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Laurie Tamora, the city’s contract planner, described the Safety Element update as required by state planning law and triggered by recent updates to the housing element, the local hazard mitigation plan and climate-change requirements. Tamora said the document incorporates technical reviews by Cal Fire and added measures required by state review. “Measures 14 through 22 were added by the direction of CAL FIRE,” Tamora said, “and those are mostly in regards to fire safety, wildfires, hazards, and working requirements… Measures 32 to 39 were added to address climate change and the resiliency… and measure 44 was added in regards to consistency with the airport land use plan.”

Commission discussion focused on neighborhoods with a single access point, the status of the Badger Meadows (sometimes referenced as “Bodger Meadows”) project and several policy and measure edits proposed in a redline draft. Tamora and staff identified multiple hillside neighborhoods and a mobile home park with single-entry access and explained the city had requested additional access points from the county for the Badger Meadows project. Tamora said Badger Meadows is outside the Lompoc city limits and is being processed by Santa Barbara County under a builder’s remedy procedure; the city is a responsible agency and has asked that the project include three access points when annexed.

Commissioners debated seismic-safety language in the draft. One commissioner moved to delete policies 4.2 and 4.3 (which addressed identifying historic seismically vulnerable buildings and public awareness programs) on the grounds those topics were already addressed in state building codes and related requirements. After discussion, members voted to remove policy 4.2 and to subsume aspects of 4.3 into policy 4.4; the removal and related edits were recorded as part of the set of changes staff attached to the resolution.

Commissioners also moved to remove policy 5.1 (concerning public information on landslides) and made other targeted edits to measures concerning wildfire response, building standards outside specific fire response time thresholds and radon/testing requirements; staff and the city attorney clarified that some specifics will be implemented through subsequent code or ordinance changes and that the Safety Element’s measures provide policy direction.

Assistant City Attorney Bethany Burgess advised the commission on procedural questions and on the legal effect of removing policies that might otherwise guide city programs. Fire Marshal John Stephens described technical bases for a referenced response-time threshold used to justify higher construction standards in fringe response areas (6 minutes, 20 seconds) and explained the underlying study assessing station coverage and response times.

At the end of the hearing Commissioner Gonzales moved to adopt Resolution No. 10-16-2025 (as cited in the staff report) forwarding the Safety Element update to the City Council, subject to the edits the Planning Commission made that evening. The motion passed 4–1; the staff record states the resolution was adopted by the commission with the changes summarized in the meeting packet.

The staff report and edits noted multiple historic and state-driven additions—Cal Fire technical recommendations and new climate-resilience measures—and the meeting record shows staff will return to implement some measures through ordinance updates and interagency coordination.

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Hollander said the city was awarded $450,000 (REIT funding) to support implementation of the program and that a portion of those funds are paying for consultant work to produce preapproved plan sets. “A portion of those funds was to fund the development of those plans to really pay for the consultant costs of developing those plan sets,” Hollander said.

The consultant shared a context study and six preliminary plan sets: four detached ADU types and two garage-conversion plans. Hollander said the plans were informed by a citywide character analysis and a review of typical lot sizes. Plan 1 is a 1-bedroom, 1-bath cottage-agrarian at about 350 square feet; Plan 2 is a Mediterranean/Spanish 1-bedroom at about 490 square feet; Plan 3 is a California ranch 1-bedroom at about 640 square feet; Plan 4 is a 2-bedroom, 1-bath cottage at about 650 square feet. The two garage-conversion options were sized to match narrower and more-square garage footprints found in the community.

Hollander described intended program benefits: faster permitting, lower design costs for homeowners (because structural and architectural drawings will be preprepared), streamlined staff review and improved consistency with neighborhood character. She noted that state ADU law requires local agencies to establish an intake process for preapproved plans but “doesn’t actually require the local agency to create the plans.” Hollander said the city’s housing element directs the city to develop permit-ready ADU plans by 2025.

Commissioners asked about timing, public hearing requirements and whether the $450,000 grant will be available to homeowners. Greg Stone, planning manager, said staff expects a public hearing later in the year—“most likely in November, December”—and that the grant money is being used to fund the plan development; it is not directly available to consumers to pay their fees. Hollander added the project timeline: finish schematic designs in summer 2025, prepare construction-ready documents toward the end of summer, publish an ADU handbook in the fall and make the final plan sets available for public review in winter 2025.

Hollander said 55 ADUs in Lompoc have received certificates of occupancy since 2017, and that site-specific information (for example, a site plan) will still be required from applicants even if they use an off-the-shelf plan.

A resident in the meeting asked whether owner-builders could use the program and whether plan sets would be offered free to constituents; Hollander and staff replied that site-specific work would still incur cost (for example, site plans and any local fees) but that the preapproved plans reduce the need for homeowners to commission full custom structural plans.

Hollander closed by saying the consultant and staff will return with a more finalized product for commission and public review.

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Laurie Tamora, contract planner, and consultants from Mintier Harnish and DKS presented the circulation element update and noted it integrates the city’s multimodal/street-scape plan (adopted July 19, 2022) and other modal planning work. Staff said the circulation element includes updated roadway classifications, transit information and policy language intended to implement the multimodal plan.

Commissioners and members of the public raised repeated concerns about how the draft assumes funding sources that may no longer be available because the City Council suspended or changed impact-fee collections. Commissioner Bridge and other commissioners said several circulation policies appeared to presume capital improvements and developer fee collections that the council has recently altered; a public commenter (Nick Gonzales) asked for additional time so residents could review specific items line-by-line.

Staff recommended pulling the item for further work to reconcile council actions, capital improvement program changes and the circulation element’s policy language; staff also said the draft may need recirculation for public review if substantive changes are made. After discussion Commissioner Bridge moved to table the item for 60 days; the motion was seconded and passed 3–2.

Commissioners asked for clearer linkage between specific policies and available funding, and requested that staff check whether the council has already reviewed or directed changes relevant to particular circulation policies before the next hearing.

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Lompoc Planning Commission adopts updated Safety Element after changes; commissioners delete two seismic policies

Lompoc staff show draft ‘permit-ready’ ADU plans, say $450,000 state grant funded design work

Commission tables Lompoc circulation element update for 60 days amid funding and implementation concerns