All right.

Good morning.

It's 9 a.m.

Uh we are calling to order the planning director's hearing of July 15th, 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.

The first for participants who joined electronically and have audio input available on their computer or smartphone.

They can use the raise hand 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, remember to keep your hand raised and the raise hand feature on until planning support staff identify your turn to speak.

During the meeting, the second option 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 and the phone number that you'll call into Zoom with and what item or items you would like to speak or 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 comment for the allotted time.

If you expect your allotted, 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 item, if it's 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 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.

After the applicant or their 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 act the applicant may make additional remarks for up to five minutes.

I will then close the public hearing and may ask staff to answer questions, respond to comments made by the public or the applicant, 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 permits are appealable 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.

The planning director's hearing will now come to order.

Okay.

So we've done the call of call to order.

So next we have deferrals.

So 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 wish to change any of the deferral dates or speak to the question of deferring these items or any items, please use the raised hand feature in Zoom and request to speak.

I will now open the public hearing for deferrals.

Yes.

Good morning, hearing officer.

My name is Jacqueline Guerrero.

I am the project manager for item 4A.

Staff would like to request deferral on the item for next week's director's hearing, which would be Wednesday the 22nd.

Okay.

Thank you.

So item 4A, which is H25-039 and ER25-225 is being proposed for deferral to July 22nd next week.

Is there any members of the public who would like to speak to this deferral?

Okay.

I do not see any hands raised.

So with that, um the matter of deferrals is now closed.

And item 4A, which is H25-039 and ER25-225 is deferred until July 22nd.

Okay, um, we'll now move on to item three, which is the consent calendar.

And again, as a reminder, there will be no separate discussion of individual consent calendar items as they're considered to be routine and will be considered in 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 and any items removed from the consent calendar by the hearing officer.

So now if you would wish uh like to speak on those items, please raise your hand by clicking the raise hand feature in Zoom or star nine on your phone.

So on the consent calendar, uh we have two items.

We have item 3A, which is H25-015 and ER25-120.

Um this is a site development permit to allow the installation of an automatic automatic vehicular access gate and a pedestrian gate on an approximately 0.16 gross acre multifamily residential site located at 754 North First Street in Council District 3.

Uh the CEQA is exempt pursuant to CEQA guidelines section 15303 for new construction of small structures.

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

Um I'll stop on this one now.

Is there any members of the public who want to speak to this item or request that it be moved to the public hearing?

Please raise your hand.

Okay, don't see any hands for this item.

Um so the next item on the consent calendar is 3B, which is SP22-016, T22-017, and ER22-015.

This is a special use permit to allow the construction of 10 detached live work units totaling approximately 23,248 square feet of living space and approximately 2,712 square feet of commercial space, the demolition of an approximately 9,900 square feet office building, and the removal of five ordinance sized trees and 18 non-ordinate sized trees on an approximately 0.56 gross acre site, a tentative map to subdivide one lot into 10 residential lots, and one common lot on an approximately 0.56 gross acre site located on the south side of Sharon Drive, approximately 240 feet east of South Deanza Boulevard at 7246 Sharon Drive.

In council district one, uh the CEQA is an addendum to the initial study negative declaration for the 7246 Sharon Drive General Plan Amendment and conforming rezoning project adopted by City Council resolution 80376 as addend.

The staff recommendation is to consider the addendum to the initial study negative declaration for the 7246 share and drive general plan amendment and conforming rezoning project adopted by city council.

Resolution 80376 as addended in accordance with CEQA and approve a special use permit and a tentative map.

Is there anyone who wishes to remove this item from uh or ask that this item be removed from the consent calendar?

Please raise your hand to let me know.

Okay.

Um so those are the two items on the consent calendar.

I'll again ask if anyone wishes to speak on the consent calendar as a whole for up to two minutes.

Please raise your hand right now or click star nine on your phone.

Okay, I don't see any members of the public wishing to speak.

So with that, I will go ahead and approve the consent calendar, which includes item 3A and item 3B.

Okay, so um, and just as a reminder, item 4A on the public hearing was deferred until July 22nd next week.

So with that, um that concludes the planning director's hearing for July 15th, 2026.

Thank you very much.