11-05-20 Minutes - GPAC
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TOWN OF LOS GATOS
GENERAL PLAN UPDATE
ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORT
MINUTES OF THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
The General Plan Update Advisory Committee of the Town of Los Gatos conducted a Regular
Meeting on November 5, 2020, at 7:00 p.m., via teleconference.
This meeting was 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 and was conducted via Zoom. All committee members and staff participated from
remote locations and all voting was conducted via roll call vote. In accordance with Executi ve
Order N-29-20, the public could only view the meeting online and not in the Council Chamber.
MEETING CALLED TO ORDER AT 7:00 P.M.
ROLL CALL
Present: Chair Melanie Hanssen, Vice Chair Kathryn Janoff, Mayor Marcia Jensen, Committee
Member Susan Moore Brown, Committee Member Todd Jarvis, Committee Member Steven
Piasecki, Committee Member Ryan Rosenberg, Committee Member Lee Quintana, and
Committee Member Carol Elias Zolla.
Absent: Vice Mayor Barbara Spector, and Committee Member Kendra Burch.
Staff present: Jennifer Armer, Joel Paulson, Laurel Prevetti, Arn Andrews, Sally Zarnowitz, and
Lynne Lampros.
VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS
Kathleen Willey
- Commented that we are in a climate crisis at the moment. We need to take drastic
measures to save the planet. Please add Vision2025 under the sustainability section.
Town has already adopted Meatless Mondays, but Vision2025 is more measurable.
Jeff Suzuki
- Commented that there needs to be more direct reference to residen tial development in
the downtown.
CONSENT ITEMS (TO BE ACTED UPON BY A SINGLE MOTION)
None.
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DISCUSSION ITEMS
1. Review and Discussion of the Initial Draft of the Land Use Element and the Initial Draft
of the Community Design Element.
Jennifer Armer, Senior Planner, introduced the consultants’ presentation .
Rick Rust and Brent Gibbins, of Mintier Harnish, presented the verbal report
summarizing the Initial Drafts of the Land Use and Community Design Elements .
The Committee Members asked questions of staff.
Open and Closed Public Comment.
Committee further discussed the matter and provided the following comments and
direction:
- Additional information is needed to explain how regulations have been modified and
how they implement the Preferred Land Use Alternative Framework.
- Requested a table showing the projected housing production from the existing
General Plan, and the proposed new regulations.
- Incorporate more information about Missing Middle Housing into the Land Us e
Element and/or the Community Design Element.
- Language in the Element should be more forward thinking and we should delete the
outdated elements of the 2020 plan, for example, references to the Los Gatos
Boulevard Plan and the automobile dealerships.
- Introduction should be rewritten to give context to the increase in housing density
contained in this update.
- Requested a study session to discuss the questions that have come up at this
meeting.
- A maximum allowed density should be added for residential in the office
designation.
- Consider adding a policy to limit additional density in the Hillsides.
The next GPAC meeting will be on Thursday, November 19, 2020.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 9:04 p.m.
This is to certify that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of the minutes of the
November 5, 2020 meeting as approved by the
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General Plan Update Advisory Committee.
/s/Joel Paulson, Director of Community Development