Okay.

Ready when you are.

All right.

Good morning, everyone.

Oh, we'll say.

Can we have the roll call?

Yes.

Committee member writer.

Absent.

Kat here.

Lynn here.

Malara.

Absent.

Shake?

Yeah.

Vice Chair Baird.

And Chair Kasper Zach will be absent today.

All right.

Our next point of order is to approve the minutes.

Everyone had a chance to review them.

Are there any comments or corrections?

Do we see any comments from the public?

No, no one's online and nothing in person.

All right.

Uh second.

Okay.

So you see a show of hands to approve the minutes.

If minutes have been approved.

Agenda topics.

This portion of the agenda is reserved for identifying agenda items for future meetings.

Items currently on future agenda items list are making storefronts.

Parking lot parking plan update, art murals in downtown plan update, school performances in the downtown street signs.

PGE, retail coach support.

Next steps, bike parking, historical markers, busking ordinance, and downtown parking strategy.

Are there any upcoming agenda items for the city council that we should make sure that we pay attention to we're coming on May uh 26th, the second meeting in May with an update on the economic vitality strategy?

Um and so there is a whole goal related to downtown.

I'll bring the that update to the next committee meeting.

Um, but yeah, it's on consent, but if there is any discussion, it might be of interest.

The other thing that's in interest, it's kind of like we're keeping an eye on it, but it's already passed as the entertainment zone.

Yeah.

Yeah, that that's also approved.

Discussion.

Uh that's been that was approved at uh the April 28th meeting.

Yep, so we're just waiting for that to go into effect.

Yeah, and I have some updates on that as well to share.

All right.

Uh so if we don't have any other input, uh we'll go to moral communications from the public.

This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the committee on any matter not on the agenda.

Speakers are limited to three minutes.

State law prohibits the committee from acting on non-agenda items.

Are there any speakers?

No speakers online and seeing none in the in-person.

Then we will move on to the next point of business, which is unfinished business.

Uh 6.1 downtown to development update.

And it looks like we have a staff person ready.

Um, not too many updates.

Um this month or quarter that we are doing it now.

Um, one thing that I want to point you guys to is uh item number five, which is for 881 Castro Street.

Um so that's a new um residential and mixed use development.

Um run castro, so it's the center of the block towards uh El Camino side.

Um Castro Street.

So that was recently approved by city council by vote for two.

Um so that was approved last week.

What what building is that we can see?

Um it's at the corner of Astro and else, you know, so near uh near where that park is.

Well corner parking.

The furniture store, and that whole block.

I think it's where there's a flower shop.

Um holding down.

Yeah, the park is still gonna remain, it's just the other build uh buildings in that general area.

That was yeah, I know that whole intersection will be a lot going on.

Yeah.

So can you explain exactly what was approved?

Their entitlements were approved.

Yeah, so the entitlements were approved.

Um, and right now uh because it was just recently approved.

There's no schedule um for you know building permits at this point, but that that would ideally be their next step is that they would be to start preparing the documents for and plans for building permits.

Um that from there, staff would review and that um should everything be okay, then it would uh building permits would be issued.

That's year and a half.

Yeah, I mean it's generally um that's uh that's a that's a um like a pretty aggressive timeline on the quality that you throw.

I mean, generally it would take some time for that to be completed.

So you see the park would be there, huh?

Yeah, park's still remaining.

Um it's all it's the adjacent parcels like um that are closer along Casho Street.

So um, like people I mentioned so far, like that where that furniture uh store was, and some of those adjacent businesses, like Salam, like yeah, a few of those other kind of businesses.

The that entire building and block would be demoed.

Yeah.

So we're at the corner here, right?

Yeah, now you go one time uh furniture store, and then all of the pocket.

Yeah, exactly.

So at one time they were talking about pop issues from some years back or something.

Yeah, yeah.

So it's one we should I'd like to pop.

Yeah, yeah.

So basically what we're doing here, it's like these these two buildings, it would be uh demoed and redeveloped.

So both sides, yeah.

Yes, yes, it's both sides.

Both sides of who street goes.

The streets being uh the street where they're opening it up.

I thought that was the other developer that was gonna like no.

So this street is uh it's basically gonna be like closed up permanently as part of the debug.

Yes.

But there will be a walkway through, so you can site to be away.

The sad part is is that you know that's always kind of an underused retail part of the street, and we are now closing off even more retail.

Yeah, um there will be commercial states as well, um, close to uh 10,000 square feet, but um, yeah, majority of it's gonna be um mixed use residential.

Okay, okay.

Other developments, yeah.

Um, and then I can direct you to um item number 17, uh one eight side cash street.

Um that is the hummet space down uh cashier street.

They're just getting a storefront facade improvement.

So that was that had been approved back in November, but they are uh they had submitted for building permits, so that's under review.

Um, and then next item would be item number 18, which is 748 Mercy Street, which is just the minor facade modification to an existing church.

Again, that was approved back in September, but just currently under construction.

Um then uh we go back up.

Is there any happening on uh 16 on uh the end designs?

Um I know it's under construction.

Do we have a completion date at this point?

I think they're pretty close, they're very close.

Yeah, they've been they've been under construction for a little while now.

Um I don't I I can find out um see if there's any kind of timeline that they have they're planning an event, so yeah, they should have it open all the time.

Um next item is it's not necessarily a planning permit, but it was just um a area in downtown with 250 Bryant Street.

Um if it's the new going into that space, it's just under construction.

No planning permit was necessary, but it's just kind of a FI FYI that a new business will be coming into 250 Bryant, that's item number 21.

Oh right there.

Well that's good.

Or yeah.

And a couple of things about this one.

One, I love that they've preserved the tree, just the building in general.

I know that's part of the history, but they this tree here in the front, they built essentially built the building around it.

That was obviously a while ago.

But this is the company that's going in here is Light Matter, which is a tech company that started here in Mountain View and really intentionally uh chose to stay in Mountain View and locate to downtown.

