Good evening everyone.

Welcome to the Environmental Planning Commission meeting of December 3rd, 2025.

For those joining us in person, please note that due to our hybrid environment,

audio and video presentations can no longer be shared from the lectern.

Request to show an audio or video presentation during a meeting should be directed to

epc at mountainview.gov by 430 p.m. on the meeting date.

Additionally, due to our hybrid environment, we will no longer have speakers lined up to speak on an item.

Anyone wishing to address the EPC in person must complete a yellow speaker card.

Please indicate the name you would like to be called by

when it is your turn to speak,

and the item number on which you wish to speak.

Please complete one yellow speaker card

for each item on which you wish to speak,

and turn them in to the EPC clerk as soon as possible,

but no later than the call for public comment

on the item you are speaking on.

Instructions for addressing the commission virtually

may be found on the posted agenda.

Now I will ask the EPC clerk to proceed with the roll call.

Commissioner Dempsey?

Here.

Commissioner Donohue?

Here.

Commissioner Yin?

Here.

Commissioner Cranston?

Here.

Commissioner Pham?

Vice Chair Nunez?

Here.

Chair Gutierrez?

Here.

All commissioners present except for Commissioner Pham.

Thank you PC clerk.

Moving on to section three, minutes approval.

we'll be discussing the 3.1 Environmental Planning Commission meeting minutes of February 19,

2025, March 19, 2025, June 18, 2025, September 17, 2025, October 15, 2025, and November 5,

2025. EPC discussion. Do we have any? Nope. Okay. Public comment. If anyone in attendance would

like to provide comments on the minutes, please fill out a yellow speaker card and provide it to

the EPC Clerk, if anyone on Zoom would like to provide comments on the minutes, please

click the raise hand button in Zoom and press star nine on your phone.

Phone users can mute and unmute themselves with star six.

EPC Clerk.

Speaker 2 You have no attendees in person and none online.

Speaker 2 Okay, sounds good.

But for the record, we do have someone in the gallery.

Just thank you so much for being here.

We appreciate you.

Thank you.

Okay, if someone can please make a motion to approve the minutes and the language I have

here in case you need it specifically.

I'll make a motion.

Okay, so moved by Vice Chair Nunez and seconded by Commissioner Joyce Yuen.

And the motion is.

I make a motion to approve the Environmental Planning Commission minutes of February 19,

2025, March 19, 2025, June 18, 2025, September 17, 2025, October 15, 2025, and November 5,

2025.

All those in favor?

Or if you'd like to have us vote by, okay, great.

The motion carries with six yays and one absent.

Thank you.

The motion carries with six yays and one absent.

Great, thank you so much APC clerk.

Thank you team.

Moving on to section four, oral communications.

This portion of the meeting is reserved

for persons wishing to address the EPC

on any matter not on the agenda.

Speakers are allowed to speak on any topic

for up to three minutes during this section.

State law prohibits the commission

from acting on non-agenda items.

If anyone in attendance would like to provide comments

on non-agenda items, please fill out a yellow speaker card

and provide it to the EPC clerk.

If anyone on Zoom would like to provide a comment

on non-agenda items, please click the raise hand button

in Zoom or press star nine on your phone.

Phone users can mute and unmute themselves

with star six.

EPC clerk.

We do not have any members in public,

in person and none online.

Great, thank you sir.

We'll move on to section five, new business 5.1,

2026 environmental planning commission meeting schedule.

Staff presentation from Diana Bancholi, principal planner.

The floor is yours.

Thank you.

So this is our annual scheduling

for the next year's EPC dates.

Staff would like to just make a correction

or note a correction.

The proposed meeting dates in the memo are correct.

Just the year is wrong, which says 2025.

I'm very sorry about that.

So just a correction on that, all the dates are correct.

The year is for, this is for 2026,

so it is all 2026 dates.

Yeah, and this does consider the League of California Cities

Planning Commissioners Conference,

which will be in March, has been accounted in there.

It does adjust the meeting dates for any of the holidays

which are observed, where the City Hall

will be closed as well.

So yeah, that's it.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Any EPC questions?

I had the year question, but I'm glad you resolved that, which is great.

Being that there are no other questions, any public comment?

We do not have any members in person or online.

Okay.

Moving on to EPC deliberation and action.

The staff recommendation is as follows.

Any changes from the staff recommendation

must be described with the motion.

Would anyone like to opine on the matter?

If not, a motion would be gladly accepted.

To approve the EPC public meeting calendar for 2026.

So moved.

I'll second.

Very well, on a motion made by Commissioner Donahue

and seconded by Bill Cranston, the motion is.

The motion is

to approve the EPC public meeting calendar for 2026.

The motion carries with six yay and one absent.

Awesome.

Great.

Thank you, everyone.

Moving on to Section 6, Commission Staff Announcements,

Updates, Requests, and Committee Reports.

Ms. Diana, our EPC liaison, the floor is yours.

Thank you.

So first of all, I would just like to note that the December 17,

the 15th, 2025 EPC meeting, which is our next meeting,

is going to be canceled

as there are no discussion items on the agenda.

The EPC will regroup next year

with the first meeting scheduled for January 7th, 2026.

With that, I would also, you know,

as we come to the end of the year,

should be noted that today is Commissioner Yen's

last EPC meeting because her term is going to come to an end

at the end of December this year.

So on behalf of the city,

I would really like to thank you for all your contribution.

You know, as a commissioner,

and, you know, you're inside,

your diligence and commitment

have strengthened our community's planning efforts,

has helped staff,

and it has been an honor to work alongside you as well.

So thank you very much.

I'm sorry.

