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All right, good evening, everyone.

Welcome to tonight's uh planning commission meeting for the city of Belmont.

Uh it is November eighteenth, and it is uh seven oh two PM.

Uh, gonna go through the rules of the road before we get going.

Uh first of all uh the meeting attendance options, obviously one can attend here in chambers.

Um the meeting is broadcast live on Comcast Cable uh Channel Twenty Seven, also uh streamed live on the city's website at Belmont.gov.

And of course um there is a participation option uh through Zoom, and the information to access uh this meeting over Zoom is included in tonight's agenda.

Uh for public comment, um those in chambers can comment um by submitting a speaker slip to our clerk and then coming up to the lectern, and you'll have uh up to three minutes to submit uh comment, and then um there is a uh way to comment uh over Zoom virtually using the raise hand feature.

Again, the uh instructions for doing so are included in tonight's agenda.

Um uh we have uh an option to submit written comment on the C dev uh at Belmont dot gov um uh website slash email.

Uh so long as those written comments are received by four PM today, uh uh they'll be read uh or at least summarized uh for the record.

Um, and I think with that, we can take a roll call, please.

Okay, roll call.

Uh Commissioner Adam Kavich?

Here.

Chair Coolich?

Here.

Uh Commissioner Majeski?

And Commissioner Twig.

Okay, and absent tonight is Commissioner Kramer and Jadala.

We have a quorum.

All right, uh, thank you for that.

Uh next uh item two is a Pledge of Allegiance.

Please stand.

And the flag is here.

And justice for our all.

This is our community forum.

Um this is the point uh in the meeting where um persons wishing to address uh this body uh can do so on any matter not on the agenda that is within the purview of the commission.

Um, the period for public comment for this portion of the agenda uh again is is up to three minutes per speaker.

Uh and for those wishing to comment in chambers, I think we'll take that first and then we'll turn to Zoom.

Okay.

And I do see one raised hand on Zoom.

Great.

Arvind, go ahead.

You'll have three minutes.

Yes.

Hi, this is Arunchandra.

Good evening, Company Commissioners.

I'm reaching out as a particular and it's a bit flowered right in Belmont.

I'm talking to Carlos DeMondo and be having a meeting with him next week.

I guess we're gonna make sure that I don't have to go to the certificate of compliance process.

Also, I would like to have some sort of approval that I can build once uh I work on any preliminary steps that I'll be spending time and money.

So that's that was it.

Just a comment.

Great.

Thank you very much.

Any further raised hands on Zoom?

No further raised hands.

Great.

So that concludes.

Well, I guess I'll turn to C dev to see if there's anything on C dev um regarding this matter, item three.

Yes, we did receive a comment from the public, uh from Max Reinhardt.

Uh he had indicated concerns with his uh certificate of compliance application, uh concerns about the timing requirements for the submittal for that application.

And I think he has um had some similar concerns raised before the commission and council.

And again, it it kind of begs repeating that this is a complex process.

Um there's certainly um numerous factors that go into the evaluation of a certificate of compliance, whether it's determined to be a COC or a conditional conditional uh conditional certificate of compliance and um uh again we take his uh comments uh and we appreciate them and we are working on the fixes to the um issue.

So just wanted to kind of summarize it because we did receive this uh prior to the 4 p.m.

uh cutoff today.

Great, thank you.

Thank you for that summary.

And that then concludes uh item three, our community forum.

Uh next on the agenda is item four, commissioner announcements and agenda amendments.

I'll turn first here to folks in the dias to see if we have any commissioner uh announcements.

Seeing none, I'll now ask um staff if there's any uh agenda amendments.

Uh we have no agenda uh items for change tonight given the lightness of tonight's agenda.

We think that the items are appropriate and spaced and in the right order.

So thank you.

Great.

That concludes item four.

Item five is our consent business.

We have two items here, items five A and five B.

Five A is the approval of meeting minutes for the September 16th, 2025 meeting, and item five B is the approval of the meeting minutes for the October 21st, 2025 uh meeting.

Any corrections or questions regarding the minutes as proposed?

If not, I think we'll entertain a motion uh to approve the uh the consent items.

I'll offer that motion.

Sorry?

I'll offer that motion.

Okay, great.

