Thank you. Ready to go? Okay. Call to order this regular meeting call, please. Council Member Gilchrist? Here. Council Member Cavoli? Here. And Mayor Branscombe? Yes, ma'am. Everybody please stand and join in the pledge. Madam Clerk, are there any changes to the agenda? No, Mayor. There's not. Oh, good. Okay. We have some special presentations. We are going... You're already sweating, Nelson. First, a ceremony. Swearing in. Present yourselves. You're going to swear them in? I am. Awesome. Awesome. Oh, are we? Oh, then excuse me. Excuse me. Then let me let me announce the others. I thought we were going to do them one off. OK. We also will be swearing in Sarge's come forward. This guy's got the best. I mean, that is a compliment. So swearing in for Officer Clayton Cardoza. Awesome, sir. Yes, raise your right hand. Test, test, test. I state your name. I swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of California, that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I'm about to enter. Congratulations. Did you want to call your family members up here, whoever's going to do the pinning? So really quick, to start off, Clayton and Matthew both came to us. Highly recommended. They're both lateral officers. Clayton's from Wheatland, and Matthew's from SAC PD. And they've just been great, and I think we're fortunate to have these guys. Nelson, he's been acting lieutenant for a couple, three months. And you've done a great job, and I couldn't be happier, and I'm glad it's you. Thank you. Thank you all. Test. Didn't have to run away. I hope this is meaningful to you all as it is to me. We haven't met. I'm Chris. Clayton, good to meet you. I'm so happy for you all, and I know every member of the council joins me And congratulations, best wishes, and we're so happy to have you on board. Really, that's all. We thank you. We're glad to have you, and thank you very much. I love those ceremonies. Okay. We are going to pivot now. Someone is here from Habitat for Humanity. There you are. Now, if a bunch of you are thinking about exiting, why don't you do it now? I have to leave. God bless you all. It's a fun project. Chris. It's no reflection. It's just more comfortable. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Oh, Nelson. Let me get the door closed. So grand. Welcome. Thank you. You bet. Testing. Oh, there we go. All right, well. Mayor, council members, thank you so much for having us here tonight. My name is Camille Benner, and I am the Director of Family Services at Habitat for Humanity Yuba Sutter. And I am here to talk about a really exciting project, the Jimmy and Rosalind Carter Rural Rally Workshop. But before I get started in the presentation, I do want to thank city leadership for meeting with our team last week so we could get agendized at the very least. To City Clerk Nadine, for your grace. those last-minute changes to tonight's agenda. I want to let you know that we are not here. We're out of money anyway. No, hopefully this is going to save some funding, and it's a great community engagement. And so really it's just to get it on your radar. We're going to start marketing to the community. We had a last-minute location change on this project. We've been working with Yuba County. We're bringing it into Marysville, and we want to let you know of the opportunity, the national spotlight on the habitat. I missed your name when you introduced yourself. Cami Benner. Cami. Yes. And you're new with Habitat here locally? No, I've been here for almost six years. Oh, you've been hiding. Okay. I stay in my office. You know, all these working on grants, I have our administrative officer. But no, I've been there a while. Okay. Nice to meet you. Thank you. Just flying under the radar. All right. So I'm going to apologize in advance. I made a couple of slide changes. So if you see me hiccup, it happened. Okay, Nadine. Oh, there we go. All right. I got it now. All right, so before I tell you about the Rural Rally workshop, I want to give you a little bit of background as to what it is and why it came, the Carter Workshop Project. And that has been going since 1994. This is the Super Bowl for a Habitat affiliate, right? It's our crowning jewel. Habit-specific invites. This is an invite only to Habitat affiliates that they find in the community that are meeting the mission, getting measurable outcomes, and have really strong partnerships with their local jurisdictions. This brings in 1,000 each day to be on a build site just to be a part of such an incredible event. And that doesn't even bring into account all of the corporate sponsors in the multi-millions. So in 2025, well, actually 2024, but we were invited to apply to be the Carter Build Project for 2025, which is an incredible honor as a Habitat affiliate. And we were going to utilize the Fernwood Meadows project that we are in partnership with Yuba County, where the first phase will provide 22 homes of ownership, affordable home ownership within Yuba County. Unfortunately, we did not get selected for the 2025 cycle. It did go to Austin, Texas. But we do have the opportunity to apply for the 2027 cycle. And what happened to all of these affiliates that really want to be a part of the Carter Work Project? And that is what brought to, this is a new initiative, it's the very first annual Jimmy and Rosalind Carter Rural Rally Work Project. And so habitats across the nation are gonna have access to habitat marketing materials, habitat media, and we're gonna be working during the same week as the main event, the Carter Work Project in Austin, Texas, doing smaller events within our local communities. The big goal is also to really put a spotlight on the need for affordable housing in our rural communities that are often underserved and overlooked. So, like I said, we were going to project and a location changed and we are now going to be hosting it right here in the city of Marysville on Pine Street, which is incredibly exciting. We want this to be successful for a multitude of reasons. Obviously, I'm a nonprofit. My big thing is I want to serve the community. I want to put somebody into affordable home ownership. But also, we want to prove to Habitat International that we have political will, that we have strong leadership across all of our jurisdictions, and that we have the capacity to pull off such an incredible event. Because this isn't big for Marysville or Yuba County. It's Yuba Sutter at large. We're talking lots of people coming to our community. to just see us shine and meet our leadership. And we want to bring that here. So here we are. This house looks better right now than it does in this picture. And we have basically completely gutted the inside of the house, which was a necessity and redone. We're going to be using volunteer efforts to rehab this home and have it become home ownership for somebody just in time for the holidays. But we're not stopping at 426 Pine Street. We have decided that we are going to brush the entire street with kindness. We are going to be offering exterior paint, tree trimming, landscaping, debris cleanup, and really to Pine Street, all at no cost to any of the residents there. And as we were talking, actually, Bethany, our admin officer, met a few of your council members at a local event and we found out that this was already a talking point and on the radar as an area that you guys want to revitalize. So that was another reason why we're here. We want to make sure that it matches that vision. Thus far we have third 230 yard dumpsters that were causing a lot of pests and obviously blight. It did become, as it sat vacant unfortunately, a dumpster for I don't know, individuals. This is where we would like the rural rally to kind of everybody to filter into. Again, we're going to have a lot of volunteers, and we will have a big kickoff event. We're going to have closing ceremonies. We want this to be big. We want this to be fun. And as I go through, I'm just going to show you some pictures of the street to highlight a couple of things. And they're out of order, so I'm going to say