Good afternoon.

I know some folks are still grabbing a seat.

We'll go ahead and get started and uh welcome everyone to the land use and housing committee meeting of January 14th, 2026.

Our committee liaison Natalie Kessler will go over instructions for today's meeting.

This meeting is being televised and live streamed on the city's website.

And Council Administration will continue to make arrangements for the public to comment using the Zoom webinar platform.

Members of the public who wish to provide virtual testimony must enter the virtual queue by raising their hand before the virtual queue closes.

The queue will close when the last virtual speaker finishes speaking or five minutes after in-person testimony ends, whichever occurs first.

This will allow for better meeting management between the two platforms and ensure the committee is able to manage and conduct city business.

Also attending the meeting today is Coda Zeizer with Mayor Todd Gloria's office.

Chief Deputy City Attorney Gren Newfer with the City Attorney's Office.

Amy Lee with the Independent Budget Analyst Office, and Angeli Hoyos, committee consultant.

If you're in person, please complete a speaker slip located at the entrance of chambers and place it on top of the box indicated at the front of the room next to the public comment microphone.

Please submit these slips in a timely manner to ensure proper meeting management.

In-person testimony will conclude before virtual testimony begins.

Members of the public can join the webinar by computer, tablet, or smartphone by accessing the accessing the link listed online in the preamble language of the agenda on the city's webpage.

To join the Zoom webinar by phone, please dial 1669-2545252.

The webinar ID is 161751933 pound.

This information is also available on the agenda.

Please note that if you're watching via City TV 24 or online, there may be a delay.

Please participate via the audio on your phone and mute your TV or computer when it is your turn to speak.

And if you wish to speak on a particular item, wait for that item to be called and then raise your hand to speak by tapping the raise your hand icon.

Or if you're a calling participant, press star nine on your phone.

If you raise your hand during a non-comment period, your hand will be lowered.

Chair.

Thank you, Natalie, for reviewing those instructions for the benefit of the public.

A quorum is now present, and we will take up non-agenda public comment.

The council members respect and appreciate the public's input and are fully committed to protecting every participant's free speech rights at council and committee meetings.

Natalie, will you please proceed with any non-agenda public comment?

Perule 2.7 non-agenda public comment is an opportunity for members of the public to comment on items that are not on the agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the committee.

Each speaker will have two minutes.

And we have received three speaker slips from three individuals in chambers.

We will begin with those in chambers before we move to the virtual queue.

Mike Tukey, please approach the lectern.

You'll be followed by Jennifer James and Manny Rodriguez.

Jennifer James, would you like to Okay?

Okay.

Thank you and good afternoon.

My name is Jennifer James.

I am a Greater Golden Hill resident and a member of the Preserve Greater Golden Hill nonprofit.

As neighbors, we have watched development accelerate rapidly, well beyond our RHA planning area goals.

Yet the city's 2025 annual report on homes presented to this committee in October reported that Greater Golden Hill had produced only 576 of its 1,401 units for this housing cycle.

That did not match what we were seeing on the ground.

So a citizen research team reviewed the city's public DSD permitting dashboard and conducted site visits to verify issued active and completed or in pipeline projects since 2021.

We found that as of November, Greater Golden Hill has 1,504 units exceeding its sixth housing cycle goal by more than 100 units three years early.

That's a 1,000 unit difference from the city's monitoring.

Municipal Code 143.1030 states the complete communities program applies only until a community of concern planning area reaches 80% of its area's adequate sites inventory.

However, because the annual report on homes relies on data that is already a year behind, we saw no evidence that this monitoring is occurring.

Programs such as Complete Communities and the ADU bonus program are designed to accelerate growth.

But without timely data, transparency, and accountability, their unintended consequence is a disproportionate and irreversible burden on vulnerable neighborhoods that those strains are infrastructure and does not produce housing attainable for existing residents, thereby accelerating gentrification.

My neighbor Mike Tukey is going to talk about the implications of overdevelopment in our neighborhood.

Thank you.

Mike Tukey My name is Mike Tukey.

I'm a greater Golden Hill resident and a member of a preserved Greater Golden Hill.

My neighbor Jennifer James has shared evidence showing that our planning area is being overdeveloped.

I want to speak with you about what that means for our community.

As a designated community of the concern, our neighborhood already faces barriers and heightened vulnerability to climate impacts.

Rapid, unbalanced development only deepens the vulnerability, creating real risk to liveability, safety, and well-being.

The most urgent concern is fire and evacuation safety.

The north and east ends of Greater Golden Hill are in a high fire severity zone with no direct access routes.