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RECOMMENDATION: 1. Approve and adopt the Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring Program, Environmental Review No. 2005-28. 2. Adopt a resolution approving Conditional Use Permit No. 2005-33 as conditioned. Karen Haluza presented the staff report and recommendation. The Commission expressed concerns with the quality of the mausoleum architecture, the seeming incongruity of the semi-private mausoleums and pavilion building architecture with the community mausoleum, the quality of the building materials and that they lack the sense of permanence such a structure demands and that materials such as real stone would provide. The Commission requested more detail on the community mausoleum windows. The plans were not clear as to whether the windows were faux or real, if spandrel glass is proposed for some of the windows, if the windows could be more successfully replaced by niches or decorative ironwork. The Commission also requested more detail about how the interior of the community mausoleum would work and what the other elevations would look like. The Commission discussed the need for a signal, or other form of protected pedestrian crossing, between the existing southern cemetery and the proposed northern expansion. The applicant, Ms. Marla Noel, explained how the cemetery currently provides for uniformed traffic control officers to assist pedestrians in crossing the street during services. Taig Higgins, of the Public Works Agency, addressed the Commission's questions regarding the safety and effectiveness of a signal so close to the existing signal at Cambridge and Fairhaven. The Commission directed staff to work with the applicant to answer these questions, work to improve the building materials and architecture and provide further details. The public hearing was opened. Mike Martin voiced concern with length of construction period, traffic impacts, hours of operation for new addition, landscape for existing Cypress trees, economic impact for neighborhood, and rodent pest control during construction. Applicant Marla Noel spoke in support of the project. The public hearing was closed. MOTION: 1. Continue the public hearing to February 13, 2006. 2. Recommendation to change Planning Condition No. 13 that affects the hours of operation for construction to start at 8:00 a.m. and Condition No.14 that affects the operation of construction equipment starting at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday. 3. Direct staff to address Commission concerns regarding: traffic signal on Cambridge, liability to City, window designs, material selections, mausoleum architecture, landscape to the north, and underground utilities. MOTION: Lutz SECOND: Leo VOTE: AYES: Betancourt, Cribb, De La Torre, Gartner, Leo, Lutz, Rodriguez (7) NOES: None (0) ABSTAIN: None (0) ABSENT: None (0) 2. Public Comments (for items not on the agenda) No comments were made. Planning Commission Minutes 4 January 23, 2006