it now. When we are talking to the residents, the biggest need, and it's not an ask of Habitat, I'm just advocating for the people we spoke with, is they want their road paved and they need proper drainage. It's half unkempt trees and then also improper gutters, but they are flooding during the winter and this street is a speedway for people trying to avoid bridge street traffic in the morning. In addition to that, those trees are widow makers. You'll see as I go through the pictures that a lot of the houses have no gutters because tree branches fell and broke them, and big branches on the rooftops, as well as there have been a few people. But it also really highlights this isn't going to be that difficult. You can see cleaned up, some through and helped get rid of just a lot of garbage, and we're building all the rest of our partnerships as we speak. But like this, just a little yard work, a little fresh paint. Not in this presentation, but I do just want to be able to touch. I did send a letter to the owner on record, and I haven't heard back. We can't touch a property that we don't have permission to. So if anybody has any resources to help me find that person and see, because I don't want to leave one sore thumb on a really beautiful street, and that is literally the first thing you see. That is 914 4th Street, 915 4th Street? I haven't been done. And then this, I mean, these are cute. As Stuart calls them, they're like little bungalows. But this is kind of what we're hoping all of these homes are going to look like when we're done. Yes. No, that's my recollection. I remember campaigning in 2020 and walking that street, and it was extremes. Places like that and then places not like that. But it's a charming, it's a charming little block. It's super, super cute. Very cute little neighborhood. And this is, I want to let you know that this is a watercoloring that is quite huge, and it doesn't translate to this photo as well, but Councilmember Gilchrist put this together. He is putting together other visuals of what he thinks the final project will be like, but... He put that together in a blink of an eye for me and also let me know that the historic name for Pine Street is Kelly's Court. And he wants the road to be done in cobblestone that will eliminate having to get speed bumps and look better and be less upkeep. And he can talk to you about that offline because that's his idea. But, again, that's not something we can do. We'll talk to the finance person about that. Yeah. But a lot of those things that, you know, When you go into next year's budget, like I said, we can't do it, but this can be the jumpstart to help save some costs and really jumpstart that vision for Marysville. This is our first volunteer engagement since COVID. It's also our first fundraiser. I thought it was new. We have been busy, head down, doing a lot of things, are supporting low-income homeowners with repairs, and we are putting low-income families into homeownership. So the... We want to raise up property values. We want to raise up community morale. We want the safe to feel streeter or the street to feel safer, however you want to word that. And also, this highlights government and leadership at both Yuba County and the city of Marysville. And for me and for a lot of us, it's also to just reignite that traditional habitat model. This project is going to cost... About $200,000. Of course, that's if we had no in-kind. We have paint, right? If you go into our restart, you'll see that we have a lot of paint. We're going to be asking volunteers to raise $500. We'll create a fundraising portal for them to reach out to their network. That's to ensure that this event covers its costs. But my goal is this event. One of the biggest needs that we need in the city of Marysville, extra especially, actually, is... an immediate home repair need, to be able to serve people that are coming to the window that need a home repair, because currently our home repair program, all of our programs are grant funded, which means finances that are attached to them, full jurisdictions. But it is a very lengthy application process. It is very compliant heavy, and we can't approve everybody based on federal regulations, but we could based on a habitat model. So when an elderly person goes into their home or an ADA accessible bathroom, or someone's and they've got three kids and no money, we can do an internal 0% habitat loan and make those payments go back into the repair fund and we're able to serve another neighbor within the community. And I know it was really hard to administer that funding here in Marysville because so many people had unpermitted add-ons which blow the federal compliance right out of the water for those applications. What am I doing? Oh, okay. So, and we're, again, transforming a house into a home. So we're going to do an open application right after the event, the 1st through the 15th of November. And we'll be announcing a homeowner by December 1st. So there's going to be another big fun event I'll talk to you guys about later, which will be a ribbon cutting or key ceremony. Our focus, this is, the home is... 1,021 square feet, and it's a two-bedroom, one-bath. So a family will outgrow that. It will not be for family with young children. It would be a retired veteran, maybe a low-income, someone that qualifies low-income that is more entry-level position at the hospital or someone that has lived experience that has worked to rebuild their life and has a proven track record of maintaining affordable rental housing but with the market the way it is right now. they cannot afford affordable home or home ownership unless it is done affordably. And because we are the lender, we can make it very, very affordable. This is what will actually, there's less walls now. This was taken a week ago and I'm coming to you on short notice because this just came back into our housing stock. I would have loved to given you a lot more notice. We thought that an investor would buy it. So yes, two bedroom, two bath. And again, I just want to say why it matters beyond Pine Street. even if we don't get the rural rally. This is really our opportunity to prove that we can and that importance of bringing in national attention to the Yuba-Sutter area, the tax revenue, the business sales, all of the things that come with an event like that. But we really want to improve Pine Street. Really have a successful event and start getting volunteers back on the build site and reminding people to end homelessness, but to provide safe and affordable homeownership and housing. in a sustainable and fiscally responsible manner. So we want it to make sense for everybody. Before the mayor got rid of my crowd, I'm just joking. If you are interested, you can go to YubaSutterHabitat.org, go to Rural Rally. We have links there to sign up to be a volunteer, to be a donor, a skilled volunteer. But we are also going to be... putting together a family selection committee because we won't choose the homeowner. We just put together viable applications. We'll have a committee that selects that. And a big need is if anybody wants to be a part of the planning committee for this event, there's a lot to do and very little time. So if you'd like to add your voice, your thoughts, your opinions, please reach out to me directly. I would love to have your support. And anybody in here, go to work, talk to your team, and build a team, get some volunteers out there. We would love to see you. And I just want to close with saying that, again, we're not asking for funding. We are asking for political will. As we move forward and planning happens, we would need help with road closures, permits, and potentially utilizing CalWORKs during the workday with the tree trimming to help offset some costs. But ultimately, we want this to be a strong partnership and really build our partnership with the city of Marysville. I really thank you for your time. Stick around. Any questions or comments? I have one question. Yeah. The low-income affordability, how much does the