Item 2 - Addendum and Attachment 5
PREPARED BY: JOCELYN SHOOPMAN
Associate Planner
Reviewed by: Planning Manager and Community Development Director
110 E. Main Street Los Gatos, CA 95030 ● 408-354-6832
www.losgatosca.gov
TOWN OF LOS GATOS
CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT
ADVISORY COMMITTEE REPORT
MEETING DATE: 03/09/2022 ITEM NO: 2 ADDENDUM
DATE: March 8, 2022
TO: Conceptual Development Advisory Committee
FROM: Joel Paulson, Community Development Director
SUBJECT: Conceptual Development Advisory Committee Application CD-22-001. Project
Location: 14925 Los Gatos Boulevard. APNs: 424-07-009, 053, 081 through 083,
094, and 095. Property Owner: Yuki Family Farms c/o Edward Morimoto.
Applicant: Grosvenor Americas c/o Whitney Christopoulos.
Requesting preliminary review of a proposal for a mixed-use development for
Phase II of the North 40 Specific Plan Area.
REMARKS:
Attachment 5 includes public comment received by 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 8, 2022.
ATTACHMENTS:
Previously Received with the March 9, 2022, Staff Report:
1. Location Map
2. CDAC Application
3. Project Description Letter
4. Conceptual Plans
Attachment Received with this Addendum Report:
5. Public Comment Received by 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, March 8, 2022
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To: CDAC, Wednesday, March 9, 2022
From: Dave Weissman
Re: Ideas for Phase 2 of the N40
Harmonie Park (HP) is bringing some good ideas to the CDAC. I have read the staff report and
have these suggestions:
1. Given all that has changed in the State since the N40 GP was passed, I think that the Town
should ignore much of the GP and strike a "developer's deal" with HP, to not only expedite
things, but also as a way to increase total housing. The Town will not have many opportunities
to meet our 6th cycle RHNA of 847 below market rate housing units unless we take maximum
advantage of these last 15+ acres. We should also increase the height limits to permit 5 stories.
2. Unless I am misreading HP's proposal, I don't see any apartment units for rent. Andrea
Osgood from Eden Housing told the Los Gatos Community Alliance that her non-profit prefers
apartments over for-sale units because the former results in a higher turnover rate, with more
folks being served, than the latter and also serves as a way for consumers to get started living in
an area.
3. I see how HP is now "proposing" 295 units, which exceeds what the GP permits. But as far as
I can tell, while some of these units are missing middle, none of them are designated for the
low and very low incomes. The latter two categories are what this Town needs the most. And if
we don't place units here, then where? I would support HP doubling their proposed total units.
4. And I also note that the 2020 General Plan EIR evaluated up to 750 housing units on the
entire N40, stating that 150 units (20%) would then be affordable. So far, we only have some 50
affordable units in Phase 1.
5. I am happy to see the large open space area of some 33%. This percentage is similar to that
seen in the Agrihood Development in Santa Clara, near Santana Row, where they are building
360 units, 180 of which are BMR, on 5.9 acres, and where they have a garden-open space area
of 1.5 acres.
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