Um so this is a really cool success story of an expanding growing company who moved to downtown.

I think they're they're looking to really increase their numbers.

Um, and in meeting with them, they're just really thrilled to be part of the downtown.

They they said they're at signs all of the time.

So it's uh it's a really it's really great to see uh an office development come and and be so involved uh and participatory.

So it's exciting.

It's an it's exciting win for us.

So it says under construction, what kind of modifications are being made or updates?

It's all tenant improvements, so it's all interior, nothing exterior-wise.

Uh, but that's typical for any kind of business that's interesting the first and the third four.

So I think uh packed area or something.

Uh and then lastly, uh item number 23, uh, which is for some 47 West Dynastry.

So that's the new construction um that's at the corner of where that flower shop is.

Um so that's just the provisional use permit to expand um the ground floor office space that's inside the building.

Um it was already previously approved, but um they wanted to expand it as part of their uh their permit.

So that's already currently under construction, and uh that was approved by the zoning administrator back in very expansion of building that faces El Camino.

Um no, it's just in like interior space, they're expanding it.

Um it was previously allocated to for some other use, and then they are expanding that office space at the ground floor.

So they're not gonna do commercial uh at the bottom.

Uh I don't believe there was any commercial at the bottom.

Okay, I thought they were putting in a like a cafe kind of thing.

So okay.

That's uh I think there was uh there is like some sort of dessert shop.

There is like I think that you're towards the towards the there is like a commercial aspect to it, but this is an expansion of the other office.

So they've got number 20 and the same address.

Yes, exactly.

So there is like a um restaurant commercial cafe type of use at the bottom, but this uh office space is kind of like in interior more expansion at the ground floor.

So a couple of places you mentioned that they're doing the facade improvement.

Do they use um money from our organisms?

Um the first one.

Yeah, so one's one eight five, which is item number 17, 185 Castro Street, that one uh use the facade grant.

Yeah, um I'm not sure about the other one.

I think the three four cash that's the M Design.

Uh MDesign dude, yeah.

They're they're using a grants as well.

Yeah, we have a quite a few.

And he's been doing some great outreach.

So we have a number of projects in the pipeline.

It's awesome as well.

Yeah.

More to kind of do asking uh what is a miss doing?

I thought they were fairly new.

Yeah, they're there's um, so it is fairly new.

Um, you are correct, but um, they wanted to change kind of like their scorefront window design.

Um so substantially it's gonna be a little pretty similar, but the window design will change because they wanted to add it.

Um what I recall on the plans, they wanted to have like to be more a little bit more activated.

So this uh the windows would be like operable way open it up um and have it a little like flow between the interior and exterior view better.

I feel like that would be another good example of a success story that we were talking about last time.

How examples of other downtown buildings looking at their view, I guess, or barely new life.

Others can use this too, and you don't have to be super super, I guess, is the round for 10 years already.

And like yeah, yeah.

Yeah, um, and then I don't know if Diana had any um last updates on the downtown website plan thing.

Morning, everybody.

Hope everybody's doing well.

Diana Pancholi, principal planner with the planning division.

So a couple of updates.

Uh thank you, Vincent.

Um regarding M design number 16.

We are working very closely because um MDesign would like to pursue some minor modification to the facade uh design that was approved that that is under construction.

So we are working with them uh to make sure that those changes can be accommodated pretty efficiently.

Uh downtown precise land, there is no movement, it still remains on hold.

And uh we will pick it up back again uh sometime in 2027, hopefully in Q2.

But one important update that I wanted the committee to know about uh is one of the upcoming council meetings on May 26th.

I think Amanda mentioned it earlier when we're taking the update to the economic vitality strategy.

The same night, uh planning division is also going to present some code amendments to the city code.

These code amendments are targeted to introduce a administrative approval process for residential developments, which are proposing to use AB 130 uh CEQA exemptions.

So a little bit of a background.

Back in July 1st last year, our governor signed a lot of bills that affected uh how we process our permits.

One of the significant ones we have talked about a lot, which is SB 79, which affects you know our downtown and a couple of other areas around transit stations in Mountain View.

The other important one was AB 130.

What AB 130 did was it introduced an exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act CEWA for some qualifying projects, there are criteria.

And if they qualify using those criteria, they don't have to do any significant SQL review.

Now again, this is a state law.

And the other thing that AB 130 did was it changed the permit streamlining timeline, the timeline that we have to review the project and approve the project.

And it the timelines became more stricter in terms of shorter amount of timeline that we have available to review the project and get it to a decision as well.

So the staff is going to be proposing some uh amendments.

Earlier this year in January, we went to the city council for a study session where we actually discussed you know some of the options and we presented an update to AB 130, and City Council directed staff to look into a ministerial approval process.

What it means is that in a ministerial review, we are still looking at compliance with the city code, but there is no public hearing.

There are existing SB35 affordable housing projects which go through ministerial process because it is allowed by the state law.

So based on that uh approach, we are proposing administrative approval of these qualifying residential projects utilizing AB 130.

And as um, you know, it was an interest from the city council to kind of incorporate a notice mechanism to the um surrounding neighbors.

So we will be doing a notice, it is going to be a courtesy notice, and the residents who are being notified will have 10 days to provide any input.

Now it's up to the developer to consider that input, but we feel that that is an opportunity where you know if the city staff is missing out on looking at any aspect for compliance that can be you know pointed out and that can be used in order to improve the project.

And yeah, so this is gonna help us bring the projects, uh qualifying projects to a decision pretty soon, but it will it will include no public hearing.

Very important um update, you know, because we are taking we are making changes to chapter 36 of the code, which is zoning.

We're making changes to the subdivision code because there are maps which are associated with these residential projects, and then we are may we are also making a minor change to the chapter 41, which is the park land or in Lufi thereof uh chapter of the city code to allow, you know, if somebody includes a PUPA request in their project that can be approved administratively as well.

