Item 3 - 16940 Roberts Road - Desk Item
PREPARED BY: JOCELYN SHOOPMAN
Associate Planner
Reviewed by: Planning Manager and Community Development Director
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 408-354-6832
www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
MEETING DATE: 03/14/2018 ITEM NO: 3 DESK ITEM
DATE: MARCH 14, 2018 TO: CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE FROM: JOEL PAULSON, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR SUBJECT: CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE APPLICATION CD-18-001 PROJECT LOCATION: 16940 ROBERTS ROAD. APN 529-18-053. PROPERTY OWNER: CHANG 2003 FAMILY TRUST. APPLICANT: JOSEPHINE CHANG. REQUESTING PRELIMINARY REVIEW OF PLANS TO DEMOLISH AN EXISTING SINGLE-FAMILY HOME AND CONSTRUCTION OF A THREE-UNIT, TWO-STORY, MULTI-FAMILY DWELLING ON PROPERTY ZONED RM:5-12.
REMARKS:
Attachment 6 includes public comment received between 11:01 a.m., Friday, March 9, 2018
and 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
ATTACHMENTS:
Previously received with March 14, 2018 Staff Report:
1. Location map (one page)
2. CDAC application (one page)
3. Project Description Letter (one page)
4. Neighborhood Analysis (seven sheets)
5. Conceptual Plan (one sheet)
Received with this Desk Item Report:
6. Public Comment received between 11:01 a.m. Friday, March 9, 2018 and 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
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Conceptual Development Advisory Committee
110 East Main Street
Los Gatos, CA 95030
March 12, 2018
RE; 16940 Roberts Road, Los Gatos, CA 95032, Meeting on March 14, 2018
Conceptual Development Committee Members.
Please, consider the safety of our students, & do not approve an Investor's request to
demolish an existing slngle--famlly home at 16940 Roberts Road to build a triplex: limiting
the site line at the corner of Roberts Rd., & Fisher. The city of Los Gatos could not prevent
the death of a young s1udent, s1ruck in the blind spot heading the intersection of Blossom Hill
Road & Roberts Rd., leading to Fisher Middle School, but you can prevent another death, or
injury to students who walk to schools. The city would endanger the life of young children by
cutting the srte lines at this corner property, all in exchange for profit, not even for the well-being
of a new resident to address.
The property is only zoned RM 5-12, suggesting the investor is asking for a variance. Variances
for residents, especially elderly, or those attempting to make it possible to continue to live in Los
Gatos are different than investor hoping to maximize profits, without regard for the families living
in the remaining oasis of single family homes build on properties between 1 /4 & 1 /3 acre. The
Development Advisory Committee la were inappropriate development plans need to be
addressed, as we recently learned Investors wlll go to court at a later date, clalmlng a
substantlal Investment was made after the city had initially agreed to a proposal.
Remember, Keith Holland released a letter to our weekly newspaper thanking the Los Gatos
Building Department, when it was not possible to provide safe egress in case of fire. Residents
wish to continue to live in a neighborhood near to our schools, among the small oasis of single
family homes with 1 /4 to 1fJ acre of land. We have mixed densities, but there are no triplex
homes, at leas1 none visible to Roberts Road.
People who live on Roberts Road have already lived through construction of the Van Meter
addition and the new Fisher Middle School, welcome improvements to our community.
Permission was already provided for 16940 Roberts Road to couple the size of the existing
home: The Conceptual Development Advisory Committee has already decided, the
change completed In 2006.
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Elyse Musen, R.N.
cc: Los Gatos Building Department
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