Agenda - 12/04/2023

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 COMMENT: In 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.

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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

Regular Meeting Minutes of October 16, 2023 – ACTION

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.

a. 930 Hillcrest Drive (APN #024-084-120): A public hearing on a DESIGN REVIEW PERMIT application to allow a first story renovation and a 1,025 square foot addition to the second story of an existing two-story residence in the Single-Family Residential (R-1) Zoning District - ACTION

The project is categorically exempt pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15301 Existing Facilities (Class 1) because the addition will not result in an increase of more than 10,000 square feet, 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 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: Colors and Materials Board

ATTACHMENT 4: Project Description

Presentation

b. Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Thresholds and Screening Policy: A public hearing recommending that the City Council adopt a citywide Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Thresholds and Screening Policy establishing VMT as the metric for conducting transportation impact analysis for the purpose of environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to comply with the requirements of Senate Bill 743 - ACTION

This policy is not a project within the meaning of Section 15378 of California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines, because it has no potential to result in direct physical change in the environment, nor a reasonably indirect physical change in the environment (STAFF REPORT REVISED 12.04.23).

ATTACHMENT 1 (REVISED 12.04.23): Resolution with Exhibit A: Draft Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Thresholds and Screening Policy

Presentation

c. 6, 20, and 30 Rollins Road (APN’s: 024-353-330, 024-353-020, 024-353-030) / 201 and 231 Adrian Road (APN’s: 024-353-220, 024-353-080) / 230 Harriet Tubman Way (APN: 024-353-200) / 231 Millbrae Avenue (APN: 024-353-150): A public hearing to consider (a) amendments to the conditions of approval of the Alexandria Center for Life Sciences-Millbrae project (project #2021-050, approving a Design Review Permit, Site Development Plan, Height Exception, Conditional Use Permit, and Vesting Tentative Parcel Map for the construction of an approximately 570,000 sf life sciences campus on an approximately 4.71 acre site), as approved by the Planning Commission on December 13, 2021, to (i) clarify the ability of the applicant to file multiple Parcel Maps and (ii) extend the Design Review Permit, Site Development Plan, Height Exception, and Conditional Use Permit for the term of the Vesting Tentative Parcel Map, and (b) recommending that the City Council extend the term of the Vesting Tentative Parcel Map in accordance with the Subdivision Map Act - ACTION