low-income person have to make to qualify to buy this house? Well, it depends on the family size. So for a single person, they can't make less than $20,300. Okay. And what is the average income in Marysville? So here's the thing. They can make up to $74,000 applicants, and that is a lot of families' goal income, $74,000. That's considered low income. A family size of four couldn't exceed $46,000, $50,000. So cost of living has gone up, so has what's considered low income. So it sounds to me like a lot of people who live here will be able to qualify for this. Perfect. Thank you. I mean, not most. That's an exaggeration. But, yes, there's no shortage of people that will qualify. Sure. So, Kimmy, I'd say thank you. for you and Habitat for Manatee for picking a block in Marysville, and it's in a perfect location down there, close to the hospital. I've been in many of those houses, and I just think this idea, this project, as much as Councilman Gilchrist, by any way, shape, or form, or Margie over here, thank you very much for your guys' work on that, but thank you for you and Habitat for facilitating this. It's only going to get better if we could just do one block at a time. One block. Thank you very much for your work on that. Thank you. I hope to see you with a paint roller and a hammer. And I don't know the kickoff ceremony that's not on the slide. It will be the 26th at noon, October 26th. I'll send out a lot of details. This is, like I said, we're getting everything together, but we would love to have leadership from Marysville speaking and be at the closing ceremonies. Thank you. Margie or Bruce? I just want to say thank you for bringing it to our attention. And we spoke, not you, but Bethany, at the Say Love dinner. Yes. 411 about it. So we're excited. I was very excited to hear it was already, you two were already talking about it. So I was like, well, this is exciting because now it's, you know, being able to meet the need of a community and the need of the city makes it all the better. I have flyers for anybody with a QR code. And so you're raising money in $500 buckets? So we are, yes, well, for the volunteers, the volunteers were asking to raise $500. I'll fill up one of the buckets. I will. Great. Thank you. You bet. So you raised some money today. Yes, perfect. Awesome. Some other community members, so we are, yes. Any other questions? Good deal. Thank you again for giving. Excellent. Okay. We now move to, do we have any public comment on the consent calendar or on any matter not on the agenda, Madam Clerk? Ricky, you're correct. Okay, so we don't have any public comment until the public hearing portion. Okay, then we'll go to the consent calendar. What's the proof? Move to second it. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? None. calendar is passed, we move to the public hearing calendar. All matters in this section of the agenda. Actually, I'm supposed to do this. All matters in this section of the agenda are formal public hearings and will be acted on individually. When called on for public comment, members of the public may request to speak prior to action on this item. When you're called, you may approach the podium. Ricky knows how to do that. And the matter for us, and we'll have the presentation then open, is item number four on the agenda, general plan 2050, downtown specific plan, zoning code update, historic and final environmental impact report. And the recommendation is to pass a motion to, one, adopt a resolution certifying the environmental impact report for the general plan. plan 2050 update, the downtown specific plan, and the zoning code update, including adopting the findings of fact, adopting a mitigation monitoring and reporting plan, rejecting land use alternatives, and adopting a statement of overriding considerations for the project. We're just getting going here. Two. Adopt a resolution approving the City of Marysville General Plan 2053. Adopt a resolution adopting the historic design guidelines. And four, introduce for first reading Ordinance Number 1462, amending Title 17 of the City of Marysville Municipal Code by amending the zoning map to change the zoning district designations Consistent with the downtown specific plan and consistent with state law. Amend the zoning district of public slash quasi-public. Waive the first reading and schedule the proposed ordinance for a second reading adoption at the next regular city council meeting currently scheduled for October 7th, 2025 to be effective 30 days after adoption. And finally, five. introduce the first reading of ordinance 1463 to adopt the downtown specific plan, waive the first reading, and schedule proposed ordinances for a second reading and adoption at the next regular city council meeting currently scheduled for October 7th, 2025 to be effective 30 days after adoption. Kathy, I should have let you read that. Ms. Kathy Pease, you are a genius at this sort of thing. Please tell us what's going on. Yes, good evening. I'm Kathy Pease, a planning consultant that assists the city of Marysville. As the council knows, this is kind of deja vu. We did consider this back in March. And due to a requirement to post a summary of the order, we have to say who voted and what the outcome was. That needs to be in the paper. We, to be ultra conservative, are bringing the entire package back to you this evening. So in July, I brought this to the Planning Commission again for their recommendation. So this item tonight, I'll go briefly over the project components. There is a benefit in bringing this back. We've been able to do a little bit of cleanup items that I'll talk about. And then, again, we... did an environmental document that you guys have already seen. So tonight we'll go over that, accept public testimony, and then you'll consider the item. Selected allow us to do some minor updates. We are expanding a small point to in with staff. There's some projects that were legal non-conforming that were residential. This will allow us to do a minor amendment to bring those in. and that'll streamline development in the future. And we are clarifying allowable uses. If the council remembers when we came before you in March, one of the questions was about legal non-conforming, particularly in the medical arts district. So if there were automotive uses, that's not a use that's proposed in the future, but those uses can continue. And we wanted to clarify that that is the case. So, again, there are some minor edits that we've done. Expanding the boundary, we needed to update all the exhibits in the general plan and the downtown plan to match the new specific plan boundary. And then, again, it particularly allows mixed use and high-density residential in that area. Whoops, there we go. So again, here are the various tables that we updated. And here's an exhibit on the right-hand side. You can see for right-hand corner, there's an area outlined in yellow. That's the area that we brought in to the downtown specific plan. And here's a close-up of those properties that were brought in on an aerial. Again, as a reminder, the big portion of the project was updating our general plan to 2050, the future. We updated the general plan land use designations. We are proposing to adopt historic design guidelines to update... And then we did a zoning code update, again, to be consistent with recent state laws. We did an environmental impact review for 45 days. And then we responded to comments and prepared a final environmental impact report. We prepared what's called a mitigation monitoring and reporting program. We took all of the mitigation that was identified in the EIR and we put it in one table. we've outlined when projects come forward what the responsibility of the city as the lead agency is and what the future applicants would need to do to make sure that impacts are reduced so again the final EIR included responses to comments and minor text station text changes to the EIR we are doing a statement of overriding considerations that's a that the council approves that explains why the benefits of