEERING LOCALLY ON A REGULAR BASIS. ADVISING CITY GOVERNING ENTITIES, NEWS-RELATED AFFAIRS, INFORMING AND ENGAGING YOUTH WITHIN THE CITY THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, DRAFTING POLICY AND PLANNING PROJECTS AND EVENTS TO PROMOTE THE WELLBEING OF CHINO HILLS GATHERING YOUTH DATA AND FACILITATING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN YOUTH AND THE CHINO'S GOVERNING BODY. AND LASTLY, WORKING WITH LOCAL OFFICIALS TO REPRESENT THE CITY'S YOUTH POPULATION, THE CREATION OF A LOCAL YOUTH COMMISSION OR PROMPTS STUDENTS TO BECOME CIVICALLY ACTIVE AND ENGAGED AND OFFER THE CITY COUNCIL VALUABLE INSIGHTS FROM YOUNG MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY. IT WILL NOT HAVE A FISCAL IMPACT ON THE CITY, REPLACE A BURDEN ON ANY ENTITY. ALL MEETINGS AND COMMUNICATIONS WILL BE EXECUTED BY THE YOUTH MEMBERS IN THE PAST. I THINK STUDENTS WHO SINGLE-HANDEDLY DESIGNED AND MANAGED MORE TIDY POLICY CONVENTIONS AND OTHERS WHO ORGANIZED AND LED VARIOUS GROUPS AND LOCAL CAMPAIGNS THAT BENEFITED BOTH STUDENTS AND ADULTS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES, THOSE KINDS OF STUDENTS, AND MANY OTHERS WITH DIVERSE TALENTS WITHIN SHEEO HEALTH AS WELL. IT GIVES AND GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECERT THEIR POSITIVE INFLUENCE, THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND THEIR ROLE AS STUDENTS. AND FOR THOSE REASONS, I ASKED THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A CITYWIDE YOUTH COUNCIL THIS FOLLOWING YEAR. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND HAVE A WONDERFUL EVENING. CAN WE APPRECIATE THOSE COMMENTS? THE NEXT PERSON IS A CALL-IN USER. IT IS ANONYMOUS. I'M NOT SURE I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND ASK THEM TO UNMUTE THEIR MIC SO THEY SHOULD BE GETTING A MESSAGE TO DO SO. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS EVENING PAPER WITH ME. ONE SECOND. I GOT TO TURN OFF THE COMPUTER AUDIO. HELLO? WE HEARD YOU THERE. YEAH, I GOT TO TURN OFF THE COMPUTER AUDIO. I'VE GOT TWO THINGS GOING AT ONE TIME, SO I APOLOGIZE. [02:40:01] NOT A PROBLEM, SIR. LET ME JUST CLICK OFF NOW THAT I KNOW I GOT YOU. OKAY. CAN YOU HEAR ME? BEAR WITH ME. I'M TRYING TO GET OFF THE COMPUTER SO I CAN TALK WITH HIM. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR BEARING WITH ME. SO MY NAME IS CARLOS LAWSON. I'VE BEEN A RESIDENT SINCE 1998 HERE IN CHINO GALA. LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT LOVED THE GOOD WORK THAT COUNCIL PRECEDING YOU AND CURRENT COUNSEL I'VE DONE AS WELL AS STAFF. AND ALMOST RECENTLY, MY SON WHO WAS NOT ONLY GREW UP IN CHINO HILLS, THIS ONE WAS MY DAUGHTER, UM, IS WHAT THE ATTENDING IS ATTENDING CAL STATE FULLERTON, AND IS IN THE FILM PROGRAM THERE AS ALL OF, YOU KNOW, DURING THIS COVID EMERGENCY, THE ABILITY TO DO IN CLASSROOM, UM, STUDY, UH, HAS BEEN STIFLED SIGNIFICANTLY, FORTUNATELY WITH THE ADVENT OF THE NEW VACCINES, UM, THIS, THE OPPORTUNITY TO REOPEN, UM, MOST OF OUR BUSINESSES, AS WELL AS PUBLIC AREAS IS NOW COMING TO FRUITION. AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL CONTINUE IN THAT VEIN. UM, MY SON, AS PART OF HIS GEM STUDIES WAS GIVEN A FILM PROJECT ALONG WITH 14 OTHER STUDENTS, MANY OF THEM RESIDENTS OF CHINO HILLS, AND WE'RE HOPING TO GET A FILM PERMIT FOR ENGLISH THINGS PARK THROUGH THE CITY AND, UH, DENISE, WHO WAS WONDERFUL. AND I NEVER HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING HER IN PERSON, BUT JUST SPEAKING TO HER ON THE PHONE. AND I COMMEND HER FOR OUTSTANDING AND PROFESSIONAL WORK, AS WELL AS I CONGRATULATE HER ON HER RETIREMENT. SHE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO TAKE MY CALL AND TO GET THE INFORMATION, TO GET A FILM PERMIT FROM MY STUDENT AND HIS OTHER CLASSMATES BADLY TO SAY, UM, WHEN WE ASKED FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE PERMIT, WHICH BY THE WAY, THEY HAD, UH, WE'RE SEEKING TO GET INSURANCE, TO COVER THE CITY AS WELL AS THEMSELVES AS PART OF THE PROJECT. AND WE'RE SEEKING A PERMIT TO DO IT CORRECTLY, UH, WAS STIFLED WITHOUT EVEN QUESTION, WITHOUT EVEN DISCUSSION BY THE CITY MANAGER. NOW, YOU KNOW, AS A LONG TIME RESIDENT THAT, YOU KNOW, HE KNOWS, I ALWAYS STOP. OUR CITY WAS SEEKING TO SUPPORT OUR YOUTH AND THEIR ENDEAVORS TO BECOME PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF THIS COMMUNITY. AND TO SIMPLY SHUT THEM DOWN WITHOUT EVEN SO MUCH AS ALLOWING THEM TO COME IN AND PLEAD THEIR CASE AND TRY TO USE CITY FACILITIES TO FILM. WELL, THAT QUESTION IS JUST SIMPLY SAD AND I THINK A BAD WAY OF DOING BUSINESS. AND I FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT THE COUNCIL WAS AWARE OF THIS. AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE COUNCIL UNDERSTAND THAT I WORKED IN CITY GOVERNMENT AS WELL. AND I GENERALLY DON'T PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT'S GOING ON IN MY COMMUNITY BECAUSE SO FAR YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN DOING A GREAT JOB, BUT NOW IT APPEARS I MAY HAVE TO PAY MUCH CLOSER ATTENTION AND GET MORE INVOLVED AND THAT'S ON ME, BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW I'M REALLY SAD THAT THIS HAPPENED. AND I WOULD HOPE THAT SOME STRONG CONSIDERATION BE DONE, SOMEBODY TO SPEAK TO THIS CITY MANAGER AND EXPLAINED TO HIM THAT THAT'S NOT OUR VALUES IN THIS COMMUNITY. AND WE EXPECT MORE FROM OUR STAFF AND DENISE WAS WONDERFUL. UNFORTUNATELY, HER BOSS WAS