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PLUM committee votes: summary of actions, May 8, 2025
Summary
A summary of formal votes the PLUM Committee took on May 8, 2025, including consent approvals, appeals denied, an appointment forwarded to council, rescission of oil ordinance, and instructions to prepare revised ordinance language for item 4.
At its May 8, 2025 meeting, the Planning and Land Use Management Committee recorded the following formal actions:
- Items 2, 4, 12 and 13 (consent): Approved on consent (motion read into record). Vote recorded: 4 ayes, 1 absence (Lee absent). Planning/city attorney reports attached to the council file govern details for those items.
- Item 7 (appeal denied; project approved): Denied the appeal and approved project entitlements and findings, and adopted the SCIA and conditions; roll call recorded 4 ayes (Lee absent).
- Item 5 (TFAR/convention center airspace): Approved Planning Commission recommendations and environmental findings and directed that 50% of the direct provision be used for convention‑center planning; roll call 4 ayes (Lee absent).
- Item 3 (appointment): Forwarded the nomination of Julio Esparias Jr. to the full City Council for consideration; roll call 4 ayes (Lee absent).
- Item 6 (oil and gas ordinance): Recommended adoption of an ordinance rescinding Ordinance No. 187709 (the 2022 oil and gas ban) to comply with a stipulated court judgment; 4 ayes (Lee absent). Planning to draft a new ordinance under AB 3233.
- Item 8 (SAFER appeal re: 7014 Sunset): Denied the appeal; sustained CPC’s site plan review approval; roll call 4 ayes (Lee absent).
- Items 9, 10, 11 (Violet Street project): Denied CREED appeals; approved the vesting tentative tract map (item 9), the vesting conditional use permit/variance/site plan review (item 10), and the vesting zone and height district change with dismissal of two general plan amendment requests (item 11). Planning’s technical modifications were incorporated; recorded ayes in several roll calls show three recorded yes votes with some transcribed absences on portions of the roll calls (see official roll in council file for exact tally).
- Item 4 (technical amendment from Building and Safety): Committee reconsidered item 4 to accept additional technical changes and to authorize the City Attorney to prepare a revised ordinance capturing those changes; recorded ayes as part of reconsideration.
- Item 14 (writ remand action): Committee adopted a motion to vacate and set aside Council’s June 27, 2023 action on an application per the writ and remand the file to Planning consistent with the court order; recorded ayes 3 (some members listed absent during roll as reflected in the transcript).
Several items contain technical modifications and transmittal letters that have been uploaded to the council file; readers should consult the official council file for the exact ordinance text, condition edits, and the verbatim roll calls.
