This meeting was a study session of the San Jose Planning Commission focused on the presentation of the 2024 General Plan Annual Performance Review Report for fiscal year 2023-2024. Staff presented highlights across the 12 major strategies of the Envision San Jose 2040 General Plan, followed by questions and discussion from commissioners. No public comments were offered for non-agendized items, and no formal votes were taken.
Presentation of the 2024 General Plan Annual Performance Review Report: Staff (Laura and David) presented key data for fiscal year 2023-2024, including:
Commissioner Questions and Clarifications:
Welcome to this planning commission meeting. Please remember to turn off your cell phones. The purpose of this planning commission study session is the presentation of the 2024 General Planning Annual Performance Review Report. We'll now start with roll call. Commissioner Barussia. Here. Commissioner Ben Dal. Here. Commissioner Bickford. Commissioner Lord Nois. Here. Commissioner Oliveria. Commissioner Rosario. Here. Commissioner Young here. Myself here. That's six. So we have quorum. All right. We will now call this meeting of the planning commission to order. First up on the agenda this evening is public comment for non-agendized items. Do we have any members of the public in attendance who would like to provide public comment? So you can come forward. Okay. In that case, I will turn it over to staff for our study session presentation on the twenty twenty-four general plan annual performance review report. Thank you. In addition, we have Rebecca Ross, supervising planner in the PRNS department, as well as Michelle Flores, supervising planner on the housing team and the planning division, who will be here later, available for questions after the presentation. Today we will be presenting some highlights of the envisioned San Jose 2040 General Plan annual performance review report for fiscal year 2023-24. This annual performance review is mandated by state law and by general plan policy. It contains 12 major strategies supported by goals, policies, and actions to achieve the vision of the general plan. They guide the standards for city services, land use patterns, and the quality of life and development. A general plan annual review report is organized around these 12 major strategies as well as a housing section and is analyzed based mainly on data for the 2022, sorry, 2023-2024 fiscal year. For this evening's presentation, we are going to give an overview of each strategy and present a summary of implementation highlights from each strategy. David and I will be dividing the presentation. The strategies are presented non sequentially to group strategies by similar topics. I will first cover strategies one, two, three, five, nine, twelve, and the housing section. David will cover strategies four, six, seven, eight, ten, and eleven. The community-based planning major strategy is a commitment to effectively engage all segments of the community in a meaningful planning process. Public outreach is implemented using the city's public outreach policy council policy 6-30. The pictured table shows the number of community meetings held by the planning division by fiscal year since fiscal year 2011-2012, which is the fiscal year that the San Jose General Plan was adopted. The majority of meetings were held virtually, but meetings for large projects such as the Five Wounds Urban Village Plan, the Pleasant Hills Golf Course Redevelopment Project, and the Coyote Valley Corridor Study incorporated in-person meetings. As on the table on the presentation, we can see for the last fiscal year in 2023-2024, though the number of community meetings were nearly the same as the prior fiscal year. There were significantly more attendees overall because the in-person meetings had significantly higher attendance than the virtual meetings. The form-based plan major strategy uses land use designations and general plan goals and policies to address the form, character, and densities for long-term development in the city. The strategy aims to maintain and can create compatible and cohesive neighborhoods while allowing for flexibility within the land use designations. The design guidelines help the facility the city facilitate growth, set expectations for high quality site and building design, and maintain and enhance the character of its neighborhoods and communities. The pictured design renderings in the slides are just a few examples of some of the exemplary design. The approach is meant to reduce environmental impacts, improve the city's fiscal health, and preserve established neighborhoods. Since fiscal year 2011-2012, 80% of residential development, 86% of commercial development, and 77% of industrial development has occurred within these designated growth areas. In the last fiscal year 20, 2023-2024, 66% of residential development, 74% of commercial development, and 100% of the industrial development occurred in growth areas.