Item 2 - Staff Report with Attachemnts
PREPARED BY: JENNIFER ARMER, AICP
Senior Planner
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 408-354-6832
www.losgatosca.gov
MEETING DATE: 1/21/2021
ITEM: 2
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
GENERAL PLAN UPDATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
REPORT
REPORT
DATE: January 15, 2021
TO: General Plan Update Advisory Committee
FROM: Joel Paulson, Community Development Director
SUBJECT: Review and Discussion of the Revised Initial Draft of the Land Use Element and
the Revised Initial Draft of the Community Design Element.
REMARKS:
The General Plan Update Advisory Committee (GPAC) began the review and discussion of the
initial drafts of the Land Use and Community Design Elements at their November 5, 2020
meeting, and continued the item for further discussion. The Town Council held an initial
discussion of the Land Use and Community Design Elements at their November 17, 2020
meeting, which was followed by a working session with the GPAC on November 19, 2020.
Based on the feedback received at these meetings, updated versions of the initial drafts of the
Land Use and Community Design Elements were provided to the GPAC for the January 7, 2021,
meeting. These revised Elements only contain a few changes to the policies contained in the
initial drafts, and do not yet implement most of the written comments received, as the GPAC
has not conducted their detailed review of the policies. The detailed review of the Land Use
Element began on January 7, 2021. Because the meeting ran long, the matter was continued to
January 21, 2021.
In response to a request from a Committee Member, Attachment 19 has been provided to
illustrate the existing General Plan designations and Zoning for the area described in the public
comment received with the January 7, 2021 Addendum Report.
Attachment 20 contains comments from a Committee Member.
Additional comments, whether from Committee Members or the public, that are received by
11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, will be provided to the GPAC in an Addendum
Report that afternoon so that text changes can be considered by all committee members prior
to the meeting. Any comments received after that time, but before 11:00 a.m. on the day of
the meeting will be provided in a Desk Item.
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SUBJECT: Revised Initial Drafts of the Land Use and Community Design Elements
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REMARKS (continued):
On January 12, 2021, the Historic Preservation Committee (HPC) discussed the Land Use and
Community Design Elements. A summary of their comments will be included with an
Addendum Report.
ATTACHMENTS:
Attachments previously received with the November 5, 2020 Staff Report:
1. June 11, 2020 Community Workshop and Online Survey Summary
2. Initial Draft of Land Use Element
3. Initial Draft of Community Design Element
4. Public Comment received by 11:00 a.m., Friday, October 30, 2020
Attachments previously received with November 5, 2020 Addendum:
5. Committee Member Comments
6. Public Comments received between 11:01 a.m., Friday, October 30, 2020 and 11:00 a.m.,
Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Attachment previously received with the November 5, 2020 Desk Item:
7. Committee Member Comments
Attachments previously received with the November 19, 2020 Staff Report:
8. November 17, 2020 Town Council Staff Report with Attachments 1-7
9. Committee Member Comments
Attachments previously received with the November 19, 2020 Desk Item Report:
10. Committee Member Comments
11. Public Comment
Attachments previously received with the January 7, 2021 Staff Report:
12. Revised Initial Draft of Land Use Element
13. Comment Response Summary Table – Land Use
14. Revised Initial Draft of Community Design Element
15. Comment Response Summary Table – Community Design
16. Updated Potential Housing Production Table
Attachments previously received with the January 7, 2021 Addendum Report:
17. Committee Member Comments
18. Public Comment
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ATTACHMENTS (continued):
Attachments received with this Staff Report:
19. Maps of the Area Described in a Public Comment
20. Committee Member Comments
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From: Joe Mannina
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 11:46 AM
To: Joel Paulson
Cc: Jennifer Armer
Subject: Re: GPAC Suggestions
Hi Joel (and Jennifer),
I had a few comments I wanted to share with you regarding the land use discussion from last week's GPAC
meeting. I would like to propose some changes to how we are describing commercial real estate property
types to match those used by the industry in hopes of more effectively communicating to the commercial
real estate industry.
On Section D Existing Land Uses Page LU5:
1) Residential Single Family: Since we are trying to encourage additional ADUs for single family to meet
state mandate for new housing units, I thought we should emphasize homeowners ability to add ADUs and
garage conversions whereby each home has the possibility of having up to 3 residential units. This option is
not well known to homeowners so I would recommend that we highlight it in this section.
2) Residential Multi-Family: Consider adding language here to accommodate seniors housing,
mobile/manufactured homes and affordable housing.
3) Commercial: Since the term commercial implies all commercial real estate, I would recommend that we
change this section to Retail Commercial with the following first sentence (underlined terms are new).
...such as shopping centers, grocery/convenience stores, restaurants/food related, drug stores,
gyms/fitness related, theatres, bank branches, spas/salons, dry cleaners, nurseries, gas stations/auto
repair/car washes, car dealerships and other general retail uses.
5) Light Industrial: I would recommend changing title to Industrial since Light Industrial is typically a sub-
type of Industrial. I would recommend adding warehouse/storage to first sentence and we should
consider removing self storage and auto related as those also can appear in retail use cases depending
upon their locations.
6) Public/Quasi Public: Consider adding parking structures to this category.
Under land use designations, consider collapsing d and e into the one Retail category. (page LU 15).
Not sure where Hotel (Hospitality) is but it might warrant a separate category or we can add to
Retail/Commercial section.
Hope this helps and I look forward to receiving your comments.
Joe Mannina
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