Walnut Creek Planning Commission: January 23, 2025

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Good evening and welcome to the January 23rd, 2025 meeting of the Walla Creek Planning Commission.

Will the secretary please call the roll?

Commissioner Kwok?

Here.

Commissioner Ward?

Here.

Commissioner Klop?

Excuse me, here.

Commissioner Reisser-Zalczyk?

Commissioner Nating?

Here.

Vice Chair Anderson is out.

Chair Strongman?

Here.

Thank you.

And the next item of the agenda is the consent calendar.

We have two items, which is the meetings for November 14th, 2024 and January 9th, 2025.

Is anybody like to pull these to discuss or make a motion to accept?

I'd like to move that we accept the minutes of November 14th and January 9th as presented.

Second.

And Mr. Secretary, please call the roll.

Commissioner Klop.

Yes.

Commissioner Ward.

Yes. Commissioner Klopp? Yes. Commissioner Reisser is out. Commissioner Nating? Yes.

Vice Chair Anderson is out. Chair Strongman? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. And next time,

as public communications, this is the time for the public to be able to come to speak to us on any

subject that is not on the agenda. If you're here to speak on something on the agenda, we will have

a separate hearing for that. But if anybody would like to come and speak to us on any subject.

Seeing nobody rushing to the podium

We will close public comments and I'll come back to the Commission ask if there's been any

disclosures of ex parte communications with any item on the agenda

And I'm seeing shaking heads of no

So we'll go on to number four public hearings. The first item project

Item a is the AT&T wireless communication facility and that item has been withdrawn. I

I believe by the applicant. And therefore moving on to project B which is the Rossmore Pet Hospital

conditional use permit. Do we have a presentation by the staff? Good evening,

Commissioner Strongland Planning Commission. My name is Gerardo Victoria, Assistant Planner

Community Development Department. The project before you today is the Rossmore Pet Hospital

located at 1910 Tice Valley Boulevard for a conditional use permit application Y24-082.

Some site context for the pet hospital. It's approximately 3600 square feet located at the

Rossmore Shopping Center here. The actual tenant space is located here. It's just off of the

Tice Valley Boulevard and the Roland Hills Drive surrounded by a mix of uses. You have the

Valley Plaza, excuse me, to the west over here. You have residential uses to the north here.

You have the Manicare facility located to the south here and to the east you have that Chevron

gas station and the Kindred health rehab facility located here. The site is zoned

plan development 2189 the general plan is general retail and the as a pet

hospital it is approved with a conditional use permit. The business

plan for the pet hospital the hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday

through Friday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturdays and it is closed on Sundays

It has a treatment room, a surgical room, and a pharmacy area with five exam rooms.

There will be no overnight boarding of animals at the pet hospital.

Services outside the standard hours will be handled with partnerships with surrounding

24-hour vet hospitals.

The facility is entirely enclosed, soundproof, and air-conditioned.

This is the floor plan, so the entrance is here.

The Rossmoor Shopping Center is over here on this side.

You see the reception area here.

The five exam rooms are here, two, three, four, five.

The treatment area is located here.

The pharmacy is here.

The surgical area is located right here with the doctor's offices right here.

So these are the standard conditional use permit findings that the use including any

conditions imposed is consistent with the general plan, that the proposed use including

any conditions imposed will not be detrimental to the public health, any findings required

by the land use regulations in the zoning district.

So staff did have some concerns when they initially filed this application regarding

noise and regarding the overnight boarding of animals.

As their business model explained, there will be no overnight boarding and the noise, there

is no issue because the rooms, the treatment area, and the surgical room are soundproof.

So staff recommends that planning commission move to adopt the CEQA determination and approve

the conditional use permit based on the findings outlined in the draft resolution to allow

the pet hospital at 1910 Tice Valley Boulevard.

I am available for any questions, and the applicant is also here available for any questions.

Thank you for your great presentation.

Do we have any questions for staff?

Yeah, go ahead.

So just to clarify, so I understand now that there's supposed to be no boarding of animals,

but looking through the business plan, and maybe this would also be a better question

for the applicant.

does say on under days and hours of operation that no boarding of animals

except for convalescence or medical examination yes so the land use allows

for boarding due to convalescence the business plan and the business owners

here he can speak to this more but they will not be boarding overnight so they

have in place agreements with nearby vet hospitals that they're partnering with

that in case if an animal needs that care they will arrange pickup and

transport. Okay thank you for the clarification, that really helps. Any other

questions? We will now open up a public hearing on this and we'll start out with

with the applicant, if they'd like to say any words.

Wanna come up?

Doctor?

Thank you.

Hi, I'm Doctor Bikram Sohi.

So, I don't know what exactly to say,

but if you have any questions regarding the facility,

I am happy to answer those questions.

Okay, I'll start out on, repeat his question,

please differentiate the convalescence

and the boarding of that one.

Yeah, so, in a general practice,

We do not board pets.

So let's say a pet is sick and, for example, needs fluids.

So the pet will be with us.

We'll run the diagnostics, do blood work, x-rays,

whatever is needed.

Let's say the pet is on fluids.

They are all discharged by the end of the day before we close.

So let's say we close at 7.

So by around 6 o'clock, the owner

starts to come to pick up the pets.

So if a pet is in a stable condition,

and we can manage it as an outpatient.

So they go back home and then come back

in the following morning for the continued treatment.

However, if we know that the pet needs

overnight care monitoring for their diagnostics,

then we refer them to the 24-hour emergencies.

So for example, a nearby Lafayette

with Tree Emergency Hospital,

we'll be referring all our cases there.

Yeah, thank you.