Now because of an agreement between the city and environmental groups, 937 acres of this lands will likely be purchased and set aside as a permanent open space. This agreement is enormous. Reporter environmentalist Roger Castillo says it traps fresh water for san jose beneath the ground and also benefit wildlife that will be able to pass from one mown range to another without significant barriers. It is really important to get animals their corridor to move from one peak to another and keep biodiversity. Reporter but its not what long time Property Owners wanted close to 90 years in the valley. Reporter kens family has grown cherries in the area for years, and hes afraid the land will stagnate. Were just looking for existence, thats all. Reporter and he questions why san jose will let go of space for industry and housing. I dont know any place in the world where they dont need homes more than in this area. Reporter the City Council Still has to vote to approve the agreement, and they m
Without per se cutting those hours. My office is a way from the church on market safeway, lets just say its an eventful walk every time. To those neighbors i work near the safeway, but these neighbors may live closer to the safeway, is there anything you can do that would make them feel better. Believe so, i think we could try to draft a condition of approval and whether we called it a Property Maintenance and security condition where there was specific monitoring of the exterior parking lot ive done this another jurisdiction, prior to opening, we meet with the Police Department and have the store director, and the Police Department, at least know each other, have perhaps yearly check ins. At 1200 irving we have a designated person at the store as a Community Contact for the neighborhood group. Definitely can have that. I know cvs had a handful of conditions of approval on the maintenance of the parking lot and the landscaping. We can put more into that as well. So, yes. We are recepti
Thank you. Nothing else in that neighborhood operates at those hours. Like i said it is not a big box store. It is the people do not commute through their. It doesnt it is not big enough for that. The neighborhood is a kind of place where people recognize each other in the streets, and we police it ourselves. What natalie has mentioned is things that may are a problem, and right now we do not have that problem developing because of the things that operate in the area are on hours that are visible to the residence there. If you operate outside of those hours, we no longer can do that and then it becomes a problem. Would you give this commission the hours you had in mind . 8 00 a. M. Until 10 00 p. M. I could see the ten, but i know loading and coming to the city with some eyes, or whatever, is a science of its own. I personally do not feel that this commission has the tools to properly gauge. Thats not a problem for cb exit, they operate loading at 9 00 a. M. We have conditioned loading
Describe a little bit more exactly her parameters that you had thought about . Thank you. Nothing else in that neighborhood operates at those hours. Like i said it is not a big box store. It is the people do not commute through their. It doesnt it is not big enough for that. The neighborhood is a kind of place where people recognize each other in the streets, and we police it ourselves. What natalie has mentioned is things that may are a problem, and right now we do not have that problem developing because of the things that operate in the area are on hours that are visible to the residence there. If you operate outside of those hours, we no longer can do that and then it becomes a problem. Would you give this commission the hours you had in mind . 8 00 a. M. Until 10 00 p. M. I could see the ten, but i know loading and coming to the city with some eyes, or whatever, is a science of its own. I personally do not feel that this commission has the tools to properly gauge. Thats not a prob
Perfect. If there is nothing further, commissioners. On that motion, commissioners, to approve this matter with conditions as amended to include directing the project sponsor to continue working with the community on security issue measures. [roll call] that motion passes unanimously 60. That puts us at item 8. Good afternoon commissioners, kate connor, Planning Department staff. Im going to provide an informational presentation on senate bill 35. A brief overview. Can i get the overhead . Okay, perfect. A bit of background. Senate bill 35 became effective in in january it provided ministerial review of projects that provide a certain amount of Affordable Housing. The amount of Affordable Housing is dependent on a toward their housing elements, Regional Housing needs allocations arena. This bill is applicable statewide. With the only section being those jurisdictions that are already meeting the arena goals. The bill contained two programs, one for jurisdictions that were under produci