Okay, good morning.

We are calling to order the planning director's hearing of August 27th, 2025.

My name is Martina Davis, 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 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.

So the first method is for participants who have joined electronically.

So if you're on the Zoom and you have audio input available on your computer or smoke phone, you can use the raised hand feature in Zoom during the agenda item you would like to speak to, or click star nine on your phone.

Remember to keep your raised hand feature on until planning support staff identified your return to speak.

If uh you aren't joining electronically via the Zoom, uh the alternative method is during the meeting, call 408-535-8517, or email planning support staff at San Jose CA.gov and identify your name and phone number that you will call in with and what items you would like to comment on.

All members of the public will remain on mute until the individual identifies that 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'll be unmuted and can provide comment for the allotted time.

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

Please note the following.

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

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

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

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

The applicant 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 for up to two minutes per speaker 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 additional remarks for up to five minutes.

Public speakers will not engage in a 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, uh, which will disturb, disrupt, or impede the orderly conduct of this meeting may result in removal from the meeting.

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

Okay.

So let's move on to our order of business.

So the first after my recital, the first item is uh deferrals.

So these are items that are uh on the calendar, but for which deferral to a future meeting date is being requested.

Um I will identify the items to be deferred and ask for comments from the audience and specifically on whether or not this item should be deferred.

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

I will now open the public hearing.

So the following items are proposed for deferral.

And there is one file number PDA 9806704 and ER220-202.

This is a plan to permit development permit amendment for proposing construction of a two-story single-family house and permitting two existing wooden exterior decks on an approximately 2.46 gross acre site located uh 520 feet southwest of Bergman Court and Yerba Buena Avenue.

Uh the address is 2569 Knowles Coles Court.

Um, the CEQA would be exempt pursuant to set guidelines section 15303 for new constructions or conversion of small structures.

The staff recommendation is to defer to September 10th, 2025 per staff's request.

Uh, would anyone like to speak on the matter of deferrals?

Okay, I am seeing no raised hands.

So the uh I will approve the deferral of this item to the September 10th, 2025 director's hearing, and the matter of deferrals is now closed.

The next item on our calendar is the consent calendar.

Uh, there will be no separate discussion as a reminder on the we have one item on the consent calendar today.

Uh the item will be considered is considered routine and will be uh done in one action unless moved to the public hearing for discussion by myself.

The public may comment on the entire consent calendar or ask to uh have any item removed and put on public hearing to speak uh specifically to that item.

If you wish to speak to the item for uh excuse me, consent today, please use the raise hand feature in Zoom or click star nine.

So our consent calendar item today is file number H25008 and ER25044.

It's a site development permit to allow construction of one eight-story building with approximately 35,000 square feet of commercial space and an off-street parking establishment for existing office off-site office and future residential visitors and the removal of non-ordnance size, one non-ordinate size tree on an approximately 1.92 gross acre site at the northwest corner of Park Avenue and South Almond Boulevard.

The addresses are 185 Park and 170 to 177 Park Center Plaza.

This is in Council District 3, and the CEQA is an addendum to the downtown strategy 2040 final EIR and the City View Plaza Office Project Supplemental EIR resolution 79586.

Project manager is Jason Lee.

The staff recommendation is to consider the addendum to the downtown strategy 2040 final EIR and the City of View Plaza Office Project Supplemental EIR in accordance with CEQA and to approve the site development permit.

Do I have anybody who would like to speak to this consent item this morning?

If so, please raise your hand or click star nine now.

Uh Jason, I see your hand up.

Hi.

Um, good morning, hearing officer.

Um I would just like to make uh two corrections to the draft permit.

Um, the first, there is no northwest corner of Park Avenue and South Almaden Boulevard.

This is actually on the northern corner of Park Avenue and South Almond Boulevard.

Uh, second, under section three for general plan conformance.

The first analysis section includes reference to a medical office.

There is no medical office proposed.

The spaces are meant to be retail or commercial, um, which is also supported by the downtown designation.

Thank you.

Thank you, Jason.

All right.

