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TOWN OF LOS GATOS
DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING
JUNE 1, 2021
110 EAST MAIN STREET
LOS GATOS, CA
10:00 AM
NOTICE REGARDING JUNE 1, 2021 DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE 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/89521559968?pwd=QXVjM3BSa1B3NUZEU0tMMUpRNGJrQT09.
Passcode: 719679.
Or by telephone dial: USA 213-270-2124 or USA 888-273-3658 (US Toll Free).
Conference code: 898841.
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 Council
meeting.
If you are unable to participate in real-time, you may send an email to
PlanningComment@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 before 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.
REMOTE LOCATION PARTICIPANTS
The following DRC members are listed to permit them to appear electronically or telephonically
at the DRC meeting: PLANNING MANAGER SALLY ZARNOWITZ, BUILDING OFFICIAL ROBERT
GRAY, SENIOR BUILDING INSPECTOR ROY ALBA, SENIOR ENGINEER MIKE WEISZ, ASSISTANT
ENGINEER CORVELL SPARKS, FIRE PLANS EXAMINER KATHERINE BAKER, DEPUTY FIRE
MARSHAL KENNY IP, SENIOR FIRE PLANS EXAMINER, ROB CAMPBELL, ROBERT SCHULTZ, TOWN
ATTORNEY, DIEGO MORA, ASSISTANT PLANNER, AND ERIN WALTERS, ASSOCIATE PLANNER. All
votes during the teleconferencing session will be conducted by roll call vote.
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If anyone wishes to challenge the action on this application in court, they may be limited to
raising only those issues they or anyone else raised at the public meeting described in this
notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Town at, or prior to, the public hearing.
Development plans can be viewed on the Town’s website under Pending Projects
(http://www.losgatosca.gov/2216/Pending-Planning-Projects).
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.)
CONSENT ITEMS (TO BE ACTED UPON BY A SINGLE MOTION) (Items appearing on the
Consent Calendar are considered routine and may be approved by one motion. Unless there are separate
discussion and/or actions requested by the Committee, staff, or a member of the public, it is requested
that items under the Consent Calendar be acted on simultaneously. Any member of the Committee or
public may request to have an item removed from the Consent Calendar for comment and action.)
1. Approval of Minutes – May 25, 2021
PUBLIC HEARINGS (Applicants and their representatives may be allotted up to a total of five
minutes maximum for opening statements. Members of the public may be allotted up to three
minutes to comment on any public hearing item. Applicants and their representatives may be
allotted up to a total of three minutes maximum for closing statements. Items requested/
recommended for continuance are subject to the Committee’s consent at the meeting.)
2. 800 Blossom Hill Road
Conditional Use Permit Application U-21-008
Requesting approval of a Conditional Use Permit to allow alcohol service associated with
dining services at an existing senior residential community (The Terraces) on property zoned
RM: 12-20:PD. APN 523-05-001.
PROPERTY OWNER: HumanGood Norcal, Bethany Ghassemi
APPLICANT: HumanGood Norcal, c/o Rawlings Consulting, Steve Rawlings PROJECT
PLANNER: Erin Walters
3. 364-368 Village Lane
Conditional Use Permit Application U-21-012
Requesting approval of a modification to an existing Conditional Use Permit for a restaurant
with alcohol (The Tasting House) on property zoned C-2. APN 529-04-053.
PROPERTY OWNER: Village Lane Los Gatos LLC
APPLICANT: Michael Thornberry
PROJECT PLANNER: Diego Mora
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4. 307 N. Santa Cruz Avenue
Conditional Use Permit Application U-21-013
Requesting approval for a new restaurant (Easy Breezy Frozen Yogurt) on property zoned C-2.
APN 510-14-048.
PROPERTY OWNER: Millen Family Partnership, LP
APPLICANT: Ariel Ford
PROJECT PLANNER: Diego Mora
MAPS
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ADJOURNMENT
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]