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All right, good afternoon and welcome to the Administrative Zoning Public Hearing of December 10th, 2025.

I'm Amber Blisinski and I'm presiding over the hearing as the zoning administrator today.

So I'll call the meeting to order at 4.01 p.m.

So today's hearing will operate in a hybrid format.

Staff, the applicants and some community members are in person.

However, we'll 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 of each 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 you wish to speak.

Speakers will be notified of their turn shortly before they're called on to speak, and all speakers virtual or in person will have two to three minutes to provide comments, with the timing dependent on the total number of speakers for each item.

If you're in person and wish to, I think everybody in this room is applicants.

So if you're in person and wish to comment on either item, please fill out the yellow speaker card.

You all don't need to do that.

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

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 not on the agenda.

Speakers are limited to three minutes and state law prohibits any action on any items which are not on the agenda.

Is there anyone who would like to speak on any items that are not on the agenda in the room?

Anybody online? Raise your hand if so. All right. So we'll move on to item three, which is the Zoning

Administrator Public Hearing. So item 3.1 is 705 West Dana Street with a request for a two-year

permit extension for a previously approved planned community permit and development review permit

for a commercial building with ground floor restaurant and upper floor office.

A provisional use permit to allow the restaurant use and upper floor administrative office use

and a heritage tree removal permit to remove one heritage tree.

And a recommended determination, the project is categorically exempt pursuant to section 15332 of the CEQA guidelines.

Tristan White is the project planner. Tristan, do you have a staff presentation?

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Okay. All right. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Tristan White, Assistant Planner,

and today I'm here to present a permit extension for the Commercial Development Project at 705

West Dana Street. The project is located on the southwest corner of West Dana Street and Hope

Street as shown above. The GP designation is Downtown Mixed Use and the site is located in

the Downtown Decise Plant Area H, the Historic Retail District. The existing property contains

a vacant auto repair building that has now been vacant for several years where a planned

community permit and a development review permit were previously approved to construct

an 18,800 square foot commercial building. A provisional use permit was approved for the

building's ground floor restaurant and upper floor administrative office,

and a heritage tree removal permit for the removal of one redwood tree

on the 0.23 acre site. Surrounding uses are primarily one to two-story commercial buildings,

a utility building and a city-owned parking on september 9th 2025 the property owner ajl

investment group llc filed a request for a two-year permit extension for the previously

approved development review planned community provisional use and heritage tree removal permit

to allow additional time to implement the previously approved permits

uh staff has completed the review of the application which is unchanged from the

originally approved project and staff is recommending approval based on the findings

including the previous sequed termination that the project is categorically exempt pursuant to

section 15332 which accommodates infill development staff is also available to answer any questions

Thank you. So we don't have the applicants in the room with us today. I don't believe they wish to make a presentation, but if so, I think they're virtual. Please raise your hand if you are the applicant for this project and wish to make a presentation.

All right. So I will move on to public comment. So we'll start with, I don't think anybody in the

room wants to public comment on this because we're in a room full of applicants for our virtual guests.

So is there anybody from the public who'd like to comment on this item that is virtual?

All right. You'll have three minutes and Roxanne will unmute you.

It looks like Alyssa Woodsmith Development.

Oh, okay.

So that's the applicant.

Hello, are you there?

Hi there.

Can you guys hear us?

Yeah, we can hear you.

All right, thank you.

Sorry, this is Boyd Smith and Alyssa.

Sorry, we just want to let you know that we're here, but we don't have a presentation.

Okay, great.

Thanks, Boyd.

Our architect should be there at any moment.

Oh, it's okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. And that was it, right? Yes. Okay. So nobody else. So we will now close the public hearing and I'll go ahead and move forward in making a motion to approve item 3.1 based on the findings and conditions posted online and the application materials reviewed by city staff.

please note that this decision of approval is appealable to the city council within 10 calendar

days um so that's that's it for yours and uh we'll just take a minute um for those online

to switch out our planners yeah yeah good job

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Okay, so item 3.2 is 261 Moffitt Boulevard with a request for a conditional use permit to allow an animal service establishment use.

consisting of dog daycare with overnight boarding services, an existing tenant space,

and a development review permit to construct minor building and site modifications,

and a recommended determination that the project is categorically exempt pursuant to section 15301 of the CEQA guidelines.

Philip Brennan is the project planner. Philip, do you have a staff presentation?

I do.