And you're moving to approve consent items five A and five B.

Yes, please.

Great.

Is there a second?

I'll second it.

Great.

It's been moved and seconded.

Let's take a vote, please.

Okay, Commissioner Adam Kavich?

Aye.

Chair Coolich?

Aye.

Majeski?

Aye.

Twig?

All right.

Um motion passes four zero for items five A and 5B.

Approval of meeting minutes for September 16th, 2025, and October 21st, 2025.

Great.

Thank you so much for that.

Uh moving on to item six, which is our study session.

We have uh one uh item listed here, it's item six A.

That's a presentation uh by HIP Housing.

And um, I think I guess I'll ask just for why not uh whether or not there's any been any ex-party communications or um reasons for recusal from any of my colleagues here.

Okay.

Great, great.

And none for me either.

So uh hi.

Hello.

Um good evening, commissioners.

My name is Laura Fenucki.

I'm the director of programs at HIP Housing.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak with you tonight.

The City of Belmont has been wonderful partners of Hip Housing for decades.

I've been with the agency now for 33 years, and we've been partners for that long for sure.

So I here have a short presentation for you tonight about our organization's work in the community.

Great, thank you.

So HIP Housing is a nonprofit organization.

We've been in the community now for 53 years.

We have we have four social service programs, and we also have a property side of the work that we do.

I failed to include a slide about our properties, so I think I'll just start with that first.

Hip housing owns and manages over 500 units of affordable housing in San Mateo County.

We have 21 properties.

Some of the buildings are considered Section 8 units, and so the rents are subsidized by the county's housing authority, and the tenants pay roughly one third of their income on rent.

We also do property management for various entities.

We have a property management contract with the Rotary Club of San Mateo.

We manage two of their affordable housing properties near Hillsdale Mall.

We also partner do some property management for the city of Foster City, and we have some partnerships with for-profit developers that have a requirement to set aside affordable housing units within their development.

So we do some tenant compliance and property and tenant selection for those entities.

So in our portfolios, we have mostly studio and one-bedroom units, and folks can apply online on our website at hiphousing.org.

We don't do a lot of new construction, but we do have a new construction project right now in San Carlos on Cherry Street.

We owned a six-unit apartment building, and we worked with the city for a period of time to redevelop that site.

So we've partnered with Eden Housing, they're our construction partner, and we've turned that six-unit building into 33 units of affordable housing.

The building will be 100% affordable.

And it what's really great about that is that we'll have a mix of one, two, and three bedrooms, which we don't have a lot of two and three bedroom units in our portfolio.

So we're really excited about that.

And that should come online sometime next year.

So that's a little bit about our properties, but now I'll talk about our programs.

So we have four housing programs, and I'll touch briefly on each one of them.

So I'll start with our housing resource hub.

So anybody who contacts Hip Housing will receive information about our programs and also affordable housing resources.

So for those who don't qualify for our other housing programs, we provide them with what we call our getting started packet, which includes how to apply to the county's rent cafe portal, which is the subsidized housing portal.

We also include instructions on how to apply to Doorway, which is a platform Bay Area-wide that releases like affordable housing waiting list announcements, and also how to apply to HIP Housing's property portfolio.

Clients are also given access to a Google site that we've created.

So we update it every two weeks with affordable housing waiting list openings.

And then lastly, we add them to a weekly e-blast that we create about affordable housing waiting list openings and other community resources.

So they get a packet full of information and resources, even though they may not qualify for our programs.

We want to be very proactive to help them.

And in the city of Belmont last year, we we took about almost 60 calls from residents.

But in the first quarter of this fiscal year, we've already taken 25.

So the need is great, and the interest and the uh information is really important for our community members.

Our next program is our home sharing program.

We've been operating this program since 1979.

We're sort of seen as a leader in this industry.

We do a lot of technical assistance with other organizations that want to launch programs in their communities.

And California actually has the largest number of home sharing programs in the US, and we've had our hand in helping a lot of them develop their model.

So in our community, we interview home providers that have a room for rent or an accessory dwelling unit.

They can be a homeowner or renter, and then we help to match them with an individual who's seeking housing.

So the individuals are usually connected to our community already and are looking for ways to help you know reduce their housing costs by home sharing.

So we have a staff that interview and screen all our applicants.

