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TOWN OF LOS GATOS
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
110 EAST MAIN STREET
LOS GATOS, CA
10:00 AM
NOTICE REGARDING SEPTEMBER 8, 2020 DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING
This meeting is being conducted utilizing teleconferencing and electronic means consistent with
State of California Executive Order N-29-20 dated March 17, 2020, regarding the COVID-19
pandemic. In accordance with Executive Order N-29-20, the public may only participate in the
meeting via teleconference and not in the Council Chambers.
PARTICIPATION
If you are interested in providing oral comments real-time during the meeting, you must join the
Zoom webinar at:
https://losgatosca-gov.zoom.us/j/91751601154?pwd=ZjBOdUI5clFJR1RyZ2tMTk5uODJUdz09
Passcode: 177241.
Or by telephone dial: USA 213-270-2124 or USA 888-273-3658 (US Toll Free).
Conference code: 898841.
During the meeting:
• When the Chair announces the item for which you wish to speak, click the “raise hand”
feature in Zoom. If you are participating by phone on the Zoom app, press *9 on your
telephone keypad to raise your hand. If you are participating by calling in, press #2 on
your telephone keypad to raise your hand.
• When called to speak, please limit your comments to three (3) minutes, or such other
time as the Chair may decide, consistent with the time limit for speakers at a Council
meeting.
If you are unable to participate in real-time, you may send an email to
PlanningComment@losgatosca.gov with the subject line “Public Comment Item # ” (insert the
item number relevant to your comment) or “Verbal Communications – Non Agenda Item.”
Comments will be reviewed and distributed before the meeting if received by 8:00 a.m. on the
day of the meeting. All comments received will become part of the record. The Chair has the
option to modify this action on items based on comments received.
REMOTE LOCATION PARTICIPANTS
The following DRC members are listed to permit them to appear electronically or telephonically
at the DRC meeting: PLANNING MANAGER SALLY ZARNOWITZ, BUILDING OFFICIAL ROBERT
GRAY, SENIOR BUILDING INSPECTOR ROY ALBA, SENIOR ENGINEER MIKE WEISZ, ASSISTANT
ENGINEER CORVELL SPARKS, FIRE PLANS EXAMINER KATHERINE BAKER, DEPUTY FIRE
MARSHAL KENNY IP, SENIOR DEPUTY FIRE MARSHAL TRACY STAIGER, AND SENIOR PLANNER
JENNIFER ARMER. All votes during the teleconferencing session will be conducted by roll call
vote.
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If anyone wishes to challenge the action on this application in court, they may be limited to
raising only those issues they or anyone else raised at the public meeting described in this
notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Town at, or prior to, the public hearing.
Development plans can be viewed on the Town’s website under Pending Projects
(http://www.losgatosca.gov/2216/Pending-Planning-Projects).
MEETING CALLED TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS (Members of the public are welcome to address the Committee
on any matter that is not listed on the agenda. To ensure all agenda items are heard and unless
additional time is authorized by the Chair, this portion of the agenda is limited to 30 minutes and
no more than three (3) minutes per speaker. In the event additional speakers were not able to be
heard during the initial Verbal Communications portion of the agenda, an additional Verbal
Communications will be opened prior to adjournment.)
CONSENT ITEMS (TO BE ACTED UPON BY A SINGLE MOTION) (Items appearing on the
Consent Calendar are considered routine and may be approved by one motion. Unless there are separate
discussion and/or actions requested by the Committee, staff, or a member of the public, it is requested that
items under the Consent Calendar be acted on simultaneously. Any member of the Committee or public may
request to have an item removed from the Consent Calendar for comment and action.)
1. Approval of Minutes - August 4, 2020
2. Approval of Minutes - August 18, 2020
PUBLIC HEARINGS (Applicants and their representatives may be allotted up to a total of five
minutes maximum for opening statements. Members of the public may be allotted up to three
minutes to comment on any public hearing item. Applicants and their representatives may be
allotted up to a total of three minutes maximum for closing statements. Items requested/
recommended for continuance are subject to the Committee’s consent at the meeting.)
3. 15 Loma Alta Avenue
Architecture and Site Application S-19-023
Requesting approval for demolition of an existing single-family residence and construction of
a new single-family residence with reduced setbacks on a nonconforming property zoned R-
1:8. APN 532-29-073.
PROPERTY OWNER: BAB Investment Group LLC
APPLICANT: Babak Homayouni
PROJECT PLANNER: Jennifer Armer
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MEETING WILL ENABLE THE TOWN TO MAKE REASONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO ENSURE ACCESSIBILITY TO THIS MEETING
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