I got to wrap up in a moment.

Commissioner Yin, would you like to share your thoughts?

I'm meaning impromptu speech per se.

Sure thing, yes, really quickly.

I don't want to take too long,

but I do want to thank everybody up here

and everyone who has worked really hard

to put this all together and make things happen for us.

There's a whole team behind the scenes.

And Diana, you've been our liaison,

as has Eric and Martin earlier when I started.

So thank you all for hurting us and working with us.

And for you guys, I mean, I think that's been the biggest experience here.

I really, truly have enjoyed working with all of you, and I respect all of you, enjoy all of you,

and really I've learned a lot from every one of you here.

So I thank you for that.

It's been quite an experience.

I will miss you guys.

and I hope to at least continue the personal relationship

in the future.

Thank you.

Vice Chair Nunez.

If I may, I also have, I'm going to miss you.

I have learned so much more from planning,

just from being around you.

it's like osmosis of just insight and knowledge,

porosity, grid, like architectural,

like livable design, right?

Like all of these things that I didn't have appreciation

or awareness of going to being a commissioner

really have helped inform how I look at the items

that come before us and had come before us,

and so I'm glad I asked you that early in my term.

And I'm just gonna miss you very much.

I appreciate that as much as any of us

can be really looking at issues in the authentic lens

of what are the values and things I care about.

I think you've, at least how I experienced you embodied that

and so I'm just really grateful that I've had

some almost like a kindred spirit in that way

on the commission and so I'm just gonna miss you

and I'm grateful.

Commissioner Dempsey.

Well, just at the risk of being somewhat redundant,

I will simply say I am gonna miss working with you, Joyce.

I really enjoyed getting to sit next to you.

I looked forward to that.

I liked being able to lean over and gossip with you

a little bit at quiet parts.

And I want to recognize just how valuable it was

to have an architect here.

because just like with Alex,

I actually learned a lot from hearing you talk

because I'm really a dilettante,

but you're a content expert and that's really valuable.

We need more content experts, probably fewer dilettantes.

So just for bringing that expertise

and sharing it with us, with staff, with the community,

that was really valuable.

And also you're just really nice

and I like getting to work with you.

So thank you for giving us all the years that you did.

We're gonna miss you.

Thank you, Commissioner Dempsey.

Commissioner Cranston.

We start at the same time.

The only other person who's been on here on the commission as long as I have.

So we learned together.

I would agree with Commissioner Dempsey that losing the architectural perspective on things,

I think will be, hopefully we've all absorbed some of it along the way so we can bring that

going forward, but it's been something that, you know, allowed us to think about things

in a way that we wouldn't have, certainly I wouldn't have thought of necessarily before.

And I learned from it.

And so it's a shame to see you go.

Hopefully you'll get other ways of serving the city.

I think your contribution has been great.

but I will make sure that,

I'm gonna make sure that we stay in touch

because I've enjoyed our time working together

and your insights and things.

So thank you for your time.

Commissioner Donoghue.

I think a lot of it's already been said, unfortunately,

but yeah, I have enjoyed working with you

and I found when I joined, you were especially welcoming

and I found that to be very helpful

to get me kind of integrated into the commission.

So that was definitely great.

And I think that you have very insightful comments

and thoughts and yeah, the architect perspective,

like you can look at the plans

and notice that there's a transformer there

instead of a walkthrough or whatever,

which I didn't pick that up.

So yeah, just because you're used to looking

at that kind of thing, I guess, I don't know.

But definitely you have, I think,

made our community better from your participation here,

and I think that's really important.

So thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Donoghue.

And then finally, from my perspective,

when I first joined the commission,

I think you're the first person I spoke with.

We met over at Panera.

and after our conversation

which was supposed to be just like half hour

I think we ended up with maybe an hour

an hour and a half of discussion

I got to know you session

and I mentioned this to one of my best friends

I'm like I just met

someone who is super nice

she's part of the EPC

I don't know that she's a politician

because she's genuinely nice

this is great

I felt welcomed

I felt heard

right and throughout the last you know years of working with you serving with you i've found

your perspectives to be quite informative and passionate right but it came from a perspective

of knowledge and when you hear that because i review the meetings afterwards i always do

i watch them and then i see your contributions and i just think to myself man especially the

last meeting when you're like and let me tell you something you missed that opportunity of design at

a gateway over there by the Chase Bank.

And when you pointed out your rationale

as to what they missed and how that could have been

an opportunity for the betterment of the community

and the city and how we look at gateway projects,

it's that type of knowledge,

it's that type of passion that we're going to miss.

And that's because we're gonna miss you.

And so I want to thank you for serving with us

and for your time and your expertise, for your patience,

but also for your drive, because to be here

and to keep that sustained and with such passion

and such knowledge, it's not an easy thing to do.

So I hope you stay active and if you run,

hey, I'll vote for you, you know, for city council,

I'll vote for you, man.

No worries on that front.

But thank you so much for being part of the team.

Thank you for leading our team

as a former chair of the EPC yourself as well.

And speaking on behalf of everyone here in general,

once again, we will miss you.

Thank you.

Do we have anything else?

No?

Oh, oh, Commissioner Yen.

I just wanted to say thank you, everyone.

And I appreciate that you appreciated everything.

We won't go back and forth on that.

But yeah, I hope to continue our relationship.

And I don't think you'll hear the last of me.

I may be at the podium pointing things out.

So I'll see you later for sure.

Awesome.

Awesome.

Okay.

And with that, we move on to section seven, which is our adjournment.

So I can now say that the meeting is adjourned at 7.19 PM.

Thank you, everyone.

And happy 2025.