Okay, good morning, everybody.

Just uh just a heads up occasionally my sound has issues.

So staff, if I cut out, please just let me know and I'll switch the audio setting.

Um and with that, let's get started.

So good morning.

We are calling to order the planning director hearing of February 19th, 2025.

My name is Martina Davis, and I'm the hearing officer for today's hearing on behalf of and delegated by the director of planning, building and code enforcement, Christopher Burton.

The meeting is held via Zoom conference call.

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

If you would like to provide public comment, you have two methods to do so.

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

Remember to keep your raise hand feature on until support staff identifies you as your turn to speak.

During the meeting, the other option is to call 408 535 3505 or email planning support staff at San Jose CA.gov and identify your name that is listed on Zoom, phone number that you'll be calling in to 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 is your turn to speak or number if we have your number only.

At that time, you will be unmuted and can provide 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.

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 separate discussion is warranted, I will move on to the public hearing.

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 an 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 this is not required.

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

The planning director's action on environmental review for the permit under the California Environmental Quality Act or CEQA are separately appealable in accordance with the requirements of Title 21 of the municipal code or environmental clearance ordinance.

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

The hearing officer's 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 the meeting may result in removal from the meeting.

The meeting of the director's hearing will now come to order.

So we have a pretty short agenda this morning.

I will start with deferrals.

Any items scheduled to for deferral this morning for which deferral is uh to a future meeting date is being requested will be removed, 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 the deferral dates or speak to the question of deferring these or any items, please use the raised hand picture in Zoom or click star nine to uh and to raise a hand to speak.

So I'm going to open the public hearing on deferrals, and I see that we have no items uh scheduled to for deferral staff.

Is there any changes to that?

Or do we still have no items that we're asking to remove to deferral?

Hearing nobody.

Um I will hereby is any member of the public wish to speak on deferring any of the items on today's agenda.

All right, hearing and seeing nobody.

Um the matter of deferrals is no cloak now closed, so we have no items being deferred.

The next portion of our agenda is the consent calendar.

As a reminder, there'll be no separate discussion on these items as they are considered to be routined and will be considered in one action unless the item is moved to the public hearing calendar calendar for separate discussion.

Uh the public may comment on the entire consent calendar or 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 nine to raise a hand to speak.

So let's start with the first um item 3A, SP24027 and ER24184.

This is a special use permit to allow landscape retaining walls greater than two feet in height on an approximately 0.15 gross acre single family site located at 582 Continental Drive.

Uh Anna and Chris Cubas and Reisner are the owners.

Uh, City Council District 2.

Uh CEQA is exempt pursuant to CEQA guidelines section 15303E for accessory structures.

This was dropped and renotised from the February 5th agenda.

The project manager is Alexander Hughes, and staff recommendation is approval.

Is would anyone like to pull this item off the consent calendar to speak on these retaining walls?