Good morning. We are calling to order the Planning Director hearing of January 14,

2026. 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. Members of the public may participate by

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 nine on their phone.

Remember to keep your raised hand feature on

until planning support staff identify your name to speak.

During the meeting, you can also call 408-535-8517 or email planningsupportstaff at sanjoseca.gov

and identify your name that's 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 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 public 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 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 the 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.

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 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 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 orderly conduct of this meeting, may result in the removal from the meeting.

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

Next part on our agenda 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 the raise hand feature in Zoom or click star nine to raise your hand to speak.

I will now open the public hearing.

There are currently no items deferred for this morning.

I will check with staff to see if staff has any updates on the matter of deferrals.

Staff?

Yeah, thank you.

Good morning, hearing officer. This is Laura Miners, planning supervisor.

Upon coordination with the city arborist and the applicant, we would like to defer the tree removal permit file number TR25373 to be heard on next week's hearing on January 21st.

All the neighbors who have requested the hearing have also been informed of this change via email.

Great. Thank you, staff, for that update. So as part of this deferrals, per staff recommendation, we will be deferring item 4A, which is file number TR25-373, a live tree removal permit located at 1489 Saratoga Avenue, to next Wednesday's planning director's hearing on January 21st, per staff's recommendation.

With that, the matter of deferrals is now closed.

There are no items listed on the consent calendar.