the project get impacts. So again, we are resolutions and the first reading of the ordinances to approve the and certify the final EIR, adopt the mitigation monitoring and reporting program, adopt the California Environmental Quality Act findings and statement of the general plan amendment, the downtown specific plan, historic design guidelines, and the zoning code update. And that concludes my presentation. If I may, I'm looking at page two of five, very beginning. And I can see Yuba Park there, and it looks like it's still zoned park and open space. Yes. I'm sorry, what was the question? It was my understanding that was not going to be where we ended up with that piece of property. Yuba Park. Yuba Park. At Yuba and 10th Street. So it's still shown as PARC. Sorry. I remember having conversations about this, and that was going to be changed to commercial and mixed use. Mr. Mayor, members of the council, Matthew Yerkin from ACOM was the primary. The way I remember the history of it is that we did, in fact, look at different development concepts for Yuba Park, and you'll see that, especially in an appendix of this specific plan, there are vignettes looking at feasible redevelopment, including multifamily development that preserves a little bit of open space but would develop that park. There did not seem to be consensus to... change the land use designation to prohibit park uses and Olstead was include document this in a policy in the general plan that I'm paraphrasing says something like the city should look at population existing in future population and parkland and examine feasible potential for redevelopment of existing parkland. And we had Yuba Park in mind in particular, although there were some other parks that we were thinking about early on in the process as well. But we didn't perceive consensus to whole scale make that change right now. That's the way I remember it. That's not my memory. The environmental impact report and the specific plan facilitate that being redeveloped if a project comes forward in the future. No, it's just a lot more work. It would be nice to have the flexibility. Well, this does set you up for flexibility. If somebody comes in, they can rely on the EIR to cover it from an environmental standpoint. May I? I'm not ready to approve this with this like this because... I thought there was a pretty clear discussion on making that property available for commercial and mixed use of media to do anything immediately. And there's interest in the property, historical value, and that can be accommodated with a development. But you guys didn't get the message. Well, this streamlines it. It's covered in the environmental document. We show the parameters. I know you did that, but apparently you weren't listening because I thought it was made pretty clear. I'm sorry. I just saw this, and I presumed that it had been followed through on. To the chair. Sir. I completely understand your thought process and how you feel. So just so you know, everything in the general plan update is a living document and can be changed immediately. When it comes time to do that. And the other park was Washington Square. And so we did studies through ACOM to show what positive impact those two parks would have so that we can balance out whether we do it or not with the public's input when we're ready to achieve that. Is that not correct? Yes. So if a project came in to redevelop it, It would go before the city council. We would request a zoning change, but they wouldn't have to do a new environment. The environmental impact report has been covered. We had a lot going on with this general plan update. And again, every conversation I was involved in, the property was going to be available immediately for mixed commercial, and now it isn't. I'm sorry. And there's a whole lot going on. I mean, look at all these pages. It's not like... I should have picked up on it earlier, but now I look at it and I'm surprised. Through the Chair. Sir. Kathy and Councilman Gilchrist, I get it, and Mayor, respectfully, I understand your position on that. The conversations have been made about being able to quickly make changes to that park should we have a development plan in place, but we do not. I do believe that the general plan specifically does allow us the avenues in the future to be able to develop or realign any of our mixed use or whatever the case may be through any of our current ordinances that are there. And that's what this general plan 2050 would allow us to do. Is it a little bit of extra steps? Should a developer develop that piece of land? It's going to be probably a bunch of steps that developers are going to have to do in general just to be able to make anything happen there. But it also still leads to the fact that we're wanting some open space in that area. Thank you, Brad. I know it can be done later. But when something I thought was not there, I wonder what else is consistent with specific desires. And again, this is a very complicated thing. It's like, okay, now I've got to go back and read this whole thing to see what else is amiss. So that's the problem. So sorry to interrupt. Mr. Mayor, may I for a moment? So wasn't Yuba Park specifically cited in the plan? Yes, it's a catalyst site. So the purpose of a catalyst site, we've got several that they looked at, is to show what development looks like. So it's covered in the specific potential commercial. It's covered in the specific plan. So it's analyzed. So if it comes in, it's extremely streamed council. We would rezone and have design. It could have been done now. Yes, that could be the will of the council. I just wanted to also mention that because the property is in park use and owned by the city, there's a state law called Surplus Lands Act, and there's a certain process for making that available for private development. It has to be basically bid. put out there for interest by affordable housing developers or proposed for a different open space use. There are constraints that are... What I'm saying is there are constraints in state law that are under the Surplus Lands Act that are, you know, much more labor-intensive compared to a zoning change or a general plan amendment for the city to make. So there's that consideration as well. State law says you can't just develop a city park. You can't just... sell it for private development. There has to be a process to first look at affordable housing or other open space use. And? So why does that get in the way of doing the zoning now? I don't know the relationship between Surplus Lands Act and making a unilateral zone change. I would have to – if that had been the process – we would have generated a legal opinion on a zone change in relation to the new Surplus Lands Act. Make this easier for everybody. Thank you. So, Matthew, what you're saying is because California has a state law, the Surplus Lands Act, you wrote this in accordance to that law in place right now. We can't necessarily make a decision about zone changing because... According to that law, we have to go through the process of whether it's going to be affordable housing first and go down a list and so forth. So being that the case, it seems that you've written this according to that Surplus Land Act law. Is that what I understand? In a way, but had that been the proposal to commercial or mixed-use development, then I would have vetted it through Surplus Lands. Right, so you left it a little more ambiguous for the possibility of options and so forth, as I see fit. I think you all would have been better served by flagging this earlier because, again, there was clear discussion about this. I'm sorry because I never was given the direction to rezone it. We came and showed you the general plan. We showed you the catalyst sites that we were talking about. But to make your decision maybe easier tonight, stop. We still have money in the proposal to do a zoning code update. Like the minor changes we've done for this, you guys consider and adopt the general plan tonight. We can turn around and use some of those remaining