We have a thorough screening process, their role is to introduce clients to each other and provide tools and resources on how they can interview each other and make their own decision about who they want to share with.

And then we help them fill out a written agreement to put their agreement in writing and then provide ongoing follow-up support for the duration of their match.

So home sharing is really a creative way to create affordable housing in our communities.

On average, our home sharing matches last about five and a half years, even though every rental agreement is structured on a month to month basis.

And here in Belmont, we interview about 25 to 30 people a year for this program, and we currently have 15 people right now in home sharing matches here in Belmont.

Our next program is called our housing readiness program, and we created this program based off because we saw an incredible need for older adults to have more intensive support on how to apply for affordable housing here in our community.

We hear a lot of stories about older adults who've been in stable housing for many years and haven't had the need to really look for new housing, and so something's then happened like the homeowner they're living with has decided to sell their property, leave the area, or they might have had a rent increase, or the landlord might need it, might need their room back for a family member.

And so suddenly this older adult is plunged into our kind of complex housing market, and so we provide case management to older adults who are don't qualify for our home sharing program because their incomes are much lower, and so we make sure that they're enrolled on the county's rent cafe portal, making sure they're on the doorway portal, helping them check their portals regularly, help them fill out applications for housing.

So it's really a time-intensive program to help support our older adult community.

We launched this program about two years ago, and we've already, with through our efforts, have already placed 26 people in housing through through this intensive support.

I mentioned that already.

This is a program for low-income families with dependent children.

It's also a program for transitional age foster youth.

And the goal of the program is to provide housing and coaching support to the families while the adults are enrolled in school or vocational program.

So they get families get a lot of wraparound support with case management, with life skills workshops, with financial literacy coaching, with counseling services to really help to support their family to move them to economic self-sufficiency while the parents are working on their career and their educational goals.

And these are some of the goals that we like to see with our families.

So we want to have sort of increased financial literacy, decreased debt, increased credit score, increased savings, and then to be able to find employment in the careers that they are working towards.

Here in Belmont, we have two families that are participating in this program.

And the families get different housing support.

So HIP Housing owns four group share properties, one in San Carlos, two in Redwood City, and one in Menlo Park.

And we usually have two to three families share the property.

And the rent is very low for the families.

They pay only $100 per month per room.

And then the housing authority of San Mateo County subsidizes the difference, and they also support our case management services for the families.

And then we have other families that are living independently in their own unit, and we help to support them with the housing scholarship for a year to five years.

So we in we in total we serve about 40 families in this program every year.

And my last slide is just how folks can find out about our organization.

The best thing to do is to contact our organization at 650 348 6660 or to visit our website at hiphousing.org.

We have website inquiry forms for all of our programs.

We have a live person answering our phone.

So we encourage folks that even if they're not sure about what program they might qualify for, if they have questions about housing resources in our community to give us a call and we'll help to guide them in the right direction.

So that's concludes my presentation, and I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Great.

Thank you so much for that presentation, and thank you for all the great work your organization does.

I mean, such great services for our elderly uh residents and families.

It's it's fantastic.

So thank you for all you do.

Um any questions from from uh Vidais.

No, just thank you.

That was actually really interesting.

And uh I never knew there's so many programs within hip housing.

So thank you for that.

That's really enlightening.

Thank you.

Yeah, most people affiliate us with just our home sharing program because that's we've been operating that program for the longest period of time, but but we do we do quite a bit more, so thank you.

Um, on average, if someone is in need of this sort of service, how how long do they wait to find a placement?

Yeah, so it depends on our community.

It depends on the program.

So our self-sufficiency program for families with children, we have a pretty intensive intake process because we, you know, we want to work with families that are very motivated to focus on their career and educational goals.

So for that process, it usually takes about a month for them to enroll and be screened and presented to our selections committee.

Um, and then for our home sharing program, we interview folks every single day.

So there's no wait for them to interview with our staff.

To answer the question about how long it takes for them to find housing is difficult because we it's always a um always a formula of how many you know rooms we have available, what the home seeker can pay, and then the compatibility piece.

So some folks can find housing fairly quickly, and for others it can take you know a little bit longer.

Um, our housing readiness program is mostly it is for seniors, and so we're doing that coaching and case management.