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Okay, great. Again, my name is Philip Brennan. I'm the project planner for this planning

application. I do have a very brief presentation. I'll start with some of the pertinent information

related to this project for some context. This project is located in the CRA zoning district,

which is the commercial residential arterial zoning district. It's a approximately 2,800

square foot tenant space located in the approximately 8,300 square foot multi-tenant

commercial complex on a 0.42 acre site. The applicant is requesting a conditional use permit

and a development review permit. There's 12 existing parking stalls on site. No changes to

the existing floor plan area or building footprint. As noted, the applicant is requesting a conditional

use permit to allow for a dog daycare with overnight boarding services. This land use is

categorized as an animal services establishment, which is conditionally permitted in the CRA zoning

district and subject to specific operational requirements to limit noise and odor impacts

to neighboring properties and businesses. The applicant commissioned a noise assessment based

on their proposed operations, which demonstrated the estimated outdoor noise levels for the business

would not exceed one decibel level beyond the existing normally acceptable noise levels for

surrounding commercial uses, nor the conditionally acceptable noise levels for low-density

residential uses as defined in the noise element for our general plan. Additionally, the applicant

has also agreed to limit outdoor dog access to the outdoor areas to 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. instead of

their typical 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. business hours used at other locations. The project includes a

condition prohibiting customer drop-off and pickup at the rear of the building to limit on-street

parking impacts along Santa Rosa Avenue.

In addition to the CUP, the project includes a request for a development

review permit for minor building and site modifications associated with the use,

including a new eight foot concrete masonry unit wall or CMU wall

enclosing the outdoor dog play area, which serves to help

attenuate noise from the business and restrict visibility

into the facility from the public right away.

The project also includes two new roll up doors providing access to the outdoor play area,

and the project will replace one existing non heritage tree that will be displaced

due to the construction of the wall enclosure and is conditioned to replace any displaced landscape shrubbery.

That concludes staff's presentation.

Staff has completed review of the application and is recommending approval based on

findings and conditions outlined in the tax report and is recommending a determination that

the project is categorically exempt pursuant to section 15301 existing facilities and i'm

available to answer any questions and i believe the applicant has their sound consultant on the

line to answer any technical questions regarding the noise study okay thank you philip um so uh

it's how the applicant's turn to to say something if you want to if you just come up to the podium

Sure. Yeah. I'll keep it brief because I know you've got lots of people to see.

We just wanted to say that we'd be excited to be part of the community.

We've been open for about 15 years at our other locations and something that we're really proud of and excited to bring to Mountain View as well is that we've paid above minimum wage.

We've offered health insurance, paid time off.

We've worked with programs for developmentally delayed adults, placing folks who've been

homeless with jobs.

We've never had a noise complaint.

We've had, I think, a great impact on the community.

And I think that we've really appreciated getting a chance to collaborate with Philip,

who asked a lot of tough questions through the process.

sometimes some you know sent us back to the drawing board for for clarifying some things

for the noise report but that the folks smarter than me who are working on the noise report

really felt like they had a good model to show that while we're in unusual use we aren't going

to affect the area in an unusual way so it's just that the city planners and folks like yourself

Didn't think that this would be a project maybe down the line, but that we fit well within the parameters of how a business is allowed to affect the neighborhood.

And then, unfortunately, the owner of the property had a serious illness in the family, so he wasn't here.

But he just wanted to say that he was really excited.

He vetted us for a long time, looked around for the right project to fill a space that he's very eager to not be paying a mortgage on an empty building.

So, yeah, I'm available for any questions and that sort of thing.

Great. Thank you. Yeah, thanks.

I don't have any questions at this time, so I'll go ahead and see if there's any members of the public who wish to speak who are online.

None.

None. Okay. So, great.

So, I'll now close the public hearing, and I'll move forward with a motion to approve this item, 3.2.

Oops, sorry.

Based on the findings and conditions posted online, I did review the public comment letters that we received prior to the meeting.

I think that, you know, I have faith in you that you will work with your neighbors to

make sure that you guys maintain a good relationship.

I many of the questions that Philip was asking you come from like our group.

Right.

And and just past experiences and us wanting to make sure that, you know, the neighbors

directly behind you weren't going to be impacted by noise and such.

So, you know, I trust that you'll be a good neighbor to them if they complain.

And so I want to say that in case anybody is listening or watches this meeting later.

But with that said, I am approving the project and based on those findings and conditions and the application materials that were reviewed by city staff.

So please note that this decision of approval is appealable to the city council within 10 calendar days.

So that concludes our public hearing today at 416 p.m.

And if anyone has any follow-up questions on the items on the agenda, you can contact the listed project planner.

Thank you.