funds to look at rezoning this park or other parks that you guys are concerned with. Put that on your list, please. Sure. If that had been... changed to whatever. One, it would disallow any of it to be used for a park area? No, no. Could look at a zoning that, well, if the zoning changed and it's a park currently, that would be a non-conforming use and the park uses could continue in the future. The, we will have to be careful with what it is. It will have to allow affordable housing because it's city, yeah. Okay, so the other thing, though, if it's rezoned, then a typical project that meets that zoning would not have to come before the council, right? It only has to come before the council if we do it in the process that you set it up for. My thought is it still would come before the council for design review. Whatever's proposed, I'm assuming that you'd want to take a look at. Right, for design review. But what I'm concerned is because I thought we were changing it too, but now I'm kind of getting convinced that we shouldn't. If it was, let's just use that it was going to a commercial, and somebody comes in with a commercial project, it already meets the zoning requirements. So the only thing then that we would have control of would be the design review, correct? Yes. If we leave it this way and a project decide that we don't want that project and we wouldn't then change the zoning, right? So we have, the point being is we have a lot more control over it if we leave it this way. Correct. If we change it to a commercial or a multi-housing, then it automatically, somebody can walk in and put that in there with just the design review. Yeah, that answered my question. This is a complicated issue with lots of variables. You also will need to keep in mind we own the property. So we also have the right property. to do something such as a DDA, a development agreement, that would limit what people can do with the property based on a contractual agreement. Is that correct, council? After you offered it to the affordable housing? We would have to go through the Surplus Land Act, which I think is a huge consideration to make because that is statutory and it PROVIDES PREFERENCE TO THOSE ENTITIES, INCLUDING AFFORDABLE LAND ACT USE. DOESN'T MEAN WE HAVE TO APPROVE THOSE PROJECTS EITHER BECAUSE WE WOULD ENTER INTO NEGOTIATIONS WITH THEM AND WE MAY SAY WE'RE NOT INTERESTED. BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF REVIEWS AND DECISIONS THAT WILL NEED TO BE MADE. It will end up coming through the Planning Commission and Council if we own the property. Pardon me, Jim. Do you recall the acreage that the trigger for... Five acres. And I'm not sure where that is. It's pretty close. I think we could shave off a little bit of a piece of that and we wouldn't be within that. I do... I understand your concern, Mayor. We had full... What were the sites called? Catalyst sites. And many of them were parks or green space. And I said, okay, let's just get the environmental done because that is really the big hurdle, the environmental review. And then we can make the zoning changes as the properties, as we decide what we're going to do with the properties. We can do... The rezoning, for some reason I thought there was an overlay that allowed us to do that, but it was just a catalyst site. Added the units to the specific plan. So I would suggest we have the property surveyed to know the exact dimensions. And because I remember we went through the surplus land act thing with the B Street property. We were wondering if we were going to be caught within the scope of that. It was five acres and five acres. That's the threshold, yeah. So let's... Let's survey the property, find out the exact dimensions. It's over five acres. Let's sell enough to get it under. Might I recommend we do that for all those catalyst sites because there were some others we were looking at too? Absolutely. Because we do own the property, so someone just can't come in and do what they want because we own it. We are the captains of the destiny here. Put your mic on. My thought then is... over what's going to go there, why wouldn't we leave it as the park and then zone it to whatever project comes in that we desire? I presume, Dan, you're a real estate guy, I presume it would change the risk profile on someone wanting to approach it for a development plan because the risk of changing the zoning would end success. Whereas if we get ready, zoned ready to go, We own it. We're in control of what happens to it. But... And that's a big risk. We zone it to something and somebody comes in and we're changing the zoning again. I think it's mixed commercial. I think this and that cover just about everything. I know. But what if somebody comes in with something that isn't? Well, it wouldn't allow... I don't think the mixed usage allows... Mr. Mayor, right now this allows the flexibility the way that they set it up. They're going to display... a concept that's in the general plan right now from where you're, and this is what was considered a site, and it's actually 4.2 acres, Mayor. So it's not, we're not at risk for the excess land? No, yeah, just for the site. And this, of course, is just a proposal, and we'd have to develop or somebody would be interested. But with what Kathy was mentioning about the EIR, the way it is, yeah. You're saying it's quicker if they don't have it already zoned? No, it's just not quicker than the zoning. But again, there's a flexibility of zoning, so it could be a different use. I don't know. It's maybe not a temple, but something else. And it could be something else that comes in. So manufacturing is different from commercial? Yes, yeah. Manufacturing is like a manufacturer. That's probably okay. Multi-unit is different as well. Yes, yeah. It allows the flexibility of determining what can be put on the site once a developer comes and is interested in the potential site. These examples here, if you want to show the site plan, this is just a proposed site plan that AECOM put together for the site, which maintains some of the green space in the center of multifamily apartments. And we'd certainly, with some of that property, we'd want to dedicate it to the historical As I understand it, that is the proclamation was first read in Marysville sometime like a couple of years after, so it would have been 67, I think, somewhere in there. But it happened there, and consideration of that would have to be taken, and certainly a portion of the property should be dedicated to remembering that. And I think that's certainly something we can... But all the conversations we had, I remember I've seen this, pardon me, I've seen this, were about commercial mixed use as the most likely highest value. And again, I'm just disappointed that it's still P for Park. Okay. Might I make a recommendation? And this is, I may need legal counsels. help on this because we're in our first reading. We could bring changes back at the second reading, is that correct? Not to your ordinance. We would have to start over. Yeah, then it's not a second reading. You would reintroduce. You would reintroduce. If you want to make an amendment now, parse out the language and all is going to come back for reintroduction. Okay, but the other, my thought is, can we bring this back with some options for those opportunity sites? Do we zone them differently now or later? What are the implications? How can we handle this issue where we might have different zoning requirements needs depending on the developer, would that be something we could do? My recommendation is to parse that out from tonight's, to give staff direction to come back to the council. We could do a workshop to discuss options on the different catalysts, do the whole hearing notice and everything to consider rezoning those parcels. I'm happy with as long as we have momentum in the direction of opening our eyes and opening up this opportunity, again, with consideration of historical value and care. And that should be included in any planning we do. So I'm fine if we've got momentum on