All right, good afternoon.

Welcome to the administrative zoning and subdivision committee hearing of July 23rd, 2025.

I'm Amber Blazinski.

I am presiding over the hearing today as the zoning administrator.

So we'll call the meeting to order at oh there's no clock, 401 p.m.

Um, and today's hearing will operate in a hybrid format.

So staff, the applicants, and some community members are in person.

However, we will also ask if community members joining us virtually want to speak on an item at certain points in the meeting.

When those opportunities arise, typically during the public comment portion for the agenda item, members of the public wishing to comment may do so by clicking on the raise hand feature in Zoom when I announce the item on which which you wish to speak.

Speakers will be notified of their turns shortly before they're called on to speak.

If you've phoned in today, then please dial star nine to raise your hand.

When you're called on to speak, please press star six to unmute yourself.

All speakers, virtual or in person, will have um three minutes to provide comments.

If you're in person and wish to comment on the item today, please fill out a yellow speaker card.

Um so we're able to accurately spell your name for the meeting minutes.

You can do that now, or you can do that um after you speak if you're going to speak.

So um we'll start with a roll call of the subdivision committee.

Uh, Miss Rutherford, will you call roll call?

Yes.

Lizinski here.

And a wrangle here.

Thank you.

Uh Diana Fazelli is not in attendance at this hearing, um, but we have a quorum with Ed and myself present.

So the next portion of the meeting is oral communications from the public.

This is the time set aside for people wishing to address the zoning administrator on any matter that is not on the agenda.

Um, speakers are limited to three minutes, and state law prohibits any action on any items that are not on the agenda.

So is there anyone who wants to speak on any items that are not on the agenda?

And is there anybody online who wants to speak on anything that's not on the agenda?

No hands are raised.

Okay, thanks.

Seeing no one, we'll move on to section four, which is the joint administrative zoning and subdivision committee uh portion of the hearing, and we have one item to discuss.

So item 4.1 is 828 to 836 Sierra Vista and 1975 to 1979 Colony Street with a request for a planned unit development permit and a development review permit to construct a 20-unit row house development utilizing state density bonus law and a vesting tentative map to create 20 residential lots and two common lots on a 0.99 acre project site.

And a recommended determination that the project's categorically exempt pursuant to section 15332 of the CEQA guidelines.

It's important to note that the decisions made on this item today are in the form of a recommendation to the city council who will make the final decision on this project.

Um, and that public hearing is tentatively scheduled for September 9th, 2025.

So I'm just making a recommendation, or we're just making a recommendation.

So we'll have one staff presentation, one uh presentation from the applicant, and one opportunity for public comment on the item, and then we'll break up the decision on the development permits and the vesting tentative map when making actions at the end of the public comment portion.

Um, I'll act on the acts, uh, the development permit acts, um, and then the subdivision committee will act on the request for the vesting tentative map.

Um, so Ella is the project planner.

Ella, do you have a staff presentation for the for the committee?

Please.

Um, my name is Ella Carotian, and I'm the project planner for this project.

The project is located at 828 to 836 Euro.

Um the slide.

It's 0.99 acre side, located on the south uh southwest corner of Colonia Street and Sierra Vista Avenue.

Uh, currently it is vacant.

Um, the general plan designation is medium density residential and the zoning is R3 uh-2, which is a multifamily zoning.

Surrounding uses to the north and south, and there are two story single family homes.

And to the south, uh, there is a one-story multi-tenant commercial development, and to the east, we have uh three story rural house um developments across the street.

Uh, this is a site plan, and the applicant is asked is requesting plan unit development permit and development review permit for this project.

Um, the project scope is including 20 unit raw house development.

It's going to be 25% affordable five units.

And the applicant is utilizing the say density bonus request.

Each unit would have two parking spaces and plus three guest parking spaces, which one of them is ADA.

And the applicant is also pursuing this intent tentative map for creating 20 residential lots and two common lots for this project.

This is the elevation and the look of the building.

City of Staff has uh completed their view of this application and is recommending the zoning administrator and uh subdivision committee uh recommend approval of this application to the city council based on the findings and conditions of approval in the attached reports, including uh a recommendation that the project is categorically exempt pursued section one five to twenty two of the uh CEQA guidelines.

And uh we are here to answer any of the questions.

I think next we will have the applicants, right?

Yeah, thank you, Ella.

So um you can come up to the podium here and she'll pull up your presentation.

All right, well and what is your name?

My name is Albert Wayne.

Okay, you were the the uh yeah, I think he'll introduce himself.

Okay, sorry.

Yeah, don't worry, yeah.

Thank you so much for asking.

Yeah, I'm representing the legend, legend uh Colony LC, our operating uh company's lesson USA.

Um, but yeah, we've um come here and want to develop this wonderful piece of land here and want to um add housing to the wonderful city of Mountain View.

Um, yeah, so basically thank you, Amber, Ed, Ella, uh the public and our local community.

Um we actually ran through discamp a couple years ago, unfortunately at our other project in Santa Clara.

We had 56 units.

Um we were very close to the end in 2019.

Um unfortunately there was a fire.

