08-26-20 Agenda - HPC
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TOWN OF LOS GATOS
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE
AUGUST 26, 2020
110 EAST MAIN STREET
LOS GATOS, CA
4:00 PM
NOTICE REGARDING AUGUST 26, 2020 HISTORIC PRESERVATION 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
Please click on the following link to join the Zoom webinar:
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Or telephone dial: USA 214-765-0479 or USA 888-278-0296 (US Toll Free).
Conference code: 824780
The Town encourages the public to send in written comments via 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 11:00 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 HPC members and staff are listed to permit them to appear electronically or
telephonically at the HPC meeting: VICE CHAIR STEVE RASPE, PLANNING COMMISSIONER MARY
BADAME, PLANNING COMMISSIONER MATTHEW HUDES, COMMITTEE MEMBER NANCY
DERHAM, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR JOEL PAULSON, PLANNING MANAGER SALLY
ZARNOWITZ, AND ASSOCIATE PLANNER SEAN MULLIN. All votes during the teleconferencing
session will be conducted by roll call vote.
Vacant, Chair
Steve Raspe, Vice Chair
Mary Badame, Planning Commissioner
Matthew Hudes, Planning Commissioner
Nancy Derham, Committee Member
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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 – July 22, 2020
PUBLIC HEARINGS (Applicants and their representatives may be allotted up to a total of five (5)
minutes maximum for opening statements. Members of the public may be allotted up to three (3)
minutes to comment on any public hearing item. Applicants and their representatives may be allotted
up to a total of three (3) minutes maximum for closing statements. Items requested/recommended for
continuance are subject to the Committee’s consent at the meeting.
2. 445 Los Gatos Boulevard
Minor Residential Development Application MR-20-005
Forward a Recommendation to the Director on a Request for Approval for Construction
of a Second-Story Addition on a Pre-1941 Residence on Property Zoned R-1:8. APN 529-
20-006.
PROPERTY OWNER/APPLICANT: Shahbaz Akhtar
PROJECT PLANNER: Sean Mullin
Continued from 7/22/2020
3. 411 San Benito Avenue
Consider a Request to Remove a Pre-1941 Property from the Historic Resources
Inventory for Property Zoned R-1D. APN 410-17-071.
PROPERTY OWNER/APPLICANT: Steven Horeff
PROJECT PLANNER: Sean Mullin
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OTHER BUSINESS (Up to three minutes may be allotted to each speaker on any of the following
items.)
4. 32 Walnut Avenue
Preliminary Review for Relocation of an Existing Pre-1941 Single-Family Residence and
Construction of a Second-Story Addition Located on Property Zoned R-1:8. APN 510-41-
013.
PROPERTY OWNER: Manish Belsare and Rekha Thakur
APPLICANT: Tom Sloan, Metro Design Group
PROJECT PLANNER: Sean Mullin
5. 2040 General Plan Initial Draft Environmental and Sustainability Element
6. Report from Planning Manager
ADJOURNMENT
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