Um, and I'm not seeing any members of the public who raise their hand to speak to this consent calendar item.

Okay.

So with uh the corrections just noted by staff to the draft permit.

Um, I will approve the consent calendar.

So H25008 and ER25044 is hereby approved.

Our next item on the calendar is the public hearing item.

So we have a project PDA 200301 and ER25-074.

This is a plan development permit amendment to amend file number PD 2003 to modify previously approved multifamily building, reducing the number of units from 219 market rate units to 132, 100% affordable unit.

Subject to the state density bonus law with three concessions to eliminate pedestrian access to ground floor units facing the street, reduce the tree canopy coverage, and reduce low impact development site design measures on an approximately 1.92 gross acre site located on the westerly side of Lake Avenue, approximately 470 feet northerly of West Alma Avenue, which the address uh is 1197 Lick.

The City of San Jose is the owner.

This is in Council District 3.

The CEQA clearance is determination of consistency with the mitigated negative declaration for the Tamian Station Transit Oriented Development Project, resolution 79567.

This item was deferred from August 20th, 2025.

Project manager is Cameron G, and staff's recommendation is to consider the determination of consistency with the mitigated negative declaration for the Tamion Station Transit Oriented Development Project in accordance with CECWA and approve a planned development permit amendment.

Okay, so I think our first on our order of business here is staff.

Do you have a reports?

Yes, I do.

Good morning, hearing officer.

Uh my name is Cameron G.

I'm the planning project manager for this item.

Uh this project consists of a plan development permit amendment to amend file number PD 20-003.

Um, it was approved originally on December 9th, 2020, and it included three buildings with a mixed use development of up to 569 residential units and up to 3,000 square feet of commercial space.

The first building referred to as phase one has been constructed and consists of 135 affordable units and 3,000 square feet of commercial space.

The phase two and phase three buildings have not been constructed.

This permit amendment modifies the phase two building, which will now consist of 132 affordable units compared to the maximum of 219 market rate units that were originally approved.

The unit breakdown will be 62 one bedroom units, 33 two-bedroom units, 36 three bedroom units, and one manager's unit.

The building will be four stories high and include an interior courtyard, a community room, a fitness room, and a surface parking lot with 35 vehicle parking spaces.

The project is consistent with the general planned land use designation of urban residential as the modified phase two building will result in a density of approximately 68.75 dwelling units per acre, which is within the allowable range of 30 to 95 dwelling units per acre.

The project remains consistent with general plan policies regarding housing affordability and housing diversity.

The project is also consistent with the Tamian station area specific plan, including its policies related to housing variety, building orientation, and building design.

The project is consistent with the use regulations, setback and height standards, parking requirements, and open space requirements of the planned development zoning district.

The project was found to be consistent with the citywide design standards and guidelines related to pedestrian and bicycle access, open space design, and surface parking design.

As the project reserves 100% of its units as affordable units and does not provide more than 20% of its units for moderate income households.

The project is eligible for five concessions and unlimited waivers under the provisions of the state density bonus law.

The project is granted three concessions, all of which to citywide design standards, including the elimination of ground floor access to street funding residential units, a reduction in tree canopy coverage, and reduction in low impact development site design measures.

The three concessions are granted as they result in identifiable and actual cost reductions to provide for affordable housing costs.

A determination of consistency was prepared for the project as the phase two building modifications would not generate any new significant environmental impacts.

The phase two building modifications are within the scope of the Tamion Station transit-oriented development mitigated negative declaration, which was adopted for the original project on June 9th, 2020.

The level of impact for all resource areas remains unchanged, and all identified mitigation measures and standard permit conditions in that document are included in this permit amendment.

An on-site sign has been posted on the property since June 25th, 2025.

Notices for public hearing were mailed to property owners and tenants within a 1,000 foot radius, which is consistent with the council policy for public outreach.

A community meeting was held on July 14th, 2025 on Zoom.

Staff has been able to has been available to answer any public comments.

Staff recommends the consideration of the determination of consistency and approval of the planned development permit amendment.

This concludes staff's presentation.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you, staff.

So next we have the applicant.