It it can take a while for folks to be able to apply and to get into housing for a variety of factors and and the waiting list openings becoming available.

So, unfortunately, there's no like set answer for that, but for our services, people can access them right away.

I do great.

Yeah, I guess just a question you mentioned.

Um, Belmont being a great partner.

I'd like to hear more about that.

Like what can we as the city do to be good partners with you?

Yeah, oh great.

So we I mean, we are always appreciate the opportunity to do presentations to commissions like yourself.

We've done presentations at the council, um, we've done like events here at the Belmont Senior Center, we table there.

Um, we have our flyers in the library, and so I've talked with Toby about outreach activities as well.

So we're always like thinking of different ways that we can get our materials out to the community.

We've done flyering at downtown businesses.

So if you have any ideas of areas that we could improve on our outreach, I mean that's that's the biggest um way that we can partner together.

If you have other groups that we can speak to or other places around the city that we can post information, and then we've also like been included in your e-newsletter, so that's always a great opportunity.

So for us, it's really the outreach component and ideas that we can't have our eyes and ears here all the time.

So if you have ideas for us, just to let us know.

Thanks.

Oh, I have one.

Oh, I have one.

We have a monthly meeting of the Harbor Industrial Area Group.

It's like a business owner association group, and they meet the first Thursday of every month, and they have a lunch at Davino's.

Okay, and they're always looking for topics.

So definitely could put you in tent uh in in touch with the meeting coordinator, and we can schedule you for a future meeting probably in the new year January, February time frame.

Okay, that'd be great.

Thank you.

Excellent.

Um thank you.

I guess uh how are you dealing with kind of issues?

I mean, obviously the the clientele you serve in particular with your property um resources um are folks who um you know or need assistance with with finding affordable housing.

Um I mean, how do you all deal with kind of your investments with the cost of housing as such as it is in particular in the Bay Area?

I mean, like, are you looking for other funding mechanisms or like what do you all do to kind of help um maximize your ability to provide those resources to folks who need it?

Yeah, I mean we're we're we're very fortunate that we receive funding from all 20 jurisdictions here in the county.

So we're very thankful for that support.

Um we because we also own and manage our properties, we have rental income from our properties that helps to support our four social service programs.

So that's a real sustainable source of funding uh for for the program side of the work that we do.

Um, you know, we we do get a lot of foundation support and individual contributions and we have a fundraising team that works on all those avenues.

So um, so we have we're really very fortunate in terms of our funding to have great partners in the community.

Great.

That's fantastic.

Um okay, any further questions from up here?

If not, I'll open it up to public comment.

Uh starting first with anyone in chambers.

Um no public comment in chambers.

And ma'am, do you have a comment?

Okay.

Why don't you come up to the to the elector in here and and you can you can pose your questions slash make a comment and we'll we'll see how to respond.

Well, first I'll I'm gonna compliment hip housing because my mother-in-law came and got partnered with a woman that needed a little it needed somebody to live with her in it, and it weren't turned out to be a wonderful experience for seniors.

But um I'm working with parents.

I'm the president of solutions for supportive homes.

I've been to the city council before, but we have uh families that are supporting their adult children with mental health disabilities and of course there's other disabilities.

So I'm wondering if I know you have a uh building in Redwood City, Miramontes.

You know, if are you uh I guess what we really need for these children as parents that are gonna be disappearing one day here, that they're going to be in a supportive environment.

So I'm wondering if if some of these properties that you have have that on-site support for those with disabilities.

Yeah, we uh you know it's we we don't have supportive housing models.

I mean we do like the Mira Montes property is independent living, although you know we do have vacancies there right now.

So if folks want to apply there, um and but we don't have like the supportive housing model as a focus of of our work.

Um, but we might be able to like provide suggestions on other organizations that might might do that.

Yeah, I mean I'm pretty I'm been doing this for a few years now, so I'm getting very knowledgeable, but I was just uh wondering if that um the Miramontes I know is new in Redwood City if they had the on-site support and I could recommend it, but if they're not, I it I think for success for those with disabilities, it really needs to have that on site to make sure they stay housed and you know, if they need help, they get help.

Yeah, okay, thank you for answering you.

Great.

Thank you for that that comment and those questions.

