Palmdale public meetings in 2021
8 substantive meetings from 2021, with official agendas or minutes and plain-English summaries.
Planning Commission
The Planning Commission will review a request for a 10-year time extension for an existing major wireless telecommunications facility. The item includes a public hearing regarding the project located at 39457 15th Street East.
- Conditional Use Permit 05-16 Time Extension No. 2: 10-year extension for a wireless telecommunications facility at 39457 15th Street East
- Approval of minutes from the October 14, 2021, Planning Commission meeting
Site Plan Review
The Palmdale Site Plan Review hearing officer will consider a proposal by Nova Storage Palmdale LLC to expand an existing personal storage facility with five new buildings totaling 35,377 square feet on a vacant 1.5-acre parcel west of 3305 East Palmdale Boulevard. Staff recommends approval and a categorical exemption from environmental review. The meeting also includes public comments on non-agenda items.
- Site Plan Review 10-02-1 Major Modification No. 1
- Five additional buildings totaling 35,377 square feet
- Vacant 1.5-acre parcel west of 3305 East Palmdale Boulevard
- Staff recommendation: Hearing Officer Determination No. HO-2021-005
- Categorical exemption from environmental review
Planning Commission Meeting
The Planning Commission will consider several public hearing items including a restaurant expansion and a new commercial travel center. The commission will also review an appeal regarding a utility scale solar power facility.
- Restaurant expansion and beer/wine license at 1645 East Palmdale Boulevard
- Commercial travel center north of Pearblossom Highway and west of Fort Tejon Road/Highway 138
- Appeal to overturn site plan review for a utility scale solar power facility at Lockheed Martin Plant 10 Facility
Regular Planning Commission Meeting
The Commission will review a request to subdivide 40 acres into 86 single-family lots. It will also consider amendments regarding short-term rentals and wireless telecommunication facilities.
- Zoning Ordinance Amendment 21-001: Short-term rentals in R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, and MX zones
- Tentative Tract Map 81337: Subdivision of 40 acres into 86 single-family residential lots near 65th Street West and 70th Street West
- Zoning Ordinance Amendment 21-002: Standards for wireless telecommunication facilities and emergency standby generators
- General Plan Update – Preferred Land Use Alternative presentation
Site Plan Review
The Palmdale Site Plan Review hearing will consider a proposal by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company to build a utility-scale solar power generating facility on two parcels totaling about 140 acres at the northwest corner of East Avenue P and 15th Street East. Staff recommends approval of the site plan and adoption of a Mitigated Negative Declaration, finding no significant environmental impact. Public comments on non-agenda items are also scheduled.
- Site Plan Review 20-009: Lockheed Martin solar facility on ~140 acres (APNs 3022-027-016 and -017)
- Staff recommends approval of Hearing Officer Determination HO-2021-002
- Adoption of Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring Reporting Program
- Public comments on items not on the agenda
Planning Commission
The Planning Commission will consider a request to subdivide 40 acres into 86 single-family lots. The agenda also includes a wireless facility time extension and two proposed municipal code amendments.
- Tentative Tract Map 81337: subdivision of 40 acres into 86 single-family residential lots near 65th Street West and 70th Street West
- Conditional Use Permit 10-12 Time Extension No. 1: 10-year extension for a T-Mobile wireless facility at 850 East Avenue S
- Zoning Ordinance Amendment 21-005: amendment to Title 17 of the Palmdale Municipal Code regarding civic/social and warehousing uses
- Zoning Ordinance Amendment 21-001: amendment to Title 17 of the Palmdale Municipal Code to allow short-term rentals in R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, and MX zones
Site Plan Review Meeting
The Palmdale Site Plan Review Hearing Officer will hold a public hearing on a request by El Dorado Mutual Water Company to modify the existing water district pump house facility at 40807 10th Street West. Staff recommends approval of Hearing Officer Determination No. HO-2021-001 and a finding that the project is categorically exempt from environmental review. The meeting also includes public comments on items not on the agenda.
- Site Plan Review 17-006 Major Modification No. 1 for El Dorado Mutual Water Company
- Modification to existing water district pump house at 40807 10th Street West
- Staff recommendation to approve HO-2021-001
- Finding of categorical exemption from environmental review
PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING
The Palmdale Planning Commission will hold public hearings on three conditional use permit requests. Staff recommends approval for two permits to modify alcohol licenses at restaurants and one permit to continue a wireless telecommunications facility, which affect local business operations and infrastructure. The commission will also approve minutes from its November 2020 meeting during the consent calendar.
- Public hearing for Conditional Use Permit 20-008 to establish a restaurant and alcohol license at 41520 10th Street West.
- Public hearing for Conditional Use Permit 20-006 to continue a wireless telecommunications facility at 2531 Olive Drive.
- Public hearing for Conditional Use Permit 09-15 Major Modification No. 2 to modify an alcohol license at 2133 East Palmdale Boulevard.
- Consent calendar approval of minutes from the November 12, 2020 Planning Commission meeting.