Good morning.

We are calling to order the planning director hearing of February 26, 2025.

My name is Ruth Gueto, 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.

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

The first is for those participants who joined electronically and have audio input available on their computer or smartphone.

They can use the raise hand feature in Zoom during the agenda item they would like to speak to, or click star nine on their phone.

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

During the meeting, you can also call 408 535 3505 or email planning support staff at San Joseca.gov and identify your name that is listed on Zoom, 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 is your turn to speak.

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.

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 and or their 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 their 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 take additional remarks for up to five minutes.

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 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 CEQA 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 this meeting.

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 removal from the meeting.

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

We will move on to the second part of the agenda, which is deferrals.

Any item scheduled for 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 the deferral dates or speak to the question of deferring these or any other items, please use a raise hand feature in Zoom or click star nine to raise a hand to speak.

The following items are proposed for deferral.

Item A, H24-055, and ER24-248, which is a site development permit to allow the installation of a new six-foot high fence, an automatic vehicular gate, and an existing surface parking lot serving town park towers on an approximately 0.96 gross acre site at 60 North Third Street, located at 63rd Nord Street in Council District 3.

CEQA exemption is pursuant to SEQA guidelines 15303E for new construction and conversion of small structures.

Staff recommendation is to defer this item to the March 5th, 2025 director hearing meeting per staff request.

I will see if there are any requests to speak on the matter of this deferral.

I see no hands raised.

Staff, can we have the agenda back up on the screen, please?

Thank you.

The second item under deferrals is item 2B, TR24-419, which is a live tree removal permit for the removal of one ordinance size redwood tree with a circumference of approximately 116 inches on a single family residential property located at 1181 Magnolia Avenue in Council District 6.

Staff's recommendation is to drop this item and will be renoticed to the March 5th, 2025 director hearing meeting.

Seeing none, I will move forward with dropping this item to be deferred to March 5th, 2025.

The matter of deferrals is now closed.

Moving on to the consent calendar.

This item is actually on public sharing.

Okay.

That's what I'm saying.

Thanks for okay.

So then uh there actually are no items on the consent calendar.

So we're going to move on to the public hearing portion of the agenda.

Again, what you see on the screen 3A is actually item 4A under the public hearing.

So the one item on public hearing is file number H24-034, HP 24-001, and ER24-165.

This is a site development permit and historic preservation permit to allow the partial demolition of city landmark number 74, Herald College, and the structure of merit and the total demolition of a third building for the construction of a 100% affordable 15-story mixed use building consisting of up to 220 units and approximately 3,320 square feet of ground floor commercial space on an approximately 0.50 gross acre site located at 465 467 South 1st Street.