Enforcement, Christopher Burton.

The meeting is being held via Zoom conference call.

Members of the public may participate by following the instructions listed on page two of the agenda.

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Please note the following.

The hearing procedure and order of input will be as follows.

I will identify each item as described on the agenda.

For those items on the consent calendar, I'll 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.

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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 an action on the item.

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

So the first item is the item of deferrals.

Any items scheduled for hearing this morning for deferral to the future meeting is being requested.

We move to this portion of the agenda and considered on the matter of deferral.

Just want to check is there support staff or staff as anybody have any recommendation to move any items to defer all?

Because right now there is no items planned for deferral.

If any request to put an item onto deferral, please raise your hand.

Okay.

Seeing none, we have no items for deferral, so the item deferrals is now closed.

Section three, consent calendar.

There will be no separate discussion of individual consent calendar items as they are considered to be routine and will be considered a one action unless an item is moved to the public hearing calendar for separate discussion by the hearing officer.

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

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

The first item on the consent calendar is item number 3A.

This is file number PD 25019 and ER25194.

This is a plan development permit to allow paving landscaping, including the removal of one ordinance size palm tree, the creation of 30 EV truck parking stalls, and 10 train or truck storage stalls with charger plugins, the construction of an approximately 3200 square foot maintenance building, and an approximately 6,420 square foot recycling and trash enclosure on an approximately 6.09 gross acre site located at 4553 to 4653 North First Street.

The CEQA is an addendum to the mitigated negative declaration for the Elbizo Hotel Project.

The recommendation is considered the addendum to the mitigated native declaration for the Elbezo Hotel project in accordance with CEQA and to approve a planned development permit.

Adam number three, actually.

I'll just go through the consent calendar and then ask if he wants to remove or talk about any of these items.

Adam number three B.

This file number H25034 and ER25202.

This is a site development permit to allow the construction of three seven-foot high manually operated vehicular gates and one seven-foot-high pedestrian gate and the removal of one non-ordinate sized tree and an approximately 5.35 gross acre site located at 80 Great Oaks Boulevard.

CEQA is exempt pursuant to CEQA guidelines section 15303 for due construction or conversion of small structures.

The staff recommendation is consider the exemption in accordance with CEQA and approve a site development permit.

Number three C is file number SPC 26-008 and ER26-044.

This is a special use permit to allow the demolition of a metal canopy structure that was demolished without the benefit of permits on an approximately 3.5 gross acre site located at 1851 South 7th Street.

The SQL is exempt pursuant to CEQA guidelines section 15301 for existing facilities.

The staff recommendation is to consider the exemption in accordance with CEQA and approve the special use permit.

So is there anybody that wants to speak on any of the consent calendar items?

Please raise your hand or press star 9 or contact support staff to let you know that you want to speak on any of these items.

Support staff, have you been contacted by anybody that wishes to speak on any of these items on the consent calendar?

No, we have not.

Okay.

Seeing that we have no one that has raised their hands or pressed our near contacted.

I am going to move to approve the consent calendar items 3A through 3C.

So those items are now approved.

Thank you.

Next I'm going to move to the public hearing portion of the agenda.

This is item number 4A.

This is file number H25045 and ER26016.

This is a site development permit to allow the construction of a seven-story multifamily building of 272 dwelling units, including 140% affordable units of 55 units reserved for very low-income households earning up to 50% of area median income and 217 units reserved for low-income houses households earning up to 80% of area median income and the removal of 14 trees, 9 ordinance size and 5 non-ordinate sized trees on an approximately 2.17 gross acre site, including an application under state density bonus law for three concessions relating to ground floor units to the street, high quality materials, and private open space, and two waivers regarding floor area ratio, street wall recesses or projections.

The project is located on the southwest corner of the intersection of West San Carlos Street and Sunol Street at 860 West San Carlos Street.

The CEQA is an addendum to the loading mixed Use Final Environmental Impact report and Addenda there too.

Staff recommendation is consider the addendum to the loading mixed use final environmental impact report and addend there too in accordance with CEQA and to approve a site development permit.

May I have a brief staff report on this project, please?

Yes.

Thank you, Hearing Officer.

Um, presentation.

Oh.

There we go.

Okay.

Um.

All right.

Good morning, hearing officer.

Uh, my name is Jason Lee, project manager for file number H25045, a site development permit for a new multifamily building at 860 West San Carlos Street.

The project site for this proposal.

Sorry, the project site for this proposal is a single parcel bounded by West San Carlos Street, Sonol Street, Van Avery Drive, and the future Swenson Drive.

The project proposes the construction of a seven-story, 100% affordable 272 unit multifamily building, and the removal of 14 trees, nine of which are ordinance size, and it also includes build out of Swenson Drive between Van Avery Drive and San Carlos Street.

The project includes an application under density bonus law, and just note here that vehicular access to the building will be through a single garage entrance on the future Swenson Drive.

This project was evaluated with respect to the general plan, the midtown specific plan, the municipal code, the citywide design guidelines, city council policies, CEQA, and state density bonus law.

The site has a general plan designation of transit residential, which allows a density between 50 and 250 dwelling units per acre.

The project is in the APD Plan Development Zoning District, file number PDC 13 004.