opening up the property and taking and minimizing, mitigating to the extent possible, risk to a potential developer. Because if they know it's already zoned right, that changes their risk calculations dramatically. I will know from experience in other jurisdictions, when you cover it in an environmental document in your general plan like we've done, that is a huge catalyst. The fact that we have an environmental document again and we have included those units in that analysis, that extremely streamlines the process for that entitlement. report it doesn't have to go out for public comment for 45 days we have an environmental document that they can reuse for their project and so that saves money since it's already teed up will be relatively quick instead of looking at a six to eight to a year process we're talking a couple we're not going to solve this right now to the chair hold on i've been asking i don't care what we Everybody wants to go through and go through that process. But my suggestion is that we leave it as the green space because it's going to give us a lot more flexibility for a developer that wants to come in. So I'm pretty strong on the fact that we need to leave that. All the work has been done to change the zoning, especially the environmental report. So it would... of who can walk in the door and talk to Dan on that. So I would suggest that we leave it as is. It would be argumentative, but I think whatever the zoning is, they'd have that same flexibility. If it was commercial mixed use and someone wanted to do manufacturing there, the same flexibility would be there. And you've actually broken out of the park category. So I think they'd have the same flexibility, but I don't want to... We don't have to beat that to death right now. Through the chair. Forgive me. Go ahead, and then I'll close. They mentioned we go to a public comment before we go to the actual. I'm not done. Please. So, Kathy, stick around. So, between now and our next meeting when we talk about this, I want some conversation with city officials about this and consider the flexibility. And my suggestion is a change now, even if it's the best judgment of the people looking at this, witness the presentation you just shared, that kind of change is the most likely. So why not tee that? Why not give some thought to how we tee that up? Whether it's now and the next time or not, it's I want momentum in that direction. And again, with consideration of the historical impact and the cultural impact. I do want to point out, if I were to bring this back at the next meeting when we're going to consider the second reading of the ordinances, we would have to start over with the public noticing. So we wouldn't be adopting the general plan. We'd be deferring everything. That'll give us some time to think about it. Well, I was just conferring with our legal counsel. Could we just not bring the zoning ordinance or... Vote on the zoning ordinance tonight and approve the general plan and the other documents. Well, we wouldn't be able to adopt the downtown specific plan either because they went part and parcel in adopting the plan. We needed to amend the zoning ordinance because that changed the zoning for the downtown area. So again, from my perspective, it's just cleaner to go ahead with tonight and direct staff to come back. with the rezoning of those other parcels. So we can do it right, so we can analyze it, make sure we notice appropriately, and take everybody's... Maybe it takes two more meetings. How many times can we go back and update the general plan after this one? So the general plan can only be updated four times a year. There it can bring the zoning ordinance changes. Okay. Thank you. Do we have any... Ricky, did you want to chat? Yes. Please, welcome. Mayor Samuel, he knows his way around this place. To me, this is a really special day because as a resident, as a mayor, Chris... Stuart knows, and this is like a baby being born, so I'm looking forward to this happening. It's been a long time since 1985, as we know, and this is a great day for Marysville. Here, I'm speaking on behalf of Blue Zones' Eva Sutter, who worked for this comprehensive planning document before you today, particularly the provisions that advance missing middle housing and create walkable, health-promoting built environments in our community. Blue Zones Project Yuba Sutter has been proud to support Marysville planning efforts over the past several years, as you know. Our organization played a crucial role in helping the city secure significant grant funding, including supporting Marysville's successful $3.5 million application to SACOG Regional Maintenance and Modernization Grant for 22nd Street. Is that Avenue? Street. Street. Thank you. THIS COLLABORATION EXEMPLIFIES HOW PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP CAN ENHANCE COMMUNITY WELL-BEING THROUGH STRATEGIC IMPROVEMENTS TO BUILD ENVIRONMENT. WE HAVE ALSO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATED IN THE PLANNING INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN THAT CONNECTS SET OF VIEWS TO YUVA COLLEGE AND COLLABORATING WITH THE URBAN LAND INSTITUTE ON A REDEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT INCLUDED THE IDENTIFYING WASHINGTON SQUARE AS A POTENTIAL LOCATION FOR MISSING MIDDLE These efforts reflect our commitment to creating environments, easy choices. As we look to our community's future housing needs, we must especially consider including myself. I'm thinking as Alex grows up and goes to school and Jennifer and I are by ourselves, we're going to need a smaller space. I would love to live in downtown. Chris, I'm looking at some of your spots. Research from Blue Zones areas worldwide demonstrates that older adults thrive in walkable environments. with an access to entertainment, amenities, and health services within walking distance. Missing middle housing include duplexes, fourplexes, courtyard apartments, and live-work units. Provides precisely the type of housing that supports aging in place while maintaining independence. Build density to support local businesses while fostering the natural movement and social connections that are a hallmark of Blue Zone's communities. When older adults can walk to health care facilities, restaurants, entertainment, venues, and community gatherings, they maintain the physical activity and social engagement that promotes longevity and well-being. The downtown specific plan emphasizes on built environment that support with Blue Zone's project principles. Research has consistently shown that walkable neighborhoods longer and healthier lives. Your plans focus on creating pedestrian, and bicycle-friendly streetscape, enhanced lighting, shade trees, gathering spaces directly supports the Blue Zone's principle of move naturally, making physical activity a part of this effort. We know that Marysville has amazing assets and is an ideal location for private investment in the missing middle housing and community-oriented development. Ellis Lake, our historic downtown core, Chinatown, the medical facilities, the levee trails. They create a unique combination of natural beauty, cultural richness, and both residents and businesses. One of Marysville's largest employers could provide housing development that creates perfect opportunities for medical professionals and support staff to live with a walking distance of the workplace. It makes a type of vibrant mixed-use community that characterizes the world of Blue Zones. The plan emphasizes on connecting past work, such as the bike and pedestrian initiative that I was very happy to work on, demonstrates the comprehensive thinking necessary for creative, truly livable communities. These infrastructure improvements don't just move people, they make the daily opportunities for social interaction and physical activity that builds community resilience. By making it easier for the private investment to flow into our community, these planning documents create the regulatory certainty and clear vision that developers need to develop the missing