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City Manager Tony Lundgren said the proposed 2x2 committee would include two council members and city staff to help with recruitment for an interim city attorney and to monitor the transition in the City Attorney's office. The council discussed the committee and its near‑term priority: securing an interim chief legal officer while planning a permanent search.

Council Member Mike Morwood volunteered to serve and outlined the workload facing the City Attorney's office. \"There's quite a few things the city attorney's office is working on,\" Morwood said, then listed items he expects the office to handle in the near term, including successor agency matters, sidewalk and truck court ordinances, development agreement updates, AB 98 work, grant management, public records act compliance, smoke shop ordinance revisions, mobile vendor regulations and ongoing cannabis litigation and outside‑counsel management.

Mayor Gary Singh moved and Vice Mayor Halford seconded a motion to establish the ad hoc 2x2 City Attorney Committee and to appoint Singh and Morwood to serve on it. The motion passed on a 5‑0 vote.

Following the public portion of the meeting the council met in closed session under Government Code section 54957 (public employee matters). According to the closed‑session report delivered at the meeting's conclusion, the council \"unanimously accepted the resignation of the city attorney with his last day of employment at the City of Manteca to be July 10, 2025.\" The city attorney delivered the closed‑session report to the public at the meeting's end; the transcript does not record the attorney's name in the public report.

City Manager Lundgren and several council members offered public thanks and well wishes to the departing city attorney and reiterated the committee's immediate charge to identify an interim replacement and to oversee continuity of legal services.

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Deputy Director of Planning Jesus Orozco told the council the city‑initiated ordinance amends Table 17.22.020-1 of Title 17 (Zoning) of the Manteca Municipal Code and adjusts permit categories for about 25 uses in the Downtown Mixed Use, Neighborhood Commercial and Public/Quasi‑Public zone districts. Orozco said the amendment focuses on which uses require ministerial approval (by‑right), administrative ministerial use permits, or discretionary conditional use permits.

Orozco said the Downtown Mixed Use changes are intended to align zoning with the city's 2024 general plan and to encourage general retail and commercial services in the downtown. He said the Neighborhood Commercial district amendments would, among other changes, allow hotels and motels only subject to a conditional use permit. He also said the Public/Quasi‑Public district would be amended to permit general medical services and hospitals, consistent with the general plan. Because the ordinance is policy‑level and not tied to a specific site, staff recommended the council find the amendment exempt under CEQA Guideline 15061(b)(3), the so‑called common‑sense exemption.

At the public hearing Cindy Wees, a resident who spoke earlier at the Planning Commission, supported the concept of tighter land‑use controls but urged the council to extend protections to properties zoned Commercial Mixed Use (CMU). She said the CMU classification \"has the widest use possible allowing potential high impact uses to slide through the city's oversight without any required, additional conditional use permits,\" and asked why CMU was not included in the current amendment. \"Why is a gas station still considered compatible? We're surrounded by homes, parks, and schools in 2025,\" Wees said. She urged the council to consider limiting high‑impact uses such as diesel fuel stations, 24/7 drive‑through operations, off‑sale alcohol, and facilities that require frequent large‑truck deliveries in bedroom communities.

Council members asked staff how the proposal fit into a broader zoning update. Orozco said staff is preparing a more comprehensive zoning code update that will cover development standards (for example drive‑throughs, site distance and compatibility standards) across commercial and residential zones and that those standards would be addressed in later ordinance packages.

Vice Mayor Halford moved and Council Member Breitenbucher seconded a motion to waive full reading, introduce the ordinance amending Table 17.22.020-1, and find the project exempt from further environmental review under CEQA Guideline 15061(b)(3). The motion passed on a 5‑0 vote.

The council packet and staff presentation note the Planning Commission recommended adoption by resolution; staff said additional components of the zoning code will be brought to the council for separate review in future meetings.

The ordinance was introduced; a date for a second reading or adoption was not specified in the meeting record.

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