NOT. I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND STOP BECAUSE I KNOW MY THREE MINUTES ARE UP, BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU, SIR, FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THAT IS THE FINAL HAND RAISED. IF ANYBODY ELSE WISHES TO SPEAK AT THIS TIME, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND IN THE ZOOM APPLICATION. OTHERWISE I WILL MOVE ON TO THE EMAIL WRITTEN COMMENTS. THE FIRST COMMENT IS FROM SO CAL ACTIVIST, SINCE THE START OF THE COVID PANDEMIC LAST MARCH, THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS HAS REMAINED RUNNING AND PROVIDING IMPORTANT SERVICES TO ITS RESIDENTS. THIS INCLUDES STREET MAINTENANCE, AS WELL AS WATER AND SEWER SERVICES THAT I BELIEVE EVERYONE AGREES IS CRITICAL TO KEEP IN WORKING CONDITION. I WANT TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION FOR THOSE STAFF MEMBERS WHO HAVE WORKED TO KEEP THESE ESSENTIAL SERVICES, KEEP UP THESE ESSENTIAL SERVICES. WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR IN ANSWER ON IS WHY THE COMMUNITY SERVICES STAFF HAVE BEEN KEPT AROUND FOR THE PAST 12 MONTHS, EVEN THOUGH THEIR PROGRAMS HAVE, HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY BEEN CUT OR CANCELED. I SEE CARS PARKED AT COMMUNITY CENTER ON PEYTON EVERY DAY. AND I HAVE TO WONDER WHAT ALL THE EMPLOYEES THERE DO EACH DAY WHEN THE BUILDING HAS BEEN CLOSE TO THE PUBLIC AND THEIR PROGRAMS HAVE BASICALLY BEEN SHUTTERED EXCEPT FOR A COUPLE SMALL EVENTS OR DIGITAL PROGRAMS ON THE PUBLISHED SALARY SHEET FOR FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES. I SEE THAT THE COMMUNITY SERVICES SUPERVISOR POSITION IS MAKING OVER $7,000 A MONTH. IS THAT SALARY JUSTIFIABLE WITH A SIGNIFICANT CUT IN WORKLOAD. THERE ARE ALSO COMMUNITY [02:45:01] SERVICES COORDINATOR POSITIONS THAT I AM LEFT TO ASSUME HAVE BEEN LEFT ACTIVE WITHOUT CHANGES TO PAY FOR THE PAST 12 MONTHS. YOU SHOULD BE OBVIOUS THEIR WORKLOAD HAS BEEN CUT SIGNIFICANTLY TOO. THERE IS ALSO NO CONTRACTOR WORK FOR INSTRUCTORS. THE COORDINATORS ARE NO LONGER COORDINATING. SO WHAT IS THEIR PURPOSE WITHOUT PROGRAMS ANYMORE? HOW DOES THE CITY ALLOW ONE DIVISION TO CARRY ON WITH FULL PAY AND A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN WORK WHILE YOU HAVE OTHER DEPARTMENTS STILL PROVIDING SERVICE AND BEING PAID THE SAME? I WILL ASSUME THAT THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS THAT THEY ARE WORKING ON OTHER MISCELLANEOUS PROJECTS. HOWEVER, IT HAS BEEN 12 MONTHS. THERE CANNOT POSSIBLY BE THAT MUCH WORK TO DO OUTSIDE THEIR JOB DESCRIPTIONS COVID IS SEEMING TO BE ON THE DECLINE AND EVERYTHING IS RESUMING TO NORMAL SHORTLY. SO MY QUESTION IS MOSTLY TOWARDS THE PAST 12 MONTHS. THANK YOU. THE NEXT COMMENT IS FROM LAUREN ENSBERG. SHE'S THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS SPECIALIST OF CHAFEE COLLEGE GREETINGS FROM CHAFEE COLLEGE. IT HAS BEEN A YEAR SINCE WE WENT VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19. WE HAVE DISTRIBUTED MORE THAN 2,600 CHROMEBOOKS TO STUDENTS WHO DID NOT HAVE ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY FOR ONLINE INSTRUCTION. WE HAVE DISTRIBUTED NERI, NEARLY 6 MILLION IN CORONAVIRUS AID RELIEF AND ECONOMIC SECURITY CARES ACT FUNDS TO STUDENTS FACING FINANCIAL EMERGENCIES DUE TO THE PANDEMIC AND THOUSANDS MORE WHO DID NOT QUALIFY FOR CARES FUNDING SUCH AS UNDOCUMENTED AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS RECEIVED EQUITY GRANTS FROM THE COLLEGE, THE CENTER FOR CULTURE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE CONTINUES TO HOST VIRTUAL EVENTS, CELEBRATING WOMEN FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, AS WELL AS IMPORTANT WEBINARS, ADDRESSING SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES. A LIST OF EVENTS CAN BE FOUND ON THEIR WEBSITE AT WWW DOT DOT EDU SLASH S POPS SLASH CC S J DOT PHP. THAT WEB WILL BE ON OUR WEBSITE AFTER THE MEETING REGISTRATION FOR SUMMER 2021 AND FALL 2021 IS OPEN AND WE WILL CONTINUE PROVIDING SPORTS TOOLS FOR STUDENTS VIRTUALLY, INCLUDING FREE TUTORING, COUNSELING SESSIONS, FINANCIAL AID WORKSHOPS, AND MORE OUR OUTREACH SPECIALISTS HAVE BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, WALKING THEM THROUGH THE ENROLLMENT PROCESS IN A PROGRAM CALLED SENIOR EARLY TRANSITION. THEY ARE AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS FOR PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS AND CAN BE REACHED@OUTREACHATCHAFEE.EDU. VIRTUAL CAMPUS TOURS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR OUR COMMUNITY, WHICH IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO GET MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIFIC ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AND STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES. WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SAFELY BRINGING MORE STUDENTS BACK ON CAMPUS FOR IN-PERSON CLASSES IN THE FALL. MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THOSE CLASSES WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE COMING MONTHS. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, I KNOW WE DIDN'T TOUCH ON THIS, BUT DID WE HAVE ANY, I GUESS WE DIDN'T HAVE CLOSED SESSIONS. WE HAD NO REPORT COLLECTION. ALL RIGHT. WITH THAT. UH, ANY MEMBERS HAVE ANY CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO ANNOUNCE AT THIS TIME? ALL RIGHT. SEEING NONE, WE [ CONSENT CALENDAR (12 ITEMS) - All matters listed on the Consent Calendar are considered routine by the City Council and may be enacted by one motion in the form listed below. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless, before the City Council votes on the motion to adopt, Members of the City Council or staff request the matter to be removed from the Consent Calendar for separate action. Removed consent items will be discussed immediately after the adoption of the balance of the Consent Calendar.] ARE UP TO THE CONSENT CALENDAR. UM, ITEM 10, WE HAVE, UH, UM, MINUTES HAD BEEN REVISED AND THEY WILL BE THAT THE APPROVED MINUTES FROM TONIGHT WILL BE THE REVISED MINUTES AND THOSE REVISIONS HAVE BEEN PLACED OR WILL BE PLACED ON THE WEBSITE. WONDERFUL. ALL RIGHT. WITH THAT, I'LL TAKE ANY, UH, ITEMS TO BE TAKEN OFF CONSENT. NOPE. I'LL MOVE TO APPROVE THE, WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN ROGERS AND A SECOND BY MS. MORAN. ALRIGHT. WITH THAT MAYOR JOS. YES. VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ COUNCIL MEMBER BENNETT. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS. YES. MOTION PASSES FIVE ZERO. PERFECT. ALL [22. Receive and file Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) update] RIGHT. WELL THAT WE WILL MOVE ON TO RECEIVE AND FILE THE COVID 19. OKAY. OKAY. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR JOS, UH, CITY COUNCIL. WE HAVE A COUPLE OF NOTEWORTHY, UH, POINTS TO MAKE, UH, SINCE OUR LAST COVID, UH, CORONAVIRUS UPDATE ON MARCH 14TH, UH, THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO WITH SEVERAL OTHER COUNTIES AND, UH, IN THE REGION MOVE TO THE RED TIER WHERE, UH, THERE WERE ALLOWANCES MADE FOR RESTAURANTS, INDOOR GYMS, MOVIE THEATERS, AND MUSEUMS TO REOPEN, UH, AND HAVING A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON, ON OUR AREA. UH, BUSINESSES ON MARCH 18TH, THE COUNTY, UH, WORKED WITH THE CITY TO HOST A SECOND DOSE OF, UH, PFIZER VACCINES AT THE CITY FACILITY. UH, THE MCCOY EQUESTRIAN CENTER, UH, STAFF WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE COUNTY, UH, WITH THE HOPES OF BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL, UH, VACCINATE VACCINATION CLINICS, UH, IN TOWN. AND WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE, UM, COUNTY TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE TESTING, UH, FACILITIES, UH, AND TESTING EVENTS AT, AT UH, [02:50:01] CITY LOCATIONS. AND LASTLY, THE CITY HAS, UH, EXTENDED OUR CLOSURES THROUGH APRIL 30TH. HOWEVER, A LOT HAS CHANGED OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT CHANGE MAY GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO REOPEN, UH, AMENITIES AND FACILITIES PRIOR TO THAT DATE. UH, IF THAT OCCURS AND IT'S SOMETHING WE'VE TRIED TO STRESS IN ALL OF OUR REPORTS IS THAT AS WE REVIEW CHANGING GUIDANCE, UH, AS SOON AS WE HAVE CLEAR GUIDANCE THAT WE CAN REOPEN, WE WILL. SO THESE DATES ALLOW US TO FORECAST, UH, HOW LONG A CLOSURE MAY OCCUR. BUT IF THERE'S ANY CIRCUMSTANCE WHERE WE CAN REOPEN, WE WILL AND WE'LL BE, UH, UH, TAKING THOSE STEPS, UH, ACCORDINGLY. AND THAT CONCLUDES IT'S IN MY REPORT. DO WE HAVE ANY SPEAKERS FROM THE PUBLIC THAT WISH TO SPEAK? I KNOW THAT'S AN OPTION ON THIS ITEM. THERE ARE NO HANDS RAISED. FANTASTIC. ALL RIGHT. THEN WE WILL MOVE ON TO PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER REPORT, SORRY. WOULD YOU MIND INTRODUCING YOURSELF? GOOD EVENING. UM, MAYOR JONES, VICE MAYOR, MARQUEZ, COUNCIL MEMBERS, STAFF, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS. I CAN ONLY HOPE TO DO THIS AS WELL AS CINDY SAYS. UM, AS THE CITY MANAGER SHARED SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IS NOW IN THE RED TIER, ALLOWING MORE OF OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES TO REOPEN INDOORS WITH REDUCED CAPACITY. UH, BEGINNING, APRIL 1ST, AMUSEMENT PARKS MAY ALSO REOPEN AT 15 PER 15% CAPACITY AND OUTDOOR LIVE EVENTS MAY BE HELD AT 20% CAPACITY FOR, UH, COVID STATISTICS. AS OF MONDAY EVENING, WE ARE CONTINUING TO SEE A DOWNWARD TREND. UM, TOTAL TOTAL POSITIVE TESTS IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IS JUST OVER 289,000. AND IN CHINO HILLS, JUST UNDER 5,700, AND THAT'S ONLY AN INCREASE OF 43 FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS. AND, UH, THE TOTAL TEST IN THE COUNTY IS OVER 2.6 MILLION. AND JUST OVER 76,000 IN CHINO HILLS, THE POSITIVITY RATE IS, UH, HAS SLIGHTLY INCREASED, BUT BY VERY LITTLE FOR OVERALL IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, WE ARE AT 10.9, 6% AND, AND CHINO HILLS AT 2%. AND THE CURRENT TOTAL DEATHS IN THE COUNTY IS 3,692 AND 43 INCH VINYL HOLES. AND WHILE NO REPORTING ON ANY INCREASE IN DUST IS POSITIVE NEWS. THIS HAS DECREASED BY OVER HALF OVER THE LAST TWO WEEKS, UM, FOR CITY OPERATIONS AND ADDITION TO THE FACILITY CLOSURES TICKETING FOR STREET SWEEPING WILL ALSO NOT RESUME WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE, AT LEAST THROUGH APRIL 30TH FOR OUR VACCINATION EFFORTS. THE COUNTY IS CONTINUING TO VACCINATE AT A VERY RESPECTABLE RATE. THE STATE HAS NOW EXPANDED VACCINE ELIGIBILITY TO INCLUDE NEW CATEGORIES OF ESSENTIAL WORKERS, AS WELL AS PEOPLE AGED 16 TO 64 WITH UNDERLYING MEDICAL CONDITIONS OR DISABILITIES. THE FULL LIST OF NEW GUIDELINES AND ELIGIBLE CONDITIONS IS ON THE COUNTY'S VACCINATION WEBSITE, AS WELL AS THE CITY'S WEBSITE. AND AS OF YESTERDAY, THERE HAVE BEEN OVER 427,000 DOSES OF MINISTERED BY SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY PROVIDERS. AND OVER 575,000 DOSES ADMINISTERED TO SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY RESIDENTS TO PUT THIS INTO PERSPECTIVE AT THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING, THE INCREASE WAS ONLY OVER 16,000. THIS CHANGES NEARLY 160,000. SO 10 TIMES THE DIFFERENCE OVER THE LAST TWO WEEKS, UM, AS PEOPLE BECOME ELIGIBLE, THEY CAN CONTINUE TO MAKE APPOINTMENTS ONLINE OR BY COUNTY CALLING THE COUNTY HOTLINE AS DOSES CONTINUE TO BE AVAILABLE. UH, FOR COVID TESTING, CHINO HILLS CONTINUES TO HOLD FREE. COVID TESTING FOR OUR RESIDENTS AT THE MCCOY CENTER. UM, TESTING IS CONTINUING TO DECLINE A LITTLE BIT. SO OUR, OUR, OUR MOST RECENT TESTING EVENT ON MARCH 17TH, THERE WERE ONLY 81 COMPLETED TESTS COMPARED TO OVER 200 OF THE PREVIOUS TESTING EVENTS. UM, WE'RE CONTINUING TO ADD NEW, MORE NEW DATES AND CONTINUING TO ENCOURAGE RESIDENTS TO BE TESTED. AND ADDITIONAL DATES ARE SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 31ST, APRIL 7TH AND 21ST. AND IN ADDITION TO THE CITY'S LOCAL TESTING SITE, THE SHOP'S MOBILE BUS CONTINUES TO HOLD, UH, TESTING FOR APPOINTMENTS, AND WALK-INS WEDNESDAYS THROUGH SUNDAYS AND THE COMMUNITY CAN VISIT THE CITY'S WEBSITE FOR ADDITIONAL COVID RESOURCES AND DETAILS ON HOW TO MAKE APPOINTMENTS AND NON COVID RELATED NEWS. WE WILL BE HOSTING A FREE MULCH EVENT FOR RESIDENTS ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3RD, AT THE SHOPS BEGINNING AT 7:30 AM WHILE SUPPLIES LOSS, UH, TO PARTICIPATE. RESIDENTS MUST BRING PROOF OF RESIDENCY, THEIR OWN CONTAINERS AND WEAR A FACE COVERING. AND FOR THOSE WHO TUNED IN EARLIER ARE VERY AWARE THAT THE HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE FOR THE GENERAL PLAN IS STILL UNDERWAY. AS A REMINDER TO OUR RESIDENTS, THE STATE IS MANDATING CITIES TO ADD ADDITIONAL HOUSING TO MEET THE PROJECTED DEMAND. STATE LAW IS REQUIRING CITIES TO COMPLY WITH THIS [02:55:01] UPDATE FOR THE 2021 THROUGH 2029 PLANNING PERIOD. THE CITY IS ENCOURAGING RESIDENTS TO PROVIDE INPUT ON THE PROCESS THROUGH A SERIES OF PUBLIC WORKSHOPS. AND THE NEXT ONE WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, APRIL 6TH, VIA ZOOM, AND THE COMMUNITY CAN REGISTER FOR THIS WORKSHOP AND VIEW MORE INFORMATION ON THE ENTIRE PROCESS AND THE PAST WORKSHOPS ONLINE, WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE STUDENT MEMBER OF OUR PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION TO SERVE AS A NON-VOTING MEMBER AND REVIEW ITEMS RELATED TO PARKS, RECREATION, TRAILS, COMMUNITY PROGRAMS, AND EVENTS. THIS OPPORTUNITY IS OPEN TO CHINO HILLS RESIDENTS WHO ARE JUNIORS AND SENIORS DURING THE 2021, 2022 SCHOOL YEAR, AND ARE IN GOOD ACADEMIC STANDING. ANY STUDENTS WHO ARE INTERESTED CAN DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION ONLINE AND SUBMIT THEM BY APRIL 9TH AT 4:00 PM. UM, BLOOD DRIVES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED FOR EVERY TUESDAY THROUGH THE END OF JUNE, UM, AT THE GOVERNMENT CENTER PARKING LOT AND APPOINTMENTS ARE RECOMMENDED, BUT WALK-INS ARE ALSO BEING ACCEPTED AND THEY, THOSE CAN BE MADE BY PHONE OR ONLINE BY VISITING THE CITY'S WEBSITE FOR RECREATION AND CITY NEWS. OUR EASTER EXCITEMENT RE-IMAGINED EVENT IS VERY CLOSE TO SOLD OUT. UM, LIMITED TICKETS REMAIN FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 2ND, AND SOMETIMES A LOT SARAH. SO ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING, WE ARE ENCOURAGING TO GRAB THOSE TICKETS THIS WEEK. WE ARE CONTINUING TO OFFER VIRTUAL RECREATION PROGRAMMING, INCLUDING NATIONAL, TAKE A WALK IN THE PARK DAY ON MARCH 30TH, VIRTUAL BINGO ON MARCH 31ST AND NATIONAL PET DAY ON APRIL 11TH. AND THERE'S A SERIES OF CONTESTS. THE COMMUNITY CAN TAKE PART IN AND ADDITIONAL DETAILS ARE ALWAYS POSTED ONLINE, UH, THROUGH THE CITY'S VIRTUAL RECREATION WEBSITE AND HOW TO PARTICIPATE. AND LASTLY REC REGISTRATION OPENED FOR THIS WEEK FOR KIDS NIGHT OUT. SO FOR $25 PER CHILD, PARENTS CAN ENJOY A NIGHT OFF AND CHILDREN'S CAN ENJOY CHILDREN, CAN ENJOY A NIGHT OF FUN, INCLUDING GAMES, CRAFTS, AND DINNER WITH CURRENT COVID-19 GUIDELINES IN PLACE. AND THIS EVENT WILL BE ON FRIDAY, APRIL 23RD, FROM SIX TO 10:00 PM AT THE MCCOY CENTER, AND REGISTRATION CAN BE DONE ONLINE THROUGH THE CITY'S WEBSITE. AND THAT CONCLUDES MY PIO REPORT. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME THIS EVENING. THAT'S DARN GOOD JOB, [ PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER REPORT] CHIEF WALKER, TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW. YUP. UH, COUNCILMAN JOS, VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ COUNCIL COMMUNITY THAT EVENING. UM, I WANTED TO START BY THANKING DENISE FOR HER DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT AND PROFESSIONALISM AND EXPERTISE THAT SHE'S PROVIDED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. UM, SHE TOO HAS DONE A GREAT JOB AND, AND TRYING TO MAKE US LOOK GOOD. UM, HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH SEVERAL RECENT RETIREES, I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT THE KEY IS A SMOOTH TRANSITION. IT'S A TRANSITION TRANSITIONAL PHASE. UM, DENISE HAD TOLD ME EARLIER, SHE'S GOING TO REALLY MISS NOT GETTING THE PHONE CALLS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. SO I HAVEN'T TOLD MY STAFF SHE'S RETIRING. SO THEY'RE GOING TO KEEP CALLING, UM, ON A SERIOUS NOTE, WE HAVE OUR QUALITY OF LIFE MEETINGS