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July 9, 2025 ·6:00 PM Final

City Council Chamber, 2nd Floor, Merced Civic Center, 678 W. 18th Street, Merced, CA 95340

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Agenda — 23 items

  1. 1 NOTICE TO PUBLIC
  2. 2 WELCOME TO THE MEETING OF THE MERCED PLANNING COMMISSION
  3. 3 At least 72 hours prior to each regular Planning Commission meeting, a complete agenda packet is available for review on the City's website at www.cityofmerced.org or at the Planning Division Office, 678 W. 18th Street, Merced, CA 95340. All public records relating to an open session item that are distributed to a majority of the Commission will be available for public inspection at the Planning Division Office during regular business hours. The Planning Commission also serves as the Board of Zoning Adjustment and the Design Review/Historic Preservation Commission. Assisted hearing devices are available for meetings held in the Council Chamber.
  4. 4 PUBLIC COMMENT: OBTAIN SPEAKER CARD FROM THE CLERK
  5. 5 Members of the audience who wish to address the Planning Commission are requested to complete a speaker card available at the podium against the right-hand side of the Council Chamber. Please submit the completed card to the Clerk before the item is called, preferably before the meeting begins. Speakers will be called up, 3 to 5 at a time, in the order in which the forms are received. Please use the microphone and state your name and city of residence for the record. For permits, licenses, and other entitlements, the applicant will be allowed 15 minutes (including rebuttal), the appellant/leader of the opposition will be allowed 15 minutes (including rebuttal), and all other speakers shall have 3 minutes each, unless the number of speakers is over 10, which in that case, comments shall be limited to 2 minutes each. For all other issues, for 3 or less speakers, 3 minutes each and for over 10 speakers, 2 minutes each shall be allotted. A timer clock is located above the City Council dais illuminating the remaining time. Once the buzzer sounds, please be courteous and conclude your remarks. Material may be emailed to planningweb@cityofmerced.org no later than 1 PM on the day of the meeting. Please specify which portion of the agenda you are commenting on, for example, Item # or Oral Communications. Your comments will be presented to the Planning Commission at the appropriate time. Any correspondence received after 1 PM will be distributed to the Planning Commission and retained for the official record.
  6. A. CALL TO ORDER ▶ jump to 0:01
  7. A.1. Moment of Silence ▶ jump to 0:09
  8. A.2. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag ▶ jump to 0:20
  9. B. ROLL CALL ▶ jump to 0:49
  10. C. PUBLIC COMMENT ▶ jump to 2:29
  11. 11 Members of the public who wish to speak on any matter not listed on the agenda may speak during this portion of the meeting and will be allotted 3 minutes. The Chairperson may, at their discretion, reduce the time to 2 minutes if there are more than 10 speakers, in order to accommodate as many speakers as possible. State law prohibits the Planning Commission from acting at this meeting on any matter raised during the public comment period. Members of the public who wish to speak on a matter that is listed on the agenda will be called upon to speak during discussion of that item. Please submit a Request to Speak card prior to the item being called.
  12. D. CONSENT CALENDAR ▶ jump to 3:20
  13. 13 Adoption of the Consent Calendar may be made with one motion of the Planning Commission provided that any Planning Commission member, individual, or organization may request removal of an item from the Consent Calendar for separate consideration. If a request for removal of an item from the Consent Calendar has been received, the item will be discussed and voted on separately. With Consent items, there is generally no staff presentation but staff is available for questions.
  14. D.1. SUBJECT: Planning Commission Minutes of June 4, 2025 ACTION: Approving and filing the Planning Commission Minutes of June 4, 2025 25-642 approved Pass
  15. E. PUBLIC HEARINGS
  16. 16 Members of the public who wish to speak on public hearings listed on the agenda will be heard when the Public Hearing is opened, except on Public Hearing items previously heard and closed to public comment. After the public has commented, the item is closed to further public comment and brought to the Commission for discussion and action. Further comment will not be received unless requested by the Commission.
  17. E.1 SUBJECT: Public Hearing - General Plan Amendment #24-03, Residential Planned Development (RP-D) Establishment #83, Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map #1333, Zone Change #435 and Environmental Review Checklist #24-30, initiated by Lennar Homes of California, on behalf of Merced Gateway, LLC and Lyons Investments, property owners. These actions are to support the construction of over 61 acres of residential development (up to 570 detached units) and over 9 acres of commercial development. The approximate 73.7-acre subject site is located at 3610 East Gerard Avenue (APNs 061-680-001, 061-710-009 and 061-710-023) generally located on the southwest corner of East Gerard Avenue and Campus Parkway. REPORT IN BRIEF Request for Planning Commission to consider recommending approval or denial of General Plan Amendment #24-03 to amend the General Plan Land Use Designation from being listed as Business Park (BP) and Manufacturing/Industrial (IND) to Business Park (BP), Low Medium Residential (LMD), High-Medium Residential (HMD) and Open Space-Park Recreation (OS-PK) and recommend approval or denial of Zone Change #435 to rezone the site to establish Residential Planned Development (RP-D) #83. In addition, staff requests that the Planning Commission consider approving Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map (VSTM) #1333 and adopting Environmental Review Checklist #24-30. The applicant is proposing to develop 570 residential lots and about 9 acres of commercial/business park uses. RECOMMENDATION Recommendation approval or denial to City Council: 1) Environmental Review #24-30 (Negative Declaration) 2) General Plan Amendment #24-03 3) Residential Planned Development Establishment #83 4) Zone Change #435 Approve/Disapprove/Modify: 1) Environmental Review #24-30 (Negative Declaration) 2) Vesting Tentative Subdivision Map #1333 [subject to City Council approval of General Plan Amendment #24-03, Residential Planned Development Establishment #83 and Zone Change #435] 25-638 recommended for approval Pass ▶ jump to 3:57
  18. E.2. SUBJECT: Conditional Use Permit #25-0007 and Site Plan Review Permit #25-0009, initiated by Marco Ospina, applicant for Marketplace at Merced LLC, property owner. This application involves a request to install 48 foot-tall illuminated pylon sign at 851 West Olive avenue. The subject site is generally located on the north side of West Olive Avenue, approximately 900 feet east of R Street. The subject site has a General Plan designation of Regional Community Commercial (RC) and a zoning classification of Planned Development (P-D) #1. **PUBLIC HEARING** 25-622 approved Pass ▶ jump to 71:20
  19. F. ACTION ITEMS
  20. G. INFORMATION ITEMS ▶ jump to 85:23
  21. G.1. SUBJECT: Report by Acting Planning Manager of Upcoming Agenda Items ACTION Information only. 25-643
  22. G.2. SUBJECT: Calendar of Meetings/Events Jul. 7 City Council, 6:00 p.m. 9 Planning Commission, 6:00 p.m. 21 City Council, 6:00 p.m. 23 Planning Commission, 6:00 p.m. Aug. 4 City Council, 6:00 p.m. 6 Planning Commission, 6:00 p.m. 18 City Council, 6:00 p.m. 20 Planning Commission, 6:00 p.m. 26 Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee, 4:00 p.m. 25-644
  23. H. ADJOURNMENT adjourned ▶ jump to 88:17