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Planning staff reviews 2024 approvals, zoning code rewrite and 2025 industrial EIRs
Summary
Staff told the Planning Commission that a comprehensive zoning-code amendment affecting 24 sections took effect and highlighted residential and commercial projects including a 57-unit Sequoias subdivision, indoor sports and entertainment uses, and three industrial projects on Enterprise Way with EIRs underway.
Jennifer Mansour, planning staff, presented the Community Development year-in-review to the Planning Commission on March 6, summarizing major planning and building activity in 2024 and previewing projects and code changes for 2025.
Mansour said the Planning Commission approved one major residential development, the Sequoias neighborhood in the Meadows community, for 57 single-family residences; grading has finished and the first-phase building permits were issued in February. The commission reviewed the Great Scott project, a multi-entitlement proposal for a contractor storage yard and associated open space; Mansour said the City Council approved that project in 2024.
Staff highlighted a high number of use permits for new and unusual businesses in 2024. Mansour singled out Pickleball Haven, described as a future indoor pickleball facility with 14 courts; YoYo Golf, an indoor golf studio; SakaZen, an online sake retailer; ADV Baseball, a high-tech indoor baseball training facility; and a modified permit for Artemis Defense Institute to add a self-contained shooting range.
Mansour described a major zoning code amendment that revised 24 zoning-code sections to clarify district rules, improve residential district consistency and promote economic development. The ordinance used tables and graphics to make requirements clearer and included changes to residential accessory-structure regulations and reductions in parking requirements for medical offices and simplified rules for animal clinics. The staff presentation stated that the City Council approved the ordinance and that it took effect on the day of the meeting.
On industrial development, Mansour said planning staff processed applications for three industrial projects on Enterprise Way. The city is processing two environmental impact reports (EIRs): one project had an EIR scoping meeting in April (last year) and is expected to be released for public review later in 2025; a separate EIR covers two projects owned by Western Real Co and had an EIR scoping meeting in January.
Mansour also described building-division activity in 2024: staff reported the division issued over 2,600 permits (building, plumbing, electrical and mechanical) and conducted over 11,000 inspections. She said the division issued permits for a number of new residential units and that 180 residential units were completed in 2024, including single-family homes, ADUs and the Mountain View apartment complex (described in the presentation as a project approved in 2020; staff said it is fully rented).
Commissioners asked clarifying questions; staff invited comments and said planning staff is available to follow up on project scheduling and EIR timelines.
Clarifying details from the presentation include the list of new business-type use permits, the scope of the zoning-code amendment (24 sections) and the status of Enterprise Way EIRs. Staff did not provide an ordinance number in the presentation and some unit counts in the slides were presented without an accompanying ordinance citation.
