Good morning.

We are calling to order the planning director hearing of May 21st, 2025.

My name is David Keon, 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 comment, you have two methods to do so.

First, for participants who join electronically and have audio input available on the computer or smartphone, they can use the raise hand feature in Zoom during the agenda item they'd like to speak, or click star nine on our phone.

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

The other option is that during the meeting, please call 408 535 3505 or email planning support staff, all one word at San JoseCA.gov and identify your name that is enlisted on Zoom, then the phone number that you'll be calling into Zoom with.

And also the item or items you'd 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 you 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.

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'll ask staff to provide a brief staff 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 representatives has spoken, any member of the public who wishes to speak on an item or 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 in mail, unless the permit or environmental clearance determination is appealed.

The planning director's actions on permits are appealable in accordance with the requirements of Title 20 of the Municipal Code, the zoning ordinance, while the planning director's actions on environmental review for permits under the California Equality Act, California Environmental Equality 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 ordinary conduct of this meeting may result in removal from the meeting.

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

First item is the item of deferrals.

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

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 any of these items, please use your raise hand feature in Zoom or click star nine to speak.

Are there any items proposed for deferral that were not listed on the agenda?

No, we do not.

Okay.

Seeing there's no items or requests to defer any of the items listed on the agenda, the matter of deferrals is now closed.

We will now move on to 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 the item is moved to the public hearing calendar for separate 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 nine to raise a hand to speak.

We do have one item on consent calendar.

This is item number three A.

This is permit number SP24-036 and ER24-256.

This is a special use permit to allow the conversion of an existing approximately 5,493 square foot vacant commercial building to a daycare center for up to 109 children and 17 employees with an approximately 140 square foot rear addition, facade modifications, site and layout changes, and removal two ordinate size trees on an approximately 0.95 acre site located at 1051 Blossom Hill Road.

The SQL is exempt pursuant to SEQA guidelines section 15303 for new construction or conversion of small structures.

The staff recommendation is consider the exemption in accordance with SQL and to approve a special use permit.

Is there anybody who wishes to speak on this item and remove it from the consent calendar?

Have you received any requests to speak on this item?

No, we have not.

If anybody has an interest in speaking on this item, please raise your hand now or press star nine.

Okay.

Seeing that seeing that there is no interest in removing this from the consent calendar, I am going to approve the consent calendar.