middle housing on our community request. The identification of sites like Washington Square and areas around Yuba Park for potential housing development represents precisely the type of infill development that creates vibrant places. When we build housing near parks, medical facilities, downtown amenities. We create opportunities for different generations to interact naturally, another key characteristic of the Blue Zones communities. These developments can serve as catalysts for supporting existing businesses, watch both long-time residents and newcomers. Blue Zones projects, we with Sutter's committed to continue our support of these plans to move into implementation. We believe Marysville has the potential to become a model Blue Zones community. a place where the built environment naturally supports healthy and economic vitality. The comprehensive approach embodies in these planning documents address land use, transportation, housing, historic preservation, economic development, all simultaneously. It creates a foundation for a community where residents can thrive throughout their lives. We ask you to please approve these planning documents and look forward to working with the city to implement the vision outlined within them. together places to support health, well-being, and prosperity for all Marysville residents. Thank you for your leadership in creating a healthier and more vibrant Marysville. Thank you for your time. Ricky, out of respect, you did not get the three-minute hook. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Let's see. Chair? So we have... Really is there any other public comment or is it we done there? That's where we have a recommendation of a motion before us. I don't necessarily agree with your disposition on it with respect I understand where you're kind of going but I appreciate the way it's been written and the fact is it's written with flexibility and So for that flexibility right there at least allows us to have inside of a year for discussion of potential changes with that being said I There's a recommendation for a motion, therefore I put a motion to the floor to accept this as it's written. If we don't get a second, it's set on the floor. I would entertain a motion passed tonight, and only if we can direct staff to bring a rezoning agenda item back regarding the catalyst sites by a date certain, and it needn't be something that the city manager could work out with the planning staff. Is that possible? Is that possible? We'd have a report back on the bring a rezoning agenda item back regarding the catalyst sites by a date certain and we could fix that date at some time no later than November. I've just got a thumbs up from the planning guy. Time for the public hearing is closed, and now we're talking about motions. Thank you, Counselor. You need a lawyer around. So that would be the only change. So there's two motions of the fours, if I got that correct. Prop Decorum, do we need to close one or withdraw one? Your microphone. Both motions will advance this to the next meeting. To the next meeting. To the next meeting. Both of them advance it. The other one just keeps momentum going on these candidates. Both of them will advance it to the next meeting. The other one contains a directive to bring something back for council consideration at a later date. It would go with the process that is written. The motion the mayor put forward would push this to the next meeting with the changes. No, no, no. No, no. The mayor's motion also moves it forward. He just says, in addition, I'd like to hear something else by a date certain. Whether we vote for B at the next meeting, the mayor will have something coming back to him at whatever date. And that's by November. In other words, I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm adding let's keep the momentum on looking at these candidates. It's not what you're proposing. It's in addition. And I may give a WE WOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH APPROVAL OF EVERYTHING, BUT COUNCIL WOULD AGREE TO DIRECT STAFF TO COME FOR DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION BY COUNCIL SEPARATELY, SPECIFICALLY ON WHETHER WE SHOULD REZONE THE CATALYST SITES sooner than later. So it doesn't affect anything tonight. It just puts an additional obligation on staff. My consultants are shaking their head yes, that we need to bring something back by council as to how we handle those catalyst sites, whether we rezone them now or wait or rezone some of them now. And they will bring back options and recommendations. Okay, thank you for that clarification. My motion stands. I make a motion to accept as written. Let me go forth to the next step. I suggest an amendment to that, in addition to that, not contrary to that step, by a date no later than the second meeting in November. Question. I have a question. I don't know who can answer it. Timing-wise, if we follow the procedure you're speaking of, does that delay us? No. Once we've made, hold on, once we've brought that back and we've made an agreement on that, we can close all of this on that November meeting? Or is it going to have to go to public hearings? Is it going to have to go to first reading and second reading? We are not delaying anything that we had planned tonight. if we move forward with the mayor's proposal. We are approving everything and moving forward. What we're going to do at a later date is have the discussion on those catalyst sites, whether we want to rezone them sooner or later. It's a totally separate... I got that, Jim. All I want to know is when we have those discussions and we make some... kind of a zoning change. At that point, have we delayed anything? No, I think we hadn't made any changes. It's a separate process. Obviously. But it's a part of this, and I just want to make sure. I'm fine with going that way as long as we're not delaying. No, we will have the second reading on the very next council meeting for this item, you know, the council item. And the council will vote. So the only delay, as far as delay, easier through an example. In November, if we properties, and that is approved, and this is a theoretical example, and let's say it's mixed-use commercial. A developer comes in and says, well, I really want residential. Then we have to go through the process of rezoning it again. clarification on that so what would happen if we approve everything tonight this becomes the base document going forward then we bring the catalyst sites for your consideration on the rezoning facilitate an amendment to the downtown specific plan and a rezoning so that would be new entitlements that would be amending what you're approving tonight if it's mixed use and someone wants to come in with residential that would be an allowed use under residential mixed use would also allow commercial. The only time it may not, if someone came in with manufacturing or industrial or something that we didn't contemplate as an allowed use in the mixed use. But it would be doable. It may take a long time. Okay, as long as we're not delaying the process by making a change. We're not delaying a thing. We're not delaying a thing. It's just that since this is on the agenda, There is an opportunity to add this proviso to get together with planning staff and come back with ideas on these catalyst sites or maybe make a change. But nothing's committed to it. So this lives here. But since it's on the agenda, we have the opportunity to take a fresh look at these catalyst sites. Maybe we leave them the way they are. But, okay. To the chair, final comment on the matter. I appreciate you're doing that, Kathy Pease. I thank you for the years of work that you guys put into this because we've been doing this for years. And former Mayor Samoa, this started when you were here eight plus years ago. And a lot of work's been put into this. And I, for one, a different approach from what is presented. It's kind of like carp for the horse because we don't know exactly what's going to go in there. It's come in and do something on this land. And the way