The sixth meeting of the General Plan Task Force for the 4-Year Review focused on the proposed missing middle housing policy, which would increase allowed density in residential neighborhood (RN) parcels from 8 to 32 units per acre. Staff presented outreach results, development standards, and a recommendation for a streamlined permitting process. Public comment was divided, and task force members debated density levels, parking, and the inclusion of public/quasi-public (PQP) sites. No formal vote was taken, but staff will incorporate feedback and present a policy framework to the Planning Commission on June 24 and to City Council on August 18.
Chair of the Planning Commission and the General Plan Task Force. Welcome to the sixth meeting of the General Plan Task Force General Plan 4 Year Review. For this four-year review, the planning commission will serve as the task force. Remember, please remember to turn off your cell phones, the parking validation machine for the garage under City Hall is located near the entrance. Agendas and a sign up sheet are available in the back as well. So first we'll start with roll call. Vice Chair Bickford is not absent. Commissioner Barossio is absent. Commissioner Bundle. Here. Commissioner Cantrell is not here yet. Commissioner Cow. Here. Commissioner Casey. Commissioner Escobar is not here yet. Commissioner Nguyen is not here yet. Commissioner Oliverio is not here. Commissioner Young. Here. And myself. But we do not need quorum to proceed with this. Is that right? Okay. Please note that public comment is listening as agenda as item number five on the agenda, and we'll take before take place before the task force discussion. You can fill out a speaker card and give it to the technician. Each member of the public may address the commission for up to two minutes in response to public comment. The planning commission is limited to the following options responding to statements made or questions posed by members of the public or requesting staff to report back on a matter at a subsequent meeting. With that, I'll hand it over to staff to begin with agenda item two, the agenda overview. Thank you. After that, we'll take public comment and then the task force discussion. So a brief overview on our efforts with outreach. Through the beginning of May. And uh we held these in three community centers, and the first one was at Viva Calle. We were targeting sort of trying a different approach, going to where we knew we would see and encounter a lot of people. And so this picture here is sort of most of the folks that helped both the consultant team and the staff, folks here at the table as well as other planners that were helping us with the outreach at that event. Just wanted to share a few pictures of each one of the open houses. So overall, we spoke with 832 residents, folks that came in through the city. The majority were through Viva Calle. We had a really good location at Mexican Heritage Plaza where the event, one of the hubs where it started, so we were able to capture a lot of people. Um poster boards. We had roughly 13. Five of those were had sort of an activity to engage people and seek their input. We were uh sure to have multilingual staff in attendance, um, Spanish Vietnamese, Cantonese, and Mandarin speakers to help and ensure that we're able to communicate with our diverse community in San Jose. We were also able to provide packets of the poster boards. The poster boards were in English, but we did provide um packets in Spanish, Chinese, and Vietnamese. And lastly, we um provided activities for children, although I'm sad to say I don't think I saw any children attend. Um but we did have those activities, so it's an adult mostly adults in attendance, as well as you know, light snacks and refreshments since we did hold three of these in the evening. We are continuing with our open house virtually, and we encourage the public to um if they weren't able to attend the open houses, to scan this QR code and give us their feedback and input on our website conveyo, which is the same format, same poster boards and information that we provided in person. It's just a virtual option, and um I um let me see. Well no, I won't be able to share here, but folks can leave tag comments on the different stations and give us their feedback that way.