So this is part one.

Staff will continue working on further uh exploring a ministerial approval aspect of the of you know possible approval processes.

But yeah, that's an important update.

Please, you know, keep an eye for the May 26th agenda packet.

A lot of details will be presented in there.

We did go to EPC, which is our environmental planning commission back in March with my with these proposed code amendments, but the purview of EPC is only on the zoning code, so it is only limited to chapter 36.

Uh, if you want to look at it, you know, we can send you the agenda link uh for that particular EPC item.

Uh that's it.

Thank you.

Okay.

Question about the processes if a public notice is given to neighbors and they have 10 days in which to um react or make a comment.

If a public notice is given to neighbors and they have 10 days in which to um react or make a comment, what kind of comments could people make and could there be any influence on the layout or the appearance or the materials used on the building?

Sure.

So even right now, when we take these uh development projects, if the developer likes to do a voluntary um neighborhood meeting, we send out notices.

The developer sends out the notice to the same uh radius around the project site.

People historically what we see is that neighbors present uh comments related to design.

Sometimes it's about you know, opportunity to save trees, or maybe some uh issues related to traffic, or just inquiry about what is this going to look like, what does this detail mean on the side?

They can provide all those kind of comments.

Additionally the opportunity that staff sees is that you know, when we are reviewing this uh going to our checklist, if there is any aspect which we have determined, like oh, you know, this qualifies for this kind of kind of an exemption based on this physical aspect of the project.

It sometimes people point it out to us and say, No, it doesn't seem like can you look further into it?

And then we look further into it, and we make sure that you know our compliance is our compliance analysis is pretty robust.

So those are the kind of stuff.

The comments received on the design, we always work with the applicant to see if they are amenable to kind of look into design modifications.

Of course, the budget involved, the cost involved and the time involved in making those changes is a big decision for the developer because it's you know, if it's gonna take a lot of time and cost to make that change, or the change is going to result in to increasing the operating budget, then um the developer might not pursue it, but we always strongly encourage the applicant to consider the comments that we receive and the suggestions we receive.

Thank you.

Any other questions from our committee?

Any questions or comments from the public?

If you have a question online, please raise your hand if you'd like to speak.

I'm not seeing any online.

Great.

Thank you, Vincent.

Thank you, Diana.

Okay.

We are at 6.2 pastro street update, which is probably a manda's queue.

It is yes, all right.

Good morning.

Amanda Rafella, economic vitality manager.

Um, lots of updates to share with you.

We've had a lot going on in the downtown, as you know.

Kind of the most visible and one of our more exciting updates is that we have completed installation of the downtown Castro Street Vallar project.

I was looking back, and um I provided an update to you all two years ago on this project.

Um, as you know, we were uh delayed quite a bit by state law and needing to work through the exemption for muralists as contractors.

Um, and so this is a long time coming and a really exciting addition to our downtown.

So I've provided uh pictures.

We had five artists who prepared a uh pair of bollards, so you have one bollard of each of the artists.

Um you can see, and it's been really fun downtown because the artists have been painting and people have been chatting with them, kids come by and ask them questions.

So not only um do we end up with these really beautiful pieces of art, but it was this activation in the downtown as the artists have been working over the last couple of weeks.

So this is a really exciting addition.

Um, we've gotten lots of great content.

We're looking at ways to further tell the story of these projects and these art pieces.

Um, so more to come, but if you haven't seen them, it's worth a stroll downtown to check out all the pieces.

We'll take an close look, but is there a little plaque or something that just has the artist's name or something on it?

So a number of the artists have signed the ballards that included like their Instagram handles so that you can or their website to get more information.

Yeah.

So I conducted a walking tour two weeks ago.

Um, and the artists in center uh upper panel was describing what she did, and she said she painted uh those are peaches.

And I felt like saying we didn't grow peaches, it's eight class.

Um and the artists in center uh upper panel was describing what she did and she said she painted uh those are peaches and I felt like saying we didn't grow peaches it's eight so I don't know who in the visual arts committee vetted this but this should have been an eight per cot so we might want to if we're truly reflecting our history somebody needs to vet the images and I don't know who that would be on the visual arts committee but I'm when I give a walking to in the future and anybody asks me I'm gonna say that's an age for copy looks very not in for copy but I will say you know part of the challenge with this is that we selected this artist we provided feedback and then multiple years went by and um and typically with these you know artists provide a concept but you know we still give them a certain level of artistic freedom so um in this case it it it it uh there may have been a misalignment with what was there what we had historically but we'll see this as an interpretation and there's a pomegranate do we go pomegranates here too I mean like it's just yeah I know I yeah I thought I thought oh come on but it should be a plum but anyway um it's a plum well and I will say um again these are you know they're not necessarily all reflection of history some of them are just you know modern day uh visuals that they that they really feel strongly about so you know take it with uh you have to view it through an artistic lens I know it's hard as our you know standing historical uh historical member um but again it's starting conversation which is really great and we want people to be talking about them yeah I've seen the settlements they commenting on this thing going around talking about it even now yay but uh I was thinking about when I came up here I need a bluetooth so I can put my my videos at the what I did I went around the e bottom and and took and make a video oh cool so if all those things we believe all those things are running right now get a different view of it because different on the other side they came out really good it's hard because to sneak in on the other side well and and not only is it hard to videotape them but if you could imagine the artists needing to work on a circular canvas the first artist in the upper left hand corner she actually created little mini replicas of her art that she then could you replicate because you know if you think about it you're trying to put art on this circular shape and so it was really interesting to see how each of the artists approach that and some of them actually created like you know lines and little like quadrants for them to work in anyway very cool huge success um and and to your point Jamil I mean I hope that maybe we could do like a little like listening tour where we could have you know information about all the artists it's it's sort of a little uh pet hope that we can have I'm sorry go ahead oh sorry my question was just my husband and I were debating whether or not it was okay for our kids to climb on them on just like what's the verdict um I will say you know these aren't play structures and so we leave it at the discretion of the parents to determine the safety of safety it's more like ruining the art yes so they are coated with an anti-graffiti coding and so that should provide a level of uh protection um certainly if there's you know people are out there scratching stuff but if you're sitting safely and monitoring your child that I'm pretty sure they're coded with stuff he's like I think they're gonna scratch it I don't think they should be on it and I was like I mean we I will say we want these to last a long time and so if people are rough with them they won't last as long but if people are careful with them and enjoying them in an interactive way um that you know it's part of the reason they're in the pedestrian space is that they are meant to be interacted with so there's no sign and there's no plan to put aside this do not touch right it's kind of rare that we see in our public art like you know in front of the library or whatever in any of the structures there I don't think have a note file on or anything signed.