Uh seeing no further comments here in chambers.

Maybe let's see if there's anyone on Zoom who would like to comment on this item.

Item uh 6A.

Um, currently no raised hands on Zoom.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

Well, thank you so much for coming here.

It's it it is really, really cool the work you do, and and um it is it is much appreciated.

Um, and so this is a non-action item.

So that's the item we're concludes purely for information.

Thank you for allowing us to have this presentation tonight, and we appreciate it.

From them housing.

So great.

Thank you very much for coming here.

Okay, that concludes item six.

So we're now turning to our public hearing portion of the meeting.

Uh we have two items here.

Um we'll start with item 7A, which is 33.

Sorry, a single family design review for um 3304 plateau drive.

And before turning it over to planner Ruiz, I'll ask if there's any um X-party communications or disclosures from my colleagues.

I'm gonna say I have nothing to report.

Nothing to report.

Great.

With that, Planner Ruiz, take it away.

Hello, commissioners.

This is for 3304 Plateau Drive.

The proposals for an all um ground for addition of 983 square feet.

The lot summary for this location is that it the property is 13,190 square feet in area with a slip of 7.66 for a maximum floor area ratio of 0.533.

However, the maximum gross floor area for this location will be 3,979 due to the large property calculation of a 3,500 square foot base, plus the 15% of the difference of the property size minus 10,000.

The current home size for this site is 2080 with a proposed of 3,063.

Um the floor area ratio would be for the site at proposed of 0.232.

For the findings for the design review, um, it will be in essence that it is well designed, articulated, and consistent, that public views are not impacted, and that they will be compliant with the residential design guidelines and criteria that the city of Belmont has.

For the site plan, the proposed front setback will be to the new addition of 38 feet.

Uh the right side will be approximately 39 feet.

The left side will be maintaining the 8'10-inch um side road setback, which is permitted by the Belmont zoning organs of 9.6.3B, which states that you're able to extend legal non-conforming walls so long as you no longer reduce that legal nonconformity.

And it will be proposed for a rear of 39 feet.

The required setbacks for this location is 20 feet for the front, nine feet for the sides, and a rear of 15 feet.

As you can see for the front elevation, it is a pretty standard ranch-looking home with wood siding.

And it'll be then further having a little bump out to the front to do the covered porch, as well as just meeting a little bit for the garage area.

Similarly for the rear elevations, you can see that's wood siding and again the at grade home for those single story.

And you can see that the height does increase a little bit.

Um, but overall, it is a very modest uh height increase of 15 feet nine inches when it was originally approximately like 13.

The composite single roof is noted here on the left elevations, and you can see that they're articulating with that new addition again for the uh left side bump outs.

The color and material rewards will be for a gray steel um stucco with white and gray trims, a gray slated uh roof tiling, as well as just wood siding for the entry and garage doors.

Uh in conclusion, the staff recommends approval.

Great.

Thank you for that presentation.

Um any questions?

I have no questions either.

Uh okay.

Uh I'll see if the app is the applicant here, and if so, would they like to present anything if it's not required?

But if you'd like to, you have the time.

I appreciate it.

Okay.

Okay.

Just for the record, thanking thanking us for the time and thanking uh Planner Ruiz for the presentation.

Yes.

Thank you for transmitting that.

Yeah, of course.

Okay.

Let's now open the public hearing and see if we have any um any members of the public who wish to comment on this item, either in chambers or over Zoom.

Um, not seeing any speaker slips in-house and no raised hands on Zoom.

I'll ask um Director DeBell if there are any um go ahead.

You know what's it ask?

No, we did not receive any emails on this particular agenda topic on the Comdev website.

So, great.

Thank you.

Um seeing we have no uh comments here, I'll go ahead and close the public hearing and turn it over to deliberation.

Would anyone like to start or uh propose a motion?

It seems sensible to me.

I can lick the lines.

Yeah, I really like the uh the new layout, you know, the the use of space.

Um I would love to have a laundry room like that right behind my garage.

I think it I think it looks great.

Um uh and it it fits the site very well, and yeah, I can make the findings.

Yeah, it looks well designed.

I like what you've done with it also.

I can I can make the findings.

And I also can make the findings and have nothing further to add, so looks like we have the consensus, and someone is willing to make a motion.

