11-18-20 Agenda - HPC Special
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TOWN OF LOS GATOS
SPECIAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
110 EAST MAIN STREET
LOS GATOS, CA
3:00 PM
NOTICE REGARDING NOVEMBER 18, 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:
https://losgatosca-gov.zoom.us/j/81144530076?pwd=aHgvWUxmWW1XUzRWdFJ6RnQwVUJQUT09
Passcode: 745422
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
KATHRYN JANNOFF, PLANNING COMMISSIONER KENDRA BURCH, COMMITTEE MEMBER NANCY
DERHAM, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR JOEL PAULSON, PLANNING MANAGER SALLY
ZARNOWITZ, ASSOCIATE PLANNER SEAN MULLIN, ASSOCIATE PLANNER RYAN SAFTY, ASSISTANT
PLANNER DIEGO MORA, AND TOWN ATTORNEY ROBERT SCHULTZ. All votes during the
teleconferencing session will be conducted by roll call vote.
Vacant, Chair
Steve Raspe, Vice Chair
Kathryn Janoff, Planning Commissioner
Kendra Burch, 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 – October 28, 2020
PUBLIC HEARINGS (Applicants and their representatives may be allotted up to a total of ten 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 five
minutes maximum for closing statements. Items requested/recommended for continuance are subject to
the Committee’s consent at the meeting.
2. 103 Tait Avenue
Requesting Approval for Removal and Replacement In-kind of Wood Siding on a
Contributing Single-family Residence Located in the Almond Grove Historic District on
Property Zoned R-1:D:LHP. APN 510-18-038.
PROPERTY OWNER: Ballou Ventures, LLC
APPLICANT: Mike Ballou
PROJECT PLANNER: Sean Mullin
3. 17121 Pine Avenue
Consider a Request to Remove a Pre-1941 Property from the Historic Resources
Inventory for Property Zoned R-1:8. APN 529-20-052.
PROPERTY OWNER: Jerome Bellottii
APPLICANT: Michael Paravati
PROJECT PLANNER: Ryan Safty
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OTHER BUSINESS (Up to three minutes may be allotted to each speaker on any of the following
items.)
4. Report from Planning Manager
ADJOURNMENT
IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED SPECIAL ASSISTANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING,
PLEASE CONTACT THE CLERK DEPARTMENT AT (408) 354-6834. NOTIFICATION 48 HOURS BEFORE THE MEETING WILL ENABLE THE TOWN
TO MAKE REASONABLE ARRANGEMENTS TO ENSURE ACCESSIBILITY TO THIS MEETING [28 CFR §35.102-35.104]