So it's I will say while we were installing them though a number of artists midway through the project came and there were little footprints all over them so during the process people were not as careful and there was some touch ups that had to happen but now that they're completed they're coded there is a level of protection yeah quick one they will be shown in the I mean the downtown digest mixed down yes I I'm I was thinking about in that one if we make a note in there asking people which one is your favorite I have two favorites really fun idea Jamie okay I'm gonna I'll put a little survey and see you get comment although we wouldn't want the artist who is the least favorite one yeah we love them all but what is the one you love the most is you like the rooster my favorite be careful ballards are not running for governor um okay so in addition as I mentioned at last month's meeting we did complete the train depot mural we are in the process of putting together a ribbon cutting we are um we're targeting June 11th I will send out more information as we have it but um the thing that's really special about the train depot mural is that this really

Be careful.

Ballards are not running for governor.

Um, so in addition, as I mentioned, at last month's meeting, we did complete the train depot mural.

We are in the process of putting together a ribbon cutting.

We are um we're targeting June 11th.

I will send out more information as we have it.

But um, the thing that's really special about the train depot mural is that this really is a true public-private partnership.

You know, it's the VTA grant and city put in funding and art mountain view coordinated it and brought in an artist.

So there's just so many different players that were made this happen.

And again, it's adding this color and history.

As we know, this one did work with the Mountain View Historical Association, so another player in there to really help make this uh come to life and bring color to a really um highly active part of our community.

So more to come on that.

If you're able to join the ribbon cutting, that would be very special.

We'd certainly like to have the Mountain View Historical Association there and is the order cutting.

We're targeting June 11th, and we're working on final details.

3 p.m.

I think, yeah, I think it's somewhere in the afternoon.

We'll cities actually have a website.

Oh, we do.

Okay, so okay.

If it's 3 p.m.

Yeah, it's counting.

All right, hold that.

June 11th, 3 p.m.

That's good to know.

We need the scissors.

Uh I'll keep you posted.

Yeah.

All right.

Uh drumroll, summer of soccer.

So um we have pivoted a little bit in our naming.

Uh, we are no longer fanfest, which is uh a little too close to some trademarked uh FIFA trademarks.

So we are pivoting and we are rebranding a summer of soccer, which I think is actually great since this is a more extended period of time.

Um we have our uh our web page up that we're starting to put information on.

And a couple of things I wanted to update you on.

Uh the first is we are actually working with the chamber and not a cell in particular around outreach to the businesses.

So the business, the chamber ambassadors will be going out to businesses.

We're doing lots of communication, and there are two opportunities.

Well, there's actually now three opportunities for businesses.

Uh the first is to take our survey and add both business promotions and events that are taking place so that they can be added to both our interactive map and our uh summer soccer calendar.

Um, so we'll be promoting both of those elements.

And then um additionally, we're doing some activations in city parks and in downtown.

So we're gonna create a foot golf course at Questa Park, which is essentially like you know, um, frisbee golf, but with soccer balls, and they're gonna be little holes that we're putting in the ground.

So that'll be up the entirety of the World Cup series.

Um, and so we encourage people to go out and play some foot golf.

We're also in the process of bringing a mini pitch to downtown.

So we are going to set up a mini soccer pitch, um, hopefully in front of the chamber in that part in that empty parking lot.

We're finalizing the details.

Um, but we're also looking to do business pop-ups at that mini at the mini pitch.

So, you know, if a business with a coffee cart wants to come downtown, if an ice cream, you know, business wants to come and serve ice cream.

We want to really bring the community together around play and fun and and find ways to get the businesses involved.

So that's the third way for businesses to participate.

And then lastly, we are targeting July 18th and 19th, which are the final days of the uh tournament, or 18th is the bronze bronze final, and July 19th is the final final.

And we have been approved by FIFA to show those games, which is huge.

Um, a lot of back and forth.

So we are very excited that we're gonna be actually able to show the games downtown.

We're gonna have music and big oversized games and hopefully face painters and uh photo moments.

So uh it should be a really fun weekend.

And we plan to activate the entertainment zone.

So we'll be creating a two-block entertainment zone, the one and 200 block.

Um, and so we're gonna have this big festival-like environment.

You can take your drink and bring it into the street, and there's gonna be activities and games, and you can watch the watch party, and there's gonna be a lot going on.

So uh we're super excited to be bringing this to downtown and to find a way that you've involved the businesses even further.

And we'll say we're doing lots of outreach to the businesses.

We're hoping to host a informational meeting in the coming weeks, and then we'll do some targeted outreach specifically around the entertainment zone as there are specific rules that participating businesses have to follow.

They also need to register with ABC, their intention to participate.

So there's a lot of different layers um involved there, but we'll be doing that targeted outreach to make sure businesses understand the opportunity, but also the responsibility.

Any questions on that before I move on?

I'm going home for those through today downtown.

Just camp out.

It might have been a good time.

Yeah.

Well, we will have um bathrooms on site.

So we're going to be bringing in uh porta potties, and we will also um in our last conversation talked quite a bit about uh trash and the need for additional trash um receptacles.