it's running now, it seems like it's a little more versatile. Be that as it may, the mayor's got a different thought process, and we're going to be able to go forward with both of them. I stick with what I've said. Thank you. So what did you just say? I'm trying to understand where you are with it. I said thank you for the work that they put into it. I put a motion that we accept it as it reads right now. And nothing else. What the hell? Just by saying thank you to all their work as well. Well, then I make a motion. I amend that motion. Amend the motion to add without changing anything you just suggested. I don't know why you got a problem with this. Regarding the catalyst sites for separate consideration, separate consideration at some time no later than November. Through the Chair, I... Appreciate the way it's written, and I think it's appropriate to accept it the way it's written tonight. God bless you. So how do we proceed? Well, you get a second to one. You have two motions. They're competing. You get a second to one of them, then you vote. Is there a second on Brad or the one I proposed, which is Brad plus a sidecar? I give a second. One of them? Stewart took off. I'll second the mayor's recommendation. It's always good to have additional information so we have a clear picture of what can be done in the future. So that's this plus the sidecar. Motion and second. So that motion and a second and a roll call vote on that. Yes. Council Member Hudson? No. Council Member Gilchrist is absent. Vice Mayor Butta-Cavalli? Yes. And Mayor Branscombe? Yes. The motion is passed with a vote of three to one. Thank you. I can oversell it afterwards. For your patience, everybody. Madam Clerk, do we have any correspondence? We do not. That's good news. Council comments. Anybody on the Council have anything to share? So I hear that the Brewfest was a success, and I'm sure there were a lot of people involved, and I'd like to hear about those events and the successes that come with it, so good job on that, guys. I just wanted to say that the event... Sometimes I think we forget how much they do for us, for the community. But it was a fun event. It was a great time. Yeah, I'd like to echo that, that it was a great event. The food was good. The guests were wonderful. And I would like to give a shout-out to MPD, the police department. There was a concern at one of our local schools, and... They messaged Mel to the chief. That was like at 8.30 a.m. By noon, he had already met with the school to try to come up with a solution. They're still working on it. And also Jeremy was involved. So I'd like to thank them for the promise. I'm all about safety at schools. We need to enhance that. We need to make sure we have clear zones and parking and so on and so forth. So thank you guys so much. Brad? I already did, thank you. Oh, okay. You've heard enough from me tonight. Mr. City Manager. Just a few items regarding projects, and I'll turn it over to Dan. First of all, and I was hoping Council Member Gilchrist were here, everybody's seen that City Hall was painted, and we're very appreciative on that work, but If you look at the entrance to the city from the south, our Welcome to Marysville sign was also repainted by Louis Lethridge. And at some point, I would like to recognize him at council for the work he did. The sign looks great. It's not as big as the building. It's special to us. Let's get a photo of that thing up here. Our two major paving projects are moving forward. And I get the phase one, two mixed up a little bit. But phase one is nearly done. And I think they're going to be putting asphalt down on phase two here in the next week or so. The Aldridge sewer project is just wrapping up. All the work has really been done. We're getting reimbursed from the state fairly quickly on the CDBG stuff, so that's been good news. Our public works folks will be back out at the Packard Library doing some more cleaning up and trimming and just getting that in a little bit better shape. And the night watchman, I believe, is going to be out there by the end of the week or possibly early next week. That's great news. Speak with... our friends at Caltrans, specifically Cameron Knutson, the Binney Junction project manager. And we were hoping to have a couple of things on the agenda tonight related to that, but we're not quite ready. One will be real estate transactions to make that project move forward between us and Caltrans. And then the second is a sewer agreement that we'll bring back graciously agreed to come in and give an update on where they're at with that project, as well as 9th and B, which is a separate project, but related. So we will likely see him next council meeting to give a bit of an update. The EPA grant for the brownfield moving forward, we have a tight timeline. We're trying to get input from the EPA proper prior to them releasing the notice of funding opportunity. Our staff has been working very heavily on related to that. We do have a public input meeting coming up to just get input. That's a requirement from the EPA as far as that's all I have. I think Dan has some events to I do, just a couple of, a few brief ones. Pardon me, Dan. Sure. Did we publish a calendar on the website? All of these events you're about to speak to on that calendar? Yes. You want to leave it there? It's fine with me. Happy to forego that unless you want to hear them. If they're on the website, I just seem past tonight at least. Because I never write them down. They go in one ear and out the other. Okay. I'd like to have a quick brief on them, at least just what's going on. Okay. Well, thank you, Mr. Mayor. First, I want to congratulate our own Anissa Luang here for being on the Oversight Committee now. She's the newest member of the Oversight. So we're looking forward. That's for the redevelopment property. So congratulations, Anissa. Glad to have you on there. That's great representation. Then just for – Or say amen to that. Yeah. She's a powerhouse. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. So just four brief announcements. Fall nights on D Street begins on the 18th at 5 o'clock. So basically fall nights are going to be some benders and some music and just fun. Today's the 16th, so two more days. And then on the 20th, the Bridge for Hope Suicide Prevention Walk is on 8th Street in Marysville at 8 a.m. They expect a really large turnout. This is a walk where you walk from Marysville over to the bridge over to Yuba City. So, you know, if anybody wants to join in, you're more than welcome to. And then on the 20th as well, we have a big event, the Boots, Buckles, and Brews downtown Marysville on 3rd and 4th Street, between 3rd and 4th Street on D. It starts at 4 o'clock and ends at 9. And this has sold over 350 cars. So hopefully you guys can join in on some of these events. And then lastly, I just want to mention again the Farm to Fork. which the council does, so we look forward to that evening, and that's on the 27th, and that takes place between 3rd and 4th Street on D at 5 p.m. I'd like to add to that it's sold out. And it's sold out, yeah, which is over 300 tickets. Belt, buckle, and bruise sold 350 tickets? Belt, buckle, and bruise sold over 350, and then... What is that, a pub crawl, or what's going on? It's a country... They're going to shut down 3rd, or what are they going to do? They're shutting down D Street and between 3rd and 4th Street. Got it. Yeah. Can I have one more comment? I just want to thank Councilperson Rawlins for the great work she's done on the Terra Madre, the downtown food event. She's been actively involved with the MBA and gone to every meeting and helped support. Great to have her there. Thank you. Margie's a force of nature. Next regular meeting of the City Council will be Tuesday, October. And we have some other meetings. Now it's me mentioning things. I apologize. The EPA town hall on the 25th, did you mention that? The 25th. And then we have the strategic planning, which will take on Tuesday, October 14th. And location to be... Adjourned. Let's look. Oh, yeah.