However, the project is evaluated under the TR Transit Residential Zone, the conforming district to the general plan designation of transit residential as allowed by the Housing Accountability Act because the Plan Development Zone caps the unit count as at a density lower than proposed and then allowed in the transit residential designation.

The project has a density of 125.3 dwelling units per acre.

Staff has found that the project meets the requirements for use, height and setbacks as defined in the midtown specific plan and zoning district, common open space, transportation demand management, bicycle parking, and two-wheeled motorized vehicle parking.

The project requests three state density bonus law concessions to one eliminate a citywide design standard uh for ground floor private open space or direct street access for ground floor residential units facing a street, two, a citywide design standard to require high quality ground floor material facing West San Carlos Street, and three, the private open space requirement.

Each of these requests have been found to demonstrate an actual identifiable cost reduction.

There are also two waivers to waive the floor area ratio defined by the midtown specific plan and a citywide design standard for requiring a street wall recess, as each would require a loss of residential units.

The project also includes two citywide design standard exceptions for the location of the primary building entrance, which would allow for a multipurpose room and outdoor plaza at the corner of West San Carlos and Sunol, which is seen in this picture here, and for a flare-out parking garage entrance or exit, which instead of doing that, they provide additional width in the entryway.

The project complies with other key citywide design standards, including vehicular and driveway access location, bicycle parking location, articulation, common open space design, and limiting the use of stucco.

An addendum to the Olone mixed use final environmental impact report and addenda there too was prepared for the project.

There have been no significant changes to the circumstances under which the project would be undertaken, and no significant environmental impacts have been identified.

Specifically, the scope of the project allows for the removal of 13,000 square feet of planned commercial space and the addition of nine residential units, which would not result in new or significant effects beyond those previously studied.

All required measures from the approved mitigation monitoring and reporting program have been satisfied by the applicant, and none of these measures were found to be infeasible.

Therefore no subsequent environmental document has been prepared for the project and no new mitigation measures are proposed.

Staff followed city council policy 6-30 for public outreach.

A community meeting was held on March 30th 2026 and was attended by 15 community members.

An on-site sign was posted on the project site front edges and this hearing was noticed at a radius of 1000 feet.

Therefore staff recommends that the director consider the addendum and approve the site development permit.

Thank you.

Thank you Jason.

So if there's anybody the applicant if the applicant wants to make a if they're here okay yeah okay Swenson that's the applicant you have five minutes present.

Let me share my screen can you guys hear me?

Yeah we can hear you let me promote you first and then you'll be able to share your screen.

Oh my can you guys see my screen?

It's coming up here yeah we could see it all right I appreciate it Jason did a great job as always um going through the details I'll keep this high level and be available for questions um but as indicated uh this is a hundred percent affordable housing community between 30 and really targeting between 30 50 60 and 70% AMI units um 272 units uh in total um our background obviously in this alone project is we've we re-entitled it and have block a b and c um we silver apartments and patino have been completed on blocks c and b um we've also built uh the project out to meridian at midtown um here's a kind of the that the aerial overview and block a is on the corner West San Carlos and Synol um the background again blocks B or C and B have already been built and block A would finish out this block for us um 100% affordable expand the housing assets on the transit oriented location the amenities are our standard to some of these um more typical affordable housing communities plus you know at a standard of a market rate finish um and it also helps to finish off this block and create a balanced mixed income community um the overview of the overall site and the multiple courtyards to break up the space and provide an abundance of amenity space for the residents um I will say that this is also um a community of designated as a large family under the Civilac and TCAC affordable housing program which means that there's more than 25% of the units are three bedroom units designed for families um this section kind of shows where the parking is hidden right we have two levels of parking to provide adequate parking um and it's wrapped by units with units on top um and again the the garage entry is not on synolith is on this the future Swenson drive to help uh dissipate some of the traffic and um vehicle or movement within the the neighborhood um some of the materials and color palettes in the in the features that will be on the building um we do have a brick veneer we do have um cement siding and plaster and we've woven those with along with design throughout the building on all elevations um to help produce um the overall finish for a lead certified you know affordable housing community here's the one bedrooms two bedrooms and three bedroom unit layouts so this helps to show that the three bedroom two bath for the family size as well as one bedroom two bedroom options um there's some more interior mix um the the AMI affordability levels and so you can kind of see how that's um broken down through the building and then there will be red our our nonprofit that's partnering with us is will provide services on site and through their services they do after school connect they do this learning curve for adult education and service coordination um for all of these elements that they bring for the residents at the community and that's kind of the overview but I'm here for questions I appreciate everybody's time thank you so the next part of the hearing is the public comment period if there's any member of the public who wishes to speak on this project please raise your hand and zoom or press star nine or call in to support staff and say you want to speak so far no hands support staff have you received any requests to speak on this item no we have not no okay see nobody I'm going to close the public hearing um if the applicant wants an additional five minutes they're free to use that additional five minutes I just want to I appreciate staff and and everybody's hard work on this and if there's anything that I can do please let me know thank you guys.

Thank you.

So I'm going to close the public hearing and um applicant comment period um so now I'm reviewing this project this is the final stage of the Aloney project which has been ongoing for better part of 15 years um so very glad to see this come to completion and also a hundred percent affordable project at that with that I am going to approve item number four a file number h25-045 and ER26016.

Thank you support staff so the next is adjournment so this meeting is now adjourned at 9 21 a.m.

Thank you