Let's do it.

Sure.

Um I'll make a motion uh to adopt the resolution of the planning commission of the city of Belmont, approving a single family design review at 3304 plateau drive.

Application number two zero two five-0012.

Fantastic.

Thank you.

Is there a second?

All second, great.

Okay.

Um roll call commissioner Adam Kavich.

Aye.

Chair Coolidge?

Aye.

Majeski.

I and Twig.

Aye.

Motion passes 4-0 for 3304 plateau drive single family design review.

Great.

Congratulations.

Uh this matter is appealable within 10 calendar days.

And that concludes uh item 7A.

So we'll now turn to the next item on our public hearings portion of the agenda.

Item 7B.

This is a single-family design review and tree removal permit for 512 Alamida de las Bogas.

And before Planner Ruiz takes it away, I'll ask again if we have any um ex-party communications uh recusals.

I have nothing to report.

Uh site visit.

Okay.

Great.

Planner Ruiz, you're up.

Hi again, Commissioners.

This is for 512 of the Alamina de las Pucas.

Similar to the previous presentation, this is for a ground floor addition and also a garage.

The ground floor addition portions will be 1,825 square feet with a garage of 413.

This will be a total of addition to the main home of 2,188 square feet.

The noted lot size for this property is 9,375 with a slope of approximately 7.73 and a maximum gross floor area of 3,500 square feet.

Uh the existing home is at 1,284, with the proposed being at 3,472.

And this will bring the floor area ratio on the site of 0.371, well within that 0.533, and 3,472 is less than 3,500.

For the design review portions, as noted as previous, um, it should be well designed, articulated, consistent, uh public view should not be impacted, and then should be compliant with residential design guidelines and criteria.

For the tree removal portion, it is a balance of criteria supporting the removal as well as balancing the criteria of supporting retention and making a deciding factor as to which one should weigh out more.

For the site plan, uh the proposed setbacks will be a front of 15 feet, with the NOTA garage being 18 feet six inches.

Uh the garage would have to be at least 18 feet to meet the section eight requirements of transportation and parking um in order to meet uh the Belmont zoning ordinance necessities.

The right sides and left sides of the property will be seven feet six inches, uh, and the rear of twelve twenty feet nine inches for proposed.

The required setbacks for this location for the R1B's single family standards would be front of 15 feet, sides of seven feet six inches, and rear 15 feet.

As noted, the home will be proposed to be meeting these criteria.

For the landscape plan, you can see um the red circle noted, um, and that'll be the coast redwood, uh, which is a protected species both due to size as well as um the species of the tree.

The arguments for the removal of said tree for the arbores report is that it's needed to construct improvements or otherwise allow for the conforming use of the property, and it is in the proximity of the tree to existing or proposed structure, as it is well within the proposed garage as well as main home addition.

The arguments for retainment is for the aesthetic appeal, but due to it being in the developable area as well as being in a needy a necessity in order to improve the uh site.

Um it was proposed for removal.

For the existing front elevation, you can see this casita style looking home, all single story, and then it's going for contemporary um ground floor addition for that again single story portions.

For the rear elevation, similar, you can see a basic stucco, it's single story, but then they're adding more of that grade.

Um the addition will follow the grain and giving more of a leveled look.

The left elevations, you can see that more clearly with that open porch, and then a going into this modern uh single story uh aesthetic appeal.

Same for the right elevations, and then again.

For the color and materials board, it'll be for a gray standing uh sea metal with gray uh trims for stuccoes, uh, aluminum wood windows, as well as a gray satin grade uh wood sidings.

In conclusion, staff recommends for approval of the single family design review as well as the tree removal.

Great, thank you.

Uh, would the applicant like to uh make a presentation for this item?

No additional comments.

Okay.

Great.

No additional comment from the applicant.

Um now ask uh if there's any questions for my colleagues.

Yeah, I guess I had one question.

So the with the removal of the protected tree, does that have to be replaced with another tree then?

In the conditions of approval, it will be requiring one replacement tree of a 36 uh 36 inch, I believe, for sapling.

Um otherwise they would recommend for the uh payment of their in loo uh fee.

However, the Arbist report made note of uh planting.

Great, thank you.

Sorry, what size is the tree that's being removed?

