Good morning.

It is 9 a.m.

and we are calling to order the planning director hearing of September 3rd, 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.

Meet 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 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 identifies your turn to speak.

During the meeting, you can also call 408 535 8517 or email planning support staff at San Jose CA.gov and identify your name that is 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 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 will be unmuted and can provide comments 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.

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 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 make additional remarks for up to five minutes.

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 a 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 a removal from the meeting.

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

Next on our agenda item is deferrals.

Any item deferred for this morning from hearing 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 the raise hand feature in Zoom or click star 9 to raise your hand to speak.

I will now open the public hearing.

There are no items proposed for deferral this morning.

If any members of the public or staff wish to move any items on the agenda today for deferral and request for deferral to again to a future hearing date, now is the time.

And today we only have one agendized item.

I'm going to pause for a bit here to see if any members of the public would wish to speak to the matter of deferrals.

Okay, seeing no hands raised, the matter of deferrals is now closed.

We'll move on to the third portion of the agenda, which is 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 to the public hearing calendar for separate discussion by the hearing officer.

The public may comments 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 raised 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.

That is item 3A.

This is file number PD25-014 and ER25-136.

This is a planned development permit to allow the construction of stepped retaining walls up to 21.5 feet in the rear yards of two adjacent single-family properties located at 1487 and 1493 via CAMPOL or RAIO.

Staff's recommendation is to consider the exemption in accordance with CEQA and approve this plan development permit.

If there are any members of the public who wish to speak on this consent calendar item, you may raise your hand at this time.

Otherwise, this project will be approved on the consent calendar.

And again, I'll just pause for a moment to see if anyone is interested in speaking.

Again, if so, please raise your hand in Zoom, or if you're calling in, click star nine.

Okay, seeing no hands raised, this consent calendar item 3A is hereby approved.

Thank you, support staff.

Okay, moving on to the next portion of the agenda, which is the public hearing.

There are no items agendized for public hearing this morning.

So this brings us to the end of the agenda for adjournment.

It is 9 07 a.m.

and we are hereby concluding the planning director's hearing for September 3rd, 2025.

Thank you everyone for attending this morning.