So all of that is being built into the project plan.

Yeah.

Um, just a reminder that our don't eat me pop-up is still up and running on the 200 block.

Uh they they've had sort of their first couple of months, uh actually, yeah, almost a level six months of um of being soft opened and then officially opened, but um they're you know, continuing to be out there, encourage me to visit them.

Uh, you know, a big a big part of this one year pop-up is to really test viability.

So we want them to be successful.

So stop by, bring your friends.

Uh you received any feedback from any of the uh participants in the yes.

Um our we've spoken to Moment and got sort of the initial update.

Um, and they said that it's one of their highest performing pop-ups that they've done, which is really excellent.

And um, that uh you know the vendors there have been really successful.

Um they're gonna still be the cafe element.

I think we talked about that a while ago.

Yeah, so um they're gonna do occasional cafe pop-ups, um, and we're working with them on sort of the approval process for that.

We're also gonna think they maybe want to do a pop-up at the mini pitch um uh during the World Cup tournament.

Um, but it's a little tricky because they don't have cafe space inside of there, and that would require some tenant improvements that would be extensive to do.

So they're kind of popping up on occasion with like a coffee cart outside.

Um, but we really want to be cognizant of the brick and mortar cafes that they would be providing competition to if they were there more long term.

Um, and so we want to just be careful about the entire environment down there.

I think we're going to invite them to be a part of the mini pitch pop-up and uh potentially serve coffee there.

Yeah, Jimmy.

They also have a grand opening, I mean soft opening of all that new Japanese on street 475.

Yakiniku, and they're a beautiful flower that I haven't seen.

Yeah, what a nice sign.

Yeah, they had about 475.

We're next to the dental place or next, yeah.

Casulupe, this is Casalupe.

The new Japanese place, though?

Yeah.

I think it's between is it between a hot pot place and Casalupe?

Is it the center?

No, the end at the end.

Oh, it's at the end.

Okay.

Okay.

Yes.

Okay.

I know I have seen it.

I didn't, I didn't know it was open, but okay.

But in the evening, I think they would still have it, maybe soft opening.

Just look at the the flaw displays is like nine to all those.

And I just we can be sort of like the Ben Around because beautiful.

Another hot pot was.

Yeah, it's kind of all right.

Well, moving right along.

It's Korean grill.

It's green grill.

I mean, like three on casts.

It's like, how many bubble tea places can you have?

Really?

I mean, like we're gonna saturate the market.

Okay, that's all I have.

Um, so just a reminder music on Castro is up and running.

It started last month.

Um, I provided just a little snapshot of the uh musicians that'll be playing this month.

And concerts on the plaza will start next month in June.

Um, there's the June lineup for you there.

Um, as you know, this is a really fun time uh downtown.

When does the stage go out?

I don't know.

I can find out before June 5th.

Oh, yeah, I was gonna say at least before the first one.

I think, yeah.

Yeah, TV D on that.

Wrong with June 19th, but there's no performance.

It's Juneteenth.

Oh, the holiday.

All right, and those conclude my updates.

Okay.

Okay, comments from our group, further comments.

Any comments going.

Um, not seeing any hands raised.

Okay, great.

We will move on to business in person now.

Okay, I have one more.

Um sorry.

Um I also wanted to let everybody know next week at the council meeting.

Uh, staff will be bringing forward the citywide transportation demand management ordinance.

So please have a look at it.

This is our four stab at creating citywide PDM policies and strategies.

The idea is to create a live document which can get updated over the years as new strategies come out to help all the project developers and applicants to kind of choose from very variety of strategies so that they can reduce their trips.

The goal is to reduce the single occupancy vehicles.

We have seen a lot of this in North Bay Shore, but I think with a lot of development happening throughout the city, it's important.

We kind of bring forward policies and strategies which are consistent throughout.

That has been one of the biggest complaints that we have received from applicants.

So we are moving forward.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks for delivering in person.

Okay.

So now we've got a new business, uh 7.1 downtown parking maintenance assessment district one looking.

Yeah.

Um downtown parking maintenance and assessment district or PMAD for short.

Oops.

Um, so this is the annual approval of the PMAD district.

Um, this is for fiscal year 2627.

You can see from uh the image that I've included here, the dotted line outlines the parking district.

You can see it's sort of a funky shape.

Um, I I don't know the history of why the shape is the way that it is, um, but it was created back in 1979.

So uh it's been that way for quite some time.

Uh you can see the number of parking facilities that we have in the downtown um and the assessment, along with uh there's a number of funding sources for the parking district, and they all go towards the operations and maintenance of parking facilities and parking programs.

And uh so there are 224 property owners that are within the parking district that are assessed.

Um, and the formula is based on the type of land use and the square footage of the parcel.

Um, and one of the things that's interesting about this assessment district is the total amount raised is 158, and it's uh thousand, and it stays the same every year.

So if we get new uses in, that money just gets sort of the pie just gets cut up in a new way.

Um, so it is an interesting challenge of this district, is that we don't actually make more money every year if there's new development, it's just you, you know, if there's a big development that comes in, all the other businesses get assessed a little bit less to kind of carve out.

So it's um something that we're hoping to explore uh a little more about the the value and whether there's a better way to kind of provide those services.

But for now we have the parking district that we have, and uh the next step will be to take this to council on May 12th for approval, and then we will engage with the county's office uh to get this on to the property tax rules.

Amanda, is there any adjustments made when parking goes away?

For example, lot 12, uh four and eight are likely going to be under construction in a few years and so on.

So does that affect this at all?

Um lot 12, no, because it's not in the district.

Um, it's outside of the district.

It would have been I didn't know if it was purposely removed or if it was part of the I took it out.

Um, you can see the district actually goes, uh no, it's actually here.

It's this it was here, yeah.

So it's out of the district.

Um so in the case of lot four going away, those spots will hopefully be relocated into another facility or exploring a parking garage on on lot five.