Um it was uh I do not know off the top of my head unfortunately, but it was noted in the Arborist report to be of notable size.

Right.

But it's a mature tree that's being replaced with a 35-inch sapling.

Yes, good.

For it to grow eventually, which is permitted within our tree removal permit ordinance.

So the quick question about the project data.

So just my own clarification.

Um, the FAR for the uh looks like for the um max is uh point five five 0.533, and that's at 3,500 square feet.

And then we have uh the FAR for 3472 is at 0.371.

So is that just for the addition 0.371?

Yes, the addition is 0.371.

Correct.

Got it.

So make sure it was there would obviously be more if it were the total cumulative amount.

Okay, just want to clarify that.

And can we also ask questions of the applicant?

Yes, we can.

Yeah, I guess I just had one one question about the design.

Um, I think the the modern look is is lovely, but I noticed that one of the elements um still has a peaked roof, whereas everything else has a flat roof, and it was just a question about why why the peaked roof you can really see it in the side elevations that Jeremy is showing, like a little peak like sticking up over the house.

And I was just curious to understand more of the thinking on that.

Yeah, if you can come up to the lectern, please.

Make sure the people online can hear you.

Yeah, thank you.

Hello everyone, I'm Jimmy Olim.

Um, the reason for that is that is actually the existing uh structure, it's not the addition.

So we're really trying to preserve a lot of the uh the existing structure and not change too much.

I see, okay.

And it is pretty much interior the way you've made it, so it's uh yeah, it's not it's not front and center.

We kinda bounced the ideas and you know, re redoing the roof, but it's not worth it.

Um, all we're gonna do is just change the uh the roofing material and make it more modern.

Gotcha.

Okay, thank you.

Thanks.

Any additional questions?

Okay.

Uh seeing and hearing none, I'll we'll now open the public hearing to see if there's any members of the public who wish to comment on this item 7B.

Uh I see no one here in chambers aside from the applicant and staff.

Uh so we'll look to um zoom to see if anyone um has any raised hand to comment on this item.

Um, currently no raised hands on Zoom.

And Director Demello, do we have any um public comments submitted through the C dev uh email for this item?

Quick scan, we do not.

We are status quo, no comments on either item.

Great.

Okay.

I'm gonna now close the public hearing um and turn to um deliberation.

See if anyone wants to either um begin deliberation or or uh propose a motion.

Um I can make the findings.

I think it's a nice design.

Um, I can make the findings.

I'm a little uh like I would have a question myself about the condition of this middle courtyard.

Like I feel like it's not gonna get a lot of light, but that's just a my own comment that doesn't that doesn't change the fact that I can see the findings in this design.

Okay, and I appreciate that you uh maintain the ADU.

We don't want to lose any um housing in our city if we can avoid it.

Um and I think it's interesting how you have that sort of place to the rear at the side entrance, and yeah, I can make the findings.

Great, thank you.

And I can also make the findings.

Um, and so I think we have a consensus.

Uh and we'll uh maybe uh entertain a motion.

Yep.

I'll propose a resolution of the planning commission of the city of Belmont approving a single family design review and tree removal permit at 512 Alameda de los Pulgos application number 2025-0038.

Great, thank you, sir.

Is there a second?

I'll second that.

Great.

It's been moved and seconded.

Let's take a roll call vote, please.

Alright, Commissioner Adam Kavich.

Aye.

Chair Gulich?

Aye.

Majeski?

Aye.

Twig?

Aye.

Okay, uh motion passes four zero for five twelve Alameda de las Pulvas, single family design review and tree removal permit.

Great.

Congratulations.

Uh yeah.

Good luck with the project.

And this item is appealable within 10.

Holiday break, if you will, although that planning commission packet for the January 6th will be released uh when City Hall goes into uh shutdown mode.

So you'll have some.

I say that to the and lots of things happen.

And uh, like I said, a very uh robust set of agenda items hitting you in kind of the January February timeframe.

So thank you again for your time tonight.

Appreciate all the good work and uh looking forward to the next time that we meet.

Great.

Thank you, staff, for such a quick and efficient and fun meeting.

Much appreciated.

Good.

So we're done with item eight and uh we'll adjourn it is 747.

Thanks everyone.

Thank you.

Thank you.