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Attachment 5LOS GATOS PLANNING COMMISSION 7/11/2018 Item #2, Town Code Amendment A-18-001 (Affordable Housing Overlay Zones) 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 A P P E A R A N C E S: Los Gatos Planning Commissioners: D. Michael Kane, Chair Matthew Hudes, Vice Chair Mary Badame Kendra Burch Melanie Hanssen Tom O'Donnell Town Manager: Laurel Prevetti Community Development Director: Joel Paulson Town Attorney: Robert Schultz Transcribed by: Vicki L. Blandin (619) 541-3405 ATTACHMENT 5 LOS GATOS PLANNING COMMISSION 7/11/2018 Item #2, Town Code Amendment A-18-001 (Affordable Housing Overlay Zones) 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 P R O C E E D I N G S: CHAIR KANE: So we move on to the public hearings portion of our meeting and consider Item 2, Amendments to the Chapter 29 Zoning Regulations of the Town Code regarding Affordable Housing Overlay Zones. This is Town Code Amendment Application A-18-001. Project locations is town wide, Applicant is the Town of Los Gatos, Project Manager for this item is Sally Zarnowitz, who is also the Town Planning Manager. Ms. Zarnowitz, would you give us your report, please? SALLY ZARNOWITZ: Thank you, Chair. This item is about amending the Zoning Ordinance to match the Housing Element. The background on this is that the previous Housing Element relied on different strategies than the current one to meet the Regional Housing Needs Allocation, or RHNA, and that four of the five properties that were allocated as Affordable Housing Overlay Zones, or AHOZ sites, were actually removed in that Housing Element because other strategies were identified, and those strategies are attached as an exhibit to your Staff Report. LOS GATOS PLANNING COMMISSION 7/11/2018 Item #2, Town Code Amendment A-18-001 (Affordable Housing Overlay Zones) 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 In order to align the Zoning Ordinance with the Housing Element, which is one of the Housing Element’s major goals, these amendments are necessary, and they are consistent with the General Plan and we are recommending this evening that the Commission forward the Draft Town Code Amendments to the Town Council with a recommendation for adoption. We’re here to answer any questions. Thank you. CHAIR KANE: Thank you, Ms. Zarnowitz. Commissioners, questions for Staff? Yes? COMMISSIONER HANSSEN: I just had one really quick question. I just wanted to confirm, since I was on the Housing Element Advisory Board, we did remove those four sites. I know that they were in our RHNA calculations but we also removed them from any calculation towards our affordable housing quote, if you will, and then also we didn’t need to amend the minimum affordable housing, because HCD came back and told us we couldn’t stipulate more than that, and that was put in the Housing Element, so we’re aligning the Zoning Code with that, is that correct? SALLY ZARNOWITZ: That’s correct. COMMISSIONER HANSSEN: Okay. LOS GATOS PLANNING COMMISSION 7/11/2018 Item #2, Town Code Amendment A-18-001 (Affordable Housing Overlay Zones) 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 CHAIR KANE: Other questions or comments? I will open the public portion of the public hearing and invite comments from members of the public. Do we have any comments? We still don’t have any comments. Further questions for Staff? I will now close the public portion of the public hearing and ask if any Commissioners have questions for Staff, wish to comment on the amendments, or are ready to make a recommendation to Town Council? Commissioner Hanssen. COMMISSIONER HANSSEN: I would like to make a motion that we recommend approval of these amendments to the Town Council. CHAIR KANE: Do we have a second? Commissioner Burch. COMMISSIONER BIRCH: I’ll second the motion. CHAIR KANE: Do we have questions or comments? Commissioner Badame. COMMISSIONER BADAME: I would support the motion as long as we includes the findings that it is findings for CEQA and the required findings for the General Plan per Exhibit 1. COMMISSIONER HANSSEN: That’s acceptable. CHAIR KANE: Good. Commissioner Burch. LOS GATOS PLANNING COMMISSION 7/11/2018 Item #2, Town Code Amendment A-18-001 (Affordable Housing Overlay Zones) 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 COMMISSIONER BIRCH: Yes. CHAIR KANE: All right. Any other comments or questions? Commissioner O'Donnell. COMMISSIONER O'DONNELL: No. CHAIR KANE: You started to reach. COMMISSIONER O'DONNELL: (Inaudible). CHAIR KANE: Then I’ll call the question. Shall we recommend the amendments to Town Council? All in favor, say aye. Passes unanimously. In a matter such as this, are there appeal rights? JOEL PAULSON: There are not, because this is a recommendation to Town Council.