07-30-20 Agenda - GPAC Special
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
GENERAL PLAN UPDATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
SPECIAL MEETING AGENDA
JULY 30, 2020
110 EAST MAIN STREET
LOS GATOS, CA
7:00 P.M.
Marcia Jensen, Mayor
Barbara Spector, Vice Mayor
Kendra Burch, Planning Commissioner (GPC)
Melanie Hanssen, Planning Commissioner (GPC)
Kathryn Janoff, Planning Commissioner (GPC)
Todd Jarvis, Business Representative (GPC)
Steven Piasecki, Public Representative (GPC)
Lee Quintana, Public Representative (GPC)
Susan Moore Brown, Public Representative
Ryan Rosenberg, Public Representative
Carol Elias Zolla, Public Representative
NOTICE REGARDING JULY 30, 2020 GENERAL PLAN UPDATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE SPECIAL
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/91513288101?pwd=cWtmVXdQTS9vR0l2blI1UUZmdjJVUT09
Password: 415545
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 General Plan
Update Advisory Committee meeting.
If you are unable to participate in real-time, you may send an email to GP2040@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. 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.
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REMOTE LOCATION PARTICIPANTS
The following GPAC members are listed to permit them to appear electronically or telephonically
at the GPAC meeting: Melanie Hanssen, Planning Commissioner (Chair); Kathryn Janoff, Planning
Commissioner (Vice Chair); Marcia Jensen, Mayor; Barbara Spector, Vice Mayor; Kendra Burch,
Planning Commissioner; Todd Jarvis, Business Representative; Steven Piasecki, Public
Representative; Lee Quintana, Public Representative; Susan Moore Brown, Public Representative;
Ryan Rosenberg, Public Representative; and Carol Elias Zolla, Public Representative. All votes
during the teleconferencing session will be conducted by roll call vote.
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.)
DISCUSSION ITEMS
1. Review and Discussion of Pandemic Response, Environmental Justice, and Racial and Social
Justice in the General Plan.
ADJOURNMENT
Persons wishing to submit written comments to be included in the materials to the committee must
provide them no later than 11:00 a.m. on the day of the meeting to GP2040@losgatosca.gov.
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]