THAT ARE COMING UP. UM, AT THE END OF THIS MONTH, THEY'RE GOING TO BE HELD ON THREE DAYS, MARCH 29TH, 30TH, AND APRIL 1ST, THEY WILL BE HELD VIRTUALLY, UM, FROM 6:30 PM TO 8:00 PM. AND EVERYONE MUST PREREGISTER TO ATTEND THE EVENT. UM, YOU ONLY HAVE TO ATTEND ONE, ONE EVENT YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE ARE, DO ALL THREE. UM, THEY'RE ALL THE SAME. UM, BUT YOU CAN REGISTER BY GOING TO CHINO HILLS.ORG FORWARD SLASH QUALITY OF LIFE. ONCE YOU GET THERE, UM, WE FELT YOUR NAME, UM, SOME PERSONAL INFORMATION, AND THEN THERE IS A SURVEY ATTACHED TO THAT, TO WHERE YOU CAN CHECK THREE BOXES THAT ARE YOUR MORE, MOST CONCERNED QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES THAT WE CAN FOCUS ON. CHIEF. I KNOW IN RECENT TIMES WE'VE HEARD OR IN RECENT WEEKS WE'VE HEARD, UH, MEDIA REPORTS OF, YEAH, I GUESS IT'S PARTICULARLY IN THE ASIAN COMMUNITY, PEOPLE CONCERNED ABOUT BEING TARGETED AND POTENTIAL PAY CRIMES. WOULD THIS BE THE TYPE OF VENUE FOR RESIDENTS TO MAYBE REACH OUT IN TERMS OF INCIDENTS THAT THEY'VE HAD OR CONCERNS THEY HAVE, OR I GUESS WHAT WOULD BE A BETTER WAY TO CALM THOSE FEARS HERE IN CHINO HILLS? YES. UM, THE PURPOSE BEHIND THE QUALITY OF LIFE MEETINGS IS FOR THE COMMUNITY TO PROVIDE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT A DIRECTION ON WHAT THEY WANT US TO FOCUS ON FOR THE YEAR. UM, IF THAT IS ONE OF THE CONCERNS THAT THEY HAVE, UM, AND IT'S NOT A PRE-POPULATED CHOICE, THERE IS AN AREA AT THE BOTTOM. THEY CAN WRITE THAT IN. OKAY. UM, I DO RECOMMEND THAT IF THERE ARE HOT TOPICS THAT PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED WITH, THAT THEY DON'T ANTICIPATE BEING A LONG-TERM EVENT OR ISSUE, UM, TO PLEASE REACH OUT TO MY STAFF, UM, BY CALLING ON THE STATION, UM, UH, BUSINESS HOURS DURING BUSINESS HOURS. PERFECT. THANK YOU. [03:00:01] YOU'RE WELCOME. UM, WE'VE HAD A HUGE INFLUX OF TRAFFIC ON THE WEEKENDS AT OUR CHINO HILLS STATE PARK. UM, PEOPLE ARE ILLEGALLY PARKING PARKING IN FRONT OF FIRE HYDRANTS PARKING RIGHT NEXT TO NO PARKING SIGNS. UM, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ELECTRONIC MESSAGE BOARDS OUT. WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT TO HOPEFULLY PREVENT OR HELP WITH THE INGRESS EGRESS FOR OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT LIVE IN THERE. I'M ALSO GOING TO HAVE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT THERE ON THE WEEKENDS, AND WE WILL BE ISSUING CITATIONS AND TONING CARS ON THIS LAST WEEKEND. WE ENDED UP TELLING YOU A COUPLE, UM, SO JUST A WORD TO THE WISE. IF YOU'RE GOING TO COME AND VISIT, BE RESPECTFUL TO THE AREA AND PARK ACCORDINGLY CAPTAIN ON THAT NOTE, IS THERE A WAY THAT THE STATE PARK CAN COMMUNICATE WITH YOU WHEN THEY DO A HARD CLOSURE ON LIKE THE BANK CANYON ENTRANCE? BECAUSE IT ABOUT, IT WAS EITHER SET. IT WAS SUNDAY WHEN I'D LIKE IT TWO OR THREE O'CLOCK. THEY WERE AT CAPACITY TO ENTER ON THAT. SO THOSE READER BOARDS WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR PEOPLE THAT DRIVING IN. THEN IF THEY SEE THEY READ A BOARD THAT SAYS ENTRANCE CLOSE AT CAPACITY, I DUNNO IF THERE'S A WAY TO COORDINATE THAT OR THERE IS WE'LL REACH OUT TO THEM AND IT WOULD BE GREAT. THAT'D BE HELPFUL THEN PEOPLE WON'T EVEN DRIVE UP THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE. UM, THIS LAST WEEKEND WE DID AN OPERATION UNDER THE OFFICE OF TRAFFIC AND SAFETY GRANT. UM, IT WAS THE ST PATRICK STATE DUI SATURATION PATROL. UM, DURING THAT TIME THERE WERE SEVEN ARRESTS THAT WERE MADE, THREE WERE FOR DUI. I JUST WANT TO REMIND OUR COMMUNITY WITH THE ACCESS TO, UM, RIDE SHARE SOCIAL MEDIA OR SOCIAL APPS, UM, IS SO MUCH MORE COST EFFECTIVE, JUST CALL FOR A RIDE. UM, AND DON'T RISK GETTING SOMEBODY ELSE HURT, DON'T RISK, LOSING YOUR LICENSE, POTENTIALLY GOING TO JAIL AND THE HUGE FINANCIAL IMPACT THAT COMES WITH THAT. UM, AND WITH THAT, THAT CONCLUDES MY COMMENTS. THANK YOU, CHIEF CHIEF. ALL RIGHT, [ SAFETY UPDATES - Police and Fire] SCOTT. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. I'LL GIVE YOU AN UPGRADE FROM WHAT PD CALLED YOU, COUNCILMAN JOE'S. YEAH, IT'S ALL RIGHT. IT'S BEEN A LONG DAY. UH, FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO, UH, GIVE MY CONGRATULATIONS IN THE NIECE. UM, I'M ON MY WAY TO RETIREMENT AS WELL. I'LL BE RETIRING IN DECEMBER, SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT OPPORTUNITY AND, UH, I'LL HAVE TO GIVE HER A CALL AND FIND OUT WHAT, UH, YOU KNOW, ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT GO ALONG WITH RETIREMENT, BUT ON A PERSONAL NOTE, UM, WHEN I FIRST BECAME A DEPUTY JUST ABOUT SIX YEARS AGO, UM, DENISE WAS ALWAYS SO INVITING AND IT'S A LITTLE INTIMIDATING TO SIT HERE IN FRONT OF THE COUNCIL AND THE CHAIR, AND SHE ALWAYS MADE IT, UM, VERY EASY AND PROVIDED A LOT OF GOOD, UM, RECOMMENDATIONS AND ADVICE SO GREATLY APPRECIATE IT. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. UH, ALSO LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU A FEW THINGS. WE HAVE HIRED 10 NEW, UH, FIREFIGHTERS, AND THEY STARTED ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO AND THEY'LL BE GOING OUT ONTO THE FLOOR AS WE CALL IT HERE AND WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK, UH, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT, UM, THEY WILL BE COMING OR WE WILL BE INTRODUCING THEM AT THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING. SO YOU GET A CHANCE TO SEE WHERE THEY COME, WHERE THEY COME FROM. WE HAVE QUITE A DIVERSE GROUP WITH A LOT OF YEARS OF EXPERIENCE COMING TO THE CHAIR VOLUME FIRE DISTRICT. SO GET A CHANCE TO SEE THAT ALONG WITH HIRING 10 NEW PEOPLE. WE ALSO HAD SIX PROMOTIONS, THREE NEW CAPTAINS AND THREE NEW ENGINEERS. SO A LOT OF CHANGE IN MOVEMENT GOING ON, UM, GOOD THINGS THAT ARE, THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE FIRE DISTRICT. AND, UM, WITH THAT, LIKE TO WISH EVERYBODY A HAPPY EASTER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT'S RIGHT. [ COUNCIL REPORTS Mayor Johsz West Valley Mosquito Vector Control District Board Vice Mayor Marquez League of California Cities Latino Caucus Legislative Committee San Bernardino County Transportation Authority Transit Committee Metro Valley Study Session Southern California Air Quality Management District Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee Southern California Association of Governments Legislative/Communications and Membership Committee Southern California Regional Rail Authority (Metrolink) Contracts, Operations, Maintenance, and Safety Committee Council Member Bennett Chino Valley Independent Fire District Board Council Member Moran Chino Valley Chamber of Commerce Board Chino Valley Unified School District Board Council Member Rogers Water Facilities Authority Board] WONDERFUL. ALL RIGHT. WELL THAT, WE'RE GOING ON TO OUR CITY COUNCIL REPORTS. UH, TODAY I HAD, UH, MOSQUITO OR WEST VALLEY MOSQUITO AND VECTOR CONTROL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING. IT WAS UNEVENTFUL JUST THE USUAL USUAL ITEMS THAT WE APPROVE. SO WITH THAT VICE MAYOR MARQUEZ, WOULD YOU MIND RECORDING ON YOUR ITEMS? THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. THANK YOU, SIR. FIRST ONE IS LEAGUE OF CITIES, LATINO CAUCUS, NO REPORTS, SPC TA TRANSIT COMMITTEE OMNITRACS WAS AWARDED A CONTRACT FOR THE ONTARIO AIRPORT LOOP PROJECT AND OPERATION OVERSIGHT. SPCT WE DID REVIEW AND PROVIDE DIRECTION FOR FISCAL YEAR BUDGET, 2021, 2022, A QUARTERLY UPDATE ON THE REDLANDS RAIL PROJECT. MOVING DOWN TO METRO VALLEY STUDY SESSION. WE REVIEWED THE 2021 2022 BUDGETS AND WE REVIEWED MEASURE. I MAJOR PROJECT PROGRAMS, ALLOCATION PLANNING FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021, 2022 MOBILE SOURCE AIR POLLUTION REDUCTION REVIEW COMMITTEE, NO REPORT SCAG LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. WE DID SUPPORT OR HAVE A SUPPORT POSITION FOR SB TWO 66 THAT SENATOR NEWMAN'S BILL, AND HE WANTS TO HAVE 2200 ACRES TO THE CHINO HILLS STATE PARK. WE REVIEWED THE FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE LEGISLATION UPDATES. WE WENT OVER THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN. SOME OF [03:05:01] THE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE PLAN WERE 30 BILLION FOR TRANSIT. 130 BILLION TO REOPEN SCHOOLS, 500 MILLION FOR WATER ASSISTING GRANTS TO THE STATES AND 10 BILLION FOR BROADBAND INVESTMENT FOR STATES. WE ALSO REVIEWED SB 15 PORK, PORK LATINOS BILL. WE REVIEWED THE INCENTIVES FOR REZONING IDOL, RETAIL SITES AND SKATE RIGHT NOW IS ACTUALLY TRACKING OVER 200 BILLS ON HOUSING AS CRA OR METRO LINK. WE CAME UP WITH A COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT WITH SPC TA FOR THE REDLANDS PASSENGER RAIL PROJECT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECT STATUS UPON THE EARLY EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKE WARNING PILOT SYSTEM, NEW PROGRAM, QUARTERLY UPDATES ON SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CAPITAL PROJECTS. THOSE MY REPORTS SERVE. THANK YOU, VICE MAYOR, MARK KAZ COUNCIL MEMBER BENNETT. UH, YES. SCOTT GAVE THE, UH, THE MAIN HIGHLIGHTS OF THE, UH, THE, THE MEETING. IT WAS A LINCOLN MEETING. WHAT ABOUT TWO AND A HALF HOURS LONG? UH, BUT BESIDES THE GREAT NEWS OF THE TWO, THE 10 NEW, UH, UH, PROMO OR, UH, HIRES AND THE SIX PROMOTIONS, THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION MORE THAN HALF THE TIME WAS, UH, UNFORTUNATELY DISCUSSING, UH, ACTIONS TO, OR MODIFICATIONS TO THE ACTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN IMPOSED UPON DIRECTOR WHEN WILLIAMS, UH, AND, AND THERE'S NO REASON TO GET INTO IT, BUT, UH, THAT WAS WHAT TOOK UP MOST OF THE TIME. AND IN MY REPORT. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER, BENNETT COUNCIL MEMBER MORAN. LET'S SEE, UM, DON BRIDGE PRETTY MUCH SUMMED UP WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. UM, THE ONLY THING HE DIDN'T TOUCH ON WAS, UM, THERE'S DISCUSSION, UM, TO MOVE FORWARD WITH HIRING CONSULTANT FOR GOING TO DISTRICTS FOR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. SO STAY TUNED MORE TO COME WITH THAT KIND OF WHAT WE WENT THROUGH. UM, IT'S NOT THEIR CHOICE THAT IT'S BEEN UPON THEM AS WELL. UM, FOR CHINO VALLEY CHAMBER, UM, WE'RE GOING THROUGH A MAJOR REBRANDING. THEY'RE CALLING IT, UM, NEW LOGO, UM, REVAMPING THE INTERIOR OF THE OFFICE IN DOWNTOWN CHINO. SO, UM, I'M SURE AT SOME POINT, UM, THE, THE DIRECTOR WILL, UM, SHARE SOME VISUALS WITH YOU OF THINGS ONCE THEY'RE DONE. AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE RIGHT NOW. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS, JUST A QUICK, FAIRLY QUICK MEETING, UH, WFA OR WA WATER FACILITIES, AUTHORITY, AS WE'VE DONE WITH SEVERAL OF OUR, UH, WATERBOARD MEETINGS LATELY, WE REVIEWED AT WFAA THE 19 OR 2021, 2022 PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR BUDGETS. WE SPENT SOME TIME ON THAT GOING LINE BY LINE AND IN OUR GENERAL MANAGER GAVE A REPORT ON AN EMERGENCY PIPELINE. REPAIR WAS AS SIMPLE AS THAT, I THINK THAT'S [ COUNCIL COMMENTS] IT. WONDERFUL. WELL, I'VE GOT YA. WOULD YOU MIND GIVING YOUR COUNSELOR JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS? I WAS, IT'S BEEN GREAT TO SEE TODAY, ESPECIALLY DRIVING UP TO PEYTON AND A LOT OF CARS IN THE IOWA HIGH SCHOOL PARKING LOT. IT'S BEEN MORE THAN A YEAR SINCE, UH, THE KIDS HAVE BEEN ON CAMPUS IN THAT VOLUME. AND IT'S GREAT TO SEE AND SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO DOUBLE UP IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS AND HAVE ALL THE, ALL THE GROUPS, ALL THE COHORTS IN AT THE SAME TIME. SO, GREAT NEWS ABOUT OPENING UP. SPEAKING OF OPENING UP, BEN ALREADY MENTIONED IT, BUT WE'RE GOING TO MAYBE ENCOURAGE REEVALUATION OF SOME OF OUR FACILITIES. EVEN THE COUNT'S MEETING MAY BE STARTING IN MAY WE GO TO MORE ATTENDANCE OR WHATEVER IT'S BEEN RECOMMENDED, A COMMUNITY CENTER, JUST SOME OF THE FACILITIES. MAYBE NOW'S THE TIME TO TAKE A STAND BACK AND, AND, UM, ENCOURAGE MORE ACTIVITIES WITHIN, IN TOWN AND BOND FOYERS. DENISE, WE'VE BEEN DREADING THIS DAY FOR SEVERAL YEARS, BUT WE ARE VERY HAPPY FOR YOU AND, UH, THE ACTIVITY I'M SURE WE'LL SEE YOU QUITE A BIT BECAUSE MOST OF US ARE FRIENDS WITH YOU AS IT IS. SO WE'LL SEE YOU AT THE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS AROUND TOWN AND CONGRATULATIONS, NICOLE, UH, AS EVERYBODY HAS SAID, BIG SHOES TO FILL THAT, YOU'LL DO AN AWESOME JOB. SO GREAT REPORT AND CONGRATULATIONS, DENISE. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. WONDERFUL. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER ROGERS, COUNCILWOMAN IN JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK THINGS AGAIN, HAPPY TRAILS, DENISE. I KNOW WE'LL STILL SEE YOU. WE'D BE A LOT MORE SAD IF YOU DIDN'T LIVE IN CHINO HILLS. SO, AND, UM, NICOLE WELCOME ABOARD. I THINK IT'S FANTASTIC. THE, YOU ARE HOMEGROWN, UM, TRULY, EVEN MORE HOMEGROWN THAN DENISE CAUSE LIKE YOU WENT TO SCHOOL HERE AND I'M SO EXCITED. WE HAVE A LOT OF EMPLOYEES THAT HAVE STARTED HERE AS A TEENAGER, AND THEN THEY GO TO COLLEGE, GET SOME OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE AND THEN THEY COME KIM HAIR. SO I HOPE YOU'RE ALIVE FOR LIKE DENISE. SO WELCOME TO THE CHINO HILLS FAMILY, AND THEN WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT OUR HARKINS THEATER [03:10:01] IS BACK OPEN. MY HUSBAND AND I WENT TO A MOVIE LAST NIGHT, THERE WERE SIX PEOPLE IN THE THEATER. IT WAS FABULOUS AND WE ENJOYED SOME POPCORN AND IT WAS JUST SO NICE TO GET OUT AND THERE'S SOME NEW MOVIES. SO PLEASE SUPPORT OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES AS WE START OPENING BACK UP, IF YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE DOING SO. BUT I FELT VERY COMFORTABLE. IT WAS, IT WAS FANTASTIC. AND, UM, GET, GET TO THE MOVIES BEFORE, UH, SPRING BREAK NEXT WEEK FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL KIDS AND STUFF. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO REPORT. EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT HAPPY EASTER. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER IN MEMBER, REMEMBER BENNETT? YES. SAME THING, DENISE, YOU KNOW, CONGRATULATIONS ON STARTING YOUR NEW CAREER. UH, YOU'LL HAVE A LOT MORE TIME TO SPOIL THAT NEW GRAND BABY. AND I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO ENJOY THAT IMMENSELY. UH, NICOLE, YOU KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK TONIGHT FIRST, FIRST REPORT. EXCELLENT. AND, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOU CONTINUING IN THAT A GOOD POSITIVE ROLE OF THE PIO FOR THE CITY OF CHINO HILLS. UH, AND EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE BIG SHOES TO FILL, YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOING A GREAT JOB AT IT. UH, WITH THE SCHOOLS, UH, SIMILAR TO WHAT PETER WAS SAYING, YOU KNOW, I, I WAS OUT RUNNING AROUND, UH, ONE AFTERNOON, I GUESS IT WAS LATE LAST WEEK AND I TIMED IT WRONG COMING HOME. AND OF COURSE HAD TO GO BY THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND OOPS, UH, IT'S BACK LIKE IT IS. SO IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT LIVES VERY IN CLOSE PROXIMITY, UH, TO AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, JUST REMEMBER THOSE PARENTS ARE ANXIOUS TO GET THEIR LITTLE KIDDOS BACK IN, IN SCHOOL AND THEY MAY NOT BE WORRIED ABOUT WHAT SIDE OF THE ROAD THEY'RE ACTUALLY PARKED ON, OR IF THEY'RE DOUBLE PARKED. SO IF YOU HAVE TO GO AROUND THEM, DO IT CAREFULLY AND BE WATCHING FOR THE KIDS. AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE USED TO ALWAYS SAY WHEN SPRING BREAK BREAKS OUT, WATCH FOR THE KIDS WHILE WE'VE BEEN HAVING TO WATCH FOR THEM FOR A YEAR ANYHOW, BUT, UH, JUST KEEP THAT UP NOW. THEY'RE GOING TO BE, UH, EVEN ALL THE MORE ANXIOUS HERE, THEY'RE JUST STARTING BACK TO SCHOOL AND THEY'RE GOING TO GET BREAK. SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE GOING TO BE EXCITED ABOUT THAT, UH, TO ALL OF MY CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OUT THERE, UH, AND ALL MY FRIENDS. UH, I WANT TO WISH YOU A VERY BLESSED EASTER. UH, THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL TIME OF THE YEAR, UH, FOR ALL, FOR MANY, MANY RELIGIONS. SO JUST WHATEVER YOUR FAITH IS, WHATEVER YOU YOU BELIEVE IN, UH, RELISH IT, THINK IT THROUGH, UH, DEEPLY, UH, PRAY ABOUT IT AND HAVE A WONDERFUL EASTER. AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANKS, SIR. VICE MAYOR, MARK HAZARDS. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. UM, I ATTENDED TWO MEETINGS WITH SCAG. ONE WAS WITH JOSH NEWMAN OR SENATOR. UH, WE HAD A REALLY LENGTHY TALK PERTAINING TO ARENA AND HE WANTED TO COME UP WITH AN AUDIT SYSTEM TO BASICALLY AUDIT EIGHT CD AND COME UP WITH A BETTER SYSTEM ON ALLOCATION OF UNITS. SO THAT'S THE DIRECTION THAT HE'S, HE'S GOING. AND HE'S HOPING TO GET A COUPLE OTHER SENATORS INVOLVED WITH THIS. WE ACTUALLY HAD SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS ON THE CALL BESIDES MYSELF ARE BROWN FROM WAYNA PARK, TREVOR O'NEIL FROM ANAHEIM, STEVE TIDE FROM DIAMOND BAR, PEGGY HONG FROM YOUR BELINDA AND MARTY SMIRNOFF. SO ALL OF THIS, WE'RE NOT HAPPY WITH THE ARENA PROCESS AND HE HEARD THAT FROM US AND HE'S WILLING TO HELP US TO MOVE THIS FORWARD. SO GOOD NEWS. WE ALSO THEN MET WITH CONGRESSWOMAN NORMA TORRES. I'VE KNOWN NORMA PROBABLY FOR 20 PLUS YEARS. UH, WHEN I WAS PART OF HOPE FOR THE HILLS, SHE WAS MY GO-TO PERSON. WAS SHE, WHEN SHE WAS WITH CONGRESS, AS FAR AS THE POWER LINES, SHE DOESN'T REPRESENT OUR DISTRICT, BUT SHE'S A GOOD FRIEND OF CHINO HILLS. AND WE DID TALK ABOUT, GOT INVITED TO THE MEETING FROM SCAG. AND WE DID TALK ABOUT THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN. AND WE DID HAVE A MEETING TODAY, THE AD HOC TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE MEETING DANIEL. EXCELLENT JOB. YOU AND JOE CITY MANAGER. THANK YOU SO MUCH OUR SECOND MEETING. THANK YOU, BRIAN. AND THEN JUST MY FINAL FAREWELL TO DENISE AND ROBIN DENISE. I'VE KNOWN YOU FOR A WHOLE LOT OF YEARS. YOU'RE GOING TO BE MISSED OR YOU'RE AMAZING. AND WE LOVE YOU VERY MUCH. AND NICOLE, CONGRATULATIONS. AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU. THAT'S MY REPORT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, SIR. UM, YEAH, THE COLE WELCOME ABOARD DENISE, UH, LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT STAGECOACH, ONCE IT FINALLY COMES BACK. UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY AS A CITY AND AS A COMMUNITY, WE ALWAYS HATE TO HEAR BAD NEWS OUT OF OTHER PLACES. SO WHAT HAPPENED IN BOULDER? WHAT YESTERDAY OR THE DAY BEFORE IN ATLANTA OVER THE WEEKEND IS CERTAINLY SOMETHING SAD MAKES YOU WANT TO HOLD ONTO YOUR FAMILY EVEN MORE AND APPRECIATE JUST HOW FLEETING TIME TRULY IS. SO WE'RE CERTAINLY SENDING LOVE AND PRAYERS TO THOSE TWO COMMUNITIES. UM, YEAH, HAVE A HAPPY EASTER AND A HAPPY PASSOVER. UM, IF YOU CELEBRATE EITHER OF THOSE [ ADJOURN IN MEMORIAM: Adjourn in memory of Allen P. McCombs, former owner of Champion Newspapers, who passed away on March 12, 2021.] AND THEN TONIGHT, UH, WITH A HEAVY HEART, WE'RE GOING TO BE A JOURNEY. AND IN MEMORY OF ALAN P OWL, [03:15:01] MCCOMBS, THE FORMER OWNER OF CHAMPION NEWSPAPERS WHO PASSED AWAY ON MARCH 12TH, 2021 AT THE AGE OF 91, UM, HE WAS AN ESTEEMED MEMBER OF THE CHINO VALLEY COMMUNITY FOR OVER 64 YEARS OUT. AND HIS WIFE GRETCHEN OWNED THE CHINO CHAMPION FOR NEARLY 61 YEARS FROM 1956 TO 2017. AND HE AUTHORED THE COMMUNITY FAVORITE, UH, ROLL TO ROLL TOP ROUND UP COLUMN FOR MANY DECADES. HE BECAME THE PUBLISHER MEREDITH IN 2006, GRETCHEN PASSED AWAY IN 2016 AFTER A 15 YEAR, UH, EXPERIENCE WITH ALZHEIMER'S AL HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN, IN MANY DIFFERENT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS OVER YEARS, INCLUDING THE CHINO ROTARY, THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, THE YMCA, THE PLANNING COMMISSION, AND SERVED ON THE CHINO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT AS A BOARD MEMBER FOR 10 YEARS FROM 1969 TO 1979, HE WAS HEAD OF THE CITY OF CHINOS FREEWAY COMMITTEE IN THE 1960S AND HELPED HIM NEGOTIATE THE NINETEENS OR NEGOTIATE THE 60 FREEWAY, UH, BEING BUILT BELOW GRADE THROUGH THE CITY TO KEEP, UH, TO KEEP THE EXPANDING COMMUNITY FROM BEING DIVIDED. MR. MCCOMBS HAS, UH, BEEN HONORED WITH SEVERAL WARDS, INCLUDING THE CITY OF CHINOS, SPIRIT OF ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, RECOGNIZING HIS OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY. HE WAS A BELOVED, A CHINO CHINO VALLEY HISTORIAN. HE SERVED IN THE U S NAVY RESERVES WAS A GRADUATE OF STANFORD AND HARVARD UNIVERSITIES. WHEN CHINO HILLS BECAME A CITY, HE WAS FIRST IN LINE TO RECEIVE THE FIRST BUSINESS, A LICENSE ISSUED BY THE CITY. WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL FOR HIS COMMITMENT, DEDICATION, AND SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CHINO VALLEY COMMUNITY. WE EXTEND OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHIES TO AL SUN BILL, HIS DAUGHTER-IN-LAW BRANDY, HIS GRANDSON, NICHOLAS, AND THEIR EXTENDED FAMILY. AND THEN JUST AS A LITTLE SIDE NOTE, YOU KNOW, IN RECENT YEARS, I'LL CONTINUE TO NOT PARTICULARLY BE INVOLVED IN CHINO HILLS WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH HELPING TO FUND THE LO SERRANO'S PARK IMPROVEMENTS. AND EVEN THOUGH I THINK THE COMMUNITY MORE ASSOCIATED HIM WITH CHINO, HE CERTAINLY HAD A NICE SOFT SPOT IN HIS HEART FOR OUR CITY. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE A JOURNEY AND IN HIS MEMORY AND WISH NOTHING BUT THE BEST TO HIS FAMILY AS THEY HONOR AL'S LIFE. SO WITH THAT, HAVE A GOOD EVENING. GOOD JOB. . * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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