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It is now four o'clock, and good afternoon, and welcome to the administrative zoning public hearing of February 11th, 2026.

My name is George Schroeder, and I'm presiding over the hearing today as the zoning administrator.

And I would like to call the meeting to order at 4 o'clock p.m.

Today's hearing will operate in a hybrid format.

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

However, we will also ask if committee 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 period of each agenda item, members of the public wishing to comment may do so by clicking the raise hand feature and zoom when I announce the item on which you wish to speak.

Speakers will be notified of their turn shortly before they are called on to speak.

If you have 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 and person have three minutes to provide comments.

If you are in person and wish to comment on either of the items, please fill out a yellow speaker card for us so we are able to accurately spell your name for the meeting minutes.

The next portion of the meeting is for oral communications from the public.

This is a time set aside for persons 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?

Seeing none, we'll move to online.

And online.

Okay.

So we will now move on to item three, with which is the zoning administrator public hearing.

And item 3.1 is the address of 490 East Middlefield Road with a request for a development agreement between the City of Mountain View and WTA Middlefield LLC for an eight-story mixed use building with 460 apartment units utilizing state density bonus law and approximately 9,371 square feet of ground floor commercial replacing an existing office building and the removal of 29 heritage trees on a 2.86 acre site.

And this is associated with planning application number PL 9558.

And also a recommended determination that the project is statutorily exempt pursuant to public resources code section 210 80.66 of the California Environmental Quality Act or CEQA guidelines.

It is important to note that the decisions made on this item will be in the form of a recommendation to the city council.

We will make the final decision on the project at a public hearing that is tentatively scheduled for March 10th, 2026.

Okay, we will now have a staff presentation and applicant presentation and an opportunity for public comments on the item.

And then following that, I'll make a rec recommendation to the city council on the development agreement for this project.

Jeffrey Sumura is a project planner.

Jeffrey, do you have a staff presentation for?

I do, yes, thank you.

All right.

Good afternoon, Jeffrey Simara, senior planner.

Here to present today's item.

Sorry.

All right, this is a request for a development agreement between the city of Naughty View and WCA Middlefield LLC to allow a 460 unit apartment development on a 2.86-acre site located at 490 East Middlefield Road.

The project site is located at the northwest corner of East Middlefield Road and L Street in the P 41 East Wisman Precise Plan Zoning District.

This development agreement is associated with a development review permit and a planned community permit for mixed-use development, including 460 new apartment units and approximately 9,371 square feet of ground floor commercial space, replacing an existing commercial office building and heritage tree removal permit to remove 29 territories trees on site.

As per the terms of the development agreement, the project will receive an initial four-year term with extension options in exchange of monetary public benefits as noted in the report.

The developer agrees to provide the following additional voluntary public benefits to benefit the city and its residents as part of the development agreement, including 1.2 million dollars in tenant improvements for ground floor retail spaces to attract and retain high quality businesses with unexpended amount to go towards the city's recreational city facilities contribution, 1.2 million dollars towards parkland acquisition for a new park within the project vicinity to support expanded recreational amenities and park investments, redirection of these funds to go to pyramid park enhancement and connection improvements.

If new parkland is not acquired within a year of final occupancy, commitments to Kelgreen compliance, lead silver equivalent design and an all electric building design.

Options for a master lease guarantee to designate up to 60 units as BMR units for a minimum of seven years, and sales tax point of sale designation for good faith efforts to require all persons and entities providing materials for the project over a specified value to have the local portion of the sales and use tax distributed directly to the city.

In addition to these public benefits, the project will be will be providing additional community benefits associated with the East WISM and precise plan bonus FAR requirements.

The project includes a request for a state density bonus, which allows for the provision of concessions and development waivers.

The applicant has collaborated closely with staff to ensure compliance with development standards to the extent possible, thereby minimizing the use of waiver requests.

After the agenda for this hearing was published, staff identified necessary tax edits to the draft development agreement to clarify the intent of the DA terms.

