Item 1 - Desk Item Report and Revised MinutesPREPARED BY: JENNIFER ARMER, AICP
Senior Planner
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 408-354-6832
www.losgatosca.gov
MEETING DATE: 12/12/2019 ITEM: 1 DESK ITEM TOWN OF LOS GATOS
GENERAL PLAN UPDATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
REPORT
DATE: December 12, 2019
TO: General Plan Update Advisory Committee
FROM: Joel Paulson, Community Development Director
SUBJECT: Approval of Minutes – August 15, 2019.
REMARKS:
Attachment 1 contains revised minutes for the August 15, 2019 GPAC meeting. Modifications
were made at the request of a committee member and are shown with additions underlined
and deletions shown in strikethrough.
ATTACHMENTS:
Attachments received with this Desk Item Report:
1.Revised Minutes – August 15, 2019
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110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 408-354-6832
www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
GENERAL PLAN ADVISORY
UPDATE COMMITTEE REPORT
MEETING DATE: 12/12/2019 ITEM: 1
DRAFT
MINUTES OF THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING
AUGUST 15, 2019
The General Plan Update Advisory Committee of the Town of Los Gatos conducted a Regular
Meeting on August 15, 2019, at 7:00 p.m.
MEETING CALLED TO ORDER AT 7:00 P.M.
ROLL CALL
Present: Vice Chair Kathryn Janoff, Vice Mayor Marcia Jensen, Council Member Barbara
Spector, Committee Member Jeffrey Barnett, Committee Member Susan Moore Brown,
Committee Member Ryan Rosenberg, and Committee Member Carol Elias Zolla
Absent: Chair Melanie Hanssen and Committee Member Todd Jarvis
Staff present: Joel Paulson, Laurel Prevetti, Jennifer Armer, and Monica Renn
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Vice Chair Janoff led the Pledge of Allegiance. The audience was invited to participate.
VERBAL COMMUNICATIONS
None.
CONSENT ITEMS (TO BE ACTED UPON BY A SINGLE MOTION)
1.Approval of Minutes – June 20, 2019
2.Approval of Minutes – July 18, 2019
MOTION: Motion by Vice Mayor Jensen to approve Consent Items. Seconded by
Committee Member Barnett.
VOTE: Motion passed unanimously. Committee Member Quintana abstained
from Item 1 and Committee Member Piasecki abstained from Item 2.
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DISCUSSION ITEM
3. Continue Discussion and Provide Direction for Draft Land Use Alternatives
Jennifer Armer, Senior Planner, presented the staff report.
Committee discussed the matter.
Committee reached a consensus on the following:
- Consider additional density in low density residential designation to allow a second
ADU or for existing homes to be split/internally divided into two or three units.
- Consider the possibility of increaseing allowed densities in medium and high density
residential.
- Consider lot size as a parameter.
- Consider increasing the height and density on Los Gatos Boulevard, to allow three
floors of mixed use with articulation.
- Consider allowing residential by right (without commercial) in mixed use commercial
designation.
- Consider daylight plane on Los Gatos Boulevard, especially to protect views of hills and
reduce impact on existing residential neighborhoods.
- Provide neighborhood serving commercial for all neighborhoods (1/2-mile radius).
- Keep Service Commercial and Light Industrial as is, without residential allowed, to
protect important uses from redevelopment.
- Add necessary flexibility to non-residential designations to get “innovation, high tech,”
and other opportunities.
- Hotel would be good, but the necessary height is of concern.
Committee continued the discussion and provided comments on the following, though
no specific consensus was reached:
- Consider higher density in Central Business District.
- Consider “by right 20 du/acre” for certain areas.
- Consider transfer of development rights/FAR to get the density where the Town wants
it
- Clarify mixed use designations regarding horizontal and vertical mixed use and the
Town’s preference.
- Consider increasing height and potential mixed use at the Northeast corner of
Winchester Boulevard and Lark Avenue.
- Consider opportunities for change and increased density of residential near Los Gatos-
Almaden Road and Union Avenue.
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- Consider allowing live work on University Avenue in Light Industrial and Service
Commercial designations.
- Consider allowing bed and breakfast uses in Town.
During the discussion, the Committee requested additional information regarding the
following:
- Photos of locations within Town that are examples of different housing types or
densities.
- Report prepared for San Francisco which discusses the impact of allowing housing in
industrial zones.
- Follow up with the Alternatives Report:
• Fiscal implications of the alternatives.
• Proposed modifications to the GP land use designations in terms of FAR, density
ranges, and other parameters.
• Estimated change in the Town’s development capacity with the revised.
designations/alternatives compared with the build out/remaining capacity of the
existing General Plan with an analysis of the total acres, total number of parcels,
etc.
The next GPAC meeting will be on Thursday, September 21, 2019.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 8:55 p.m.
This is to certify that the foregoing is a true
and correct copy of the minutes of the
August 15, 2019 meeting as approved by the
General Plan Update Advisory Committee.
Joel Paulson, Director of Community Development
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