MILLBRAE PLANNING COMMISSION 

AGENDA

February 5, 2024

7:00 P.M.

  

 

In Person Meeting Location:

Millbrae Council Chambers

621 Magnolia Avenue

Millbrae, California

 

 

 

Teleconference via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81212851606

For dial-in comments, call 1-669-900-9128

Meeting ID: 812 1285 1606

 

 

INFORMATION ON LANGUAGE AND SPECIAL ASSISTANCE:

Any attendees who require special assistance, a disability related modification or language assistance in order to participate in the meeting should contact the Planning Division at (650) 259-2341. Notification prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting. 

 

THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD IN-PERSON in accordance with the Ralph M. Brown Act and limitations prescribed by State law. To maximize transparency and public access, while the primary meeting takes place in the Millbrae City Council Chambers location, members of the public may attend in person at the Millbrae Council Chamber, at the teleconference location by Zoom or by phone. If technical issues arise with Zoom or the phone dial-in option, the Planning Commission meeting will continue unless the meeting is being held pursuant to the provisions of Assembly Bill 2449 for appointed Commissioners. The meeting will be broadcast live on the Millbrae Community Television Cable Channel 27 or on www.mctv.tv.


Members of the public are encouraged to provide comments.  To maximize time for public comment, speakers are subject to a 3-minute time limit unless otherwise determined by the Chair. 

 

PUBLIC COMMENTIn person speakers will be called first, followed by virtual attendees.
 

In person speakers to fill out a speaker request slip and turn it into City Staff. 

Virtual attendees can participate by joining the Planning Commission meeting via Zoom: for web, visit https://zoom.us/ , select “Join a Meeting” and enter Meeting ID: 812 1285 1606.  Use the “Raise Hand” feature to request to speak. For dial-in comments, call 1-669-900-9128, enter Meeting ID: 812 1285 1606, and press *6 to request to speak. 

 

MATERIALS RELATED TO AN AGENDA ITEM THAT ARE SUBMITTED TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION AFTER DISTRIBUTION OF THE AGENDA PACKET ARE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION IN THE PLANNING DIVISION AT 621 MAGNOLIA AVENUE, MILLBRAE, CA 94030, MONDAY–FRIDAY FROM 8:30 A.M. TO 5:00 P.M.


CALL TO ORDER THE MILLBRAE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING

 

ROLL CALL

 

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE U.S. FLAG

 

Land Acknowledgement

The Millbrae Planning Commission acknowledges that we occupy the unceded ancestral, traditional, and contemporary homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. We wish to pay our respects to the Ancestors and Relatives of the Ramaytush Community and to affirm their sovereign rights as First Peoples. We recognize that the Ramaytush Ohlone have lived in harmony with nature for millennia, and that to achieve a truly ecologically sustainable future for Millbrae, we must embrace Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge in how we care for the city’s lands, waters, and all its people. We will continue to uplift and foster a meaningful relationship with the Ramaytush Ohlone community, and we encourage all to visit www.ramaytush.org to learn more about the Ramaytush Ohlone people.                  

 

1. AGENDA REVIEW

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

3. PUBLIC COMMUNICATION
Reserved for persons wishing to comment on any item not appearing on the agenda.  Public Communication is limited to no more than thirty (30) minutes, with each speaker given no more than three (3) minutes. If more than ten (10) speakers are present, speakers’ time shall be reduced so that all speakers have an equal time to speak. Although we welcome and encourage public communication, the views or information presented by the speakers are not necessarily the views of the Council or the members of the public in Millbrae.

4. PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC:  Persons who wish to speak on matters set for PUBLIC HEARING will be heard when the presiding officer calls for comments from those persons who are in support of or in opposition thereto.  After oral testimony has been given, the hearing is closed unless continued to another time, and brought to Planning Commission level for discussion and action. Normally no further oral testimony is permitted unless requested and allowed by the Planning Commission.

             (1) 50 percent of the floor area of the structures before the addition, or 2,500 square feet, whichever is less; or
             (2) 10,000 square feet if:
                    (A) The project is in an area where all public services and facilities are available to allow for maximum                                   development permissible in the General Plan and

                                         (B) The area in which the project is located is not environmentally sensitive.  


ATTACHMENT 1: Resolution with Exhibit A, Conditions of Approval
ATTACHMENT 2: Project Plans
ATTACHMENT 3: Project Description
ATTACHMENT 4: Conditional Use Permit Description
ATTACHMENT 5: Proof of Adjacent Owner Consultation
ATTACHMENT 6: Color and Materials Board (to be distributed at the meeting)


4b. 2040 General Plan Policy Document (General Plan) Land Use Text Amendment: Minor amendment to the General Plan General Commercial land use designation to add clarifying language allowing life sciences, laboratory, technology, biotechnology, or research and development uses for properties located east of Highway 101 and west of Old Bayshore Highway. Life sciences, laboratory, biotechnology, or research and development uses would include Biosafety Levels 1 and 2, and may include Level 3, subject to review and approval of a Conditional Use Permit - ACTION 

A General Plan Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was certified in 2022.  Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15162: 1) there are no substantial changes proposed in the project which will require major revisions of the previous General Plan EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects;   2) there are no substantial changes with respect to the circumstances under which the amendment is undertaken which will require major revisions of the previous EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; and 3) no new information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIR was adopted, shows any of the following: 

  1. The project will not have one or more significant effects not discussed in the previous EIR; 
  2. Significant effects previously examined will not be substantially more severe than shown in the previous EIR; 
  3. There are no mitigation measures previously found not to be feasible which would in fact be feasible and would not substantially reduce one or more significant effects of the project; or 
  4. There are no mitigation measures which are considerably different from those analyzed in the previous EIR that would substantially reduce one or more significant effects of the environment.

ATTACHMENT 1:  Resolution with Exhibit A: General Plan Amendment (Redlined)

 

5. NEW BUSINESS 

  1. 959 El Camino Real/1 Meadow GlenPublic plaza – INFORMATIONAL

                                                            ATTACHMENT 1: Project Exhibits

6. STAFF UPDATES

7. PLANNING COMMISSIONER ANNOUNCEMENTS

ADJOURN PLANNING COMMISSION


Final Meeting Minutes- February 05, 2024