And so the spaces will be the number of spaces should be retained in there.

Um, and so it's not something that we evaluate uh you know that the assessment would change as a result of the parking reality changing.

The objective is to try and maintain parking and to provide the amount of parking needed to support the district, and that can fluctuate as we know.

Um one other piece of this too is that we've also been talking about parking in private spaces and you know, kind of sharing the wealth, if you will, because there's a lot of private spaces that go unused.

Um, and I know that uh councilman uh council member Hicks has been very, very strong on this, you know, use what we have rather than build new or we build new understand what already exists and all that.

Does that play into this at all?

So certainly there are recommendations in the downtown parking strategy around shared parking agreements.

Yeah, it is something the city has explored.

We've had some challenges because as you can imagine, you know, private enclosed spaces maybe don't want to have you know public access.

And so it's been difficult on it from a public to private partnership, but we have seen some success with other private developments reaching out to their neighbors and seeing, hey, can I use some of your space for my uses?

And so the private to private um agreements have been more successful.

Um Diana, I don't know if you have anything to add on that note.

Well, I just wanted to say with the AB 2097 coming to an effect.

We cannot require parking for new development that comes in for the qualified projects.

So a lot of times we use to collect the in new fees, the parking in new fees, which would contribute to this.

That is going to diminish over time.

What we're seeing is that a lot of um prospective uh developers still want to have enough parking because you know that's an important thing for them to make the space marketable.

And in those cases, Amanda and I make sure that you know we bring it up, like hey, there is a lot of private parking space where private to private kind of uh uh agreement can be done, and that reduces their cost of development as well.

So that's where we look for opportunities and help as staff to find solutions, but yeah, I think we'll just have to be more creative as the time goes by.

Yeah, it's a tricky problem.

It is.

We are also exploring, you know, very innovative kind of parking solutions in downtown because we have narrower lots, and people want to utilize the absolute amount of square footage they can get on the site.

So that is another thing we're trying to look for.

Uh, but otherwise, yeah, we continue to find creative solutions for this.

Yeah.

And I will say, you know, we are gonna, as we know, lot 12 is offline, lot 11 will be used for construction staging for the public safety building.

Um, lot four is uh is uh moving towards hotel development.

So we have a lot of moving pieces that are helpful happening in the parking district.

So um we will be looking at you know creative ways to ensure that we have the parking needed to support the needs of our downtown.

I will say in some recent parking counts, we've seen that we're generally um, you know, we generally have enough parking that we're not even in our most prized uh parking lots, our highest used, there is still capacity there.

So we're not in a place where we are um we have we don't have enough supply at this point.

We're looking at ways to better utilize the supply.

So um included in this year and this next fiscal year's um CIP budget, capital improvement project budget.

Uh, we're we've included some uh requests for some funds for parking wayfinding.

So part of the challenge is hey, if you're driving around this parking lot and it's full, that doesn't mean there's no parking available.

Like come over to this parking garage and have some parking.

So we're trying to find ways to better utilize the supply we have.

And that can be done with wayfinding, it can be done with better uh parking enforcement, we're exploring technologies um to support our police department in that area.

Um so we have a couple of different uh things that we're we're exploring as we implement the downtown parking strategy.

More time on that.

Any other comments?

It's a lot of comment.

It's about parking.

Uh do we look at it?

There's some kind of construction going on or pass on shoreline at villa and offline.

One lane is closed, so it will tickle down all the way would affect the back up in the downtown are we looking at anything like that?

Maybe if we so you're talking about the the access from shoreline to downtown?

No, it's oh the back up will affect all the way down.

The whole lane is closed.

Two lanes and when everybody in the evening out the seat.

Okay, I'll look into it.

Well, there were challenges this last Saturday with performing arts.

Come from away at 2 p.m.

The um multicultural culture festival.

Yeah, and there was a third thing going on.

So I had come back down to finish my booth time and it took me 15 minutes to drive around the parking space.

So there are constellations of events that will create some challenges.

Yeah, and certainly we know with lot 12 going offline that there were a variety of users that were using that space.

You know, city hall users, library users, office workers, you know, Center for Performing Arts.

Um yeah, we're you know, a big piece of that'll be making sure there's proper wayfinding because oftentimes we do see that the parking garage number, parking garage number three, you know, those upper floors are rarely full.

I would recommend if you're ever struggling to find parking, just go to the top floor.

Yeah, don't just circle just right up to the top and you're there, you're really the chances are very, very good that you'll have a spot up there.

And if you park at the top you won't forget where you park.

Yeah there you go.

Secret track always pop up.

Yeah.

So lot 12, the street behind the lot 12.

Right.

No one's going to tiny book.

That that is now one way.

And that's kind of confusing.

I've seen some people coming in decide as if that's going there wrong way you know.

Yeah I mean there's construction staging so for you know that's a temporary closure but I'll I'll um I have regular meetings with that team and so I can let them know that we maybe need some more signage.

There's just someone there too.

Like there's usually someone there.

I feel like what I've seen is pretty good about it.

Not like do not come this way.

I can mute in every morning and I've just learned to go around it.

You know like if it's gonna be there for several months I just have started to go around church.

Yeah.

So I I have gone there all different time of the day and I've seen a different kind of there because when I go in yeah we know you yeah you're all over the place at all time sample size.