So we actually lost the superstructure and in the back four units of the structure.

Um, the entire uh wood framing had to go down so that severely, as you can imagine, severely impacted our cash flow and everything and our timelines.

Um so they actually forced us to not be able to run both projects in parallel.

Instead, they had to go in serial.

So we uh went through insurance and all that good stuff, won't bother you with the details, but uh you know, lost time and all that good stuff.

Sure.

Uh very grateful for the city for allowing us to have extensions for the entowlments.

Unfortunately, that wasn't enough for us.

So we actually lost entowments, so we're back here uh uh re-entowing it.

Um so very grateful for the city for working with us in the expeditious manner.

Um, I think with a great project, it was a great project, and I think it's still a great project.

And uh we're here to uh answer any questions.

I believe our architect team, uh Dave andor Jeff is online to uh go over this presentation real quick.

We have David.

Great.

Yeah, I'm David Vinneman with SDG Architects.

We are the architects record on this project.

Um, as Albert mentioned, we are you know looking at just basically um re-entitling the same project that was prepared for this site um previously and approved.

Um made very few changes from that previous submittal.

Um if if you can, Ella, to the next slide.

Um so within the site here, there's pretty much similar to what it was before.

There's been a bullbout added for treatment along Sierra Vista for new city um standards.

Uh some additional decorative paving has been added.

There is a staging area for recycling and trash um near one of the units, and that's the help with trash collection and um then a big one, you know, that's really great now with the new new code cycle that's in place.

We've removed all the gas um stubs from the site.

This will be an all-electric project.

Next slide, please.

So just unit floor plans, um road towns, the units one and two at the top are a zipper style, uh, unit three at the bottom here is traditional row, and then the next slide shows units four and five, which are also traditional rows.

And then the next slide will show um some views with adjacent properties uh meshed in with them, and you can see the elevations.

The elevations are a modern um farmhouse style that use some stone columns, uh wood corbels and kickers, some metal roofs, and uh some metal cable railings in the design.

And then the final slide shows a nice perspective view of the corner as it will finish out when we complete the project.

Thank you.

Um so now we'll open the item up to public comment.

Um, so uh is there anyone from the public in the room who would like to speak on this item?

Okay.

And is there anybody online who wishes to speak on this item?

Yes, we have G or T.

All right.

Okay, uh you able to hear me.

Yeah.

Um thank you very much for taking my um time.

Uh, my name is Guillermo Ortiz.

I'm a resident uh across the street from this project.

Um I would like to ask about um if it's possible to know at this time what is the timeline for the project one it gets review and approved.

Um, as a resident, um, we have seen this lot change across the years.

It was demolished in 2020 and it's a state empty for all these years for the results that were explained earlier.

Uh so I would like to just get a little bit of uh visibility possible about what should we expect as residents through the process of this project.

Um we'll wait it finish your um statements and then we can ask the developer to or the applicant to clarify.

Was that the only statement you wanted to make?

Yes.

Okay, thank you.

Um anyone else online?

No.

Okay.

So I'll go ahead and um close the public hearing now.

Um, and then um I'll ask the applicant if they want to add any any remarks and if you want to, you know, answer to the question that you heard.

Um you don't have to give great detail, but yeah, yeah.

Uh yeah, so thank you, Mr.

Ortiz, for being uh very patient with us.

Um, but yeah, I think we're just trying to develop as soon as possible after and town's office.

So maybe it's since the consultants have already done it before, maybe six to twelve months, um, depending on how how fast they are and how fast city is, of course.

I know they're very busy.

Um, after that would uh start construction.

Um of course, at any point, um, you know, if there's someone wants to buy a project from us, we're all all very open.

So yeah, thank you very much.

Okay, thank you.

Um, so uh now as the zoning administrator, I'll act on the permit requests for the planned unit development permit and the development review permit and make the recommended determination that the project is categorically exempt pursuant to section one five three three two of the CEQA guidelines.

So I move to approve item 4.1 based on the findings and conditions posted online and the application materials reviewed by city staff, with the reminder that my decision is a recommendation to the city council who will take the final action on the development permit requests.

And so now I'll bring the item back to the subdivision committee to discuss the vesting tentative map.

Um, do you have any questions on the uh map or do you want to make a motion?

Sure.

Um I did read the staff memo and uh supporting materials for the best interval map.

I don't have any questions.

Um I'm happy to make a motion to recommend approval to the city council of a vesting tentative map at 828-836 here, Vista in 1975 to 1979 Colony Street for 20 residential lots and two common lots, subject to the conditions of approval and conformance with the general plan and zoning ordinance.

Great, and I'll second that motion.

So I'll now ask Ms.

Rutherford to do a roll call vote.

Yes, but Blazinski.

Yes.

And a wrangle.

Yes.

Thank you.

Okay, so a motion of approval for item 4.1 was made and passed unanimously by the subdivision committee.

And then again, a reminder that our decision is a recommendation to the city council who'll take the final action on the map request.

So with that, I'll adjourn the public hearing today at 4 15 p.m.

If anybody has any follow up questions, um you can contact the listed project planner.

Thank you.