San Jose City Council Meeting - March 4, 2026: Agenda Review and Development Cost Memo
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San Jose City Council Meeting - March 4, 2026
The City Council met on March 4, 2026, at 2:01 PM to review the agendas for the March 10 and March 17 meetings, approve a consent item, and discuss a memo on the cost of residential development. The meeting adjourned at 2:09 PM.
Consent Calendar
- The council approved a single consent item with a 5-0 vote. No details on the item were provided in the transcript.
Public Comments & Testimony
- Brian Darby submitted a petition expressing concerns about a perceived national movement away from quality of life policing and asked the council to read the petition.
- During open forum, Brian Darby presented a 45-page analysis of homeless services across 30 cities, hoping it would assist San Jose staff.
Discussion Items
- Memo on Cost of Residential Development in San Jose: Councilmember recommended a workload analysis to gather data for informed decision-making. Councilmember Kamei flagged the state fire marshal’s report on single stairwells and requested that it be integrated into the analysis. Councilmember Mark May noted pending legislation on single stairwells and supported a comprehensive approach. The item was moved for referral to administration for a workload analysis.
Key Outcomes
- The council voted 5-0 to refer the cost of residential development study for a workload analysis, with a target completion toward the end of 2026.
- The council approved the agenda for the March 10 and March 17 meetings, with the timing of the March budget message to be decided later.
Meeting Transcript
Two o'clock. So two oh one. I'm sorry. We're going to start this today's meeting a minute late. Let's start with roll call, please. Kendallas. Here. Duan. Here. Foley. Come. Here. Cohen. Here. Thank you, Ovo Quorum. Okay. We're going to start by reviewing the agenda for the March ten City Council meeting, which has a nine thirty closed session, a one thirty regular session, and a canceled evening session. Item three point three recommended deferral. Item three point four focus areas status report. We did not. Shoot, hold this down and okay. So we're now motion carries 5-0, and we're on to our review of the agenda for the March 17th council meeting. 9 30 closed session, 1 30 regular session consent starting on page five and ending on page five. All right, section three. We have the approval of the March budget message and uh section 3.4 child care policy opportunity status report, and we have two items on land use, item 10.2 and 10 point three. Do we have any public comment? Okay. Yeah, the mic. All right, I know there was a request by the mayor to have the March budget message be at five o'clock, but then there won't be anything happening during the day. So I guess we'll talk about that next week about what we want to schedule for that meeting to be on the 17th. We could just we yeah, we could do it now or talk about it in the next slide. Okay, we'll figure it out next week. Um all right, uh, we'll vote then on this agenda. All right. Okay, we're on to consent. We have only one item on consent today. Any public comment on consent? Yes, Brian Darby, please come down. Good afternoon. I hope you're all doing okay. Um thank you. Um, I wanted to bring up there was a letter sent, and it was uh there's um it's an official petition, and I would ask you to read it and have it. Um a lot of people are very concerned about what they see, may not be uh true, but what they see as um a national movement away from quality of life policing. And I know that if you stop that, you get more you get more um serious crimes. So I'd ask you to please take note of that. Thank you. Sorry to interrupt. Okay, back to the committee for a motion on consent. I'll move the consent count. All right, we have a motion and a second on consent.
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