So um uh I if the committee is open to it uh taking a recommendation to recommend or a motion to recommend the approval of the annual uh parking district uh council as I said we'll be looking at this on May 12th okay entertain a motion from someone to approve the staff report okay you gotta jump in there mom all those in favor say aye opposed okay did we get the public um did we get public input I don't see anyone with their hands raised I think you did add yeah okay all right uh on to item 7.2 downtown committee work plan um as required by city policy the committee will hear an annual work plan that will be submitted to council for review and approval in the fall of 2026 uh staff seeks input to develop a work plan for the fiscal year 26.7 staff will bring back the work plan discussion and input today for adoption as the next down so we have a document here um that we bring you 7.2 um do you have any input uh yes thank you um so uh it's not in color so I pulled it up on the screen but I do have a redlined version of the uh of the work plan of last year's work plan that I thought we could work through um couple of things to note so originally we were breaking things up into ongoing and what's the other one was another category with like ongo ongoing and something else and it just didn't make sense but oh maybe as needed yeah and so I've just created a single you know a single bucket of things um and so for the most part a lot of the pieces remain the same so um you know uh bullet number a here you know getting updates on downtown development providing input on projects and policies policy consideration all of this is part of you know the work that we continue to do um supporting economic vitality initiatives so again things that are in our economic vitality strategy um receiving uh or receiving monthly updates obviously on Castor Street uh updates uh stuff happening on Castro Street that I provide um you know talking about opportunities to support businesses um I removed this develop a downtown committee budget to support activation and implementation um we have our economic vitality strategy budget items and so um creating a separate budget uh budget bucket for the downtown committee uh seems less feasible to me um and we you know most of the projects and policies that we are working on come out of our economic vital economic development division strategy so I removed that um I will say you know when we did our joint ad hoc um committee artist reception at the CPA that those funds came out of the economic development budget and so including it in there makes the most sense um I updated to add the entertainment zone to our work plan um we have a ad hoc committee so rather than forming it we'll continue that work uh we have some of the approvals that we do for the downtown business assessment uh business improvement um district that we have and obviously the PMAD so those dates have been updated since the that we do every year uh we talked about collaborating with the digital arts committee um I'll actually make a note here to add that the public uh the public art strategy is we're targeting October for the approval of that strategy uh so just something for you all to be aware of uh your advocacy and uh or as it relates to downtown

We have some of the approvals that we do for the downtown business assessment, uh business improvement um district that we have, and obviously the PMAD.

So those dates have been updated since the that we do every year.

We talked about collaborating with the digital arts committee.

Um I'll actually make a note here to add that the public uh the public art strategy is we're targeting October for the approval of that strategy.

Uh so just something for you all to be aware of your advocacy and uh for as it relates to downtown.

Um continue the downtown parking strategy.

I removed that because I thought we had it in a different section.

Can I just ask the question on the vision?

Wasn't there going to be wasn't there a new position created recently?

Uh yes, the public art administrator position is open and accepting applications.

That's what I was gonna ask.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Thank you for that.

Um, and I'll actually share that with the committee if you have people you know who might be interested.

Um, that opened on Friday and will be open for the next couple weeks.

Yeah, thank you for that.

Um I'm just confirming the downtown parking strategy is part of our work, and I think I deleted it because it was duplicative, but I'm I'll have to double check that.

Is it also part of the economic psychology?

No.

All right, so I'm gonna just note to keep that because we do want to be able to talk to your team.

Um, I know.

Yeah, you've got a department assessment.

Item number D.

Ah, okay, thank you.

I knew I knew there was a reason I deleted it.

So okay, so that's the duplicative because we already talked about the downtown strategies deep.

Okay, thank you all for help with that.

Um, so yeah, I will if they are preferred.

Okay, so any discussion or comments about uh candidates.

I'll go ahead and say something about the um collaborative as item number screen.

Um I was working on that committee member Lynn.

Um that event was really great.

Um, in fact, at the historical association, we put it in our newsletter of history happening now because that was the first time we had a uh open discussion presentation with an artist.

Um I thought it was great, and I would like to see us continue to try to put something together.

I know there's challenges with the performing arts center because you have to find an evening when there isn't anything happening.

Um but we probably need to start working on it soon because the schedule does fill up quickly and trying to time an artist and an open evening for the performing arts center would be is a challenge.

So I would recommend that we start working on that sooner than later.

Yes, and I do have an update.

Um we do have uh we do have a date targeted or a couple of dates we're looking at at the first uh early in the new year, um, right around lunar new year, I believe.

Um we're hoping to work with an artist who uh you know has yeah, who's dealing with um trying to think that I think they are a Chinese American artist, and so doing something around lunar new year will make sense.

We're also looking at maybe we we could have the presentation in Chinese and have it be each live translated in English.

So anyway, we're exploring some fun concepts for that, but we'll be reforming the ad hoc committee to really start diving into that.

So rest assured that we um are already trying to target dates and times.

We're hoping to do this twice a year.

Um so you know, we do a fall and a great winter timeline.

Yeah, let's see your which is wonderful.

Yeah, it's pretty aggressive, but that's great.

Well, and we know how again how successful it was.

There is a real desire for this kind of content and um artist connection out there.

So we want to be receptive and responsive to that.

So um, yeah, thank you for the question and and yes, keep an eye out for a doodle poll because we need to start planning.

Yeah, yeah.

So that would sort of reinforce our desire to be known as an arts friendly art centric, especially if you're hiring a public um art uh coordinator that would definitely play into that whole concept of the artsy and create good.

Yeah, yeah, thank you.

So I don't know if we want to add anything to that or if just continuing the work of the ad hoc committee um is sufficient, but I don't think we need to add anything.

So I thought it was a great idea.

Kudos to staff for getting that already uh put together.

Well, as you said, we know we gotta put we gotta grab onto any open spots we can because the CPA is very busy and active.

Yeah.

Okay.

Good.

Any other comments?

Any other comments from the public.

I'm not seeing any hands raised.

Well, I do want I do want to thank that for doing the uh the revision follows.

Yeah, and I'm excited too about what you put together for um on uh section number C, the right now summer of soccer.

Summer of soccer.

Yeah.

Yeah, thank you.

And we'll be you know, hoping you all can attend and participate.

It's gonna be a fun time.

Yeah, so make sure that we all get uh updates.

What are the protective things?

I guess if you're a goalie, you need your big gloves too.

Yeah, we're hoping for um games that don't require protection.

Yeah, exactly.

