Good morning.

It's 9 o'clock AM, so we are calling to order the Planning Director hearing of February 5th, 2025.

My name is Sylvia Doe, and I am the hearing officer for today's agenda on behalf of and delegated by the Director of Planning, Building, and Code Enforcement, Christopher Burton.

This meeting is being held via Zoom conference call.

Members of the public may participate by following the instructions listed on page two of the agenda.

For participants who joined electronically and have audio input available on their computer or smartphone, they can use the raised hand feature in Zoom during the agenda item they would like to speak to, or click star 9 on their phone.

Remember to keep your raised hand feature on until planning support staff identify your turn to speak.

During the meeting, please call 408 535 3505 or email planning support staff at San Jose CA.gov and identify your name that's listed on Zoom, the phone number that you'll call into Zoom with, and what item or items you would like to comment on.

All members of the public will remain on mute until the individual identifies they would like to speak and they are unmuted.

Planning support staff will identify you by name when it's your turn to speak.

At that time, you will be unmuted and can provide public comment for the allotted time.

If you exceed your allotted time, you may be muted so we can move on to the next speaker.

Please note the following.

The hearing procedure and order of input will be as follows.

First, I will identify each project as described on the agenda.

For those items on the consent calendar, I will ask if anyone wishes to speak on the item.

If a separate discussion is warranted, I will move the item to the public hearing portion of the agenda.

If a separate discussion is not needed, the item will remain on the consent calendar for approval.

For those items listed under public hearing, I will ask staff to provide a brief report.

The applicant or the representative who wishes to speak on the item will have up to five minutes to speak and should identify themselves by stating their name for the record.

After the applicant or the representative has spoken, any member of the public who wishes to speak on the item may provide testimony up to two minutes per speaker, either for or against the project.

All members of the public should identify their name for the record, although it is not required.

Following comments from the public, the applicant may make additional remarks for up to five minutes.

I will then close the public hearing and I may ask staff to answer questions, respond to comments made by the applicant or the public, or further discuss the item.

I will then take action on the item.

If you challenge these land use decisions in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at this public hearing or in written correspondence delivered to the city at or prior to the public hearing.

The planning director's actions on agenda items will be final when the permit is signed and mailed, unless the permit or the environmental clearance determination is appealed.

The planning director's actions on the permits are appealable in accordance with the requirements of Title 20 of the Municipal Code.

The planning director's actions on the environmental review for the permits under the California Environmental Quality Act are separately appealable in accordance with the requirements of Title 21 of the Municipal Code.

Before we begin, I want to remind members of the public to follow our code of conduct at meetings.

This includes commenting on the specific agenda item only.

Public speakers will not engage in a conversation with the hearing officer or staff.

The hearing officer, staff, and the public are expected to refrain from abusive language.

Repeated failure to comply with the code of conduct, which will disturb, disrupt, or impede the orderly conduct of this meeting may result in the removal from the meeting.

This meeting of the director hearing will now come to order.

We'll move on to the second portion of the agenda, which is deferrals.

Any item scheduled for the hearing this morning for which deferral to a future meeting date is being requested, will be moved to this portion of the agenda and considered on the matter of deferral.

I will identify any items to be deferred and ask for comments from the audience.

If you want to change any of these deferral dates or speak to the question of deferring these or any other items, please use the raised hand feature in Zoom or click star 9 to raise a hand to speak.

I will now open the public hearing.

The following items are proposed for deferral.

And there's one item this morning that's proposed for deferral, which is item 2A.

This is file number SP24 027 and ER20 153.

This is a special use permit to allow landscaping retaining walls greater than two feet in height, located at 582 Continental Drive.

And it is staff's recommendation to drop this item to be renoticed to the February 19th, 2025 director's hearing.

And this is per staff's request.

So at this time, I'll pause to see if any members of the public would like to speak on the matter of deferrals.

Again, there's only one item this morning that's recommended for deferral by staff.

And that's item two, a special use permit for a retaining wall.

Okay, I don't see any hands raised in Zoom.

So I will go ahead and move forward with staff's recommendation for dropping this item to be renoticed for February 19th.

And the matter of deferrals is now closed.

Moving on to the next portion of the agenda, which is part three, the consent calendar.

There will be no separate discussion of individual consent calendar items as they are considered to be routine and will be considered in one action unless an item is moved from the public hearing calendar for discussion by the hearing officer.

The public may comment on the entire consent calendar and any items removed from the consent calendar by the hearing officer.

If you wish to speak on one of these items, please use the raise hand feature in Zoom or click star 9 to raise your hand to speak.

And today we only have one item on the consent calendar, and this is file number T24-017 and ER24-116, which is a tentative map to allow the subdivision of one residential lot into two residential lots on a 0.23 Grossacre site located at 233 North 25th Street.

And staff's recommendation is to consider the exemption in accordance with CEQA and approve the tentative map.

And at this time, I'll just again pause to see if any members of the audience would like to speak on this item.

And if so, please raise your hand in Zoom.