A list of these edits have been provided to the zoning administrator as a desk item for consideration and posted to the agenda online.

City staff has completed a review of the development agreement and finds that the development agreement is advantageous to and benefits the city as it advances legitimate planning and public objectives.

The development agreement is consistent with the objectives, policies, general land uses, and programs specified in the East Wisman mixed use land use designation under the city's 2030 general plan and the precise plan and zoning ordinance.

The project is also found to be statutorily exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act pursuant to public resources code section 21080.66.

Therefore, staff requests zoning administrator recommendation or approval to the city council based on the findings in the report, including in the agenda, along with the modifications to the draft development agreement as noted earlier.

This concludes staff's presentation.

Please note that staff, including meeting development director Christian Murdoch, are available.

For any questions, the applicant team is also present and can answer any questions as well.

Okay, thank you, Jeff.

I'm in receipts of the desk guidance today with the updates to the draft development agreement, and I do not have any questions on those.

And now I will turn it over to the applicant, Mr.

Griggs, if you can please step to the podium if you have a presentation.

I do not bring a presentation knowing Jeff would do a phenomenal job as he's done throughout this entire entitlement.

We're excited to not only receive entitlements but actually, you know, hopefully quickly advance through the building permit process and see if we can't uh get some new residential units delivered for the city.

Um I think the novelty of working with the housing department on trying to get not only provide 55 or actually 60 units, 55 in perpetuity five additional for an extended period of time at 65% of AMI is really going to be helpful to avoid that I know in working with housing exists in the city as far as demand versus supply.

And then I think giving the city the option for an additional 60 units, potentially, if it works out, we'll give the city a different avenue of delivering affordable housing as we partner with developers, which in the past has really, I think big specifically uh contributions of either land or our money.

Whereas in this case, I think taking advantage of um hopefully our expertise and ability to deliver a project on time and on budget will flow through to the benefits of the residents.

So thank you, uh Jeffrey, Diana, and everyone who's worked, public works has worked hard on it.

Um George, thank you for your uh stepping in and moving this over the goal line, hopefully.

We'll find out in March 10th.

Um questions.

I don't I don't have any questions for you, Mr.

Rooks, but uh thank you for your your presentation.

Okay, we will now open it up to public comments.

I don't see any members of the public in the audience today.

So if you are online, please use the raise hand feature in Zoom to raise your hand, and we will take uh we will then see if there's any uh members of the public on on Zoom.

Not at this time.

Not this time.

Okay, thank you.

All right.

Well, seeing no one, um, I'll then ask the applicant if you'd like to have any parting words.

No, thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Respectfully declined.

Okay, thank you.

I will now close the public hearing.

And as the zoning administrator, I will now act on the request for the development agreement and not the overall project entitlement permits.

I'd also like to note that the proposed development agreement has been reviewed by the city attorney.

And I move to recommend approval of item 3.1 to the city council based on the findings and conditions posted online and the application materials reviewed by staff.

This also includes the updates to the draft development agreement as presented as a desk item today.

And um I will forward the recommendation that the project is also statutorily exempt from CEQA.

And I find with the draft development agreement, there's a good balance between the benefits to the city and benefits to the developer.

Uh, there's additional enhanced green building measures, there's provision of additional affordable housing units, community benefit financial contributions, including funding for future uh city park and assistance for new businesses within the new retail spaces, sales tax benefits to the city, public pathway connections, and large open space areas, and uh developer is also benefiting from additional time to complete the project.

And the provisions within the development agreements are consistent with the goals, policies, and objectives of the general plan and East Wisbon Precise Plan.

And as a reminder, my decision is a recommendation to the council who will take final action on the development agreement and along with the other development permits for the 490 East Middle Field Road Project.

Okay, this concludes our public hearing today at 4 11 p.m.

If anyone has any follow up questions on the any of the items on the agenda, please contact Jeff Samura, the listed project planner.

Thank you, everyone.

Thank you.