Actually, we are hoping I'll just say for Jamil, we're our hope we are hoping to bring back the 360 photo booth, which as we know we have some great video of Jamil dancing in the 360 photo booth.

So I was thinking, I think that was just bringing up a whole equal uh that the we have the visual art public art, you know, that I think we need a poet.

Sorry, poet.

Oh a poet.

It's a poem by the thing in there and then we're gonna get on.

I don't know what does it fit in, you know.

Do we and then you can encourage it?

We have a I mean I heard a point coming down out of the open mic.

A young gentle young kid 20, 20 years, 22 years.

And I asked him about this.

Oh, I missed it, you know.

How was it?

He's done five minutes, and he just played the whole thing, but both beautiful.

Yeah, I think I'd like to see that.

All right, all right.

Well, we'll we'll um we'll provide that feedback to our new public art administrator.

Yeah, thanks.

Yeah, do a little poetry slam.

And I don't know.

I mean, Santa Cruz County has a poet, a county poet laureate and a youth poet laureate.

I wonder if Santa Clara County has something.

Right.

Yeah, so maybe we could do some sort of engagement with Disney County Poet Laureate.

Yeah, yeah.

All right.

All right, well then um further comments.

I'll bring back an unredlined official document at our next meeting uh for review.

All right, so um we lost the input from the public.

We did, and uh we have no one online with a hand raised and no one hand raised.

Bring this to it number eight committee staff.

Comments, questioning to report, et cetera, et cetera.

So I'll go ahead and start first.

Um I conducted a walking tour on April 26th.

We had 15 people registered.

Um that's always big fun.

And um coincidentally, one of the artists who drew a page um was uh working on the collar.

So we walked by, she wasn't working on the page, but um anyway, so it was fun to stand there and she explained her artwork and her philosophy and what she was trying to do.

So um that was perfect timing on that.

So um, but in any case, um that goes over well.

We will not have a walking tour um in May because it's the same weekend as a memory we will have at the fourth Sunday in June.

I will say we are doing a little special department walking tour with the Mountain View Historical Association on Friday, so an opportunity for staff to get a tour.

Um, you know, it's so relevant to the work that we do, so we're excited to have that time with Pamela.

Yeah, yeah, I've got to tear it down and tell a lot of stories that actually I need to talk to you about what how far you want to go and what you want to do.

Okay, all right, we'll talk online.

Well, I also talked to two artists.

Okay, they were very friendly, you know.

I mean, they went out of their way, tell us about uh how the painting started like that at the local, almost local, you know.

And what the next next project's coming in, so somebody's interested, like the art, they can go and see them in the art some other places, so yeah.

Yeah, so thanks for engaging with them.

Jim, do you want to add anything about your event next week?

Yeah, that is all I was thinking about this whole time.

No.

Um, we have celebration of leaders next week.

We are honoring um a couple of our downtown businesses, and also we'll be honoring Marina as business person of the year, and then simply sell work for small business of the year.

Um it's a new pool house.

Very excited for that.

And coming up in what days is today coming up in June.

Um, we are gonna have Tasted Mountain View downtown.

Um, so that is the wine, beer, and food walk.

So it gives the chance the downtown business a chance to spotlight, whatever it is that they have in their doors that they want to show off, whether it be food, tea, a drink, a book, uh what's the date on that again?

June 17th.

June 4 to 8 p.m.

And those tickets are on sale and it's available on our website there.

It's a very good time.

It's a great way to engage the business of is it gonna be soccer theme.

Taste soccer.

I'll throw a soccer ball on the fire.

All right, all right, perfect.

And we'll add it to the summer soccer calendar.

I think that's about it.

Amanda mentioned that we are uh collaborating, getting the ambassadors out, ready to talk more about summer of soccer.

Um we say anything about tech showcase.

It's also happening.

Uh tech showcase will be in July.

So July 30th.

We are taking it down from two days to one.

Um, the second day was really um a panel, so we're just the only difference.

Sorry.

The first day was the first night was a panel.

The first night was a panel, and the second night was a panel and the exhibitors.

Um this time we're sticking to one day for the exhibitors and then the panel to close.

Um, I don't think that we've decided on a panel theme just yet, so TBD.

Um, but we are looking to partner more with uh makers that may that are based in Mountain View, but also maybe from outside of the Mountain View area, as well as continuing to engage um our Mountain View based businesses.

We're really looking to find people who are using tech in their makers, like if are they 3D printing things, you know, X Tool who was there etching dog tags last year, I believe, you know, looking at ways that technology is being used for the creation of artistic and work pieces.

I don't know if you guys saw the article about the guy, people who carry like a $10,000 treasure chest in San Francisco.

And it's like, and then they like go to po wall and try to basically like a plume.

You have to like go around, but I mean, I'm not saying you have to do that, but like you would geocaching is also like kind of popular.

I feel like if you're trying to get people to like roam around during the summer of soccer, you could do some sort of like thing where you go to this thing and you go to that thing and you like people love adventures stuff like that.

So you know scavenger hunting.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Yeah, so yes.

This is a Pokemon hot scene.

They are roaming.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, there was a person who buried 10,000 dollars in dollar coins somewhere in San Francisco.

People have just been like all over saying it's really that was a thing sponsored.

All right, so it's like a too far down this unagendized item, but that is a really bad idea.

Yeah.

I did a deal geocaching, you know.

Yeah, something to get people moving around, you know.

For sure.

You supply the ten thousand dollars.

I will hide it somewhere now.

She won't keep it safe.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

All right.

Any other comments?

Yeah, if there are no other comments, I will journey at nine.

And oh great, great.

When is our next meeting?

Um, our next meeting will be in June.

I believe it's June.

I'm right, June 2nd.

And then we will be off for July and August because you will all be doing summer soccer thing.

Again, what's happening in September?

Because Labor Days a little earlier or oh, good question.

I'll look into that.

I can't remember if we should throw it today, right?

I don't know if that's late.