Good morning. We're calling to order the Planning Director's Hearing on January 1st, 2026.

My name is John Tu, and I'm the Hearing Officer for today's agenda on behalf and delegated by the Director of Planning, Building, and Code Enforcement, Christopher Byrne.

This meeting is being held via a Zoom conference call.

A member of the public will participate by following the instructions listed on page 2 of the agenda.

If you would like to provide public comment, you have two methods to identify yourself to provide public comments.

For participants joining electronically and have auto input available on your computer or smartphone, you can use the raised hand feature in Zoom or click star 9 on your phone if you dial it in.

To request to speak when your item is being heard on the agenda, keep your raised hand feature on until staff identifies your turn to speak.

During the meeting, please call 408-535-3505 or email plan and support staff at sonosaca.gov and identify your name that's listed on Zoom or the phone number that you call in Zoom or which item you would like to comment on.

All members of the public will remain on mute until staff identifies your turn to speak and you are unmuted.

At that time, you'll be unmuted and can provide comments during the allotted time.

If you exceeded 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 input will be as followed.

I'll identify each project and ascribe on the agenda.

For those items on the consent calendar, I'll ask everyone 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 on public hearing, I'll ask that to provide a brief report.

The applicant or the representative who wishes to speak item will have up to five minutes to speak

and should identify themselves by stating their name for the record.

After the applicant or representative has spoken, any member of the public who wishes to speak 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.

Following comments from the public, the applicant may make additional remarks for up to five minutes.

I will then close public comments.

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 it is challenging a line-usage decision in court, you may limit to raising only those issues or someone else raised at this public hearing or ring correspondence delivered to the city at or prior to the public hearing.

The planning director's actions on jennings will be final when the permit is signed and mailed unless the permit or environmental clearance determination is appealed.

The planning director's actions on the permit are appealable in accordance with the requirements of Title 20 of the municipality code.

The planning director's actions on the environmental review for the permits under the California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA, are separately appealable in accordance with the requirements of Title 21 of the municipality code.

Before I begin, I want to remind members of the public to follow our code of conduct at meetings.

This includes commenting on the civic agenda items only.

Public seekers will not engage in conversation with the hearing officer or staff.

The hearing officer, staff, and the public are expected to refrain from a piece of language.

Repeated failure to comply with the code of conduct, which will disturb, disrupt, or impede the early conduct of this meeting,

will result in removal from the meeting.

The meeting of directors will now come to order.

First item on the agenda is the issue of deferral.

Any items scheduled for hearing this morning for which deferral for future meetings being requested will move to this portion of the agenda and consider on the matter of deferral.

I'll 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 in the question of deferral of these or any others, please use the raise hand feature in Zoom or click star 9 to raise a hand to speak.

A now open public hearing.

There are currently no items for deferral.

Does anybody want to speak to the matter of deferral?

Seeing no hands or no staff, the matter of deferral is now closed.

Moving on to the consent calendar.

There will be no separate discussion of individual consent counters

that are considered to be routine and be considered in one action

unless an item is moved to the public hearing counter

for separate discussion by the hearing officer.

The public may comment on the entire consent calendar and or any item removed from the consent item by the hearing officer.

If you would like to speak on one of these items, please use the raise hand feature in Zoom or click star 9 to raise a hand to speak.

Is there a staff or any member of the public that wants to speak on the consent calendar?

I'm going to go through each of the items and then you can raise your hand accordingly at that time.

SP 24-044 and ER 24-252 is a special use permit to allow the expansion of a legal non-conforming 868 square foot single family house to 1,541 total square feet on approximately 0.12 gross acre site located at 525 Monero Avenue.

CEQA exemption of CEQA guidelines section 15301 for existing facility.

Status recommendation is considered exemption according to CEQA to approve a special use permit.

Does anybody want to speak to the matter of this specific item on the consent counter 3A?

Once again, use the raise hand function or click star 9 if you've dialed in.