You have up to five minutes to speak if you wish.

It does look like believe it is RUP development team.

It does look like the applicant's hand is raised.

So when you are ready, go ahead and make your comments.

And I believe they may also have a um a presentation that they wish to share.

That's something that they would support staff would have to help let them share it.

Do you have a presentation applicant?

Oh, there we go.

I think they would need to be able to do that.

Yeah, promote you to panelist, and then you can share your screen.

Great.

Thank you.

Can everyone hear me?

Yes, can we hear you?

Perfect.

Good morning.

My name is Melissa Durkin, and I am Senior Vice President of Development with Republic Urban Properties here on behalf of the partnership Urban Co Tamian.

I am also joined by Vince Cantori with the core companies.

I also want to acknowledge our partner and property owner Valley Transportation Authority and St.

Cameron G and the rest of the city staff for their hard work on this project.

As Cameron mentioned, the project was previously approved in 2020, and that included two market rate buildings and a 100% affordable building with day dress center.

That building is essentially ready to open, which is great.

The subject of this PD permit amendment is specifically for phase two or the building in the middle of the site, where we're replacing a market rate building with a hundred percent affordable building, which is really just in response to today's housing market.

And really, we believe that we could advance a housing development sooner and faster if we do pivot to an affordable project.

There is a mix of one, two, and three bedroom units, a surface parking lot at the back of the site that will only serve these residents.

There is also a wide variety of amenities like a fitness room, community lounge, outdoor courtyard with a play area, and barbecue and outdoor seating.

Phase two will also complete the transit plaza.

We really wanted to make sure that the architecture sort of maintained the same style that was previously approved.

So you can see that it still really has this high quality design.

So we did reduce the level by one.

We are making some off-site improvements.

So this is really going to help with traffic calming and pedestrian safety.

We are also looking at several parking lot improvements for the transit lot on the opposite side of Lalong.

So eventually there will not be any more transit parking off Lick Avenue.

All transit riders would need to utilize the long Avenue parking lots.

And so that is also going to help reduce the amount of traffic that is put on Lick Avenue.

We are also pursuing shared parking opportunities, whether it's in a portion of the transit law that's highlighted on the screen, about 313 spaces where we really think it would be a good opportunity in off peak hours.

Residents could utilize the transit lot when it's not being utilized by most of the transit riders.

So say after 5 p.m.

and then in the morning.

We also have a really comprehensive transportation demand management plan that's really aimed at reducing parking by about 25%.

And this is largely due to the proximity of the project to Caltrain and Light Rail.

As Cameron mentioned on July 14th, we did have our community meeting, and we did receive some valuable feedback from some of the surrounding community members.

Today's director's hearing is on the schedule, and we are looking to apply for tax credits and bonds in September to help finance the affordable project.

If we are successful, we would start construction in June of 2026 approximately.

And we are estimating about two years to complete the project.

And that concludes my presentation, and I'm available to answer any questions.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you, Melissa.

All right.

Are there, I don't have any questions right now.

Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item?

If there are, please raise your hand now.

And you can do so by clicking raise hand or if you're on a phone, star nine.

Again, raise your hand or click star nine.

I'll give you a few more seconds.

And I am not seeing anybody support staff.

Have you received contact from anybody who would like to speak on the item today?

That's not on our Zoom.

No, we have not.

Okay.

Okay.

Well, I am seeing uh no members of the public who are wishing to speak on the item.

So with that, I will go ahead and I'm going to close public hearing.

Um I just want to say we very much appreciate affordable housing in our community.

And you know, low parking near transit station is the right place to do it.

So we appreciate that.

And uh, you know, just urge you to kind of look at practical solutions for for your tenants.

Um, you know, as they they probably will still have cars, and this is in San Jose.

So with that, I will consider the determination of consistency with the mitigated negative declaration for the Tamian Station Transit Oriented Development Project in accordance with CEQA and approve the plan development permit amendment as described on the agenda, including those density bonus concession requests.

And with that, that concludes the planning director hearing for August 27th, 2025.

And I thank you all for your time.