Okay, good morning.

We are calling to order the planning director's hearing of June 24th, 2026.

My name is Jared Ferguson, 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 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 raise hand feature on until planning support staff identify your turn to speak.

During the meeting, please call 408-535-8517 or email planning support staff at San Jose CA.gov and identify your name that is listed on Zoom, your phone number that you'll call into Zoom with and what items you would like to comment on.

All of 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 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.

One, I will identify each project as described on the agenda.

Two, for those items on the consent calendar, I will ask if anyone wishes to speak on them.

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.

For the applicant or their 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.

Five, 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.

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

Seven, 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 applicable in accordance with the requirements of Title 20 of the Municipal Code, the zoning ordinance.

The planning director's actions on the environmental review for the permits under the California Environmental Quality Act or CEQA are separately appealable in accordance with the requirements of Title 21 of the Municipal Code, the Environmental Clearance Ordinance.

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 removal from the meeting.

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

Okay, so.

Item two on the agenda deferrals.

We do not have any deferrals today.

So we will move to item three, which is our consent calendar.

And just a reminder: again, 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 a separate discussion by the hearing officer.

The public may comment on the entire consent calendar, any individual items and individual items, uh 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 nine to raise a hand to speak.

We have one item on the consent calendar, which is uh 3A, which is SP 25-021 and ER25-197.

This is a special use permit to allow the construction of a detailed uh detached, excuse me, detached accessory structure exceeding 650 square feet.

The project consists of the construction of an approximately 875 square feet detached four-car garage on an approximately 0.16 gross acre two-family lot uh located in council district three.

And I will note that the address is um 685 and 687 South 10th Street.

Um, and the CEQA is exempt pursuant to CEQA guidelines section 15303 for new construction or conversion of small structures.

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

So are there any members of the public who would like to speak on the consent calendar today?

Please raise your hand.

Okay, well, I do not see any hands raised to speak to the consent calendar.

So with that, I will go ahead and approve the consent calendar today, which is for SP 25 021 and ER25-197.

And we have no items on the public hearing uh today for under item four.

So that concludes the planning director's hearing for June 24th, 2026.

Thank you very much.